o Pretty much a full rewrite of the processing of function plugins.
i.e. echo do_IRQ:stacktrace > set_ftrace_filter
o The rewrite was needed to add plugins to be unique to tracing instances.
i.e. mkdir instance/foo; cd instances/foo; echo do_IRQ:stacktrace > set_ftrace_filter
The old way was written very hacky. This removes a lot of those hacks.
o New "function-fork" tracing option. When set, pids in the set_ftrace_pid
will have their children added when the processes with their pids
listed in the set_ftrace_pid file forks.
o Exposure of "maxactive" for kretprobe in kprobe_events
o Allow for builtin init functions to be traced by the function tracer
(via the kernel command line). Module init function tracing will come
in the next release.
o Added more selftests, and have selftests also test in an instance.
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Merge tag 'trace-v4.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
"New features for this release:
- Pretty much a full rewrite of the processing of function plugins.
i.e. echo do_IRQ:stacktrace > set_ftrace_filter
- The rewrite was needed to add plugins to be unique to tracing
instances. i.e. mkdir instance/foo; cd instances/foo; echo
do_IRQ:stacktrace > set_ftrace_filter The old way was written very
hacky. This removes a lot of those hacks.
- New "function-fork" tracing option. When set, pids in the
set_ftrace_pid will have their children added when the processes
with their pids listed in the set_ftrace_pid file forks.
- Exposure of "maxactive" for kretprobe in kprobe_events
- Allow for builtin init functions to be traced by the function
tracer (via the kernel command line). Module init function tracing
will come in the next release.
- Added more selftests, and have selftests also test in an instance"
* tag 'trace-v4.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (60 commits)
ring-buffer: Return reader page back into existing ring buffer
selftests: ftrace: Allow some event trigger tests to run in an instance
selftests: ftrace: Have some basic tests run in a tracing instance too
selftests: ftrace: Have event tests also run in an tracing instance
selftests: ftrace: Make func_event_triggers and func_traceonoff_triggers tests do instances
selftests: ftrace: Allow some tests to be run in a tracing instance
tracing/ftrace: Allow for instances to trigger their own stacktrace probes
tracing/ftrace: Allow for the traceonoff probe be unique to instances
tracing/ftrace: Enable snapshot function trigger to work with instances
tracing/ftrace: Allow instances to have their own function probes
tracing/ftrace: Add a better way to pass data via the probe functions
ftrace: Dynamically create the probe ftrace_ops for the trace_array
tracing: Pass the trace_array into ftrace_probe_ops functions
tracing: Have the trace_array hold the list of registered func probes
ftrace: If the hash for a probe fails to update then free what was initialized
ftrace: Have the function probes call their own function
ftrace: Have each function probe use its own ftrace_ops
ftrace: Have unregister_ftrace_function_probe_func() return a value
ftrace: Add helper function ftrace_hash_move_and_update_ops()
ftrace: Remove data field from ftrace_func_probe structure
...
Have the traceon/off function probe triggers affect only the instance they
are set in. This required making the trace_on/off accessible for other files
in the tracing directory.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
With the redesign of the registration and execution of the function probes
(triggers), data can now be passed from the setup of the probe to the probe
callers that are specific to the trace_array it is on. Although, all probes
still only affect the toplevel trace array, this change will allow for
instances to have their own probes separated from other instances and the
top array.
That is, something like the stacktrace probe can be set to trace only in an
instance and not the toplevel trace array. This isn't implement yet, but
this change sets the ground work for the change.
When a probe callback is triggered (someone writes the probe format into
set_ftrace_filter), it calls register_ftrace_function_probe() passing in
init_data that will be used to initialize the probe. Then for every matching
function, register_ftrace_function_probe() will call the probe_ops->init()
function with the init data that was passed to it, as well as an address to
a place holder that is associated with the probe and the instance. The first
occurrence will have a NULL in the pointer. The init() function will then
initialize it. If other probes are added, or more functions are part of the
probe, the place holder will be passed to the init() function with the place
holder data that it was initialized to the last time.
Then this place_holder is passed to each of the other probe_ops functions,
where it can be used in the function callback. When the probe_ops free()
function is called, it can be called either with the rip of the function
that is being removed from the probe, or zero, indicating that there are no
more functions attached to the probe, and the place holder is about to be
freed. This gives the probe_ops a way to free the data it assigned to the
place holder if it was allocade during the first init call.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
In order to eventually have each trace_array instance have its own unique
set of function probes (triggers), the trace array needs to hold the ops and
the filters for the probes.
This is the first step to accomplish this. Instead of having the private
data of the probe ops point to the trace_array, create a separate list that
the trace_array holds. There's only one private_data for a probe, we need
one per trace_array. The probe ftrace_ops will be dynamically created for
each instance, instead of being static.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Pass the trace_array associated to a ftrace_probe_ops into the probe_ops
func(), init() and free() functions. The trace_array is the descriptor that
describes a tracing instance. This will help create the infrastructure that
will allow having function probes unique to tracing instances.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add a link list to the trace_array to hold func probes that are registered.
Currently, all function probes are the same for all instances as it was
before, that is, only the top level trace_array holds the function probes.
But this lays the ground work to have function probes be attached to
individual instances, and having the event trigger only affect events in the
given instance. But that work is still to be done.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Now that the function probes have their own ftrace_ops, there's no reason to
continue using the ftrace_func_hash to find which probe to call in the
function callback. The ops that is passed in to the function callback is
part of the probe_ops to call.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Have the function probes have their own ftrace_ops, and remove the
trace_probe_ops. This simplifies some of the ftrace infrastructure code.
Individual entries for each function is still allocated for the use of the
output for set_ftrace_filter, but they will be removed soon too.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Currently unregister_ftrace_function_probe_func() is a void function. It
does not give any feedback if an error occurred or no item was found to
remove and nothing was done.
Change it to return status and success if it removed something. Also update
the callers to return that feedback to the user.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
No users of the function probes uses the data field anymore. Remove it, and
change the init function to take a void *data parameter instead of a
void **data, because the init will just get the data that the registering
function was received, and there's no state after it is called.
The other functions for ftrace_probe_ops still take the data parameter, but
it will currently only be passed NULL. It will stay as a parameter for
future data to be passed to these functions.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
There are no users of unregister_ftrace_function_probe_all(). The only probe
function that is used is unregister_ftrace_function_probe_func(). Rename the
internal static function __unregister_ftrace_function_probe() to
unregister_ftrace_function_probe_func() and make it global.
Also remove the PROBE_TEST_FUNC as it would be always set.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Nothing calls unregister_ftrace_function_probe(). Remove it as well as the
flag PROBE_TEST_DATA, as this function was the only one to set it.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
In order to move the ops to the function probes directly, they need a way to
map function ips to their own data without depending on the infrastructure
of the function probes, as the data field will be going away.
New helper functions are added that are based on the ftrace_hash code.
ftrace_func_mapper functions are there to let the probes map ips to their
data. These can be allocated by the probe ops, and referenced in the
function callbacks.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
In preparation to cleaning up the probe function registration code, the
"data" parameter will eventually be removed from the probe->func() call.
Instead it will receive its own "ops" function, in which it can set up its
own data that it needs to map.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
As nothing outside the tracing directory uses the function command mechanism,
I'm moving the prototypes out of the include/linux/ftrace.h and into the
local kernel/trace/trace.h header. I plan on making them hook to the
trace_array structure which is local to kernel/trace, and I do not want to
expose it to the rest of the kernel. This requires that the command functions
must also be local to tracing. But luckily nothing else uses them.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
As nothing outside the tracing directory uses the function probes mechanism,
I'm moving the prototypes out of the include/linux/ftrace.h and into the
local kernel/trace/trace.h header. I plan on making them hook to the
trace_array structure which is local to kernel/trace, and I do not want to
expose it to the rest of the kernel. This requires that the probe functions
must also be local to tracing. But luckily nothing else uses them.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The function-fork option is same as event-fork that it tracks task
fork/exit and set the pid filter properly. This can be useful if user
wants to trace selected tasks including their children only.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170417024430.21194-3-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
When function tracer has a pid filter, it adds a probe to sched_switch
to track if current task can be ignored. The probe checks the
ftrace_ignore_pid from current tr to filter tasks. But it misses to
delete the probe when removing an instance so that it can cause a crash
due to the invalid tr pointer (use-after-free).
This is easily reproducible with the following:
# cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing
# mkdir instances/buggy
# echo $$ > instances/buggy/set_ftrace_pid
# rmdir instances/buggy
============================================================================
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in ftrace_filter_pid_sched_switch_probe+0x3d/0x90
Read of size 8 by task kworker/0:1/17
CPU: 0 PID: 17 Comm: kworker/0:1 Tainted: G B 4.11.0-rc3 #198
Call Trace:
dump_stack+0x68/0x9f
kasan_object_err+0x21/0x70
kasan_report.part.1+0x22b/0x500
? ftrace_filter_pid_sched_switch_probe+0x3d/0x90
kasan_report+0x25/0x30
__asan_load8+0x5e/0x70
ftrace_filter_pid_sched_switch_probe+0x3d/0x90
? fpid_start+0x130/0x130
__schedule+0x571/0xce0
...
To fix it, use ftrace_clear_pids() to unregister the probe. As
instance_rmdir() already updated ftrace codes, it can just free the
filter safely.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170417024430.21194-2-namhyung@kernel.org
Fixes: 0c8916c342 ("tracing: Add rmdir to remove multibuffer instances")
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Register the function tracer right after the tracing buffers are initialized
in early boot up. This will allow function tracing to begin early if it is
enabled via the kernel command line.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
We get a lot of harmless warnings about this header file at W=1 level
because of an unusual function declaration:
kernel/trace/trace.h:766:1: error: 'inline' is not at beginning of declaration [-Werror=old-style-declaration]
This moves the inline statement where it normally belongs, avoiding the
warning.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170123122521.3389010-1-arnd@arndb.de
Fixes: 4046bf023b ("ftrace: Expose ftrace_hash_empty and ftrace_lookup_ip")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The GLOB operation "~" should be able to work with the COMM filter key in
order to trace programs with a glob. For example
echo 'COMM ~ "systemd*"' > events/syscalls/filter
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Use ftrace_hash instead of a static array of a fixed size. This is
useful when a graph filter pattern matches to a large number of
functions. Now hash lookup is done with preemption disabled to protect
from the hash being changed/freed.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170120024447.26097-3-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
It will be used when checking graph filter hashes later.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170120024447.26097-2-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
[ Moved ftrace_hash dec and functions outside of FUNCTION_GRAPH define ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
There is no point in having an extra type for extra confusion. u64 is
unambiguous.
Conversion was done with the following coccinelle script:
@rem@
@@
-typedef u64 cycle_t;
@fix@
typedef cycle_t;
@@
-cycle_t
+u64
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Currently both the wakeup and irqsoff traces do not handle set_graph_notrace
well. The ftrace infrastructure will ignore the return paths of all
functions leaving them hanging without an end:
# echo '*spin*' > set_graph_notrace
# cat trace
[...]
_raw_spin_lock() {
preempt_count_add() {
do_raw_spin_lock() {
update_rq_clock();
Where the '*spin*' functions should have looked like this:
_raw_spin_lock() {
preempt_count_add();
do_raw_spin_lock();
}
update_rq_clock();
Instead, have the wakeup and irqsoff tracers ignore the functions that are
set by the set_graph_notrace like the function_graph tracer does. Move
the logic in the function_graph tracer into a header to allow wakeup and
irqsoff tracers to use it as well.
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The function __buffer_unlock_commit() is called in a few places outside of
trace.c. But for the most part, it should really be inlined, as it is in the
hot path of the trace_events. For the callers outside of trace.c, create a
new function trace_buffer_unlock_commit_nostack(), as the reason it was used
was to avoid the stack tracing that trace_buffer_unlock_commit() could do.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161121183700.GW26852@two.firstfloor.org
Reported-by: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
A new file is created:
/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_marker_raw
This allows for appications to create data structures and write the binary
data directly into it, and then read the trace data out from trace_pipe_raw
into the same type of data structure. This saves on converting numbers into
ASCII that would be required by trace_marker.
Suggested-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Use glob_match() to support flexible glob wildcards (*,?)
and character classes ([) for ftrace.
Since the full glob matching is slower than the current
partial matching routines(*pat, pat*, *pat*), this leaves
those routines and just add MATCH_GLOB for complex glob
expression.
e.g.
----
[root@localhost tracing]# echo 'sched*group' > set_ftrace_filter
[root@localhost tracing]# cat set_ftrace_filter
sched_free_group
sched_change_group
sched_create_group
sched_online_group
sched_destroy_group
sched_offline_group
[root@localhost tracing]# echo '[Ss]y[Ss]_*' > set_ftrace_filter
[root@localhost tracing]# head set_ftrace_filter
sys_arch_prctl
sys_rt_sigreturn
sys_ioperm
SyS_iopl
sys_modify_ldt
SyS_mmap
SyS_set_thread_area
SyS_get_thread_area
SyS_set_tid_address
sys_fork
----
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/147566869501.29136.6462645009894738056.stgit@devbox
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The hwlat tracer uses tr->max_latency, and if it's the only tracer enabled
that uses it, the build will fail. Add max_latency and its file when the
hwlat tracer is enabled.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/d6c3b7eb-ba95-1ffa-0453-464e1e24262a@infradead.org
Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The hardware latency tracer has been in the PREEMPT_RT patch for some time.
It is used to detect possible SMIs or any other hardware interruptions that
the kernel is unaware of. Note, NMIs may also be detected, but that may be
good to note as well.
The logic is pretty simple. It simply creates a thread that spins on a
single CPU for a specified amount of time (width) within a periodic window
(window). These numbers may be adjusted by their cooresponding names in
/sys/kernel/tracing/hwlat_detector/
The defaults are window = 1000000 us (1 second)
width = 500000 us (1/2 second)
The loop consists of:
t1 = trace_clock_local();
t2 = trace_clock_local();
Where trace_clock_local() is a variant of sched_clock().
The difference of t2 - t1 is recorded as the "inner" timestamp and also the
timestamp t1 - prev_t2 is recorded as the "outer" timestamp. If either of
these differences are greater than the time denoted in
/sys/kernel/tracing/tracing_thresh then it records the event.
When this tracer is started, and tracing_thresh is zero, it changes to the
default threshold of 10 us.
The hwlat tracer in the PREEMPT_RT patch was originally written by
Jon Masters. I have modified it quite a bit and turned it into a
tracer.
Based-on-code-by: Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Currently ftrace_graph_ent{,_entry} and ftrace_graph_ret{,_entry} struct
can have padding bytes at the end due to alignment in 64-bit data type.
As these data are recorded so frequently, those paddings waste
non-negligible space. As the ring buffer maintains alignment properly
for each architecture, just to remove the extra padding using 'packed'
attribute.
ftrace_graph_ent_entry: 24 -> 20
ftrace_graph_ret_entry: 48 -> 44
Also I moved the 'overrun' field in struct ftrace_graph_ret to minimize
the padding in the middle.
Tested on x86_64 only.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1467197808-13578-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Commit 345ddcc882 ("ftrace: Have set_ftrace_pid use the bitmap like events
do") placed ftrace_init_tracefs into the instance creation, and encapsulated
the top level updating with an if conditional, as the top level only gets
updated at boot up. Unfortunately, this triggers section mismatch errors as
the init functions are called from a function that can be called later, and
the section mismatch logic is unaware of the if conditional that would
prevent it from happening at run time.
To make everyone happy, create a separate ftrace_init_tracefs_toplevel()
routine that only gets called by init functions, and this will be what calls
other init functions for the toplevel directory.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160704102139.19cbc0d9@gandalf.local.home
Reported-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Fixes: 345ddcc882 ("ftrace: Have set_ftrace_pid use the bitmap like events do")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Convert set_ftrace_pid to use the bitmap like set_event_pid does. This
allows for instances to use the pid filtering as well, and will allow for
function-fork option to set if the children of a traced function should be
traced or not.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The addition of PIDs into a pid_list via the write operation of
set_event_pid is a bit complex. The same operation will be needed for
function tracing pids. Move the code into its own generic function in
trace.c, so that we can avoid duplication of this code.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To allow other aspects of ftrace to use the pid_list logic, we need to reuse
the seq_file functions. Making the generic part into functions that can be
called by other files will help in this regard.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Make the functions used for pid filtering global for tracing, such that the
function tracer can use the pid code as well.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Filtering of events requires the data to be written to the ring buffer
before it can be decided to filter or not. This is because the parameters of
the filter are based on the result that is written to the ring buffer and
not on the parameters that are passed into the trace functions.
The ftrace ring buffer is optimized for writing into the ring buffer and
committing. The discard procedure used when filtering decides the event
should be discarded is much more heavy weight. Thus, using a temporary
filter when filtering events can speed things up drastically.
Without a temp buffer we have:
# trace-cmd start -p nop
# perf stat -r 10 hackbench 50
0.790706626 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.71% )
# trace-cmd start -e all
# perf stat -r 10 hackbench 50
1.566904059 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.27% )
# trace-cmd start -e all -f 'common_preempt_count==20'
# perf stat -r 10 hackbench 50
1.690598511 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.19% )
# trace-cmd start -e all -f 'common_preempt_count!=20'
# perf stat -r 10 hackbench 50
1.707486364 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.30% )
The first run above is without any tracing, just to get a based figure.
hackbench takes ~0.79 seconds to run on the system.
The second run enables tracing all events where nothing is filtered. This
increases the time by 100% and hackbench takes 1.57 seconds to run.
The third run filters all events where the preempt count will equal "20"
(this should never happen) thus all events are discarded. This takes 1.69
seconds to run. This is 10% slower than just committing the events!
The last run enables all events and filters where the filter will commit all
events, and this takes 1.70 seconds to run. The filtering overhead is
approximately 10%. Thus, the discard and commit of an event from the ring
buffer may be about the same time.
With this patch, the numbers change:
# trace-cmd start -p nop
# perf stat -r 10 hackbench 50
0.778233033 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.38% )
# trace-cmd start -e all
# perf stat -r 10 hackbench 50
1.582102692 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.28% )
# trace-cmd start -e all -f 'common_preempt_count==20'
# perf stat -r 10 hackbench 50
1.309230710 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.22% )
# trace-cmd start -e all -f 'common_preempt_count!=20'
# perf stat -r 10 hackbench 50
1.786001924 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.20% )
The first run is again the base with no tracing.
The second run is all tracing with no filtering. It is a little slower, but
that may be well within the noise.
The third run shows that discarding all events only took 1.3 seconds. This
is a speed up of 23%! The discard is much faster than even the commit.
The one downside is shown in the last run. Events that are not discarded by
the filter will take longer to add, this is due to the extra copy of the
event.
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
There's no real difference between trace_buffer_unlock_commit() and
trace_buffer_unlock_commit_regs() except that the former passes NULL to
ftrace_stack_trace() instead of regs. Have the former be a static inline of
the latter which passes NULL for regs.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The functions trace_buffer_unlock_commit() and the _regs() version are only
used within the kernel/trace directory. Move them to the local header and
remove the export as well.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The function filter_check_discard() is small and only called by one user,
its code can be folded into that one caller and make the code a bit less
comlplex.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Nothing outside of the tracing directory calls filter_check_discard() or
check_filter_check_discard(). They should not be called by modules. Move
their prototypes into the local tracing header and remove their
EXPORT_SYMBOL() macros.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The functions event_trigger_unlock_commit() and
event_trigger_unlock_commit_regs() are no longer used outside the tracing
system. Move them out of the generic headers and into the local one.
Along with __event_trigger_test_discard() that is only used by them.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Named triggers are sets of triggers that share a common set of trigger
data. An example of functionality that could benefit from this type
of capability would be a set of inlined probes that would each
contribute event counts, for example, to a shared counter data
structure.
The first named trigger registered with a given name owns the common
trigger data that the others subsequently registered with the same
name will reference. The functions defined here allow users to add,
delete, and find named triggers.
It also adds functions to pause and unpause named triggers; since
named triggers act upon common data, they should also be paused and
unpaused as a group.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/c09ff648360f65b10a3e321eddafe18060b4a04f.1457029949.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Similar to enable_event/disable_event triggers, these triggers enable
and disable the aggregation of events into maps rather than enabling
and disabling their writing into the trace buffer.
They can be used to automatically start and stop hist triggers based
on a matching filter condition.
If there's a paused hist trigger on system:event, the following would
start it when the filter condition was hit:
# echo enable_hist:system:event [ if filter] > event/trigger
And the following would disable a running system:event hist trigger:
# echo disable_hist:system:event [ if filter] > event/trigger
See Documentation/trace/events.txt for real examples.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/f812f086e52c8b7c8ad5443487375e03c96a601f.1457029949.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
'hist' triggers allow users to continually aggregate trace events,
which can then be viewed afterwards by simply reading a 'hist' file
containing the aggregation in a human-readable format.
The basic idea is very simple and boils down to a mechanism whereby
trace events, rather than being exhaustively dumped in raw form and
viewed directly, are automatically 'compressed' into meaningful tables
completely defined by the user.
This is done strictly via single-line command-line commands and
without the aid of any kind of programming language or interpreter.
A surprising number of typical use cases can be accomplished by users
via this simple mechanism. In fact, a large number of the tasks that
users typically do using the more complicated script-based tracing
tools, at least during the initial stages of an investigation, can be
accomplished by simply specifying a set of keys and values to be used
in the creation of a hash table.
The Linux kernel trace event subsystem happens to provide an extensive
list of keys and values ready-made for such a purpose in the form of
the event format files associated with each trace event. By simply
consulting the format file for field names of interest and by plugging
them into the hist trigger command, users can create an endless number
of useful aggregations to help with investigating various properties
of the system. See Documentation/trace/events.txt for examples.
hist triggers are implemented on top of the existing event trigger
infrastructure, and as such are consistent with the existing triggers
from a user's perspective as well.
The basic syntax follows the existing trigger syntax. Users start an
aggregation by writing a 'hist' trigger to the event of interest's
trigger file:
# echo hist:keys=xxx [ if filter] > event/trigger
Once a hist trigger has been set up, by default it continually
aggregates every matching event into a hash table using the event key
and a value field named 'hitcount'.
To view the aggregation at any point in time, simply read the 'hist'
file in the same directory as the 'trigger' file:
# cat event/hist
The detailed syntax provides additional options for user control, and
is described exhaustively in Documentation/trace/events.txt and in the
virtual tracing/README file in the tracing subsystem.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/72d263b5e1853fe9c314953b65833c3aa75479f2.1457029949.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add the infrastructure needed to have the PIDs in set_event_pid to
automatically add PIDs of the children of the tasks that have their PIDs in
set_event_pid. This will also remove PIDs from set_event_pid when a task
exits
This is implemented by adding hooks into the fork and exit tracepoints. On
fork, the PIDs are added to the list, and on exit, they are removed.
Add a new option called event_fork that when set, PIDs in set_event_pid will
automatically get their children PIDs added when they fork, as well as any
task that exits will have its PID removed from set_event_pid.
This works for instances as well.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
In order to add the ability to let tasks that are filtered by the events
have their children also be traced on fork (and then not traced on exit),
convert the array into a pid bitmask. Most of the time the number of pids is
only 32768 pids or a 4k bitmask, which is the same size as the default list
currently is, and that list could grow if more pids are listed.
This also greatly simplifies the code.
Suggested-by: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The latency tracer format has a nice column to indicate IRQ state, but
this is not able to tell us about NMI state.
When tracing perf interrupt handlers (which often run in NMI context)
it is very useful to see how the events nest.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160318153022.105068893@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Steven Rostedt (VMware)