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2014-10-12Merge tag 'trace-3.18-2' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace Pull tracing fixes from Steven Rostedt: "Seems that Peter Zijlstra added a new check that is making old code scream nasty warnings: WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 91 at kernel/sched/core.c:7253 __might_sleep+0x9a/0x378() do not call blocking ops when !TASK_RUNNING; state=1 set at [<ffffffff8d79b511>] event_test_thread+0x48/0x93 Call Trace: __might_sleep+0x9a/0x378 down_read+0x26/0x98 exit_signals+0x27/0x1c2 do_exit+0x193/0x10bd kthread+0x156/0x156 ret_from_fork+0x7a/0xb0 These are triggered by some self tests that run at start up when configure in. Although the code is technically correct, they are a little sloppy and not very robust. They work now because it runs at boot up and the tests do not call anything that might trigger a spurious wake up. But that doesn't mean those tests wont change in the future. It's best to clean them now to make sure the tests used to test the internal workings of the system don't cause breakage themselves. This also quiets the warnings made by the new checks" * tag 'trace-3.18-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: tracing: Clean up scheduling in trace_wakeup_test_thread() tracing: Robustify wait loop
2014-10-09tracing: Clean up scheduling in trace_wakeup_test_thread()Steven Rostedt
Peter's new debugging tool triggers when tasks exit with !TASK_RUNNING. The code in trace_wakeup_test_thread() also has a single schedule() call that should be encompassed by a loop. This cleans up the code a little to make it a bit more robust and also makes the return exit properly with TASK_RUNNING. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/p/20141008135216.76142204@gandalf.local.home Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infreadead.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2014-09-12ftrace: Only disable ftrace_enabled to test buffer in selftestSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
The ftrace_enabled variable is set to zero in the self tests to keep delayed functions from being traced and messing with the checks. This only needs to be done when the checks are being performed, otherwise, if ftrace_enabled is off when calls back to the utility that is being tested, it can cause errors to happen and the tests can fail with false positives. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2014-04-21tracing: Add static to local functionsFabian Frederick
This patch adds static to the following functions: -cycle_t buffer_ftrace_now -void free_snapshot -int trace_selftest_startup_dynamic_tracing Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/p/20140417214442.d7abc7c0b0e4b90e7fedecc9@skynet.be Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2014-04-21tracing: Move ftrace_max_lock into trace_arraySteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
In preparation for having tracers enabled in instances, the max_lock should be unique as updating the max for one tracer is a separate operation than updating it for another tracer using a different max. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2014-04-21tracing: Move tracing_max_latency into trace_arraySteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
In preparation for letting the latency tracers be used by instances, remove the global tracing_max_latency variable and add a max_latency field to the trace_array that the latency tracers will now use. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2014-04-21ftrace: Remove global function list and call function directlySteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
Instead of having a list of global functions that are called, as only one global function is allow to be enabled at a time, there's no reason to have a list. Instead, simply have all the users of the global ops, use the global ops directly, instead of registering their own ftrace_ops. Just switch what function is used before enabling the function tracer. This removes a lot of code as well as the complexity involved with it. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2014-01-13sched/deadline: Add latency tracing for SCHED_DEADLINE tasksDario Faggioli
It is very likely that systems that wants/needs to use the new SCHED_DEADLINE policy also want to have the scheduling latency of the -deadline tasks under control. For this reason a new version of the scheduling wakeup latency, called "wakeup_dl", is introduced. As a consequence of applying this patch there will be three wakeup latency tracer: * "wakeup", that deals with all tasks in the system; * "wakeup_rt", that deals with -rt and -deadline tasks only; * "wakeup_dl", that deals with -deadline tasks only. Signed-off-by: Dario Faggioli <raistlin@linux.it> Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1383831828-15501-9-git-send-email-juri.lelli@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-07-01ftrace: Do not run selftest if command line parameter is setSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
If the kernel command line ftrace filter parameters are set (ftrace_filter or ftrace_notrace), force the function self test to pass, with a warning why it was forced. If the user adds a filter to the kernel command line, it is assumed that they know what they are doing, and the self test should just not run instead of failing (which disables function tracing) or clearing the filter, as that will probably annoy the user. If the user wants the selftest to run, the message will tell them why it did not. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-05-29tracing: Fix bad parameter passed in branch selftestSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
The branch selftest calls trace_test_buffer(), but with the new code it expects the first parameter to be a pointer to a struct trace_buffer. All self tests were changed but the branch selftest was missed. This caused either a crash or failed test when the branch selftest was enabled. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130529141333.GA24064@localhost Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-03-15tracing: Fix ftrace_dump()Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
ftrace_dump() had a lot of issues. What ftrace_dump() does, is when ftrace_dump_on_oops is set (via a kernel parameter or sysctl), it will dump out the ftrace buffers to the console when either a oops, panic, or a sysrq-z occurs. This was written a long time ago when ftrace was fragile to recursion. But it wasn't written well even for that. There's a possible deadlock that can occur if a ftrace_dump() is happening and an NMI triggers another dump. This is because it grabs a lock before checking if the dump ran. It also totally disables ftrace, and tracing for no good reasons. As the ring_buffer now checks if it is read via a oops or NMI, where there's a chance that the buffer gets corrupted, it will disable itself. No need to have ftrace_dump() do the same. ftrace_dump() is now cleaned up where it uses an atomic counter to make sure only one dump happens at a time. A simple atomic_inc_return() is enough that is needed for both other CPUs and NMIs. No need for a spinlock, as if one CPU is running the dump, no other CPU needs to do it too. The tracing_on variable is turned off and not turned on. The original code did this, but it wasn't pretty. By just disabling this variable we get the result of not seeing traces that happen between crashes. For sysrq-z, it doesn't get turned on, but the user can always write a '1' to the tracing_on file. If they are using sysrq-z, then they should know about tracing_on. The new code is much easier to read and less error prone. No more deadlock possibility when an NMI triggers here. Reported-by: zhangwei(Jovi) <jovi.zhangwei@huawei.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-03-15tracing: Consolidate max_tr into main trace_array structureSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
Currently, the way the latency tracers and snapshot feature works is to have a separate trace_array called "max_tr" that holds the snapshot buffer. For latency tracers, this snapshot buffer is used to swap the running buffer with this buffer to save the current max latency. The only items needed for the max_tr is really just a copy of the buffer itself, the per_cpu data pointers, the time_start timestamp that states when the max latency was triggered, and the cpu that the max latency was triggered on. All other fields in trace_array are unused by the max_tr, making the max_tr mostly bloat. This change removes the max_tr completely, and adds a new structure called trace_buffer, that holds the buffer pointer, the per_cpu data pointers, the time_start timestamp, and the cpu where the latency occurred. The trace_array, now has two trace_buffers, one for the normal trace and one for the max trace or snapshot. By doing this, not only do we remove the bloat from the max_trace but the instances of traces can now use their own snapshot feature and not have just the top level global_trace have the snapshot feature and latency tracers for itself. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-01-22ftrace: Fix function tracing recursion self testSteven Rostedt
The function tracing recursion self test should not crash the machine if the resursion test fails. If it detects that the function tracing is recursing when it should not be, then bail, don't go into an infinite recursive loop. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-01-22tracing: Fix selftest function recursion accountingSteven Rostedt
The test that checks function recursion does things differently if the arch does not support all ftrace features. But that really doesn't make a difference with how the test runs, and either way the count variable should be 2 at the end. Currently the test wrongly fails for archs that don't support all the ftrace features. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-01-21ftrace: Move ARCH_SUPPORTS_FTRACE_SAVE_REGS in KconfigMasami Hiramatsu
Move SAVE_REGS support flag into Kconfig and rename it to CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS. This also introduces CONFIG_HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS which indicates the architecture depending part of ftrace has a code that saves full registers. On the other hand, CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS indicates the code is enabled. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120928081516.3560.72534.stgit@ltc138.sdl.hitachi.co.jp Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-11-02tracing: Use irq_work for wake ups and remove *_nowake_*() functionsSteven Rostedt
Have the ring buffer commit function use the irq_work infrastructure to wake up any waiters waiting on the ring buffer for new data. The irq_work was created for such a purpose, where doing the actual wake up at the time of adding data is too dangerous, as an event or function trace may be in the midst of the work queue locks and cause deadlocks. The irq_work will either delay the action to the next timer interrupt, or trigger an IPI to itself forcing an interrupt to do the work (in a safe location). With irq_work, all ring buffer commits can safely do wakeups, removing the need for the ring buffer commit "nowake" variants, which were used by events and function tracing. All commits can now safely use the normal commit, and the "nowake" variants can be removed. Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-11-02tracing: Make tracing_enabled be equal to tracing_onSteven Rostedt
The tracing_enabled file has been deprecated as it never was able to serve its purpose well. The tracing_on file has taken over. Instead of having code to keep tracing_enabled, have the tracing_enabled file just set tracing_on, and remove the tracing_enabled variable. This allows us to remove the tracing_enabled file. The reason that the remove is in a different change set and not removed here is in case we find some lonely userspace tool that requires the file to exist. Then the removal patch will get reverted, but this one will not. Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-08-07tracing: Fix wakeup_rt self test on virtual machinesSteven Rostedt
The warkeup_rt self test used msleep() calls to wait for real time tasks to wake up and run. On bare-metal hardware, this was enough as the scheduler should let the RT task run way before the non-RT task wakes up from the msleep(). If it did not, then that would mean the scheduler was broken. But when dealing with virtual machines, this is a different story. If the RT task wakes up on a VCPU, it's up to the host to decide when that task gets to schedule, which can be far behind the time that the non-RT task wakes up. In this case, the test would fail incorrectly. As we are not testing the scheduler, but instead the wake up tracing, we can use completions to wait and not depend on scheduler timings to see if events happen on time. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1343663105.3847.7.camel@fedora Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Tested-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-07-31ftrace: Add selftest to test function save-regs supportSteven Rostedt
Add selftests to test the save-regs functionality of ftrace. If the arch supports saving regs, then it will make sure that regs is at least not NULL in the callback. If the arch does not support saving regs, it makes sure that the registering of the ftrace_ops that requests saving regs fails. It then tests the registering of the ftrace_ops succeeds if the 'IF_SUPPORTED' flag is set. Then it makes sure that the regs passed to the function is NULL. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-07-31ftrace: Add selftest to test function trace recursion protectionSteven Rostedt
Add selftests to test the function tracing recursion protection actually does work. It also tests if a ftrace_ops states it will perform its own protection. Although, even if the ftrace_ops states it will protect itself, the ftrace infrastructure may still provide protection if the arch does not support all features or another ftrace_ops is registered. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-07-31ftrace: Add default recursion protection for function tracingSteven Rostedt
As more users of the function tracer utility are being added, they do not always add the necessary recursion protection. To protect from function recursion due to tracing, if the callback ftrace_ops does not specifically specify that it protects against recursion (by setting the FTRACE_OPS_FL_RECURSION_SAFE flag), the list operation will be called by the mcount trampoline which adds recursion protection. If the flag is set, then the function will be called directly with no extra protection. Note, the list operation is called if more than one function callback is registered, or if the arch does not support all of the function tracer features. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-07-19ftrace: Return pt_regs to function trace callbackSteven Rostedt
Return as the 4th paramater to the function tracer callback the pt_regs. Later patches that implement regs passing for the architectures will require having the ftrace_ops set the SAVE_REGS flag, which will tell the arch to take the time to pass a full set of pt_regs to the ftrace_ops callback function. If the arch does not support it then it should pass NULL. If an arch can pass full regs, then it should define: ARCH_SUPPORTS_FTRACE_SAVE_REGS to 1 Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120702201821.019966811@goodmis.org Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-07-19ftrace: Pass ftrace_ops as third parameter to function trace callbackSteven Rostedt
Currently the function trace callback receives only the ip and parent_ip of the function that it traced. It would be more powerful to also return the ops that registered the function as well. This allows the same function to act differently depending on what ftrace_ops registered it. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120612225424.267254552@goodmis.org Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-05-18ftrace: Add self-tests for multiple function trace usersSteven Rostedt
Add some basic sanity tests for multiple users of the function tracer at startup. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-05-18ftrace: Modify ftrace_set_filter/notrace to take opsSteven Rostedt
Since users of the function tracer can now pick and choose which functions they want to trace agnostically from other users of the function tracer, we need to pass the ops struct to the ftrace_set_filter() functions. The functions ftrace_set_global_filter() and ftrace_set_global_notrace() is added to keep the old filter functions which are used to modify the generic function tracers. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-01-07sched: Constify function scope static struct sched_param usagePeter Zijlstra
Function-scope statics are discouraged because they are easily overlooked and can cause subtle bugs/races due to their global (non-SMP safe) nature. Linus noticed that we did this for sched_param - at minimum make the const. Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: Message-ID: <AANLkTinotRxScOHEb0HgFgSpGPkq_6jKTv5CfvnQM=ee@mail.gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-10-23sched: Make sched_param argument static in sched_setscheduler() callersKOSAKI Motohiro
Andrew Morton pointed out almost all sched_setscheduler() callers are using fixed parameters and can be converted to static. It reduces runtime memory use a little. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-07-20tracing: Remove special tracesFrederic Weisbecker
Special traces type was only used by sysprof. Lets remove it now that sysprof ftrace plugin has been dropped. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Soeren Sandmann <sandmann@daimi.au.dk> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
2010-07-20tracing: Remove sysprof ftrace pluginFrederic Weisbecker
The sysprof ftrace plugin doesn't seem to be seriously used somewhere. There is a branch in the sysprof tree that makes an interface to it, but the real sysprof tool uses either its own module or perf events. Drop the sysprof ftrace plugin then, as it's mostly useless. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Soeren Sandmann <sandmann@daimi.au.dk> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
2010-07-15tracing: Remove ksym tracerFrederic Weisbecker
The ksym (breakpoint) ftrace plugin has been superseded by perf tools that are much more poweful to use the cpu breakpoints. This tracer doesn't bring more feature. It has been deprecated for a while now, lets remove it. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-05-18Merge branch 'tracing-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'tracing-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: tracing: Fix "integer as NULL pointer" warning. tracing: Fix tracepoint.h DECLARE_TRACE() to allow more than one header tracing: Make the documentation clear on trace_event boot option ring-buffer: Wrap open-coded WARN_ONCE tracing: Convert nop macros to static inlines tracing: Fix sleep time function profiling tracing: Show sample std dev in function profiling tracing: Add documentation for trace commands mod, traceon/traceoff ring-buffer: Make benchmark handle missed events ring-buffer: Make non-consuming read less expensive with lots of cpus. tracing: Add graph output support for irqsoff tracer tracing: Have graph flags passed in to ouput functions tracing: Add ftrace events for graph tracer tracing: Dump either the oops's cpu source or all cpus buffers tracing: Fix uninitialized variable of tracing/trace output
2010-05-18Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (311 commits) perf tools: Add mode to build without newt support perf symbols: symbol inconsistency message should be done only at verbose=1 perf tui: Add explicit -lslang option perf options: Type check all the remaining OPT_ variants perf options: Type check OPT_BOOLEAN and fix the offenders perf options: Check v type in OPT_U?INTEGER perf options: Introduce OPT_UINTEGER perf tui: Add workaround for slang < 2.1.4 perf record: Fix bug mismatch with -c option definition perf options: Introduce OPT_U64 perf tui: Add help window to show key associations perf tui: Make <- exit menus too perf newt: Add single key shortcuts for zoom into DSO and threads perf newt: Exit browser unconditionally when CTRL+C, q or Q is pressed perf newt: Fix the 'A'/'a' shortcut for annotate perf newt: Make <- exit the ui_browser x86, perf: P4 PMU - fix counters management logic perf newt: Make <- zoom out filters perf report: Report number of events, not samples perf hist: Clarify events_stats fields usage ... Fix up trivial conflicts in kernel/fork.c and tools/perf/builtin-record.c
2010-04-21tracing: Dump either the oops's cpu source or all cpus buffersFrederic Weisbecker
The ftrace_dump_on_oops kernel parameter, sysctl and sysrq let one dump every cpu buffers when an oops or panic happens. It's nice when you have few cpus but it may take ages if have many, plus you miss the real origin of the problem in all the cpu traces. Sometimes, all you need is to dump the cpu buffer that triggered the opps, most of the time it is our main interest. This patch modifies ftrace_dump_on_oops to handle this choice. The ftrace_dump_on_oops kernel parameter, when it comes alone, has the same behaviour than before. But ftrace_dump_on_oops=orig_cpu will only dump the buffer of the cpu that oops'ed. Similarly, sysctl kernel.ftrace_dump_on_oops=1 and echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/ftrace_dump_on_oops keep their previous behaviour. But setting 2 jumps into cpu origin dump mode. v2: Fix double setup v3: Fix spelling issues reported by Randy Dunlap v4: Also update __ftrace_dump in the selftests Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
2010-04-08Merge branch 'linus' into perf/coreIngo Molnar
Semantic conflict: arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_ds.c Merge reason: pick up latest fixes, fix the conflict Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-04-08Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/coreIngo Molnar
Conflicts: include/linux/module.h kernel/module.c Semantic conflict: include/trace/events/module.h Merge reason: Resolve the conflict with upstream commit 5fbfb18 ("Fix up possibly racy module refcounting") Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-03-31ring-buffer: Add place holder recording of dropped eventsSteven Rostedt
Currently, when the ring buffer drops events, it does not record the fact that it did so. It does inform the writer that the event was dropped by returning a NULL event, but it does not put in any place holder where the event was dropped. This is not a trivial thing to add because the ring buffer mostly runs in overwrite (flight recorder) mode. That is, when the ring buffer is full, new data will overwrite old data. In a produce/consumer mode, where new data is simply dropped when the ring buffer is full, it is trivial to add the placeholder for dropped events. When there's more room to write new data, then a special event can be added to notify the reader about the dropped events. But in overwrite mode, any new write can overwrite events. A place holder can not be inserted into the ring buffer since there never may be room. A reader could also come in at anytime and miss the placeholder. Luckily, the way the ring buffer works, the read side can find out if events were lost or not, and how many events. Everytime a write takes place, if it overwrites the header page (the next read) it updates a "overrun" variable that keeps track of the number of lost events. When a reader swaps out a page from the ring buffer, it can record this number, perfom the swap, and then check to see if the number changed, and take the diff if it has, which would be the number of events dropped. This can be stored by the reader and returned to callers of the reader. Since the reader page swap will fail if the writer moved the head page since the time the reader page set up the swap, this gives room to record the overruns without worrying about races. If the reader sets up the pages, records the overrun, than performs the swap, if the swap succeeds, then the overrun variable has not been updated since the setup before the swap. For binary readers of the ring buffer, a flag is set in the header of each sub page (sub buffer) of the ring buffer. This flag is embedded in the size field of the data on the sub buffer, in the 31st bit (the size can be 32 or 64 bits depending on the architecture), but only 27 bits needs to be used for the actual size (less actually). We could add a new field in the sub buffer header to also record the number of events dropped since the last read, but this will change the format of the binary ring buffer a bit too much. Perhaps this change can be made if the information on the number of events dropped is considered important enough. Note, the notification of dropped events is only used by consuming reads or peeking at the ring buffer. Iterating over the ring buffer does not keep this information because the necessary data is only available when a page swap is made, and the iterator does not swap out pages. Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: "Luis Claudio R. Goncalves" <lclaudio@uudg.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-03-30include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking ↵Tejun Heo
implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies. percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is used as the basis of conversion. http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py The script does the followings. * Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used, gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h. * When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered - alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there doesn't seem to be any matching order. * If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the file. The conversion was done in the following steps. 1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400 files. 2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion, some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added inclusions to around 150 files. 3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits from #2 to make sure no file was left behind. 4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed. e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually. 5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as necessary. 6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h. 7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq). * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config. * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig * ia64 SMP allmodconfig * s390 SMP allmodconfig * alpha SMP allmodconfig * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig 8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as a separate patch and serve as bisection point. Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step 6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch. If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of the specific arch. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
2010-03-26x86, perf, bts, mm: Delete the never used BTS-ptrace codePeter Zijlstra
Support for the PMU's BTS features has been upstreamed in v2.6.32, but we still have the old and disabled ptrace-BTS, as Linus noticed it not so long ago. It's buggy: TIF_DEBUGCTLMSR is trampling all over that MSR without regard for other uses (perf) and doesn't provide the flexibility needed for perf either. Its users are ptrace-block-step and ptrace-bts, since ptrace-bts was never used and ptrace-block-step can be implemented using a much simpler approach. So axe all 3000 lines of it. That includes the *locked_memory*() APIs in mm/mlock.c as well. Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> LKML-Reference: <20100325135413.938004390@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-14locking: Convert __raw_spin* functions to arch_spin*Thomas Gleixner
Name space cleanup. No functional change. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
2009-11-08ksym_tracer: Remove KSYM_SELFTEST_ENTRYLi Zefan
The macro used to be used in both trace_selftest.c and trace_ksym.c, but no longer, so remove it from header file. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-11-08hw-breakpoints: Rewrite the hw-breakpoints layer on top of perf eventsFrederic Weisbecker
This patch rebase the implementation of the breakpoints API on top of perf events instances. Each breakpoints are now perf events that handle the register scheduling, thread/cpu attachment, etc.. The new layering is now made as follows: ptrace kgdb ftrace perf syscall \ | / / \ | / / / Core breakpoint API / / | / | / Breakpoints perf events | | Breakpoints PMU ---- Debug Register constraints handling (Part of core breakpoint API) | | Hardware debug registers Reasons of this rewrite: - Use the centralized/optimized pmu registers scheduling, implying an easier arch integration - More powerful register handling: perf attributes (pinned/flexible events, exclusive/non-exclusive, tunable period, etc...) Impact: - New perf ABI: the hardware breakpoints counters - Ptrace breakpoints setting remains tricky and still needs some per thread breakpoints references. Todo (in the order): - Support breakpoints perf counter events for perf tools (ie: implement perf_bpcounter_event()) - Support from perf tools Changes in v2: - Follow the perf "event " rename - The ptrace regression have been fixed (ptrace breakpoint perf events weren't released when a task ended) - Drop the struct hw_breakpoint and store generic fields in perf_event_attr. - Separate core and arch specific headers, drop asm-generic/hw_breakpoint.h and create linux/hw_breakpoint.h - Use new generic len/type for breakpoint - Handle off case: when breakpoints api is not supported by an arch Changes in v3: - Fix broken CONFIG_KVM, we need to propagate the breakpoint api changes to kvm when we exit the guest and restore the bp registers to the host. Changes in v4: - Drop the hw_breakpoint_restore() stub as it is only used by KVM - EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL hw_breakpoint_restore() as KVM can be built as a module - Restore the breakpoints unconditionally on kvm guest exit: TIF_DEBUG_THREAD doesn't anymore cover every cases of running breakpoints and vcpu->arch.switch_db_regs might not always be set when the guest used debug registers. (Waiting for a reliable optimization) Changes in v5: - Split-up the asm-generic/hw-breakpoint.h moving to linux/hw_breakpoint.h into a separate patch - Optimize the breakpoints restoring while switching from kvm guest to host. We only want to restore the state if we have active breakpoints to the host, otherwise we don't care about messed-up address registers. - Add asm/hw_breakpoint.h to Kbuild - Fix bad breakpoint type in trace_selftest.c Changes in v6: - Fix wrong header inclusion in trace.h (triggered a build error with CONFIG_FTRACE_SELFTEST Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2009-09-07Merge branch 'tracing/core' into tracing/hw-breakpointsIngo Molnar
Conflicts: arch/Kconfig kernel/trace/trace.h Merge reason: resolve the conflicts, plus adopt to the new ring-buffer APIs. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-06tracing/function-graph-tracer: Move graph event insertion helpers in the ↵Frederic Weisbecker
graph tracer file The function graph events helpers which insert the function entry and return events into the ring buffer currently reside in trace.c But this file is quite overloaded and the right place for these helpers is in the function graph tracer file. Then move them to trace_functions_graph.c Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-06-02hw-breakpoints: ftrace plugin for kernel symbol tracing using HW Breakpoint ↵K.Prasad
interfaces This patch adds an ftrace plugin to detect and profile memory access over kernel variables. It uses HW Breakpoint interfaces to 'watch memory addresses. Signed-off-by: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-04-07x86, hw-branch-tracer: allocate selftest iterator on heapMarkus Metzger
Allocate the trace_iterator for the hw-branch-tracer selftest on the heap. Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com> Cc: roland@redhat.com Cc: eranian@googlemail.com Cc: oleg@redhat.com Cc: juan.villacis@intel.com Cc: ak@linux.jf.intel.com LKML-Reference: <20090403144556.578777000@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-07Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/hw-branch-tracingIngo Molnar
Merge reason: update to latest tracing and ptrace APIs Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-22tracing: keep the tracing buffer after self-test failureFrederic Weisbecker
Instead of using ftrace_dump_on_oops, it's far more convenient to have the trace leading up to a self-test failure available in /debug/tracing/trace. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> LKML-Reference: <1237694675-23509-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-22tracing/function-graph-tracer: prevent hangs during self-testsFrederic Weisbecker
Impact: detect tracing related hangs Sometimes, with some configs, the function graph tracer can make the timer interrupt too much slow, hanging the kernel in an endless loop of timer interrupts servicing. As suggested by Ingo, this patch brings a watchdog which stops the selftest after a defined number of functions traced, definitely disabling this tracer. For those who want to debug the cause of the function graph trace hang, you can pass the ftrace_dump_on_oops kernel parameter to dump the traces after this hang detection. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> LKML-Reference: <1237694675-23509-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-18tracing/ftrace: stop {irqs, preempt}soff tracers when tracing is stoppedFrederic Weisbecker
Impact: fix a selftest warning In some cases, it's possible to see the following warning on irqsoff tracer selftest: [ 4.640003] Testing tracer irqsoff: <4>------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 4.653562] WARNING: at kernel/trace/trace.c:458 update_max_tr_single+0x9a/0xc4() [ 4.660000] Hardware name: System Product Name [ 4.660000] Modules linked in: [ 4.660000] Pid: 301, comm: kstop/1 Not tainted 2.6.29-rc8-tip #35837 [ 4.660000] Call Trace: [ 4.660000] [<4014b588>] warn_slowpath+0x79/0x8f [ 4.660000] [<402d6949>] ? put_dec+0x64/0x6b [ 4.660000] [<40162b56>] ? getnstimeofday+0x58/0xdd [ 4.660000] [<40162210>] ? clocksource_read+0x3/0xf [ 4.660000] [<4015eb44>] ? ktime_set+0x8/0x34 [ 4.660000] [<4014101a>] ? balance_runtime+0x8/0x56 [ 4.660000] [<405f6f11>] ? _spin_lock+0x3/0x10 [ 4.660000] [<4011f643>] ? ftrace_call+0x5/0x8 [ 4.660000] [<4015d0f1>] ? task_cputime_zero+0x3/0x27 [ 4.660000] [<40190ee7>] ? cpupri_set+0x90/0xcb [ 4.660000] [<405f7208>] ? _spin_lock_irqsave+0x22/0x34 [ 4.660000] [<40190f12>] ? cpupri_set+0xbb/0xcb [ 4.660000] [<405f7151>] ? _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x23/0x35 [ 4.660000] [<4018493f>] ? ring_buffer_reset_cpu+0x27/0x51 [ 4.660000] [<405f7208>] ? _spin_lock_irqsave+0x22/0x34 [ 4.660000] [<40184962>] ? ring_buffer_reset_cpu+0x4a/0x51 [ 4.660000] [<405f7151>] ? _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x23/0x35 [ 4.660000] [<4018cc29>] ? trace_hardirqs_off+0x1a/0x1c [ 4.660000] [<405f7151>] ? _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x23/0x35 [ 4.660000] [<40184962>] ? ring_buffer_reset_cpu+0x4a/0x51 [ 4.660000] [<401850f3>] ? cpumask_next+0x15/0x18 [ 4.660000] [<4018a41f>] update_max_tr_single+0x9a/0xc4 [ 4.660000] [<4014e5fe>] ? exit_notify+0x16/0xf2 [ 4.660000] [<4018cd13>] check_critical_timing+0xcc/0x11e [ 4.660000] [<4014e5fe>] ? exit_notify+0x16/0xf2 [ 4.660000] [<4014e5fe>] ? exit_notify+0x16/0xf2 [ 4.660000] [<4018cdf1>] stop_critical_timing+0x8c/0x9f [ 4.660000] [<4014e5c4>] ? forget_original_parent+0xac/0xd0 [ 4.660000] [<4018ce3a>] trace_hardirqs_on+0x1a/0x1c [ 4.660000] [<4014e5c4>] forget_original_parent+0xac/0xd0 [ 4.660000] [<4014e5fe>] exit_notify+0x16/0xf2 [ 4.660000] [<4014e8a5>] do_exit+0x1cb/0x225 [ 4.660000] [<4015c72b>] ? kthread+0x0/0x69 [ 4.660000] [<4011f61d>] kernel_thread_helper+0xd/0x10 [ 4.660000] ---[ end trace a7919e7f17c0a725 ]--- [ 4.660164] .. no entries found ..FAILED! During the selftest of irqsoff tracer, we do that: /* disable interrupts for a bit */ local_irq_disable(); udelay(100); local_irq_enable(); /* stop the tracing. */ tracing_stop(); /* check both trace buffers */ ret = trace_test_buffer(tr, NULL); If a callsite performs a new max delay with irqs off just after tracing_stop, update_max_tr_single() -> ring_buffer_swap_cpu() will be called with the buffers disabled by tracing_stop(), hence the warning, then ring_buffer_swap_cpu() return -EAGAIN and update_max_tr_single() complains. Fix it by also stopping the tracer before stopping the tracing globally. A similar situation can happen with preemptoff and preemptirqsoff tracers where we apply the same fix. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> LKML-Reference: <1237325938-5240-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-16tracing/ftrace: fix double calls to tracing_start()Frederic Weisbecker
Impact: fix a warning during preemptirqsoff selftests When the preemptirqsoff selftest fails, we see the following warning: [ 6.050000] Testing tracer preemptirqsoff: .. no entries found .. ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 6.060000] WARNING: at kernel/trace/trace.c:688 tracing_start+0x67/0xd3() [ 6.060000] Modules linked in: [ 6.060000] Pid: 1, comm: swapper Tainted: G [ 6.060000] Call Trace: [ 6.060000] [<ffffffff802460ff>] warn_slowpath+0xb1/0x100 [ 6.060000] [<ffffffff802a8f5b>] ? trace_preempt_on+0x35/0x4b [ 6.060000] [<ffffffff802a37fb>] ? tracing_start+0x31/0xd3 [ 6.060000] [<ffffffff802a37fb>] ? tracing_start+0x31/0xd3 [ 6.060000] [<ffffffff80271e0b>] ? __lock_acquired+0xe6/0x1f2 [ 6.060000] [<ffffffff802a37fb>] ? tracing_start+0x31/0xd3 [ 6.060000] [<ffffffff802a3831>] tracing_start+0x67/0xd3 [ 6.060000] [<ffffffff802a8ace>] ? irqsoff_tracer_reset+0x2d/0x57 [ 6.060000] [<ffffffff802a4d1c>] trace_selftest_startup_preemptirqsoff+0x1c8/0x1f1 [ 6.060000] [<ffffffff802a4798>] register_tracer+0x12f/0x241 [ 6.060000] [<ffffffff810250d0>] ? init_irqsoff_tracer+0x0/0x53 [ 6.060000] [<ffffffff8102510b>] init_irqsoff_tracer+0x3b/0x53 This is because in fail case, the preemptirqsoff tracer selftest calls twice the tracing_start() function: int trace_selftest_startup_preemptirqsoff(struct tracer *trace, struct trace_array *tr) { if (!ret && !count) { printk(KERN_CONT ".. no entries found .."); ret = -1; tracing_start(); <----- goto out; } [...] out: trace->reset(tr); tracing_start(); <------ tracing_max_latency = save_max; return ret; } Since it is well handled in the out path, we don't need the conditional one. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <1237159961-7447-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>