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2009-04-09tracing/syscalls: use a dedicated file headerFrederic Weisbecker
Impact: fix build warnings and possibe compat misbehavior on IA64 Building a kernel on ia64 might trigger these ugly build warnings: CC arch/ia64/ia32/sys_ia32.o In file included from arch/ia64/ia32/sys_ia32.c:55: arch/ia64/ia32/ia32priv.h:290:1: warning: "elf_check_arch" redefined In file included from include/linux/elf.h:7, from include/linux/module.h:14, from include/linux/ftrace.h:8, from include/linux/syscalls.h:68, from arch/ia64/ia32/sys_ia32.c:18: arch/ia64/include/asm/elf.h:19:1: warning: this is the location of the previous definition [...] sys_ia32.c includes linux/syscalls.h which in turn includes linux/ftrace.h to import the syscalls tracing prototypes. But including ftrace.h can pull too much things for a low level file, especially on ia64 where the ia32 private headers conflict with higher level headers. Now we isolate the syscall tracing headers in their own lightweight file. Reported-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Tested-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Cc: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com> Cc: Michael Rubin <mrubin@google.com> Cc: Martin Bligh <mbligh@google.com> Cc: Michael Davidson <md@google.com> LKML-Reference: <20090408184058.GB6017@nowhere> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-16tracing/syscalls: protect thread flag toggling from racesFrederic Weisbecker
Impact: fix syscall tracer enable/disable race The current thread flag toggling is racy as shown in the following scenario: - task A is the last user of syscall tracing, it releases the TIF_SYSCALL_FTRACE on each tasks - at the same time task B start syscall tracing. refcount == 0 so it sets up TIF_SYSCALL_FTRACE on each tasks. The effect of the mixup is unpredictable. So this fix adds a mutex on {start,stop}_syscall_tracing(). Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> LKML-Reference: <1237151439-6755-3-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-16tracing/syscalls: various cleanupsFrederic Weisbecker
Impact: cleanup - Drop unused cpu variable - Fix some errors on comments Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <1237151439-6755-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-16tracing/syscalls: fix missing release of tracingFrederic Weisbecker
Impact: fix 'stuck' syscall tracer The syscall tracer uses a refcounter to enable several users simultaneously. But the refcounter did not behave correctly and always restored its value to 0 after calling start_syscall_tracing(). Therefore, stop_syscall_tracing() couldn't release correctly the tasks from tracing. Also the tracer forgot to reset the buffer when it is released. Drop the pointless refcount decrement on start_syscall_tracing() and reset the buffer when we release the tracer. This fixes two reported issue: - when we switch from syscall tracer to another tracer, syscall tracing continued. - incorrect use of the refcount. Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <1237151439-6755-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-13tracing/syscalls: core infrastructure for syscalls tracing, enhancementsFrederic Weisbecker
Impact: new feature This adds the generic support for syscalls tracing. This is currently exploited through a devoted tracer but other tracing engines can use it. (They just have to play with {start,stop}_ftrace_syscalls() and use the display callbacks unless they want to override them.) The syscalls prototypes definitions are abused here to steal some metadata informations: - syscall name, param types, param names, number of params The syscall addr is not directly saved during this definition because we don't know if its prototype is available in the namespace. But we don't really need it. The arch has just to build a function able to resolve the syscall number to its metadata struct. The current tracer prints the syscall names, parameters names and values (and their types optionally). Currently the value is a raw hex but higher level values diplaying is on my TODO list. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <1236955332-10133-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-13tracing/ftrace: syscall tracing infrastructure, basicsFrederic Weisbecker
Provide basic callbacks to do syscall tracing. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: <1236401580-5758-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> [ simplified it to a trace_printk() for now. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>