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| * tracing: Add snapshot in the per_cpu trace directoriesSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)2013-03-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add the snapshot file into the per_cpu tracing directories to allow them to be read for an individual cpu. This also allows to clear an individual cpu from the snapshot buffer. If the kernel allows it (CONFIG_RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP is set), then echoing in '1' into one of the per_cpu snapshot files will do an individual cpu buffer swap instead of the entire file. Cc: Hiraku Toyooka <hiraku.toyooka.gu@hitachi.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * tracing: Consolidate max_tr into main trace_array structureSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)2013-03-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
| * tracing: Clear all trace buffers when unloaded module event was usedSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)2013-03-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently we do not know what buffer a module event was enabled in. On unload, it is safest to clear all buffer instances, not just the top level buffer. Todo: Clear only the buffer that the event was used in. The infrastructure is there to do this, but it makes the code a bit more complex. Lets get the current code vetted before we add that. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * tracing/ring-buffer: Move poll wake ups into ring buffer codeSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)2013-03-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Move the logic to wake up on ring buffer data into the ring buffer code itself. This simplifies the tracing code a lot and also has the added benefit that waiters on one of the instance buffers can be woken only when data is added to that instance instead of data added to any instance. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * tracing: Fix read blocking on trace_pipe_rawSteven Rostedt2013-03-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If the ring buffer is empty, a read to trace_pipe_raw wont block. The tracing code has the infrastructure to wake up waiting readers, but the trace_pipe_raw doesn't take advantage of that. When a read is done to trace_pipe_raw without the O_NONBLOCK flag set, have the read block until there's data in the requested buffer. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * tracing: Fix polling on trace_pipe_rawSteven Rostedt2013-03-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The trace_pipe_raw never implemented polling and this was casing issues for several utilities. This is now implemented. Blocked reads still are on the TODO list. Reported-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com> Tested-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * tracing: Do not block on splice if either file or splice NONBLOCK flag is setSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)2013-03-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently only the splice NONBLOCK flag is checked to determine if the splice read should block or not. But the file descriptor NONBLOCK flag also needs to be checked. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * tracing: Add rmdir to remove multibuffer instancesSteven Rostedt2013-03-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add a method to the hijacked dentry descriptor of the "instances" directory to allow for rmdir to remove an instance of a multibuffer. Example: cd /debug/tracing/instances mkdir hello ls hello/ rmdir hello ls Like the mkdir method, the i_mutex is dropped for the instances directory. The instances directory is created at boot up and can not be renamed or removed. The trace_types_lock mutex is used to synchronize adding and removing of instances. I've run several stress tests with different threads trying to create and delete directories of the same name, and it has stood up fine. Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * tracing: Add interface to allow multiple trace buffersSteven Rostedt2013-03-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add the interface ("instances" directory) to add multiple buffers to ftrace. To create a new instance, simply do a mkdir in the instances directory: This will create a directory with the following: # cd instances # mkdir foo # ls foo buffer_size_kb free_buffer trace_clock trace_pipe buffer_total_size_kb set_event trace_marker tracing_enabled events/ trace trace_options tracing_on Currently only events are able to be set, and there isn't a way to delete a buffer when one is created (yet). Note, the i_mutex lock is dropped from the parent "instances" directory during the mkdir operation. As the "instances" directory can not be renamed or deleted (created on boot), I do not see any harm in dropping the lock. The creation of the sub directories is protected by trace_types_lock mutex, which only lets one instance get into the code path at a time. If two tasks try to create or delete directories of the same name, only one will occur and the other will fail with -EEXIST. Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * tracing: Replace the static global per_cpu arrays with allocated per_cpuSteven Rostedt2013-03-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The global and max-tr currently use static per_cpu arrays for the CPU data descriptors. But in order to get new allocated trace_arrays, they need to be allocated per_cpu arrays. Instead of using the static arrays, switch the global and max-tr to use allocated data. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * tracing: Pass the ftrace_file to the buffer lock reserve codeSteven Rostedt2013-03-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pass the struct ftrace_event_file *ftrace_file to the trace_event_buffer_lock_reserve() (new function that replaces the trace_current_buffer_lock_reserver()). The ftrace_file holds a pointer to the trace_array that is in use. In the case of multiple buffers with different trace_arrays, this allows different events to be recorded into different buffers. Also fixed some of the stale comments in include/trace/ftrace.h Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * tracing: Encapsulate global_trace and remove dependencies on global varsSteven Rostedt2013-03-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The global_trace variable in kernel/trace/trace.c has been kept 'static' and local to that file so that it would not be used too much outside of that file. This has paid off, even though there were lots of changes to make the trace_array structure more generic (not depending on global_trace). Removal of a lot of direct usages of global_trace is needed to be able to create more trace_arrays such that we can add multiple buffers. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * tracing: Use RING_BUFFER_ALL_CPUS for TRACE_PIPE_ALL_CPUSteven Rostedt2013-03-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Both RING_BUFFER_ALL_CPUS and TRACE_PIPE_ALL_CPU are defined as -1 and used to say that all the ring buffers are to be modified or read (instead of just a single cpu, which would be >= 0). There's no reason to keep TRACE_PIPE_ALL_CPU as it is also started to be used for more than what it was created for, and now that the ring buffer code added a generic RING_BUFFER_ALL_CPUS define, we can clean up the trace code to use that instead and remove the TRACE_PIPE_ALL_CPU macro. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * tracing: Separate out trace events from global variablesSteven Rostedt2013-03-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The trace events for ftrace are all defined via global variables. The arrays of events and event systems are linked to a global list. This prevents multiple users of the event system (what to enable and what not to). By adding descriptors to represent the event/file relation, as well as to which trace_array descriptor they are associated with, allows for more than one set of events to be defined. Once the trace events files have a link between the trace event and the trace_array they are associated with, we can create multiple trace_arrays that can record separate events in separate buffers. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* | Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2013-04-14
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull perf fixes from Ingo Molnar: "Misc fixlets" * 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: perf: Fix error return code ftrace: Fix strncpy() use, use strlcpy() instead of strncpy() perf: Fix strncpy() use, use strlcpy() instead of strncpy() perf: Fix strncpy() use, always make sure it's NUL terminated perf: Fix ring_buffer perf_output_space() boundary calculation perf/x86: Fix uninitialized pt_regs in intel_pmu_drain_bts_buffer()
| * | perf: Fix strncpy() use, use strlcpy() instead of strncpy()Chen Gang2013-04-08
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | For NUL terminated string we always need to set '\0' at the end. Signed-off-by: Chen Gang <gang.chen@asianux.com> Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/51624254.30301@asianux.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* / tracing: Fix race with update_max_tr_single and changing tracersSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)2013-04-08
|/ | | | | | | | The commit 34600f0e9 "tracing: Fix race with max_tr and changing tracers" fixed the updating of the main buffers with the race of changing tracers, but left out the fix to the updating of just a per cpu buffer. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* tracing: Prevent buffer overwrite disabled for latency tracersSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)2013-03-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | The latency tracers require the buffers to be in overwrite mode, otherwise they get screwed up. Force the buffers to stay in overwrite mode when latency tracers are enabled. Added a flag_changed() method to the tracer structure to allow the tracers to see what flags are being changed, and also be able to prevent the change from happing. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* tracing: Keep overwrite in sync between regular and snapshot buffersSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)2013-03-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Changing the overwrite mode for the ring buffer via the trace option only sets the normal buffer. But the snapshot buffer could swap with it, and then the snapshot would be in non overwrite mode and the normal buffer would be in overwrite mode, even though the option flag states otherwise. Keep the two buffers overwrite modes in sync. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* tracing: Protect tracer flags with trace_types_lockSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)2013-03-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Seems that the tracer flags have never been protected from synchronous writes. Luckily, admins don't usually modify the tracing flags via two different tasks. But if scripts were to be used to modify them, then they could get corrupted. Move the trace_types_lock that protects against tracers changing to also protect the flags being set. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* tracing: Fix race in snapshot swappingSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)2013-03-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Although the swap is wrapped with a spin_lock, the assignment of the temp buffer used to swap is not within that lock. It needs to be moved into that lock, otherwise two swaps happening on two different CPUs, can end up using the wrong temp buffer to assign in the swap. Luckily, all current callers of the swap function appear to have their own locks. But in case something is added that allows two different callers to call the swap, then there's a chance that this race can trigger and corrupt the buffers. New code is coming soon that will allow for this race to trigger. I've Cc'd stable, so this bug will not show up if someone backports one of the changes that can trigger this bug. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* tracing: Do not return EINVAL in snapshot when not allocatedSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)2013-03-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | To use the tracing snapshot feature, writing a '1' into the snapshot file causes the snapshot buffer to be allocated if it has not already been allocated and dose a 'swap' with the main buffer, so that the snapshot now contains what was in the main buffer, and the main buffer now writes to what was the snapshot buffer. To free the snapshot buffer, a '0' is written into the snapshot file. To clear the snapshot buffer, any number but a '0' or '1' is written into the snapshot file. But if the file is not allocated it returns -EINVAL error code. This is rather pointless. It is better just to do nothing and return success. Acked-by: Hiraku Toyooka <hiraku.toyooka.gu@hitachi.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* tracing: Add help of snapshot feature when snapshot is emptySteven Rostedt (Red Hat)2013-03-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When cat'ing the snapshot file, instead of showing an empty trace header like the trace file does, show how to use the snapshot feature. Also, this is a good place to show if the snapshot has been allocated or not. Users may want to "pre allocate" the snapshot to have a fast "swap" of the current buffer. Otherwise, a swap would be slow and might fail as it would need to allocate the snapshot buffer, and that might fail under tight memory constraints. Here's what it looked like before: # tracer: nop # # entries-in-buffer/entries-written: 0/0 #P:4 # # _-----=> irqs-off # / _----=> need-resched # | / _---=> hardirq/softirq # || / _--=> preempt-depth # ||| / delay # TASK-PID CPU# |||| TIMESTAMP FUNCTION # | | | |||| | | Here's what it looks like now: # tracer: nop # # # * Snapshot is freed * # # Snapshot commands: # echo 0 > snapshot : Clears and frees snapshot buffer # echo 1 > snapshot : Allocates snapshot buffer, if not already allocated. # Takes a snapshot of the main buffer. # echo 2 > snapshot : Clears snapshot buffer (but does not allocate) # (Doesn't have to be '2' works with any number that # is not a '0' or '1') Acked-by: Hiraku Toyooka <hiraku.toyooka.gu@hitachi.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2013-02-19
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull scheduler changes from Ingo Molnar: "Main changes: - scheduler side full-dynticks (user-space execution is undisturbed and receives no timer IRQs) preparation changes that convert the cputime accounting code to be full-dynticks ready, from Frederic Weisbecker. - Initial sched.h split-up changes, by Clark Williams - select_idle_sibling() performance improvement by Mike Galbraith: " 1 tbench pair (worst case) in a 10 core + SMT package: pre 15.22 MB/sec 1 procs post 252.01 MB/sec 1 procs " - sched_rr_get_interval() ABI fix/change. We think this detail is not used by apps (so it's not an ABI in practice), but lets keep it under observation. - misc RT scheduling cleanups, optimizations" * 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (24 commits) sched/rt: Add <linux/sched/rt.h> header to <linux/init_task.h> cputime: Remove irqsave from seqlock readers sched, powerpc: Fix sched.h split-up build failure cputime: Restore CPU_ACCOUNTING config defaults for PPC64 sched/rt: Move rt specific bits into new header file sched/rt: Add a tuning knob to allow changing SCHED_RR timeslice sched: Move sched.h sysctl bits into separate header sched: Fix signedness bug in yield_to() sched: Fix select_idle_sibling() bouncing cow syndrome sched/rt: Further simplify pick_rt_task() sched/rt: Do not account zero delta_exec in update_curr_rt() cputime: Safely read cputime of full dynticks CPUs kvm: Prepare to add generic guest entry/exit callbacks cputime: Use accessors to read task cputime stats cputime: Allow dynamic switch between tick/virtual based cputime accounting cputime: Generic on-demand virtual cputime accounting cputime: Move default nsecs_to_cputime() to jiffies based cputime file cputime: Librarize per nsecs resolution cputime definitions cputime: Avoid multiplication overflow on utime scaling context_tracking: Export context state for generic vtime ... Fix up conflict in kernel/context_tracking.c due to comment additions.
| * sched/rt: Move rt specific bits into new header fileClark Williams2013-02-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Move rt scheduler definitions out of include/linux/sched.h into new file include/linux/sched/rt.h Signed-off-by: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130207094707.7b9f825f@riff.lan Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* | tracing: Init current_trace to nop_trace and remove NULL checksSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)2013-02-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | On early boot up, when the ftrace ring buffer is initialized, the static variable current_trace is initialized to &nop_trace. Before this initialization, current_trace is NULL and will never become NULL again. It is always reassigned to a ftrace tracer. Several places check if current_trace is NULL before it uses it, and this check is frivolous, because at the point in time when the checks are made the only way current_trace could be NULL is if ftrace failed its allocations at boot up, and the paths to these locations would probably not be possible. By initializing current_trace to &nop_trace where it is declared, current_trace will never be NULL, and we can remove all these checks of current_trace being NULL which never needed to be checked in the first place. Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Cc: Hiraku Toyooka <hiraku.toyooka.gu@hitachi.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* | tracing: Make a snapshot feature available from userspaceHiraku Toyooka2013-01-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Ftrace has a snapshot feature available from kernel space and latency tracers (e.g. irqsoff) are using it. This patch enables user applictions to take a snapshot via debugfs. Add "snapshot" debugfs file in "tracing" directory. snapshot: This is used to take a snapshot and to read the output of the snapshot. # echo 1 > snapshot This will allocate the spare buffer for snapshot (if it is not allocated), and take a snapshot. # cat snapshot This will show contents of the snapshot. # echo 0 > snapshot This will free the snapshot if it is allocated. Any other positive values will clear the snapshot contents if the snapshot is allocated, or return EINVAL if it is not allocated. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20121226025300.3252.86850.stgit@liselsia Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: David Sharp <dhsharp@google.com> Signed-off-by: Hiraku Toyooka <hiraku.toyooka.gu@hitachi.com> [ Fixed irqsoff selftest and also a conflict with a change that fixes the update_max_tr. ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* | tracing: Replace static old_tracer check of tracer nameHiraku Toyooka2013-01-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently the trace buffer read functions use a static variable "old_tracer" for detecting if the current tracer changes. This was suitable for a single trace file ("trace"), but to add a snapshot feature that will use the same function for its file, a check against a static variable is not sufficient. To use the output functions for two different files, instead of storing the current tracer in a static variable, as the trace iterator descriptor contains a pointer to the original current tracer's name, that pointer can now be used to check if the current tracer has changed between different reads of the trace file. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20121226025252.3252.9276.stgit@liselsia Signed-off-by: Hiraku Toyooka <hiraku.toyooka.gu@hitachi.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* | ring-buffer: Add stats field for amount read from trace ring bufferSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)2013-01-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add a stat about the number of events read from the ring buffer: # cat /debug/tracing/per_cpu/cpu0/stats entries: 39869 overrun: 870512 commit overrun: 0 bytes: 1449912 oldest event ts: 6561.368690 now ts: 6565.246426 dropped events: 0 read events: 112 <-- Added Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* | tracing: Remove second iterator initializerJovi Zhang2013-01-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The trace iterator is already initialized by trace_init_global_iter(), so there is no need to initialize it again. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CACV3sb+G1YnO6168JhY3dEadmJi58pA5-2cSZT8E0WVHJNFt9Q@mail.gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jovi Zhang <bookjovi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* | tracing: Use __this_cpu_inc/dec operation instead of __get_cpu_varShan Wei2013-01-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | __this_cpu_inc_return() or __this_cpu_dec generates a single instruction, which is faster than __get_cpu_var operation. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/50A9C1BD.1060308@gmail.com Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Shan Wei <davidshan@tencent.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* | tracing: Mark tracing_dentry_percpu() staticJosh Triplett2013-01-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Nothing outside of kernel/trace/trace.c references tracing_dentry_percpu(). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1353302917-13995-7-git-send-email-josh@joshtriplett.org Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* | tracing: Fix race with max_tr and changing tracersSteven Rostedt2013-01-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There's a race condition between the setting of a new tracer and the update of the max trace buffers (the swap). When a new tracer is added, it sets current_trace to nop_trace before disabling the old tracer. At this moment, if the old tracer uses update_max_tr(), the update may trigger the warning against !current_trace->use_max-tr, as nop_trace doesn't have that set. As update_max_tr() requires that interrupts be disabled, we can add a check to see if current_trace == nop_trace and bail if it does. Then when disabling the current_trace, set it to nop_trace and run synchronize_sched(). This will make sure all calls to update_max_tr() have completed (it was called with interrupts disabled). As a clean up, this commit also removes shrinking and recreating the max_tr buffer if the old and new tracers both have use_max_tr set. The old way use to always shrink the buffer, and then expand it for the next tracer. This is a waste of time. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* | tracing: Remove the extra 4 bytes of padding in eventsSteven Rostedt2013-01-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Due to a userspace issue with PowerTop v2beta, which hardcoded the offset of event fields that it was using, it broke when we removed the Big Kernel Lock counter from the event header. (commit e6e1e2593 "tracing: Remove lock_depth from event entry") Because this broke userspace, it was determined that we must keep those 4 bytes around. (commit a3a4a5acd "Regression: partial revert "tracing: Remove lock_depth from event entry"") This unfortunately wastes space in the ring buffer. 4 bytes per event, where a lot of events are just 24 bytes. That's 16% of the buffer wasted. A million events will add 4 megs of white space into the buffer. It was later noticed that PowerTop v2beta could not work on systems where the kernel was 64 bit but the userspace was 32 bits. The reason was because the offsets are different between the two and the hard coded offset of one would not work with the other. With PowerTop v2 final, it implemented the same interface that both perf and trace-cmd use. That is, it reads the format file of the event to find the offsets of the fields it needs. This fixes the problem with running powertop on a 32 bit userspace running on a 64 bit kernel. It also no longer requires the 4 byte padding. As PowerTop v2 has been out for a while, and is included in all major distributions, it is time that we can safely remove the 4 bytes of padding. Users of PowerTop v2beta should upgrade to PowerTop v2 final. Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* | tracing: Remove unneeded check of max_tr->buffer before tracing_resetSteven Rostedt2013-01-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | There's now a check in tracing_reset_online_cpus() if the buffer is allocated or NULL. No need to do a check before calling it with max_tr. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* | tracing: Add checks if tr->buffer is NULL in tracing_reset{_online_cpus}Hiraku Toyooka2013-01-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | max_tr->buffer could be NULL in the tracing_reset{_online_cpus}. In this case, a NULL pointer dereference happens, so we should return immediately from these functions. Note, the current code does not call tracing_reset*() with max_tr when its buffer is NULL, but future code will. This patch is needed to prevent the future code from crashing. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20121219070234.31200.93863.stgit@liselsia Signed-off-by: Hiraku Toyooka <hiraku.toyooka.gu@hitachi.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* | tracing: Use this_cpu_ptr per-cpu helperShan Wei2013-01-21
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | typeof(&buffer) is a pointer to array of 1024 char, or char (*)[1024]. But, typeof(&buffer[0]) is a pointer to char which match the return type of get_trace_buf(). As well-known, the value of &buffer is equal to &buffer[0]. so return this_cpu_ptr(&percpu_buffer->buffer[0]) can avoid type cast. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/50A1A800.3020102@gmail.com Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Shan Wei <davidshan@tencent.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* tracing: Fix regression of trace_pipeLiu Bo2013-01-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit 0fb9656d "tracing: Make tracing_enabled be equal to tracing_on" changes the behaviour of trace_pipe, ie. it makes trace_pipe return if we've read something and tracing is enabled, and this means that we have to 'cat trace_pipe' again and again while running tests. IMO the right way is if tracing is enabled, we always block and wait for ring buffer, or we may lose what we want since ring buffer's size is limited. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1358132051-5410-1-git-send-email-bo.li.liu@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Liu Bo <bo.li.liu@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* tracing: Fix regression with irqsoff tracer and tracing_on fileSteven Rostedt2013-01-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit 02404baf1b47 "tracing: Remove deprecated tracing_enabled file" removed the tracing_enabled file as it never worked properly and the tracing_on file should be used instead. But the tracing_on file didn't call into the tracers start/stop routines like the tracing_enabled file did. This caused trace-cmd to break when it enabled the irqsoff tracer. If you just did "echo irqsoff > current_tracer" then it would work properly. But the tool trace-cmd disables tracing first by writing "0" into the tracing_on file. Then it writes "irqsoff" into current_tracer and then writes "1" into tracing_on. Unfortunately, the above commit changed the irqsoff tracer to check the tracing_on status instead of the tracing_enabled status. If it's disabled then it does not start the tracer internals. The problem is that writing "1" into tracing_on does not call the tracers "start" routine like writing "1" into tracing_enabled did. This makes the irqsoff tracer not start when using the trace-cmd tool, and is a regression for userspace. Simple fix is to have the tracing_on file call the tracers start() method when being enabled (and the stop() method when disabled). Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* tracing: Fix regression of trace_options file settingSteven Rostedt2013-01-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The latest change to allow trace options to be set on the command line also broke the trace_options file. The zeroing of the last byte of the option name that is echoed into the trace_option file was removed with the consolidation of some of the code. The compare between the option and what was written to the trace_options file fails because the string holding the data written doesn't terminate with a null character. A zero needs to be added to the end of the string copied from user space. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* Merge branch 'tip/perf/core-2' of ↵Linus Torvalds2012-12-18
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace Pull minor tracing updates and fixes from Steven Rostedt: "It seems that one of my old pull requests have slipped through. The changes are contained to just the files that I maintain, and are changes from others that I told I would get into this merge window. They have already been in linux-next for several weeks, and should be well tested." * 'tip/perf/core-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: tracing: Remove unnecessary WARN_ONCE's from tracing_buffers_splice_read tracing: Remove unneeded checks from the stack tracer tracing: Add a resize function to make one buffer equivalent to another buffer
| * tracing: Remove unnecessary WARN_ONCE's from tracing_buffers_splice_readDave Jones2012-11-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | WARN shouldn't be used as a means of communicating failure to a userspace programmer. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120725153908.GA25203@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * tracing: Add a resize function to make one buffer equivalent to another bufferHiraku Toyooka2012-11-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Trace buffer size is now per-cpu, so that there are the following two patterns in resizing of buffers. (1) resize per-cpu buffers to same given size (2) resize per-cpu buffers to another trace_array's buffer size for each CPU (such as preparing the max_tr which is equivalent to the global_trace's size) __tracing_resize_ring_buffer() can be used for (1), and had implemented (2) inside it for resetting the global_trace to the original size. (2) was also implemented in another place. So this patch assembles them in a new function - resize_buffer_duplicate_size(). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20121017025616.2627.91226.stgit@falsita Signed-off-by: Hiraku Toyooka <hiraku.toyooka.gu@hitachi.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* | Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2012-12-13
|\ \ | |/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial Pull trivial branch from Jiri Kosina: "Usual stuff -- comment/printk typo fixes, documentation updates, dead code elimination." * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (39 commits) HOWTO: fix double words typo x86 mtrr: fix comment typo in mtrr_bp_init propagate name change to comments in kernel source doc: Update the name of profiling based on sysfs treewide: Fix typos in various drivers treewide: Fix typos in various Kconfig wireless: mwifiex: Fix typo in wireless/mwifiex driver messages: i2o: Fix typo in messages/i2o scripts/kernel-doc: check that non-void fcts describe their return value Kernel-doc: Convention: Use a "Return" section to describe return values radeon: Fix typo and copy/paste error in comments doc: Remove unnecessary declarations from Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c various: Fix spelling of "asynchronous" in comments. Fix misspellings of "whether" in comments. eisa: Fix spelling of "asynchronous". various: Fix spelling of "registered" in comments. doc: fix quite a few typos within Documentation target: iscsi: fix comment typos in target/iscsi drivers treewide: fix typo of "suport" in various comments and Kconfig treewide: fix typo of "suppport" in various comments ...
| * propagate name change to comments in kernel sourceNadia Yvette Chambers2012-12-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I've legally changed my name with New York State, the US Social Security Administration, et al. This patch propagates the name change and change in initials and login to comments in the kernel source as well. Signed-off-by: Nadia Yvette Chambers <nyc@holomorphy.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
* | tracing: Show raw time stamp on stats per cpu using counter or tsc mode for ↵Yoshihiro YUNOMAE2012-11-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | trace_clock Show raw time stamp values for stats per cpu if you choose counter or tsc mode for trace_clock. Although a unit of tracing time stamp is nsec in local or global mode, the units in counter and TSC mode are tracing counter and cycles respectively. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1352837903-32191-3-git-send-email-dhsharp@google.com Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Yoshihiro YUNOMAE <yoshihiro.yunomae.ez@hitachi.com> Signed-off-by: David Sharp <dhsharp@google.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* | tracing: Format non-nanosec times from tsc clock without a decimal point.David Sharp2012-11-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | With the addition of the "tsc" clock, formatting timestamps to look like fractional seconds is misleading. Mark clocks as either in nanoseconds or not, and format non-nanosecond timestamps as decimal integers. Tested: $ cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/ $ cat trace_clock [local] global tsc $ echo sched_switch > set_event $ echo 1 > tracing_on ; sleep 0.0005 ; echo 0 > tracing_on $ cat trace <idle>-0 [000] 6330.555552: sched_switch: prev_comm=swapper prev_pid=0 prev_prio=120 prev_state=R ==> next_comm=bash next_pid=29964 next_prio=120 sleep-29964 [000] 6330.555628: sched_switch: prev_comm=bash prev_pid=29964 prev_prio=120 prev_state=S ==> next_comm=swapper next_pid=0 next_prio=120 ... $ echo 1 > options/latency-format $ cat trace <idle>-0 0 4104553247us+: sched_switch: prev_comm=swapper prev_pid=0 prev_prio=120 prev_state=R ==> next_comm=bash next_pid=29964 next_prio=120 sleep-29964 0 4104553322us+: sched_switch: prev_comm=bash prev_pid=29964 prev_prio=120 prev_state=S ==> next_comm=swapper next_pid=0 next_prio=120 ... $ echo tsc > trace_clock $ cat trace $ echo 1 > tracing_on ; sleep 0.0005 ; echo 0 > tracing_on $ echo 0 > options/latency-format $ cat trace <idle>-0 [000] 16490053398357: sched_switch: prev_comm=swapper prev_pid=0 prev_prio=120 prev_state=R ==> next_comm=bash next_pid=31128 next_prio=120 sleep-31128 [000] 16490053588518: sched_switch: prev_comm=bash prev_pid=31128 prev_prio=120 prev_state=S ==> next_comm=swapper next_pid=0 next_prio=120 ... echo 1 > options/latency-format $ cat trace <idle>-0 0 91557653238+: sched_switch: prev_comm=swapper prev_pid=0 prev_prio=120 prev_state=R ==> next_comm=bash next_pid=31128 next_prio=120 sleep-31128 0 91557843399+: sched_switch: prev_comm=bash prev_pid=31128 prev_prio=120 prev_state=S ==> next_comm=swapper next_pid=0 next_prio=120 ... v2: Move arch-specific bits out of generic code. v4: Fix x86_32 build due to 64-bit division. Google-Bug-Id: 6980623 Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1352837903-32191-2-git-send-email-dhsharp@google.com Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Signed-off-by: David Sharp <dhsharp@google.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* | tracing,x86: Add a TSC trace_clockDavid Sharp2012-11-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In order to promote interoperability between userspace tracers and ftrace, add a trace_clock that reports raw TSC values which will then be recorded in the ring buffer. Userspace tracers that also record TSCs are then on exactly the same time base as the kernel and events can be unambiguously interlaced. Tested: Enabled a tracepoint and the "tsc" trace_clock and saw very large timestamp values. v2: Move arch-specific bits out of generic code. v3: Rename "x86-tsc", cleanups v7: Generic arch bits in Kbuild. Google-Bug-Id: 6980623 Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1352837903-32191-1-git-send-email-dhsharp@google.com Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: David Sharp <dhsharp@google.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* | tracing: Add trace_options kernel command line parameterSteven Rostedt2012-11-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add trace_options to the kernel command line parameter to be able to set options at early boot. For example, to enable stack dumps of events, add the following: trace_options=stacktrace This along with the trace_event option, you can get not only traces of the events but also the stack dumps with them. Requested-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* | tracing: Use irq_work for wake ups and remove *_nowake_*() functionsSteven Rostedt2012-11-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>