aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/include/linux/ftrace.h
Commit message (Collapse)AuthorAge
* sysctl: remove "struct file *" argument of ->proc_handlerAlexey Dobriyan2009-09-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It's unused. It isn't needed -- read or write flag is already passed and sysctl shouldn't care about the rest. It _was_ used in two places at arch/frv for some reason. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* includecheck fix: include/linux, ftrace.hJaswinder Singh Rajput2009-09-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | fix the following 'make includecheck' warning: include/linux/ftrace.h: linux/sched.h is included more than once. Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> LKML-Reference: <1247068321.4382.102.camel@ht.satnam>
* function-graph: add stack frame testSteven Rostedt2009-06-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In case gcc does something funny with the stack frames, or the return from function code, we would like to detect that. An arch may implement passing of a variable that is unique to the function and can be saved on entering a function and can be tested when exiting the function. Usually the frame pointer can be used for this purpose. This patch also implements this for x86. Where it passes in the stack frame of the parent function, and will test that frame on exit. There was a case in x86_32 with optimize for size (-Os) where, for a few functions, gcc would align the stack frame and place a copy of the return address into it. The function graph tracer modified the copy and not the actual return address. On return from the funtion, it did not go to the tracer hook, but returned to the parent. This broke the function graph tracer, because the return of the parent (where gcc did not do this funky manipulation) returned to the location that the child function was suppose to. This caused strange kernel crashes. This test detected the problem and pointed out where the issue was. This modifies the parameters of one of the functions that the arch specific code calls, so it includes changes to arch code to accommodate the new prototype. Note, I notice that the parsic arch implements its own push_return_trace. This is now a generic function and the ftrace_push_return_trace should be used instead. This patch does not touch that code. Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* tracing: add same level recursion detectionSteven Rostedt2009-04-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The tracing infrastructure allows for recursion. That is, an interrupt may interrupt the act of tracing an event, and that interrupt may very well perform its own trace. This is a recursive trace, and is fine to do. The problem arises when there is a bug, and the utility doing the trace calls something that recurses back into the tracer. This recursion is not caused by an external event like an interrupt, but by code that is not expected to recurse. The result could be a lockup. This patch adds a bitmask to the task structure that keeps track of the trace recursion. To find the interrupt depth, the following algorithm is used: level = hardirq_count() + softirq_count() + in_nmi; Here, level will be the depth of interrutps and softirqs, and even handles the nmi. Then the corresponding bit is set in the recursion bitmask. If the bit was already set, we know we had a recursion at the same level and we warn about it and fail the writing to the buffer. After the data has been committed to the buffer, we clear the bit. No atomics are needed. The only races are with interrupts and they reset the bitmask before returning anywy. [ Impact: detect same irq level trace recursion ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* ftrace: use module notifier for function tracerSteven Rostedt2009-04-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The hooks in the module code for the function tracer must be called before any of that module code runs. The function tracer hooks modify the module (replacing calls to mcount to nops). If the code is executed while the change occurs, then the CPU can take a GPF. To handle the above with a bit of paranoia, I originally implemented the hooks as calls directly from the module code. After examining the notifier calls, it looks as though the start up notify is called before any of the module's code is executed. This makes the use of the notify safe with ftrace. Only the startup notify is required to be "safe". The shutdown simply removes the entries from the ftrace function list, and does not modify any code. This change has another benefit. It removes a issue with a reverse dependency in the mutexes of ftrace_lock and module_mutex. [ Impact: fix lock dependency bug, cleanup ] Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* Merge branch 'tracing/urgent' into tracing/coreIngo Molnar2009-04-10
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | Merge reason: pick up both v2.6.30-rc1 [which includes tracing/urgent fixes] and pick up the current lineup of tracing/urgent fixes as well Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * tracing/syscalls: use a dedicated file headerFrederic Weisbecker2009-04-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
| * tracing: append a comma to INIT_FTRACE_GRAPHTetsuo Handa2009-04-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: dont break future extensions of INIT_TASK While not a problem right now, due to lack of a comma, build fails if elements are appended to INIT_TASK() macro in development code: arch/x86/kernel/init_task.c:33: error: request for member `XXXXXXXXXX' in something not a structure or union arch/x86/kernel/init_task.c:33: error: initializer element is not constant arch/x86/kernel/init_task.c:33: error: (near initialization for `init_task.ret_stack') make[1]: *** [arch/x86/kernel/init_task.o] Error 1 make: *** [arch/x86/kernel] Error 2 Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Cc: srostedt@redhat.com LKML-Reference: <200904080505.n3855hcn017109@www262.sakura.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | Merge branch 'tracing/urgent' into tracing/ftraceIngo Molnar2009-04-07
|\|
| * function-graph: add proper initialization for init taskSteven Rostedt2009-04-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: fix to crash going to kexec The init task did not properly initialize the function graph pointers. Altough these pointers are NULL, they can not be assumed to be NULL for the init task, and must still be properly initialize. This usually is not an issue since a problem only arises when a task exits, and the init tasks do not usually exit. But when doing tests with kexec, the init tasks do exit, and the bug appears. This patch properly initializes the init tasks function graph data structures. Reported-and-Tested-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> LKML-Reference: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0903252053080.5675@gandalf.stny.rr.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | function-graph: add option to calculate graph time or notSteven Rostedt2009-03-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | graph time is the time that a function is executing another function. Thus if function A calls B, if graph-time is set, then the time for A includes B. This is the default behavior. But if graph-time is off, then the time spent executing B is subtracted from A. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
* | tracing: move function profiler data out of function structSteven Rostedt2009-03-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: reduce size of memory in function profiler The function profiler originally introduces its counters into the function records itself. There is 20 thousand different functions on a normal system, and that is adding 20 thousand counters for profiling event when not needed. A normal run of the profiler yields only a couple of thousand functions executed, depending on what is being profiled. This means we have around 18 thousand useless counters. This patch rectifies this by moving the data out of the function records used by dynamic ftrace. Data is preallocated to hold the functions when the profiling begins. Checks are made during profiling to see if more recorcds should be allocated, and they are allocated if it is safe to do so. This also removes the dependency from using dynamic ftrace, and also removes the overhead by having it enabled. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
* | tracing: add function profilerSteven Rostedt2009-03-24
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: new profiling feature This patch adds a function profiler. In debugfs/tracing/ two new files are created. function_profile_enabled - to enable or disable profiling trace_stat/functions - the profiled functions. For example: echo 1 > /debugfs/tracing/function_profile_enabled ./hackbench 50 echo 0 > /debugfs/tracing/function_profile_enabled yields: cat /debugfs/tracing/trace_stat/functions Function Hit -------- --- _spin_lock 10106442 _spin_unlock 10097492 kfree 6013704 _spin_unlock_irqrestore 4423941 _spin_lock_irqsave 4406825 __phys_addr 4181686 __slab_free 4038222 dput 4030130 path_put 4023387 unroll_tree_refs 4019532 [...] The most hit functions are listed first. Functions that are not hit are not listed. This feature depends on and uses dynamic function tracing. When the function profiling is disabled, no overhead occurs. But it still takes up around 300KB to hold the data, thus it is not recomended to keep it enabled for systems low on memory. When a '1' is echoed into the function_profile_enabled file, the counters for is function is reset back to zero. Thus you can see what functions are hit most by different programs. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
* tracing: use union for multi-usages fieldLai Jiangshan2009-03-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: cleanup struct dyn_ftrace::ip has different usages in his lifecycle, we use union for it. And also for struct dyn_ftrace::flags. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <49C871BE.3080405@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* function-graph: moved the timestamp from arch to generic codeSteven Rostedt2009-03-24
| | | | | | | | This patch move the timestamp from happening in the arch specific code into the general code. This allows for better control by the tracer to time manipulation. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
*-. Merge branches 'tracing/ftrace', 'tracing/syscalls' and 'linus' into ↵Ingo Molnar2009-03-16
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | tracing/core Conflicts: arch/parisc/kernel/irq.c
| * | tracing/syscalls: core infrastructure for syscalls tracing, enhancementsFrederic Weisbecker2009-03-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* | | ftrace: remove struct list_head from struct dyn_ftraceLai Jiangshan2009-03-13
|/ / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: save memory The struct dyn_ftrace table is very large, this patch will save about 50%. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <49BA2C9F.8020009@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | tracing/ftrace: syscall tracing infrastructure, basicsFrederic Weisbecker2009-03-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* | tracing/core: drop the old trace_printk() implementation in favour of ↵Frederic Weisbecker2009-03-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | trace_bprintk() Impact: faster and lighter tracing Now that we have trace_bprintk() which is faster and consume lesser memory than trace_printk() and has the same purpose, we can now drop the old implementation in favour of the binary one from trace_bprintk(), which means we move all the implementation of trace_bprintk() to trace_printk(), so the Api doesn't change except that we must now use trace_seq_bprintk() to print the TRACE_PRINT entries. Some changes result of this: - Previously, trace_bprintk depended of a single tracer and couldn't work without. This tracer has been dropped and the whole implementation of trace_printk() (like the module formats management) is now integrated in the tracing core (comes with CONFIG_TRACING), though we keep the file trace_printk (previously trace_bprintk.c) where we can find the module management. Thus we don't overflow trace.c - changes some parts to use trace_seq_bprintk() to print TRACE_PRINT entries. - change a bit trace_printk/trace_vprintk macros to support non-builtin formats constants, and fix 'const' qualifiers warnings. But this is all transparent for developers. - etc... V2: - Rebase against last changes - Fix mispell on the changelog V3: - Rebase against last changes (moving trace_printk() to kernel.h) Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> LKML-Reference: <1236356510-8381-5-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | tracing: add trace_bprintk()Lai Jiangshan2009-03-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: add a generic printk() for tracing, like trace_printk() trace_bprintk() uses the infrastructure to record events on ring_buffer. [ fweisbec@gmail.com: ported to latest -tip, made it work if !CONFIG_MODULES, never free the format strings from modules because we can't keep track of them and conditionnaly create the ftrace format strings section (reported by Steven Rostedt) ] Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> LKML-Reference: <1236356510-8381-4-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | tracing: infrastructure for supporting binary recordLai Jiangshan2009-03-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: save on memory for tracing Current tracers are typically using a struct(like struct ftrace_entry, struct ctx_switch_entry, struct special_entr etc...)to record a binary event. These structs can only record a their own kind of events. A new kind of tracer need a new struct and a lot of code too handle it. So we need a generic binary record for events. This infrastructure is for this purpose. [fweisbec@gmail.com: rebase against latest -tip, make it safe while sched tracing as reported by Steven Rostedt] Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> LKML-Reference: <1236356510-8381-3-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | Merge branches 'tracing/ftrace' and 'tracing/function-graph-tracer' into ↵Ingo Molnar2009-03-06
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | tracing/core
| * | tracing/function-graph-tracer: use the more lightweight local clockFrederic Weisbecker2009-03-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: decrease hangs risks with the graph tracer on slow systems Since the function graph tracer can spend too much time on timer interrupts, it's better now to use the more lightweight local clock. Anyway, the function graph traces are more reliable on a per cpu trace. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> LKML-Reference: <49af243d.06e9300a.53ad.ffff840c@mx.google.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | | tracing: move utility functions from ftrace.h to kernel.hIngo Molnar2009-03-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Make common utility functions such as trace_printk() and tracing_start()/tracing_stop() generally available to kernel code. Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | | tracing: rename ftrace_printk() => trace_printk()Ingo Molnar2009-03-05
|/ / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: cleanup Use a more generic name - this also allows the prototype to move to kernel.h and be generally available to kernel developers who want to do some quick tracing. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | tracing: make CALLER_ADDRx overwriteableUwe Kleine-Koenig2009-03-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The current definition of CALLER_ADDRx isn't suitable for all platforms. E.g. for ARM __builtin_return_address(N) doesn't work for N > 0 and AFAIK for powerpc there are no frame pointers needed to have a working __builtin_return_address. This patch allows defining the CALLER_ADDRx macros in <asm/ftrace.h> and let these take precedence. Because now <asm/ftrace.h> is included unconditionally in <linux/ftrace.h> all archs that don't already had this include get an empty one for free. Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-Koenig <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
* | Merge branch 'tip/x86/ftrace' of ↵Ingo Molnar2009-02-22
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into tracing/ftrace Conflicts: include/linux/ftrace.h kernel/trace/ftrace.c
| * | ftrace: allow archs to preform pre and post process for code modificationSteven Rostedt2009-02-20
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch creates the weak functions: ftrace_arch_code_modify_prepare and ftrace_arch_code_modify_post_process that are called before and after the stop machine is called to modify the kernel text. If the arch needs to do pre or post processing, it only needs to define these functions. [ Update: Ingo Molnar suggested using the name ftrace_arch_code_modify_* over using ftrace_arch_modify_* ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
* | Merge branch 'mainline/function-graph' of ↵Ingo Molnar2009-02-19
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into tracing/function-graph-tracer
| * | tracing/function-graph-tracer: make arch generic push pop functionsSteven Rostedt2009-02-18
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There is nothing really arch specific of the push and pop functions used by the function graph tracer. This patch moves them to generic code. Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
* | ftrace: rename _hook to _probeSteven Rostedt2009-02-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: clean up Ingo Molnar did not like the _hook naming convention used by the select function tracer. Luis Claudio R. Goncalves suggested using the "_probe" extension. This patch implements the change of calling the functions and variables "_hook" and replacing them with "_probe". Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
* | ftrace: fix !CONFIG_FTRACE [un_]register_ftrace_command() prototypesIngo Molnar2009-02-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: build fix Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | ftrace: add pretty print to selected fuction tracesSteven Rostedt2009-02-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds a call back for the tracers that have hooks to selected functions. This allows the tracer to show better output in the set_ftrace_filter file. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
* | ftrace: trace different functions with a different tracerSteven Rostedt2009-02-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: new feature Currently, the function tracer only gives you an ability to hook a tracer to all functions being traced. The dynamic function trace allows you to pick and choose which of those functions will be traced, but all functions being traced will call all tracers that registered with the function tracer. This patch adds a new feature that allows a tracer to hook to specific functions, even when all functions are being traced. It allows for different functions to call different tracer hooks. The way this is accomplished is by a special function that will hook to the function tracer and will set up a hash table knowing which tracer hook to call with which function. This is the most general and easiest method to accomplish this. Later, an arch may choose to supply their own method in changing the mcount call of a function to call a different tracer. But that will be an exercise for the future. To register a function: struct ftrace_hook_ops { void (*func)(unsigned long ip, unsigned long parent_ip, void **data); int (*callback)(unsigned long ip, void **data); void (*free)(void **data); }; int register_ftrace_function_hook(char *glob, struct ftrace_hook_ops *ops, void *data); glob is a simple glob to search for the functions to hook. ops is a pointer to the operations (listed below) data is the default data to be passed to the hook functions when traced ops: func is the hook function to call when the functions are traced callback is a callback function that is called when setting up the hash. That is, if the tracer needs to do something special for each function, that is being traced, and wants to give each function its own data. The address of the entry data is passed to this callback, so that the callback may wish to update the entry to whatever it would like. free is a callback for when the entry is freed. In case the tracer allocated any data, it is give the chance to free it. To unregister we have three functions: void unregister_ftrace_function_hook(char *glob, struct ftrace_hook_ops *ops, void *data) This will unregister all hooks that match glob, point to ops, and have its data matching data. (note, if glob is NULL, blank or '*', all functions will be tested). void unregister_ftrace_function_hook_func(char *glob, struct ftrace_hook_ops *ops) This will unregister all functions matching glob that has an entry pointing to ops. void unregister_ftrace_function_hook_all(char *glob) This simply unregisters all funcs. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
* | ftrace: add command interface for function selectionSteven Rostedt2009-02-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Allow for other tracers to add their own commands for function selection. This interface gives a trace the ability to name a command for function selection. Right now it is pretty limited in what it offers, but this is a building step for more features. The :mod: command is converted to this interface and also serves as a template for other implementations. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
* | tracing/power: move the power trace headers to a dedicated fileFrederic Weisbecker2009-02-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: cleanup Move the power tracer headers to trace/power.h to keep ftrace.h and power bits more easy to maintain as separated topics. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | trace: trivial fixes in comment typos.Wenji Huang2009-02-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: clean up Fixed several typos in the comments. Signed-off-by: Wenji Huang <wenji.huang@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
* | ftrace: add ftrace_vprintkArnaldo Carvalho de Melo2009-01-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: new helper function Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | x86, ftrace, hw-branch-tracer: dump trace on oopsMarkus Metzger2009-01-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Dump the branch trace on an oops (based on ftrace_dump_on_oops). Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | ftrace, ia64: Add macro for ftrace_callerShaohua Li2009-01-14
|/ | | | | | | | | Define FTRACE_ADDR. In IA64, a function pointer isn't a 'unsigned long' but a 'struct {unsigned long ip, unsigned long gp}'. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* ftrace: enable format arguments checkingLai Jiangshan2008-12-21
| | | | | | | | | | Impact: broaden gcc printf format checks for ftrace_printk() format arguments checking for ftrace_printk() is __printf(1, 2), not __printf(1, 0). Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
*-. Merge branches 'tracing/ftrace', 'tracing/ring-buffer' and 'tracing/urgent' ↵Ingo Molnar2008-12-19
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | into tracing/core Conflicts: include/linux/ftrace.h
| | * KSYM_SYMBOL_LEN fixesHugh Dickins2008-12-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Miles Lane tailing /sys files hit a BUG which Pekka Enberg has tracked to my 966c8c12dc9e77f931e2281ba25d2f0244b06949 sprint_symbol(): use less stack exposing a bug in slub's list_locations() - kallsyms_lookup() writes a 0 to namebuf[KSYM_NAME_LEN-1], but that was beyond the end of page provided. The 100 slop which list_locations() allows at end of page looks roughly enough for all the other stuff it might print after the symbol before it checks again: break out KSYM_SYMBOL_LEN earlier than before. Latencytop and ftrace and are using KSYM_NAME_LEN buffers where they need KSYM_SYMBOL_LEN buffers, and vmallocinfo a 2*KSYM_NAME_LEN buffer where it wants a KSYM_SYMBOL_LEN buffer: fix those before anyone copies them. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: ftrace.h needs module.h] Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc Miles Lane <miles.lane@gmail.com> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | trace: add a way to enable or disable the stack tracerSteven Rostedt2008-12-18
|/ / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: enhancement to stack tracer The stack tracer currently is either on when configured in or off when it is not. It can not be disabled when it is configured on. (besides disabling the function tracer that it uses) This patch adds a way to enable or disable the stack tracer at run time. It defaults off on bootup, but a kernel parameter 'stacktrace' has been added to enable it on bootup. A new sysctl has been added "kernel.stack_tracer_enabled" to let the user enable or disable the stack tracer at run time. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | tracing/function-graph-tracer: annotate do_IRQ and smp_apic_timer_interruptFrederic Weisbecker2008-12-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: move most important x86 irq entry-points to a separate subsection Annotate do_IRQ and smp_apic_timer_interrupt to put them into the .irqentry.text subsection. These function will so be recognized as hardirq entrypoints for the function-graph-tracer. We could also annotate other irq entries but the others are far less important but they can be added on request. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | tracing/function-graph-tracer: append the tracing_graph_flagFrederic Weisbecker2008-12-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: Provide a way to pause the function graph tracer As suggested by Steven Rostedt, the previous patch that prevented from spinlock function tracing shouldn't use the raw_spinlock to fix it. It's much better to follow lockdep with normal spinlock, so this patch adds a new flag for each task to make the function graph tracer able to be paused. We also can send an ftrace_printk whithout worrying of the irrelevant traced spinlock during insertion. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | tracing/function-graph-tracer: introduce __notrace_funcgraph to filter ↵Frederic Weisbecker2008-12-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | special functions Impact: trace more functions When the function graph tracer is configured, three more files are not traced to prevent only four functions to be traced. And this impacts the normal function tracer too. arch/x86/kernel/process_64/32.c: I had crashes when I let this file traced. After some debugging, I saw that the "current" task point was changed inside__swtich_to(), ie: "write_pda(pcurrent, next_p);" inside process_64.c Since the tracer store the original return address of the function inside current, we had crashes. Only __switch_to() has to be excluded from tracing. kernel/module.c and kernel/extable.c: Because of a function used internally by the function graph tracer: __kernel_text_address() To let the other functions inside these files to be traced, this patch introduces the __notrace_funcgraph function prefix which is __notrace if function graph tracer is configured and nothing if not. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | tracing/ftrace: provide the macro task_curr_ret_stack()Frederic Weisbecker2008-12-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: cleanup As suggested by Steven Rostedt, this patch provide a new macro task_curr_ret_stack() to move the cpp conditionnal CONFIG into the linux/ftrace.h headers. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | ftrace: graph of a single functionSteven Rostedt2008-12-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds the file: /debugfs/tracing/set_graph_function which can be used along with the function graph tracer. When this file is empty, the function graph tracer will act as usual. When the file has a function in it, the function graph tracer will only trace that function. For example: # echo blk_unplug > /debugfs/tracing/set_graph_function # cat /debugfs/tracing/trace [...] ------------------------------------------ | 2) make-19003 => kjournald-2219 ------------------------------------------ 2) | blk_unplug() { 2) | dm_unplug_all() { 2) | dm_get_table() { 2) 1.381 us | _read_lock(); 2) 0.911 us | dm_table_get(); 2) 1. 76 us | _read_unlock(); 2) + 12.912 us | } 2) | dm_table_unplug_all() { 2) | blk_unplug() { 2) 0.778 us | generic_unplug_device(); 2) 2.409 us | } 2) 5.992 us | } 2) 0.813 us | dm_table_put(); 2) + 29. 90 us | } 2) + 34.532 us | } You can add up to 32 functions into this file. Currently we limit it to 32, but this may change with later improvements. To add another function, use the append '>>': # echo sys_read >> /debugfs/tracing/set_graph_function # cat /debugfs/tracing/set_graph_function blk_unplug sys_read Using the '>' will clear out the function and write anew: # echo sys_write > /debug/tracing/set_graph_function # cat /debug/tracing/set_graph_function sys_write Note, if you have function graph running while doing this, the small time between clearing it and updating it will cause the graph to record all functions. This should not be an issue because after it sets the filter, only those functions will be recorded from then on. If you need to only record a particular function then set this file first before starting the function graph tracer. In the future this side effect may be corrected. The set_graph_function file is similar to the set_ftrace_filter but it does not take wild cards nor does it allow for more than one function to be set with a single write. There is no technical reason why this is the case, I just do not have the time yet to implement that. Note, dynamic ftrace must be enabled for this to appear because it uses the dynamic ftrace records to match the name to the mcount call sites. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>