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* ftrace: remove address of function namesSteven Rostedt2008-05-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | PowerPC is very fragile when it comes to use of function names and function addresses. ftrace needs to either use all function addresses or function names (i.e. my_func as suppose to &my_func). This patch chooses to use the names and not the addresses, and makes ftrace consistent. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* ftrace: cleanupsIngo Molnar2008-05-23
| | | | | | | clean up recent code. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* ftrace: disable tracing on failureSteven Rostedt2008-05-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Since ftrace touches practically every function. If we detect any anomaly, we want to fully disable ftrace. This patch adds code to try shutdown ftrace as much as possible without doing any more harm is something is detected not quite correct. This only kills ftrace, this patch does have checks for other parts of the tracer (irqsoff, wakeup, etc.). Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* ftrace - fix dynamic ftrace memory leakSteven Rostedt2008-05-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The ftrace dynamic function update allocates a record to store the instruction pointers that are being modified. If the modified instruction pointer fails to update, then the record is marked as failed and nothing more is done. Worse, if the modification fails, but the record ip function is still called, it will allocate a new record and try again. In just a matter of time, will this cause a serious memory leak and crash the system. This patch plugs this memory leak. When a record fails, it is included back into the pool of records to be used. Now a record may fail over and over again, but the number of allocated records will not increase. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* ftrace: timestamp syncing, prepareIngo Molnar2008-05-23
| | | | | | | rename and uninline now() to ftrace_now(). Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* ftrace: cleanupsIngo Molnar2008-05-23
| | | | | | | no code changed. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* ftrace: startup tester on dynamic tracing.Steven Rostedt2008-05-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds a startup self test on dynamic code modification and filters. The test filters on a specific function, makes sure that no other function is traced, exectutes the function, then makes sure that the function is traced. This patch also fixes a slight bug with the ftrace selftest, where tracer_enabled was not being set. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* ftrace: cleanupsIngo Molnar2008-05-23
| | | | | | | factor out code and clean it up. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* ftrace: force recordingSteven Rostedt2008-05-23
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* ftrace: add filter select functions to traceSteven Rostedt2008-05-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds two files to the debugfs system: /debugfs/tracing/available_filter_functions and /debugfs/tracing/set_ftrace_filter The available_filter_functions lists all functions that has been recorded by the ftraced that has called the ftrace_record_ip function. This is to allow users to see what functions have been converted to nops and can be enabled for tracing. To enable functions, simply echo the names (whitespace delimited) into set_ftrace_filter. Simple wildcards are also allowed. echo 'scheduler' > /debugfs/tracing/set_ftrace_filter Will have only the scheduler be activated when tracing is enabled. echo 'sched_*' > /debugfs/tracing/set_ftrace_filter Will have only the functions starting with 'sched_' be activated. echo '*lock' > /debugfs/tracing/set_ftrace_filter Will have only functions ending with 'lock' be activated. echo '*lock*' > /debugfs/tracing/set_ftrace_filter Will have only functions with 'lock' in its name be activated. Note: 'sched*lock' will not work. The only wildcards that are allowed is an asterisk and the beginning and or end of the string passed in. Multiple names can be passed in with whitespace delimited: echo 'scheduler *lock *acpi*' > /debugfs/tracing/set_ftrace_filter is also the same as: echo 'scheduler' > /debugfs/tracing/set_ftrace_filter echo '*lock' >> /debugfs/tracing/set_ftrace_filter echo '*acpi*' >> /debugfs/tracing/set_ftrace_filter Appending does just that. It appends to the list. To disable all filters simply echo an empty line in: echo > /debugfs/tracing/set_ftrace_filter Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* ftrace: use dynamic patching for updating mcount callsSteven Rostedt2008-05-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch replaces the indirect call to the mcount function pointer with a direct call that will be patched by the dynamic ftrace routines. On boot up, the mcount function calls the ftace_stub function. When the dynamic ftrace code is initialized, the ftrace_stub is replaced with a call to the ftrace_record_ip, which records the instruction pointers of the locations that call it. Later, the ftraced daemon will call kstop_machine and patch all the locations to nops. When a ftrace is enabled, the original calls to mcount will now be set top call ftrace_caller, which will do a direct call to the registered ftrace function. This direct call is also patched when the function that should be called is updated. All patching is performed by a kstop_machine routine to prevent any type of race conditions that is associated with modifying code on the fly. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* ftrace: move memory management out of arch codeSteven Rostedt2008-05-23
| | | | | | | | | | This patch moves the memory management of the ftrace records out of the arch code and into the generic code making the arch code simpler. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* ftrace: add ftrace_enabled sysctl to disable mcount functionSteven Rostedt2008-05-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds back the sysctl ftrace_enabled. This time it is defaulted to on, if DYNAMIC_FTRACE is configured. When ftrace_enabled is disabled, the ftrace function is set to the stub return. If DYNAMIC_FTRACE is also configured, on ftrace_enabled = 0, the registered ftrace functions will all be set to jmps, but no more new calls to ftrace recording (used to find the ftrace calling sites) will be called. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* ftrace: dynamic enabling/disabling of function callsSteven Rostedt2008-05-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds a feature to dynamically replace the ftrace code with the jmps to allow a kernel with ftrace configured to run as fast as it can without it configured. The way this works, is on bootup (if ftrace is enabled), a ftrace function is registered to record the instruction pointer of all places that call the function. Later, if there's still any code to patch, a kthread is awoken (rate limited to at most once a second) that performs a stop_machine, and replaces all the code that was called with a jmp over the call to ftrace. It only replaces what was found the previous time. Typically the system reaches equilibrium quickly after bootup and there's no code patching needed at all. e.g. call ftrace /* 5 bytes */ is replaced with jmp 3f /* jmp is 2 bytes and we jump 3 forward */ 3: When we want to enable ftrace for function tracing, the IP recording is removed, and stop_machine is called again to replace all the locations of that were recorded back to the call of ftrace. When it is disabled, we replace the code back to the jmp. Allocation is done by the kthread. If the ftrace recording function is called, and we don't have any record slots available, then we simply skip that call. Once a second a new page (if needed) is allocated for recording new ftrace function calls. A large batch is allocated at boot up to get most of the calls there. Because we do this via stop_machine, we don't have to worry about another CPU executing a ftrace call as we modify it. But we do need to worry about NMI's so all functions that might be called via nmi must be annotated with notrace_nmi. When this code is configured in, the NMI code will not call notrace. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* ftrace: add basic support for gcc profiler instrumentationArnaldo Carvalho de Melo2008-05-23
If CONFIG_FTRACE is selected and /proc/sys/kernel/ftrace_enabled is set to a non-zero value the ftrace routine will be called everytime we enter a kernel function that is not marked with the "notrace" attribute. The ftrace routine will then call a registered function if a function happens to be registered. [ This code has been highly hacked by Steven Rostedt and Ingo Molnar, so don't blame Arnaldo for all of this ;-) ] Update: It is now possible to register more than one ftrace function. If only one ftrace function is registered, that will be the function that ftrace calls directly. If more than one function is registered, then ftrace will call a function that will loop through the functions to call. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>