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* Merge branch 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-06-20
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (24 commits) tracing/urgent: warn in case of ftrace_start_up inbalance tracing/urgent: fix unbalanced ftrace_start_up function-graph: add stack frame test function-graph: disable when both x86_32 and optimize for size are configured ring-buffer: have benchmark test print to trace buffer ring-buffer: do not grab locks in nmi ring-buffer: add locks around rb_per_cpu_empty ring-buffer: check for less than two in size allocation ring-buffer: remove useless compile check for buffer_page size ring-buffer: remove useless warn on check ring-buffer: use BUF_PAGE_HDR_SIZE in calculating index tracing: update sample event documentation tracing/filters: fix race between filter setting and module unload tracing/filters: free filter_string in destroy_preds() ring-buffer: use commit counters for commit pointer accounting ring-buffer: remove unused variable ring-buffer: have benchmark test handle discarded events ring-buffer: prevent adding write in discarded area tracing/filters: strloc should be unsigned short tracing/filters: operand can be negative ... Fix up kmemcheck-induced conflict in kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c manually
| * Merge branch 'tip/tracing/urgent-1' of ↵Ingo Molnar2009-06-20
| |\ | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into tracing/urgent
| | * 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>
| | * function-graph: disable when both x86_32 and optimize for size are configuredSteven Rostedt2009-06-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | On x86_32, when optimize for size is set, gcc may align the frame pointer and make a copy of the the return address inside the stack frame. The return address that is located in the stack frame may not be the one used to return to the calling function. This will break the function graph tracer. The function graph tracer replaces the return address with a jump to a hook function that can trace the exit of the function. If it only replaces a copy, then the hook will not be called when the function returns. Worse yet, when the parent function returns, the function graph tracer will return back to the location of the child function which will easily crash the kernel with weird results. To see the problem, when i386 is compiled with -Os we get: c106be03: 57 push %edi c106be04: 8d 7c 24 08 lea 0x8(%esp),%edi c106be08: 83 e4 e0 and $0xffffffe0,%esp c106be0b: ff 77 fc pushl 0xfffffffc(%edi) c106be0e: 55 push %ebp c106be0f: 89 e5 mov %esp,%ebp c106be11: 57 push %edi c106be12: 56 push %esi c106be13: 53 push %ebx c106be14: 81 ec 8c 00 00 00 sub $0x8c,%esp c106be1a: e8 f5 57 fb ff call c1021614 <mcount> When it is compiled with -O2 instead we get: c10896f0: 55 push %ebp c10896f1: 89 e5 mov %esp,%ebp c10896f3: 83 ec 28 sub $0x28,%esp c10896f6: 89 5d f4 mov %ebx,0xfffffff4(%ebp) c10896f9: 89 75 f8 mov %esi,0xfffffff8(%ebp) c10896fc: 89 7d fc mov %edi,0xfffffffc(%ebp) c10896ff: e8 d0 08 fa ff call c1029fd4 <mcount> The compile with -Os will align the stack pointer then set up the frame pointer (%ebp), and it copies the return address back into the stack frame. The change to the return address in mcount is done to the copy and not the real place holder of the return address. Then compile with -O2 sets up the frame pointer first, this makes the change to the return address by mcount affect where the function will jump on exit. Reported-by: Jake Edge <jake@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * | Merge branch 'tip/tracing/urgent' of ↵Ingo Molnar2009-06-20
| |\| | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into tracing/urgent
| | * ring-buffer: have benchmark test print to trace bufferSteven Rostedt2009-06-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently the output of the ring buffer benchmark/test prints to the console. This test runs for ten seconds every ten seconds and ouputs the result after every iteration. This needlessly fills up the logs. This patch makes the ring buffer benchmark/test print to the ftrace buffer using trace_printk. To view the test results, you must examine the debug/tracing/trace file. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| | * ring-buffer: do not grab locks in nmiSteven Rostedt2009-06-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If ftrace_dump_on_oops is set, and an NMI detects a lockup, then it will need to read from the ring buffer. But the read side of the ring buffer still takes locks. This patch adds a check on the read side that if it is in an NMI, then it will disable the ring buffer and not take any locks. Reads can still happen on a disabled ring buffer. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| | * ring-buffer: add locks around rb_per_cpu_emptySteven Rostedt2009-06-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The checking of whether the buffer is empty or not needs to be serialized among the readers. Add the reader spin lock around it. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| | * ring-buffer: check for less than two in size allocationSteven Rostedt2009-06-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The ring buffer must have at least two pages allocated for the reader page swap to work. The page count check will miss the case of a zero size passed in. Even though a zero size ring buffer would probably fail an allocation, making the min size check for less than two instead of equal to one makes the code a bit more robust. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| | * ring-buffer: remove useless compile check for buffer_page sizeSteven Rostedt2009-06-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The original version of the ring buffer had a hack to map the page struct that held the pages of the buffer to also be the structure that the ring buffer would keep the pages in a link list. This overlap of the page struct was very dangerous and that hack was removed a while ago. But there was a check to make sure the buffer_page never became bigger than the page struct, and would fail the compile if it did. The check was only meaningful when we had the hack. Now that we have separate allocated descriptors for the buffer pages, we can remove this check. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| | * ring-buffer: remove useless warn on checkSteven Rostedt2009-06-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A check if "write > BUF_PAGE_SIZE" is done right after a if (write > BUF_PAGE_SIZE) return ...; Thus the check is actually testing the compiler and not the kernel. This is useless, remove it. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| | * ring-buffer: use BUF_PAGE_HDR_SIZE in calculating indexSteven Rostedt2009-06-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The index of the event is found by masking PAGE_MASK to it and subtracting the header size. Currently the header size is calculate by PAGE_SIZE - BUF_PAGE_SIZE, when we already have a macro BUF_PAGE_HDR_SIZE to define it. If we want to change BUF_PAGE_SIZE to something less than filling the rest of the page (this is done for debugging), then we break the algorithm to find the index. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * | tracing/urgent: warn in case of ftrace_start_up inbalanceFrederic Weisbecker2009-06-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Prevent from further ftrace_start_up inbalances so that we avoid future nop patching omissions with dynamic ftrace. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * | tracing/urgent: fix unbalanced ftrace_start_upFrederic Weisbecker2009-06-20
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Perfcounter reports the following stats for a wide system profiling: # # (2364 samples) # # Overhead Symbol # ........ ...... # 15.40% [k] mwait_idle_with_hints 8.29% [k] read_hpet 5.75% [k] ftrace_caller 3.60% [k] ftrace_call [...] This snapshot has been taken while neither the function tracer nor the function graph tracer was running. With dynamic ftrace, such results show a wrong ftrace behaviour because all calls to ftrace_caller or ftrace_graph_caller (the patched calls to mcount) are supposed to be patched into nop if none of those tracers are running. The problem occurs after the first run of the function tracer. Once we launch it a second time, the callsites will never be nopped back, unless you set custom filters. For example it happens during the self tests at boot time. The function tracer selftest runs, and then the dynamic tracing is tested too. After that, the callsites are left un-nopped. This is because the reset callback of the function tracer tries to unregister two ftrace callbacks in once: the common function tracer and the function tracer with stack backtrace, regardless of which one is currently in use. It then creates an unbalance on ftrace_start_up value which is expected to be zero when the last ftrace callback is unregistered. When it reaches zero, the FTRACE_DISABLE_CALLS is set on the next ftrace command, triggering the patching into nop. But since it becomes unbalanced, ie becomes lower than zero, if the kernel functions are patched again (as in every further function tracer runs), they won't ever be nopped back. Note that ftrace_call and ftrace_graph_call are still patched back to ftrace_stub in the off case, but not the callers of ftrace_call and ftrace_graph_caller. It means that the tracing is well deactivated but we waste a useless call into every kernel function. This patch just unregisters the right ftrace_ops for the function tracer on its reset callback and ignores the other one which is not registered, fixing the unbalance. The problem also happens is .30 Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: stable@kernel.org
| * tracing/filters: fix race between filter setting and module unloadLi Zefan2009-06-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Module unload is protected by event_mutex, while setting filter is protected by filter_mutex. This leads to the race: echo 'bar == 0 || bar == 10' \ | > sample/filter | | insmod sample.ko add_pred("bar == 0") | -> n_preds == 1 | add_pred("bar == 100") | -> n_preds == 2 | | rmmod sample.ko | insmod sample.ko add_pred("&&") | -> n_preds == 1 (should be 3) | Now event->filter->preds is corrupted. An then when filter_match_preds() is called, the WARN_ON() in it will be triggered. To avoid the race, we remove filter_mutex, and replace it with event_mutex. [ Impact: prevent corruption of filters by module removing and loading ] Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: <4A375A4D.6000205@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * tracing/filters: free filter_string in destroy_preds()Li Zefan2009-06-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | filter->filter_string is not freed when unloading a module: # insmod trace-events-sample.ko # echo "bar < 100" > /mnt/tracing/events/sample/foo_bar/filter # rmmod trace-events-sample.ko [ Impact: fix memory leak when unloading module ] Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: <4A375A30.9060802@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * ring-buffer: use commit counters for commit pointer accountingSteven Rostedt2009-06-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The ring buffer is made up of three sets of pointers. The head page pointer, which points to the next page for the reader to get. The commit pointer and commit index, which points to the page and index of the last committed write respectively. The tail pointer and tail index, which points to the page and the index of the last reserved data respectively (non committed). The commit pointer is only moved forward by the outer most writer. If a nested writer comes in, it will not move the pointer forward. The current implementation has a flaw. It assumes that the outer most writer successfully reserved data. There's a small race window where the outer most writer could find the tail pointer, but a nested writer could come in (via interrupt) and move the tail forward, and even the commit forward. The outer writer would not realized the commit moved forward and the accounting will break. This patch changes the design to use counters in the per cpu buffers to keep track of commits. The counters are incremented at the start of the commit, and decremented at the end. If the end commit counter is 1, then it moves the commit pointers. A loop is made to check for races between checking and moving the commit pointers. Only the outer commit should move the pointers anyway. The test of knowing if a reserve is equal to the last commit update is still needed to know for time keeping. The time code is much less racey than the commit updates. This change not only solves the mentioned race, but also makes the code simpler. [ Impact: fix commit race and simplify code ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * ring-buffer: remove unused variableSteven Rostedt2009-06-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix the compiler error: kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c: In function 'rb_move_tail': kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:1236: warning: unused variable 'event' Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * ring-buffer: have benchmark test handle discarded eventsSteven Rostedt2009-06-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | With the addition of commit: c7b0930857e2278f2e7714db6294e94c57f623b0 ring-buffer: prevent adding write in discarded area The ring buffer may now add discarded events when a write passes the end of a buffer page. Before, a discarded event was only added when the tracer deliberately created one. The ring buffer benchmark test does not handle discarded events when it reads the buffer and fails when it encounters one. Also fix the increment for large data entries (luckily, the test did not add any yet). [ Impact: fix false failure of ring buffer self test ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * ring-buffer: prevent adding write in discarded areaSteven Rostedt2009-06-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This a very tight race where an interrupt could come in and not have enough data to put into the end of a buffer page, and that it would fail to write and need to go to the next page. But if this happened when another writer was about to reserver their data, and that writer has smaller data to reserve, then it could succeed even though the interrupt moved the tail page. To pervent that, if we fail to store data, and by subtracting the amount we reserved we still have room for smaller data, we need to fill that space with "discarded" data. [ Impact: prevent race were buffer data may be lost ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * tracing/filters: strloc should be unsigned shortLi Zefan2009-06-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I forgot to update filter code accordingly in "tracing/events: change the type of __str_loc_item to unsigned short" (commt b0aae68cc5508f3c2fbf728988c954db4c8b8a53) It can cause system crash: # echo 1 > tracing/events/irq/irq_handler_entry/enable # echo 'name == eth0' > tracing/events/irq/irq_handler_entry/filter [ Impact: fix crash while filtering on __string() field ] Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: <4A35B905.3090500@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * tracing/filters: operand can be negativeLi Zefan2009-06-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This should be a bug: # cat format name: foo_bar ID: 71 format: ... field:int bar; offset:24; size:4; # echo 'bar < 0' > filter # echo 'bar < -1' > filter bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument [ Impact: fix to allow negative operand in filer expr ] Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: <4A35B8DF.60400@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * tracing: replace a GFP_ATOMIC with GFP_KERNEL allocationLi Zefan2009-06-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Atomic allocation is not needed here. [ Impact: clean up of memory alloction type ] Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: <4A35B898.2050607@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * tracing: fix a typo in tracing_cpumask_write()Li Zefan2009-06-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It's tracing_cpumask_new that should be kfree()ed. This causes tracing_cpumask to be freed due to the typo: # echo z > tracing_cpumask bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument And subsequent reads/writes to tracing_cpuamsk will access this already-freed tracing_cpumask, thus may lead to crash. [ Impact: fix leak and crash when writing invalid val to tracing_cpumask ] Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: <4A35B86A.7070608@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * cpumask: use new operators in kernel/traceRusty Russell2009-06-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> LKML-Reference: <200906122115.30787.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* | Merge branch 'for-linus2' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-06-16
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vegard/kmemcheck * 'for-linus2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vegard/kmemcheck: (39 commits) signal: fix __send_signal() false positive kmemcheck warning fs: fix do_mount_root() false positive kmemcheck warning fs: introduce __getname_gfp() trace: annotate bitfields in struct ring_buffer_event net: annotate struct sock bitfield c2port: annotate bitfield for kmemcheck net: annotate inet_timewait_sock bitfields ieee1394/csr1212: fix false positive kmemcheck report ieee1394: annotate bitfield net: annotate bitfields in struct inet_sock net: use kmemcheck bitfields API for skbuff kmemcheck: introduce bitfield API kmemcheck: add opcode self-testing at boot x86: unify pte_hidden x86: make _PAGE_HIDDEN conditional kmemcheck: make kconfig accessible for other architectures kmemcheck: enable in the x86 Kconfig kmemcheck: add hooks for the page allocator kmemcheck: add hooks for page- and sg-dma-mappings kmemcheck: don't track page tables ...
| * | trace: annotate bitfields in struct ring_buffer_eventVegard Nossum2009-06-15
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This gets rid of a heap of false-positive warnings from the tracer code due to the use of bitfields. [rebased for mainline inclusion] Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
* | debugfs: Fix terminology inconsistency of dir name to mount debugfs filesystem.GeunSik Lim2009-06-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Many developers use "/debug/" or "/debugfs/" or "/sys/kernel/debug/" directory name to mount debugfs filesystem for ftrace according to ./Documentation/tracers/ftrace.txt file. And, three directory names(ex:/debug/, /debugfs/, /sys/kernel/debug/) is existed in kernel source like ftrace, DRM, Wireless, Documentation, Network[sky2]files to mount debugfs filesystem. debugfs means debug filesystem for debugging easy to use by greg kroah hartman. "/sys/kernel/debug/" name is suitable as directory name of debugfs filesystem. - debugfs related reference: http://lwn.net/Articles/334546/ Fix inconsistency of directory name to mount debugfs filesystem. * From Steven Rostedt - find_debugfs() and tracing_files() in this patch. Signed-off-by: GeunSik Lim <geunsik.lim@samsung.com> Acked-by : Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by : Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Reviewed-by : James Smart <james.smart@emulex.com> CC: Jiri Kosina <trivial@kernel.org> CC: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie> CC: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com> CC: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> CC: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> CC: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* | Merge branch 'timers-for-linus-migration' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-06-15
|\ \ | |/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'timers-for-linus-migration' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: timers: Logic to move non pinned timers timers: /proc/sys sysctl hook to enable timer migration timers: Identifying the existing pinned timers timers: Framework for identifying pinned timers timers: allow deferrable timers for intervals tv2-tv5 to be deferred Fix up conflicts in kernel/sched.c and kernel/timer.c manually
| * timers: Identifying the existing pinned timersArun R Bharadwaj2009-05-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * Arun R Bharadwaj <arun@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [2009-04-16 12:11:36]: The following pinned hrtimers have been identified and marked: 1)sched_rt_period_timer 2)tick_sched_timer 3)stack_trace_timer_fn [ tglx: fixup the hrtimer pinned mode ] Signed-off-by: Arun R Bharadwaj <arun@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* | Merge branch 'for-2.6.31' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds2009-06-11
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * 'for-2.6.31' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (153 commits) block: add request clone interface (v2) floppy: fix hibernation ramdisk: remove long-deprecated "ramdisk=" boot-time parameter fs/bio.c: add missing __user annotation block: prevent possible io_context->refcount overflow Add serial number support for virtio_blk, V4a block: Add missing bounce_pfn stacking and fix comments Revert "block: Fix bounce limit setting in DM" cciss: decode unit attention in SCSI error handling code cciss: Remove no longer needed sendcmd reject processing code cciss: change SCSI error handling routines to work with interrupts enabled. cciss: separate error processing and command retrying code in sendcmd_withirq_core() cciss: factor out fix target status processing code from sendcmd functions cciss: simplify interface of sendcmd() and sendcmd_withirq() cciss: factor out core of sendcmd_withirq() for use by SCSI error handling code cciss: Use schedule_timeout_uninterruptible in SCSI error handling code block: needs to set the residual length of a bidi request Revert "block: implement blkdev_readpages" block: Fix bounce limit setting in DM Removed reference to non-existing file Documentation/PCI/PCI-DMA-mapping.txt ... Manually fix conflicts with tracing updates in: block/blk-sysfs.c drivers/ide/ide-atapi.c drivers/ide/ide-cd.c drivers/ide/ide-floppy.c drivers/ide/ide-tape.c include/trace/events/block.h kernel/trace/blktrace.c
| * \ Merge branch 'master' into for-2.6.31Jens Axboe2009-05-22
| |\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Conflicts: drivers/block/hd.c drivers/block/mg_disk.c Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
| * | | block: drop request->hard_* and *nr_sectorsTejun Heo2009-05-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | struct request has had a few different ways to represent some properties of a request. ->hard_* represent block layer's view of the request progress (completion cursor) and the ones without the prefix are supposed to represent the issue cursor and allowed to be updated as necessary by the low level drivers. The thing is that as block layer supports partial completion, the two cursors really aren't necessary and only cause confusion. In addition, manual management of request detail from low level drivers is cumbersome and error-prone at the very least. Another interesting duplicate fields are rq->[hard_]nr_sectors and rq->{hard_cur|current}_nr_sectors against rq->data_len and rq->bio->bi_size. This is more convoluted than the hard_ case. rq->[hard_]nr_sectors are initialized for requests with bio but blk_rq_bytes() uses it only for !pc requests. rq->data_len is initialized for all request but blk_rq_bytes() uses it only for pc requests. This causes good amount of confusion throughout block layer and its drivers and determining the request length has been a bit of black magic which may or may not work depending on circumstances and what the specific LLD is actually doing. rq->{hard_cur|current}_nr_sectors represent the number of sectors in the contiguous data area at the front. This is mainly used by drivers which transfers data by walking request segment-by-segment. This value always equals rq->bio->bi_size >> 9. However, data length for pc requests may not be multiple of 512 bytes and using this field becomes a bit confusing. In general, having multiple fields to represent the same property leads only to confusion and subtle bugs. With recent block low level driver cleanups, no driver is accessing or manipulating these duplicate fields directly. Drop all the duplicates. Now rq->sector means the current sector, rq->data_len the current total length and rq->bio->bi_size the current segment length. Everything else is defined in terms of these three and available only through accessors. * blk_recalc_rq_sectors() is collapsed into blk_update_request() and now handles pc and fs requests equally other than rq->sector update. This means that now pc requests can use partial completion too (no in-kernel user yet tho). * bio_cur_sectors() is replaced with bio_cur_bytes() as block layer now uses byte count as the primary data length. * blk_rq_pos() is now guranteed to be always correct. In-block users converted. * blk_rq_bytes() is now guaranteed to be always valid as is blk_rq_sectors(). In-block users converted. * blk_rq_sectors() is now guaranteed to equal blk_rq_bytes() >> 9. More convenient one is used. * blk_rq_bytes() and blk_rq_cur_bytes() are now inlined and take const pointer to request. [ Impact: API cleanup, single way to represent one property of a request ] Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
| * | | block: implement blk_rq_pos/[cur_]sectors() and convert obvious onesTejun Heo2009-05-11
| | |/ | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Implement accessors - blk_rq_pos(), blk_rq_sectors() and blk_rq_cur_sectors() which return rq->hard_sector, rq->hard_nr_sectors and rq->hard_cur_sectors respectively and convert direct references of the said fields to the accessors. This is in preparation of request data length handling cleanup. Geert : suggested adding const to struct request * parameter to accessors Sergei : spotted error in patch description [ Impact: cleanup ] Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com> Acked-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Tested-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> Ackec-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com> Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@googlemail.com> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* | | Merge branch 'tracing-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-06-10
|\ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'tracing-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: function-graph: always initialize task ret_stack function-graph: move initialization of new tasks up in fork function-graph: add memory barriers for accessing task's ret_stack function-graph: enable the stack after initialization of other variables function-graph: only allocate init tasks if it was not already done Manually fix trivial conflict in kernel/trace/ftrace.c
| * | | function-graph: always initialize task ret_stackSteven Rostedt2009-06-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | On creating a new task while running the function graph tracer, if we fail to allocate the ret_stack, and then fail the fork, the code will free the parent ret_stack. This is because the child duplicated the parent and currently points to the parent's ret_stack. This patch always initializes the task's ret_stack to NULL. [ Impact: prevent crash of parent on low memory during fork ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * | | function-graph: add memory barriers for accessing task's ret_stackSteven Rostedt2009-06-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The code that handles the tasks ret_stack allocation for every task assumes that only an interrupt can cause issues (even though interrupts are disabled). In reality, the code is allocating the ret_stack for tasks that may be running on other CPUs and there are not efficient memory barriers to handle this case. [ Impact: prevent crash due to using of uninitialized ret_stack variables ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * | | function-graph: enable the stack after initialization of other variablesSteven Rostedt2009-06-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The function graph tracer checks if the task_struct has ret_stack defined to know if it is OK or not to use it. The initialization is done for all tasks by one process, but the idle tasks use the same initialization used by new tasks. If an interrupt happens on an idle task that just had the ret_stack created, but before the rest of the initialization took place, then we can corrupt the return address of the functions. This patch moves the setting of the task_struct's ret_stack to after the other variables have been initialized. [ Impact: prevent kernel panic on idle task when starting function graph ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * | | function-graph: only allocate init tasks if it was not already doneSteven Rostedt2009-06-02
| | |/ | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When the function graph tracer is enabled, it calls the initialization needed for the init tasks that would be called on all created tasks. The problem is that this is called every time the function graph tracer is enabled, and the ret_stack is allocated for the idle tasks each time. Thus, the old ret_stack is lost and a memory leak is created. This is also dangerous because if an interrupt happened on another CPU with the init task and the ret_stack is replaced, we then lose all the return pointers for the interrupt, and a crash would take place. [ Impact: fix memory leak and possible crash due to race ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* | | Merge branch 'tracing-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-06-10
|\ \ \ | |/ / |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'tracing-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (244 commits) Revert "x86, bts: reenable ptrace branch trace support" tracing: do not translate event helper macros in print format ftrace/documentation: fix typo in function grapher name tracing/events: convert block trace points to TRACE_EVENT(), fix !CONFIG_BLOCK tracing: add protection around module events unload tracing: add trace_seq_vprint interface tracing: fix the block trace points print size tracing/events: convert block trace points to TRACE_EVENT() ring-buffer: fix ret in rb_add_time_stamp ring-buffer: pass in lockdep class key for reader_lock tracing: add annotation to what type of stack trace is recorded tracing: fix multiple use of __print_flags and __print_symbolic tracing/events: fix output format of user stack tracing/events: fix output format of kernel stack tracing/trace_stack: fix the number of entries in the header ring-buffer: discard timestamps that are at the start of the buffer ring-buffer: try to discard unneeded timestamps ring-buffer: fix bug in ring_buffer_discard_commit ftrace: do not profile functions when disabled tracing: make trace pipe recognize latency format flag ...
| * | tracing: add protection around module events unloadSteven Rostedt2009-06-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When reading the trace buffer, there is a race that when a module is unloaded it removes events that is stilled referenced in the buffers. This patch adds the protection around the unloading of the events from modules and the reading of the trace buffers. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * | tracing: add trace_seq_vprint interfaceSteven Rostedt2009-06-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The code to update the print formats for events requires a vprintf format in the trace_seq. This patch adds that interface. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * | tracing/events: convert block trace points to TRACE_EVENT()Li Zefan2009-06-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | TRACE_EVENT is a more generic way to define tracepoints. Doing so adds these new capabilities to this tracepoint: - zero-copy and per-cpu splice() tracing - binary tracing without printf overhead - structured logging records exposed under /debug/tracing/events - trace events embedded in function tracer output and other plugins - user-defined, per tracepoint filter expressions ... Cons: - no dev_t info for the output of plug, unplug_timer and unplug_io events. no dev_t info for getrq and sleeprq events if bio == NULL. no dev_t info for rq_abort,...,rq_requeue events if rq->rq_disk == NULL. This is mainly because we can't get the deivce from a request queue. But this may change in the future. - A packet command is converted to a string in TP_assign, not TP_print. While blktrace do the convertion just before output. Since pc requests should be rather rare, this is not a big issue. - In blktrace, an event can have 2 different print formats, but a TRACE_EVENT has a unique format, which means we have some unused data in a trace entry. The overhead is minimized by using __dynamic_array() instead of __array(). I've benchmarked the ioctl blktrace vs the splice based TRACE_EVENT tracing: dd dd + ioctl blktrace dd + TRACE_EVENT (splice) 1 7.36s, 42.7 MB/s 7.50s, 42.0 MB/s 7.41s, 42.5 MB/s 2 7.43s, 42.3 MB/s 7.48s, 42.1 MB/s 7.43s, 42.4 MB/s 3 7.38s, 42.6 MB/s 7.45s, 42.2 MB/s 7.41s, 42.5 MB/s So the overhead of tracing is very small, and no regression when using those trace events vs blktrace. And the binary output of TRACE_EVENT is much smaller than blktrace: # ls -l -h -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8.8M 06-09 13:24 sda.blktrace.0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 195K 06-09 13:24 sda.blktrace.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.7M 06-09 13:25 trace_splice.out Following are some comparisons between TRACE_EVENT and blktrace: plug: kjournald-480 [000] 303.084981: block_plug: [kjournald] kjournald-480 [000] 303.084981: 8,0 P N [kjournald] unplug_io: kblockd/0-118 [000] 300.052973: block_unplug_io: [kblockd/0] 1 kblockd/0-118 [000] 300.052974: 8,0 U N [kblockd/0] 1 remap: kjournald-480 [000] 303.085042: block_remap: 8,0 W 102736992 + 8 <- (8,8) 33384 kjournald-480 [000] 303.085043: 8,0 A W 102736992 + 8 <- (8,8) 33384 bio_backmerge: kjournald-480 [000] 303.085086: block_bio_backmerge: 8,0 W 102737032 + 8 [kjournald] kjournald-480 [000] 303.085086: 8,0 M W 102737032 + 8 [kjournald] getrq: kjournald-480 [000] 303.084974: block_getrq: 8,0 W 102736984 + 8 [kjournald] kjournald-480 [000] 303.084975: 8,0 G W 102736984 + 8 [kjournald] bash-2066 [001] 1072.953770: 8,0 G N [bash] bash-2066 [001] 1072.953773: block_getrq: 0,0 N 0 + 0 [bash] rq_complete: konsole-2065 [001] 300.053184: block_rq_complete: 8,0 W () 103669040 + 16 [0] konsole-2065 [001] 300.053191: 8,0 C W 103669040 + 16 [0] ksoftirqd/1-7 [001] 1072.953811: 8,0 C N (5a 00 08 00 00 00 00 00 24 00) [0] ksoftirqd/1-7 [001] 1072.953813: block_rq_complete: 0,0 N (5a 00 08 00 00 00 00 00 24 00) 0 + 0 [0] rq_insert: kjournald-480 [000] 303.084985: block_rq_insert: 8,0 W 0 () 102736984 + 8 [kjournald] kjournald-480 [000] 303.084986: 8,0 I W 102736984 + 8 [kjournald] Changelog from v2 -> v3: - use the newly introduced __dynamic_array(). Changelog from v1 -> v2: - use __string() instead of __array() to minimize the memory required to store hex dump of rq->cmd(). - support large pc requests. - add missing blk_fill_rwbs_rq() in block_rq_requeue TRACE_EVENT. - some cleanups. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: <4A2DF669.5070905@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * | ring-buffer: fix ret in rb_add_time_stampSteven Rostedt2009-06-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The update of ret got mistakenly added to the if statement of rb_try_to_discard. The variable ret should be 1 on commit and zero otherwise. [ Impact: fix compiler warning and real bug ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * | ring-buffer: pass in lockdep class key for reader_lockPeter Zijlstra2009-06-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | On Sun, 7 Jun 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote: > Testing tracer sched_switch: <6>Starting ring buffer hammer > PASSED > Testing tracer sysprof: PASSED > Testing tracer function: PASSED > Testing tracer irqsoff: > ============================================= > PASSED > Testing tracer preemptoff: PASSED > Testing tracer preemptirqsoff: [ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ] > PASSED > Testing tracer branch: 2.6.30-rc8-tip-01972-ge5b9078-dirty #5760 > --------------------------------------------- > rb_consumer/431 is trying to acquire lock: > (&cpu_buffer->reader_lock){......}, at: [<c109eef7>] ring_buffer_reset_cpu+0x37/0x70 > > but task is already holding lock: > (&cpu_buffer->reader_lock){......}, at: [<c10a019e>] ring_buffer_consume+0x7e/0xc0 > > other info that might help us debug this: > 1 lock held by rb_consumer/431: > #0: (&cpu_buffer->reader_lock){......}, at: [<c10a019e>] ring_buffer_consume+0x7e/0xc0 The ring buffer is a generic structure, and can be used outside of ftrace. If ftrace traces within the use of the ring buffer, it can produce false positives with lockdep. This patch passes in a static lock key into the allocation of the ring buffer, so that different ring buffers will have their own lock class. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1244477919.13761.9042.camel@twins> [ store key in ring buffer descriptor ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * | Merge branch 'tip/tracing/ftrace-4' of ↵Ingo Molnar2009-06-05
| |\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into tracing/ftrace
| | * | tracing: add annotation to what type of stack trace is recordedSteven Rostedt2009-06-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The current method of printing out a stack trace is to add a new line and print out the trace: yum-updatesd-3120 [002] 573.691303: => do_softirq => irq_exit => smp_apic_timer_interrupt => apic_timer_interrupt This looks a bit awkward, and if we have both stack and user stack traces running, it would be nice to have a title to tell them apart, although it is easy to tell by the output. This patch adds an annotation to the start of the stack traces: init-1 [003] 929.304979: <stack trace> => user_path_at => vfs_fstatat => vfs_stat => sys_newstat => system_call_fastpath cat-3459 [002] 1016.824040: <user stack trace> => <0000003aae6c0250> => <00007ffff4b06ae4> => <69636172742f6775> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| | * | tracing: fix multiple use of __print_flags and __print_symbolicSteven Whitehouse2009-06-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Here is an updated patch to include the extra call to trace_seq_init() as requested. This is vs. the latest -tip tree and fixes the use of multiple __print_flags and __print_symbolic in a single tracer. Also tested to ensure its working now: mount.gfs2-2534 [000] 235.850587: gfs2_glock_queue: 8.7 glock 1:2 dequeue PR mount.gfs2-2534 [000] 235.850591: gfs2_demote_rq: 8.7 glock 1:0 demote EX to NL flags:DI mount.gfs2-2534 [000] 235.850591: gfs2_glock_queue: 8.7 glock 1:0 dequeue EX glock_workqueue-2529 [000] 235.850666: gfs2_glock_state_change: 8.7 glock 1:0 state EX => NL tgt:NL dmt:NL flags:lDpI glock_workqueue-2529 [000] 235.850672: gfs2_glock_put: 8.7 glock 1:0 state NL => IV flags:I Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <1244037123.29604.603.camel@localhost.localdomain> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| | * | tracing/events: fix output format of user stackwalimis2009-06-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | According to "events/ftrace/user_stack/format", fix the output of user stack. before fix: sh-1073 [000] 31.137561: <b7f274fe> <- <0804e33c> <- <080835c1> after fix: sh-1072 [000] 37.039329: => <b7f8a4fe> => <0804e33c> => <080835c1> Signed-off-by: walimis <walimisdev@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <1244016090-7814-3-git-send-email-walimisdev@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| | * | tracing/events: fix output format of kernel stackwalimis2009-06-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | According to "events/ftrace/kernel_stack/format", output format of kernel stack should use "=>" instead of "<=". The second problem is that we shouldn't skip the first entry in the stack, although it seems to be duplicated when used in the "function" tracer, but events also use it. If we skip the first one, we will drop the topmost entry of the stack. The last problem is that if the last entry is ULONG_MAX(0xffffffff), we should drop it, otherwise it will print a NULL name line. before fix: sh-1072 [000] 26.957239: sched_process_fork: parent sh:1072 child sh:1073 sh-1072 [000] 26.957262: <= syscall_call <= sh-1072 [000] 26.957744: sched_switch: task sh:1072 [120] (R) ==> sh:1073 [120] sh-1072 [000] 26.957752: <= preempt_schedule <= wake_up_new_task <= do_fork <= sys_clone <= syscall_call <= After fix: sh-1075 [000] 39.791848: sched_process_fork: parent sh:1075 child sh:1076 sh-1075 [000] 39.791871: => sys_clone => syscall_call sh-1075 [000] 39.792713: sched_switch: task sh:1075 [120] (R) ==> sh:1076 [120] sh-1075 [000] 39.792722: => schedule => preempt_schedule => wake_up_new_task => do_fork => sys_clone => syscall_call Signed-off-by: walimis <walimisdev@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <1244016090-7814-2-git-send-email-walimisdev@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>