The enabled_functions debugfs file was created to be able to see
what functions have been modified from nops to calling a tracer.
The current method uses the counter in the function record.
As when a ftrace_ops is registered to a function, its count
increases. But that doesn't mean that the function is actively
being traced. /proc/sys/kernel/ftrace_enabled can be set to zero
which would disable it, as well as something can go wrong and
we can think its enabled when only the counter is set.
The record's FTRACE_FL_ENABLED flag is set or cleared when its
function is modified. That is a much more accurate way of knowing
what function is enabled or not.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The iteration of the ftrace function list and the call to
ftrace_match_record() need to be protected by the ftrace_lock.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Both __trace_add_new_event() and __trace_early_add_new_event() do
basically the same thing, except that __trace_add_new_event() does
a little more.
Instead of having duplicate code between the two functions, add
a helper function trace_create_new_event() that both can use.
This will help against having bugs fixed in one function but not
the other.
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Modify soft-mode flag only if no other soft-mode referrer
(currently only the ftrace triggers) by using a reference
counter in each ftrace_event_file.
Without this fix, adding and removing several different
enable/disable_event triggers on the same event clear
soft-mode bit from the ftrace_event_file. This also
happens with a typo of glob on setting triggers.
e.g.
# echo vfs_symlink:enable_event:net:netif_rx > set_ftrace_filter
# cat events/net/netif_rx/enable
0*
# echo typo_func:enable_event:net:netif_rx > set_ftrace_filter
# cat events/net/netif_rx/enable
0
# cat set_ftrace_filter
#### all functions enabled ####
vfs_symlink:enable_event:net:netif_rx:unlimited
As above, we still have a trigger, but soft-mode is gone.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130509054429.30398.7464.stgit@mhiramat-M0-7522
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: David Sharp <dhsharp@google.com>
Cc: Hiraku Toyooka <hiraku.toyooka.gu@hitachi.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Indicate enabled soft-mode event as "1*" in "enable" file
for each event, because it can be soft-disabled when disable_event
trigger is hit.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130509054426.30398.28202.stgit@mhiramat-M0-7522
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cleanup regex_lock and ftrace_lock locking points around
ftrace_ops hash update code.
The new rule is that regex_lock protects ops->*_hash
read-update-write code for each ftrace_ops. Usually,
hash update is done by following sequence.
1. allocate a new local hash and copy the original hash.
2. update the local hash.
3. move(actually, copy) back the local hash to ftrace_ops.
4. update ftrace entries if needed.
5. release the local hash.
This makes regex_lock protect #1-#4, and ftrace_lock
to protect #3, #4 and adding and removing ftrace_ops from the
ftrace_ops_list. The ftrace_lock protects #3 as well because
the move functions update the entries too.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130509054421.30398.83411.stgit@mhiramat-M0-7522
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Fix a deadlock on ftrace_regex_lock which happens when setting
an enable_event trigger on dynamic kprobe event as below.
----
sh-2.05b# echo p vfs_symlink > kprobe_events
sh-2.05b# echo vfs_symlink:enable_event:kprobes:p_vfs_symlink_0 > set_ftrace_filter
=============================================
[ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ]
3.9.0+ #35 Not tainted
---------------------------------------------
sh/72 is trying to acquire lock:
(ftrace_regex_lock){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff810ba6c1>] ftrace_set_hash+0x81/0x1f0
but task is already holding lock:
(ftrace_regex_lock){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff810b7cbd>] ftrace_regex_write.isra.29.part.30+0x3d/0x220
other info that might help us debug this:
Possible unsafe locking scenario:
CPU0
----
lock(ftrace_regex_lock);
lock(ftrace_regex_lock);
*** DEADLOCK ***
----
To fix that, this introduces a finer regex_lock for each ftrace_ops.
ftrace_regex_lock is too big of a lock which protects all
filter/notrace_hash operations, but it doesn't need to be a global
lock after supporting multiple ftrace_ops because each ftrace_ops
has its own filter/notrace_hash.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130509054417.30398.84254.stgit@mhiramat-M0-7522
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
[ Added initialization flag and automate mutex initialization for
non ftrace.c ftrace_probes. ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
As ftrace_regex_write() reads the result of ftrace_process_regex()
which can sometimes return a positive number, only consider a
failure if the return is negative. Otherwise, it will skip possible
other registered probes and by returning a positive number that
wasn't read, it will confuse the user processes doing the writing.
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
register_ftrace_function_probe() returns the number of functions
it registered, which can be zero, it can also return a negative number
if something went wrong. But event_enable_func() only checks for
the case that it didn't register anything, it needs to also check
for the case that something went wrong and return that error code
as well.
Added some comments about the code as well, to make it more
understandable.
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Return 0 instead of the number of activated ftrace function probes if
event_enable_func succeeded and return an error code if it failed or
did not register any functions. But it currently returns the number
of registered functions and if it didn't register anything, it returns 0,
but that is considered success.
This also fixes the return value. As if it succeeds, it returns the
number of functions that were enabled, which is returned back to
the user in ftrace_regex_write (the write() return code). If only
one function is enabled, then the return code of the write is one,
and this can confuse the user program in thinking it only wrote 1
byte.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130509054413.30398.55650.stgit@mhiramat-M0-7522
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
[ Rewrote change log to reflect that this fixes two bugs - SR ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
As the wake up logic for waiters on the buffer has been moved
from the tracing code to the ring buffer, it requires also adding
IRQ_WORK as the wake up code is performed via irq_work.
This fixes compile breakage when a user of the ring buffer is selected
but tracing and irq_work are not.
Link http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130503115332.GT8356@rric.localhost
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Reported-by: Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
During the 3.10 merge, a conflict happened and the resolution was
almost, but not quite, correct. An if statement was reversed.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
[ Duh. That was just silly of me - Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Along with the usual minor fixes and clean ups there are a few major
changes with this pull request.
1) Multiple buffers for the ftrace facility
This feature has been requested by many people over the last few years.
I even heard that Google was about to implement it themselves. I finally
had time and cleaned up the code such that you can now create multiple
instances of the ftrace buffer and have different events go to different
buffers. This way, a low frequency event will not be lost in the noise
of a high frequency event.
Note, currently only events can go to different buffers, the tracers
(ie. function, function_graph and the latency tracers) still can only
be written to the main buffer.
2) The function tracer triggers have now been extended.
The function tracer had two triggers. One to enable tracing when a
function is hit, and one to disable tracing. Now you can record a
stack trace on a single (or many) function(s), take a snapshot of the
buffer (copy it to the snapshot buffer), and you can enable or disable
an event to be traced when a function is hit.
3) A perf clock has been added.
A "perf" clock can be chosen to be used when tracing. This will cause
ftrace to use the same clock as perf uses, and hopefully this will make
it easier to interleave the perf and ftrace data for analysis.
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Merge tag 'trace-3.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
"Along with the usual minor fixes and clean ups there are a few major
changes with this pull request.
1) Multiple buffers for the ftrace facility
This feature has been requested by many people over the last few
years. I even heard that Google was about to implement it themselves.
I finally had time and cleaned up the code such that you can now
create multiple instances of the ftrace buffer and have different
events go to different buffers. This way, a low frequency event will
not be lost in the noise of a high frequency event.
Note, currently only events can go to different buffers, the tracers
(ie function, function_graph and the latency tracers) still can only
be written to the main buffer.
2) The function tracer triggers have now been extended.
The function tracer had two triggers. One to enable tracing when a
function is hit, and one to disable tracing. Now you can record a
stack trace on a single (or many) function(s), take a snapshot of the
buffer (copy it to the snapshot buffer), and you can enable or disable
an event to be traced when a function is hit.
3) A perf clock has been added.
A "perf" clock can be chosen to be used when tracing. This will cause
ftrace to use the same clock as perf uses, and hopefully this will
make it easier to interleave the perf and ftrace data for analysis."
* tag 'trace-3.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (82 commits)
tracepoints: Prevent null probe from being added
tracing: Compare to 1 instead of zero for is_signed_type()
tracing: Remove obsolete macro guard _TRACE_PROFILE_INIT
ftrace: Get rid of ftrace_profile_bits
tracing: Check return value of tracing_init_dentry()
tracing: Get rid of unneeded key calculation in ftrace_hash_move()
tracing: Reset ftrace_graph_filter_enabled if count is zero
tracing: Fix off-by-one on allocating stat->pages
kernel: tracing: Use strlcpy instead of strncpy
tracing: Update debugfs README file
tracing: Fix ftrace_dump()
tracing: Rename trace_event_mutex to trace_event_sem
tracing: Fix comment about prefix in arch_syscall_match_sym_name()
tracing: Convert trace_destroy_fields() to static
tracing: Move find_event_field() into trace_events.c
tracing: Use TRACE_MAX_PRINT instead of constant
tracing: Use pr_warn_once instead of open coded implementation
ring-buffer: Add ring buffer startup selftest
tracing: Bring Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt up to date
tracing: Add "perf" trace_clock
...
Conflicts:
kernel/trace/ftrace.c
kernel/trace/trace.c
This reverts commit 3a366e614d.
Wanlong Gao reports that it causes a kernel panic on his machine several
minutes after boot. Reverting it removes the panic.
Jens says:
"It's not quite clear why that is yet, so I think we should just revert
the commit for 3.9 final (which I'm assuming is pretty close).
The wifi is crap at the LSF hotel, so sending this email instead of
queueing up a revert and pull request."
Reported-by: Wanlong Gao <gaowanlong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Requested-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
It seems that function profiler's hash size is fixed at 1024. Add and
use FTRACE_PROFILE_HASH_BITS instead and update hash size macro.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1365551750-4504-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The ftrace_graph_count can be decreased with a "!" pattern, so that
the enabled flag should be updated too.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1365663698-2413-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
As ftrace_filter_lseek is now used with ftrace_pid_fops, it needs to
be moved out of the #ifdef CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE section as the
ftrace_pid_fops is defined when DYNAMIC_FTRACE is not.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Currently set_ftrace_pid and set_graph_function files use seq_lseek
for their fops. However seq_open() is called only for FMODE_READ in
the fops->open() so that if an user tries to seek one of those file
when she open it for writing, it sees NULL seq_file and then panic.
It can be easily reproduced with following command:
$ cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing
$ echo 1234 | sudo tee -a set_ftrace_pid
In this example, GNU coreutils' tee opens the file with fopen(, "a")
and then the fopen() internally calls lseek().
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1365663302-2170-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
On the failure path, stat->start and stat->pages will refer same page.
So it'll attempt to free the same page again and get kernel panic.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1364820385-32027-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Use strlcpy() instead of strncpy() as it will always add a '\0'
to the end of the string even if the buffer is smaller than what
is being copied.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/51624254.30301@asianux.com
Signed-off-by: Chen Gang <gang.chen@asianux.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The function tracing control loop used by perf spits out a warning
if the called function is not a control function. This is because
the control function references a per cpu allocated data structure
on struct ftrace_ops that is not allocated for other types of
functions.
commit 0a016409e4 "ftrace: Optimize the function tracer list loop"
Had an optimization done to all function tracing loops to optimize
for a single registered ops. Unfortunately, this allows for a slight
race when tracing starts or ends, where the stub function might be
called after the current registered ops is removed. In this case we
get the following dump:
root# perf stat -e ftrace:function sleep 1
[ 74.339105] WARNING: at include/linux/ftrace.h:209 ftrace_ops_control_func+0xde/0xf0()
[ 74.349522] Hardware name: PRIMERGY RX200 S6
[ 74.357149] Modules linked in: sg igb iTCO_wdt ptp pps_core iTCO_vendor_support i7core_edac dca lpc_ich i2c_i801 coretemp edac_core crc32c_intel mfd_core ghash_clmulni_intel dm_multipath acpi_power_meter pcspk
r microcode vhost_net tun macvtap macvlan nfsd kvm_intel kvm auth_rpcgss nfs_acl lockd sunrpc uinput xfs libcrc32c sd_mod crc_t10dif sr_mod cdrom mgag200 i2c_algo_bit drm_kms_helper ttm qla2xxx mptsas ahci drm li
bahci scsi_transport_sas mptscsih libata scsi_transport_fc i2c_core mptbase scsi_tgt dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod
[ 74.446233] Pid: 1377, comm: perf Tainted: G W 3.9.0-rc1 #1
[ 74.453458] Call Trace:
[ 74.456233] [<ffffffff81062e3f>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7f/0xc0
[ 74.462997] [<ffffffff810fbc60>] ? rcu_note_context_switch+0xa0/0xa0
[ 74.470272] [<ffffffff811041a2>] ? __unregister_ftrace_function+0xa2/0x1a0
[ 74.478117] [<ffffffff81062e9a>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20
[ 74.484681] [<ffffffff81102ede>] ftrace_ops_control_func+0xde/0xf0
[ 74.491760] [<ffffffff8162f400>] ftrace_call+0x5/0x2f
[ 74.497511] [<ffffffff8162f400>] ? ftrace_call+0x5/0x2f
[ 74.503486] [<ffffffff8162f400>] ? ftrace_call+0x5/0x2f
[ 74.509500] [<ffffffff810fbc65>] ? synchronize_sched+0x5/0x50
[ 74.516088] [<ffffffff816254d5>] ? _cond_resched+0x5/0x40
[ 74.522268] [<ffffffff810fbc65>] ? synchronize_sched+0x5/0x50
[ 74.528837] [<ffffffff811041a2>] ? __unregister_ftrace_function+0xa2/0x1a0
[ 74.536696] [<ffffffff816254d5>] ? _cond_resched+0x5/0x40
[ 74.542878] [<ffffffff8162402d>] ? mutex_lock+0x1d/0x50
[ 74.548869] [<ffffffff81105c67>] unregister_ftrace_function+0x27/0x50
[ 74.556243] [<ffffffff8111eadf>] perf_ftrace_event_register+0x9f/0x140
[ 74.563709] [<ffffffff816254d5>] ? _cond_resched+0x5/0x40
[ 74.569887] [<ffffffff8162402d>] ? mutex_lock+0x1d/0x50
[ 74.575898] [<ffffffff8111e94e>] perf_trace_destroy+0x2e/0x50
[ 74.582505] [<ffffffff81127ba9>] tp_perf_event_destroy+0x9/0x10
[ 74.589298] [<ffffffff811295d0>] free_event+0x70/0x1a0
[ 74.595208] [<ffffffff8112a579>] perf_event_release_kernel+0x69/0xa0
[ 74.602460] [<ffffffff816254d5>] ? _cond_resched+0x5/0x40
[ 74.608667] [<ffffffff8112a640>] put_event+0x90/0xc0
[ 74.614373] [<ffffffff8112a740>] perf_release+0x10/0x20
[ 74.620367] [<ffffffff811a3044>] __fput+0xf4/0x280
[ 74.625894] [<ffffffff811a31de>] ____fput+0xe/0x10
[ 74.631387] [<ffffffff81083697>] task_work_run+0xa7/0xe0
[ 74.637452] [<ffffffff81014981>] do_notify_resume+0x71/0xb0
[ 74.643843] [<ffffffff8162fa92>] int_signal+0x12/0x17
To fix this a new ftrace_ops flag is added that denotes the ftrace_list_end
ftrace_ops stub as just that, a stub. This flag is now checked in the
control loop and the function is not called if the flag is set.
Thanks to Jovi for not just reporting the bug, but also pointing out
where the bug was in the code.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/514A8855.7090402@redhat.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1364377499-1900-15-git-send-email-jovi.zhangwei@huawei.com
Tested-by: WANG Chao <chaowang@redhat.com>
Reported-by: WANG Chao <chaowang@redhat.com>
Reported-by: zhangwei(Jovi) <jovi.zhangwei@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
If we reenable ftrace via syctl, we currently set ftrace_trace_function
based on the previous simplistic algorithm. This is inconsistent with
what update_ftrace_function does. So better call that helper instead.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5151D26F.1070702@siemens.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The commit 34600f0e9 "tracing: Fix race with max_tr and changing tracers"
fixed the updating of the main buffers with the race of changing
tracers, but left out the fix to the updating of just a per cpu buffer.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
For NUL terminated string we always need to set '\0' at the end.
Signed-off-by: Chen Gang <gang.chen@asianux.com>
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/516243B7.9020405@asianux.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
For NUL terminated string we always need to set '\0' at the end.
Signed-off-by: Chen Gang <gang.chen@asianux.com>
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/51624254.30301@asianux.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Update the README file in debugfs/tracing to something more useful.
What's currently in the file is very old and what it shows doesn't
have much use. Heck, it tells you how to mount debugfs! But to read
this file you would have already needed to mount it.
Replace the file with current up-to-date information. It's rather
limited, but what do you expect from a pseudo README file.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
ftrace_dump() had a lot of issues. What ftrace_dump() does, is when
ftrace_dump_on_oops is set (via a kernel parameter or sysctl), it
will dump out the ftrace buffers to the console when either a oops,
panic, or a sysrq-z occurs.
This was written a long time ago when ftrace was fragile to recursion.
But it wasn't written well even for that.
There's a possible deadlock that can occur if a ftrace_dump() is happening
and an NMI triggers another dump. This is because it grabs a lock
before checking if the dump ran.
It also totally disables ftrace, and tracing for no good reasons.
As the ring_buffer now checks if it is read via a oops or NMI, where
there's a chance that the buffer gets corrupted, it will disable
itself. No need to have ftrace_dump() do the same.
ftrace_dump() is now cleaned up where it uses an atomic counter to
make sure only one dump happens at a time. A simple atomic_inc_return()
is enough that is needed for both other CPUs and NMIs. No need for
a spinlock, as if one CPU is running the dump, no other CPU needs
to do it too.
The tracing_on variable is turned off and not turned on. The original
code did this, but it wasn't pretty. By just disabling this variable
we get the result of not seeing traces that happen between crashes.
For sysrq-z, it doesn't get turned on, but the user can always write
a '1' to the tracing_on file. If they are using sysrq-z, then they should
know about tracing_on.
The new code is much easier to read and less error prone. No more
deadlock possibility when an NMI triggers here.
Reported-by: zhangwei(Jovi) <jovi.zhangwei@huawei.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
trace_event_mutex is an rw semaphore now, not a mutex, change the name.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/513D843B.40109@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: zhangwei(Jovi) <jovi.zhangwei@huawei.com>
[ Forward ported to my new code ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
ppc64 has its own syscall prefix like ".SyS" or ".sys". Make the
comment in arch_syscall_match_sym_name() more understandable.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/513D842F.40205@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: zhangwei(Jovi) <jovi.zhangwei@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
trace_destroy_fields() is not used outside of the file. It can be
a static function.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/513D842A.2000907@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: zhangwei(Jovi) <jovi.zhangwei@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
By moving find_event_field() and trace_find_field() into trace_events.c,
the ftrace_common_fields list and trace_get_fields() can become local to
the trace_events.c file.
find_event_field() is renamed to trace_find_event_field() to conform to
the tracing global function names.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/513D8426.9070109@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: zhangwei(Jovi) <jovi.zhangwei@huawei.com>
[ rostedt: Modified trace_find_field() to trace_find_event_field() ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
TRACE_MAX_PRINT macro is defined, but is not used.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/513D8421.4070404@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: zhangwei(Jovi) <jovi.zhangwei@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Use pr_warn_once, instead of making an open coded implementation.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/513D8419.20400@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: zhangwei(Jovi) <jovi.zhangwei@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
When testing my large changes to the ftrace system, there was
a bug that looked like the ring buffer was dropping events.
I wrote up a quick integrity checker of the ring buffer to
see if it was.
Although the bug ended up being something stupid I did in ftrace,
and had nothing to do with the ring buffer, I figured if I spent
the time to write up this test, I might as well include it in the
kernel.
I cleaned it up a bit, as the original version was rather ugly.
Not saying this version is pretty, but it's a beauty queen
compared to what I original wrote.
To enable the start up test, set CONFIG_RING_BUFFER_STARTUP_TEST.
Note, it runs for 10 seconds, so it will slow your boot time
by at least 10 more seconds.
What it does is documented in both the comments and the Kconfig
help.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The function trace_clock() calls "local_clock()" which is exactly
the same clock that perf uses. I'm not sure why perf doesn't call
trace_clock(), as trace_clock() doesn't have any users.
But now it does. As trace_clock() calls local_clock() like perf does,
I added the trace_clock "perf" option that uses trace_clock().
Now the ftrace buffers can use the same clock as perf uses. This
will be useful when perf starts reading the ftrace buffers, and will
be able to interleave them with the same clock data.
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add a simple trace clock called "uptime" for those that are
interested in the uptime of the trace. It uses jiffies as that's
the safest method, as other uptime clocks grab seq locks, which could
cause a deadlock if taken from an event or function tracer.
Requested-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Currently, the only way to stop the latency tracers from doing function
tracing is to fully disable the function tracer from the proc file
system:
echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/ftrace_enabled
This is a big hammer approach as it disables function tracing for
all users. This includes kprobes, perf, stack tracer, etc.
Instead, create a function-trace option that the latency tracers can
check to determine if it should enable function tracing or not.
This option can be set or cleared even while the tracer is active
and the tracers will disable or enable function tracing depending
on how the option was set.
Instead of using the proc file, disable latency function tracing with
echo 0 > /debug/tracing/options/function-trace
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Currently, the depth reported in the stack tracer stack_trace file
does not match the stack_max_size file. This is because the stack_max_size
includes the overhead of stack tracer itself while the depth does not.
The first time a max is triggered, a calculation is not performed that
figures out the overhead of the stack tracer and subtracts it from
the stack_max_size variable. The overhead is stored and is subtracted
from the reported stack size for comparing for a new max.
Now the stack_max_size corresponds to the reported depth:
# cat stack_max_size
4640
# cat stack_trace
Depth Size Location (48 entries)
----- ---- --------
0) 4640 32 _raw_spin_lock+0x18/0x24
1) 4608 112 ____cache_alloc+0xb7/0x22d
2) 4496 80 kmem_cache_alloc+0x63/0x12f
3) 4416 16 mempool_alloc_slab+0x15/0x17
[...]
While testing against and older gcc on x86 that uses mcount instead
of fentry, I found that pasing in ip + MCOUNT_INSN_SIZE let the
stack trace show one more function deep which was missing before.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
When gcc 4.6 on x86 is used, the function tracer will use the new
option -mfentry which does a call to "fentry" at every function
instead of "mcount". The significance of this is that fentry is
called as the first operation of the function instead of the mcount
usage of being called after the stack.
This causes the stack tracer to show some bogus results for the size
of the last function traced, as well as showing "ftrace_call" instead
of the function. This is due to the stack frame not being set up
by the function that is about to be traced.
# cat stack_trace
Depth Size Location (48 entries)
----- ---- --------
0) 4824 216 ftrace_call+0x5/0x2f
1) 4608 112 ____cache_alloc+0xb7/0x22d
2) 4496 80 kmem_cache_alloc+0x63/0x12f
The 216 size for ftrace_call includes both the ftrace_call stack
(which includes the saving of registers it does), as well as the
stack size of the parent.
To fix this, if CC_USING_FENTRY is defined, then the stack_tracer
will reserve the first item in stack_dump_trace[] array when
calling save_stack_trace(), and it will fill it in with the parent ip.
Then the code will look for the parent pointer on the stack and
give the real size of the parent's stack pointer:
# cat stack_trace
Depth Size Location (14 entries)
----- ---- --------
0) 2640 48 update_group_power+0x26/0x187
1) 2592 224 update_sd_lb_stats+0x2a5/0x4ac
2) 2368 160 find_busiest_group+0x31/0x1f1
3) 2208 256 load_balance+0xd9/0x662
I'm Cc'ing stable, although it's not urgent, as it only shows bogus
size for item #0, the rest of the trace is legit. It should still be
corrected in previous stable releases.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Use the stack of stack_trace_call() instead of check_stack() as
the test pointer for max stack size. It makes it a bit cleaner
and a little more accurate.
Adding stable, as a later fix depends on this patch.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Altough the trace_dump_stack() already skips three functions in
the call to stack trace, which gets the stack trace to start
at the caller of the function, the caller may want to skip some
more too (as it may have helper functions).
Add a skip argument to the trace_dump_stack() that lets the caller
skip back tracing functions that it doesn't care about.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add triggers to function tracer that lets an event get enabled or
disabled when a function is called:
format is:
<function>:enable_event:<system>:<event>[:<count>]
<function>:disable_event:<system>:<event>[:<count>]
echo 'schedule:enable_event:sched:sched_switch' > /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter
Every time schedule is called, it will enable the sched_switch event.
echo 'schedule:disable_event:sched:sched_switch:2' > /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter
The first two times schedule is called while the sched_switch
event is enabled, it will disable it. It will not count for a time
that the event is already disabled (or enabled for enable_event).
[ fixed return without mutex_unlock() - thanks to Dan Carpenter and smatch ]
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
In order to let triggers enable or disable events, we need a 'soft'
method for doing so. For example, if a function probe is added that
lets a user enable or disable events when a function is called, that
change must be done without taking locks or a mutex, and definitely
it can't sleep. But the full enabling of a tracepoint is expensive.
By adding a 'SOFT_DISABLE' flag, and converting the flags to be updated
without the protection of a mutex (using set/clear_bit()), this soft
disable flag can be used to allow critical sections to enable or disable
events from being traced (after the event has been placed into "SOFT_MODE").
Some caveats though: The comm recorder (to map pids with a comm) can not
be soft disabled (yet). If you disable an event with with a "soft"
disable and wait a while before reading the trace, the comm cache may be
replaced and you'll get a bunch of <...> for comms in the trace.
Reading the "enable" file for an event that is disabled will now give
you "0*" where the '*' denotes that the tracepoint is still active but
the event itself is "disabled".
[ fixed _BIT used in & operation : thanks to Dan Carpenter and smatch ]
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
