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>
The entries to the probe hash must be freed after a synchronize_sched()
after the entry has been removed from the hash.
As the entries are registered with ops that may have their own callbacks,
and these callbacks may sleep, we can not use call_rcu_sched() because
the rcu callbacks registered with that are called from a softirq context.
Instead of using call_rcu_sched(), manually save the entries on a free_list
and at the end of the loop that removes the entries, do a synchronize_sched()
and then go through the free_list, freeing the entries.
Cc: Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
When a function probe is created, each function that the probe is
attached to, a "callback" method is called. On release of the probe,
each function entry calls the "free" method.
First, "callback" is a confusing name and does not really match what
it does. Callback sounds like it will be called when the probe
triggers. But that's not the case. This is really an "init" function,
so lets rename it as such.
Secondly, both "init" and "free" do not pass enough information back
to the handlers. Pass back the ops, ip and data for each time the
method is called. We have the information, might as well use it.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
echo 'schedule:snapshot:1' > /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter
This will cause the scheduler to trigger a snapshot the next time
it's called (you can use any function that's not called by NMI).
Even though it triggers only once, you still need to remove it with:
echo '!schedule:snapshot:0' > /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter
The :1 can be left off for the first command:
echo 'schedule:snapshot' > /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter
But this will cause all calls to schedule to trigger a snapshot.
This must be removed without the ':0'
echo '!schedule:snapshot' > /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter
As adding a "count" is a different operation (internally).
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add alloc_snapshot() and free_snapshot() to allocate and free the
snapshot buffer respectively, and use these to remove duplicate
code.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Currently the function probe enables all functions and runs a "hash"
against every function call to see if it should call a probe. This
is extremely wasteful.
Note, a probe is something like:
echo schedule:traceoff > /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter
When schedule is called, the probe will disable tracing. But currently,
it has a call back for *all* functions, and checks to see if the
called function is the probe that is needed.
The probe function has been created before ftrace was rewritten to
allow for more than one "op" to be registered by the function tracer.
When probes were created, it couldn't limit the functions without also
limiting normal function calls. But now we can, it's about time
to update the probe code.
Todo, have separate ops for different entries. That is, assign
a ftrace_ops per probe, instead of one op for all probes. But
as there's not many probes assigned, this may not be that urgent.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The function tracing probes that trigger traceon or traceoff can be
set to unlimited, or given a count of # of times to execute.
By separating these two types of probes, we can then use the dynamic
ftrace function filtering directly, and remove the brute force
"check if this function called is my probe" routines in ftrace.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The only thing ftrace_trace_onoff_unreg() does is to do a strcmp()
against the cmd parameter to determine what op to unregister. But
this compare is also done after the location that this function is
called (and returns). By moving the check for '!' to unregister after
the strcmp(), the callback function itself can just do the unregister
and we can get rid of the helper function.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Remove some duplicate code and replace it with a helper function.
This makes the code a it cleaner.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() to let the tracing_snapshot() functions be
called from modules.
Also add a test to see if the snapshot was called from NMI context
and just warn in the tracing buffer if so, and return.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
There's a few places that ftrace uses trace_printk() for internal
use, but this requires context (normal, softirq, irq, NMI) buffers
to keep things lockless. But the trace_puts() does not, as it can
write the string directly into the ring buffer. Make a internal helper
for trace_puts() and have the internal functions use that.
This way the extra context buffers are not used.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The trace_printk() is extremely fast and is very handy as it can be
used in any context (including NMIs!). But it still requires scanning
the fmt string for parsing the args. Even the trace_bprintk() requires
a scan to know what args will be saved, although it doesn't copy the
format string itself.
Several times trace_printk() has no args, and wastes cpu cycles scanning
the fmt string.
Adding trace_puts() allows the developer to use an even faster
tracing method that only saves the pointer to the string in the
ring buffer without doing any format parsing at all. This will
help remove even more of the "Heisenbug" effect, when debugging.
Also fixed up the F_printk()s for the ftrace internal bprint and print events.
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>
The changce to add the trace_buffer struct to have the trace array
have both the main buffer and max buffer broke the branch tracer
because the change did not update that code. As the branch tracer
adds a significant amount of overhead, and must be selected via
a selection (not a allyesconfig) it was missed in testing.
Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
If debugging the kernel, and the developer wants to use
tracing_snapshot() in places where tracing_snapshot_alloc() may
be difficult (or more likely, the developer is lazy and doesn't
want to bother with tracing_snapshot_alloc() at all), then adding
alloc_snapshot
to the kernel command line parameter will tell ftrace to allocate
the snapshot buffer (if configured) when it allocates the main
tracing buffer.
I also noticed that ring_buffer_expanded and tracing_selftest_disabled
had inconsistent use of boolean "true" and "false" with "0" and "1".
I cleaned that up too.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Move the tracing startup selftest code into its own function and
when not enabled, always have that function succeed.
This makes the register_tracer() function much more readable.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The ring buffer updates when done while the ring buffer is active,
needs to be completed on the CPU that is used for the ring buffer
per_cpu buffer. To accomplish this, schedule_work_on() is used to
schedule work on the given CPU.
Now there's no reason to use schedule_work_on() if the process
doing the update happens to be on the CPU that it is processing.
It has already filled the requirement. Instead, just do the work
and continue.
This is needed for tracing_snapshot_alloc() where it may be called
really early in boot, where the work queues have not been set up yet.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The new snapshot feature is quite handy. It's a way for the user
to take advantage of the spare buffer that, until then, only
the latency tracers used to "snapshot" the buffer when it hit
a max latency. Now users can trigger a "snapshot" manually when
some condition is hit in a program. But a snapshot currently can
not be triggered by a condition inside the kernel.
With the addition of tracing_snapshot() and tracing_snapshot_alloc(),
snapshots can now be taking when a condition is hit, and the
developer wants to snapshot the case without stopping the trace.
Note, any snapshot will overwrite the old one, so take care
in how this is done.
These new functions are to be used like tracing_on(), tracing_off()
and trace_printk() are. That is, they should never be called
in the mainline Linux kernel. They are solely for the purpose
of debugging.
The tracing_snapshot() will not allocate a buffer, but it is
safe to be called from any context (except NMIs). But if a
snapshot buffer isn't allocated when it is called, it will write
to the live buffer, complaining about the lack of a snapshot
buffer, and then stop tracing (giving you the "permanent snapshot").
tracing_snapshot_alloc() will allocate the snapshot buffer if
it was not already allocated and then take the snapshot. This routine
*may sleep*, and must be called from context that can sleep.
The allocation is done with GFP_KERNEL and not atomic.
If you need a snapshot in an atomic context, say in early boot,
then it is best to call the tracing_snapshot_alloc() before then,
where it will allocate the buffer, and then you can use the
tracing_snapshot() anywhere you want and still get snapshots.
Cc: Hiraku Toyooka <hiraku.toyooka.gu@hitachi.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add a ref count to the trace_array structure and prevent removal
of instances that have open descriptors.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add the per_cpu directory to the created tracing instances:
cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/instances
mkdir foo
ls foo/per_cpu/cpu0
buffer_size_kb snapshot_raw trace trace_pipe_raw
snapshot stats trace_pipe
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add the "snapshot" file to the the multi-buffer instances.
cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/instances
mkdir foo
ls foo
buffer_size_kb buffer_total_size_kb events free_buffer set_event
snapshot trace trace_clock trace_marker trace_options trace_pipe
tracing_on
cat foo/snapshot
# tracer: nop
#
#
# * Snapshot is freed *
#
# Snapshot commands:
# echo 0 > snapshot : Clears and frees snapshot buffer
# echo 1 > snapshot : Allocates snapshot buffer, if not already allocated.
# Takes a snapshot of the main buffer.
# echo 2 > snapshot : Clears snapshot buffer (but does not allocate)
# (Doesn't have to be '2' works with any number that
# is not a '0' or '1')
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
There's a bit of duplicate code in creating the trace buffers for
the normal trace buffer and the max trace buffer among the instances
and the main global_trace. This code can be consolidated and cleaned
up a bit making the code cleaner and more readable as well as less
duplication.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The snapshot buffer belongs to the trace array not the tracer that is
running. The trace array should be the data structure that keeps track
of whether or not the snapshot buffer is allocated, not the tracer
desciptor. Having the trace array keep track of it makes modifications
so much easier.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add a 'snapshot_raw' per_cpu file that allows tools to read the raw
binary data of the snapshot buffer.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
When the preempt or irq latency tracers are enabled, they require
the ring buffer to be able to swap the per cpu sub buffers between
two main buffers. This adds a slight overhead to tracing as the
trace recording needs to perform some checks to synchronize
between recording and swaps that might be happening on other CPUs.
The config RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP is set when a user of the ring
buffer needs the "swap cpu" feature, otherwise the extra checks
are not implemented and removed from the tracing overhead.
The snapshot feature will swap per CPU if the RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
config is set. But that only gets set by things like OPROFILE
and the irqs and preempt latency tracers.
This config is added to let the user decide to include this feature
with the snapshot agnostic from whether or not another user of
the ring buffer sets this config.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add the snapshot file into the per_cpu tracing directories to allow
them to be read for an individual cpu. This also allows to clear
an individual cpu from the snapshot buffer.
If the kernel allows it (CONFIG_RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP is set), then
echoing in '1' into one of the per_cpu snapshot files will do an
individual cpu buffer swap instead of the entire file.
Cc: Hiraku Toyooka <hiraku.toyooka.gu@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Currently, the way the latency tracers and snapshot feature works
is to have a separate trace_array called "max_tr" that holds the
snapshot buffer. For latency tracers, this snapshot buffer is used
to swap the running buffer with this buffer to save the current max
latency.
The only items needed for the max_tr is really just a copy of the buffer
itself, the per_cpu data pointers, the time_start timestamp that states
when the max latency was triggered, and the cpu that the max latency
was triggered on. All other fields in trace_array are unused by the
max_tr, making the max_tr mostly bloat.
This change removes the max_tr completely, and adds a new structure
called trace_buffer, that holds the buffer pointer, the per_cpu data
pointers, the time_start timestamp, and the cpu where the latency occurred.
The trace_array, now has two trace_buffers, one for the normal trace and
one for the max trace or snapshot. By doing this, not only do we remove
the bloat from the max_trace but the instances of traces can now use
their own snapshot feature and not have just the top level global_trace have
the snapshot feature and latency tracers for itself.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The snapshot utility is extremely useful, and does not add any more
overhead in memory when another latency tracer is enabled. They use
the snapshot underneath. There's no reason to hide the snapshot file
when a latency tracer has been enabled in the kernel.
If any of the latency tracers (irq, preempt or wakeup) is enabled
then also select the snapshot facility.
Note, snapshot can be enabled without the latency tracers enabled.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Currently we do not know what buffer a module event was enabled in.
On unload, it is safest to clear all buffer instances, not just the
top level buffer.
Todo: Clear only the buffer that the event was used in. The
infrastructure is there to do this, but it makes the code a bit
more complex. Lets get the current code vetted before we add that.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Currently, when a module with events is unloaded, the trace buffer is
cleared. This is just a safety net in case the module might have some
strange callback when its event is outputted. But there's no reason
to reset the buffer if the module didn't have any of its events traced.
Add a flag to the event "call" structure called WAS_ENABLED and gets set
when the event is ever enabled, and this flag never gets cleared. When a
module gets unloaded, if any of its events have this flag set, then the
trace buffer will get cleared.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The move of blocked readers to the ring buffer left out the
init of the wait queue that is used. Tests missed this due to running
stress tests against the buffers, which didn't allow for any
readers to end up waiting. Running a simple read and wait triggered
a bug.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
As we've added __init annotation to field-defining functions, we should
add __refdata annotation to event_call variables, which reference those
functions.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/51343C1F.2050502@huawei.com
Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The new multi-buffers added a descriptor that kept track of module
events, and the directories they use, with struct ftace_module_file_ops.
This is used to add a ref count to keep modules from unloading while
their files are being accessed.
As the descriptor is only needed when CONFIG_MODULES is enabled, it
is only declared when the config is enabled. But that struct is
dereferenced in a few areas outside the #ifdef CONFIG_MODULES.
By adding some helper routines and moving code around a little,
events can be compiled again without modules.
Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
With the conversion of the data array to per cpu, sparse now complains
about the use of per_cpu_ptr() on the variable. But The variable is
allocated with alloc_percpu() and is fine to use. But since the structure
that contains the data variable does not annotate it as such, sparse
gives out a lot of false warnings.
Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
These two functions are called during kernel boot only.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/51258796.7020704@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Move duplicate code in event print functions to a helper function.
This shrinks the size of the kernel by ~13K.
text data bss dec hex filename
6596137 1743966 10138672 18478775 119f6b7 vmlinux.o.old
6583002 1743849 10138672 18465523 119c2f3 vmlinux.o.new
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/51258746.2060304@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Move the logic to wake up on ring buffer data into the ring buffer
code itself. This simplifies the tracing code a lot and also has the
added benefit that waiters on one of the instance buffers can be woken
only when data is added to that instance instead of data added to
any instance.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
If the ring buffer is empty, a read to trace_pipe_raw wont block.
The tracing code has the infrastructure to wake up waiting readers,
but the trace_pipe_raw doesn't take advantage of that.
When a read is done to trace_pipe_raw without the O_NONBLOCK flag
set, have the read block until there's data in the requested buffer.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The trace_pipe_raw never implemented polling and this was casing
issues for several utilities. This is now implemented.
Blocked reads still are on the TODO list.
Reported-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Currently only the splice NONBLOCK flag is checked to determine if
the splice read should block or not. But the file descriptor NONBLOCK
flag also needs to be checked.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The names used to display the field and type in the event format
files are copied, as well as the system name that is displayed.
All these names are created by constant values passed in.
If one of theses values were to be removed by a module, the module
would also be required to remove any event it created.
By using the strings directly, we can save over 100K of memory.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The event structures used by the trace events are mostly persistent,
but they are also allocated by kmalloc, which is not the best at
allocating space for what is used. By converting these kmallocs
into kmem_cache_allocs, we can save over 50K of space that is
permanently allocated.
After boot we have:
slab name active allocated size
--------- ------ --------- ----
ftrace_event_file 979 1005 56 67 1
ftrace_event_field 2301 2310 48 77 1
The ftrace_event_file has at boot up 979 active objects out of
1005 allocated in the slabs. Each object is 56 bytes. In a normal
kmalloc, that would allocate 64 bytes for each object.
1005 - 979 = 26 objects not used
26 * 56 = 1456 bytes wasted
But if we used kmalloc:
64 - 56 = 8 bytes unused per allocation
8 * 979 = 7832 bytes wasted
7832 - 1456 = 6376 bytes in savings
Doing the same for ftrace_event_field where there's 2301 objects
allocated in a slab that can hold 2310 with 48 bytes each we have:
2310 - 2301 = 9 objects not used
9 * 48 = 432 bytes wasted
A kmalloc would also use 64 bytes per object:
64 - 48 = 16 bytes unused per allocation
16 * 2301 = 36816 bytes wasted!
36816 - 432 = 36384 bytes in savings
This change gives us a total of 42760 bytes in savings. At least
on my machine, but as there's a lot of these persistent objects
for all configurations that use trace points, this is a net win.
Thanks to Ezequiel Garcia for his trace_analyze presentation which
pointed out the wasted space in my code.
Cc: Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
