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2014-01-10tracing: Consolidate event trigger codeSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)1-0/+117
The event trigger code that checks for callback triggers before and after recording of an event has lots of flags checks. This code is duplicated throughout the ftrace events, kprobes and system calls. They all do the exact same checks against the event flags. Added helper functions ftrace_trigger_soft_disabled(), event_trigger_unlock_commit() and event_trigger_unlock_commit_regs() that consolidated the code and these are used instead. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140106222703.5e7dbba2@gandalf.local.home Acked-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com> Tested-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-12-22tracing: Add and use generic set_trigger_filter() implementationTom Zanussi1-1/+8
Add a generic event_command.set_trigger_filter() op implementation and have the current set of trigger commands use it - this essentially gives them all support for filters. Syntactically, filters are supported by adding 'if <filter>' just after the command, in which case only events matching the filter will invoke the trigger. For example, to add a filter to an enable/disable_event command: echo 'enable_event:system:event if common_pid == 999' > \ .../othersys/otherevent/trigger The above command will only enable the system:event event if the common_pid field in the othersys:otherevent event is 999. As another example, to add a filter to a stacktrace command: echo 'stacktrace if common_pid == 999' > \ .../somesys/someevent/trigger The above command will only trigger a stacktrace if the common_pid field in the event is 999. The filter syntax is the same as that described in the 'Event filtering' section of Documentation/trace/events.txt. Because triggers can now use filters, the trigger-invoking logic needs to be moved in those cases - e.g. for ftrace_raw_event_calls, if a trigger has a filter associated with it, the trigger invocation now needs to happen after the { assign; } part of the call, in order for the trigger condition to be tested. There's still a SOFT_DISABLED-only check at the top of e.g. the ftrace_raw_events function, so when an event is soft disabled but not because of the presence of a trigger, the original SOFT_DISABLED behavior remains unchanged. There's also a bit of trickiness in that some triggers need to avoid being invoked while an event is currently in the process of being logged, since the trigger may itself log data into the trace buffer. Thus we make sure the current event is committed before invoking those triggers. To do that, we split the trigger invocation in two - the first part (event_triggers_call()) checks the filter using the current trace record; if a command has the post_trigger flag set, it sets a bit for itself in the return value, otherwise it directly invoks the trigger. Once all commands have been either invoked or set their return flag, event_triggers_call() returns. The current record is then either committed or discarded; if any commands have deferred their triggers, those commands are finally invoked following the close of the current event by event_triggers_post_call(). To simplify the above and make it more efficient, the TRIGGER_COND bit is introduced, which is set only if a soft-disabled trigger needs to use the log record for filter testing or needs to wait until the current log record is closed. The syscall event invocation code is also changed in analogous ways. Because event triggers need to be able to create and free filters, this also adds a couple external wrappers for the existing create_filter and free_filter functions, which are too generic to be made extern functions themselves. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/7164930759d8719ef460357f143d995406e4eead.1382622043.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-12-22tracing: Add 'enable_event' and 'disable_event' event trigger commandsTom Zanussi1-0/+1
Add 'enable_event' and 'disable_event' event_command commands. enable_event and disable_event event triggers are added by the user via these commands in a similar way and using practically the same syntax as the analagous 'enable_event' and 'disable_event' ftrace function commands, but instead of writing to the set_ftrace_filter file, the enable_event and disable_event triggers are written to the per-event 'trigger' files: echo 'enable_event:system:event' > .../othersys/otherevent/trigger echo 'disable_event:system:event' > .../othersys/otherevent/trigger The above commands will enable or disable the 'system:event' trace events whenever the othersys:otherevent events are hit. This also adds a 'count' version that limits the number of times the command will be invoked: echo 'enable_event:system:event:N' > .../othersys/otherevent/trigger echo 'disable_event:system:event:N' > .../othersys/otherevent/trigger Where N is the number of times the command will be invoked. The above commands will will enable or disable the 'system:event' trace events whenever the othersys:otherevent events are hit, but only N times. This also makes the find_event_file() helper function extern, since it's useful to use from other places, such as the event triggers code, so make it accessible. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/f825f3048c3f6b026ee37ae5825f9fc373451828.1382622043.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-12-22tracing: Add 'stacktrace' event trigger commandTom Zanussi1-0/+1
Add 'stacktrace' event_command. stacktrace event triggers are added by the user via this command in a similar way and using practically the same syntax as the analogous 'stacktrace' ftrace function command, but instead of writing to the set_ftrace_filter file, the stacktrace event trigger is written to the per-event 'trigger' files: echo 'stacktrace' > .../tracing/events/somesys/someevent/trigger The above command will turn on stacktraces for someevent i.e. whenever someevent is hit, a stacktrace will be logged. This also adds a 'count' version that limits the number of times the command will be invoked: echo 'stacktrace:N' > .../tracing/events/somesys/someevent/trigger Where N is the number of times the command will be invoked. The above command will log N stacktraces for someevent i.e. whenever someevent is hit N times, a stacktrace will be logged. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/0c30c008a0828c660aa0e1bbd3255cf179ed5c30.1382622043.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-12-22tracing: Add 'snapshot' event trigger commandTom Zanussi1-0/+1
Add 'snapshot' event_command. snapshot event triggers are added by the user via this command in a similar way and using practically the same syntax as the analogous 'snapshot' ftrace function command, but instead of writing to the set_ftrace_filter file, the snapshot event trigger is written to the per-event 'trigger' files: echo 'snapshot' > .../somesys/someevent/trigger The above command will turn on snapshots for someevent i.e. whenever someevent is hit, a snapshot will be done. This also adds a 'count' version that limits the number of times the command will be invoked: echo 'snapshot:N' > .../somesys/someevent/trigger Where N is the number of times the command will be invoked. The above command will snapshot N times for someevent i.e. whenever someevent is hit N times, a snapshot will be done. Also adds a new tracing_alloc_snapshot() function - the existing tracing_snapshot_alloc() function is a special version of tracing_snapshot() that also does the snapshot allocation - the snapshot triggers would like to be able to do just the allocation but not take a snapshot; the existing tracing_snapshot_alloc() in turn now also calls tracing_alloc_snapshot() underneath to do that allocation. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/c9524dd07ce01f9dcbd59011290e0a8d5b47d7ad.1382622043.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com> [ fix up from kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com report ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-12-21tracing: Add 'traceon' and 'traceoff' event trigger commandsTom Zanussi1-0/+1
Add 'traceon' and 'traceoff' event_command commands. traceon and traceoff event triggers are added by the user via these commands in a similar way and using practically the same syntax as the analagous 'traceon' and 'traceoff' ftrace function commands, but instead of writing to the set_ftrace_filter file, the traceon and traceoff triggers are written to the per-event 'trigger' files: echo 'traceon' > .../tracing/events/somesys/someevent/trigger echo 'traceoff' > .../tracing/events/somesys/someevent/trigger The above command will turn tracing on or off whenever someevent is hit. This also adds a 'count' version that limits the number of times the command will be invoked: echo 'traceon:N' > .../tracing/events/somesys/someevent/trigger echo 'traceoff:N' > .../tracing/events/somesys/someevent/trigger Where N is the number of times the command will be invoked. The above commands will will turn tracing on or off whenever someevent is hit, but only N times. Some common register/unregister_trigger() implementations of the event_command reg()/unreg() callbacks are also provided, which add and remove trigger instances to the per-event list of triggers, and arm/disarm them as appropriate. event_trigger_callback() is a general-purpose event_command func() implementation that orchestrates command parsing and registration for most normal commands. Most event commands will use these, but some will override and possibly reuse them. The event_trigger_init(), event_trigger_free(), and event_trigger_print() functions are meant to be common implementations of the event_trigger_ops init(), free(), and print() ops, respectively. Most trigger_ops implementations will use these, but some will override and possibly reuse them. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/00a52816703b98d2072947478dd6e2d70cde5197.1382622043.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-12-21tracing: Add basic event trigger frameworkTom Zanussi1-0/+11
Add a 'trigger' file for each trace event, enabling 'trace event triggers' to be set for trace events. 'trace event triggers' are patterned after the existing 'ftrace function triggers' implementation except that triggers are written to per-event 'trigger' files instead of to a single file such as the 'set_ftrace_filter' used for ftrace function triggers. The implementation is meant to be entirely separate from ftrace function triggers, in order to keep the respective implementations relatively simple and to allow them to diverge. The event trigger functionality is built on top of SOFT_DISABLE functionality. It adds a TRIGGER_MODE bit to the ftrace_event_file flags which is checked when any trace event fires. Triggers set for a particular event need to be checked regardless of whether that event is actually enabled or not - getting an event to fire even if it's not enabled is what's already implemented by SOFT_DISABLE mode, so trigger mode directly reuses that. Event trigger essentially inherit the soft disable logic in __ftrace_event_enable_disable() while adding a bit of logic and trigger reference counting via tm_ref on top of that in a new trace_event_trigger_enable_disable() function. Because the base __ftrace_event_enable_disable() code now needs to be invoked from outside trace_events.c, a wrapper is also added for those usages. The triggers for an event are actually invoked via a new function, event_triggers_call(), and code is also added to invoke them for ftrace_raw_event calls as well as syscall events. The main part of the patch creates a new trace_events_trigger.c file to contain the trace event triggers implementation. The standard open, read, and release file operations are implemented here. The open() implementation sets up for the various open modes of the 'trigger' file. It creates and attaches the trigger iterator and sets up the command parser. If opened for reading set up the trigger seq_ops. The read() implementation parses the event trigger written to the 'trigger' file, looks up the trigger command, and passes it along to that event_command's func() implementation for command-specific processing. The release() implementation does whatever cleanup is needed to release the 'trigger' file, like releasing the parser and trigger iterator, etc. A couple of functions for event command registration and unregistration are added, along with a list to add them to and a mutex to protect them, as well as an (initially empty) registration function to add the set of commands that will be added by future commits, and call to it from the trace event initialization code. also added are a couple trigger-specific data structures needed for these implementations such as a trigger iterator and a struct for trigger-specific data. A couple structs consisting mostly of function meant to be implemented in command-specific ways, event_command and event_trigger_ops, are used by the generic event trigger command implementations. They're being put into trace.h alongside the other trace_event data structures and functions, in the expectation that they'll be needed in several trace_event-related files such as trace_events_trigger.c and trace_events.c. The event_command.func() function is meant to be called by the trigger parsing code in order to add a trigger instance to the corresponding event. It essentially coordinates adding a live trigger instance to the event, and arming the triggering the event. Every event_command func() implementation essentially does the same thing for any command: - choose ops - use the value of param to choose either a number or count version of event_trigger_ops specific to the command - do the register or unregister of those ops - associate a filter, if specified, with the triggering event The reg() and unreg() ops allow command-specific implementations for event_trigger_op registration and unregistration, and the get_trigger_ops() op allows command-specific event_trigger_ops selection to be parameterized. When a trigger instance is added, the reg() op essentially adds that trigger to the triggering event and arms it, while unreg() does the opposite. The set_filter() function is used to associate a filter with the trigger - if the command doesn't specify a set_filter() implementation, the command will ignore filters. Each command has an associated trigger_type, which serves double duty, both as a unique identifier for the command as well as a value that can be used for setting a trigger mode bit during trigger invocation. The signature of func() adds a pointer to the event_command struct, used to invoke those functions, along with a command_data param that can be passed to the reg/unreg functions. This allows func() implementations to use command-specific blobs and supports code re-use. The event_trigger_ops.func() command corrsponds to the trigger 'probe' function that gets called when the triggering event is actually invoked. The other functions are used to list the trigger when needed, along with a couple mundane book-keeping functions. This also moves event_file_data() into trace.h so it can be used outside of trace_events.c. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/316d95061accdee070aac8e5750afba0192fa5b9.1382622043.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com> Idea-by: Steve Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-11-19ftrace, perf: Avoid infinite event generation loopPeter Zijlstra1-0/+16
Vince's perf-trinity fuzzer found yet another 'interesting' problem. When we sample the irq_work_exit tracepoint with period==1 (or PERF_SAMPLE_PERIOD) and we add an fasync SIGNAL handler we create an infinite event generation loop: ,-> <IPI> | irq_work_exit() -> | trace_irq_work_exit() -> | ... | __perf_event_overflow() -> (due to fasync) | irq_work_queue() -> (irq_work_list must be empty) '--------- arch_irq_work_raise() Similar things can happen due to regular poll() wakeups if we exceed the ring-buffer wakeup watermark, or have an event_limit. To avoid this, dis-allow sampling this particular tracepoint. In order to achieve this, create a special perf_perm function pointer for each event and call this (when set) on trying to create a tracepoint perf event. [ roasted: use expr... to allow for ',' in your expression ] Reported-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Tested-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131114152304.GC5364@laptop.programming.kicks-ass.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-11-06tracing: Update event filters for multibufferTom Zanussi1-5/+20
The trace event filters are still tied to event calls rather than event files, which means you don't get what you'd expect when using filters in the multibuffer case: Before: # echo 'bytes_alloc > 8192' > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kmem/kmalloc/filter # cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kmem/kmalloc/filter bytes_alloc > 8192 # mkdir /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/instances/test1 # echo 'bytes_alloc > 2048' > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/instances/test1/events/kmem/kmalloc/filter # cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kmem/kmalloc/filter bytes_alloc > 2048 # cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/instances/test1/events/kmem/kmalloc/filter bytes_alloc > 2048 Setting the filter in tracing/instances/test1/events shouldn't affect the same event in tracing/events as it does above. After: # echo 'bytes_alloc > 8192' > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kmem/kmalloc/filter # cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kmem/kmalloc/filter bytes_alloc > 8192 # mkdir /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/instances/test1 # echo 'bytes_alloc > 2048' > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/instances/test1/events/kmem/kmalloc/filter # cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kmem/kmalloc/filter bytes_alloc > 8192 # cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/instances/test1/events/kmem/kmalloc/filter bytes_alloc > 2048 We'd like to just move the filter directly from ftrace_event_call to ftrace_event_file, but there are a couple cases that don't yet have multibuffer support and therefore have to continue using the current event_call-based filters. For those cases, a new USE_CALL_FILTER bit is added to the event_call flags, whose main purpose is to keep the old behavior for those cases until they can be updated with multibuffer support; at that point, the USE_CALL_FILTER flag (and the new associated call_filter_check_discard() function) can go away. The multibuffer support also made filter_current_check_discard() redundant, so this change removes that function as well and replaces it with filter_check_discard() (or call_filter_check_discard() as appropriate). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/f16e9ce4270c62f46b2e966119225e1c3cca7e60.1382620672.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-09-03Merge branch 'rcu/next' of ↵Ingo Molnar1-0/+34
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu into core/rcu Pull RCU updates from Paul E. McKenney: " * Update RCU documentation. These were posted to LKML at https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/8/19/611. * Miscellaneous fixes. These were posted to LKML at https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/8/19/619. * Full-system idle detection. This is for use by Frederic Weisbecker's adaptive-ticks mechanism. Its purpose is to allow the timekeeping CPU to shut off its tick when all other CPUs are idle. These were posted to LKML at https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/8/19/648. * Improve rcutorture test coverage. These were posted to LKML at https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/8/19/675. " Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-08-03tracing: Fix fields of struct trace_iterator that are zeroed by mistakeAndrew Vagin1-4/+6
tracing_read_pipe zeros all fields bellow "seq". The declaration contains a comment about that, but it doesn't help. The first field is "snapshot", it's true when current open file is snapshot. Looks obvious, that it should not be zeroed. The second field is "started". It was converted from cpumask_t to cpumask_var_t (v2.6.28-4983-g4462344), in other words it was converted from cpumask to pointer on cpumask. Currently the reference on "started" memory is lost after the first read from tracing_read_pipe and a proper object will never be freed. The "started" is never dereferenced for trace_pipe, because trace_pipe can't have the TRACE_FILE_ANNOTATE options. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1375463803-3085183-1-git-send-email-avagin@openvz.org Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 2.6.30 Signed-off-by: Andrew Vagin <avagin@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-07-31tracing: trace_remove_event_call() should fail if call/file is in useOleg Nesterov1-1/+1
Change trace_remove_event_call(call) to return the error if this call is active. This is what the callers assume but can't verify outside of the tracing locks. Both trace_kprobe.c/trace_uprobe.c need the additional changes, unregister_trace_probe() should abort if trace_remove_event_call() fails. The caller is going to free this call/file so we must ensure that nobody can use them after trace_remove_event_call() succeeds. debugfs should be fine after the previous changes and event_remove() does TRACE_REG_UNREGISTER, but still there are 2 reasons why we need the additional checks: - There could be a perf_event(s) attached to this tp_event, so the patch checks ->perf_refcount. - TRACE_REG_UNREGISTER can be suppressed by FTRACE_EVENT_FL_SOFT_MODE, so we simply check FTRACE_EVENT_FL_ENABLED protected by event_mutex. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130729175033.GB26284@redhat.com Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-07-26tracing: Add __tracepoint_string() to export string pointersSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)1-0/+34
There are several tracepoints (mostly in RCU), that reference a string pointer and uses the print format of "%s" to display the string that exists in the kernel, instead of copying the actual string to the ring buffer (saves time and ring buffer space). But this has an issue with userspace tools that read the binary buffers that has the address of the string but has no access to what the string itself is. The end result is just output that looks like: rcu_dyntick: ffffffff818adeaa 1 0 rcu_dyntick: ffffffff818adeb5 0 140000000000000 rcu_dyntick: ffffffff818adeb5 0 140000000000000 rcu_utilization: ffffffff8184333b rcu_utilization: ffffffff8184333b The above is pretty useless when read by the userspace tools. Ideally we would want something that looks like this: rcu_dyntick: Start 1 0 rcu_dyntick: End 0 140000000000000 rcu_dyntick: Start 140000000000000 0 rcu_callback: rcu_preempt rhp=0xffff880037aff710 func=put_cred_rcu 0/4 rcu_callback: rcu_preempt rhp=0xffff880078961980 func=file_free_rcu 0/5 rcu_dyntick: End 0 1 The trace_printk() which also only stores the address of the string format instead of recording the string into the buffer itself, exports the mapping of kernel addresses to format strings via the printk_format file in the debugfs tracing directory. The tracepoint strings can use this same method and output the format to the same file and the userspace tools will be able to decipher the address without any modification. The tracepoint strings need its own section to save the strings because the trace_printk section will cause the trace_printk() buffers to be allocated if anything exists within the section. trace_printk() is only used for debugging and should never exist in the kernel, we can not use the trace_printk sections. Add a new tracepoint_str section that will also be examined by the output of the printk_format file. Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-05-10tracing: Modify soft-mode only if there's no other referrerMasami Hiramatsu1-0/+1
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>
2013-04-20tracing: Compare to 1 instead of zero for is_signed_type()Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)1-1/+1
The formats of the trace events show if the type of a event field is signed or not via a macro called is_signed_type(). This does a trick with the type and compares a -1 to zero after typecasting to the tested type. If it returns true, it's signed, otherwise its not. But this unfortunately triggers a warning by gcc: warning: comparison of unsigned expression < 0 is always false As we know it is always false (that's why we do it), this is a false warning. Luckily for us, the comparison works with a 1 as well, without giving the warning. Convert the check to compare (type)-1 < (type)0 to (type)-1 < (type)1 to determine if the type is signed or not. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAErSpo4YXcY9fuOKWYGDkddJwk68kmZTohsmVB6QvrhjboOh1Q@mail.gmail.com Reported-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> Reported-by: Gary Hade <garyhade@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-03-15tracing: Add a way to soft disable trace eventsSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)1-6/+14
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>
2013-03-15tracing: Fix comments for ftrace_event_file/call flagsSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)1-7/+10
Most of the flags for the struct ftrace_event_file were moved over to the flags of the struct ftrace_event_call, but the comments were never updated. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-03-15tracing: Consolidate max_tr into main trace_array structureSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)1-0/+2
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>
2013-03-15tracing: Only clear trace buffer on module unload if event was tracedSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)1-0/+5
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>
2013-03-15tracing: Add comment for trace event flag IGNORE_ENABLESteven Rostedt (Red Hat)1-0/+1
All the trace event flags have comments but the IGNORE_ENABLE flag which is set for ftrace internal events that should not be enabled via the debugfs "enable" file. That is, if the top level enable file is set, it will enable all events. It use to just check the ftrace event call descriptor "reg" field and skip those whithout it, but now some ftrace internal events have a reg field but still need to be skipped. The flag was created to ignore those events. Now document it. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-03-15tracing: Add a helper function for event print functionsLi Zefan1-2/+6
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>
2013-03-15tracing: Pass the ftrace_file to the buffer lock reserve codeSteven Rostedt1-0/+7
Pass the struct ftrace_event_file *ftrace_file to the trace_event_buffer_lock_reserve() (new function that replaces the trace_current_buffer_lock_reserver()). The ftrace_file holds a pointer to the trace_array that is in use. In the case of multiple buffers with different trace_arrays, this allows different events to be recorded into different buffers. Also fixed some of the stale comments in include/trace/ftrace.h Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-03-15tracing: Separate out trace events from global variablesSteven Rostedt1-11/+40
The trace events for ftrace are all defined via global variables. The arrays of events and event systems are linked to a global list. This prevents multiple users of the event system (what to enable and what not to). By adding descriptors to represent the event/file relation, as well as to which trace_array descriptor they are associated with, allows for more than one set of events to be defined. Once the trace events files have a link between the trace event and the trace_array they are associated with, we can create multiple trace_arrays that can record separate events in separate buffers. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-01-30tracing: Make a snapshot feature available from userspaceHiraku Toyooka1-0/+3
Ftrace has a snapshot feature available from kernel space and latency tracers (e.g. irqsoff) are using it. This patch enables user applictions to take a snapshot via debugfs. Add "snapshot" debugfs file in "tracing" directory. snapshot: This is used to take a snapshot and to read the output of the snapshot. # echo 1 > snapshot This will allocate the spare buffer for snapshot (if it is not allocated), and take a snapshot. # cat snapshot This will show contents of the snapshot. # echo 0 > snapshot This will free the snapshot if it is allocated. Any other positive values will clear the snapshot contents if the snapshot is allocated, or return EINVAL if it is not allocated. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20121226025300.3252.86850.stgit@liselsia Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: David Sharp <dhsharp@google.com> Signed-off-by: Hiraku Toyooka <hiraku.toyooka.gu@hitachi.com> [ Fixed irqsoff selftest and also a conflict with a change that fixes the update_max_tr. ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-01-22tracing: Remove the extra 4 bytes of padding in eventsSteven Rostedt1-1/+0
Due to a userspace issue with PowerTop v2beta, which hardcoded the offset of event fields that it was using, it broke when we removed the Big Kernel Lock counter from the event header. (commit e6e1e2593 "tracing: Remove lock_depth from event entry") Because this broke userspace, it was determined that we must keep those 4 bytes around. (commit a3a4a5acd "Regression: partial revert "tracing: Remove lock_depth from event entry"") This unfortunately wastes space in the ring buffer. 4 bytes per event, where a lot of events are just 24 bytes. That's 16% of the buffer wasted. A million events will add 4 megs of white space into the buffer. It was later noticed that PowerTop v2beta could not work on systems where the kernel was 64 bit but the userspace was 32 bits. The reason was because the offsets are different between the two and the hard coded offset of one would not work with the other. With PowerTop v2 final, it implemented the same interface that both perf and trace-cmd use. That is, it reads the format file of the event to find the offsets of the fields it needs. This fixes the problem with running powertop on a 32 bit userspace running on a 64 bit kernel. It also no longer requires the 4 byte padding. As PowerTop v2 has been out for a while, and is included in all major distributions, it is time that we can safely remove the 4 bytes of padding. Users of PowerTop v2beta should upgrade to PowerTop v2 final. Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-01-21tracing: Fix sparse warning with is_signed_type() macroSteven Rostedt1-1/+1
Sparse complains when is_signed_type() is used on a pointer. This macro is needed for the format output used for ftrace and perf, to know if a binary field is a signed type or not. The is_signed_type() macro is used against all fields that are recorded by events to automate the operation. The problem sparse has is with the current way is_signed_type() works: ((type)-1 < 0) If "type" is a poiner, than sparse does not like it being compared to an integer (zero). The simple fix is to just give zero the same type. The runtime result stays the same. Reported-by: Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@free.fr> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-11-14tracing: Format non-nanosec times from tsc clock without a decimal point.David Sharp1-0/+6
With the addition of the "tsc" clock, formatting timestamps to look like fractional seconds is misleading. Mark clocks as either in nanoseconds or not, and format non-nanosecond timestamps as decimal integers. Tested: $ cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/ $ cat trace_clock [local] global tsc $ echo sched_switch > set_event $ echo 1 > tracing_on ; sleep 0.0005 ; echo 0 > tracing_on $ cat trace <idle>-0 [000] 6330.555552: sched_switch: prev_comm=swapper prev_pid=0 prev_prio=120 prev_state=R ==> next_comm=bash next_pid=29964 next_prio=120 sleep-29964 [000] 6330.555628: sched_switch: prev_comm=bash prev_pid=29964 prev_prio=120 prev_state=S ==> next_comm=swapper next_pid=0 next_prio=120 ... $ echo 1 > options/latency-format $ cat trace <idle>-0 0 4104553247us+: sched_switch: prev_comm=swapper prev_pid=0 prev_prio=120 prev_state=R ==> next_comm=bash next_pid=29964 next_prio=120 sleep-29964 0 4104553322us+: sched_switch: prev_comm=bash prev_pid=29964 prev_prio=120 prev_state=S ==> next_comm=swapper next_pid=0 next_prio=120 ... $ echo tsc > trace_clock $ cat trace $ echo 1 > tracing_on ; sleep 0.0005 ; echo 0 > tracing_on $ echo 0 > options/latency-format $ cat trace <idle>-0 [000] 16490053398357: sched_switch: prev_comm=swapper prev_pid=0 prev_prio=120 prev_state=R ==> next_comm=bash next_pid=31128 next_prio=120 sleep-31128 [000] 16490053588518: sched_switch: prev_comm=bash prev_pid=31128 prev_prio=120 prev_state=S ==> next_comm=swapper next_pid=0 next_prio=120 ... echo 1 > options/latency-format $ cat trace <idle>-0 0 91557653238+: sched_switch: prev_comm=swapper prev_pid=0 prev_prio=120 prev_state=R ==> next_comm=bash next_pid=31128 next_prio=120 sleep-31128 0 91557843399+: sched_switch: prev_comm=bash prev_pid=31128 prev_prio=120 prev_state=S ==> next_comm=swapper next_pid=0 next_prio=120 ... v2: Move arch-specific bits out of generic code. v4: Fix x86_32 build due to 64-bit division. Google-Bug-Id: 6980623 Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1352837903-32191-2-git-send-email-dhsharp@google.com Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Signed-off-by: David Sharp <dhsharp@google.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-11-02tracing: Use irq_work for wake ups and remove *_nowake_*() functionsSteven Rostedt1-7/+7
Have the ring buffer commit function use the irq_work infrastructure to wake up any waiters waiting on the ring buffer for new data. The irq_work was created for such a purpose, where doing the actual wake up at the time of adding data is too dangerous, as an event or function trace may be in the midst of the work queue locks and cause deadlocks. The irq_work will either delay the action to the next timer interrupt, or trigger an IPI to itself forcing an interrupt to do the work (in a safe location). With irq_work, all ring buffer commits can safely do wakeups, removing the need for the ring buffer commit "nowake" variants, which were used by events and function tracing. All commits can now safely use the normal commit, and the "nowake" variants can be removed. Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-07-31perf/trace: Add ability to set a target task for eventsAndrew Vagin1-2/+3
A few events are interesting not only for a current task. For example, sched_stat_* events are interesting for a task which wakes up. For this reason, it will be good if such events will be delivered to a target task too. Now a target task can be set by using __perf_task(). The original idea and a draft patch belongs to Peter Zijlstra. I need these events for profiling sleep times. sched_switch is used for getting callchains and sched_stat_* is used for getting time periods. These events are combined in user space, then it can be analyzed by perf tools. Inspired-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Vagin <avagin@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1342016098-213063-1-git-send-email-avagin@openvz.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-06-28tracing: Remove NR_CPUS array from trace_iteratorSteven Rostedt1-1/+1
Replace the NR_CPUS array of buffer_iter from the trace_iterator with an allocated array. This will just create an array of possible CPUS instead of the max number specified. The use of NR_CPUS in that array caused allocation failures for machines that were tight on memory. This did not cause any failures to the system itself (no crashes), but caused unnecessary failures for reading the trace files. Added a helper function called 'trace_buffer_iter()' that returns the buffer_iter item or NULL if it is not defined or the array was not allocated. Some routines do not require the array (tracing_open_pipe() for one). Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-06-14tracing: Add comments for the other bits of ftrace_event_call.flagsSteven Rostedt1-0/+3
TRACE_EVENT_FL_ENABLED_BIT, TRACE_EVENT_FL_FILTERED_BIT, TRACE_EVENT_FL_RECORDED_CMD_BIT, Have comments about what they are, but: TRACE_EVENT_FL_CAP_ANY_BIT, TRACE_EVENT_FL_NO_SET_FILTER_BIT, TRACE_EVENT_FL_IGNORE_ENABLE_BIT, do not, making them second class citizens. To prevent another class warfare, these bits have protested for their right to be commented. And By Golly! I'll give them what they want! Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-05-10tracing: Do not enable function event with enableSteven Rostedt1-0/+2
With the adding of function tracing event to perf, it caused a side effect that produces the following warning when enabling all events in ftrace: # echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/enable [console] event trace: Could not enable event function This is because when enabling all events via the debugfs system it ignores events that do not have a ->reg() function assigned. This was to skip over the ftrace internal events (as they are not TRACE_EVENTs). But as the ftrace function event now has a ->reg() function attached to it for use with perf, it is no longer ignored. Worse yet, this ->reg() function is being called when it should not be. It returns an error and causes the above warning to be printed. By adding a new event_call flag (TRACE_EVENT_FL_IGNORE_ENABLE) and have all ftrace internel event structures have it set, setting the events/enable will no longe try to incorrectly enable the function event and does not warn. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-03-14perf: Add ifdef to remove unused enum switch warningsJiri Olsa1-0/+2
Fix for unused symbols in switch warnings. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120313230302.GA1514@m.redhat.com Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-02-21ftrace: Allow to specify filter field type for ftrace eventsJiri Olsa1-0/+1
Adding FILTER_TRACE_FN event field type for function tracepoint event, so it can be properly recognized within filtering code. Currently all fields of ftrace subsystem events share the common field type FILTER_OTHER. Since the function trace fields need special care within the filtering code we need to recognize it properly, hence adding the FILTER_TRACE_FN event type. Adding filter parameter to the FTRACE_ENTRY macro, to specify the filter field type for the event. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1329317514-8131-7-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-02-21ftrace, perf: Add add/del tracepoint perf registration actionsJiri Olsa1-0/+2
Adding TRACE_REG_PERF_ADD and TRACE_REG_PERF_DEL to handle perf event schedule in/out actions. The add action is invoked for when the perf event is scheduled in, while the del action is invoked when the event is scheduled out. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1329317514-8131-4-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-02-21ftrace, perf: Add open/close tracepoint perf registration actionsJiri Olsa1-2/+4
Adding TRACE_REG_PERF_OPEN and TRACE_REG_PERF_CLOSE to differentiate register/unregister from open/close actions. The register/unregister actions are invoked for the first/last tracepoint user when opening/closing the event. The open/close actions are invoked for each tracepoint user when opening/closing the event. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1329317514-8131-3-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-12-05tracing: Restore system filter behaviorLi Zefan1-0/+2
Though not all events have field 'prev_pid', it was allowed to do this: # echo 'prev_pid == 100' > events/sched/filter but commit 75b8e98263fdb0bfbdeba60d4db463259f1fe8a2 (tracing/filter: Swap entire filter of events) broke it without any reason. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4EAF46CF.8040408@cn.fujitsu.com Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-07-15tracing: Have dynamic size event stack tracesSteven Rostedt1-0/+1
Currently the stack trace per event in ftace is only 8 frames. This can be quite limiting and sometimes useless. Especially when the "ignore frames" is wrong and we also use up stack frames for the event processing itself. Change this to be dynamic by adding a percpu buffer that we can write a large stack frame into and then copy into the ring buffer. For interrupts and NMIs that come in while another event is being process, will only get to use the 8 frame stack. That should be enough as the task that it interrupted will have the full stack frame anyway. Requested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-06-15tracing/kprobes: Fix kprobe-tracer to support stack traceMasami Hiramatsu1-0/+4
Fix to support kernel stack trace correctly on kprobe-tracer. Since the execution path of kprobe-based dynamic events is different from other tracepoint-based events, normal ftrace_trace_stack() doesn't work correctly. To fix that, this introduces ftrace_trace_stack_regs() which traces stack via pt_regs instead of current stack register. e.g. # echo p schedule+4 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/kprobe_events # echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/options/stacktrace # echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kprobes/enable # head -n 20 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace bash-2968 [000] 10297.050245: p_schedule_4: (schedule+0x4/0x4ca) bash-2968 [000] 10297.050247: <stack trace> => schedule_timeout => n_tty_read => tty_read => vfs_read => sys_read => system_call_fastpath kworker/0:1-2940 [000] 10297.050265: p_schedule_4: (schedule+0x4/0x4ca) kworker/0:1-2940 [000] 10297.050266: <stack trace> => worker_thread => kthread => kernel_thread_helper sshd-1132 [000] 10297.050365: p_schedule_4: (schedule+0x4/0x4ca) sshd-1132 [000] 10297.050365: <stack trace> => sysret_careful Note: Even with this fix, the first entry will be skipped if the probe is put on the function entry area before the frame pointer is set up (usually, that is 4 bytes (push %bp; mov %sp %bp) on x86), because stack unwinder depends on the frame pointer. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: yrl.pp-manager.tt@hitachi.com Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110608070934.17777.17116.stgit@fedora15 Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-05-26tracing: Add __print_symbolic_u64 to avoid warnings on 32bit machineliubo1-0/+12
Filesystem, like Btrfs, has some "ULL" macros, and when these macros are passed to tracepoints'__print_symbolic(), there will be 64->32 truncate WARNINGS during compiling on 32bit box. Signed-off-by: Liu Bo <liubo2009@cn.fujitsu.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4DACE6E0.7000507@cn.fujitsu.com Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-05-07Regression: partial revert "tracing: Remove lock_depth from event entry"Arjan van de Ven1-0/+1
This partially reverts commit e6e1e2593592a8f6f6380496655d8c6f67431266. That commit changed the structure layout of the trace structure, which in turn broke PowerTOP (1.9x generation) quite badly. I appreciate not wanting to expose the variable in question, and PowerTOP was not using it, so I've replaced the variable with just a padding field - that way if in the future a new field is needed it can just use this padding field. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-10tracing: Remove lock_depth from event entrySteven Rostedt1-1/+0
The lock_depth field in the event headers was added as a temporary data point for help in removing the BKL. Now that the BKL is pretty much been removed, we can remove this field. This in turn changes the header from 12 bytes to 8 bytes, removing the 4 byte buffer that gcc would insert if the first field in the data load was 8 bytes in size. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-02-08tracing/filter: Move MAX_FILTER_PRED to local tracing directorySteven Rostedt1-1/+0
The MAX_FILTER_PRED is only needed by the kernel/trace/*.c files. Move it to kernel/trace/trace.h. Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-11-19tracing/events: Show real number in array fieldsSteven Rostedt1-0/+4
Currently we have in something like the sched_switch event: field:char prev_comm[TASK_COMM_LEN]; offset:12; size:16; signed:1; When a userspace tool such as perf tries to parse this, the TASK_COMM_LEN is meaningless. This is done because the TRACE_EVENT() macro simply uses a #len to show the string of the length. When the length is an enum, we get a string that means nothing for tools. By adding a static buffer and a mutex to protect it, we can store the string into that buffer with snprintf and show the actual number. Now we get: field:char prev_comm[16]; offset:12; size:16; signed:1; Something much more useful. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-11-18tracing: Allow syscall trace events for non privileged usersFrederic Weisbecker1-0/+8
As for the raw syscalls events, individual syscall events won't leak system wide information on task bound tracing. Allow non privileged users to use them in such workflow. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
2010-11-18tracing: New flag to allow non privileged users to use a trace eventFrederic Weisbecker1-0/+2
This adds a new trace event internal flag that allows them to be used in perf by non privileged users in case of task bound tracing. This is desired for syscalls tracepoint because they don't leak global system informations, like some other tracepoints. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
2010-09-09perf: Rework the PMU methodsPeter Zijlstra1-2/+2
Replace pmu::{enable,disable,start,stop,unthrottle} with pmu::{add,del,start,stop}, all of which take a flags argument. The new interface extends the capability to stop a counter while keeping it scheduled on the PMU. We replace the throttled state with the generic stopped state. This also allows us to efficiently stop/start counters over certain code paths (like IRQ handlers). It also allows scheduling a counter without it starting, allowing for a generic frozen state (useful for rotating stopped counters). The stopped state is implemented in two different ways, depending on how the architecture implemented the throttled state: 1) We disable the counter: a) the pmu has per-counter enable bits, we flip that b) we program a NOP event, preserving the counter state 2) We store the counter state and ignore all read/overflow events Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: paulus <paulus@samba.org> Cc: stephane eranian <eranian@googlemail.com> Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> Cc: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com> Cc: Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com> Cc: Deng-Cheng Zhu <dengcheng.zhu@gmail.com> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Michael Cree <mcree@orcon.net.nz> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-08-19perf, tracing: add missing __percpu markupsNamhyung Kim1-2/+2
ftrace_event_call->perf_events, perf_trace_buf, fgraph_data->cpu_data and some local variables are percpu pointers missing __percpu markups. Add them. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> LKML-Reference: <1281498479-28551-1-git-send-email-namhyung@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2010-07-21tracing: Reduce latency and remove percpu trace_seqLai Jiangshan1-2/+3
__print_flags() and __print_symbolic() use percpu trace_seq: 1) Its memory is allocated at compile time, it wastes memory if we don't use tracing. 2) It is percpu data and it wastes more memory for multi-cpus system. 3) It disables preemption when it executes its core routine "trace_seq_printf(s, "%s: ", #call);" and introduces latency. So we move this trace_seq to struct trace_iterator. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: <4C078350.7090106@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-07-21tracing: Allow to disable cmdline recordingLi Zefan1-2/+5
We found that even enabling a single trace event that will rarely be triggered can add big overhead to context switch. (lmbench context switch test) ------------------------------------------------- 2p/0K 2p/16K 2p/64K 8p/16K 8p/64K 16p/16K 16p/64K ctxsw ctxsw ctxsw ctxsw ctxsw ctxsw ctxsw ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------- ------- 2.19 2.3 2.21 2.56 2.13 2.54 2.07 2.39 2.51 2.35 2.75 2.27 2.81 2.24 The overhead is 6% ~ 11%. It's because when a trace event is enabled 3 tracepoints (sched_switch, sched_wakeup, sched_wakeup_new) will be activated to map pid to cmdname. We'd like to avoid this overhead, so add a trace option '(no)record-cmd' to allow to disable cmdline recording. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: <4C2D57F4.2050204@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>