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2012-10-02Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace Pull user namespace changes from Eric Biederman: "This is a mostly modest set of changes to enable basic user namespace support. This allows the code to code to compile with user namespaces enabled and removes the assumption there is only the initial user namespace. Everything is converted except for the most complex of the filesystems: autofs4, 9p, afs, ceph, cifs, coda, fuse, gfs2, ncpfs, nfs, ocfs2 and xfs as those patches need a bit more review. The strategy is to push kuid_t and kgid_t values are far down into subsystems and filesystems as reasonable. Leaving the make_kuid and from_kuid operations to happen at the edge of userspace, as the values come off the disk, and as the values come in from the network. Letting compile type incompatible compile errors (present when user namespaces are enabled) guide me to find the issues. The most tricky areas have been the places where we had an implicit union of uid and gid values and were storing them in an unsigned int. Those places were converted into explicit unions. I made certain to handle those places with simple trivial patches. Out of that work I discovered we have generic interfaces for storing quota by projid. I had never heard of the project identifiers before. Adding full user namespace support for project identifiers accounts for most of the code size growth in my git tree. Ultimately there will be work to relax privlige checks from "capable(FOO)" to "ns_capable(user_ns, FOO)" where it is safe allowing root in a user names to do those things that today we only forbid to non-root users because it will confuse suid root applications. While I was pushing kuid_t and kgid_t changes deep into the audit code I made a few other cleanups. I capitalized on the fact we process netlink messages in the context of the message sender. I removed usage of NETLINK_CRED, and started directly using current->tty. Some of these patches have also made it into maintainer trees, with no problems from identical code from different trees showing up in linux-next. After reading through all of this code I feel like I might be able to win a game of kernel trivial pursuit." Fix up some fairly trivial conflicts in netfilter uid/git logging code. * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: (107 commits) userns: Convert the ufs filesystem to use kuid/kgid where appropriate userns: Convert the udf filesystem to use kuid/kgid where appropriate userns: Convert ubifs to use kuid/kgid userns: Convert squashfs to use kuid/kgid where appropriate userns: Convert reiserfs to use kuid and kgid where appropriate userns: Convert jfs to use kuid/kgid where appropriate userns: Convert jffs2 to use kuid and kgid where appropriate userns: Convert hpfs to use kuid and kgid where appropriate userns: Convert btrfs to use kuid/kgid where appropriate userns: Convert bfs to use kuid/kgid where appropriate userns: Convert affs to use kuid/kgid wherwe appropriate userns: On alpha modify linux_to_osf_stat to use convert from kuids and kgids userns: On ia64 deal with current_uid and current_gid being kuid and kgid userns: On ppc convert current_uid from a kuid before printing. userns: Convert s390 getting uid and gid system calls to use kuid and kgid userns: Convert s390 hypfs to use kuid and kgid where appropriate userns: Convert binder ipc to use kuids userns: Teach security_path_chown to take kuids and kgids userns: Add user namespace support to IMA userns: Convert EVM to deal with kuids and kgids in it's hmac computation ...
2012-09-24tracing: Add an option for disabling markersMandeep Singh Baines
In our application, we have trace markers spread through user-space. We have markers in GL, X, etc. These are super handy for Chrome's about:tracing feature (Chrome + system + kernel trace view), but can be very distracting when you're trying to debug a kernel issue. I normally, use "grep -v tracing_mark_write" but it would be nice if I could just temporarily disable markers all together. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1347066739-26285-1-git-send-email-msb@chromium.org CC: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-09-18userns: Teach trace to use from_kuidEric W. Biederman
- When tracing capture the kuid. - When displaying the data to user space convert the kuid into the user namespace of the process that opened the report file. Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2012-07-31ftrace: Add selftest to test function save-regs supportSteven Rostedt
Add selftests to test the save-regs functionality of ftrace. If the arch supports saving regs, then it will make sure that regs is at least not NULL in the callback. If the arch does not support saving regs, it makes sure that the registering of the ftrace_ops that requests saving regs fails. It then tests the registering of the ftrace_ops succeeds if the 'IF_SUPPORTED' flag is set. Then it makes sure that the regs passed to the function is NULL. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-06-28tracing: Remove NR_CPUS array from trace_iteratorSteven Rostedt
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>
2012-05-24Merge branch 'perf-uprobes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull user-space probe instrumentation from Ingo Molnar: "The uprobes code originates from SystemTap and has been used for years in Fedora and RHEL kernels. This version is much rewritten, reviews from PeterZ, Oleg and myself shaped the end result. This tree includes uprobes support in 'perf probe' - but SystemTap (and other tools) can take advantage of user probe points as well. Sample usage of uprobes via perf, for example to profile malloc() calls without modifying user-space binaries. First boot a new kernel with CONFIG_UPROBE_EVENT=y enabled. If you don't know which function you want to probe you can pick one from 'perf top' or can get a list all functions that can be probed within libc (binaries can be specified as well): $ perf probe -F -x /lib/libc.so.6 To probe libc's malloc(): $ perf probe -x /lib64/libc.so.6 malloc Added new event: probe_libc:malloc (on 0x7eac0) You can now use it in all perf tools, such as: perf record -e probe_libc:malloc -aR sleep 1 Make use of it to create a call graph (as the flat profile is going to look very boring): $ perf record -e probe_libc:malloc -gR make [ perf record: Woken up 173 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 44.190 MB perf.data (~1930712 $ perf report | less 32.03% git libc-2.15.so [.] malloc | --- malloc 29.49% cc1 libc-2.15.so [.] malloc | --- malloc | |--0.95%-- 0x208eb1000000000 | |--0.63%-- htab_traverse_noresize 11.04% as libc-2.15.so [.] malloc | --- malloc | 7.15% ld libc-2.15.so [.] malloc | --- malloc | 5.07% sh libc-2.15.so [.] malloc | --- malloc | 4.99% python-config libc-2.15.so [.] malloc | --- malloc | 4.54% make libc-2.15.so [.] malloc | --- malloc | |--7.34%-- glob | | | |--93.18%-- 0x41588f | | | --6.82%-- glob | 0x41588f ... Or: $ perf report -g flat | less # Overhead Command Shared Object Symbol # ........ ............. ............. .......... # 32.03% git libc-2.15.so [.] malloc 27.19% malloc 29.49% cc1 libc-2.15.so [.] malloc 24.77% malloc 11.04% as libc-2.15.so [.] malloc 11.02% malloc 7.15% ld libc-2.15.so [.] malloc 6.57% malloc ... The core uprobes design is fairly straightforward: uprobes probe points register themselves at (inode:offset) addresses of libraries/binaries, after which all existing (or new) vmas that map that address will have a software breakpoint injected at that address. vmas are COW-ed to preserve original content. The probe points are kept in an rbtree. If user-space executes the probed inode:offset instruction address then an event is generated which can be recovered from the regular perf event channels and mmap-ed ring-buffer. Multiple probes at the same address are supported, they create a dynamic callback list of event consumers. The basic model is further complicated by the XOL speedup: the original instruction that is probed is copied (in an architecture specific fashion) and executed out of line when the probe triggers. The XOL area is a single vma per process, with a fixed number of entries (which limits probe execution parallelism). The API: uprobes are installed/removed via /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/uprobe_events, the API is integrated to align with the kprobes interface as much as possible, but is separate to it. Injecting a probe point is privileged operation, which can be relaxed by setting perf_paranoid to -1. You can use multiple probes as well and mix them with kprobes and regular PMU events or tracepoints, when instrumenting a task." Fix up trivial conflicts in mm/memory.c due to previous cleanup of unmap_single_vma(). * 'perf-uprobes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (21 commits) perf probe: Detect probe target when m/x options are absent perf probe: Provide perf interface for uprobes tracing: Fix kconfig warning due to a typo tracing: Provide trace events interface for uprobes tracing: Extract out common code for kprobes/uprobes trace events tracing: Modify is_delete, is_return from int to bool uprobes/core: Decrement uprobe count before the pages are unmapped uprobes/core: Make background page replacement logic account for rss_stat counters uprobes/core: Optimize probe hits with the help of a counter uprobes/core: Allocate XOL slots for uprobes use uprobes/core: Handle breakpoint and singlestep exceptions uprobes/core: Rename bkpt to swbp uprobes/core: Make order of function parameters consistent across functions uprobes/core: Make macro names consistent uprobes: Update copyright notices uprobes/core: Move insn to arch specific structure uprobes/core: Remove uprobe_opcode_sz uprobes/core: Make instruction tables volatile uprobes: Move to kernel/events/ uprobes/core: Clean up, refactor and improve the code ...
2012-05-18Merge remote-tracking branch 'tip/perf/urgent' into perf/coreArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Merge reason: We are going to queue up a dependent patch: "perf tools: Move parse event automated tests to separated object" That depends on: commit e7c72d8 perf tools: Add 'G' and 'H' modifiers to event parsing Conflicts: tools/perf/builtin-stat.c Conflicted with the recent 'perf_target' patches when checking the result of perf_evsel open routines to see if a retry is needed to cope with older kernels where the exclude guest/host perf_event_attr bits were not used. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-05-14Merge branch 'perf/uprobes' of ↵Ingo Molnar
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/uprobes
2012-05-07tracing: Provide trace events interface for uprobesSrikar Dronamraju
Implements trace_event support for uprobes. In its current form it can be used to put probes at a specified offset in a file and dump the required registers when the code flow reaches the probed address. The following example shows how to dump the instruction pointer and %ax a register at the probed text address. Here we are trying to probe zfree in /bin/zsh: # cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/ # cat /proc/`pgrep zsh`/maps | grep /bin/zsh | grep r-xp 00400000-0048a000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 130904 /bin/zsh # objdump -T /bin/zsh | grep -w zfree 0000000000446420 g DF .text 0000000000000012 Base zfree # echo 'p /bin/zsh:0x46420 %ip %ax' > uprobe_events # cat uprobe_events p:uprobes/p_zsh_0x46420 /bin/zsh:0x0000000000046420 # echo 1 > events/uprobes/enable # sleep 20 # echo 0 > events/uprobes/enable # cat trace # tracer: nop # # TASK-PID CPU# TIMESTAMP FUNCTION # | | | | | zsh-24842 [006] 258544.995456: p_zsh_0x46420: (0x446420) arg1=446421 arg2=79 zsh-24842 [007] 258545.000270: p_zsh_0x46420: (0x446420) arg1=446421 arg2=79 zsh-24842 [002] 258545.043929: p_zsh_0x46420: (0x446420) arg1=446421 arg2=79 zsh-24842 [004] 258547.046129: p_zsh_0x46420: (0x446420) arg1=446421 arg2=79 Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org> Cc: Anton Arapov <anton@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120411103043.GB29437@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-04-24ring-buffer: Add per_cpu ring buffer control filesVaibhav Nagarnaik
Add a debugfs entry under per_cpu/ folder for each cpu called buffer_size_kb to control the ring buffer size for each CPU independently. If the global file buffer_size_kb is used to set size, the individual ring buffers will be adjusted to the given size. The buffer_size_kb will report the common size to maintain backward compatibility. If the buffer_size_kb file under the per_cpu/ directory is used to change buffer size for a specific CPU, only the size of the respective ring buffer is updated. When tracing/buffer_size_kb is read, it reports 'X' to indicate that sizes of per_cpu ring buffers are not equivalent. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328212844-11889-1-git-send-email-vnagarnaik@google.com Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Michael Rubin <mrubin@google.com> Cc: David Sharp <dhsharp@google.com> Cc: Justin Teravest <teravest@google.com> Signed-off-by: Vaibhav Nagarnaik <vnagarnaik@google.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-04-24tracing: Add percpu buffers for trace_printk()Steven Rostedt
Currently, trace_printk() uses a single buffer to write into to calculate the size and format needed to save the trace. To do this safely in an SMP environment, a spin_lock() is taken to only allow one writer at a time to the buffer. But this could also affect what is being traced, and add synchronization that would not be there otherwise. Ideally, using percpu buffers would be useful, but since trace_printk() is only used in development, having per cpu buffers for something never used is a waste of space. Thus, the use of the trace_bprintk() format section is changed to be used for static fmts as well as dynamic ones. Then at boot up, we can check if the section that holds the trace_printk formats is non-empty, and if it does contain something, then we know a trace_printk() has been added to the kernel. At this time the trace_printk per cpu buffers are allocated. A check is also done at module load time in case a module is added that contains a trace_printk(). Once the buffers are allocated, they are never freed. If you use a trace_printk() then you should know what you are doing. A buffer is made for each type of context: normal softirq irq nmi The context is checked and the appropriate buffer is used. This allows for totally lockless usage of trace_printk(), and they no longer even disable interrupts. Requested-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-04-14tracing: Fix build breakage without CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS (again)Mark Brown
Today's -next fails to link for me: kernel/built-in.o:(.data+0x178e50): undefined reference to `perf_ftrace_event_register' It looks like multiple fixes have been merged for the issue fixed by commit fa73dc9 (tracing: Fix build breakage without CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS) though I can't identify the other changes that have gone in at the minute, it's possible that the changes which caused the breakage fixed by the previous commit got dropped but the fix made it in. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1334307179-21255-1-git-send-email-broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-03-13tracing: Fix build breakage without CONFIG_PERF_EVENTSMark Brown
Today's -next fails to build for me: CC kernel/trace/trace_export.o In file included from kernel/trace/trace_export.c:197: kernel/trace/trace_entries.h:58: error: 'perf_ftrace_event_register' undeclared here (not in a function) make[2]: *** [kernel/trace/trace_export.o] Error 1 make[1]: *** [kernel/trace] Error 2 make: *** [kernel] Error 2 because as of ced390 (ftrace, perf: Add support to use function tracepoint in perf) perf_trace_event_register() is declared in trace.h only if CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS is enabled but I don't have that set. Ensure that we always have a definition of perf_trace_event_register() by making the definition unconditional. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1330426967-17067-1-git-send-email-broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-02-22tracing/ring-buffer: Only have tracing_on disable tracing buffersSteven Rostedt
As the ring-buffer code is being used by other facilities in the kernel, having tracing_on file disable *all* buffers is not a desired affect. It should only disable the ftrace buffers that are being used. Move the code into the trace.c file and use the buffer disabling for tracing_on() and tracing_off(). This way only the ftrace buffers will be affected by them and other kernel utilities will not be confused to why their output suddenly stopped. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-02-21ftrace, perf: Add filter support for function trace eventJiri Olsa
Adding support to filter function trace event via perf interface. It is now possible to use filter interface in the perf tool like: perf record -e ftrace:function --filter="(ip == mm_*)" ls The filter syntax is restricted to the the 'ip' field only, and following operators are accepted '==' '!=' '||', ending up with the filter strings like: ip == f1[, ]f2 ... || ip != f3[, ]f4 ... with comma ',' or space ' ' as a function separator. If the space ' ' is used as a separator, the right side of the assignment needs to be enclosed in double quotes '"', e.g.: perf record -e ftrace:function --filter '(ip == do_execve,sys_*,ext*)' ls perf record -e ftrace:function --filter '(ip == "do_execve,sys_*,ext*")' ls perf record -e ftrace:function --filter '(ip == "do_execve sys_* ext*")' ls The '==' operator adds trace filter with same effect as would be added via set_ftrace_filter file. The '!=' operator adds trace filter with same effect as would be added via set_ftrace_notrace file. The right side of the '!=', '==' operators is list of functions or regexp. to be added to filter separated by space. The '||' operator is used for connecting multiple filter definitions together. It is possible to have more than one '==' and '!=' operators within one filter string. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1329317514-8131-8-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: Allow to specify filter field type for ftrace eventsJiri Olsa
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 support to use function tracepoint in perfJiri Olsa
Adding perf registration support for the ftrace function event, so it is now possible to register it via perf interface. The perf_event struct statically contains ftrace_ops as a handle for function tracer. The function tracer is registered/unregistered in open/close actions. To be efficient, we enable/disable ftrace_ops each time the traced process is scheduled in/out (via TRACE_REG_PERF_(ADD|DELL) handlers). This way tracing is enabled only when the process is running. Intentionally using this way instead of the event's hw state PERF_HES_STOPPED, which would not disable the ftrace_ops. It is now possible to use function trace within perf commands like: perf record -e ftrace:function ls perf stat -e ftrace:function ls Allowed only for root. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1329317514-8131-6-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: Add FTRACE_ENTRY_REG macro to allow event registrationJiri Olsa
Adding FTRACE_ENTRY_REG macro so particular ftrace entries could specify registration function and thus become accesible via perf. This will be used in upcomming patch for function trace. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1329317514-8131-5-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: Add enable/disable ftrace_ops control interfaceJiri Olsa
Adding a way to temporarily enable/disable ftrace_ops. The change follows the same way as 'global' ftrace_ops are done. Introducing 2 global ftrace_ops - control_ops and ftrace_control_list which take over all ftrace_ops registered with FTRACE_OPS_FL_CONTROL flag. In addition new per cpu flag called 'disabled' is also added to ftrace_ops to provide the control information for each cpu. When ftrace_ops with FTRACE_OPS_FL_CONTROL is registered, it is set as disabled for all cpus. The ftrace_control_list contains all the registered 'control' ftrace_ops. The control_ops provides function which iterates ftrace_control_list and does the check for 'disabled' flag on current cpu. Adding 3 inline functions: ftrace_function_local_disable/ftrace_function_local_enable - enable/disable the ftrace_ops on current cpu ftrace_function_local_disabled - get disabled ftrace_ops::disabled value for current cpu Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1329317514-8131-2-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>
2012-01-08Merge branch 'for-linus2' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs * 'for-linus2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (165 commits) reiserfs: Properly display mount options in /proc/mounts vfs: prevent remount read-only if pending removes vfs: count unlinked inodes vfs: protect remounting superblock read-only vfs: keep list of mounts for each superblock vfs: switch ->show_options() to struct dentry * vfs: switch ->show_path() to struct dentry * vfs: switch ->show_devname() to struct dentry * vfs: switch ->show_stats to struct dentry * switch security_path_chmod() to struct path * vfs: prefer ->dentry->d_sb to ->mnt->mnt_sb vfs: trim includes a bit switch mnt_namespace ->root to struct mount vfs: take /proc/*/mounts and friends to fs/proc_namespace.c vfs: opencode mntget() mnt_set_mountpoint() vfs: spread struct mount - remaining argument of next_mnt() vfs: move fsnotify junk to struct mount vfs: move mnt_devname vfs: move mnt_list to struct mount vfs: switch pnode.h macros to struct mount * ...
2012-01-04switch debugfs to umode_tAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-11-17tracing: Add irq, preempt-count and need resched info to default trace outputSteven Rostedt
People keep asking how to get the preempt count, irq, and need resched info and we keep telling them to enable the latency format. Some developers think that traces without this info is completely useless, and for a lot of tasks it is useless. The first option was to enable the latency trace as the default format, but the header for the latency format is pretty useless for most tracers and it also does the timestamp in straight microseconds from the time the trace started. This is sometimes more difficult to read as the default trace is seconds from the start of boot up. Latency format: # tracer: nop # # nop latency trace v1.1.5 on 3.2.0-rc1-test+ # -------------------------------------------------------------------- # latency: 0 us, #159771/64234230, CPU#1 | (M:preempt VP:0, KP:0, SP:0 HP:0 #P:4) # ----------------- # | task: -0 (uid:0 nice:0 policy:0 rt_prio:0) # ----------------- # # _------=> CPU# # / _-----=> irqs-off # | / _----=> need-resched # || / _---=> hardirq/softirq # ||| / _--=> preempt-depth # |||| / delay # cmd pid ||||| time | caller # \ / ||||| \ | / migratio-6 0...2 41778231us+: rcu_note_context_switch <-__schedule migratio-6 0...2 41778233us : trace_rcu_utilization <-rcu_note_context_switch migratio-6 0...2 41778235us+: rcu_sched_qs <-rcu_note_context_switch migratio-6 0d..2 41778236us+: rcu_preempt_qs <-rcu_note_context_switch migratio-6 0...2 41778238us : trace_rcu_utilization <-rcu_note_context_switch migratio-6 0...2 41778239us+: debug_lockdep_rcu_enabled <-__schedule default format: # tracer: nop # # TASK-PID CPU# TIMESTAMP FUNCTION # | | | | | migration/0-6 [000] 50.025810: rcu_note_context_switch <-__schedule migration/0-6 [000] 50.025812: trace_rcu_utilization <-rcu_note_context_switch migration/0-6 [000] 50.025813: rcu_sched_qs <-rcu_note_context_switch migration/0-6 [000] 50.025815: rcu_preempt_qs <-rcu_note_context_switch migration/0-6 [000] 50.025817: trace_rcu_utilization <-rcu_note_context_switch migration/0-6 [000] 50.025818: debug_lockdep_rcu_enabled <-__schedule migration/0-6 [000] 50.025820: debug_lockdep_rcu_enabled <-__schedule The latency format header has latency information that is pretty meaningless for most tracers. Although some of the header is useful, and we can add that later to the default format as well. What is really useful with the latency format is the irqs-off, need-resched hard/softirq context and the preempt count. This commit adds the option irq-info which is on by default that adds this information: # tracer: nop # # _-----=> irqs-off # / _----=> need-resched # | / _---=> hardirq/softirq # || / _--=> preempt-depth # ||| / delay # TASK-PID CPU# |||| TIMESTAMP FUNCTION # | | | |||| | | <idle>-0 [000] d..2 49.309305: cpuidle_get_driver <-cpuidle_idle_call <idle>-0 [000] d..2 49.309307: mwait_idle <-cpu_idle <idle>-0 [000] d..2 49.309309: need_resched <-mwait_idle <idle>-0 [000] d..2 49.309310: test_ti_thread_flag <-need_resched <idle>-0 [000] d..2 49.309312: trace_power_start.constprop.13 <-mwait_idle <idle>-0 [000] d..2 49.309313: trace_cpu_idle <-mwait_idle <idle>-0 [000] d..2 49.309315: need_resched <-mwait_idle If a user wants the old format, they can disable the 'irq-info' option: # tracer: nop # # TASK-PID CPU# TIMESTAMP FUNCTION # | | | | | <idle>-0 [000] 49.309305: cpuidle_get_driver <-cpuidle_idle_call <idle>-0 [000] 49.309307: mwait_idle <-cpu_idle <idle>-0 [000] 49.309309: need_resched <-mwait_idle <idle>-0 [000] 49.309310: test_ti_thread_flag <-need_resched <idle>-0 [000] 49.309312: trace_power_start.constprop.13 <-mwait_idle <idle>-0 [000] 49.309313: trace_cpu_idle <-mwait_idle <idle>-0 [000] 49.309315: need_resched <-mwait_idle Requested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-11-07tracing/latency: Fix header output for latency tracersJiri Olsa
In case the the graph tracer (CONFIG_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER) or even the function tracer (CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER) are not set, the latency tracers do not display proper latency header. The involved/fixed latency tracers are: wakeup_rt wakeup preemptirqsoff preemptoff irqsoff The patch adds proper handling of tracer configuration options for latency tracers, and displaying correct header info accordingly. * The current output (for wakeup tracer) with both graph and function tracers disabled is: # tracer: wakeup # <idle>-0 0d.h5 1us+: 0:120:R + [000] 7: 0:R watchdog/0 <idle>-0 0d.h5 3us+: ttwu_do_activate.clone.1 <-try_to_wake_up ... * The fixed output is: # tracer: wakeup # # wakeup latency trace v1.1.5 on 3.1.0-tip+ # -------------------------------------------------------------------- # latency: 55 us, #4/4, CPU#0 | (M:preempt VP:0, KP:0, SP:0 HP:0 #P:2) # ----------------- # | task: migration/0-6 (uid:0 nice:0 policy:1 rt_prio:99) # ----------------- # # _------=> CPU# # / _-----=> irqs-off # | / _----=> need-resched # || / _---=> hardirq/softirq # ||| / _--=> preempt-depth # |||| / delay # cmd pid ||||| time | caller # \ / ||||| \ | / cat-1129 0d..4 1us : 1129:120:R + [000] 6: 0:R migration/0 cat-1129 0d..4 2us+: ttwu_do_activate.clone.1 <-try_to_wake_up * The current output (for wakeup tracer) with only function tracer enabled is: # tracer: wakeup # cat-1140 0d..4 1us+: 1140:120:R + [000] 6: 0:R migration/0 cat-1140 0d..4 2us : ttwu_do_activate.clone.1 <-try_to_wake_up * The fixed output is: # tracer: wakeup # # wakeup latency trace v1.1.5 on 3.1.0-tip+ # -------------------------------------------------------------------- # latency: 207 us, #109/109, CPU#1 | (M:preempt VP:0, KP:0, SP:0 HP:0 #P:2) # ----------------- # | task: watchdog/1-12 (uid:0 nice:0 policy:1 rt_prio:99) # ----------------- # # _------=> CPU# # / _-----=> irqs-off # | / _----=> need-resched # || / _---=> hardirq/softirq # ||| / _--=> preempt-depth # |||| / delay # cmd pid ||||| time | caller # \ / ||||| \ | / <idle>-0 1d.h5 1us+: 0:120:R + [001] 12: 0:R watchdog/1 <idle>-0 1d.h5 3us : ttwu_do_activate.clone.1 <-try_to_wake_up Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111107150849.GE1807@m.brq.redhat.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>
2011-10-11tracing: Warn on output if the function tracer was found corruptedSteven Rostedt
As the function tracer is very intrusive, lots of self checks are performed on the tracer and if something is found to be strange it will shut itself down keeping it from corrupting the rest of the kernel. This shutdown may still allow functions to be traced, as the tracing only stops new modifications from happening. Trying to stop the function tracer itself can cause more harm as it requires code modification. Although a WARN_ON() is executed, a user may not notice it. To help the user see that something isn't right with the tracing of the system a big warning is added to the output of the tracer that lets the user know that their data may be incomplete. Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-08-19tracing/filter: Add startup tests for events filterJiri Olsa
Adding automated tests running as late_initcall. Tests are compiled in with CONFIG_FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST option. Adding test event "ftrace_test_filter" used to simulate filter processing during event occurance. String filters are compiled and tested against several test events with different values. Also testing that evaluation of explicit predicates is ommited due to the lazy filter evaluation. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1313072754-4620-11-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-08-19tracing/filter: Remove field_name from filter_pred structJiri Olsa
The field_name was used just for finding event's fields. This way we don't need to care about field_name allocation/free. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1313072754-4620-4-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-07-26atomic: use <linux/atomic.h>Arun Sharma
This allows us to move duplicated code in <asm/atomic.h> (atomic_inc_not_zero() for now) to <linux/atomic.h> Signed-off-by: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-21Merge branch 'tip/perf/core' of ↵Ingo Molnar
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into perf/core
2011-07-21Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/coreIngo Molnar
Merge reason: pick up the latest fixes - they won't make v3.0. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-07-08tracing: Still trace filtered irq functions when irq trace is disabledSteven Rostedt
If a function is set to be traced by the set_graph_function, but the option funcgraph-irqs is zero, and the traced function happens to be called from a interrupt, it will not be traced. The point of funcgraph-irqs is to not trace interrupts when we are preempted by an irq, not to not trace functions we want to trace that happen to be *in* a irq. Luckily the current->trace_recursion element is perfect to add a flag to help us be able to trace functions within an interrupt even when we are not tracing interrupts that preempt the trace. Reported-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Tested-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-07-07tracing: Fix bug when reading system filters on module removalSteven Rostedt
The event system is freed when its nr_events is set to zero. This happens when a module created an event system and then later the module is removed. Modules may share systems, so the system is allocated when it is created and freed when the modules are unloaded and all the events under the system are removed (nr_events set to zero). The problem arises when a task opened the "filter" file for the system. If the module is unloaded and it removed the last event for that system, the system structure is freed. If the task that opened the filter file accesses the "filter" file after the system has been freed, the system will access an invalid pointer. By adding a ref_count, and using it to keep track of what is using the event system, we can free it after all users are finished with the event system. Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Reported-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-06-15tracing/kprobes: Fix kprobe-tracer to support stack traceMasami Hiramatsu
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>
2011-06-15tracing: Add disable_on_free optionSteven Rostedt
Add a trace option to disable tracing on free. When this option is set, a write into the free_buffer file will not only shrink the ring buffer down to zero, but it will also disable tracing. Cc: Vaibhav Nagarnaik <vnagarnaik@google.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-05-26ftrace: Add internal recursive checksSteven Rostedt
Witold reported a reboot caused by the selftests of the dynamic function tracer. He sent me a config and I used ktest to do a config_bisect on it (as my config did not cause the crash). It pointed out that the problem config was CONFIG_PROVE_RCU. What happened was that if multiple callbacks are attached to the function tracer, we iterate a list of callbacks. Because the list is managed by synchronize_sched() and preempt_disable, the access to the pointers uses rcu_dereference_raw(). When PROVE_RCU is enabled, the rcu_dereference_raw() calls some debugging functions, which happen to be traced. The tracing of the debug function would then call rcu_dereference_raw() which would then call the debug function and then... well you get the idea. I first wrote two different patches to solve this bug. 1) add a __rcu_dereference_raw() that would not do any checks. 2) add notrace to the offending debug functions. Both of these patches worked. Talking with Paul McKenney on IRC, he suggested to add recursion detection instead. This seemed to be a better solution, so I decided to implement it. As the task_struct already has a trace_recursion to detect recursion in the ring buffer, and that has a very small number it allows, I decided to use that same variable to add flags that can detect the recursion inside the infrastructure of the function tracer. I plan to change it so that the task struct bit can be checked in mcount, but as that requires changes to all archs, I will hold that off to the next merge window. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1306348063.1465.116.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com Reported-by: Witold Baryluk <baryluk@smp.if.uj.edu.pl> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-05-18ftrace: Add self-tests for multiple function trace usersSteven Rostedt
Add some basic sanity tests for multiple users of the function tracer at startup. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-03-10tracing: Align 4 byte ints together in struct tracerSteven Rostedt
Move elements in struct tracer for better alignment. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-03-09tracing: Add an 'overwrite' trace_option.David Sharp
Add an "overwrite" trace_option for ftrace to control whether the buffer should be overwritten on overflow or not. The default remains to overwrite old events when the buffer is full. This patch adds the option to instead discard newest events when the buffer is full. This is useful to get a snapshot of traces just after enabling traces. Dropping the current event is also a simpler code path. Signed-off-by: David Sharp <dhsharp@google.com> LKML-Reference: <1291844807-15481-1-git-send-email-dhsharp@google.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-02-08tracing/filter: Increase the max preds to 2^14Steven Rostedt
Now that the filter logic does not require to save the pred results on the stack, we can increase the max number of preds we allow. As the preds are index by a short value, and we use the MSBs as flags we can increase the max preds to 2^14 (16384) which should be way more than enough. Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-02-08tracing/filter: Move MAX_FILTER_PRED to local tracing directorySteven Rostedt
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>
2011-02-08tracing/filter: Optimize filter by folding the treeSteven Rostedt
There are many cases that a filter will contain multiple ORs or ANDs together near the leafs. Walking up and down the tree to get to the next compare can be a waste. If there are several ORs or ANDs together, fold them into a single pred and allocate an array of the conditions that they check. This will speed up the filter by linearly walking an array and can still break out if a short circuit condition is met. Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-02-08tracing/filter: Use a tree instead of stack for filter_match_preds()Steven Rostedt
Currently the filter_match_preds() requires a stack to push and pop the preds to determine if the filter matches the record or not. This has two drawbacks: 1) It requires a stack to store state information. As this is done in fast paths we can't allocate the storage for this stack, and we can't use a global as it must be re-entrant. The stack is stored on the kernel stack and this greatly limits how many preds we may allow. 2) All conditions are calculated even when a short circuit exists. a || b will always calculate a and b even though a was determined to be true. Using a tree we can walk a constant structure that will save the state as we go. The algorithm is simply: pred = root; do { switch (move) { case MOVE_DOWN: if (OR or AND) { pred = left; continue; } if (pred == root) break; match = pred->fn(); pred = pred->parent; move = left child ? MOVE_UP_FROM_LEFT : MOVE_UP_FROM_RIGHT; continue; case MOVE_UP_FROM_LEFT: /* Only OR or AND can be a parent */ if (match && OR || !match && AND) { /* short circuit */ if (pred == root) break; pred = pred->parent; move = left child ? MOVE_UP_FROM_LEFT : MOVE_UP_FROM_RIGHT; continue; } pred = pred->right; move = MOVE_DOWN; continue; case MOVE_UP_FROM_RIGHT: if (pred == root) break; pred = pred->parent; move = left child ? MOVE_UP_FROM_LEFT : MOVE_UP_FROM_RIGHT; continue; } done = 1; } while (!done); This way there's no strict limit to how many preds we allow and it also will short circuit the logical operations when possible. Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-02-08tracing/filter: Allocate the preds in an arraySteven Rostedt
Currently we allocate an array of pointers to filter_preds, and then allocate a separate filter_pred for each item in the array. This adds slight overhead in the filters as it needs to derefernce twice to get to the op condition. Allocating the preds themselves in a single array removes a dereference as well as helps on the cache footprint. Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-02-08tracing/filter: Dynamically allocate predsSteven Rostedt
For every filter that is made, we create predicates to hold every operation within the filter. We have a max of 32 predicates that we can hold. Currently, we allocate all 32 even if we only need to use one. Part of the reason we do this is that the filter can be used at any moment by any event. Fortunately, the filter is only used with preemption disabled. By reseting the count of preds used "n_preds" to zero, then performing a synchronize_sched(), we can safely free and reallocate a new array of preds. Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-02-08tracing/filter: Move OR and AND logic out of fn() methodSteven Rostedt
The ops OR and AND act different from the other ops, as they are the only ones to take other ops as their arguements. These ops als change the logic of the filter_match_preds. By removing the OR and AND fn's we can also remove the val1 and val2 that is passed to all other fn's and are unused. Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-10-18tracing: Make graph related irqs/preemptsoff functions globalJiri Olsa
Move trace_graph_function() and print_graph_headers_flags() functions to the trace_function_graph.c to be globaly available. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <1285243253-7372-3-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-08-06Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (162 commits) tracing/kprobes: unregister_trace_probe needs to be called under mutex perf: expose event__process function perf events: Fix mmap offset determination perf, powerpc: fsl_emb: Restore setting perf_sample_data.period perf, powerpc: Convert the FSL driver to use local64_t perf tools: Don't keep unreferenced maps when unmaps are detected perf session: Invalidate last_match when removing threads from rb_tree perf session: Free the ref_reloc_sym memory at the right place x86,mmiotrace: Add support for tracing STOS instruction perf, sched migration: Librarize task states and event headers helpers perf, sched migration: Librarize the GUI class perf, sched migration: Make the GUI class client agnostic perf, sched migration: Make it vertically scrollable perf, sched migration: Parameterize cpu height and spacing perf, sched migration: Fix key bindings perf, sched migration: Ignore unhandled task states perf, sched migration: Handle ignored migrate out events perf: New migration tool overview tracing: Drop cpparg() macro perf: Use tracepoint_synchronize_unregister() to flush any pending tracepoint call ... Fix up trivial conflicts in Makefile and drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
2010-08-05ftrace,kdb: Extend kdb to be able to dump the ftrace bufferJason Wessel
Add in a helper function to allow the kdb shell to dump the ftrace buffer. Modify trace.c to expose the capability to iterate over the ftrace buffer in a read only capacity. Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> CC: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2010-07-23Merge branch 'tip/perf/core' of ↵Ingo Molnar
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into perf/core
2010-07-21tracing: Shrink max latency ringbuffer if unnecessaryKOSAKI Motohiro
Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt says buffer_size_kb: This sets or displays the number of kilobytes each CPU buffer can hold. The tracer buffers are the same size for each CPU. The displayed number is the size of the CPU buffer and not total size of all buffers. The trace buffers are allocated in pages (blocks of memory that the kernel uses for allocation, usually 4 KB in size). If the last page allocated has room for more bytes than requested, the rest of the page will be used, making the actual allocation bigger than requested. ( Note, the size may not be a multiple of the page size due to buffer management overhead. ) This can only be updated when the current_tracer is set to "nop". But it's incorrect. currently total memory consumption is 'buffer_size_kb x CPUs x 2'. Why two times difference is there? because ftrace implicitly allocate the buffer for max latency too. That makes sad result when admin want to use large buffer. (If admin want full logging and makes detail analysis). example, If admin have 24 CPUs machine and write 200MB to buffer_size_kb, the system consume ~10GB memory (200MB x 24 x 2). umm.. 5GB memory waste is usually unacceptable. Fortunatelly, almost all users don't use max latency feature. The max latency buffer can be disabled easily. This patch shrink buffer size of the max latency buffer if unnecessary. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: <20100701104554.DA2D.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-07-21tracing: Allow to disable cmdline recordingLi Zefan
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>