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diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-memmap b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-memmap new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0d99ee6 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-memmap @@ -0,0 +1,71 @@ +What: /sys/firmware/memmap/ +Date: June 2008 +Contact: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de> +Description: + On all platforms, the firmware provides a memory map which the + kernel reads. The resources from that memory map are registered + in the kernel resource tree and exposed to userspace via + /proc/iomem (together with other resources). + + However, on most architectures that firmware-provided memory + map is modified afterwards by the kernel itself, either because + the kernel merges that memory map with other information or + just because the user overwrites that memory map via command + line. + + kexec needs the raw firmware-provided memory map to setup the + parameter segment of the kernel that should be booted with + kexec. Also, the raw memory map is useful for debugging. For + that reason, /sys/firmware/memmap is an interface that provides + the raw memory map to userspace. + + The structure is as follows: Under /sys/firmware/memmap there + are subdirectories with the number of the entry as their name: + + /sys/firmware/memmap/0 + /sys/firmware/memmap/1 + /sys/firmware/memmap/2 + /sys/firmware/memmap/3 + ... + + The maximum depends on the number of memory map entries provided + by the firmware. The order is just the order that the firmware + provides. + + Each directory contains three files: + + start : The start address (as hexadecimal number with the + '0x' prefix). + end : The end address, inclusive (regardless whether the + firmware provides inclusive or exclusive ranges). + type : Type of the entry as string. See below for a list of + valid types. + + So, for example: + + /sys/firmware/memmap/0/start + /sys/firmware/memmap/0/end + /sys/firmware/memmap/0/type + /sys/firmware/memmap/1/start + ... + + Currently following types exist: + + - System RAM + - ACPI Tables + - ACPI Non-volatile Storage + - reserved + + Following shell snippet can be used to display that memory + map in a human-readable format: + + -------------------- 8< ---------------------------------------- + #!/bin/bash + cd /sys/firmware/memmap + for dir in * ; do + start=$(cat $dir/start) + end=$(cat $dir/end) + type=$(cat $dir/type) + printf "%016x-%016x (%s)\n" $start $[ $end +1] "$type" + done + -------------------- >8 ---------------------------------------- diff --git a/Documentation/HOWTO b/Documentation/HOWTO index 0291ade..619e8ca 100644 --- a/Documentation/HOWTO +++ b/Documentation/HOWTO @@ -377,7 +377,7 @@ Bug Reporting bugzilla.kernel.org is where the Linux kernel developers track kernel bugs. Users are encouraged to report all bugs that they find in this tool. For details on how to use the kernel bugzilla, please see: - http://test.kernel.org/bugzilla/faq.html + http://bugzilla.kernel.org/page.cgi?id=faq.html The file REPORTING-BUGS in the main kernel source directory has a good template for how to report a possible kernel bug, and details what kind diff --git a/Documentation/ftrace.txt b/Documentation/ftrace.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..13e4bf0 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ftrace.txt @@ -0,0 +1,1353 @@ + ftrace - Function Tracer + ======================== + +Copyright 2008 Red Hat Inc. +Author: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> + + +Introduction +------------ + +Ftrace is an internal tracer designed to help out developers and +designers of systems to find what is going on inside the kernel. +It can be used for debugging or analyzing latencies and performance +issues that take place outside of user-space. + +Although ftrace is the function tracer, it also includes an +infrastructure that allows for other types of tracing. Some of the +tracers that are currently in ftrace is a tracer to trace +context switches, the time it takes for a high priority task to +run after it was woken up, the time interrupts are disabled, and +more. + + +The File System +--------------- + +Ftrace uses the debugfs file system to hold the control files as well +as the files to display output. + +To mount the debugfs system: + + # mkdir /debug + # mount -t debugfs nodev /debug + + +That's it! (assuming that you have ftrace configured into your kernel) + +After mounting the debugfs, you can see a directory called +"tracing". This directory contains the control and output files +of ftrace. Here is a list of some of the key files: + + + Note: all time values are in microseconds. + + current_tracer : This is used to set or display the current tracer + that is configured. + + available_tracers : This holds the different types of tracers that + has been compiled into the kernel. The tracers + listed here can be configured by echoing in their + name into current_tracer. + + tracing_enabled : This sets or displays whether the current_tracer + is activated and tracing or not. Echo 0 into this + file to disable the tracer or 1 (or non-zero) to + enable it. + + trace : This file holds the output of the trace in a human readable + format. + + latency_trace : This file shows the same trace but the information + is organized more to display possible latencies + in the system. + + trace_pipe : The output is the same as the "trace" file but this + file is meant to be streamed with live tracing. + Reads from this file will block until new data + is retrieved. Unlike the "trace" and "latency_trace" + files, this file is a consumer. This means reading + from this file causes sequential reads to display + more current data. Once data is read from this + file, it is consumed, and will not be read + again with a sequential read. The "trace" and + "latency_trace" files are static, and if the + tracer isn't adding more data, they will display + the same information every time they are read. + + iter_ctrl : This file lets the user control the amount of data + that is displayed in one of the above output + files. + + trace_max_latency : Some of the tracers record the max latency. + For example, the time interrupts are disabled. + This time is saved in this file. The max trace + will also be stored, and displayed by either + "trace" or "latency_trace". A new max trace will + only be recorded if the latency is greater than + the value in this file. (in microseconds) + + trace_entries : This sets or displays the number of trace + entries each CPU buffer can hold. The tracer buffers + are the same size for each CPU, so care must be + taken when modifying the trace_entries. The number + of actually entries will be the number given + times the number of possible CPUS. The buffers + are saved as individual pages, and the actual entries + will always be rounded up to entries per page. + + This can only be updated when the current_tracer + is set to "none". + + NOTE: It is planned on changing the allocated buffers + from being the number of possible CPUS to + the number of online CPUS. + + tracing_cpumask : This is a mask that lets the user only trace + on specified CPUS. The format is a hex string + representing the CPUS. + + set_ftrace_filter : When dynamic ftrace is configured in, the + code is dynamically modified to disable calling + of the function profiler (mcount). This lets + tracing be configured in with practically no overhead + in performance. This also has a side effect of + enabling or disabling specific functions to be + traced. Echoing in names of functions into this + file will limit the trace to only those files. + + set_ftrace_notrace: This has the opposite effect that + set_ftrace_filter has. Any function that is added + here will not be traced. If a function exists + in both set_ftrace_filter and set_ftrace_notrace + the function will _not_ bet traced. + + available_filter_functions : When a function is encountered the first + time by the dynamic tracer, it is recorded and + later the call is converted into a nop. This file + lists the functions that have been recorded + by the dynamic tracer and these functions can + be used to set the ftrace filter by the above + "set_ftrace_filter" file. + + +The Tracers +----------- + +Here are the list of current tracers that can be configured. + + ftrace - function tracer that uses mcount to trace all functions. + It is possible to filter out which functions that are + traced when dynamic ftrace is configured in. + + sched_switch - traces the context switches between tasks. + + irqsoff - traces the areas that disable interrupts and saves off + the trace with the longest max latency. + See tracing_max_latency. When a new max is recorded, + it replaces the old trace. It is best to view this + trace with the latency_trace file. + + preemptoff - Similar to irqsoff but traces and records the time + preemption is disabled. + + preemptirqsoff - Similar to irqsoff and preemptoff, but traces and + records the largest time irqs and/or preemption is + disabled. + + wakeup - Traces and records the max latency that it takes for + the highest priority task to get scheduled after + it has been woken up. + + none - This is not a tracer. To remove all tracers from tracing + simply echo "none" into current_tracer. + + +Examples of using the tracer +---------------------------- + +Here are typical examples of using the tracers with only controlling +them with the debugfs interface (without using any user-land utilities). + +Output format: +-------------- + +Here's an example of the output format of the file "trace" + + -------- +# tracer: ftrace +# +# TASK-PID CPU# TIMESTAMP FUNCTION +# | | | | | + bash-4251 [01] 10152.583854: path_put <-path_walk + bash-4251 [01] 10152.583855: dput <-path_put + bash-4251 [01] 10152.583855: _atomic_dec_and_lock <-dput + -------- + +A header is printed with the trace that is represented. In this case +the tracer is "ftrace". Then a header showing the format. Task name +"bash", the task PID "4251", the CPU that it was running on +"01", the timestamp in <secs>.<usecs> format, the function name that was +traced "path_put" and the parent function that called this function +"path_walk". + +The sched_switch tracer also includes tracing of task wake ups and +context switches. + + ksoftirqd/1-7 [01] 1453.070013: 7:115:R + 2916:115:S + ksoftirqd/1-7 [01] 1453.070013: 7:115:R + 10:115:S + ksoftirqd/1-7 [01] 1453.070013: 7:115:R ==> 10:115:R + events/1-10 [01] 1453.070013: 10:115:S ==> 2916:115:R + kondemand/1-2916 [01] 1453.070013: 2916:115:S ==> 7:115:R + ksoftirqd/1-7 [01] 1453.070013: 7:115:S ==> 0:140:R + +Wake ups are represented by a "+" and the context switches show +"==>". The format is: + + Context switches: + + Previous task Next Task + + <pid>:<prio>:<state> ==> <pid>:<prio>:<state> + + Wake ups: + + Current task Task waking up + + <pid>:<prio>:<state> + <pid>:<prio>:<state> + +The prio is the internal kernel priority, which is inverse to the +priority that is usually displayed by user-space tools. Zero represents +the highest priority (99). Prio 100 starts the "nice" priorities with +100 being equal to nice -20 and 139 being nice 19. The prio "140" is +reserved for the idle task which is the lowest priority thread (pid 0). + + +Latency trace format +-------------------- + +For traces that display latency times, the latency_trace file gives +a bit more information to see why a latency happened. Here's a typical +trace. + +# tracer: irqsoff +# +irqsoff latency trace v1.1.5 on 2.6.26-rc8 +-------------------------------------------------------------------- + latency: 97 us, #3/3, CPU#0 | (M:preempt VP:0, KP:0, SP:0 HP:0 #P:2) + ----------------- + | task: swapper-0 (uid:0 nice:0 policy:0 rt_prio:0) + ----------------- + => started at: apic_timer_interrupt + => ended at: do_softirq + +# _------=> CPU# +# / _-----=> irqs-off +# | / _----=> need-resched +# || / _---=> hardirq/softirq +# ||| / _--=> preempt-depth +# |||| / +# ||||| delay +# cmd pid ||||| time | caller +# \ / ||||| \ | / + <idle>-0 0d..1 0us+: trace_hardirqs_off_thunk (apic_timer_interrupt) + <idle>-0 0d.s. 97us : __do_softirq (do_softirq) + <idle>-0 0d.s1 98us : trace_hardirqs_on (do_softirq) + + +vim:ft=help + + +This shows that the current tracer is "irqsoff" tracing the time +interrupts are disabled. It gives the trace version and the kernel +this was executed on (2.6.26-rc8). Then it displays the max latency +in microsecs (97 us). The number of trace entries displayed +by the total number recorded (both are three: #3/3). The type of +preemption that was used (PREEMPT). VP, KP, SP, and HP are always zero +and reserved for later use. #P is the number of online CPUS (#P:2). + +The task is the process that was running when the latency happened. +(swapper pid: 0). + +The start and stop that caused the latencies: + + apic_timer_interrupt is where the interrupts were disabled. + do_softirq is where they were enabled again. + +The next lines after the header are the trace itself. The header +explains which is which. + + cmd: The name of the process in the trace. + + pid: The PID of that process. + + CPU#: The CPU that the process was running on. + + irqs-off: 'd' interrupts are disabled. '.' otherwise. + + need-resched: 'N' task need_resched is set, '.' otherwise. + + hardirq/softirq: + 'H' - hard irq happened inside a softirq. + 'h' - hard irq is running + 's' - soft irq is running + '.' - normal context. + + preempt-depth: The level of preempt_disabled + +The above is mostly meaningful for kernel developers. + + time: This differs from the trace output where as the trace output + contained a absolute timestamp. This timestamp is relative + to the start of the first entry in the the trace. + + delay: This is just to help catch your eye a bit better. And + needs to be fixed to be only relative to the same CPU. + The marks is determined by the difference between this + current trace and the next trace. + '!' - greater than preempt_mark_thresh (default 100) + '+' - greater than 1 microsecond + ' ' - less than or equal to 1 microsecond. + + The rest is the same as the 'trace' file. + + +iter_ctrl +--------- + +The iter_ctrl file is used to control what gets printed in the trace +output. To see what is available, simply cat the file: + + cat /debug/tracing/iter_ctrl + print-parent nosym-offset nosym-addr noverbose noraw nohex nobin \ + noblock nostacktrace nosched-tree + +To disable one of the options, echo in the option appended with "no". + + echo noprint-parent > /debug/tracing/iter_ctrl + +To enable an option, leave off the "no". + + echo sym-offest > /debug/tracing/iter_ctrl + +Here are the available options: + + print-parent - On function traces, display the calling function + as well as the function being traced. + + print-parent: + bash-4000 [01] 1477.606694: simple_strtoul <-strict_strtoul + + noprint-parent: + bash-4000 [01] 1477.606694: simple_strtoul + + + sym-offset - Display not only the function name, but also the offset + in the function. For example, instead of seeing just + "ktime_get" you will see "ktime_get+0xb/0x20" + + sym-offset: + bash-4000 [01] 1477.606694: simple_strtoul+0x6/0xa0 + + sym-addr - this will also display the function address as well as + the function name. + + sym-addr: + bash-4000 [01] 1477.606694: simple_strtoul <c0339346> + + verbose - This deals with the latency_trace file. + + bash 4000 1 0 00000000 00010a95 [58127d26] 1720.415ms \ + (+0.000ms): simple_strtoul (strict_strtoul) + + raw - This will display raw numbers. This option is best for use with + user applications that can translate the raw numbers better than + having it done in the kernel. + + hex - similar to raw, but the numbers will be in a hexadecimal format. + + bin - This will print out the formats in raw binary. + + block - TBD (needs update) + + stacktrace - This is one of the options that changes the trace itself. + When a trace is recorded, so is the stack of functions. + This allows for back traces of trace sites. + + sched-tree - TBD (any users??) + + +sched_switch +------------ + +This tracer simply records schedule switches. Here's an example +on how to implement it. + + # echo sched_switch > /debug/tracing/current_tracer + # echo 1 > /debug/tracing/tracing_enabled + # sleep 1 + # echo 0 > /debug/tracing/tracing_enabled + # cat /debug/tracing/trace + +# tracer: sched_switch +# +# TASK-PID CPU# TIMESTAMP FUNCTION +# | | | | | + bash-3997 [01] 240.132281: 3997:120:R + 4055:120:R + bash-3997 [01] 240.132284: 3997:120:R ==> 4055:120:R + sleep-4055 [01] 240.132371: 4055:120:S ==> 3997:120:R + bash-3997 [01] 240.132454: 3997:120:R + 4055:120:S + bash-3997 [01] 240.132457: 3997:120:R ==> 4055:120:R + sleep-4055 [01] 240.132460: 4055:120:D ==> 3997:120:R + bash-3997 [01] 240.132463: 3997:120:R + 4055:120:D + bash-3997 [01] 240.132465: 3997:120:R ==> 4055:120:R + <idle>-0 [00] 240.132589: 0:140:R + 4:115:S + <idle>-0 [00] 240.132591: 0:140:R ==> 4:115:R + ksoftirqd/0-4 [00] 240.132595: 4:115:S ==> 0:140:R + <idle>-0 [00] 240.132598: 0:140:R + 4:115:S + <idle>-0 [00] 240.132599: 0:140:R ==> 4:115:R + ksoftirqd/0-4 [00] 240.132603: 4:115:S ==> 0:140:R + sleep-4055 [01] 240.133058: 4055:120:S ==> 3997:120:R + [...] + + +As we have discussed previously about this format, the header shows +the name of the trace and points to the options. The "FUNCTION" +is a misnomer since here it represents the wake ups and context +switches. + +The sched_switch only lists the wake ups (represented with '+') +and context switches ('==>') with the previous task or current +first followed by the next task or task waking up. The format for both +of these is PID:KERNEL-PRIO:TASK-STATE. Remember that the KERNEL-PRIO +is the inverse of the actual priority with zero (0) being the highest +priority and the nice values starting at 100 (nice -20). Below is +a quick chart to map the kernel priority to user land priorities. + + Kernel priority: 0 to 99 ==> user RT priority 99 to 0 + Kernel priority: 100 to 139 ==> user nice -20 to 19 + Kernel priority: 140 ==> idle task priority + +The task states are: + + R - running : wants to run, may not actually be running + S - sleep : process is waiting to be woken up (handles signals) + D - deep sleep : process must be woken up (ignores signals) + T - stopped : process suspended + t - traced : process is being traced (with something like gdb) + Z - zombie : process waiting to be cleaned up + X - unknown + + +ftrace_enabled +-------------- + +The following tracers give different output depending on whether +or not the sysctl ftrace_enabled is set. To set ftrace_enabled, +one can either use the sysctl function or set it via the proc +file system interface. + + sysctl kernel.ftrace_enabled=1 + + or + + echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/ftrace_enabled + +To disable ftrace_enabled simply replace the '1' with '0' in +the above commands. + +When ftrace_enabled is set the tracers will also record the functions +that are within the trace. The descriptions of the tracers +will also show an example with ftrace enabled. + + +irqsoff +------- + +When interrupts are disabled, the CPU can not react to any other +external event (besides NMIs and SMIs). This prevents the timer +interrupt from triggering or the mouse interrupt from letting the +kernel know of a new mouse event. The result is a latency with the +reaction time. + +The irqsoff tracer tracks the time interrupts are disabled and when +they are re-enabled. When a new maximum latency is hit, it saves off +the trace so that it may be retrieved at a later time. Every time a +new maximum in reached, the old saved trace is discarded and the new +trace is saved. + +To reset the maximum, echo 0 into tracing_max_latency. Here's an +example: + + # echo irqsoff > /debug/tracing/current_tracer + # echo 0 > /debug/tracing/tracing_max_latency + # echo 1 > /debug/tracing/tracing_enabled + # ls -ltr + [...] + # echo 0 > /debug/tracing/tracing_enabled + # cat /debug/tracing/latency_trace +# tracer: irqsoff +# +irqsoff latency trace v1.1.5 on 2.6.26-rc8 +-------------------------------------------------------------------- + latency: 6 us, #3/3, CPU#1 | (M:preempt VP:0, KP:0, SP:0 HP:0 #P:2) + ----------------- + | task: bash-4269 (uid:0 nice:0 policy:0 rt_prio:0) + ----------------- + => started at: copy_page_range + => ended at: copy_page_range + +# _------=> CPU# +# / _-----=> irqs-off +# | / _----=> need-resched +# || / _---=> hardirq/softirq +# ||| / _--=> preempt-depth +# |||| / +# ||||| delay +# cmd pid ||||| time | caller +# \ / ||||| \ | / + bash-4269 1...1 0us+: _spin_lock (copy_page_range) + bash-4269 1...1 7us : _spin_unlock (copy_page_range) + bash-4269 1...2 7us : trace_preempt_on (copy_page_range) + + +vim:ft=help + +Here we see that that we had a latency of 6 microsecs (which is +very good). The spin_lock in copy_page_range disabled interrupts. +The difference between the 6 and the displayed timestamp 7us is +because the clock must have incremented between the time of recording +the max latency and recording the function that had that latency. + +Note the above had ftrace_enabled not set. If we set the ftrace_enabled +we get a much larger output: + +# tracer: irqsoff +# +irqsoff latency trace v1.1.5 on 2.6.26-rc8 +-------------------------------------------------------------------- + latency: 50 us, #101/101, CPU#0 | (M:preempt VP:0, KP:0, SP:0 HP:0 #P:2) + ----------------- + | task: ls-4339 (uid:0 nice:0 policy:0 rt_prio:0) + ----------------- + => started at: __alloc_pages_internal + => ended at: __alloc_pages_internal + +# _------=> CPU# +# / _-----=> irqs-off +# | / _----=> need-resched +# || / _---=> hardirq/softirq +# ||| / _--=> preempt-depth +# |||| / +# ||||| delay +# cmd pid ||||| time | caller +# \ / ||||| \ | / + ls-4339 0...1 0us+: get_page_from_freelist (__alloc_pages_internal) + ls-4339 0d..1 3us : rmqueue_bulk (get_page_from_freelist) + ls-4339 0d..1 3us : _spin_lock (rmqueue_bulk) + ls-4339 0d..1 4us : add_preempt_count (_spin_lock) + ls-4339 0d..2 4us : __rmqueue (rmqueue_bulk) + ls-4339 0d..2 5us : __rmqueue_smallest (__rmqueue) + ls-4339 0d..2 5us : __mod_zone_page_state (__rmqueue_smallest) + ls-4339 0d..2 6us : __rmqueue (rmqueue_bulk) + ls-4339 0d..2 6us : __rmqueue_smallest (__rmqueue) + ls-4339 0d..2 7us : __mod_zone_page_state (__rmqueue_smallest) + ls-4339 0d..2 7us : __rmqueue (rmqueue_bulk) + ls-4339 0d..2 8us : __rmqueue_smallest (__rmqueue) +[...] + ls-4339 0d..2 46us : __rmqueue_smallest (__rmqueue) + ls-4339 0d..2 47us : __mod_zone_page_state (__rmqueue_smallest) + ls-4339 0d..2 47us : __rmqueue (rmqueue_bulk) + ls-4339 0d..2 48us : __rmqueue_smallest (__rmqueue) + ls-4339 0d..2 48us : __mod_zone_page_state (__rmqueue_smallest) + ls-4339 0d..2 49us : _spin_unlock (rmqueue_bulk) + ls-4339 0d..2 49us : sub_preempt_count (_spin_unlock) + ls-4339 0d..1 50us : get_page_from_freelist (__alloc_pages_internal) + ls-4339 0d..2 51us : trace_hardirqs_on (__alloc_pages_internal) + + +vim:ft=help + + +Here we traced a 50 microsecond latency. But we also see all the +functions that were called during that time. Note that enabling +function tracing we endure an added overhead. This overhead may +extend the latency times. But never the less, this trace has provided +some very helpful debugging. + + +preemptoff +---------- + +When preemption is disabled we may be able to receive interrupts but +the task can not be preempted and a higher priority task must wait +for preemption to be enabled again before it can preempt a lower +priority task. + +The preemptoff tracer traces the places that disables preemption. +Like the irqsoff, it records the maximum latency that preemption +was disabled. The control of preemptoff is much like the irqsoff. + + # echo preemptoff > /debug/tracing/current_tracer + # echo 0 > /debug/tracing/tracing_max_latency + # echo 1 > /debug/tracing/tracing_enabled + # ls -ltr + [...] + # echo 0 > /debug/tracing/tracing_enabled + # cat /debug/tracing/latency_trace +# tracer: preemptoff +# +preemptoff latency trace v1.1.5 on 2.6.26-rc8 +-------------------------------------------------------------------- + latency: 29 us, #3/3, CPU#0 | (M:preempt VP:0, KP:0, SP:0 HP:0 #P:2) + ----------------- + | task: sshd-4261 (uid:0 nice:0 policy:0 rt_prio:0) + ----------------- + => started at: do_IRQ + => ended at: __do_softirq + +# _------=> CPU# +# / _-----=> irqs-off +# | / _----=> need-resched +# || / _---=> hardirq/softirq +# ||| / _--=> preempt-depth +# |||| / +# ||||| delay +# cmd pid ||||| time | caller +# \ / ||||| \ | / + sshd-4261 0d.h. 0us+: irq_enter (do_IRQ) + sshd-4261 0d.s. 29us : _local_bh_enable (__do_softirq) + sshd-4261 0d.s1 30us : trace_preempt_on (__do_softirq) + + +vim:ft=help + +This has some more changes. Preemption was disabled when an interrupt +came in (notice the 'h'), and was enabled while doing a softirq. +(notice the 's'). But we also see that interrupts have been disabled +when entering the preempt off section and leaving it (the 'd'). +We do not know if interrupts were enabled in the mean time. + +# tracer: preemptoff +# +preemptoff latency trace v1.1.5 on 2.6.26-rc8 +-------------------------------------------------------------------- + latency: 63 us, #87/87, CPU#0 | (M:preempt VP:0, KP:0, SP:0 HP:0 #P:2) + ----------------- + | task: sshd-4261 (uid:0 nice:0 policy:0 rt_prio:0) + ----------------- + => started at: remove_wait_queue + => ended at: __do_softirq + +# _------=> CPU# +# / _-----=> irqs-off +# | / _----=> need-resched +# || / _---=> hardirq/softirq +# ||| / _--=> preempt-depth +# |||| / +# ||||| delay +# cmd pid ||||| time | caller +# \ / ||||| \ | / + sshd-4261 0d..1 0us : _spin_lock_irqsave (remove_wait_queue) + sshd-4261 0d..1 1us : _spin_unlock_irqrestore (remove_wait_queue) + sshd-4261 0d..1 2us : do_IRQ (common_interrupt) + sshd-4261 0d..1 2us : irq_enter (do_IRQ) + sshd-4261 0d..1 2us : idle_cpu (irq_enter) + sshd-4261 0d..1 3us : add_preempt_count (irq_enter) + sshd-4261 0d.h1 3us : idle_cpu (irq_enter) + sshd-4261 0d.h. 4us : handle_fasteoi_irq (do_IRQ) +[...] + sshd-4261 0d.h. 12us : add_preempt_count (_spin_lock) + sshd-4261 0d.h1 12us : ack_ioapic_quirk_irq (handle_fasteoi_irq) + sshd-4261 0d.h1 13us : move_native_irq (ack_ioapic_quirk_irq) + sshd-4261 0d.h1 13us : _spin_unlock (handle_fasteoi_irq) + sshd-4261 0d.h1 14us : sub_preempt_count (_spin_unlock) + sshd-4261 0d.h1 14us : irq_exit (do_IRQ) + sshd-4261 0d.h1 15us : sub_preempt_count (irq_exit) + sshd-4261 0d..2 15us : do_softirq (irq_exit) + sshd-4261 0d... 15us : __do_softirq (do_softirq) + sshd-4261 0d... 16us : __local_bh_disable (__do_softirq) + sshd-4261 0d... 16us+: add_preempt_count (__local_bh_disable) + sshd-4261 0d.s4 20us : add_preempt_count (__local_bh_disable) + sshd-4261 0d.s4 21us : sub_preempt_count (local_bh_enable) + sshd-4261 0d.s5 21us : sub_preempt_count (local_bh_enable) +[...] + sshd-4261 0d.s6 41us : add_preempt_count (__local_bh_disable) + sshd-4261 0d.s6 42us : sub_preempt_count (local_bh_enable) + sshd-4261 0d.s7 42us : sub_preempt_count (local_bh_enable) + sshd-4261 0d.s5 43us : add_preempt_count (__local_bh_disable) + sshd-4261 0d.s5 43us : sub_preempt_count (local_bh_enable_ip) + sshd-4261 0d.s6 44us : sub_preempt_count (local_bh_enable_ip) + sshd-4261 0d.s5 44us : add_preempt_count (__local_bh_disable) + sshd-4261 0d.s5 45us : sub_preempt_count (local_bh_enable) +[...] + sshd-4261 0d.s. 63us : _local_bh_enable (__do_softirq) + sshd-4261 0d.s1 64us : trace_preempt_on (__do_softirq) + + +The above is an example of the preemptoff trace with ftrace_enabled +set. Here we see that interrupts were disabled the entire time. +The irq_enter code lets us know that we entered an interrupt 'h'. +Before that, the functions being traced still show that it is not +in an interrupt, but we can see by the functions themselves that +this is not the case. + +Notice that the __do_softirq when called doesn't have a preempt_count. +It may seem that we missed a preempt enabled. What really happened +is that the preempt count is held on the threads stack and we +switched to the softirq stack (4K stacks in effect). The code +does not copy the preempt count, but because interrupts are disabled +we don't need to worry about it. Having a tracer like this is good +to let people know what really happens inside the kernel. + + +preemptirqsoff +-------------- + +Knowing the locations that have interrupts disabled or preemption +disabled for the longest times is helpful. But sometimes we would +like to know when either preemption and/or interrupts are disabled. + +The following code: + + local_irq_disable(); + call_function_with_irqs_off(); + preempt_disable(); + call_function_with_irqs_and_preemption_off(); + local_irq_enable(); + call_function_with_preemption_off(); + preempt_enable(); + +The irqsoff tracer will record the total length of +call_function_with_irqs_off() and +call_function_with_irqs_and_preemption_off(). + +The preemptoff tracer will record the total length of +call_function_with_irqs_and_preemption_off() and +call_function_with_preemption_off(). + +But neither will trace the time that interrupts and/or preemption +is disabled. This total time is the time that we can not schedule. +To record this time, use the preemptirqsoff tracer. + +Again, using this trace is much like the irqsoff and preemptoff tracers. + + # echo preemptoff > /debug/tracing/current_tracer + # echo 0 > /debug/tracing/tracing_max_latency + # echo 1 > /debug/tracing/tracing_enabled + # ls -ltr + [...] + # echo 0 > /debug/tracing/tracing_enabled + # cat /debug/tracing/latency_trace +# tracer: preemptirqsoff +# +preemptirqsoff latency trace v1.1.5 on 2.6.26-rc8 +-------------------------------------------------------------------- + latency: 293 us, #3/3, CPU#0 | (M:preempt VP:0, KP:0, SP:0 HP:0 #P:2) + ----------------- + | task: ls-4860 (uid:0 nice:0 policy:0 rt_prio:0) + ----------------- + => started at: apic_timer_interrupt + => ended at: __do_softirq + +# _------=> CPU# +# / _-----=> irqs-off +# | / _----=> need-resched +# || / _---=> hardirq/softirq +# ||| / _--=> preempt-depth +# |||| / +# ||||| delay +# cmd pid ||||| time | caller +# \ / ||||| \ | / + ls-4860 0d... 0us!: trace_hardirqs_off_thunk (apic_timer_interrupt) + ls-4860 0d.s. 294us : _local_bh_enable (__do_softirq) + ls-4860 0d.s1 294us : trace_preempt_on (__do_softirq) + + +vim:ft=help + + +The trace_hardirqs_off_thunk is called from assembly on x86 when +interrupts are disabled in the assembly code. Without the function +tracing, we don't know if interrupts were enabled within the preemption +points. We do see that it started with preemption enabled. + +Here is a trace with ftrace_enabled set: + + +# tracer: preemptirqsoff +# +preemptirqsoff latency trace v1.1.5 on 2.6.26-rc8 +-------------------------------------------------------------------- + latency: 105 us, #183/183, CPU#0 | (M:preempt VP:0, KP:0, SP:0 HP:0 #P:2) + ----------------- + | task: sshd-4261 (uid:0 nice:0 policy:0 rt_prio:0) + ----------------- + => started at: write_chan + => ended at: __do_softirq + +# _------=> CPU# +# / _-----=> irqs-off +# | / _----=> need-resched +# || / _---=> hardirq/softirq +# ||| / _--=> preempt-depth +# |||| / +# ||||| delay +# cmd pid ||||| time | caller +# \ / ||||| \ | / + ls-4473 0.N.. 0us : preempt_schedule (write_chan) + ls-4473 0dN.1 1us : _spin_lock (schedule) + ls-4473 0dN.1 2us : add_preempt_count (_spin_lock) + ls-4473 0d..2 2us : put_prev_task_fair (schedule) +[...] + ls-4473 0d..2 13us : set_normalized_timespec (ktime_get_ts) + ls-4473 0d..2 13us : __switch_to (schedule) + sshd-4261 0d..2 14us : finish_task_switch (schedule) + sshd-4261 0d..2 14us : _spin_unlock_irq (finish_task_switch) + sshd-4261 0d..1 15us : add_preempt_count (_spin_lock_irqsave) + sshd-4261 0d..2 16us : _spin_unlock_irqrestore (hrtick_set) + sshd-4261 0d..2 16us : do_IRQ (common_interrupt) + sshd-4261 0d..2 17us : irq_enter (do_IRQ) + sshd-4261 0d..2 17us : idle_cpu (irq_enter) + sshd-4261 0d..2 18us : add_preempt_count (irq_enter) + sshd-4261 0d.h2 18us : idle_cpu (irq_enter) + sshd-4261 0d.h. 18us : handle_fasteoi_irq (do_IRQ) + sshd-4261 0d.h. 19us : _spin_lock (handle_fasteoi_irq) + sshd-4261 0d.h. 19us : add_preempt_count (_spin_lock) + sshd-4261 0d.h1 20us : _spin_unlock (handle_fasteoi_irq) + sshd-4261 0d.h1 20us : sub_preempt_count (_spin_unlock) +[...] + sshd-4261 0d.h1 28us : _spin_unlock (handle_fasteoi_irq) + sshd-4261 0d.h1 29us : sub_preempt_count (_spin_unlock) + sshd-4261 0d.h2 29us : irq_exit (do_IRQ) + sshd-4261 0d.h2 29us : sub_preempt_count (irq_exit) + sshd-4261 0d..3 30us : do_softirq (irq_exit) + sshd-4261 0d... 30us : __do_softirq (do_softirq) + sshd-4261 0d... 31us : __local_bh_disable (__do_softirq) + sshd-4261 0d... 31us+: add_preempt_count (__local_bh_disable) + sshd-4261 0d.s4 34us : add_preempt_count (__local_bh_disable) +[...] + sshd-4261 0d.s3 43us : sub_preempt_count (local_bh_enable_ip) + sshd-4261 0d.s4 44us : sub_preempt_count (local_bh_enable_ip) + sshd-4261 0d.s3 44us : smp_apic_timer_interrupt (apic_timer_interrupt) + sshd-4261 0d.s3 45us : irq_enter (smp_apic_timer_interrupt) + sshd-4261 0d.s3 45us : idle_cpu (irq_enter) + sshd-4261 0d.s3 46us : add_preempt_count (irq_enter) + sshd-4261 0d.H3 46us : idle_cpu (irq_enter) + sshd-4261 0d.H3 47us : hrtimer_interrupt (smp_apic_timer_interrupt) + sshd-4261 0d.H3 47us : ktime_get (hrtimer_interrupt) +[...] + sshd-4261 0d.H3 81us : tick_program_event (hrtimer_interrupt) + sshd-4261 0d.H3 82us : ktime_get (tick_program_event) + sshd-4261 0d.H3 82us : ktime_get_ts (ktime_get) + sshd-4261 0d.H3 83us : getnstimeofday (ktime_get_ts) + sshd-4261 0d.H3 83us : set_normalized_timespec (ktime_get_ts) + sshd-4261 0d.H3 84us : clockevents_program_event (tick_program_event) + sshd-4261 0d.H3 84us : lapic_next_event (clockevents_program_event) + sshd-4261 0d.H3 85us : irq_exit (smp_apic_timer_interrupt) + sshd-4261 0d.H3 85us : sub_preempt_count (irq_exit) + sshd-4261 0d.s4 86us : sub_preempt_count (irq_exit) + sshd-4261 0d.s3 86us : add_preempt_count (__local_bh_disable) +[...] + sshd-4261 0d.s1 98us : sub_preempt_count (net_rx_action) + sshd-4261 0d.s. 99us : add_preempt_count (_spin_lock_irq) + sshd-4261 0d.s1 99us+: _spin_unlock_irq (run_timer_softirq) + sshd-4261 0d.s. 104us : _local_bh_enable (__do_softirq) + sshd-4261 0d.s. 104us : sub_preempt_count (_local_bh_enable) + sshd-4261 0d.s. 105us : _local_bh_enable (__do_softirq) + sshd-4261 0d.s1 105us : trace_preempt_on (__do_softirq) + + +This is a very interesting trace. It started with the preemption of +the ls task. We see that the task had the "need_resched" bit set +with the 'N' in the trace. Interrupts are disabled in the spin_lock +and the trace started. We see that a schedule took place to run +sshd. When the interrupts were enabled we took an interrupt. +On return of the interrupt the softirq ran. We took another interrupt +while running the softirq as we see with the capital 'H'. + + +wakeup +------ + +In Real-Time environment it is very important to know the wakeup +time it takes for the highest priority task that wakes up to the +time it executes. This is also known as "schedule latency". +I stress the point that this is about RT tasks. It is also important +to know the scheduling latency of non-RT tasks, but the average +schedule latency is better for non-RT tasks. Tools like +LatencyTop is more appropriate for such measurements. + +Real-Time environments is interested in the worst case latency. +That is the longest latency it takes for something to happen, and +not the average. We can have a very fast scheduler that may only +have a large latency once in a while, but that would not work well +with Real-Time tasks. The wakeup tracer was designed to record +the worst case wakeups of RT tasks. Non-RT tasks are not recorded +because the tracer only records one worst case and tracing non-RT +tasks that are unpredictable will overwrite the worst case latency +of RT tasks. + +Since this tracer only deals with RT tasks, we will run this slightly +different than we did with the previous tracers. Instead of performing +an 'ls' we will run 'sleep 1' under 'chrt' which changes the +priority of the task. + + # echo wakeup > /debug/tracing/current_tracer + # echo 0 > /debug/tracing/tracing_max_latency + # echo 1 > /debug/tracing/tracing_enabled + # chrt -f 5 sleep 1 + # echo 0 > /debug/tracing/tracing_enabled + # cat /debug/tracing/latency_trace +# tracer: wakeup +# +wakeup latency trace v1.1.5 on 2.6.26-rc8 +-------------------------------------------------------------------- + latency: 4 us, #2/2, CPU#1 | (M:preempt VP:0, KP:0, SP:0 HP:0 #P:2) + ----------------- + | task: sleep-4901 (uid:0 nice:0 policy:1 rt_prio:5) + ----------------- + +# _------=> CPU# +# / _-----=> irqs-off +# | / _----=> need-resched +# || / _---=> hardirq/softirq +# ||| / _--=> preempt-depth +# |||| / +# ||||| delay +# cmd pid ||||| time | caller +# \ / ||||| \ | / + <idle>-0 1d.h4 0us+: try_to_wake_up (wake_up_process) + <idle>-0 1d..4 4us : schedule (cpu_idle) + + +vim:ft=help + + +Running this on an idle system we see that it only took 4 microseconds +to perform the task switch. Note, since the trace marker in the +schedule is before the actual "switch" we stop the tracing when +the recorded task is about to schedule in. This may change if +we add a new marker at the end of the scheduler. + +Notice that the recorded task is 'sleep' with the PID of 4901 and it +has an rt_prio of 5. This priority is user-space priority and not +the internal kernel priority. The policy is 1 for SCHED_FIFO and 2 +for SCHED_RR. + +Doing the same with chrt -r 5 and ftrace_enabled set. + +# tracer: wakeup +# +wakeup latency trace v1.1.5 on 2.6.26-rc8 +-------------------------------------------------------------------- + latency: 50 us, #60/60, CPU#1 | (M:preempt VP:0, KP:0, SP:0 HP:0 #P:2) + ----------------- + | task: sleep-4068 (uid:0 nice:0 policy:2 rt_prio:5) + ----------------- + +# _------=> CPU# +# / _-----=> irqs-off +# | / _----=> need-resched +# || / _---=> hardirq/softirq +# ||| / _--=> preempt-depth +# |||| / +# ||||| delay +# cmd pid ||||| time | caller +# \ / ||||| \ | / +ksoftirq-7 1d.H3 0us : try_to_wake_up (wake_up_process) +ksoftirq-7 1d.H4 1us : sub_preempt_count (marker_probe_cb) +ksoftirq-7 1d.H3 2us : check_preempt_wakeup (try_to_wake_up) +ksoftirq-7 1d.H3 3us : update_curr (check_preempt_wakeup) +ksoftirq-7 1d.H3 4us : calc_delta_mine (update_curr) +ksoftirq-7 1d.H3 5us : __resched_task (check_preempt_wakeup) +ksoftirq-7 1d.H3 6us : task_wake_up_rt (try_to_wake_up) +ksoftirq-7 1d.H3 7us : _spin_unlock_irqrestore (try_to_wake_up) +[...] +ksoftirq-7 1d.H2 17us : irq_exit (smp_apic_timer_interrupt) +ksoftirq-7 1d.H2 18us : sub_preempt_count (irq_exit) +ksoftirq-7 1d.s3 19us : sub_preempt_count (irq_exit) +ksoftirq-7 1..s2 20us : rcu_process_callbacks (__do_softirq) +[...] +ksoftirq-7 1..s2 26us : __rcu_process_callbacks (rcu_process_callbacks) +ksoftirq-7 1d.s2 27us : _local_bh_enable (__do_softirq) +ksoftirq-7 1d.s2 28us : sub_preempt_count (_local_bh_enable) +ksoftirq-7 1.N.3 29us : sub_preempt_count (ksoftirqd) +ksoftirq-7 1.N.2 30us : _cond_resched (ksoftirqd) +ksoftirq-7 1.N.2 31us : __cond_resched (_cond_resched) +ksoftirq-7 1.N.2 32us : add_preempt_count (__cond_resched) +ksoftirq-7 1.N.2 33us : schedule (__cond_resched) +ksoftirq-7 1.N.2 33us : add_preempt_count (schedule) +ksoftirq-7 1.N.3 34us : hrtick_clear (schedule) +ksoftirq-7 1dN.3 35us : _spin_lock (schedule) +ksoftirq-7 1dN.3 36us : add_preempt_count (_spin_lock) +ksoftirq-7 1d..4 37us : put_prev_task_fair (schedule) +ksoftirq-7 1d..4 38us : update_curr (put_prev_task_fair) +[...] +ksoftirq-7 1d..5 47us : _spin_trylock (tracing_record_cmdline) +ksoftirq-7 1d..5 48us : add_preempt_count (_spin_trylock) +ksoftirq-7 1d..6 49us : _spin_unlock (tracing_record_cmdline) +ksoftirq-7 1d..6 49us : sub_preempt_count (_spin_unlock) +ksoftirq-7 1d..4 50us : schedule (__cond_resched) + +The interrupt went off while running ksoftirqd. This task runs at +SCHED_OTHER. Why didn't we see the 'N' set early? This may be +a harmless bug with x86_32 and 4K stacks. The need_reched() function +that tests if we need to reschedule looks on the actual stack. +Where as the setting of the NEED_RESCHED bit happens on the +task's stack. But because we are in a hard interrupt, the test +is with the interrupts stack which has that to be false. We don't +see the 'N' until we switch back to the task's stack. + +ftrace +------ + +ftrace is not only the name of the tracing infrastructure, but it +is also a name of one of the tracers. The tracer is the function +tracer. Enabling the function tracer can be done from the +debug file system. Make sure the ftrace_enabled is set otherwise +this tracer is a nop. + + # sysctl kernel.ftrace_enabled=1 + # echo ftrace > /debug/tracing/current_tracer + # echo 1 > /debug/tracing/tracing_enabled + # usleep 1 + # echo 0 > /debug/tracing/tracing_enabled + # cat /debug/tracing/trace +# tracer: ftrace +# +# TASK-PID CPU# TIMESTAMP FUNCTION +# | | | | | + bash-4003 [00] 123.638713: finish_task_switch <-schedule + bash-4003 [00] 123.638714: _spin_unlock_irq <-finish_task_switch + bash-4003 [00] 123.638714: sub_preempt_count <-_spin_unlock_irq + bash-4003 [00] 123.638715: hrtick_set <-schedule + bash-4003 [00] 123.638715: _spin_lock_irqsave <-hrtick_set + bash-4003 [00] 123.638716: add_preempt_count <-_spin_lock_irqsave + bash-4003 [00] 123.638716: _spin_unlock_irqrestore <-hrtick_set + bash-4003 [00] 123.638717: sub_preempt_count <-_spin_unlock_irqrestore + bash-4003 [00] 123.638717: hrtick_clear <-hrtick_set + bash-4003 [00] 123.638718: sub_preempt_count <-schedule + bash-4003 [00] 123.638718: sub_preempt_count <-preempt_schedule + bash-4003 [00] 123.638719: wait_for_completion <-__stop_machine_run + bash-4003 [00] 123.638719: wait_for_common <-wait_for_completion + bash-4003 [00] 123.638720: _spin_lock_irq <-wait_for_common + bash-4003 [00] 123.638720: add_preempt_count <-_spin_lock_irq +[...] + + +Note: It is sometimes better to enable or disable tracing directly from +a program, because the buffer may be overflowed by the echo commands +before you get to the point you want to trace. It is also easier to +stop the tracing at the point that you hit the part that you are +interested in. Since the ftrace buffer is a ring buffer with the +oldest data being overwritten, usually it is sufficient to start the +tracer with an echo command but have you code stop it. Something +like the following is usually appropriate for this. + +int trace_fd; +[...] +int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { + [...] + trace_fd = open("/debug/tracing/tracing_enabled", O_WRONLY); + [...] + if (condition_hit()) { + write(trace_fd, "0", 1); + } + [...] +} + + +dynamic ftrace +-------------- + +If CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE is set, then the system will run with +virtually no overhead when function tracing is disabled. The way +this works is the mcount function call (placed at the start of +every kernel function, produced by the -pg switch in gcc), starts +of pointing to a simple return. + +When dynamic ftrace is initialized, it calls kstop_machine to make it +act like a uniprocessor so that it can freely modify code without +worrying about other processors executing that same code. At +initialization, the mcount calls are change to call a "record_ip" +function. After this, the first time a kernel function is called, +it has the calling address saved in a hash table. + +Later on the ftraced kernel thread is awoken and will again call +kstop_machine if new functions have been recorded. The ftraced thread +will change all calls to mcount to "nop". Just calling mcount +and having mcount return has shown a 10% overhead. By converting +it to a nop, there is no recordable overhead to the system. + +One special side-effect to the recording of the functions being +traced, is that we can now selectively choose which functions we +want to trace and which ones we want the mcount calls to remain as +nops. + +Two files that contain to the enabling and disabling of recorded +functions are: + + set_ftrace_filter + +and + + set_ftrace_notrace + +A list of available functions that you can add to this files is listed +in: + + available_filter_functions + + # cat /debug/tracing/available_filter_functions +put_prev_task_idle +kmem_cache_create +pick_next_task_rt +get_online_cpus +pick_next_task_fair +mutex_lock +[...] + +If I'm only interested in sys_nanosleep and hrtimer_interrupt: + + # echo sys_nanosleep hrtimer_interrupt \ + > /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter + # echo ftrace > /debug/tracing/current_tracer + # echo 1 > /debug/tracing/tracing_enabled + # usleep 1 + # echo 0 > /debug/tracing/tracing_enabled + # cat /debug/tracing/trace +# tracer: ftrace +# +# TASK-PID CPU# TIMESTAMP FUNCTION +# | | | | | + usleep-4134 [00] 1317.070017: hrtimer_interrupt <-smp_apic_timer_interrupt + usleep-4134 [00] 1317.070111: sys_nanosleep <-syscall_call + <idle>-0 [00] 1317.070115: hrtimer_interrupt <-smp_apic_timer_interrupt + +To see what functions are being traced, you can cat the file: + + # cat /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter +hrtimer_interrupt +sys_nanosleep + + +Perhaps this isn't enough. The filters also allow simple wild cards. +Only the following is currently available + + <match>* - will match functions that begins with <match> + *<match> - will match functions that end with <match> + *<match>* - will match functions that have <match> in it + +Thats all the wild cards that are allowed. + + <match>*<match> will not work. + + # echo hrtimer_* > /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter + +Produces: + +# tracer: ftrace +# +# TASK-PID CPU# TIMESTAMP FUNCTION +# | | | | | + bash-4003 [00] 1480.611794: hrtimer_init <-copy_process + bash-4003 [00] 1480.611941: hrtimer_start <-hrtick_set + bash-4003 [00] 1480.611956: hrtimer_cancel <-hrtick_clear + bash-4003 [00] 1480.611956: hrtimer_try_to_cancel <-hrtimer_cancel + <idle>-0 [00] 1480.612019: hrtimer_get_next_event <-get_next_timer_interrupt + <idle>-0 [00] 1480.612025: hrtimer_get_next_event <-get_next_timer_interrupt + <idle>-0 [00] 1480.612032: hrtimer_get_next_event <-get_next_timer_interrupt + <idle>-0 [00] 1480.612037: hrtimer_get_next_event <-get_next_timer_interrupt + <idle>-0 [00] 1480.612382: hrtimer_get_next_event <-get_next_timer_interrupt + + +Notice that we lost the sys_nanosleep. + + # cat /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter +hrtimer_run_queues +hrtimer_run_pending +hrtimer_init +hrtimer_cancel +hrtimer_try_to_cancel +hrtimer_forward +hrtimer_start +hrtimer_reprogram +hrtimer_force_reprogram +hrtimer_get_next_event +hrtimer_interrupt +hrtimer_nanosleep +hrtimer_wakeup +hrtimer_get_remaining +hrtimer_get_res +hrtimer_init_sleeper + + +This is because the '>' and '>>' act just like they do in bash. +To rewrite the filters, use '>' +To append to the filters, use '>>' + +To clear out a filter so that all functions will be recorded again. + + # echo > /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter + # cat /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter + # + +Again, now we want to append. + + # echo sys_nanosleep > /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter + # cat /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter +sys_nanosleep + # echo hrtimer_* >> /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter + # cat /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter +hrtimer_run_queues +hrtimer_run_pending +hrtimer_init +hrtimer_cancel +hrtimer_try_to_cancel +hrtimer_forward +hrtimer_start +hrtimer_reprogram +hrtimer_force_reprogram +hrtimer_get_next_event +hrtimer_interrupt +sys_nanosleep +hrtimer_nanosleep +hrtimer_wakeup +hrtimer_get_remaining +hrtimer_get_res +hrtimer_init_sleeper + + +The set_ftrace_notrace prevents those functions from being traced. + + # echo '*preempt*' '*lock*' > /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_notrace + +Produces: + +# tracer: ftrace +# +# TASK-PID CPU# TIMESTAMP FUNCTION +# | | | | | + bash-4043 [01] 115.281644: finish_task_switch <-schedule + bash-4043 [01] 115.281645: hrtick_set <-schedule + bash-4043 [01] 115.281645: hrtick_clear <-hrtick_set + bash-4043 [01] 115.281646: wait_for_completion <-__stop_machine_run + bash-4043 [01] 115.281647: wait_for_common <-wait_for_completion + bash-4043 [01] 115.281647: kthread_stop <-stop_machine_run + bash-4043 [01] 115.281648: init_waitqueue_head <-kthread_stop + bash-4043 [01] 115.281648: wake_up_process <-kthread_stop + bash-4043 [01] 115.281649: try_to_wake_up <-wake_up_process + +We can see that there's no more lock or preempt tracing. + +ftraced +------- + +As mentioned above, when dynamic ftrace is configured in, a kernel +thread wakes up once a second and checks to see if there are mcount +calls that need to be converted into nops. If there is not, then +it simply goes back to sleep. But if there is, it will call +kstop_machine to convert the calls to nops. + +There may be a case that you do not want this added latency. +Perhaps you are doing some audio recording and this activity might +cause skips in the playback. There is an interface to disable +and enable the ftraced kernel thread. + + # echo 0 > /debug/tracing/ftraced_enabled + +This will disable the calling of the kstop_machine to update the +mcount calls to nops. Remember that there's a large overhead +to calling mcount. Without this kernel thread, that overhead will +exist. + +Any write to the ftraced_enabled file will cause the kstop_machine +to run if there are recorded calls to mcount. This means that a +user can manually perform the updates when they want to by simply +echoing a '0' into the ftraced_enabled file. + +The updates are also done at the beginning of enabling a tracer +that uses ftrace function recording. + + +trace_pipe +---------- + +The trace_pipe outputs the same as trace, but the effect on the +tracing is different. Every read from trace_pipe is consumed. +This means that subsequent reads will be different. The trace +is live. + + # echo ftrace > /debug/tracing/current_tracer + # cat /debug/tracing/trace_pipe > /tmp/trace.out & +[1] 4153 + # echo 1 > /debug/tracing/tracing_enabled + # usleep 1 + # echo 0 > /debug/tracing/tracing_enabled + # cat /debug/tracing/trace +# tracer: ftrace +# +# TASK-PID CPU# TIMESTAMP FUNCTION +# | | | | | + + # + # cat /tmp/trace.out + bash-4043 [00] 41.267106: finish_task_switch <-schedule + bash-4043 [00] 41.267106: hrtick_set <-schedule + bash-4043 [00] 41.267107: hrtick_clear <-hrtick_set + bash-4043 [00] 41.267108: wait_for_completion <-__stop_machine_run + bash-4043 [00] 41.267108: wait_for_common <-wait_for_completion + bash-4043 [00] 41.267109: kthread_stop <-stop_machine_run + bash-4043 [00] 41.267109: init_waitqueue_head <-kthread_stop + bash-4043 [00] 41.267110: wake_up_process <-kthread_stop + bash-4043 [00] 41.267110: try_to_wake_up <-wake_up_process + bash-4043 [00] 41.267111: select_task_rq_rt <-try_to_wake_up + + +Note, reading the trace_pipe will block until more input is added. +By changing the tracer, trace_pipe will issue an EOF. We needed +to set the ftrace tracer _before_ cating the trace_pipe file. + + +trace entries +------------- + +Having too much or not enough data can be troublesome in diagnosing +some issue in the kernel. The file trace_entries is used to modify +the size of the internal trace buffers. The numbers listed +is the number of entries that can be recorded per CPU. To know +the full size, multiply the number of possible CPUS with the +number of entries. + + # cat /debug/tracing/trace_entries +65620 + +Note, to modify this you must have tracing fulling disabled. To do that, +echo "none" into the current_tracer. + + # echo none > /debug/tracing/current_tracer + # echo 100000 > /debug/tracing/trace_entries + # cat /debug/tracing/trace_entries +100045 + + +Notice that we echoed in 100,000 but the size is 100,045. The entries +are held by individual pages. It allocates the number of pages it takes +to fulfill the request. If more entries may fit on the last page +it will add them. + + # echo 1 > /debug/tracing/trace_entries + # cat /debug/tracing/trace_entries +85 + +This shows us that 85 entries can fit on a single page. + +The number of pages that will be allocated is a percentage of available +memory. Allocating too much will produces an error. + + # echo 1000000000000 > /debug/tracing/trace_entries +-bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory + # cat /debug/tracing/trace_entries +85 + diff --git a/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt b/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt index b8e52c0..9691c7f 100644 --- a/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt +++ b/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt @@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ There are two possible methods of using Kdump. 2) Or use the system kernel binary itself as dump-capture kernel and there is no need to build a separate dump-capture kernel. This is possible only with the architecutres which support a relocatable kernel. As - of today i386 and ia64 architectures support relocatable kernel. + of today, i386, x86_64 and ia64 architectures support relocatable kernel. Building a relocatable kernel is advantageous from the point of view that one does not have to build a second kernel for capturing the dump. But diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index b52f47d..795c487 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -271,6 +271,17 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file aic79xx= [HW,SCSI] See Documentation/scsi/aic79xx.txt. + amd_iommu= [HW,X86-84] + Pass parameters to the AMD IOMMU driver in the system. + Possible values are: + isolate - enable device isolation (each device, as far + as possible, will get its own protection + domain) + amd_iommu_size= [HW,X86-64] + Define the size of the aperture for the AMD IOMMU + driver. Possible values are: + '32M', '64M' (default), '128M', '256M', '512M', '1G' + amijoy.map= [HW,JOY] Amiga joystick support Map of devices attached to JOY0DAT and JOY1DAT Format: <a>,<b> @@ -599,6 +610,29 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file See drivers/char/README.epca and Documentation/digiepca.txt. + disable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] + enable_mtrr_cleanup [X86] + The kernel tries to adjust MTRR layout from continuous + to discrete, to make X server driver able to add WB + entry later. This parameter enables/disables that. + + mtrr_chunk_size=nn[KMG] [X86] + used for mtrr cleanup. It is largest continous chunk + that could hold holes aka. UC entries. + + mtrr_gran_size=nn[KMG] [X86] + Used for mtrr cleanup. It is granularity of mtrr block. + Default is 1. + Large value could prevent small alignment from + using up MTRRs. + + mtrr_spare_reg_nr=n [X86] + Format: <integer> + Range: 0,7 : spare reg number + Default : 1 + Used for mtrr cleanup. It is spare mtrr entries number. + Set to 2 or more if your graphical card needs more. + disable_mtrr_trim [X86, Intel and AMD only] By default the kernel will trim any uncacheable memory out of your available memory pool based on @@ -2116,6 +2150,9 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file usbhid.mousepoll= [USBHID] The interval which mice are to be polled at. + add_efi_memmap [EFI; x86-32,X86-64] Include EFI memory map in + kernel's map of available physical RAM. + vdso= [X86-32,SH,x86-64] vdso=2: enable compat VDSO (default with COMPAT_VDSO) vdso=1: enable VDSO (default) diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt index 17f1f91..946b66e 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt @@ -148,9 +148,9 @@ tcp_available_congestion_control - STRING but not loaded. tcp_base_mss - INTEGER - The initial value of search_low to be used by Packetization Layer - Path MTU Discovery (MTU probing). If MTU probing is enabled, - this is the inital MSS used by the connection. + The initial value of search_low to be used by the packetization layer + Path MTU discovery (MTU probing). If MTU probing is enabled, + this is the initial MSS used by the connection. tcp_congestion_control - STRING Set the congestion control algorithm to be used for new @@ -185,10 +185,9 @@ tcp_frto - INTEGER timeouts. It is particularly beneficial in wireless environments where packet loss is typically due to random radio interference rather than intermediate router congestion. F-RTO is sender-side - only modification. Therefore it does not require any support from - the peer, but in a typical case, however, where wireless link is - the local access link and most of the data flows downlink, the - faraway servers should have F-RTO enabled to take advantage of it. + only modification. Therefore it does not require any support from + the peer. + If set to 1, basic version is enabled. 2 enables SACK enhanced F-RTO if flow uses SACK. The basic version can be used also when SACK is in use though scenario(s) with it exists where F-RTO @@ -276,7 +275,7 @@ tcp_mem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, pressure, max memory. tcp_moderate_rcvbuf - BOOLEAN - If set, TCP performs receive buffer autotuning, attempting to + If set, TCP performs receive buffer auto-tuning, attempting to automatically size the buffer (no greater than tcp_rmem[2]) to match the size required by the path for full throughput. Enabled by default. @@ -336,7 +335,7 @@ tcp_rmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max pressure. Default: 8K - default: default size of receive buffer used by TCP sockets. + default: initial size of receive buffer used by TCP sockets. This value overrides net.core.rmem_default used by other protocols. Default: 87380 bytes. This value results in window of 65535 with default setting of tcp_adv_win_scale and tcp_app_win:0 and a bit @@ -344,8 +343,10 @@ tcp_rmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max max: maximal size of receive buffer allowed for automatically selected receiver buffers for TCP socket. This value does not override - net.core.rmem_max, "static" selection via SO_RCVBUF does not use this. - Default: 87380*2 bytes. + net.core.rmem_max. Calling setsockopt() with SO_RCVBUF disables + automatic tuning of that socket's receive buffer size, in which + case this value is ignored. + Default: between 87380B and 4MB, depending on RAM size. tcp_sack - BOOLEAN Enable select acknowledgments (SACKS). @@ -358,7 +359,7 @@ tcp_slow_start_after_idle - BOOLEAN Default: 1 tcp_stdurg - BOOLEAN - Use the Host requirements interpretation of the TCP urg pointer field. + Use the Host requirements interpretation of the TCP urgent pointer field. Most hosts use the older BSD interpretation, so if you turn this on Linux might not communicate correctly with them. Default: FALSE @@ -371,12 +372,12 @@ tcp_synack_retries - INTEGER tcp_syncookies - BOOLEAN Only valid when the kernel was compiled with CONFIG_SYNCOOKIES Send out syncookies when the syn backlog queue of a socket - overflows. This is to prevent against the common 'syn flood attack' + overflows. This is to prevent against the common 'SYN flood attack' Default: FALSE Note, that syncookies is fallback facility. It MUST NOT be used to help highly loaded servers to stand - against legal connection rate. If you see synflood warnings + against legal connection rate. If you see SYN flood warnings in your logs, but investigation shows that they occur because of overload with legal connections, you should tune another parameters until this warning disappear. @@ -386,7 +387,7 @@ tcp_syncookies - BOOLEAN to use TCP extensions, can result in serious degradation of some services (f.e. SMTP relaying), visible not by you, but your clients and relays, contacting you. While you see - synflood warnings in logs not being really flooded, your server + SYN flood warnings in logs not being really flooded, your server is seriously misconfigured. tcp_syn_retries - INTEGER @@ -419,19 +420,21 @@ tcp_window_scaling - BOOLEAN Enable window scaling as defined in RFC1323. tcp_wmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max - min: Amount of memory reserved for send buffers for TCP socket. + min: Amount of memory reserved for send buffers for TCP sockets. Each TCP socket has rights to use it due to fact of its birth. Default: 4K - default: Amount of memory allowed for send buffers for TCP socket - by default. This value overrides net.core.wmem_default used - by other protocols, it is usually lower than net.core.wmem_default. + default: initial size of send buffer used by TCP sockets. This + value overrides net.core.wmem_default used by other protocols. + It is usually lower than net.core.wmem_default. Default: 16K - max: Maximal amount of memory allowed for automatically selected - send buffers for TCP socket. This value does not override - net.core.wmem_max, "static" selection via SO_SNDBUF does not use this. - Default: 128K + max: Maximal amount of memory allowed for automatically tuned + send buffers for TCP sockets. This value does not override + net.core.wmem_max. Calling setsockopt() with SO_SNDBUF disables + automatic tuning of that socket's send buffer size, in which case + this value is ignored. + Default: between 64K and 4MB, depending on RAM size. tcp_workaround_signed_windows - BOOLEAN If set, assume no receipt of a window scaling option means the @@ -1060,24 +1063,193 @@ bridge-nf-filter-pppoe-tagged - BOOLEAN Default: 1 -UNDOCUMENTED: +proc/sys/net/sctp/* Variables: + +addip_enable - BOOLEAN + Enable or disable extension of Dynamic Address Reconfiguration + (ADD-IP) functionality specified in RFC5061. This extension provides + the ability to dynamically add and remove new addresses for the SCTP + associations. + + 1: Enable extension. + + 0: Disable extension. + + Default: 0 + +addip_noauth_enable - BOOLEAN + Dynamic Address Reconfiguration (ADD-IP) requires the use of + authentication to protect the operations of adding or removing new + addresses. This requirement is mandated so that unauthorized hosts + would not be able to hijack associations. However, older + implementations may not have implemented this requirement while + allowing the ADD-IP extension. For reasons of interoperability, + we provide this variable to control the enforcement of the + authentication requirement. + + 1: Allow ADD-IP extension to be used without authentication. This + should only be set in a closed environment for interoperability + with older implementations. + + 0: Enforce the authentication requirement + + Default: 0 + +auth_enable - BOOLEAN + Enable or disable Authenticated Chunks extension. This extension + provides the ability to send and receive authenticated chunks and is + required for secure operation of Dynamic Address Reconfiguration + (ADD-IP) extension. + + 1: Enable this extension. + 0: Disable this extension. + + Default: 0 + +prsctp_enable - BOOLEAN + Enable or disable the Partial Reliability extension (RFC3758) which + is used to notify peers that a given DATA should no longer be expected. + + 1: Enable extension + 0: Disable + + Default: 1 + +max_burst - INTEGER + The limit of the number of new packets that can be initially sent. It + controls how bursty the generated traffic can be. + + Default: 4 + +association_max_retrans - INTEGER + Set the maximum number for retransmissions that an association can + attempt deciding that the remote end is unreachable. If this value + is exceeded, the association is terminated. + + Default: 10 + +max_init_retransmits - INTEGER + The maximum number of retransmissions of INIT and COOKIE-ECHO chunks + that an association will attempt before declaring the destination + unreachable and terminating. + + Default: 8 + +path_max_retrans - INTEGER + The maximum number of retransmissions that will be attempted on a given + path. Once this threshold is exceeded, the path is considered + unreachable, and new traffic will use a different path when the + association is multihomed. + + Default: 5 + +rto_initial - INTEGER + The initial round trip timeout value in milliseconds that will be used + in calculating round trip times. This is the initial time interval + for retransmissions. + + Default: 3000 -dev_weight FIXME -discovery_slots FIXME -discovery_timeout FIXME -fast_poll_increase FIXME -ip6_queue_maxlen FIXME -lap_keepalive_time FIXME -lo_cong FIXME -max_baud_rate FIXME -max_dgram_qlen FIXME -max_noreply_time FIXME -max_tx_data_size FIXME -max_tx_window FIXME -min_tx_turn_time FIXME -mod_cong FIXME -no_cong FIXME -no_cong_thresh FIXME -slot_timeout FIXME -warn_noreply_time FIXME +rto_max - INTEGER + The maximum value (in milliseconds) of the round trip timeout. This + is the largest time interval that can elapse between retransmissions. + + Default: 60000 + +rto_min - INTEGER + The minimum value (in milliseconds) of the round trip timeout. This + is the smallest time interval the can elapse between retransmissions. + + Default: 1000 + +hb_interval - INTEGER + The interval (in milliseconds) between HEARTBEAT chunks. These chunks + are sent at the specified interval on idle paths to probe the state of + a given path between 2 associations. + + Default: 30000 + +sack_timeout - INTEGER + The amount of time (in milliseconds) that the implementation will wait + to send a SACK. + + Default: 200 + +valid_cookie_life - INTEGER + The default lifetime of the SCTP cookie (in milliseconds). The cookie + is used during association establishment. + + Default: 60000 + +cookie_preserve_enable - BOOLEAN + Enable or disable the ability to extend the lifetime of the SCTP cookie + that is used during the establishment phase of SCTP association + + 1: Enable cookie lifetime extension. + 0: Disable + + Default: 1 + +rcvbuf_policy - INTEGER + Determines if the receive buffer is attributed to the socket or to + association. SCTP supports the capability to create multiple + associations on a single socket. When using this capability, it is + possible that a single stalled association that's buffering a lot + of data may block other associations from delivering their data by + consuming all of the receive buffer space. To work around this, + the rcvbuf_policy could be set to attribute the receiver buffer space + to each association instead of the socket. This prevents the described + blocking. + + 1: rcvbuf space is per association + 0: recbuf space is per socket + + Default: 0 + +sndbuf_policy - INTEGER + Similar to rcvbuf_policy above, this applies to send buffer space. + + 1: Send buffer is tracked per association + 0: Send buffer is tracked per socket. + + Default: 0 + +sctp_mem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, pressure, max + Number of pages allowed for queueing by all SCTP sockets. + + min: Below this number of pages SCTP is not bothered about its + memory appetite. When amount of memory allocated by SCTP exceeds + this number, SCTP starts to moderate memory usage. + + pressure: This value was introduced to follow format of tcp_mem. + + max: Number of pages allowed for queueing by all SCTP sockets. + + Default is calculated at boot time from amount of available memory. + +sctp_rmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max + See tcp_rmem for a description. + +sctp_wmem - vector of 3 INTEGERs: min, default, max + See tcp_wmem for a description. + +UNDOCUMENTED: +/proc/sys/net/core/* + dev_weight FIXME + +/proc/sys/net/unix/* + max_dgram_qlen FIXME + +/proc/sys/net/irda/* + fast_poll_increase FIXME + warn_noreply_time FIXME + discovery_slots FIXME + slot_timeout FIXME + max_baud_rate FIXME + discovery_timeout FIXME + lap_keepalive_time FIXME + max_noreply_time FIXME + max_tx_data_size FIXME + max_tx_window FIXME + min_tx_turn_time FIXME diff --git a/Documentation/nmi_watchdog.txt b/Documentation/nmi_watchdog.txt index 757c729..90aa453 100644 --- a/Documentation/nmi_watchdog.txt +++ b/Documentation/nmi_watchdog.txt @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ us to generate 'watchdog NMI interrupts'. (NMI: Non Maskable Interrupt which get executed even if the system is otherwise locked up hard). This can be used to debug hard kernel lockups. By executing periodic NMI interrupts, the kernel can monitor whether any CPU has locked up, -and print out debugging messages if so. +and print out debugging messages if so. In order to use the NMI watchdog, you need to have APIC support in your kernel. For SMP kernels, APIC support gets compiled in automatically. For @@ -22,8 +22,7 @@ CONFIG_X86_UP_IOAPIC is for uniprocessor with an IO-APIC. [Note: certain kernel debugging options, such as Kernel Stack Meter or Kernel Tracer, may implicitly disable the NMI watchdog.] -For x86-64, the needed APIC is always compiled in, and the NMI watchdog is -always enabled with I/O-APIC mode (nmi_watchdog=1). +For x86-64, the needed APIC is always compiled in. Using local APIC (nmi_watchdog=2) needs the first performance register, so you can't use it for other purposes (such as high precision performance @@ -63,16 +62,15 @@ when the system is idle), but if your system locks up on anything but the "hlt", then you are out of luck -- the event will not happen at all and the watchdog won't trigger. This is a shortcoming of the local APIC watchdog -- unfortunately there is no "clock ticks" event that would work all the -time. The I/O APIC watchdog is driven externally and has no such shortcoming. +time. The I/O APIC watchdog is driven externally and has no such shortcoming. But its NMI frequency is much higher, resulting in a more significant hit to the overall system performance. -NOTE: starting with 2.4.2-ac18 the NMI-oopser is disabled by default, -you have to enable it with a boot time parameter. Prior to 2.4.2-ac18 -the NMI-oopser is enabled unconditionally on x86 SMP boxes. +On x86 nmi_watchdog is disabled by default so you have to enable it with +a boot time parameter. -On x86-64 the NMI oopser is on by default. On 64bit Intel CPUs -it uses IO-APIC by default and on AMD it uses local APIC. +NOTE: In kernels prior to 2.4.2-ac18 the NMI-oopser is enabled unconditionally +on x86 SMP boxes. [ feel free to send bug reports, suggestions and patches to Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> or the Linux SMP mailing diff --git a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-domains.txt b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-domains.txt index a9e990a..373ceac 100644 --- a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-domains.txt +++ b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-domains.txt @@ -61,10 +61,7 @@ builder by #define'ing ARCH_HASH_SCHED_DOMAIN, and exporting your arch_init_sched_domains function. This function will attach domains to all CPUs using cpu_attach_domain. -Implementors should change the line -#undef SCHED_DOMAIN_DEBUG -to -#define SCHED_DOMAIN_DEBUG -in kernel/sched.c as this enables an error checking parse of the sched domains +The sched-domains debugging infrastructure can be enabled by enabling +CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG. This enables an error checking parse of the sched domains which should catch most possible errors (described above). It also prints out the domain structure in a visual format. diff --git a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt index 14f901f..3ef339f 100644 --- a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt +++ b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt @@ -51,9 +51,9 @@ needs only about 3% CPU time to do so, it can do with a 0.03 * 0.005s = 0.00015s. So this group can be scheduled with a period of 0.005s and a run time of 0.00015s. -The remaining CPU time will be used for user input and other tass. Because +The remaining CPU time will be used for user input and other tasks. Because realtime tasks have explicitly allocated the CPU time they need to perform -their tasks, buffer underruns in the graphocs or audio can be eliminated. +their tasks, buffer underruns in the graphics or audio can be eliminated. NOTE: the above example is not fully implemented as of yet (2.6.25). We still lack an EDF scheduler to make non-uniform periods usable. diff --git a/Documentation/i386/IO-APIC.txt b/Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt index 30b4c71..30b4c71 100644 --- a/Documentation/i386/IO-APIC.txt +++ b/Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.txt diff --git a/Documentation/i386/boot.txt b/Documentation/x86/i386/boot.txt index 95ad15c..147bfe5 100644 --- a/Documentation/i386/boot.txt +++ b/Documentation/x86/i386/boot.txt @@ -1,17 +1,14 @@ - THE LINUX/I386 BOOT PROTOCOL - ---------------------------- + THE LINUX/x86 BOOT PROTOCOL + --------------------------- - H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> - Last update 2007-05-23 - -On the i386 platform, the Linux kernel uses a rather complicated boot +On the x86 platform, the Linux kernel uses a rather complicated boot convention. This has evolved partially due to historical aspects, as well as the desire in the early days to have the kernel itself be a bootable image, the complicated PC memory model and due to changed expectations in the PC industry caused by the effective demise of real-mode DOS as a mainstream operating system. -Currently, the following versions of the Linux/i386 boot protocol exist. +Currently, the following versions of the Linux/x86 boot protocol exist. Old kernels: zImage/Image support only. Some very early kernels may not even support a command line. @@ -372,10 +369,17 @@ Protocol: 2.00+ - If 0, the protected-mode code is loaded at 0x10000. - If 1, the protected-mode code is loaded at 0x100000. + Bit 5 (write): QUIET_FLAG + - If 0, print early messages. + - If 1, suppress early messages. + This requests to the kernel (decompressor and early + kernel) to not write early messages that require + accessing the display hardware directly. + Bit 6 (write): KEEP_SEGMENTS Protocol: 2.07+ - - if 0, reload the segment registers in the 32bit entry point. - - if 1, do not reload the segment registers in the 32bit entry point. + - If 0, reload the segment registers in the 32bit entry point. + - If 1, do not reload the segment registers in the 32bit entry point. Assume that %cs %ds %ss %es are all set to flat segments with a base of 0 (or the equivalent for their environment). @@ -504,7 +508,7 @@ Protocol: 2.06+ maximum size was 255. Field name: hardware_subarch -Type: write +Type: write (optional, defaults to x86/PC) Offset/size: 0x23c/4 Protocol: 2.07+ @@ -520,11 +524,13 @@ Protocol: 2.07+ 0x00000002 Xen Field name: hardware_subarch_data -Type: write +Type: write (subarch-dependent) Offset/size: 0x240/8 Protocol: 2.07+ A pointer to data that is specific to hardware subarch + This field is currently unused for the default x86/PC environment, + do not modify. Field name: payload_offset Type: read @@ -545,6 +551,34 @@ Protocol: 2.08+ The length of the payload. +Field name: setup_data +Type: write (special) +Offset/size: 0x250/8 +Protocol: 2.09+ + + The 64-bit physical pointer to NULL terminated single linked list of + struct setup_data. This is used to define a more extensible boot + parameters passing mechanism. The definition of struct setup_data is + as follow: + + struct setup_data { + u64 next; + u32 type; + u32 len; + u8 data[0]; + }; + + Where, the next is a 64-bit physical pointer to the next node of + linked list, the next field of the last node is 0; the type is used + to identify the contents of data; the len is the length of data + field; the data holds the real payload. + + This list may be modified at a number of points during the bootup + process. Therefore, when modifying this list one should always make + sure to consider the case where the linked list already contains + entries. + + **** THE IMAGE CHECKSUM From boot protocol version 2.08 onwards the CRC-32 is calculated over @@ -553,6 +587,7 @@ initial remainder of 0xffffffff. The checksum is appended to the file; therefore the CRC of the file up to the limit specified in the syssize field of the header is always 0. + **** THE KERNEL COMMAND LINE The kernel command line has become an important way for the boot @@ -584,28 +619,6 @@ command line is entered using the following protocol: covered by setup_move_size, so you may need to adjust this field. -Field name: setup_data -Type: write (obligatory) -Offset/size: 0x250/8 -Protocol: 2.09+ - - The 64-bit physical pointer to NULL terminated single linked list of - struct setup_data. This is used to define a more extensible boot - parameters passing mechanism. The definition of struct setup_data is - as follow: - - struct setup_data { - u64 next; - u32 type; - u32 len; - u8 data[0]; - }; - - Where, the next is a 64-bit physical pointer to the next node of - linked list, the next field of the last node is 0; the type is used - to identify the contents of data; the len is the length of data - field; the data holds the real payload. - **** MEMORY LAYOUT OF THE REAL-MODE CODE diff --git a/Documentation/i386/usb-legacy-support.txt b/Documentation/x86/i386/usb-legacy-support.txt index 1894cdf..1894cdf 100644 --- a/Documentation/i386/usb-legacy-support.txt +++ b/Documentation/x86/i386/usb-legacy-support.txt diff --git a/Documentation/i386/zero-page.txt b/Documentation/x86/i386/zero-page.txt index 169ad42..169ad42 100644 --- a/Documentation/i386/zero-page.txt +++ b/Documentation/x86/i386/zero-page.txt diff --git a/Documentation/x86_64/00-INDEX b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/00-INDEX index 92fc20a..92fc20a 100644 --- a/Documentation/x86_64/00-INDEX +++ b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/00-INDEX diff --git a/Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt index b0c7b6c..b0c7b6c 100644 --- a/Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt diff --git a/Documentation/x86_64/cpu-hotplug-spec b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/cpu-hotplug-spec index 3c23e05..3c23e05 100644 --- a/Documentation/x86_64/cpu-hotplug-spec +++ b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/cpu-hotplug-spec diff --git a/Documentation/x86_64/fake-numa-for-cpusets b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/fake-numa-for-cpusets index d1a985c..d1a985c 100644 --- a/Documentation/x86_64/fake-numa-for-cpusets +++ b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/fake-numa-for-cpusets diff --git a/Documentation/x86_64/kernel-stacks b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/kernel-stacks index 5ad65d5..5ad65d5 100644 --- a/Documentation/x86_64/kernel-stacks +++ b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/kernel-stacks diff --git a/Documentation/x86_64/machinecheck b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/machinecheck index a05e58e..a05e58e 100644 --- a/Documentation/x86_64/machinecheck +++ b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/machinecheck diff --git a/Documentation/x86_64/mm.txt b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt index b89b6d2..efce750 100644 --- a/Documentation/x86_64/mm.txt +++ b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt @@ -11,9 +11,8 @@ ffffc10000000000 - ffffc1ffffffffff (=40 bits) hole ffffc20000000000 - ffffe1ffffffffff (=45 bits) vmalloc/ioremap space ffffe20000000000 - ffffe2ffffffffff (=40 bits) virtual memory map (1TB) ... unused hole ... -ffffffff80000000 - ffffffff82800000 (=40 MB) kernel text mapping, from phys 0 -... unused hole ... -ffffffff88000000 - fffffffffff00000 (=1919 MB) module mapping space +ffffffff80000000 - ffffffffa0000000 (=512 MB) kernel text mapping, from phys 0 +ffffffffa0000000 - fffffffffff00000 (=1536 MB) module mapping space The direct mapping covers all memory in the system up to the highest memory address (this means in some cases it can also include PCI memory diff --git a/Documentation/x86_64/uefi.txt b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/uefi.txt index 7d77120..a5e2b4f 100644 --- a/Documentation/x86_64/uefi.txt +++ b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/uefi.txt @@ -36,3 +36,7 @@ Mechanics: services. noefi turn off all EFI runtime services reboot_type=k turn off EFI reboot runtime service +- If the EFI memory map has additional entries not in the E820 map, + you can include those entries in the kernels memory map of available + physical RAM by using the following kernel command line parameter. + add_efi_memmap include EFI memory map of available physical RAM |