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2016-05-20ftrace/x86: Set ftrace_stub to weak to prevent gcc from using short jumps to itSteven Rostedt
Matt Fleming reported seeing crashes when enabling and disabling function profiling which uses function graph tracer. Later Namhyung Kim hit a similar issue and he found that the issue was due to the jmp to ftrace_stub in ftrace_graph_call was only two bytes, and when it was changed to jump to the tracing code, it overwrote the ftrace_stub that was after it. Masami Hiramatsu bisected this down to a binutils change: 8dcea93252a9ea7dff57e85220a719e2a5e8ab41 is the first bad commit commit 8dcea93252a9ea7dff57e85220a719e2a5e8ab41 Author: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com> Date: Fri May 15 03:17:31 2015 -0700 Add -mshared option to x86 ELF assembler This patch adds -mshared option to x86 ELF assembler. By default, assembler will optimize out non-PLT relocations against defined non-weak global branch targets with default visibility. The -mshared option tells the assembler to generate code which may go into a shared library where all non-weak global branch targets with default visibility can be preempted. The resulting code is slightly bigger. This option only affects the handling of branch instructions. Declaring ftrace_stub as a weak call prevents gas from using two byte jumps to it, which would be converted to a jump to the function graph code. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160516230035.1dbae571@gandalf.local.home Reported-by: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk> Reported-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Tested-by: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk> Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-05-20ftrace: Don't disable irqs when taking the tasklist_lock read_lockSoumya PN
In ftrace.c inside the function alloc_retstack_tasklist() (which will be invoked when function_graph tracing is on) the tasklist_lock is being held as reader while iterating through a list of threads. Here the lock is being held as reader with irqs disabled. The tasklist_lock is never write_locked in interrupt context so it is safe to not disable interrupts for the duration of read_lock in this block which, can be significant, given the block of code iterates through all threads. Hence changing the code to call read_lock() and read_unlock() instead of read_lock_irqsave() and read_unlock_irqrestore(). A similar change was made in commits: 8063e41d2ffc ("tracing: Change syscall_*regfunc() to check PF_KTHREAD and use for_each_process_thread()")' and 3472eaa1f12e ("sched: normalize_rt_tasks(): Don't use _irqsave for tasklist_lock, use task_rq_lock()")' Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1463500874-77480-1-git-send-email-soumya.p.n@hpe.com Signed-off-by: Soumya PN <soumya.p.n@hpe.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-05-09ftracetest: Add instance created, delete, read and enable event testSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
Add a new ftrace test that creates three threads. One that creates and removes an ftrace instance, one that reads the instance, and one that enables and disables events in the instance. This is a stress test for accessing and removing instances at the same time. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-05-03tracing: Use temp buffer when filtering eventsSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
Filtering of events requires the data to be written to the ring buffer before it can be decided to filter or not. This is because the parameters of the filter are based on the result that is written to the ring buffer and not on the parameters that are passed into the trace functions. The ftrace ring buffer is optimized for writing into the ring buffer and committing. The discard procedure used when filtering decides the event should be discarded is much more heavy weight. Thus, using a temporary filter when filtering events can speed things up drastically. Without a temp buffer we have: # trace-cmd start -p nop # perf stat -r 10 hackbench 50 0.790706626 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.71% ) # trace-cmd start -e all # perf stat -r 10 hackbench 50 1.566904059 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.27% ) # trace-cmd start -e all -f 'common_preempt_count==20' # perf stat -r 10 hackbench 50 1.690598511 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.19% ) # trace-cmd start -e all -f 'common_preempt_count!=20' # perf stat -r 10 hackbench 50 1.707486364 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.30% ) The first run above is without any tracing, just to get a based figure. hackbench takes ~0.79 seconds to run on the system. The second run enables tracing all events where nothing is filtered. This increases the time by 100% and hackbench takes 1.57 seconds to run. The third run filters all events where the preempt count will equal "20" (this should never happen) thus all events are discarded. This takes 1.69 seconds to run. This is 10% slower than just committing the events! The last run enables all events and filters where the filter will commit all events, and this takes 1.70 seconds to run. The filtering overhead is approximately 10%. Thus, the discard and commit of an event from the ring buffer may be about the same time. With this patch, the numbers change: # trace-cmd start -p nop # perf stat -r 10 hackbench 50 0.778233033 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.38% ) # trace-cmd start -e all # perf stat -r 10 hackbench 50 1.582102692 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.28% ) # trace-cmd start -e all -f 'common_preempt_count==20' # perf stat -r 10 hackbench 50 1.309230710 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.22% ) # trace-cmd start -e all -f 'common_preempt_count!=20' # perf stat -r 10 hackbench 50 1.786001924 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.20% ) The first run is again the base with no tracing. The second run is all tracing with no filtering. It is a little slower, but that may be well within the noise. The third run shows that discarding all events only took 1.3 seconds. This is a speed up of 23%! The discard is much faster than even the commit. The one downside is shown in the last run. Events that are not discarded by the filter will take longer to add, this is due to the extra copy of the event. Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-05-03tracing: Remove TRACE_EVENT_FL_USE_CALL_FILTER logicSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
Nothing sets TRACE_EVENT_FL_USE_CALL_FILTER anymore. Remove it. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-04-29tracing: Remove unused function trace_current_buffer_lock_reserve()Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
trace_current_buffer_lock_reserve() has no more users. Remove it. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-04-29tracing: Remove one use of trace_current_buffer_lock_reserve()Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
The only user of trace_current_buffer_lock_reserve() is in the boot up self tests. Restructure the code a little to have that code use what everything else uses: trace_event_buffer_lock_reserve(). Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-04-29tracing: Have trace_buffer_unlock_commit() call the _regs version with NULLSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
There's no real difference between trace_buffer_unlock_commit() and trace_buffer_unlock_commit_regs() except that the former passes NULL to ftrace_stack_trace() instead of regs. Have the former be a static inline of the latter which passes NULL for regs. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-04-29tracing: Remove unused function trace_current_buffer_discard_commit()Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
The function trace_current_buffer_discard_commit() has no callers, remove it. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-04-29tracing: Move trace_buffer_unlock_commit{_regs}() to local headerSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
The functions trace_buffer_unlock_commit() and the _regs() version are only used within the kernel/trace directory. Move them to the local header and remove the export as well. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-04-29tracing: Fold filter_check_discard() into its only userSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
The function filter_check_discard() is small and only called by one user, its code can be folded into that one caller and make the code a bit less comlplex. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-04-27tracing: Make filter_check_discard() localSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
Nothing outside of the tracing directory calls filter_check_discard() or check_filter_check_discard(). They should not be called by modules. Move their prototypes into the local tracing header and remove their EXPORT_SYMBOL() macros. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-04-27tracing: Move event_trigger_unlock_commit{_regs}() to local headerSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
The functions event_trigger_unlock_commit() and event_trigger_unlock_commit_regs() are no longer used outside the tracing system. Move them out of the generic headers and into the local one. Along with __event_trigger_test_discard() that is only used by them. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-04-26tracing: Don't use the address of the buffer array name in copy_from_userWang Xiaoqiang
With the following code snippet: ... char buf[64]; ... if (copy_from_user(&buf, ubuf, cnt)) ... Even though the value of "&buf" equals "buf", but there is no need to get the address of the "buf" again. Use "buf" instead of "&buf". Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160418152329.18b72bea@debian Signed-off-by: Wang Xiaoqiang <wangxq10@lzu.edu.cn> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-04-26tracing: Handle tracing_map_alloc_elts() error path correctlyTom Zanussi
If tracing_map_elt_alloc() fails, it will return ERR_PTR() instead of NULL, so change the check to IS_ERROR(). We also need to set the failed entry in the map->elts array to NULL instead of ERR_PTR() so tracing_map_free_elts() doesn't try freeing an ERR_PTR(). tracing_map_free_elts() should also zero out what it frees so a reentrant call won't find previously freed elements. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/f29d03b00bce3aac8cf151a8a30e6c83e5fee66d.1461610073.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-04-26tracing: Add check for NULL event field when creating hist fieldTom Zanussi
Smatch flagged create_hist_field() as possibly being able to dereference a NULL pointer, although the current code exits in all cases where the event field could be NULL, so it's not actually a problem. Still, to prevent future changes to the code from overlooking new cases, make the NULL pointer check explicit and warn once in that case. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/cfbc003f534a3e441b4313272fd412310aba6336.1461610073.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-04-26tracing: checking for NULL instead of IS_ERR()Dan Carpenter
tracing_map_elt_alloc() returns ERR_PTRs on error, never NULL. Fixes: 08d43a5fa063 ('tracing: Add lock-free tracing_map') Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160423102347.GA11136@mwanda Acked-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-04-26tracing: Do not inherit event-fork option for instancesSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
As the event-fork option requires doing work when enabled and disabled, it can not be passed down to created instances. The instance must clear this flag when it is created, and must clear it when its removed. As more options may be created with this need, a macro ZEROED_TRACE_FLAGS is created that holds the flags that must not be inherited by the top level instance, and must be cleared on removal of instances. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-04-19tracing: Fix unsigned comparison to zero in hist trigger codeSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
Fengguang Wu's bot found two comparisons of unsigned integers to zero. These were real bugs, as it would miss error conditions returned to zero. trace_events_hist.c:426:6-9: WARNING: Unsigned expression compared with zero: idx < 0 trace_events_hist.c:568:5-14: WARNING: Unsigned expression compared with zero: n_entries < 0 Reported-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-04-19kselftests/ftrace: Add a test for log2 modifier of hist triggerMasami Hiramatsu
Add a test for log2 modifier of hist trigger in hist_mod.tc. Here is the test result. ---- # ./ftracetest test.d/trigger/trigger-hist-mod.tc === Ftrace unit tests === [1] event trigger - test histogram modifiers [PASS] # of passed: 1 # of failed: 0 # of unresolved: 0 # of untested: 0 # of unsupported: 0 # of xfailed: 0 # of undefined(test bug): 0 ---- Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/3f1ab735c06a50b1b40d3e96b8b6a3e5ea62fd86.1457029949.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com> Tested-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-04-19tracing: Add hist trigger 'log2' modifierNamhyung Kim
Allow users to have numeric fields displayed as log2 values in case value range is very wide by appending '.log2' to field names. For example, # echo 'hist:key=bytes_req' > kmalloc/trigger # cat kmalloc/hist { bytes_req: 504 } hitcount: 1 { bytes_req: 11 } hitcount: 1 { bytes_req: 104 } hitcount: 1 { bytes_req: 48 } hitcount: 1 { bytes_req: 2048 } hitcount: 1 { bytes_req: 4096 } hitcount: 1 { bytes_req: 240 } hitcount: 1 { bytes_req: 392 } hitcount: 1 { bytes_req: 13 } hitcount: 1 { bytes_req: 28 } hitcount: 1 { bytes_req: 12 } hitcount: 1 { bytes_req: 64 } hitcount: 2 { bytes_req: 128 } hitcount: 2 { bytes_req: 32 } hitcount: 2 { bytes_req: 8 } hitcount: 11 { bytes_req: 10 } hitcount: 13 { bytes_req: 24 } hitcount: 25 { bytes_req: 160 } hitcount: 29 { bytes_req: 16 } hitcount: 33 { bytes_req: 80 } hitcount: 36 When using '.log2' modifier, the output looks like: # echo 'hist:key=bytes_req.log2' > kmalloc/trigger # cat kmalloc/hist { bytes_req: ~ 2^12 } hitcount: 1 { bytes_req: ~ 2^11 } hitcount: 1 { bytes_req: ~ 2^9 } hitcount: 2 { bytes_req: ~ 2^6 } hitcount: 3 { bytes_req: ~ 2^3 } hitcount: 13 { bytes_req: ~ 2^5 } hitcount: 19 { bytes_req: ~ 2^8 } hitcount: 49 { bytes_req: ~ 2^7 } hitcount: 57 { bytes_req: ~ 2^4 } hitcount: 74 Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/7ff396b246c6a881f46b979735fddf05a0d6c71a.1457029949.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com Cc: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-04-19kselftests/ftrace: Add hist trigger testcasesMasami Hiramatsu
Add the hist trigger testcases for ftracetest. This checks the basic histogram trigger behaviors like as; - Histogram trigger itself - Histogram with string key - Histogram with compound keys - Histogram with sort key - Histogram trigger modifiers (execname, hex, syscall) - Multiple histograms on an event - Named histogram - Named histogram on multi events Here is the test result. ---- # ./ftracetest test.d/trigger/*hist*.tc === Ftrace unit tests === [1] event trigger - test histogram modifiers [PASS] [2] event trigger - test histogram trigger [PASS] [3] event trigger - test multiple histogram triggers [PASS] # of passed: 3 # of failed: 0 # of unresolved: 0 # of untested: 0 # of unsupported: 0 # of xfailed: 0 # of undefined(test bug): 0 ---- Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/17cb3a3d9eeadc3282645147905455a298e7fbeb.1457029949.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com> [Tom Zanussi: Change multihist test from truncate ('>') to append ('>>')] Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-04-19kselftests/ftrace : Add event trigger testcasesMasami Hiramatsu
This adds simple event trigger testcases for ftracetest, which covers following triggers. - traceon-traceoff trigger - enable/disable_event trigger - snapshot trigger - stacktrace trigger - trigger filters Here is the test result. ---- # ./ftracetest test.d/trigger/ === Ftrace unit tests === [1] event trigger - test event enable/disable trigger [PASS] [2] event trigger - test trigger filter [PASS] [3] event trigger - test snapshot-trigger [PASS] [4] event trigger - test stacktrace-trigger [PASS] [5] event trigger - test traceon/off trigger [PASS] # of passed: 5 # of failed: 0 # of unresolved: 0 # of untested: 0 # of unsupported: 0 # of xfailed: 0 # of undefined(test bug): 0 ---- Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/12b9c2b289a0dc1e4386e7b77674611a83abca85.1457029949.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-04-19tracing: Add support for named hist triggersTom Zanussi
Allow users to define 'named' hist triggers. All triggers created with the same 'name=xxx' option will update the same shared histogram data. This expands the hist trigger syntax from this: # echo hist:keys=xxx ... [ if filter] > event/trigger to this: # echo hist:name=xxx:keys=xxx ... [ if filter] > event/trigger Named histograms must use a 'compatible' set of keys and values, which means each event added to a set of named triggers must have the same names and types. Reading the 'hist' file of any of the participating events will produce the same output as any other participating event, which is to be expected since they share the same data. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1dbc84ee3322a75daaf5b3ef1d0cc0a2fb682fc7.1457029949.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com> Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-04-19tracing: Add support for named triggersTom Zanussi
Named triggers are sets of triggers that share a common set of trigger data. An example of functionality that could benefit from this type of capability would be a set of inlined probes that would each contribute event counts, for example, to a shared counter data structure. The first named trigger registered with a given name owns the common trigger data that the others subsequently registered with the same name will reference. The functions defined here allow users to add, delete, and find named triggers. It also adds functions to pause and unpause named triggers; since named triggers act upon common data, they should also be paused and unpaused as a group. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/c09ff648360f65b10a3e321eddafe18060b4a04f.1457029949.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com> Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-04-19tracing: Add support for multiple hist triggers per eventTom Zanussi
Allow users to define any number of hist triggers per trace event. Any number of hist triggers may be added for a given event, which may differ by key, value, or filter. Reading the event's 'hist' file will display the output of all the hist triggers defined on an event concatenated in the order they were defined. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/48a0c8dd34c344571de880fb35e211c6d9a28961.1457029949.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com> Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-04-19tracing: Add 'hist' trigger DocumentationTom Zanussi
Add documentation and usage examples for 'hist' triggers. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/2e13f35f47fea6d647f0efefccfc9673ea84b29f.1457029949.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com> Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-04-19tracing: Add enable_hist/disable_hist triggersTom Zanussi
Similar to enable_event/disable_event triggers, these triggers enable and disable the aggregation of events into maps rather than enabling and disabling their writing into the trace buffer. They can be used to automatically start and stop hist triggers based on a matching filter condition. If there's a paused hist trigger on system:event, the following would start it when the filter condition was hit: # echo enable_hist:system:event [ if filter] > event/trigger And the following would disable a running system:event hist trigger: # echo disable_hist:system:event [ if filter] > event/trigger See Documentation/trace/events.txt for real examples. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/f812f086e52c8b7c8ad5443487375e03c96a601f.1457029949.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com> Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-04-19tracing: Remove restriction on string position in hist trigger keysTom Zanussi
If we assume the maximum size for a string field, we don't have to worry about its position. Since we only allow two keys in a compound key and having more than one string key in a given compound key doesn't make much sense anyway, trading a bit of extra space instead of introducing an arbitrary restriction makes more sense. We also need to use the event field size for static strings when copying the contents, otherwise we get random garbage in the key. Also, cast string return values to avoid warnings on 32-bit compiles. Finally, rearrange the code without changing any functionality by moving the compound key updating code into a separate function. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/8976e1ab04b66bc2700ad1ed0768a2de85ac1983.1457029949.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com> Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-04-19tracing: Support string type key properlyNamhyung Kim
The string in a trace event is usually recorded as dynamic array which is variable length. But current hist code only support fixed length array so it cannot support most strings. This patch fixes it by checking filter_type of the field and get proper pointer with it. With this, it can get a histogram of exec() based on filenames like below: # cd /sys/kernel/tracing/events/sched/sched_process_exec # cat 'hist:key=filename' > trigger # ps PID TTY TIME CMD 1 ? 00:00:00 init 29 ? 00:00:00 sh 38 ? 00:00:00 ps # ls enable filter format hist id trigger # cat hist # trigger info: hist:keys=filename:vals=hitcount:sort=hitcount:size=2048 [active] { filename: /usr/bin/ps } hitcount: 1 { filename: /usr/bin/ls } hitcount: 1 { filename: /usr/bin/cat } hitcount: 1 Totals: Hits: 3 Entries: 3 Dropped: 0 Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/610180d6df0cfdf11ee205452f3b241dea657233.1457029949.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com Cc: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> [ Added (unsigned long) typecast to fix compile warning ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-04-19tracing: Add hist trigger support for stacktraces as keysTom Zanussi
It's often useful to be able to use a stacktrace as a hash key, for keeping a count of the number of times a particular call path resulted in a trace event, for instance. Add a special key named 'stacktrace' which can be used as key in a 'keys=' param for this purpose: # echo hist:keys=stacktrace ... \ [ if filter] > event/trigger Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/87515e90b3785232a874a12156174635a348edb1.1457029949.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com> Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-04-19tracing: Add hist trigger 'syscall' modifierTom Zanussi
Allow users to have syscall id fields displayed as syscall names in the output by appending '.syscall' to field names: # echo hist:keys=aaa.syscall ... \ [ if filter] > event/trigger Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/2bab1e59933d76a14b545bd2e02f80b8b08ac4d3.1457029949.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com> Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-04-19tracing: Add hist trigger 'execname' modifierTom Zanussi
Allow users to have common_pid field values displayed as program names in the output by appending '.execname' to a common_pid field name: # echo hist:keys=common_pid.execname ... \ [ if filter] > event/trigger Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e172e81f10f5b8d1f08450e3763c850f39fbf698.1457029949.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com> Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-04-19tracing: Add hist trigger 'sym' and 'sym-offset' modifiersTom Zanussi
Allow users to have address fields displayed as symbols in the output by appending '.sym' or 'sym-offset' to field names: # echo hist:keys=aaa.sym,bbb.sym-offset ... \ [ if filter] > event/trigger Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/87d4935821491c0275513f0fbfb9bab8d3d3f079.1457029949.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com> Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-04-19tracing: Add hist trigger 'hex' modifier for displaying numeric fieldsTom Zanussi
Allow users to have numeric fields displayed as hex values in the output by appending '.hex' to field names: # echo hist:keys=aaa,bbb.hex:vals=ccc.hex ... \ [ if filter] > event/trigger Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/67bd431edda2af5798d7694818f7e8d71b6b3463.1457029949.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com> Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-04-19tracing: Add hist trigger support for clearing a traceTom Zanussi
Allow users to append 'clear' to an existing trigger in order to have the hash table cleared. This expands the hist trigger syntax from this: # echo hist:keys=xxx:vals=yyy:sort=zzz.descending:pause/cont \ [ if filter] >> event/trigger to this: # echo hist:keys=xxx:vals=yyy:sort=zzz.descending:pause/cont/clear \ [ if filter] >> event/trigger Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ae15dd0d9b2f7af07a37c1ff682063e2dbcdf160.1457029949.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com> Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-04-19tracing: Add hist trigger support for pausing and continuing a traceTom Zanussi
Allow users to append 'pause' or 'continue' to an existing trigger in order to have it paused or to have a paused trace continue. This expands the hist trigger syntax from this: # echo hist:keys=xxx:vals=yyy:sort=zzz.descending \ [ if filter] >> event/trigger to this: # echo hist:keys=xxx:vals=yyy:sort=zzz.descending:pause or cont \ [ if filter] >> event/trigger Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/b672a92c14702cb924cdf6fc27ea1809bed04907.1457029949.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com> Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-04-19tracing: Add hist trigger support for user-defined sorting ('sort=' param)Tom Zanussi
Allow users to specify keys and/or values to sort on. With this addition, keys and values specified using the 'keys=' and 'vals=' keywords can be used to sort the hist trigger output via a new 'sort=' keyword. If multiple sort keys are specified, the output will be sorted using the second key as a secondary sort key, etc. The default sort order is ascending; if the user wants a different sort order, '.descending' can be appended to the specific sort key. Before this addition, output was always sorted by 'hitcount' in ascending order. This expands the hist trigger syntax from this: # echo hist:keys=xxx:vals=yyy \ [ if filter] > event/trigger to this: # echo hist:keys=xxx:vals=yyy:sort=zzz.descending \ [ if filter] > event/trigger Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/b30a41db66ba486979c4f987aff5fab500ea53b3.1457029949.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com> Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-04-19tracing: Add hist trigger support for compound keysTom Zanussi
Allow users to specify multiple trace event fields to use in keys by allowing multiple fields in the 'keys=' keyword. With this addition, any unique combination of any of the fields named in the 'keys' keyword will result in a new entry being added to the hash table. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/0cfa24e6ac3b0dcece7737d94aa1f322ae3afc4b.1457029949.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com> Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-04-19tracing: Add hist trigger support for multiple values ('vals=' param)Tom Zanussi
Allow users to specify trace event fields to use in aggregated sums via a new 'vals=' keyword. Before this addition, the only aggregated sum supported was the implied value 'hitcount'. With this addition, 'hitcount' is also supported as an explicit value field, as is any numeric trace event field. This expands the hist trigger syntax from this: # echo hist:keys=xxx [ if filter] > event/trigger to this: # echo hist:keys=xxx:vals=yyy [ if filter] > event/trigger Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/2a5d1adb5ba6c65d7bb2148e379f2fed47f29a68.1457029949.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com> Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-04-19tracing: Add 'hist' event trigger commandTom Zanussi
'hist' triggers allow users to continually aggregate trace events, which can then be viewed afterwards by simply reading a 'hist' file containing the aggregation in a human-readable format. The basic idea is very simple and boils down to a mechanism whereby trace events, rather than being exhaustively dumped in raw form and viewed directly, are automatically 'compressed' into meaningful tables completely defined by the user. This is done strictly via single-line command-line commands and without the aid of any kind of programming language or interpreter. A surprising number of typical use cases can be accomplished by users via this simple mechanism. In fact, a large number of the tasks that users typically do using the more complicated script-based tracing tools, at least during the initial stages of an investigation, can be accomplished by simply specifying a set of keys and values to be used in the creation of a hash table. The Linux kernel trace event subsystem happens to provide an extensive list of keys and values ready-made for such a purpose in the form of the event format files associated with each trace event. By simply consulting the format file for field names of interest and by plugging them into the hist trigger command, users can create an endless number of useful aggregations to help with investigating various properties of the system. See Documentation/trace/events.txt for examples. hist triggers are implemented on top of the existing event trigger infrastructure, and as such are consistent with the existing triggers from a user's perspective as well. The basic syntax follows the existing trigger syntax. Users start an aggregation by writing a 'hist' trigger to the event of interest's trigger file: # echo hist:keys=xxx [ if filter] > event/trigger Once a hist trigger has been set up, by default it continually aggregates every matching event into a hash table using the event key and a value field named 'hitcount'. To view the aggregation at any point in time, simply read the 'hist' file in the same directory as the 'trigger' file: # cat event/hist The detailed syntax provides additional options for user control, and is described exhaustively in Documentation/trace/events.txt and in the virtual tracing/README file in the tracing subsystem. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/72d263b5e1853fe9c314953b65833c3aa75479f2.1457029949.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com> Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-04-19tracing: Update some tracing_map constants and commentsTom Zanussi
Make it clear exactly how many keys and values are supported through better defines, and add 1 to the vals count, since normally clients want support for at least a hitcount and two other values. Also, note the error return value for tracing_map_add_key/val_field() in the comments. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/6696fa02ebc716aa344c27a571a2afaa25e5b4d4.1457029949.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-04-19tracing: Fix TRACING_MAP KconfigSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
The config option for TRACING_MAP has "default n", which is not needed because the default of configs is 'n'. Also, since the TRACING_MAP has no config prompt, there's no reason to include "If in doubt, say N" in the help text. Fixed a typo in the comments of tracing_map.h. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-04-19tracing: Add lock-free tracing_mapTom Zanussi
Add tracing_map, a special-purpose lock-free map for tracing. tracing_map is designed to aggregate or 'sum' one or more values associated with a specific object of type tracing_map_elt, which is associated by the map to a given key. It provides various hooks allowing per-tracer customization and is separated out into a separate file in order to allow it to be shared between multiple tracers, but isn't meant to be generally used outside of that context. The tracing_map implementation was inspired by lock-free map algorithms originated by Dr. Cliff Click: http://www.azulsystems.com/blog/cliff/2007-03-26-non-blocking-hashtable http://www.azulsystems.com/events/javaone_2007/2007_LockFreeHash.pdf Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/b43d68d1add33582a396f553c8ef705a33a6a748.1449767187.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com> Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-04-19tracing: Update the documentation to describe "event-fork" optionSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
Add documentation to the ftrace.txt file in Documentation to describe the event-fork option. Also add the missing "display-graph" option now that it shows up in the trace_options file (from a previous commit). Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-04-19tracing: Add infrastructure to allow set_event_pid to follow childrenSteven Rostedt
Add the infrastructure needed to have the PIDs in set_event_pid to automatically add PIDs of the children of the tasks that have their PIDs in set_event_pid. This will also remove PIDs from set_event_pid when a task exits This is implemented by adding hooks into the fork and exit tracepoints. On fork, the PIDs are added to the list, and on exit, they are removed. Add a new option called event_fork that when set, PIDs in set_event_pid will automatically get their children PIDs added when they fork, as well as any task that exits will have its PID removed from set_event_pid. This works for instances as well. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-04-19tracing: Use pid bitmap instead of a pid array for set_event_pidSteven Rostedt
In order to add the ability to let tasks that are filtered by the events have their children also be traced on fork (and then not traced on exit), convert the array into a pid bitmask. Most of the time the number of pids is only 32768 pids or a 4k bitmask, which is the same size as the default list currently is, and that list could grow if more pids are listed. This also greatly simplifies the code. Suggested-by: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-04-19tracing: Rename check_ignore_pid() to ignore_this_task()Steven Rostedt
The name "check_ignore_pid" is confusing in trying to figure out if the pid should be ignored or not. Rename it to "ignore_this_task" which is pretty straight forward, as a task (not a pid) is passed in, and should if true should be ignored. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-04-18Linux 4.6-rc4Linus Torvalds
2016-04-17Merge tag 'dm-4.6-fix-2' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm Pull device mapper fix from Mike Snitzer: "Fix for earlier 4.6-rc4 stable@ commit that introduced improper use of write lock in cmd_read_lock() -- due to cut-n-paste gone awry (and sparse didn't catch it)" * tag 'dm-4.6-fix-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm: dm cache metadata: fix cmd_read_lock() acquiring write lock