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2009-05-07tracing: have menu default enabled when kernel debug is configuredSteven Rostedt
Tracing can be very helpful to debug the kernel. When DEBUG_KERNEL is enabled it is nice to enable the trace menu as well. This patch only make the tracing menu enabled by default, it does not make any of the tracers enabled. And the menu is only enabled by default if DEBUG_KERNEL is enabled. [ Impact: show tracing options to those debugging the kernel ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-05-07tracing: append ":*" to internal setting of system eventsSteven Rostedt
The system enabling of events uses the same code as the set_event file. It passes in the name of the system to the parser and that will enable all the events that has that system as a name. The problem is that it will also enable events with the same name as the system. If you have system name foo, and system name bar, but within the system bar, there exists an event called foo. By setting the system name foo, you will also be enabling the event foo in the system bar. This is not an expected result. The solution is to pass in "foo:*", which will only enable the system foo and not events called foo. [ Impact: prevent accidental enabling of events with same name as a system ] Reported-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-05-07ring-buffer: remove complex calculations in ring-buffer-testSteven Rostedt
Ingo Molnar thought that the code to calculate the time in cond_resched is a bit too ugly and is not needed. This patch removes it and replaces it with a simple call to cond_resched. I kept the comment that explains the reason for the cond_resched. [ Impact: remove ugly code ] Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-05-07Merge branch 'tracing/hw-branch-tracing' into tracing/coreIngo Molnar
Merge reason: this topic is ready for upstream now. It passed Oleg's review and Andrew had no further mm/* objections/observations either. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-07Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/coreIngo Molnar
Merge reason: tracing/core was on a .30-rc1 base and was missing out on on a handful of tracing fixes present in .30-rc5-almost. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-07tracing/events: fix concurrent access to ftrace_events list, fixLi Zefan
In filter_add_subsystem_pred() we should release event_mutex before calling filter_free_subsystem_preds(), since both functions hold event_mutex. [ Impact: fix deadlock when writing invalid pred into subsystem filter ] Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: tzanussi@gmail.com Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org LKML-Reference: <4A028993.7020509@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-07tracing/filters: support for operator reserved characters in stringsFrederic Weisbecker
When we set a filter for an event, such as: echo "name == my_lock_name" > \ /debug/tracing/events/lockdep/lock_acquired/filter then the following order of token type is parsed: - space - operator - parentheses - operand Because the operators and parentheses have a higher precedence than the operand characters, which is normal, then we can't use any string containing such special characters: ()=<>!&| To get this support and also avoid ambiguous intepretation from the parser or the human, we can do it using double quotes so that we keep the usual languages habits. Then after this patch you can still declare string condition like before: echo name == myname But if you want to compare against a string containing an operator character, you can use double quotes: echo 'name == "&myname"' Don't forget to include the whole expression into single quotes or the double ones will be eaten by echo. [ Impact: support strings with special characters for tracing filters ] Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Zhaolei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-05-07tracing/filters: support for filters of dynamic sized arraysFrederic Weisbecker
Currently the filtering infrastructure supports well the numeric types and fixed sized array types. But the recently added __string() field uses a specific indirect offset mechanism which requires a specific predicate. Until now it wasn't supported. This patch adds this support and implies very few changes, only a new predicate is needed, the management of this specific field can be done through the usual string helpers in the filtering infrastructure. [ Impact: support all kinds of strings in the tracing filters ] Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Zhaolei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-05-07tracing: add hierarchical enabling of eventsSteven Rostedt
With the current event directory, you can only enable individual events. The file debugfs/tracing/set_event is used to be able to enable or disable several events at once. But that can still be awkward. This patch adds hierarchical enabling of events. That is, each directory in debugfs/tracing/events has an "enable" file. This file can enable or disable all events within the directory and below. # echo 1 > /debugfs/tracing/events/enable will enable all events. # echo 1 > /debugfs/tracing/events/sched/enable will enable all events in the sched subsystem. # echo 1 > /debugfs/tracing/events/enable # echo 0 > /debugfs/tracing/events/irq/enable will enable all events, but then disable just the irq subsystem events. When reading one of these enable files, there are four results: 0 - all events this file affects are disabled 1 - all events this file affects are enabled X - there is a mixture of events enabled and disabled ? - this file does not affect any event Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-05-07tracing: reset ring buffer when removing modules with eventsSteven Rostedt
Li Zefan found that there's a race using the event ids of events and modules. When a module is loaded, an event id is incremented. We only have 16 bits for event ids (65536) and there is a possible (but highly unlikely) race that we could load and unload a module that registers events so many times that the event id counter overflows. When it overflows, it then restarts and goes looking for available ids. An id is available if it was added by a module and released. The race is if you have one module add an id, and then is removed. Another module loaded can use that same event id. But if the old module still had events in the ring buffer, the new module's call back would get bogus data. At best (and most likely) the output would just be garbage. But if the module for some reason used pointers (not recommended) then this could potentially crash. The safest thing to do is just reset the ring buffer if a module that registered events is removed. [ Impact: prevent unpredictable results of event id overflows ] Reported-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: <49FEAFD0.30106@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-05-06ring-buffer: change test to be more latency friendlySteven Rostedt
The ring buffer benchmark/test runs a producer for 10 seconds. This is done with preemption and interrupts enabled. But if the kernel is not compiled with CONFIG_PREEMPT, it basically stops everything but interrupts for 10 seconds. Although this is just a test and is not for production, this attribute can be quite annoying. It can also spawn badness elsewhere. This patch solves the issues by calling "cond_resched" when the system is not compiled with CONFIG_PREEMPT. It also keeps track of the time spent to call cond_resched such that it does not go against the time calculations. That is, if the task schedules away, the time scheduled out is removed from the test data. Note, this only works for non PREEMPT because we do not know when the task is scheduled out if we have PREEMPT enabled. [ Impact: prevent test from stopping the world for 10 seconds ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-05-06ring-buffer: make moving the tail page a separate functionSteven Rostedt
Ingo Molnar thought the code would be cleaner if we used a function call instead of a goto for moving the tail page. After implementing this, it seems that gcc still inlines the result and the output is pretty much the same. Since this is considered a cleaner approach, might as well implement it. [ Impact: code clean up ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-05-06ring-buffer: check for failed allocation in ring buffer benchmarkSteven Rostedt
The result of the allocation of the ring buffer read page in the ring buffer bench mark does not check the return to see if a page was actually allocated. This patch fixes that. [ Impact: avoid NULL dereference ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-05-06ring-buffer: remove unneeded conditional in rb_reserve_nextSteven Rostedt
The code in __rb_reserve_next checks on page overflow if it is the original commiter and then resets the page back to the original setting. Although this is fine, and the code is correct, it is a bit fragil. Some experimental work I did breaks it easily. The better and more robust solution is to have all commiters that overflow the page, simply subtract what they added. [ Impact: more robust ring buffer account management ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-05-06tracing: trace_output.c, fix false positive compiler warningJaswinder Singh Rajput
This compiler warning: CC kernel/trace/trace_output.o kernel/trace/trace_output.c: In function ‘register_ftrace_event’: kernel/trace/trace_output.c:544: warning: ‘list’ may be used uninitialized in this function Is wrong as 'list' is always initialized - but GCC (4.3.2) does not recognize this relationship properly. Work around the warning by initializing the variable to NULL. [ Impact: fix false positive compiler warning ] Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-06blktrace: from-sector redundant in trace_block_remapAlan D. Brunelle
Remove redundant from-sector parameter: it's /always/ the bio's sector passed in. [ Impact: cleanup ] Signed-off-by: Alan D. Brunelle <alan.brunelle@hp.com> Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <49FF517C.7000503@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-06blktrace: correct remap namesAlan D. Brunelle
This attempts to clarify names utilized during block I/O remap operations (partition, volume manager). It correctly matches up the /from/ information for both device & sector. This takes in the concept from Kosaki Motohiro and extends it to include better naming for the "device_from" field. [ Impact: cleanup ] Signed-off-by: Alan D. Brunelle <alan.brunelle@hp.com> Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <49FF4FAE.3000301@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-06tracing/events: fix concurrent access to ftrace_events listLi Zefan
A module will add/remove its trace events when it gets loaded/unloaded, so the ftrace_events list is not "const", and concurrent access needs to be protected. This patch thus fixes races between loading/unloding modules and read 'available_events' or read/write 'set_event', etc. Below shows how to reproduce the race: # for ((; ;)) { cat /mnt/tracing/available_events; } > /dev/null & # for ((; ;)) { insmod trace-events-sample.ko; rmmod sample; } & After a while: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 0010011c IP: [<c1080f27>] t_next+0x1b/0x2d ... Call Trace: [<c10c90e6>] ? seq_read+0x217/0x30d [<c10c8ecf>] ? seq_read+0x0/0x30d [<c10b4c19>] ? vfs_read+0x8f/0x136 [<c10b4fc3>] ? sys_read+0x40/0x65 [<c1002a68>] ? sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x36 [ Impact: fix races when concurrent accessing ftrace_events list ] Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <4A00F709.3080800@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-06tracing/events: fix memory leak when unloading moduleLi Zefan
When unloading a module, memory allocated by init_preds() and trace_define_field() is not freed. [ Impact: fix memory leak ] Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <4A00F6E0.3040503@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-05-06ring-buffer: add benchmark and testerSteven Rostedt
This patch adds code that can benchmark the ring buffer as well as test it. This code can be compiled into the kernel (not recommended) or as a module. A separate ring buffer is used to not interfer with other users, like ftrace. It creates a producer and a consumer (option to disable creation of the consumer) and will run for 10 seconds, then sleep for 10 seconds and then repeat. While running, the producer will write 10 byte loads into the ring buffer with just putting in the current CPU number. The reader will continually try to read the buffer. The reader will alternate from reading the buffer via event by event, or by full pages. The output is a pr_info, thus it will fill up the syslogs. Starting ring buffer hammer End ring buffer hammer Time: 9000349 (usecs) Overruns: 12578640 Read: 5358440 (by events) Entries: 0 Total: 17937080 Missed: 0 Hit: 17937080 Entries per millisec: 1993 501 ns per entry Sleeping for 10 secs Starting ring buffer hammer End ring buffer hammer Time: 9936350 (usecs) Overruns: 0 Read: 28146644 (by pages) Entries: 74 Total: 28146718 Missed: 0 Hit: 28146718 Entries per millisec: 2832 353 ns per entry Sleeping for 10 secs Time: is the time the test ran Overruns: the number of events that were overwritten and not read Read: the number of events read (either by pages or events) Entries: the number of entries left in the buffer (the by pages will only read full pages) Total: Entries + Read + Overruns Missed: the number of entries that failed to write Hit: the number of entries that were written The above example shows that it takes ~353 nanosecs per entry when there is a reader, reading by pages (and no overruns) The event by event reader slowed the producer down to 501 nanosecs. [ Impact: see how changes to the ring buffer affect stability and performance ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-05-06ring-buffer: move big if statement downSteven Rostedt
In the hot path of the ring buffer "__rb_reserve_next" there's a big if statement that does not even return back to the work flow. code; if (cross to next page) { [ lots of code ] return; } more code; The condition is even the unlikely path, although we do not denote it with an unlikely because gcc is fine with it. The condition is true when the write crosses a page boundary, and we need to start at a new page. Having this if statement makes it hard to read, but calling another function to do the work is also not appropriate, because we are using a lot of variables that were set before the if statement, and we do not want to send them as parameters. This patch changes it to a goto: code; if (cross to next page) goto next_page; more code; return; next_page: [ lots of code] This makes the code easier to understand, and a bit more obvious. The output from gcc is practically identical. For some reason, gcc decided to use different registers when I switched it to a goto. But other than that, the logic is the same. [ Impact: easier to read code ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-05-05tracing: use proper export symbol for tracing apiSteven Rostedt
When adding the EXPORT_SYMBOL to some of the tracing API, I accidently used EXPORT_SYMBOL instead of EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL. This patch fixes that mistake. [ Impact: export the tracing code only for GPL modules ] Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-05-05ring-buffer: disable writers when resetting buffersSteven Rostedt
As a precaution, it is best to disable writing to the ring buffers when reseting them. [ Impact: prevent weird things if write happens during reset ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-05-05ring-buffer: have read page swap increment counter with page entriesSteven Rostedt
In the swap page ring buffer code that is used by the ftrace splice code, we scan the page to increment the counter of entries read. With the number of entries already in the page we simply need to add it. [ Impact: speed up reading page from ring buffer ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-05-05ring-buffer: record page entries in buffer page descriptorSteven Rostedt
Currently, when the ring buffer writer overflows the buffer and must write over non consumed data, we increment the overrun counter by reading the entries on the page we are about to overwrite. This reads the entries one by one. This is not very effecient. This patch adds another entry counter into each buffer page descriptor that keeps track of the number of entries on the page. Now on overwrite, the overrun counter simply needs to add the number of entries that is on the page it is about to overwrite. [ Impact: speed up of ring buffer in overwrite mode ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-05-05ring-buffer: convert cpu buffer entries to local_tSteven Rostedt
The entries counter in cpu buffer is not atomic. It can be updated by other interrupts or from another CPU (readers). But making entries into "atomic_t" causes an atomic operation that can hurt performance. Instead we convert it to a local_t that will increment a counter with a local CPU atomic operation (if the arch supports it). Instead of fighting with readers and overwrites that decrement the counter, I added a "read" counter. Every time a reader reads an entry it is incremented. We already have a overrun counter and with that, the entries counter and the read counter, we can calculate the total number of entries in the buffer with: (entries - overrun) - read As long as the total number of entries in the ring buffer is less than the word size, this will work. But since the entries counter was previously a long, this is no different than what we had before. Thanks to Andrew Morton for pointing out in the first version that atomic_t does not replace unsigned long. I switched to atomic_long_t even though it is signed. A negative count is most likely a bug. [ Impact: keep accurate count of cpu buffer entries ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-05-05tracing: export stats of ring buffers to userspaceSteven Rostedt
This patch adds stats to the ftrace ring buffers: # cat /debugfs/tracing/per_cpu/cpu0/stats entries: 42360 overrun: 30509326 commit overrun: 0 nmi dropped: 0 Where entries are the total number of data entries in the buffer. overrun is the number of entries not consumed and were overwritten by the writer. commit overrun is the number of entries dropped due to nested writers wrapping the buffer before the initial writer finished the commit. nmi dropped is the number of entries dropped due to the ring buffer lock being held when an nmi was going to write to the ring buffer. Note, this field will be meaningless and will go away when the ring buffer becomes lockless. [ Impact: let userspace know what is happening in the ring buffers ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-05-05ring-buffer: add counters for commit overrun and nmi dropped entriesSteven Rostedt
The WARN_ON in the ring buffer when a commit is preempted and the buffer is filled by preceding writes can happen in normal operations. The WARN_ON makes it look like a bug, not to mention, because it does not stop tracing and calls printk which can also recurse, this is prone to deadlock (the WARN_ON is not in a position to recurse). This patch removes the WARN_ON and replaces it with a counter that can be retrieved by a tracer. This counter is called commit_overrun. While at it, I added a nmi_dropped counter to count any time an NMI entry is dropped because the NMI could not take the spinlock. [ Impact: prevent deadlock by printing normal case warning ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-05-05ring-buffer: export symbolsSteven Rostedt
I'm adding a module to do a series of tests on the ring buffer as well as benchmarks. This module needs to have more of the ring buffer API exported. There's nothing wrong with reading the ring buffer from a module. [ Impact: allow modules to read pages from the ring buffer ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-04-29tracing/filters: a better event parserTom Zanussi
Replace the current event parser hack with a better one. Filters are no longer specified predicate by predicate, but all at once and can use parens and any of the following operators: numeric fields: ==, !=, <, <=, >, >= string fields: ==, != predicates can be combined with the logical operators: &&, || examples: "common_preempt_count > 4" > filter "((sig >= 10 && sig < 15) || sig == 17) && comm != bash" > filter If there was an error, the erroneous string along with an error message can be seen by looking at the filter e.g.: ((sig >= 10 && sig < 15) || dsig == 17) && comm != bash ^ parse_error: Field not found Currently the caret for an error always appears at the beginning of the filter; a real position should be used, but the error message should be useful even without it. To clear a filter, '0' can be written to the filter file. Filters can also be set or cleared for a complete subsystem by writing the same filter as would be written to an individual event to the filter file at the root of the subsytem. Note however, that if any event in the subsystem lacks a field specified in the filter being set, the set will fail and all filters in the subsytem are automatically cleared. This change from the previous version was made because using only the fields that happen to exist for a given event would most likely result in a meaningless filter. Because the logical operators are now implemented as predicates, the maximum number of predicates in a filter was increased from 8 to 16. [ Impact: add new, extended trace-filter implementation ] Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: <1240905899.6416.121.camel@tropicana> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-29tracing/filters: distinguish between signed and unsigned fieldsTom Zanussi
The new filter comparison ops need to be able to distinguish between signed and unsigned field types, so add an is_signed flag/param to the event field struct/trace_define_fields(). Also define a simple macro, is_signed_type() to determine the signedness at compile time, used in the trace macros. If the is_signed_type() macro won't work with a specific type, a new slightly modified version of TRACE_FIELD() called TRACE_FIELD_SIGN(), allows the signedness to be set explicitly. [ Impact: extend trace-filter code for new feature ] Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: <1240905893.6416.120.camel@tropicana> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-29tracing/filters: move preds into event_filter objectTom Zanussi
Create a new event_filter object, and move the pred-related members out of the call and subsystem objects and into the filter object - the details of the filter implementation don't need to be exposed in the call and subsystem in any case, and it will also help make the new parser implementation a little cleaner. [ Impact: refactor trace-filter code to prepare for new features ] Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: <1240905887.6416.119.camel@tropicana> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-29tracing: fix ref count in splice pagesSteven Rostedt
The pages allocated for the splice binary buffer did not initialize the ref count correctly. This caused pages not to be freed and causes a drastic memory leak. Thanks to logdev I was able to trace the tracer to find where the leak was. [ Impact: stop memory leak when using splice ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-29ring-buffer: fix printk outputSteven Rostedt
The warning output in trace_recursive_lock uses %d for a long when it should be %ld. [ Impact: fix compile warning ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-04-29tracing: have splice only copy full pagesSteven Rostedt
Splice works with pages, it is much more effecient to use an entire page than to copy bits over several pages. Using logdev to trace the internals of the splice mechanism, I was able to see that splice can be very aggressive. When tracing is occurring, and the reader caught up to the writer, and the writer is on the reader page, the reader will copy what is there into the splice page. Splice may iterate over several pages and if the writer is still writing to the page, the reader will keep copying bits to new pages to pass to userspace. This patch changes it to only pass data to userspace if the page is full (the writer has left the page). This has a small side effect that splice can not read a partial page, and must wait for the page to fill. This should not be an issue. If tracing has stopped, then a use of "read" will still read all of the page. [ Impact: better performance for ring buffer splice code ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-04-29tracing: only add splice page if entries existSteven Rostedt
The splice code allocates a page even when the ring buffer is empty. It detects the ring buffer being empty when it it fails to copy anything from the ring buffer into the page. This patch adds a check to see if there is anything in the ring buffer before allocating a page. Thanks to logdev for letting me trace the tracer to find this. [ Impact: speed up due to removing unnecessary allocation ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-04-29tracing: fix ref count in splice pagesSteven Rostedt
The pages allocated for the splice binary buffer did not initialize the ref count correctly. This caused pages not to be freed and causes a drastic memory leak. Thanks to logdev I was able to trace the tracer to find where the leak was. [ Impact: stop memory leak when using splice ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-04-28tracing: convert ftrace_dump spinlocks to rawSteven Rostedt
ftrace_dump is used for printing out the contents of the ftrace ring buffer to the console on failure. Currently it uses a spinlock to synchronize the output from multiple failures on different CPUs. This spin lock currently is a normal spinlock and can cause issues with lockdep and lock tracing. This patch converts it to raw since it is for error handling only. The lock is local to the ftrace_dump and is not used by any other infrastructure. [ Impact: prevent ftrace_dump from locking up by internal tracing ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-04-26tracing/events: make modules have their own file_operations structureSteven Rostedt
For proper module reference counting, the file_operations that modules use must have the "owner" field set to the module. Unfortunately, the trace events use share file_operations. The same file_operations are used by all both kernel core and all modules. This patch makes the modules allocate their own file_operations and copies the functions from the core kernel. This allows those file operations to be owned by the module. Care is taken to free this code on module unload. Thanks to Greg KH for reminding me that file_operations must be owned by the module to have reference counting take place. [ Impact: fix modular tracepoints / potential crash ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-04-25tracing/events: reuse trace event ids after overflowSteven Rostedt
With modules being able to add trace events, and the max trace event counter is 16 bits (65536) we can overflow the counter easily with a simple while loop adding and removing modules that contain trace events. This patch links together the registered trace events and on overflow searches for available trace event ids. It will still fail if over 65536 events are registered, but considering that a typical kernel only has 22000 functions, 65000 events should be sufficient. Reported-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-04-24Merge commit 'v2.6.30-rc3' into tracing/hw-branch-tracingIngo Molnar
Conflicts: arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c Merge reason: fix the conflict above, and also pick up the CONFIG_BROKEN dependency change from upstream so that we can remove it here. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-24ring_buffer: compressed event headerLai Jiangshan
RB_MAX_SMALL_DATA = 28bytes is too small for most tracers, it wastes an 'u32' to save the actually length for events which data size > 28. This fix uses compressed event header and enlarges RB_MAX_SMALL_DATA. [ Impact: saves about 0%-12.5%(depends on tracer) memory in ring_buffer ] Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: <49F13189.3090000@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-04-24tracing: add size checks for exported ftrace internal structuresSteven Rostedt
The events exported by TRACE_EVENT are automated and are guaranteed to be correct when used. The internal ftrace structures on the other hand are more manually exported. These require the ftrace maintainer to make sure they are up to date. This patch adds a size check to help flag when a type changes in an internal ftrace data structure, and the update needs to be reflected in the export. If a export is incorrect, then the only harm is that the user space tools will not know how to correctly read the internal structures of ftrace. [ Impact: help prevent inconsistent ftrace format print outs ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-04-24tracing: increase size of number of possible eventsSteven Rostedt
With the new event tracing registration, we must increase the number of events that can be registered. Currently the type field is only one byte, which leaves us only 256 possible events. Since we do not save the CPU number in the tracer anymore (it is determined by the per cpu ring buffer that is used) we have an extra byte to use. This patch increases the size of type from 1 byte (256 events) to 2 bytes (65,536 events). It also adds a WARN_ON_ONCE if we exceed that limit. [ Impact: allow more than 255 events ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-04-24tracing/wakeup: move access to wakeup_cpu into spinlockSteven Rostedt
The code had the following outside the lock: if (next != wakeup_task) return; pc = preempt_count(); /* The task we are waiting for is waking up */ data = wakeup_trace->data[wakeup_cpu]; On initialization, wakeup_task is NULL and wakeup_cpu -1. This code is not under a lock. If wakeup_task is set on another CPU as that task is waking up, we can see the wakeup_task before wakeup_cpu is set. If we read wakeup_cpu while it is still -1 then we will have a bad data pointer. This patch moves the reading of wakeup_cpu within the protection of the spinlock used to protect the writing of wakeup_cpu and wakeup_task. [ Impact: remove possible race causing invalid pointer dereference ] Reported-by: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-04-22tracing/events: make struct trace_entry->type to be int typeLi Zefan
struct trace_entry->type is unsigned char, while trace event's id is int type, thus for a event with id >= 256, it's entry->type is cast to (id % 256), and then we can't see the trace output of this event. # insmod trace-events-sample.ko # echo foo_bar > /mnt/tracing/set_event # cat /debug/tracing/events/trace-events-sample/foo_bar/id 256 # cat /mnt/tracing/trace_pipe <...>-3548 [001] 215.091142: Unknown type 0 <...>-3548 [001] 216.089207: Unknown type 0 <...>-3548 [001] 217.087271: Unknown type 0 <...>-3548 [001] 218.085332: Unknown type 0 [ Impact: fix output for trace events with id >= 256 ] Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <49EEDB0E.5070207@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-21ring-buffer: only warn on wrap if buffer is bigger than two pagesSteven Rostedt
On boot up, to save memory, ftrace allocates the minimum buffer which is two pages. Ftrace also goes through a series of tests (when configured) on boot up. These tests can fill up a page within a single interrupt. The ring buffer also has a WARN_ON when it detects that the buffer was completely filled within a single commit (other commits are allowed to be nested). Combine the small buffer on start up, with the tests that can fill more than a single page within an interrupt, this can trigger the WARN_ON. This patch makes the WARN_ON only happen when the ring buffer consists of more than two pages. [ Impact: prevent false WARN_ON in ftrace startup tests ] Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> LKML-Reference: <20090421094616.GA14561@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-21tracing/filters: allow user-input to be integer-like stringLi Zefan
Suppose we would like to trace all tasks named '123', but this will fail: # echo 'parent_comm == 123' > events/sched/sched_process_fork/filter bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument Don't guess the type of the filter pred in filter_parse(), but instead we check it in __filter_add_pred(). [ Impact: extend allowed filter field string values ] Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <49ED8DEB.6000700@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-21tracing/filters: don't remove old filters when failed to write subsys->filterLi Zefan
If writing subsys->filter returns EINVAL or ENOSPC, the original filters in subsys/ and subsys/events/ will be removed. This is definitely wrong. [ Impact: fix filter setting semantics on error condition ] Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <49ED8DD2.2070700@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-20tracing: use nowakeup version of commit for function event trace testsSteven Rostedt
The startup tests for the event tracer also runs with the function tracer enabled. The "wakeup" version of the trace commit was used which can grab spinlocks. If a task was preempted by an NMI that called a function being traced, it could deadlock due to the function tracer trying to grab the same lock. Thanks to Frederic Weisbecker for pointing out where the bug was. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Reported-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>