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Steven Rostedt
d41032a83b tracing: Fix unsigned int compare of zero in recursion check
Dan's smatch found a compare bug with the result of the
trace_test_and_set_recursion() and comparing to less than
zero. If the function fails, it returns -1, but was saved in
an unsigned int, which will never be less than zero and will
ignore the result of the test if a recursion did happen.

Luckily this is the last of the recursion tests, as the
infrastructure of ftrace would catch recursions before it
got here, except for some few exceptions.

Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-01-24 07:52:34 -05:00
Steven Rostedt
897f68a48b ftrace: Use only the preempt version of function tracing
The function tracer had two different versions of function tracing.

The disabling of irqs version and the preempt disable version.

As function tracing in very intrusive and can cause nasty recursion
issues, it has its own recursion protection. But the old method to
do this was a flat layer. If it detected that a recursion was happening
then it would just return without recording.

This made the preempt version (much faster than the irq disabling one)
not very useful, because if an interrupt were to occur after the
recursion flag was set, the interrupt would not be traced at all,
because every function that was traced would think it recursed on
itself (due to the context it preempted setting the recursive flag).

Now that we have a recursion flag for every context level, we
no longer need to worry about that. We can disable preemption,
set the current context recursion check bit, and go on. If an
interrupt were to come along, it would check its own context bit
and happily continue to trace.

As the preempt version is faster than the irq disable version,
there's no more reason to keep the preempt version around.
And the irq disable version still had an issue with missing
out on tracing NMI code.

Remove the irq disable function tracer version and have the
preempt disable version be the default (and only version).

Before this patch we had from running:

 # echo function > /debug/tracing/current_tracer
 # for i in `seq 10`; do ./hackbench 50; done
Time: 12.028
Time: 11.945
Time: 11.925
Time: 11.964
Time: 12.002
Time: 11.910
Time: 11.944
Time: 11.929
Time: 11.941
Time: 11.924

(average: 11.9512)

Now we have:

 # echo function > /debug/tracing/current_tracer
 # for i in `seq 10`; do ./hackbench 50; done
Time: 10.285
Time: 10.407
Time: 10.243
Time: 10.372
Time: 10.380
Time: 10.198
Time: 10.272
Time: 10.354
Time: 10.248
Time: 10.253

(average: 10.3012)

 a 13.8% savings!

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-01-22 23:38:02 -05:00
Linus Torvalds
a2013a13e6 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
Pull trivial branch from Jiri Kosina:
 "Usual stuff -- comment/printk typo fixes, documentation updates, dead
  code elimination."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (39 commits)
  HOWTO: fix double words typo
  x86 mtrr: fix comment typo in mtrr_bp_init
  propagate name change to comments in kernel source
  doc: Update the name of profiling based on sysfs
  treewide: Fix typos in various drivers
  treewide: Fix typos in various Kconfig
  wireless: mwifiex: Fix typo in wireless/mwifiex driver
  messages: i2o: Fix typo in messages/i2o
  scripts/kernel-doc: check that non-void fcts describe their return value
  Kernel-doc: Convention: Use a "Return" section to describe return values
  radeon: Fix typo and copy/paste error in comments
  doc: Remove unnecessary declarations from Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c
  various: Fix spelling of "asynchronous" in comments.
  Fix misspellings of "whether" in comments.
  eisa: Fix spelling of "asynchronous".
  various: Fix spelling of "registered" in comments.
  doc: fix quite a few typos within Documentation
  target: iscsi: fix comment typos in target/iscsi drivers
  treewide: fix typo of "suport" in various comments and Kconfig
  treewide: fix typo of "suppport" in various comments
  ...
2012-12-13 12:00:02 -08:00
Nadia Yvette Chambers
6d49e352ae propagate name change to comments in kernel source
I've legally changed my name with New York State, the US Social Security
Administration, et al. This patch propagates the name change and change
in initials and login to comments in the kernel source as well.

Signed-off-by: Nadia Yvette Chambers <nyc@holomorphy.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2012-12-06 10:39:54 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
6f4156723c tracing: Allow tracers to start at core initcall
There's times during debugging that it is helpful to see traces of early
boot functions. But the tracers are initialized at device_initcall()
which is quite late during the boot process. Setting the kernel command
line parameter ftrace=function will not show anything until the function
tracer is initialized. This prevents being able to trace functions before
device_initcall().

There's no reason that the tracers need to be initialized so late in the
boot process. Move them up to core_initcall() as they still need to come
after early_initcall() which initializes the tracing buffers.

Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-10-31 16:45:24 -04:00
Daniel Walter
bcd83ea6cb tracing: Replace strict_strto* with kstrto*
* remove old string conversions with kstrto*

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120926200838.GC1244@0x90.at

Signed-off-by: Daniel Walter <sahne@0x90.at>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-10-31 16:45:23 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
7f60ba388f 1. We no longer ad-hoc to the function tracer "high level" infrastructure
and no longer use its debugfs knobs. The change slightly touches
    kernel/trace directory, but it got the needed ack from Steven Rostedt:
    http://lkml.org/lkml/2012/8/21/688
 2. Added maintainers entry;
 3. A bunch of fixes, nothing special.
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Merge tag 'for-v3.7' of git://git.infradead.org/users/cbou/linux-pstore

Pull pstore changes from Anton Vorontsov:

 1) We no longer ad-hoc to the function tracer "high level"
    infrastructure and no longer use its debugfs knobs.  The change
    slightly touches kernel/trace directory, but it got the needed ack
    from Steven Rostedt:

      http://lkml.org/lkml/2012/8/21/688

 2) Added maintainers entry;

 3) A bunch of fixes, nothing special.

* tag 'for-v3.7' of git://git.infradead.org/users/cbou/linux-pstore:
  pstore: Avoid recursive spinlocks in the oops_in_progress case
  pstore/ftrace: Convert to its own enable/disable debugfs knob
  pstore/ram: Add missing platform_device_unregister
  MAINTAINERS: Add pstore maintainers
  pstore/ram: Mark ramoops_pstore_write_buf() as notrace
  pstore/ram: Fix printk format warning
  pstore/ram: Fix possible NULL dereference
2012-10-07 17:30:50 +09:00
Anton Vorontsov
65f8c95e46 pstore/ftrace: Convert to its own enable/disable debugfs knob
With this patch we no longer reuse function tracer infrastructure, now
we register our own tracer back-end via a debugfs knob.

It's a bit more code, but that is the only downside. On the bright side we
have:

- Ability to make persistent_ram module removable (when needed, we can
  move ftrace_ops struct into a module). Note that persistent_ram is still
  not removable for other reasons, but with this patch it's just one
  thing less to worry about;

- Pstore part is more isolated from the generic function tracer. We tried
  it already by registering our own tracer in available_tracers, but that
  way we're loosing ability to see the traces while we record them to
  pstore. This solution is somewhere in the middle: we only register
  "internal ftracer" back-end, but not the "front-end";

- When there is only pstore tracing enabled, the kernel will only write
  to the pstore buffer, omitting function tracer buffer (which, of course,
  still can be enabled via 'echo function > current_tracer').

Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
2012-09-06 22:16:58 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
bcada3d4b8 perf/core improvements and fixes:
. Fix include order for bison/flex-generated C files, from Ben Hutchings
 
  . Build fixes and documentation corrections from David Ahern
 
  . Group parsing support, from Jiri Olsa
 
  . UI/gtk refactorings and improvements from Namhyung Kim
 
  . NULL deref fix for perf script, from Namhyung Kim
 
  . Assorted cleanups from Robert Richter
 
  . Let O= makes handle relative paths, from Steven Rostedt
 
 Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Merge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/core

Pull perf/core improvements and fixes from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:

 * Fix include order for bison/flex-generated C files, from Ben Hutchings

 * Build fixes and documentation corrections from David Ahern

 * Group parsing support, from Jiri Olsa

 * UI/gtk refactorings and improvements from Namhyung Kim

 * NULL deref fix for perf script, from Namhyung Kim

 * Assorted cleanups from Robert Richter

 * Let O= makes handle relative paths, from Steven Rostedt

 * perf script python fixes, from Feng Tang.

 * Improve 'perf lock' error message when the needed tracepoints
   are not present, from David Ahern.

 * Initial bash completion support, from Frederic Weisbecker

 * Allow building without libelf, from Namhyung Kim.

 * Support DWARF CFI based unwind to have callchains when %bp
   based unwinding is not possible, from Jiri Olsa.

 * Symbol resolution fixes, while fixing support PPC64 files with an .opt ELF
   section was the end goal, several fixes for code that handles all
   architectures and cleanups are included, from Cody Schafer.

 * Add a description for the JIT interface, from Andi Kleen.

 * Assorted fixes for Documentation and build in 32 bit, from Robert Richter

 * Add support for non-tracepoint events in perf script python, from Feng Tang

 * Cache the libtraceevent event_format associated to each evsel early, so that we
   avoid relookups, i.e. calling pevent_find_event repeatedly when processing
   tracepoint events.

   [ This is to reduce the surface contact with libtraceevents and make clear what
     is that the perf tools needs from that lib: so far parsing the common and per
     event fields. ]

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-08-21 11:27:00 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
4740974a68 ftrace: Add default recursion protection for function tracing
As more users of the function tracer utility are being added, they do
not always add the necessary recursion protection. To protect from
function recursion due to tracing, if the callback ftrace_ops does not
specifically specify that it protects against recursion (by setting
the FTRACE_OPS_FL_RECURSION_SAFE flag), the list operation will be
called by the mcount trampoline which adds recursion protection.

If the flag is set, then the function will be called directly with no
extra protection.

Note, the list operation is called if more than one function callback
is registered, or if the arch does not support all of the function
tracer features.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-07-31 10:29:52 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
a1e2e31d17 ftrace: Return pt_regs to function trace callback
Return as the 4th paramater to the function tracer callback the pt_regs.

Later patches that implement regs passing for the architectures will require
having the ftrace_ops set the SAVE_REGS flag, which will tell the arch
to take the time to pass a full set of pt_regs to the ftrace_ops callback
function. If the arch does not support it then it should pass NULL.

If an arch can pass full regs, then it should define:
 ARCH_SUPPORTS_FTRACE_SAVE_REGS to 1

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120702201821.019966811@goodmis.org

Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-07-19 13:18:49 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
2f5f6ad939 ftrace: Pass ftrace_ops as third parameter to function trace callback
Currently the function trace callback receives only the ip and parent_ip
of the function that it traced. It would be more powerful to also return
the ops that registered the function as well. This allows the same function
to act differently depending on what ftrace_ops registered it.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120612225424.267254552@goodmis.org

Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-07-19 13:17:35 -04:00
Anton Vorontsov
f555f1231a tracing/function: Convert func_set_flag() to a switch statement
Since the function accepts just one bit, we can use the switch
construction instead of if/else if/...

Just a cosmetic change, there should be no functional changes.

Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-07-17 10:15:04 -07:00
Anton Vorontsov
21f679404a tracing/function: Introduce persistent trace option
This patch introduces 'func_ptrace' option, now available in
/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/options when function tracer
is selected.

The patch also adds some tiny code that calls back to pstore
to record the trace. The callback is no-op when PSTORE=n.

Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-07-17 10:07:00 -07:00
Steven Rostedt
43dd61c9a0 ftrace: Fix regression of :mod:module function enabling
The new code that allows different utilities to pick and choose
what functions they trace broke the :mod: hook that allows users
to trace only functions of a particular module.

The reason is that the :mod: hook bypasses the hash that is setup
to allow individual users to trace their own functions and uses
the global hash directly. But if the global hash has not been
set up, it will cause a bug:

echo '*:mod:radeon' > /sys/kernel/debug/set_ftrace_filter

produces:

 [drm:drm_mode_getfb] *ERROR* invalid framebuffer id
 [drm:radeon_crtc_page_flip] *ERROR* failed to reserve new rbo buffer before flip
 BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffffff8160ec90
 IP: [<ffffffff810d9136>] add_hash_entry+0x66/0xd0
 PGD 1a05067 PUD 1a09063 PMD 80000000016001e1
 Oops: 0003 [#1] SMP Jul  7 04:02:28 phyllis kernel: [55303.858604] CPU 1
 Modules linked in: cryptd aes_x86_64 aes_generic binfmt_misc rfcomm bnep ip6table_filter hid radeon r8169 ahci libahci mii ttm drm_kms_helper drm video i2c_algo_bit intel_agp intel_gtt

 Pid: 10344, comm: bash Tainted: G        WC  3.0.0-rc5 #1 Dell Inc. Inspiron N5010/0YXXJJ
 RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff810d9136>]  [<ffffffff810d9136>] add_hash_entry+0x66/0xd0
 RSP: 0018:ffff88003a96bda8  EFLAGS: 00010246
 RAX: ffff8801301735c0 RBX: ffffffff8160ec80 RCX: 0000000000306ee0
 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff880137c92940
 RBP: ffff88003a96bdb8 R08: ffff880137c95680 R09: 0000000000000000
 R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffffffff81c9df78
 R13: ffff8801153d1000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
 FS: 00007f329c18a700(0000) GS:ffff880137c80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
 CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
 CR2: ffffffff8160ec90 CR3: 000000003002b000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
 Process bash (pid: 10344, threadinfo ffff88003a96a000, task ffff88012fcfc470)
 Stack:
  0000000000000fd0 00000000000000fc ffff88003a96be38 ffffffff810d92f5
  ffff88011c4c4e00 ffff880000000000 000000000b69f4d0 ffffffff8160ec80
  ffff8800300e6f06 0000000081130295 0000000000000282 ffff8800300e6f00
 Call Trace:
  [<ffffffff810d92f5>] match_records+0x155/0x1b0
  [<ffffffff810d940c>] ftrace_mod_callback+0xbc/0x100
  [<ffffffff810dafdf>] ftrace_regex_write+0x16f/0x210
  [<ffffffff810db09f>] ftrace_filter_write+0xf/0x20
  [<ffffffff81166e48>] vfs_write+0xc8/0x190
  [<ffffffff81167001>] sys_write+0x51/0x90
  [<ffffffff815c7e02>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
 Code: 48 8b 33 31 d2 48 85 f6 75 33 49 89 d4 4c 03 63 08 49 8b 14 24 48 85 d2 48 89 10 74 04 48 89 42 08 49 89 04 24 4c 89 60 08 31 d2
 RIP [<ffffffff810d9136>] add_hash_entry+0x66/0xd0
  RSP <ffff88003a96bda8>
 CR2: ffffffff8160ec90
 ---[ end trace a5d031828efdd88e ]---

Reported-by: Brian Marete <marete@toshnix.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-07-07 11:30:08 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
b848914ce3 ftrace: Implement separate user function filtering
ftrace_ops that are registered to trace functions can now be
agnostic to each other in respect to what functions they trace.
Each ops has their own hash of the functions they want to trace
and a hash to what they do not want to trace. A empty hash for
the functions they want to trace denotes all functions should
be traced that are not in the notrace hash.

Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-05-18 15:29:50 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
5168ae50a6 tracing: Remove ftrace_preempt_disable/enable
The ftrace_preempt_disable/enable functions were to address a
recursive race caused by the function tracer. The function tracer
traces all functions which makes it easily susceptible to recursion.
One area was preempt_enable(). This would call the scheduler and
the schedulre would call the function tracer and loop.
(So was it thought).

The ftrace_preempt_disable/enable was made to protect against recursion
inside the scheduler by storing the NEED_RESCHED flag. If it was
set before the ftrace_preempt_disable() it would not call schedule
on ftrace_preempt_enable(), thinking that if it was set before then
it would have already scheduled unless it was already in the scheduler.

This worked fine except in the case of SMP, where another task would set
the NEED_RESCHED flag for a task on another CPU, and then kick off an
IPI to trigger it. This could cause the NEED_RESCHED to be saved at
ftrace_preempt_disable() but the IPI to arrive in the the preempt
disabled section. The ftrace_preempt_enable() would not call the scheduler
because the flag was already set before entring the section.

This bug would cause a missed preemption check and cause lower latencies.

Investigating further, I found that the recusion caused by the function
tracer was not due to schedule(), but due to preempt_schedule(). Now
that preempt_schedule is completely annotated with notrace, the recusion
no longer is an issue.

Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-06-03 19:32:38 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
b375a11a23 tracing: switch function prints from %pf to %ps
For direct function pointers (like what mcount provides) PowerPC64
requires the use of %ps, otherwise nothing is printed.

This patch converts all prints of functions retrieved through mcount
to use the %ps format from the %pf.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-17 15:53:40 -04:00
Ingo Molnar
45bceffc30 Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/core
Merge reason: tracing/core was on an older, pre-rc1 base.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-18 12:20:01 +02:00
Xiao Guangrong
6f2f3cf00e tracing/function: Cleanup for function tracer
We can directly use %pf input format instead of kallsyms_lookup()
and %s input format

Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-07-17 01:45:51 -04:00
Xiao Guangrong
04aef32d39 tracing/function: Fix the return value of ftrace_trace_onoff_callback()
ftrace_trace_onoff_callback() will return an error even if we do the
right operation, for example:

 # echo _spin_*:traceon:10 > set_ftrace_filter
 -bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
 # cat set_ftrace_filter
 #### all functions enabled ####
 _spin_trylock_bh:traceon:count=10
 _spin_unlock_irq:traceon:count=10
 _spin_unlock_bh:traceon:count=10
 _spin_lock_irq:traceon:count=10
 _spin_unlock:traceon:count=10
 _spin_trylock:traceon:count=10
 _spin_unlock_irqrestore:traceon:count=10
 _spin_lock_irqsave:traceon:count=10
 _spin_lock_bh:traceon:count=10
 _spin_lock:traceon:count=10

We want to set _spin_*:traceon:10 to set_ftrace_filter, it complains
with "Invalid argument", but the operation is successful.

This is because ftrace_process_regex() returns the number of functions that
matched the pattern. If the number is not 0, this value is returned
by ftrace_regex_write() whereas we want to return the number of bytes
virtually written.
Also the file offset pointer is not updated in this case.

If the number of matched functions is lower than the number of bytes written
by the user, this results to a reprocessing of the string given by the user with
a lower size, leading to a malformed ftrace regex and then a -EINVAL returned.

So, this patch fixes it by returning 0 if no error occured.
The fix also applies on 2.6.30

Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-07-16 23:34:32 -04:00
Li Zefan
00e54d087a ftrace: Remove duplicate newline
Before:
  # echo 'sys_open:traceon:' > set_ftrace_filter
  # echo 'sys_close:traceoff:5' > set_ftrace_filter
  # cat set_ftrace_filter
  #### all functions enabled ####
  sys_open:traceon:unlimited

  sys_close:traceoff:count=0

After:
  # cat set_ftrace_filter
  #### all functions enabled ####
  sys_open:traceon:unlimited
  sys_close:traceoff:count=0

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A4313A7.7030105@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-25 10:28:36 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
c85a17e226 tracing/urgent: fix unbalanced ftrace_start_up
Perfcounter reports the following stats for a wide system
profiling:

 #
 # (2364 samples)
 #
 # Overhead  Symbol
 # ........  ......
 #
    15.40%  [k] mwait_idle_with_hints
     8.29%  [k] read_hpet
     5.75%  [k] ftrace_caller
     3.60%  [k] ftrace_call
     [...]

This snapshot has been taken while neither the function tracer nor
the function graph tracer was running.
With dynamic ftrace, such results show a wrong ftrace behaviour
because all calls to ftrace_caller or ftrace_graph_caller (the patched
calls to mcount) are supposed to be patched into nop if none of those
tracers are running.

The problem occurs after the first run of the function tracer. Once we
launch it a second time, the callsites will never be nopped back,
unless you set custom filters.
For example it happens during the self tests at boot time.
The function tracer selftest runs, and then the dynamic tracing is
tested too. After that, the callsites are left un-nopped.

This is because the reset callback of the function tracer tries to
unregister two ftrace callbacks in once: the common function tracer
and the function tracer with stack backtrace, regardless of which
one is currently in use.
It then creates an unbalance on ftrace_start_up value which is expected
to be zero when the last ftrace callback is unregistered. When it
reaches zero, the FTRACE_DISABLE_CALLS is set on the next ftrace
command, triggering the patching into nop. But since it becomes
unbalanced, ie becomes lower than zero, if the kernel functions
are patched again (as in every further function tracer runs), they
won't ever be nopped back.

Note that ftrace_call and ftrace_graph_call are still patched back
to ftrace_stub in the off case, but not the callers of ftrace_call
and ftrace_graph_caller. It means that the tracing is well deactivated
but we waste a useless call into every kernel function.

This patch just unregisters the right ftrace_ops for the function
tracer on its reset callback and ignores the other one which is
not registered, fixing the unbalance. The problem also happens
is .30

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
2009-06-20 06:28:46 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
6eaaa5d57e tracing/core: use appropriate waiting on trace_pipe
Impact: api and pipe waiting change

Currently, the waiting used in tracing_read_pipe() is done through a
100 msecs schedule_timeout() loop which periodically check if there
are traces on the buffer.

This can cause small latencies for programs which are reading the incoming
events.

This patch makes the reader waiting for the trace_wait waitqueue except
for few tracers such as the sched and functions tracers which might be
already hold the runqueue lock while waking up the reader.

This is performed through a new callback wait_pipe() on struct tracer.
If none is implemented on a specific tracer, the default waiting for
trace_wait queue is attached.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-18 01:40:20 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
35ebf1caa4 ftrace: show unlimited when traceon or traceoff has no counter
Impact: clean up

The traceon and traceoff function probes are confusing to developers
to what happens when a counter is not specified. This should help
clear things up.

 # echo "*:traceoff" > set_ftrace_filter
 # cat /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter

  #### all functions enabled ####
  do_fork:traceoff:unlimited

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-02-17 13:12:12 -05:00
Steven Rostedt
b6887d7916 ftrace: rename _hook to _probe
Impact: clean up

Ingo Molnar did not like the _hook naming convention used by the
select function tracer. Luis Claudio R. Goncalves suggested using
the "_probe" extension. This patch implements the change of
calling the functions and variables "_hook" and replacing them
with "_probe".

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-02-17 12:32:04 -05:00
Steven Rostedt
6a24a244cd ftrace: clean up coding style
Ingo Molnar pointed out some coding style issues with the recent ftrace
updates. This patch cleans them up.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-02-17 11:20:26 -05:00
Steven Rostedt
e110e3d1ea ftrace: add pretty print function for traceon and traceoff hooks
This patch adds a pretty print version of traceon and traceoff
output for set_ftrace_filter.

  # echo 'sys_open:traceon:4' > set_ftrace_filter
  # cat set_ftrace_filter

 #### all functions enabled ####
 sys_open:traceon:count=4

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-02-16 23:38:13 -05:00
Steven Rostedt
23b4ff3aa4 ftrace: add traceon traceoff commands to enable/disable the buffers
This patch adds the new function selection commands traceon and
traceoff. traceon sets the function to enable the ring buffers
while traceoff disables the ring buffers.  You can pass in the
number of times you want the command to be executed when the function
is hit. It will only execute if the state of the buffers are not
already in that state.

Example:

 # echo do_fork:traceon:4

Will enable the ring buffers if they are disabled every time it
hits do_fork, up to 4 times.

 # echo sys_close:traceoff

This will disable the ring buffers every time (unlimited) when
sys_close is called.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-02-16 22:50:04 -05:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
b6f11df26f trace: Call tracing_reset_online_cpus before tracer->init()
Impact: cleanup

To make it easy for ftrace plugin writers, as this was open coded in
the existing plugins

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-06 01:01:41 +01:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
7be421510b trace: Remove unused trace_array_cpu parameter
Impact: cleanup

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-05 14:35:47 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
a225cdd263 ftrace: remove static from function tracer functions
Impact: clean up

After reorganizing the functions in trace.c and trace_function.c,
they no longer need to be in global context. This patch makes the
functions and one variable into static.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-16 12:17:58 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
3eb36aa053 ftrace: combine stack trace in function call
Impact: less likely to interleave function and stack traces

This patch does replaces the separate stack trace on function with
a record function and stack trace together. This will switch between
the function only recording to a function and stack recording.

Also some whitespace fix ups as well.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-16 12:17:46 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
bb3c3c95f3 ftrace: move function tracer functions out of trace.c
Impact: clean up of trace.c

The function tracer functions were put in trace.c because it needed
to share static variables that were in trace.c.  Since then, those
variables have become global for various reasons. This patch moves
the function tracer functions into trace_function.c where they belong.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-16 12:17:10 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
5361499101 ftrace: add stack trace to function tracer
Impact: new feature to stack trace any function

Chris Mason asked about being able to pick and choose a function
and get a stack trace from it. This feature enables his request.

 # echo io_schedule > /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter
 # echo function > /debug/tracing/current_tracer
 # echo func_stack_trace > /debug/tracing/trace_options

Produces the following in /debug/tracing/trace:

       kjournald-702   [001]   135.673060: io_schedule <-sync_buffer
       kjournald-702   [002]   135.673671:
 <= sync_buffer
 <= __wait_on_bit
 <= out_of_line_wait_on_bit
 <= __wait_on_buffer
 <= sync_dirty_buffer
 <= journal_commit_transaction
 <= kjournald

Note, be careful about turning this on without filtering the functions.
You may find that you have a 10 second lag between typing and seeing
what you typed. This is why the stack trace for the function tracer
does not use the same stack_trace flag as the other tracers use.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-16 12:15:32 +01:00
Pekka J Enberg
213cc06079 ftrace: introduce tracing_reset_online_cpus() helper
Impact: cleanup

This patch factors out common code from multiple tracers into a
tracing_reset_online_cpus() function and converts the tracers to use it.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-19 16:29:34 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker
1c80025a49 tracing/ftrace: change the type of the init() callback
Impact: extend the ->init() method with the ability to fail

This bring a way to know if the initialization of a tracer successed.
A tracer must return 0 on success and a traditional error (ie:
-ENOMEM) if it fails.

If a tracer fails to init, it is free to print a detailed warn. The
tracing api will not and switch to a new tracer will just return the
error from the init callback.

Note: this will be used for the return tracer.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-16 07:55:23 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
c76f06945b ftrace: remove trace array ctrl
Impact: remove obsolete variable in trace_array structure

With the new start / stop method of ftrace, the ctrl variable
in the trace_array structure is now obsolete. Remove it.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-08 09:51:39 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
bbf5b1a0ce ftrace: remove ctrl_update method
Impact: Remove the ctrl_update tracer method

With the new quick start/stop method of tracing, the ctrl_update
method is out of date.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-08 09:51:34 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
9036990d46 ftrace: restructure tracing start/stop infrastructure
Impact: change where tracing is started up and stopped

Currently, when a new tracer is selected via echo'ing a tracer name into
the current_tracer file, the startup is only done if tracing_enabled is
set to one. If tracing_enabled is changed to zero (by echo'ing 0 into
the tracing_enabled file) a full shutdown is performed.

The full startup and shutdown of a tracer can be expensive and the
user can lose out traces when echo'ing in 0 to the tracing_enabled file,
because the process takes too long. There can also be places that
the user would like to start and stop the tracer several times and
doing the full startup and shutdown of a tracer might be too expensive.

This patch performs the full startup and shutdown when a tracer is
selected. It also adds a way to do a quick start or stop of a tracer.
The quick version is just a flag that prevents the tracing from
taking place, but the overhead of the code is still there.

For example, the startup of a tracer may enable tracepoints, or enable
the function tracer.  The stop and start will just set a flag to
have the tracer ignore the calls when the tracepoint or function trace
is called.  The overhead of the tracer may still be present when
the tracer is stopped, but no tracing will occur. Setting the tracer
to the 'nop' tracer (or any other tracer) will perform the shutdown
of the tracer which will disable the tracepoint or disable the
function tracer.

The tracing_enabled file will simply start or stop tracing.

This change is all internal. The end result for the user should be the same
as before. If tracing_enabled is not set, no trace will happen.
If tracing_enabled is set, then the trace will happen. The tracing_enabled
variable is static between tracers. Enabling  tracing_enabled and
going to another tracer will keep tracing_enabled enabled. Same
is true with disabling tracing_enabled.

This patch will now provide a fast start/stop method to the users
for enabling or disabling tracing.

Note: There were two methods to the struct tracer that were never
 used: The methods start and stop. These were to be used as a hook
 to the reading of the trace output, but ended up not being
 necessary. These two methods are now used to enable the start
 and stop of each tracer, in case the tracer needs to do more than
 just not write into the buffer. For example, the irqsoff tracer
 must stop recording max latencies when tracing is stopped.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-06 07:51:03 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
3ce83aea86 ftrace: rename the ftrace tracer to function
To avoid further confusion between the ftrace infrastructure and the
function tracer. This patch renames the "ftrace" function tracer
to "function".

Now in available_tracers, instead of "ftrace" there will be "function".

This makes more sense, since people will not know exactly what the
"ftrace" tracer does.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-20 18:27:04 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
3928a8a2d9 ftrace: make work with new ring buffer
This patch ports ftrace over to the new ring buffer.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:38:57 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
26bc83f4cb ftrace: use current CPU for function startup
This is more of a clean up. Currently the function tracer initializes the
tracer with which ever CPU was last used for tracing. This value isn't
realy useful for function tracing, but at least it should be something other
than a random number.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-11 15:49:21 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
41bc8144d0 ftrace: fix up cmdline recording
The new work with converting the trace hooks over to markers broke the
command line recording of ftrace. This patch fixes it again.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-26 22:51:49 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
25b0b44a1c ftrace: fix comm on function trace output
In cleaning up of the sched_switch code, the function trace recording
of task comms was removed. This patch adds back the recording of comms
for function trace. The output of ftrace now has the task comm instead
of <...>.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-23 21:52:12 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
e309b41dd6 ftrace: remove notrace
now that we have a kbuild method for notrace, no need to pollute the
C code with the annotations.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-23 20:58:28 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
2e0f576185 ftrace: build fix
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-23 20:54:47 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
750ed1a407 ftrace: timestamp syncing, prepare
rename and uninline now() to ftrace_now().

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-23 20:42:31 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
60a11774b3 ftrace: add self-tests
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-23 20:40:36 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
1b29b01887 ftrace: function tracer
This is a simple trace that uses the ftrace infrastructure. It is
designed to be fast and small, and easy to use. It is useful to
record things that happen over a very short period of time, and
not to analyze the system in general.

 Updates:

  available_tracers
     "function" is added to this file.

  current_tracer
    To enable the function tracer:

      echo function > /debugfs/tracing/current_tracer

     To disable the tracer:

       echo disable > /debugfs/tracing/current_tracer

The output of the function_trace file is as follows

  "echo noverbose > /debugfs/tracing/iter_ctrl"

preemption latency trace v1.1.5 on 2.6.24-rc7-tst
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
--------------------------------------------------------------------
 latency: 0 us, #419428/4361791, CPU#1 | (M:desktop VP:0, KP:0, SP:0 HP:0 #P:4)
    -----------------
    | task: -0 (uid:0 nice:0 policy:0 rt_prio:0)
    -----------------

                 _------=> CPU#
                / _-----=> irqs-off
               | / _----=> need-resched
               || / _---=> hardirq/softirq
               ||| / _--=> preempt-depth
               |||| /
               |||||     delay
   cmd     pid ||||| time  |   caller
      \   /    |||||   \   |   /
 swapper-0     0d.h. 1595128us+: set_normalized_timespec+0x8/0x2d <c043841d> (ktime_get_ts+0x4a/0x4e <c04499d4>)
 swapper-0     0d.h. 1595131us+: _spin_lock+0x8/0x18 <c0630690> (hrtimer_interrupt+0x6e/0x1b0 <c0449c56>)

Or with verbose turned on:

  "echo verbose > /debugfs/tracing/iter_ctrl"

preemption latency trace v1.1.5 on 2.6.24-rc7-tst
--------------------------------------------------------------------
 latency: 0 us, #419428/4361791, CPU#1 | (M:desktop VP:0, KP:0, SP:0 HP:0 #P:4)
    -----------------
    | task: -0 (uid:0 nice:0 policy:0 rt_prio:0)
    -----------------

         swapper     0 0 9 00000000 00000000 [f3675f41] 1595.128ms (+0.003ms): set_normalized_timespec+0x8/0x2d <c043841d> (ktime_get_ts+0x4a/0x4e <c04499d4>)
         swapper     0 0 9 00000000 00000001 [f3675f45] 1595.131ms (+0.003ms): _spin_lock+0x8/0x18 <c0630690> (hrtimer_interrupt+0x6e/0x1b0 <c0449c56>)
         swapper     0 0 9 00000000 00000002 [f3675f48] 1595.135ms (+0.003ms): _spin_lock+0x8/0x18 <c0630690> (hrtimer_interrupt+0x6e/0x1b0 <c0449c56>)

The "trace" file is not affected by the verbose mode, but is by the symonly.

 echo "nosymonly" > /debugfs/tracing/iter_ctrl

tracer:
[   81.479967] CPU 0: bash:3154 register_ftrace_function+0x5f/0x66 <ffffffff80337a4d> <-- _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0xe/0x5a <ffffffff8048cc8f>
[   81.479967] CPU 0: bash:3154 _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x3e/0x5a <ffffffff8048ccbf> <-- sub_preempt_count+0xc/0x7a <ffffffff80233d7b>
[   81.479968] CPU 0: bash:3154 sub_preempt_count+0x30/0x7a <ffffffff80233d9f> <-- in_lock_functions+0x9/0x24 <ffffffff8025a75d>
[   81.479968] CPU 0: bash:3154 vfs_write+0x11d/0x155 <ffffffff8029a043> <-- dnotify_parent+0x12/0x78 <ffffffff802d54fb>
[   81.479968] CPU 0: bash:3154 dnotify_parent+0x2d/0x78 <ffffffff802d5516> <-- _spin_lock+0xe/0x70 <ffffffff8048c910>
[   81.479969] CPU 0: bash:3154 _spin_lock+0x1b/0x70 <ffffffff8048c91d> <-- add_preempt_count+0xe/0x77 <ffffffff80233df7>
[   81.479969] CPU 0: bash:3154 add_preempt_count+0x3e/0x77 <ffffffff80233e27> <-- in_lock_functions+0x9/0x24 <ffffffff8025a75d>

 echo "symonly" > /debugfs/tracing/iter_ctrl

tracer:
[   81.479913] CPU 0: bash:3154 register_ftrace_function+0x5f/0x66 <-- _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0xe/0x5a
[   81.479913] CPU 0: bash:3154 _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x3e/0x5a <-- sub_preempt_count+0xc/0x7a
[   81.479913] CPU 0: bash:3154 sub_preempt_count+0x30/0x7a <-- in_lock_functions+0x9/0x24
[   81.479914] CPU 0: bash:3154 vfs_write+0x11d/0x155 <-- dnotify_parent+0x12/0x78
[   81.479914] CPU 0: bash:3154 dnotify_parent+0x2d/0x78 <-- _spin_lock+0xe/0x70
[   81.479914] CPU 0: bash:3154 _spin_lock+0x1b/0x70 <-- add_preempt_count+0xe/0x77
[   81.479914] CPU 0: bash:3154 add_preempt_count+0x3e/0x77 <-- in_lock_functions+0x9/0x24

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-23 20:32:13 +02:00