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2017-07-13Merge tag 'trace-v4.13-2' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace Pull more tracing updates from Steven Rostedt: "A few more minor updates: - Show the tgid mappings for user space trace tools to use - Fix and optimize the comm and tgid cache recording - Sanitize derived kprobe names - Ftrace selftest updates - trace file header fix - Update of Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt - Compiler warning fixes - Fix possible uninitialized variable" * tag 'trace-v4.13-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: ftrace: Fix uninitialized variable in match_records() ftrace: Remove an unneeded NULL check ftrace: Hide cached module code for !CONFIG_MODULES tracing: Do note expose stack_trace_filter without DYNAMIC_FTRACE tracing: Update Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt tracing: Fixup trace file header alignment selftests/ftrace: Add a testcase for kprobe event naming selftests/ftrace: Add a test to probe module functions selftests/ftrace: Update multiple kprobes test for powerpc trace/kprobes: Sanitize derived event names tracing: Attempt to record other information even if some fail tracing: Treat recording tgid for idle task as a success tracing: Treat recording comm for idle task as a success tracing: Add saved_tgids file to show cached pid to tgid mappings
2017-07-11tracing: Update Documentation/trace/ftrace.txtSteven Rostedt (VMware)
The documentation of ftrace.txt has become rather outdated. Bring it closer to reality of todays kernel. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2017-06-22sched/loadavg: Generalize "_idle" naming to "_nohz"Frederic Weisbecker
The loadavg naming code still assumes that nohz == idle whereas its code is actually handling well both nohz idle and nohz full. So lets fix the naming according to what the code actually does, to unconfuse the reader. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1497838322-10913-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-03-24Documentation: ftrace.txt: Correct nice value of 120 priorityLiu, Changcheng
The nice value of 120 priority is 0. Signed-off-by: Liu Changcheng <changcheng.liu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2016-12-15Merge tag 'trace-v4.10' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt: "This release has a few updates: - STM can hook into the function tracer - Function filtering now supports more advance glob matching - Ftrace selftests updates and added tests - Softirq tag in traces now show only softirqs - ARM nop added to non traced locations at compile time - New trace_marker_raw file that allows for binary input - Optimizations to the ring buffer - Removal of kmap in trace_marker - Wakeup and irqsoff tracers now adhere to the set_graph_notrace file - Other various fixes and clean ups" * tag 'trace-v4.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (42 commits) selftests: ftrace: Shift down default message verbosity kprobes/trace: Fix kprobe selftest for newer gcc tracing/kprobes: Add a helper method to return number of probe hits tracing/rb: Init the CPU mask on allocation tracing: Use SOFTIRQ_OFFSET for softirq dectection for more accurate results tracing/fgraph: Have wakeup and irqsoff tracers ignore graph functions too fgraph: Handle a case where a tracer ignores set_graph_notrace tracing: Replace kmap with copy_from_user() in trace_marker writing ftrace/x86_32: Set ftrace_stub to weak to prevent gcc from using short jumps to it tracing: Allow benchmark to be enabled at early_initcall() tracing: Have system enable return error if one of the events fail tracing: Do not start benchmark on boot up tracing: Have the reg function allow to fail ring-buffer: Force rb_end_commit() and rb_set_commit_to_write() inline ring-buffer: Froce rb_update_write_stamp() to be inlined ring-buffer: Force inline of hotpath helper functions tracing: Make __buffer_unlock_commit() always_inline tracing: Make tracepoint_printk a static_key ring-buffer: Always inline rb_event_data() ring-buffer: Make rb_reserve_next_event() always inlined ...
2016-11-29trace: Update documentation for mono, mono_raw and boot clockJoel Fernandes
Documentation was missing for mono and mono_raw, add them and also for the boot clock introduced in this series. Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1480372524-15181-8-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2016-11-15tracing: Add new trace_marker_rawSteven Rostedt
A new file is created: /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_marker_raw This allows for appications to create data structures and write the binary data directly into it, and then read the trace data out from trace_pipe_raw into the same type of data structure. This saves on converting numbers into ASCII that would be required by trace_marker. Suggested-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-11-14ftrace: Support full glob matchingMasami Hiramatsu
Use glob_match() to support flexible glob wildcards (*,?) and character classes ([) for ftrace. Since the full glob matching is slower than the current partial matching routines(*pat, pat*, *pat*), this leaves those routines and just add MATCH_GLOB for complex glob expression. e.g. ---- [root@localhost tracing]# echo 'sched*group' > set_ftrace_filter [root@localhost tracing]# cat set_ftrace_filter sched_free_group sched_change_group sched_create_group sched_online_group sched_destroy_group sched_offline_group [root@localhost tracing]# echo '[Ss]y[Ss]_*' > set_ftrace_filter [root@localhost tracing]# head set_ftrace_filter sys_arch_prctl sys_rt_sigreturn sys_ioperm SyS_iopl sys_modify_ldt SyS_mmap SyS_set_thread_area SyS_get_thread_area SyS_set_tid_address sys_fork ---- Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/147566869501.29136.6462645009894738056.stgit@devbox Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-09-01ftrace: Access ret_stack->subtime only in the function profilerNamhyung Kim
The subtime is used only for function profiler with function graph tracer enabled. Move the definition of subtime under CONFIG_FUNCTION_PROFILER to reduce the memory usage. Also move the initialization of subtime into the graph entry callback. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160831025529.24018-1-namhyung@kernel.org Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-05-18Merge tag 'trace-v4.7' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt: "This includes two new updates for the ftrace infrastructure. - With the changing of the code for filtering events by pid, from a list of pids to a bitmask, we can now easily implement following forks. With a new tracing option "event-fork" which, when set, will have tasks with pids in set_event_pid, when they fork, to have their child pids added to set_event_pid and the child will be traced as well. Note, if "event-fork" is set and a task with its pid in set_event_pid exits, its pid will be removed from set_event_pid - The addition of Tom Zanussi's hist triggers. This includes a very thorough documentatino on how to use the hist triggers with events. This introduces a quick and easy way to get histogram data from events and their fields. Some other cleanups and updates were added as well. Like Masami Hiramatsu added test cases for the event trigger and hist triggers. Also I added a speed up of filtering by using a temp buffer when filters are set" * tag 'trace-v4.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (45 commits) tracing: Use temp buffer when filtering events tracing: Remove TRACE_EVENT_FL_USE_CALL_FILTER logic tracing: Remove unused function trace_current_buffer_lock_reserve() tracing: Remove one use of trace_current_buffer_lock_reserve() tracing: Have trace_buffer_unlock_commit() call the _regs version with NULL tracing: Remove unused function trace_current_buffer_discard_commit() tracing: Move trace_buffer_unlock_commit{_regs}() to local header tracing: Fold filter_check_discard() into its only user tracing: Make filter_check_discard() local tracing: Move event_trigger_unlock_commit{_regs}() to local header tracing: Don't use the address of the buffer array name in copy_from_user tracing: Handle tracing_map_alloc_elts() error path correctly tracing: Add check for NULL event field when creating hist field tracing: checking for NULL instead of IS_ERR() tracing: Do not inherit event-fork option for instances tracing: Fix unsigned comparison to zero in hist trigger code kselftests/ftrace: Add a test for log2 modifier of hist trigger tracing: Add hist trigger 'log2' modifier kselftests/ftrace: Add hist trigger testcases kselftests/ftrace : Add event trigger testcases ...
2016-04-23sched/fair: Gather CPU load functions under a more conventional namespaceFrederic Weisbecker
The CPU load update related functions have a weak naming convention currently, starting with update_cpu_load_*() which isn't ideal as "update" is a very generic concept. Since two of these functions are public already (and a third is to come) that's enough to introduce a more conventional naming scheme. So let's do the following rename instead: update_cpu_load_*() -> cpu_load_update_*() Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul E . McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1460555812-25375-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.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>
2015-11-03tracing: Add some documentation about set_event_pidSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
Update Documentation to include some comments about how to use set_event_pid. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-10-20Documentation: ftrace: Module globbing usageDmitry Safonov
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1443545176-3215-5-git-send-email-0x7f454c46@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-09-08Merge tag 'trace-v4.3' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace Pull tracing update from Steven Rostedt: "Mostly this is just clean ups and micro optimizations. The changes with more meat are: - Allowing the trace event filters to filter on CPU number and process ids - Two new markers for trace output latency were added (10 and 100 msec latencies) - Have tracing_thresh filter function profiling time I also worked on modifying the ring buffer code for some future work, and moved the adding of the timestamp around. One of my changes caused a regression, and since other changes were built on top of it and already tested, I had to operate a revert of that change. Instead of rebasing, this change set has the code that caused a regression as well as the code to revert that change without touching the other changes that were made on top of it" * tag 'trace-v4.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: ring-buffer: Revert "ring-buffer: Get timestamp after event is allocated" tracing: Don't make assumptions about length of string on task rename tracing: Allow triggers to filter for CPU ids and process names ftrace: Format MCOUNT_ADDR address as type unsigned long tracing: Introduce two additional marks for delay ftrace: Fix function_graph duration spacing with 7-digits ftrace: add tracing_thresh to function profile tracing: Clean up stack tracing and fix fentry updates ring-buffer: Reorganize function locations ring-buffer: Make sure event has enough room for extend and padding ring-buffer: Get timestamp after event is allocated ring-buffer: Move the adding of the extended timestamp out of line ring-buffer: Add event descriptor to simplify passing data ftrace: correct the counter increment for trace_buffer data tracing: Fix for non-continuous cpu ids tracing: Prefer kcalloc over kzalloc with multiply
2015-08-06powerpc/ftrace: add powerpc timebase as a trace clock sourceNaveen N. Rao
Add a new powerpc-specific trace clock using the timebase register, similar to x86-tsc. This gives us - a fast, monotonic, hardware clock source for trace entries, and - a clock that can be used to correlate events across cpus as well as across hypervisor and guests. Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2015-07-20tracing: Introduce two additional marks for delayJungseok Lee
A fine granulity support for delay would be very useful when profiling VM logics, such as page allocation including page reclaim and memory compaction with function graph. Thus, this patch adds two additional marks with two changes. - An equal sign in mark selection function is removed to align code behavior with comments and documentation. - The function graph example related to delay in ftrace.txt is updated to cover all supported marks. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1436626300-1679-3-git-send-email-jungseoklee85@gmail.com Cc: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com> Signed-off-by: Jungseok Lee <jungseoklee85@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-05-13Documentation: tracing: fix grammarRabin Vincent
4a88d44ab17da ("tracing: Remove mentioning of legacy latency_trace file from documentation") changed a sentence to refer to only one file instead of two, but the sentence still uses "they". Fix it. Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent <rabin@rab.in> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2015-02-09Documentation: Fix the wrong command `echo -1 > set_ftrace_pid` for cleaning ↵Wang Long
the filter. The command `echo > set_ftrace_pid` should be used to clean the filter quietly. because the command `echo -1 > set_ftrace_pid` will output the following: "bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument". so update the file Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt. Signed-off-by: Wang Long <long.wanglong@huawei.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2014-12-03tracing: Add additional marks to signal very large time deltasByungchul Park
Currently, function graph tracer prints "!" or "+" just before function execution time to signal a function overhead, depending on the time. And some tracers tracing latency also print "!" or "+" just after time to signal overhead, depending on the interval between events. Even it is usually enough to do that, we sometimes need to signal for bigger execution time than 100 micro seconds. For example, I used function graph tracer to detect if there is any case that exit_mm() takes too much time. I did following steps in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing. It was easier to detect very large excution time with patched kernel than with original kernel. $ echo exit_mm > set_graph_function $ echo function_graph > current_tracer $ echo > trace $ cat trace_pipe > $LOGFILE ... (do something and terminate logging) $ grep "\\$" $LOGFILE 3) $ 22082032 us | } /* kernel_map_pages */ 3) $ 22082040 us | } /* free_pages_prepare */ 3) $ 22082113 us | } /* free_hot_cold_page */ 3) $ 22083455 us | } /* free_hot_cold_page_list */ 3) $ 22083895 us | } /* release_pages */ 3) $ 22177873 us | } /* free_pages_and_swap_cache */ 3) $ 22178929 us | } /* unmap_single_vma */ 3) $ 22198885 us | } /* unmap_vmas */ 3) $ 22206949 us | } /* exit_mmap */ 3) $ 22207659 us | } /* mmput */ 3) $ 22207793 us | } /* exit_mm */ And then, it was easy to find out that a schedule-out occured by sub_preempt_count() within kernel_map_pages(). To detect very large function exection time caused by either problematic function implementation or scheduling issues, this patch can be useful. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1416789259-24038-1-git-send-email-byungchul.park@lge.com Signed-off-by: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2014-11-21ftrace, kprobes: Support IPMODIFY flag to find IP modify conflictMasami Hiramatsu
Introduce FTRACE_OPS_FL_IPMODIFY to avoid conflict among ftrace users who may modify regs->ip to change the execution path. If two or more users modify the regs->ip on the same function entry, one of them will be broken. So they must add IPMODIFY flag and make sure that ftrace_set_filter_ip() succeeds. Note that ftrace doesn't allow ftrace_ops which has IPMODIFY flag to have notrace hash, and the ftrace_ops must have a filter hash (so that the ftrace_ops can hook only specific entries), because it strongly depends on the address and must be allowed for only few selected functions. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141121102516.11844.27829.stgit@localhost.localdomain Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Cc: Seth Jennings <sjenning@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz> Cc: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz> Cc: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> [ fixed up some of the comments ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2014-07-16sched: Transform resched_task() into resched_curr()Kirill Tkhai
We always use resched_task() with rq->curr argument. It's not possible to reschedule any task but rq's current. The patch introduces resched_curr(struct rq *) to replace all of the repeating patterns. The main aim is cleanup, but there is a little size profit too: (before) $ size kernel/sched/built-in.o text data bss dec hex filename 155274 16445 7042 178761 2ba49 kernel/sched/built-in.o $ size vmlinux text data bss dec hex filename 7411490 1178376 991232 9581098 92322a vmlinux (after) $ size kernel/sched/built-in.o text data bss dec hex filename 155130 16445 7042 178617 2b9b9 kernel/sched/built-in.o $ size vmlinux text data bss dec hex filename 7411362 1178376 991232 9580970 9231aa vmlinux I was choosing between resched_curr() and resched_rq(), and the first name looks better for me. A little lie in Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt. I have not actually collected the tracing again. With a hope the patch won't make execution times much worse :) Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <tkhai@yandex.ru> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140628200219.1778.18735.stgit@localhost Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-05-20tracing: Add funcgraph_tail option to print function name after closing bracesRobert Elliott
In the function-graph tracer, add a funcgraph_tail option to print the function name on all } lines, not just functions whose first line is no longer in the trace buffer. If a function calls other traced functions, its total time appears on its } line. This change allows grep to be used to determine the function for which the line corresponds. Update Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt to describe this new option. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/p/20140520221041.8359.6782.stgit@beardog.cce.hp.com Signed-off-by: Robert Elliott <elliott@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-11-11ftrace, sched: Add TRACE_FLAG_PREEMPT_RESCHEDPeter Zijlstra
Since the introduction of PREEMPT_NEED_RESCHED in: f27dde8deef3 ("sched: Add NEED_RESCHED to the preempt_count") we need to be able to look at both TIF_NEED_RESCHED and PREEMPT_NEED_RESCHED to understand the full preemption behaviour. Add it to the trace output. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131004152826.GP3081@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-08-20Documentation: replace strict_strtoul() with kstrtoul()Jingoo Han
The usage of strict_strtoul() is not preferred, because strict_strtoul() is obsolete. Thus, kstrtoul() should be used. Signed-off-by: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2013-06-11tracing: Add function probe to trigger a ftrace dump of current CPU traceSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
Add the "cpudump" command to have the current CPU ftrace buffer dumped to console if a function is hit. This is useful when debugging a tripple fault, where you have an idea of a function that is called just before the tripple fault occurs, and can tell ftrace to dump its content out to the console before it continues. This differs from the "dump" command as it only dumps the content of the ring buffer for the currently executing CPU, and does not show the contents of the other CPUs. Format is: <function>:cpudump echo 'bad_address:cpudump' > /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter To remove this: echo '!bad_address:cpudump' > /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-06-11tracing: Add function probe to trigger a ftrace dump to consoleSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
Add the "dump" command to have the ftrace buffer dumped to console if a function is hit. This is useful when debugging a tripple fault, where you have an idea of a function that is called just before the tripple fault occurs, and can tell ftrace to dump its content out to the console before it continues. Format is: <function>:dump echo 'bad_address:dump' > /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter To remove this: echo '!bad_address:dump' > /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter Requested-by: Luis Claudio R. Goncalves <lclaudio@uudg.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-03-15tracing: Bring Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt up to dateSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
The ftrace.txt document has been suffering from some serious bit rot. Updated the current content to how things are as of v3.10. Remove things that no longer exist. Add documentation about new features: per_cpu stats instances stack trace etc. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-03-08tracing: update documentation of snapshot utilityHiraku Toyooka
Now, "snapshot" file returns success on a reset of snapshot buffer even if the buffer wasn't allocated, instead of returning EINVAL. This patch updates snapshot desctiption according to the change. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/51399409.4090207@hitachi.com Signed-off-by: Hiraku Toyooka <hiraku.toyooka.gu@hitachi.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-01-30tracing: Add documentation of snapshot utilityHiraku Toyooka
This patch adds snapshot description in ftrace documentation. This description includes what the snapshot is and how to use it. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20121226025309.3252.150.stgit@liselsia Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> Signed-off-by: Hiraku Toyooka <hiraku.toyooka.gu@hitachi.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-02-13ftrace: Append wakeup_rt description of ftrace docGeunsik Lim
Append and update the description about wakeup/wakeup_rt usage. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328695537-15081-2-git-send-email-geunsik.lim@gmail.com Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Geunsik Lim <geunsik.lim@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-03-09tracing: Add an 'overwrite' trace_option.David Sharp
Add an "overwrite" trace_option for ftrace to control whether the buffer should be overwritten on overflow or not. The default remains to overwrite old events when the buffer is full. This patch adds the option to instead discard newest events when the buffer is full. This is useful to get a snapshot of traces just after enabling traces. Dropping the current event is also a simpler code path. Signed-off-by: David Sharp <dhsharp@google.com> LKML-Reference: <1291844807-15481-1-git-send-email-dhsharp@google.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-02-08tracing: Deprecate tracing_enabled for tracing_onSteven Rostedt
tracing_enabled should not be used, it is heavy weight and does not do much in helping lower the overhead. tracing_on should be used instead. Warn users to use tracing_on when tracing_enabled is used as it will soon be removed from the tracing directory. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-02-08tracing: Remove obsolete sched_switch tracerSteven Rostedt
The trace events sched_switch and sched_wakeup do the same thing as the stand alone sched_switch tracer does. It is no longer needed. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-04-27tracing: Add documentation for trace commands mod, traceon/traceoffChase Douglas
The mod command went in as commit 64e7c440618998fd69eee6ab490b042d12248021 The traceon/traceoff commands went in as commit 23b4ff3aa479c9e3bb23cb6b2d0a97878399784a Signed-off-by: Chase Douglas <chase.douglas@canonical.com> LKML-Reference: <1272045759-32018-1-git-send-email-chase.douglas@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-04-21tracing: Dump either the oops's cpu source or all cpus buffersFrederic Weisbecker
The ftrace_dump_on_oops kernel parameter, sysctl and sysrq let one dump every cpu buffers when an oops or panic happens. It's nice when you have few cpus but it may take ages if have many, plus you miss the real origin of the problem in all the cpu traces. Sometimes, all you need is to dump the cpu buffer that triggered the opps, most of the time it is our main interest. This patch modifies ftrace_dump_on_oops to handle this choice. The ftrace_dump_on_oops kernel parameter, when it comes alone, has the same behaviour than before. But ftrace_dump_on_oops=orig_cpu will only dump the buffer of the cpu that oops'ed. Similarly, sysctl kernel.ftrace_dump_on_oops=1 and echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/ftrace_dump_on_oops keep their previous behaviour. But setting 2 jumps into cpu origin dump mode. v2: Fix double setup v3: Fix spelling issues reported by Randy Dunlap v4: Also update __ftrace_dump in the selftests Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
2010-02-09tree-wide: Assorted spelling fixesDaniel Mack
In particular, several occurances of funny versions of 'success', 'unknown', 'therefore', 'acknowledge', 'argument', 'achieve', 'address', 'beginning', 'desirable', 'separate' and 'necessary' are fixed. Signed-off-by: Daniel Mack <daniel@caiaq.de> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-01-26tracing/documentation: Fix a typo in ftrace.txtYang Hongyang
'ftrace' is no longer the name of the function tracer, to activate the function trace 'echo function > current_tracer' is to be used instead of 'echo ftrace > current_tracer'. Update the documentation to reflect the current implementation. Signed-off-by: Yang Hongyang <yanghy@cn.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: <4B5D0BA8.20106@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-10-24tracing: Fix comment typo and documentation exampleJiri Olsa
Trivial patch to fix a documentation example and to fix a comment. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <20091023233646.871719877@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-21trivial: fix typos "man[ae]g?ment" -> "management"Uwe Kleine-Koenig
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-Koenig <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-09-14ftrace: document function and function graph implementationMike Frysinger
While implementing function tracer and function tracer graph support, I found the exact arch implementation details to be a bit lacking (and my x86 foo ain't great). So after pounding out support for the Blackfin arch, start documenting the requirements/details. Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> LKML-Reference: <1252973415-21264-1-git-send-email-vapier@gentoo.org> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-04tracing: Remove mentioning of legacy latency_trace file from documentationAlbin Tonnerre
The latency_trace file got removed a while back by commit 886b5b73d71e4027d7dc6c14f5f7ab102201ea6b and has been replaced by the latency-format option. This patch fixes the documentation by reflecting this change. Changes since v1: - mention that the trace format is configurable through the latency-format option - Fix a couple mistakes related to the timestamps Signed-off-by: Albin Tonnerre <albin.tonnerre@free-electrons.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> LKML-Reference: <20090831204007.GE4237@pc-ras4041.res.insa> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-06-15debugfs: Fix terminology inconsistency of dir name to mount debugfs filesystem.GeunSik Lim
Many developers use "/debug/" or "/debugfs/" or "/sys/kernel/debug/" directory name to mount debugfs filesystem for ftrace according to ./Documentation/tracers/ftrace.txt file. And, three directory names(ex:/debug/, /debugfs/, /sys/kernel/debug/) is existed in kernel source like ftrace, DRM, Wireless, Documentation, Network[sky2]files to mount debugfs filesystem. debugfs means debug filesystem for debugging easy to use by greg kroah hartman. "/sys/kernel/debug/" name is suitable as directory name of debugfs filesystem. - debugfs related reference: http://lwn.net/Articles/334546/ Fix inconsistency of directory name to mount debugfs filesystem. * From Steven Rostedt - find_debugfs() and tracing_files() in this patch. Signed-off-by: GeunSik Lim <geunsik.lim@samsung.com> Acked-by : Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by : Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Reviewed-by : James Smart <james.smart@emulex.com> CC: Jiri Kosina <trivial@kernel.org> CC: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie> CC: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com> CC: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> CC: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> CC: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-06-12trivial: ftrace:fix description of trace directoryGeunSik Lim
Fix trace source directory from kernel/tracing/ to kernel/trace/. Signed-off-by: GeunSik Lim <geunsik.lim@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-06-10Merge branch 'tracing-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'tracing-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (244 commits) Revert "x86, bts: reenable ptrace branch trace support" tracing: do not translate event helper macros in print format ftrace/documentation: fix typo in function grapher name tracing/events: convert block trace points to TRACE_EVENT(), fix !CONFIG_BLOCK tracing: add protection around module events unload tracing: add trace_seq_vprint interface tracing: fix the block trace points print size tracing/events: convert block trace points to TRACE_EVENT() ring-buffer: fix ret in rb_add_time_stamp ring-buffer: pass in lockdep class key for reader_lock tracing: add annotation to what type of stack trace is recorded tracing: fix multiple use of __print_flags and __print_symbolic tracing/events: fix output format of user stack tracing/events: fix output format of kernel stack tracing/trace_stack: fix the number of entries in the header ring-buffer: discard timestamps that are at the start of the buffer ring-buffer: try to discard unneeded timestamps ring-buffer: fix bug in ring_buffer_discard_commit ftrace: do not profile functions when disabled tracing: make trace pipe recognize latency format flag ...
2009-06-10ftrace/documentation: fix typo in function grapher nameMike Frysinger
The function graph tracer is called just "function_graph" (no trailing "_tracer" needed). Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> LKML-Reference: <1244623722-6325-1-git-send-email-vapier@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-05-29ftrace: fix typo about map of kernel priority in ftrace.txt file.GeunSik Lim
Fix typo about chart to map the kernel priority to user land priorities. * About sched_setscheduler(2) Processes scheduled under SCHED_FIFO or SCHED_RR can have a (user-space) static priority in the range 1 to 99. (reference: http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/ man2/sched_setscheduler.2.html) * From: Steven Rostedt 0 to 98 - maps to RT tasks 99 to 1 (SCHED_RR or SCHED_FIFO) 99 - maps to internal kernel threads that want to be lower than RT tasks but higher than SCHED_OTHER tasks. Although I'm not sure if any kernel thread actually uses this. I'm not even sure how this can be set, because the internal sched_setscheduler function does not allow for it. 100 to 139 - maps nice levels -20 to 19. These are not set via sched_setscheduler, but are set via the nice system call. 140 - reserved for idle tasks. Signed-off-by: GeunSik Lim <geunsik.lim@samsung.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-09tracing: consolidate documentsLi Zefan
Move kmemtrace.txt, tracepoints.txt, ftrace.txt and mmiotrace.txt to the new trace/ directory. I didnt find any references to those documents in both source files and documents, so no extra work needs to be done. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> LKML-Reference: <49DD6E2B.6090200@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>