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2012-01-08Merge branch 'for-linus2' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs * 'for-linus2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (165 commits) reiserfs: Properly display mount options in /proc/mounts vfs: prevent remount read-only if pending removes vfs: count unlinked inodes vfs: protect remounting superblock read-only vfs: keep list of mounts for each superblock vfs: switch ->show_options() to struct dentry * vfs: switch ->show_path() to struct dentry * vfs: switch ->show_devname() to struct dentry * vfs: switch ->show_stats to struct dentry * switch security_path_chmod() to struct path * vfs: prefer ->dentry->d_sb to ->mnt->mnt_sb vfs: trim includes a bit switch mnt_namespace ->root to struct mount vfs: take /proc/*/mounts and friends to fs/proc_namespace.c vfs: opencode mntget() mnt_set_mountpoint() vfs: spread struct mount - remaining argument of next_mnt() vfs: move fsnotify junk to struct mount vfs: move mnt_devname vfs: move mnt_list to struct mount vfs: switch pnode.h macros to struct mount * ...
2012-01-03switch debugfs to umode_tAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-11-17tracing: Add irq, preempt-count and need resched info to default trace outputSteven Rostedt
People keep asking how to get the preempt count, irq, and need resched info and we keep telling them to enable the latency format. Some developers think that traces without this info is completely useless, and for a lot of tasks it is useless. The first option was to enable the latency trace as the default format, but the header for the latency format is pretty useless for most tracers and it also does the timestamp in straight microseconds from the time the trace started. This is sometimes more difficult to read as the default trace is seconds from the start of boot up. Latency format: # tracer: nop # # nop latency trace v1.1.5 on 3.2.0-rc1-test+ # -------------------------------------------------------------------- # latency: 0 us, #159771/64234230, CPU#1 | (M:preempt 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 # \ / ||||| \ | / migratio-6 0...2 41778231us+: rcu_note_context_switch <-__schedule migratio-6 0...2 41778233us : trace_rcu_utilization <-rcu_note_context_switch migratio-6 0...2 41778235us+: rcu_sched_qs <-rcu_note_context_switch migratio-6 0d..2 41778236us+: rcu_preempt_qs <-rcu_note_context_switch migratio-6 0...2 41778238us : trace_rcu_utilization <-rcu_note_context_switch migratio-6 0...2 41778239us+: debug_lockdep_rcu_enabled <-__schedule default format: # tracer: nop # # TASK-PID CPU# TIMESTAMP FUNCTION # | | | | | migration/0-6 [000] 50.025810: rcu_note_context_switch <-__schedule migration/0-6 [000] 50.025812: trace_rcu_utilization <-rcu_note_context_switch migration/0-6 [000] 50.025813: rcu_sched_qs <-rcu_note_context_switch migration/0-6 [000] 50.025815: rcu_preempt_qs <-rcu_note_context_switch migration/0-6 [000] 50.025817: trace_rcu_utilization <-rcu_note_context_switch migration/0-6 [000] 50.025818: debug_lockdep_rcu_enabled <-__schedule migration/0-6 [000] 50.025820: debug_lockdep_rcu_enabled <-__schedule The latency format header has latency information that is pretty meaningless for most tracers. Although some of the header is useful, and we can add that later to the default format as well. What is really useful with the latency format is the irqs-off, need-resched hard/softirq context and the preempt count. This commit adds the option irq-info which is on by default that adds this information: # tracer: nop # # _-----=> irqs-off # / _----=> need-resched # | / _---=> hardirq/softirq # || / _--=> preempt-depth # ||| / delay # TASK-PID CPU# |||| TIMESTAMP FUNCTION # | | | |||| | | <idle>-0 [000] d..2 49.309305: cpuidle_get_driver <-cpuidle_idle_call <idle>-0 [000] d..2 49.309307: mwait_idle <-cpu_idle <idle>-0 [000] d..2 49.309309: need_resched <-mwait_idle <idle>-0 [000] d..2 49.309310: test_ti_thread_flag <-need_resched <idle>-0 [000] d..2 49.309312: trace_power_start.constprop.13 <-mwait_idle <idle>-0 [000] d..2 49.309313: trace_cpu_idle <-mwait_idle <idle>-0 [000] d..2 49.309315: need_resched <-mwait_idle If a user wants the old format, they can disable the 'irq-info' option: # tracer: nop # # TASK-PID CPU# TIMESTAMP FUNCTION # | | | | | <idle>-0 [000] 49.309305: cpuidle_get_driver <-cpuidle_idle_call <idle>-0 [000] 49.309307: mwait_idle <-cpu_idle <idle>-0 [000] 49.309309: need_resched <-mwait_idle <idle>-0 [000] 49.309310: test_ti_thread_flag <-need_resched <idle>-0 [000] 49.309312: trace_power_start.constprop.13 <-mwait_idle <idle>-0 [000] 49.309313: trace_cpu_idle <-mwait_idle <idle>-0 [000] 49.309315: need_resched <-mwait_idle Requested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-11-07tracing/latency: Fix header output for latency tracersJiri Olsa
In case the the graph tracer (CONFIG_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER) or even the function tracer (CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER) are not set, the latency tracers do not display proper latency header. The involved/fixed latency tracers are: wakeup_rt wakeup preemptirqsoff preemptoff irqsoff The patch adds proper handling of tracer configuration options for latency tracers, and displaying correct header info accordingly. * The current output (for wakeup tracer) with both graph and function tracers disabled is: # tracer: wakeup # <idle>-0 0d.h5 1us+: 0:120:R + [000] 7: 0:R watchdog/0 <idle>-0 0d.h5 3us+: ttwu_do_activate.clone.1 <-try_to_wake_up ... * The fixed output is: # tracer: wakeup # # wakeup latency trace v1.1.5 on 3.1.0-tip+ # -------------------------------------------------------------------- # latency: 55 us, #4/4, CPU#0 | (M:preempt VP:0, KP:0, SP:0 HP:0 #P:2) # ----------------- # | task: migration/0-6 (uid:0 nice:0 policy:1 rt_prio:99) # ----------------- # # _------=> CPU# # / _-----=> irqs-off # | / _----=> need-resched # || / _---=> hardirq/softirq # ||| / _--=> preempt-depth # |||| / delay # cmd pid ||||| time | caller # \ / ||||| \ | / cat-1129 0d..4 1us : 1129:120:R + [000] 6: 0:R migration/0 cat-1129 0d..4 2us+: ttwu_do_activate.clone.1 <-try_to_wake_up * The current output (for wakeup tracer) with only function tracer enabled is: # tracer: wakeup # cat-1140 0d..4 1us+: 1140:120:R + [000] 6: 0:R migration/0 cat-1140 0d..4 2us : ttwu_do_activate.clone.1 <-try_to_wake_up * The fixed output is: # tracer: wakeup # # wakeup latency trace v1.1.5 on 3.1.0-tip+ # -------------------------------------------------------------------- # latency: 207 us, #109/109, CPU#1 | (M:preempt VP:0, KP:0, SP:0 HP:0 #P:2) # ----------------- # | task: watchdog/1-12 (uid:0 nice:0 policy:1 rt_prio:99) # ----------------- # # _------=> CPU# # / _-----=> irqs-off # | / _----=> need-resched # || / _---=> hardirq/softirq # ||| / _--=> preempt-depth # |||| / delay # cmd pid ||||| time | caller # \ / ||||| \ | / <idle>-0 1d.h5 1us+: 0:120:R + [001] 12: 0:R watchdog/1 <idle>-0 1d.h5 3us : ttwu_do_activate.clone.1 <-try_to_wake_up Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111107150849.GE1807@m.brq.redhat.com Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-10-11tracing: Warn on output if the function tracer was found corruptedSteven Rostedt
As the function tracer is very intrusive, lots of self checks are performed on the tracer and if something is found to be strange it will shut itself down keeping it from corrupting the rest of the kernel. This shutdown may still allow functions to be traced, as the tracing only stops new modifications from happening. Trying to stop the function tracer itself can cause more harm as it requires code modification. Although a WARN_ON() is executed, a user may not notice it. To help the user see that something isn't right with the tracing of the system a big warning is added to the output of the tracer that lets the user know that their data may be incomplete. Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-08-19tracing/filter: Add startup tests for events filterJiri Olsa
Adding automated tests running as late_initcall. Tests are compiled in with CONFIG_FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST option. Adding test event "ftrace_test_filter" used to simulate filter processing during event occurance. String filters are compiled and tested against several test events with different values. Also testing that evaluation of explicit predicates is ommited due to the lazy filter evaluation. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1313072754-4620-11-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-08-19tracing/filter: Remove field_name from filter_pred structJiri Olsa
The field_name was used just for finding event's fields. This way we don't need to care about field_name allocation/free. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1313072754-4620-4-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-07-26atomic: use <linux/atomic.h>Arun Sharma
This allows us to move duplicated code in <asm/atomic.h> (atomic_inc_not_zero() for now) to <linux/atomic.h> Signed-off-by: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-21Merge branch 'tip/perf/core' of ↵Ingo Molnar
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into perf/core
2011-07-21Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/coreIngo Molnar
Merge reason: pick up the latest fixes - they won't make v3.0. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-07-07tracing: Still trace filtered irq functions when irq trace is disabledSteven Rostedt
If a function is set to be traced by the set_graph_function, but the option funcgraph-irqs is zero, and the traced function happens to be called from a interrupt, it will not be traced. The point of funcgraph-irqs is to not trace interrupts when we are preempted by an irq, not to not trace functions we want to trace that happen to be *in* a irq. Luckily the current->trace_recursion element is perfect to add a flag to help us be able to trace functions within an interrupt even when we are not tracing interrupts that preempt the trace. Reported-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Tested-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-07-07tracing: Fix bug when reading system filters on module removalSteven Rostedt
The event system is freed when its nr_events is set to zero. This happens when a module created an event system and then later the module is removed. Modules may share systems, so the system is allocated when it is created and freed when the modules are unloaded and all the events under the system are removed (nr_events set to zero). The problem arises when a task opened the "filter" file for the system. If the module is unloaded and it removed the last event for that system, the system structure is freed. If the task that opened the filter file accesses the "filter" file after the system has been freed, the system will access an invalid pointer. By adding a ref_count, and using it to keep track of what is using the event system, we can free it after all users are finished with the event system. Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Reported-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-06-14tracing/kprobes: Fix kprobe-tracer to support stack traceMasami Hiramatsu
Fix to support kernel stack trace correctly on kprobe-tracer. Since the execution path of kprobe-based dynamic events is different from other tracepoint-based events, normal ftrace_trace_stack() doesn't work correctly. To fix that, this introduces ftrace_trace_stack_regs() which traces stack via pt_regs instead of current stack register. e.g. # echo p schedule+4 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/kprobe_events # echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/options/stacktrace # echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kprobes/enable # head -n 20 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace bash-2968 [000] 10297.050245: p_schedule_4: (schedule+0x4/0x4ca) bash-2968 [000] 10297.050247: <stack trace> => schedule_timeout => n_tty_read => tty_read => vfs_read => sys_read => system_call_fastpath kworker/0:1-2940 [000] 10297.050265: p_schedule_4: (schedule+0x4/0x4ca) kworker/0:1-2940 [000] 10297.050266: <stack trace> => worker_thread => kthread => kernel_thread_helper sshd-1132 [000] 10297.050365: p_schedule_4: (schedule+0x4/0x4ca) sshd-1132 [000] 10297.050365: <stack trace> => sysret_careful Note: Even with this fix, the first entry will be skipped if the probe is put on the function entry area before the frame pointer is set up (usually, that is 4 bytes (push %bp; mov %sp %bp) on x86), because stack unwinder depends on the frame pointer. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: yrl.pp-manager.tt@hitachi.com Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110608070934.17777.17116.stgit@fedora15 Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-06-14tracing: Add disable_on_free optionSteven Rostedt
Add a trace option to disable tracing on free. When this option is set, a write into the free_buffer file will not only shrink the ring buffer down to zero, but it will also disable tracing. Cc: Vaibhav Nagarnaik <vnagarnaik@google.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-05-25ftrace: Add internal recursive checksSteven Rostedt
Witold reported a reboot caused by the selftests of the dynamic function tracer. He sent me a config and I used ktest to do a config_bisect on it (as my config did not cause the crash). It pointed out that the problem config was CONFIG_PROVE_RCU. What happened was that if multiple callbacks are attached to the function tracer, we iterate a list of callbacks. Because the list is managed by synchronize_sched() and preempt_disable, the access to the pointers uses rcu_dereference_raw(). When PROVE_RCU is enabled, the rcu_dereference_raw() calls some debugging functions, which happen to be traced. The tracing of the debug function would then call rcu_dereference_raw() which would then call the debug function and then... well you get the idea. I first wrote two different patches to solve this bug. 1) add a __rcu_dereference_raw() that would not do any checks. 2) add notrace to the offending debug functions. Both of these patches worked. Talking with Paul McKenney on IRC, he suggested to add recursion detection instead. This seemed to be a better solution, so I decided to implement it. As the task_struct already has a trace_recursion to detect recursion in the ring buffer, and that has a very small number it allows, I decided to use that same variable to add flags that can detect the recursion inside the infrastructure of the function tracer. I plan to change it so that the task struct bit can be checked in mcount, but as that requires changes to all archs, I will hold that off to the next merge window. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1306348063.1465.116.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com Reported-by: Witold Baryluk <baryluk@smp.if.uj.edu.pl> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-05-18ftrace: Add self-tests for multiple function trace usersSteven Rostedt
Add some basic sanity tests for multiple users of the function tracer at startup. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-03-10tracing: Align 4 byte ints together in struct tracerSteven Rostedt
Move elements in struct tracer for better alignment. 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>
2011-02-07tracing/filter: Increase the max preds to 2^14Steven Rostedt
Now that the filter logic does not require to save the pred results on the stack, we can increase the max number of preds we allow. As the preds are index by a short value, and we use the MSBs as flags we can increase the max preds to 2^14 (16384) which should be way more than enough. Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-02-07tracing/filter: Move MAX_FILTER_PRED to local tracing directorySteven Rostedt
The MAX_FILTER_PRED is only needed by the kernel/trace/*.c files. Move it to kernel/trace/trace.h. Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-02-07tracing/filter: Optimize filter by folding the treeSteven Rostedt
There are many cases that a filter will contain multiple ORs or ANDs together near the leafs. Walking up and down the tree to get to the next compare can be a waste. If there are several ORs or ANDs together, fold them into a single pred and allocate an array of the conditions that they check. This will speed up the filter by linearly walking an array and can still break out if a short circuit condition is met. Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-02-07tracing/filter: Use a tree instead of stack for filter_match_preds()Steven Rostedt
Currently the filter_match_preds() requires a stack to push and pop the preds to determine if the filter matches the record or not. This has two drawbacks: 1) It requires a stack to store state information. As this is done in fast paths we can't allocate the storage for this stack, and we can't use a global as it must be re-entrant. The stack is stored on the kernel stack and this greatly limits how many preds we may allow. 2) All conditions are calculated even when a short circuit exists. a || b will always calculate a and b even though a was determined to be true. Using a tree we can walk a constant structure that will save the state as we go. The algorithm is simply: pred = root; do { switch (move) { case MOVE_DOWN: if (OR or AND) { pred = left; continue; } if (pred == root) break; match = pred->fn(); pred = pred->parent; move = left child ? MOVE_UP_FROM_LEFT : MOVE_UP_FROM_RIGHT; continue; case MOVE_UP_FROM_LEFT: /* Only OR or AND can be a parent */ if (match && OR || !match && AND) { /* short circuit */ if (pred == root) break; pred = pred->parent; move = left child ? MOVE_UP_FROM_LEFT : MOVE_UP_FROM_RIGHT; continue; } pred = pred->right; move = MOVE_DOWN; continue; case MOVE_UP_FROM_RIGHT: if (pred == root) break; pred = pred->parent; move = left child ? MOVE_UP_FROM_LEFT : MOVE_UP_FROM_RIGHT; continue; } done = 1; } while (!done); This way there's no strict limit to how many preds we allow and it also will short circuit the logical operations when possible. Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-02-07tracing/filter: Allocate the preds in an arraySteven Rostedt
Currently we allocate an array of pointers to filter_preds, and then allocate a separate filter_pred for each item in the array. This adds slight overhead in the filters as it needs to derefernce twice to get to the op condition. Allocating the preds themselves in a single array removes a dereference as well as helps on the cache footprint. Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-02-07tracing/filter: Dynamically allocate predsSteven Rostedt
For every filter that is made, we create predicates to hold every operation within the filter. We have a max of 32 predicates that we can hold. Currently, we allocate all 32 even if we only need to use one. Part of the reason we do this is that the filter can be used at any moment by any event. Fortunately, the filter is only used with preemption disabled. By reseting the count of preds used "n_preds" to zero, then performing a synchronize_sched(), we can safely free and reallocate a new array of preds. Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-02-07tracing/filter: Move OR and AND logic out of fn() methodSteven Rostedt
The ops OR and AND act different from the other ops, as they are the only ones to take other ops as their arguements. These ops als change the logic of the filter_match_preds. By removing the OR and AND fn's we can also remove the val1 and val2 that is passed to all other fn's and are unused. Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-10-18tracing: Make graph related irqs/preemptsoff functions globalJiri Olsa
Move trace_graph_function() and print_graph_headers_flags() functions to the trace_function_graph.c to be globaly available. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <1285243253-7372-3-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-08-06Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (162 commits) tracing/kprobes: unregister_trace_probe needs to be called under mutex perf: expose event__process function perf events: Fix mmap offset determination perf, powerpc: fsl_emb: Restore setting perf_sample_data.period perf, powerpc: Convert the FSL driver to use local64_t perf tools: Don't keep unreferenced maps when unmaps are detected perf session: Invalidate last_match when removing threads from rb_tree perf session: Free the ref_reloc_sym memory at the right place x86,mmiotrace: Add support for tracing STOS instruction perf, sched migration: Librarize task states and event headers helpers perf, sched migration: Librarize the GUI class perf, sched migration: Make the GUI class client agnostic perf, sched migration: Make it vertically scrollable perf, sched migration: Parameterize cpu height and spacing perf, sched migration: Fix key bindings perf, sched migration: Ignore unhandled task states perf, sched migration: Handle ignored migrate out events perf: New migration tool overview tracing: Drop cpparg() macro perf: Use tracepoint_synchronize_unregister() to flush any pending tracepoint call ... Fix up trivial conflicts in Makefile and drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c
2010-08-05ftrace,kdb: Extend kdb to be able to dump the ftrace bufferJason Wessel
Add in a helper function to allow the kdb shell to dump the ftrace buffer. Modify trace.c to expose the capability to iterate over the ftrace buffer in a read only capacity. Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> CC: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2010-07-23Merge branch 'tip/perf/core' of ↵Ingo Molnar
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into perf/core
2010-07-21tracing: Shrink max latency ringbuffer if unnecessaryKOSAKI Motohiro
Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt says buffer_size_kb: This sets or displays the number of kilobytes each CPU buffer can hold. The tracer buffers are the same size for each CPU. The displayed number is the size of the CPU buffer and not total size of all buffers. The trace buffers are allocated in pages (blocks of memory that the kernel uses for allocation, usually 4 KB in size). If the last page allocated has room for more bytes than requested, the rest of the page will be used, making the actual allocation bigger than requested. ( Note, the size may not be a multiple of the page size due to buffer management overhead. ) This can only be updated when the current_tracer is set to "nop". But it's incorrect. currently total memory consumption is 'buffer_size_kb x CPUs x 2'. Why two times difference is there? because ftrace implicitly allocate the buffer for max latency too. That makes sad result when admin want to use large buffer. (If admin want full logging and makes detail analysis). example, If admin have 24 CPUs machine and write 200MB to buffer_size_kb, the system consume ~10GB memory (200MB x 24 x 2). umm.. 5GB memory waste is usually unacceptable. Fortunatelly, almost all users don't use max latency feature. The max latency buffer can be disabled easily. This patch shrink buffer size of the max latency buffer if unnecessary. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: <20100701104554.DA2D.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-07-20tracing: Allow to disable cmdline recordingLi Zefan
We found that even enabling a single trace event that will rarely be triggered can add big overhead to context switch. (lmbench context switch test) ------------------------------------------------- 2p/0K 2p/16K 2p/64K 8p/16K 8p/64K 16p/16K 16p/64K ctxsw ctxsw ctxsw ctxsw ctxsw ctxsw ctxsw ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------- ------- 2.19 2.3 2.21 2.56 2.13 2.54 2.07 2.39 2.51 2.35 2.75 2.27 2.81 2.24 The overhead is 6% ~ 11%. It's because when a trace event is enabled 3 tracepoints (sched_switch, sched_wakeup, sched_wakeup_new) will be activated to map pid to cmdname. We'd like to avoid this overhead, so add a trace option '(no)record-cmd' to allow to disable cmdline recording. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: <4C2D57F4.2050204@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-07-20tracing: Remove special tracesFrederic Weisbecker
Special traces type was only used by sysprof. Lets remove it now that sysprof ftrace plugin has been dropped. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Soeren Sandmann <sandmann@daimi.au.dk> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
2010-07-20tracing: Remove sysprof ftrace pluginFrederic Weisbecker
The sysprof ftrace plugin doesn't seem to be seriously used somewhere. There is a branch in the sysprof tree that makes an interface to it, but the real sysprof tool uses either its own module or perf events. Drop the sysprof ftrace plugin then, as it's mostly useless. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Soeren Sandmann <sandmann@daimi.au.dk> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
2010-07-15tracing: Remove ksym tracerFrederic Weisbecker
The ksym (breakpoint) ftrace plugin has been superseded by perf tools that are much more poweful to use the cpu breakpoints. This tracer doesn't bring more feature. It has been deprecated for a while now, lets remove it. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-06-28tracing: Don't allocate common fields for every trace eventsLi Zefan
Every event has the same common fields, so it's a big waste of memory to have a copy of those fields for every event. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: <4BFA3759.30105@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-06-09Merge branch 'perf/core' of ↵Ingo Molnar
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing into perf/core
2010-06-09tracing: Remove kmemtrace ftrace pluginLi Zefan
We have been resisting new ftrace plugins and removing existing ones, and kmemtrace has been superseded by kmem trace events and perf-kmem, so we remove it. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Acked-by: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> [ remove kmemtrace from the makefile, handle slob too ] Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2010-06-08tracing: Remove boot tracerAmérico Wang
The boot tracer is useless. It simply logs the initcalls but in fact these initcalls are also logged through printk while using the initcall_debug kernel parameter. Nobody seem to be using it so far. Then just remove it. Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Cc: Chase Douglas <chase.douglas@canonical.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: <20100526105753.GA5677@cr0.nay.redhat.com> [ remove the hooks in main.c, and the headers ] Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2010-06-03tracing: Remove ftrace_preempt_disable/enableSteven Rostedt
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>
2010-05-18Merge branch 'perf/core' of ↵Steven Rostedt
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip into trace/tip/tracing/core-6 Conflicts: include/trace/ftrace.h kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-05-14tracing: Fix function declarations if !CONFIG_STACKTRACELi Zefan
ftrace_trace_stack() and frace_trace_userstacke() take a struct ring_buffer argument, not struct trace_array. Commit e77405ad("tracing: pass around ring buffer instead of tracer") made this change. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: <4BE77C14.5010806@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-05-14tracing: Combine event filter_active and enable into single flags fieldSteven Rostedt
The filter_active and enable both use an int (4 bytes each) to set a single flag. We can save 4 bytes per event by combining the two into a single integer. text data bss dec hex filename 4913961 1088356 861512 6863829 68bbd5 vmlinux.orig 4894944 1018052 861512 6774508 675eec vmlinux.id 4894871 1012292 861512 6768675 674823 vmlinux.flags This gives us another 5K in savings. The modification of both the enable and filter fields are done under the event_mutex, so it is still safe to combine the two. Note: Although Mathieu gave his Acked-by, he would like it documented that the reads of flags are not protected by the mutex. The way the code works, these reads will not break anything, but will have a residual effect. Since this behavior is the same even before this patch, describing this situation is left to another patch, as this patch does not change the behavior, but just brought it to Mathieu's attention. v2: Updated the event trace self test to for this change. Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-05-14tracing: Move fields from event to class structureSteven Rostedt
Move the defined fields from the event to the class structure. Since the fields of the event are defined by the class they belong to, it makes sense to have the class hold the information instead of the individual events. The events of the same class would just hold duplicate information. After this change the size of the kernel dropped another 3K: text data bss dec hex filename 4913961 1088356 861512 6863829 68bbd5 vmlinux.orig 4900252 1057412 861512 6819176 680d68 vmlinux.regs 4900375 1053380 861512 6815267 67fe23 vmlinux.fields Although the text increased, this was mainly due to the C files having to adapt to the change. This is a constant increase, where new tracepoints will not increase the Text. But the big drop is in the data size (as well as needed allocations to hold the fields). This will give even more savings as more tracepoints are created. Note, if just TRACE_EVENT()s are used and not DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS() with several DEFINE_EVENT()s, then the savings will be lost. But we are pushing developers to consolidate events with DEFINE_EVENT() so this should not be an issue. The kprobes define a unique class to every new event, but are dynamic so it should not be a issue. The syscalls however have a single class but the fields for the individual events are different. The syscalls use a metadata to define the fields. I moved the fields list from the event to the metadata and added a "get_fields()" function to the class. This function is used to find the fields. For normal events and kprobes, get_fields() just returns a pointer to the fields list_head in the class. For syscall events, it returns the fields list_head in the metadata for the event. v2: Fixed the syscall fields. The syscall metadata needs a list of fields for both enter and exit. Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-04-27tracing: Add graph output support for irqsoff tracerJiri Olsa
Add function graph output to irqsoff tracer. The graph output is enabled by setting new 'display-graph' trace option. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <1270227683-14631-4-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-04-26tracing: Have graph flags passed in to ouput functionsJiri Olsa
Let the function graph tracer have custom flags passed to its output functions. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <1270227683-14631-3-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-04-14tracing/kprobes: Support basic types on dynamic eventsMasami Hiramatsu
Support basic types of integer (u8, u16, u32, u64, s8, s16, s32, s64) in kprobe tracer. With this patch, users can specify above basic types on each arguments after ':'. If omitted, the argument type is set as unsigned long (u32 or u64, arch-dependent). e.g. echo 'p account_system_time+0 hardirq_offset=%si:s32' > kprobe_events adds a probe recording hardirq_offset in signed-32bits value on the entry of account_system_time. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <20100412171708.3790.18599.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2010-03-26x86, perf, bts, mm: Delete the never used BTS-ptrace codePeter Zijlstra
Support for the PMU's BTS features has been upstreamed in v2.6.32, but we still have the old and disabled ptrace-BTS, as Linus noticed it not so long ago. It's buggy: TIF_DEBUGCTLMSR is trampling all over that MSR without regard for other uses (perf) and doesn't provide the flexibility needed for perf either. Its users are ptrace-block-step and ptrace-bts, since ptrace-bts was never used and ptrace-block-step can be implemented using a much simpler approach. So axe all 3000 lines of it. That includes the *locked_memory*() APIs in mm/mlock.c as well. Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> LKML-Reference: <20100325135413.938004390@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-03-13Merge branch 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: tracing: Do not record user stack trace from NMI context tracing: Disable buffer switching when starting or stopping trace tracing: Use same local variable when resetting the ring buffer function-graph: Init curr_ret_stack with ret_stack ring-buffer: Move disabled check into preempt disable section function-graph: Add tracing_thresh support to function_graph tracer tracing: Update the comm field in the right variable in update_max_tr function-graph: Use comment notation for func names of dangling '}' function-graph: Fix unused reference to ftrace_set_func() tracing: Fix warning in s_next of trace file ops tracing: Include irqflags headers from trace clock
2010-03-08Merge branch 'for-next' into for-linusJiri Kosina
Conflicts: Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt arch/arm/mach-u300/include/mach/debug-macro.S drivers/net/qlge/qlge_ethtool.c drivers/net/qlge/qlge_main.c drivers/net/typhoon.c
2010-03-05function-graph: Add tracing_thresh support to function_graph tracerTim Bird
Add support for tracing_thresh to the function_graph tracer. This version of this feature isolates the checks into new entry and return functions, to avoid adding more conditional code into the main function_graph paths. When the tracing_thresh is set and the function graph tracer is enabled, only the functions that took longer than the time in microseconds that was set in tracing_thresh are recorded. To do this efficiently, only the function exits are recorded: [tracing]# echo 100 > tracing_thresh [tracing]# echo function_graph > current_tracer [tracing]# cat trace # tracer: function_graph # # CPU DURATION FUNCTION CALLS # | | | | | | | 1) ! 119.214 us | } /* smp_apic_timer_interrupt */ 1) <========== | 0) ! 101.527 us | } /* __rcu_process_callbacks */ 0) ! 126.461 us | } /* rcu_process_callbacks */ 0) ! 145.111 us | } /* __do_softirq */ 0) ! 149.667 us | } /* do_softirq */ 0) ! 168.817 us | } /* irq_exit */ 0) ! 248.254 us | } /* smp_apic_timer_interrupt */ Also, add support for specifying tracing_thresh on the kernel command line. When used like so: "tracing_thresh=200 ftrace=function_graph" this can be used to analyse system startup. It is important to disable tracing soon after boot, in order to avoid losing the trace data. Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com> LKML-Reference: <4B87098B.4040308@am.sony.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>