The page allocation trace event reports that a page was successfully
allocated but it does not specify where it came from. When analysing
performance, it can be important to distinguish between pages coming from
the per-cpu allocator and pages coming from the buddy lists as the latter
requires the zone lock to the taken and more data structures to be
examined.
This patch adds a trace event for __rmqueue reporting when a page is being
allocated from the buddy lists. It distinguishes between being called to
refill the per-cpu lists or whether it is a high-order allocation.
Similarly, this patch adds an event to catch when the PCP lists are being
drained a little and pages are going back to the buddy lists.
This is trickier to draw conclusions from but high activity on those
events could explain why there were a large number of cache misses on a
page-allocator-intensive workload. The coalescing and splitting of
buddies involves a lot of writing of page metadata and cache line bounces
not to mention the acquisition of an interrupt-safe lock necessary to
enter this path.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Li Ming Chun <macli@brc.ubc.ca>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fragmentation avoidance depends on being able to use free pages from lists
of the appropriate migrate type. In the event this is not possible,
__rmqueue_fallback() selects a different list and in some circumstances
change the migratetype of the pageblock. Simplistically, the more times
this event occurs, the more likely that fragmentation will be a problem
later for hugepage allocation at least but there are other considerations
such as the order of page being split to satisfy the allocation.
This patch adds a trace event for __rmqueue_fallback() that reports what
page is being used for the fallback, the orders of relevant pages, the
desired migratetype and the migratetype of the lists being used, whether
the pageblock changed type and whether this event is important with
respect to fragmentation avoidance or not. This information can be used
to help analyse fragmentation avoidance and help decide whether
min_free_kbytes should be increased or not.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Li Ming Chun <macli@brc.ubc.ca>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch adds trace events for the allocation and freeing of pages,
including the freeing of pagevecs. Using the events, it will be known
what struct page and pfns are being allocated and freed and what the call
site was in many cases.
The page alloc tracepoints be used as an indicator as to whether the
workload was heavily dependant on the page allocator or not. You can make
a guess based on vmstat but you can't get a per-process breakdown.
Depending on the call path, the call_site for page allocation may be
__get_free_pages() instead of a useful callsite. Instead of passing down
a return address similar to slab debugging, the user should enable the
stacktrace and seg-addr options to get a proper stack trace.
The pagevec free tracepoint has a different usecase. It can be used to
get a idea of how many pages are being dumped off the LRU and whether it
is kswapd doing the work or a process doing direct reclaim.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Li Ming Chun <macli@brc.ubc.ca>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'perfcounters-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (58 commits)
perf_counter: Fix perf_copy_attr() pointer arithmetic
perf utils: Use a define for the maximum length of a trace event
perf: Add timechart help text and add timechart to "perf help"
tracing, x86, cpuidle: Move the end point of a C state in the power tracer
perf utils: Be consistent about minimum text size in the svghelper
perf timechart: Add "perf timechart record"
perf: Add the timechart tool
perf: Add a SVG helper library file
tracing, perf: Convert the power tracer into an event tracer
perf: Add a sample_event type to the event_union
perf: Allow perf utilities to have "callback" options without arguments
perf: Store trace event name/id pairs in perf.data
perf: Add a timestamp to fork events
sched_clock: Make it NMI safe
perf_counter: Fix up swcounter throttling
x86, perf_counter, bts: Optimize BTS overflow handling
perf sched: Add --input=file option to builtin-sched.c
perf trace: Sample timestamp and cpu when using record flag
perf tools: Increase MAX_EVENT_LENGTH
perf tools: Fix memory leak in read_ftrace_printk()
...
This patch converts the existing power tracer into an event tracer,
so that power events (C states and frequency changes) can be
tracked via "perf".
This also removes the perl script that was used to demo the tracer;
its functionality is being replaced entirely with timechart.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090912130542.6d314860@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (64 commits)
ext4: Update documentation about quota mount options
ext4: replace MAX_DEFRAG_SIZE with EXT_MAX_BLOCK
ext4: Fix the alloc on close after a truncate hueristic
ext4: Add a tracepoint for ext4_alloc_da_blocks()
ext4: store EXT4_EXT_MIGRATE in i_state instead of i_flags
ext4: limit block allocations for indirect-block files to < 2^32
ext4: Fix different block exchange issue in EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT
ext4: Add null extent check to ext_get_path
ext4: Replace BUG_ON() with ext4_error() in move_extents.c
ext4: Replace get_ext_path macro with an inline funciton
ext4: Fix include/trace/events/ext4.h to work with Systemtap
ext4: Fix initalization of s_flex_groups
ext4: Always set dx_node's fake_dirent explicitly.
ext4: Fix async commit mode to be safe by using a barrier
ext4: Don't update superblock write time when filesystem is read-only
ext4: Clarify the locking details in mballoc
ext4: check for need init flag in ext4_mb_load_buddy
ext4: move ext4_mb_init_group() function earlier in the mballoc.c
ext4: Make non-journal fsync work properly
ext4: Assure that metadata blocks are written during fsync in no journal mode
...
With BLOCK_IOPOLL_SOFTIRQ added, softirq_to_name[] and
show_softirq_name() needs to be updated.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4AB20398.8070209@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Using relative pathnames in #include statements interacts badly with
SystemTap, since the fs/ext4/*.h header files are not packaged up as
part of a distribution kernel's header files. Since systemtap doesn't
use TP_fast_assign(), we can use a blind structure definition and then
make sure the needed header files are defined before the ext4 source
files #include the trace/events/ext4.h header file.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=512478
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
* 'kvm-updates/2.6.32' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (202 commits)
MAINTAINERS: update KVM entry
KVM: correct error-handling code
KVM: fix compile warnings on s390
KVM: VMX: Check cpl before emulating debug register access
KVM: fix misreporting of coalesced interrupts by kvm tracer
KVM: x86: drop duplicate kvm_flush_remote_tlb calls
KVM: VMX: call vmx_load_host_state() only if msr is cached
KVM: VMX: Conditionally reload debug register 6
KVM: Use thread debug register storage instead of kvm specific data
KVM guest: do not batch pte updates from interrupt context
KVM: Fix coalesced interrupt reporting in IOAPIC
KVM guest: fix bogus wallclock physical address calculation
KVM: VMX: Fix cr8 exiting control clobbering by EPT
KVM: Optimize kvm_mmu_unprotect_page_virt() for tdp
KVM: Document KVM_CAP_IRQCHIP
KVM: Protect update_cr8_intercept() when running without an apic
KVM: VMX: Fix EPT with WP bit change during paging
KVM: Use kvm_{read,write}_guest_virt() to read and write segment descriptors
KVM: x86 emulator: Add adc and sbb missing decoder flags
KVM: Add missing #include
...
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6: (1623 commits)
netxen: update copyright
netxen: fix tx timeout recovery
netxen: fix file firmware leak
netxen: improve pci memory access
netxen: change firmware write size
tg3: Fix return ring size breakage
netxen: build fix for INET=n
cdc-phonet: autoconfigure Phonet address
Phonet: back-end for autoconfigured addresses
Phonet: fix netlink address dump error handling
ipv6: Add IFA_F_DADFAILED flag
net: Add DEVTYPE support for Ethernet based devices
mv643xx_eth.c: remove unused txq_set_wrr()
ucc_geth: Fix hangs after switching from full to half duplex
ucc_geth: Rearrange some code to avoid forward declarations
phy/marvell: Make non-aneg speed/duplex forcing work for 88E1111 PHYs
drivers/net/phy: introduce missing kfree
drivers/net/wan: introduce missing kfree
net: force bridge module(s) to be GPL
Subject: [PATCH] appletalk: Fix skb leak when ipddp interface is not loaded
...
Fixed up trivial conflicts:
- arch/x86/include/asm/socket.h
converted to <asm-generic/socket.h> in the x86 tree. The generic
header has the same new #define's, so that works out fine.
- drivers/net/tun.c
fix conflict between 89f56d1e9 ("tun: reuse struct sock fields") that
switched over to using 'tun->socket.sk' instead of the redundantly
available (and thus removed) 'tun->sk', and 2b980dbd ("lsm: Add hooks
to the TUN driver") which added a new 'tun->sk' use.
Noted in 'next' by Stephen Rothwell.
This allows more precise tracking of how the scheduler accounts
(and acts upon) a task having spent N nanoseconds of CPU time.
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Booting 2.6.31 and executing
echo 1 >/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/enable
leads to
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null)
IP: [<c032a583>] ftrace_raw_event_block_bio_bounce+0x4b/0xb9
Apparently,
bio = bio_map_user(q, NULL, uaddr, len, reading, gfp_mask);
is called in block/blk-map.c:58 where bio->bi_bdev in set to NULL and
still is NULL when an attempt is made to evaluate bio->bi_bdev->bd_dev
in include/trace/events/block.h:189.
The tracepoint should ensure bio->bi_bdev is not dereferenced, if NULL.
Signed-off-by: Carsten Emde <C.Emde@osadl.org>
LKML-Reference: <4AAAC9B1.9060505@osadl.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* 'tracing-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (105 commits)
ring-buffer: only enable ring_buffer_swap_cpu when needed
ring-buffer: check for swapped buffers in start of committing
tracing: report error in trace if we fail to swap latency buffer
tracing: add trace_array_printk for internal tracers to use
tracing: pass around ring buffer instead of tracer
tracing: make tracing_reset safe for external use
tracing: use timestamp to determine start of latency traces
tracing: Remove mentioning of legacy latency_trace file from documentation
tracing/filters: Defer pred allocation, fix memory leak
tracing: remove users of tracing_reset
tracing: disable buffers and synchronize_sched before resetting
tracing: disable update max tracer while reading trace
tracing: print out start and stop in latency traces
ring-buffer: disable all cpu buffers when one finds a problem
ring-buffer: do not count discarded events
ring-buffer: remove ring_buffer_event_discard
ring-buffer: fix ring_buffer_read crossing pages
ring-buffer: remove unnecessary cpu_relax
ring-buffer: do not swap buffers during a commit
ring-buffer: do not reset while in a commit
...
Add tracepoint in msi/ioapic/pic set_irq() functions,
in IPI sending and in the point where IRQ is placed into
apic's IRR.
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
This allows use of the powerful ftrace infrastructure.
See Documentation/trace/ for usage information.
[avi, stephen: various build fixes]
[sheng: fix control register breakage]
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Unlike on some other architectures ino_t is an unsigned int on s390.
So add an explicit cast to avoid lots of compile warnings:
In file included from include/trace/ftrace.h:285,
from include/trace/define_trace.h:61,
from include/trace/events/ext4.h:711,
from fs/ext4/super.c:50:
include/trace/events/ext4.h: In function 'ftrace_raw_output_ext4_free_inode':
include/trace/events/ext4.h:12: warning: format '%lu' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 4 has type 'ino_t'
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Add 3 schedstat tracepoints to help account for wait-time,
sleep-time and iowait-time.
They can also be used as a perf-counter source to profile tasks
on these clocks.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
[ build fix for the !CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS case ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Add a new tracepoint which shows the pages that will be written using
write_cache_pages() by ext4_da_writepages().
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Add tracepoints for all itimer variants: ITIMER_REAL, ITIMER_VIRTUAL
and ITIMER_PROF.
[ tglx: Fixed comments and made the output more readable, parseable
and consistent. Replaced pid_vnr by pid_nr because the hrtimer
callback can happen in any namespace ]
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Zhaolei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A7F8B6E.2010109@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Add tracepoints which cover the life cycle of a hrtimer. The
tracepoints are integrated with the already existing debug_object
debug points as far as possible.
[ tglx: Fixed comments, made output conistent, easier to read and
parse. Fixed output for 32bit archs which do not use the
scalar representation of ktime_t. Hand current time to
trace_hrtimer_expiry_entry instead of calling get_time()
inside of the trace assignment. ]
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Zhaolei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A7F8B2B.5020908@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Add tracepoints which cover the timer life cycle. The tracepoints are
integrated with the already existing debug_object debug points as far
as possible.
Based on patches from
Mathieu: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123791201816247&w=2
and
Anton: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=124331396919301&w=2
[ tglx: Fixed timeout value in timer_start tracepoint, massaged
comments and made the printk's more readable ]
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Zhaolei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A7F8A9B.3040201@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
While debugging the scheduler push / pull algorithm, I found
it very annoying that the sched wake up events did not show
the CPU that the task was waking on. In order to analyze the
scheduler, I needed that information.
This patch adds recording of the CPU that a task is waking up
on.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
This converts the syscall_enter/exit tracepoints into TRACE_EVENTs, so
you can have generic ftrace events that capture all system calls with
arguments and return values. These generic events are also renamed to
sys_enter/exit, so they're more closely aligned to the specific
sys_enter_foo events.
Signed-off-by: Josh Stone <jistone@redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com>
Cc: Martin Bligh <mbligh@google.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <1251150194-1713-5-git-send-email-jistone@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
skb allocation / cosumption tracer - Add consumption tracepoint
This patch adds a tracepoint to skb_copy_datagram_iovec, which is called each
time a userspace process copies a frame from a socket receive queue to a user
space buffer. It allows us to hook in and examine each sk_buff that the system
receives on a per-socket bases, and can be use to compile a list of which skb's
were received by which processes.
Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
include/trace/events/skb.h | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
net/core/datagram.c | 3 +++
2 files changed, 23 insertions(+)
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
tracing/function-profiler: do not free per cpu variable stat
tracing/events: Move TRACE_SYSTEM outside of include guard
If TRACE_INCLDUE_FILE is defined, <trace/events/TRACE_INCLUDE_FILE.h>
will be included and compiled, otherwise it will be
<trace/events/TRACE_SYSTEM.h>
So TRACE_SYSTEM should be defined outside of #if proctection,
just like TRACE_INCLUDE_FILE.
Imaging this scenario:
#include <trace/events/foo.h>
-> TRACE_SYSTEM == foo
...
#include <trace/events/bar.h>
-> TRACE_SYSTEM == bar
...
#define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
#include <trace/events/foo.h>
-> TRACE_SYSTEM == bar !!!
and then bar.h will be included and compiled.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A5A9CF1.2010007@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This patch fixes the mmap/truncate race that was fixed for delayed
allocation by merging ext4_{journalled,normal,da}_writepage() into
ext4_writepage().
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
* 'for-2.6.31' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (153 commits)
block: add request clone interface (v2)
floppy: fix hibernation
ramdisk: remove long-deprecated "ramdisk=" boot-time parameter
fs/bio.c: add missing __user annotation
block: prevent possible io_context->refcount overflow
Add serial number support for virtio_blk, V4a
block: Add missing bounce_pfn stacking and fix comments
Revert "block: Fix bounce limit setting in DM"
cciss: decode unit attention in SCSI error handling code
cciss: Remove no longer needed sendcmd reject processing code
cciss: change SCSI error handling routines to work with interrupts enabled.
cciss: separate error processing and command retrying code in sendcmd_withirq_core()
cciss: factor out fix target status processing code from sendcmd functions
cciss: simplify interface of sendcmd() and sendcmd_withirq()
cciss: factor out core of sendcmd_withirq() for use by SCSI error handling code
cciss: Use schedule_timeout_uninterruptible in SCSI error handling code
block: needs to set the residual length of a bidi request
Revert "block: implement blkdev_readpages"
block: Fix bounce limit setting in DM
Removed reference to non-existing file Documentation/PCI/PCI-DMA-mapping.txt
...
Manually fix conflicts with tracing updates in:
block/blk-sysfs.c
drivers/ide/ide-atapi.c
drivers/ide/ide-cd.c
drivers/ide/ide-floppy.c
drivers/ide/ide-tape.c
include/trace/events/block.h
kernel/trace/blktrace.c
The sector field is either u64 or unsigned long depending on
the arch. This patch casts the sector to unsigned long long to
prevent the printf warnings.
[ Impact: remove compile warnings ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
TRACE_EVENT is a more generic way to define tracepoints. Doing so adds
these new capabilities to this tracepoint:
- zero-copy and per-cpu splice() tracing
- binary tracing without printf overhead
- structured logging records exposed under /debug/tracing/events
- trace events embedded in function tracer output and other plugins
- user-defined, per tracepoint filter expressions
...
Cons:
- no dev_t info for the output of plug, unplug_timer and unplug_io events.
no dev_t info for getrq and sleeprq events if bio == NULL.
no dev_t info for rq_abort,...,rq_requeue events if rq->rq_disk == NULL.
This is mainly because we can't get the deivce from a request queue.
But this may change in the future.
- A packet command is converted to a string in TP_assign, not TP_print.
While blktrace do the convertion just before output.
Since pc requests should be rather rare, this is not a big issue.
- In blktrace, an event can have 2 different print formats, but a TRACE_EVENT
has a unique format, which means we have some unused data in a trace entry.
The overhead is minimized by using __dynamic_array() instead of __array().
I've benchmarked the ioctl blktrace vs the splice based TRACE_EVENT tracing:
dd dd + ioctl blktrace dd + TRACE_EVENT (splice)
1 7.36s, 42.7 MB/s 7.50s, 42.0 MB/s 7.41s, 42.5 MB/s
2 7.43s, 42.3 MB/s 7.48s, 42.1 MB/s 7.43s, 42.4 MB/s
3 7.38s, 42.6 MB/s 7.45s, 42.2 MB/s 7.41s, 42.5 MB/s
So the overhead of tracing is very small, and no regression when using
those trace events vs blktrace.
And the binary output of TRACE_EVENT is much smaller than blktrace:
# ls -l -h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8.8M 06-09 13:24 sda.blktrace.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 195K 06-09 13:24 sda.blktrace.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.7M 06-09 13:25 trace_splice.out
Following are some comparisons between TRACE_EVENT and blktrace:
plug:
kjournald-480 [000] 303.084981: block_plug: [kjournald]
kjournald-480 [000] 303.084981: 8,0 P N [kjournald]
unplug_io:
kblockd/0-118 [000] 300.052973: block_unplug_io: [kblockd/0] 1
kblockd/0-118 [000] 300.052974: 8,0 U N [kblockd/0] 1
remap:
kjournald-480 [000] 303.085042: block_remap: 8,0 W 102736992 + 8 <- (8,8) 33384
kjournald-480 [000] 303.085043: 8,0 A W 102736992 + 8 <- (8,8) 33384
bio_backmerge:
kjournald-480 [000] 303.085086: block_bio_backmerge: 8,0 W 102737032 + 8 [kjournald]
kjournald-480 [000] 303.085086: 8,0 M W 102737032 + 8 [kjournald]
getrq:
kjournald-480 [000] 303.084974: block_getrq: 8,0 W 102736984 + 8 [kjournald]
kjournald-480 [000] 303.084975: 8,0 G W 102736984 + 8 [kjournald]
bash-2066 [001] 1072.953770: 8,0 G N [bash]
bash-2066 [001] 1072.953773: block_getrq: 0,0 N 0 + 0 [bash]
rq_complete:
konsole-2065 [001] 300.053184: block_rq_complete: 8,0 W () 103669040 + 16 [0]
konsole-2065 [001] 300.053191: 8,0 C W 103669040 + 16 [0]
ksoftirqd/1-7 [001] 1072.953811: 8,0 C N (5a 00 08 00 00 00 00 00 24 00) [0]
ksoftirqd/1-7 [001] 1072.953813: block_rq_complete: 0,0 N (5a 00 08 00 00 00 00 00 24 00) 0 + 0 [0]
rq_insert:
kjournald-480 [000] 303.084985: block_rq_insert: 8,0 W 0 () 102736984 + 8 [kjournald]
kjournald-480 [000] 303.084986: 8,0 I W 102736984 + 8 [kjournald]
Changelog from v2 -> v3:
- use the newly introduced __dynamic_array().
Changelog from v1 -> v2:
- use __string() instead of __array() to minimize the memory required
to store hex dump of rq->cmd().
- support large pc requests.
- add missing blk_fill_rwbs_rq() in block_rq_requeue TRACE_EVENT.
- some cleanups.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A2DF669.5070905@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
After converting the softirq tracer to use te flags options, this
caused a regression with the name. Since the flag was used directly
it was printed out (i.e. HRTIMER_SOFTIRQ).
This patch only shows the softirq name without the SOFTIRQ part.
[ Impact: fix regression of output from softirq events ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
v3: zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com: Change TRACE_EVENT definition to new format
introduced by Steven Rostedt: consolidate trace and trace_event headers
v2: kosaki@jp.fujitsu.com: print the function names instead of addr, and zap
the work addr
v1: zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com: Make workqueue tracepoints use TRACE_EVENT macro
TRACE_EVENT is a more generic way to define tracepoints.
Doing so adds these new capabilities to the tracepoints:
- zero-copy and per-cpu splice() tracing
- binary tracing without printf overhead
- structured logging records exposed under /debug/tracing/events
- trace events embedded in function tracer output and other plugins
- user-defined, per tracepoint filter expressions
Then, this patch converts DEFINE_TRACE to TRACE_EVENT in workqueue related
tracepoints.
[ Impact: expand workqueue tracer to events tracing ]
Signed-off-by: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
The recording of the names at trace time is inefficient. This patch
implements the softirq event recording to only record the vector
and then use the __print_symbolic interface to print out the names.
[ Impact: faster recording of softirq events ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
This patch changes the output for gfp_flags from being a simple hex value
to the actual names.
gfp_flags=GFP_ATOMIC instead of gfp_flags=00000020
And even
gfp_flags=GFP_KERNEL instead of gfp_flags=000000d0
(Thanks to Frederic Weisbecker for pointing out that the first version
had a bad order of GFP masks)
[ Impact: more human readable output from tracer ]
Acked-by: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
It is useful to see the state of a task that is being switched out.
This patch adds the output of the state of the previous task in
the context switch event.
[ Impact: see state of switched out task in context switch ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
