Currently the stack trace per event in ftace is only 8 frames.
This can be quite limiting and sometimes useless. Especially when
the "ignore frames" is wrong and we also use up stack frames for
the event processing itself.
Change this to be dynamic by adding a percpu buffer that we can
write a large stack frame into and then copy into the ring buffer.
For interrupts and NMIs that come in while another event is being
process, will only get to use the 8 frame stack. That should be enough
as the task that it interrupted will have the full stack frame anyway.
Requested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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>
This patch replaces the code for getting an unsigned long from a
userspace buffer by a simple call to kstroul_from_user.
This makes it easier to read and less error prone.
Signed-off-by: Peter Huewe <peterhuewe@gmx.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1307476707-14762-1-git-send-email-peterhuewe@gmx.de
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The header display of function tracer does not follow
the context-info option, so field names are displayed even
if this option is off.
Added check for TRACE_ITER_CONTEXT_INFO trace_flags.
With following commands:
# echo function > ./current_tracer
# echo 0 > options/context-info
# cat trace
This is what it looked like before:
# tracer: function
#
# TASK-PID CPU# TIMESTAMP FUNCTION
# | | | | |
add_preempt_count <-schedule
rcu_note_context_switch <-schedule
...
This is what it looks like now:
# tracer: function
#
_raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore <-hrtimer_try_to_cancel
...
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1307113131-10045-4-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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>
The proc file entry buffer_size_kb is used to set the size of tracing
buffer. The memory to expand the buffer size is kernel memory. Consider
a use case where tracing is handled by a user space utility, which acts
as a gate keeper for tracing requests. In an OOM condition, tracing is
considered a low priority task and if the utility gets killed the ring
buffer memory cannot be released back to the kernel.
This patch adds a proc file called "free_buffer" whose purpose is to
stop tracing and free up the ring buffer when it is closed.
The user space process can then set the desired size in buffer_size_kb
file and open the fd to the "free_buffer" file. Under OOM condition, if
the process gets killed, the kernel closes the file descriptor. The
release handler stops the tracing and releases the kernel memory
automatically.
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Rubin <mrubin@google.com>
Cc: David Sharp <dhsharp@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Vaibhav Nagarnaik <vnagarnaik@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1308012717-11148-1-git-send-email-vnagarnaik@google.com
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The tracing ring buffer is a group of per-cpu ring buffers where
allocation and logging is done on a per-cpu basis. The events that are
generated on a particular CPU are logged in the corresponding buffer.
This is to provide wait-free writes between CPUs and good NUMA node
locality while accessing the ring buffer.
However, the allocation routines consider NUMA locality only for buffer
page metadata and not for the actual buffer page. This causes the pages
to be allocated on the NUMA node local to the CPU where the allocation
routine is running at the time.
This patch fixes the problem by using a NUMA node specific allocation
routine so that the pages are allocated from a NUMA node local to the
logging CPU.
I tested with the getuid_microbench from autotest. It is a simple binary
that calls getuid() in a loop and measures the average time for the
syscall to complete. The following command was used to test:
$ getuid_microbench 1000000
Compared the numbers found on kernel with and without this patch and
found that logging latency decreases by 30-50 ns/call.
tracing with non-NUMA allocation - 569 ns/call
tracing with NUMA allocation - 512 ns/call
Signed-off-by: Vaibhav Nagarnaik <vnagarnaik@google.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Michael Rubin <mrubin@google.com>
Cc: David Sharp <dhsharp@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1304470602-20366-1-git-send-email-vnagarnaik@google.com
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
In using syscall tracing by concurrent processes, the wakeup() that is
called in the event commit function causes contention on the spin lock
of the waitqueue. I enabled sys_enter_getuid and sys_exit_getuid
tracepoints, and by running getuid_microbench from autotest in parallel
I found that the contention causes exponential latency increase in the
tracing path.
The autotest binary getuid_microbench calls getuid() in a tight loop for
the given number of iterations and measures the average time required to
complete a single invocation of syscall.
The patch schedules a delayed work after 2 ms once an event commit calls
to wake up the trace wait_queue. This removes the delay caused by
contention on spin lock in wakeup() and amortizes the wakeup() calls
scheduled over the 2 ms period.
In the following example, the script enables the sys_enter_getuid and
sys_exit_getuid tracepoints and runs the getuid_microbench in parallel
with the given number of processes. The output clearly shows the latency
increase caused by contentions.
$ ~/getuid.sh 1
1000000 calls in 0.720974253 s (720.974253 ns/call)
$ ~/getuid.sh 2
1000000 calls in 1.166457554 s (1166.457554 ns/call)
1000000 calls in 1.168933765 s (1168.933765 ns/call)
$ ~/getuid.sh 3
1000000 calls in 1.783827516 s (1783.827516 ns/call)
1000000 calls in 1.795553270 s (1795.553270 ns/call)
1000000 calls in 1.796493376 s (1796.493376 ns/call)
$ ~/getuid.sh 4
1000000 calls in 4.483041796 s (4483.041796 ns/call)
1000000 calls in 4.484165388 s (4484.165388 ns/call)
1000000 calls in 4.484850762 s (4484.850762 ns/call)
1000000 calls in 4.485643576 s (4485.643576 ns/call)
$ ~/getuid.sh 5
1000000 calls in 6.497521653 s (6497.521653 ns/call)
1000000 calls in 6.502000236 s (6502.000236 ns/call)
1000000 calls in 6.501709115 s (6501.709115 ns/call)
1000000 calls in 6.502124100 s (6502.124100 ns/call)
1000000 calls in 6.502936358 s (6502.936358 ns/call)
After the patch, the latencies scale better.
1000000 calls in 0.728720455 s (728.720455 ns/call)
1000000 calls in 0.842782857 s (842.782857 ns/call)
1000000 calls in 0.883803135 s (883.803135 ns/call)
1000000 calls in 0.902077764 s (902.077764 ns/call)
1000000 calls in 0.902838202 s (902.838202 ns/call)
1000000 calls in 0.908896885 s (908.896885 ns/call)
1000000 calls in 0.932523515 s (932.523515 ns/call)
1000000 calls in 0.958009672 s (958.009672 ns/call)
1000000 calls in 0.986188020 s (986.188020 ns/call)
1000000 calls in 0.989771102 s (989.771102 ns/call)
1000000 calls in 0.933518391 s (933.518391 ns/call)
1000000 calls in 0.958897947 s (958.897947 ns/call)
1000000 calls in 1.031038897 s (1031.038897 ns/call)
1000000 calls in 1.089516025 s (1089.516025 ns/call)
1000000 calls in 1.141998347 s (1141.998347 ns/call)
Signed-off-by: Vaibhav Nagarnaik <vnagarnaik@google.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Michael Rubin <mrubin@google.com>
Cc: David Sharp <dhsharp@google.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1305059241-7629-1-git-send-email-vnagarnaik@google.com
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
This partially reverts commit e6e1e25935.
That commit changed the structure layout of the trace structure, which
in turn broke PowerTOP (1.9x generation) quite badly.
I appreciate not wanting to expose the variable in question, and
PowerTOP was not using it, so I've replaced the variable with just a
padding field - that way if in the future a new field is needed it can
just use this padding field.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Conflicts:
include/linux/perf_event.h
Merge reason: pick up the latest jump-label enhancements, they are cooked ready.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
running following commands:
# enable the binary option
echo 1 > ./options/bin
# disable context info option
echo 0 > ./options/context-info
# tracing only events
echo 1 > ./events/enable
cat trace_pipe
plus forcing system to generate many tracing events,
is causing lockup (in NON preemptive kernels) inside
tracing_read_pipe function.
The issue is also easily reproduced by running ltp stress test.
(ftrace_stress_test.sh)
The reasons are:
- bin/hex/raw output functions for events are set to
trace_nop_print function, which prints nothing and
returns TRACE_TYPE_HANDLED value
- LOST EVENT trace do not handle trace_seq overflow
These reasons force the while loop in tracing_read_pipe
function never to break.
The attached patch fixies handling of lost event trace, and
changes trace_nop_print to print minimal info, which is needed
for the correct tracing_read_pipe processing.
v2 changes:
- omit the cond_resched changes by trace_nop_print changes
- WARN changed to WARN_ONCE and added info to be able
to find out the culprit
v3 changes:
- make more accurate patch comment
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20110325110518.GC1922@jolsa.brq.redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
If the kernel command line declares a tracer "ftrace=sometracer" and
that tracer is either not defined or is enabled after irqsoff,
then the irqs off selftest will fail with the following error:
Testing tracer irqsoff:
------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: at /home/rostedt/work/autotest/nobackup/linux-test.git/kernel/trace/tra
ce.c:713 update_max_tr_single+0xfa/0x11b()
Hardware name:
Modules linked in:
Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.38-rc8-test #1
Call Trace:
[<c0441d9d>] ? warn_slowpath_common+0x65/0x7a
[<c049adb2>] ? update_max_tr_single+0xfa/0x11b
[<c0441dc1>] ? warn_slowpath_null+0xf/0x13
[<c049adb2>] ? update_max_tr_single+0xfa/0x11b
[<c049e454>] ? stop_critical_timing+0x154/0x204
[<c049b54b>] ? trace_selftest_startup_irqsoff+0x5b/0xc1
[<c049b54b>] ? trace_selftest_startup_irqsoff+0x5b/0xc1
[<c049b54b>] ? trace_selftest_startup_irqsoff+0x5b/0xc1
[<c049e529>] ? time_hardirqs_on+0x25/0x28
[<c0468bca>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x18/0x12f
[<c0468cec>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xb/0xd
[<c049b54b>] ? trace_selftest_startup_irqsoff+0x5b/0xc1
[<c049b6b8>] ? register_tracer+0xf8/0x1a3
[<c14e93fe>] ? init_irqsoff_tracer+0xd/0x11
[<c040115e>] ? do_one_initcall+0x71/0x121
[<c14e93f1>] ? init_irqsoff_tracer+0x0/0x11
[<c14ce3a9>] ? kernel_init+0x13a/0x1b6
[<c14ce26f>] ? kernel_init+0x0/0x1b6
[<c0403842>] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x6/0x10
---[ end trace e93713a9d40cd06c ]---
.. no entries found ..FAILED!
What happens is the "ftrace=..." will expand the ring buffer to its
default size (from its minimum size) but it will not expand the
max ring buffer (the ring buffer to store maximum latencies).
When the irqsoff test runs, it will call the ring buffer swap routine
that checks if the max ring buffer is the same size as the normal
ring buffer, and will fail if it is not. This causes the test to fail.
The solution is to expand the max ring buffer before running the self
test if the max ring buffer is used by that tracer and the normal ring
buffer is expanded. The max ring buffer should be shrunk again after
the test is done to save space.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The lock_depth field in the event headers was added as a temporary
data point for help in removing the BKL. Now that the BKL is pretty
much been removed, we can remove this field.
This in turn changes the header from 12 bytes to 8 bytes,
removing the 4 byte buffer that gcc would insert if the first field
in the data load was 8 bytes in size.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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>
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>
While running my ftrace stress test, this showed up:
BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at mm/mmap.c:233
...
note: cat[3293] exited with preempt_count 1
The bug was introduced by commit 91e86e560d
("tracing: Fix recursive user stack trace")
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4D0089AC.1020802@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The file_ops struct for the "trace" special file defined llseek as seq_lseek().
However, if the file was opened for writing only, seq_open() was not called,
and the seek would dereference a null pointer, file->private_data.
This patch introduces a new wrapper for seq_lseek() which checks if the file
descriptor is opened for reading first. If not, it does nothing.
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Slava Pestov <slavapestov@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <1290640396-24179-1-git-send-email-slavapestov@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
perf symbols: Remove incorrect open-coded container_of()
perf record: Handle restrictive permissions in /proc/{kallsyms,modules}
x86/kprobes: Prevent kprobes to probe on save_args()
irq_work: Drop cmpxchg() result
perf: Fix owner-list vs exit
x86, hw_nmi: Move backtrace_mask declaration under ARCH_HAS_NMI_WATCHDOG
tracing: Fix recursive user stack trace
perf,hw_breakpoint: Initialize hardware api earlier
x86: Ignore trap bits on single step exceptions
tracing: Force arch_local_irq_* notrace for paravirt
tracing: Fix module use of trace_bprintk()
The big kernel lock has been removed from all these files at some point,
leaving only the #include.
Remove this too as a cleanup.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The user stack trace can fault when examining the trace. Which
would call the do_page_fault handler, which would trace again,
which would do the user stack trace, which would fault and call
do_page_fault again ...
Thus this is causing a recursive bug. We need to have a recursion
detector here.
[ Resubmitted by Jiri Olsa ]
[ Eric Dumazet recommended using __this_cpu_* instead of __get_cpu_* ]
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1289390172-9730-3-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The tracing per_cpu buffers were limited to 999 CPUs for a mear
savings in stack space of a char array. Up the array to 30 characters
which is more than enough to hold a 64 bit number.
Reported-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* 'bkl/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing:
do_coredump: Do not take BKL
init: Remove the BKL from startup code
* '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
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>
We need to add one to the strlen() return because of the NULL
character. The type->name here generally comes from the kernel and I
don't think any of them come close to being MAX_TRACER_SIZE (100)
characters long so this is basically a cleanup.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100710100644.GV19184@bicker>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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>
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>
The default for llseek will change to no_llseek,
so the tracing debugfs files need to add explicit
.llseek assignments. Since we're dealing with regular
files from a VFS perspective, use generic_file_llseek.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <1278538820-1392-10-git-send-email-arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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>
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>
I have shown by code review that no driver takes
the BKL at init time any more, so whatever the
init code was locking against is no longer there
and it is now safe to remove the BKL there.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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>
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>
* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
perf tui: Fix last use_browser problem related to .perfconfig
perf symbols: Add the build id cache to the vmlinux path
perf tui: Reset use_browser if stdout is not a tty
ring-buffer: Move zeroing out excess in page to ring buffer code
ring-buffer: Reset "real_end" when page is filled
* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (61 commits)
tracing: Add __used annotation to event variable
perf, trace: Fix !x86 build bug
perf report: Support multiple events on the TUI
perf annotate: Fix up usage of the build id cache
x86/mmiotrace: Remove redundant instruction prefix checks
perf annotate: Add TUI interface
perf tui: Remove annotate from popup menu after failure
perf report: Don't start the TUI if -D is used
perf: Fix getline undeclared
perf: Optimize perf_tp_event_match()
perf: Remove more code from the fastpath
perf: Optimize the !vmalloc backed buffer
perf: Optimize perf_output_copy()
perf: Fix wakeup storm for RO mmap()s
perf-record: Share per-cpu buffers
perf-record: Remove -M
perf: Ensure that IOC_OUTPUT isn't used to create multi-writer buffers
perf, trace: Optimize tracepoints by using per-tracepoint-per-cpu hlist to track events
perf, trace: Optimize tracepoints by removing IRQ-disable from perf/tracepoint interaction
perf tui: Allow disabling the TUI on a per command basis in ~/.perfconfig
...
Currently the trace splice code zeros out the excess bytes in the page before
sending it off to userspace.
This is to make sure userspace is not getting anything it should not be
when reading the pages, because the excess data was never initialized
to zero before writing (for perfomance reasons).
But the splice code has no business in doing this work, it should be
done by the ring buffer. With the latest changes for recording lost
events, the splice code gets it wrong anyway.
Move the zeroing out of excess bytes into the ring buffer code.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
This patch adds F_GETPIPE_SZ and F_SETPIPE_SZ fcntl() actions for
growing and shrinking the size of a pipe and adjusts pipe.c and splice.c
(and relay and network splice) usage to work with these larger (or smaller)
pipes.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Multiple events may use the same method to print their data.
Instead of having all events have a pointer to their print funtions,
the trace_event structure now points to a trace_event_functions structure
that will hold the way to print ouf the event.
The event itself is now passed to the print function to let the print
function know what kind of event it should print.
This opens the door to consolidating the way several events print
their output.
text data bss dec hex filename
4913961 1088356 861512 6863829 68bbd5 vmlinux.orig
4900382 1048964 861512 6810858 67ecea vmlinux.init
4900446 1049028 861512 6810986 67ed6a vmlinux.preprint
This change slightly increases the size but is needed for the next change.
v3: Fix the branch tracer events to handle this change.
v2: Fix the new function graph tracer event calls to handle this change.
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
When performing a non-consuming read, a synchronize_sched() is
performed once for every cpu which is actively tracing.
This is very expensive, and can make it take several seconds to open
up the 'trace' file with lots of cpus.
Only one synchronize_sched() call is actually necessary. What is
desired is for all cpus to see the disabling state change. So we
transform the existing sequence:
for_each_cpu() {
ring_buffer_read_start();
}
where each ring_buffer_start() call performs a synchronize_sched(),
into the following:
for_each_cpu() {
ring_buffer_read_prepare();
}
ring_buffer_read_prepare_sync();
for_each_cpu() {
ring_buffer_read_start();
}
wherein only the single ring_buffer_read_prepare_sync() call needs to
do the synchronize_sched().
The first phase, via ring_buffer_read_prepare(), allocates the 'iter'
memory and increments ->record_disabled.
In the second phase, ring_buffer_read_prepare_sync() makes sure this
->record_disabled state is visible fully to all cpus.
And in the final third phase, the ring_buffer_read_start() calls reset
the 'iter' objects allocated in the first phase since we now know that
none of the cpus are adding trace entries any more.
This makes openning the 'trace' file nearly instantaneous on a
sparc64 Niagara2 box with 128 cpus tracing.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
LKML-Reference: <20100420.154711.11246950.davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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>
