linux/kernel/trace
Ravi Bangoria 1cc33161a8 uprobes: Support SDT markers having reference count (semaphore)
Userspace Statically Defined Tracepoints[1] are dtrace style markers
inside userspace applications. Applications like PostgreSQL, MySQL,
Pthread, Perl, Python, Java, Ruby, Node.js, libvirt, QEMU, glib etc
have these markers embedded in them. These markers are added by developer
at important places in the code. Each marker source expands to a single
nop instruction in the compiled code but there may be additional
overhead for computing the marker arguments which expands to couple of
instructions. In case the overhead is more, execution of it can be
omitted by runtime if() condition when no one is tracing on the marker:

    if (reference_counter > 0) {
        Execute marker instructions;
    }

Default value of reference counter is 0. Tracer has to increment the
reference counter before tracing on a marker and decrement it when
done with the tracing.

Implement the reference counter logic in core uprobe. User will be
able to use it from trace_uprobe as well as from kernel module. New
trace_uprobe definition with reference counter will now be:

    <path>:<offset>[(ref_ctr_offset)]

where ref_ctr_offset is an optional field. For kernel module, new
variant of uprobe_register() has been introduced:

    uprobe_register_refctr(inode, offset, ref_ctr_offset, consumer)

No new variant for uprobe_unregister() because it's assumed to have
only one reference counter for one uprobe.

[1] https://sourceware.org/systemtap/wiki/UserSpaceProbeImplementation

Note: 'reference counter' is called as 'semaphore' in original Dtrace
(or Systemtap, bcc and even in ELF) documentation and code. But the
term 'semaphore' is misleading in this context. This is just a counter
used to hold number of tracers tracing on a marker. This is not really
used for any synchronization. So we are calling it a 'reference counter'
in kernel / perf code.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180820044250.11659-2-ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com

Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
[Only trace_uprobe.c]
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Tested-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2018-09-24 04:44:53 -04:00
..
blktrace.c for-4.19/post-20180822 2018-08-22 13:38:05 -07:00
bpf_trace.c tracing: Add SPDX License format to bpf_trace.c 2018-08-16 19:07:36 -04:00
ftrace.c tracing: Add SPDX License format tags to tracing files 2018-08-16 19:08:06 -04:00
Kconfig Masami found an off by one bug in the code that keeps "notrace" functions 2018-08-23 13:07:00 -07:00
Makefile tracing: Allow gcov profiling on only ftrace subsystem 2018-08-21 09:11:49 -04:00
power-traces.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
preemptirq_delay_test.c tracing: preemptirq_delay_run() can be static 2018-07-27 17:58:34 -04:00
ring_buffer_benchmark.c tracing: Add SPDX License format tags to tracing files 2018-08-16 19:08:06 -04:00
ring_buffer.c ring-buffer: Allow for rescheduling when removing pages 2018-09-17 18:15:11 -04:00
rpm-traces.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
trace_benchmark.c rcu: Rename cond_resched_rcu_qs() to cond_resched_tasks_rcu_qs() 2018-05-15 10:27:29 -07:00
trace_benchmark.h tracing: Fix SPDX format headers to use C++ style comments 2018-08-16 19:08:06 -04:00
trace_branch.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
trace_clock.c tracing: Add SPDX License format tags to tracing files 2018-08-16 19:08:06 -04:00
trace_entries.h tracing: Fix SPDX format headers to use C++ style comments 2018-08-16 19:08:06 -04:00
trace_event_perf.c tracing: Add SPDX License format tags to tracing files 2018-08-16 19:08:06 -04:00
trace_events_filter_test.h tracing: Fix SPDX format headers to use C++ style comments 2018-08-16 19:08:06 -04:00
trace_events_filter.c tracing: Add SPDX License format tags to tracing files 2018-08-16 19:08:06 -04:00
trace_events_hist.c tracing: Add SPDX License format tags to tracing files 2018-08-16 19:08:06 -04:00
trace_events_trigger.c tracing: Add SPDX License format tags to tracing files 2018-08-16 19:08:06 -04:00
trace_events.c tracing: Add SPDX License format tags to tracing files 2018-08-16 19:08:06 -04:00
trace_export.c tracing: Add trigger file for trace_markers tracefs/ftrace/print 2018-05-29 08:28:53 -04:00
trace_functions_graph.c tracing: Fix missing return symbol in function_graph output 2018-07-03 18:47:11 -04:00
trace_functions.c tracing: Update stack trace skipping for ORC unwinder 2018-01-23 15:57:00 -05:00
trace_hwlat.c tracing: Add SPDX License format tags to tracing files 2018-08-16 19:08:06 -04:00
trace_irqsoff.c tracing: Add SPDX License format tags to tracing files 2018-08-16 19:08:06 -04:00
trace_kdb.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
trace_kprobe_selftest.c selftest/ftrace: Move kprobe selftest function to separate compile unit 2018-07-30 18:41:04 -04:00
trace_kprobe_selftest.h tracing: Fix SPDX format headers to use C++ style comments 2018-08-16 19:08:06 -04:00
trace_kprobe.c tracing/kprobe: Remove unneeded extra strchr() from create_trace_kprobe() 2018-09-24 04:44:52 -04:00
trace_mmiotrace.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
trace_nop.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
trace_output.c tracing: Add SPDX License format tags to tracing files 2018-08-16 19:08:06 -04:00
trace_output.h tracing: Fix SPDX format headers to use C++ style comments 2018-08-16 19:08:06 -04:00
trace_preemptirq.c tracing: More reverting of "tracing: Centralize preemptirq tracepoints and unify their usage" 2018-08-10 15:12:00 -04:00
trace_printk.c tracing: Add SPDX License format tags to tracing files 2018-08-16 19:08:06 -04:00
trace_probe.c tracing: Add SPDX License format tags to tracing files 2018-08-16 19:08:06 -04:00
trace_probe.h tracing: Add SPDX License format tags to tracing files 2018-08-16 19:08:06 -04:00
trace_sched_switch.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
trace_sched_wakeup.c Merge branch 'linus' into sched/core, to pick up fixes 2017-11-08 10:17:15 +01:00
trace_selftest_dynamic.c ftrace: Mark function tracer test functions noinline/noclone 2018-01-23 15:57:29 -05:00
trace_selftest.c Tracing updates for 4.15: 2017-11-17 14:58:01 -08:00
trace_seq.c tracing: Add SPDX License format tags to tracing files 2018-08-16 19:08:06 -04:00
trace_stack.c tracing: Fix the file mode of stack tracer 2018-05-03 11:58:05 -04:00
trace_stat.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
trace_stat.h tracing: Fix SPDX format headers to use C++ style comments 2018-08-16 19:08:06 -04:00
trace_syscalls.c Tracing updates for 4.15: 2017-11-17 14:58:01 -08:00
trace_uprobe.c uprobes: Support SDT markers having reference count (semaphore) 2018-09-24 04:44:53 -04:00
trace.c uprobes: Support SDT markers having reference count (semaphore) 2018-09-24 04:44:53 -04:00
trace.h tracing: Fix SPDX format headers to use C++ style comments 2018-08-16 19:08:06 -04:00
tracing_map.c tracing: Add SPDX License format tags to tracing files 2018-08-16 19:08:06 -04:00
tracing_map.h tracing: Fix SPDX format headers to use C++ style comments 2018-08-16 19:08:06 -04:00