linux/kernel/trace
Steven Rostedt e5a81b629e ftrace: add stack tracer
This is another tracer using the ftrace infrastructure, that examines
at each function call the size of the stack. If the stack use is greater
than the previous max it is recorded.

You can always see (and set) the max stack size seen. By setting it
to zero will start the recording again. The backtrace is also available.

For example:

# cat /debug/tracing/stack_max_size
1856

# cat /debug/tracing/stack_trace
[<c027764d>] stack_trace_call+0x8f/0x101
[<c021b966>] ftrace_call+0x5/0x8
[<c02553cc>] clocksource_get_next+0x12/0x48
[<c02542a5>] update_wall_time+0x538/0x6d1
[<c0245913>] do_timer+0x23/0xb0
[<c0257657>] tick_do_update_jiffies64+0xd9/0xf1
[<c02576b9>] tick_sched_timer+0x4a/0xad
[<c0250fe6>] __run_hrtimer+0x3e/0x75
[<c02518ed>] hrtimer_interrupt+0xf1/0x154
[<c022c870>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x71/0x84
[<c021b7e9>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x2d/0x34
[<c0238597>] finish_task_switch+0x29/0xa0
[<c05abd13>] schedule+0x765/0x7be
[<c05abfca>] schedule_timeout+0x1b/0x90
[<c05ab4d4>] wait_for_common+0xab/0x101
[<c05ab5ac>] wait_for_completion+0x12/0x14
[<c033cfc3>] blk_execute_rq+0x84/0x99
[<c0402470>] scsi_execute+0xc2/0x105
[<c040250a>] scsi_execute_req+0x57/0x7f
[<c043afe0>] sr_test_unit_ready+0x3e/0x97
[<c043bbd6>] sr_media_change+0x43/0x205
[<c046b59f>] media_changed+0x48/0x77
[<c046b5ff>] cdrom_media_changed+0x31/0x37
[<c043b091>] sr_block_media_changed+0x16/0x18
[<c02b9e69>] check_disk_change+0x1b/0x63
[<c046f4c3>] cdrom_open+0x7a1/0x806
[<c043b148>] sr_block_open+0x78/0x8d
[<c02ba4c0>] do_open+0x90/0x257
[<c02ba869>] blkdev_open+0x2d/0x56
[<c0296a1f>] __dentry_open+0x14d/0x23c
[<c0296b32>] nameidata_to_filp+0x24/0x38
[<c02a1c68>] do_filp_open+0x347/0x626
[<c02967ef>] do_sys_open+0x47/0xbc
[<c02968b0>] sys_open+0x23/0x2b
[<c021aadd>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x26

I've tested this on both x86_64 and i386.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 10:36:19 +02:00
..
ftrace.c ftrace: clean up macro usage 2008-10-14 10:36:09 +02:00
Kconfig ftrace: add stack tracer 2008-10-14 10:36:19 +02:00
Makefile ftrace: add stack tracer 2008-10-14 10:36:19 +02:00
trace_functions.c ftrace: use current CPU for function startup 2008-07-11 15:49:21 +02:00
trace_irqsoff.c ftrace: fix modular build 2008-07-26 15:08:22 +02:00
trace_mmiotrace.c ftrace: new continue entry - separate out from trace_entry 2008-10-14 10:35:15 +02:00
trace_sched_switch.c ftrace: port to tracepoints 2008-10-14 10:32:26 +02:00
trace_sched_wakeup.c ftrace: port to tracepoints 2008-10-14 10:32:26 +02:00
trace_selftest_dynamic.c ftrace: fix dynamic ftrace selftest 2008-05-23 21:13:23 +02:00
trace_selftest.c ftrace: printk formatting infrastructure 2008-10-14 10:35:19 +02:00
trace_stack.c ftrace: add stack tracer 2008-10-14 10:36:19 +02:00
trace_sysprof.c hrtimer: prevent migration of per CPU hrtimers 2008-09-29 17:09:14 +02:00
trace.c ftrace: fix some mistakes in error messages 2008-10-14 10:35:40 +02:00
trace.h ftrace: printk formatting infrastructure 2008-10-14 10:35:19 +02:00