GCC 4.5 introduces behavior that forces the alignment of structures to
use the largest possible value. The default value is 32 bytes, so if
some structures are defined with a 4-byte alignment and others aren't
declared with an alignment constraint at all - it will align at 32-bytes.
For things like the ftrace events, this results in a non-standard array.
When initializing the ftrace subsystem, we traverse the _ftrace_events
section and call the initialization callback for each event. When the
structures are misaligned, we could be treating another part of the
structure (or the zeroed out space between them) as a function pointer.
This patch forces the alignment for all the ftrace_event_call structures
to 4 bytes.
Without this patch, the kernel fails to boot very early when built with
gcc 4.5.
It's trivial to check the alignment of the members of the array, so it
might be worthwhile to add something to the build system to do that
automatically. Unfortunately, that only covers this case. I've asked one
of the gcc developers about adding a warning when this condition is seen.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B85770B.6010901@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The code in stop_machine that modifies the kernel text has a bit
of logic to handle the case of NMIs. stop_machine does not prevent
NMIs from executing, and if an NMI were to trigger on another CPU
as the modifying CPU is changing the NMI text, a GPF could result.
To prevent the GPF, the NMI calls ftrace_nmi_enter() which may
modify the code first, then any other NMIs will just change the
text to the same content which will do no harm. The code that
stop_machine called must wait for NMIs to finish while it changes
each location in the kernel. That code may also change the text
to what the NMI changed it to. The key is that the text will never
change content while another CPU is executing it.
To make the above work, the call to ftrace_nmi_enter() must also
do a smp_mb() as well as atomic_inc(). But for applications like
perf that require a high number of NMIs for profiling, this can have
a dramatic effect on the system. Not only is it doing a full memory
barrier on both nmi_enter() as well as nmi_exit() it is also
modifying a global variable with an atomic operation. This kills
performance on large SMP machines.
Since the memory barriers are only needed when ftrace is in the
process of modifying the text (which is seldom), this patch
adds a "modifying_code" variable that gets set before stop machine
is executed and cleared afterwards.
The NMIs will check this variable and store it in a per CPU
"save_modifying_code" variable that it will use to check if it
needs to do the memory barriers and atomic dec on NMI exit.
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The functions used to implement the TRACE_EVENT macro show up in
function tracing. This is considered a distraction, and these should
not be displayed. For example:
<idle>-0 [000] 57.202149: task_of <-update_stats_wait_end
<idle>-0 [000] 57.202149: ftrace_raw_event_sched_stat_wait <-update_stats_wait_end
<idle>-0 [000] 57.202150: ftrace_raw_event_id_sched_stat_template <-ftrace_raw_event_sched_stat_wait
<idle>-0 [000] 57.202150: sched_stat_wait: comm=sshd pid=2735 delay=19207 [ns]
The "ftrace_raw_event_*" traces are just the utility functions used
by TRACE_EVENT tracepoints.
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Requested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
I don't see why we can only clear all functions from the filter.
After patching:
# echo sys_open > set_graph_function
# echo sys_close >> set_graph_function
# cat set_graph_function
sys_open
sys_close
# echo '!sys_close' >> set_graph_function
# cat set_graph_function
sys_open
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B726388.2000408@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
In the function graph tracer, a calling function is to be traced
only when it is enabled through the set_graph_function file,
or when it is nested in an enabled function.
Current code uses TSK_TRACE_FL_GRAPH to test whether it is nested
or not. Looking at the code, we can get this:
(trace->depth > 0) <==> (TSK_TRACE_FL_GRAPH is set)
trace->depth is more explicit to tell that it is nested.
So we use trace->depth directly and simplify the code.
No functionality is changed.
TSK_TRACE_FL_GRAPH is not removed yet, it is left for future usage.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <4B4DB0B6.7040607@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Each time we save a function entry from the function graph
tracer, we check if the trace array is set, which is wasteful
because it is set anyway before we start the tracer. All we need
is to ensure we have good read and write orderings. When we set
the trace array, we just need to guarantee it to be visible
before starting tracing.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <1263453795-7496-1-git-send-regression-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
If the ftrace stacktrace option is set, then add the stack dumps to
trace_printk.
Requested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
At the beginning, access to the ring buffer was fully serialized
by trace_types_lock. Patch d7350c3f45 gives more freedom to readers,
and patch b04cc6b1f6 adds code to protect trace_pipe and cpu#/trace_pipe.
But actually it is not enough, ring buffer readers are not always
read-only, they may consume data.
This patch makes accesses to trace, trace_pipe, trace_pipe_raw
cpu#/trace, cpu#/trace_pipe and cpu#/trace_pipe_raw serialized.
And removes tracing_reader_cpumask which is used to protect trace_pipe.
Details:
Ring buffer serializes readers, but it is low level protection.
The validity of the events (which returns by ring_buffer_peek() ..etc)
are not protected by ring buffer.
The content of events may become garbage if we allow another process to consume
these events concurrently:
A) the page of the consumed events may become a normal page
(not reader page) in ring buffer, and this page will be rewritten
by the events producer.
B) The page of the consumed events may become a page for splice_read,
and this page will be returned to system.
This patch adds trace_access_lock() and trace_access_unlock() primitives.
These primitives allow multi process access to different cpu ring buffers
concurrently.
These primitives don't distinguish read-only and read-consume access.
Multi read-only access is also serialized.
And we don't use these primitives when we open files,
we only use them when we read files.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B447D52.1050602@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The previous patches added the use of print_fmt string and changes
the trace_define_field() function to also create the fields and
format output for the event format files.
text data bss dec hex filename
5857201 1355780 9336808 16549789 fc879d vmlinux
5884589 1351684 9337896 16574169 fce6d9 vmlinux-orig
The above shows the size of the vmlinux after this patch set
compared to the vmlinux-orig which is before the patch set.
This saves us 27k on text, 1k on bss and adds just 4k of data.
The total savings of 24k in size.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B273D4D.40604@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The calls ftrace_format_##call() and ftrace_define_fields_##call()
are almost duplicate in functionality. With the addition of the
print_fmt in previous patches, these two functions can be merged
into one.
The trace_define_field() defines the fields and links them into
the struct ftrace_event_call. The previous patches introduced
the print_fmt field and this can now be used with the trace_define_field()
to create the event format file fields and print_fmt field.
The struct ftrace_event_call->fields are used to print the fields
The struct ftrace_event_call->print_fmt is used to print
the "print fmt: XXXXXXXXXXX" line.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B273D49.5000006@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
In the clean up of having all events call one specific function,
the syscall event init was changed to call this helper function.
With the new print_fmt updates, the syscalls need to do special
initializations. This patch converts the syscall events to call
its own init function again.
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
This is part of a patch set that removes the show_format method
in the ftrace event macros.
Add the print_fmt initialization to the kprobe events.
The print_fmt is still not used, but will be in the follow up
patches.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B273D45.3080100@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
This is part of a patch set that removes the show_format method
in the ftrace event macros.
Add the print_fmt initialization to the syscall events.
The print_fmt is still not used, but will be in the follow up
patches.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B273D41.609@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
This is part of a patch set that removes the show_format method
in the ftrace event macros.
The print_fmt field is added to hold the string that shows
the print_fmt in the event format files. This patch only adds
the field but it is currently not used. Later patches will use
this field to enable us to remove the show_format field
and function.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B273D3E.2000704@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
This is part of a patch set that removes the show_format method
in the ftrace event macros.
This patch set requires that all fields are added to the
ftrace_event_call->fields. This patch changes __dynamic_array()
to call trace_define_field() to include fields that use __dynamic_array().
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B273D36.8090100@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6:
sparc64: Fix Niagara2 perf event handling.
sparc64: Fix NMI programming when perf events are active.
bbc_envctrl: Clean up properly if kthread_run() fails.
Wenji Huang
Li Zefan
Jeff Mahoney
Steven Rostedt
Lai Jiangshan
Frederic Weisbecker
Wolfram Sang
Linus Torvalds