Currently, the only way to stop the latency tracers from doing function
tracing is to fully disable the function tracer from the proc file
system:
echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/ftrace_enabled
This is a big hammer approach as it disables function tracing for
all users. This includes kprobes, perf, stack tracer, etc.
Instead, create a function-trace option that the latency tracers can
check to determine if it should enable function tracing or not.
This option can be set or cleared even while the tracer is active
and the tracers will disable or enable function tracing depending
on how the option was set.
Instead of using the proc file, disable latency function tracing with
echo 0 > /debug/tracing/options/function-trace
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Currently, the way the latency tracers and snapshot feature works
is to have a separate trace_array called "max_tr" that holds the
snapshot buffer. For latency tracers, this snapshot buffer is used
to swap the running buffer with this buffer to save the current max
latency.
The only items needed for the max_tr is really just a copy of the buffer
itself, the per_cpu data pointers, the time_start timestamp that states
when the max latency was triggered, and the cpu that the max latency
was triggered on. All other fields in trace_array are unused by the
max_tr, making the max_tr mostly bloat.
This change removes the max_tr completely, and adds a new structure
called trace_buffer, that holds the buffer pointer, the per_cpu data
pointers, the time_start timestamp, and the cpu where the latency occurred.
The trace_array, now has two trace_buffers, one for the normal trace and
one for the max trace or snapshot. By doing this, not only do we remove
the bloat from the max_trace but the instances of traces can now use
their own snapshot feature and not have just the top level global_trace have
the snapshot feature and latency tracers for itself.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The global and max-tr currently use static per_cpu arrays for the CPU data
descriptors. But in order to get new allocated trace_arrays, they need to
be allocated per_cpu arrays. Instead of using the static arrays, switch
the global and max-tr to use allocated data.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The global_trace variable in kernel/trace/trace.c has been kept 'static' and
local to that file so that it would not be used too much outside of that
file. This has paid off, even though there were lots of changes to make
the trace_array structure more generic (not depending on global_trace).
Removal of a lot of direct usages of global_trace is needed to be able to
create more trace_arrays such that we can add multiple buffers.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The latency tracers require the buffers to be in overwrite mode,
otherwise they get screwed up. Force the buffers to stay in overwrite
mode when latency tracers are enabled.
Added a flag_changed() method to the tracer structure to allow
the tracers to see what flags are being changed, and also be able
to prevent the change from happing.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Pull trivial branch from Jiri Kosina:
"Usual stuff -- comment/printk typo fixes, documentation updates, dead
code elimination."
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (39 commits)
HOWTO: fix double words typo
x86 mtrr: fix comment typo in mtrr_bp_init
propagate name change to comments in kernel source
doc: Update the name of profiling based on sysfs
treewide: Fix typos in various drivers
treewide: Fix typos in various Kconfig
wireless: mwifiex: Fix typo in wireless/mwifiex driver
messages: i2o: Fix typo in messages/i2o
scripts/kernel-doc: check that non-void fcts describe their return value
Kernel-doc: Convention: Use a "Return" section to describe return values
radeon: Fix typo and copy/paste error in comments
doc: Remove unnecessary declarations from Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c
various: Fix spelling of "asynchronous" in comments.
Fix misspellings of "whether" in comments.
eisa: Fix spelling of "asynchronous".
various: Fix spelling of "registered" in comments.
doc: fix quite a few typos within Documentation
target: iscsi: fix comment typos in target/iscsi drivers
treewide: fix typo of "suport" in various comments and Kconfig
treewide: fix typo of "suppport" in various comments
...
I've legally changed my name with New York State, the US Social Security
Administration, et al. This patch propagates the name change and change
in initials and login to comments in the kernel source as well.
Signed-off-by: Nadia Yvette Chambers <nyc@holomorphy.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
There's times during debugging that it is helpful to see traces of early
boot functions. But the tracers are initialized at device_initcall()
which is quite late during the boot process. Setting the kernel command
line parameter ftrace=function will not show anything until the function
tracer is initialized. This prevents being able to trace functions before
device_initcall().
There's no reason that the tracers need to be initialized so late in the
boot process. Move them up to core_initcall() as they still need to come
after early_initcall() which initializes the tracing buffers.
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
As more users of the function tracer utility are being added, they do
not always add the necessary recursion protection. To protect from
function recursion due to tracing, if the callback ftrace_ops does not
specifically specify that it protects against recursion (by setting
the FTRACE_OPS_FL_RECURSION_SAFE flag), the list operation will be
called by the mcount trampoline which adds recursion protection.
If the flag is set, then the function will be called directly with no
extra protection.
Note, the list operation is called if more than one function callback
is registered, or if the arch does not support all of the function
tracer features.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Return as the 4th paramater to the function tracer callback the pt_regs.
Later patches that implement regs passing for the architectures will require
having the ftrace_ops set the SAVE_REGS flag, which will tell the arch
to take the time to pass a full set of pt_regs to the ftrace_ops callback
function. If the arch does not support it then it should pass NULL.
If an arch can pass full regs, then it should define:
ARCH_SUPPORTS_FTRACE_SAVE_REGS to 1
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120702201821.019966811@goodmis.org
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Currently the function trace callback receives only the ip and parent_ip
of the function that it traced. It would be more powerful to also return
the ops that registered the function as well. This allows the same function
to act differently depending on what ftrace_ops registered it.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120612225424.267254552@goodmis.org
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The display of absolute time and duration fields is based on the
latency field. This was added during the irqsoff/wakeup tracers
graph support changes.
It's causing confusion in what fields will be displayed for the
function_graph tracer itself. So I'm removing this depency, and
adding absolute time and duration fields to the preemptirqsoff
preemptoff irqsoff wakeup tracers.
With following commands:
# echo function_graph > ./current_tracer
# cat trace
This is what it looked like before:
# tracer: function_graph
#
# TIME CPU DURATION FUNCTION CALLS
# | | | | | | | |
0) 0.068 us | } /* page_add_file_rmap */
0) | _raw_spin_unlock() {
...
This is what it looks like now:
# tracer: function_graph
#
# CPU DURATION FUNCTION CALLS
# | | | | | | |
0) 0.068 us | } /* add_preempt_count */
0) 0.993 us | } /* vfsmount_lock_local_lock */
...
For preemptirqsoff preemptoff irqsoff wakeup tracers,
this is what it looked like before:
SNIP
# _-----=> irqs-off
# / _----=> need-resched
# | / _---=> hardirq/softirq
# || / _--=> preempt-depth
# ||| / _-=> lock-depth
# |||| /
# CPU TASK/PID ||||| DURATION FUNCTION CALLS
# | | | ||||| | | | | | |
1) <idle>-0 | d..1 0.000 us | acpi_idle_enter_simple();
...
This is what it looks like now:
SNIP
#
# _-----=> irqs-off
# / _----=> need-resched
# | / _---=> hardirq/softirq
# || / _--=> preempt-depth
# ||| /
# TIME CPU TASK/PID |||| DURATION FUNCTION CALLS
# | | | | |||| | | | | | |
19.847735 | 1) <idle>-0 | d..1 0.000 us | acpi_idle_enter_simple();
...
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1307113131-10045-2-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
ftrace_ops that are registered to trace functions can now be
agnostic to each other in respect to what functions they trace.
Each ops has their own hash of the functions they want to trace
and a hash to what they do not want to trace. A empty hash for
the functions they want to trace denotes all functions should
be traced that are not in the notrace hash.
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The function start_func_tracer() was incorrectly added in the
#ifdef CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER condition, but is still used even
when function tracing is not enabled.
The calls to register_ftrace_function() and register_ftrace_graph()
become nops (and their arguments are even ignored), thus there is
no reason to hide start_func_tracer() when function tracing is
not enabled.
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The wakeup tracer has three types of function tracers. Normal
function tracer, function graph entry, and function graph return.
Each of these use a complex dance to prevent recursion and whether
to trace the data or not (depending on the wake_task variable).
This patch moves the duplicate code into a single routine, to
prevent future mistakes with modifying duplicate complex code.
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
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>
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>
This patch adds data to be passed to tracepoint callbacks.
The created functions from DECLARE_TRACE() now need a mandatory data
parameter. For example:
DECLARE_TRACE(mytracepoint, int value, value)
Will create the register function:
int register_trace_mytracepoint((void(*)(void *data, int value))probe,
void *data);
As the first argument, all callbacks (probes) must take a (void *data)
parameter. So a callback for the above tracepoint will look like:
void myprobe(void *data, int value)
{
}
The callback may choose to ignore the data parameter.
This change allows callbacks to register a private data pointer along
with the function probe.
void mycallback(void *data, int value);
register_trace_mytracepoint(mycallback, mydata);
Then the mycallback() will receive the "mydata" as the first parameter
before the args.
A more detailed example:
DECLARE_TRACE(mytracepoint, TP_PROTO(int status), TP_ARGS(status));
/* In the C file */
DEFINE_TRACE(mytracepoint, TP_PROTO(int status), TP_ARGS(status));
[...]
trace_mytracepoint(status);
/* In a file registering this tracepoint */
int my_callback(void *data, int status)
{
struct my_struct my_data = data;
[...]
}
[...]
my_data = kmalloc(sizeof(*my_data), GFP_KERNEL);
init_my_data(my_data);
register_trace_mytracepoint(my_callback, my_data);
The same callback can also be registered to the same tracepoint as long
as the data registered is different. Note, the data must also be used
to unregister the callback:
unregister_trace_mytracepoint(my_callback, my_data);
Because of the data parameter, tracepoints declared this way can not have
no args. That is:
DECLARE_TRACE(mytracepoint, TP_PROTO(void), TP_ARGS());
will cause an error.
If no arguments are needed, a new macro can be used instead:
DECLARE_TRACE_NOARGS(mytracepoint);
Since there are no arguments, the proto and args fields are left out.
This is part of a series to make the tracepoint footprint smaller:
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Again, this patch also increases the size of the kernel, but
lays the ground work for decreasing it.
v5: Fixed net/core/drop_monitor.c to handle these updates.
v4: Moved the DECLARE_TRACE() DECLARE_TRACE_NOARGS out of the
#ifdef CONFIG_TRACE_POINTS, since the two are the same in both
cases. The __DECLARE_TRACE() is what changes.
Thanks to Frederic Weisbecker for pointing this out.
v3: Made all register_* functions require data to be passed and
all callbacks to take a void * parameter as its first argument.
This makes the calling functions comply with C standards.
Also added more comments to the modifications of DECLARE_TRACE().
v2: Made the DECLARE_TRACE() have the ability to pass arguments
and added a new DECLARE_TRACE_NOARGS() for tracepoints that
do not need any arguments.
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
struct rq isn't visible outside of sched.o so its near useless to
expose the pointer, also there are no users of it, so remove it.
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1272997616.1642.207.camel@laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
Clark Williams
Linus Torvalds
Nadia Yvette Chambers
Hiraku Toyooka
Jiri Olsa
KOSAKI Motohiro
Peter Zijlstra
Thomas Gleixner