Although we check if "missed" is not zero, we divide by hit + missed,
and the addition can possible overflow and become a divide by zero.
This patch checks for this case, and will report it when it happens
then modify "hit" to make the calculation be non zero.
[ Impact: prevent possible divide by zero in ring-buffer-benchmark ]
Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The use of numeric constants is discouraged. It is cleaner and more
descriptive to use macros for constant time conversions.
This patch also removes an extra new line.
[ Impact: more descriptive time conversions ]
Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Other parts of the kernel may need to be able to enable or disable
specific events. Especially parts that create trace events.
[ Impact: allow enabling of trace events by those that create the event ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Commit 8f31bfe538
tracing/events: clean up for ftrace_set_clr_event()
Moved out the code for ftrace_set_clr_event into a helper funciton but
did not initialize the return value. As a result, we do not warn about
a typo in the echoing of events in set_event.
This patch restores the old warning:
# echo foobar > set_event
-bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
[ Impact: restore warning of invalid entries to set_event ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add a helper function __ftrace_set_clr_event(), and replace some
ftrace_set_clr_event() calls with this helper, thus we don't need any
kstrdup() or kmalloc().
As a side effect, this patch fixes an issue in self tests code, which is
similar to the one fixed in commit d6bf81ef0f
("tracing: append ":*" to internal setting of system events")
It's a small issue and won't cause any bug in fact, but we should do things
right anyway.
[ Impact: prevent spurious event-enabling in tracing self-tests ]
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A03998E.3020503@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
There's a WARN_ON in the ring buffer code that makes sure preemption
is disabled. It checks "!preempt_count()". But when CONFIG_PREEMPT is not
enabled, preempt_count() is always zero, and this will trigger the warning.
[ Impact: prevent false warning on non preemptible kernels ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
It is nice to see the overhead of the benchmark test when tracing is
disabled. That is, we turn off the ring buffer just to see what the
cost of running the loop that calls into the ring buffer is.
Currently, if no entries wer made, we get 0. This is not informative.
This patch changes it to check if we had any "missed" (non recorded)
events. If so, a total count is also reported.
[ Impact: evaluate the over head of the ring buffer benchmark test ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Calling cond_resched at every iteration of the loop adds a bit of
overhead to the benchmark.
This patch does two things.
1) only calls cond-resched when CONFIG_PREEMPT is not enabled
2) only calls cond-resched after so many traces has been performed.
[ Impact: less overhead to the ring-buffer-benchmark ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Tracing can be very helpful to debug the kernel. When DEBUG_KERNEL is
enabled it is nice to enable the trace menu as well.
This patch only make the tracing menu enabled by default, it does not
make any of the tracers enabled. And the menu is only enabled by
default if DEBUG_KERNEL is enabled.
[ Impact: show tracing options to those debugging the kernel ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The system enabling of events uses the same code as the set_event file.
It passes in the name of the system to the parser and that will enable
all the events that has that system as a name.
The problem is that it will also enable events with the same name as the
system.
If you have system name foo, and system name bar, but within the system
bar, there exists an event called foo. By setting the system name foo,
you will also be enabling the event foo in the system bar. This is not
an expected result.
The solution is to pass in "foo:*", which will only enable the system
foo and not events called foo.
[ Impact: prevent accidental enabling of events with same name as a system ]
Reported-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Ingo Molnar thought that the code to calculate the time in cond_resched
is a bit too ugly and is not needed. This patch removes it and replaces
it with a simple call to cond_resched. I kept the comment that explains
the reason for the cond_resched.
[ Impact: remove ugly code ]
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Merge reason: this topic is ready for upstream now. It passed
Oleg's review and Andrew had no further mm/*
objections/observations either.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Merge reason: tracing/core was on a .30-rc1 base and was missing out on
on a handful of tracing fixes present in .30-rc5-almost.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
When we set a filter for an event, such as:
echo "name == my_lock_name" > \
/debug/tracing/events/lockdep/lock_acquired/filter
then the following order of token type is parsed:
- space
- operator
- parentheses
- operand
Because the operators and parentheses have a higher precedence
than the operand characters, which is normal, then we can't
use any string containing such special characters:
()=<>!&|
To get this support and also avoid ambiguous intepretation from
the parser or the human, we can do it using double quotes so that
we keep the usual languages habits.
Then after this patch you can still declare string condition like
before:
echo name == myname
But if you want to compare against a string containing an operator
character, you can use double quotes:
echo 'name == "&myname"'
Don't forget to include the whole expression into single quotes or
the double ones will be eaten by echo.
[ Impact: support strings with special characters for tracing filters ]
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Zhaolei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Currently the filtering infrastructure supports well the
numeric types and fixed sized array types.
But the recently added __string() field uses a specific
indirect offset mechanism which requires a specific
predicate. Until now it wasn't supported.
This patch adds this support and implies very few changes,
only a new predicate is needed, the management of this specific
field can be done through the usual string helpers in the
filtering infrastructure.
[ Impact: support all kinds of strings in the tracing filters ]
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Zhaolei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
With the current event directory, you can only enable individual events.
The file debugfs/tracing/set_event is used to be able to enable or
disable several events at once. But that can still be awkward.
This patch adds hierarchical enabling of events. That is, each directory
in debugfs/tracing/events has an "enable" file. This file can enable
or disable all events within the directory and below.
# echo 1 > /debugfs/tracing/events/enable
will enable all events.
# echo 1 > /debugfs/tracing/events/sched/enable
will enable all events in the sched subsystem.
# echo 1 > /debugfs/tracing/events/enable
# echo 0 > /debugfs/tracing/events/irq/enable
will enable all events, but then disable just the irq subsystem events.
When reading one of these enable files, there are four results:
0 - all events this file affects are disabled
1 - all events this file affects are enabled
X - there is a mixture of events enabled and disabled
? - this file does not affect any event
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Li Zefan found that there's a race using the event ids of events and
modules. When a module is loaded, an event id is incremented. We only
have 16 bits for event ids (65536) and there is a possible (but highly
unlikely) race that we could load and unload a module that registers
events so many times that the event id counter overflows.
When it overflows, it then restarts and goes looking for available
ids. An id is available if it was added by a module and released.
The race is if you have one module add an id, and then is removed.
Another module loaded can use that same event id. But if the old module
still had events in the ring buffer, the new module's call back would
get bogus data. At best (and most likely) the output would just be
garbage. But if the module for some reason used pointers (not recommended)
then this could potentially crash.
The safest thing to do is just reset the ring buffer if a module that
registered events is removed.
[ Impact: prevent unpredictable results of event id overflows ]
Reported-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <49FEAFD0.30106@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
When creating trace events for ftrace, the header file with the TRACE_EVENT
macros must also have a macro called TRACE_SYSTEM. This macro describes
the name of the system the TRACE_EVENTS are defined for. It also doubles
as a way for the define_trace.h file to include the file that included
it.
For example:
in irq.h
#define TRACE_SYSTEM irq
[...]
#include <trace/define_trace.h>
The define_trace will use TRACE_SYSTEM to include irq.h. But if the name
of the trace system does not match the name of the trace header file,
one can override it with:
Which will change define_trace.h to inclued foo_trace.h instead of foo.h
The sample comments this, but people that use the sample code will more
likely use the code and not read the comments. This patch changes the
sample code to use the TRACE_INCLUDE_FILE to better show developers how to
use it.
[ Impact: make sample less confusing to developers ]
Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The ring buffer benchmark/test runs a producer for 10 seconds.
This is done with preemption and interrupts enabled. But if the kernel
is not compiled with CONFIG_PREEMPT, it basically stops everything
but interrupts for 10 seconds.
Although this is just a test and is not for production, this attribute
can be quite annoying. It can also spawn badness elsewhere.
This patch solves the issues by calling "cond_resched" when the system
is not compiled with CONFIG_PREEMPT. It also keeps track of the time
spent to call cond_resched such that it does not go against the
time calculations. That is, if the task schedules away, the time scheduled
out is removed from the test data. Note, this only works for non PREEMPT
because we do not know when the task is scheduled out if we have PREEMPT
enabled.
[ Impact: prevent test from stopping the world for 10 seconds ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Ingo Molnar thought the code would be cleaner if we used a function call
instead of a goto for moving the tail page. After implementing this,
it seems that gcc still inlines the result and the output is pretty much
the same. Since this is considered a cleaner approach, might as well
implement it.
[ Impact: code clean up ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The result of the allocation of the ring buffer read page in the
ring buffer bench mark does not check the return to see if a page
was actually allocated. This patch fixes that.
[ Impact: avoid NULL dereference ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Steven Rostedt
Li Zefan
Ingo Molnar
Frederic Weisbecker