Commit 2860cd8a23 ("livepatch: Use the default ftrace_ops instead of
REGS when ARGS is available") intends to enable config LIVEPATCH when
ftrace with ARGS is available. However, the chain of configs to enable
LIVEPATCH is incomplete, as HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS is available,
but the definition of DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS, combining DYNAMIC_FTRACE
and HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS, needed to enable LIVEPATCH, is missing
in the commit.
Fortunately, ./scripts/checkkconfigsymbols.py detects this and warns:
DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS
Referencing files: kernel/livepatch/Kconfig
So, define the config DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS analogously to the already
existing similar configs, DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS and
DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS, in ./kernel/trace/Kconfig to connect the
chain of configs.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/kernel-janitors/CAKXUXMwT2zS9fgyQHKUUiqo8ynZBdx2UEUu1WnV_q0OCmknqhw@mail.gmail.com/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210806195027.16808-1-lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 2860cd8a23 ("livepatch: Use the default ftrace_ops instead of REGS when ARGS is available")
Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The timerlat tracer aims to help the preemptive kernel developers to
found souces of wakeup latencies of real-time threads. Like cyclictest,
the tracer sets a periodic timer that wakes up a thread. The thread then
computes a *wakeup latency* value as the difference between the *current
time* and the *absolute time* that the timer was set to expire. The main
goal of timerlat is tracing in such a way to help kernel developers.
Usage
Write the ASCII text "timerlat" into the current_tracer file of the
tracing system (generally mounted at /sys/kernel/tracing).
For example:
[root@f32 ~]# cd /sys/kernel/tracing/
[root@f32 tracing]# echo timerlat > current_tracer
It is possible to follow the trace by reading the trace trace file:
[root@f32 tracing]# cat trace
# tracer: timerlat
#
# _-----=> irqs-off
# / _----=> need-resched
# | / _---=> hardirq/softirq
# || / _--=> preempt-depth
# || /
# |||| ACTIVATION
# TASK-PID CPU# |||| TIMESTAMP ID CONTEXT LATENCY
# | | | |||| | | | |
<idle>-0 [000] d.h1 54.029328: #1 context irq timer_latency 932 ns
<...>-867 [000] .... 54.029339: #1 context thread timer_latency 11700 ns
<idle>-0 [001] dNh1 54.029346: #1 context irq timer_latency 2833 ns
<...>-868 [001] .... 54.029353: #1 context thread timer_latency 9820 ns
<idle>-0 [000] d.h1 54.030328: #2 context irq timer_latency 769 ns
<...>-867 [000] .... 54.030330: #2 context thread timer_latency 3070 ns
<idle>-0 [001] d.h1 54.030344: #2 context irq timer_latency 935 ns
<...>-868 [001] .... 54.030347: #2 context thread timer_latency 4351 ns
The tracer creates a per-cpu kernel thread with real-time priority that
prints two lines at every activation. The first is the *timer latency*
observed at the *hardirq* context before the activation of the thread.
The second is the *timer latency* observed by the thread, which is the
same level that cyclictest reports. The ACTIVATION ID field
serves to relate the *irq* execution to its respective *thread* execution.
The irq/thread splitting is important to clarify at which context
the unexpected high value is coming from. The *irq* context can be
delayed by hardware related actions, such as SMIs, NMIs, IRQs
or by a thread masking interrupts. Once the timer happens, the delay
can also be influenced by blocking caused by threads. For example, by
postponing the scheduler execution via preempt_disable(), by the
scheduler execution, or by masking interrupts. Threads can
also be delayed by the interference from other threads and IRQs.
The timerlat can also take advantage of the osnoise: traceevents.
For example:
[root@f32 ~]# cd /sys/kernel/tracing/
[root@f32 tracing]# echo timerlat > current_tracer
[root@f32 tracing]# echo osnoise > set_event
[root@f32 tracing]# echo 25 > osnoise/stop_tracing_total_us
[root@f32 tracing]# tail -10 trace
cc1-87882 [005] d..h... 548.771078: #402268 context irq timer_latency 1585 ns
cc1-87882 [005] dNLh1.. 548.771082: irq_noise: local_timer:236 start 548.771077442 duration 4597 ns
cc1-87882 [005] dNLh2.. 548.771083: irq_noise: reschedule:253 start 548.771083017 duration 56 ns
cc1-87882 [005] dNLh2.. 548.771086: irq_noise: call_function_single:251 start 548.771083811 duration 2048 ns
cc1-87882 [005] dNLh2.. 548.771088: irq_noise: call_function_single:251 start 548.771086814 duration 1495 ns
cc1-87882 [005] dNLh2.. 548.771091: irq_noise: call_function_single:251 start 548.771089194 duration 1558 ns
cc1-87882 [005] dNLh2.. 548.771094: irq_noise: call_function_single:251 start 548.771091719 duration 1932 ns
cc1-87882 [005] dNLh2.. 548.771096: irq_noise: call_function_single:251 start 548.771094696 duration 1050 ns
cc1-87882 [005] d...3.. 548.771101: thread_noise: cc1:87882 start 548.771078243 duration 10909 ns
timerlat/5-1035 [005] ....... 548.771103: #402268 context thread timer_latency 25960 ns
For further information see: Documentation/trace/timerlat-tracer.rst
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/71f18efc013e1194bcaea1e54db957de2b19ba62.1624372313.git.bristot@redhat.com
Cc: Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Kate Carcia <kcarcia@redhat.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Alexandre Chartre <alexandre.chartre@oracle.com>
Cc: Clark Willaims <williams@redhat.com>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
In the context of high-performance computing (HPC), the Operating System
Noise (*osnoise*) refers to the interference experienced by an application
due to activities inside the operating system. In the context of Linux,
NMIs, IRQs, SoftIRQs, and any other system thread can cause noise to the
system. Moreover, hardware-related jobs can also cause noise, for example,
via SMIs.
The osnoise tracer leverages the hwlat_detector by running a similar
loop with preemption, SoftIRQs and IRQs enabled, thus allowing all
the sources of *osnoise* during its execution. Using the same approach
of hwlat, osnoise takes note of the entry and exit point of any
source of interferences, increasing a per-cpu interference counter. The
osnoise tracer also saves an interference counter for each source of
interference. The interference counter for NMI, IRQs, SoftIRQs, and
threads is increased anytime the tool observes these interferences' entry
events. When a noise happens without any interference from the operating
system level, the hardware noise counter increases, pointing to a
hardware-related noise. In this way, osnoise can account for any
source of interference. At the end of the period, the osnoise tracer
prints the sum of all noise, the max single noise, the percentage of CPU
available for the thread, and the counters for the noise sources.
Usage
Write the ASCII text "osnoise" into the current_tracer file of the
tracing system (generally mounted at /sys/kernel/tracing).
For example::
[root@f32 ~]# cd /sys/kernel/tracing/
[root@f32 tracing]# echo osnoise > current_tracer
It is possible to follow the trace by reading the trace trace file::
[root@f32 tracing]# cat trace
# tracer: osnoise
#
# _-----=> irqs-off
# / _----=> need-resched
# | / _---=> hardirq/softirq
# || / _--=> preempt-depth MAX
# || / SINGLE Interference counters:
# |||| RUNTIME NOISE % OF CPU NOISE +-----------------------------+
# TASK-PID CPU# |||| TIMESTAMP IN US IN US AVAILABLE IN US HW NMI IRQ SIRQ THREAD
# | | | |||| | | | | | | | | | |
<...>-859 [000] .... 81.637220: 1000000 190 99.98100 9 18 0 1007 18 1
<...>-860 [001] .... 81.638154: 1000000 656 99.93440 74 23 0 1006 16 3
<...>-861 [002] .... 81.638193: 1000000 5675 99.43250 202 6 0 1013 25 21
<...>-862 [003] .... 81.638242: 1000000 125 99.98750 45 1 0 1011 23 0
<...>-863 [004] .... 81.638260: 1000000 1721 99.82790 168 7 0 1002 49 41
<...>-864 [005] .... 81.638286: 1000000 263 99.97370 57 6 0 1006 26 2
<...>-865 [006] .... 81.638302: 1000000 109 99.98910 21 3 0 1006 18 1
<...>-866 [007] .... 81.638326: 1000000 7816 99.21840 107 8 0 1016 39 19
In addition to the regular trace fields (from TASK-PID to TIMESTAMP), the
tracer prints a message at the end of each period for each CPU that is
running an osnoise/CPU thread. The osnoise specific fields report:
- The RUNTIME IN USE reports the amount of time in microseconds that
the osnoise thread kept looping reading the time.
- The NOISE IN US reports the sum of noise in microseconds observed
by the osnoise tracer during the associated runtime.
- The % OF CPU AVAILABLE reports the percentage of CPU available for
the osnoise thread during the runtime window.
- The MAX SINGLE NOISE IN US reports the maximum single noise observed
during the runtime window.
- The Interference counters display how many each of the respective
interference happened during the runtime window.
Note that the example above shows a high number of HW noise samples.
The reason being is that this sample was taken on a virtual machine,
and the host interference is detected as a hardware interference.
Tracer options
The tracer has a set of options inside the osnoise directory, they are:
- osnoise/cpus: CPUs at which a osnoise thread will execute.
- osnoise/period_us: the period of the osnoise thread.
- osnoise/runtime_us: how long an osnoise thread will look for noise.
- osnoise/stop_tracing_us: stop the system tracing if a single noise
higher than the configured value happens. Writing 0 disables this
option.
- osnoise/stop_tracing_total_us: stop the system tracing if total noise
higher than the configured value happens. Writing 0 disables this
option.
- tracing_threshold: the minimum delta between two time() reads to be
considered as noise, in us. When set to 0, the default value will
be used, which is currently 5 us.
Additional Tracing
In addition to the tracer, a set of tracepoints were added to
facilitate the identification of the osnoise source.
- osnoise:sample_threshold: printed anytime a noise is higher than
the configurable tolerance_ns.
- osnoise:nmi_noise: noise from NMI, including the duration.
- osnoise:irq_noise: noise from an IRQ, including the duration.
- osnoise:softirq_noise: noise from a SoftIRQ, including the
duration.
- osnoise:thread_noise: noise from a thread, including the duration.
Note that all the values are *net values*. For example, if while osnoise
is running, another thread preempts the osnoise thread, it will start a
thread_noise duration at the start. Then, an IRQ takes place, preempting
the thread_noise, starting a irq_noise. When the IRQ ends its execution,
it will compute its duration, and this duration will be subtracted from
the thread_noise, in such a way as to avoid the double accounting of the
IRQ execution. This logic is valid for all sources of noise.
Here is one example of the usage of these tracepoints::
osnoise/8-961 [008] d.h. 5789.857532: irq_noise: local_timer:236 start 5789.857529929 duration 1845 ns
osnoise/8-961 [008] dNh. 5789.858408: irq_noise: local_timer:236 start 5789.858404871 duration 2848 ns
migration/8-54 [008] d... 5789.858413: thread_noise: migration/8:54 start 5789.858409300 duration 3068 ns
osnoise/8-961 [008] .... 5789.858413: sample_threshold: start 5789.858404555 duration 8723 ns interferences 2
In this example, a noise sample of 8 microseconds was reported in the last
line, pointing to two interferences. Looking backward in the trace, the
two previous entries were about the migration thread running after a
timer IRQ execution. The first event is not part of the noise because
it took place one millisecond before.
It is worth noticing that the sum of the duration reported in the
tracepoints is smaller than eight us reported in the sample_threshold.
The reason roots in the overhead of the entry and exit code that happens
before and after any interference execution. This justifies the dual
approach: measuring thread and tracing.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/e649467042d60e7b62714c9c6751a56299d15119.1624372313.git.bristot@redhat.com
Cc: Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Kate Carcia <kcarcia@redhat.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Alexandre Chartre <alexandre.chartre@oracle.com>
Cc: Clark Willaims <williams@redhat.com>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com>
[
Made the following functions static:
trace_irqentry_callback()
trace_irqexit_callback()
trace_intel_irqentry_callback()
trace_intel_irqexit_callback()
Added to include/trace.h:
osnoise_arch_register()
osnoise_arch_unregister()
Fixed define logic for LATENCY_FS_NOTIFY
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Pull more clang LTO updates from Kees Cook:
"Clang LTO x86 enablement.
Full disclosure: while this has _not_ been in linux-next (since it
initially looked like the objtool dependencies weren't going to make
v5.12), it has been under daily build and runtime testing by Sami for
quite some time. These x86 portions have been discussed on lkml, with
Peter, Josh, and others helping nail things down.
The bulk of the changes are to get objtool working happily. The rest
of the x86 enablement is very small.
Summary:
- Generate __mcount_loc in objtool (Peter Zijlstra)
- Support running objtool against vmlinux.o (Sami Tolvanen)
- Clang LTO enablement for x86 (Sami Tolvanen)"
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20201013003203.4168817-26-samitolvanen@google.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/cover.1611263461.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com/
* tag 'clang-lto-v5.12-rc1-part2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
kbuild: lto: force rebuilds when switching CONFIG_LTO
x86, build: allow LTO to be selected
x86, cpu: disable LTO for cpu.c
x86, vdso: disable LTO only for vDSO
kbuild: lto: postpone objtool
objtool: Split noinstr validation from --vmlinux
x86, build: use objtool mcount
tracing: add support for objtool mcount
objtool: Don't autodetect vmlinux.o
objtool: Fix __mcount_loc generation with Clang's assembler
objtool: Add a pass for generating __mcount_loc
Pull clang LTO updates from Kees Cook:
"Clang Link Time Optimization.
This is built on the work done preparing for LTO by arm64 folks,
tracing folks, etc. This includes the core changes as well as the
remaining pieces for arm64 (LTO has been the default build method on
Android for about 3 years now, as it is the prerequisite for the
Control Flow Integrity protections).
While x86 LTO enablement is done, it depends on some pending objtool
clean-ups. It's possible that I'll send a "part 2" pull request for
LTO that includes x86 support.
For merge log posterity, and as detailed in commit dc5723b02e
("kbuild: add support for Clang LTO"), here is the lt;dr to do an LTO
build:
make LLVM=1 LLVM_IAS=1 defconfig
scripts/config -e LTO_CLANG_THIN
make LLVM=1 LLVM_IAS=1
(To do a cross-compile of arm64, add "CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu-"
and "ARCH=arm64" to the "make" command lines.)
Summary:
- Clang LTO build infrastructure and arm64-specific enablement (Sami
Tolvanen)
- Recursive build CC_FLAGS_LTO fix (Alexander Lobakin)"
* tag 'clang-lto-v5.12-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
kbuild: prevent CC_FLAGS_LTO self-bloating on recursive rebuilds
arm64: allow LTO to be selected
arm64: disable recordmcount with DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
arm64: vdso: disable LTO
drivers/misc/lkdtm: disable LTO for rodata.o
efi/libstub: disable LTO
scripts/mod: disable LTO for empty.c
modpost: lto: strip .lto from module names
PCI: Fix PREL32 relocations for LTO
init: lto: fix PREL32 relocations
init: lto: ensure initcall ordering
kbuild: lto: add a default list of used symbols
kbuild: lto: merge module sections
kbuild: lto: limit inlining
kbuild: lto: fix module versioning
kbuild: add support for Clang LTO
tracing: move function tracer options to Kconfig
The kernel thread executing test can run on any cpu, which might be
different cpu latency tracer is running on, as a result, the
big latency caused by preemptirq delay test can't be detected.
Therefore, the argument cpu_affinity is added to be passed to test,
ensure it's running on the same cpu with latency tracer.
e.g.
cyclictest -p 90 -m -c 0 -i 1000 -a 3
modprobe preemptirq_delay_test test_mode=preempt delay=500 \
burst_size=3 cpu_affinity=3
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1611797713-20965-1-git-send-email-chensong_2000@189.cn
Signed-off-by: Song Chen <chensong_2000@189.cn>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Move function tracer options to Kconfig to make it easier to add
new methods for generating __mcount_loc, and to make the options
available also when building kernel modules.
Note that FTRACE_MCOUNT_USE_* options are updated on rebuild and
therefore, work even if the .config was generated in a different
environment.
Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201211184633.3213045-2-samitolvanen@google.com
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
"The major update to this release is that there's a new arch config
option called CONFIG_HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS.
Currently, only x86_64 enables it. All the ftrace callbacks now take a
struct ftrace_regs instead of a struct pt_regs. If the architecture
has HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS enabled, then the ftrace_regs will
have enough information to read the arguments of the function being
traced, as well as access to the stack pointer.
This way, if a user (like live kernel patching) only cares about the
arguments, then it can avoid using the heavier weight "regs" callback,
that puts in enough information in the struct ftrace_regs to simulate
a breakpoint exception (needed for kprobes).
A new config option that audits the timestamps of the ftrace ring
buffer at most every event recorded.
Ftrace recursion protection has been cleaned up to move the protection
to the callback itself (this saves on an extra function call for those
callbacks).
Perf now handles its own RCU protection and does not depend on ftrace
to do it for it (saving on that extra function call).
New debug option to add "recursed_functions" file to tracefs that
lists all the places that triggered the recursion protection of the
function tracer. This will show where things need to be fixed as
recursion slows down the function tracer.
The eval enum mapping updates done at boot up are now offloaded to a
work queue, as it caused a noticeable pause on slow embedded boards.
Various clean ups and last minute fixes"
* tag 'trace-v5.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (33 commits)
tracing: Offload eval map updates to a work queue
Revert: "ring-buffer: Remove HAVE_64BIT_ALIGNED_ACCESS"
ring-buffer: Add rb_check_bpage in __rb_allocate_pages
ring-buffer: Fix two typos in comments
tracing: Drop unneeded assignment in ring_buffer_resize()
tracing: Disable ftrace selftests when any tracer is running
seq_buf: Avoid type mismatch for seq_buf_init
ring-buffer: Fix a typo in function description
ring-buffer: Remove obsolete rb_event_is_commit()
ring-buffer: Add test to validate the time stamp deltas
ftrace/documentation: Fix RST C code blocks
tracing: Clean up after filter logic rewriting
tracing: Remove the useless value assignment in test_create_synth_event()
livepatch: Use the default ftrace_ops instead of REGS when ARGS is available
ftrace/x86: Allow for arguments to be passed in to ftrace_regs by default
ftrace: Have the callbacks receive a struct ftrace_regs instead of pt_regs
MAINTAINERS: assign ./fs/tracefs to TRACING
tracing: Fix some typos in comments
ftrace: Remove unused varible 'ret'
ring-buffer: Add recording of ring buffer recursion into recursed_functions
...
Pull asm-generic cross-architecture timer cleanup from Arnd Bergmann:
"This cleans up two ancient timer features that were never completed in
the past, CONFIG_GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS and CONFIG_ARCH_USES_GETTIMEOFFSET.
There was only one user left for the ARCH_USES_GETTIMEOFFSET variant
of clocksource implementations, the ARM EBSA110 platform. Rather than
changing to use modern timekeeping, we remove the platform entirely as
Russell no longer uses his machine and nobody else seems to have one
any more.
The conditional code for using arch_gettimeoffset() is removed as a
result.
For CONFIG_GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS, there are still a couple of platforms
not using clockevent drivers: parisc, ia64, most of m68k, and one Arm
platform. These all do timer ticks slighly differently, and this gets
cleaned up to the point they at least all call the same helper
function.
Instead of most platforms using 'select GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS' in
Kconfig, the polarity is now reversed, with the few remaining ones
selecting LEGACY_TIMER_TICK instead"
* tag 'asm-generic-timers-5.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic:
timekeeping: default GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS to enabled
timekeeping: remove xtime_update
m68k: remove timer_interrupt() function
m68k: change remaining timers to legacy_timer_tick
m68k: m68328: use legacy_timer_tick()
m68k: sun3/sun3c: use legacy_timer_tick
m68k: split heartbeat out of timer function
m68k: coldfire: use legacy_timer_tick()
parisc: use legacy_timer_tick
ARM: rpc: use legacy_timer_tick
ia64: convert to legacy_timer_tick
timekeeping: add CONFIG_LEGACY_TIMER_TICK
timekeeping: remove arch_gettimeoffset
net: remove am79c961a driver
ARM: remove ebsa110 platform
While debugging a situation where a delta for an event was calucalted wrong,
I realize there was nothing making sure that the delta of events are
correct. If a single event has an incorrect delta, then all events after it
will also have one. If the discrepency gets large enough, it could cause
the time stamps to go backwards when crossing sub buffers, that record a
full 64 bit time stamp, and the new deltas are added to that.
Add a way to validate the events at most events and when crossing a buffer
page. This will help make sure that the deltas are always correct. This test
will detect if they are ever corrupted.
The test adds a high overhead to the ring buffer recording, as it does the
audit for almost every event, and should only be used for testing the ring
buffer.
This will catch the bug that is fixed by commit 55ea4cf403 ("ring-buffer:
Update write stamp with the correct ts"), which is not applied when this
commit is applied.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Currently, the only way to get access to the registers of a function via a
ftrace callback is to set the "FL_SAVE_REGS" bit in the ftrace_ops. But as this
saves all regs as if a breakpoint were to trigger (for use with kprobes), it
is expensive.
The regs are already saved on the stack for the default ftrace callbacks, as
that is required otherwise a function being traced will get the wrong
arguments and possibly crash. And on x86, the arguments are already stored
where they would be on a pt_regs structure to use that code for both the
regs version of a callback, it makes sense to pass that information always
to all functions.
If an architecture does this (as x86_64 now does), it is to set
HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS, and this will let the generic code that it
could have access to arguments without having to set the flags.
This also includes having the stack pointer being saved, which could be used
for accessing arguments on the stack, as well as having the function graph
tracer not require its own trampoline!
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add a new config RING_BUFFER_RECORD_RECURSION that will place functions that
recurse from the ring buffer into the ftrace recused_functions file.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
With Arm EBSA110 gone, nothing uses it any more, so the corresponding
code and the Kconfig option can be removed.
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
"No new features this release. Mostly clean ups, restructuring and
documentation.
- Have ftrace_bug() show ftrace errors before the WARN, as the WARN
will reboot the box before the error messages are printed if
panic_on_warn is set.
- Have traceoff_on_warn disable tracing sooner (before prints)
- Write a message to the trace buffer that its being disabled when
disable_trace_on_warning() is set.
- Separate out synthetic events from histogram code to let it be used
by other parts of the kernel.
- More documentation on histogram design.
- Other small fixes and clean ups"
* tag 'trace-v5.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
tracing: Remove obsolete PREEMPTIRQ_EVENTS kconfig option
tracing/doc: Fix ascii-art in histogram-design.rst
tracing: Add a trace print when traceoff_on_warning is triggered
ftrace,bug: Improve traceoff_on_warn
selftests/ftrace: Distinguish between hist and synthetic event checks
tracing: Move synthetic events to a separate file
tracing: Fix events.rst section numbering
tracing/doc: Fix typos in histogram-design.rst
tracing: Add hist_debug trace event files for histogram debugging
tracing: Add histogram-design document
tracing: Check state.disabled in synth event trace functions
tracing/probe: reverse arguments to list_add
tools/bootconfig: Add a summary of test cases and return error
ftrace: show debugging information when panic_on_warn set
The PREEMPTIRQ_EVENTS option is unused after commit c3bc8fd637 ("tracing:
Centralize preemptirq tracepoints and unify their usage"). Remove it.
Note that this option is hazardous as it stands. It enables TRACE_IRQFLAGS
event on non-preempt configurations without the irqsoff tracer enabled.
TRACE_IRQFLAGS as it stands incurs significant overhead on each IRQ
entry/exit. This is because trace_hardirqs_[on|off] does all the per-cpu
manipulations and NMI checks even if tracing is completely disabled for
some insane reason. For example, netperf running UDP_STREAM on localhost
incurs a 4-6% performance penalty without any tracing if IRQFLAGS is
set. It can be put behind a static brach but even the function entry/exit
costs a little bit.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200409104034.GJ3818@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
With the addition of the in-kernel synthetic event API, synthetic
events are no longer specifically tied to the histogram triggers.
The synthetic event code is also making trace_event_hist.c very
bloated, so for those reasons, move it to a separate file,
trace_events_synth.c, along with a new trace_synth.h header file.
Because synthetic events are now independent from hist triggers, add a
new CONFIG_SYNTH_EVENTS config option, and have CONFIG_HIST_TRIGGERS
select it, and have CONFIG_SYNTH_EVENT_GEN_TEST depend on it.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4d1fa1f85ed5982706ac44844ac92451dcb04715.1590693308.git.zanussi@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add a new "hist_debug" file for each trace event, which when read will
dump out a bunch of internal details about the hist triggers defined
on that event.
This is normally off but can be enabled by saying 'y' to the new
CONFIG_HIST_TRIGGERS_DEBUG config option.
This is in support of the new Documentation file describing histogram
internals, Documentation/trace/histogram-design.rst, which was
requested by developers trying to understand the internals when
extending or making use of the hist triggers for higher-level tools.
The histogram-design.rst documentation refers to the hist_debug files
and demonstrates their use with output in the test examples.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/77914c22b0ba493d9783c53bbfbc6087d6a7e1b1.1585941485.git.zanussi@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>