If the kernel command line ftrace filter parameters are set
(ftrace_filter or ftrace_notrace), force the function self test to
pass, with a warning why it was forced.
If the user adds a filter to the kernel command line, it is assumed
that they know what they are doing, and the self test should just not
run instead of failing (which disables function tracing) or clearing
the filter, as that will probably annoy the user.
If the user wants the selftest to run, the message will tell them why
it did not.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The function tracer uses preempt_disable/enable_notrace() for
synchronization between reading registered ftrace_ops and unregistering
them.
Most of the ftrace_ops are global permanent structures that do not
require this synchronization. That is, ops may be added and removed from
the hlist but are never freed, and wont hurt if a synchronization is
missed.
But this is not true for dynamically created ftrace_ops or control_ops,
which are used by the perf function tracing.
The problem here is that the function tracer can be used to trace
kernel/user context switches as well as going to and from idle.
Basically, it can be used to trace blind spots of the RCU subsystem.
This means that even though preempt_disable() is done, a
synchronize_sched() will ignore CPUs that haven't made it out of user
space or idle. These can include functions that are being traced just
before entering or exiting the kernel sections.
To implement the RCU synchronization, instead of using
synchronize_sched() the use of schedule_on_each_cpu() is performed. This
means that when a dynamically allocated ftrace_ops, or a control ops is
being unregistered, all CPUs must be touched and execute a ftrace_sync()
stub function via the work queues. This will rip CPUs out from idle or
in dynamic tick mode. This only happens when a user disables perf
function tracing or other dynamically allocated function tracers, but it
allows us to continue to debug RCU and context tracking with function
tracing.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1369785676.15552.55.camel@gandalf.local.home
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
As rcu_dereference_raw() under RCU debug config options can add quite a
bit of checks, and that tracing uses rcu_dereference_raw(), these checks
happen with the function tracer. The function tracer also happens to trace
these debug checks too. This added overhead can livelock the system.
Have the function tracer use the new RCU _notrace equivalents that do
not do the debug checks for RCU.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130528184209.467603904@goodmis.org
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The enabled_functions debugfs file was created to be able to see
what functions have been modified from nops to calling a tracer.
The current method uses the counter in the function record.
As when a ftrace_ops is registered to a function, its count
increases. But that doesn't mean that the function is actively
being traced. /proc/sys/kernel/ftrace_enabled can be set to zero
which would disable it, as well as something can go wrong and
we can think its enabled when only the counter is set.
The record's FTRACE_FL_ENABLED flag is set or cleared when its
function is modified. That is a much more accurate way of knowing
what function is enabled or not.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The iteration of the ftrace function list and the call to
ftrace_match_record() need to be protected by the ftrace_lock.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cleanup regex_lock and ftrace_lock locking points around
ftrace_ops hash update code.
The new rule is that regex_lock protects ops->*_hash
read-update-write code for each ftrace_ops. Usually,
hash update is done by following sequence.
1. allocate a new local hash and copy the original hash.
2. update the local hash.
3. move(actually, copy) back the local hash to ftrace_ops.
4. update ftrace entries if needed.
5. release the local hash.
This makes regex_lock protect #1-#4, and ftrace_lock
to protect #3, #4 and adding and removing ftrace_ops from the
ftrace_ops_list. The ftrace_lock protects #3 as well because
the move functions update the entries too.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130509054421.30398.83411.stgit@mhiramat-M0-7522
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Fix a deadlock on ftrace_regex_lock which happens when setting
an enable_event trigger on dynamic kprobe event as below.
----
sh-2.05b# echo p vfs_symlink > kprobe_events
sh-2.05b# echo vfs_symlink:enable_event:kprobes:p_vfs_symlink_0 > set_ftrace_filter
=============================================
[ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ]
3.9.0+ #35 Not tainted
---------------------------------------------
sh/72 is trying to acquire lock:
(ftrace_regex_lock){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff810ba6c1>] ftrace_set_hash+0x81/0x1f0
but task is already holding lock:
(ftrace_regex_lock){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff810b7cbd>] ftrace_regex_write.isra.29.part.30+0x3d/0x220
other info that might help us debug this:
Possible unsafe locking scenario:
CPU0
----
lock(ftrace_regex_lock);
lock(ftrace_regex_lock);
*** DEADLOCK ***
----
To fix that, this introduces a finer regex_lock for each ftrace_ops.
ftrace_regex_lock is too big of a lock which protects all
filter/notrace_hash operations, but it doesn't need to be a global
lock after supporting multiple ftrace_ops because each ftrace_ops
has its own filter/notrace_hash.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130509054417.30398.84254.stgit@mhiramat-M0-7522
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
[ Added initialization flag and automate mutex initialization for
non ftrace.c ftrace_probes. ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
As ftrace_regex_write() reads the result of ftrace_process_regex()
which can sometimes return a positive number, only consider a
failure if the return is negative. Otherwise, it will skip possible
other registered probes and by returning a positive number that
wasn't read, it will confuse the user processes doing the writing.
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
"Along with the usual minor fixes and clean ups there are a few major
changes with this pull request.
1) Multiple buffers for the ftrace facility
This feature has been requested by many people over the last few
years. I even heard that Google was about to implement it themselves.
I finally had time and cleaned up the code such that you can now
create multiple instances of the ftrace buffer and have different
events go to different buffers. This way, a low frequency event will
not be lost in the noise of a high frequency event.
Note, currently only events can go to different buffers, the tracers
(ie function, function_graph and the latency tracers) still can only
be written to the main buffer.
2) The function tracer triggers have now been extended.
The function tracer had two triggers. One to enable tracing when a
function is hit, and one to disable tracing. Now you can record a
stack trace on a single (or many) function(s), take a snapshot of the
buffer (copy it to the snapshot buffer), and you can enable or disable
an event to be traced when a function is hit.
3) A perf clock has been added.
A "perf" clock can be chosen to be used when tracing. This will cause
ftrace to use the same clock as perf uses, and hopefully this will
make it easier to interleave the perf and ftrace data for analysis."
* tag 'trace-3.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (82 commits)
tracepoints: Prevent null probe from being added
tracing: Compare to 1 instead of zero for is_signed_type()
tracing: Remove obsolete macro guard _TRACE_PROFILE_INIT
ftrace: Get rid of ftrace_profile_bits
tracing: Check return value of tracing_init_dentry()
tracing: Get rid of unneeded key calculation in ftrace_hash_move()
tracing: Reset ftrace_graph_filter_enabled if count is zero
tracing: Fix off-by-one on allocating stat->pages
kernel: tracing: Use strlcpy instead of strncpy
tracing: Update debugfs README file
tracing: Fix ftrace_dump()
tracing: Rename trace_event_mutex to trace_event_sem
tracing: Fix comment about prefix in arch_syscall_match_sym_name()
tracing: Convert trace_destroy_fields() to static
tracing: Move find_event_field() into trace_events.c
tracing: Use TRACE_MAX_PRINT instead of constant
tracing: Use pr_warn_once instead of open coded implementation
ring-buffer: Add ring buffer startup selftest
tracing: Bring Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt up to date
tracing: Add "perf" trace_clock
...
Conflicts:
kernel/trace/ftrace.c
kernel/trace/trace.c
As ftrace_filter_lseek is now used with ftrace_pid_fops, it needs to
be moved out of the #ifdef CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE section as the
ftrace_pid_fops is defined when DYNAMIC_FTRACE is not.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Currently set_ftrace_pid and set_graph_function files use seq_lseek
for their fops. However seq_open() is called only for FMODE_READ in
the fops->open() so that if an user tries to seek one of those file
when she open it for writing, it sees NULL seq_file and then panic.
It can be easily reproduced with following command:
$ cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing
$ echo 1234 | sudo tee -a set_ftrace_pid
In this example, GNU coreutils' tee opens the file with fopen(, "a")
and then the fopen() internally calls lseek().
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1365663302-2170-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The function tracing control loop used by perf spits out a warning
if the called function is not a control function. This is because
the control function references a per cpu allocated data structure
on struct ftrace_ops that is not allocated for other types of
functions.
commit 0a016409e4 "ftrace: Optimize the function tracer list loop"
Had an optimization done to all function tracing loops to optimize
for a single registered ops. Unfortunately, this allows for a slight
race when tracing starts or ends, where the stub function might be
called after the current registered ops is removed. In this case we
get the following dump:
root# perf stat -e ftrace:function sleep 1
[ 74.339105] WARNING: at include/linux/ftrace.h:209 ftrace_ops_control_func+0xde/0xf0()
[ 74.349522] Hardware name: PRIMERGY RX200 S6
[ 74.357149] Modules linked in: sg igb iTCO_wdt ptp pps_core iTCO_vendor_support i7core_edac dca lpc_ich i2c_i801 coretemp edac_core crc32c_intel mfd_core ghash_clmulni_intel dm_multipath acpi_power_meter pcspk
r microcode vhost_net tun macvtap macvlan nfsd kvm_intel kvm auth_rpcgss nfs_acl lockd sunrpc uinput xfs libcrc32c sd_mod crc_t10dif sr_mod cdrom mgag200 i2c_algo_bit drm_kms_helper ttm qla2xxx mptsas ahci drm li
bahci scsi_transport_sas mptscsih libata scsi_transport_fc i2c_core mptbase scsi_tgt dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod
[ 74.446233] Pid: 1377, comm: perf Tainted: G W 3.9.0-rc1 #1
[ 74.453458] Call Trace:
[ 74.456233] [<ffffffff81062e3f>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7f/0xc0
[ 74.462997] [<ffffffff810fbc60>] ? rcu_note_context_switch+0xa0/0xa0
[ 74.470272] [<ffffffff811041a2>] ? __unregister_ftrace_function+0xa2/0x1a0
[ 74.478117] [<ffffffff81062e9a>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20
[ 74.484681] [<ffffffff81102ede>] ftrace_ops_control_func+0xde/0xf0
[ 74.491760] [<ffffffff8162f400>] ftrace_call+0x5/0x2f
[ 74.497511] [<ffffffff8162f400>] ? ftrace_call+0x5/0x2f
[ 74.503486] [<ffffffff8162f400>] ? ftrace_call+0x5/0x2f
[ 74.509500] [<ffffffff810fbc65>] ? synchronize_sched+0x5/0x50
[ 74.516088] [<ffffffff816254d5>] ? _cond_resched+0x5/0x40
[ 74.522268] [<ffffffff810fbc65>] ? synchronize_sched+0x5/0x50
[ 74.528837] [<ffffffff811041a2>] ? __unregister_ftrace_function+0xa2/0x1a0
[ 74.536696] [<ffffffff816254d5>] ? _cond_resched+0x5/0x40
[ 74.542878] [<ffffffff8162402d>] ? mutex_lock+0x1d/0x50
[ 74.548869] [<ffffffff81105c67>] unregister_ftrace_function+0x27/0x50
[ 74.556243] [<ffffffff8111eadf>] perf_ftrace_event_register+0x9f/0x140
[ 74.563709] [<ffffffff816254d5>] ? _cond_resched+0x5/0x40
[ 74.569887] [<ffffffff8162402d>] ? mutex_lock+0x1d/0x50
[ 74.575898] [<ffffffff8111e94e>] perf_trace_destroy+0x2e/0x50
[ 74.582505] [<ffffffff81127ba9>] tp_perf_event_destroy+0x9/0x10
[ 74.589298] [<ffffffff811295d0>] free_event+0x70/0x1a0
[ 74.595208] [<ffffffff8112a579>] perf_event_release_kernel+0x69/0xa0
[ 74.602460] [<ffffffff816254d5>] ? _cond_resched+0x5/0x40
[ 74.608667] [<ffffffff8112a640>] put_event+0x90/0xc0
[ 74.614373] [<ffffffff8112a740>] perf_release+0x10/0x20
[ 74.620367] [<ffffffff811a3044>] __fput+0xf4/0x280
[ 74.625894] [<ffffffff811a31de>] ____fput+0xe/0x10
[ 74.631387] [<ffffffff81083697>] task_work_run+0xa7/0xe0
[ 74.637452] [<ffffffff81014981>] do_notify_resume+0x71/0xb0
[ 74.643843] [<ffffffff8162fa92>] int_signal+0x12/0x17
To fix this a new ftrace_ops flag is added that denotes the ftrace_list_end
ftrace_ops stub as just that, a stub. This flag is now checked in the
control loop and the function is not called if the flag is set.
Thanks to Jovi for not just reporting the bug, but also pointing out
where the bug was in the code.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/514A8855.7090402@redhat.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1364377499-1900-15-git-send-email-jovi.zhangwei@huawei.com
Tested-by: WANG Chao <chaowang@redhat.com>
Reported-by: WANG Chao <chaowang@redhat.com>
Reported-by: zhangwei(Jovi) <jovi.zhangwei@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The entries to the probe hash must be freed after a synchronize_sched()
after the entry has been removed from the hash.
As the entries are registered with ops that may have their own callbacks,
and these callbacks may sleep, we can not use call_rcu_sched() because
the rcu callbacks registered with that are called from a softirq context.
Instead of using call_rcu_sched(), manually save the entries on a free_list
and at the end of the loop that removes the entries, do a synchronize_sched()
and then go through the free_list, freeing the entries.
Cc: Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
When a function probe is created, each function that the probe is
attached to, a "callback" method is called. On release of the probe,
each function entry calls the "free" method.
First, "callback" is a confusing name and does not really match what
it does. Callback sounds like it will be called when the probe
triggers. But that's not the case. This is really an "init" function,
so lets rename it as such.
Secondly, both "init" and "free" do not pass enough information back
to the handlers. Pass back the ops, ip and data for each time the
method is called. We have the information, might as well use it.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>