wake_up_process() has a memory barrier before doing anything, thus adding a
memory barrier before calling it is redundant.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The commit b44754d826 ("ring_buffer: Allow to exit the ring
buffer benchmark immediately") added a hack into ring_buffer_producer()
that set @kill_test when kthread_should_stop() returned true. It improved
the situation a lot. It stopped the kthread in most cases because
the producer spent most of the time in the patched while cycle.
But there are still few possible races when kthread_should_stop()
is set outside of the cycle. Then we do not set @kill_test and
some other checks pass.
This patch adds a better fix. It renames @test_kill/TEST_KILL() into
a better descriptive @test_error/TEST_ERROR(). Also it introduces
break_test() function that checks for both @test_error and
kthread_should_stop().
The new function is used in the producer when the check for @test_error
is not enough. It is not used in the consumer because its state
is manipulated by the producer via the "reader_finish" variable.
Also we add a missing check into ring_buffer_producer_thread()
between setting TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE and calling schedule_timeout().
Otherwise, we might miss a wakeup from kthread_stop().
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1441629518-32712-3-git-send-email-pmladek@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
It seems that complete(&read_done) might be called too early
in some situations.
1st scenario:
-------------
CPU0 CPU1
ring_buffer_producer_thread()
wake_up_process(consumer);
wait_for_completion(&read_start);
ring_buffer_consumer_thread()
complete(&read_start);
ring_buffer_producer()
# producing data in
# the do-while cycle
ring_buffer_consumer();
# reading data
# got error
# set kill_test = 1;
set_current_state(
TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
if (reader_finish) # false
schedule();
# producer still in the middle of
# do-while cycle
if (consumer && !(cnt % wakeup_interval))
wake_up_process(consumer);
# spurious wakeup
while (!reader_finish &&
!kill_test)
# leaving because
# kill_test == 1
reader_finish = 0;
complete(&read_done);
1st BANG: We might access uninitialized "read_done" if this is the
the first round.
# producer finally leaving
# the do-while cycle because kill_test == 1;
if (consumer) {
reader_finish = 1;
wake_up_process(consumer);
wait_for_completion(&read_done);
2nd BANG: This will never complete because consumer already did
the completion.
2nd scenario:
-------------
CPU0 CPU1
ring_buffer_producer_thread()
wake_up_process(consumer);
wait_for_completion(&read_start);
ring_buffer_consumer_thread()
complete(&read_start);
ring_buffer_producer()
# CPU3 removes the module <--- difference from
# and stops producer <--- the 1st scenario
if (kthread_should_stop())
kill_test = 1;
ring_buffer_consumer();
while (!reader_finish &&
!kill_test)
# kill_test == 1 => we never go
# into the top level while()
reader_finish = 0;
complete(&read_done);
# producer still in the middle of
# do-while cycle
if (consumer && !(cnt % wakeup_interval))
wake_up_process(consumer);
# spurious wakeup
while (!reader_finish &&
!kill_test)
# leaving because kill_test == 1
reader_finish = 0;
complete(&read_done);
BANG: We are in the same "bang" situations as in the 1st scenario.
Root of the problem:
--------------------
ring_buffer_consumer() must complete "read_done" only when "reader_finish"
variable is set. It must not be skipped due to other conditions.
Note that we still must keep the check for "reader_finish" in a loop
because there might be spurious wakeups as described in the
above scenarios.
Solution:
----------
The top level cycle in ring_buffer_consumer() will finish only when
"reader_finish" is set. The data will be read in "while-do" cycle
so that they are not read after an error (kill_test == 1)
or a spurious wake up.
In addition, "reader_finish" is manipulated by the producer thread.
Therefore we add READ_ONCE() to make sure that the fresh value is
read in each cycle. Also we add the corresponding barrier
to synchronize the sleep check.
Next we set the state back to TASK_RUNNING for the situation where we
did not sleep.
Just from paranoid reasons, we initialize both completions statically.
This is safer, in case there are other races that we are unaware of.
As a side effect we could remove the memory barrier from
ring_buffer_producer_thread(). IMHO, this was the reason for
the barrier. ring_buffer_reset() uses spin locks that should
provide the needed memory barrier for using the buffer.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1441629518-32712-2-git-send-email-pmladek@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Now that max_stack_lock is a global variable, it requires a naming
convention that is unlikely to collide. Rename it to the same naming
convention that the other stack_trace variables have.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
A stack frame may be used in a different way depending on cpu architecture.
Thus it is not always appropriate to slurp the stack contents, as current
check_stack() does, in order to calcurate a stack index (height) at a given
function call. At least not on arm64.
In addition, there is a possibility that we will mistakenly detect a stale
stack frame which has not been overwritten.
This patch makes check_stack() a weak function so as to later implement
arch-specific version.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1446182741-31019-5-git-send-email-takahiro.akashi@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
There's no need to record the time tracepoints take when tracing is off.
This is because:
1) We cannot see these records since ring_buffer record is off at that
moment.
2) If tracing is off and benchmark tracepoint is enabled, the time
tracepoint takes is fewer than the same situation when tracing is on,
since the tracepoints need to be wrote into ring_buffer, it would
take more time. If turn on tracing at this moment, the average and
standard deviation cannot exactly present the time that tracepoints
take to write data into ring_buffer.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1445947933-27955-1-git-send-email-zhang.chunyan@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Chunyan Zhang <zhang.chunyan@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
For the case where pids are already in set_event_pid, and one is added or
removed then each CPU should be checked to make sure that the new or old pid
is on or not on a CPU.
For example:
# echo 123 >> set_event_pid
or
# echo '!123' >> set_event_pid
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20151030061643.GA19480@cac
Suggested-by: Jiaxing Wang <hello.wjx@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
p_start() and p_stop() are seq_file functions that match. Teach sparse to
know that rcu_read_lock_sched() that is taken by p_start() is released by
p_stop.
Reported-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
My tests found that if a task is running but not filtered when set_event_pid
is modified, then it can still be traced.
Call on_each_cpu() to check if the current running task should be filtered
and update the per cpu flags of tr->data appropriately.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add the necessary hooks to use the pids loaded in set_event_pid to filter
all the events enabled in the tracing instance that match the pids listed.
Two probes are added to both sched_switch and sched_wakeup tracepoints to be
called before other probes are called and after the other probes are called.
The first is used to set the necessary flags to let the probes know to test
if they should be traced or not.
The sched_switch pre probe will set the "ignore_pid" flag if neither the
previous or next task has a matching pid.
The sched_switch probe will set the "ignore_pid" flag if the next task
does not match the matching pid.
The pre probe allows for probes tracing sched_switch to be traced if
necessary.
The sched_wakeup pre probe will set the "ignore_pid" flag if neither the
current task nor the wakee task has a matching pid.
The sched_wakeup post probe will set the "ignore_pid" flag if the current
task does not have a matching pid.
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Create a tracing directory called set_event_pid, which currently has no
function, but will be used to filter all events for the tracing instance or
the pids that are added to the file.
The reason no functionality is added with this commit is that this commit
focuses on the creation and removal of the pids in a safe manner. And tests
can be made against this change to make sure things are correct before
hooking features to the list of pids.
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
In order to guarantee that a probe will be called before other probes that
are attached to a tracepoint, there needs to be a mechanism to provide
priority of one probe over the others.
Adding a prio field to the struct tracepoint_func, which lets the probes be
sorted by the priority set in the structure. If no priority is specified,
then a priority of 10 is given (this is a macro, and perhaps may be changed
in the future).
Now probes may be added to affect other probes that are attached to a
tracepoint with a guaranteed order.
One use case would be to allow tracing of tracepoints be able to filter by
pid. A special (higher priority probe) may be added to the sched_switch
tracepoint and set the necessary flags of the other tracepoints to notify
them if they should be traced or not. In case a tracepoint is enabled at the
sched_switch tracepoint too, the order of the two are not random.
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
