While tracing using events with perf, if one enables the
lockdep:lock_acquire event, it will infect every other perf
trace events.
Basically, you can enable whatever set of trace events through
perf but if this event is part of the set, the only result we
can get is a long list of lock_acquire events of rcu read lock,
and only that.
This is because of a recursion inside perf.
1) When a trace event is triggered, it will fill a per cpu
buffer and submit it to perf.
2) Perf will commit this event but will also protect some data
using rcu_read_lock
3) A recursion appears: rcu_read_lock triggers a lock_acquire
event that will fill the per cpu event and then submit the
buffer to perf.
4) Perf detects a recursion and ignores it
5) Perf continues its work on the previous event, but its buffer
has been overwritten by the lock_acquire event, it has then
been turned into a lock_acquire event of rcu read lock
Such scenario also happens with lock_release with
rcu_read_unlock().
We could turn the rcu_read_lock() into __rcu_read_lock() to drop
the lock debugging from perf fast path, but that would make us
lose the rcu debugging and that doesn't prevent from other
possible kind of recursion from perf in the future.
This patch adds a recursion protection based on a counter on the
perf trace per cpu buffers to solve the problem.
-v2: Fixed lost whitespace, added reviewed-by tag
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1257477185-7838-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Conflicts:
tools/perf/Makefile
Merge reason: Resolve the conflict, merge to upstream and merge in
perf fixes so we can add a dependent patch.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
When a command is passed to the set_ftrace_filter, then
the ftrace_regex_lock is still held going back to user space.
# echo 'do_open : foo' > set_ftrace_filter
(still holding ftrace_regex_lock when returning to user space!)
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4AEF7F8A.3080300@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
We got a sudden panic when we reduced the size of the
ringbuffer.
We can reproduce the panic by the following steps:
echo 1 > events/sched/enable
cat trace_pipe > /dev/null &
while ((1))
do
echo 12000 > buffer_size_kb
echo 512 > buffer_size_kb
done
(not more than 5 seconds, panic ...)
Reported-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4AF01735.9060409@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
trace_seq_printf() return value is a little ambiguous. It
currently returns the length of the space available in the
buffer. printf usually returns the amount written. This is not
adequate here, because:
trace_seq_printf(s, "");
is perfectly legal, and returning 0 would indicate that it
failed.
We can always see the amount written by looking at the before
and after values of s->len. This is not quite the same use as
printf. We only care if the string was successfully written to
the buffer or not.
Make trace_seq_printf() return 0 if the trace oversizes the
buffer's free space, 1 otherwise.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091023233646.631787612@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Conflicts:
tools/perf/Makefile
Merge reason:
- fix the conflict
- pick up the pr_*() infrastructure to queue up dependent patch
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Merge reason: to add event filter support we need the following
commits from the tracing tree:
3f6fe06: tracing/filters: Unify the regex parsing helpers
1889d20: tracing/filters: Provide basic regex support
737f453: tracing/filters: Cleanup useless headers
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
set_cmdline_ftrace is a better match against what does this function:
apply a tracer name from the kernel command line.
Reported-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
