The function probe counting for traceon and traceoff suffered a race
condition where if the probe was executing on two or more CPUs at the
same time, it could decrement the counter by more than one when
disabling (or enabling) the tracer only once.
The way the traceon and traceoff probes are suppose to work is that
they disable (or enable) tracing once per count. If a user were to
echo 'schedule:traceoff:3' into set_ftrace_filter, then when the
schedule function was called, it would disable tracing. But the count
should only be decremented once (to 2). Then if the user enabled tracing
again (via tracing_on file), the next call to schedule would disable
tracing again and the count would be decremented to 1.
But if multiple CPUS called schedule at the same time, it is possible
that the count would be decremented more than once because of the
simple "count--" used.
By reading the count into a local variable and using memory barriers
we can guarantee that the count would only be decremented once per
disable (or enable).
The stack trace probe had a similar race, but here the stack trace will
decrement for each time it is called. But this had the read-modify-
write race, where it could stack trace more than the number of times
that was specified. This case we use a cmpxchg to stack trace only the
number of times specified.
The dump probes can still use the old "update_count()" function as
they only run once, and that is controlled by the dump logic
itself.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141118134643.4b550ee4@gandalf.local.home
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Using seq_printf to print a simple string or a single character is a
lot more expensive than it needs to be, since seq_puts and seq_putc
exist.
These patches do
seq_printf(m, s) -> seq_puts(m, s)
seq_printf(m, "%s", s) -> seq_puts(m, s)
seq_printf(m, "%c", c) -> seq_putc(m, c)
Subsequent patches will simplify further.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1415479332-25944-2-git-send-email-linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk
Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Now that the ring buffer has a built in way to wake up readers
when there's data, using irq_work such that it is safe to do it
in any context. But it was still using the old "poor man's"
wait polling that checks every 1/10 of a second to see if it
should wake up a waiter. This makes the latency for a wake up
excruciatingly long. No need to do that anymore.
Completely remove the different wait_poll types from the tracers
and have them all use the default one now.
Reported-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Instead of having a list of global functions that are called,
as only one global function is allow to be enabled at a time, there's
no reason to have a list.
Instead, simply have all the users of the global ops, use the global ops
directly, instead of registering their own ftrace_ops. Just switch what
function is used before enabling the function tracer.
This removes a lot of code as well as the complexity involved with it.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
With the restructing of the function tracer working with instances, the
"top level" buffer is a bit special, as the function tracing is mapped
to the same set of filters. This is done by using a "global_ops" descriptor
and having the "set_ftrace_filter" and "set_ftrace_notrace" map to it.
When an instance is created, it creates the same files but its for the
local instance and not the global_ops.
The issues is that the local instance creation shares some code with
the global instance one and we end up trying to create th top level
"set_ftrace_*" files twice, and on boot up, we get an error like this:
Could not create debugfs 'set_ftrace_filter' entry
Could not create debugfs 'set_ftrace_notrace' entry
The reason they failed to be created was because they were created
twice, and the second time gives this error as you can not create the
same file twice.
Reported-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Create a "set_ftrace_filter" and "set_ftrace_notrace" files in the instance
directories to let users filter of functions to trace for the given instance.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Allow instances (sub-buffers) to enable function tracing.
Each instance will have its own function tracing capability.
For now, instances will not have function stack tracing, or will
they be able to pick and choose what functions they can trace.
Picking and choosing their own functions will come later.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
As options (flags) may affect instances instead of being global
the set_flag() callbacks need to receive the trace_array descriptor
of the instance they will be modifying.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The selftest for function and function graph tracers are defined as
__init, as they are only executed at boot up. The "tracer" structs
that are associated to those tracers are not setup as __init as they
are used after boot. To stop mismatch warnings, those structures
need to be annotated with __ref_data.
Currently, the tracer structures are defined to __read_mostly, as they
do not really change. But in the future they should be converted to
consts, but that will take a little work because they have a "next"
pointer that gets updated when they are registered. That will have to
wait till the next major release.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1373596735.17876.84.camel@gandalf.local.home
Reported-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Reported-by: Chen Gang <gang.chen@asianux.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add the "cpudump" command to have the current CPU ftrace buffer dumped
to console if a function is hit. This is useful when debugging a
tripple fault, where you have an idea of a function that is called
just before the tripple fault occurs, and can tell ftrace to dump its
content out to the console before it continues.
This differs from the "dump" command as it only dumps the content of
the ring buffer for the currently executing CPU, and does not show
the contents of the other CPUs.
Format is:
<function>:cpudump
echo 'bad_address:cpudump' > /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter
To remove this:
echo '!bad_address:cpudump' > /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add the "dump" command to have the ftrace buffer dumped to console if
a function is hit. This is useful when debugging a tripple fault,
where you have an idea of a function that is called just before the
tripple fault occurs, and can tell ftrace to dump its content out
to the console before it continues.
Format is:
<function>:dump
echo 'bad_address:dump' > /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter
To remove this:
echo '!bad_address:dump' > /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter
Requested-by: Luis Claudio R. Goncalves <lclaudio@uudg.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The function tracing probes that trigger traceon or traceoff can be
set to unlimited, or given a count of # of times to execute.
By separating these two types of probes, we can then use the dynamic
ftrace function filtering directly, and remove the brute force
"check if this function called is my probe" routines in ftrace.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The only thing ftrace_trace_onoff_unreg() does is to do a strcmp()
against the cmd parameter to determine what op to unregister. But
this compare is also done after the location that this function is
called (and returns). By moving the check for '!' to unregister after
the strcmp(), the callback function itself can just do the unregister
and we can get rid of the helper function.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Remove some duplicate code and replace it with a helper function.
This makes the code a it cleaner.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Currently, the way the latency tracers and snapshot feature works
is to have a separate trace_array called "max_tr" that holds the
snapshot buffer. For latency tracers, this snapshot buffer is used
to swap the running buffer with this buffer to save the current max
latency.
The only items needed for the max_tr is really just a copy of the buffer
itself, the per_cpu data pointers, the time_start timestamp that states
when the max latency was triggered, and the cpu that the max latency
was triggered on. All other fields in trace_array are unused by the
max_tr, making the max_tr mostly bloat.
This change removes the max_tr completely, and adds a new structure
called trace_buffer, that holds the buffer pointer, the per_cpu data
pointers, the time_start timestamp, and the cpu where the latency occurred.
The trace_array, now has two trace_buffers, one for the normal trace and
one for the max trace or snapshot. By doing this, not only do we remove
the bloat from the max_trace but the instances of traces can now use
their own snapshot feature and not have just the top level global_trace have
the snapshot feature and latency tracers for itself.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The global and max-tr currently use static per_cpu arrays for the CPU data
descriptors. But in order to get new allocated trace_arrays, they need to
be allocated per_cpu arrays. Instead of using the static arrays, switch
the global and max-tr to use allocated data.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Dan's smatch found a compare bug with the result of the
trace_test_and_set_recursion() and comparing to less than
zero. If the function fails, it returns -1, but was saved in
an unsigned int, which will never be less than zero and will
ignore the result of the test if a recursion did happen.
Luckily this is the last of the recursion tests, as the
infrastructure of ftrace would catch recursions before it
got here, except for some few exceptions.
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The function tracer had two different versions of function tracing.
The disabling of irqs version and the preempt disable version.
As function tracing in very intrusive and can cause nasty recursion
issues, it has its own recursion protection. But the old method to
do this was a flat layer. If it detected that a recursion was happening
then it would just return without recording.
This made the preempt version (much faster than the irq disabling one)
not very useful, because if an interrupt were to occur after the
recursion flag was set, the interrupt would not be traced at all,
because every function that was traced would think it recursed on
itself (due to the context it preempted setting the recursive flag).
Now that we have a recursion flag for every context level, we
no longer need to worry about that. We can disable preemption,
set the current context recursion check bit, and go on. If an
interrupt were to come along, it would check its own context bit
and happily continue to trace.
As the preempt version is faster than the irq disable version,
there's no more reason to keep the preempt version around.
And the irq disable version still had an issue with missing
out on tracing NMI code.
Remove the irq disable function tracer version and have the
preempt disable version be the default (and only version).
Before this patch we had from running:
# echo function > /debug/tracing/current_tracer
# for i in `seq 10`; do ./hackbench 50; done
Time: 12.028
Time: 11.945
Time: 11.925
Time: 11.964
Time: 12.002
Time: 11.910
Time: 11.944
Time: 11.929
Time: 11.941
Time: 11.924
(average: 11.9512)
Now we have:
# echo function > /debug/tracing/current_tracer
# for i in `seq 10`; do ./hackbench 50; done
Time: 10.285
Time: 10.407
Time: 10.243
Time: 10.372
Time: 10.380
Time: 10.198
Time: 10.272
Time: 10.354
Time: 10.248
Time: 10.253
(average: 10.3012)
a 13.8% savings!
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Pull trivial branch from Jiri Kosina:
"Usual stuff -- comment/printk typo fixes, documentation updates, dead
code elimination."
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (39 commits)
HOWTO: fix double words typo
x86 mtrr: fix comment typo in mtrr_bp_init
propagate name change to comments in kernel source
doc: Update the name of profiling based on sysfs
treewide: Fix typos in various drivers
treewide: Fix typos in various Kconfig
wireless: mwifiex: Fix typo in wireless/mwifiex driver
messages: i2o: Fix typo in messages/i2o
scripts/kernel-doc: check that non-void fcts describe their return value
Kernel-doc: Convention: Use a "Return" section to describe return values
radeon: Fix typo and copy/paste error in comments
doc: Remove unnecessary declarations from Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c
various: Fix spelling of "asynchronous" in comments.
Fix misspellings of "whether" in comments.
eisa: Fix spelling of "asynchronous".
various: Fix spelling of "registered" in comments.
doc: fix quite a few typos within Documentation
target: iscsi: fix comment typos in target/iscsi drivers
treewide: fix typo of "suport" in various comments and Kconfig
treewide: fix typo of "suppport" in various comments
...
I've legally changed my name with New York State, the US Social Security
Administration, et al. This patch propagates the name change and change
in initials and login to comments in the kernel source as well.
Signed-off-by: Nadia Yvette Chambers <nyc@holomorphy.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
There's times during debugging that it is helpful to see traces of early
boot functions. But the tracers are initialized at device_initcall()
which is quite late during the boot process. Setting the kernel command
line parameter ftrace=function will not show anything until the function
tracer is initialized. This prevents being able to trace functions before
device_initcall().
There's no reason that the tracers need to be initialized so late in the
boot process. Move them up to core_initcall() as they still need to come
after early_initcall() which initializes the tracing buffers.
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Pull pstore changes from Anton Vorontsov:
1) We no longer ad-hoc to the function tracer "high level"
infrastructure and no longer use its debugfs knobs. The change
slightly touches kernel/trace directory, but it got the needed ack
from Steven Rostedt:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2012/8/21/688
2) Added maintainers entry;
3) A bunch of fixes, nothing special.
* tag 'for-v3.7' of git://git.infradead.org/users/cbou/linux-pstore:
pstore: Avoid recursive spinlocks in the oops_in_progress case
pstore/ftrace: Convert to its own enable/disable debugfs knob
pstore/ram: Add missing platform_device_unregister
MAINTAINERS: Add pstore maintainers
pstore/ram: Mark ramoops_pstore_write_buf() as notrace
pstore/ram: Fix printk format warning
pstore/ram: Fix possible NULL dereference
