Move -t, --trace from common_options.rst to
common_osnoise_options.rst and
common_timerlat_options.rst
so that it will appear in the man pages
rtla-timerlat-hist.1
rtla-timerlat-top.1
rtla-osnoise-hist.1
rtla-osnoise-top.1
Remove the equals ('=') sign and add a space.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240516143121.12614-1-jkacur@redhat.com
Cc: Daniel Bristot de Oliveria <bristot@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org>
Add the option allow the users to set a different buffer size for the
trace. For example, in large systems, the user might be interested on
reducing the trace buffer to avoid large tracing files.
The buffer size is specified in kB, and it is only affecting
the tracing instance.
The function trace_set_buffer_size() appears on libtracefs v1.6,
so increase the minimum required version on Makefile.config.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/e7c9ca5b3865f28e131a49ec3b984fadf2d056c6.1715860611.git.bristot@kernel.org
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org>
The timerlat tracer provides an interface for any application to wait
for the timerlat's periodic wakeup. Currently, rtla timerlat uses it
to dispatch its user-space workload (-u option).
But as the tracer interface is generic, rtla timerlat can also be used
to monitor any workload that uses it. For example, a user might
place their own workload to wait on the tracer interface, and
monitor the results with rtla timerlat.
Add the -U option to rtla timerlat top and hist. With this option, rtla
timerlat will not dispatch its workload but only setting up the
system, waiting for a user to dispatch its workload.
The sample code in this patch is an example of python application
that loops in the timerlat tracer fd.
To use it, dispatch:
# rtla timerlat -U
In a terminal, then run the python program on another terminal,
specifying the CPU to run it. For example, setting on CPU 1:
#./timerlat_load.py 1
Then rtla timerlat will start printing the statistics of the
./timerlat_load.py app.
An interesting point is that the "Ret user Timer Latency" value
is the overall response time of the load. The sample load does
a memory copy to exemplify that.
The stop tracing options on rtla timerlat works in this setup
as well, including auto analysis.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/36e6bcf18fe15c7601048fd4c65aeb193c502cc8.1707229706.git.bristot@kernel.org
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org>
The following error message is reported when running the example in document.
# timerlat hist -d 10m -c 0-4 -P d:100us:1ms -p 1ms --no-aa
Failed to set timerlat period
Could not apply config
The unit of the period is microsecond, '1ms' cannot be accepted.
usage: [rtla] timerlat hist [-h] [-q] [-d s] [-D] [-n] [-a us] [-p us] [-i us] [-T us] [-s us] ...
...
-p/--period us: timerlat period in us
...
Also fix another minor missleading comment.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230919133028.697144-1-xiexiuqi@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Xie XiuQi <xiexiuqi@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org>
Parsing and formating timerlat data might consume a reasonable
amount of CPU time on very large systems, or when timerlat
has a too short period.
Add an option to run timerlat with auto-analysis enabled while
skipping the statistics parsing. In this mode, rtla timerlat
periodically checks if the tracing is on, going to sleep waiting
for the stop tracing condition to stop tracing, or for the
tracing session to finish.
If the stop tracing condition is hit, the tool prints the auto
analysis. Otherwise, the tool prints the max observed latency and
exit. The max observed latency is captured via tracing_max_latency.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-devel/4dc514d1d5dc353c537a466a9b5af44c266b6da2.1680106912.git.bristot@kernel.org
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Pull documentation fixes from Jonathan Corbet:
"A handful of relatively simple documentation fixes, plus a set of
patches catching the Chinese translation up with the front-page
rework"
* tag 'docs-6.1-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux:
Documentation: rtla: Correct command line example
docs/zh_CN: add a man-pages link to zh_CN/index.rst
docs/zh_CN: Rewrite the Chinese translation front page
docs/zh_CN: add zh_CN/arch.rst
docs/zh_CN: promote the title of zh_CN/process/index.rst
docs/zh_CN: Update the translation of page_owner to 6.0-rc7
docs/zh_CN: Update the translation of ksm to 6.0-rc7
docs/howto: Replace abundoned URL of gmane.org
Documentation: ubifs: Fix compression idiom
Documentation/mm/page_owner.rst: delete frequently changing experimental data
docs/zh_CN: Fix build warning
docs: ftrace: Correct access mode
Pull tracing tool updates from Steven Rostedt:
- Various clean ups and fixes to rtla (Real Time Linux Analysis)
* tag 'trace-tools-v5.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
rtla: Remove procps-ng dependency
rtla: Fix __set_sched_attr error message
rtla: Minor grammar fix for rtla README
rtla: Don't overwrite existing directory mode
rtla: Avoid record NULL pointer dereference
rtla/Makefile: Properly handle dependencies
Correct lkml@vger to linux-kernel@vger.
Add linux-trace-devel since that is what is in the MAINTAINERS file.
Fixes: d40d48e1f1 ("rtla: Add Documentation")
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Pull RTLA tracing tool updates from Steven Rostedt:
"Real Time Analysis Tool updatesfor 5.18:
- Support for adjusting tracing_threashold
- Add -a (auto) option to make it easier for users to debug in the field
- Add -e option to add more events to the trace
- Add --trigger option to add triggers to events
- Add --filter option to filter events
- Add support to save histograms to the file
- Add --dma-latency to set /dev/cpu_dma_latency
- Other fixes and cleanups"
* tag 'trace-rtla-v5.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
rtla: Tools main loop cleanup
rtla/timerlat: Add --dma-latency option
rtla/osnoise: Fix osnoise hist stop tracing message
rtla: Check for trace off also in the trace instance
rtla/trace: Save event histogram output to a file
rtla: Add --filter support
rtla/trace: Add trace event filter helpers
rtla: Add --trigger support
rtla/trace: Add trace event trigger helpers
rtla: Add -e/--event support
rtla/trace: Add trace events helpers
rtla/timerlat: Add the automatic trace option
rtla/osnoise: Add the automatic trace option
rtla/osnoise: Add an option to set the threshold
rtla/osnoise: Add support to adjust the tracing_thresh
