Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
- User events are finally ready!
After lots of collaboration between various parties, we finally
locked down on a stable interface for user events that can also work
with user space only tracing.
This is implemented by telling the kernel (or user space library, but
that part is user space only and not part of this patch set), where
the variable is that the application uses to know if something is
listening to the trace.
There's also an interface to tell the kernel about these events,
which will show up in the /sys/kernel/tracing/events/user_events/
directory, where it can be enabled.
When it's enabled, the kernel will update the variable, to tell the
application to start writing to the kernel.
See https://lwn.net/Articles/927595/
- Cleaned up the direct trampolines code to simplify arm64 addition of
direct trampolines.
Direct trampolines use the ftrace interface but instead of jumping to
the ftrace trampoline, applications (mostly BPF) can register their
own trampoline for performance reasons.
- Some updates to the fprobe infrastructure. fprobes are more efficient
than kprobes, as it does not need to save all the registers that
kprobes on ftrace do. More work needs to be done before the fprobes
will be exposed as dynamic events.
- More updates to references to the obsolete path of
/sys/kernel/debug/tracing for the new /sys/kernel/tracing path.
- Add a seq_buf_do_printk() helper to seq_bufs, to print a large buffer
line by line instead of all at once.
There are users in production kernels that have a large data dump
that originally used printk() directly, but the data dump was larger
than what printk() allowed as a single print.
Using seq_buf() to do the printing fixes that.
- Add /sys/kernel/tracing/touched_functions that shows all functions
that was every traced by ftrace or a direct trampoline. This is used
for debugging issues where a traced function could have caused a
crash by a bpf program or live patching.
- Add a "fields" option that is similar to "raw" but outputs the fields
of the events. It's easier to read by humans.
- Some minor fixes and clean ups.
* tag 'trace-v6.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: (41 commits)
ring-buffer: Sync IRQ works before buffer destruction
tracing: Add missing spaces in trace_print_hex_seq()
ring-buffer: Ensure proper resetting of atomic variables in ring_buffer_reset_online_cpus
recordmcount: Fix memory leaks in the uwrite function
tracing/user_events: Limit max fault-in attempts
tracing/user_events: Prevent same address and bit per process
tracing/user_events: Ensure bit is cleared on unregister
tracing/user_events: Ensure write index cannot be negative
seq_buf: Add seq_buf_do_printk() helper
tracing: Fix print_fields() for __dyn_loc/__rel_loc
tracing/user_events: Set event filter_type from type
ring-buffer: Clearly check null ptr returned by rb_set_head_page()
tracing: Unbreak user events
tracing/user_events: Use print_format_fields() for trace output
tracing/user_events: Align structs with tabs for readability
tracing/user_events: Limit global user_event count
tracing/user_events: Charge event allocs to cgroups
tracing/user_events: Update documentation for ABI
tracing/user_events: Use write ABI in example
tracing/user_events: Add ABI self-test
...
The kernel command line ftrace_boot_snapshot by itself is supposed to
trigger a snapshot at the end of boot up of the main top level trace
buffer. A ftrace_boot_snapshot=foo will do the same for an instance called
foo that was created by trace_instance=foo,...
The logic was broken where if ftrace_boot_snapshot was by itself, it would
trigger a snapshot for all instances that had tracing enabled, regardless
if it asked for a snapshot or not.
When a snapshot is requested for a buffer, the buffer's
tr->allocated_snapshot is set to true. Use that to know if a trace buffer
wants a snapshot at boot up or not.
Since the top level buffer is part of the ftrace_trace_arrays list,
there's no reason to treat it differently than the other buffers. Just
iterate the list if ftrace_boot_snapshot was specified.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230405022341.895334039@goodmis.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ross Zwisler <zwisler@google.com>
Fixes: 9c1c251d67 ("tracing: Allow boot instances to have snapshot buffers")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Pull tracing fixes from Steven Rostedt:
- Fix setting affinity of hwlat threads in containers
Using sched_set_affinity() has unwanted side effects when being
called within a container. Use set_cpus_allowed_ptr() instead
- Fix per cpu thread management of the hwlat tracer:
- Do not start per_cpu threads if one is already running for the CPU
- When starting per_cpu threads, do not clear the kthread variable
as it may already be set to running per cpu threads
- Fix return value for test_gen_kprobe_cmd()
On error the return value was overwritten by being set to the result
of the call from kprobe_event_delete(), which would likely succeed,
and thus have the function return success
- Fix splice() reads from the trace file that was broken by commit
36e2c7421f ("fs: don't allow splice read/write without explicit
ops")
- Remove obsolete and confusing comment in ring_buffer.c
The original design of the ring buffer used struct page flags for
tricks to optimize, which was shortly removed due to them being
tricks. But a comment for those tricks remained
- Set local functions and variables to static
* tag 'trace-v6.3-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
tracing/hwlat: Replace sched_setaffinity with set_cpus_allowed_ptr
ring-buffer: remove obsolete comment for free_buffer_page()
tracing: Make splice_read available again
ftrace: Set direct_ops storage-class-specifier to static
trace/hwlat: Do not start per-cpu thread if it is already running
trace/hwlat: Do not wipe the contents of per-cpu thread data
tracing/osnoise: set several trace_osnoise.c variables storage-class-specifier to static
tracing: Fix wrong return in kprobe_event_gen_test.c
Since the commit 36e2c7421f ("fs: don't allow splice read/write
without explicit ops") is applied to the kernel, splice() and
sendfile() calls on the trace file (/sys/kernel/debug/tracing
/trace) return EINVAL.
This patch restores these system calls by initializing splice_read
in file_operations of the trace file. This patch only enables such
functionalities for the read case.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230314013707.28814-1-sfoon.kim@samsung.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 36e2c7421f ("fs: don't allow splice read/write without explicit ops")
Signed-off-by: Sung-hun Kim <sfoon.kim@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Pull kprobes updates from Masami Hiramatsu:
- Skip negative return code check for snprintf in eprobe
- Add recursive call test cases for kprobe unit test
- Add 'char' type to probe events to show it as the character instead
of value
- Update kselftest kprobe-event testcase to ignore '__pfx_' symbols
- Fix kselftest to check filter on eprobe event correctly
- Add filter on eprobe to the README file in tracefs
- Fix optprobes to check whether there is 'under unoptimizing' optprobe
when optimizing another kprobe correctly
- Fix optprobe to check whether there is 'under unoptimizing' optprobe
when fetching the original instruction correctly
- Fix optprobe to free 'forcibly unoptimized' optprobe correctly
* tag 'probes-v6.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
tracing/eprobe: no need to check for negative ret value for snprintf
test_kprobes: Add recursed kprobe test case
tracing/probe: add a char type to show the character value of traced arguments
selftests/ftrace: Fix probepoint testcase to ignore __pfx_* symbols
selftests/ftrace: Fix eprobe syntax test case to check filter support
tracing/eprobe: Fix to add filter on eprobe description in README file
x86/kprobes: Fix arch_check_optimized_kprobe check within optimized_kprobe range
x86/kprobes: Fix __recover_optprobed_insn check optimizing logic
kprobes: Fix to handle forcibly unoptimized kprobes on freeing_list
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
- Add function names as a way to filter function addresses
- Add sample module to test ftrace ops and dynamic trampolines
- Allow stack traces to be passed from beginning event to end event for
synthetic events. This will allow seeing the stack trace of when a
task is scheduled out and recorded when it gets scheduled back in.
- Add trace event helper __get_buf() to use as a temporary buffer when
printing out trace event output.
- Add kernel command line to create trace instances on boot up.
- Add enabling of events to instances created at boot up.
- Add trace_array_puts() to write into instances.
- Allow boot instances to take a snapshot at the end of boot up.
- Allow live patch modules to include trace events
- Minor fixes and clean ups
* tag 'trace-v6.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: (31 commits)
tracing: Remove unnecessary NULL assignment
tracepoint: Allow livepatch module add trace event
tracing: Always use canonical ftrace path
tracing/histogram: Fix stacktrace histogram Documententation
tracing/histogram: Fix stacktrace key
tracing/histogram: Fix a few problems with stacktrace variable printing
tracing: Add BUILD_BUG() to make sure stacktrace fits in strings
tracing/histogram: Don't use strlen to find length of stacktrace variables
tracing: Allow boot instances to have snapshot buffers
tracing: Add trace_array_puts() to write into instance
tracing: Add enabling of events to boot instances
tracing: Add creation of instances at boot command line
tracing: Fix trace_event_raw_event_synth() if else statement
samples: ftrace: Make some global variables static
ftrace: sample: avoid open-coded 64-bit division
samples: ftrace: Include the nospec-branch.h only for x86
tracing: Acquire buffer from temparary trace sequence
tracing/histogram: Wrap remaining shell snippets in code blocks
tracing/osnoise: No need for schedule_hrtimeout range
bpf/tracing: Use stage6 of tracing to not duplicate macros
...
Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
- Improve the scalability of the CFS bandwidth unthrottling logic with
large number of CPUs.
- Fix & rework various cpuidle routines, simplify interaction with the
generic scheduler code. Add __cpuidle methods as noinstr to objtool's
noinstr detection and fix boatloads of cpuidle bugs & quirks.
- Add new ABI: introduce MEMBARRIER_CMD_GET_REGISTRATIONS, to query
previously issued registrations.
- Limit scheduler slice duration to the sysctl_sched_latency period, to
improve scheduling granularity with a large number of SCHED_IDLE
tasks.
- Debuggability enhancement on sys_exit(): warn about disabled IRQs,
but also enable them to prevent a cascade of followup problems and
repeat warnings.
- Fix the rescheduling logic in prio_changed_dl().
- Micro-optimize cpufreq and sched-util methods.
- Micro-optimize ttwu_runnable()
- Micro-optimize the idle-scanning in update_numa_stats(),
select_idle_capacity() and steal_cookie_task().
- Update the RSEQ code & self-tests
- Constify various scheduler methods
- Remove unused methods
- Refine __init tags
- Documentation updates
- Misc other cleanups, fixes
* tag 'sched-core-2023-02-20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (110 commits)
sched/rt: pick_next_rt_entity(): check list_entry
sched/deadline: Add more reschedule cases to prio_changed_dl()
sched/fair: sanitize vruntime of entity being placed
sched/fair: Remove capacity inversion detection
sched/fair: unlink misfit task from cpu overutilized
objtool: mem*() are not uaccess safe
cpuidle: Fix poll_idle() noinstr annotation
sched/clock: Make local_clock() noinstr
sched/clock/x86: Mark sched_clock() noinstr
x86/pvclock: Improve atomic update of last_value in pvclock_clocksource_read()
x86/atomics: Always inline arch_atomic64*()
cpuidle: tracing, preempt: Squash _rcuidle tracing
cpuidle: tracing: Warn about !rcu_is_watching()
cpuidle: lib/bug: Disable rcu_is_watching() during WARN/BUG
cpuidle: drivers: firmware: psci: Dont instrument suspend code
KVM: selftests: Fix build of rseq test
exit: Detect and fix irq disabled state in oops
cpuidle, arm64: Fix the ARM64 cpuidle logic
cpuidle: mvebu: Fix duplicate flags assignment
sched/fair: Limit sched slice duration
...
There are scenes that we want to show the character value of traced
arguments other than a decimal or hexadecimal or string value for debug
convinience. I add a new type named 'char' to do it and a new test case
file named 'kprobe_args_char.tc' to do selftest for char type.
For example:
The to be traced function is 'void demo_func(char type, char *name);', we
can add a kprobe event as follows to show argument values as we want:
echo 'p:myprobe demo_func $arg1:char +0($arg2):char[5]' > kprobe_events
we will get the following trace log:
... myprobe: (demo_func+0x0/0x29) arg1='A' arg2={'b','p','f','1',''}
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20221219110613.367098-1-dolinux.peng@gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Donglin Peng <dolinux.peng@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
The canonical location for the tracefs filesystem is at /sys/kernel/tracing.
But, from Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst:
Before 4.1, all ftrace tracing control files were within the debugfs
file system, which is typically located at /sys/kernel/debug/tracing.
For backward compatibility, when mounting the debugfs file system,
the tracefs file system will be automatically mounted at:
/sys/kernel/debug/tracing
Many comments and Kconfig help messages in the tracing code still refer
to this older debugfs path, so let's update them to avoid confusion.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230215223350.2658616-2-zwisler@google.com
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Mukesh Ojha <quic_mojha@quicinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <zwisler@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
poll() and select() on per_cpu trace_pipe and trace_pipe_raw do not work
since kernel 6.1-rc6. This issue is seen after the commit
42fb0a1e84 ("tracing/ring-buffer: Have
polling block on watermark").
This issue is firstly detected and reported, when testing the CXL error
events in the rasdaemon and also erified using the test application for poll()
and select().
This issue occurs for the per_cpu case, when calling the ring_buffer_poll_wait(),
in kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c, with the buffer_percent > 0 and then wait until the
percentage of pages are available. The default value set for the buffer_percent is 50
in the kernel/trace/trace.c.
As a fix, allow userspace application could set buffer_percent as 0 through
the buffer_percent_fops, so that the task will wake up as soon as data is added
to any of the specific cpu buffer.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230202182309.742-2-shiju.jose@huawei.com
Cc: <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: <mchehab@kernel.org>
Cc: <linux-edac@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 42fb0a1e84 ("tracing/ring-buffer: Have polling block on watermark")
Signed-off-by: Shiju Jose <shiju.jose@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Currently trace_printk() can be used as soon as early_trace_init() is
called from start_kernel(). But if a crash happens, and
"ftrace_dump_on_oops" is set on the kernel command line, all you get will
be:
[ 0.456075] <idle>-0 0dN.2. 347519us : Unknown type 6
[ 0.456075] <idle>-0 0dN.2. 353141us : Unknown type 6
[ 0.456075] <idle>-0 0dN.2. 358684us : Unknown type 6
This is because the trace_printk() event (type 6) hasn't been registered
yet. That gets done via an early_initcall(), which may be early, but not
early enough.
Instead of registering the trace_printk() event (and other ftrace events,
which are not trace events) via an early_initcall(), have them registered at
the same time that trace_printk() can be used. This way, if there is a
crash before early_initcall(), then the trace_printk()s will actually be
useful.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230104161412.019f6c55@gandalf.local.home
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Fixes: e725c731e3 ("tracing: Split tracing initialization into two for early initialization")
Reported-by: "Joel Fernandes (Google)" <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Tested-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Pull trace probes updates from Steven Rostedt:
- New "symstr" type for dynamic events that writes the name of the
function+offset into the ring buffer and not just the address
- Prevent kernel symbol processing on addresses in user space probes
(uprobes).
- And minor fixes and clean ups
* tag 'trace-probes-v6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
tracing/probes: Reject symbol/symstr type for uprobe
tracing/probes: Add symstr type for dynamic events
kprobes: kretprobe events missing on 2-core KVM guest
kprobes: Fix check for probe enabled in kill_kprobe()
test_kprobes: Fix implicit declaration error of test_kprobes
tracing: Fix race where eprobes can be called before the event
Add 'symstr' type for storing the kernel symbol as a string data
instead of the symbol address. This allows us to filter the
events by wildcard symbol name.
e.g.
# echo 'e:wqfunc workqueue.workqueue_execute_start symname=$function:symstr' >> dynamic_events
# cat events/eprobes/wqfunc/format
name: wqfunc
ID: 2110
format:
field:unsigned short common_type; offset:0; size:2; signed:0;
field:unsigned char common_flags; offset:2; size:1; signed:0;
field:unsigned char common_preempt_count; offset:3; size:1; signed:0;
field:int common_pid; offset:4; size:4; signed:1;
field:__data_loc char[] symname; offset:8; size:4; signed:1;
print fmt: " symname=\"%s\"", __get_str(symname)
Note that there is already 'symbol' type which just change the
print format (so it still stores the symbol address in the tracing
ring buffer.) On the other hand, 'symstr' type stores the actual
"symbol+offset/size" data as a string.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/166679930847.1528100.4124308529180235965.stgit@devnote3/
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Currently the tracing dump_on_oops feature is implemented through
separate notifiers, one for die/oops and the other for panic;
given they have the same functionality, let's unify them.
Also improve the function comment and change the priority of the
notifier to make it execute earlier, avoiding showing useless trace
data (like the callback names for the other notifiers); finally,
we also removed an unnecessary header inclusion.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220819221731.480795-7-gpiccoli@igalia.com
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@igalia.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
