The trace_array_get_by_name() creates a ftrace instance and
trace_array_put() is used to remove the reference. Even though the
trace_array_get_by_name() creates the instance, it also adds a reference
count to it, that prevents user space from removing it.
As the bootconfig just creates the instance on boot up, it should still be
used where it can be deleted by user space after boot. A trace_array_put()
is required to let that happen.
Also, change the documentation on trace_array_get_by_name() to make this not
be so confusing.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200124205927.76128804@rorschach.local.home
Fixes: 4f712a4d04 ("tracing/boot: Add instance node support")
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add below function-tracer filter options to boot-time tracing.
- ftrace.[instance.INSTANCE.]ftrace.filters
This will take an array of tracing function filter rules
- ftrace.[instance.INSTANCE.]ftrace.notraces
This will take an array of NON-tracing function filter rules
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/157867244841.17873.10933616628243103561.stgit@devnote2
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add synthetic event node support to boot time tracing.
The synthetic event is a kind of event node, but the group
name is "synthetic".
- ftrace.event.synthetic.EVENT.fields = FIELD[, FIELD2...]
Defines new synthetic event with FIELDs. Each field should be
"type varname".
The synthetic node requires "fields" string arraies, which defines
the fields as same as tracing/synth_events interface.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/157867241236.17873.12411615143321557709.stgit@devnote2
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add kprobe event support on event node to boot-time tracing.
If the group name of event is "kprobes", the boot-time tracing
defines new probe event according to "probes" values.
- ftrace.event.kprobes.EVENT.probes = PROBE[, PROBE2...]
Defines new kprobe event based on PROBEs. It is able to define
multiple probes on one event, but those must have same type of
arguments.
For example,
ftrace.events.kprobes.myevent {
probes = "vfs_read $arg1 $arg2";
enable;
}
This will add kprobes:myevent on vfs_read with the 1st and the 2nd
arguments.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/157867240104.17873.9712052065426433111.stgit@devnote2
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add per-event settings for boottime tracing. User can set filter,
actions and enable on each event on boot. The event entries are
under ftrace.event.GROUP.EVENT node (note that the option key
includes event's group name and event name.) This supports below
configs.
- ftrace.event.GROUP.EVENT.enable
Enables GROUP:EVENT tracing.
- ftrace.event.GROUP.EVENT.filter = FILTER
Set FILTER rule to the GROUP:EVENT.
- ftrace.event.GROUP.EVENT.actions = ACTION[, ACTION2...]
Set ACTIONs to the GROUP:EVENT.
For example,
ftrace.event.sched.sched_process_exec {
filter = "pid < 128"
enable
}
this will enable tracing "sched:sched_process_exec" event
with "pid < 128" filter.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/157867238942.17873.11177628789184546198.stgit@devnote2
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Setup tracing options via extra boot config in addition to kernel
command line.
This adds following commands support. These are applied to
the global trace instance.
- ftrace.options = OPT1[,OPT2...]
Enable given ftrace options.
- ftrace.trace_clock = CLOCK
Set given CLOCK to ftrace's trace_clock.
- ftrace.buffer_size = SIZE
Configure ftrace buffer size to SIZE. You can use "KB" or "MB"
for that SIZE.
- ftrace.events = EVENT[, EVENT2...]
Enable given events on boot. You can use a wild card in EVENT.
- ftrace.tracer = TRACER
Set TRACER to current tracer on boot. (e.g. function)
Note that this is NOT replacing the kernel parameters, because
this boot config based setting is later than that. If you want to
trace earlier boot events, you still need kernel parameters.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/157867237723.17873.17494943526320587488.stgit@devnote2
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Now that the pluging tracers use macros to create the structures and
automate the exporting of their formats to the format files, they also
automatically get a filter file.
This patch adds the code to implement the filter logic in the trace
recordings.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The latency tracers (irqsoff and wakeup) can swap trace buffers
on the fly. If an event is happening and has reserved data on one of
the buffers, and the latency tracer swaps the global buffer with the
max buffer, the result is that the event may commit the data to the
wrong buffer.
This patch changes the API to the trace recording to be recieve the
buffer that was used to reserve a commit. Then this buffer can be passed
in to the commit.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The function tracing_reset is deprecated for outside use of trace.c.
The new function to reset the the buffers is tracing_reset_online_cpus.
The reason for this is that resetting the buffers while the event
trace points are active can corrupt the buffers, because they may
be writing at the time of reset. The tracing_reset_online_cpus disables
writes and waits for current writers to finish.
This patch replaces all users of tracing_reset except for the latency
tracers. Those changes require more work and will be removed in the
following patches.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Impact: new API
These new functions do what previously was being open coded, reducing
the number of details ftrace plugin writers have to worry about.
It also standardizes the handling of stacktrace, userstacktrace and
other trace options we may introduce in the future.
With this patch, for instance, the blk tracer (and some others already
in the tree) can use the "userstacktrace" /d/tracing/trace_options
facility.
$ codiff /tmp/vmlinux.before /tmp/vmlinux.after
linux-2.6-tip/kernel/trace/trace.c:
trace_vprintk | -5
trace_graph_return | -22
trace_graph_entry | -26
trace_function | -45
__ftrace_trace_stack | -27
ftrace_trace_userstack | -29
tracing_sched_switch_trace | -66
tracing_stop | +1
trace_seq_to_user | -1
ftrace_trace_special | -63
ftrace_special | +1
tracing_sched_wakeup_trace | -70
tracing_reset_online_cpus | -1
13 functions changed, 2 bytes added, 355 bytes removed, diff: -353
linux-2.6-tip/block/blktrace.c:
__blk_add_trace | -58
1 function changed, 58 bytes removed, diff: -58
linux-2.6-tip/kernel/trace/trace.c:
trace_buffer_lock_reserve | +88
trace_buffer_unlock_commit | +86
2 functions changed, 174 bytes added, diff: +174
/tmp/vmlinux.after:
16 functions changed, 176 bytes added, 413 bytes removed, diff: -237
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Now that we have a working ftrace=<tracer> function, make the boot
tracer get activated by it. This way we can turn it on or off without
recompiling the kernel, as well as keeping the selftests on. The
selftests are disabled whenever a default tracer starts running.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: Reduce future memory usage, use new cpumask API.
Since the last patch was created and acked, more old cpumask users
slipped into kernel/trace.
Mostly trivial conversions, except struct trace_iterator's "started"
member becomes a cpumask_var_t.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Impact: simplify/generalize/refactor trace.c
The trace.c file is becoming more difficult to maintain due to the
growing number of events. There is several formats that an event may
be printed. This patch sets up the infrastructure of an event hash to
allow for events to register how they should be printed.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup
This patch factors out common code from multiple tracers into a
tracing_reset_online_cpus() function and converts the tracers to use it.
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
