Currently, every thing needed to read the binary output from the
ring buffers is available, with the exception of the way the ring
buffers handles itself internally.
This patch creates two special files in the debugfs/tracing/events
directory:
# cat /debug/tracing/events/header_page
field: u64 timestamp; offset:0; size:8;
field: local_t commit; offset:8; size:8;
field: char data; offset:16; size:4080;
# cat /debug/tracing/events/header_event
type : 2 bits
len : 3 bits
time_delta : 27 bits
array : 32 bits
padding : type == 0
time_extend : type == 1
data : type == 3
This is to allow a userspace app to see if the ring buffer format changes
or not.
[ Impact: allow userspace apps to know of ringbuffer format changes ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The hooks in the module code for the function tracer must be called
before any of that module code runs. The function tracer hooks
modify the module (replacing calls to mcount to nops). If the code
is executed while the change occurs, then the CPU can take a GPF.
To handle the above with a bit of paranoia, I originally implemented
the hooks as calls directly from the module code.
After examining the notifier calls, it looks as though the start up
notify is called before any of the module's code is executed. This makes
the use of the notify safe with ftrace.
Only the startup notify is required to be "safe". The shutdown simply
removes the entries from the ftrace function list, and does not modify
any code.
This change has another benefit. It removes a issue with a reverse dependency
in the mutexes of ftrace_lock and module_mutex.
[ Impact: fix lock dependency bug, cleanup ]
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Impact: allow modules to add TRACE_EVENTS on load
This patch adds the final hooks to allow modules to use the TRACE_EVENT
macro. A notifier and a data structure are used to link the TRACE_EVENTs
defined in the module to connect them with the ftrace event tracing system.
It also adds the necessary automated clean ups to the trace events when a
module is removed.
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Impact: makes it possible to define events in modules
The events are created by reading down the section that they are linked
in by the macros. But this is not scalable to modules. This patch converts
the manipulations to use a global link list, and on boot up it adds
the items in the section to the list.
This change will allow modules to add their tracing events to the list as
well.
Note, this change alone does not permit modules to use the TRACE_EVENT macros,
but the change is needed for them to eventually do so.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
In preparation to allowing trace events to happen in modules, we need
to move some of the local declarations in the kernel/trace directory
into include/linux.
This patch simply moves the declarations and performs no context changes.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
In the process to make TRACE_EVENT macro work for modules, the trace_seq
operations must be available for core kernel code.
These operations are quite useful and can be used for other implementations.
The main idea is that we create a trace_seq handle that acts very much
like the seq_file handle.
struct trace_seq *s = kmalloc(sizeof(*s, GFP_KERNEL);
trace_seq_init(s);
trace_seq_printf(s, "some data %d\n", variable);
printk("%s", s->buffer);
The main use is to allow a top level function call several other functions
that may store printf like data into the buffer. Then at the end, the top
level function can process all the data with any method it would like to.
It could be passed to userspace, output via printk or even use seq_file:
trace_seq_to_user(s, ubuf, cnt);
seq_puts(m, s->buffer);
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Impact: clean up
Neil Horman (et. al.) criticized the way the trace events were broken up
into two files. The reason for that was that ftrace needed to separate out
the declarations from where the #include <linux/tracepoint.h> was used.
It then dawned on me that the tracepoint.h header only needs to define the
TRACE_EVENT macro if it is not already defined.
The solution is simply to test if TRACE_EVENT is defined, and if it is not
then the linux/tracepoint.h header can define it. This change consolidates
all the <traces>.h and <traces>_event_types.h into the <traces>.h file.
Reported-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Reported-by: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Reported-by: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com>
Cc: Zhaolei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The ring_buffer_discard_commit is similar to ring_buffer_event_discard
but it can only be done on an event that has yet to be commited.
Unpredictable results can happen otherwise.
The main difference between ring_buffer_discard_commit and
ring_buffer_event_discard is that ring_buffer_discard_commit will try
to free the data in the ring buffer if nothing has addded data
after the reserved event. If something did, then it acts almost the
same as ring_buffer_event_discard followed by a
ring_buffer_unlock_commit.
Note, either ring_buffer_commit_discard and ring_buffer_unlock_commit
can be called on an event, not both.
This commit also exports both discard functions to be usable by
GPL modules.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
tracing/filters: return proper error code when writing filter file
tracing/filters: allow user input integer to be oct or hex
tracing/filters: fix NULL pointer dereference
tracing/filters: NIL-terminate user input filter
ftrace: Output REC->var instead of __entry->var for trace format
Make __stringify support variable argument macros too
tracing: fix document references
tracing: fix splice return too large
tracing: update file->f_pos when splice(2) it
tracing: allocate page when needed
tracing: disable seeking for trace_pipe_raw
* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
lockdep: continue lock debugging despite some taints
lockdep: warn about lockdep disabling after kernel taint
* 'i2c-for-linus' of git://jdelvare.pck.nerim.net/jdelvare-2.6:
i2c: Let new-style drivers implement attach_adapter
i2c: Fix sparse warnings for I2C_BOARD_INFO()
i2c-voodoo3: Deprecate in favor of tdfxfb
i2c-algo-pca: Fix use of uninitialized variable in debug message
When POSIX capabilities were introduced during the 2.1 Linux
cycle, the fs mask, which represents the capabilities which having
fsuid==0 is supposed to grant, did not include CAP_MKNOD and
CAP_LINUX_IMMUTABLE. However, before capabilities the privilege
to call these did in fact depend upon fsuid==0.
This patch introduces those capabilities into the fsmask,
restoring the old behavior.
See the thread starting at http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/3/11/157 for
reference.
Note that if this fix is deemed valid, then earlier kernel versions (2.4
and 2.2) ought to be fixed too.
Changelog:
[Mar 23] Actually delete old CAP_FS_SET definition...
[Mar 20] Updated against J. Bruce Fields's patch
Reported-by: Igor Zhbanov <izh1979@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Cc: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
percpu: unbreak alpha percpu
mutex: have non-spinning mutexes on s390 by default
Since the first argument to I2C_BOARD_INFO() must be a string constant,
there is no need to parenthesise it, and adding parentheses results in
an invalid initialiser for char[]. gcc obviously accepts this syntax as
an extension, but sparse complains, e.g.:
drivers/net/sfc/boards.c:173:2: warning: array initialized from parenthesized string constant
Therefore, remove the parentheses.
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Impact: provide useful missing info for developers
Kernel taint can occur in several situations such as warnings,
load of prorietary or staging modules, bad page, etc...
But when such taint happens, a developer might still be working on
the kernel, expecting that lockdep is still enabled. But a taint
disables lockdep without ever warning about it.
Such a kernel behaviour doesn't really help for kernel development.
This patch adds this missing warning.
Since the taint is done most of the time after the main message that
explain the real source issue, it seems safe to warn about it inside
add_taint() so that it appears at last, without hurting the main
information.
v2: Use a generic helper to disable lockdep instead of an
open coded xchg().
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <1239412638-6739-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: refactor code for future changes
Current kmemtrace.h is used both as header file of kmemtrace and kmem's
tracepoints definition.
Tracepoints' definition file may be used by other code, and should only have
definition of tracepoint.
We can separate include/trace/kmemtrace.h into 2 files:
include/linux/kmemtrace.h: header file for kmemtrace
include/trace/kmem.h: definition of kmem tracepoints
Signed-off-by: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <49DEE68A.5040902@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
For the time being, move the generic percpu_*() accessors to
linux/percpu.h.
asm-generic/percpu.h is meant to carry generic stuff for low level
stuff - declarations, definitions and pointer offset calculation
and so on but not for generic interface.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Merge reason: pick up both v2.6.30-rc1 [which includes tracing/urgent fixes]
and pick up the current lineup of tracing/urgent fixes as well
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bart/ide-2.6: (27 commits)
xsysace: Fix dereferencing of cf_id after hd_driveid removal
at91_ide: turn on PIO 6 support
at91_ide: remove unused ide_mm_{outb,inb}
ide-cd: reverse NOT_READY sense key logic
ide: refactor tf_read() method
ide: refactor tf_load() method
ide: call write_devctl() method from tf_read() method
ide: move common code out of tf_load() method
ide: simplify 'struct ide_taskfile'
ide: replace IDE_TFLAG_* flags by IDE_VALID_*
ide-cd: fix intendation in cdrom_decode_status()
ide-cd: unify handling of fs and pc requests in cdrom_decode_status()
ide-cd: convert cdrom_decode_status() to use switch statements
ide-cd: update debugging support
ide-cd: respect REQ_QUIET for fs requests in cdrom_decode_status()
ide: remove unused #include <linux/version.h>
tx4939ide: Fix tx4939ide_{in,out}put_data_swap argument
tx493[89]ide: Remove big endian version of tx493[89]ide_tf_{load,read}
ide-cd: carve out an ide_cd_breathe()-helper for fs write requests
ide-cd: move status checking into the IRQ handler
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