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Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) 2a6c24afab tracing: Fix race between deleting buffer and setting events
While analyzing the code, I discovered that there's a potential race between
deleting a trace instance and setting events. There are a few races that can
occur if events are being traced as the buffer is being deleted. Mostly the
problem comes with freeing the descriptor used by the trace event callback.
To prevent problems like this, the events are disabled before the buffer is
deleted. The problem with the current solution is that the event_mutex is let
go between disabling the events and freeing the files, which means that the events
could be enabled again while the freeing takes place.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.10
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-07-02 20:42:25 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) 8e2e2fa471 tracing: Add trace_array_get/put() to event handling
Commit a695cb5816 "tracing: Prevent deleting instances when they are being read"
tried to fix a race between deleting a trace instance and reading contents
of a trace file. But it wasn't good enough. The following could crash the kernel:

 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/instances
 # ( while :; do mkdir foo; rmdir foo; done ) &
 # ( while :; do echo 1 > foo/events/sched/sched_switch 2> /dev/null; done ) &

Luckily this can only be done by root user, but it should be fixed regardless.

The problem is that a delete of the file can happen after the write to the event
is opened, but before the enabling happens.

The solution is to make sure the trace_array is available before succeeding in
opening for write, and incerment the ref counter while opened.

Now the instance can be deleted when the events are writing to the buffer,
but the deletion of the instance will disable all events before the instance
is actually deleted.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.10
Reported-by: Alexander Lam <azl@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-07-02 17:13:34 -04:00
Alexander Z Lam a82274151a tracing: Protect ftrace_trace_arrays list in trace_events.c
There are multiple places where the ftrace_trace_arrays list is accessed in
trace_events.c without the trace_types_lock held.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1372732674-22726-1-git-send-email-azl@google.com

Cc: Vaibhav Nagarnaik <vnagarnaik@google.com>
Cc: David Sharp <dhsharp@google.com>
Cc: Alexander Z Lam <lambchop468@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.10
Signed-off-by: Alexander Z Lam <azl@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-07-01 23:30:08 -04:00
Tom Zanussi 3baa5e4cf2 tracing: Fix disabling of soft disable
The comment on the soft disable 'disable' case of
__ftrace_event_enable_disable() states that the soft disable bit
should be cleared in that case, but currently only the soft mode bit
is actually cleared.

This essentially leaves the standard non-soft-enable enable/disable
paths as the only way to clear the soft disable flag, but the soft
disable bit should also be cleared when removing a trigger with '!'.

Also, the SOFT_DISABLED bit should never be set if SOFT_MODE is
cleared.

This fixes the above discrepancies.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/b9c68dd50bc07019e6c67d3f9b29be4ef1b2badb.1372479499.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-07-01 20:34:26 -04:00
Tom Zanussi a439059610 tracing: Simplify code for showing of soft disabled flag
Rather than enumerating each permutation, build the enable state
string up from the combination of states.  This also allows for the
simpler addition of more states.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/9aff5af6dee2f5a40ca30df41c39d5f33e998d7a.1372479499.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-07-01 20:34:25 -04:00
Steven Rostedt 6e94a78037 tracing: Failed to create system directory
Running the following:

 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing
 # echo p:i do_sys_open > kprobe_events
 # echo p:j schedule >> kprobe_events
 # cat kprobe_events
p:kprobes/i do_sys_open
p:kprobes/j schedule
 # echo p:i do_sys_open >> kprobe_events
 # cat kprobe_events
p:kprobes/j schedule
p:kprobes/i do_sys_open
 # ls /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kprobes/
enable  filter  j

Notice that the 'i' is missing from the kprobes directory.

The console produces:

"Failed to create system directory kprobes"

This is because kprobes passes in a allocated name for the system
and the ftrace event subsystem saves off that name instead of creating
a duplicate for it. But the kprobes may free the system name making
the pointer to it invalid.

This bug was introduced by 92edca073c "tracing: Use direct field, type
and system names" which switched from using kstrdup() on the system name
in favor of just keeping apointer to it, as the internal ftrace event
system names are static and exist for the life of the computer being booted.

Instead of reverting back to duplicating system names again, we can use
core_kernel_data() to determine if the passed in name was allocated or
static. Then use the MSB of the ref_count to be a flag to keep track if
the name was allocated or not. Then we can still save from having to duplicate
strings that will always exist, but still copy the ones that may be freed.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.10
Reported-by: "zhangwei(Jovi)" <jovi.zhangwei@huawei.com>
Reported-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-07-01 20:34:22 -04:00
Namhyung Kim aaf6ac0f08 tracing: Do not call kmem_cache_free() on allocation failure
There's no point calling it when _alloc() failed.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1370585268-29169-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-06-11 18:38:52 -04:00
Harsh Prateek Bora 8092e808a3 tracing/trivial: Consolidate error return condition
Consolidate the checks for !enabled and !param to return -EINVAL
in event_enable_func().

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1369380137-12452-1-git-send-email-harsh@linux.vnet.ibm.com

Signed-off-by: Harsh Prateek Bora <harsh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-06-11 18:38:49 -04:00
Masami Hiramatsu 6ed0106667 tracing: Return -EBUSY when event_enable_func() fails to get module
Since try_module_get() returns false( = 0) when it fails to
pindown a module, event_enable_func() returns 0 which means
"succeed". This can cause a kernel panic when the entry
is removed, because the event is already released.

This fixes the bug by returning -EBUSY, because the reason
why it fails is that the module is being removed at that time.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130516114848.13508.97899.stgit@mhiramat-M0-7522

Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@intel.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-05-16 11:01:16 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) da511bf33e tracing: Add helper function trace_create_new_event() to remove duplicate code
Both __trace_add_new_event() and __trace_early_add_new_event() do
basically the same thing, except that __trace_add_new_event() does
a little more.

Instead of having duplicate code between the two functions, add
a helper function trace_create_new_event() that both can use.
This will help against having bugs fixed in one function but not
the other.

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-05-09 20:14:49 -04:00
Masami Hiramatsu 1cf4c0732d tracing: Modify soft-mode only if there's no other referrer
Modify soft-mode flag only if no other soft-mode referrer
(currently only the ftrace triggers) by using a reference
counter in each ftrace_event_file.

Without this fix, adding and removing several different
enable/disable_event triggers on the same event clear
soft-mode bit from the ftrace_event_file. This also
happens with a typo of glob on setting triggers.

e.g.

 # echo vfs_symlink:enable_event:net:netif_rx > set_ftrace_filter
 # cat events/net/netif_rx/enable
 0*
 # echo typo_func:enable_event:net:netif_rx > set_ftrace_filter
 # cat events/net/netif_rx/enable
 0
 # cat set_ftrace_filter
 #### all functions enabled ####
 vfs_symlink:enable_event:net:netif_rx:unlimited

As above, we still have a trigger, but soft-mode is gone.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130509054429.30398.7464.stgit@mhiramat-M0-7522

Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: David Sharp <dhsharp@google.com>
Cc: Hiraku Toyooka <hiraku.toyooka.gu@hitachi.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-05-09 20:14:25 -04:00
Masami Hiramatsu 30052170dc tracing: Indicate enabled soft-mode in enable file
Indicate enabled soft-mode event as "1*" in "enable" file
for each event, because it can be soft-disabled when disable_event
trigger is hit.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130509054426.30398.28202.stgit@mhiramat-M0-7522

Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-05-09 20:14:07 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) ff305ded9f tracing: Return error if register_ftrace_function_probe() fails for event_enable_func()
register_ftrace_function_probe() returns the number of functions
it registered, which can be zero, it can also return a negative number
if something went wrong. But event_enable_func() only checks for
the case that it didn't register anything, it needs to also check
for the case that something went wrong and return that error code
as well.

Added some comments about the code as well, to make it more
understandable.

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-05-09 11:30:26 -04:00
Masami Hiramatsu a5b85bd155 tracing: Don't succeed if event_enable_func did not register anything
Return 0 instead of the number of activated ftrace function probes if
event_enable_func succeeded and return an error code if it failed or
did not register any functions. But it currently returns the number
of registered functions and if it didn't register anything, it returns 0,
but that is considered success.

This also fixes the return value. As if it succeeds, it returns the
number of functions that were enabled, which is returned back to
the user in ftrace_regex_write (the write() return code). If only
one function is enabled, then the return code of the write is one,
and this can confuse the user program in thinking it only wrote 1
byte.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130509054413.30398.55650.stgit@mhiramat-M0-7522

Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
[ Rewrote change log to reflect that this fixes two bugs - SR ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-05-09 11:26:01 -04:00
zhangwei(Jovi) 52f6ad6dc3 tracing: Rename trace_event_mutex to trace_event_sem
trace_event_mutex is an rw semaphore now, not a mutex, change the name.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/513D843B.40109@huawei.com

Signed-off-by: zhangwei(Jovi) <jovi.zhangwei@huawei.com>
[ Forward ported to my new code ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-03-15 13:22:10 -04:00
zhangwei(Jovi) ad7067cebf tracing: Convert trace_destroy_fields() to static
trace_destroy_fields() is not used outside of the file. It can be
a static function.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/513D842A.2000907@huawei.com

Signed-off-by: zhangwei(Jovi) <jovi.zhangwei@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-03-15 13:22:08 -04:00
zhangwei(Jovi) b3a8c6fd7b tracing: Move find_event_field() into trace_events.c
By moving find_event_field() and trace_find_field() into trace_events.c,
the ftrace_common_fields list and trace_get_fields() can become local to
the trace_events.c file.

find_event_field() is renamed to trace_find_event_field() to conform to
the tracing global function names.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/513D8426.9070109@huawei.com

Signed-off-by: zhangwei(Jovi) <jovi.zhangwei@huawei.com>
[ rostedt: Modified trace_find_field() to trace_find_event_field() ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-03-15 13:22:07 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) 3cd715de26 tracing: Add function probe triggers to enable/disable events
Add triggers to function tracer that lets an event get enabled or
disabled when a function is called:

format is:

 <function>:enable_event:<system>:<event>[:<count>]
 <function>:disable_event:<system>:<event>[:<count>]

 echo 'schedule:enable_event:sched:sched_switch' > /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter

Every time schedule is called, it will enable the sched_switch event.

 echo 'schedule:disable_event:sched:sched_switch:2' > /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter

The first two times schedule is called while the sched_switch
event is enabled, it will disable it. It will not count for a time
that the event is already disabled (or enabled for enable_event).

[ fixed return without mutex_unlock() - thanks to Dan Carpenter and smatch ]

Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-03-15 00:36:04 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) 417944c4c7 tracing: Add a way to soft disable trace events
In order to let triggers enable or disable events, we need a 'soft'
method for doing so. For example, if a function probe is added that
lets a user enable or disable events when a function is called, that
change must be done without taking locks or a mutex, and definitely
it can't sleep. But the full enabling of a tracepoint is expensive.

By adding a 'SOFT_DISABLE' flag, and converting the flags to be updated
without the protection of a mutex (using set/clear_bit()), this soft
disable flag can be used to allow critical sections to enable or disable
events from being traced (after the event has been placed into "SOFT_MODE").

Some caveats though: The comm recorder (to map pids with a comm) can not
be soft disabled (yet). If you disable an event with with a "soft"
disable and wait a while before reading the trace, the comm cache may be
replaced and you'll get a bunch of <...> for comms in the trace.

Reading the "enable" file for an event that is disabled will now give
you "0*" where the '*' denotes that the tracepoint is still active but
the event itself is "disabled".

[ fixed _BIT used in & operation : thanks to Dan Carpenter and smatch ]

Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-03-15 00:36:03 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) 55034cd6e6 tracing: Add alloc_snapshot kernel command line parameter
If debugging the kernel, and the developer wants to use
tracing_snapshot() in places where tracing_snapshot_alloc() may
be difficult (or more likely, the developer is lazy and doesn't
want to bother with tracing_snapshot_alloc() at all), then adding

  alloc_snapshot

to the kernel command line parameter will tell ftrace to allocate
the snapshot buffer (if configured) when it allocates the main
tracing buffer.

I also noticed that ring_buffer_expanded and tracing_selftest_disabled
had inconsistent use of boolean "true" and "false" with "0" and "1".
I cleaned that up too.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-03-15 00:35:53 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) 873c642f59 tracing: Clear all trace buffers when unloaded module event was used
Currently we do not know what buffer a module event was enabled in.
On unload, it is safest to clear all buffer instances, not just the
top level buffer.

Todo: Clear only the buffer that the event was used in. The
infrastructure is there to do this, but it makes the code a bit
more complex. Lets get the current code vetted before we add that.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-03-15 00:34:57 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) 575380da8b tracing: Only clear trace buffer on module unload if event was traced
Currently, when a module with events is unloaded, the trace buffer is
cleared. This is just a safety net in case the module might have some
strange callback when its event is outputted. But there's no reason
to reset the buffer if the module didn't have any of its events traced.

Add a flag to the event "call" structure called WAS_ENABLED and gets set
when the event is ever enabled, and this flag never gets cleared. When a
module gets unloaded, if any of its events have this flag set, then the
trace buffer will get cleared.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-03-15 00:34:56 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) 315326c16a tracing: Fix trace events build without modules
The new multi-buffers added a descriptor that kept track of module
events, and the directories they use, with struct ftace_module_file_ops.
This is used to add a ref count to keep modules from unloading while
their files are being accessed.

As the descriptor is only needed when CONFIG_MODULES is enabled, it
is only declared when the config is enabled. But that struct is
dereferenced in a few areas outside the #ifdef CONFIG_MODULES.

By adding some helper routines and moving code around a little,
events can be compiled again without modules.

Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-03-15 00:34:53 -04:00
Steven Rostedt 92edca073c tracing: Use direct field, type and system names
The names used to display the field and type in the event format
files are copied, as well as the system name that is displayed.

All these names are created by constant values passed in.
If one of theses values were to be removed by a module, the module
would also be required to remove any event it created.

By using the strings directly, we can save over 100K of memory.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-03-15 00:34:47 -04:00
Steven Rostedt d1a291437f tracing: Use kmem_cache_alloc instead of kmalloc in trace_events.c
The event structures used by the trace events are mostly persistent,
but they are also allocated by kmalloc, which is not the best at
allocating space for what is used. By converting these kmallocs
into kmem_cache_allocs, we can save over 50K of space that is
permanently allocated.

After boot we have:

 slab name          active allocated size
 ---------          ------ --------- ----
ftrace_event_file    979   1005     56   67    1
ftrace_event_field   2301   2310     48   77    1

The ftrace_event_file has at boot up 979 active objects out of
1005 allocated in the slabs. Each object is 56 bytes. In a normal
kmalloc, that would allocate 64 bytes for each object.

 1005 - 979  = 26 objects not used
 26 * 56 = 1456 bytes wasted

But if we used kmalloc:

 64 - 56 = 8 bytes unused per allocation
 8 * 979 = 7832 bytes wasted

 7832 - 1456 = 6376 bytes in savings

Doing the same for ftrace_event_field where there's 2301 objects
allocated in a slab that can hold 2310 with 48 bytes each we have:

 2310 - 2301 = 9 objects not used
 9 * 48 = 432 bytes wasted

A kmalloc would also use 64 bytes per object:

 64 - 48 = 16 bytes unused per allocation
 16 * 2301 = 36816 bytes wasted!

 36816 - 432 = 36384 bytes in savings

This change gives us a total of 42760 bytes in savings. At least
on my machine, but as there's a lot of these persistent objects
for all configurations that use trace points, this is a net win.

Thanks to Ezequiel Garcia for his trace_analyze presentation which
pointed out the wasted space in my code.

Cc: Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-03-15 00:34:46 -04:00
Steven Rostedt 772482216f tracing: Get trace_events kernel command line working again
With the new descriptors used to allow multiple buffers in the
tracing directory added, the kernel command line parameter
trace_events=... no longer works. This is because the top level
(global) trace array now has a list of descriptors associated
with the events and the files in the debugfs directory. But in
early bootup, when the command line is processed and the events
enabled, the trace array list of events has not been set up yet.

Without the list of events in the trace array, the setting of
events to record will fail because it would not match any events.

The solution is to set up the top level array in two stages.
The first is to just add the ftrace file descriptors that just point
to the events. This will allow events to be enabled and start tracing.
The second stage is called after the filesystem is set up, and this
stage will create the debugfs event files and directories associated
with the trace array events.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-03-15 00:34:46 -04:00
Steven Rostedt 0c8916c342 tracing: Add rmdir to remove multibuffer instances
Add a method to the hijacked dentry descriptor of the
"instances" directory to allow for rmdir to remove an
instance of a multibuffer.

Example:

  cd /debug/tracing/instances
  mkdir hello
  ls
hello/
  rmdir hello
  ls

Like the mkdir method, the i_mutex is dropped for the instances
directory. The instances directory is created at boot up and can
not be renamed or removed. The trace_types_lock mutex is used to
synchronize adding and removing of instances.

I've run several stress tests with different threads trying to
create and delete directories of the same name, and it has stood
up fine.

Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-03-15 00:34:45 -04:00
Steven Rostedt 277ba04461 tracing: Add interface to allow multiple trace buffers
Add the interface ("instances" directory) to add multiple buffers
to ftrace. To create a new instance, simply do a mkdir in the
instances directory:

This will create a directory with the following:

 # cd instances
 # mkdir foo
 # ls foo
buffer_size_kb        free_buffer  trace_clock    trace_pipe
buffer_total_size_kb  set_event    trace_marker   tracing_enabled
events/               trace        trace_options  tracing_on

Currently only events are able to be set, and there isn't a way
to delete a buffer when one is created (yet).

Note, the i_mutex lock is dropped from the parent "instances"
directory during the mkdir operation. As the "instances" directory
can not be renamed or deleted (created on boot), I do not see
any harm in dropping the lock. The creation of the sub directories
is protected by trace_types_lock mutex, which only lets one
instance get into the code path at a time. If two tasks try to
create or delete directories of the same name, only one will occur
and the other will fail with -EEXIST.

Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-03-15 00:34:44 -04:00
Steven Rostedt ae63b31e4d tracing: Separate out trace events from global variables
The trace events for ftrace are all defined via global variables.
The arrays of events and event systems are linked to a global list.
This prevents multiple users of the event system (what to enable and
what not to).

By adding descriptors to represent the event/file relation, as well
as to which trace_array descriptor they are associated with, allows
for more than one set of events to be defined. Once the trace events
files have a link between the trace event and the trace_array they
are associated with, we can create multiple trace_arrays that can
record separate events in separate buffers.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-03-15 00:34:40 -04:00
Steven Rostedt b000c8065a tracing: Remove the extra 4 bytes of padding in events
Due to a userspace issue with PowerTop v2beta, which hardcoded
the offset of event fields that it was using, it broke when
we removed the Big Kernel Lock counter from the event header.

 (commit e6e1e2593 "tracing: Remove lock_depth from event entry")

Because this broke userspace, it was determined that we must
keep those 4 bytes around.

 (commit a3a4a5acd "Regression: partial revert "tracing: Remove lock_depth from event entry"")

This unfortunately wastes space in the ring buffer. 4 bytes per
event, where a lot of events are just 24 bytes. That's 16% of the
buffer wasted. A million events will add 4 megs of white space
into the buffer.

It was later noticed that PowerTop v2beta could not work on systems
where the kernel was 64 bit but the userspace was 32 bits.
The reason was because the offsets are different between the
two and the hard coded offset of one would not work with the other.

With PowerTop v2 final, it implemented the same interface that both
perf and trace-cmd use. That is, it reads the format file of
the event to find the offsets of the fields it needs. This fixes
the problem with running powertop on a 32 bit userspace running
on a 64 bit kernel. It also no longer requires the 4 byte padding.

As PowerTop v2 has been out for a while, and is included in all
major distributions, it is time that we can safely remove the
4 bytes of padding. Users of PowerTop v2beta should upgrade to
PowerTop v2 final.

Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-01-21 21:05:41 -05:00
Steven Rostedt 0d5c6e1c19 tracing: Use irq_work for wake ups and remove *_nowake_*() functions
Have the ring buffer commit function use the irq_work infrastructure to
wake up any waiters waiting on the ring buffer for new data. The irq_work
was created for such a purpose, where doing the actual wake up at the
time of adding data is too dangerous, as an event or function trace may
be in the midst of the work queue locks and cause deadlocks. The irq_work
will either delay the action to the next timer interrupt, or trigger an IPI
to itself forcing an interrupt to do the work (in a safe location).

With irq_work, all ring buffer commits can safely do wakeups, removing
the need for the ring buffer commit "nowake" variants, which were used
by events and function tracing. All commits can now safely use the
normal commit, and the "nowake" variants can be removed.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-11-02 10:21:52 -04:00
Steven Rostedt 15075cac42 tracing: Separate open function from set_event and available_events
The open function used by available_events is the same as set_event even
though it uses different seq functions. This causes a side effect of
writing into available_events clearing all events, even though
available_events is suppose to be read only.

There's no reason to keep a single function for just the open and have
both use different functions for everything else. It is a little
confusing and causes strange behavior. Just have each have their own
function.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-11-02 10:21:49 -04:00
Steven Rostedt 81698831bc tracing: Enable comm recording if trace_printk() is used
If comm recording is not enabled when trace_printk() is used then
you just get this type of output:

[ adding trace_printk("hello! %d", irq); in do_IRQ ]

           <...>-2843  [001] d.h.    80.812300: do_IRQ: hello! 14
           <...>-2734  [002] d.h2    80.824664: do_IRQ: hello! 14
           <...>-2713  [003] d.h.    80.829971: do_IRQ: hello! 14
           <...>-2814  [000] d.h.    80.833026: do_IRQ: hello! 14

By enabling the comm recorder when trace_printk is enabled:

       hackbench-6715  [001] d.h.   193.233776: do_IRQ: hello! 21
            sshd-2659  [001] d.h.   193.665862: do_IRQ: hello! 21
          <idle>-0     [001] d.h1   193.665996: do_IRQ: hello! 21

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-10-31 16:45:29 -04:00
Ezequiel Garcia 8781915ad2 trace: Move trace event enable from fs_initcall to core_initcall
This patch splits trace event initialization in two stages:
 * ftrace enable
 * sysfs event entry creation

This allows to capture trace events from an earlier point
by using 'trace_event' kernel parameter and is important
to trace boot-up allocations.

Note that, in order to enable events at core_initcall,
it's necessary to move init_ftrace_syscalls() from
core_initcall to early_initcall.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1347461277-25302-1-git-send-email-elezegarcia@gmail.com

Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-09-24 14:13:02 -04:00
Yuanhan Liu 76bab1b78a tracing: Skip printing "OK" if failed to disable event
No acutal case found. But logically, we should skip "OK" in case any
error met.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1346051625-25231-1-git-send-email-yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com

Signed-off-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-09-13 22:52:07 -04:00
Steven Rostedt 4740974a68 ftrace: Add default recursion protection for function tracing
As more users of the function tracer utility are being added, they do
not always add the necessary recursion protection. To protect from
function recursion due to tracing, if the callback ftrace_ops does not
specifically specify that it protects against recursion (by setting
the FTRACE_OPS_FL_RECURSION_SAFE flag), the list operation will be
called by the mcount trampoline which adds recursion protection.

If the flag is set, then the function will be called directly with no
extra protection.

Note, the list operation is called if more than one function callback
is registered, or if the arch does not support all of the function
tracer features.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-07-31 10:29:52 -04:00
Steven Rostedt a1e2e31d17 ftrace: Return pt_regs to function trace callback
Return as the 4th paramater to the function tracer callback the pt_regs.

Later patches that implement regs passing for the architectures will require
having the ftrace_ops set the SAVE_REGS flag, which will tell the arch
to take the time to pass a full set of pt_regs to the ftrace_ops callback
function. If the arch does not support it then it should pass NULL.

If an arch can pass full regs, then it should define:
 ARCH_SUPPORTS_FTRACE_SAVE_REGS to 1

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120702201821.019966811@goodmis.org

Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-07-19 13:18:49 -04:00
Steven Rostedt 2f5f6ad939 ftrace: Pass ftrace_ops as third parameter to function trace callback
Currently the function trace callback receives only the ip and parent_ip
of the function that it traced. It would be more powerful to also return
the ops that registered the function as well. This allows the same function
to act differently depending on what ftrace_ops registered it.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120612225424.267254552@goodmis.org

Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-07-19 13:17:35 -04:00
Steven Rostedt 9b63776fa3 tracing: Do not enable function event with enable
With the adding of function tracing event to perf, it caused a
side effect that produces the following warning when enabling all
events in ftrace:

 # echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/enable

[console]
event trace: Could not enable event function

This is because when enabling all events via the debugfs system
it ignores events that do not have a ->reg() function assigned.
This was to skip over the ftrace internal events (as they are
not TRACE_EVENTs). But as the ftrace function event now has
a ->reg() function attached to it for use with perf, it is no
longer ignored.

Worse yet, this ->reg() function is being called when it should
not be. It returns an error and causes the above warning to
be printed.

By adding a new event_call flag (TRACE_EVENT_FL_IGNORE_ENABLE)
and have all ftrace internel event structures have it set,
setting the events/enable will no longe try to incorrectly enable
the function event and does not warn.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-05-10 15:55:43 -04:00
Jiri Olsa 489c75c3b3 ftrace, perf: Add add/del tracepoint perf registration actions
Adding TRACE_REG_PERF_ADD and TRACE_REG_PERF_DEL to handle
perf event schedule in/out actions.

The add action is invoked for when the perf event is scheduled in,
while the del action is invoked when the event is scheduled out.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1329317514-8131-4-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com

Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-02-21 11:08:25 -05:00
Jiri Olsa ceec0b6fc7 ftrace, perf: Add open/close tracepoint perf registration actions
Adding TRACE_REG_PERF_OPEN and TRACE_REG_PERF_CLOSE to differentiate
register/unregister from open/close actions.

The register/unregister actions are invoked for the first/last
tracepoint user when opening/closing the event.

The open/close actions are invoked for each tracepoint user when
opening/closing the event.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1329317514-8131-3-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com

Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-02-21 11:08:24 -05:00
Ilya Dryomov cb59974742 tracing: fix event_subsystem ref counting
Fix a bug introduced by e9dbfae5, which prevents event_subsystem from
ever being released.

Ref_count was added to keep track of subsystem users, not for counting
events.  Subsystem is created with ref_count = 1, so there is no need to
increment it for every event, we have nr_events for that.  Fix this by
touching ref_count only when we actually have a new user -
subsystem_open().

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1320052062-7846-1-git-send-email-idryomov@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-12-05 13:28:44 -05:00
Ingo Molnar 492f73a303 Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core
Merge reason: pick up the latest fixes - they won't make v3.0.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-07-21 09:29:21 +02:00
Steven Rostedt 40ee4dffff tracing: Have "enable" file use refcounts like the "filter" file
The "enable" file for the event system can be removed when a module
is unloaded and the event system only has events from that module.
As the event system nr_events count goes to zero, it may be freed
if its ref_count is also set to zero.

Like the "filter" file, the "enable" file may be opened by a task and
referenced later, after a module has been unloaded and the events for
that event system have been removed.

Although the "filter" file referenced the event system structure,
the "enable" file only references a pointer to the event system
name. Since the name is freed when the event system is removed,
it is possible that an access to the "enable" file may reference
a freed pointer.

Update the "enable" file to use the subsystem_open() routine that
the "filter" file uses, to keep a reference to the event system
structure while the "enable" file is opened.

Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-07-07 11:22:29 -04:00
Steven Rostedt e9dbfae53e tracing: Fix bug when reading system filters on module removal
The event system is freed when its nr_events is set to zero. This happens
when a module created an event system and then later the module is
removed. Modules may share systems, so the system is allocated when
it is created and freed when the modules are unloaded and all the
events under the system are removed (nr_events set to zero).

The problem arises when a task opened the "filter" file for the
system. If the module is unloaded and it removed the last event for
that system, the system structure is freed. If the task that opened
the filter file accesses the "filter" file after the system has
been freed, the system will access an invalid pointer.

By adding a ref_count, and using it to keep track of what
is using the event system, we can free it after all users
are finished with the event system.

Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-07-07 11:19:18 -04:00
Peter Huewe 22fe9b54d8 tracing: Convert to kstrtoul_from_user
This patch replaces the code for getting an unsigned long from a
userspace buffer by a simple call to kstroul_from_user.
This makes it easier to read and less error prone.

Signed-off-by: Peter Huewe <peterhuewe@gmx.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1307476707-14762-1-git-send-email-peterhuewe@gmx.de
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-06-14 22:48:50 -04:00
Steven Rostedt 17bb615ad4 tracing: Have event with function tracer check error return
The self tests for event tracer does not check if the function
tracing was successfully activated. It needs to before it continues
the tests, otherwise the wrong errors may be reported.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-05-25 22:13:39 -04:00
Arjan van de Ven a3a4a5acd3 Regression: partial revert "tracing: Remove lock_depth from event entry"
This partially reverts commit e6e1e25935.

That commit changed the structure layout of the trace structure, which
in turn broke PowerTOP (1.9x generation) quite badly.

I appreciate not wanting to expose the variable in question, and
PowerTOP was not using it, so I've replaced the variable with just a
padding field - that way if in the future a new field is needed it can
just use this padding field.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-06 13:20:59 -07:00
Yuanhan Liu 56355b83e2 tracing: Export trace_set_clr_event()
Trace events belonging to a module only exists when the module is
loaded. Well, we can use trace_set_clr_event funtion to enable some
trace event at the module init routine, so that we will not miss
something while loading then module.

So, Export the trace_set_clr_event function so that module can use it.

Signed-off-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <1289196312-25323-1-git-send-email-yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-03-10 10:34:51 -05:00
Steven Rostedt e6e1e25935 tracing: Remove lock_depth from event entry
The lock_depth field in the event headers was added as a temporary
data point for help in removing the BKL. Now that the BKL is pretty
much been removed, we can remove this field.

This in turn changes the header from 12 bytes to 8 bytes,
removing the 4 byte buffer that gcc would insert if the first field
in the data load was 8 bytes in size.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-03-10 10:31:48 -05:00