Pull vfs updates from Al Viro:
"The first vfs pile, with deep apologies for being very late in this
window.
Assorted cleanups and fixes, plus a large preparatory part of iov_iter
work. There's a lot more of that, but it'll probably go into the next
merge window - it *does* shape up nicely, removes a lot of
boilerplate, gets rid of locking inconsistencie between aio_write and
splice_write and I hope to get Kent's direct-io rewrite merged into
the same queue, but some of the stuff after this point is having
(mostly trivial) conflicts with the things already merged into
mainline and with some I want more testing.
This one passes LTP and xfstests without regressions, in addition to
usual beating. BTW, readahead02 in ltp syscalls testsuite has started
giving failures since "mm/readahead.c: fix readahead failure for
memoryless NUMA nodes and limit readahead pages" - might be a false
positive, might be a real regression..."
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (63 commits)
missing bits of "splice: fix racy pipe->buffers uses"
cifs: fix the race in cifs_writev()
ceph_sync_{,direct_}write: fix an oops on ceph_osdc_new_request() failure
kill generic_file_buffered_write()
ocfs2_file_aio_write(): switch to generic_perform_write()
ceph_aio_write(): switch to generic_perform_write()
xfs_file_buffered_aio_write(): switch to generic_perform_write()
export generic_perform_write(), start getting rid of generic_file_buffer_write()
generic_file_direct_write(): get rid of ppos argument
btrfs_file_aio_write(): get rid of ppos
kill the 5th argument of generic_file_buffered_write()
kill the 4th argument of __generic_file_aio_write()
lustre: don't open-code kernel_recvmsg()
ocfs2: don't open-code kernel_recvmsg()
drbd: don't open-code kernel_recvmsg()
constify blk_rq_map_user_iov() and friends
lustre: switch to kernel_sendmsg()
ocfs2: don't open-code kernel_sendmsg()
take iov_iter stuff to mm/iov_iter.c
process_vm_access: tidy up a bit
...
that commit has fixed only the parts of that mess in fs/splice.c itself;
there had been more in several other ->splice_read() instances...
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
The debugfs tracing README file lists all the function triggers except for
dump and cpudump. These should be added too.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
But there were a few features that were added.
Uprobes now work with event triggers and multi buffers.
Uprobes have support under ftrace and perf.
The big feature is that the function tracer can now be used within the
multi buffer instances. That is, you can now trace some functions
in one buffer, others in another buffer, all functions in a third buffer
and so on. They are basically agnostic from each other. This only
works for the function tracer and not for the function graph trace,
although you can have the function graph tracer running in the top level
buffer (or any tracer for that matter) and have different function tracing
going on in the sub buffers.
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Merge tag 'trace-3.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
"Most of the changes were largely clean ups, and some documentation.
But there were a few features that were added:
Uprobes now work with event triggers and multi buffers and have
support under ftrace and perf.
The big feature is that the function tracer can now be used within the
multi buffer instances. That is, you can now trace some functions in
one buffer, others in another buffer, all functions in a third buffer
and so on. They are basically agnostic from each other. This only
works for the function tracer and not for the function graph trace,
although you can have the function graph tracer running in the top
level buffer (or any tracer for that matter) and have different
function tracing going on in the sub buffers"
* tag 'trace-3.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (45 commits)
tracing: Add BUG_ON when stack end location is over written
tracepoint: Remove unused API functions
Revert "tracing: Move event storage for array from macro to standalone function"
ftrace: Constify ftrace_text_reserved
tracepoints: API doc update to tracepoint_probe_register() return value
tracepoints: API doc update to data argument
ftrace: Fix compilation warning about control_ops_free
ftrace/x86: BUG when ftrace recovery fails
ftrace: Warn on error when modifying ftrace function
ftrace: Remove freelist from struct dyn_ftrace
ftrace: Do not pass data to ftrace_dyn_arch_init
ftrace: Pass retval through return in ftrace_dyn_arch_init()
ftrace: Inline the code from ftrace_dyn_table_alloc()
ftrace: Cleanup of global variables ftrace_new_pgs and ftrace_update_cnt
tracing: Evaluate len expression only once in __dynamic_array macro
tracing: Correctly expand len expressions from __dynamic_array macro
tracing/module: Replace include of tracepoint.h with jump_label.h in module.h
tracing: Fix event header migrate.h to include tracepoint.h
tracing: Fix event header writeback.h to include tracepoint.h
tracing: Warn if a tracepoint is not set via debugfs
...
While working on my tutorial for 2014 Linux Collaboration Summit
I found that the traceon trigger did not work when conditions were
used. The other triggers worked fine though. Looking into it, it
is because of the way the triggers use the ring buffer to store
the fields it will use for the condition. But if tracing is off, nothing
is stored in the buffer, and the tracepoint exits before calling the
trigger to test the condition. This is fine for all the triggers that
only work when tracing is on, but for traceon trigger that is to
work when tracing is off, nothing happens.
The fix is simple, just use a temp ring buffer to record the event
if tracing is off and the event has a trace event conditional trigger
enabled. The rest of the tracepoint code will work just fine, but
the tracepoint wont be recorded in the other buffers.
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Being able to change the trace clock at boot can be advantageous if
you need a better source of when things happen across CPUs. The default
trace clock is the fastest, but it uses local clocks which may not be
synced across CPUs and it does not let you know when events took place
with respect to events on other CPUs.
The global trace clock can help in this case, and if you do not care
about timings, the counter "clock" is the best, as that is just a simple
atomic counter that is incremented for every event.
Usage is to add "trace_clock=counter" on the kernel command line. You
can replace counter with "global" or any of the clocks listed in
/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_clock
Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Appreciated-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Create a "set_ftrace_filter" and "set_ftrace_notrace" files in the instance
directories to let users filter of functions to trace for the given instance.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
As tracers will soon be used by instances, the tracer enabled field
needs to be converted to a counter instead of a boolean.
This counter is protected by the trace_types_lock mutex.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
When an instance is about to be deleted, make sure the tracer
is set to nop. If it isn't reset the tracer and set it to the nop
tracer, otherwise memory leaks and bad pointers may result.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Currently the tracers (function, function_graph, irqsoff, etc) can only
be used by the top level tracing directory (not for instances).
This sets up the infrastructure to allow instances to be able to
run a separate tracer apart from the what the top level tracing is
doing.
As tracers need to adapt for being used by instances, the tracers
must flag if they can be used by instances or not. Currently only the
'nop' tracer can be used by all instances.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
As options (flags) may affect instances instead of being global
the flag_changed() callbacks need to receive the trace_array descriptor
of the instance they will be modifying.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
As options (flags) may affect instances instead of being global
the set_flag() callbacks need to receive the trace_array descriptor
of the instance they will be modifying.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
If trace_puts() is used very early in boot up, it can crash the machine
if it is called before the ring buffer is allocated. If a trace_printk()
is used with no arguments, then it will be converted into a trace_puts()
and suffer the same fate.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.10+
Fixes: 09ae72348e "tracing: Add trace_puts() for even faster trace_printk() tracing"
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Fix the formatting of the README file in the trace debugfs to fit in
an 80 character window.
Also add a comment about the event trigger counter with regards to
traceon and traceoff.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
It would be useful to have a cheat-sheet for everything under
tracing/events/ alongside the existing text describing the other files
in the tracing/ dir.
Add short descriptions of the directories and files under events/
along with examples, similar to the existing text for the other files
in tracing/.
Also clean up a few minor alignment problems noticed when adding the
new text.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1389993104.3040.445.camel@empanada
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
In kernel/trace/trace.c we have this:
static void tracing_pipe_buf_release(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe,
struct pipe_buffer *buf)
{
__free_page(buf->page);
}
static const struct pipe_buf_operations tracing_pipe_buf_ops = {
.can_merge = 0,
.map = generic_pipe_buf_map,
.unmap = generic_pipe_buf_unmap,
.confirm = generic_pipe_buf_confirm,
.release = tracing_pipe_buf_release,
.steal = generic_pipe_buf_steal,
.get = generic_pipe_buf_get,
};
with
void generic_pipe_buf_get(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe, struct pipe_buffer *buf)
{
page_cache_get(buf->page);
}
and I don't see anything that would've prevented tee(2) called on the pipe
that got stuff spliced into it from that sucker. ->ops->get() will be
called, then buf gets copied into target pipe's ->bufs[] and eventually
readers get to both copies of the buffer. With
get_page(page)
look at that page
__free_page(page)
look at that page
__free_page(page)
which is not a good thing, to put it mildly. AFAICS, that ought to use
the normal generic_pipe_buf_release() (aka page_cache_release(buf->page)),
shouldn't it?
[
SDR - As trace_pipe just allocates the page with alloc_page(GFP_KERNEL),
and doesn't do anything special with it (no LRU logic). The __free_page()
should be fine, as it wont actually free a page with reference count.
Maybe there's a chance to leak memory? Anyway, This change is at a minimum
good for being symmetric with generic_pipe_buf_get, it is fine to add.
]
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
[ SDR - Removed no longer used tracing_pipe_buf_release ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The trace buffer has a descriptor pointer that goes back to the trace
array. But it was never assigned. Luckily, nothing uses it (yet), but
it will in the future.
Although nothing currently uses this, if any of the new features get
backported to older kernels, and because this is such a simple change,
I'm marking it for stable too.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.10+
Fixes: 12883efb67 "tracing: Consolidate max_tr into main trace_array structure"
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Trace event triggers added a lseek that uses the ftrace_filter_lseek()
function. Unfortunately, when function tracing is not configured in
that function is not defined and the kernel fails to build.
This is the second time that function was added to a file ops and
it broke the build due to requiring special config dependencies.
Make a generic tracing_lseek() that all the tracing utilities may
use.
Also, modify the old ftrace_filter_lseek() to return 0 instead of
1 on WRONLY. Not sure why it was a 1 as that does not make sense.
This also changes the old tracing_seek() to modify the file pos
pointer on WRONLY as well.
Reported-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Tested-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add 'snapshot' event_command. snapshot event triggers are added by
the user via this command in a similar way and using practically the
same syntax as the analogous 'snapshot' ftrace function command, but
instead of writing to the set_ftrace_filter file, the snapshot event
trigger is written to the per-event 'trigger' files:
echo 'snapshot' > .../somesys/someevent/trigger
The above command will turn on snapshots for someevent i.e. whenever
someevent is hit, a snapshot will be done.
This also adds a 'count' version that limits the number of times the
command will be invoked:
echo 'snapshot:N' > .../somesys/someevent/trigger
Where N is the number of times the command will be invoked.
The above command will snapshot N times for someevent i.e. whenever
someevent is hit N times, a snapshot will be done.
Also adds a new tracing_alloc_snapshot() function - the existing
tracing_snapshot_alloc() function is a special version of
tracing_snapshot() that also does the snapshot allocation - the
snapshot triggers would like to be able to do just the allocation but
not take a snapshot; the existing tracing_snapshot_alloc() in turn now
also calls tracing_alloc_snapshot() underneath to do that allocation.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/c9524dd07ce01f9dcbd59011290e0a8d5b47d7ad.1382622043.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
[ fix up from kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com report ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The only real feature that was added this release is from Namhyung Kim,
who introduced "set_graph_notrace" filter that lets you run the function
graph tracer and not trace particular functions and their call chain.
Tom Zanussi added some updates to the ftrace multibuffer tracing that
made it more consistent with the top level tracing.
One of the fixes for perf function tracing required an API change in
RCU; the addition of "rcu_is_watching()". As Paul McKenney is pushing
that change in this release too, he gave me a branch that included
all the changes to get that working, and I pulled that into my tree
in order to complete the perf function tracing fix.
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Merge tag 'trace-3.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull tracing update from Steven Rostedt:
"This batch of changes is mostly clean ups and small bug fixes. The
only real feature that was added this release is from Namhyung Kim,
who introduced "set_graph_notrace" filter that lets you run the
function graph tracer and not trace particular functions and their
call chain.
Tom Zanussi added some updates to the ftrace multibuffer tracing that
made it more consistent with the top level tracing.
One of the fixes for perf function tracing required an API change in
RCU; the addition of "rcu_is_watching()". As Paul McKenney is pushing
that change in this release too, he gave me a branch that included all
the changes to get that working, and I pulled that into my tree in
order to complete the perf function tracing fix"
* tag 'trace-3.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
tracing: Add rcu annotation for syscall trace descriptors
tracing: Do not use signed enums with unsigned long long in fgragh output
tracing: Remove unused function ftrace_off_permanent()
tracing: Do not assign filp->private_data to freed memory
tracing: Add helper function tracing_is_disabled()
tracing: Open tracer when ftrace_dump_on_oops is used
tracing: Add support for SOFT_DISABLE to syscall events
tracing: Make register/unregister_ftrace_command __init
tracing: Update event filters for multibuffer
recordmcount.pl: Add support for __fentry__
ftrace: Have control op function callback only trace when RCU is watching
rcu: Do not trace rcu_is_watching() functions
ftrace/x86: skip over the breakpoint for ftrace caller
trace/trace_stat: use rbtree postorder iteration helper instead of opencoding
ftrace: Add set_graph_notrace filter
ftrace: Narrow down the protected area of graph_lock
ftrace: Introduce struct ftrace_graph_data
ftrace: Get rid of ftrace_graph_filter_enabled
tracing: Fix potential out-of-bounds in trace_get_user()
tracing: Show more exact help information about snapshot
Since the introduction of PREEMPT_NEED_RESCHED in:
f27dde8dee ("sched: Add NEED_RESCHED to the preempt_count")
we need to be able to look at both TIF_NEED_RESCHED and
PREEMPT_NEED_RESCHED to understand the full preemption behaviour.
Add it to the trace output.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131004152826.GP3081@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
In the past, ftrace_off_permanent() was called if something
strange was detected. But the ftrace_bug() now handles all the
anomolies that can happen with ftrace (function tracing), and there
are no uses of ftrace_off_permanent(). Get rid of it.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
With ftrace_dump_on_oops, we previously did not open the tracer in
question, sometimes causing the trace output to be useless.
For example, the function_graph tracer with tracing_thresh set dumped via
ftrace_dump_on_oops would show a series of '}' indented at different levels,
but no function names.
call trace->open() (and do a few other fixups copied from the normal dump
path) to make the output more intelligible.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1382554197-16961-1-git-send-email-cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Cody P Schafer <cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The trace event filters are still tied to event calls rather than
event files, which means you don't get what you'd expect when using
filters in the multibuffer case:
Before:
# echo 'bytes_alloc > 8192' > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kmem/kmalloc/filter
# cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kmem/kmalloc/filter
bytes_alloc > 8192
# mkdir /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/instances/test1
# echo 'bytes_alloc > 2048' > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/instances/test1/events/kmem/kmalloc/filter
# cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kmem/kmalloc/filter
bytes_alloc > 2048
# cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/instances/test1/events/kmem/kmalloc/filter
bytes_alloc > 2048
Setting the filter in tracing/instances/test1/events shouldn't affect
the same event in tracing/events as it does above.
After:
# echo 'bytes_alloc > 8192' > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kmem/kmalloc/filter
# cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kmem/kmalloc/filter
bytes_alloc > 8192
# mkdir /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/instances/test1
# echo 'bytes_alloc > 2048' > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/instances/test1/events/kmem/kmalloc/filter
# cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kmem/kmalloc/filter
bytes_alloc > 8192
# cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/instances/test1/events/kmem/kmalloc/filter
bytes_alloc > 2048
We'd like to just move the filter directly from ftrace_event_call to
ftrace_event_file, but there are a couple cases that don't yet have
multibuffer support and therefore have to continue using the current
event_call-based filters. For those cases, a new USE_CALL_FILTER bit
is added to the event_call flags, whose main purpose is to keep the
old behavior for those cases until they can be updated with
multibuffer support; at that point, the USE_CALL_FILTER flag (and the
new associated call_filter_check_discard() function) can go away.
The multibuffer support also made filter_current_check_discard()
redundant, so this change removes that function as well and replaces
it with filter_check_discard() (or call_filter_check_discard() as
appropriate).
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/f16e9ce4270c62f46b2e966119225e1c3cca7e60.1382620672.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Andrey reported the following report:
ERROR: AddressSanitizer: heap-buffer-overflow on address ffff8800359c99f3
ffff8800359c99f3 is located 0 bytes to the right of 243-byte region [ffff8800359c9900, ffff8800359c99f3)
Accessed by thread T13003:
#0 ffffffff810dd2da (asan_report_error+0x32a/0x440)
#1 ffffffff810dc6b0 (asan_check_region+0x30/0x40)
#2 ffffffff810dd4d3 (__tsan_write1+0x13/0x20)
#3 ffffffff811cd19e (ftrace_regex_release+0x1be/0x260)
#4 ffffffff812a1065 (__fput+0x155/0x360)
#5 ffffffff812a12de (____fput+0x1e/0x30)
#6 ffffffff8111708d (task_work_run+0x10d/0x140)
#7 ffffffff810ea043 (do_exit+0x433/0x11f0)
#8 ffffffff810eaee4 (do_group_exit+0x84/0x130)
#9 ffffffff810eafb1 (SyS_exit_group+0x21/0x30)
#10 ffffffff81928782 (system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b)
Allocated by thread T5167:
#0 ffffffff810dc778 (asan_slab_alloc+0x48/0xc0)
#1 ffffffff8128337c (__kmalloc+0xbc/0x500)
#2 ffffffff811d9d54 (trace_parser_get_init+0x34/0x90)
#3 ffffffff811cd7b3 (ftrace_regex_open+0x83/0x2e0)
#4 ffffffff811cda7d (ftrace_filter_open+0x2d/0x40)
#5 ffffffff8129b4ff (do_dentry_open+0x32f/0x430)
#6 ffffffff8129b668 (finish_open+0x68/0xa0)
#7 ffffffff812b66ac (do_last+0xb8c/0x1710)
#8 ffffffff812b7350 (path_openat+0x120/0xb50)
#9 ffffffff812b8884 (do_filp_open+0x54/0xb0)
#10 ffffffff8129d36c (do_sys_open+0x1ac/0x2c0)
#11 ffffffff8129d4b7 (SyS_open+0x37/0x50)
#12 ffffffff81928782 (system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b)
Shadow bytes around the buggy address:
ffff8800359c9700: fd fd fd fd fd fd fd fd fd fd fd fd fd fd fd fd
ffff8800359c9780: fd fd fd fd fd fd fd fd fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa
ffff8800359c9800: fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa
ffff8800359c9880: fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa
ffff8800359c9900: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
=>ffff8800359c9980: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00[03]fb
ffff8800359c9a00: fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa
ffff8800359c9a80: fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa
ffff8800359c9b00: fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
ffff8800359c9b80: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
ffff8800359c9c00: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa
Shadow byte legend (one shadow byte represents 8 application bytes):
Addressable: 00
Partially addressable: 01 02 03 04 05 06 07
Heap redzone: fa
Heap kmalloc redzone: fb
Freed heap region: fd
Shadow gap: fe
The out-of-bounds access happens on 'parser->buffer[parser->idx] = 0;'
Although the crash happened in ftrace_regex_open() the real bug
occurred in trace_get_user() where there's an incrementation to
parser->idx without a check against the size. The way it is triggered
is if userspace sends in 128 characters (EVENT_BUF_SIZE + 1), the loop
that reads the last character stores it and then breaks out because
there is no more characters. Then the last character is read to determine
what to do next, and the index is incremented without checking size.
Then the caller of trace_get_user() usually nulls out the last character
with a zero, but since the index is equal to the size, it writes a nul
character after the allocated space, which can corrupt memory.
Luckily, only root user has write access to this file.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131009222323.04fd1a0d@gandalf.local.home
Reported-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The current "help" that comes out of the snapshot file when it is
not allocated looks like this:
# * Snapshot is freed *
#
# Snapshot commands:
# echo 0 > snapshot : Clears and frees snapshot buffer
# echo 1 > snapshot : Allocates snapshot buffer, if not already allocated.
# Takes a snapshot of the main buffer.
# echo 2 > snapshot : Clears snapshot buffer (but does not allocate)
# (Doesn't have to be '2' works with any number that
# is not a '0' or '1')
Echo 2 says that it does not allocate the buffer, which is correct,
but to be more consistent with "echo 0" it should also state
that it does not free.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130914045916.GA4243@udknight
Signed-off-by: Wang YanQing <udknight@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Allow tracer instances to disable tracing by cpu by moving
the static global tracing_cpumask into trace_array.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/921622317f239bfc2283cac2242647801ef584f2.1375980149.git.azl@google.com
Cc: Vaibhav Nagarnaik <vnagarnaik@google.com>
Cc: David Sharp <dhsharp@google.com>
Cc: Alexander Z Lam <lambchop468@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Z Lam <azl@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Fixed two issues with changing the timestamp clock with trace_clock:
- The global buffer was reset on instance clock changes. Change this to pass
the correct per-instance buffer
- ftrace_now() is used to set buf->time_start in tracing_reset_online_cpus().
This was incorrect because ftrace_now() used the global buffer's clock to
return the current time. Change this to use buffer_ftrace_now() which
returns the current time for the correct per-instance buffer.
Also removed tracing_reset_current() because it is not used anywhere
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1375493777-17261-2-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>
Releasing the free_buffer file in an instance causes the global buffer
to be stopped when TRACE_ITER_STOP_ON_FREE is enabled. Operate on the
correct buffer.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1375493777-17261-1-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>
tracing_read_pipe zeros all fields bellow "seq". The declaration contains
a comment about that, but it doesn't help.
The first field is "snapshot", it's true when current open file is
snapshot. Looks obvious, that it should not be zeroed.
The second field is "started". It was converted from cpumask_t to
cpumask_var_t (v2.6.28-4983-g4462344), in other words it was
converted from cpumask to pointer on cpumask.
Currently the reference on "started" memory is lost after the first read
from tracing_read_pipe and a proper object will never be freed.
The "started" is never dereferenced for trace_pipe, because trace_pipe
can't have the TRACE_FILE_ANNOTATE options.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1375463803-3085183-1-git-send-email-avagin@openvz.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 2.6.30
Signed-off-by: Andrew Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Commit a82274151a "tracing: Protect ftrace_trace_arrays list in trace_events.c"
added taking the trace_types_lock mutex in trace_events.c as there were
several locations that needed it for protection. Unfortunately, it also
encapsulated a call to tracing_reset_all_online_cpus() which also takes
the trace_types_lock, causing a deadlock.
This happens when a module has tracepoints and has been traced. When the
module is removed, the trace events module notifier will grab the
trace_types_lock, do a bunch of clean ups, and also clears the buffer
by calling tracing_reset_all_online_cpus. This doesn't happen often
which explains why it wasn't caught right away.
Commit a82274151a was marked for stable, which means this must be
sent to stable too.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/51EEC646.7070306@broadcom.com
Reported-by: Arend van Spril <arend@broadcom.com>
Tested-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Cc: Alexander Z Lam <azl@google.com>
Cc: Vaibhav Nagarnaik <vnagarnaik@google.com>
Cc: David Sharp <dhsharp@google.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.10
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
After the previous changes trace_array_cpu->trace_cpu and
trace_array->trace_cpu becomes write-only. Remove these members
and kill "struct trace_cpu" as well.
As a side effect this also removes memset(per_cpu_memory, 0).
It was not needed, alloc_percpu() returns zero-filled memory.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130723152613.GA23741@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
tracing_open() and tracing_snapshot_open() are racy, the memory
inode->i_private points to can be already freed.
Convert these last users of "inode->i_private == trace_cpu" to
use "i_private = trace_array" and rely on tracing_get_cpu().
v2: incorporate the fix from Steven, tracing_release() must not
blindly dereference file->private_data unless we know that
the file was opened for reading.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130723152610.GA23737@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
tracing_open_generic_tc() is racy, the memory inode->i_private
points to can be already freed.
1. Change its last user, tracing_entries_fops, to use
tracing_*_generic_tr() instead.
2. Change debugfs_create_file("buffer_size_kb", data) callers
to pass "data = tr".
3. Change tracing_entries_read() and tracing_entries_write() to
use tracing_get_cpu().
4. Kill the no longer used tracing_open_generic_tc() and
tracing_release_generic_tc().
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130723152606.GA23730@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
tracing_open_generic_tc() is racy, the memory inode->i_private
points to can be already freed.
1. Change one of its users, tracing_stats_fops, to use
tracing_*_generic_tr() instead.
2. Change trace_create_cpu_file("stats", data) to pass "data = tr".
3. Change tracing_stats_read() to use tracing_get_cpu().
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130723152603.GA23727@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
tracing_buffers_open() is racy, the memory inode->i_private points
to can be already freed.
Change debugfs_create_file("trace_pipe_raw", data) caller to pass
"data = tr", tracing_buffers_open() can use tracing_get_cpu().
Change debugfs_create_file("snapshot_raw_fops", data) caller too,
this file uses tracing_buffers_open/release.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130723152600.GA23720@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
tracing_open_pipe() is racy, the memory inode->i_private points to
can be already freed.
Change debugfs_create_file("trace_pipe", data) callers to to pass
"data = tr", tracing_open_pipe() can use tracing_get_cpu().
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130723152557.GA23717@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Every "file_operations" used by tracing_init_debugfs_percpu is buggy.
f_op->open/etc does:
1. struct trace_cpu *tc = inode->i_private;
struct trace_array *tr = tc->tr;
2. trace_array_get(tr) or fail;
3. do_something(tc);
But tc (and tr) can be already freed before trace_array_get() is called.
And it doesn't matter whether this file is per-cpu or it was created by
init_tracer_debugfs(), free_percpu() or kfree() are equally bad.
Note that even 1. is not safe, the freed memory can be unmapped. But even
if it was safe trace_array_get() can wrongly succeed if we also race with
the next new_instance_create() which can re-allocate the same tr, or tc
was overwritten and ->tr points to the valid tr. In this case 3. uses the
freed/reused memory.
Add the new trivial helper, trace_create_cpu_file() which simply calls
trace_create_file() and encodes "cpu" in "struct inode". Another helper,
tracing_get_cpu() will be used to read cpu_nr-or-RING_BUFFER_ALL_CPUS.
The patch abuses ->i_cdev to encode the number, it is never used unless
the file is S_ISCHR(). But we could use something else, say, i_bytes or
even ->d_fsdata. In any case this hack is hidden inside these 2 helpers,
it would be trivial to change them if needed.
This patch only changes tracing_init_debugfs_percpu() to use the new
trace_create_cpu_file(), the next patches will change file_operations.
Note: tracing_get_cpu(inode) is always safe but you can't trust the
result unless trace_array_get() was called, without trace_types_lock
which acts as a barrier it can wrongly return RING_BUFFER_ALL_CPUS.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130723152554.GA23710@redhat.com
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
tracing_buffers_open() does trace_array_get() and then it wrongly
inrcements tr->ref again under trace_types_lock. This means that
every caller leaks trace_array:
# cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
# mkdir instances/X
# true < instances/X/per_cpu/cpu0/trace_pipe_raw
# rmdir instances/X
rmdir: failed to remove `instances/X': Device or resource busy
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130719153644.GA18899@redhat.com
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.10
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Some error paths did not handle ref counting properly, and some trace files need
ref counting.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1374171524-11948-1-git-send-email-azl@google.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.10
Cc: Vaibhav Nagarnaik <vnagarnaik@google.com>
Cc: David Sharp <dhsharp@google.com>
Cc: Alexander Z Lam <lambchop468@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Z Lam <azl@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Remove debugfs directories for tracing instances during creation if an error
occurs causing the trace_array for that instance to not be added to
ftrace_trace_arrays. If the directory continues to exist after the error, it
cannot be removed because the respective trace_array is not in
ftrace_trace_arrays.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1373502874-1706-2-git-send-email-azl@google.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.10
Cc: Vaibhav Nagarnaik <vnagarnaik@google.com>
Cc: David Sharp <dhsharp@google.com>
Cc: Alexander Z Lam <lambchop468@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Z Lam <azl@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
We should use CONFIG_STACK_TRACER to guard readme text
of stack tracer related file, not CONFIG_STACKTRACE.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/51E3B3A2.8080609@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: zhangwei(Jovi) <jovi.zhangwei@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
were added to 3.10, which includes several bug fixes that have been
marked for stable.
As for new features, there were a few, but nothing to write to LWN about.
These include:
New function trigger called "dump" and "cpudump" that will cause
ftrace to dump its buffer to the console when the function is called.
The difference between "dump" and "cpudump" is that "dump" will dump
the entire contents of the ftrace buffer, where as "cpudump" will only
dump the contents of the ftrace buffer for the CPU that called the function.
Another small enhancement is a new sysctl switch called "traceoff_on_warning"
which, when enabled, will disable tracing if any WARN_ON() is triggered.
This is useful if you want to debug what caused a warning and do not
want to risk losing your trace data by the ring buffer overwriting the
data before you can disable it. There's also a kernel command line
option that will make this enabled at boot up called the same thing.
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Merge tag 'trace-3.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull tracing changes from Steven Rostedt:
"The majority of the changes here are cleanups for the large changes
that were added to 3.10, which includes several bug fixes that have
been marked for stable.
As for new features, there were a few, but nothing to write to LWN
about. These include:
New function trigger called "dump" and "cpudump" that will cause
ftrace to dump its buffer to the console when the function is called.
The difference between "dump" and "cpudump" is that "dump" will dump
the entire contents of the ftrace buffer, where as "cpudump" will only
dump the contents of the ftrace buffer for the CPU that called the
function.
Another small enhancement is a new sysctl switch called
"traceoff_on_warning" which, when enabled, will disable tracing if any
WARN_ON() is triggered. This is useful if you want to debug what
caused a warning and do not want to risk losing your trace data by the
ring buffer overwriting the data before you can disable it. There's
also a kernel command line option that will make this enabled at boot
up called the same thing"
* tag 'trace-3.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (34 commits)
tracing: Make tracing_open_generic_{tr,tc}() static
tracing: Remove ftrace() function
tracing: Remove TRACE_EVENT_TYPE enum definition
tracing: Make tracer_tracing_{off,on,is_on}() static
tracing: Fix irqs-off tag display in syscall tracing
uprobes: Fix return value in error handling path
tracing: Fix race between deleting buffer and setting events
tracing: Add trace_array_get/put() to event handling
tracing: Get trace_array ref counts when accessing trace files
tracing: Add trace_array_get/put() to handle instance refs better
tracing: Protect ftrace_trace_arrays list in trace_events.c
tracing: Make trace_marker use the correct per-instance buffer
ftrace: Do not run selftest if command line parameter is set
tracing/kprobes: Don't pass addr=ip to perf_trace_buf_submit()
tracing: Use flag buffer_disabled for irqsoff tracer
tracing/kprobes: Turn trace_probe->files into list_head
tracing: Fix disabling of soft disable
tracing: Add missing syscall_metadata comment
tracing: Simplify code for showing of soft disabled flag
tracing/kprobes: Kill probe_enable_lock
...
I have patches that will use tracing_open_generic_tr/tc() in other
files, but as they are not ready to be merged yet, and Fengguang Wu's
sparse scripts pointed out that these functions were not declared
anywhere, I'll make them static for now.
When these functions are required to be used elsewhere, I'll remove
the static then.
Reported-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
I have patches that will use tracer_tracing_on/off/is_on() in other
files, but as they are not ready to be merged yet, and Fengguang Wu's
sparse scripts pointed out that these functions were not declared
anywhere, I'll make them static for now.
When these functions are required to be used elsewhere, I'll remove
the static then.
Reported-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
When a trace file is opened that may access a trace array, it must
increment its ref count to prevent it from being deleted.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.10
Reported-by: Alexander Lam <azl@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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 cat foo/trace &> /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 reader starts
to open the file but before it grabs the trace_types_mutex.
The solution is to validate the trace array before using it. If the trace
array does not exist in the list of trace arrays, then it returns -ENODEV.
There's a possibility that a trace_array could be deleted and a new one
created and the open would open its file instead. But that is very minor as
it will just return the data of the new trace array, it may confuse the user
but it will not crash the system. As this can only be done by root anyway,
the race will only occur if root is deleting what its trying to read at
the same time.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.10
Reported-by: Alexander Lam <azl@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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>
The trace_marker file was present for each new instance created, but it
added the trace mark to the global trace buffer instead of to
the instance's buffer.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1372717885-4543-2-git-send-email-azl@google.com
Cc: David Sharp <dhsharp@google.com>
Cc: Vaibhav Nagarnaik <vnagarnaik@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>
If the ring buffer is disabled and the irqsoff tracer records a trace it
will clear out its buffer and lose the data it had previously recorded.
Currently there's a callback when writing to the tracing_of file, but if
tracing is disabled via the function tracer trigger, it will not inform
the irqsoff tracer to stop recording.
By using the "mirror" flag (buffer_disabled) in the trace_array, that keeps
track of the status of the trace_array's buffer, it gives the irqsoff
tracer a fast way to know if it should record a new trace or not.
The flag may be a little behind the real state of the buffer, but it
should not affect the trace too much. It's more important for the irqsoff
tracer to be fast.
Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add a traceoff_on_warning option in both the kernel command line as well
as a sysctl option. When set, any WARN*() function that is hit will cause
the tracing_on variable to be cleared, which disables writing to the
ring buffer.
This is useful especially when tracing a bug with function tracing. When
a warning is hit, the print caused by the warning can flood the trace with
the functions that producing the output for the warning. This can make the
resulting trace useless by either hiding where the bug happened, or worse,
by overflowing the buffer and losing the trace of the bug totally.
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Commit 4f271a2a60
(tracing: Add a proc file to stop tracing and free buffer)
implement a method to free up ring buffer in kernel memory
in the release code path of free_buffer's fd.
Then we don't need read/write support for free_buffer,
indeed we just have a dummy write fop, and don't implement read fop.
So the 0200 is more reasonable file mode for free_buffer than
the current file mode 0644.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130526085201.GA3183@udknight
Acked-by: Vaibhav Nagarnaik <vnagarnaik@google.com>
Acked-by: David Sharp <dhsharp@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Wang YanQing <udknight@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Outputting formats of x86-tsc and counter should be a raw format, but after
applying the patch(2b6080f28c), the format was
changed to nanosec. This is because the global variable trace_clock_id was used.
When we use multiple buffers, clock_id of each sub-buffer should be used. Then,
this patch uses tr->clock_id instead of the global variable trace_clock_id.
[ Basically, this fixes a regression where the multibuffer code changed the
trace_clock file to update tr->clock_id but the traces still use the old
global trace_clock_id variable, negating the file's effect. The global
trace_clock_id variable is obsolete and removed. - SR ]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130423013239.22334.7394.stgit@yunodevel
Signed-off-by: Yoshihiro YUNOMAE <yoshihiro.yunomae.ez@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The irqsoff tracer records the max time that interrupts are disabled.
There are hooks in the assembly code that calls back into the tracer when
interrupts are disabled or enabled.
When they are enabled, the tracer checks if the amount of time they
were disabled is larger than the previous recorded max interrupts off
time. If it is, it creates a snapshot of the currently running trace
to store where the last largest interrupts off time was held and how
it happened.
During testing, this RCU lockdep dump appeared:
[ 1257.829021] ===============================
[ 1257.829021] [ INFO: suspicious RCU usage. ]
[ 1257.829021] 3.10.0-rc1-test+ #171 Tainted: G W
[ 1257.829021] -------------------------------
[ 1257.829021] /home/rostedt/work/git/linux-trace.git/include/linux/rcupdate.h:780 rcu_read_lock() used illegally while idle!
[ 1257.829021]
[ 1257.829021] other info that might help us debug this:
[ 1257.829021]
[ 1257.829021]
[ 1257.829021] RCU used illegally from idle CPU!
[ 1257.829021] rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 0
[ 1257.829021] RCU used illegally from extended quiescent state!
[ 1257.829021] 2 locks held by trace-cmd/4831:
[ 1257.829021] #0: (max_trace_lock){......}, at: [<ffffffff810e2b77>] stop_critical_timing+0x1a3/0x209
[ 1257.829021] #1: (rcu_read_lock){.+.+..}, at: [<ffffffff810dae5a>] __update_max_tr+0x88/0x1ee
[ 1257.829021]
[ 1257.829021] stack backtrace:
[ 1257.829021] CPU: 3 PID: 4831 Comm: trace-cmd Tainted: G W 3.10.0-rc1-test+ #171
[ 1257.829021] Hardware name: To Be Filled By O.E.M. To Be Filled By O.E.M./To be filled by O.E.M., BIOS SDBLI944.86P 05/08/2007
[ 1257.829021] 0000000000000001 ffff880065f49da8 ffffffff8153dd2b ffff880065f49dd8
[ 1257.829021] ffffffff81092a00 ffff88006bd78680 ffff88007add7500 0000000000000003
[ 1257.829021] ffff88006bd78680 ffff880065f49e18 ffffffff810daebf ffffffff810dae5a
[ 1257.829021] Call Trace:
[ 1257.829021] [<ffffffff8153dd2b>] dump_stack+0x19/0x1b
[ 1257.829021] [<ffffffff81092a00>] lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0x109/0x112
[ 1257.829021] [<ffffffff810daebf>] __update_max_tr+0xed/0x1ee
[ 1257.829021] [<ffffffff810dae5a>] ? __update_max_tr+0x88/0x1ee
[ 1257.829021] [<ffffffff811002b9>] ? user_enter+0xfd/0x107
[ 1257.829021] [<ffffffff810dbf85>] update_max_tr_single+0x11d/0x12d
[ 1257.829021] [<ffffffff811002b9>] ? user_enter+0xfd/0x107
[ 1257.829021] [<ffffffff810e2b15>] stop_critical_timing+0x141/0x209
[ 1257.829021] [<ffffffff8109569a>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0xf
[ 1257.829021] [<ffffffff811002b9>] ? user_enter+0xfd/0x107
[ 1257.829021] [<ffffffff810e3057>] time_hardirqs_on+0x2a/0x2f
[ 1257.829021] [<ffffffff811002b9>] ? user_enter+0xfd/0x107
[ 1257.829021] [<ffffffff8109550c>] trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x16/0x197
[ 1257.829021] [<ffffffff8109569a>] trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0xf
[ 1257.829021] [<ffffffff811002b9>] user_enter+0xfd/0x107
[ 1257.829021] [<ffffffff810029b4>] do_notify_resume+0x92/0x97
[ 1257.829021] [<ffffffff8154bdca>] int_signal+0x12/0x17
What happened was entering into the user code, the interrupts were enabled
and a max interrupts off was recorded. The trace buffer was saved along with
various information about the task: comm, pid, uid, priority, etc.
The uid is recorded with task_uid(tsk). But this is a macro that uses rcu_read_lock()
to retrieve the data, and this happened to happen where RCU is blind (user_enter).
As only the preempt and irqs off tracers can have this happen, and they both
only have the tsk == current, if tsk == current, use current_uid() instead of
task_uid(), as current_uid() does not use RCU as only current can change its uid.
This fixes the RCU suspicious splat.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
If ftrace=<tracer> is on the kernel command line, when that tracer is
registered, it will be initiated by tracing_set_tracer() to execute that
tracer.
The nop tracer is just a stub tracer that is used to have no tracer
enabled. It is assigned at early bootup as it is the default tracer.
But if ftrace=nop is on the kernel command line, the registering of the
nop tracer will call tracing_set_tracer() which will try to execute
the nop tracer. But it expects tr->current_trace to be assigned something
as it usually is assigned to the nop tracer. As it hasn't been assigned
to anything yet, it causes the system to crash.
The simple fix is to move the tr->current_trace = nop before registering
the nop tracer. The functionality is still the same as the nop tracer
doesn't do anything anyway.
Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
During the 3.10 merge, a conflict happened and the resolution was
almost, but not quite, correct. An if statement was reversed.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
[ Duh. That was just silly of me - Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Along with the usual minor fixes and clean ups there are a few major
changes with this pull request.
1) Multiple buffers for the ftrace facility
This feature has been requested by many people over the last few years.
I even heard that Google was about to implement it themselves. I finally
had time and cleaned up the code such that you can now create multiple
instances of the ftrace buffer and have different events go to different
buffers. This way, a low frequency event will not be lost in the noise
of a high frequency event.
Note, currently only events can go to different buffers, the tracers
(ie. function, function_graph and the latency tracers) still can only
be written to the main buffer.
2) The function tracer triggers have now been extended.
The function tracer had two triggers. One to enable tracing when a
function is hit, and one to disable tracing. Now you can record a
stack trace on a single (or many) function(s), take a snapshot of the
buffer (copy it to the snapshot buffer), and you can enable or disable
an event to be traced when a function is hit.
3) A perf clock has been added.
A "perf" clock can be chosen to be used when tracing. This will cause
ftrace to use the same clock as perf uses, and hopefully this will make
it easier to interleave the perf and ftrace data for analysis.
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Merge tag 'trace-3.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
"Along with the usual minor fixes and clean ups there are a few major
changes with this pull request.
1) Multiple buffers for the ftrace facility
This feature has been requested by many people over the last few
years. I even heard that Google was about to implement it themselves.
I finally had time and cleaned up the code such that you can now
create multiple instances of the ftrace buffer and have different
events go to different buffers. This way, a low frequency event will
not be lost in the noise of a high frequency event.
Note, currently only events can go to different buffers, the tracers
(ie function, function_graph and the latency tracers) still can only
be written to the main buffer.
2) The function tracer triggers have now been extended.
The function tracer had two triggers. One to enable tracing when a
function is hit, and one to disable tracing. Now you can record a
stack trace on a single (or many) function(s), take a snapshot of the
buffer (copy it to the snapshot buffer), and you can enable or disable
an event to be traced when a function is hit.
3) A perf clock has been added.
A "perf" clock can be chosen to be used when tracing. This will cause
ftrace to use the same clock as perf uses, and hopefully this will
make it easier to interleave the perf and ftrace data for analysis."
* tag 'trace-3.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (82 commits)
tracepoints: Prevent null probe from being added
tracing: Compare to 1 instead of zero for is_signed_type()
tracing: Remove obsolete macro guard _TRACE_PROFILE_INIT
ftrace: Get rid of ftrace_profile_bits
tracing: Check return value of tracing_init_dentry()
tracing: Get rid of unneeded key calculation in ftrace_hash_move()
tracing: Reset ftrace_graph_filter_enabled if count is zero
tracing: Fix off-by-one on allocating stat->pages
kernel: tracing: Use strlcpy instead of strncpy
tracing: Update debugfs README file
tracing: Fix ftrace_dump()
tracing: Rename trace_event_mutex to trace_event_sem
tracing: Fix comment about prefix in arch_syscall_match_sym_name()
tracing: Convert trace_destroy_fields() to static
tracing: Move find_event_field() into trace_events.c
tracing: Use TRACE_MAX_PRINT instead of constant
tracing: Use pr_warn_once instead of open coded implementation
ring-buffer: Add ring buffer startup selftest
tracing: Bring Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt up to date
tracing: Add "perf" trace_clock
...
Conflicts:
kernel/trace/ftrace.c
kernel/trace/trace.c
Use strlcpy() instead of strncpy() as it will always add a '\0'
to the end of the string even if the buffer is smaller than what
is being copied.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/51624254.30301@asianux.com
Signed-off-by: Chen Gang <gang.chen@asianux.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The commit 34600f0e9 "tracing: Fix race with max_tr and changing tracers"
fixed the updating of the main buffers with the race of changing
tracers, but left out the fix to the updating of just a per cpu buffer.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
For NUL terminated string we always need to set '\0' at the end.
Signed-off-by: Chen Gang <gang.chen@asianux.com>
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/51624254.30301@asianux.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Update the README file in debugfs/tracing to something more useful.
What's currently in the file is very old and what it shows doesn't
have much use. Heck, it tells you how to mount debugfs! But to read
this file you would have already needed to mount it.
Replace the file with current up-to-date information. It's rather
limited, but what do you expect from a pseudo README file.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
ftrace_dump() had a lot of issues. What ftrace_dump() does, is when
ftrace_dump_on_oops is set (via a kernel parameter or sysctl), it
will dump out the ftrace buffers to the console when either a oops,
panic, or a sysrq-z occurs.
This was written a long time ago when ftrace was fragile to recursion.
But it wasn't written well even for that.
There's a possible deadlock that can occur if a ftrace_dump() is happening
and an NMI triggers another dump. This is because it grabs a lock
before checking if the dump ran.
It also totally disables ftrace, and tracing for no good reasons.
As the ring_buffer now checks if it is read via a oops or NMI, where
there's a chance that the buffer gets corrupted, it will disable
itself. No need to have ftrace_dump() do the same.
ftrace_dump() is now cleaned up where it uses an atomic counter to
make sure only one dump happens at a time. A simple atomic_inc_return()
is enough that is needed for both other CPUs and NMIs. No need for
a spinlock, as if one CPU is running the dump, no other CPU needs
to do it too.
The tracing_on variable is turned off and not turned on. The original
code did this, but it wasn't pretty. By just disabling this variable
we get the result of not seeing traces that happen between crashes.
For sysrq-z, it doesn't get turned on, but the user can always write
a '1' to the tracing_on file. If they are using sysrq-z, then they should
know about tracing_on.
The new code is much easier to read and less error prone. No more
deadlock possibility when an NMI triggers here.
Reported-by: zhangwei(Jovi) <jovi.zhangwei@huawei.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
TRACE_MAX_PRINT macro is defined, but is not used.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/513D8421.4070404@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: zhangwei(Jovi) <jovi.zhangwei@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Use pr_warn_once, instead of making an open coded implementation.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/513D8419.20400@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: zhangwei(Jovi) <jovi.zhangwei@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The function trace_clock() calls "local_clock()" which is exactly
the same clock that perf uses. I'm not sure why perf doesn't call
trace_clock(), as trace_clock() doesn't have any users.
But now it does. As trace_clock() calls local_clock() like perf does,
I added the trace_clock "perf" option that uses trace_clock().
Now the ftrace buffers can use the same clock as perf uses. This
will be useful when perf starts reading the ftrace buffers, and will
be able to interleave them with the same clock data.
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add a simple trace clock called "uptime" for those that are
interested in the uptime of the trace. It uses jiffies as that's
the safest method, as other uptime clocks grab seq locks, which could
cause a deadlock if taken from an event or function tracer.
Requested-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Currently, the only way to stop the latency tracers from doing function
tracing is to fully disable the function tracer from the proc file
system:
echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/ftrace_enabled
This is a big hammer approach as it disables function tracing for
all users. This includes kprobes, perf, stack tracer, etc.
Instead, create a function-trace option that the latency tracers can
check to determine if it should enable function tracing or not.
This option can be set or cleared even while the tracer is active
and the tracers will disable or enable function tracing depending
on how the option was set.
Instead of using the proc file, disable latency function tracing with
echo 0 > /debug/tracing/options/function-trace
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Altough the trace_dump_stack() already skips three functions in
the call to stack trace, which gets the stack trace to start
at the caller of the function, the caller may want to skip some
more too (as it may have helper functions).
Add a skip argument to the trace_dump_stack() that lets the caller
skip back tracing functions that it doesn't care about.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
echo 'schedule:snapshot:1' > /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter
This will cause the scheduler to trigger a snapshot the next time
it's called (you can use any function that's not called by NMI).
Even though it triggers only once, you still need to remove it with:
echo '!schedule:snapshot:0' > /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter
The :1 can be left off for the first command:
echo 'schedule:snapshot' > /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter
But this will cause all calls to schedule to trigger a snapshot.
This must be removed without the ':0'
echo '!schedule:snapshot' > /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter
As adding a "count" is a different operation (internally).
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add alloc_snapshot() and free_snapshot() to allocate and free the
snapshot buffer respectively, and use these to remove duplicate
code.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() to let the tracing_snapshot() functions be
called from modules.
Also add a test to see if the snapshot was called from NMI context
and just warn in the tracing buffer if so, and return.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
There's a few places that ftrace uses trace_printk() for internal
use, but this requires context (normal, softirq, irq, NMI) buffers
to keep things lockless. But the trace_puts() does not, as it can
write the string directly into the ring buffer. Make a internal helper
for trace_puts() and have the internal functions use that.
This way the extra context buffers are not used.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The trace_printk() is extremely fast and is very handy as it can be
used in any context (including NMIs!). But it still requires scanning
the fmt string for parsing the args. Even the trace_bprintk() requires
a scan to know what args will be saved, although it doesn't copy the
format string itself.
Several times trace_printk() has no args, and wastes cpu cycles scanning
the fmt string.
Adding trace_puts() allows the developer to use an even faster
tracing method that only saves the pointer to the string in the
ring buffer without doing any format parsing at all. This will
help remove even more of the "Heisenbug" effect, when debugging.
Also fixed up the F_printk()s for the ftrace internal bprint and print events.
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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>
Move the tracing startup selftest code into its own function and
when not enabled, always have that function succeed.
This makes the register_tracer() function much more readable.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The new snapshot feature is quite handy. It's a way for the user
to take advantage of the spare buffer that, until then, only
the latency tracers used to "snapshot" the buffer when it hit
a max latency. Now users can trigger a "snapshot" manually when
some condition is hit in a program. But a snapshot currently can
not be triggered by a condition inside the kernel.
With the addition of tracing_snapshot() and tracing_snapshot_alloc(),
snapshots can now be taking when a condition is hit, and the
developer wants to snapshot the case without stopping the trace.
Note, any snapshot will overwrite the old one, so take care
in how this is done.
These new functions are to be used like tracing_on(), tracing_off()
and trace_printk() are. That is, they should never be called
in the mainline Linux kernel. They are solely for the purpose
of debugging.
The tracing_snapshot() will not allocate a buffer, but it is
safe to be called from any context (except NMIs). But if a
snapshot buffer isn't allocated when it is called, it will write
to the live buffer, complaining about the lack of a snapshot
buffer, and then stop tracing (giving you the "permanent snapshot").
tracing_snapshot_alloc() will allocate the snapshot buffer if
it was not already allocated and then take the snapshot. This routine
*may sleep*, and must be called from context that can sleep.
The allocation is done with GFP_KERNEL and not atomic.
If you need a snapshot in an atomic context, say in early boot,
then it is best to call the tracing_snapshot_alloc() before then,
where it will allocate the buffer, and then you can use the
tracing_snapshot() anywhere you want and still get snapshots.
Cc: Hiraku Toyooka <hiraku.toyooka.gu@hitachi.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add a ref count to the trace_array structure and prevent removal
of instances that have open descriptors.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add the per_cpu directory to the created tracing instances:
cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/instances
mkdir foo
ls foo/per_cpu/cpu0
buffer_size_kb snapshot_raw trace trace_pipe_raw
snapshot stats trace_pipe
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add the "snapshot" file to the the multi-buffer instances.
cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/instances
mkdir foo
ls foo
buffer_size_kb buffer_total_size_kb events free_buffer set_event
snapshot trace trace_clock trace_marker trace_options trace_pipe
tracing_on
cat foo/snapshot
# tracer: nop
#
#
# * Snapshot is freed *
#
# Snapshot commands:
# echo 0 > snapshot : Clears and frees snapshot buffer
# echo 1 > snapshot : Allocates snapshot buffer, if not already allocated.
# Takes a snapshot of the main buffer.
# echo 2 > snapshot : Clears snapshot buffer (but does not allocate)
# (Doesn't have to be '2' works with any number that
# is not a '0' or '1')
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
There's a bit of duplicate code in creating the trace buffers for
the normal trace buffer and the max trace buffer among the instances
and the main global_trace. This code can be consolidated and cleaned
up a bit making the code cleaner and more readable as well as less
duplication.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The snapshot buffer belongs to the trace array not the tracer that is
running. The trace array should be the data structure that keeps track
of whether or not the snapshot buffer is allocated, not the tracer
desciptor. Having the trace array keep track of it makes modifications
so much easier.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add a 'snapshot_raw' per_cpu file that allows tools to read the raw
binary data of the snapshot buffer.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add the snapshot file into the per_cpu tracing directories to allow
them to be read for an individual cpu. This also allows to clear
an individual cpu from the snapshot buffer.
If the kernel allows it (CONFIG_RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP is set), then
echoing in '1' into one of the per_cpu snapshot files will do an
individual cpu buffer swap instead of the entire file.
Cc: Hiraku Toyooka <hiraku.toyooka.gu@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Currently, the way the latency tracers and snapshot feature works
is to have a separate trace_array called "max_tr" that holds the
snapshot buffer. For latency tracers, this snapshot buffer is used
to swap the running buffer with this buffer to save the current max
latency.
The only items needed for the max_tr is really just a copy of the buffer
itself, the per_cpu data pointers, the time_start timestamp that states
when the max latency was triggered, and the cpu that the max latency
was triggered on. All other fields in trace_array are unused by the
max_tr, making the max_tr mostly bloat.
This change removes the max_tr completely, and adds a new structure
called trace_buffer, that holds the buffer pointer, the per_cpu data
pointers, the time_start timestamp, and the cpu where the latency occurred.
The trace_array, now has two trace_buffers, one for the normal trace and
one for the max trace or snapshot. By doing this, not only do we remove
the bloat from the max_trace but the instances of traces can now use
their own snapshot feature and not have just the top level global_trace have
the snapshot feature and latency tracers for itself.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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>
Move the logic to wake up on ring buffer data into the ring buffer
code itself. This simplifies the tracing code a lot and also has the
added benefit that waiters on one of the instance buffers can be woken
only when data is added to that instance instead of data added to
any instance.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
If the ring buffer is empty, a read to trace_pipe_raw wont block.
The tracing code has the infrastructure to wake up waiting readers,
but the trace_pipe_raw doesn't take advantage of that.
When a read is done to trace_pipe_raw without the O_NONBLOCK flag
set, have the read block until there's data in the requested buffer.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The trace_pipe_raw never implemented polling and this was casing
issues for several utilities. This is now implemented.
Blocked reads still are on the TODO list.
Reported-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Currently only the splice NONBLOCK flag is checked to determine if
the splice read should block or not. But the file descriptor NONBLOCK
flag also needs to be checked.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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>
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>
The global and max-tr currently use static per_cpu arrays for the CPU data
descriptors. But in order to get new allocated trace_arrays, they need to
be allocated per_cpu arrays. Instead of using the static arrays, switch
the global and max-tr to use allocated data.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Pass the struct ftrace_event_file *ftrace_file to the
trace_event_buffer_lock_reserve() (new function that replaces the
trace_current_buffer_lock_reserver()).
The ftrace_file holds a pointer to the trace_array that is in use.
In the case of multiple buffers with different trace_arrays, this
allows different events to be recorded into different buffers.
Also fixed some of the stale comments in include/trace/ftrace.h
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The global_trace variable in kernel/trace/trace.c has been kept 'static' and
local to that file so that it would not be used too much outside of that
file. This has paid off, even though there were lots of changes to make
the trace_array structure more generic (not depending on global_trace).
Removal of a lot of direct usages of global_trace is needed to be able to
create more trace_arrays such that we can add multiple buffers.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Both RING_BUFFER_ALL_CPUS and TRACE_PIPE_ALL_CPU are defined as
-1 and used to say that all the ring buffers are to be modified
or read (instead of just a single cpu, which would be >= 0).
There's no reason to keep TRACE_PIPE_ALL_CPU as it is also started
to be used for more than what it was created for, and now that
the ring buffer code added a generic RING_BUFFER_ALL_CPUS define,
we can clean up the trace code to use that instead and remove
the TRACE_PIPE_ALL_CPU macro.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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>
The latency tracers require the buffers to be in overwrite mode,
otherwise they get screwed up. Force the buffers to stay in overwrite
mode when latency tracers are enabled.
Added a flag_changed() method to the tracer structure to allow
the tracers to see what flags are being changed, and also be able
to prevent the change from happing.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Changing the overwrite mode for the ring buffer via the trace
option only sets the normal buffer. But the snapshot buffer could
swap with it, and then the snapshot would be in non overwrite mode
and the normal buffer would be in overwrite mode, even though the
option flag states otherwise.
Keep the two buffers overwrite modes in sync.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Seems that the tracer flags have never been protected from
synchronous writes. Luckily, admins don't usually modify the
tracing flags via two different tasks. But if scripts were to
be used to modify them, then they could get corrupted.
Move the trace_types_lock that protects against tracers changing
to also protect the flags being set.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Although the swap is wrapped with a spin_lock, the assignment
of the temp buffer used to swap is not within that lock.
It needs to be moved into that lock, otherwise two swaps
happening on two different CPUs, can end up using the wrong
temp buffer to assign in the swap.
Luckily, all current callers of the swap function appear to have
their own locks. But in case something is added that allows two
different callers to call the swap, then there's a chance that
this race can trigger and corrupt the buffers.
New code is coming soon that will allow for this race to trigger.
I've Cc'd stable, so this bug will not show up if someone backports
one of the changes that can trigger this bug.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To use the tracing snapshot feature, writing a '1' into the snapshot
file causes the snapshot buffer to be allocated if it has not already
been allocated and dose a 'swap' with the main buffer, so that the
snapshot now contains what was in the main buffer, and the main buffer
now writes to what was the snapshot buffer.
To free the snapshot buffer, a '0' is written into the snapshot file.
To clear the snapshot buffer, any number but a '0' or '1' is written
into the snapshot file. But if the file is not allocated it returns
-EINVAL error code. This is rather pointless. It is better just to
do nothing and return success.
Acked-by: Hiraku Toyooka <hiraku.toyooka.gu@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
When cat'ing the snapshot file, instead of showing an empty trace
header like the trace file does, show how to use the snapshot
feature.
Also, this is a good place to show if the snapshot has been allocated
or not. Users may want to "pre allocate" the snapshot to have a fast
"swap" of the current buffer. Otherwise, a swap would be slow and might
fail as it would need to allocate the snapshot buffer, and that might
fail under tight memory constraints.
Here's what it looked like before:
# tracer: nop
#
# entries-in-buffer/entries-written: 0/0 #P:4
#
# _-----=> irqs-off
# / _----=> need-resched
# | / _---=> hardirq/softirq
# || / _--=> preempt-depth
# ||| / delay
# TASK-PID CPU# |||| TIMESTAMP FUNCTION
# | | | |||| | |
Here's what it looks like now:
# tracer: nop
#
#
# * Snapshot is freed *
#
# Snapshot commands:
# echo 0 > snapshot : Clears and frees snapshot buffer
# echo 1 > snapshot : Allocates snapshot buffer, if not already allocated.
# Takes a snapshot of the main buffer.
# echo 2 > snapshot : Clears snapshot buffer (but does not allocate)
# (Doesn't have to be '2' works with any number that
# is not a '0' or '1')
Acked-by: Hiraku Toyooka <hiraku.toyooka.gu@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Pull scheduler changes from Ingo Molnar:
"Main changes:
- scheduler side full-dynticks (user-space execution is undisturbed
and receives no timer IRQs) preparation changes that convert the
cputime accounting code to be full-dynticks ready, from Frederic
Weisbecker.
- Initial sched.h split-up changes, by Clark Williams
- select_idle_sibling() performance improvement by Mike Galbraith:
" 1 tbench pair (worst case) in a 10 core + SMT package:
pre 15.22 MB/sec 1 procs
post 252.01 MB/sec 1 procs "
- sched_rr_get_interval() ABI fix/change. We think this detail is not
used by apps (so it's not an ABI in practice), but lets keep it
under observation.
- misc RT scheduling cleanups, optimizations"
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (24 commits)
sched/rt: Add <linux/sched/rt.h> header to <linux/init_task.h>
cputime: Remove irqsave from seqlock readers
sched, powerpc: Fix sched.h split-up build failure
cputime: Restore CPU_ACCOUNTING config defaults for PPC64
sched/rt: Move rt specific bits into new header file
sched/rt: Add a tuning knob to allow changing SCHED_RR timeslice
sched: Move sched.h sysctl bits into separate header
sched: Fix signedness bug in yield_to()
sched: Fix select_idle_sibling() bouncing cow syndrome
sched/rt: Further simplify pick_rt_task()
sched/rt: Do not account zero delta_exec in update_curr_rt()
cputime: Safely read cputime of full dynticks CPUs
kvm: Prepare to add generic guest entry/exit callbacks
cputime: Use accessors to read task cputime stats
cputime: Allow dynamic switch between tick/virtual based cputime accounting
cputime: Generic on-demand virtual cputime accounting
cputime: Move default nsecs_to_cputime() to jiffies based cputime file
cputime: Librarize per nsecs resolution cputime definitions
cputime: Avoid multiplication overflow on utime scaling
context_tracking: Export context state for generic vtime
...
Fix up conflict in kernel/context_tracking.c due to comment additions.
Move rt scheduler definitions out of include/linux/sched.h into
new file include/linux/sched/rt.h
Signed-off-by: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130207094707.7b9f825f@riff.lan
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
On early boot up, when the ftrace ring buffer is initialized, the
static variable current_trace is initialized to &nop_trace.
Before this initialization, current_trace is NULL and will never
become NULL again. It is always reassigned to a ftrace tracer.
Several places check if current_trace is NULL before it uses
it, and this check is frivolous, because at the point in time
when the checks are made the only way current_trace could be
NULL is if ftrace failed its allocations at boot up, and the
paths to these locations would probably not be possible.
By initializing current_trace to &nop_trace where it is declared,
current_trace will never be NULL, and we can remove all these
checks of current_trace being NULL which never needed to be
checked in the first place.
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: Hiraku Toyooka <hiraku.toyooka.gu@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Ftrace has a snapshot feature available from kernel space and
latency tracers (e.g. irqsoff) are using it. This patch enables
user applictions to take a snapshot via debugfs.
Add "snapshot" debugfs file in "tracing" directory.
snapshot:
This is used to take a snapshot and to read the output of the
snapshot.
# echo 1 > snapshot
This will allocate the spare buffer for snapshot (if it is
not allocated), and take a snapshot.
# cat snapshot
This will show contents of the snapshot.
# echo 0 > snapshot
This will free the snapshot if it is allocated.
Any other positive values will clear the snapshot contents if
the snapshot is allocated, or return EINVAL if it is not allocated.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20121226025300.3252.86850.stgit@liselsia
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: David Sharp <dhsharp@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Hiraku Toyooka <hiraku.toyooka.gu@hitachi.com>
[
Fixed irqsoff selftest and also a conflict with a change
that fixes the update_max_tr.
]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Currently the trace buffer read functions use a static variable
"old_tracer" for detecting if the current tracer changes. This
was suitable for a single trace file ("trace"), but to add a
snapshot feature that will use the same function for its file,
a check against a static variable is not sufficient.
To use the output functions for two different files, instead of
storing the current tracer in a static variable, as the trace
iterator descriptor contains a pointer to the original current
tracer's name, that pointer can now be used to check if the
current tracer has changed between different reads of the trace
file.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20121226025252.3252.9276.stgit@liselsia
Signed-off-by: Hiraku Toyooka <hiraku.toyooka.gu@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add a stat about the number of events read from the ring buffer:
# cat /debug/tracing/per_cpu/cpu0/stats
entries: 39869
overrun: 870512
commit overrun: 0
bytes: 1449912
oldest event ts: 6561.368690
now ts: 6565.246426
dropped events: 0
read events: 112 <-- Added
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
__this_cpu_inc_return() or __this_cpu_dec generates a single instruction,
which is faster than __get_cpu_var operation.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/50A9C1BD.1060308@gmail.com
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Shan Wei <davidshan@tencent.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
There's a race condition between the setting of a new tracer and
the update of the max trace buffers (the swap). When a new tracer
is added, it sets current_trace to nop_trace before disabling
the old tracer. At this moment, if the old tracer uses update_max_tr(),
the update may trigger the warning against !current_trace->use_max-tr,
as nop_trace doesn't have that set.
As update_max_tr() requires that interrupts be disabled, we can
add a check to see if current_trace == nop_trace and bail if it
does. Then when disabling the current_trace, set it to nop_trace
and run synchronize_sched(). This will make sure all calls to
update_max_tr() have completed (it was called with interrupts disabled).
As a clean up, this commit also removes shrinking and recreating
the max_tr buffer if the old and new tracers both have use_max_tr set.
The old way use to always shrink the buffer, and then expand it
for the next tracer. This is a waste of time.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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>
There's now a check in tracing_reset_online_cpus() if the buffer is
allocated or NULL. No need to do a check before calling it with max_tr.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
max_tr->buffer could be NULL in the tracing_reset{_online_cpus}. In this
case, a NULL pointer dereference happens, so we should return immediately
from these functions.
Note, the current code does not call tracing_reset*() with max_tr when
its buffer is NULL, but future code will. This patch is needed to prevent
the future code from crashing.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20121219070234.31200.93863.stgit@liselsia
Signed-off-by: Hiraku Toyooka <hiraku.toyooka.gu@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
typeof(&buffer) is a pointer to array of 1024 char, or char (*)[1024].
But, typeof(&buffer[0]) is a pointer to char which match the return type of get_trace_buf().
As well-known, the value of &buffer is equal to &buffer[0].
so return this_cpu_ptr(&percpu_buffer->buffer[0]) can avoid type cast.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/50A1A800.3020102@gmail.com
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Shan Wei <davidshan@tencent.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Commit 0fb9656d "tracing: Make tracing_enabled be equal to tracing_on"
changes the behaviour of trace_pipe, ie. it makes trace_pipe return if
we've read something and tracing is enabled, and this means that we have
to 'cat trace_pipe' again and again while running tests.
IMO the right way is if tracing is enabled, we always block and wait for
ring buffer, or we may lose what we want since ring buffer's size is limited.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1358132051-5410-1-git-send-email-bo.li.liu@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Liu Bo <bo.li.liu@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Commit 02404baf1b "tracing: Remove deprecated tracing_enabled file"
removed the tracing_enabled file as it never worked properly and
the tracing_on file should be used instead. But the tracing_on file
didn't call into the tracers start/stop routines like the
tracing_enabled file did. This caused trace-cmd to break when it
enabled the irqsoff tracer.
If you just did "echo irqsoff > current_tracer" then it would work
properly. But the tool trace-cmd disables tracing first by writing
"0" into the tracing_on file. Then it writes "irqsoff" into
current_tracer and then writes "1" into tracing_on. Unfortunately,
the above commit changed the irqsoff tracer to check the tracing_on
status instead of the tracing_enabled status. If it's disabled then
it does not start the tracer internals.
The problem is that writing "1" into tracing_on does not call the
tracers "start" routine like writing "1" into tracing_enabled did.
This makes the irqsoff tracer not start when using the trace-cmd
tool, and is a regression for userspace.
Simple fix is to have the tracing_on file call the tracers start()
method when being enabled (and the stop() method when disabled).
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The latest change to allow trace options to be set on the command
line also broke the trace_options file.
The zeroing of the last byte of the option name that is echoed into
the trace_option file was removed with the consolidation of some
of the code. The compare between the option and what was written to
the trace_options file fails because the string holding the data
written doesn't terminate with a null character.
A zero needs to be added to the end of the string copied from
user space.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Pull minor tracing updates and fixes from Steven Rostedt:
"It seems that one of my old pull requests have slipped through.
The changes are contained to just the files that I maintain, and are
changes from others that I told I would get into this merge window.
They have already been in linux-next for several weeks, and should be
well tested."
* 'tip/perf/core-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
tracing: Remove unnecessary WARN_ONCE's from tracing_buffers_splice_read
tracing: Remove unneeded checks from the stack tracer
tracing: Add a resize function to make one buffer equivalent to another buffer
Pull trivial branch from Jiri Kosina:
"Usual stuff -- comment/printk typo fixes, documentation updates, dead
code elimination."
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (39 commits)
HOWTO: fix double words typo
x86 mtrr: fix comment typo in mtrr_bp_init
propagate name change to comments in kernel source
doc: Update the name of profiling based on sysfs
treewide: Fix typos in various drivers
treewide: Fix typos in various Kconfig
wireless: mwifiex: Fix typo in wireless/mwifiex driver
messages: i2o: Fix typo in messages/i2o
scripts/kernel-doc: check that non-void fcts describe their return value
Kernel-doc: Convention: Use a "Return" section to describe return values
radeon: Fix typo and copy/paste error in comments
doc: Remove unnecessary declarations from Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c
various: Fix spelling of "asynchronous" in comments.
Fix misspellings of "whether" in comments.
eisa: Fix spelling of "asynchronous".
various: Fix spelling of "registered" in comments.
doc: fix quite a few typos within Documentation
target: iscsi: fix comment typos in target/iscsi drivers
treewide: fix typo of "suport" in various comments and Kconfig
treewide: fix typo of "suppport" in various comments
...
I've legally changed my name with New York State, the US Social Security
Administration, et al. This patch propagates the name change and change
in initials and login to comments in the kernel source as well.
Signed-off-by: Nadia Yvette Chambers <nyc@holomorphy.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
WARN shouldn't be used as a means of communicating failure to a userspace programmer.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120725153908.GA25203@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Trace buffer size is now per-cpu, so that there are the following two
patterns in resizing of buffers.
(1) resize per-cpu buffers to same given size
(2) resize per-cpu buffers to another trace_array's buffer size
for each CPU (such as preparing the max_tr which is equivalent
to the global_trace's size)
__tracing_resize_ring_buffer() can be used for (1), and had
implemented (2) inside it for resetting the global_trace to the
original size.
(2) was also implemented in another place. So this patch assembles
them in a new function - resize_buffer_duplicate_size().
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20121017025616.2627.91226.stgit@falsita
Signed-off-by: Hiraku Toyooka <hiraku.toyooka.gu@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Show raw time stamp values for stats per cpu if you choose counter or tsc mode
for trace_clock. Although a unit of tracing time stamp is nsec in local or global mode,
the units in counter and TSC mode are tracing counter and cycles respectively.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1352837903-32191-3-git-send-email-dhsharp@google.com
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Yoshihiro YUNOMAE <yoshihiro.yunomae.ez@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sharp <dhsharp@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
In order to promote interoperability between userspace tracers and ftrace,
add a trace_clock that reports raw TSC values which will then be recorded
in the ring buffer. Userspace tracers that also record TSCs are then on
exactly the same time base as the kernel and events can be unambiguously
interlaced.
Tested: Enabled a tracepoint and the "tsc" trace_clock and saw very large
timestamp values.
v2:
Move arch-specific bits out of generic code.
v3:
Rename "x86-tsc", cleanups
v7:
Generic arch bits in Kbuild.
Google-Bug-Id: 6980623
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1352837903-32191-1-git-send-email-dhsharp@google.com
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sharp <dhsharp@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add trace_options to the kernel command line parameter to be able to
set options at early boot. For example, to enable stack dumps of
events, add the following:
trace_options=stacktrace
This along with the trace_event option, you can get not only
traces of the events but also the stack dumps with them.
Requested-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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>
The tracing_enabled file was used as a quick way to stop
tracers, and try to bring down overhead for things like
the latency tracers (irqsoff, wakeup, etc). But it didn't
work that well.
The tracing_on file was created as a really fast way to
stop recording into the ftrace ring buffer and can interact
with the kernel. That is a tracing_off() call in the kernel
can disable recording of events, and then from userspace one
could echo 1 into the tracing_on file to continue it. The
tracing_enabled function did too much to allow for this.
The tracing_on has taken over as a way to start and stop tracing
and the tracing_enabled file should not be used. But because of
its existance, it still confuses people. Over a year ago the
following commit was added:
commit 6752ab4a9c
Author: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Date: Tue Feb 8 13:54:06 2011 -0500
tracing: Deprecate tracing_enabled for tracing_on
This commit added a WARN_ON() if the tracing_enabled file's variable
was changed. After this was added, only LatencyTop complained, and
they soon fixed their tool as there was no reason that LatencyTop
should touch this file as it was using the perf ring buffers which
this file does not interact with. But since that time no one else
has complained about this WARN_ON(). Thus it is safe to assume that
this file is no longer needed. Time to get rid of it.
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The tracing_enabled file has been deprecated as it never was able
to serve its purpose well. The tracing_on file has taken over.
Instead of having code to keep tracing_enabled, have the tracing_enabled
file just set tracing_on, and remove the tracing_enabled variable.
This allows us to remove the tracing_enabled file. The reason that
the remove is in a different change set and not removed here is
in case we find some lonely userspace tool that requires the file
to exist. Then the removal patch will get reverted, but this one
will not.
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The function register_tracer() is only used by kernel core code,
that never needs to remove the tracer. As trace_events have become
the main way to add new tracing to the kernel, the need to
unregister a tracer has diminished. Remove the unused function
unregister_tracer(). If a need arises where we need it, then we
can always add it back.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Because the "tsc" clock isn't in nanoseconds, the ring buffer must be
reset when changing clocks so that incomparable timestamps don't end up
in the same trace.
Tested: Confirmed switching clocks resets the trace buffer.
Google-Bug-Id: 6980623
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1349998076-15495-3-git-send-email-dhsharp@google.com
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sharp <dhsharp@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Whenever an event is registered, the comm of tasks are saved at
every task switch instead of saving them at every event. But if
an event isn't executed much, the comm cache will be filled up
by tasks that did not record the event and you lose out on the comms
that did.
Here's an example, if you enable the following events:
echo 1 > /debug/tracing/events/kvm/kvm_cr/enable
echo 1 > /debug/tracing/events/net/net_dev_xmit/enable
Note, there's no kvm running on this machine so the first event will
never be triggered, but because it is enabled, the storing of comms
will continue. If we now disable the network event:
echo 0 > /debug/tracing/events/net/net_dev_xmit/enable
and look at the trace:
cat /debug/tracing/trace
sshd-2672 [001] ..s2 375.731616: net_dev_xmit: dev=eth0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6de0 len=242 rc=0
sshd-2672 [001] ..s1 375.731617: net_dev_xmit: dev=br0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6de0 len=242 rc=0
sshd-2672 [001] ..s2 375.859356: net_dev_xmit: dev=eth0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6de0 len=242 rc=0
sshd-2672 [001] ..s1 375.859357: net_dev_xmit: dev=br0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6de0 len=242 rc=0
sshd-2672 [001] ..s2 375.947351: net_dev_xmit: dev=eth0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6de0 len=242 rc=0
sshd-2672 [001] ..s1 375.947352: net_dev_xmit: dev=br0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6de0 len=242 rc=0
sshd-2672 [001] ..s2 376.035383: net_dev_xmit: dev=eth0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6de0 len=242 rc=0
sshd-2672 [001] ..s1 376.035383: net_dev_xmit: dev=br0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6de0 len=242 rc=0
sshd-2672 [001] ..s2 377.563806: net_dev_xmit: dev=eth0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6de0 len=226 rc=0
sshd-2672 [001] ..s1 377.563807: net_dev_xmit: dev=br0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6de0 len=226 rc=0
sshd-2672 [001] ..s2 377.563834: net_dev_xmit: dev=eth0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6be0 len=114 rc=0
sshd-2672 [001] ..s1 377.563842: net_dev_xmit: dev=br0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6be0 len=114 rc=0
We see that process 2672 which triggered the events has the comm "sshd".
But if we run hackbench for a bit and look again:
cat /debug/tracing/trace
<...>-2672 [001] ..s2 375.731616: net_dev_xmit: dev=eth0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6de0 len=242 rc=0
<...>-2672 [001] ..s1 375.731617: net_dev_xmit: dev=br0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6de0 len=242 rc=0
<...>-2672 [001] ..s2 375.859356: net_dev_xmit: dev=eth0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6de0 len=242 rc=0
<...>-2672 [001] ..s1 375.859357: net_dev_xmit: dev=br0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6de0 len=242 rc=0
<...>-2672 [001] ..s2 375.947351: net_dev_xmit: dev=eth0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6de0 len=242 rc=0
<...>-2672 [001] ..s1 375.947352: net_dev_xmit: dev=br0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6de0 len=242 rc=0
<...>-2672 [001] ..s2 376.035383: net_dev_xmit: dev=eth0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6de0 len=242 rc=0
<...>-2672 [001] ..s1 376.035383: net_dev_xmit: dev=br0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6de0 len=242 rc=0
<...>-2672 [001] ..s2 377.563806: net_dev_xmit: dev=eth0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6de0 len=226 rc=0
<...>-2672 [001] ..s1 377.563807: net_dev_xmit: dev=br0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6de0 len=226 rc=0
<...>-2672 [001] ..s2 377.563834: net_dev_xmit: dev=eth0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6be0 len=114 rc=0
<...>-2672 [001] ..s1 377.563842: net_dev_xmit: dev=br0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6be0 len=114 rc=0
The stored "sshd" comm has been flushed out and we get a useless "<...>".
But by only storing comms after a trace event occurred, we can run
hackbench all day and still get the same output.
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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>
Since tracing is not used by 99% of Linux users, even though tracing
may be configured in, it does not make sense to allocate 1.4 Megs
per CPU for the ring buffers if they are not used. Thus, on boot up
the ring buffers are set to a minimal size until something needs the
and they are expanded.
This works well for events and tracers (function, etc), but for the
asynchronous use of trace_printk() which can write to the ring buffer
at any time, does not expand the buffers.
On boot up a check is made to see if any trace_printk() is used to
see if the trace_printk() temp buffer pages should be allocated. This
same code can be used to expand the buffers as well.
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The existing 'overrun' counter is incremented when the ring
buffer wraps around, with overflow on (the default). We wanted
a way to count requests lost from the buffer filling up with
overflow off, too. I decided to add a new counter instead
of retro-fitting the existing one because it seems like a
different statistic to count conceptually, and also because
of how the code was structured.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1310765038-26399-1-git-send-email-slavapestov@google.com
Signed-off-by: Slava Pestov <slavapestov@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Pull virtio changes from Rusty Russell:
"New workflow: same git trees pulled by linux-next get sent straight to
Linus. Git is awkward at shuffling patches compared with quilt or mq,
but that doesn't happen often once things get into my -next branch."
* 'virtio-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux: (24 commits)
lguest: fix occasional crash in example launcher.
virtio-blk: Disable callback in virtblk_done()
virtio_mmio: Don't attempt to create empty virtqueues
virtio_mmio: fix off by one error allocating queue
drivers/virtio/virtio_pci.c: fix error return code
virtio: don't crash when device is buggy
virtio: remove CONFIG_VIRTIO_RING
virtio: add help to CONFIG_VIRTIO option.
virtio: support reserved vqs
virtio: introduce an API to set affinity for a virtqueue
virtio-ring: move queue_index to vring_virtqueue
virtio_balloon: not EXPERIMENTAL any more.
virtio-balloon: dependency fix
virtio-blk: fix NULL checking in virtblk_alloc_req()
virtio-blk: Add REQ_FLUSH and REQ_FUA support to bio path
virtio-blk: Add bio-based IO path for virtio-blk
virtio: console: fix error handling in init() function
tools: Fix pthread flag for Makefile of trace-agent used by virtio-trace
tools: Add guest trace agent as a user tool
virtio/console: Allocate scatterlist according to the current pipe size
...
Pull user namespace changes from Eric Biederman:
"This is a mostly modest set of changes to enable basic user namespace
support. This allows the code to code to compile with user namespaces
enabled and removes the assumption there is only the initial user
namespace. Everything is converted except for the most complex of the
filesystems: autofs4, 9p, afs, ceph, cifs, coda, fuse, gfs2, ncpfs,
nfs, ocfs2 and xfs as those patches need a bit more review.
The strategy is to push kuid_t and kgid_t values are far down into
subsystems and filesystems as reasonable. Leaving the make_kuid and
from_kuid operations to happen at the edge of userspace, as the values
come off the disk, and as the values come in from the network.
Letting compile type incompatible compile errors (present when user
namespaces are enabled) guide me to find the issues.
The most tricky areas have been the places where we had an implicit
union of uid and gid values and were storing them in an unsigned int.
Those places were converted into explicit unions. I made certain to
handle those places with simple trivial patches.
Out of that work I discovered we have generic interfaces for storing
quota by projid. I had never heard of the project identifiers before.
Adding full user namespace support for project identifiers accounts
for most of the code size growth in my git tree.
Ultimately there will be work to relax privlige checks from
"capable(FOO)" to "ns_capable(user_ns, FOO)" where it is safe allowing
root in a user names to do those things that today we only forbid to
non-root users because it will confuse suid root applications.
While I was pushing kuid_t and kgid_t changes deep into the audit code
I made a few other cleanups. I capitalized on the fact we process
netlink messages in the context of the message sender. I removed
usage of NETLINK_CRED, and started directly using current->tty.
Some of these patches have also made it into maintainer trees, with no
problems from identical code from different trees showing up in
linux-next.
After reading through all of this code I feel like I might be able to
win a game of kernel trivial pursuit."
Fix up some fairly trivial conflicts in netfilter uid/git logging code.
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: (107 commits)
userns: Convert the ufs filesystem to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
userns: Convert the udf filesystem to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
userns: Convert ubifs to use kuid/kgid
userns: Convert squashfs to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
userns: Convert reiserfs to use kuid and kgid where appropriate
userns: Convert jfs to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
userns: Convert jffs2 to use kuid and kgid where appropriate
userns: Convert hpfs to use kuid and kgid where appropriate
userns: Convert btrfs to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
userns: Convert bfs to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
userns: Convert affs to use kuid/kgid wherwe appropriate
userns: On alpha modify linux_to_osf_stat to use convert from kuids and kgids
userns: On ia64 deal with current_uid and current_gid being kuid and kgid
userns: On ppc convert current_uid from a kuid before printing.
userns: Convert s390 getting uid and gid system calls to use kuid and kgid
userns: Convert s390 hypfs to use kuid and kgid where appropriate
userns: Convert binder ipc to use kuids
userns: Teach security_path_chown to take kuids and kgids
userns: Add user namespace support to IMA
userns: Convert EVM to deal with kuids and kgids in it's hmac computation
...
Use generic steal operation on pipe buffer to allow stealing
ring buffer's read page from pipe buffer.
Note that this could reduce the performance of splice on the
splice_write side operation without affinity setting.
Since the ring buffer's read pages are allocated on the
tracing-node, but the splice user does not always execute
splice write side operation on the same node. In this case,
the page will be accessed from the another node.
Thus, it is strongly recommended to assign the splicing
thread to corresponding node.
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
In our application, we have trace markers spread through user-space.
We have markers in GL, X, etc. These are super handy for Chrome's
about:tracing feature (Chrome + system + kernel trace view), but
can be very distracting when you're trying to debug a kernel issue.
I normally, use "grep -v tracing_mark_write" but it would be nice
if I could just temporarily disable markers all together.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1347066739-26285-1-git-send-email-msb@chromium.org
CC: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
- When tracing capture the kuid.
- When displaying the data to user space convert the kuid into the
user namespace of the process that opened the report file.
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
