Modify soft-mode flag only if no other soft-mode referrer
(currently only the ftrace triggers) by using a reference
counter in each ftrace_event_file.
Without this fix, adding and removing several different
enable/disable_event triggers on the same event clear
soft-mode bit from the ftrace_event_file. This also
happens with a typo of glob on setting triggers.
e.g.
# echo vfs_symlink:enable_event:net:netif_rx > set_ftrace_filter
# cat events/net/netif_rx/enable
0*
# echo typo_func:enable_event:net:netif_rx > set_ftrace_filter
# cat events/net/netif_rx/enable
0
# cat set_ftrace_filter
#### all functions enabled ####
vfs_symlink:enable_event:net:netif_rx:unlimited
As above, we still have a trigger, but soft-mode is gone.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130509054429.30398.7464.stgit@mhiramat-M0-7522
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: David Sharp <dhsharp@google.com>
Cc: Hiraku Toyooka <hiraku.toyooka.gu@hitachi.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The formats of the trace events show if the type of a event field
is signed or not via a macro called is_signed_type(). This does
a trick with the type and compares a -1 to zero after typecasting
to the tested type. If it returns true, it's signed, otherwise
its not. But this unfortunately triggers a warning by gcc:
warning: comparison of unsigned expression < 0 is always false
As we know it is always false (that's why we do it), this is a
false warning. Luckily for us, the comparison works with a 1 as
well, without giving the warning.
Convert the check to compare (type)-1 < (type)0 to (type)-1 < (type)1
to determine if the type is signed or not.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAErSpo4YXcY9fuOKWYGDkddJwk68kmZTohsmVB6QvrhjboOh1Q@mail.gmail.com
Reported-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Reported-by: Gary Hade <garyhade@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
In order to let triggers enable or disable events, we need a 'soft'
method for doing so. For example, if a function probe is added that
lets a user enable or disable events when a function is called, that
change must be done without taking locks or a mutex, and definitely
it can't sleep. But the full enabling of a tracepoint is expensive.
By adding a 'SOFT_DISABLE' flag, and converting the flags to be updated
without the protection of a mutex (using set/clear_bit()), this soft
disable flag can be used to allow critical sections to enable or disable
events from being traced (after the event has been placed into "SOFT_MODE").
Some caveats though: The comm recorder (to map pids with a comm) can not
be soft disabled (yet). If you disable an event with with a "soft"
disable and wait a while before reading the trace, the comm cache may be
replaced and you'll get a bunch of <...> for comms in the trace.
Reading the "enable" file for an event that is disabled will now give
you "0*" where the '*' denotes that the tracepoint is still active but
the event itself is "disabled".
[ fixed _BIT used in & operation : thanks to Dan Carpenter and smatch ]
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Most of the flags for the struct ftrace_event_file were moved over
to the flags of the struct ftrace_event_call, but the comments were
never updated.
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, when a module with events is unloaded, the trace buffer is
cleared. This is just a safety net in case the module might have some
strange callback when its event is outputted. But there's no reason
to reset the buffer if the module didn't have any of its events traced.
Add a flag to the event "call" structure called WAS_ENABLED and gets set
when the event is ever enabled, and this flag never gets cleared. When a
module gets unloaded, if any of its events have this flag set, then the
trace buffer will get cleared.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
All the trace event flags have comments but the IGNORE_ENABLE flag
which is set for ftrace internal events that should not be enabled
via the debugfs "enable" file. That is, if the top level enable file
is set, it will enable all events. It use to just check the ftrace
event call descriptor "reg" field and skip those whithout it, but now
some ftrace internal events have a reg field but still need to be
skipped. The flag was created to ignore those events.
Now document it.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Move duplicate code in event print functions to a helper function.
This shrinks the size of the kernel by ~13K.
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6583002 1743849 10138672 18465523 119c2f3 vmlinux.o.new
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/51258746.2060304@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
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 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>
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>
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>
Sparse complains when is_signed_type() is used on a pointer.
This macro is needed for the format output used for ftrace
and perf, to know if a binary field is a signed type or not.
The is_signed_type() macro is used against all fields that are
recorded by events to automate the operation.
The problem sparse has is with the current way is_signed_type()
works:
((type)-1 < 0)
If "type" is a poiner, than sparse does not like it being compared
to an integer (zero). The simple fix is to just give zero the
same type. The runtime result stays the same.
Reported-by: Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@free.fr>
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>
A few events are interesting not only for a current task.
For example, sched_stat_* events are interesting for a task
which wakes up. For this reason, it will be good if such
events will be delivered to a target task too.
Now a target task can be set by using __perf_task().
The original idea and a draft patch belongs to Peter Zijlstra.
I need these events for profiling sleep times. sched_switch is used for
getting callchains and sched_stat_* is used for getting time periods.
These events are combined in user space, then it can be analyzed by
perf tools.
Inspired-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1342016098-213063-1-git-send-email-avagin@openvz.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Replace the NR_CPUS array of buffer_iter from the trace_iterator
with an allocated array. This will just create an array of
possible CPUS instead of the max number specified.
The use of NR_CPUS in that array caused allocation failures for
machines that were tight on memory. This did not cause any failures
to the system itself (no crashes), but caused unnecessary failures
for reading the trace files.
Added a helper function called 'trace_buffer_iter()' that returns
the buffer_iter item or NULL if it is not defined or the array was
not allocated. Some routines do not require the array
(tracing_open_pipe() for one).
Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
TRACE_EVENT_FL_ENABLED_BIT,
TRACE_EVENT_FL_FILTERED_BIT,
TRACE_EVENT_FL_RECORDED_CMD_BIT,
Have comments about what they are, but:
TRACE_EVENT_FL_CAP_ANY_BIT,
TRACE_EVENT_FL_NO_SET_FILTER_BIT,
TRACE_EVENT_FL_IGNORE_ENABLE_BIT,
do not, making them second class citizens. To prevent another
class warfare, these bits have protested for their right to be
commented. And By Golly! I'll give them what they want!
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
With the adding of function tracing event to perf, it caused a
side effect that produces the following warning when enabling all
events in ftrace:
# echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/enable
[console]
event trace: Could not enable event function
This is because when enabling all events via the debugfs system
it ignores events that do not have a ->reg() function assigned.
This was to skip over the ftrace internal events (as they are
not TRACE_EVENTs). But as the ftrace function event now has
a ->reg() function attached to it for use with perf, it is no
longer ignored.
Worse yet, this ->reg() function is being called when it should
not be. It returns an error and causes the above warning to
be printed.
By adding a new event_call flag (TRACE_EVENT_FL_IGNORE_ENABLE)
and have all ftrace internel event structures have it set,
setting the events/enable will no longe try to incorrectly enable
the function event and does not warn.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Fix for unused symbols in switch warnings.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120313230302.GA1514@m.redhat.com
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Adding FILTER_TRACE_FN event field type for function tracepoint
event, so it can be properly recognized within filtering code.
Currently all fields of ftrace subsystem events share the common
field type FILTER_OTHER. Since the function trace fields need
special care within the filtering code we need to recognize it
properly, hence adding the FILTER_TRACE_FN event type.
Adding filter parameter to the FTRACE_ENTRY macro, to specify the
filter field type for the event.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1329317514-8131-7-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Adding TRACE_REG_PERF_ADD and TRACE_REG_PERF_DEL to handle
perf event schedule in/out actions.
The add action is invoked for when the perf event is scheduled in,
while the del action is invoked when the event is scheduled out.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1329317514-8131-4-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Adding TRACE_REG_PERF_OPEN and TRACE_REG_PERF_CLOSE to differentiate
register/unregister from open/close actions.
The register/unregister actions are invoked for the first/last
tracepoint user when opening/closing the event.
The open/close actions are invoked for each tracepoint user when
opening/closing the event.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1329317514-8131-3-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Though not all events have field 'prev_pid', it was allowed to do this:
# echo 'prev_pid == 100' > events/sched/filter
but commit 75b8e98263 (tracing/filter: Swap
entire filter of events) broke it without any reason.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4EAF46CF.8040408@cn.fujitsu.com
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Currently the stack trace per event in ftace is only 8 frames.
This can be quite limiting and sometimes useless. Especially when
the "ignore frames" is wrong and we also use up stack frames for
the event processing itself.
Change this to be dynamic by adding a percpu buffer that we can
write a large stack frame into and then copy into the ring buffer.
For interrupts and NMIs that come in while another event is being
process, will only get to use the 8 frame stack. That should be enough
as the task that it interrupted will have the full stack frame anyway.
Requested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Fix to support kernel stack trace correctly on kprobe-tracer.
Since the execution path of kprobe-based dynamic events is different
from other tracepoint-based events, normal ftrace_trace_stack() doesn't
work correctly. To fix that, this introduces ftrace_trace_stack_regs()
which traces stack via pt_regs instead of current stack register.
e.g.
# echo p schedule+4 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/kprobe_events
# echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/options/stacktrace
# echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kprobes/enable
# head -n 20 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace
bash-2968 [000] 10297.050245: p_schedule_4: (schedule+0x4/0x4ca)
bash-2968 [000] 10297.050247: <stack trace>
=> schedule_timeout
=> n_tty_read
=> tty_read
=> vfs_read
=> sys_read
=> system_call_fastpath
kworker/0:1-2940 [000] 10297.050265: p_schedule_4: (schedule+0x4/0x4ca)
kworker/0:1-2940 [000] 10297.050266: <stack trace>
=> worker_thread
=> kthread
=> kernel_thread_helper
sshd-1132 [000] 10297.050365: p_schedule_4: (schedule+0x4/0x4ca)
sshd-1132 [000] 10297.050365: <stack trace>
=> sysret_careful
Note: Even with this fix, the first entry will be skipped
if the probe is put on the function entry area before
the frame pointer is set up (usually, that is 4 bytes
(push %bp; mov %sp %bp) on x86), because stack unwinder
depends on the frame pointer.
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: yrl.pp-manager.tt@hitachi.com
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110608070934.17777.17116.stgit@fedora15
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Filesystem, like Btrfs, has some "ULL" macros, and when these macros are passed
to tracepoints'__print_symbolic(), there will be 64->32 truncate WARNINGS during
compiling on 32bit box.
Signed-off-by: Liu Bo <liubo2009@cn.fujitsu.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4DACE6E0.7000507@cn.fujitsu.com
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
This partially reverts commit e6e1e25935.
That commit changed the structure layout of the trace structure, which
in turn broke PowerTOP (1.9x generation) quite badly.
I appreciate not wanting to expose the variable in question, and
PowerTOP was not using it, so I've replaced the variable with just a
padding field - that way if in the future a new field is needed it can
just use this padding field.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The lock_depth field in the event headers was added as a temporary
data point for help in removing the BKL. Now that the BKL is pretty
much been removed, we can remove this field.
This in turn changes the header from 12 bytes to 8 bytes,
removing the 4 byte buffer that gcc would insert if the first field
in the data load was 8 bytes in size.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The MAX_FILTER_PRED is only needed by the kernel/trace/*.c files.
Move it to kernel/trace/trace.h.
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Currently we have in something like the sched_switch event:
field:char prev_comm[TASK_COMM_LEN]; offset:12; size:16; signed:1;
When a userspace tool such as perf tries to parse this, the
TASK_COMM_LEN is meaningless. This is done because the TRACE_EVENT() macro
simply uses a #len to show the string of the length. When the length is
an enum, we get a string that means nothing for tools.
By adding a static buffer and a mutex to protect it, we can store the
string into that buffer with snprintf and show the actual number.
Now we get:
field:char prev_comm[16]; offset:12; size:16; signed:1;
Something much more useful.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
As for the raw syscalls events, individual syscall events won't
leak system wide information on task bound tracing. Allow non
privileged users to use them in such workflow.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
This adds a new trace event internal flag that allows them to be
used in perf by non privileged users in case of task bound tracing.
This is desired for syscalls tracepoint because they don't leak
global system informations, like some other tracepoints.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Replace pmu::{enable,disable,start,stop,unthrottle} with
pmu::{add,del,start,stop}, all of which take a flags argument.
The new interface extends the capability to stop a counter while
keeping it scheduled on the PMU. We replace the throttled state with
the generic stopped state.
This also allows us to efficiently stop/start counters over certain
code paths (like IRQ handlers).
It also allows scheduling a counter without it starting, allowing for
a generic frozen state (useful for rotating stopped counters).
The stopped state is implemented in two different ways, depending on
how the architecture implemented the throttled state:
1) We disable the counter:
a) the pmu has per-counter enable bits, we flip that
b) we program a NOP event, preserving the counter state
2) We store the counter state and ignore all read/overflow events
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: paulus <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: stephane eranian <eranian@googlemail.com>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Cc: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Cc: Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Deng-Cheng Zhu <dengcheng.zhu@gmail.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Michael Cree <mcree@orcon.net.nz>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
__print_flags() and __print_symbolic() use percpu trace_seq:
1) Its memory is allocated at compile time, it wastes memory if we don't use tracing.
2) It is percpu data and it wastes more memory for multi-cpus system.
3) It disables preemption when it executes its core routine
"trace_seq_printf(s, "%s: ", #call);" and introduces latency.
So we move this trace_seq to struct trace_iterator.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4C078350.7090106@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
We found that even enabling a single trace event that will rarely be
triggered can add big overhead to context switch.
(lmbench context switch test)
-------------------------------------------------
2p/0K 2p/16K 2p/64K 8p/16K 8p/64K 16p/16K 16p/64K
ctxsw ctxsw ctxsw ctxsw ctxsw ctxsw ctxsw
------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------- -------
2.19 2.3 2.21 2.56 2.13 2.54 2.07
2.39 2.51 2.35 2.75 2.27 2.81 2.24
The overhead is 6% ~ 11%.
It's because when a trace event is enabled 3 tracepoints (sched_switch,
sched_wakeup, sched_wakeup_new) will be activated to map pid to cmdname.
We'd like to avoid this overhead, so add a trace option '(no)record-cmd'
to allow to disable cmdline recording.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4C2D57F4.2050204@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Because kprobes and syscalls need special processing to register
events, the class->reg() method was created to handle the differences.
But instead of creating a default ->reg for perf and ftrace events,
the code was scattered with:
if (class->reg)
class->reg();
else
default_reg();
This is messy and can also lead to bugs.
This patch cleans up this code and creates a default reg() entry for
the events allowing for the code to directly call the class->reg()
without the condition.
Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Inline perf_swevent_put_recursion_context into perf_tp_event(), this
shrinks the per trace template code footprint and saves a function
call.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (61 commits)
tracing: Add __used annotation to event variable
perf, trace: Fix !x86 build bug
perf report: Support multiple events on the TUI
perf annotate: Fix up usage of the build id cache
x86/mmiotrace: Remove redundant instruction prefix checks
perf annotate: Add TUI interface
perf tui: Remove annotate from popup menu after failure
perf report: Don't start the TUI if -D is used
perf: Fix getline undeclared
perf: Optimize perf_tp_event_match()
perf: Remove more code from the fastpath
perf: Optimize the !vmalloc backed buffer
perf: Optimize perf_output_copy()
perf: Fix wakeup storm for RO mmap()s
perf-record: Share per-cpu buffers
perf-record: Remove -M
perf: Ensure that IOC_OUTPUT isn't used to create multi-writer buffers
perf, trace: Optimize tracepoints by using per-tracepoint-per-cpu hlist to track events
perf, trace: Optimize tracepoints by removing IRQ-disable from perf/tracepoint interaction
perf tui: Allow disabling the TUI on a per command basis in ~/.perfconfig
...
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6: (182 commits)
[SCSI] aacraid: add an ifdef'd device delete case instead of taking the device offline
[SCSI] aacraid: prohibit access to array container space
[SCSI] aacraid: add support for handling ATA pass-through commands.
[SCSI] aacraid: expose physical devices for models with newer firmware
[SCSI] aacraid: respond automatically to volumes added by config tool
[SCSI] fcoe: fix fcoe module ref counting
[SCSI] libfcoe: FIP Keep-Alive messages for VPorts are sent with incorrect port_id and wwn
[SCSI] libfcoe: Fix incorrect MAC address clearing
[SCSI] fcoe: fix a circular locking issue with rtnl and sysfs mutex
[SCSI] libfc: Move the port_id into lport
[SCSI] fcoe: move link speed checking into its own routine
[SCSI] libfc: Remove extra pointer check
[SCSI] libfc: Remove unused fc_get_host_port_type
[SCSI] fcoe: fixes wrong error exit in fcoe_create
[SCSI] libfc: set seq_id for incoming sequence
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Updates to ISP82xx support.
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Optionally disable target reset.
[SCSI] qla2xxx: ensure flash operation and host reset via sg_reset are mutually exclusive
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Silence bogus warning by gcc for wrap and did.
[SCSI] qla2xxx: T10 DIF support added.
...
Avoid the swevent hash-table by using per-tracepoint
hlists.
Also, avoid conditionals on the fast path by ordering
with probe unregister so that we should never get on
the callback path without the data being there.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <20100521090710.473188012@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
When we've got but a single event per tracepoint
there is no reason to try and multiplex it so don't.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Tested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The flags variable is protected by the event_mutex when modifying,
but the event_mutex is not held when reading the variable.
This is due to the fact that the reads occur in critical sections where
taking a mutex (or even a spinlock) is not wanted.
But the two flags that exist (enable and filter_active) have the code
written as such to handle the reads to not need a lock.
The enable flag is used just to know if the event is enabled or not
and its use is always under the event_mutex. Whether or not the event
is actually enabled is really determined by the tracepoint being
registered. The flag is just a way to let the code know if the tracepoint
is registered.
The filter_active is different. It is read without the lock. If it
is set, then the event probes jump to the filter code. There can be a
slight mismatch between filters available and filter_active. If the flag is
set but no filters are available, the code safely jumps to a filter nop.
If the flag is not set and the filters are available, then the filters
are skipped. This is acceptable since filters are usually set before
tracing or they are set by humans, which would not notice the slight
delay that this causes.
v2: Fixed typo: "cacheing" -> "caching"
Reported-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The filter_active and enable both use an int (4 bytes each) to
set a single flag. We can save 4 bytes per event by combining the
two into a single integer.
text data bss dec hex filename
4913961 1088356 861512 6863829 68bbd5 vmlinux.orig
4894944 1018052 861512 6774508 675eec vmlinux.id
4894871 1012292 861512 6768675 674823 vmlinux.flags
This gives us another 5K in savings.
The modification of both the enable and filter fields are done
under the event_mutex, so it is still safe to combine the two.
Note: Although Mathieu gave his Acked-by, he would like it documented
that the reads of flags are not protected by the mutex. The way the
code works, these reads will not break anything, but will have a
residual effect. Since this behavior is the same even before this
patch, describing this situation is left to another patch, as this
patch does not change the behavior, but just brought it to Mathieu's
attention.
v2: Updated the event trace self test to for this change.
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Now that the trace_event structure is embedded in the ftrace_event_call
structure, there is no need for the ftrace_event_call id field.
The id field is the same as the trace_event type field.
Removing the id and re-arranging the structure brings down the tracepoint
footprint by another 5K.
text data bss dec hex filename
4913961 1088356 861512 6863829 68bbd5 vmlinux.orig
4895024 1023812 861512 6780348 6775bc vmlinux.print
4894944 1018052 861512 6774508 675eec vmlinux.id
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Currently, every event has its own trace_event structure. This is
fine since the structure is needed anyway. But the print function
structure (trace_event_functions) is now separate. Since the output
of the trace event is done by the class (with the exception of events
defined by DEFINE_EVENT_PRINT), it makes sense to have the class
define the print functions that all events in the class can use.
This makes a bigger deal with the syscall events since all syscall events
use the same class. The savings here is another 30K.
text data bss dec hex filename
4913961 1088356 861512 6863829 68bbd5 vmlinux.orig
4900382 1048964 861512 6810858 67ecea vmlinux.init
4900446 1049028 861512 6810986 67ed6a vmlinux.preprint
4895024 1023812 861512 6780348 6775bc vmlinux.print
To accomplish this, and to let the class know what event is being
printed, the event structure is embedded in the ftrace_event_call
structure. This should not be an issues since the event structure
was created for each event anyway.
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
