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Author SHA1 Message Date
Tom Zanussi
5819eaddf3 tracing: Reimplement log2
log2 as currently implemented applies only to u64 trace_event_field
derived fields, and assumes that anything it's applied to is a u64
field.

To prepare for synthetic fields like latencies, log2 should be
applicable to those as well, so take the opportunity now to fix the
current problems as well as expand to more general uses.

log2 should be thought of as a chaining function rather than a field
type.  To enable this as well as possible future function
implementations, add a hist_field operand array into the hist_field
definition for this purpose, and make use of it to implement the log2
'function'.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/b47f93fc0b87b36eccf716b0c018f3a71e1f1111.1506105045.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2017-10-04 13:10:39 -04:00
Tom Zanussi
85013256cf tracing: Add hist_field_name() accessor
In preparation for hist_fields that won't be strictly based on
trace_event_fields, add a new hist_field_name() accessor to allow that
flexibility and update associated users.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5b5a2d36dde067cbbe2434b10f06daac27b7dbd5.1506105045.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2017-10-04 13:09:09 -04:00
Tom Zanussi
0d7a8325bf tracing: Clean up hist_field_flags enum
As we add more flags, specifying explicit integers for the flag values
becomes more unwieldy and error-prone - switch them over to left-shift
values.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e644e4fb7665aec015f4a2d84a2f990d3dd5b8a1.1506105045.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2017-10-04 13:06:56 -04:00
Tom Zanussi
a15f7fc203 tracing: Exclude 'generic fields' from histograms
There are a small number of 'generic fields' (comm/COMM/cpu/CPU) that
are found by trace_find_event_field() but are only meant for
filtering.  Specifically, they unlike normal fields, they have a size
of 0 and thus wreak havoc when used as a histogram key.

Exclude these (return -EINVAL) when used as histogram keys.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/956154cbc3e8a4f0633d619b886c97f0f0edf7b4.1506105045.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2017-10-04 13:05:08 -04:00
Colin Ian King
6e7a239811 tracing: Remove redundant unread variable ret
Integer ret is being assigned but never used and hence it is
redundant. Remove it, fixes clang warning:

trace_events_hist.c:1077:3: warning: Value stored to 'ret' is never read

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170823112309.19383-1-colin.king@canonical.com

Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2017-10-04 11:36:55 -04:00
Ingo Molnar
b2d0910310 sched/headers: Prepare to use <linux/rcuupdate.h> instead of <linux/rculist.h> in <linux/sched.h>
We don't actually need the full rculist.h header in sched.h anymore,
we will be able to include the smaller rcupdate.h header instead.

But first update code that relied on the implicit header inclusion.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-03-02 08:42:38 +01:00
Tom Zanussi
7522c03ae3 tracing: Fix use-after-free in hist_register_trigger()
This fixes a use-after-free case flagged by KASAN; make sure the test
happens before the potential free in this case.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/48fd74ab61bebd7dca9714386bb47d7c5ccd6a7b.1467247517.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-08-02 15:16:30 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
47c1856971 tracing: Fix use-after-free in hist_unreg_all/hist_enable_unreg_all
While running tools/testing/selftests test suite with KASAN, Dmitry
Vyukov hit the following use-after-free report:

  ==================================================================
  BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in hist_unreg_all+0x1a1/0x1d0 at addr
  ffff880031632cc0
  Read of size 8 by task ftracetest/7413
  ==================================================================
  BUG kmalloc-128 (Not tainted): kasan: bad access detected
  ------------------------------------------------------------------

This fixes the problem, along with the same problem in
hist_enable_unreg_all().

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/c3d05b79e42555b6e36a3a99aae0e37315ee5304.1467247517.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com

Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
[Copied Steve's hist_enable_unreg_all() fix to hist_unreg_all()]
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-08-02 15:16:02 -04:00
Tom Zanussi
432480c582 tracing: Add check for NULL event field when creating hist field
Smatch flagged create_hist_field() as possibly being able to
dereference a NULL pointer, although the current code exits in all
cases where the event field could be NULL, so it's not actually a
problem.

Still, to prevent future changes to the code from overlooking new
cases, make the NULL pointer check explicit and warn once in that
case.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/cfbc003f534a3e441b4313272fd412310aba6336.1461610073.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-04-26 09:40:29 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
d50c744ecd tracing: Fix unsigned comparison to zero in hist trigger code
Fengguang Wu's bot found two comparisons of unsigned integers to zero. These
were real bugs, as it would miss error conditions returned to zero.

trace_events_hist.c:426:6-9: WARNING: Unsigned expression compared with zero: idx < 0
trace_events_hist.c:568:5-14: WARNING: Unsigned expression compared with zero: n_entries < 0

Reported-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-04-19 18:56:05 -04:00
Namhyung Kim
4b94f5b7b4 tracing: Add hist trigger 'log2' modifier
Allow users to have numeric fields displayed as log2 values in case
value range is very wide by appending '.log2' to field names.

For example,

  # echo 'hist:key=bytes_req' > kmalloc/trigger
  # cat kmalloc/hist

  { bytes_req:        504 } hitcount:          1
  { bytes_req:         11 } hitcount:          1
  { bytes_req:        104 } hitcount:          1
  { bytes_req:         48 } hitcount:          1
  { bytes_req:       2048 } hitcount:          1
  { bytes_req:       4096 } hitcount:          1
  { bytes_req:        240 } hitcount:          1
  { bytes_req:        392 } hitcount:          1
  { bytes_req:         13 } hitcount:          1
  { bytes_req:         28 } hitcount:          1
  { bytes_req:         12 } hitcount:          1
  { bytes_req:         64 } hitcount:          2
  { bytes_req:        128 } hitcount:          2
  { bytes_req:         32 } hitcount:          2
  { bytes_req:          8 } hitcount:         11
  { bytes_req:         10 } hitcount:         13
  { bytes_req:         24 } hitcount:         25
  { bytes_req:        160 } hitcount:         29
  { bytes_req:         16 } hitcount:         33
  { bytes_req:         80 } hitcount:         36

When using '.log2' modifier, the output looks like:

  # echo 'hist:key=bytes_req.log2' > kmalloc/trigger
  # cat kmalloc/hist

  { bytes_req: ~ 2^12 } hitcount:          1
  { bytes_req: ~ 2^11 } hitcount:          1
  { bytes_req: ~ 2^9  } hitcount:          2
  { bytes_req: ~ 2^6  } hitcount:          3
  { bytes_req: ~ 2^3  } hitcount:         13
  { bytes_req: ~ 2^5  } hitcount:         19
  { bytes_req: ~ 2^8  } hitcount:         49
  { bytes_req: ~ 2^7  } hitcount:         57
  { bytes_req: ~ 2^4  } hitcount:         74

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/7ff396b246c6a881f46b979735fddf05a0d6c71a.1457029949.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com

Cc: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-04-19 18:56:03 -04:00
Tom Zanussi
5463bfda32 tracing: Add support for named hist triggers
Allow users to define 'named' hist triggers.  All triggers created
with the same 'name=xxx' option will update the same shared histogram
data.

This expands the hist trigger syntax from this:

    # echo hist:keys=xxx ... [ if filter] > event/trigger

to this:

    # echo hist:name=xxx:keys=xxx ... [ if filter] > event/trigger

Named histograms must use a 'compatible' set of keys and values, which
means each event added to a set of named triggers must have the same
names and types.

Reading the 'hist' file of any of the participating events will
produce the same output as any other participating event, which is to
be expected since they share the same data.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1dbc84ee3322a75daaf5b3ef1d0cc0a2fb682fc7.1457029949.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-04-19 18:56:01 -04:00
Tom Zanussi
52a7f16ded tracing: Add support for multiple hist triggers per event
Allow users to define any number of hist triggers per trace event.
Any number of hist triggers may be added for a given event, which may
differ by key, value, or filter.

Reading the event's 'hist' file will display the output of all the
hist triggers defined on an event concatenated in the order they were
defined.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/48a0c8dd34c344571de880fb35e211c6d9a28961.1457029949.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-04-19 18:55:59 -04:00
Tom Zanussi
d0bad49bb0 tracing: Add enable_hist/disable_hist triggers
Similar to enable_event/disable_event triggers, these triggers enable
and disable the aggregation of events into maps rather than enabling
and disabling their writing into the trace buffer.

They can be used to automatically start and stop hist triggers based
on a matching filter condition.

If there's a paused hist trigger on system:event, the following would
start it when the filter condition was hit:

  # echo enable_hist:system:event [ if filter] > event/trigger

And the following would disable a running system:event hist trigger:

  # echo disable_hist:system:event [ if filter] > event/trigger

See Documentation/trace/events.txt for real examples.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/f812f086e52c8b7c8ad5443487375e03c96a601f.1457029949.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-04-19 18:55:57 -04:00
Tom Zanussi
6a475cb17f tracing: Remove restriction on string position in hist trigger keys
If we assume the maximum size for a string field, we don't have to
worry about its position.  Since we only allow two keys in a compound
key and having more than one string key in a given compound key
doesn't make much sense anyway, trading a bit of extra space instead
of introducing an arbitrary restriction makes more sense.

We also need to use the event field size for static strings when
copying the contents, otherwise we get random garbage in the key.

Also, cast string return values to avoid warnings on 32-bit compiles.

Finally, rearrange the code without changing any functionality by
moving the compound key updating code into a separate function.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/8976e1ab04b66bc2700ad1ed0768a2de85ac1983.1457029949.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-04-19 18:55:56 -04:00
Namhyung Kim
79e577cbce tracing: Support string type key properly
The string in a trace event is usually recorded as dynamic array which
is variable length.  But current hist code only support fixed length
array so it cannot support most strings.

This patch fixes it by checking filter_type of the field and get
proper pointer with it.  With this, it can get a histogram of exec()
based on filenames like below:

  # cd /sys/kernel/tracing/events/sched/sched_process_exec
  # cat 'hist:key=filename' > trigger
  # ps
   PID TTY       TIME CMD
     1 ?     00:00:00 init
    29 ?     00:00:00 sh
    38 ?     00:00:00 ps
  # ls
  enable  filter  format  hist  id  trigger
  # cat hist
  # trigger info: hist:keys=filename:vals=hitcount:sort=hitcount:size=2048 [active]

  { filename: /usr/bin/ps                         } hitcount:          1
  { filename: /usr/bin/ls                         } hitcount:          1
  { filename: /usr/bin/cat                        } hitcount:          1

  Totals:
      Hits: 3
      Entries: 3
      Dropped: 0

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/610180d6df0cfdf11ee205452f3b241dea657233.1457029949.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com

Cc: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
[ Added (unsigned long) typecast to fix compile warning ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-04-19 18:55:00 -04:00
Tom Zanussi
69a0200c2e tracing: Add hist trigger support for stacktraces as keys
It's often useful to be able to use a stacktrace as a hash key, for
keeping a count of the number of times a particular call path resulted
in a trace event, for instance.  Add a special key named 'stacktrace'
which can be used as key in a 'keys=' param for this purpose:

    # echo hist:keys=stacktrace ... \
               [ if filter] > event/trigger

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/87515e90b3785232a874a12156174635a348edb1.1457029949.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-04-19 12:19:01 -04:00
Tom Zanussi
316961988b tracing: Add hist trigger 'syscall' modifier
Allow users to have syscall id fields displayed as syscall names in
the output by appending '.syscall' to field names:

   # echo hist:keys=aaa.syscall ... \
              [ if filter] > event/trigger

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/2bab1e59933d76a14b545bd2e02f80b8b08ac4d3.1457029949.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-04-19 12:18:04 -04:00
Tom Zanussi
6b4827ad02 tracing: Add hist trigger 'execname' modifier
Allow users to have common_pid field values displayed as program names
in the output by appending '.execname' to a common_pid field name:

   # echo hist:keys=common_pid.execname ... \
              [ if filter] > event/trigger

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e172e81f10f5b8d1f08450e3763c850f39fbf698.1457029949.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-04-19 12:17:56 -04:00
Tom Zanussi
c6afad49d1 tracing: Add hist trigger 'sym' and 'sym-offset' modifiers
Allow users to have address fields displayed as symbols in the output
by appending '.sym' or 'sym-offset' to field names:

   # echo hist:keys=aaa.sym,bbb.sym-offset ... \
              [ if filter] > event/trigger

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/87d4935821491c0275513f0fbfb9bab8d3d3f079.1457029949.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-04-19 12:17:51 -04:00
Tom Zanussi
0c4a6b4666 tracing: Add hist trigger 'hex' modifier for displaying numeric fields
Allow users to have numeric fields displayed as hex values in the
output by appending '.hex' to field names:

   # echo hist:keys=aaa,bbb.hex:vals=ccc.hex ... \
              [ if filter] > event/trigger

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/67bd431edda2af5798d7694818f7e8d71b6b3463.1457029949.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-04-19 12:17:43 -04:00
Tom Zanussi
e86ae9baac tracing: Add hist trigger support for clearing a trace
Allow users to append 'clear' to an existing trigger in order to have
the hash table cleared.

This expands the hist trigger syntax from this:
    # echo hist:keys=xxx:vals=yyy:sort=zzz.descending:pause/cont \
           [ if filter] >> event/trigger

to this:

    # echo hist:keys=xxx:vals=yyy:sort=zzz.descending:pause/cont/clear \
          [ if filter] >> event/trigger

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ae15dd0d9b2f7af07a37c1ff682063e2dbcdf160.1457029949.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-04-19 12:17:35 -04:00
Tom Zanussi
83e99914c9 tracing: Add hist trigger support for pausing and continuing a trace
Allow users to append 'pause' or 'continue' to an existing trigger in
order to have it paused or to have a paused trace continue.

This expands the hist trigger syntax from this:
    # echo hist:keys=xxx:vals=yyy:sort=zzz.descending \
          [ if filter] >> event/trigger

to this:

    # echo hist:keys=xxx:vals=yyy:sort=zzz.descending:pause or cont \
          [ if filter] >> event/trigger

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/b672a92c14702cb924cdf6fc27ea1809bed04907.1457029949.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-04-19 12:17:29 -04:00
Tom Zanussi
e62347d245 tracing: Add hist trigger support for user-defined sorting ('sort=' param)
Allow users to specify keys and/or values to sort on.  With this
addition, keys and values specified using the 'keys=' and 'vals='
keywords can be used to sort the hist trigger output via a new 'sort='
keyword.  If multiple sort keys are specified, the output will be
sorted using the second key as a secondary sort key, etc.  The default
sort order is ascending; if the user wants a different sort order,
'.descending' can be appended to the specific sort key.  Before this
addition, output was always sorted by 'hitcount' in ascending order.

This expands the hist trigger syntax from this:

    # echo hist:keys=xxx:vals=yyy \
          [ if filter] > event/trigger

to this:

    # echo hist:keys=xxx:vals=yyy:sort=zzz.descending \
          [ if filter] > event/trigger

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/b30a41db66ba486979c4f987aff5fab500ea53b3.1457029949.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-04-19 12:17:19 -04:00
Tom Zanussi
76a3b0c8ac tracing: Add hist trigger support for compound keys
Allow users to specify multiple trace event fields to use in keys by
allowing multiple fields in the 'keys=' keyword.  With this addition,
any unique combination of any of the fields named in the 'keys'
keyword will result in a new entry being added to the hash table.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/0cfa24e6ac3b0dcece7737d94aa1f322ae3afc4b.1457029949.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-04-19 12:16:33 -04:00
Tom Zanussi
f2606835d7 tracing: Add hist trigger support for multiple values ('vals=' param)
Allow users to specify trace event fields to use in aggregated sums
via a new 'vals=' keyword.  Before this addition, the only aggregated
sum supported was the implied value 'hitcount'.  With this addition,
'hitcount' is also supported as an explicit value field, as is any
numeric trace event field.

This expands the hist trigger syntax from this:

  # echo hist:keys=xxx [ if filter] > event/trigger

to this:

  # echo hist:keys=xxx:vals=yyy [ if filter] > event/trigger

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/2a5d1adb5ba6c65d7bb2148e379f2fed47f29a68.1457029949.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-04-19 12:16:23 -04:00
Tom Zanussi
7ef224d1d0 tracing: Add 'hist' event trigger command
'hist' triggers allow users to continually aggregate trace events,
which can then be viewed afterwards by simply reading a 'hist' file
containing the aggregation in a human-readable format.

The basic idea is very simple and boils down to a mechanism whereby
trace events, rather than being exhaustively dumped in raw form and
viewed directly, are automatically 'compressed' into meaningful tables
completely defined by the user.

This is done strictly via single-line command-line commands and
without the aid of any kind of programming language or interpreter.

A surprising number of typical use cases can be accomplished by users
via this simple mechanism.  In fact, a large number of the tasks that
users typically do using the more complicated script-based tracing
tools, at least during the initial stages of an investigation, can be
accomplished by simply specifying a set of keys and values to be used
in the creation of a hash table.

The Linux kernel trace event subsystem happens to provide an extensive
list of keys and values ready-made for such a purpose in the form of
the event format files associated with each trace event.  By simply
consulting the format file for field names of interest and by plugging
them into the hist trigger command, users can create an endless number
of useful aggregations to help with investigating various properties
of the system.  See Documentation/trace/events.txt for examples.

hist triggers are implemented on top of the existing event trigger
infrastructure, and as such are consistent with the existing triggers
from a user's perspective as well.

The basic syntax follows the existing trigger syntax.  Users start an
aggregation by writing a 'hist' trigger to the event of interest's
trigger file:

  # echo hist:keys=xxx [ if filter] > event/trigger

Once a hist trigger has been set up, by default it continually
aggregates every matching event into a hash table using the event key
and a value field named 'hitcount'.

To view the aggregation at any point in time, simply read the 'hist'
file in the same directory as the 'trigger' file:

  # cat event/hist

The detailed syntax provides additional options for user control, and
is described exhaustively in Documentation/trace/events.txt and in the
virtual tracing/README file in the tracing subsystem.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/72d263b5e1853fe9c314953b65833c3aa75479f2.1457029949.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-04-19 12:16:14 -04:00