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Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
57d01ad097 tracing: Fix comments for ftrace_event_file/call flags
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>
2013-03-15 00:36:02 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
12883efb67 tracing: Consolidate max_tr into main trace_array structure
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>
2013-03-15 00:35:40 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
575380da8b tracing: Only clear trace buffer on module unload if event was traced
Currently, when a module with events is unloaded, the trace buffer is
cleared. This is just a safety net in case the module might have some
strange callback when its event is outputted. But there's no reason
to reset the buffer if the module didn't have any of its events traced.

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

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-03-15 00:34:56 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
2a30c11f6a tracing: Add comment for trace event flag IGNORE_ENABLE
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>
2013-03-15 00:34:55 -04:00
Li Zefan
f71130de5c tracing: Add a helper function for event print functions
Move duplicate code in event print functions to a helper function.

This shrinks the size of the kernel by ~13K.

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
6596137 1743966 10138672        18478775        119f6b7 vmlinux.o.old
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>
2013-03-15 00:34:51 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
ccb469a198 tracing: Pass the ftrace_file to the buffer lock reserve code
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>
2013-03-15 00:34:42 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
ae63b31e4d tracing: Separate out trace events from global variables
The trace events for ftrace are all defined via global variables.
The arrays of events and event systems are linked to a global list.
This prevents multiple users of the event system (what to enable and
what not to).

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

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-03-15 00:34:40 -04:00
Hiraku Toyooka
debdd57f51 tracing: Make a snapshot feature available from userspace
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>
2013-01-30 11:02:06 -05:00
Steven Rostedt
b000c8065a tracing: Remove the extra 4 bytes of padding in events
Due to a userspace issue with PowerTop v2beta, which hardcoded
the offset of event fields that it was using, it broke when
we removed the Big Kernel Lock counter from the event header.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-01-21 21:05:41 -05:00
Steven Rostedt
418c59e49d tracing: Fix sparse warning with is_signed_type() macro
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>
2013-01-21 13:22:28 -05:00
David Sharp
8be0709f10 tracing: Format non-nanosec times from tsc clock without a decimal point.
With the addition of the "tsc" clock, formatting timestamps to look like
fractional seconds is misleading. Mark clocks as either in nanoseconds or
not, and format non-nanosecond timestamps as decimal integers.

Tested:
$ cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
$ cat trace_clock
[local] global tsc
$ echo sched_switch > set_event
$ echo 1 > tracing_on ; sleep 0.0005 ; echo 0 > tracing_on
$ cat trace
          <idle>-0     [000]  6330.555552: sched_switch: prev_comm=swapper prev_pid=0 prev_prio=120 prev_state=R ==> next_comm=bash next_pid=29964 next_prio=120
           sleep-29964 [000]  6330.555628: sched_switch: prev_comm=bash prev_pid=29964 prev_prio=120 prev_state=S ==> next_comm=swapper next_pid=0 next_prio=120
  ...
$ echo 1 > options/latency-format
$ cat trace
  <idle>-0       0 4104553247us+: sched_switch: prev_comm=swapper prev_pid=0 prev_prio=120 prev_state=R ==> next_comm=bash next_pid=29964 next_prio=120
   sleep-29964   0 4104553322us+: sched_switch: prev_comm=bash prev_pid=29964 prev_prio=120 prev_state=S ==> next_comm=swapper next_pid=0 next_prio=120
  ...
$ echo tsc > trace_clock
$ cat trace
$ echo 1 > tracing_on ; sleep 0.0005 ; echo 0 > tracing_on
$ echo 0 > options/latency-format
$ cat trace
          <idle>-0     [000] 16490053398357: sched_switch: prev_comm=swapper prev_pid=0 prev_prio=120 prev_state=R ==> next_comm=bash next_pid=31128 next_prio=120
           sleep-31128 [000] 16490053588518: sched_switch: prev_comm=bash prev_pid=31128 prev_prio=120 prev_state=S ==> next_comm=swapper next_pid=0 next_prio=120
  ...
echo 1 > options/latency-format
$ cat trace
  <idle>-0       0 91557653238+: sched_switch: prev_comm=swapper prev_pid=0 prev_prio=120 prev_state=R ==> next_comm=bash next_pid=31128 next_prio=120
   sleep-31128   0 91557843399+: sched_switch: prev_comm=bash prev_pid=31128 prev_prio=120 prev_state=S ==> next_comm=swapper next_pid=0 next_prio=120
  ...

v2:
Move arch-specific bits out of generic code.
v4:
Fix x86_32 build due to 64-bit division.

Google-Bug-Id: 6980623
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1352837903-32191-2-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>
2012-11-13 15:48:40 -05:00
Steven Rostedt
0d5c6e1c19 tracing: Use irq_work for wake ups and remove *_nowake_*() functions
Have the ring buffer commit function use the irq_work infrastructure to
wake up any waiters waiting on the ring buffer for new data. The irq_work
was created for such a purpose, where doing the actual wake up at the
time of adding data is too dangerous, as an event or function trace may
be in the midst of the work queue locks and cause deadlocks. The irq_work
will either delay the action to the next timer interrupt, or trigger an IPI
to itself forcing an interrupt to do the work (in a safe location).

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

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-11-02 10:21:52 -04:00
Andrew Vagin
e6dab5ffab perf/trace: Add ability to set a target task for events
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>
2012-07-31 17:02:05 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
6d158a813e tracing: Remove NR_CPUS array from trace_iterator
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>
2012-06-28 13:52:15 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
5da43bed80 tracing: Add comments for the other bits of ftrace_event_call.flags
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>
2012-06-14 15:22:13 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
9b63776fa3 tracing: Do not enable function event with enable
With the adding of function tracing event to perf, it caused a
side effect that produces the following warning when enabling all
events in ftrace:

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

[console]
event trace: Could not enable event function

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

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

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

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-05-10 15:55:43 -04:00
Jiri Olsa
37d7399892 perf: Add ifdef to remove unused enum switch warnings
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>
2012-03-14 08:47:58 -04:00
Jiri Olsa
02aa3162ed ftrace: Allow to specify filter field type for ftrace events
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>
2012-02-21 11:08:29 -05:00
Jiri Olsa
489c75c3b3 ftrace, perf: Add add/del tracepoint perf registration actions
Adding TRACE_REG_PERF_ADD and TRACE_REG_PERF_DEL to handle
perf event schedule in/out actions.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-02-21 11:08:24 -05:00
Li Zefan
27b14b56af tracing: Restore system filter behavior
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>
2011-12-05 13:28:45 -05:00
Steven Rostedt
4a9bd3f134 tracing: Have dynamic size event stack traces
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>
2011-07-14 16:36:53 -04:00
Masami Hiramatsu
1fd8df2c39 tracing/kprobes: Fix kprobe-tracer to support stack trace
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>
2011-06-14 22:48:53 -04:00
liubo
2fc1b6f0d0 tracing: Add __print_symbolic_u64 to avoid warnings on 32bit machine
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>
2011-05-25 22:13:44 -04:00
Arjan van de Ven
a3a4a5acd3 Regression: partial revert "tracing: Remove lock_depth from event entry"
This partially reverts commit e6e1e25935.

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

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

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-06 13:20:59 -07:00
Steven Rostedt
e6e1e25935 tracing: Remove lock_depth from event entry
The lock_depth field in the event headers was added as a temporary
data point for help in removing the BKL. Now that the BKL is pretty
much been removed, we can remove this field.

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

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-03-10 10:31:48 -05:00
Steven Rostedt
4a3d27e98a tracing/filter: Move MAX_FILTER_PRED to local tracing directory
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>
2011-02-07 20:56:20 -05:00
Steven Rostedt
0429578016 tracing/events: Show real number in array fields
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>
2010-11-19 10:18:47 -05:00
Frederic Weisbecker
53cf810b19 tracing: Allow syscall trace events for non privileged users
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>
2010-11-18 14:37:44 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker
61c32659b1 tracing: New flag to allow non privileged users to use a trace event
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>
2010-11-18 14:37:40 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
a4eaf7f146 perf: Rework the PMU methods
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>
2010-09-09 20:46:30 +02:00
Namhyung Kim
6016ee13db perf, tracing: add missing __percpu markups
ftrace_event_call->perf_events, perf_trace_buf,
fgraph_data->cpu_data and some local variables are percpu pointers
missing __percpu markups. Add them.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <1281498479-28551-1-git-send-email-namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2010-08-19 01:33:05 +02:00
Lai Jiangshan
bc289ae98b tracing: Reduce latency and remove percpu trace_seq
__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>
2010-07-20 22:05:34 -04:00
Li Zefan
e870e9a124 tracing: Allow to disable cmdline recording
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>
2010-07-20 21:52:33 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
a1d0ce8213 tracing: Use class->reg() for all registering of events
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>
2010-06-28 21:13:14 -04:00
Peter Zijlstra
ecc55f84b2 perf, trace: Inline perf_swevent_put_recursion_context()
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>
2010-06-09 11:12:33 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
c5617b200a Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* '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
  ...
2010-05-27 15:23:47 -07:00
Steven Rostedt
ff5f149b6a Merge branch 'perf/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip into trace/tip/tracing/core-7
Conflicts:
	include/linux/ftrace_event.h
	include/trace/ftrace.h
	kernel/trace/trace_event_perf.c
	kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
	kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-05-21 11:49:57 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
33cf23b0a5 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6
* 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.
  ...
2010-05-21 07:19:18 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra
1c024eca51 perf, trace: Optimize tracepoints by using per-tracepoint-per-cpu hlist to track events
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>
2010-05-21 11:37:56 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
b7e2ecef92 perf, trace: Optimize tracepoints by removing IRQ-disable from perf/tracepoint interaction
Improves performance.

Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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: <1274259525.5605.10352.camel@twins>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-05-21 11:37:56 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
dfacc4d6c9 Merge branch 'perf/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing into perf/core 2010-05-20 14:38:55 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
4f41c013f5 perf/ftrace: Optimize perf/tracepoint interaction for single events
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>
2010-05-18 18:35:46 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
1eaa4787a7 tracing: Comment the use of event_mutex with trace event flags
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>
2010-05-14 21:17:41 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
553552ce17 tracing: Combine event filter_active and enable into single flags field
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>
2010-05-14 14:33:22 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
32c0edaeaa tracing: Remove duplicate id information in event structure
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>
2010-05-14 14:33:15 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
80decc70af tracing: Move print functions into event class
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>
2010-05-14 14:20:34 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
a9a5776380 tracing: Allow events to share their print functions
Multiple events may use the same method to print their data.
Instead of having all events have a pointer to their print funtions,
the trace_event structure now points to a trace_event_functions structure
that will hold the way to print ouf the event.

The event itself is now passed to the print function to let the print
function know what kind of event it should print.

This opens the door to consolidating the way several events print
their output.

   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

This change slightly increases the size but is needed for the next change.

v3: Fix the branch tracer events to handle this change.

v2: Fix the new function graph tracer event calls to handle this change.

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>
2010-05-14 14:20:32 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
0405ab80aa tracing: Move raw_init from events to class
The raw_init function pointer in the event is used to initialize
various kinds of events. The type of initialization needed is usually
classed to the kind of event it is.

Two events with the same class will always have the same initialization
function, so it makes sense to move this to the class structure.

Perhaps even making a special system structure would work since
the initialization is the same for all events within a system.
But since there's no system structure (yet), this will just move it
to the class.

   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
4913961	1088356	 861512	6863829	 68bbd5	vmlinux.orig
4900375	1053380	 861512	6815267	 67fe23	vmlinux.fields
4900382	1048964	 861512	6810858	 67ecea	vmlinux.init

The text grew very slightly, but this is a constant growth that happened
with the changing of the C files that call the init code.
The bigger savings is the data which will be saved the more events share
a class.

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>
2010-05-14 14:20:30 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
2e33af0295 tracing: Move fields from event to class structure
Move the defined fields from the event to the class structure.
Since the fields of the event are defined by the class they belong
to, it makes sense to have the class hold the information instead
of the individual events. The events of the same class would just
hold duplicate information.

After this change the size of the kernel dropped another 3K:

   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
4913961	1088356	 861512	6863829	 68bbd5	vmlinux.orig
4900252	1057412	 861512	6819176	 680d68	vmlinux.regs
4900375	1053380	 861512	6815267	 67fe23	vmlinux.fields

Although the text increased, this was mainly due to the C files
having to adapt to the change. This is a constant increase, where
new tracepoints will not increase the Text. But the big drop is
in the data size (as well as needed allocations to hold the fields).
This will give even more savings as more tracepoints are created.

Note, if just TRACE_EVENT()s are used and not DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS()
with several DEFINE_EVENT()s, then the savings will be lost. But
we are pushing developers to consolidate events with DEFINE_EVENT()
so this should not be an issue.

The kprobes define a unique class to every new event, but are dynamic
so it should not be a issue.

The syscalls however have a single class but the fields for the individual
events are different. The syscalls use a metadata to define the
fields. I moved the fields list from the event to the metadata and
added a "get_fields()" function to the class. This function is used
to find the fields. For normal events and kprobes, get_fields() just
returns a pointer to the fields list_head in the class. For syscall
events, it returns the fields list_head in the metadata for the event.

v2:  Fixed the syscall fields. The syscall metadata needs a list
     of fields for both enter and exit.

Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-05-14 14:20:23 -04:00