Impact: deadlock fix in ring_buffer_read_start
The ring_buffer_iter_reset was called from ring_buffer_read_start
where both grabbed the reader_lock.
This patch separates out the internals of ring_buffer_iter_reset
to its own function so that both APIs may grab the reader_lock.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: Restructure WARN_ONs in ring_buffer.c
The current WARN_ON macros in ring_buffer.c are quite ugly.
This patch cleans them up and uses a single RB_WARN_ON that returns
the value of the condition. This allows the caller to abort the
function if the condition is true.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: enable/disable ring buffer recording API added
Several kernel developers have requested that there be a way to stop
recording into the ring buffers with a simple switch that can also
be enabled from userspace. This patch addes a new kernel API to the
ring buffers called:
tracing_on()
tracing_off()
When tracing_off() is called, all ring buffers will not be able to record
into their buffers.
tracing_on() will enable the ring buffers again.
These two act like an on/off switch. That is, there is no counting of the
number of times tracing_off or tracing_on has been called.
A new file is added to the debugfs/tracing directory called
tracing_on
This allows for userspace applications to also flip the switch.
echo 0 > debugfs/tracing/tracing_on
disables the tracing.
echo 1 > /debugfs/tracing/tracing_on
enables it.
Note, this does not disable or enable any tracers. It only sets or clears
a flag that needs to be set in order for the ring buffers to write to
their buffers. It is a global flag, and affects all ring buffers.
The buffers start out with tracing_on enabled.
There are now three flags that control recording into the buffers:
tracing_on: which affects all ring buffer tracers.
buffer->record_disabled: which affects an allocated buffer, which may be set
if an anomaly is detected, and tracing is disabled.
cpu_buffer->record_disabled: which is set by tracing_stop() or if an
anomaly is detected. tracing_start can not reenable this if
an anomaly occurred.
The userspace debugfs/tracing/tracing_enabled is implemented with
tracing_stop() but the user space code can not enable it if the kernel
called tracing_stop().
Userspace can enable the tracing_on even if the kernel disabled it.
It is just a switch used to stop tracing if a condition was hit.
tracing_on is not for protecting critical areas in the kernel nor is
it for stopping tracing if an anomaly occurred. This is because userspace
can reenable it at any time.
Side effect: With this patch, I discovered a dead variable in ftrace.c
called tracing_on. This patch removes it.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
* 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
timers: handle HRTIMER_CB_IRQSAFE_UNLOCKED correctly from softirq context
nohz: disable tick_nohz_kick_tick() for now
irq: call __irq_enter() before calling the tick_idle_check
x86: HPET: enter hpet_interrupt_handler with interrupts disabled
x86: HPET: read from HPET_Tn_CMP() not HPET_T0_CMP
x86: HPET: convert WARN_ON to WARN_ON_ONCE
* 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
sched: release buddies on yield
fix for account_group_exec_runtime(), make sure ->signal can't be freed under rq->lock
sched: clean up debug info
Impact: serialize reader accesses to individual CPU ring buffers
The code in the ring buffer expects only one reader at a time, but currently
it puts that requirement on the caller. This is not strong enough, and this
patch adds a "reader_lock" that serializes the access to the reader API
of the ring buffer.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Clear buddies on yield, so that the buddy rules don't schedule them
despite them being placed right-most.
This fixed a performance regression with yield-happy binary JVMs.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Tested-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com>
Impact: fix incorrect locking triggered during hotplug-intense stress-tests
While migrating the the CB_IRQSAFE_UNLOCKED timers during a cpu-offline,
we queue them on the cb_pending list, so that they won't go
stale.
Thus, when the callbacks of the timers run from the softirq context,
they could run into potential deadlocks, since these callbacks
assume that they're running with irq's disabled, thereby annoying
lockdep!
Fix this by emulating hardirq context while running these callbacks from
the hrtimer softirq.
=================================
[ INFO: inconsistent lock state ]
2.6.27 #2
--------------------------------
inconsistent {in-hardirq-W} -> {hardirq-on-W} usage.
ksoftirqd/0/4 [HC0[0]:SC1[1]:HE1:SE0] takes:
(&rq->lock){++..}, at: [<c011db84>] sched_rt_period_timer+0x9e/0x1fc
{in-hardirq-W} state was registered at:
[<c014103c>] __lock_acquire+0x549/0x121e
[<c0107890>] native_sched_clock+0x88/0x99
[<c013aa12>] clocksource_get_next+0x39/0x3f
[<c0139abc>] update_wall_time+0x616/0x7df
[<c0141d6b>] lock_acquire+0x5a/0x74
[<c0121724>] scheduler_tick+0x3a/0x18d
[<c047ed45>] _spin_lock+0x1c/0x45
[<c0121724>] scheduler_tick+0x3a/0x18d
[<c0121724>] scheduler_tick+0x3a/0x18d
[<c012c436>] update_process_times+0x3a/0x44
[<c013c044>] tick_periodic+0x63/0x6d
[<c013c062>] tick_handle_periodic+0x14/0x5e
[<c010568c>] timer_interrupt+0x44/0x4a
[<c0150c9f>] handle_IRQ_event+0x13/0x3d
[<c0151c14>] handle_level_irq+0x79/0xbd
[<c0105634>] do_IRQ+0x69/0x7d
[<c01041e4>] common_interrupt+0x28/0x30
[<c047007b>] aac_probe_one+0x1a3/0x3f3
[<c047ec2d>] _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x36/0x39
[<c01512b4>] setup_irq+0x1be/0x1f9
[<c065d70b>] start_kernel+0x259/0x2c5
[<ffffffff>] 0xffffffff
irq event stamp: 50102
hardirqs last enabled at (50102): [<c047ebf4>] _spin_unlock_irq+0x20/0x23
hardirqs last disabled at (50101): [<c047edc2>] _spin_lock_irq+0xa/0x4b
softirqs last enabled at (50088): [<c0128ba6>] do_softirq+0x37/0x4d
softirqs last disabled at (50099): [<c0128ba6>] do_softirq+0x37/0x4d
other info that might help us debug this:
no locks held by ksoftirqd/0/4.
stack backtrace:
Pid: 4, comm: ksoftirqd/0 Not tainted 2.6.27 #2
[<c013f6cb>] print_usage_bug+0x13e/0x147
[<c013fef5>] mark_lock+0x493/0x797
[<c01410b1>] __lock_acquire+0x5be/0x121e
[<c0141d6b>] lock_acquire+0x5a/0x74
[<c011db84>] sched_rt_period_timer+0x9e/0x1fc
[<c047ed45>] _spin_lock+0x1c/0x45
[<c011db84>] sched_rt_period_timer+0x9e/0x1fc
[<c011db84>] sched_rt_period_timer+0x9e/0x1fc
[<c01210fd>] finish_task_switch+0x41/0xbd
[<c0107890>] native_sched_clock+0x88/0x99
[<c011dae6>] sched_rt_period_timer+0x0/0x1fc
[<c0136dda>] run_hrtimer_pending+0x54/0xe5
[<c011dae6>] sched_rt_period_timer+0x0/0x1fc
[<c0128afb>] __do_softirq+0x7b/0xef
[<c0128ba6>] do_softirq+0x37/0x4d
[<c0128c12>] ksoftirqd+0x56/0xc5
[<c0128bbc>] ksoftirqd+0x0/0xc5
[<c0134649>] kthread+0x38/0x5d
[<c0134611>] kthread+0x0/0x5d
[<c0104477>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10
=======================
Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This patch replaces most of the BUG_ONs in the ring_buffer code with
RB_WARN_ON variants. It adds some more variants as needed for the
replacement. This lets the buffer die nicely and still warn the user.
One BUG_ON remains in the code, and that is because it detects a
bad pointer passed in by the calling function, and not a bug by
the ring buffer code itself.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: stop ftrace_special from recursion
The ftrace_special is used to help debug areas of the kernel.
Because of this, if it is put in certain locations, the fact that
it allows recursion can become a problem if the kernel developer
using does not realize that.
This patch changes ftrace_special to not allow recursion into itself
to make it more robust.
It also changes from preempt disable interrupts disable to prevent
any loss of trace entries.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: fix hang/crash on ia64 under high load
This is ugly, but the simplest patch by far.
Unlike other similar routines, account_group_exec_runtime() could be
called "implicitly" from within scheduler after exit_notify(). This
means we can race with the parent doing release_task(), we can't just
check ->signal != NULL.
Change __exit_signal() to do spin_unlock_wait(&task_rq(tsk)->lock)
before __cleanup_signal() to make sure ->signal can't be freed under
task_rq(tsk)->lock. Note that task_rq_unlock_wait() doesn't care
about the case when tsk changes cpu/rq under us, this should be OK.
Thanks to Ingo who nacked my previous buggy patch.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Reported-by: Doug Chapman <doug.chapman@hp.com>
Impact: removal of unnecessary looping
The lockless part of the ring buffer allows for reentry into the code
from interrupts. A timestamp is taken, a test is preformed and if it
detects that an interrupt occurred that did tracing, it tries again.
The problem arises if the timestamp code itself causes a trace.
The detection will detect this and loop again. The difference between
this and an interrupt doing tracing, is that this will fail every time,
and cause an infinite loop.
Currently, we test if the loop happens 1000 times, and if so, it will
produce a warning and disable the ring buffer.
The problem with this approach is that it makes it difficult to perform
some types of tracing (tracing the timestamp code itself).
Each trace entry has a delta timestamp from the previous entry.
If a trace entry is reserved but and interrupt occurs and traces before
the previous entry is commited, the delta timestamp for that entry will
be zero. This actually makes sense in terms of tracing, because the
interrupt entry happened before the preempted entry was commited, so
one may consider the two happening at the same time. The order is
still preserved in the buffer.
With this idea, instead of trying to get a new timestamp if an interrupt
made it in between the timestamp and the test, the entry could simply
make the delta zero and continue. This will prevent interrupts or
tracers in the timer code from causing the above loop.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Impact: fix for bug on resize
This patch addresses the bug found here:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11996
When ftrace converted to the new unified trace buffer, the resizing of
the buffer was not protected as much as it was originally. If tracing
is performed while the resize occurs, then the buffer can be corrupted.
This patch disables all ftrace buffer modifications before a resize
takes place.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Impact: nohz powersavings and wakeup regression
commit fb02fbc14d (NOHZ: restart tick
device from irq_enter()) causes a serious wakeup regression.
While the patch is correct it does not take into account that spurious
wakeups happen on x86. A fix for this issue is available, but we just
revert to the .27 behaviour and let long running softirqs screw
themself.
Disable it for now.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Impact: avoid spurious ksoftirqd wakeups
The tick idle check which is called from irq_enter() was run before
the call to __irq_enter() which did not set the in_interrupt() bits in
preempt_count. That way the raise of a softirq woke up softirqd for
nothing as the softirq was handled on return from interrupt.
Call __irq_enter() before calling into the tick idle check code.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: clean up and fix debug info printout
While looking over the sched_debug code I noticed that we printed the rq
schedstats for every cfs_rq, ammend this.
Also change nr_spead_over into an int, and fix a little buglet in
min_vruntime printing.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'cpus4096' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
cpumask: introduce new API, without changing anything, v3
cpumask: new API, v2
cpumask: introduce new API, without changing anything
Impact: change in trace output
Because the trace buffers are per cpu ring buffers, the start of
the trace can be confusing. If one CPU is very active at the
end of the trace, its history will not go as far back as the
other CPU traces. This means that output for a particular CPU
may not appear for the first part of a trace.
To help annotate what is happening, and to prevent any more
confusion, this patch adds a line that annotates the start of
a CPU buffer output.
For example:
automount-3495 [001] 184.596443: dnotify_parent <-vfs_write
[...]
automount-3495 [001] 184.596449: dput <-path_put
automount-3496 [002] 184.596450: down_read_trylock <-do_page_fault
[...]
sshd-3497 [001] 184.597069: up_read <-do_page_fault
<idle>-0 [000] 184.597074: __exit_idle <-exit_idle
[...]
automount-3496 [002] 184.597257: filemap_fault <-__do_fault
<idle>-0 [003] 184.597261: exit_idle <-smp_apic_timer_interrupt
Note, parsers of a trace output should always ignore any lines that
start with a '#'.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: preemptoff not tested in selftest
Due to the BKL not being preemptable anymore, the selftest of the
preemptoff code can not be tested. It requires that it is called
with preemption enabled, but since the BKL is held, that is no
longer the case.
This patch simply skips those tests if it detects that the context
is not preemptable. The following will now show up in the tests:
Testing tracer preemptoff: can not test ... force PASSED
Testing tracer preemptirqsoff: can not test ... force PASSED
When the BKL is removed, or it becomes preemptable once again, then
the tests will be performed.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: remove obsolete variable in trace_array structure
With the new start / stop method of ftrace, the ctrl variable
in the trace_array structure is now obsolete. Remove it.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: Remove the ctrl_update tracer method
With the new quick start/stop method of tracing, the ctrl_update
method is out of date.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: have the ftrace_printk enabled on startup
It is confusing to have to "echo trace_printk > /debug/tracing/iter_ctrl"
after adding ftrace_printk in the kernel.
Currently the trace_printk is set to off by default. ftrace_printk
should only be in open kernel code when used for debugging, and thus
it should be enabled by default.
It may also be used to record data within a tracer, but those ftrace_printks
should be within wrappers that are either enabled by trace_points or
have a variable protecting the code path from being entered when the
tracer is disabled.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: fix to irqsoff tracer output
In converting to the new start / stop ftrace handling, the irqsoff
tracer start called the irqsoff reset function. irqsoff tracer is
not the same as the other traces, and it resets the buffers while
searching for the longest latency.
The reset that the irqsoff stop method calls disables the function
tracing. That means that, by starting the tracer, the function
tracer is disabled incorrectly.
This patch simply removes the call to reset which keeps the function
tracing enabled. Reset is not needed for the irqsoff stop method.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: fix for sched_switch that broke dynamic ftrace startup
The commit: tracing/fastboot: use sched switch tracer from boot tracer
broke the API of the sched_switch trace. The use of the
tracing_start/stop_cmdline record is for only recording the cmdline,
NOT recording the schedule switches themselves.
Seeing that the boot tracer broke the API to do something that it
wanted, this patch adds a new interface for the API while
puting back the original interface of the old API.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: boot tracer startup modified
The boot tracer calls into some of the schedule tracing private functions
that should not be exported. This patch cleans it up, and makes
way for further changes in the ftrace infrastructure.
This patch adds a api to assign a tracer array to the schedule
context switch tracer.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: fix of output of set_ftrace_filter
Commit ftrace: do not show freed records in available_filter_functions
Removed a bit too much from the set_ftrace_filter code, where we now see
all functions in the set_ftrace_filter file even when we set a filter.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: fix rare memory leak in the sched-domains manual reconfiguration code
In the failure path, rd is not attached to a sched domain,
so it causes a leak.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
Block: use round_jiffies_up()
Add round_jiffies_up and related routines
block: fix __blkdev_get() for removable devices
generic-ipi: fix the smp_mb() placement
blk: move blk_delete_timer call in end_that_request_last
block: add timer on blkdev_dequeue_request() not elv_next_request()
bio: define __BIOVEC_PHYS_MERGEABLE
block: remove unused ll_new_mergeable()
This fixes an oops when reading /proc/sched_debug.
A cgroup won't be removed completely until finishing cgroup_diput(), so we
shouldn't invalidate cgrp->dentry in cgroup_rmdir(). Otherwise, when a
group is being removed while cgroup_path() gets called, we may trigger
NULL dereference BUG.
The bug can be reproduced:
# cat test.sh
#!/bin/sh
mount -t cgroup -o cpu xxx /mnt
for (( ; ; ))
{
mkdir /mnt/sub
rmdir /mnt/sub
}
# ./test.sh &
# cat /proc/sched_debug
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000038
IP: [<c045a47f>] cgroup_path+0x39/0x90
...
Call Trace:
[<c0420344>] ? print_cfs_rq+0x6e/0x75d
[<c0421160>] ? sched_debug_show+0x72d/0xc1e
...
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.26.x, 2.6.27.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Impact: introduce new APIs
We want to deprecate cpumasks on the stack, as we are headed for
gynormous numbers of CPUs. Eventually, we want to head towards an
undefined 'struct cpumask' so they can never be declared on stack.
1) New cpumask functions which take pointers instead of copies.
(cpus_* -> cpumask_*)
2) Several new helpers to reduce requirements for temporary cpumasks
(cpumask_first_and, cpumask_next_and, cpumask_any_and)
3) Helpers for declaring cpumasks on or offstack for large NR_CPUS
(cpumask_var_t, alloc_cpumask_var and free_cpumask_var)
4) 'struct cpumask' for explicitness and to mark new-style code.
5) Make iterator functions stop at nr_cpu_ids (a runtime constant),
not NR_CPUS for time efficiency and for smaller dynamic allocations
in future.
6) cpumask_copy() so we can allocate less than a full cpumask eventually
(for alloc_cpumask_var), and so we can eliminate the 'struct cpumask'
definition eventually.
7) work_on_cpu() helper for doing task on a CPU, rather than saving old
cpumask for current thread and manipulating it.
8) smp_call_function_many() which is smp_call_function_mask() except
taking a cpumask pointer.
Note that this patch simply introduces the new functions and leaves
the obsolescent ones in place. This is to simplify the transition
patches.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This patch (as1158b) adds round_jiffies_up() and friends. These
routines work like the analogous round_jiffies() functions, except
that they will never round down.
The new routines will be useful for timeouts where we don't care
exactly when the timer expires, provided it doesn't expire too soon.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
smp_mb() is needed (to make the memory operations visible globally) before
sending the ipi on the sender and the receiver (on Alpha atleast) needs
smp_read_barrier_depends() in the handler before reading the call_single_queue
list in a lock-free fashion.
On x86, x2apic mode register accesses for sending IPI's don't have serializing
semantics. So the need for smp_mb() before sending the IPI becomes more
critical in x2apic mode.
Remove the unnecessary smp_mb() in csd_flag_wait(), as the presence of that
smp_mb() doesn't mean anything on the sender, when the ipi receiver is not
doing any thing special (like memory fence) after clearing the CSD_FLAG_WAIT.
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Impact: no lockdep debugging of ring buffer
The problem with running lockdep on the ring buffer is that the
ring buffer is the core infrastructure of ftrace. What happens is
that the tracer will start tracing the lockdep code while lockdep
is testing the ring buffers locks. This can cause lockdep to
fail due to testing cases that have not fully finished their
locking transition.
This patch converts the spin locks used by the ring buffer back
into raw spin locks which lockdep does not check.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: change where tracing is started up and stopped
Currently, when a new tracer is selected via echo'ing a tracer name into
the current_tracer file, the startup is only done if tracing_enabled is
set to one. If tracing_enabled is changed to zero (by echo'ing 0 into
the tracing_enabled file) a full shutdown is performed.
The full startup and shutdown of a tracer can be expensive and the
user can lose out traces when echo'ing in 0 to the tracing_enabled file,
because the process takes too long. There can also be places that
the user would like to start and stop the tracer several times and
doing the full startup and shutdown of a tracer might be too expensive.
This patch performs the full startup and shutdown when a tracer is
selected. It also adds a way to do a quick start or stop of a tracer.
The quick version is just a flag that prevents the tracing from
taking place, but the overhead of the code is still there.
For example, the startup of a tracer may enable tracepoints, or enable
the function tracer. The stop and start will just set a flag to
have the tracer ignore the calls when the tracepoint or function trace
is called. The overhead of the tracer may still be present when
the tracer is stopped, but no tracing will occur. Setting the tracer
to the 'nop' tracer (or any other tracer) will perform the shutdown
of the tracer which will disable the tracepoint or disable the
function tracer.
The tracing_enabled file will simply start or stop tracing.
This change is all internal. The end result for the user should be the same
as before. If tracing_enabled is not set, no trace will happen.
If tracing_enabled is set, then the trace will happen. The tracing_enabled
variable is static between tracers. Enabling tracing_enabled and
going to another tracer will keep tracing_enabled enabled. Same
is true with disabling tracing_enabled.
This patch will now provide a fast start/stop method to the users
for enabling or disabling tracing.
Note: There were two methods to the struct tracer that were never
used: The methods start and stop. These were to be used as a hook
to the reading of the trace output, but ended up not being
necessary. These two methods are now used to enable the start
and stop of each tracer, in case the tracer needs to do more than
just not write into the buffer. For example, the irqsoff tracer
must stop recording max latencies when tracing is stopped.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: add way to quickly start stop tracing from the kernel
This patch adds a soft stop and start to the trace. This simply
disables function tracing via the ftrace_disabled flag, and
disables the trace buffers to prevent recording. The tracing
code may still be executed, but the trace will not be recorded.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: quick start and stop of function tracer
This patch adds a way to disable the function tracer quickly without
the need to run kstop_machine. It adds a new variable called
function_trace_stop which will stop the calls to functions from mcount
when set. This is just an on/off switch and does not handle recursion
like preempt_disable().
It's main purpose is to help other tracers/debuggers start and stop tracing
fuctions without the need to call kstop_machine.
The config option HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACE_MCOUNT_TEST is added for archs
that implement the testing of the function_trace_stop in the mcount
arch dependent code. Otherwise, the test is done in the C code.
x86 is the only arch at the moment that supports this.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: scheduling order fix for group scheduling
For each level in the hierarchy, set the buddy to point to the right entity.
Therefore, when we do the hierarchical schedule, we have a fair chance of
ending up where we meant to.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: improve/change/fix wakeup-buddy scheduling
Currently we only have a forward looking buddy, that is, we prefer to
schedule to the task we last woke up, under the presumption that its
going to consume the data we just produced, and therefore will have
cache hot benefits.
This allows co-waking producer/consumer task pairs to run ahead of the
pack for a little while, keeping their cache warm. Without this, we
would interleave all pairs, utterly trashing the cache.
This patch introduces a backward looking buddy, that is, suppose that
in the above scenario, the consumer preempts the producer before it
can go to sleep, we will therefore miss the wakeup from consumer to
producer (its already running, after all), breaking the cycle and
reverting to the cache-trashing interleaved schedule pattern.
The backward buddy will try to schedule back to the task that woke us
up in case the forward buddy is not available, under the assumption
that the last task will be the one with the most cache hot task around
barring current.
This will basically allow a task to continue after it got preempted.
In order to avoid starvation, we allow either buddy to get wakeup_gran
ahead of the pack.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: fix cross-class preemption
Inter-class wakeup preemptions should go on class order.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
In 777e208d40 we changed from outputting
field->cpu (a char) to iter->cpu (unsigned int), increasing the resulting
structure size by 3 bytes.
Signed-off-by: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: fix boot tracer + sched tracer coupling bug
Fix a bug that made the sched_switch tracer unable to run
if set as the current_tracer after the boot tracer.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
