Al Viro reviewed the filter logic of ftrace trace events and found it to be
very troubling. It creates a binary tree based on the logic operators and
walks it during tracing. He sent myself and Tom Zanussi a long explanation
(and formal proof) of how to do the string parsing better and end up with a
program array that can be simply iterated to come up with the correct
results.
I took his ideas and his pseudo code and rewrote the filter logic based on
them. In doing so, I was able to remove a lot of code, and have a much more
condensed filter logic in the process. I wrote a very long comment
describing the methadology that Al proposed in my own words. For more info
on how this works, read the comment above predicate_parse().
Suggested-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The pred_funcs_##type arrays consist of five functions that are assigned
based on the ops. The array must be in the same order of the ops each
function represents. The PRED_FUNC_START macro denotes the op enum that
starts the op that maps to the pred_funcs_##type arrays. This is all very
subtle and prone to bugs if the code is changed.
Add comments describing how PRED_FUNC_START and pred_funcs_##type array is
used, and also a PRED_FUNC_MAX that is the maximum number of functions in
the arrays.
Clean up select_comparison_fn() that assigns the predicates to the
pred_funcs_##type array function as well as add protection in case an op is
passed in that does not map correctly to the array.
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Instead of having a separate enum that is the index into another array, like
a string array, make a single macro that combines them into a single list,
and then the two can not get out of sync. This makes it easier to add and
remove items.
The macro trick is:
#define DOGS \
C( JACK, "Jack Russell") \
C( ITALIAN, "Italian Greyhound") \
C( GERMAN, "German Shepherd")
#undef C
#define C(a, b) a
enum { DOGS };
#undef C
#define C(a, b) b
static char dogs[] = { DOGS };
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The replace_filter_string() frees the current string and then copies a given
string. But in the two locations that it was used, the allocation happened
right after the filter was allocated (nothing to replace). There's no need
for this to be a helper function. Embedding the allocation in the two places
where it was called will make changing the code in the future easier.
Also make the variable consistent (always use "filter_string" as the name,
as it was used in one instance as "filter_str")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
replace_system_preds() creates a filter list to free even when it doesn't
really need to have it. Only save filters that require synchronize_sched()
in the filter list to free. This will allow the code to be updated a bit
easier in the future.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The __alloc_filter() function does nothing more that allocate the filter.
There's no reason to have it as a helper function.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The filter code does open code string appending to produce an error message.
Instead it can be simplified by using trace_seq function helpers.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
There's no reason to BUG if there's a bug in the filtering code. Simply do a
warning and return.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Synthetic events can be done within the recording of other events. Notify
the ring buffer via ring_buffer_nest_start() and ring_buffer_nest_end() that
this is intended and not to block it due to its recursion protection.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The ring-buffer code has recusion protection in case tracing ends up tracing
itself, the ring-buffer will detect that it was called at the same context
(normal, softirq, interrupt or NMI), and not continue to record the event.
With the histogram synthetic events, they are called while tracing another
event at the same context. The recusion protection triggers because it
detects tracing at the same context and stops it.
Add ring_buffer_nest_start() and ring_buffer_nest_end() that will notify the
ring buffer that a trace is about to happen within another trace and that it
is intended, and not to trigger the recursion blocking.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The default clock if timestamps are used in a histogram is "global".
If timestamps aren't used, the clock is irrelevant.
Use the "clock=" param only if you want to override the default
"global" clock for a histogram with timestamps.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/427bed1389c5d22aa40c3e0683e30cc3d151e260.1516069914.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rajvi Jingar <rajvi.jingar@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Allow tracing code outside of trace.c to access tracing_set_clock().
Some applications may require a particular clock in order to function
properly, such as latency calculations.
Also, add an accessor returning the current clock string.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/6d1c53e9ee2163f54e1849f5376573f54f0e6009.1516069914.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>
With the addition of variables and actions, it's become necessary to
provide more detailed error information to users about syntax errors.
Add a 'last error' facility accessible via the erroring event's 'hist'
file. Reading the hist file after an error will display more detailed
information about what went wrong, if information is available. This
extended error information will be available until the next hist
trigger command for that event.
# echo xxx > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/sched/sched_wakeup/trigger
echo: write error: Invalid argument
# cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/sched/sched_wakeup/hist
ERROR: Couldn't yyy: zzz
Last command: xxx
Also add specific error messages for variable and action errors.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/64e9c422fc8aeafcc2f7a3b4328c0cffe7969129.1516069914.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>
Add support for alias=$somevar where alias can be used as
onmatch.xxx($alias).
Aliases are a way of creating a new name for an existing variable, for
flexibly in making naming more clear in certain cases. For example in
the below the user perhaps feels that using $new_lat in the synthetic
event invocation is opaque or doesn't fit well stylistically with
previous triggers, so creates an alias of $new_lat named $latency and
uses that in the call instead:
# echo 'hist:keys=next_pid:new_lat=common_timestamp.usecs' >
/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/sched/sched_switch/trigger
# echo 'hist:keys=pid:latency=$new_lat:
onmatch(sched.sched_switch).wake2($latency,pid)' >
/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/synthetic/wake1/trigger
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ef20a65d921af3a873a6f1e8c71407c926d5586f.1516069914.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>
The existing code only allows for one space before and after the 'if'
specifying the filter for a hist trigger. Add code to make that more
permissive as far as whitespace goes. Specifically, we want to allow
spaces in the trigger itself now that we have additional syntax
(onmatch/onmax) where spaces are more natural e.g. spaces after commas
in param lists.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1053090c3c308d4f431accdeb59dff4b511d4554.1516069914.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>
Add an 'onmax(var).save(field,...)' hist trigger action which is
invoked whenever an event exceeds the current maximum.
The end result is that the trace event fields or variables specified
as the onmax.save() params will be saved if 'var' exceeds the current
maximum for that hist trigger entry. This allows context from the
event that exhibited the new maximum to be saved for later reference.
When the histogram is displayed, additional fields displaying the
saved values will be printed.
As an example the below defines a couple of hist triggers, one for
sched_wakeup and another for sched_switch, keyed on pid. Whenever a
sched_wakeup occurs, the timestamp is saved in the entry corresponding
to the current pid, and when the scheduler switches back to that pid,
the timestamp difference is calculated. If the resulting latency
exceeds the current maximum latency, the specified save() values are
saved:
# echo 'hist:keys=pid:ts0=common_timestamp.usecs \
if comm=="cyclictest"' >> \
/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/sched/sched_wakeup/trigger
# echo 'hist:keys=next_pid:\
wakeup_lat=common_timestamp.usecs-$ts0:\
onmax($wakeup_lat).save(next_comm,prev_pid,prev_prio,prev_comm) \
if next_comm=="cyclictest"' >> \
/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/sched/sched_switch/trigger
When the histogram is displayed, the max value and the saved values
corresponding to the max are displayed following the rest of the
fields:
# cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/sched/sched_switch/hist
{ next_pid: 3728 } hitcount: 199 \
max: 123 next_comm: cyclictest prev_pid: 0 \
prev_prio: 120 prev_comm: swapper/3
{ next_pid: 3730 } hitcount: 1321 \
max: 15 next_comm: cyclictest prev_pid: 0 \
prev_prio: 120 prev_comm: swapper/1
{ next_pid: 3729 } hitcount: 1973\
max: 25 next_comm: cyclictest prev_pid: 0 \
prev_prio: 120 prev_comm: swapper/0
Totals:
Hits: 3493
Entries: 3
Dropped: 0
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/006907f71b1e839bb059337ec3c496f84fcb71de.1516069914.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>
Add an 'onmatch(matching.event).<synthetic_event_name>(param list)'
hist trigger action which is invoked with the set of variables or
event fields named in the 'param list'. The result is the generation
of a synthetic event that consists of the values contained in those
variables and/or fields at the time the invoking event was hit.
As an example the below defines a simple synthetic event using a
variable defined on the sched_wakeup_new event, and shows the event
definition with unresolved fields, since the sched_wakeup_new event
with the testpid variable hasn't been defined yet:
# echo 'wakeup_new_test pid_t pid; int prio' >> \
/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/synthetic_events
# cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/synthetic_events
wakeup_new_test pid_t pid; int prio
The following hist trigger both defines a testpid variable and
specifies an onmatch() trace action that uses that variable along with
a non-variable field to generate a wakeup_new_test synthetic event
whenever a sched_wakeup_new event occurs, which because of the 'if
comm == "cyclictest"' filter only happens when the executable is
cyclictest:
# echo 'hist:testpid=pid:keys=$testpid:\
onmatch(sched.sched_wakeup_new).wakeup_new_test($testpid, prio) \
if comm=="cyclictest"' >> \
/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/sched/sched_wakeup_new/trigger
Creating and displaying a histogram based on those events is now just
a matter of using the fields and new synthetic event in the
tracing/events/synthetic directory, as usual:
# echo 'hist:keys=pid,prio:sort=pid,prio' >> \
/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/synthetic/wakeup_new_test/trigger
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/8c2a574bcb7530c876629c901ecd23911b14afe8.1516069914.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rajvi Jingar <rajvi.jingar@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Users should be able to directly specify event fields in hist trigger
'actions' rather than being forced to explicitly create a variable for
that purpose.
Add support allowing fields to be used directly in actions, which
essentially does just that - creates 'invisible' variables for each
bare field specified in an action. If a bare field refers to a field
on another (matching) event, it even creates a special histogram for
the purpose (since variables can't be defined on an existing histogram
after histogram creation).
Here's a simple example that demonstrates both. Basically the
onmatch() action creates a list of variables corresponding to the
parameters of the synthetic event to be generated, and then uses those
values to generate the event. So for the wakeup_latency synthetic
event 'call' below the first param, $wakeup_lat, is a variable defined
explicitly on sched_switch, where 'next_pid' is just a normal field on
sched_switch, and prio is a normal field on sched_waking.
Since the mechanism works on variables, those two normal fields just
have 'invisible' variables created internally for them. In the case of
'prio', which is on another event, we actually need to create an
additional hist trigger and define the invisible variable on that, since
once a hist trigger is defined, variables can't be added to it later.
echo 'wakeup_latency u64 lat; pid_t pid; int prio' >>
/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/synthetic_events
echo 'hist:keys=pid:ts0=common_timestamp.usecs >>
/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/sched/sched_waking/trigger
echo 'hist:keys=next_pid:wakeup_lat=common_timestamp.usecs-$ts0:
onmatch(sched.sched_waking).wakeup_latency($wakeup_lat,next_pid,prio)
>> /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/sched/sched_switch/trigger
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/8e8dcdac1ea180ed7a3689e1caeeccede9dc42b3.1516069914.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>
Synthetic events are user-defined events generated from hist trigger
variables saved from one or more other events.
To define a synthetic event, the user writes a simple specification
consisting of the name of the new event along with one or more
variables and their type(s), to the tracing/synthetic_events file.
For instance, the following creates a new event named 'wakeup_latency'
with 3 fields: lat, pid, and prio:
# echo 'wakeup_latency u64 lat; pid_t pid; int prio' >> \
/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/synthetic_events
Reading the tracing/synthetic_events file lists all the
currently-defined synthetic events, in this case the event we defined
above:
# cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/synthetic_events
wakeup_latency u64 lat; pid_t pid; int prio
At this point, the synthetic event is ready to use, and a histogram
can be defined using it:
# echo 'hist:keys=pid,prio,lat.log2:sort=pid,lat' >> \
/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/synthetic/wakeup_latency/trigger
The new event is created under the tracing/events/synthetic/ directory
and looks and behaves just like any other event:
# ls /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/synthetic/wakeup_latency
enable filter format hist id trigger
Although a histogram can be defined for it, nothing will happen until
an action tracing that event via the trace_synth() function occurs.
The trace_synth() function is very similar to all the other trace_*
invocations spread throughout the kernel, except in this case the
trace_ function and its corresponding tracepoint isn't statically
generated but defined by the user at run-time.
How this can be automatically hooked up via a hist trigger 'action' is
discussed in a subsequent patch.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/c68df2284b7d172669daf9be29db62ad49bbc559.1516069914.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
[fix noderef.cocci warnings, sizeof pointer for kcalloc of event->fields]
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add a hook for executing extra actions whenever a histogram entry is
added or updated.
The default 'action' when a hist entry is added to a histogram is to
update the set of values associated with it. Some applications may
want to perform additional actions at that point, such as generate
another event, or compare and save a maximum.
Add a simple framework for doing that; specific actions will be
implemented on top of it in later patches.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/9482ba6a3eaf5ca6e60954314beacd0e25c05b24.1516069914.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>
Add the necessary infrastructure to allow the variables defined on one
event to be referenced in another. This allows variables set by a
previous event to be referenced and used in expressions combining the
variable values saved by that previous event and the event fields of
the current event. For example, here's how a latency can be
calculated and saved into yet another variable named 'wakeup_lat':
# echo 'hist:keys=pid,prio:ts0=common_timestamp ...
# echo 'hist:keys=next_pid:wakeup_lat=common_timestamp-$ts0 ...
In the first event, the event's timetamp is saved into the variable
ts0. In the next line, ts0 is subtracted from the second event's
timestamp to produce the latency.
Further users of variable references will be described in subsequent
patches, such as for instance how the 'wakeup_lat' variable above can
be displayed in a latency histogram.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/b1d3e6975374e34d501ff417c20189c3f9b2c7b8.1516069914.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>
Some accessor functions, such as for variable references, require
access to a corrsponding tracing_map_elt.
Add a tracing_map_elt param to the function signature and update the
accessor functions accordingly.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e0f292b068e9e4948da1d5af21b5ae0efa9b5717.1516069914.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>
Up until now, hist triggers only needed per-element support for saving
'comm' data, which was saved directly as a private data pointer.
In anticipation of the need to save other data besides 'comm', add a
new hist_elt_data struct for the purpose, and switch the current
'comm'-related code over to that.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4502c338c965ddf5fc19fb1ec4764391e001ed4b.1516069914.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>
Add support for simple addition, subtraction, and unary expressions
(-(expr) and expr, where expr = b-a, a+b, a+b+c) to hist triggers, in
order to support a minimal set of useful inter-event calculations.
These operations are needed for calculating latencies between events
(timestamp1-timestamp0) and for combined latencies (latencies over 3
or more events).
In the process, factor out some common code from key and value
parsing.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/9a9308ead4fe32a433d9c7e95921fb798394f6b2.1516069914.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
[kbuild test robot fix, add static to parse_atom()]
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
[ Replaced '//' comments with normal /* */ comments ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Named triggers must also have the same set of variables in order to be
considered compatible - update the trigger match test to account for
that.
The reason for this requirement is that named triggers with variables
are meant to allow one or more events to set the same variable.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/a17eae6328a99917f9d5c66129c9fcd355279ee9.1516069914.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>
Add support for saving the value of a current event's event field by
assigning it to a variable that can be read by a subsequent event.
The basic syntax for saving a variable is to simply prefix a unique
variable name not corresponding to any keyword along with an '=' sign
to any event field.
Both keys and values can be saved and retrieved in this way:
# echo 'hist:keys=next_pid:vals=$ts0:ts0=common_timestamp ...
# echo 'hist:timer_pid=common_pid:key=$timer_pid ...'
If a variable isn't a key variable or prefixed with 'vals=', the
associated event field will be saved in a variable but won't be summed
as a value:
# echo 'hist:keys=next_pid:ts1=common_timestamp:...
Multiple variables can be assigned at the same time:
# echo 'hist:keys=pid:vals=$ts0,$b,field2:ts0=common_timestamp,b=field1 ...
Multiple (or single) variables can also be assigned at the same time
using separate assignments:
# echo 'hist:keys=pid:vals=$ts0:ts0=common_timestamp:b=field1:c=field2 ...
Variables set as above can be used by being referenced from another
event, as described in a subsequent patch.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/fc93c4944d9719dbcb1d0067be627d44e98e2adc.1516069914.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Baohong Liu <baohong.liu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Appending .usecs onto a common_timestamp field will cause the
timestamp value to be in microseconds instead of the default
nanoseconds. A typical latency histogram using usecs would look like
this:
# echo 'hist:keys=pid,prio:ts0=common_timestamp.usecs ...
# echo 'hist:keys=next_pid:wakeup_lat=common_timestamp.usecs-$ts0 ...
This also adds an external trace_clock_in_ns() to trace.c for the
timestamp conversion.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4e813705a170b3e13e97dc3135047362fb1a39f3.1516069914.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>
In order to allow information to be passed between trace events, add
support for per-element variables to tracing_map. This provides a
means for histograms to associate a value or values with an entry when
it's saved or updated, and retrieved by a subsequent event occurrences.
Variables can be set using tracing_map_set_var() and read using
tracing_map_read_var(). tracing_map_var_set() returns true or false
depending on whether or not the variable has been set or not, which is
important for event-matching applications.
tracing_map_read_var_once() reads the variable and resets it to the
'unset' state, implementing read-once variables, which are also
important for event-matching uses.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/7fa001108252556f0c6dd9d63145eabfe3370d1a.1516069914.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>
Add support for a timestamp event field. This is actually a 'pseudo-'
event field in that it behaves like it's part of the event record, but
is really part of the corresponding ring buffer event.
To make use of the timestamp field, users can specify
"common_timestamp" as a field name for any histogram. Note that this
doesn't make much sense on its own either as either a key or value,
but needs to be supported even so, since follow-on patches will add
support for making use of this field in time deltas. The
common_timestamp 'field' is not a bona fide event field - so you won't
find it in the event description - but rather it's a synthetic field
that can be used like a real field.
Note that the use of this field requires the ring buffer be put into
'absolute timestamp' mode, which saves the complete timestamp for each
event rather than an offset. This mode will be enabled if and only if
a histogram makes use of the "common_timestamp" field.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/97afbd646ed146e26271f3458b4b33e16d7817c2.1516069914.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Baohong Liu <baohong.liu@intel.com>
[kasan use-after-free fix]
Signed-off-by: Vedang Patel <vedang.patel@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add a new option flag indicating whether or not the ring buffer is in
'absolute timestamp' mode.
Currently this is only set/unset by hist triggers that make use of a
common_timestamp. As such, there's no reason to make this writeable
for users - its purpose is only to allow users to determine
unequivocally whether or not the ring buffer is in that mode (although
absolute timestamps can coexist with the normal delta timestamps, when
the ring buffer is in absolute mode, timestamps written while absolute
mode is in effect take up more space in the buffer, and are not as
efficient).
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e8aa7b1cde1cf15014e66545d06ac6ef2ebba456.1516069914.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>
RINGBUF_TYPE_TIME_STAMP is defined but not used, and from what I can
gather was reserved for something like an absolute timestamp feature
for the ring buffer, if not a complete replacement of the current
time_delta scheme.
This code redefines RINGBUF_TYPE_TIME_STAMP to implement absolute time
stamps. Another way to look at it is that it essentially forces
extended time_deltas for all events.
The motivation for doing this is to enable time_deltas that aren't
dependent on previous events in the ring buffer, making it feasible to
use the ring_buffer_event timetamps in a more random-access way, for
purposes other than serial event printing.
To set/reset this mode, use tracing_set_timestamp_abs() from the
previous interface patch.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/477b362dba1ce7fab9889a1a8e885a62c472f041.1516069914.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>
Define a new function, tracing_set_time_stamp_abs(), which can be used
to enable or disable the use of absolute timestamps rather than time
deltas for a trace array.
Only the interface is added here; a subsequent patch will add the
underlying implementation.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ce96119de44c7fe0ee44786d15254e9b493040d3.1516069914.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Baohong Liu <baohong.liu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
We now have the logic to detect and remove duplicates in the
tracing_map hash table. The code which merges duplicates in the
histogram is redundant now. So, modify this code just to detect
duplicates. The duplication detection code is still kept to ensure
that any rare race condition which might cause duplicates does not go
unnoticed.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/55215cf59e2674391bdaf772fdafc4c393352b03.1516069914.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Vedang Patel <vedang.patel@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
A duplicate in the tracing_map hash table is when 2 different entries
have the same key and, as a result, the key_hash. This is possible due
to a race condition in the algorithm. This race condition is inherent to
the algorithm and not a bug. This was fine because, until now, we were
only interested in the sum of all the values related to a particular
key (the duplicates are dealt with in tracing_map_sort_entries()). But,
with the inclusion of variables[1], we are interested in individual
values. So, it will not be clear what value to choose when
there are duplicates. So, the duplicates need to be removed.
The duplicates can occur in the code in the following scenarios:
- A thread is in the process of adding a new element. It has
successfully executed cmpxchg() and inserted the key. But, it is still
not done acquiring the trace_map_elt struct, populating it and storing
the pointer to the struct in the value field of tracing_map hash table.
If another thread comes in at this time and wants to add an element with
the same key, it will not see the current element and add a new one.
- There are multiple threads trying to execute cmpxchg at the same time,
one of the threads will succeed and the others will fail. The ones which
fail will go ahead increment 'idx' and add a new element there creating
a duplicate.
This patch detects and avoids the first condition by asking the thread
which detects the duplicate to loop one more time. There is also a
possibility of infinite loop if the thread which is trying to insert
goes to sleep indefinitely and the one which is trying to insert a new
element detects a duplicate. Which is why, the thread loops for
map_size iterations before returning NULL.
The second scenario is avoided by preventing the threads which failed
cmpxchg() from incrementing idx. This way, they will loop
around and check if the thread which succeeded in executing cmpxchg()
had the same key.
[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1498510759.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e178e89ec399240331d383bd5913d649713110f4.1516069914.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Vedang Patel <vedang.patel@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Pull x86 fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
"A small set of fixes for x86:
- Add missing instruction suffixes to assembly code so it can be
compiled by newer GAS versions without warnings.
- Switch refcount WARN exceptions to UD2 as we did in general
- Make the reboot on Intel Edison platforms work
- A small documentation update so text and sample command match"
* 'x86/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
Documentation, x86, resctrl: Make text and sample command match
x86/platform/intel-mid: Handle Intel Edison reboot correctly
x86/asm: Add instruction suffixes to bitops
x86/entry/64: Add instruction suffix
x86/refcounts: Switch to UD2 for exceptions
Pull x86/pti fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
"Three fixes related to melted spectrum:
- Sync the cpu_entry_area page table to initial_page_table on 32 bit.
Otherwise suspend/resume fails because resume uses
initial_page_table and triggers a triple fault when accessing the
cpu entry area.
- Zero the SPEC_CTL MRS on XEN before suspend to address a
shortcoming in the hypervisor.
- Fix another switch table detection issue in objtool"
* 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/cpu_entry_area: Sync cpu_entry_area to initial_page_table
objtool: Fix another switch table detection issue
x86/xen: Zero MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL before suspend
Pull timer fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
"A small set of fixes from the timer departement:
- Add a missing timer wheel clock forward when migrating timers off a
unplugged CPU to prevent operating on a stale clock base and
missing timer deadlines.
- Use the proper shift count to extract data from a register value to
prevent evaluating unrelated bits
- Make the error return check in the FSL timer driver work correctly.
Checking an unsigned variable for less than zero does not really
work well.
- Clarify the confusing comments in the ARC timer code"
* 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
timers: Forward timer base before migrating timers
clocksource/drivers/arc_timer: Update some comments
clocksource/drivers/mips-gic-timer: Use correct shift count to extract data
clocksource/drivers/fsl_ftm_timer: Fix error return checking
