The commit (in linux-tip) c2931e05
 ( ftrace: return an error when setting a nonexistent tracer )
added useful code that would error when a bad tracer was written into
the current_tracer file.

But this had a bug if the amount written was more than the amount read by
that code. The first iteration would set the tracer correctly, but since
it did not consume the rest of what was written (usually whitespace), the
userspace utility would continue to write what was not consumed. This
second iteration would fail to find a tracer and return -EINVAL. Funny
thing is that the tracer would have already been set.

This patch just consumes all the data that is written to the file.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Impact: build fix on Alpha

When tracing is enabled, some arch have included <linux/irqflags.h>
on their <asm/system.h> but others like alpha or m68k don't.

Build error on alpha:

kernel/trace/trace.c: In function 'tracing_cpumask_write':
kernel/trace/trace.c:2145: error: implicit declaration of function 'raw_local_irq_disable'
kernel/trace/trace.c:2162: error: implicit declaration of function 'raw_local_irq_enable'

Tested on Alpha through a cross-compiler (should correct a similar issue on m68k).
Reported-by: NAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

The ftrace hash was used by the ftrace_daemon code. The record ip function
would place the calling address (ip) into the hash. The daemon would later
read the hash and modify that code.

The hash complicates the code. This patch removes it.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

When an anomaly is detected, we need a way to completely disable
ftrace. Right now we have two functions: ftrace_kill and ftrace_kill_atomic.
The ftrace_kill tries to do it in a "nice" way by converting everything
back to a nop.

The "nice" way is dangerous itself, so this patch removes it and only
has the "atomic" version, which is all that is needed.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Due to confusion between the ftrace infrastructure and the gcc profiling
tracer "ftrace", this patch renames the config options from FTRACE to
FUNCTION_TRACER.  The other two names that are offspring from FTRACE
DYNAMIC_FTRACE and FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD will stay the same.

This patch was generated mostly by script, and partially by hand.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Remove the runtime BUG_ON and change to a compile-time check in
the macro that calls the hex format routine

[Noticed by Joe Perches]
Signed-off-by: NHarvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Fix the output of ftrace in hex mode as the hi/lo nibbles are output in
reverse order. Without this patch, the output of ftrace is:

raw mode : 6474 0 141531612444 0 140 + 6402 120 S
hex mode : 000091a4 00000000 000000023f1f50c1 00000000 c8 000000b2 00009120 87 ffff00c8 00000035

There is an inversion on ouput hex(6474) is 194a

[based on a patch by Philippe Reynes <tremyfr@yahoo.fr>]
Signed-off-by: NHarvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

When one try to set a nonexistent tracer, no error is returned
as if the name of the tracer was correct.
We should return -EINVAL.
Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Now that the ring buffer is reentrant, some of the ftrace tracers
(sched_swich, debugging traces) can also be reentrant.

Note: Never make the function tracer reentrant, that can cause
  recursion problems all over the kernel. The function tracer
  must disable reentrancy.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

With the new ring buffer infrastructure in ftrace, I'm trying to make
ftrace a little more light weight.

This patch converts a lot of the local_irq_save/restore into
preempt_disable/enable.  The original preempt count in a lot of cases
has to be sent in as a parameter so that it can be recorded correctly.
Some places were recording it incorrectly before anyway.

This is also laying the ground work to make ftrace a little bit
more reentrant, and remove all locking. The function tracers must
still protect from reentrancy.

Note: All the function tracers must be careful when using preempt_disable.
  It must do the following:

  resched = need_resched();
  preempt_disable_notrace();
  [...]
  if (resched)
	preempt_enable_no_resched_notrace();
  else
	preempt_enable_notrace();

The reason is that if this function traces schedule() itself, the
preempt_enable_notrace() will cause a schedule, which will lead
us into a recursive failure.

If we needed to reschedule before calling preempt_disable, we
should have already scheduled. Since we did not, this is most
likely that we should not and are probably inside a schedule
function.

If resched was not set, we still need to catch the need resched
flag being set when preemption was off and the if case at the
end will catch that for us.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

The mmiotrace map had a bug that would typecast the entry from
the trace to the wrong type. That is a known danger of C typecasts,
there's absolutely zero checking done on them.

Help that problem a bit by using a GCC extension to implement a
type filter that restricts the types that a trace record can be
cast into, and by adding a dynamic check (in debug mode) to verify
the type of the entry.

This patch adds a macro to assign all entries of ftrace using the type
of the variable and checking the entry id. The typecasts are now done
in the macro for only those types that it knows about, which should
be all the types that are allowed to be read from the tracer.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Correct the value's type of trace_empty function
Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

The old "lock always" scheme had issues with lockdep, and was not very
efficient anyways.

This patch does a new design to be partially lockless on writes.
Writes will add new entries to the per cpu pages by simply disabling
interrupts. When a write needs to go to another page than it will
grab the lock.

A new "read page" has been added so that the reader can pull out a page
from the ring buffer to read without worrying about the writer writing over
it. This allows us to not take the lock for all reads. The lock is
now only taken when a read needs to go to a new page.

This is far from lockless, and interrupts still need to be disabled,
but it is a step towards a more lockless solution, and it also
solves a lot of the issues that were noticed by the first conversion
of ftrace to the ring buffers.

Note: the ring_buffer_{un}lock API has been removed.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

This patch fixes a bug which break the pipe when the seq is empty.
Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

We need a kind of disambiguation when a print_line callback
returns 0.

_There is not enough space to print all the entry.
 Please flush the seq and retry.
_I can't handle this type of entry

This patch changes the type of this callback for better information.

Also some changes have been made in this V2.

_ Only relay to default functions after the print_line callback fails.
_ This patch doesn't fix the issue with the broken pipe (see patch 2/4 for that)

Some things are still in discussion:

_ Find better names for the enum print_line_t values
_ Change the type of print_trace_line into boolean.

Patches to change that can be sent later.
Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NPekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Now that the underlining ring buffer for ftrace now hold variable length
entries, we can take advantage of this by only storing the size of the
actual event into the buffer. This happens to increase the number of
entries in the buffer dramatically.

We can also get rid of the "trace_cont" operation, but I'm keeping that
until we have no more users. Some of the ftrace tracers can now change
their code to adapt to this new feature.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

This patch ports ftrace over to the new ring buffer.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

The tracing engine have now to be init in early_initcall to set the
boot tracer. Only the debugfs settings will be initialized at
fs_initcall time.
Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Replace "none" tracer by the recently created "nop" tracer.
Both are pretty similar except that nop accepts TRACE_PRINT
or TRACE_SPECIAL entries.

And as a consequence, changing the size of the ring buffer now
requires that tracing has already been disabled.
Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Steven Noonan <steven@uplinklabs.net>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Allow a user to inject a marker (TRACE_PRINT entry) into the trace ring
buffer. The related file operations are derived from code by Frédéric
Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>.
Signed-off-by: NPekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
Acked-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Also make trace_seq_print_cont() non-static, and add a newline if the
seq buffer can't hold all data.
Signed-off-by: NPekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
Acked-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

trace_vprintk() for easier implementation of tracer specific *_printk
functions. Add check check for no_tracer, and implement
__ftrace_printk() as a wrapper.
Signed-off-by: NPekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
Acked-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Moves the mmiotrace specific functions from trace.c to
trace_mmiotrace.c. Functions trace_wake_up(), tracing_get_trace_entry(),
and tracing_generic_entry_update() are therefore made available outside
trace.c.
Signed-off-by: NPekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
Acked-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

While profiling the smp behaviour of the scheduler it was needed to know to
which cpu a task got woken.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Currently ftrace_printk only works with the ftrace tracer, switch it to an
iter_ctrl setting so we can make us of them with other tracers too.

[rostedt@redhat.com: tweak to the disable condition]
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

An item in the trace buffer that is bigger than one entry may be split
up using the TRACE_CONT entry. This makes it a virtual single entry.
The current code increments the iterator index even while traversing
TRACE_CONT entries, making it look like the iterator is further than
it actually is.

This patch adds code to not increment the iterator index while skipping
over TRACE_CONT entries.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Acked-by: NPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Peter Zijlstra provided me with a nice brown paper bag while letting me know
that I was doing a logical AND and not a binary one, making a condition
true more often than it should be.

Luckily, a false true is handled by the calling function and no harm is
done. But this needs to be fixed regardless.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Acked-by: NPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Currently some of the ftrace output goes skewiff if you have more
than 9 cpus, and some if you have more than 99.

Twiddle with the headers and format strings to make up to 999 cpus
display without causing spacing problems.
Signed-off-by: NMichael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Acked-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

This patch fixes some mistakes on the tracer in warning messages when
debugfs fails to create tracing files.
Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: srostedt@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

At OLS I had a lot of interest to be able to have the ftrace buffers
dumped on panic.  Usually one would expect to uses kexec and examine
the buffers after a new kernel is loaded. But sometimes the resources
do not permit kdump and kexec, so having an option to still see the
sequence of events up to the crash is very advantageous.

This patch adds the option to have the ftrace buffers dumped to the
console in the latency_trace format on a panic. When the option is set,
the default entries per CPU buffer are lowered to 16384, since the writing
to the serial (if that is the console) may take an awful long time
otherwise.

[
 Changes since -v1:
  Got alpine to send correctly (as well as spell check working).
  Removed config option.
  Moved the static variables into ftrace_dump itself.
  Gave printk a log level.
]
Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Based on Randy Dunlap's suggestion, the ftrace_printk kernel-doc belongs
with the ftrace_printk macro that should be used. Not with the
__ftrace_printk internal function.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Acked-by: NRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

This patch adds a feature that can help kernel developers debug their
code using ftrace.

  int ftrace_printk(const char *fmt, ...);

This records into the ftrace buffer using printf formatting. The entry
size in the buffers are still a fixed length. A new type has been added
that allows for more entries to be used for a single recording.

The start of the print is still the same as the other entries.

It returns the number of characters written to the ftrace buffer.

For example:

Having a module with the following code:

static int __init ftrace_print_test(void)
{
        ftrace_printk("jiffies are %ld\n", jiffies);
        return 0;
}

Gives me:

  insmod-5441  3...1 7569us : ftrace_print_test: jiffies are 4296626666

for the latency_trace file and:

          insmod-5441  [03]  1959.370498: ftrace_print_test jiffies are 4296626666

for the trace file.

Note: Only the infrastructure should go into the kernel. It is to help
facilitate debugging for other kernel developers. Calls to ftrace_printk
is not intended to be left in the kernel, and should be frowned upon just
like scattering printks around in the code.

But having this easily at your fingertips helps the debugging go faster
and bugs be solved quicker.

Maybe later on, we can hook this with markers and have their printf format
be sucked into ftrace output.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Some tracers will need to work with more than one entry. In order to do this
the trace_entry structure was split into two fields. One for the start of
all entries, and one to continue an existing entry.

The trace_entry structure now has a "field" entry that consists of the previous
content of the trace_entry, and a "cont" entry that is just a string buffer
the size of the "field" entry.

Thanks to Andrew Morton for suggesting this idea.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Remove the following warning with CONFIG_TRACING=y:

	kernel/trace/trace.c: In function ‘s_next’:
	kernel/trace/trace.c:1186: warning: unused variable ‘last_ent’
Signed-off-by: NAndrea Righi <righi.andrea@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

remove the :vim=ft=help tag from trace files.

I used them years ago to syntax-highlight traces and forgot about this hack.
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Currently the function tracer uses the global tracer_enabled variable that
is used to keep track if the tracer is enabled or not. The function tracing
startup needs to be separated out, otherwise the internal happenings of
the tracer startup is also recorded.

This patch creates a ftrace_function_enabled variable to all the starting
of the function traces to happen after everything has been started.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

There is no CONFIG_PREEMPT_DESKTOP. Use the proper entry CONFIG_PREEMPT.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Let records identified as being kprobe'd be marked as "frozen". The trouble
with records which have a kprobe installed on their mcount call-site is
that they don't get updated. So if such a function which is currently being
traced gets its tracing disabled due to a new filter rule (or because it
was added to the notrace list) then it won't be updated and continue being
traced. This patch allows scanning of all frozen records during tracing to
check if they should be traced.
Signed-off-by: NAbhishek Sagar <sagar.abhishek@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Do not print loglevel before "entries of %ld bytes". Move it to the previous
pr_info.
Signed-off-by: NJiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Found that inspite of setting the current_tracer to "none", trace from
the previous trace type continued to be collected. The patch below fixes
this and causes the trace to be disabled when the "none" type is
selected.

Compile and boot tested the patch for functionality.
Signed-off-by: NAnkita Garg <ankita@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>