1. 17 4月, 2009 1 次提交
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      ftrace: use module notifier for function tracer · 93eb677d
      Steven Rostedt 提交于
      The hooks in the module code for the function tracer must be called
      before any of that module code runs. The function tracer hooks
      modify the module (replacing calls to mcount to nops). If the code
      is executed while the change occurs, then the CPU can take a GPF.
      
      To handle the above with a bit of paranoia, I originally implemented
      the hooks as calls directly from the module code.
      
      After examining the notifier calls, it looks as though the start up
      notify is called before any of the module's code is executed. This makes
      the use of the notify safe with ftrace.
      
      Only the startup notify is required to be "safe". The shutdown simply
      removes the entries from the ftrace function list, and does not modify
      any code.
      
      This change has another benefit. It removes a issue with a reverse dependency
      in the mutexes of ftrace_lock and module_mutex.
      
      [ Impact: fix lock dependency bug, cleanup ]
      
      Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      93eb677d
  2. 09 4月, 2009 1 次提交
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      tracing/syscalls: use a dedicated file header · 47788c58
      Frederic Weisbecker 提交于
      Impact: fix build warnings and possibe compat misbehavior on IA64
      
      Building a kernel on ia64 might trigger these ugly build warnings:
      
      CC      arch/ia64/ia32/sys_ia32.o
      In file included from arch/ia64/ia32/sys_ia32.c:55:
      arch/ia64/ia32/ia32priv.h:290:1: warning: "elf_check_arch" redefined
      In file included from include/linux/elf.h:7,
                       from include/linux/module.h:14,
                       from include/linux/ftrace.h:8,
                       from include/linux/syscalls.h:68,
                       from arch/ia64/ia32/sys_ia32.c:18:
      arch/ia64/include/asm/elf.h:19:1: warning: this is the location of the previous definition
      [...]
      
      sys_ia32.c includes linux/syscalls.h which in turn includes linux/ftrace.h
      to import the syscalls tracing prototypes.
      
      But including ftrace.h can pull too much things for a low level file,
      especially on ia64 where the ia32 private headers conflict with higher
      level headers.
      
      Now we isolate the syscall tracing headers in their own lightweight file.
      Reported-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
      Tested-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Acked-by: NTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
      Cc: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>
      Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
      Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
      Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
      Cc: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com>
      Cc: Michael Rubin <mrubin@google.com>
      Cc: Martin Bligh <mbligh@google.com>
      Cc: Michael Davidson <md@google.com>
      LKML-Reference: <20090408184058.GB6017@nowhere>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      47788c58
  3. 08 4月, 2009 1 次提交
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      tracing: append a comma to INIT_FTRACE_GRAPH · f876d346
      Tetsuo Handa 提交于
      Impact: dont break future extensions of INIT_TASK
      
      While not a problem right now, due to lack of a comma, build fails if
      elements are appended to INIT_TASK() macro in development code:
      
       arch/x86/kernel/init_task.c:33: error: request for member `XXXXXXXXXX' in something not a structure or union
       arch/x86/kernel/init_task.c:33: error: initializer element is not constant
       arch/x86/kernel/init_task.c:33: error: (near initialization for `init_task.ret_stack')
       make[1]: *** [arch/x86/kernel/init_task.o] Error 1
       make: *** [arch/x86/kernel] Error 2
      Signed-off-by: NTetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
      Cc: srostedt@redhat.com
      LKML-Reference: <200904080505.n3855hcn017109@www262.sakura.ne.jp>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      f876d346
  4. 07 4月, 2009 1 次提交
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      function-graph: add proper initialization for init task · 5ac9f622
      Steven Rostedt 提交于
      Impact: fix to crash going to kexec
      
      The init task did not properly initialize the function graph pointers.
      Altough these pointers are NULL, they can not be assumed to be NULL
      for the init task, and must still be properly initialize.
      
      This usually is not an issue since a problem only arises when a task
      exits, and the init tasks do not usually exit. But when doing tests
      with kexec, the init tasks do exit, and the bug appears.
      
      This patch properly initializes the init tasks function graph data
      structures.
      Reported-and-Tested-by: NYinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
      LKML-Reference: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0903252053080.5675@gandalf.stny.rr.com>
      Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      5ac9f622
  5. 25 3月, 2009 3 次提交
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      function-graph: add option to calculate graph time or not · a2a16d6a
      Steven Rostedt 提交于
      graph time is the time that a function is executing another function.
      Thus if function A calls B, if graph-time is set, then the time for
      A includes B. This is the default behavior. But if graph-time is off,
      then the time spent executing B is subtracted from A.
      Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
      a2a16d6a
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      tracing: move function profiler data out of function struct · 493762fc
      Steven Rostedt 提交于
      Impact: reduce size of memory in function profiler
      
      The function profiler originally introduces its counters into the
      function records itself. There is 20 thousand different functions on
      a normal system, and that is adding 20 thousand counters for profiling
      event when not needed.
      
      A normal run of the profiler yields only a couple of thousand functions
      executed, depending on what is being profiled. This means we have around
      18 thousand useless counters.
      
      This patch rectifies this by moving the data out of the function
      records used by dynamic ftrace. Data is preallocated to hold the functions
      when the profiling begins. Checks are made during profiling to see if
      more recorcds should be allocated, and they are allocated if it is safe
      to do so.
      
      This also removes the dependency from using dynamic ftrace, and also
      removes the overhead by having it enabled.
      Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
      493762fc
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      tracing: add function profiler · bac429f0
      Steven Rostedt 提交于
      Impact: new profiling feature
      
      This patch adds a function profiler. In debugfs/tracing/ two new
      files are created.
      
        function_profile_enabled  - to enable or disable profiling
      
        trace_stat/functions   - the profiled functions.
      
      For example:
      
        echo 1 > /debugfs/tracing/function_profile_enabled
        ./hackbench 50
        echo 0 > /debugfs/tracing/function_profile_enabled
      
      yields:
      
        cat /debugfs/tracing/trace_stat/functions
      
        Function                               Hit
        --------                               ---
        _spin_lock                        10106442
        _spin_unlock                      10097492
        kfree                              6013704
        _spin_unlock_irqrestore            4423941
        _spin_lock_irqsave                 4406825
        __phys_addr                        4181686
        __slab_free                        4038222
        dput                               4030130
        path_put                           4023387
        unroll_tree_refs                   4019532
      [...]
      
      The most hit functions are listed first. Functions that are not
      hit are not listed.
      
      This feature depends on and uses dynamic function tracing. When the
      function profiling is disabled, no overhead occurs. But it still
      takes up around 300KB to hold the data, thus it is not recomended
      to keep it enabled for systems low on memory.
      
      When a '1' is echoed into the function_profile_enabled file, the
      counters for is function is reset back to zero. Thus you can see what
      functions are hit most by different programs.
      Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
      bac429f0
  6. 24 3月, 2009 2 次提交
  7. 13 3月, 2009 3 次提交
  8. 07 3月, 2009 3 次提交
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      tracing/core: drop the old trace_printk() implementation in favour of trace_bprintk() · 769b0441
      Frederic Weisbecker 提交于
      Impact: faster and lighter tracing
      
      Now that we have trace_bprintk() which is faster and consume lesser
      memory than trace_printk() and has the same purpose, we can now drop
      the old implementation in favour of the binary one from trace_bprintk(),
      which means we move all the implementation of trace_bprintk() to
      trace_printk(), so the Api doesn't change except that we must now use
      trace_seq_bprintk() to print the TRACE_PRINT entries.
      
      Some changes result of this:
      
      - Previously, trace_bprintk depended of a single tracer and couldn't
        work without. This tracer has been dropped and the whole implementation
        of trace_printk() (like the module formats management) is now integrated
        in the tracing core (comes with CONFIG_TRACING), though we keep the file
        trace_printk (previously trace_bprintk.c) where we can find the module
        management. Thus we don't overflow trace.c
      
      - changes some parts to use trace_seq_bprintk() to print TRACE_PRINT entries.
      
      - change a bit trace_printk/trace_vprintk macros to support non-builtin formats
        constants, and fix 'const' qualifiers warnings. But this is all transparent for
        developers.
      
      - etc...
      
      V2:
      
      - Rebase against last changes
      - Fix mispell on the changelog
      
      V3:
      
      - Rebase against last changes (moving trace_printk() to kernel.h)
      Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Acked-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      LKML-Reference: <1236356510-8381-5-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      769b0441
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      tracing: add trace_bprintk() · 1ba28e02
      Lai Jiangshan 提交于
      Impact: add a generic printk() for tracing, like trace_printk()
      
      trace_bprintk() uses the infrastructure to record events on ring_buffer.
      
      [ fweisbec@gmail.com: ported to latest -tip, made it work if
        !CONFIG_MODULES, never free the format strings from modules
        because we can't keep track of them and conditionnaly create
        the ftrace format strings section (reported by Steven Rostedt) ]
      Signed-off-by: NLai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
      Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Acked-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      LKML-Reference: <1236356510-8381-4-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      1ba28e02
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      tracing: infrastructure for supporting binary record · 1427cdf0
      Lai Jiangshan 提交于
      Impact: save on memory for tracing
      
      Current tracers are typically using a struct(like struct ftrace_entry,
      struct ctx_switch_entry, struct special_entr etc...)to record a binary
      event. These structs can only record a their own kind of events.
      A new kind of tracer need a new struct and a lot of code too handle it.
      
      So we need a generic binary record for events. This infrastructure
      is for this purpose.
      
      [fweisbec@gmail.com: rebase against latest -tip, make it safe while sched
      tracing as reported by Steven Rostedt]
      Signed-off-by: NLai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
      Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Acked-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      LKML-Reference: <1236356510-8381-3-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      1427cdf0
  9. 05 3月, 2009 3 次提交
  10. 03 3月, 2009 1 次提交
  11. 21 2月, 2009 1 次提交
  12. 19 2月, 2009 1 次提交
  13. 18 2月, 2009 1 次提交
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      ftrace: rename _hook to _probe · b6887d79
      Steven Rostedt 提交于
      Impact: clean up
      
      Ingo Molnar did not like the _hook naming convention used by the
      select function tracer. Luis Claudio R. Goncalves suggested using
      the "_probe" extension. This patch implements the change of
      calling the functions and variables "_hook" and replacing them
      with "_probe".
      Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
      b6887d79
  14. 17 2月, 2009 4 次提交
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      ftrace: fix !CONFIG_FTRACE [un_]register_ftrace_command() prototypes · 97d0bb8d
      Ingo Molnar 提交于
      Impact: build fix
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      97d0bb8d
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      ftrace: add pretty print to selected fuction traces · 809dcf29
      Steven Rostedt 提交于
      This patch adds a call back for the tracers that have hooks to
      selected functions. This allows the tracer to show better output
      in the set_ftrace_filter file.
      Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
      809dcf29
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      ftrace: trace different functions with a different tracer · 59df055f
      Steven Rostedt 提交于
      Impact: new feature
      
      Currently, the function tracer only gives you an ability to hook
      a tracer to all functions being traced. The dynamic function trace
      allows you to pick and choose which of those functions will be
      traced, but all functions being traced will call all tracers that
      registered with the function tracer.
      
      This patch adds a new feature that allows a tracer to hook to specific
      functions, even when all functions are being traced. It allows for
      different functions to call different tracer hooks.
      
      The way this is accomplished is by a special function that will hook
      to the function tracer and will set up a hash table knowing which
      tracer hook to call with which function. This is the most general
      and easiest method to accomplish this. Later, an arch may choose
      to supply their own method in changing the mcount call of a function
      to call a different tracer. But that will be an exercise for the
      future.
      
      To register a function:
      
       struct ftrace_hook_ops {
      	void			(*func)(unsigned long ip,
      					unsigned long parent_ip,
      					void **data);
      	int			(*callback)(unsigned long ip, void **data);
      	void			(*free)(void **data);
       };
      
       int register_ftrace_function_hook(char *glob, struct ftrace_hook_ops *ops,
      				  void *data);
      
      glob is a simple glob to search for the functions to hook.
      ops is a pointer to the operations (listed below)
      data is the default data to be passed to the hook functions when traced
      
      ops:
       func is the hook function to call when the functions are traced
       callback is a callback function that is called when setting up the hash.
         That is, if the tracer needs to do something special for each
         function, that is being traced, and wants to give each function
         its own data. The address of the entry data is passed to this
         callback, so that the callback may wish to update the entry to
         whatever it would like.
       free is a callback for when the entry is freed. In case the tracer
         allocated any data, it is give the chance to free it.
      
      To unregister we have three functions:
      
        void
        unregister_ftrace_function_hook(char *glob, struct ftrace_hook_ops *ops,
      				void *data)
      
      This will unregister all hooks that match glob, point to ops, and
      have its data matching data. (note, if glob is NULL, blank or '*',
      all functions will be tested).
      
        void
        unregister_ftrace_function_hook_func(char *glob,
      				 struct ftrace_hook_ops *ops)
      
      This will unregister all functions matching glob that has an entry
      pointing to ops.
      
        void unregister_ftrace_function_hook_all(char *glob)
      
      This simply unregisters all funcs.
      Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
      59df055f
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      ftrace: add command interface for function selection · f6180773
      Steven Rostedt 提交于
      Allow for other tracers to add their own commands for function
      selection. This interface gives a trace the ability to name a
      command for function selection. Right now it is pretty limited
      in what it offers, but this is a building step for more features.
      
      The :mod: command is converted to this interface and also serves
      as a template for other implementations.
      Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
      f6180773
  15. 09 2月, 2009 1 次提交
  16. 08 2月, 2009 1 次提交
  17. 26 1月, 2009 1 次提交
  18. 20 1月, 2009 1 次提交
  19. 14 1月, 2009 1 次提交
  20. 21 12月, 2008 1 次提交
  21. 18 12月, 2008 1 次提交
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      trace: add a way to enable or disable the stack tracer · f38f1d2a
      Steven Rostedt 提交于
      Impact: enhancement to stack tracer
      
      The stack tracer currently is either on when configured in or
      off when it is not. It can not be disabled when it is configured on.
      (besides disabling the function tracer that it uses)
      
      This patch adds a way to enable or disable the stack tracer at
      run time. It defaults off on bootup, but a kernel parameter 'stacktrace'
      has been added to enable it on bootup.
      
      A new sysctl has been added "kernel.stack_tracer_enabled" to let
      the user enable or disable the stack tracer at run time.
      Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      f38f1d2a
  22. 12 12月, 2008 1 次提交
  23. 11 12月, 2008 1 次提交
  24. 08 12月, 2008 2 次提交
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      tracing/function-graph-tracer: append the tracing_graph_flag · 380c4b14
      Frederic Weisbecker 提交于
      Impact: Provide a way to pause the function graph tracer
      
      As suggested by Steven Rostedt, the previous patch that prevented from
      spinlock function tracing shouldn't use the raw_spinlock to fix it.
      It's much better to follow lockdep with normal spinlock, so this patch
      adds a new flag for each task to make the function graph tracer able
      to be paused. We also can send an ftrace_printk whithout worrying of
      the irrelevant traced spinlock during insertion.
      Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      380c4b14
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      tracing/function-graph-tracer: introduce __notrace_funcgraph to filter special functions · 8b96f011
      Frederic Weisbecker 提交于
      Impact: trace more functions
      
      When the function graph tracer is configured, three more files are not
      traced to prevent only four functions to be traced. And this impacts the
      normal function tracer too.
      
      arch/x86/kernel/process_64/32.c:
      
      I had crashes when I let this file traced. After some debugging, I saw
      that the "current" task point was changed inside__swtich_to(), ie:
      "write_pda(pcurrent, next_p);" inside process_64.c Since the tracer store
      the original return address of the function inside current, we had
      crashes. Only __switch_to() has to be excluded from tracing.
      
      kernel/module.c and kernel/extable.c:
      
      Because of a function used internally by the function graph tracer:
      __kernel_text_address()
      
      To let the other functions inside these files to be traced, this patch
      introduces the __notrace_funcgraph function prefix which is __notrace if
      function graph tracer is configured and nothing if not.
      Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      8b96f011
  25. 05 12月, 2008 1 次提交
  26. 04 12月, 2008 1 次提交
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      ftrace: graph of a single function · ea4e2bc4
      Steven Rostedt 提交于
      This patch adds the file:
      
         /debugfs/tracing/set_graph_function
      
      which can be used along with the function graph tracer.
      
      When this file is empty, the function graph tracer will act as
      usual. When the file has a function in it, the function graph
      tracer will only trace that function.
      
      For example:
      
       # echo blk_unplug > /debugfs/tracing/set_graph_function
       # cat /debugfs/tracing/trace
       [...]
       ------------------------------------------
       | 2)  make-19003  =>  kjournald-2219
       ------------------------------------------
      
       2)               |  blk_unplug() {
       2)               |    dm_unplug_all() {
       2)               |      dm_get_table() {
       2)      1.381 us |        _read_lock();
       2)      0.911 us |        dm_table_get();
       2)      1. 76 us |        _read_unlock();
       2) +   12.912 us |      }
       2)               |      dm_table_unplug_all() {
       2)               |        blk_unplug() {
       2)      0.778 us |          generic_unplug_device();
       2)      2.409 us |        }
       2)      5.992 us |      }
       2)      0.813 us |      dm_table_put();
       2) +   29. 90 us |    }
       2) +   34.532 us |  }
      
      You can add up to 32 functions into this file. Currently we limit it
      to 32, but this may change with later improvements.
      
      To add another function, use the append '>>':
      
        # echo sys_read >> /debugfs/tracing/set_graph_function
        # cat /debugfs/tracing/set_graph_function
        blk_unplug
        sys_read
      
      Using the '>' will clear out the function and write anew:
      
        # echo sys_write > /debug/tracing/set_graph_function
        # cat /debug/tracing/set_graph_function
        sys_write
      
      Note, if you have function graph running while doing this, the small
      time between clearing it and updating it will cause the graph to
      record all functions. This should not be an issue because after
      it sets the filter, only those functions will be recorded from then on.
      If you need to only record a particular function then set this
      file first before starting the function graph tracer. In the future
      this side effect may be corrected.
      
      The set_graph_function file is similar to the set_ftrace_filter but
      it does not take wild cards nor does it allow for more than one
      function to be set with a single write. There is no technical reason why
      this is the case, I just do not have the time yet to implement that.
      
      Note, dynamic ftrace must be enabled for this to appear because it
      uses the dynamic ftrace records to match the name to the mcount
      call sites.
      Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      ea4e2bc4
  27. 03 12月, 2008 1 次提交