Impact: extend the ->init() method with the ability to fail

This bring a way to know if the initialization of a tracer successed.
A tracer must return 0 on success and a traditional error (ie:
-ENOMEM) if it fails.

If a tracer fails to init, it is free to print a detailed warn. The
tracing api will not and switch to a new tracer will just return the
error from the init callback.

Note: this will be used for the return tracer.
Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo 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: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo 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method is out of date.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: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo 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: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Impact: use new, consolidated APIs in ftrace plugins

This patch replaces the schedule safe preempt disable code with the
ftrace_preempt_disable() and ftrace_preempt_enable() safe functions.
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>

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>

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>

Porting the trace_mark() used by ftrace to tracepoints. (cleanup)

Changelog :
- Change error messages : marker -> tracepoint

[ mingo@elte.hu: conflict resolutions ]
Signed-off-by: NMathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Acked-by: N'Peter Zijlstra' <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

On Wed, 16 Jul 2008, Vegard Nossum wrote:

> When booting 4d3702b6, I got this huge thing:
>
> Testing tracer wakeup: <4>------------[ cut here ]------------
> WARNING: at kernel/lockdep.c:2731 check_flags+0x123/0x160()
> Modules linked in:
> Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.26-crashing-02127-g4d3702b6 #30
>  [<c015c349>] warn_on_slowpath+0x59/0xb0
>  [<c01276c6>] ? ftrace_call+0x5/0x8
>  [<c012d800>] ? native_read_tsc+0x0/0x20
>  [<c0158de2>] ? sub_preempt_count+0x12/0xf0
>  [<c01814eb>] ? trace_hardirqs_off+0xb/0x10
>  [<c0182fbc>] ? __lock_acquire+0x2cc/0x1120
>  [<c01814eb>] ? trace_hardirqs_off+0xb/0x10
>  [<c01276af>] ? mcount_call+0x5/0xa
>  [<c017ff53>] check_flags+0x123/0x160
>  [<c0183e61>] lock_acquire+0x51/0xd0
>  [<c01276c6>] ? ftrace_call+0x5/0x8
>  [<c0613d4f>] _spin_lock_irqsave+0x5f/0xa0
>  [<c01a8d45>] ? ftrace_record_ip+0xf5/0x220
>  [<c02d5413>] ? debug_locks_off+0x3/0x50
>  [<c01a8d45>] ftrace_record_ip+0xf5/0x220
>  [<c01276af>] mcount_call+0x5/0xa
>  [<c02d5418>] ? debug_locks_off+0x8/0x50
>  [<c017ff27>] check_flags+0xf7/0x160
>  [<c0183e61>] lock_acquire+0x51/0xd0
>  [<c01276c6>] ? ftrace_call+0x5/0x8
>  [<c0613d4f>] _spin_lock_irqsave+0x5f/0xa0
>  [<c01affcd>] ? wakeup_tracer_call+0x6d/0xf0
>  [<c01625e2>] ? _local_bh_enable+0x62/0xb0
>  [<c0158ddd>] ? sub_preempt_count+0xd/0xf0
>  [<c01affcd>] wakeup_tracer_call+0x6d/0xf0
>  [<c0162724>] ? __do_softirq+0xf4/0x110
>  [<c01afff1>] ? wakeup_tracer_call+0x91/0xf0
>  [<c01276c6>] ftrace_call+0x5/0x8
>  [<c0162724>] ? __do_softirq+0xf4/0x110
>  [<c0158de2>] ? sub_preempt_count+0x12/0xf0
>  [<c01625e2>] _local_bh_enable+0x62/0xb0
>  [<c0162724>] __do_softirq+0xf4/0x110
>  [<c01627ed>] do_softirq+0xad/0xb0
>  [<c0162a15>] irq_exit+0xa5/0xb0
>  [<c013a506>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x66/0xa0
>  [<c02d3fac>] ? trace_hardirqs_off_thunk+0xc/0x10
>  [<c0127449>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x2d/0x34
>  [<c018007b>] ? find_usage_backwards+0xb/0xf0
>  [<c0613a09>] ? _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x69/0x80
>  [<c014ef32>] tg_shares_up+0x132/0x1d0
>  [<c014d2a2>] walk_tg_tree+0x62/0xa0
>  [<c014ee00>] ? tg_shares_up+0x0/0x1d0
>  [<c014a860>] ? tg_nop+0x0/0x10
>  [<c015499d>] update_shares+0x5d/0x80
>  [<c0154a2f>] try_to_wake_up+0x6f/0x280
>  [<c01a8b90>] ? __ftrace_modify_code+0x0/0xc0
>  [<c01a8b90>] ? __ftrace_modify_code+0x0/0xc0
>  [<c0154c94>] wake_up_process+0x14/0x20
>  [<c01725f6>] kthread_create+0x66/0xb0
>  [<c0195400>] ? do_stop+0x0/0x200
>  [<c0195320>] ? __stop_machine_run+0x30/0xb0
>  [<c0195340>] __stop_machine_run+0x50/0xb0
>  [<c0195400>] ? do_stop+0x0/0x200
>  [<c01a8b90>] ? __ftrace_modify_code+0x0/0xc0
>  [<c061242d>] ? mutex_unlock+0xd/0x10
>  [<c01953cc>] stop_machine_run+0x2c/0x60
>  [<c01a94d3>] unregister_ftrace_function+0x103/0x180
>  [<c01b0517>] stop_wakeup_tracer+0x17/0x60
>  [<c01b056f>] wakeup_tracer_ctrl_update+0xf/0x30
>  [<c01ab8d5>] trace_selftest_startup_wakeup+0xb5/0x130
>  [<c01ab950>] ? trace_wakeup_test_thread+0x0/0x70
>  [<c01aadf5>] register_tracer+0x135/0x1b0
>  [<c0877d02>] init_wakeup_tracer+0xd/0xf
>  [<c085d437>] kernel_init+0x1a9/0x2ce
>  [<c061397b>] ? _spin_unlock_irq+0x3b/0x60
>  [<c02d3f9c>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0xc/0x10
>  [<c0877cf5>] ? init_wakeup_tracer+0x0/0xf
>  [<c0182646>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x126/0x180
>  [<c02d3f9c>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0xc/0x10
>  [<c01269c8>] ? restore_nocheck_notrace+0x0/0xe
>  [<c085d28e>] ? kernel_init+0x0/0x2ce
>  [<c085d28e>] ? kernel_init+0x0/0x2ce
>  [<c01275fb>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10
>  =======================
> ---[ end trace a7919e7f17c0a725 ]---
> irq event stamp: 579530
> hardirqs last  enabled at (579528): [<c01826ab>] trace_hardirqs_on+0xb/0x10
> hardirqs last disabled at (579529): [<c01814eb>] trace_hardirqs_off+0xb/0x10
> softirqs last  enabled at (579530): [<c0162724>] __do_softirq+0xf4/0x110
> softirqs last disabled at (579517): [<c01627ed>] do_softirq+0xad/0xb0
> irq event stamp: 579530
> hardirqs last  enabled at (579528): [<c01826ab>] trace_hardirqs_on+0xb/0x10
> hardirqs last disabled at (579529): [<c01814eb>] trace_hardirqs_off+0xb/0x10
> softirqs last  enabled at (579530): [<c0162724>] __do_softirq+0xf4/0x110
> softirqs last disabled at (579517): [<c01627ed>] do_softirq+0xad/0xb0
> PASSED
>
> Incidentally, the kernel also hung while I was typing in this report.

Things get weird between lockdep and ftrace because ftrace can be called
within lockdep internal code (via the mcount pointer) and lockdep can be
called with ftrace (via spin_locks).
Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Tested-by: NVegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Enabling the wakeup tracer before enabling the function tracing causes
some strange results due to the dynamic enabling of the functions.
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>

This patch adds function tracing to the functions that are called
on the CPU of the task being traced.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: pq@iki.fi
Cc: proski@gnu.org
Cc: sandmann@redhat.com
Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

Porting ftrace to the marker infrastructure.

Don't need to chain to the wakeup tracer from the sched tracer, because markers
support multiple probes connected.
Signed-off-by: NMathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
CC: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

printk called from wakeup critical timings and irqs off can
cause deadlocks since printk might do a wakeup itself. If the
call to printk happens with the runqueue lock held, it can
deadlock.

This patch protects the printk from being called in trace irqs off
with a test to see if the runqueue for the current CPU is locked.
If it is locked, the printk is skipped.

The wakeup always holds the runqueue lock, so the printk is
simply removed.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

now that we have a kbuild method for notrace, no need to pollute the
C code with the annotations.
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

A new check was added in the ftrace function that wont trace if the CPU
trace buffer is disabled.  Unfortunately, other tracers used ftrace() to
write to the buffer after they disabled it. The new disable check makes
these calls into a nop.

This patch changes the __ftrace that is called without the check into a
new api for the other tracers to use, called "trace_function". The other
tracers use this interface instead when the trace CPU buffer is already
disabled.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

rename and uninline now() to ftrace_now().
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

factor out code and clean it up.
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

This patch adds the tracer that tracks the wakeup latency of the
highest priority waking task.

  "wakeup" is added to /debugfs/tracing/available_tracers

Also added to /debugfs/tracing

  tracing_max_latency
     holds the current max latency for the wakeup

  wakeup_thresh
     if set to other than zero, a log will be recorded
     for every wakeup that takes longer than the number
     entered in here (usecs for all counters)
     (deletes previous trace)

Examples:

  (with ftrace_enabled = 0)

============
preemption latency trace v1.1.5 on 2.6.24-rc8
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
--------------------------------------------------------------------
 latency: 26 us, #2/2, CPU#1 | (M:rt VP:0, KP:0, SP:0 HP:0 #P:2)
    -----------------
    | task: migration/0-3 (uid:0 nice:-5 policy:1 rt_prio:99)
    -----------------

                 _------=> CPU#
                / _-----=> irqs-off
               | / _----=> need-resched
               || / _---=> hardirq/softirq
               ||| / _--=> preempt-depth
               |||| /
               |||||     delay
   cmd     pid ||||| time  |   caller
      \   /    |||||   \   |   /
   quilt-8551  0d..3    0us+: wake_up_process+0x15/0x17 <ffffffff80233e80> (sched_exec+0xc9/0x100 <ffffffff80235343>)
   quilt-8551  0d..4   26us : sched_switch_callback+0x73/0x81 <ffffffff80338d2f> (schedule+0x483/0x6d5 <ffffffff8048b3ee>)

vim:ft=help
============

  (with ftrace_enabled = 1)

============
preemption latency trace v1.1.5 on 2.6.24-rc8
--------------------------------------------------------------------
 latency: 36 us, #45/45, CPU#0 | (M:rt VP:0, KP:0, SP:0 HP:0 #P:2)
    -----------------
    | task: migration/1-5 (uid:0 nice:-5 policy:1 rt_prio:99)
    -----------------

                 _------=> CPU#
                / _-----=> irqs-off
               | / _----=> need-resched
               || / _---=> hardirq/softirq
               ||| / _--=> preempt-depth
               |||| /
               |||||     delay
   cmd     pid ||||| time  |   caller
      \   /    |||||   \   |   /
    bash-10653 1d..3    0us : wake_up_process+0x15/0x17 <ffffffff80233e80> (sched_exec+0xc9/0x100 <ffffffff80235343>)
    bash-10653 1d..3    1us : try_to_wake_up+0x271/0x2e7 <ffffffff80233dcf> (sub_preempt_count+0xc/0x7a <ffffffff8023309e>)
    bash-10653 1d..2    2us : try_to_wake_up+0x296/0x2e7 <ffffffff80233df4> (update_rq_clock+0x9/0x20 <ffffffff802303f3>)
    bash-10653 1d..2    2us : update_rq_clock+0x1e/0x20 <ffffffff80230408> (__update_rq_clock+0xc/0x90 <ffffffff80230366>)
    bash-10653 1d..2    3us : __update_rq_clock+0x1b/0x90 <ffffffff80230375> (sched_clock+0x9/0x29 <ffffffff80214529>)
    bash-10653 1d..2    4us : try_to_wake_up+0x2a6/0x2e7 <ffffffff80233e04> (activate_task+0xc/0x3f <ffffffff8022ffca>)
    bash-10653 1d..2    4us : activate_task+0x2d/0x3f <ffffffff8022ffeb> (enqueue_task+0xe/0x66 <ffffffff8022ff66>)
    bash-10653 1d..2    5us : enqueue_task+0x5b/0x66 <ffffffff8022ffb3> (enqueue_task_rt+0x9/0x3c <ffffffff80233351>)
    bash-10653 1d..2    6us : try_to_wake_up+0x2ba/0x2e7 <ffffffff80233e18> (check_preempt_wakeup+0x12/0x99 <ffffffff80234f84>)
[...]
    bash-10653 1d..5   33us : tracing_record_cmdline+0xcf/0xd4 <ffffffff80338aad> (_spin_unlock+0x9/0x33 <ffffffff8048d3ec>)
    bash-10653 1d..5   34us : _spin_unlock+0x19/0x33 <ffffffff8048d3fc> (sub_preempt_count+0xc/0x7a <ffffffff8023309e>)
    bash-10653 1d..4   35us : wakeup_sched_switch+0x65/0x2ff <ffffffff80339f66> (_spin_lock_irqsave+0xc/0xa9 <ffffffff8048d08b>)
    bash-10653 1d..4   35us : _spin_lock_irqsave+0x19/0xa9 <ffffffff8048d098> (add_preempt_count+0xe/0x77 <ffffffff8023311a>)
    bash-10653 1d..4   36us : sched_switch_callback+0x73/0x81 <ffffffff80338d2f> (schedule+0x483/0x6d5 <ffffffff8048b3ee>)

vim:ft=help
============

The [...] was added here to not waste your email box space.
Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>