- 12 11月, 2008 7 次提交
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由 Steven Rostedt 提交于
Impact: new unlikely/likely profiler Andrew Morton recently suggested having an in-kernel way to profile likely and unlikely macros. This patch achieves that goal. When configured, every(*) likely and unlikely macro gets a counter attached to it. When the condition is hit, the hit and misses of that condition are recorded. These numbers can later be retrieved by: /debugfs/tracing/profile_likely - All likely markers /debugfs/tracing/profile_unlikely - All unlikely markers. # cat /debug/tracing/profile_unlikely | head correct incorrect % Function File Line ------- --------- - -------- ---- ---- 2167 0 0 do_arch_prctl process_64.c 832 0 0 0 do_arch_prctl process_64.c 804 2670 0 0 IS_ERR err.h 34 71230 5693 7 __switch_to process_64.c 673 76919 0 0 __switch_to process_64.c 639 43184 33743 43 __switch_to process_64.c 624 12740 64181 83 __switch_to process_64.c 594 12740 64174 83 __switch_to process_64.c 590 # cat /debug/tracing/profile_unlikely | \ awk '{ if ($3 > 25) print $0; }' |head -20 44963 35259 43 __switch_to process_64.c 624 12762 67454 84 __switch_to process_64.c 594 12762 67447 84 __switch_to process_64.c 590 1478 595 28 syscall_get_error syscall.h 51 0 2821 100 syscall_trace_leave ptrace.c 1567 0 1 100 native_smp_prepare_cpus smpboot.c 1237 86338 265881 75 calc_delta_fair sched_fair.c 408 210410 108540 34 calc_delta_mine sched.c 1267 0 54550 100 sched_info_queued sched_stats.h 222 51899 66435 56 pick_next_task_fair sched_fair.c 1422 6 10 62 yield_task_fair sched_fair.c 982 7325 2692 26 rt_policy sched.c 144 0 1270 100 pre_schedule_rt sched_rt.c 1261 1268 48073 97 pick_next_task_rt sched_rt.c 884 0 45181 100 sched_info_dequeued sched_stats.h 177 0 15 100 sched_move_task sched.c 8700 0 15 100 sched_move_task sched.c 8690 53167 33217 38 schedule sched.c 4457 0 80208 100 sched_info_switch sched_stats.h 270 30585 49631 61 context_switch sched.c 2619 # cat /debug/tracing/profile_likely | awk '{ if ($3 > 25) print $0; }' 39900 36577 47 pick_next_task sched.c 4397 20824 15233 42 switch_mm mmu_context_64.h 18 0 7 100 __cancel_work_timer workqueue.c 560 617 66484 99 clocksource_adjust timekeeping.c 456 0 346340 100 audit_syscall_exit auditsc.c 1570 38 347350 99 audit_get_context auditsc.c 732 0 345244 100 audit_syscall_entry auditsc.c 1541 38 1017 96 audit_free auditsc.c 1446 0 1090 100 audit_alloc auditsc.c 862 2618 1090 29 audit_alloc auditsc.c 858 0 6 100 move_masked_irq migration.c 9 1 198 99 probe_sched_wakeup trace_sched_switch.c 58 2 2 50 probe_wakeup trace_sched_wakeup.c 227 0 2 100 probe_wakeup_sched_switch trace_sched_wakeup.c 144 4514 2090 31 __grab_cache_page filemap.c 2149 12882 228786 94 mapping_unevictable pagemap.h 50 4 11 73 __flush_cpu_slab slub.c 1466 627757 330451 34 slab_free slub.c 1731 2959 61245 95 dentry_lru_del_init dcache.c 153 946 1217 56 load_elf_binary binfmt_elf.c 904 102 82 44 disk_put_part genhd.h 206 1 1 50 dst_gc_task dst.c 82 0 19 100 tcp_mss_split_point tcp_output.c 1126 As you can see by the above, there's a bit of work to do in rethinking the use of some unlikelys and likelys. Note: the unlikely case had 71 hits that were more than 25%. Note: After submitting my first version of this patch, Andrew Morton showed me a version written by Daniel Walker, where I picked up the following ideas from: 1) Using __builtin_constant_p to avoid profiling fixed values. 2) Using __FILE__ instead of instruction pointers. 3) Using the preprocessor to stop all profiling of likely annotations from vsyscall_64.c. Thanks to Andrew Morton, Arjan van de Ven, Theodore Tso and Ingo Molnar for their feed back on this patch. (*) Not ever unlikely is recorded, those that are used by vsyscalls (a few of them) had to have profiling disabled. Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> -
由 Steven Rostedt 提交于
Impact: deadlock fix in ring_buffer_read_start The ring_buffer_iter_reset was called from ring_buffer_read_start where both grabbed the reader_lock. This patch separates out the internals of ring_buffer_iter_reset to its own function so that both APIs may grab the reader_lock. Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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由 Frederic Weisbecker 提交于
Impact: Split the boot tracer entries in two parts: call and return Now that we are using the sched tracer from the boot tracer, we want to use the same timestamp than the ring-buffer to have consistent time captures between sched events and initcall events. So we get rid of the old time capture by the boot tracer and split the initcall events in two parts: call and return. This way we have the ring buffer timestamp of both. An example trace: [ 27.904149584] calling net_ns_init+0x0/0x1c0 @ 1 [ 27.904429624] initcall net_ns_init+0x0/0x1c0 returned 0 after 0 msecs [ 27.904575926] calling reboot_init+0x0/0x20 @ 1 [ 27.904655399] initcall reboot_init+0x0/0x20 returned 0 after 0 msecs [ 27.904800228] calling sysctl_init+0x0/0x30 @ 1 [ 27.905142914] initcall sysctl_init+0x0/0x30 returned 0 after 0 msecs [ 27.905287211] calling ksysfs_init+0x0/0xb0 @ 1 ##### CPU 0 buffer started #### init-1 [000] 27.905395: 1:120:R + [001] 11:115:S ##### CPU 1 buffer started #### <idle>-0 [001] 27.905425: 0:140:R ==> [001] 11:115:R init-1 [000] 27.905426: 1:120:D ==> [000] 0:140:R <idle>-0 [000] 27.905431: 0:140:R + [000] 4:115:S <idle>-0 [000] 27.905451: 0:140:R ==> [000] 4:115:R ksoftirqd/0-4 [000] 27.905456: 4:115:S ==> [000] 0:140:R udevd-11 [001] 27.905458: 11:115:R + [001] 14:115:R <idle>-0 [000] 27.905459: 0:140:R + [000] 4:115:S <idle>-0 [000] 27.905462: 0:140:R ==> [000] 4:115:R udevd-11 [001] 27.905462: 11:115:R ==> [001] 14:115:R ksoftirqd/0-4 [000] 27.905467: 4:115:S ==> [000] 0:140:R <idle>-0 [000] 27.905470: 0:140:R + [000] 4:115:S <idle>-0 [000] 27.905473: 0:140:R ==> [000] 4:115:R ksoftirqd/0-4 [000] 27.905476: 4:115:S ==> [000] 0:140:R <idle>-0 [000] 27.905479: 0:140:R + [000] 4:115:S <idle>-0 [000] 27.905482: 0:140:R ==> [000] 4:115:R ksoftirqd/0-4 [000] 27.905486: 4:115:S ==> [000] 0:140:R udevd-14 [001] 27.905499: 14:120:X ==> [001] 11:115:R udevd-11 [001] 27.905506: 11:115:R + [000] 1:120:D <idle>-0 [000] 27.905515: 0:140:R ==> [000] 1:120:R udevd-11 [001] 27.905517: 11:115:S ==> [001] 0:140:R [ 27.905557107] initcall ksysfs_init+0x0/0xb0 returned 0 after 3906 msecs [ 27.905705736] calling init_jiffies_clocksource+0x0/0x10 @ 1 [ 27.905779239] initcall init_jiffies_clocksource+0x0/0x10 returned 0 after 0 msecs [ 27.906769814] calling pm_init+0x0/0x30 @ 1 [ 27.906853627] initcall pm_init+0x0/0x30 returned 0 after 0 msecs [ 27.906997803] calling pm_disk_init+0x0/0x20 @ 1 [ 27.907076946] initcall pm_disk_init+0x0/0x20 returned 0 after 0 msecs [ 27.907222556] calling swsusp_header_init+0x0/0x30 @ 1 [ 27.907294325] initcall swsusp_header_init+0x0/0x30 returned 0 after 0 msecs [ 27.907439620] calling stop_machine_init+0x0/0x50 @ 1 init-1 [000] 27.907485: 1:120:R + [000] 2:115:S init-1 [000] 27.907490: 1:120:D ==> [000] 2:115:R kthreadd-2 [000] 27.907507: 2:115:R + [001] 15:115:R <idle>-0 [001] 27.907517: 0:140:R ==> [001] 15:115:R kthreadd-2 [000] 27.907517: 2:115:D ==> [000] 0:140:R <idle>-0 [000] 27.907521: 0:140:R + [000] 4:115:S <idle>-0 [000] 27.907524: 0:140:R ==> [000] 4:115:R udevd-15 [001] 27.907527: 15:115:D + [000] 2:115:D ksoftirqd/0-4 [000] 27.907537: 4:115:S ==> [000] 2:115:R udevd-15 [001] 27.907537: 15:115:D ==> [001] 0:140:R kthreadd-2 [000] 27.907546: 2:115:R + [000] 1:120:D kthreadd-2 [000] 27.907550: 2:115:S ==> [000] 1:120:R init-1 [000] 27.907584: 1:120:R + [000] 15: 0:D init-1 [000] 27.907589: 1:120:R + [000] 2:115:S init-1 [000] 27.907593: 1:120:D ==> [000] 15: 0:R udevd-15 [000] 27.907601: 15: 0:S ==> [000] 2:115:R ##### CPU 0 buffer started #### kthreadd-2 [000] 27.907616: 2:115:R + [001] 16:115:R ##### CPU 1 buffer started #### <idle>-0 [001] 27.907620: 0:140:R ==> [001] 16:115:R kthreadd-2 [000] 27.907621: 2:115:D ==> [000] 0:140:R udevd-16 [001] 27.907625: 16:115:D + [000] 2:115:D <idle>-0 [000] 27.907628: 0:140:R + [000] 4:115:S udevd-16 [001] 27.907629: 16:115:D ==> [001] 0:140:R <idle>-0 [000] 27.907631: 0:140:R ==> [000] 4:115:R ksoftirqd/0-4 [000] 27.907636: 4:115:S ==> [000] 2:115:R kthreadd-2 [000] 27.907644: 2:115:R + [000] 1:120:D kthreadd-2 [000] 27.907647: 2:115:S ==> [000] 1:120:R init-1 [000] 27.907657: 1:120:R + [001] 16: 0:D <idle>-0 [001] 27.907666: 0:140:R ==> [001] 16: 0:R [ 27.907703862] initcall stop_machine_init+0x0/0x50 returned 0 after 0 msecs [ 27.907850704] calling filelock_init+0x0/0x30 @ 1 [ 27.907926573] initcall filelock_init+0x0/0x30 returned 0 after 0 msecs [ 27.908071327] calling init_script_binfmt+0x0/0x10 @ 1 [ 27.908165195] initcall init_script_binfmt+0x0/0x10 returned 0 after 0 msecs [ 27.908309461] calling init_elf_binfmt+0x0/0x10 @ 1 Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> -
由 Frederic Weisbecker 提交于
Impact: Cleanups on the boot tracer and ftrace This patch bring some cleanups about the boot tracer headers. The functions and structures of this tracer have nothing related to ftrace and should have so their own header file. Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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由 Steven Rostedt 提交于
Impact: Restructure WARN_ONs in ring_buffer.c The current WARN_ON macros in ring_buffer.c are quite ugly. This patch cleans them up and uses a single RB_WARN_ON that returns the value of the condition. This allows the caller to abort the function if the condition is true. Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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由 Steven Rostedt 提交于
Impact: enable/disable ring buffer recording API added Several kernel developers have requested that there be a way to stop recording into the ring buffers with a simple switch that can also be enabled from userspace. This patch addes a new kernel API to the ring buffers called: tracing_on() tracing_off() When tracing_off() is called, all ring buffers will not be able to record into their buffers. tracing_on() will enable the ring buffers again. These two act like an on/off switch. That is, there is no counting of the number of times tracing_off or tracing_on has been called. A new file is added to the debugfs/tracing directory called tracing_on This allows for userspace applications to also flip the switch. echo 0 > debugfs/tracing/tracing_on disables the tracing. echo 1 > /debugfs/tracing/tracing_on enables it. Note, this does not disable or enable any tracers. It only sets or clears a flag that needs to be set in order for the ring buffers to write to their buffers. It is a global flag, and affects all ring buffers. The buffers start out with tracing_on enabled. There are now three flags that control recording into the buffers: tracing_on: which affects all ring buffer tracers. buffer->record_disabled: which affects an allocated buffer, which may be set if an anomaly is detected, and tracing is disabled. cpu_buffer->record_disabled: which is set by tracing_stop() or if an anomaly is detected. tracing_start can not reenable this if an anomaly occurred. The userspace debugfs/tracing/tracing_enabled is implemented with tracing_stop() but the user space code can not enable it if the kernel called tracing_stop(). Userspace can enable the tracing_on even if the kernel disabled it. It is just a switch used to stop tracing if a condition was hit. tracing_on is not for protecting critical areas in the kernel nor is it for stopping tracing if an anomaly occurred. This is because userspace can reenable it at any time. Side effect: With this patch, I discovered a dead variable in ftrace.c called tracing_on. This patch removes it. Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> -
由 Steven Rostedt 提交于
Impact: serialize reader accesses to individual CPU ring buffers The code in the ring buffer expects only one reader at a time, but currently it puts that requirement on the caller. This is not strong enough, and this patch adds a "reader_lock" that serializes the access to the reader API of the ring buffer. Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 11 11月, 2008 5 次提交
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由 Frederic Weisbecker 提交于
Impact: add new tracing plugin which can trace full (entry+exit) function calls This tracer uses the low level function return ftrace plugin to measure the execution time of the kernel functions. The first field is the caller of the function, the second is the measured function, and the last one is the execution time in nanoseconds. - v3: - HAVE_FUNCTION_RET_TRACER have been added. Each arch that support ftrace return should enable it. - ftrace_return_stub becomes ftrace_stub. - CONFIG_FUNCTION_RET_TRACER depends now on CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER - Return traces printing can be used for other tracers on trace.c - Adapt to the new tracing API (no more ctrl_update callback) - Correct the check of "disabled" during insertion. - Minor changes... Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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由 Steven Rostedt 提交于
This patch replaces most of the BUG_ONs in the ring_buffer code with RB_WARN_ON variants. It adds some more variants as needed for the replacement. This lets the buffer die nicely and still warn the user. One BUG_ON remains in the code, and that is because it detects a bad pointer passed in by the calling function, and not a bug by the ring buffer code itself. Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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由 Steven Rostedt 提交于
Impact: stop ftrace_special from recursion The ftrace_special is used to help debug areas of the kernel. Because of this, if it is put in certain locations, the fact that it allows recursion can become a problem if the kernel developer using does not realize that. This patch changes ftrace_special to not allow recursion into itself to make it more robust. It also changes from preempt disable interrupts disable to prevent any loss of trace entries. Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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由 Steven Rostedt 提交于
Impact: removal of unnecessary looping The lockless part of the ring buffer allows for reentry into the code from interrupts. A timestamp is taken, a test is preformed and if it detects that an interrupt occurred that did tracing, it tries again. The problem arises if the timestamp code itself causes a trace. The detection will detect this and loop again. The difference between this and an interrupt doing tracing, is that this will fail every time, and cause an infinite loop. Currently, we test if the loop happens 1000 times, and if so, it will produce a warning and disable the ring buffer. The problem with this approach is that it makes it difficult to perform some types of tracing (tracing the timestamp code itself). Each trace entry has a delta timestamp from the previous entry. If a trace entry is reserved but and interrupt occurs and traces before the previous entry is commited, the delta timestamp for that entry will be zero. This actually makes sense in terms of tracing, because the interrupt entry happened before the preempted entry was commited, so one may consider the two happening at the same time. The order is still preserved in the buffer. With this idea, instead of trying to get a new timestamp if an interrupt made it in between the timestamp and the test, the entry could simply make the delta zero and continue. This will prevent interrupts or tracers in the timer code from causing the above loop. Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> -
由 Steven Rostedt 提交于
Impact: fix for bug on resize This patch addresses the bug found here: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11996 When ftrace converted to the new unified trace buffer, the resizing of the buffer was not protected as much as it was originally. If tracing is performed while the resize occurs, then the buffer can be corrupted. This patch disables all ftrace buffer modifications before a resize takes place. Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
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- 08 11月, 2008 9 次提交
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由 Steven Rostedt 提交于
Impact: change in trace output Because the trace buffers are per cpu ring buffers, the start of the trace can be confusing. If one CPU is very active at the end of the trace, its history will not go as far back as the other CPU traces. This means that output for a particular CPU may not appear for the first part of a trace. To help annotate what is happening, and to prevent any more confusion, this patch adds a line that annotates the start of a CPU buffer output. For example: automount-3495 [001] 184.596443: dnotify_parent <-vfs_write [...] automount-3495 [001] 184.596449: dput <-path_put automount-3496 [002] 184.596450: down_read_trylock <-do_page_fault [...] sshd-3497 [001] 184.597069: up_read <-do_page_fault <idle>-0 [000] 184.597074: __exit_idle <-exit_idle [...] automount-3496 [002] 184.597257: filemap_fault <-__do_fault <idle>-0 [003] 184.597261: exit_idle <-smp_apic_timer_interrupt Note, parsers of a trace output should always ignore any lines that start with a '#'. Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> -
由 Steven Rostedt 提交于
Impact: preemptoff not tested in selftest Due to the BKL not being preemptable anymore, the selftest of the preemptoff code can not be tested. It requires that it is called with preemption enabled, but since the BKL is held, that is no longer the case. This patch simply skips those tests if it detects that the context is not preemptable. The following will now show up in the tests: Testing tracer preemptoff: can not test ... force PASSED Testing tracer preemptirqsoff: can not test ... force PASSED When the BKL is removed, or it becomes preemptable once again, then the tests will be performed. Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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由 Steven Rostedt 提交于
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>
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由 Steven Rostedt 提交于
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>
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由 Steven Rostedt 提交于
Impact: have the ftrace_printk enabled on startup It is confusing to have to "echo trace_printk > /debug/tracing/iter_ctrl" after adding ftrace_printk in the kernel. Currently the trace_printk is set to off by default. ftrace_printk should only be in open kernel code when used for debugging, and thus it should be enabled by default. It may also be used to record data within a tracer, but those ftrace_printks should be within wrappers that are either enabled by trace_points or have a variable protecting the code path from being entered when the tracer is disabled. Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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由 Steven Rostedt 提交于
Impact: fix to irqsoff tracer output In converting to the new start / stop ftrace handling, the irqsoff tracer start called the irqsoff reset function. irqsoff tracer is not the same as the other traces, and it resets the buffers while searching for the longest latency. The reset that the irqsoff stop method calls disables the function tracing. That means that, by starting the tracer, the function tracer is disabled incorrectly. This patch simply removes the call to reset which keeps the function tracing enabled. Reset is not needed for the irqsoff stop method. Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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由 Steven Rostedt 提交于
Impact: fix for sched_switch that broke dynamic ftrace startup The commit: tracing/fastboot: use sched switch tracer from boot tracer broke the API of the sched_switch trace. The use of the tracing_start/stop_cmdline record is for only recording the cmdline, NOT recording the schedule switches themselves. Seeing that the boot tracer broke the API to do something that it wanted, this patch adds a new interface for the API while puting back the original interface of the old API. Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Acked-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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由 Steven Rostedt 提交于
Impact: boot tracer startup modified The boot tracer calls into some of the schedule tracing private functions that should not be exported. This patch cleans it up, and makes way for further changes in the ftrace infrastructure. This patch adds a api to assign a tracer array to the schedule context switch tracer. Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Acked-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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由 Steven Rostedt 提交于
Impact: fix of output of set_ftrace_filter Commit ftrace: do not show freed records in available_filter_functions Removed a bit too much from the set_ftrace_filter code, where we now see all functions in the set_ftrace_filter file even when we set a filter. Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 06 11月, 2008 4 次提交
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由 Steven Rostedt 提交于
Impact: no lockdep debugging of ring buffer The problem with running lockdep on the ring buffer is that the ring buffer is the core infrastructure of ftrace. What happens is that the tracer will start tracing the lockdep code while lockdep is testing the ring buffers locks. This can cause lockdep to fail due to testing cases that have not fully finished their locking transition. This patch converts the spin locks used by the ring buffer back into raw spin locks which lockdep does not check. Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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由 Steven Rostedt 提交于
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>
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由 Steven Rostedt 提交于
Impact: add way to quickly start stop tracing from the kernel This patch adds a soft stop and start to the trace. This simply disables function tracing via the ftrace_disabled flag, and disables the trace buffers to prevent recording. The tracing code may still be executed, but the trace will not be recorded. Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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由 Steven Rostedt 提交于
Impact: quick start and stop of function tracer This patch adds a way to disable the function tracer quickly without the need to run kstop_machine. It adds a new variable called function_trace_stop which will stop the calls to functions from mcount when set. This is just an on/off switch and does not handle recursion like preempt_disable(). It's main purpose is to help other tracers/debuggers start and stop tracing fuctions without the need to call kstop_machine. The config option HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACE_MCOUNT_TEST is added for archs that implement the testing of the function_trace_stop in the mcount arch dependent code. Otherwise, the test is done in the C code. x86 is the only arch at the moment that supports this. Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 05 11月, 2008 7 次提交
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由 Eric Anholt 提交于
In 777e208d we changed from outputting field->cpu (a char) to iter->cpu (unsigned int), increasing the resulting structure size by 3 bytes. Signed-off-by: NEric Anholt <eric@anholt.net> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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由 Frederic Weisbecker 提交于
Impact: fix boot tracer + sched tracer coupling bug Fix a bug that made the sched_switch tracer unable to run if set as the current_tracer after the boot tracer. Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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由 Frederic Weisbecker 提交于
Impact: cleanup This patch applies some corrections suggested by Steven Rostedt. Change the type of shed_ref into int since it is used into a Mutex, we don't need it anymore as an atomic variable in the sched_switch tracer. Also change the name of the register mutex. Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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由 Frederic Weisbecker 提交于
Impact: enhance boot trace output with scheduling events Use the sched_switch tracer from the boot tracer. We also can trace schedule events inside the initcalls. Sched tracing is disabled after the initcall has finished and then reenabled before the next one is started. Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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由 Frederic Weisbecker 提交于
Impact: cleanup When init_sched_switch_trace() is called, it has no reason to start the sched tracer if the sched_ref is not zero. _ If this is non-zero, the tracer is already used, but we can register it to the tracing engine. There is already a security which avoid the tracer probes not to be resgistered twice. _ If this is zero, this block will not be used. Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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由 Frederic Weisbecker 提交于
Impact: fix race condition in sched_switch tracer This patch fixes a race condition in the sched_switch tracer. If several tasks (IE: concurrent initcalls) are playing with tracing_start_cmdline_record() and tracing_stop_cmdline_record(), the following situation could happen: _ Task A and B are using the same tracepoint probe. Task A holds it. Task B is sleeping and doesn't hold it. _ Task A frees the sched tracer, then sched_ref is decremented to 0. _ Task A is preempted and hadn't yet unregistered its tracepoint probe, then B runs. _ B increments sched_ref, sees it's 1 and then guess it has to register its probe. But it has not been freed by task A. _ A lot of bad things can happen after that... Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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由 Frederic Weisbecker 提交于
Impact: modify boot tracer We used to disable the initcall tracing at a specified time (IE: end of builtin initcalls). But we don't need it anymore. It will be stopped when initcalls are finished. However we want two things: _Start this tracing only after pre-smp initcalls are finished. _Since we are planning to trace sched_switches at the same time, we want to enable them only during the initcall execution. For this purpose, this patch introduce two functions to enable/disable the sched_switch tracing during boot. Signed-off-by: NFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 04 11月, 2008 3 次提交
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由 Steven Rostedt 提交于
Impact: disable interrupts during trace entry creation (as opposed to preempt) To help with performance, I set the ftracer to not disable interrupts, and only to disable preemption. If an interrupt occurred, it would not be traced, because the function tracer protects itself from recursion. This may be faster, but the trace output might miss some traces. This patch makes the fuction trace disable interrupts, but it also adds a runtime feature to disable preemption instead. It does this by having two different tracer functions. When the function tracer is enabled, it will check to see which version is requested (irqs disabled or preemption disabled). Then it will use the corresponding function as the tracer. Irq disabling is the default behaviour, but if the user wants better performance, with the chance of missing traces, then they can choose the preempt disabled version. Running hackbench 3 times with the irqs disabled and 3 times with the preempt disabled function tracer yielded: tracing type times entries recorded ------------ -------- ---------------- irq disabled 43.393 166433066 43.282 166172618 43.298 166256704 preempt disabled 38.969 159871710 38.943 159972935 39.325 161056510 Average: irqs disabled: 43.324 166287462 preempt disabled: 39.079 160300385 preempt is 10.8 percent faster than irqs disabled. I wrote a patch to count function trace recursion and reran hackbench. With irq disabled: 1,150 times the function tracer did not trace due to recursion. with preempt disabled: 5,117,718 times. The thousand times with irq disabled could be due to NMIs, or simply a case where it called a function that was not protected by notrace. But we also see that a large amount of the trace is lost with the preempt version. Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> -
由 Steven Rostedt 提交于
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>
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由 Steven Rostedt 提交于
Impact: add new ftrace-plugin internal APIs Parts of the tracer needs to be careful about schedule recursion. If the NEED_RESCHED flag is set, a preempt_enable will call schedule. Inside the schedule function, the NEED_RESCHED flag is cleared. The problem arises when a trace happens in the schedule function but before NEED_RESCHED is cleared. The race is as follows: schedule() >> tracer called trace_function() preempt_disable() [ record trace ] preempt_enable() <<- here's the issue. [check NEED_RESCHED] schedule() [ Repeat the above, over and over again ] The naive approach is simply to use preempt_enable_no_schedule instead. The problem with that approach is that, although we solve the schedule recursion issue, we now might lose a preemption check when not in the schedule function. trace_function() preempt_disable() [ record trace ] [Interrupt comes in and sets NEED_RESCHED] preempt_enable_no_resched() [continue without scheduling] The way ftrace handles this problem is with the following approach: int resched; resched = need_resched(); preempt_disable_notrace(); [record trace] if (resched) preempt_enable_no_sched_notrace(); else preempt_enable_notrace(); This may seem like the opposite of what we want. If resched is set then we call the "no_sched" version?? The reason we do this is because if NEED_RESCHED is set before we disable preemption, there's two reasons for that: 1) we are in an atomic code path 2) we are already on our way to the schedule function, and maybe even in the schedule function, but have yet to clear the flag. Both the above cases we do not want to schedule. This solution has already been implemented within the ftrace infrastructure. But the problem is that it has been implemented several times. This patch encapsulates this code to two nice functions. resched = ftrace_preempt_disable(); [ record trace] ftrace_preempt_enable(resched); This way the tracers do not need to worry about getting it right. Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 03 11月, 2008 4 次提交
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由 Steven Rostedt 提交于
While writing a new tracer, I had a bug where I caused the ring-buffer to recurse in a bad way. The bug was with the tracer I was writing and not the ring-buffer itself. But it took a long time to find the problem. This patch adds paranoid checks into the ring-buffer infrastructure that will catch bugs of this nature. Note: I put the bug back in the tracer and this patch showed the error nicely and prevented the lockup. Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> -
由 Steven Rostedt 提交于
Impact: ia64+tracing build fix When a function is kprobed, the return address is set to the kprobe_trampoline, or something similar. This caused the output of the trace to look confusing when the parent seemed to be this "kprobe_trampoline" function. To fix this, Abhishek Sagar added a test of the instruction pointer of the parent to see if it matched the kprobe_trampoline. If it did, the output would print a "[unknown/kretprobe'd]" instead. Unfortunately, not all archs do this the same way, and the trampoline function may not be exported, which causes failures in builds. This patch will compare the name instead of the pointer to see if it matches. This prevents us from depending on a function from being exported, and should work on all archs. The worst that can happen is that an arch might use a different name and then we go back to the confusing output. At least the arch will still build. Reported-by: NAbhishek Sagar <sagar.abhishek@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Tested-by: NAbhishek Sagar <sagar.abhishek@gmail.com> Acked-by: NAbhishek Sagar <sagar.abhishek@gmail.com>
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由 Al Viro 提交于
Impact: build fix on !stacktrace architectures only select STACKTRACE on architectures that have STACKTRACE_SUPPORT ... since we also need to ifdef out the guts of ftrace_trace_stack(). We also want to disallow setting TRACE_ITER_STACKTRACE in trace_flags on such configs, but that can wait. Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Acked-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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由 Peter Zijlstra 提交于
Impact: add new (optional) debug boot option In order to facilitate early boot trouble, allow one to specify a tracer on the kernel boot line. Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 31 10月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Steven Rostedt 提交于
Impact: cleanup This patch cleans up the NMI safe code for dynamic ftrace as suggested by Andrew Morton. Signed-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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