• Frederic Weisbecker's avatar
    tracing/bkl: Add bkl ftrace events · 96a2c464
    Frederic Weisbecker authored
    Add two events lock_kernel and unlock_kernel() to trace the bkl uses.
    This opens the door for userspace tools to perform statistics about
    the callsites that use it, dependencies with other locks (by pairing
    the trace with lock events), use with recursivity and so on...
    
    The {__reacquire,release}_kernel_lock() events are not traced because
    these are called from schedule, thus the sched events are sufficient
    to trace them.
    
    Example of a trace:
    
    hald-addon-stor-4152  [000]   165.875501: unlock_kernel: depth: 0, fs/block_dev.c:1358 __blkdev_put()
    hald-addon-stor-4152  [000]   167.832974: lock_kernel: depth: 0, fs/block_dev.c:1167 __blkdev_get()
    
    How to get the callsites that acquire it recursively:
    
    cd /debug/tracing/events/bkl
    echo "lock_depth > 0" > filter
    
    firefox-4951  [001]   206.276967: unlock_kernel: depth: 1, fs/reiserfs/super.c:575 reiserfs_dirty_inode()
    
    You can also filter by file and/or line.
    
    v2: Use of FILTER_PTR_STRING attribute for files and lines fields to
        make them traceable.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
    Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
    Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
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