- 02 Jun, 2009 12 commits
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K.Prasad authored
This patch resets the bit in dr6 after the corresponding exception is handled in code, so that we keep a clean track of the current virtual debug status register. [ Impact: keep track of breakpoints triggering completion ] Signed-off-by:
K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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K.Prasad authored
This patch adds an ftrace plugin to detect and profile memory access over kernel variables. It uses HW Breakpoint interfaces to 'watch memory addresses. Signed-off-by:
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K.Prasad authored
This patch introduces a sample kernel module to demonstrate the use of Hardware Breakpoint feature. It places a breakpoint over the kernel variable 'pid_max' to monitor all write operations and emits a function-backtrace when done. Signed-off-by:
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K.Prasad authored
This patch disables Hardware breakpoints before doing a 'kexec' on the machine so that the cpu doesn't keep debug registers values which would be out of sync for the new image. Original-patch-by:
Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by:
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K.Prasad authored
This patch modifies the ptrace code to use the new wrapper routines around the debug/breakpoint registers. [ Impact: adapt x86 ptrace to the new breakpoint Api ] Original-patch-by:
Maneesh Soni <maneesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by:
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K.Prasad authored
This patch disables re-enabling of Hardware Breakpoint registers through the signal handling code. This is now done during from hw_breakpoint_handler(). Original-patch-by:
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K.Prasad authored
This patch enables the use of abstract debug registers in process-handling routines, according to the new hardware breakpoint Api. [ Impact: adapt thread breakpoints handling code to the new breakpoint Api ] Original-patch-by:
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K.Prasad authored
This patch enables the use of wrapper routines to access the debug/breakpoint registers on cpu management. The hardcoded debug registers save and restore operations for threads breakpoints are replaced by wrappers. And now that we handle the kernel breakpoints too, we also need to handle them on cpu hotplug operations. [ Impact: adapt new hardware breakpoint api to cpu hotplug ] Original-patch-by:
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K.Prasad authored
This patch modifies the breakpoint exception handler code to use the new abstract debug register names. [ fweisbec@gmail.com: fix conflict against kmemcheck ] [ Impact: refactor and cleanup x86 debug exception handler ] Original-patch-by:
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K.Prasad authored
This patch introduces the arch-specific implementation of the generic hardware breakpoints in kernel/hw_breakpoint.c inside x86 specific directories. It contains functions which help to validate and serve requests using Hardware Breakpoint registers on x86 processors. [ fweisbec@gmail.com: fix conflict against kmemcheck ] Original-patch-by:
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K.Prasad authored
This patch introduces the generic Hardware Breakpoint interfaces for both user and kernel space requests. This core Api handles the hardware breakpoints through new helpers. It handles the user-space breakpoints and kernel breakpoints in front of arch implementation. One can choose kernel wide breakpoints using the following helpers and passing them a generic struct hw_breakpoint: - register_kernel_hw_breakpoint() - unregister_kernel_hw_breakpoint() - modify_kernel_hw_breakpoint() On the other side, you can choose per task breakpoints. - register_user_hw_breakpoint() - unregister_user_hw_breakpoint() - modify_user_hw_breakpoint() [ fweisbec@gmail.com: fix conflict against perfcounter ] Original-patch-by:
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K.Prasad authored
The generic hardware breakpoint interface provides an abstraction of hardware breakpoints in front of specific arch implementations for both kernel and user side breakpoints. This includes execution breakpoints and read/write breakpoints, also known as "watchpoints". This patch introduces header files containing constants, structure definitions and declaration of functions used by the hardware breakpoint core and x86 specific code. It also introduces an array based storage for the debug-register values in 'struct thread_struct', while modifying all users of debugreg<n> member in the structure. [ Impact: add headers for new hardware breakpoint interface ] Original-patch-by:
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- 01 Jun, 2009 10 commits
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Frederic Weisbecker authored
register_stat_tracer() uses list_for_each_entry_safe to check whether a tracer is already present in the list. But we don't delete anything from the list here, so we don't need the safe version [ Impact: cleanup list use is stat tracing ] Signed-off-by: -
Li Zefan authored
- remove duplicate code in stat_seq_init() - update comments to reflect the change from stat list to stat rbtree [ Impact: clean up ] Signed-off-by:
Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by:
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Li Zefan authored
When closing a trace_stat file, we destroy the rbtree constructed during file open, but there is memory leak that the root node is not freed. [ Impact: fix memory leak when closing a trace_stat file ] Signed-off-by:
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Li Zefan authored
Currently the output of trace_stat/workqueues is totally reversed: # cat /debug/tracing/trace_stat/workqueues ... 1 17 17 210 37 `-blk_unplug_work+0x0/0x57 1 3779 3779 181 11 |-cfq_kick_queue+0x0/0x2f 1 3796 3796 kblockd/1:120 ... The correct output should be: 1 3796 3796 kblockd/1:120 1 3779 3779 181 11 |-cfq_kick_queue+0x0/0x2f 1 17 17 210 37 `-blk_unplug_work+0x0/0x57 It's caused by "tracing/stat: replace linked list by an rbtree for sorting" (53059c9b67a62a3dc8c80204d3da42b9267ea5a0). dummpy_cmp() should return -1, so rb_node will always be inserted as right-most node in the rbtree, thus we sort the output in ascending order. [ Impact: fix the output of trace_stat/workqueues ] Signed-off-by: -
Frederic Weisbecker authored
When the stat tracing framework prepares the entries from a tracer to output them to the user, it starts by computing a linear sort through a linked list to give the entries ordered by relevance to the user. This is quite ugly and causes a small latency when we begin to read the file. This patch changes that by turning the linked list into a red-black tree. Athough the whole iteration using the start and next tracer callbacks while opening the file remain the same, it is now much more fast and scalable. The rbtree guarantees O(log(n)) insertions whereas a linked list with linear sorting brought us a O(n) despair. Now the (visible) latency has disapeared. [ Impact: kill the latency while starting to read a stat tracer file ] Signed-off-by: -
Frederic Weisbecker authored
The "trace" prefix in struct trace_stat_session type is annoying while reading the trace_stat.c file. It makes the lines longer, and is not that much useful to explain the sense of this type. Just keep "struct stat_session" for this type. [ Impact: make the code a bit more readable ] Signed-off-by: -
Zhaolei authored
The blankline between each cpu's workqueue stat is not necessary, because the cpu number is enough to part them by eye. Old style also caused a blankline below headline, and made code complex by using lock, disableirq and get cpu var. Old style: # CPU INSERTED EXECUTED NAME # | | | | 0 8644 8644 events/0 0 0 0 cpuset ... 0 1 1 kdmflush 1 35365 35365 events/1 ... New style: # CPU INSERTED EXECUTED NAME # | | | | 0 8644 8644 events/0 0 0 0 cpuset ... 0 1 1 kdmflush 1 35365 35365 events/1 ... [ Impact: provide more readable code ] Signed-off-by:
Zhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
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Zhaolei authored
cpu_workqueue_stats->first_entry is useless because we can retrieve the header of a cpu workqueue using: if (&cpu_workqueue_stats->list == workqueue_cpu_stat(cpu)->list.next) [ Impact: cleanup ] Signed-off-by:
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Zhaolei authored
No need to use list_for_each_entry_safe() in iteration without deleting any node, we can use list_for_each_entry() instead. [ Impact: cleanup ] Signed-off-by:
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Zhaolei authored
v3: zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com: Change TRACE_EVENT definition to new format introduced by Steven Rostedt: consolidate trace and trace_event headers v2: kosaki@jp.fujitsu.com: print the function names instead of addr, and zap the work addr v1: zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com: Make workqueue tracepoints use TRACE_EVENT macro TRACE_EVENT is a more generic way to define tracepoints. Doing so adds these new capabilities to the tracepoints: - zero-copy and per-cpu splice() tracing - binary tracing without printf overhead - structured logging records exposed under /debug/tracing/events - trace events embedded in function tracer output and other plugins - user-defined, per tracepoint filter expressions Then, this patch converts DEFINE_TRACE to TRACE_EVENT in workqueue related tracepoints. [ Impact: expand workqueue tracer to events tracing ] Signed-off-by:KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by:
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- 27 May, 2009 2 commits
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Zhaolei authored
"call" is an argument of macro, but it is also used as a local variable name of function in macro. We should keep this local variable name distinct from any CPP macro parameter name if both are in the same macro scope, although it hasn't caused any problem yet. [ Impact: robustify macro ] Signed-off-by:
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by:
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Heiko Carstens authored
s390 code uses smp_processor_id() in __raw_spin_lock() code which reveals that a (raw) spinlock is taken without preemption disabled. This can potentially deadlock. To fix this explicitly disable and enable preemption. BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: cat/2278 caller is trace_find_cmdline+0x40/0xfc CPU: 0 Not tainted 2.6.30-rc7-dirty #39 Process cat (pid: 2278, task: 000000003faedb68, ksp: 000000003b33b988) 000000003b33b988 000000003b33bae0 0000000000000002 0000000000000000 000000003b33bb80 000000003b33baf8 000000003b33baf8 00000000000175d6 0000000000000001 000000003b33b988 000000003f9b0000 000000000000000b 000000000000000c 000000003b33bb40 000000003b33bae0 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000000000175d6 000000003b33bae0 000000003b33bb28 Call Trace: ([<00000000000174b2>] show_trace+0x112/0x170) [<0000000000017582>] show_stack+0x72/0x100 [<0000000000441538>] dump_stack+0xc8/0xd8 [<000000000025c350>] debug_smp_processor_id+0x114/0x130 [<00000000000bf0e4>] trace_find_cmdline+0x40/0xfc [<00000000000c35d4>] trace_print_context+0x58/0xac [<00000000000bb676>] print_trace_line+0x416/0x470 [<00000000000bc8fe>] s_show+0x4e/0x428 [<000000000013834e>] seq_read+0x36a/0x5d4 [<0000000000112a78>] vfs_read+0xc8/0x174 [<0000000000112c58>] SyS_read+0x74/0xc4 [<000000000002c7ae>] sysc_noemu+0x10/0x16 [<000002000012436c>] 0x2000012436c 1 lock held by cat/2278: #0: (&p->lock){+.+.+.}, at: [<0000000000138056>] seq_read+0x72/0x5d4 [ Impact: fix preempt-unsafe raw spinlock ] Signed-off-by:Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Acked-by:
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- 26 May, 2009 8 commits
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Steven Rostedt authored
The recording of the names at trace time is inefficient. This patch implements the softirq event recording to only record the vector and then use the __print_symbolic interface to print out the names. [ Impact: faster recording of softirq events ] Signed-off-by:
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Steven Rostedt authored
This patch adds __print_symbolic which is similar to __print_flags but works for an enumeration type instead. That is, there is only a one to one mapping between the values and the symbols. When a match is made, then it is printed, otherwise the hex value is outputed. [ Impact: add interface for showing symbol names in events ] Signed-off-by:
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Steven Rostedt authored
This patch changes the output for gfp_flags from being a simple hex value to the actual names. gfp_flags=GFP_ATOMIC instead of gfp_flags=00000020 And even gfp_flags=GFP_KERNEL instead of gfp_flags=000000d0 (Thanks to Frederic Weisbecker for pointing out that the first version had a bad order of GFP masks) [ Impact: more human readable output from tracer ] Acked-by:
Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro> Signed-off-by:
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Steven Rostedt authored
It is useful to see the state of a task that is being switched out. This patch adds the output of the state of the previous task in the context switch event. [ Impact: see state of switched out task in context switch ] Signed-off-by:
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Steven Rostedt authored
Developers have been asking for the ability in the ftrace event tracer to display names of bits in a flags variable. Instead of printing out c2, it would be easier to read FOO|BAR|GOO, assuming that FOO is bit 1, BAR is bit 6 and GOO is bit 7. Some examples where this would be useful are the state flags in a context switch, kmalloc flags, and even permision flags in accessing files. [ v2 changes include: Frederic Weisbecker's idea of using a mask instead of bits, thus we can output GFP_KERNEL instead of GPF_WAIT|GFP_IO|GFP_FS. Li Zefan's idea of allowing the caller of __print_flags to add their own delimiter (or no delimiter) where we can get for file permissions rwx instead of r|w|x. ] [ v3 changes: Christoph Hellwig's idea of using an array instead of va_args. ] [ Impact: better displaying of flags in trace output ] Signed-off-by:
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Zhaolei authored
Always use ftrace_event_enable_disable() to enable/disable an event so that we can factorize out the event toggling code. [ Impact: factorize and cleanup event tracing code ] Signed-off-by:
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Zhaolei authored
If we enable a trace event alone without any tracer running (such as function tracer, sched switch tracer, etc...) it can't output enough task command information. We need to use the tracing_{start/stop}_cmdline_record() helpers which are designed to keep track of cmdlines for any tasks that were scheduled during the tracing. Before this patch: # echo 1 > debugfs/tracing/events/sched/sched_switch/enable # cat debugfs/tracing/trace # tracer: nop # # TASK-PID CPU# TIMESTAMP FUNCTION # | | | | | <...>-2289 [000] 526276.724790: sched_switch: task bash:2289 [120] ==> sshd:2287 [120] <...>-2287 [000] 526276.725231: sched_switch: task sshd:2287 [120] ==> bash:2289 [120] <...>-2289 [000] 526276.725452: sched_switch: task bash:2289 [120] ==> sshd:2287 [120] <...>-2287 [000] 526276.727181: sched_switch: task sshd:2287 [120] ==> swapper:0 [140] <idle>-0 [000] 526277.032734: sched_switch: task swapper:0 [140] ==> events/0:5 [115] <...>-5 [000] 526277.032782: sched_switch: task events/0:5 [115] ==> swapper:0 [140] ... After this patch: # tracer: nop # # TASK-PID CPU# TIMESTAMP FUNCTION # | | | | | bash-2269 [000] 527347.989229: sched_switch: task bash:2269 [120] ==> sshd:2267 [120] sshd-2267 [000] 527347.990960: sched_switch: task sshd:2267 [120] ==> bash:2269 [120] bash-2269 [000] 527347.991143: sched_switch: task bash:2269 [120] ==> sshd:2267 [120] sshd-2267 [000] 527347.992959: sched_switch: task sshd:2267 [120] ==> swapper:0 [140] <idle>-0 [000] 527348.531989: sched_switch: task swapper:0 [140] ==> events/0:5 [115] events/0-5 [000] 527348.532115: sched_switch: task events/0:5 [115] ==> swapper:0 [140] ... Changelog: v1->v2: Update Kconfig to select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER in ENABLE_EVENT_TRACING v2->v3: v2 can solve problem that was caused by config EVENT_TRACING alone, but when CONFIG_FTRACE is off and CONFIG_TRACING is selected by other config, compile fail happened again. This version solves it. [ Impact: fix incomplete output of event tracing ] Signed-off-by: -
Pekka Enberg authored
The kmemtrace.enable kernel parameter no longer works. To enable kmemtrace at boot-time, you must pass "ftrace=kmemtrace" instead. [ Impact: remove obsolete kernel parameter documentation ] Cc: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro> Signed-off-by:
Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> LKML-Reference: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0905241112190.10296@rocky> Signed-off-by:
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- 25 May, 2009 2 commits
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Li Zefan authored
When defining a dynamic size string, we add __str_loc_##item to the trace entry, and it stores the location of the actual string in entry->_str_data[] 'unsigned short' should be sufficient to store this information, thus we save 2 bytes per dyn-size string in the ring buffer. [ Impact: reduce memory occupied by dyn-size strings in ring buffer ] Signed-off-by:
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Lai Jiangshan authored
I found that there is nothing to protect event_hash in ftrace_find_event(). Rcu protects the event hashlist but not the event itself while we use it after its extraction through ftrace_find_event(). This lack of a proper locking in this spot opens a race window between any event dereferencing and module removal. Eg: --Task A-- print_trace_line(trace) { event = find_ftrace_event(trace) --Task B-- trace_module_remove_events(mod) { list_trace_events_module(ev, mod) { unregister_ftrace_event(ev->event) { hlist_del(ev->event->node) list_del(....) } } } |--> module removed, the event has been dropped --Task A-- event->print(trace); // Dereferencing freed memory If the event retrieved belongs to a module and this module is concurrently removed, we may end up dereferencing a data from a freed module. RCU could solve this, but it would add latency to the kernel and forbid tracers output callbacks to call any sleepable code. So this fix converts 'trace_event_mutex' to a read/write semaphore, and adds trace_event_read_lock() to protect ftrace_find_event(). [ Impact: fix possible freed memory dereference in ftrace ] Signed-off-by:Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by:
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- 20 May, 2009 1 commit
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Ming Lei authored
register_module_notifier() returns zero in the success case. So fix the inverted fail case check in trace events modules handler. [ Impact: fix spurious warning on ftrace initialization] Reported-by:
Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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- 19 May, 2009 2 commits
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Stefan Raspl authored
debugfs directory entries for devices are not removed on some of the failure pathes in do_blk_trace_setup(). One way to reproduce is to start blktrace on multiple devices with insufficient Vmalloc space: Devices will fail with a message like this: BLKTRACESETUP(2) /dev/sdu failed: 5/Input/output error If so, the respective entries in debugfs (e.g. /sys/kernel/debug/block/sdu) will remain and subsequent attempts to start blktrace on the respective devices will not succeed due to existing directories. [ Impact: fix /debug/tracing file cleanup corner case ] Signed-off-by:
Stefan Raspl <stefan.raspl@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Li Zefan authored
- fix some typos - document the difference between '>' and '>>' - document the 'enable' toggle - remove section "Defining an event-enabled tracepoint", since it's out-dated and sample/trace_events/ already serves this purpose. v2: add "Updated by Li Zefan" [ Impact: make documentation up-to-date ] Signed-off-by:
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- 18 May, 2009 2 commits
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Ming Lei authored
return zero should be correct, so fix it. [ Impact: eliminate incorrect syslog message ] Signed-off-by:
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Ingo Molnar authored
Merge reason: we were on an -rc4 base, sync up to -rc6 Signed-off-by:
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- 16 May, 2009 1 commit
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Linus Torvalds authored
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