- 25 Nov, 2008 9 commits
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Markus Metzger authored
Impact: restructure DS memory allocation to be done by the usage site of DS Require pre-allocated buffers in ds.h. Move the BTS buffer allocation for ptrace into ptrace.c. The pointer to the allocated buffer is stored in the traced task's task_struct together with the handle returned by ds_request_bts(). Removes memory accounting code. Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Markus Metzger authored
Impact: generalize the DS code to shared buffers Change the in-kernel ds.h interface to identify the tracer via a handle returned on ds_request_~(). Tracers used to be identified via their task_struct. The changes are required to allow DS to be shared between different tasks, which is needed for perfmon2 and for ftrace. For ptrace, the handle is stored in the traced task's task_struct. This should probably go into a (arch-specific) ptrace context some time. Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
This pulls together all the topic branches that are needed for the DS/BTS/PEBS tracing work.
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Markus Metzger authored
Impact: fix sleeping-with-spinlock-held bugs/crashes - Turn a wrmsr to write the DS_AREA MSR into a wrmsrl. - Use irqsave variants of spinlocks. - Do not allocate memory while holding spinlocks. Reported-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@googlemail.com> Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Markus Metzger authored
Impact: fix DS hw enablement on 64-bit x86 Fix the PEBS record size in the DS configuration. Reported-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Markus Metzger authored
Impact: cleanup Replace a macro with a static inline function. Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Markus Metzger authored
Impact: cleanup Move the CONFIG guard from the .c file into the makefile. Reported-by: Andi Kleen <andi-suse@firstfloor.org> Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Julia Lawall authored
Impact: fix theoretical option string parsing overflow Since bridge is unsigned, it would seem better to use simple_strtoul that simple_strtol. A simplified version of the semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // <smpl> @r2@ long e; position p; @@ e = simple_strtol@p(...) @@ position p != r2.p; type T; T e; @@ e = - simple_strtol@p + simple_strtoul (...) // </smpl> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk> Cc: muli@il.ibm.com Cc: jdmason@kudzu.us Cc: discuss@x86-64.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Steven Rostedt authored
Impact: build fix with certain compilers GCC can decide to use %dil when "r" is used, which is not valid for setnz. This bug was brought out by Stephen Rothwell's merging of the branch tracer into linux-next. [ Thanks to Uros Bizjak for recommending 'q' over 'Q' ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 24 Nov, 2008 1 commit
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Ingo Molnar authored
Merge branches 'tracing/branch-tracer', 'tracing/fastboot', 'tracing/ftrace', 'tracing/function-return-tracer', 'tracing/power-tracer', 'tracing/powerpc', 'tracing/ring-buffer', 'tracing/stack-tracer' and 'tracing/urgent' into tracing/core
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- 23 Nov, 2008 30 commits
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Török Edwin authored
Impact: use standard docbook tags Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Török Edwin <edwintorok@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Frederic Weisbecker authored
Impact: avoid losing some traces when a task is freed do_exit() is not the last function called when a task finishes. There are still some functions which are to be called such as ree_task(). So we delay the freeing of the return stack to the last moment. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Pekka Paalanen authored
Impact: update documentation Update to reflect the current state of the tracing framework: - "none" tracer has been replaced by "nop" tracer - tracing_enabled must be toggled when changing buffer size Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Pekka Paalanen authored
Impact: fix mmiotrace overrun tracing When ftrace framework moved to use the ring buffer facility, the buffer overrun detection was broken after 2.6.27 by commit | commit 3928a8a2 | Author: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> | Date: Mon Sep 29 23:02:41 2008 -0400 | | ftrace: make work with new ring buffer | | This patch ports ftrace over to the new ring buffer. The detection is now fixed by using the ring buffer API. When mmiotrace detects a buffer overrun, it will report the number of lost events. People reading an mmiotrace log must know if something was missed, otherwise the data may not make sense. Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Frederic Weisbecker authored
Impact: fix a crash While I killed the cat process, I got sometimes the following (but rare) crash: [ 65.689027] Pid: 2969, comm: cat Not tainted (2.6.28-rc6-tip #83) AMILO Li 2727 [ 65.689027] EIP: 0060:[<00000000>] EFLAGS: 00010082 CPU: 1 [ 65.689027] EIP is at 0x0 [ 65.689027] EAX: 00000000 EBX: f66cd780 ECX: c019a64a EDX: f66cd780 [ 65.689027] ESI: 00000286 EDI: f66cd780 EBP: f630be2c ESP: f630be24 [ 65.689027] DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0000 SS: 0068 [ 65.689027] Process cat (pid: 2969, ti=f630a000 task=f66cd780 task.ti=f630a000) [ 65.689027] Stack: [ 65.689027] 00000012 f630bd54 f630be7c c012c853 00000000 c0133cc9 f66cda54 f630be5c [ 65.689027] f630be68 f66cda54 f66cd88c f66cd878 f7070000 00000001 f630be90 c0135dbc [ 65.689027] f614a614 f630be68 f630be68 f65ba200 00000002 f630bf10 f630be90 c012cad6 [ 65.689027] Call Trace: [ 65.689027] [<c012c853>] ? do_exit+0x603/0x850 [ 65.689027] [<c0133cc9>] ? next_signal+0x9/0x40 [ 65.689027] [<c0135dbc>] ? dequeue_signal+0x8c/0x180 [ 65.689027] [<c012cad6>] ? do_group_exit+0x36/0x90 [ 65.689027] [<c013709c>] ? get_signal_to_deliver+0x20c/0x390 [ 65.689027] [<c0102b69>] ? do_notify_resume+0x99/0x8b0 [ 65.689027] [<c02e6d1a>] ? tty_ldisc_deref+0x5a/0x80 [ 65.689027] [<c014db9b>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xb/0x10 [ 65.689027] [<c02e6d1a>] ? tty_ldisc_deref+0x5a/0x80 [ 65.689027] [<c02e39b0>] ? n_tty_write+0x0/0x340 [ 65.689027] [<c02e1812>] ? redirected_tty_write+0x82/0x90 [ 65.689027] [<c019ee99>] ? vfs_write+0x99/0xd0 [ 65.689027] [<c02e1790>] ? redirected_tty_write+0x0/0x90 [ 65.689027] [<c019f342>] ? sys_write+0x42/0x70 [ 65.689027] [<c01035ca>] ? work_notifysig+0x13/0x19 [ 65.689027] Code: Bad EIP value. [ 65.689027] EIP: [<00000000>] 0x0 SS:ESP 0068:f630be24 This is because on do_exit(), kfree is called to free the return addresses stack but kfree is traced and stored its return address in this stack. This patch fixes it. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Merge branch 'ppc/ftrace' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into tracing/powerpc
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Ian Campbell authored
Impact: fix Xen guest boot failure commit eefb47f6 ("xen: use spin_lock_nest_lock when pinning a pagetable") changed xen_pgd_walk to walk over mm->pgd rather than taking pgd as an argument. This breaks xen_mm_(un)pin_all() because it makes init_mm.pgd readonly instead of the pgd we are interested in and therefore the pin subsequently fails. (XEN) mm.c:2280:d15 Bad type (saw 00000000e8000001 != exp 0000000060000000) for mfn bc464 (pfn 21ca7) (XEN) mm.c:2665:d15 Error while pinning mfn bc464 [ 14.586913] 1 multicall(s) failed: cpu 0 [ 14.586926] Pid: 14, comm: kstop/0 Not tainted 2.6.28-rc5-x86_32p-xenU-00172-gee2f6cc7 #200 [ 14.586940] Call Trace: [ 14.586955] [<c030c17a>] ? printk+0x18/0x1e [ 14.586972] [<c0103df3>] xen_mc_flush+0x163/0x1d0 [ 14.586986] [<c0104bc1>] __xen_pgd_pin+0xa1/0x110 [ 14.587000] [<c015a330>] ? stop_cpu+0x0/0xf0 [ 14.587015] [<c0104d7b>] xen_mm_pin_all+0x4b/0x70 [ 14.587029] [<c022bcb9>] xen_suspend+0x39/0xe0 [ 14.587042] [<c015a330>] ? stop_cpu+0x0/0xf0 [ 14.587054] [<c015a3cd>] stop_cpu+0x9d/0xf0 [ 14.587067] [<c01417cd>] run_workqueue+0x8d/0x150 [ 14.587080] [<c030e4b3>] ? _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x23/0x40 [ 14.587094] [<c014558a>] ? prepare_to_wait+0x3a/0x70 [ 14.587107] [<c0141918>] worker_thread+0x88/0xf0 [ 14.587120] [<c01453c0>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x50 [ 14.587133] [<c0141890>] ? worker_thread+0x0/0xf0 [ 14.587146] [<c014509c>] kthread+0x3c/0x70 [ 14.587157] [<c0145060>] ? kthread+0x0/0x70 [ 14.587170] [<c0109d1b>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10 [ 14.587181] call 1/3: op=14 arg=[c0415000] result=0 [ 14.587192] call 2/3: op=14 arg=[e1ca2000] result=0 [ 14.587204] call 3/3: op=26 arg=[c1808860] result=-22 Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com> Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Török Edwin authored
Impact: fix race vma->vm_file reference is only stable while holding the mmap_sem, so move usage of it to within the critical section. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Merge branch 'oprofile-for-tip' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rric/oprofile into x86/urgent
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Thomas Gleixner authored
Impact: fix MSIx not enough irq numbers available regression The manual revert of the sparse_irq patches missed to bring the number of possible irqs back to the .27 status. This resulted in a regression when two multichannel network cards were placed in a system with only one IO_APIC - causing the networking driver to not have the right IRQ and the device not coming up. Remove the dynamic allocation logic leftovers and simply return NR_IRQS in probe_nr_irqs() for now. Fixes: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/11/19/354Reported-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@diku.dk> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Tested-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@diku.dk> Acked-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Török Edwin authored
Impact: cleanup User stack tracing is just implemented for x86, but it is not x86 specific. Introduce a generic config flag, that is currently enabled only for x86. When other arches implement it, they will have to SELECT USER_STACKTRACE_SUPPORT. Signed-off-by: Török Edwin <edwintorok@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Török Edwin authored
Impact: fix refcounting/object-access bug Hold mmap_sem while looking up/accessing vma. Hold the RCU lock while using the task we looked up. Signed-off-by: Török Edwin <edwintorok@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Török Edwin authored
Impact: cleanup Signed-off-by: Török Edwin <edwintorok@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Steven Rostedt authored
Impact: fix compiler warning The ftrace_pointers used in the branch profiler are constant values. They should never change. But the compiler complains when they are passed into the debugfs_create_file as a data pointer, because the function discards the qualifier. This patch typecasts the parameter to debugfs_create_file back to a void pointer. To remind the callbacks that they are pointing to a constant value, I also modified the callback local pointers to be const struct ftrace_pointer * as well. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Steven Rostedt authored
Impact: add new API to disable all of ftrace on anomalies It case of a serious anomaly being detected (like something caught by lockdep) it is a good idea to disable all tracing immediately, without grabing any locks. This patch adds ftrace_off_permanent that disables the tracers, function tracing and ring buffers without a way to enable them again. This should only be used when something serious has been detected. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Steven Rostedt authored
Impact: feature to permanently disable ring buffer This patch adds a API to the ring buffer code that will permanently disable the ring buffer from ever recording. This should only be called when some serious anomaly is detected, and the system may be in an unstable state. When that happens, shutting down the recording to the ring buffers may be appropriate. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Jim Radford authored
Impact: extend scripts/recordmcount.pl to ARM Arm uses %progbits instead of @progbits and requires only 4 byte alignment. [ Thanks to Sam Ravnborg for mentioning that ARM uses %progbits ] Signed-off-by: Jim Radford <radford@galvanix.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Matt Fleming authored
Impact: extend scripts/recordmcount.pl with default alignment for SH Set $alignment=2 for the sh architecture so that a ".align 2" directive will be emitted for all __mcount_loc sections. Fix a whitspace error while I'm here (converted spaces to tabs). Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <mjf@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Steven Rostedt authored
Impact: feature to profile if statements This patch adds a branch profiler for all if () statements. The results will be found in: /debugfs/tracing/profile_branch For example: miss hit % Function File Line ------- --------- - -------- ---- ---- 0 1 100 x86_64_start_reservations head64.c 127 0 1 100 copy_bootdata head64.c 69 1 0 0 x86_64_start_kernel head64.c 111 32 0 0 set_intr_gate desc.h 319 1 0 0 reserve_ebda_region head.c 51 1 0 0 reserve_ebda_region head.c 47 0 1 100 reserve_ebda_region head.c 42 0 0 X maxcpus main.c 165 Miss means the branch was not taken. Hit means the branch was taken. The percent is the percentage the branch was taken. This adds a significant amount of overhead and should only be used by those analyzing their system. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Steven Rostedt authored
Impact: cleanup on output of branch profiler When a branch has not been taken, it does not make sense to show a percentage incorrect or hit. This patch changes the behaviour to print out a 'X' when the branch has not been executed yet. For example: correct incorrect % Function File Line ------- --------- - -------- ---- ---- 2096 0 0 do_arch_prctl process_64.c 832 0 0 X do_arch_prctl process_64.c 804 2604 0 0 IS_ERR err.h 34 130228 5765 4 __switch_to process_64.c 673 0 0 X enable_TSC process_64.c 448 0 0 X disable_TSC process_64.c 431 Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Steven Rostedt authored
Impact: clean up to make one profiler of like and unlikely tracer The likely and unlikely profiler prints out the file and line numbers of the annotated branches that it is profiling. It shows the number of times it was correct or incorrect in its guess. Having two different files or sections for that matter to tell us if it was a likely or unlikely is pretty pointless. We really only care if it was correct or not. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Steven Rostedt authored
Impact: clean up of branch check The unlikely/likely profiler does an extra assign of the f.line. This is not needed since it is already calculated at compile time. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Steven Rostedt authored
Impact: cleanup of recordmcount.pl Now that more architectures are being ported to the MCOUNT_RECORD method, there is no reason to have each declare their own arch specific variable if most of them share the same value. This patch creates a set of default values for the arch specific variables based off of i386. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Steven Rostedt authored
Impact: Add PowerPC port to recordmcount.pl script This patch updates the recordmcount.pl script to process PowerPC. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Matt Fleming authored
First cut at dynamic ftrace support. [ Steven Rostedt - only updated the recordmcount.pl file. There are updates for PowerPC that will conflict with this, and we need to base off of these changes. ] Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <mjf@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Will Newton authored
Impact: fix initcall debug output on non-scalar ktime platforms (32-bit embedded) The initcall_debug code access the tv64 member of ktime. This won't work correctly for large deltas on platforms that don't use the scalar ktime implementation. Signed-off-by: Will Newton <will.newton@gmail.com> Acked-by: Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Impact: widen function-tracing to suspend+resume (and hibernation) sequences Now that the ftrace kernel thread is gone, we can allow tracing during suspend/resume again. So revert these two commits: f42ac38c "ftrace: disable tracing for suspend to ram" 41108eb1 "ftrace: disable tracing for hibernation" This should be tested very carefully, as it could interact with altneratives instruction patching, etc. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Török Edwin authored
Impact: modify+improve the userstacktrace tracing visualization feature Store thread group leader id, and use it to lookup the address in the process's map. We could have looked up the address on thread's map, but the thread might not exist by the time we are called. The process might not exist either, but if you are reading trace_pipe, that is unlikely. Example usage: mount -t debugfs nodev /sys/kernel/debug cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing echo userstacktrace >iter_ctrl echo sym-userobj >iter_ctrl echo sched_switch >current_tracer echo 1 >tracing_enabled cat trace_pipe >/tmp/trace& .... run application ... echo 0 >tracing_enabled cat /tmp/trace You'll see stack entries like: /lib/libpthread-2.7.so[+0xd370] You can convert them to function/line using: addr2line -fie /lib/libpthread-2.7.so 0xd370 Or: addr2line -fie /usr/lib/debug/libpthread-2.7.so 0xd370 For non-PIC/PIE executables this won't work: a.out[+0x73b] You need to run the following: addr2line -fie a.out 0x40073b (where 0x400000 is the default load address of a.out) Signed-off-by: Török Edwin <edwintorok@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Török Edwin authored
Impact: expose new VFS API make mangle_path() available, as per the suggestions of Christoph Hellwig and Al Viro: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/11/4/338Signed-off-by: Török Edwin <edwintorok@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Török Edwin authored
Impact: add new (default-off) tracing visualization feature Usage example: mount -t debugfs nodev /sys/kernel/debug cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing echo userstacktrace >iter_ctrl echo sched_switch >current_tracer echo 1 >tracing_enabled .... run application ... echo 0 >tracing_enabled Then read one of 'trace','latency_trace','trace_pipe'. To get the best output you can compile your userspace programs with frame pointers (at least glibc + the app you are tracing). Signed-off-by: Török Edwin <edwintorok@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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