- 04 Mar, 2009 3 commits
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Steven Rostedt authored
Impact: fix to possible alignment problems on some archs. Some arch compilers include an NULL char array in the sizeof field. Since the ring_buffer_event type includes one of these, it is better to use the "offsetof" instead, to avoid strange bugs on these archs. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
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Steven Rostedt authored
The ring_buffer_read_page was broken if it were to only copy part of the page. This patch fixes that up as well as adds a parameter to allow a length field, in order to only copy part of the buffer page. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
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Steven Rostedt authored
Impact: fix ring_buffer_read_page After a page is swapped into the ring buffer, the write field must also be reset. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
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- 03 Mar, 2009 1 commit
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Steven Rostedt authored
The registering of events had the return value check backwards. A zero returned is success, the check had it as a failure. This patch also fixes a missing "\n" in the warning that the check failed. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
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- 02 Mar, 2009 8 commits
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Uwe Kleine-Koenig authored
The current definition of CALLER_ADDRx isn't suitable for all platforms. E.g. for ARM __builtin_return_address(N) doesn't work for N > 0 and AFAIK for powerpc there are no frame pointers needed to have a working __builtin_return_address. This patch allows defining the CALLER_ADDRx macros in <asm/ftrace.h> and let these take precedence. Because now <asm/ftrace.h> is included unconditionally in <linux/ftrace.h> all archs that don't already had this include get an empty one for free. Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-Koenig <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
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Steven Rostedt authored
This patch adds the internal print format used to print the raw events to the event trace point format file. # cat /debug/tracing/events/sched/sched_switch/format name: sched_switch ID: 29 format: field:unsigned char type; offset:0; size:1; field:unsigned char flags; offset:1; size:1; field:unsigned char preempt_count; offset:2; size:1; field:int pid; offset:4; size:4; field:int tgid; offset:8; size:4; field:pid_t prev_pid; offset:12; size:4; field:int prev_prio; offset:16; size:4; field special:char next_comm[TASK_COMM_LEN]; offset:20; size:16; field:pid_t next_pid; offset:36; size:4; field:int next_prio; offset:40; size:4; print fmt: "prev %d:%d ==> next %s:%d:%d" Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
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Steven Rostedt authored
To be able to identify the trace in the binary format output, the id of the trace event (which is dynamically assigned) must also be listed. This patch adds the name of the trace point as well as the id assigned. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
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Steven Rostedt authored
This patch includes the ftrace header to the event formats files: # cat /debug/tracing/events/sched/sched_switch/format field:unsigned char type; offset:0; size:1; field:unsigned char flags; offset:1; size:1; field:unsigned char preempt_count; offset:2; size:1; field:int pid; offset:4; size:4; field:int tgid; offset:8; size:4; field:pid_t prev_pid; offset:12; size:4; field:int prev_prio; offset:16; size:4; field special:char next_comm[TASK_COMM_LEN]; offset:20; size:16; field:pid_t next_pid; offset:36; size:4; field:int next_prio; offset:40; size:4; A blank line is used as a deliminator between the ftrace header and the trace point fields. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
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Steven Rostedt authored
This patch adds the "format" file to the trace point event directory. This is based off of work by Tom Zanussi, in which a file is exported to be tread from user land such that a user space app may read the binary record stored in the ring buffer. # cat /debug/tracing/events/sched/sched_switch/format field:pid_t prev_pid; offset:12; size:4; field:int prev_prio; offset:16; size:4; field special:char next_comm[TASK_COMM_LEN]; offset:20; size:16; field:pid_t next_pid; offset:36; size:4; field:int next_prio; offset:40; size:4; Idea-from: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
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Steven Rostedt authored
Impact: clean up The trace_seq functions may be used separately outside of the ftrace iterator. The trace_seq_reset is needed for these operations. This patch also renames trace_seq_reset to the more appropriate trace_seq_init. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
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Steven Rostedt authored
The trace event objects are currently not proctected against reentrancy. This patch adds a mutex around the modifications of the trace event fields. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
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Steven Rostedt authored
Tom Zanussi pointed out that the simple TRACE_FIELD was not enough to record trace data that required memcpy. This patch addresses this issue by adding a TRACE_FIELD_SPECIAL. The format is similar to TRACE_FIELD but looks like so: TRACE_FIELD_SPECIAL(type_item, item, cmd) What TRACE_FIELD gave was: TRACE_FIELD(type, item, assign) The TRACE_FIELD would be used in declaring a structure: struct { type item; }; And later assign it via: entry->item = assign; What TRACE_FIELD_SPECIAL gives us is: In the declaration of the structure: struct { type_item; }; And the assignment: cmd; This change log will explain the one example used in the patch: TRACE_EVENT_FORMAT(sched_switch, TPPROTO(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *prev, struct task_struct *next), TPARGS(rq, prev, next), TPFMT("task %s:%d ==> %s:%d", prev->comm, prev->pid, next->comm, next->pid), TRACE_STRUCT( TRACE_FIELD(pid_t, prev_pid, prev->pid) TRACE_FIELD(int, prev_prio, prev->prio) TRACE_FIELD_SPECIAL(char next_comm[TASK_COMM_LEN], next_comm, TPCMD(memcpy(TRACE_ENTRY->next_comm, next->comm, TASK_COMM_LEN))) TRACE_FIELD(pid_t, next_pid, next->pid) TRACE_FIELD(int, next_prio, next->prio) ), TPRAWFMT("prev %d:%d ==> next %s:%d:%d") ); The struct will be create as: struct { pid_t prev_pid; int prev_prio; char next_comm[TASK_COMM_LEN]; pid_t next_pid; int next_prio; }; Note the TRACE_ENTRY in the cmd part of TRACE_SPECIAL. TRACE_ENTRY will be set by the tracer to point to the structure inside the trace buffer. entry->prev_pid = prev->pid; entry->prev_prio = prev->prio; memcpy(entry->next_comm, next->comm, TASK_COMM_LEN); entry->next_pid = next->pid; entry->next_prio = next->prio Reported-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
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- 28 Feb, 2009 10 commits
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Steven Rostedt authored
This patch utilizes the TRACE_EVENT_FORMAT macro to enable the C style faster tracing for the irq subsystem trace points. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
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Steven Rostedt authored
This patch utilizes the TRACE_EVENT_FORMAT macro to enable the C style faster tracing for the sched subsystem trace points. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
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Steven Rostedt authored
This patch adds the interface to enable the C style trace points. In the directory /debugfs/tracing/events/subsystem/event We now have three files: enable : values 0 or 1 to enable or disable the trace event. available_types: values 'raw' and 'printf' which indicate the tracing types available for the trace point. If a developer does not use the TRACE_EVENT_FORMAT macro and just uses the TRACE_FORMAT macro, then only 'printf' will be available. This file is read only. type: values 'raw' or 'printf'. This indicates which type of tracing is active for that trace point. 'printf' is the default and if 'raw' is not available, this file is read only. # echo raw > /debug/tracing/events/sched/sched_wakeup/type # echo 1 > /debug/tracing/events/sched/sched_wakeup/enable Will enable the C style tracing for the sched_wakeup trace point. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
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Steven Rostedt authored
Impact: lower overhead tracing The current event tracer can automatically pick up trace points that are registered with the TRACE_FORMAT macro. But it required a printf format string and parsing. Although, this adds the ability to get guaranteed information like task names and such, it took a hit in overhead processing. This processing can add about 500-1000 nanoseconds overhead, but in some cases that too is considered too much and we want to shave off as much from this overhead as possible. Tom Zanussi recently posted tracing patches to lkml that are based on a nice idea about capturing the data via C structs using STRUCT_ENTER, STRUCT_EXIT type of macros. I liked that method very much, but did not like the implementation that required a developer to add data/code in several disjoint locations. This patch extends the event_tracer macros to do a similar "raw C" approach that Tom Zanussi did. But instead of having the developers needing to tweak a bunch of code all over the place, they can do it all in one macro - preferably placed near the code that it is tracing. That makes it much more likely that tracepoints will be maintained on an ongoing basis by the code they modify. The new macro TRACE_EVENT_FORMAT is created for this approach. (Note, a developer may still utilize the more low level DECLARE_TRACE macros if they don't care about getting their traces automatically in the event tracer.) They can also use the existing TRACE_FORMAT if they don't need to code the tracepoint in C, but just want to use the convenience of printf. So if the developer wants to "hardwire" a tracepoint in the fastest possible way, and wants to acquire their data via a user space utility in a raw binary format, or wants to see it in the trace output but not sacrifice any performance, then they can implement the faster but more complex TRACE_EVENT_FORMAT macro. Here's what usage looks like: TRACE_EVENT_FORMAT(name, TPPROTO(proto), TPARGS(args), TPFMT(fmt, fmt_args), TRACE_STUCT( TRACE_FIELD(type1, item1, assign1) TRACE_FIELD(type2, item2, assign2) [...] ), TPRAWFMT(raw_fmt) ); Note name, proto, args, and fmt, are all identical to what TRACE_FORMAT uses. name: is the unique identifier of the trace point proto: The proto type that the trace point uses args: the args in the proto type fmt: printf format to use with the event printf tracer fmt_args: the printf argments to match fmt TRACE_STRUCT starts the ability to create a structure. Each item in the structure is defined with a TRACE_FIELD TRACE_FIELD(type, item, assign) type: the C type of item. item: the name of the item in the stucture assign: what to assign the item in the trace point callback raw_fmt is a way to pretty print the struct. It must match the order of the items are added in TRACE_STUCT An example of this would be: TRACE_EVENT_FORMAT(sched_wakeup, TPPROTO(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int success), TPARGS(rq, p, success), TPFMT("task %s:%d %s", p->comm, p->pid, success?"succeeded":"failed"), TRACE_STRUCT( TRACE_FIELD(pid_t, pid, p->pid) TRACE_FIELD(int, success, success) ), TPRAWFMT("task %d success=%d") ); This creates us a unique struct of: struct { pid_t pid; int success; }; And the way the call back would assign these values would be: entry->pid = p->pid; entry->success = success; The nice part about this is that the creation of the assignent is done via macro magic in the event tracer. Once the TRACE_EVENT_FORMAT is created, the developer will then have a faster method to record into the ring buffer. They do not need to worry about the tracer itself. The developer would only need to touch the files in include/trace/*.h Again, I would like to give special thanks to Tom Zanussi for this nice idea. Idea-from: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
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Steven Rostedt authored
Right now all tracers must manage their own trace buffers. This was to enforce tracers to be independent in case we finally decide to allow each tracer to have their own trace buffer. But now we are adding event tracing that writes to the current tracer's buffer. This adds an interface to allow events to write to the current tracer buffer without having to manage its own. Since event tracing has no "tracer", and is just a way to hook into any other tracer. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
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Steven Rostedt authored
Add the TRACE_SYSTEM sched for the sched events. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
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Steven Rostedt authored
Add the TRACE_SYSTEM irq for the irq events. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
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Steven Rostedt authored
This patch makes the event files, set_event and available_events aware of the subsystem. Now you can enable an entire subsystem with: echo 'irq:*' > set_event Note: the '*' is not needed. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
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Steven Rostedt authored
If a trace point header defines TRACE_SYSTEM, then it will add the following trace points into that event system. If include/trace/irq_event_types.h has: #define TRACE_SYSTEM irq at the top and #undef TRACE_SYSTEM at the bottom, then a directory "irq" will be created in the /debug/tracing/events directory. Inside that directory will contain the two trace points that are defined in include/trace/irq_event_types.h. Only adding the above to irq and not to sched, we get: # ls /debug/tracing/events/ irq sched_process_exit sched_signal_send sched_wakeup_new sched_kthread_stop sched_process_fork sched_switch sched_kthread_stop_ret sched_process_free sched_wait_task sched_migrate_task sched_process_wait sched_wakeup # ls /debug/tracing/events/irq irq_handler_entry irq_handler_exit If we add #define TRACE_SYSTEM sched to the trace/sched_event_types.h then the rest of the trace events will be put in a sched directory within the events directory. I've been playing with this idea of the subsystem for a while, but recently Tom Zanussi posted some patches to lkml that included this method. Tom's approach was clean and got me to finally put some effort to clean up the event trace points. Thanks to Tom Zanussi for demonstrating how nice the subsystem method is. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
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Steven Rostedt authored
Impact: clean up To further facilitate the ease of adding trace points for developers, this patch creates include/trace/trace_events.h and include/trace/trace_event_types.h. The former file will hold the trace/<type>.h files and the latter will hold the trace/<type>_event_types.h files. To create new tracepoints and to have them automatically appear in the event tracer, a developer makes the trace/<type>.h file which includes <linux/tracepoint.h> and the trace/<type>_event_types.h file. The trace/<type>_event_types.h file will hold the TRACE_FORMAT macros. Then add the trace/<type>.h file to trace/trace_events.h, and add the trace/<type>_event_types.h to the trace_event_types.h file. No need to modify files elsewhere. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
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- 27 Feb, 2009 6 commits
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Steven Rostedt authored
Impact: clean up kcalloc is a better approach to allocate a NULL array. Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
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Steven Rostedt authored
Impact: clean up Instead of listing the trace options like: # cat /debug/tracing/trace_options print-parent nosym-offset nosym-addr noverbose noraw nohex nobin noblock nostacktrace nosched-tree ftrace_printk noftrace_preempt nobranch annotate nouserstacktrace nosym-userobj We now list them like: # cat /debug/tracing/trace_options print-parent nosym-offset nosym-addr noverbose noraw nohex nobin noblock nostacktrace nosched-tree ftrace_printk noftrace_preempt nobranch annotate nouserstacktrace nosym-userobj Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
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Steven Rostedt authored
Impact: fix compile warning and clean up When I first wrote __tracing_open, instead of passing the error code via the ERR_PTR macros, I lazily used a separate parameter to hold the return for errors. When Frederic Weisbecker updated that function, he used the Linux kernel ERR_PTR for the returns. This caused the parameter return to possibly not be initialized on error. gcc correctly pointed this out with a warning. This patch converts the entire function to use the Linux kernel ERR_PTR macro methods. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
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Steven Rostedt authored
Impact: fix to possible race conditions There's some uses of current_tracer that is not protected by the trace_types_lock. There is a small chance that a sysadmin changes the tracer while the current_tracer is being referenced. If the race is hit, it is unlikely to cause any harm since the tracers are constant and are not freed. But some strang side effects may occur. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
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Steven Rostedt authored
This patch adds the tracer dependent options dynamically to the options directory when the tracer is activated. These options are removed when the tracer is deactivated. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
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Steven Rostedt authored
This patch creates an options directory in the debugfs, that contains the available tracing options. These files contain 1 or 0, where 1 is the option is enabled and 0 it is disabled. Simply echoing in 1 will enable the option and 0 will disable it. This patch only contains the core options, not the tracer options. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
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- 26 Feb, 2009 11 commits
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Ingo Molnar authored
Conflicts: kernel/sched_clock.c
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Ingo Molnar authored
If the TSC is constant and non-stop, also set it reliable. (We will turn this off in DMI quirks for multi-chassis systems) The performance number on a 16-way Nehalem system running 32 tasks that context-switch between each other is significant: sched_clock_stable=0 sched_clock_stable=1 .................... .................... 22.456925 million/sec 24.306972 million/sec [+8.2%] lmbench's "lat_ctx -s 0 2" goes from 0.63 microseconds to 0.59 microseconds - a 6.7% increase in context-switching performance. Perfstat of 1 million pipe context switches between two tasks: Performance counter stats for './pipe-test-1m': [before] [after] ............ ............ 37621.421089 36436.848378 task clock ticks (msecs) 0 0 CPU migrations (events) 2000274 2000189 context switches (events) 194 193 pagefaults (events) 8433799643 8171016416 CPU cycles (events) -3.21% 8370133368 8180999694 instructions (events) -2.31% 4158565 3895941 cache references (events) -6.74% 44312 46264 cache misses (events) 2349.287976 2279.362465 wall-time (msecs) -3.06% The speedup comes straight from the reduction in the instruction count. sched_clock_cpu() got simpler and the whole workload thus executes faster. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Allow CONFIG_HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK architectures to still specify that their sched_clock() implementation is reliable. This will be used by x86 to switch on a faster sched_clock_cpu() implementation on certain CPU types. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Impact: implement new tracing timestamp APIs Add three trace clock variants, with differing scalability/precision tradeoffs: - local: CPU-local trace clock - medium: scalable global clock with some jitter - global: globally monotonic, serialized clock Make the ring-buffer use the local trace clock internally. Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
make sure we dont execute more complex sched_clock() code in NMI context. Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Jason Baron authored
Impact: add new tracepoints Add them to the generic IRQ code, that way every architecture gets these new tracepoints, not just x86. Using Steve's new 'TRACE_FORMAT', I can get function graph trace as follows using the original two IRQ tracepoints: 3) | handle_IRQ_event() { 3) | /* (irq_handler_entry) irq=28 handler=eth0 */ 3) | e1000_intr_msi() { 3) 2.460 us | __napi_schedule(); 3) 9.416 us | } 3) | /* (irq_handler_exit) irq=28 handler=eth0 return=handled */ 3) + 22.935 us | } Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <compudj@krystal.dyndns.org> Cc: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Frederic Weisbecker authored
Impact: restructure the VFS layout of per CPU trace buffers The per cpu trace files are all in a single directory: /debug/tracing/per_cpu. In case of a large number of cpu, the content of this directory becomes messy so we create now one directory per cpu inside /debug/tracing/per_cpu which contain each their own trace_pipe and trace files. Ie: /debug/tracing$ ls -R per_cpu per_cpu: cpu0 cpu1 per_cpu/cpu0: trace trace_pipe per_cpu/cpu1: trace trace_pipe Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Merge branch 'tip/tracing/ftrace' of ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into tracing/ftrace
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Ingo Molnar authored
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Steven Rostedt authored
Peter Zijlstra warned that TPPROTO and TPARGS might become something other than a simple copy of itself. To prevent this from having side effects in the TRACE_FORMAT macro in tracepoint.h, we add a PARAMS() macro to be defined as just a wrapper. Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
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Steven Rostedt authored
There's been a bit confusion to whether DEFINE/DECLARE_TRACE_FMT should be a DEFINE or a DECLARE. Ingo Molnar suggested simply calling it TRACE_FORMAT. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
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- 25 Feb, 2009 1 commit
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Frederic Weisbecker authored
Now that several per-cpu files can be read or spliced at the same, we want the read/splice callbacks for tracing files to be reentrants. Until now, a single global mutex (trace_types_lock) serialized the access to tracing_read_pipe(), tracing_splice_read_pipe(), and the seq helpers. Ie: it means that if a user tries to read trace_pipe0 and trace_pipe1 at the same time, the access to the function tracing_read_pipe() is contended and one reader must wait for the other to finish its read call. The trace_type_lock mutex is mostly here to serialize the access to the global current tracer (current_trace), which can be changed concurrently. Although the iter struct keeps a private pointer to this tracer, its callbacks can be changed by another function. The method used here is to not keep anymore private reference to the tracer inside the iterator but to make a copy of it inside the iterator. Then it checks on subsequents read calls if the tracer has changed. This is not costly because the current tracer is not expected to be changed often, so we use a branch prediction for that. Moreover, we add a private mutex to the iterator (there is one iterator per file descriptor) to serialize the accesses in case of multiple consumers per file descriptor (which would be a silly idea from the user). Note that this is not to protect the ring buffer, since the ring buffer already serializes the readers accesses. This is to prevent from traces weirdness in case of concurrent consumers. But these mutexes can be dropped anyway, that would not result in any crash. Just tell me what you think about it. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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