1. 26 May, 2009 7 commits
    • Steven Rostedt's avatar
      tracing: add __print_symbolic to trace events · 0f4fc29d
      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: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      0f4fc29d
    • Steven Rostedt's avatar
      tracing: add flag output for kmem events · 62ba180e
      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: default avatarEduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      62ba180e
    • Steven Rostedt's avatar
      tracing: add previous task state info to sched switch event · 937cdb9d
      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: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      937cdb9d
    • Steven Rostedt's avatar
      tracing: add __print_flags for events · be74b73a
      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: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      be74b73a
    • Zhaolei's avatar
      ftrace: clean up of using ftrace_event_enable_disable() · 0e907c99
      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: default avatarZhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
      Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
      LKML-Reference: <4A14FDFE.2080402@cn.fujitsu.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      0e907c99
    • Zhaolei's avatar
      ftrace: Add task_comm support for trace_event · b11c53e1
      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: default avatarZhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
      Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
      Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      LKML-Reference: <4A14FDFE.2080402@cn.fujitsu.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      b11c53e1
    • Pekka Enberg's avatar
      kmemtrace: fix kernel parameter documentation · 29fcefba
      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: default avatarPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
      LKML-Reference: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0905241112190.10296@rocky>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      29fcefba
  2. 25 May, 2009 2 commits
    • Li Zefan's avatar
      tracing/events: change the type of __str_loc_item to unsigned short · b0aae68c
      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: default avatarLi Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
      Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      LKML-Reference: <4A14EDB6.2050507@cn.fujitsu.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      b0aae68c
    • Lai Jiangshan's avatar
      tracing: add trace_event_read_lock() · 4f535968
      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: default avatarLai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      LKML-Reference: <4A114806.7090302@cn.fujitsu.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      4f535968
  3. 20 May, 2009 1 commit
  4. 19 May, 2009 2 commits
    • Stefan Raspl's avatar
      blktrace: remove debugfs entries on bad path · fd51d251
      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: default avatarStefan Raspl <stefan.raspl@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarLi Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
      Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
      Cc: schwidefsky@de.ibm.com
      Cc: heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com
      LKML-Reference: <4A1266CC.5040801@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      fd51d251
    • Li Zefan's avatar
      tracing/events: Documentation updates · 143c145e
      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: default avatarLi Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
      Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
      LKML-Reference: <4A125503.5060406@cn.fujitsu.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      143c145e
  5. 18 May, 2009 2 commits
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