1. 21 Jan, 2009 5 commits
    • Steven Rostedt's avatar
      trace: set max latency variable to zero on default · 1092307d
      Steven Rostedt authored
      Impact: trace max latencies on start of latency tracing
      
      This patch sets the max latency to zero whenever one of the
      irq variant tracers or the wakeup tracer is set to current tracer.
      
      Most developers expect to see output when starting up a latency
      tracer. But since the max_latency is already set to max, and
      it takes a latency greater than max_latency to be recorded, there
      is no trace. This is not the expected behavior and has even confused
      myself.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      1092307d
    • Steven Rostedt's avatar
      trace: stop all recording to ring buffer on ftrace_dump · a442e5e0
      Steven Rostedt authored
      Impact: limit ftrace dump output
      
      Currently ftrace_dump only calls ftrace_kill that is a fast way
      to prevent the function tracer functions from being called (just sets
      a flag and clears the function to call, nothing else). It is better
      to also turn off any recording to the ring buffers as well.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      a442e5e0
    • Steven Rostedt's avatar
      trace: print ftrace_dump at KERN_EMERG log level · faf6861e
      Steven Rostedt authored
      Impact: fix to print out ftrace_dump when expected
      
      I was debugging a hard race condition to only find out that
      after I hit the race, my log level was not at level to show
      KERN_INFO. The time it took to trigger the race was wasted because
      I did not capture the trace.
      
      Since ftrace_dump is only called from kernel oops (and only when
      it is set in the kernel command line to do so), or when a
      developer adds it to their own local tree, the log level of
      the print should be at KERN_EMERG to make sure the print appears.
      
      ftrace_dump is not called by a normal user setup, and will not
      add extra unwanted print out to the console. There is no reason
      it should be at KERN_INFO.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      faf6861e
    • Lai Jiangshan's avatar
      ring_buffer: reset write when reserve buffer fail · 551b4048
      Lai Jiangshan authored
      Impact: reset struct buffer_page.write when interrupt storm
      
      if struct buffer_page.write is not reset, any succedent committing
      will corrupted ring_buffer:
      
      static inline void
      rb_set_commit_to_write(struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer)
      {
      	......
      		cpu_buffer->commit_page->commit =
      			cpu_buffer->commit_page->write;
      	......
      }
      
      when "if (RB_WARN_ON(cpu_buffer, next_page == reader_page))", ring_buffer
      is disabled, but some reserved buffers may haven't been committed.
      we need reset struct buffer_page.write.
      
      when "if (unlikely(next_page == cpu_buffer->commit_page))", ring_buffer
      is still available, we should not corrupt it.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      551b4048
    • Frederic Weisbecker's avatar
      tracing/function-graph-tracer: fix a regression while suspend to disk · 00f57f54
      Frederic Weisbecker authored
      Impact: fix a crash while kernel image restore
      
      When the function graph tracer is running and while suspend to disk, some racy
      and dangerous things happen against this tracer.
      
      The current task will save its registers including the stack pointer which
      contains the return address hooked by the tracer. But the current task will
      continue to enter other functions after that to save the memory, and then
      it will store other return addresses, and finally loose the old depth which
      matches the return address saved in the old stack (during the registers saving).
      
      So on image restore, the code will return to wrong addresses.
      And there are other things: on restore, the task will have it's "current"
      pointer overwritten during registers restoring....switching from one task to
      another... That would be insane to try to trace function graphs at these
      stages.
      
      This patch makes the function graph tracer listening on power events, making
      it's tracing disabled for the current task (the one that performs the
      hibernation work) while suspend/resume to disk, making the tracing safe
      during hibernation.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      00f57f54
  2. 20 Jan, 2009 1 commit
    • Steven Rostedt's avatar
      ring-buffer: fix alignment problem · 082605de
      Steven Rostedt authored
      Impact: fix to allow some archs to use the ring buffer
      
      Commits in the ring buffer are checked by pointer arithmetic.
      If the calculation is incorrect, then the commits will never take
      place and the buffer will simply fill up and report an error.
      
      Each page in the ring buffer has a small header:
      
      struct buffer_data_page {
      	u64		time_stamp;
      	local_t		commit;
      	unsigned char	data[];
      };
      
      Unfortuntely, some of the calculations used sizeof(struct buffer_data_page)
      to know the size of the header. But this is incorrect on some archs,
      where sizeof(struct buffer_data_page) does not equal
      offsetof(struct buffer_data_page, data), and on those archs, the commits
      are never processed.
      
      This patch replaces the sizeof with offsetof.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      082605de
  3. 16 Jan, 2009 34 commits