- 20 Apr, 2009 1 commit
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Frederic Weisbecker authored
The pair of helpers trace_recursive_lock() and trace_recursive_unlock() have been introduced recently to provide generic tracing recursion protection. They are used in a symetric way: - trace_recursive_lock() on buffer reserve - trace_recursive_unlock() on buffer commit However sometimes, we don't commit but discard on entry to the buffer, ie: in case of filter checking. Then we must also unlock the recursion protection on discard time, otherwise the tracing gets definitely deactivated and a warning is raised spuriously, such as: 111.119821] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 111.119829] WARNING: at kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:1498 ring_buffer_lock_reserve+0x1b7/0x1d0() [ 111.119835] Hardware name: AMILO Li 2727 [ 111.119839] Modules linked in: [ 111.119846] Pid: 5731, comm: Xorg Tainted: G W 2.6.30-rc1 #69 [ 111.119851] Call Trace: [ 111.119863] [<ffffffff8025ce68>] warn_slowpath+0xd8/0x130 [ 111.119873] [<ffffffff8028a30f>] ? __lock_acquire+0x19f/0x1ae0 [ 111.119882] [<ffffffff8028a30f>] ? __lock_acquire+0x19f/0x1ae0 [ 111.119891] [<ffffffff802199b0>] ? native_sched_clock+0x20/0x70 [ 111.119899] [<ffffffff80286dee>] ? put_lock_stats+0xe/0x30 [ 111.119906] [<ffffffff80286eb8>] ? lock_release_holdtime+0xa8/0x150 [ 111.119913] [<ffffffff802c8ae7>] ring_buffer_lock_reserve+0x1b7/0x1d0 [ 111.119921] [<ffffffff802cd110>] trace_buffer_lock_reserve+0x30/0x70 [ 111.119930] [<ffffffff802ce000>] trace_current_buffer_lock_reserve+0x20/0x30 [ 111.119939] [<ffffffff802474e8>] ftrace_raw_event_sched_switch+0x58/0x100 [ 111.119948] [<ffffffff808103b7>] __schedule+0x3a7/0x4cd [ 111.119957] [<ffffffff80211b56>] ? ftrace_call+0x5/0x2b [ 111.119964] [<ffffffff80211b56>] ? ftrace_call+0x5/0x2b [ 111.119971] [<ffffffff80810c08>] schedule+0x18/0x40 [ 111.119977] [<ffffffff80810e09>] preempt_schedule+0x39/0x60 [ 111.119985] [<ffffffff80813bd3>] _read_unlock+0x53/0x60 [ 111.119993] [<ffffffff807259d2>] sock_def_readable+0x72/0x80 [ 111.120002] [<ffffffff807ad5ed>] unix_stream_sendmsg+0x24d/0x3d0 [ 111.120011] [<ffffffff807219a3>] sock_aio_write+0x143/0x160 [ 111.120019] [<ffffffff80211b56>] ? ftrace_call+0x5/0x2b [ 111.120026] [<ffffffff80721860>] ? sock_aio_write+0x0/0x160 [ 111.120033] [<ffffffff80721860>] ? sock_aio_write+0x0/0x160 [ 111.120042] [<ffffffff8031c283>] do_sync_readv_writev+0xf3/0x140 [ 111.120049] [<ffffffff80211b56>] ? ftrace_call+0x5/0x2b [ 111.120057] [<ffffffff80276ff0>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x40 [ 111.120067] [<ffffffff8045d489>] ? cap_file_permission+0x9/0x10 [ 111.120074] [<ffffffff8045c1e6>] ? security_file_permission+0x16/0x20 [ 111.120082] [<ffffffff8031cab4>] do_readv_writev+0xd4/0x1f0 [ 111.120089] [<ffffffff80211b56>] ? ftrace_call+0x5/0x2b [ 111.120097] [<ffffffff80211b56>] ? ftrace_call+0x5/0x2b [ 111.120105] [<ffffffff8031cc18>] vfs_writev+0x48/0x70 [ 111.120111] [<ffffffff8031cd65>] sys_writev+0x55/0xc0 [ 111.120119] [<ffffffff80211e32>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b [ 111.120125] ---[ end trace 15605f4e98d5ccb5 ]--- [ Impact: fix spurious warning triggering tracing shutdown ] Signed-off-by:Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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- 19 Apr, 2009 1 commit
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Frederic Weisbecker authored
In case of tracing recursion detection, we only get the stacktrace. But the current context may be very useful to debug the issue. This patch adds the softirq/hardirq/nmi context with the warning using lockdep context display to have a familiar output. v2: Use printk_once() v3: drop {hardirq,softirq}_context which depend on lockdep, only keep what is part of current->trace_recursion, sufficient to debug the warning source. [ Impact: print context necessary to debug recursion ] Signed-off-by:
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- 18 Apr, 2009 1 commit
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Steven Rostedt authored
Due to a cut and paste error, I added the gcc attribute for printf format to the static inline stub of trace_seq_printf. This will cause a compile failure. [ Impact: fix compiler error when CONFIG_TRACING is off ] Reported-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by:
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Fr=E9d=E9ric_Weisbecker?= <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0904171717080.1016@gandalf.stny.rr.com> Signed-off-by:
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- 17 Apr, 2009 13 commits
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Steven Rostedt authored
trace_printk can be called from any context, including NMIs. If this happens, then we must test for for recursion before grabbing any spinlocks. This patch prevents trace_printk from being called recursively. [ Impact: prevent hard lockup in lockdep event tracer ] Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: -
Steven Rostedt authored
The tracing infrastructure allows for recursion. That is, an interrupt may interrupt the act of tracing an event, and that interrupt may very well perform its own trace. This is a recursive trace, and is fine to do. The problem arises when there is a bug, and the utility doing the trace calls something that recurses back into the tracer. This recursion is not caused by an external event like an interrupt, but by code that is not expected to recurse. The result could be a lockup. This patch adds a bitmask to the task structure that keeps track of the trace recursion. To find the interrupt depth, the following algorithm is used: level = hardirq_count() + softirq_count() + in_nmi; Here, level will be the depth of interrutps and softirqs, and even handles the nmi. Then the corresponding bit is set in the recursion bitmask. If the bit was already set, we know we had a recursion at the same level and we warn about it and fail the writing to the buffer. After the data has been committed to the buffer, we clear the bit. No atomics are needed. The only races are with interrupts and they reset the bitmask before returning anywy. [ Impact: detect same irq level trace recursion ] Signed-off-by: -
Steven Rostedt authored
Not all the necessary symbols were exported to allow for tracing by modules. This patch adds them in. [ Impact: allow modules to commit data to the ring buffer ] Signed-off-by: -
Steven Rostedt authored
The CONFIG_EVENT_TRACER is the way to turn on event tracing when no other tracing has been configured. All code to get enabled should depend on CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING. That is what is enabled when TRACING (or CONFIG_EVENT_TRACER) is selected. This patch enables the include/trace/ftrace.h file when CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING is enabled. [ Impact: fix warning in event tracer selftest ] Signed-off-by: -
Tom Zanussi authored
This patch adds a filter_mutex to prevent the filter predicates from being accessed concurrently by various external functions. It's based on a previous patch by Li Zefan: "[PATCH 7/7] tracing/filters: make filter preds RCU safe" v2 changes: - fixed wrong value returned in a add_subsystem_pred() failure case noticed by Li Zefan. [ Impact: fix trace filter corruption/crashes on parallel access ] Signed-off-by:Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Reviewed-by:
Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Tested-by:
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Zhaolei authored
kmem_event_types.h is no longer necessary since tracepoint definitions are put into include/trace/events/kmem.h [ Impact: remove now-unused file. ] Signed-off-by:
Zhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by:
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Li Zefan authored
trace is read-write and README is read-only. [ Impact: fix /debug/tracing/ file permissions. ] Signed-off-by:
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge authored
Tracepoints with no arguments can issue two warnings: "field" defined by not used "ret" is uninitialized in this function Mark field as being OK to leave unused, and initialize ret. [ Impact: fix false positive compiler warnings. ] Signed-off-by:
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Acked-by:
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Steven Rostedt authored
We can find some bugs in the trace events if we stress the writes as well. The function tracer is a good way to stress the events. [ Impact: extend scope of event tracer self-tests ] Signed-off-by:
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Avadh Patel authored
Export the cached task comms to userspace. This allows user apps to translate the pids from a trace into their respective task command lines. [ Impact: let userspace apps reading binary buffer know comm's of pids ] Signed-off-by:
Avadh Patel <avadh4all@gmail.com> [ added error checking and use of buf pointer to index file_buf ] Signed-off-by:
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Steven Rostedt authored
Currently, every thing needed to read the binary output from the ring buffers is available, with the exception of the way the ring buffers handles itself internally. This patch creates two special files in the debugfs/tracing/events directory: # cat /debug/tracing/events/header_page field: u64 timestamp; offset:0; size:8; field: local_t commit; offset:8; size:8; field: char data; offset:16; size:4080; # cat /debug/tracing/events/header_event type : 2 bits len : 3 bits time_delta : 27 bits array : 32 bits padding : type == 0 time_extend : type == 1 data : type == 3 This is to allow a userspace app to see if the ring buffer format changes or not. [ Impact: allow userspace apps to know of ringbuffer format changes ] Signed-off-by: -
Steven Rostedt authored
As events start to become popular, and the new way to add tracing infrastructure into ftrace, it is important to catch any problems that might happen with a mistake in the TRACE_EVENT macro. This patch introduces a startup self test on the registered trace events. Note, it can only do a generic test, any type of testing that needs more involement is needed to be implemented by the tracepoint creators. The test goes down one by one enabling a trace point and running some random tasks (random in the sense that I just made them up). Those tasks are creating threads, grabbing mutexes and spinlocks and using workqueues. After testing each event individually, it does the same test after enabling each system of trace points. Like sched, irq, lockdep. Then finally it enables all tracepoints and performs the tasks again. The output to the console on bootup will look like this when everything works: Running tests on trace events: Testing event kfree_skb: OK Testing event kmalloc: OK Testing event kmem_cache_alloc: OK Testing event kmalloc_node: OK Testing event kmem_cache_alloc_node: OK Testing event kfree: OK Testing event kmem_cache_free: OK Testing event irq_handler_exit: OK Testing event irq_handler_entry: OK Testing event softirq_entry: OK Testing event softirq_exit: OK Testing event lock_acquire: OK Testing event lock_release: OK Testing event sched_kthread_stop: OK Testing event sched_kthread_stop_ret: OK Testing event sched_wait_task: OK Testing event sched_wakeup: OK Testing event sched_wakeup_new: OK Testing event sched_switch: OK Testing event sched_migrate_task: OK Testing event sched_process_free: OK Testing event sched_process_exit: OK Testing event sched_process_wait: OK Testing event sched_process_fork: OK Testing event sched_signal_send: OK Running tests on trace event systems: Testing event system skb: OK Testing event system kmem: OK Testing event system irq: OK Testing event system lockdep: OK Testing event system sched: OK Running tests on all trace events: Testing all events: OK [ folded in: tracing: add #include <linux/delay.h> to fix build failure in test_work() This build failure occured on a few rare configs: kernel/trace/trace_events.c: In function ‘test_work’: kernel/trace/trace_events.c:975: error: implicit declaration of function ‘udelay’ kernel/trace/trace_events.c:980: error: implicit declaration of function ‘msleep’ delay.h is included in way too many other headers, hiding cases where new usage is added without header inclusion. [ Impact: build fix ] Signed-off-by:
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Steven Rostedt authored
The hooks in the module code for the function tracer must be called before any of that module code runs. The function tracer hooks modify the module (replacing calls to mcount to nops). If the code is executed while the change occurs, then the CPU can take a GPF. To handle the above with a bit of paranoia, I originally implemented the hooks as calls directly from the module code. After examining the notifier calls, it looks as though the start up notify is called before any of the module's code is executed. This makes the use of the notify safe with ftrace. Only the startup notify is required to be "safe". The shutdown simply removes the entries from the ftrace function list, and does not modify any code. This change has another benefit. It removes a issue with a reverse dependency in the mutexes of ftrace_lock and module_mutex. [ Impact: fix lock dependency bug, cleanup ] Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by:
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- 16 Apr, 2009 4 commits
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Li Zefan authored
When current tracer is set to blk tracer, TRACE_ITER_CONTEXT_INFO is unset, but actually context-info is printed: pdflush-431 [000] 821.181576: 8,0 P N [pdflush] And then if we enable TRACE_ITER_CONTEXT_INFO: # echo context-info > trace_options We'll see context-info printed twice. What's worse, when we use blk tracer and trace events at the same time, we'll see no context-info for trace events at all: jbd2_commit_logging: dev dm-0:8 transaction 333227 jbd2_end_commit: dev dm-0:8 transaction 333227 head 332814 rm-25433 [001] 9578.307485: 8,18 m N cfq25433 slice expired t=0 rm-25433 [001] 9578.307486: 8,18 m N cfq25433 put_queue This patch adds blk_tracer->set_flags(), and context-info flag is unset only when we set the output to classic mode. Note after this patch, one should unset context-info explicitly if he wants to get binary output that can be parsed by blkparse: # echo nocontext-info > trace_options # echo bin > trace_options # echo blk > current_tracer # cat trace_pipe | blkparse -i - Reported-by:Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by:
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Li Zefan authored
Impact: allow ftrace-plugin blktrace to trace device-mapper devices To trace a single partition: # echo 1 > /sys/block/sda/sda1/enable To trace the whole sda instead: # echo 1 > /sys/block/sda/enable Thus we also fix an issue reported by Ted, that ftrace-plugin blktrace can't be used to trace device-mapper devices. Now: # echo 1 > /sys/block/dm-0/trace/enable echo: write error: No such device or address # mount -t ext4 /dev/dm-0 /mnt # echo 1 > /sys/block/dm-0/trace/enable # echo blk > /debug/tracing/current_tracer Reported-by:
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Li Zefan authored
The previous patch adds support to trace a single partition for relay+ioctl blktrace, and this patch is for ftrace plugin blktrace: # echo 1 > /sys/block/sda/sda7/enable # cat start_lba 102398373 # cat end_lba 102703545 Signed-off-by:
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Shawn Du authored
Though one can specify '-d /dev/sda1' when using blktrace, it still traces the whole sda. To support per-partition tracing, when we start tracing, we initialize bt->start_lba and bt->end_lba to the start and end sector of that partition. Note some actions are per device, thus we don't filter 0-sector events. The original patch and discussion can be found here: http://marc.info/?l=linux-btrace&m=122949374214540&w=2Signed-off-by:
Shawn Du <duyuyang@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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- 15 Apr, 2009 4 commits
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Steven Rostedt authored
This patch adds a sample to the samples directory on how to create and use TRACE_EVENT trace points. Signed-off-by: -
Steven Rostedt authored
Impact: clean up Create a sub directory in include/trace called events to keep the trace point headers in their own separate directory. Only headers that declare trace points should be defined in this directory. Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Cc: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: -
Steven Rostedt authored
Impact: fix compile error of lockdep event tracer Ingo Molnar pointed out that the system name for the lockdep tracer was "lock" which is used to include the event trace file name. It should be "lockdep" Reported-by:
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Steven Rostedt authored
Impact: compile fix The addition of TRACE_EVENT for modules breaks the build for when modules are disabled. This code fixes that. Reported-by:
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- 14 Apr, 2009 8 commits
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Steven Rostedt authored
Impact: allow modules to add TRACE_EVENTS on load This patch adds the final hooks to allow modules to use the TRACE_EVENT macro. A notifier and a data structure are used to link the TRACE_EVENTs defined in the module to connect them with the ftrace event tracing system. It also adds the necessary automated clean ups to the trace events when a module is removed. Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: -
Steven Rostedt authored
Impact: let modules add trace events The trace event code requires some functions to be exported to allow modules to use TRACE_EVENT. This patch adds EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL to the necessary functions. Signed-off-by: -
Steven Rostedt authored
Impact: makes it possible to define events in modules The events are created by reading down the section that they are linked in by the macros. But this is not scalable to modules. This patch converts the manipulations to use a global link list, and on boot up it adds the items in the section to the list. This change will allow modules to add their tracing events to the list as well. Note, this change alone does not permit modules to use the TRACE_EVENT macros, but the change is needed for them to eventually do so. Signed-off-by: -
Steven Rostedt authored
This patch moves the ftrace creation into include/trace/ftrace.h and simplifies the work of developers in adding new tracepoints. Just the act of creating the trace points in include/trace and including define_trace.h will create the events in the debugfs/tracing/events directory. This patch removes the need of include/trace/trace_events.h Signed-off-by: -
Steven Rostedt authored
In preparation to allowing trace events to happen in modules, we need to move some of the local declarations in the kernel/trace directory into include/linux. This patch simply moves the declarations and performs no context changes. Signed-off-by: -
Steven Rostedt authored
In the process to make TRACE_EVENT macro work for modules, the trace_seq operations must be available for core kernel code. These operations are quite useful and can be used for other implementations. The main idea is that we create a trace_seq handle that acts very much like the seq_file handle. struct trace_seq *s = kmalloc(sizeof(*s, GFP_KERNEL); trace_seq_init(s); trace_seq_printf(s, "some data %d\n", variable); printk("%s", s->buffer); The main use is to allow a top level function call several other functions that may store printf like data into the buffer. Then at the end, the top level function can process all the data with any method it would like to. It could be passed to userspace, output via printk or even use seq_file: trace_seq_to_user(s, ubuf, cnt); seq_puts(m, s->buffer); Signed-off-by: -
Steven Rostedt authored
This patch lowers the number of places a developer must modify to add new tracepoints. The current method to add a new tracepoint into an existing system is to write the trace point macro in the trace header with one of the macros TRACE_EVENT, TRACE_FORMAT or DECLARE_TRACE, then they must add the same named item into the C file with the macro DEFINE_TRACE(name) and then add the trace point. This change cuts out the needing to add the DEFINE_TRACE(name). Every file that uses the tracepoint must still include the trace/<type>.h file, but the one C file must also add a define before the including of that file. #define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS #include <trace/mytrace.h> This will cause the trace/mytrace.h file to also produce the C code necessary to implement the trace point. Note, if more than one trace/<type>.h is used to create the C code it is best to list them all together. #define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS #include <trace/foo.h> #include <trace/bar.h> #include <trace/fido.h> Thanks to Mathieu Desnoyers and Christoph Hellwig for coming up with the cleaner solution of the define above the includes over my first design to have the C code include a "special" header. This patch converts sched, irq and lockdep and skb to use this new method. Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Cc: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: -
Steven Rostedt authored
Impact: clean up Neil Horman (et. al.) criticized the way the trace events were broken up into two files. The reason for that was that ftrace needed to separate out the declarations from where the #include <linux/tracepoint.h> was used. It then dawned on me that the tracepoint.h header only needs to define the TRACE_EVENT macro if it is not already defined. The solution is simply to test if TRACE_EVENT is defined, and if it is not then the linux/tracepoint.h header can define it. This change consolidates all the <traces>.h and <traces>_event_types.h into the <traces>.h file. Reported-by:
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Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com> Cc: Zhaolei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Signed-off-by:
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- 13 Apr, 2009 8 commits
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Tom Zanussi authored
This patch allows event filters to be safely removed or switched on-the-fly while avoiding the use of rcu or the suspension of tracing of previous versions. It does it by adding a new filter_pred_none() predicate function which does nothing and by never deallocating either the predicates or any of the filter_pred members used in matching; the predicate lists are allocated and initialized during ftrace_event_calls initialization. Whenever a filter is removed or replaced, the filter_pred_* functions currently in use by the affected ftrace_event_call are immediately switched over to to the filter_pred_none() function, while the rest of the filter_pred members are left intact, allowing any currently executing filter_pred_* functions to finish up, using the values they're currently using. In the case of filter replacement, the new predicate values are copied into the old predicates after the above step, and the filter_pred_none() functions are replaced by the filter_pred_* functions for the new filter. In this case, it is possible though very unlikely that a previous filter_pred_* is still running even after the filter_pred_none() switch and the switch to the new filter_pred_*. In that case, however, because nothing has been deallocated in the filter_pred, the worst that can happen is that the old filter_pred_* function sees the new values and as a result produces either a false positive or a false negative, depending on the values it finds. So one downside to this method is that rarely, it can produce a bad match during the filter switch, but it should be possible to live with that, IMHO. The other downside is that at least in this patch the predicate lists are always pre-allocated, taking up memory from the start. They could probably be allocated on first-use, and de-allocated when tracing is completely stopped - if this patch makes sense, I could create another one to do that later on. Oh, and it also places a restriction on the size of __arrays in events, currently set to 128, since they can't be larger than the now embedded str_val arrays in the filter_pred struct. Signed-off-by:
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Ingo Molnar authored
Merge reason: merge latest tracing fixes to avoid conflicts in kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c with upcoming change Signed-off-by: -
Tom Zanussi authored
This patch changes filter_check_discard() to make use of the new ring_buffer_discard_commit() function and modifies the current users to call the old commit function in the non-discard case. It also introduces a version of filter_check_discard() that uses the global trace buffer (filter_current_check_discard()) for those cases. v2 changes: - fix compile error noticed by Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by:
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Tom Zanussi authored
Add a new config option, CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING that gets selected when CONFIG_TRACING is selected and adds everything needed by the stuff in trace_export - basically all the event tracing support needed by e.g. bprint, minus the actual events, which are only included if CONFIG_EVENT_TRACER is selected. So CONFIG_EVENT_TRACER can be used to turn on or off the generated events (what I think of as the 'event tracer'), while CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING turns on or off the base event tracing support used by both the event tracer and the other things such as bprint that can't be configured out. Signed-off-by:
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Steven Rostedt authored
The ring_buffer_discard_commit makes better usage of the ring_buffer when an event has been discarded. It tries to remove it completely if possible. This patch converts the trace event filtering to use ring_buffer_discard_commit instead of the ring_buffer_event_discard. Signed-off-by:
Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Steven Rostedt authored
The ring_buffer_discard_commit is similar to ring_buffer_event_discard but it can only be done on an event that has yet to be commited. Unpredictable results can happen otherwise. The main difference between ring_buffer_discard_commit and ring_buffer_event_discard is that ring_buffer_discard_commit will try to free the data in the ring buffer if nothing has addded data after the reserved event. If something did, then it acts almost the same as ring_buffer_event_discard followed by a ring_buffer_unlock_commit. Note, either ring_buffer_commit_discard and ring_buffer_unlock_commit can be called on an event, not both. This commit also exports both discard functions to be usable by GPL modules. Signed-off-by:
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Tom Zanussi authored
Frederic Weisbecker suggested that the trace_special event shouldn't be filterable; this patch adds a TRACE_EVENT_FORMAT_NOFILTER event macro that allows an event format to be exported without having a filter attached, and removes filtering from the trace_special event. Signed-off-by:
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Tom Zanussi authored
This patch adds run-time field descriptions to all the event formats exported using TRACE_EVENT_FORMAT. It also hooks up all the tracers that use them (i.e. the tracers in the 'ftrace subsystem') so they can also have their output filtered by the event-filtering mechanism. When I was testing this, there were a couple of things that fooled me into thinking the filters weren't working, when actually they were - I'll mention them here so others don't make the same mistakes (and file bug reports. ;-) One is that some of the tracers trace multiple events e.g. the sched_switch tracer uses the context_switch and wakeup events, and if you don't set filters on all of the traced events, the unfiltered output from the events without filters on them can make it look like the filtering as a whole isn't working properly, when actually it is doing what it was asked to do - it just wasn't asked to do the right thing. The other is that for the really high-volume tracers e.g. the function tracer, the volume of filtered events can be so high that it pushes the unfiltered events out of the ring buffer before they can be read so e.g. cat'ing the trace file repeatedly shows either no output, or once in awhile some output but that isn't there the next time you read the trace, which isn't what you normally expect when reading the trace file. If you read from the trace_pipe file though, you can catch them before they disappear. Changes from v1: As suggested by Frederic Weisbecker: - get rid of externs in functions - added unlikely() to filter_check_discard() Signed-off-by:
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