- 26 Nov, 2008 6 commits
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Steven Rostedt authored
Impact: more efficient code for ftrace graph tracer This patch uses the dynamic patching, when available, to patch the function graph code into the kernel. This patch will ease the way for letting both function tracing and function graph tracing run together. 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 function trace a single thread This patch adds the ability to function trace a single thread. The file: /debugfs/tracing/set_ftrace_pid contains the pid to trace. Valid pids are any positive integer. Writing any negative number to this file will disable the pid tracing and the function tracer will go back to tracing all of threads. This feature works with both static and dynamic function tracing. Signed-off-by:
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Ingo Molnar authored
fix return-tracer => graph-tracer namespace rename fallout. Signed-off-by: -
Frederic Weisbecker authored
Impact: feature This patch sets a C-like output for the function graph tracing. For this aim, we now call two handler for each function: one on the entry and one other on return. This way we can draw a well-ordered call stack. The pid of the previous trace is loosely stored to be compared against the one of the current trace to see if there were a context switch. Without this little feature, the call tree would seem broken at some locations. We could use the sched_tracer to capture these sched_events but this way of processing is much more simpler. 2 spaces have been chosen for indentation to fit the screen while deep calls. The time of execution in nanosecs is printed just after closed braces, it seems more easy this way to find the corresponding function. If the time was printed as a first column, it would be not so easy to find the corresponding function if it is called on a deep depth. I plan to output the return value but on 32 bits CPU, the return value can be 32 or 64, and its difficult to guess on which case we are. I don't know what would be the better solution on X86-32: only print eax (low-part) or even edx (high-part). Actually it's thee same problem when a function return a 8 bits value, the high part of eax could contain junk values... Here is an example of trace: sys_read() { fget_light() { } 526 vfs_read() { rw_verify_area() { security_file_permission() { cap_file_permission() { } 519 } 1564 } 2640 do_sync_read() { pipe_read() { __might_sleep() { } 511 pipe_wait() { prepare_to_wait() { } 760 deactivate_task() { dequeue_task() { dequeue_task_fair() { dequeue_entity() { update_curr() { update_min_vruntime() { } 504 } 1587 clear_buddies() { } 512 add_cfs_task_weight() { } 519 update_min_vruntime() { } 511 } 5602 dequeue_entity() { update_curr() { update_min_vruntime() { } 496 } 1631 clear_buddies() { } 496 update_min_vruntime() { } 527 } 4580 hrtick_update() { hrtick_start_fair() { } 488 } 1489 } 13700 } 14949 } 16016 msecs_to_jiffies() { } 496 put_prev_task_fair() { } 504 pick_next_task_fair() { } 489 pick_next_task_rt() { } 496 pick_next_task_fair() { } 489 pick_next_task_idle() { } 489 ------------8<---------- thread 4 ------------8<---------- finish_task_switch() { } 1203 do_softirq() { __do_softirq() { __local_bh_disable() { } 669 rcu_process_callbacks() { __rcu_process_callbacks() { cpu_quiet() { rcu_start_batch() { } 503 } 1647 } 3128 __rcu_process_callbacks() { } 542 } 5362 _local_bh_enable() { } 587 } 8880 } 9986 kthread_should_stop() { } 669 deactivate_task() { dequeue_task() { dequeue_task_fair() { dequeue_entity() { update_curr() { calc_delta_mine() { } 511 update_min_vruntime() { } 511 } 2813 Signed-off-by:Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by:
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by:
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Frederic Weisbecker authored
Impact: cleanup This patch changes the name of the "return function tracer" into function-graph-tracer which is a more suitable name for a tracing which makes one able to retrieve the ordered call stack during the code flow. Signed-off-by:
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Ingo Molnar authored
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- 25 Nov, 2008 12 commits
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Markus Metzger authored
Impact: add new ftrace plugin A prototype for a BTS ftrace plug-in. The tracer collects branch trace in a cyclic buffer for each cpu. The tracer is not configurable and the trace for each snapshot is appended when doing cat /debug/tracing/trace. This is a proof of concept that will be extended with future patches to become a (hopefully) useful tool. Signed-off-by:
Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
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Markus Metzger authored
Add a callback to allow an ftrace plug-in to write its own header. Move the call to trace->open() up a few lines. The changes are required by the BTS ftrace plug-in. Signed-off-by:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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Markus Metzger authored
Impact: cleanup Replace a macro with a static inline function. Signed-off-by:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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Ingo Molnar authored
Stephen Rothwell reported tht this warning started triggering in linux-next: In file included from init/main.c:27: include/linux/tty.h: In function ‘tty_kref_get’: include/linux/tty.h:330: warning: ‘______f’ is static but declared in inline function ‘tty_kref_get’ which is not static Which gcc emits for 'extern inline' functions that nevertheless define static variables. Change it to 'static inline', which is the norm in the kernel anyway. Reported-by:
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by:
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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 21 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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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 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:
Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
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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:
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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:
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Török Edwin authored
Impact: cleanup Signed-off-by:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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 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 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:
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