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  1. 15 Jun, 2011 13 commits
    • Vaibhav Nagarnaik's avatar
      ring-buffer: Set __GFP_NORETRY flag for ring buffer allocating process · d7ec4bfe
      Vaibhav Nagarnaik authored 
      The tracing ring buffer is allocated from kernel memory. While
allocating a large chunk of memory, OOM might happen which destabilizes
the system. Thus random processes might get killed during the
allocation.

This patch adds __GFP_NORETRY flag to the ring buffer allocation calls
to make it fail more gracefully if the system will not be able to
complete the allocation request.
Acked-by: default avatarDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarVaibhav Nagarnaik <vnagarnaik@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Rubin <mrubin@google.com>
Cc: David Sharp <dhsharp@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1307491302-9236-1-git-send-email-vnagarnaik@google.comSigned-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      d7ec4bfe
    • Peter Huewe's avatar
      tracing: Convert to kstrtoul_from_user · 22fe9b54
      Peter Huewe authored 
      This patch replaces the code for getting an unsigned long from a
userspace buffer by a simple call to kstroul_from_user.
This makes it easier to read and less error prone.
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Huewe <peterhuewe@gmx.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1307476707-14762-1-git-send-email-peterhuewe@gmx.deSigned-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      22fe9b54
    • Jiri Olsa's avatar
      tracing, function_graph: Add context-info support for function_graph tracer · 749230b0
      Jiri Olsa authored 
      The function_graph tracer does not follow global context-info option.
Adding TRACE_ITER_CONTEXT_INFO trace_flags check to enable it.

With following commands:
	# echo function_graph > ./current_tracer
	# echo 0 > options/context-info
	# cat trace

This is what it looked like before:
# tracer: function_graph
#
#     TIME        CPU  DURATION                  FUNCTION CALLS
#      |          |     |   |                     |   |   |   |
 1)   0.079 us    |          } /* __vma_link_rb */
 1)   0.056 us    |          copy_page_range();
 1)               |          security_vm_enough_memory() {
...

This is what it looks like now:
# tracer: function_graph
#
  } /* update_ts_time_stats */
  timekeeping_max_deferment();
...
Signed-off-by: default avatarJiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1307113131-10045-6-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.comSigned-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      749230b0
    • Jiri Olsa's avatar
      tracing, function_graph: Remove lock-depth from latency trace · 199abfab
      Jiri Olsa authored 
      The lock_depth was removed in commit
e6e1e259 tracing: Remove lock_depth from event entry

Removing the lock_depth info from function_graph latency header.

With following commands:
	# echo function_graph > ./current_tracer
	# echo 1 > options/latency-format
	# cat trace

This is what it looked like before:
# tracer: function_graph
#
# function_graph latency trace v1.1.5 on 3.0.0-rc1-tip+
# --------------------------------------------------------------------
# latency: 0 us, #59756/311298, CPU#0 | (M:preempt VP:0, KP:0, SP:0 HP:0 #P:2)
#    -----------------
#    | task: -0 (uid:0 nice:0 policy:0 rt_prio:0)
#    -----------------
#
#      _-----=> irqs-off
#     / _----=> need-resched
#    | / _---=> hardirq/softirq
#    || / _--=> preempt-depth
#    ||| / _-=> lock-depth
#    |||| /
# CPU|||||  DURATION                  FUNCTION CALLS
# |  |||||   |   |                     |   |   |   |
 0)  ....  0.068 us    |    } /* __rcu_read_unlock */
...

This is what it looks like now:
# tracer: function_graph
#
# function_graph latency trace v1.1.5 on 3.0.0-rc1-tip+
# --------------------------------------------------------------------
# latency: 0 us, #59747/1744610, CPU#0 | (M:preempt VP:0, KP:0, SP:0 HP:0 #P:2)
#    -----------------
#    | task: -0 (uid:0 nice:0 policy:0 rt_prio:0)
#    -----------------
#
#      _-----=> irqs-off
#     / _----=> need-resched
#    | / _---=> hardirq/softirq
#    || / _--=> preempt-depth
#    ||| /
# CPU||||  DURATION                  FUNCTION CALLS
# |  ||||   |   |                     |   |   |   |
 0)  ..s.  1.641 us    |  } /* __rcu_process_callbacks */
...
Signed-off-by: default avatarJiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1307113131-10045-5-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.comSigned-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      199abfab
    • Jiri Olsa's avatar
      tracing, function: Fix trace header to follow context-info option · f56e7f8e
      Jiri Olsa authored 
      The header display of function tracer does not follow
the context-info option, so field names are displayed even
if this option is off.

Added check for TRACE_ITER_CONTEXT_INFO trace_flags.

With following commands:
	# echo function > ./current_tracer
	# echo 0 > options/context-info
	# cat trace

This is what it looked like before:
# tracer: function
#
#           TASK-PID    CPU#    TIMESTAMP  FUNCTION
#              | |       |          |         |
add_preempt_count <-schedule
rcu_note_context_switch <-schedule
...

This is what it looks like now:
# tracer: function
#
_raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore <-hrtimer_try_to_cancel
...
Signed-off-by: default avatarJiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1307113131-10045-4-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.comSigned-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      f56e7f8e
    • Jiri Olsa's avatar
      tracing, function_graph: Merge overhead and duration display functions · ffeb80fc
      Jiri Olsa authored 
      Functions print_graph_overhead() and print_graph_duration() displays
data for one field - DURATION.

I merged them into single function print_graph_duration(),
and added a way to display the empty parts of the field.

This way the print_graph_irq() function can use this column to display
the IRQ signs if needed and the DURATION field details stays inside
the print_graph_duration() function.
Signed-off-by: default avatarJiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1307113131-10045-3-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.comSigned-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      ffeb80fc
    • Jiri Olsa's avatar
      tracing, function_graph: Remove dependency of abstime and duration fields on latency · 321e68b0
      Jiri Olsa authored 
      The display of absolute time and duration fields is based on the
latency field. This was added during the irqsoff/wakeup tracers
graph support changes.

It's causing confusion in what fields will be displayed for the
function_graph tracer itself. So I'm removing this depency, and
adding absolute time and duration fields to the preemptirqsoff
preemptoff irqsoff wakeup tracers.

With following commands:
	# echo function_graph > ./current_tracer
	# cat trace

This is what it looked like before:
# tracer: function_graph
#
#     TIME        CPU  DURATION                  FUNCTION CALLS
#      |          |     |   |                     |   |   |   |
 0)   0.068 us    |          } /* page_add_file_rmap */
 0)               |          _raw_spin_unlock() {
...

This is what it looks like now:
# tracer: function_graph
#
# CPU  DURATION                  FUNCTION CALLS
# |     |   |                     |   |   |   |
 0)   0.068 us    |                } /* add_preempt_count */
 0)   0.993 us    |              } /* vfsmount_lock_local_lock */
...

For preemptirqsoff preemptoff irqsoff wakeup tracers,
this is what it looked like before:
SNIP
#                       _-----=> irqs-off
#                      / _----=> need-resched
#                     | / _---=> hardirq/softirq
#                     || / _--=> preempt-depth
#                     ||| / _-=> lock-depth
#                     |||| /
# CPU  TASK/PID       |||||  DURATION                  FUNCTION CALLS
# |     |    |        |||||   |   |                     |   |   |   |
 1)    <idle>-0    |  d..1  0.000 us    |  acpi_idle_enter_simple();
...

This is what it looks like now:
SNIP
#
#                                       _-----=> irqs-off
#                                      / _----=> need-resched
#                                     | / _---=> hardirq/softirq
#                                     || / _--=> preempt-depth
#                                     ||| /
#     TIME        CPU  TASK/PID       ||||  DURATION                  FUNCTION CALLS
#      |          |     |    |        ||||   |   |                     |   |   |   |
   19.847735 |   1)    <idle>-0    |  d..1  0.000 us    |  acpi_idle_enter_simple();
...
Signed-off-by: default avatarJiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1307113131-10045-2-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.comSigned-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      321e68b0
    • Paul McQuade's avatar
      async: Fixed an include coding style issue · 84c15027
      Paul McQuade authored 
      Added <linux/atomic.h>,<linux/ktime.h> and Removed <asm/atomic.h>.
Added KERN_DEBUG to printk() functions.
Acked-by: default avatarArjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul McQuade <tungstentide@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4DE596B4.7030904@gmail.comSigned-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      84c15027
    • Paul McQuade's avatar
      ftrace: Fixed an include coding style issue · bd38c0e6
      Paul McQuade authored 
      Removed <asm/ftrace.h> because <linux/ftrace.h> was already declared.
Braces of struct's coding style fixed.

Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul McQuade <tungstentide@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4DE59711.3090900@gmail.comSigned-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      bd38c0e6
    • Steven Rostedt's avatar
      tracing: Add disable_on_free option · cf30cf67
      Steven Rostedt authored 
      Add a trace option to disable tracing on free. When this option is
set, a write into the free_buffer file will not only shrink the
ring buffer down to zero, but it will also disable tracing.

Cc: Vaibhav Nagarnaik <vnagarnaik@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      cf30cf67
    • Vaibhav Nagarnaik's avatar
      tracing: Add a proc file to stop tracing and free buffer · 4f271a2a
      Vaibhav Nagarnaik authored 
      The proc file entry buffer_size_kb is used to set the size of tracing
buffer. The memory to expand the buffer size is kernel memory. Consider
a use case where tracing is handled by a user space utility, which acts
as a gate keeper for tracing requests. In an OOM condition, tracing is
considered a low priority task and if the utility gets killed the ring
buffer memory cannot be released back to the kernel.

This patch adds a proc file called "free_buffer" whose purpose is to
stop tracing and free up the ring buffer when it is closed.

The user space process can then set the desired size in buffer_size_kb
file and open the fd to the "free_buffer" file. Under OOM condition, if
the process gets killed, the kernel closes the file descriptor. The
release handler stops the tracing and releases the kernel memory
automatically.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Rubin <mrubin@google.com>
Cc: David Sharp <dhsharp@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarVaibhav Nagarnaik <vnagarnaik@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1308012717-11148-1-git-send-email-vnagarnaik@google.comSigned-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      4f271a2a
    • Vaibhav Nagarnaik's avatar
      tracing: Use NUMA allocation for per-cpu ring buffer pages · 7ea59064
      Vaibhav Nagarnaik authored 
      The tracing ring buffer is a group of per-cpu ring buffers where
allocation and logging is done on a per-cpu basis. The events that are
generated on a particular CPU are logged in the corresponding buffer.
This is to provide wait-free writes between CPUs and good NUMA node
locality while accessing the ring buffer.

However, the allocation routines consider NUMA locality only for buffer
page metadata and not for the actual buffer page. This causes the pages
to be allocated on the NUMA node local to the CPU where the allocation
routine is running at the time.

This patch fixes the problem by using a NUMA node specific allocation
routine so that the pages are allocated from a NUMA node local to the
logging CPU.

I tested with the getuid_microbench from autotest. It is a simple binary
that calls getuid() in a loop and measures the average time for the
syscall to complete. The following command was used to test:
$ getuid_microbench 1000000

Compared the numbers found on kernel with and without this patch and
found that logging latency decreases by 30-50 ns/call.
tracing with non-NUMA allocation - 569 ns/call
tracing with NUMA allocation     - 512 ns/call
Signed-off-by: default avatarVaibhav Nagarnaik <vnagarnaik@google.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Michael Rubin <mrubin@google.com>
Cc: David Sharp <dhsharp@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1304470602-20366-1-git-send-email-vnagarnaik@google.comSigned-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      7ea59064
    • Vaibhav Nagarnaik's avatar
      tracing: Schedule a delayed work to call wakeup() · e7e2ee89
      Vaibhav Nagarnaik authored 
      In using syscall tracing by concurrent processes, the wakeup() that is
called in the event commit function causes contention on the spin lock
of the waitqueue. I enabled sys_enter_getuid and sys_exit_getuid
tracepoints, and by running getuid_microbench from autotest in parallel
I found that the contention causes exponential latency increase in the
tracing path.

The autotest binary getuid_microbench calls getuid() in a tight loop for
the given number of iterations and measures the average time required to
complete a single invocation of syscall.

The patch schedules a delayed work after 2 ms once an event commit calls
to wake up the trace wait_queue. This removes the delay caused by
contention on spin lock in wakeup() and amortizes the wakeup() calls
scheduled over the 2 ms period.

In the following example, the script enables the sys_enter_getuid and
sys_exit_getuid tracepoints and runs the getuid_microbench in parallel
with the given number of processes. The output clearly shows the latency
increase caused by contentions.

$ ~/getuid.sh 1
1000000 calls in 0.720974253 s (720.974253 ns/call)

$ ~/getuid.sh 2
1000000 calls in 1.166457554 s (1166.457554 ns/call)
1000000 calls in 1.168933765 s (1168.933765 ns/call)

$ ~/getuid.sh 3
1000000 calls in 1.783827516 s (1783.827516 ns/call)
1000000 calls in 1.795553270 s (1795.553270 ns/call)
1000000 calls in 1.796493376 s (1796.493376 ns/call)

$ ~/getuid.sh 4
1000000 calls in 4.483041796 s (4483.041796 ns/call)
1000000 calls in 4.484165388 s (4484.165388 ns/call)
1000000 calls in 4.484850762 s (4484.850762 ns/call)
1000000 calls in 4.485643576 s (4485.643576 ns/call)

$ ~/getuid.sh 5
1000000 calls in 6.497521653 s (6497.521653 ns/call)
1000000 calls in 6.502000236 s (6502.000236 ns/call)
1000000 calls in 6.501709115 s (6501.709115 ns/call)
1000000 calls in 6.502124100 s (6502.124100 ns/call)
1000000 calls in 6.502936358 s (6502.936358 ns/call)

After the patch, the latencies scale better.
1000000 calls in 0.728720455 s (728.720455 ns/call)

1000000 calls in 0.842782857 s (842.782857 ns/call)
1000000 calls in 0.883803135 s (883.803135 ns/call)

1000000 calls in 0.902077764 s (902.077764 ns/call)
1000000 calls in 0.902838202 s (902.838202 ns/call)
1000000 calls in 0.908896885 s (908.896885 ns/call)

1000000 calls in 0.932523515 s (932.523515 ns/call)
1000000 calls in 0.958009672 s (958.009672 ns/call)
1000000 calls in 0.986188020 s (986.188020 ns/call)
1000000 calls in 0.989771102 s (989.771102 ns/call)

1000000 calls in 0.933518391 s (933.518391 ns/call)
1000000 calls in 0.958897947 s (958.897947 ns/call)
1000000 calls in 1.031038897 s (1031.038897 ns/call)
1000000 calls in 1.089516025 s (1089.516025 ns/call)
1000000 calls in 1.141998347 s (1141.998347 ns/call)
Signed-off-by: default avatarVaibhav Nagarnaik <vnagarnaik@google.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Michael Rubin <mrubin@google.com>
Cc: David Sharp <dhsharp@google.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1305059241-7629-1-git-send-email-vnagarnaik@google.comSigned-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      e7e2ee89
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