- 18 Mar, 2009 5 commits
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Steven Rostedt authored
The start/stop methods of a tracer should be able to be executed in all contexts. This patch converts the power tracer to do so. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
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Steven Rostedt authored
The stopping and starting of a tracer should be light weight and be able to be called in all contexts. The sched_switch grabbed mutexes in the start/stop functions. This patch changes it to a simple variable, on/off. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
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Witold Baryluk authored
Impact: better performance for if branch tracer Use an array to count the hit and misses of a conditional instead of using another conditional. This cuts down on saturation of branch predictions and increases performance of modern pipelined architectures. Signed-off-by: Witold Baryluk <baryluk@smp.if.uj.edu.pl> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
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Steven Rostedt authored
Impact: feature to allow better serialized clock This patch adds an option called "global-clock" that will allow the tracer to switch to a slower but more accurate (across CPUs) clock. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
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Steven Rostedt authored
This patch adds a new function called ring_buffer_set_clock that allows a tracer to assign its own clock source to the buffer. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
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- 17 Mar, 2009 3 commits
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Steven Rostedt authored
Impact: fix for losing comms in trace The command lines of tasks are cached at sched switch to not need to record them at every trace point. Disabling the tracing on stops the recording of traces, but does not stop the caching of command lines. When the tracing is off the cache may overflow and cause the tracing to show incorrect tasks matching the PIDs. This patch disables prevents updates to the comm cache when the ring buffer is off. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
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Steven Rostedt authored
Impact: fix to one cause of incorrect comm outputs in trace The spinlock only protected the creation of a comm <=> pid pair. But it was possible that a reader could look up a pid, and get the wrong comm because it had no locking. This also required changing trace_find_cmdline to copy the comm cache and not just send back a pointer to it. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
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Frederic Weisbecker authored
Impact: fix a dynamic tracing failure Recently, the function and function graph tracers failed to use dynamic tracing after the following commit: fa9d13cf (ftrace: don't try to __ftrace_replace_code on !FTRACE_FL_CONVERTED rec) The patch is right except a mistake on the check for the FTRACE_FL_CONVERTED flag. The code patching is aborted in case of successfully nopped sites. What we want is the opposite: ignore the callsites that haven't been nopped. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
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- 14 Mar, 2009 1 commit
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Lai Jiangshan authored
Impact: bugfix, output more reliable symbol lookup result Debug tools(dump_stack(), ftrace...) are like to print out symbols. But it is always print out the first aliased symbol.(Aliased symbols are symbols with the same address), and the first aliased symbol is sometime not proper. # echo function_graph > current_tracer # cat trace ...... 1) 1.923 us | select_nohz_load_balancer(); 1) + 76.692 us | } 1) | default_idle() { 1) ==========> | __irqentry_text_start() { 1) 0.000 us | native_apic_mem_write(); 1) | irq_enter() { 1) 0.000 us | idle_cpu(); 1) | tick_check_idle() { 1) 0.000 us | tick_check_oneshot_broadcast(); 1) | tick_nohz_stop_idle() { ...... It's very embarrassing, it ouputs "__irqentry_text_start()", actually, it should output "smp_apic_timer_interrupt()". (these two symbol are the same address, but "__irqentry_text_start" is deemed to the first aliased symbol by scripts/kallsyms) This patch puts symbols like "__irqentry_text_start" to the second aliased symbols. And a more proper symbol name becomes the first. Aliased symbols mostly come from linker script. The solution is guessing "is this symbol defined in linker script", the symbols defined in linker script will not become the first aliased symbol. And if symbols are found to be equal in this "linker script provided" criteria, symbols are sorted by the number of prefix underscores. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Reviewed-by: Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com> LKML-Reference: <49BA06E2.7080807@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 13 Mar, 2009 31 commits
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Lai Jiangshan authored
Impact: save memory The struct dyn_ftrace table is very large, this patch will save about 50%. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <49BA2C9F.8020009@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Lai Jiangshan authored
Impact: cleanup VFS layer has tested the file mode, we do not need test it. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <49BA2BAB.6010608@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Zhaolei authored
Do __ftrace_replace_code for !FTRACE_FL_CONVERTED rec will always fail, we should ignore this rec. Signed-off-by: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: "Steven Rostedt ;" <rostedt@goodmis.org> LKML-Reference: <49BA2472.4060206@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Zhaolei authored
If dyn_ftrace is freed before ftrace_release(), ftrace_release() will free it again and make ftrace_free_records wrong. Signed-off-by: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: "Steven Rostedt ;" <rostedt@goodmis.org> LKML-Reference: <49BA23D9.1050900@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
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Ingo Molnar authored
Merge branch 'tip/tracing/ftrace' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into tracing/ftrace
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Ingo Molnar authored
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Frederic Weisbecker authored
Provide the x86 trace callbacks to trace syscalls. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: <1236401580-5758-3-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Frederic Weisbecker authored
Provide basic callbacks to do syscall tracing. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: <1236401580-5758-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> [ simplified it to a trace_printk() for now. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Steven Rostedt authored
Impact: clean up It is redundant to have 'SOFTIRQ' in the softirq names. Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
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Steven Rostedt authored
The binary_buffers directory in /debugfs/tracing held the files to read the trace buffers in a binary format. This held one file per CPU buffer. But we also have a per_cpu directory that holds a way to read the pretty-print formats. This patch moves the binary buffers into the per_cpu_directory: # ls /debug/tracing/per_cpu/cpu1/ trace trace_pipe trace_pipe_raw The new name is called "trace_pipe_raw". The binary buffers always acted similar to trace_pipe, except that they produce raw data. Requested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
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Steven Rostedt authored
Impact: documentation The use of the double __builtin_contant_p checks in the event_trace_printk can be confusing to developers and reviewers. This patch adds a comment to explain why it is there. Requested-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: <20090313122235.43EB.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
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Steven Rostedt authored
Ingo Molnar suggested, instead of: Depth Size Location (27 entries) ----- ---- -------- 0) 2880 48 lock_timer_base+0x2b/0x4f 1) 2832 80 __mod_timer+0x33/0xe0 2) 2752 16 __ide_set_handler+0x63/0x65 To have it be: Depth Size Location (27 entries) ----- ---- -------- 0) 2880 48 lock_timer_base+0x2b/0x4f 1) 2832 80 __mod_timer+0x33/0xe0 2) 2752 16 __ide_set_handler+0x63/0x65 Requested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Merge branch 'tip/tracing/ftrace' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into tracing/ftrace
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Ingo Molnar authored
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Linus Torvalds authored
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Linus Torvalds authored
Guennadi Liakhovetski noticed that the end condition for the loop in bitmap_find_free_region() is wrong, and the "return if error" was also using the wrong conditional that would only trigger if the bitmap was an exact multiple of the allocation size, which is not necessarily the case with dma_alloc_from_coherent(). Such a failure would end up in bitmap_find_free_region() accessing beyond the end of the bitmap. Reported-by: Guennadi Liakhovetski <lg@denx.de> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Steven Rostedt authored
In a private email conversation I explained how the ring buffer page worked by using silly ASCII art. Ingo suggested that I add that to the comments of the code. Here it is. Requested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
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Steven Rostedt authored
Unlike TRACE_FORMAT() macros, the TRACE_EVENT() macros do not show the event name in the trace file. Knowing the event type in the trace output is very useful. Instead of: task swapper:0 [140] ==> ntpd:3308 [120] We now have: sched_switch: task swapper:0 [140] ==> ntpd:3308 [120] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
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KOSAKI Motohiro authored
commit c3ffc7a4 "Don't use tracing_record_cmdline() in workqueue tracer" has a race window. find_task_by_vpid() requires task_list_lock(). LKML-Reference: <20090313090042.43CD.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
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Jason Baron authored
Introduce softirq entry/exit tracepoints. These are useful for augmenting existing tracers, and to figure out softirq frequencies and timings. [ s/irq_softirq_/softirq_/ for trace point names and Fixed printf format in TRACE_FORMAT macro - Steven Rostedt ] LKML-Reference: <20090312183603.GC3352@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
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Jason Baron authored
Create a 'softirq_to_name' array, which is indexed by softirq #, so that we can easily convert between the softirq index # and its name, in order to get more meaningful output messages. LKML-Reference: <20090312183336.GB3352@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
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Steven Rostedt authored
If the stack tracing is disabled (by default) the stack_trace file will only contain the header: # cat /debug/tracing/stack_trace Depth Size Location (0 entries) ----- ---- -------- This can be frustrating to a developer that does not realize that the stack tracer is disabled. This patch adds the following text: # cat /debug/tracing/stack_trace Depth Size Location (0 entries) ----- ---- -------- # # Stack tracer disabled # # To enable the stack tracer, either add 'stacktrace' to the # kernel command line # or 'echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/stack_tracer_enabled' # Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
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Steven Rostedt authored
The stack tracer use to look like this: # cat /debug/tracing/stack_trace Depth Size Location (57 entries) ----- ---- -------- 0) 5088 16 mempool_alloc_slab+0x16/0x18 1) 5072 144 mempool_alloc+0x4d/0xfe 2) 4928 16 scsi_sg_alloc+0x48/0x4a [scsi_mod] Now it looks like this: # cat /debug/tracing/stack_trace Depth Size Location (57 entries) ----- ---- -------- 0) 5088 16 mempool_alloc_slab+0x16/0x18 1) 5072 144 mempool_alloc+0x4d/0xfe 2) 4928 16 scsi_sg_alloc+0x48/0x4a [scsi_mod] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
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Steven Rostedt authored
The binary printk saves a pointer to the format string in the ring buffer. On output, the format is processed. But if the user is reading the ring buffer through a binary interface, the pointer is meaningless. This patch creates a file called printk_formats that maps the pointers to the formats. # cat /debug/tracing/printk_formats 0xffffffff80713d40 : "irq_handler_entry: irq=%d handler=%s\n" 0xffffffff80713d48 : "lock_acquire: %s%s%s\n" 0xffffffff80713d50 : "lock_release: %s\n" Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
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Steven Rostedt authored
Impact: speed up on event tracing The event_trace_printk is currently a wrapper function that calls trace_vprintk. Because it uses a variable for the fmt it misses out on the optimization of using the binary printk. This patch makes event_trace_printk into a macro wrapper to use the fmt as the same as the trace_printks. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
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Steven Rostedt authored
The bprint record is using TRACE_PRINT when it should be TRACE_BPRINT. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
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Frederic Weisbecker authored
Impact: fix callsites with dynamic format strings Since its new binary implementation, trace_printk() internally uses static containers for the format strings on each callsites. But the value is assigned once at build time, which means that it can't take dynamic formats. So this patch unearthes the raw trace_printk implementation for the callers that will need trace_printk to be able to carry these dynamic format strings. The trace_printk() macro will use the appropriate implementation for each callsite. Most of the time however, the binary implementation will still be used. The other impact of this patch is that mmiotrace_printk() will use the old implementation because it calls the low level trace_vprintk and we can't guess here whether the format passed in it is dynamic or not. Some parts of this patch have been written by Steven Rostedt (most notably the part that chooses the appropriate implementation for each callsites). Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
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Steven Rostedt authored
Impact: do not confuse user on small trace buffer sizes When the system boots up, the trace buffer is small to conserve memory. It is only two pages per online CPU. When the tracer is used, it expands to the default value. This can confuse the user if they look at the buffer size and see only 7, but then later they see 1408. # cat /debug/tracing/buffer_size_kb 7 # echo sched_switch > /debug/tracing/current_tracer # cat /debug/tracing/buffer_size_kb 1408 This patch tries to help remove this confustion by showing that the buffer has not been expanded. # cat /debug/tracing/buffer_size_kb 7 (expanded: 1408) Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
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Steven Rostedt authored
Impact: speed up and remove possible races The get_online_cpus was added to the ring buffer because the original design would free the ring buffer on a CPU that was being taken off line. The final design kept the ring buffer around even when the CPU was taken off line. This is to allow a user to still read the information on that ring buffer. Most of the get_online_cpus are no longer needed since the ring buffer will not disappear from the use cases. Reported-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
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Steven Rostedt authored
The hotplug code in the ring buffers is for use with CPU hotplug, not generic hotplug. Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
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