linux/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c, branch v3.14-rc5

ring-buffer: Fix first commit on sub-buffer having non-zero delta

2014-02-11T18:38:54Z

Each sub-buffer (buffer page) has a full 64 bit timestamp. The events on that page use a 27 bit delta against that timestamp in order to save on bits written to the ring buffer. If the time between events is larger than what the 27 bits can hold, a "time extend" event is added to hold the entire 64 bit timestamp again and the events after that hold a delta from that timestamp. As a "time extend" is always paired with an event, it is logical to just allocate the event with the time extend, to make things a bit more efficient. Unfortunately, when the pairing code was written, it removed the "delta = 0" from the first commit on a page, causing the events on the page to be slightly skewed. Fixes: 69d1b839f7ee "ring-buffer: Bind time extend and data events together" Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 2.6.37+ Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

sched/clock, x86: Use a static_key for sched_clock_stable

2014-01-13T14:13:13Z

In order to avoid the runtime condition and variable load turn sched_clock_stable into a static_key. Also provide a shorter implementation of local_clock() and cpu_clock(int) when sched_clock_stable==1. MAINLINE PRE POST sched_clock_stable: 1 1 1 (cold) sched_clock: 329841 221876 215295 (cold) local_clock: 301773 234692 220773 (warm) sched_clock: 38375 25602 25659 (warm) local_clock: 100371 33265 27242 (warm) rdtsc: 27340 24214 24208 sched_clock_stable: 0 0 0 (cold) sched_clock: 382634 235941 237019 (cold) local_clock: 396890 297017 294819 (warm) sched_clock: 38194 25233 25609 (warm) local_clock: 143452 71234 71232 (warm) rdtsc: 27345 24245 24243 Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Andrew Morton Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-eummbdechzz37mwmpags1gjr@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

tracing: Typo fix on ring buffer comments

2013-07-19T01:31:26Z

There have some mismatch between comments with real function name, update it. This patch also add some missed function arguments description. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/51E3B3B2.4080307@huawei.com Signed-off-by: zhangwei(Jovi) Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing: Use trace_seq_puts()/trace_seq_putc() where possible

2013-07-19T01:30:36Z

For string without format specifiers, use trace_seq_puts() or trace_seq_putc(). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/51E3B3AC.1000605@huawei.com Signed-off-by: zhangwei(Jovi) [ fixed a trace_seq_putc(s, " ") to trace_seq_putc(s, ' ') ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

ring-buffer: Do not poll non allocated cpu buffers

2013-05-28T14:53:20Z

The tracing infrastructure sets up for possible CPUs, but it uses the ring buffer polling, it is possible to call the ring buffer polling code with a CPU that hasn't been allocated. This will cause a kernel oops when it access a ring buffer cpu buffer that is part of the possible cpus but hasn't been allocated yet as the CPU has never been online. Reported-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Tested-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

Merge tag 'trace-3.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace

2013-04-29T20:55:38Z

Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt: "Along with the usual minor fixes and clean ups there are a few major changes with this pull request. 1) Multiple buffers for the ftrace facility This feature has been requested by many people over the last few years. I even heard that Google was about to implement it themselves. I finally had time and cleaned up the code such that you can now create multiple instances of the ftrace buffer and have different events go to different buffers. This way, a low frequency event will not be lost in the noise of a high frequency event. Note, currently only events can go to different buffers, the tracers (ie function, function_graph and the latency tracers) still can only be written to the main buffer. 2) The function tracer triggers have now been extended. The function tracer had two triggers. One to enable tracing when a function is hit, and one to disable tracing. Now you can record a stack trace on a single (or many) function(s), take a snapshot of the buffer (copy it to the snapshot buffer), and you can enable or disable an event to be traced when a function is hit. 3) A perf clock has been added. A "perf" clock can be chosen to be used when tracing. This will cause ftrace to use the same clock as perf uses, and hopefully this will make it easier to interleave the perf and ftrace data for analysis." * tag 'trace-3.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (82 commits) tracepoints: Prevent null probe from being added tracing: Compare to 1 instead of zero for is_signed_type() tracing: Remove obsolete macro guard _TRACE_PROFILE_INIT ftrace: Get rid of ftrace_profile_bits tracing: Check return value of tracing_init_dentry() tracing: Get rid of unneeded key calculation in ftrace_hash_move() tracing: Reset ftrace_graph_filter_enabled if count is zero tracing: Fix off-by-one on allocating stat->pages kernel: tracing: Use strlcpy instead of strncpy tracing: Update debugfs README file tracing: Fix ftrace_dump() tracing: Rename trace_event_mutex to trace_event_sem tracing: Fix comment about prefix in arch_syscall_match_sym_name() tracing: Convert trace_destroy_fields() to static tracing: Move find_event_field() into trace_events.c tracing: Use TRACE_MAX_PRINT instead of constant tracing: Use pr_warn_once instead of open coded implementation ring-buffer: Add ring buffer startup selftest tracing: Bring Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt up to date tracing: Add "perf" trace_clock ... Conflicts: kernel/trace/ftrace.c kernel/trace/trace.c

ring-buffer: Add ring buffer startup selftest

2013-03-15T17:21:16Z

When testing my large changes to the ftrace system, there was a bug that looked like the ring buffer was dropping events. I wrote up a quick integrity checker of the ring buffer to see if it was. Although the bug ended up being something stupid I did in ftrace, and had nothing to do with the ring buffer, I figured if I spent the time to write up this test, I might as well include it in the kernel. I cleaned it up a bit, as the original version was rather ugly. Not saying this version is pretty, but it's a beauty queen compared to what I original wrote. To enable the start up test, set CONFIG_RING_BUFFER_STARTUP_TEST. Note, it runs for 10 seconds, so it will slow your boot time by at least 10 more seconds. What it does is documented in both the comments and the Kconfig help. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

ring-buffer: Do not use schedule_work_on() for current CPU

2013-03-15T04:35:52Z

The ring buffer updates when done while the ring buffer is active, needs to be completed on the CPU that is used for the ring buffer per_cpu buffer. To accomplish this, schedule_work_on() is used to schedule work on the given CPU. Now there's no reason to use schedule_work_on() if the process doing the update happens to be on the CPU that it is processing. It has already filled the requirement. Instead, just do the work and continue. This is needed for tracing_snapshot_alloc() where it may be called really early in boot, where the work queues have not been set up yet. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

ring-buffer: Init waitqueue for blocked readers

2013-03-15T04:34:55Z

The move of blocked readers to the ring buffer left out the init of the wait queue that is used. Tests missed this due to running stress tests against the buffers, which didn't allow for any readers to end up waiting. Running a simple read and wait triggered a bug. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing/ring-buffer: Move poll wake ups into ring buffer code

2013-03-15T04:34:50Z

Move the logic to wake up on ring buffer data into the ring buffer code itself. This simplifies the tracing code a lot and also has the added benefit that waiters on one of the instance buffers can be woken only when data is added to that instance instead of data added to any instance. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt