linux/kernel/trace, branch v3.2.41

ftrace: Update the kconfig for DYNAMIC_FTRACE

2013-03-20T15:03:28Z

commit db05021d49a994ee40a9735d9c3cb0060c9babb8 upstream. The prompt to enable DYNAMIC_FTRACE (the ability to nop and enable function tracing at run time) had a confusing statement: "enable/disable ftrace tracepoints dynamically" This was written before tracepoints were added to the kernel, but now that tracepoints have been added, this is very confusing and has confused people enough to give wrong information during presentations. Not only that, I looked at the help text, and it still references that dreaded daemon that use to wake up once a second to update the nop locations and brick NICs, that hasn't been around for over five years. Time to bring the text up to the current decade. Reported-by: Ezequiel Garcia Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

ftrace: Call ftrace cleanup module notifier after all other notifiers

2013-03-06T03:24:04Z

commit 8c189ea64eea01ca20d102ddb74d6936dd16c579 upstream. Commit: c1bf08ac "ftrace: Be first to run code modification on modules" changed ftrace module notifier's priority to INT_MAX in order to process the ftrace nops before anything else could touch them (namely kprobes). This was the correct thing to do. Unfortunately, the ftrace module notifier also contains the ftrace clean up code. As opposed to the set up code, this code should be run *after* all the module notifiers have run in case a module is doing correct clean-up and unregisters its ftrace hooks. Basically, ftrace needs to do clean up on module removal, as it needs to know about code being removed so that it doesn't try to modify that code. But after it removes the module from its records, if a ftrace user tries to remove a probe, that removal will fail due as the record of that code segment no longer exists. Nothing really bad happens if the probe removal is called after ftrace did the clean up, but the ftrace removal function will return an error. Correct code (such as kprobes) will produce a WARN_ON() if it fails to remove the probe. As people get annoyed by frivolous warnings, it's best to do the ftrace clean up after everything else. By splitting the ftrace_module_notifier into two notifiers, one that does the module load setup that is run at high priority, and the other that is called for module clean up that is run at low priority, the problem is solved. Reported-by: Frank Ch. Eigler Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

ftrace: Be first to run code modification on modules

2013-02-06T04:33:41Z

commit c1bf08ac26e92122faab9f6c32ea8aba94612dae upstream. If some other kernel subsystem has a module notifier, and adds a kprobe to a ftrace mcount point (now that kprobes work on ftrace points), when the ftrace notifier runs it will fail and disable ftrace, as well as kprobes that are attached to ftrace points. Here's the error: WARNING: at kernel/trace/ftrace.c:1618 ftrace_bug+0x239/0x280() Hardware name: Bochs Modules linked in: fat(+) stap_56d28a51b3fe546293ca0700b10bcb29__8059(F) nfsv4 auth_rpcgss nfs dns_resolver fscache xt_nat iptable_nat nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_defrag_ipv4 nf_nat_ipv4 nf_nat nf_conntrack lockd sunrpc ppdev parport_pc parport microcode virtio_net i2c_piix4 drm_kms_helper ttm drm i2c_core [last unloaded: bid_shared] Pid: 8068, comm: modprobe Tainted: GF 3.7.0-0.rc8.git0.1.fc19.x86_64 #1 Call Trace: [] warn_slowpath_common+0x7f/0xc0 [] ? __probe_kernel_read+0x46/0x70 [] ? 0xffffffffa017ffff [] ? 0xffffffffa017ffff [] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20 [] ftrace_bug+0x239/0x280 [] ftrace_process_locs+0x376/0x520 [] ftrace_module_notify+0x47/0x50 [] notifier_call_chain+0x4d/0x70 [] __blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x58/0x80 [] blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x16/0x20 [] sys_init_module+0x73/0x220 [] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b ---[ end trace 9ef46351e53bbf80 ]--- ftrace failed to modify [] init_once+0x0/0x20 [fat] actual: cc:bb:d2:4b:e1 A kprobe was added to the init_once() function in the fat module on load. But this happened before ftrace could have touched the code. As ftrace didn't run yet, the kprobe system had no idea it was a ftrace point and simply added a breakpoint to the code (0xcc in the cc:bb:d2:4b:e1). Then when ftrace went to modify the location from a call to mcount/fentry into a nop, it didn't see a call op, but instead it saw the breakpoint op and not knowing what to do with it, ftrace shut itself down. The solution is to simply give the ftrace module notifier the max priority. This should have been done regardless, as the core code ftrace modification also happens very early on in boot up. This makes the module modification closer to core modification. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130107140333.593683061@goodmis.org Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu Reported-by: Frank Ch. Eigler Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

ring-buffer: Fix NULL pointer if rb_set_head_page() fails

2013-01-03T03:33:24Z

commit 54f7be5b831254199522523ccab4c3d954bbf576 upstream. The function rb_set_head_page() searches the list of ring buffer pages for a the page that has the HEAD page flag set. If it does not find it, it will do a WARN_ON(), disable the ring buffer and return NULL, as this should never happen. But if this bug happens to happen, not all callers of this function can handle a NULL pointer being returned from it. That needs to be fixed. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

ftrace: Clear bits properly in reset_iter_read()

2013-01-03T03:33:10Z

commit 70f77b3f7ec010ff9624c1f2e39a81babc9e2429 upstream. There is a typo here where '&' is used instead of '|' and it turns the statement into a noop. The original code is equivalent to: iter->flags &= ~((1 << 2) & (1 << 4)); Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120609161027.GD6488@elgon.mountain Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

tracing: change CPU ring buffer state from tracing_cpumask

2012-07-12T03:32:09Z

commit 71babb2705e2203a64c27ede13ae3508a0d2c16c upstream. According to Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt: tracing_cpumask: This is a mask that lets the user only trace on specified CPUS. The format is a hex string representing the CPUS. The tracing_cpumask currently doesn't affect the tracing state of per-CPU ring buffers. This patch enables/disables CPU recording as its corresponding bit in tracing_cpumask is set/unset. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1336096792-25373-3-git-send-email-vnagarnaik@google.com Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Laurent Chavey Cc: Justin Teravest Cc: David Sharp Signed-off-by: Vaibhav Nagarnaik Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

splice: fix racy pipe->buffers uses

2012-07-12T03:31:59Z

commit 047fe3605235888f3ebcda0c728cb31937eadfe6 upstream. Dave Jones reported a kernel BUG at mm/slub.c:3474! triggered by splice_shrink_spd() called from vmsplice_to_pipe() commit 35f3d14dbbc5 (pipe: add support for shrinking and growing pipes) added capability to adjust pipe->buffers. Problem is some paths don't hold pipe mutex and assume pipe->buffers doesn't change for their duration. Fix this by adding nr_pages_max field in struct splice_pipe_desc, and use it in place of pipe->buffers where appropriate. splice_shrink_spd() loses its struct pipe_inode_info argument. Reported-by: Dave Jones Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Alexander Viro Cc: Tom Herbert Tested-by: Dave Jones Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe [bwh: Backported to 3.2: - Adjust context in vmsplice_to_pipe() - Update one more call to splice_shrink_spd(), from skb_splice_bits()] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

tracing: Fix stacktrace of latency tracers (irqsoff and friends)

2012-05-11T12:14:35Z

commit db4c75cbebd7e5910cd3bcb6790272fcc3042857 upstream. While debugging a latency with someone on IRC (mirage335) on #linux-rt (OFTC), we discovered that the stacktrace output of the latency tracers (preemptirqsoff) was empty. This bug was caused by the creation of the dynamic length stack trace again (like commit 12b5da3 "tracing: Fix ent_size in trace output" was). This bug is caused by the latency tracers requiring the next event to determine the time between the current event and the next. But by grabbing the next event, the iter->ent_size is set to the next event instead of the current one. As the stacktrace event is the last event, this makes the ent_size zero and causes nothing to be printed for the stack trace. The dynamic stacktrace uses the ent_size to determine how much of the stack can be printed. The ent_size of zero means no stack. The simple fix is to save the iter->ent_size before finding the next event. Note, mirage335 asked to remain anonymous from LKML and git, so I will not add the Reported-by and Tested-by tags, even though he did report the issue and tested the fix. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

tracing: Fix ent_size in trace output

2012-04-13T15:33:47Z

commit 12b5da349a8b94c9dbc3430a6bc42eabd9eaf50b upstream. When reading the trace file, the records of each of the per_cpu buffers are examined to find the next event to print out. At the point of looking at the event, the size of the event is recorded. But if the first event is chosen, the other events in the other CPU buffers will reset the event size that is stored in the iterator descriptor, causing the event size passed to the output functions to be incorrect. In most cases this is not a problem, but for the case of stack traces, it is. With the change to the stack tracing to record a dynamic number of back traces, the output depends on the size of the entry instead of the fixed 8 back traces. When the entry size is not correct, the back traces would not be fully printed. Note, reading from the per-cpu trace files were not affected. Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner Tested-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tracing: Fix ftrace stack trace entries

2012-04-13T15:33:47Z

commit 01de982abf8c9e10fc3089e10585cd2cc914bdab upstream. 8 hex characters tell only half the tale for 64 bit CPUs, so use the appropriate length. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1332411501-8059-2-git-send-email-wolfgang.mauerer@siemens.com Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Mauerer Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman