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2013-11-20tracing: Fix potential out-of-bounds in trace_get_user()Steven Rostedt
commit 057db8488b53d5e4faa0cedb2f39d4ae75dfbdbb upstream. Andrey reported the following report: ERROR: AddressSanitizer: heap-buffer-overflow on address ffff8800359c99f3 ffff8800359c99f3 is located 0 bytes to the right of 243-byte region [ffff8800359c9900, ffff8800359c99f3) Accessed by thread T13003: #0 ffffffff810dd2da (asan_report_error+0x32a/0x440) #1 ffffffff810dc6b0 (asan_check_region+0x30/0x40) #2 ffffffff810dd4d3 (__tsan_write1+0x13/0x20) #3 ffffffff811cd19e (ftrace_regex_release+0x1be/0x260) #4 ffffffff812a1065 (__fput+0x155/0x360) #5 ffffffff812a12de (____fput+0x1e/0x30) #6 ffffffff8111708d (task_work_run+0x10d/0x140) #7 ffffffff810ea043 (do_exit+0x433/0x11f0) #8 ffffffff810eaee4 (do_group_exit+0x84/0x130) #9 ffffffff810eafb1 (SyS_exit_group+0x21/0x30) #10 ffffffff81928782 (system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b) Allocated by thread T5167: #0 ffffffff810dc778 (asan_slab_alloc+0x48/0xc0) #1 ffffffff8128337c (__kmalloc+0xbc/0x500) #2 ffffffff811d9d54 (trace_parser_get_init+0x34/0x90) #3 ffffffff811cd7b3 (ftrace_regex_open+0x83/0x2e0) #4 ffffffff811cda7d (ftrace_filter_open+0x2d/0x40) #5 ffffffff8129b4ff (do_dentry_open+0x32f/0x430) #6 ffffffff8129b668 (finish_open+0x68/0xa0) #7 ffffffff812b66ac (do_last+0xb8c/0x1710) #8 ffffffff812b7350 (path_openat+0x120/0xb50) #9 ffffffff812b8884 (do_filp_open+0x54/0xb0) #10 ffffffff8129d36c (do_sys_open+0x1ac/0x2c0) #11 ffffffff8129d4b7 (SyS_open+0x37/0x50) #12 ffffffff81928782 (system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b) Shadow bytes around the buggy address: ffff8800359c9700: fd fd fd fd fd fd fd fd fd fd fd fd fd fd fd fd ffff8800359c9780: fd fd fd fd fd fd fd fd fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa ffff8800359c9800: fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa ffff8800359c9880: fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa ffff8800359c9900: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 =>ffff8800359c9980: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00[03]fb ffff8800359c9a00: fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa ffff8800359c9a80: fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa ffff8800359c9b00: fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ffff8800359c9b80: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ffff8800359c9c00: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa Shadow byte legend (one shadow byte represents 8 application bytes): Addressable: 00 Partially addressable: 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 Heap redzone: fa Heap kmalloc redzone: fb Freed heap region: fd Shadow gap: fe The out-of-bounds access happens on 'parser->buffer[parser->idx] = 0;' Although the crash happened in ftrace_regex_open() the real bug occurred in trace_get_user() where there's an incrementation to parser->idx without a check against the size. The way it is triggered is if userspace sends in 128 characters (EVENT_BUF_SIZE + 1), the loop that reads the last character stores it and then breaks out because there is no more characters. Then the last character is read to determine what to do next, and the index is incremented without checking size. Then the caller of trace_get_user() usually nulls out the last character with a zero, but since the index is equal to the size, it writes a nul character after the allocated space, which can corrupt memory. Luckily, only root user has write access to this file. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131009222323.04fd1a0d@gandalf.local.home Reported-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-08-14tracing: Fix fields of struct trace_iterator that are zeroed by mistakeAndrew Vagin
commit ed5467da0e369e65b247b99eb6403cb79172bcda upstream. tracing_read_pipe zeros all fields bellow "seq". The declaration contains a comment about that, but it doesn't help. The first field is "snapshot", it's true when current open file is snapshot. Looks obvious, that it should not be zeroed. The second field is "started". It was converted from cpumask_t to cpumask_var_t (v2.6.28-4983-g4462344), in other words it was converted from cpumask to pointer on cpumask. Currently the reference on "started" memory is lost after the first read from tracing_read_pipe and a proper object will never be freed. The "started" is never dereferenced for trace_pipe, because trace_pipe can't have the TRACE_FILE_ANNOTATE options. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1375463803-3085183-1-git-send-email-avagin@openvz.org Signed-off-by: Andrew Vagin <avagin@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-07-28tracing: Use current_uid() for critical time tracingSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
commit f17a5194859a82afe4164e938b92035b86c55794 upstream. The irqsoff tracer records the max time that interrupts are disabled. There are hooks in the assembly code that calls back into the tracer when interrupts are disabled or enabled. When they are enabled, the tracer checks if the amount of time they were disabled is larger than the previous recorded max interrupts off time. If it is, it creates a snapshot of the currently running trace to store where the last largest interrupts off time was held and how it happened. During testing, this RCU lockdep dump appeared: [ 1257.829021] =============================== [ 1257.829021] [ INFO: suspicious RCU usage. ] [ 1257.829021] 3.10.0-rc1-test+ #171 Tainted: G W [ 1257.829021] ------------------------------- [ 1257.829021] /home/rostedt/work/git/linux-trace.git/include/linux/rcupdate.h:780 rcu_read_lock() used illegally while idle! [ 1257.829021] [ 1257.829021] other info that might help us debug this: [ 1257.829021] [ 1257.829021] [ 1257.829021] RCU used illegally from idle CPU! [ 1257.829021] rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 0 [ 1257.829021] RCU used illegally from extended quiescent state! [ 1257.829021] 2 locks held by trace-cmd/4831: [ 1257.829021] #0: (max_trace_lock){......}, at: [<ffffffff810e2b77>] stop_critical_timing+0x1a3/0x209 [ 1257.829021] #1: (rcu_read_lock){.+.+..}, at: [<ffffffff810dae5a>] __update_max_tr+0x88/0x1ee [ 1257.829021] [ 1257.829021] stack backtrace: [ 1257.829021] CPU: 3 PID: 4831 Comm: trace-cmd Tainted: G W 3.10.0-rc1-test+ #171 [ 1257.829021] Hardware name: To Be Filled By O.E.M. To Be Filled By O.E.M./To be filled by O.E.M., BIOS SDBLI944.86P 05/08/2007 [ 1257.829021] 0000000000000001 ffff880065f49da8 ffffffff8153dd2b ffff880065f49dd8 [ 1257.829021] ffffffff81092a00 ffff88006bd78680 ffff88007add7500 0000000000000003 [ 1257.829021] ffff88006bd78680 ffff880065f49e18 ffffffff810daebf ffffffff810dae5a [ 1257.829021] Call Trace: [ 1257.829021] [<ffffffff8153dd2b>] dump_stack+0x19/0x1b [ 1257.829021] [<ffffffff81092a00>] lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0x109/0x112 [ 1257.829021] [<ffffffff810daebf>] __update_max_tr+0xed/0x1ee [ 1257.829021] [<ffffffff810dae5a>] ? __update_max_tr+0x88/0x1ee [ 1257.829021] [<ffffffff811002b9>] ? user_enter+0xfd/0x107 [ 1257.829021] [<ffffffff810dbf85>] update_max_tr_single+0x11d/0x12d [ 1257.829021] [<ffffffff811002b9>] ? user_enter+0xfd/0x107 [ 1257.829021] [<ffffffff810e2b15>] stop_critical_timing+0x141/0x209 [ 1257.829021] [<ffffffff8109569a>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0xf [ 1257.829021] [<ffffffff811002b9>] ? user_enter+0xfd/0x107 [ 1257.829021] [<ffffffff810e3057>] time_hardirqs_on+0x2a/0x2f [ 1257.829021] [<ffffffff811002b9>] ? user_enter+0xfd/0x107 [ 1257.829021] [<ffffffff8109550c>] trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x16/0x197 [ 1257.829021] [<ffffffff8109569a>] trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0xf [ 1257.829021] [<ffffffff811002b9>] user_enter+0xfd/0x107 [ 1257.829021] [<ffffffff810029b4>] do_notify_resume+0x92/0x97 [ 1257.829021] [<ffffffff8154bdca>] int_signal+0x12/0x17 What happened was entering into the user code, the interrupts were enabled and a max interrupts off was recorded. The trace buffer was saved along with various information about the task: comm, pid, uid, priority, etc. The uid is recorded with task_uid(tsk). But this is a macro that uses rcu_read_lock() to retrieve the data, and this happened to happen where RCU is blind (user_enter). As only the preempt and irqs off tracers can have this happen, and they both only have the tsk == current, if tsk == current, use current_uid() instead of task_uid(), as current_uid() does not use RCU as only current can change its uid. This fixes the RCU suspicious splat. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-05-11tracing: Fix ftrace_dump()Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
commit 7fe70b579c9e3daba71635e31b6189394e7b79d3 upstream. ftrace_dump() had a lot of issues. What ftrace_dump() does, is when ftrace_dump_on_oops is set (via a kernel parameter or sysctl), it will dump out the ftrace buffers to the console when either a oops, panic, or a sysrq-z occurs. This was written a long time ago when ftrace was fragile to recursion. But it wasn't written well even for that. There's a possible deadlock that can occur if a ftrace_dump() is happening and an NMI triggers another dump. This is because it grabs a lock before checking if the dump ran. It also totally disables ftrace, and tracing for no good reasons. As the ring_buffer now checks if it is read via a oops or NMI, where there's a chance that the buffer gets corrupted, it will disable itself. No need to have ftrace_dump() do the same. ftrace_dump() is now cleaned up where it uses an atomic counter to make sure only one dump happens at a time. A simple atomic_inc_return() is enough that is needed for both other CPUs and NMIs. No need for a spinlock, as if one CPU is running the dump, no other CPU needs to do it too. The tracing_on variable is turned off and not turned on. The original code did this, but it wasn't pretty. By just disabling this variable we get the result of not seeing traces that happen between crashes. For sysrq-z, it doesn't get turned on, but the user can always write a '1' to the tracing_on file. If they are using sysrq-z, then they should know about tracing_on. The new code is much easier to read and less error prone. No more deadlock possibility when an NMI triggers here. Reported-by: zhangwei(Jovi) <jovi.zhangwei@huawei.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-05-07tracing: Check return value of tracing_init_dentry()Namhyung Kim
commit ed6f1c996bfe4b6e520cf7a74b51cd6988d84420 upstream. Check return value and bail out if it's NULL. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1365553093-10180-2-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-04-05tracing: Prevent buffer overwrite disabled for latency tracersSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
commit 613f04a0f51e6e68ac6fe571ab79da3c0a5eb4da upstream. The latency tracers require the buffers to be in overwrite mode, otherwise they get screwed up. Force the buffers to stay in overwrite mode when latency tracers are enabled. Added a flag_changed() method to the tracer structure to allow the tracers to see what flags are being changed, and also be able to prevent the change from happing. [Backported for 3.4-stable. Re-added current_trace NULL checks; removed allocated_snapshot field; adapted to tracing_trace_options_write without trace_set_options.] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Lingzhu Xiang <lxiang@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: CAI Qian <caiqian@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-04-05tracing: Protect tracer flags with trace_types_lockSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
commit 69d34da2984c95b33ea21518227e1f9470f11d95 upstream. Seems that the tracer flags have never been protected from synchronous writes. Luckily, admins don't usually modify the tracing flags via two different tasks. But if scripts were to be used to modify them, then they could get corrupted. Move the trace_types_lock that protects against tracers changing to also protect the flags being set. [Backported for 3.4, 3.0-stable. Moved return to after unlock.] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Lingzhu Xiang <lxiang@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: CAI Qian <caiqian@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-03-28tracing: Fix race in snapshot swappingSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
commit 2721e72dd10f71a3ba90f59781becf02638aa0d9 upstream. Although the swap is wrapped with a spin_lock, the assignment of the temp buffer used to swap is not within that lock. It needs to be moved into that lock, otherwise two swaps happening on two different CPUs, can end up using the wrong temp buffer to assign in the swap. Luckily, all current callers of the swap function appear to have their own locks. But in case something is added that allows two different callers to call the swap, then there's a chance that this race can trigger and corrupt the buffers. New code is coming soon that will allow for this race to trigger. I've Cc'd stable, so this bug will not show up if someone backports one of the changes that can trigger this bug. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-07-16splice: fix racy pipe->buffers usesEric Dumazet
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 <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com> Tested-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> [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 <ben@decadent.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-07-16tracing: change CPU ring buffer state from tracing_cpumaskVaibhav Nagarnaik
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 <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Laurent Chavey <chavey@google.com> Cc: Justin Teravest <teravest@google.com> Cc: David Sharp <dhsharp@google.com> Signed-off-by: Vaibhav Nagarnaik <vnagarnaik@google.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-06-22tracing: Have tracing_off() actually turn tracing offSteven Rostedt
commit f2bf1f6f5f89d031245067512449fc889b2f4bb2 upstream. A recent update to have tracing_on/off() only affect the ftrace ring buffers instead of all ring buffers had a cut and paste error. The tracing_off() did the exact same thing as tracing_on() and would not actually turn off tracing. Unfortunately, tracing_off() is more important to be working than tracing_on() as this is a key development tool, as it lets the developer turn off tracing as soon as a problem is discovered. It is also used by panic and oops code. This bug also breaks the 'echo func:traceoff > set_ftrace_filter' Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-04-16tracing: Fix regression with tracing_onSteven Rostedt
The change to make tracing_on affect only the ftrace ring buffer, caused a bug where it wont affect any ring buffer. The problem was that the buffer of the trace_array was passed to the write function and not the trace array itself. The trace_array can change the buffer when running a latency tracer. If this happens, then the buffer being disabled may not be the buffer currently used by ftrace. This will cause the tracing_on file to become useless. The simple fix is to pass the trace_array to the write function instead of the buffer. Then the actual buffer may be changed. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-03-27tracing: Fix ent_size in trace outputSteven Rostedt
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 <tglx@linutronix.de> Tested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-03-01tracing: Keep NMI watchdog from triggering when dumping traceSteven Rostedt
As ftrace_dump() (called by ftrace_dump_on_oops) disables interrupts as it dumps its output to the console, it can keep interrupts disabled for long periods of time. This is likely to trigger the NMI watchdog, and it can disrupt the output of critical data. Add a touch_nmi_watchdog() to each event that is written to the screen to keep the NMI watchdog from affecting the output. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-02-22tracing/ring-buffer: Only have tracing_on disable tracing buffersSteven Rostedt
As the ring-buffer code is being used by other facilities in the kernel, having tracing_on file disable *all* buffers is not a desired affect. It should only disable the ftrace buffers that are being used. Move the code into the trace.c file and use the buffer disabling for tracing_on() and tracing_off(). This way only the ftrace buffers will be affected by them and other kernel utilities will not be confused to why their output suddenly stopped. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-02-13ftrace: sched_switch plugin is deprecatedGeunsik Lim
Actually, sched_switch function tracer is merged into wakeup/wakeup_rt Update 'mini-HOWTO' for ftrace(Kernel function tracer). If we want to trace "sched:sched_switch" to trace sched_switch func, We may utilize event option.(e.g: trace-cmd list -e | grep sched) This patch is based on Linux-3.3.rc2-SMP-PREEMPT Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328695537-15081-1-git-send-email-geunsik.lim@gmail.com Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Geunsik Lim <geunsik.lim@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-01-08Merge branch 'for-linus2' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs * 'for-linus2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (165 commits) reiserfs: Properly display mount options in /proc/mounts vfs: prevent remount read-only if pending removes vfs: count unlinked inodes vfs: protect remounting superblock read-only vfs: keep list of mounts for each superblock vfs: switch ->show_options() to struct dentry * vfs: switch ->show_path() to struct dentry * vfs: switch ->show_devname() to struct dentry * vfs: switch ->show_stats to struct dentry * switch security_path_chmod() to struct path * vfs: prefer ->dentry->d_sb to ->mnt->mnt_sb vfs: trim includes a bit switch mnt_namespace ->root to struct mount vfs: take /proc/*/mounts and friends to fs/proc_namespace.c vfs: opencode mntget() mnt_set_mountpoint() vfs: spread struct mount - remaining argument of next_mnt() vfs: move fsnotify junk to struct mount vfs: move mnt_devname vfs: move mnt_list to struct mount vfs: switch pnode.h macros to struct mount * ...
2012-01-06Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip * 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (106 commits) perf kvm: Fix copy & paste error in description perf script: Kill script_spec__delete perf top: Fix a memory leak perf stat: Introduce get_ratio_color() helper perf session: Remove impossible condition check perf tools: Fix feature-bits rework fallout, remove unused variable perf script: Add generic perl handler to process events perf tools: Use for_each_set_bit() to iterate over feature flags perf tools: Unify handling of features when writing feature section perf report: Accept fifos as input file perf tools: Moving code in some files perf tools: Fix out-of-bound access to struct perf_session perf tools: Continue processing header on unknown features perf tools: Improve macros for struct feature_ops perf: builtin-record: Document and check that mmap_pages must be a power of two. perf: builtin-record: Provide advice if mmap'ing fails with EPERM. perf tools: Fix truncated annotation perf script: look up thread using tid instead of pid perf tools: Look up thread names for system wide profiling perf tools: Fix comm for processes with named threads ...
2012-01-03switch debugfs to umode_tAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2011-12-11trace: Allow ftrace_dump() to be called from modulesPaul E. McKenney
Add an EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() so that rcutorture can dump the trace buffer upon detection of an RCU error. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2011-11-17tracing: Add entries in buffer and total entries to default output headerSteven Rostedt
Knowing the number of event entries in the ring buffer compared to the total number that were written is useful information. The latency format gives this information and there's no reason that the default format does not. This information is now added to the default header, along with the number of online CPUs: # tracer: nop # # entries-in-buffer/entries-written: 159836/64690869 #P:4 # # _-----=> irqs-off # / _----=> need-resched # | / _---=> hardirq/softirq # || / _--=> preempt-depth # ||| / delay # TASK-PID CPU# |||| TIMESTAMP FUNCTION # | | | |||| | | <idle>-0 [000] ...2 49.442971: local_touch_nmi <-cpu_idle <idle>-0 [000] d..2 49.442973: enter_idle <-cpu_idle <idle>-0 [000] d..2 49.442974: atomic_notifier_call_chain <-enter_idle <idle>-0 [000] d..2 49.442976: __atomic_notifier_call_chain <-atomic_notifier The above shows that the trace contains 159836 entries, but 64690869 were written. One could figure out that there were 64531033 entries that were dropped. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-11-17tracing: Add irq, preempt-count and need resched info to default trace outputSteven Rostedt
People keep asking how to get the preempt count, irq, and need resched info and we keep telling them to enable the latency format. Some developers think that traces without this info is completely useless, and for a lot of tasks it is useless. The first option was to enable the latency trace as the default format, but the header for the latency format is pretty useless for most tracers and it also does the timestamp in straight microseconds from the time the trace started. This is sometimes more difficult to read as the default trace is seconds from the start of boot up. Latency format: # tracer: nop # # nop latency trace v1.1.5 on 3.2.0-rc1-test+ # -------------------------------------------------------------------- # latency: 0 us, #159771/64234230, CPU#1 | (M:preempt VP:0, KP:0, SP:0 HP:0 #P:4) # ----------------- # | task: -0 (uid:0 nice:0 policy:0 rt_prio:0) # ----------------- # # _------=> CPU# # / _-----=> irqs-off # | / _----=> need-resched # || / _---=> hardirq/softirq # ||| / _--=> preempt-depth # |||| / delay # cmd pid ||||| time | caller # \ / ||||| \ | / migratio-6 0...2 41778231us+: rcu_note_context_switch <-__schedule migratio-6 0...2 41778233us : trace_rcu_utilization <-rcu_note_context_switch migratio-6 0...2 41778235us+: rcu_sched_qs <-rcu_note_context_switch migratio-6 0d..2 41778236us+: rcu_preempt_qs <-rcu_note_context_switch migratio-6 0...2 41778238us : trace_rcu_utilization <-rcu_note_context_switch migratio-6 0...2 41778239us+: debug_lockdep_rcu_enabled <-__schedule default format: # tracer: nop # # TASK-PID CPU# TIMESTAMP FUNCTION # | | | | | migration/0-6 [000] 50.025810: rcu_note_context_switch <-__schedule migration/0-6 [000] 50.025812: trace_rcu_utilization <-rcu_note_context_switch migration/0-6 [000] 50.025813: rcu_sched_qs <-rcu_note_context_switch migration/0-6 [000] 50.025815: rcu_preempt_qs <-rcu_note_context_switch migration/0-6 [000] 50.025817: trace_rcu_utilization <-rcu_note_context_switch migration/0-6 [000] 50.025818: debug_lockdep_rcu_enabled <-__schedule migration/0-6 [000] 50.025820: debug_lockdep_rcu_enabled <-__schedule The latency format header has latency information that is pretty meaningless for most tracers. Although some of the header is useful, and we can add that later to the default format as well. What is really useful with the latency format is the irqs-off, need-resched hard/softirq context and the preempt count. This commit adds the option irq-info which is on by default that adds this information: # tracer: nop # # _-----=> irqs-off # / _----=> need-resched # | / _---=> hardirq/softirq # || / _--=> preempt-depth # ||| / delay # TASK-PID CPU# |||| TIMESTAMP FUNCTION # | | | |||| | | <idle>-0 [000] d..2 49.309305: cpuidle_get_driver <-cpuidle_idle_call <idle>-0 [000] d..2 49.309307: mwait_idle <-cpu_idle <idle>-0 [000] d..2 49.309309: need_resched <-mwait_idle <idle>-0 [000] d..2 49.309310: test_ti_thread_flag <-need_resched <idle>-0 [000] d..2 49.309312: trace_power_start.constprop.13 <-mwait_idle <idle>-0 [000] d..2 49.309313: trace_cpu_idle <-mwait_idle <idle>-0 [000] d..2 49.309315: need_resched <-mwait_idle If a user wants the old format, they can disable the 'irq-info' option: # tracer: nop # # TASK-PID CPU# TIMESTAMP FUNCTION # | | | | | <idle>-0 [000] 49.309305: cpuidle_get_driver <-cpuidle_idle_call <idle>-0 [000] 49.309307: mwait_idle <-cpu_idle <idle>-0 [000] 49.309309: need_resched <-mwait_idle <idle>-0 [000] 49.309310: test_ti_thread_flag <-need_resched <idle>-0 [000] 49.309312: trace_power_start.constprop.13 <-mwait_idle <idle>-0 [000] 49.309313: trace_cpu_idle <-mwait_idle <idle>-0 [000] 49.309315: need_resched <-mwait_idle Requested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-11-11Merge branch 'tip/perf/core' of ↵Ingo Molnar
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace into perf/core
2011-11-07tracing/latency: Fix header output for latency tracersJiri Olsa
In case the the graph tracer (CONFIG_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER) or even the function tracer (CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER) are not set, the latency tracers do not display proper latency header. The involved/fixed latency tracers are: wakeup_rt wakeup preemptirqsoff preemptoff irqsoff The patch adds proper handling of tracer configuration options for latency tracers, and displaying correct header info accordingly. * The current output (for wakeup tracer) with both graph and function tracers disabled is: # tracer: wakeup # <idle>-0 0d.h5 1us+: 0:120:R + [000] 7: 0:R watchdog/0 <idle>-0 0d.h5 3us+: ttwu_do_activate.clone.1 <-try_to_wake_up ... * The fixed output is: # tracer: wakeup # # wakeup latency trace v1.1.5 on 3.1.0-tip+ # -------------------------------------------------------------------- # latency: 55 us, #4/4, CPU#0 | (M:preempt VP:0, KP:0, SP:0 HP:0 #P:2) # ----------------- # | task: migration/0-6 (uid:0 nice:0 policy:1 rt_prio:99) # ----------------- # # _------=> CPU# # / _-----=> irqs-off # | / _----=> need-resched # || / _---=> hardirq/softirq # ||| / _--=> preempt-depth # |||| / delay # cmd pid ||||| time | caller # \ / ||||| \ | / cat-1129 0d..4 1us : 1129:120:R + [000] 6: 0:R migration/0 cat-1129 0d..4 2us+: ttwu_do_activate.clone.1 <-try_to_wake_up * The current output (for wakeup tracer) with only function tracer enabled is: # tracer: wakeup # cat-1140 0d..4 1us+: 1140:120:R + [000] 6: 0:R migration/0 cat-1140 0d..4 2us : ttwu_do_activate.clone.1 <-try_to_wake_up * The fixed output is: # tracer: wakeup # # wakeup latency trace v1.1.5 on 3.1.0-tip+ # -------------------------------------------------------------------- # latency: 207 us, #109/109, CPU#1 | (M:preempt VP:0, KP:0, SP:0 HP:0 #P:2) # ----------------- # | task: watchdog/1-12 (uid:0 nice:0 policy:1 rt_prio:99) # ----------------- # # _------=> CPU# # / _-----=> irqs-off # | / _----=> need-resched # || / _---=> hardirq/softirq # ||| / _--=> preempt-depth # |||| / delay # cmd pid ||||| time | caller # \ / ||||| \ | / <idle>-0 1d.h5 1us+: 0:120:R + [001] 12: 0:R watchdog/1 <idle>-0 1d.h5 3us : ttwu_do_activate.clone.1 <-try_to_wake_up Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111107150849.GE1807@m.brq.redhat.com Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-10-26Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip * 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (121 commits) perf symbols: Increase symbol KSYM_NAME_LEN size perf hists browser: Refuse 'a' hotkey on non symbolic views perf ui browser: Use libslang to read keys perf tools: Fix tracing info recording perf hists browser: Elide DSO column when it is set to just one DSO, ditto for threads perf hists: Don't consider filtered entries when calculating column widths perf hists: Don't decay total_period for filtered entries perf hists browser: Honour symbol_conf.show_{nr_samples,total_period} perf hists browser: Do not exit on tab key with single event perf annotate browser: Don't change selection line when returning from callq perf tools: handle endianness of feature bitmap perf tools: Add prelink suggestion to dso update message perf script: Fix unknown feature comment perf hists browser: Apply the dso and thread filters when merging new batches perf hists: Move the dso and thread filters from hist_browser perf ui browser: Honour the xterm colors perf top tui: Give color hints just on the percentage, like on --stdio perf ui browser: Make the colors configurable and change the defaults perf tui: Remove unneeded call to newtCls on startup perf hists: Don't format the percentage on hist_entry__snprintf ... Fix up conflicts in arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.c manually. Ingo's tree did the insane "add volatile to const array", which just doesn't make sense ("volatile const"?). But we could remove the const *and* make the array volatile to make doubly sure that gcc doesn't optimize it away.. Also fix up kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c non-data-conflicts manually: the reader_lock has been turned into a raw lock by the core locking merge, and there was a new user of it introduced in this perf core merge. Make sure that new use also uses the raw accessor functions.
2011-10-14tracing: Fix returning of duplicate data after EOF in trace_pipe_rawSteven Rostedt
The trace_pipe_raw handler holds a cached page from the time the file is opened to the time it is closed. The cached page is used to handle the case of the user space buffer being smaller than what was read from the ring buffer. The left over buffer is held in the cache so that the next read will continue where the data left off. After EOF is returned (no more data in the buffer), the index of the cached page is set to zero. If a user app reads the page again after EOF, the check in the buffer will see that the cached page is less than page size and will return the cached page again. This will cause reading the trace_pipe_raw again after EOF to return duplicate data, making the output look like the time went backwards but instead data is just repeated. The fix is to not reset the index right after all data is read from the cache, but to reset it after all data is read and more data exists in the ring buffer. Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org> Reported-by: Jeremy Eder <jeder@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-10-14ftrace: Fix README to state tracing_on to start/stop tracingGeunsik Lim
tracing_enabled option is deprecated. To start/stop tracing, write to /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/tracing_on without tracing_enabled. This patch is based on Linux 3.1.0-rc1 Signed-off-by: Geunsik Lim <geunsik.lim@samsung.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1313127022-23830-1-git-send-email-leemgs1@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-10-11tracing: Do not allocate buffer for trace_markerSteven Rostedt
When doing intense tracing, the kmalloc inside trace_marker can introduce side effects to what is being traced. As trace_marker() is used by userspace to inject data into the kernel ring buffer, it needs to do so with the least amount of intrusion to the operations of the kernel or the user space application. As the ring buffer is designed to write directly into the buffer without the need to make a temporary buffer, and userspace already went through the hassle of knowing how big the write will be, we can simply pin the userspace pages and write the data directly into the buffer. This improves the impact of tracing via trace_marker tremendously! Thanks to Peter Zijlstra and Thomas Gleixner for pointing out the use of get_user_pages_fast() and kmap_atomic(). Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-10-11tracing: Warn on output if the function tracer was found corruptedSteven Rostedt
As the function tracer is very intrusive, lots of self checks are performed on the tracer and if something is found to be strange it will shut itself down keeping it from corrupting the rest of the kernel. This shutdown may still allow functions to be traced, as the tracing only stops new modifications from happening. Trying to stop the function tracer itself can cause more harm as it requires code modification. Although a WARN_ON() is executed, a user may not notice it. To help the user see that something isn't right with the tracing of the system a big warning is added to the output of the tracer that lets the user know that their data may be incomplete. Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-09-19tracing: Add a counter clock for those that do not trust clocksSteven Rostedt
When debugging tight race conditions, it can be helpful to have a synchronized tracing method. Although in most cases the global clock provides this functionality, if timings is not the issue, it is more comforting to know that the order of events really happened in a precise order. Instead of using a clock, add a "counter" that is simply an incrementing atomic 64bit counter that orders the events as they are perceived to happen. The trace_clock_counter() is added from the attempt by Peter Zijlstra trying to convert the trace_clock_global() to it. I took Peter's counter code and made trace_clock_counter() instead, and added it to the choice of clocks. Just echo counter > /debug/tracing/trace_clock to activate it. Requested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Requested-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Reviewed-By: Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-09-13locking, tracing: Annotate tracing locks as rawThomas Gleixner
The tracing locks can be taken in atomic context and therefore cannot be preempted on -rt - annotate it. In mainline this change documents the low level nature of the lock - otherwise there's no functional difference. Lockdep and Sparse checking will work as usual. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-08-30trace: Add ring buffer stats to measure rate of eventsVaibhav Nagarnaik
The stats file under per_cpu folder provides the number of entries, overruns and other statistics about the CPU ring buffer. However, the numbers do not provide any indication of how full the ring buffer is in bytes compared to the overall size in bytes. Also, it is helpful to know the rate at which the cpu buffer is filling up. This patch adds an entry "bytes: " in printed stats for per_cpu ring buffer which provides the actual bytes consumed in the ring buffer. This field includes the number of bytes used by recorded events and the padding bytes added when moving the tail pointer to next page. It also adds the following time stamps: "oldest event ts:" - the oldest timestamp in the ring buffer "now ts:" - the timestamp at the time of reading The field "now ts" provides a consistent time snapshot to the userspace when being read. This is read from the same trace clock used by tracing event timestamps. Together, these values provide the rate at which the buffer is filling up, from the formula: bytes / (now_ts - oldest_event_ts) Signed-off-by: Vaibhav Nagarnaik <vnagarnaik@google.com> Cc: Michael Rubin <mrubin@google.com> Cc: David Sharp <dhsharp@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1313531179-9323-3-git-send-email-vnagarnaik@google.com Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-08-30trace: Add a new readonly entry to report total buffer sizeVaibhav Nagarnaik
The current file "buffer_size_kb" reports the size of per-cpu buffer and not the overall memory allocated which could be misleading. A new file "buffer_total_size_kb" adds up all the enabled CPU buffer sizes and reports it. This is only a readonly entry. Signed-off-by: Vaibhav Nagarnaik <vnagarnaik@google.com> Cc: Michael Rubin <mrubin@google.com> Cc: David Sharp <dhsharp@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1313531179-9323-2-git-send-email-vnagarnaik@google.com Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-07-14tracing: Have dynamic size event stack tracesSteven Rostedt
Currently the stack trace per event in ftace is only 8 frames. This can be quite limiting and sometimes useless. Especially when the "ignore frames" is wrong and we also use up stack frames for the event processing itself. Change this to be dynamic by adding a percpu buffer that we can write a large stack frame into and then copy into the ring buffer. For interrupts and NMIs that come in while another event is being process, will only get to use the 8 frame stack. That should be enough as the task that it interrupted will have the full stack frame anyway. Requested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-06-14tracing/kprobes: Fix kprobe-tracer to support stack traceMasami Hiramatsu
Fix to support kernel stack trace correctly on kprobe-tracer. Since the execution path of kprobe-based dynamic events is different from other tracepoint-based events, normal ftrace_trace_stack() doesn't work correctly. To fix that, this introduces ftrace_trace_stack_regs() which traces stack via pt_regs instead of current stack register. e.g. # echo p schedule+4 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/kprobe_events # echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/options/stacktrace # echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kprobes/enable # head -n 20 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace bash-2968 [000] 10297.050245: p_schedule_4: (schedule+0x4/0x4ca) bash-2968 [000] 10297.050247: <stack trace> => schedule_timeout => n_tty_read => tty_read => vfs_read => sys_read => system_call_fastpath kworker/0:1-2940 [000] 10297.050265: p_schedule_4: (schedule+0x4/0x4ca) kworker/0:1-2940 [000] 10297.050266: <stack trace> => worker_thread => kthread => kernel_thread_helper sshd-1132 [000] 10297.050365: p_schedule_4: (schedule+0x4/0x4ca) sshd-1132 [000] 10297.050365: <stack trace> => sysret_careful Note: Even with this fix, the first entry will be skipped if the probe is put on the function entry area before the frame pointer is set up (usually, that is 4 bytes (push %bp; mov %sp %bp) on x86), because stack unwinder depends on the frame pointer. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: yrl.pp-manager.tt@hitachi.com Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110608070934.17777.17116.stgit@fedora15 Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-06-14tracing: Convert to kstrtoul_from_userPeter Huewe
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: Peter Huewe <peterhuewe@gmx.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1307476707-14762-1-git-send-email-peterhuewe@gmx.de Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-06-14tracing, function: Fix trace header to follow context-info optionJiri Olsa
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: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1307113131-10045-4-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-06-14tracing: Add disable_on_free optionSteven Rostedt
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: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-06-14tracing: Add a proc file to stop tracing and free bufferVaibhav Nagarnaik
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: Vaibhav Nagarnaik <vnagarnaik@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1308012717-11148-1-git-send-email-vnagarnaik@google.com Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-06-14tracing: Use NUMA allocation for per-cpu ring buffer pagesVaibhav Nagarnaik
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: Vaibhav 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.com Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-06-14tracing: Schedule a delayed work to call wakeup()Vaibhav Nagarnaik
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: Vaibhav 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.com Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-05-10Merge commit 'v2.6.39-rc7' into perf/coreIngo Molnar
Merge reason: pull in the latest fixes. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-05-06Regression: partial revert "tracing: Remove lock_depth from event entry"Arjan van de Ven
This partially reverts commit e6e1e2593592a8f6f6380496655d8c6f67431266. That commit changed the structure layout of the trace structure, which in turn broke PowerTOP (1.9x generation) quite badly. I appreciate not wanting to expose the variable in question, and PowerTOP was not using it, so I've replaced the variable with just a padding field - that way if in the future a new field is needed it can just use this padding field. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-04-27Merge branch 'tip/perf/core' of ↵Ingo Molnar
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into perf/core Conflicts: include/linux/perf_event.h Merge reason: pick up the latest jump-label enhancements, they are cooked ready. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-04-04tracing: Avoid soft lockup in trace_pipeJiri Olsa
running following commands: # enable the binary option echo 1 > ./options/bin # disable context info option echo 0 > ./options/context-info # tracing only events echo 1 > ./events/enable cat trace_pipe plus forcing system to generate many tracing events, is causing lockup (in NON preemptive kernels) inside tracing_read_pipe function. The issue is also easily reproduced by running ltp stress test. (ftrace_stress_test.sh) The reasons are: - bin/hex/raw output functions for events are set to trace_nop_print function, which prints nothing and returns TRACE_TYPE_HANDLED value - LOST EVENT trace do not handle trace_seq overflow These reasons force the while loop in tracing_read_pipe function never to break. The attached patch fixies handling of lost event trace, and changes trace_nop_print to print minimal info, which is needed for the correct tracing_read_pipe processing. v2 changes: - omit the cond_resched changes by trace_nop_print changes - WARN changed to WARN_ONCE and added info to be able to find out the culprit v3 changes: - make more accurate patch comment Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <20110325110518.GC1922@jolsa.brq.redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-03-31Fix common misspellingsLucas De Marchi
Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed. Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
2011-03-10tracing: Fix irqoff selftest expanding max bufferSteven Rostedt
If the kernel command line declares a tracer "ftrace=sometracer" and that tracer is either not defined or is enabled after irqsoff, then the irqs off selftest will fail with the following error: Testing tracer irqsoff: ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: at /home/rostedt/work/autotest/nobackup/linux-test.git/kernel/trace/tra ce.c:713 update_max_tr_single+0xfa/0x11b() Hardware name: Modules linked in: Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.38-rc8-test #1 Call Trace: [<c0441d9d>] ? warn_slowpath_common+0x65/0x7a [<c049adb2>] ? update_max_tr_single+0xfa/0x11b [<c0441dc1>] ? warn_slowpath_null+0xf/0x13 [<c049adb2>] ? update_max_tr_single+0xfa/0x11b [<c049e454>] ? stop_critical_timing+0x154/0x204 [<c049b54b>] ? trace_selftest_startup_irqsoff+0x5b/0xc1 [<c049b54b>] ? trace_selftest_startup_irqsoff+0x5b/0xc1 [<c049b54b>] ? trace_selftest_startup_irqsoff+0x5b/0xc1 [<c049e529>] ? time_hardirqs_on+0x25/0x28 [<c0468bca>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x18/0x12f [<c0468cec>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xb/0xd [<c049b54b>] ? trace_selftest_startup_irqsoff+0x5b/0xc1 [<c049b6b8>] ? register_tracer+0xf8/0x1a3 [<c14e93fe>] ? init_irqsoff_tracer+0xd/0x11 [<c040115e>] ? do_one_initcall+0x71/0x121 [<c14e93f1>] ? init_irqsoff_tracer+0x0/0x11 [<c14ce3a9>] ? kernel_init+0x13a/0x1b6 [<c14ce26f>] ? kernel_init+0x0/0x1b6 [<c0403842>] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x6/0x10 ---[ end trace e93713a9d40cd06c ]--- .. no entries found ..FAILED! What happens is the "ftrace=..." will expand the ring buffer to its default size (from its minimum size) but it will not expand the max ring buffer (the ring buffer to store maximum latencies). When the irqsoff test runs, it will call the ring buffer swap routine that checks if the max ring buffer is the same size as the normal ring buffer, and will fail if it is not. This causes the test to fail. The solution is to expand the max ring buffer before running the self test if the max ring buffer is used by that tracer and the normal ring buffer is expanded. The max ring buffer should be shrunk again after the test is done to save space. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-03-10tracing: Remove lock_depth from event entrySteven Rostedt
The lock_depth field in the event headers was added as a temporary data point for help in removing the BKL. Now that the BKL is pretty much been removed, we can remove this field. This in turn changes the header from 12 bytes to 8 bytes, removing the 4 byte buffer that gcc would insert if the first field in the data load was 8 bytes in size. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-03-09tracing: Add an 'overwrite' trace_option.David Sharp
Add an "overwrite" trace_option for ftrace to control whether the buffer should be overwritten on overflow or not. The default remains to overwrite old events when the buffer is full. This patch adds the option to instead discard newest events when the buffer is full. This is useful to get a snapshot of traces just after enabling traces. Dropping the current event is also a simpler code path. Signed-off-by: David Sharp <dhsharp@google.com> LKML-Reference: <1291844807-15481-1-git-send-email-dhsharp@google.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-02-08tracing: Deprecate tracing_enabled for tracing_onSteven Rostedt
tracing_enabled should not be used, it is heavy weight and does not do much in helping lower the overhead. tracing_on should be used instead. Warn users to use tracing_on when tracing_enabled is used as it will soon be removed from the tracing directory. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>