linux-toradex.git/include/linux/ftrace.h, branch v4.11-rc3

Merge tag 'trace-v4.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace

2016-12-15T21:49:34+00:00

Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
 "This release has a few updates:

   - STM can hook into the function tracer
   - Function filtering now supports more advance glob matching
   - Ftrace selftests updates and added tests
   - Softirq tag in traces now show only softirqs
   - ARM nop added to non traced locations at compile time
   - New trace_marker_raw file that allows for binary input
   - Optimizations to the ring buffer
   - Removal of kmap in trace_marker
   - Wakeup and irqsoff tracers now adhere to the set_graph_notrace file
   - Other various fixes and clean ups"

* tag 'trace-v4.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (42 commits)
  selftests: ftrace: Shift down default message verbosity
  kprobes/trace: Fix kprobe selftest for newer gcc
  tracing/kprobes: Add a helper method to return number of probe hits
  tracing/rb: Init the CPU mask on allocation
  tracing: Use SOFTIRQ_OFFSET for softirq dectection for more accurate results
  tracing/fgraph: Have wakeup and irqsoff tracers ignore graph functions too
  fgraph: Handle a case where a tracer ignores set_graph_notrace
  tracing: Replace kmap with copy_from_user() in trace_marker writing
  ftrace/x86_32: Set ftrace_stub to weak to prevent gcc from using short jumps to it
  tracing: Allow benchmark to be enabled at early_initcall()
  tracing: Have system enable return error if one of the events fail
  tracing: Do not start benchmark on boot up
  tracing: Have the reg function allow to fail
  ring-buffer: Force rb_end_commit() and rb_set_commit_to_write() inline
  ring-buffer: Froce rb_update_write_stamp() to be inlined
  ring-buffer: Force inline of hotpath helper functions
  tracing: Make __buffer_unlock_commit() always_inline
  tracing: Make tracepoint_printk a static_key
  ring-buffer: Always inline rb_event_data()
  ring-buffer: Make rb_reserve_next_event() always inlined
  ...

tracing: Make tracepoint_printk a static_key

2016-11-23T20:52:45+00:00

Currently, when tracepoint_printk is set (enabled by the "tp_printk" kernel
command line), it causes trace events to print via printk(). This is a very
dangerous operation, but is useful for debugging.

The issue is, it's seldom used, but it is always checked even if it's not
enabled by the kernel command line. Instead of having this feature called by
a branch against a variable, turn that variable into a static key, and this
will remove the test and jump.

To simplify things, the functions output_printk() and
trace_event_buffer_commit() were moved from trace_events.c to trace.c.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

ftrace: Provide API to use global filtering for ftrace ops

2016-11-16T00:34:30+00:00

Currently the global_ops filtering hash is not available to outside users
registering for function tracing. Provide an API for those users to be
able to choose global filtering.

This is in preparation for pstore's ftrace feature to be able to
use the global filters.

Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt 
Cc: Anton Vorontsov 
Cc: Colin Cross 
Cc: Kees Cook 
Cc: Tony Luck 
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes 
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt 
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook

Merge tag 'trace-v4.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace

2016-10-06T18:48:41+00:00

Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
 "This release cycle is rather small.  Just a few fixes to tracing.

  The big change is the addition of the hwlat tracer. It not only
  detects SMIs, but also other latency that's caused by the hardware. I
  have detected some latency from large boxes having bus contention"

* tag 'trace-v4.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
  tracing: Call traceoff trigger after event is recorded
  ftrace/scripts: Add helper script to bisect function tracing problem functions
  tracing: Have max_latency be defined for HWLAT_TRACER as well
  tracing: Add NMI tracing in hwlat detector
  tracing: Have hwlat trace migrate across tracing_cpumask CPUs
  tracing: Add documentation for hwlat_detector tracer
  tracing: Added hardware latency tracer
  ftrace: Access ret_stack->subtime only in the function profiler
  function_graph: Handle TRACE_BPUTS in print_graph_comment
  tracing/uprobe: Drop isdigit() check in create_trace_uprobe

ftrace: Access ret_stack->subtime only in the function profiler

2016-09-01T16:19:40+00:00

The subtime is used only for function profiler with function graph
tracer enabled.  Move the definition of subtime under
CONFIG_FUNCTION_PROFILER to reduce the memory usage.  Also move the
initialization of subtime into the graph entry callback.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160831025529.24018-1-namhyung@kernel.org

Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf 
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

ftrace: Add ftrace_graph_ret_addr() stack unwinding helpers

2016-08-24T10:15:14+00:00

When function graph tracing is enabled for a function, ftrace modifies
the stack by replacing the original return address with the address of a
hook function (return_to_handler).

Stack unwinders need a way to get the original return address.  Add an
arch-independent helper function for that named ftrace_graph_ret_addr().

This adds two variations of the function: one depends on
HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_RET_ADDR_PTR, and the other relies on an index state
variable.

The former is recommended because, in some cases, the latter can cause
problems when the unwinder skips stack frames.  It can get out of sync
with the ret_stack index and wrong addresses can be reported for the
stack trace.

Once all arches have been ported to use
HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_RET_ADDR_PTR, we can get rid of the distinction.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf 
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Brian Gerst 
Cc: Byungchul Park 
Cc: Denys Vlasenko 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Kees Cook 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Nilay Vaish 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/36bd90f762fc5e5af3929e3797a68a64906421cf.1471607358.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

ftrace: Add return address pointer to ftrace_ret_stack

2016-08-24T10:15:14+00:00

Storing this value will help prevent unwinders from getting out of sync
with the function graph tracer ret_stack.  Now instead of needing a
stateful iterator, they can compare the return address pointer to find
the right ret_stack entry.

Note that an array of 50 ftrace_ret_stack structs is allocated for every
task.  So when an arch implements this, it will add either 200 or 400
bytes of memory usage per task (depending on whether it's a 32-bit or
64-bit platform).

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf 
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Brian Gerst 
Cc: Byungchul Park 
Cc: Denys Vlasenko 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Kees Cook 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Nilay Vaish 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/a95cfcc39e8f26b89a430c56926af0bb217bc0a1.1471607358.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

ftrace: Only allocate the ret_stack 'fp' field when needed

2016-08-24T10:15:14+00:00

This saves some memory when HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_FP_TEST isn't defined.
On x86_64 with newer versions of gcc which have -mfentry, it saves 400
bytes per task.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf 
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Brian Gerst 
Cc: Byungchul Park 
Cc: Denys Vlasenko 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Kees Cook 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Nilay Vaish 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5c7747d9ea7b5cb47ef0a8ce8a6cea6bf7aa94bf.1471607358.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

ftrace: Reduce size of function graph entries

2016-07-05T21:28:30+00:00

Currently ftrace_graph_ent{,_entry} and ftrace_graph_ret{,_entry} struct
can have padding bytes at the end due to alignment in 64-bit data type.
As these data are recorded so frequently, those paddings waste
non-negligible space.  As the ring buffer maintains alignment properly
for each architecture, just to remove the extra padding using 'packed'
attribute.

  ftrace_graph_ent_entry:  24 -> 20
  ftrace_graph_ret_entry:  48 -> 44

Also I moved the 'overrun' field in struct ftrace_graph_ret to minimize
the padding in the middle.

Tested on x86_64 only.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1467197808-13578-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org

Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/livepatching

2016-05-18T00:11:27+00:00

Pull livepatching updates from Jiri Kosina:

 - remove of our own implementation of architecture-specific relocation
   code and leveraging existing code in the module loader to perform
   arch-dependent work, from Jessica Yu.

   The relevant patches have been acked by Rusty (for module.c) and
   Heiko (for s390).

 - live patching support for ppc64le, which is a joint work of Michael
   Ellerman and Torsten Duwe.  This is coming from topic branch that is
   share between livepatching.git and ppc tree.

 - addition of livepatching documentation from Petr Mladek

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/livepatching:
  livepatch: make object/func-walking helpers more robust
  livepatch: Add some basic livepatch documentation
  powerpc/livepatch: Add live patching support on ppc64le
  powerpc/livepatch: Add livepatch stack to struct thread_info
  powerpc/livepatch: Add livepatch header
  livepatch: Allow architectures to specify an alternate ftrace location
  ftrace: Make ftrace_location_range() global
  livepatch: robustify klp_register_patch() API error checking
  Documentation: livepatch: outline Elf format and requirements for patch modules
  livepatch: reuse module loader code to write relocations
  module: s390: keep mod_arch_specific for livepatch modules
  module: preserve Elf information for livepatch modules
  Elf: add livepatch-specific Elf constants