linux-toradex.git/kernel/trace/trace_export.c, branch v3.15-rc8

tracing: Fix anonymous unions in struct ftrace_event_call

2014-04-10T00:02:55+00:00

gcc <= 4.5.x has significant limitations with respect to initialization
of anonymous unions within structures. They need to be surrounded by
brackets, _and_ they need to be initialized in the same order in which
they appear in the structure declaration.

Link: http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10676
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1397077568-3156-1-git-send-email-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing: Fix array size mismatch in format string

2014-03-20T17:21:05+00:00

In event format strings, the array size is reported in two locations.
One in array subscript and then via the "size:" attribute. The values
reported there have a mismatch.

For e.g., in sched:sched_switch the prev_comm and next_comm character
arrays have subscript values as [32] where as the actual field size is
16.

name: sched_switch
ID: 301
format:
        field:unsigned short common_type;       offset:0;       size:2; signed:0;
        field:unsigned char common_flags;       offset:2;       size:1; signed:0;
        field:unsigned char common_preempt_count;       offset:3;       size:1;signed:0;
        field:int common_pid;   offset:4;       size:4; signed:1;

        field:char prev_comm[32];       offset:8;       size:16;        signed:1;
        field:pid_t prev_pid;   offset:24;      size:4; signed:1;
        field:int prev_prio;    offset:28;      size:4; signed:1;
        field:long prev_state;  offset:32;      size:8; signed:1;
        field:char next_comm[32];       offset:40;      size:16;        signed:1;
        field:pid_t next_pid;   offset:56;      size:4; signed:1;
        field:int next_prio;    offset:60;      size:4; signed:1;

After bisection, the following commit was blamed:
92edca0 tracing: Use direct field, type and system names

This commit removes the duplication of strings for field->name and
field->type assuming that all the strings passed in
__trace_define_field() are immutable. This is not true for arrays, where
the type string is created in event_storage variable and field->type for
all array fields points to event_storage.

Use __stringify() to create a string constant for the type string.

Also, get rid of event_storage and event_storage_mutex that are not
needed anymore.

also, an added benefit is that this reduces the overhead of events a bit more:

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
8424787 2036472 1302528 11763787         b3804b vmlinux
8420814 2036408 1302528 11759750         b37086 vmlinux.patched

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1392349908-29685-1-git-send-email-vnagarnaik@google.com

Cc: Laurent Chavey 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.10+
Signed-off-by: Vaibhav Nagarnaik 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing: Update event filters for multibuffer

2013-11-05T21:50:20+00:00

The trace event filters are still tied to event calls rather than
event files, which means you don't get what you'd expect when using
filters in the multibuffer case:

Before:

  # echo 'bytes_alloc > 8192' > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kmem/kmalloc/filter
  # cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kmem/kmalloc/filter
  bytes_alloc > 8192
  # mkdir /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/instances/test1
  # echo 'bytes_alloc > 2048' > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/instances/test1/events/kmem/kmalloc/filter
  # cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kmem/kmalloc/filter
  bytes_alloc > 2048
  # cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/instances/test1/events/kmem/kmalloc/filter
  bytes_alloc > 2048

Setting the filter in tracing/instances/test1/events shouldn't affect
the same event in tracing/events as it does above.

After:

  # echo 'bytes_alloc > 8192' > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kmem/kmalloc/filter
  # cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kmem/kmalloc/filter
  bytes_alloc > 8192
  # mkdir /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/instances/test1
  # echo 'bytes_alloc > 2048' > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/instances/test1/events/kmem/kmalloc/filter
  # cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kmem/kmalloc/filter
  bytes_alloc > 8192
  # cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/instances/test1/events/kmem/kmalloc/filter
  bytes_alloc > 2048

We'd like to just move the filter directly from ftrace_event_call to
ftrace_event_file, but there are a couple cases that don't yet have
multibuffer support and therefore have to continue using the current
event_call-based filters.  For those cases, a new USE_CALL_FILTER bit
is added to the event_call flags, whose main purpose is to keep the
old behavior for those cases until they can be updated with
multibuffer support; at that point, the USE_CALL_FILTER flag (and the
new associated call_filter_check_discard() function) can go away.

The multibuffer support also made filter_current_check_discard()
redundant, so this change removes that function as well and replaces
it with filter_check_discard() (or call_filter_check_discard() as
appropriate).

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/f16e9ce4270c62f46b2e966119225e1c3cca7e60.1382620672.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing: Fix some section mismatch warnings

2013-03-15T04:34:54+00:00

As we've added __init annotation to field-defining functions, we should
add __refdata annotation to event_call variables, which reference those
functions.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/51343C1F.2050502@huawei.com

Reported-by: Fengguang Wu 
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing: Annotate event field-defining functions with __init

2013-03-15T04:34:51+00:00

Those functions are called either during kernel boot or module init.

Before:

$ dmesg | grep 'Freeing unused kernel memory'
Freeing unused kernel memory: 1208k freed
Freeing unused kernel memory: 1360k freed
Freeing unused kernel memory: 1960k freed

After:

$ dmesg | grep 'Freeing unused kernel memory'
Freeing unused kernel memory: 1236k freed
Freeing unused kernel memory: 1388k freed
Freeing unused kernel memory: 1960k freed

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5125877D.5000201@huawei.com

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing: Do not enable function event with enable

2012-05-10T19:55:43+00:00

With the adding of function tracing event to perf, it caused a
side effect that produces the following warning when enabling all
events in ftrace:

 # echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/enable

[console]
event trace: Could not enable event function

This is because when enabling all events via the debugfs system
it ignores events that do not have a ->reg() function assigned.
This was to skip over the ftrace internal events (as they are
not TRACE_EVENTs). But as the ftrace function event now has
a ->reg() function attached to it for use with perf, it is no
longer ignored.

Worse yet, this ->reg() function is being called when it should
not be. It returns an error and causes the above warning to
be printed.

By adding a new event_call flag (TRACE_EVENT_FL_IGNORE_ENABLE)
and have all ftrace internel event structures have it set,
setting the events/enable will no longe try to incorrectly enable
the function event and does not warn.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

Merge branch 'tip/perf/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace into perf/urgent

2012-03-24T07:19:09+00:00

tracing: Fix ftrace stack trace entries

2012-03-22T16:19:23+00:00

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

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Mauerer 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

ftrace: Allow to specify filter field type for ftrace events

2012-02-21T16:08:29+00:00

Adding FILTER_TRACE_FN event field type for function tracepoint
event, so it can be properly recognized within filtering code.

Currently all fields of ftrace subsystem events share the common
field type FILTER_OTHER. Since the function trace fields need
special care within the filtering code we need to recognize it
properly, hence adding the FILTER_TRACE_FN event type.

Adding filter parameter to the FTRACE_ENTRY macro, to specify the
filter field type for the event.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1329317514-8131-7-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

ftrace, perf: Add support to use function tracepoint in perf

2012-02-21T16:08:27+00:00

Adding perf registration support for the ftrace function event,
so it is now possible to register it via perf interface.

The perf_event struct statically contains ftrace_ops as a handle
for function tracer. The function tracer is registered/unregistered
in open/close actions.

To be efficient, we enable/disable ftrace_ops each time the traced
process is scheduled in/out (via TRACE_REG_PERF_(ADD|DELL) handlers).
This way tracing is enabled only when the process is running.
Intentionally using this way instead of the event's hw state
PERF_HES_STOPPED, which would not disable the ftrace_ops.

It is now possible to use function trace within perf commands
like:

  perf record -e ftrace:function ls
  perf stat -e ftrace:function ls

Allowed only for root.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1329317514-8131-6-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com

Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt