Add a function probe that will cause a stack trace to be traced in
the ring buffer when the given function(s) are called.
format is:
<function>:stacktrace[:<count>]
echo 'schedule:stacktrace' > /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter
cat /debug/tracing/trace_pipe
kworker/2:0-4329 [002] ...2 2933.558007: <stack trace>
=> kthread
=> ret_from_fork
<idle>-0 [000] .N.2 2933.558019: <stack trace>
=> rest_init
=> start_kernel
=> x86_64_start_reservations
=> x86_64_start_kernel
kworker/2:0-4329 [002] ...2 2933.558109: <stack trace>
=> kthread
=> ret_from_fork
[...]
This can be set to only trace a specific amount of times:
echo 'schedule:stacktrace:3' > /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter
cat /debug/tracing/trace_pipe
<...>-58 [003] ...2 841.801694: <stack trace>
=> kthread
=> ret_from_fork
<idle>-0 [001] .N.2 841.801697: <stack trace>
=> start_secondary
<...>-2059 [001] ...2 841.801736: <stack trace>
=> wait_for_common
=> wait_for_completion
=> flush_work
=> tty_flush_to_ldisc
=> input_available_p
=> n_tty_poll
=> tty_poll
=> do_select
=> core_sys_select
=> sys_select
=> system_call_fastpath
To remove these:
echo '!schedule:stacktrace' > /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter
echo '!schedule:stacktrace:0' > /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The function tracing probes that trigger traceon or traceoff can be set to unlimited, or given a count of # of times to execute. By separating these two types of probes, we can then use the dynamic ftrace function filtering directly, and remove the brute force "check if this function called is my probe" routines in ftrace. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The only thing ftrace_trace_onoff_unreg() does is to do a strcmp() against the cmd parameter to determine what op to unregister. But this compare is also done after the location that this function is called (and returns). By moving the check for '!' to unregister after the strcmp(), the callback function itself can just do the unregister and we can get rid of the helper function. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Remove some duplicate code and replace it with a helper function. This makes the code a it cleaner. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Currently, the way the latency tracers and snapshot feature works is to have a separate trace_array called "max_tr" that holds the snapshot buffer. For latency tracers, this snapshot buffer is used to swap the running buffer with this buffer to save the current max latency. The only items needed for the max_tr is really just a copy of the buffer itself, the per_cpu data pointers, the time_start timestamp that states when the max latency was triggered, and the cpu that the max latency was triggered on. All other fields in trace_array are unused by the max_tr, making the max_tr mostly bloat. This change removes the max_tr completely, and adds a new structure called trace_buffer, that holds the buffer pointer, the per_cpu data pointers, the time_start timestamp, and the cpu where the latency occurred. The trace_array, now has two trace_buffers, one for the normal trace and one for the max trace or snapshot. By doing this, not only do we remove the bloat from the max_trace but the instances of traces can now use their own snapshot feature and not have just the top level global_trace have the snapshot feature and latency tracers for itself. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The global and max-tr currently use static per_cpu arrays for the CPU data descriptors. But in order to get new allocated trace_arrays, they need to be allocated per_cpu arrays. Instead of using the static arrays, switch the global and max-tr to use allocated data. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Dan's smatch found a compare bug with the result of the trace_test_and_set_recursion() and comparing to less than zero. If the function fails, it returns -1, but was saved in an unsigned int, which will never be less than zero and will ignore the result of the test if a recursion did happen. Luckily this is the last of the recursion tests, as the infrastructure of ftrace would catch recursions before it got here, except for some few exceptions. Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The function tracer had two different versions of function tracing. The disabling of irqs version and the preempt disable version. As function tracing in very intrusive and can cause nasty recursion issues, it has its own recursion protection. But the old method to do this was a flat layer. If it detected that a recursion was happening then it would just return without recording. This made the preempt version (much faster than the irq disabling one) not very useful, because if an interrupt were to occur after the recursion flag was set, the interrupt would not be traced at all, because every function that was traced would think it recursed on itself (due to the context it preempted setting the recursive flag). Now that we have a recursion flag for every context level, we no longer need to worry about that. We can disable preemption, set the current context recursion check bit, and go on. If an interrupt were to come along, it would check its own context bit and happily continue to trace. As the preempt version is faster than the irq disable version, there's no more reason to keep the preempt version around. And the irq disable version still had an issue with missing out on tracing NMI code. Remove the irq disable function tracer version and have the preempt disable version be the default (and only version). Before this patch we had from running: # echo function > /debug/tracing/current_tracer # for i in `seq 10`; do ./hackbench 50; done Time: 12.028 Time: 11.945 Time: 11.925 Time: 11.964 Time: 12.002 Time: 11.910 Time: 11.944 Time: 11.929 Time: 11.941 Time: 11.924 (average: 11.9512) Now we have: # echo function > /debug/tracing/current_tracer # for i in `seq 10`; do ./hackbench 50; done Time: 10.285 Time: 10.407 Time: 10.243 Time: 10.372 Time: 10.380 Time: 10.198 Time: 10.272 Time: 10.354 Time: 10.248 Time: 10.253 (average: 10.3012) a 13.8% savings! Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Pull trivial branch from Jiri Kosina: "Usual stuff -- comment/printk typo fixes, documentation updates, dead code elimination." * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (39 commits) HOWTO: fix double words typo x86 mtrr: fix comment typo in mtrr_bp_init propagate name change to comments in kernel source doc: Update the name of profiling based on sysfs treewide: Fix typos in various drivers treewide: Fix typos in various Kconfig wireless: mwifiex: Fix typo in wireless/mwifiex driver messages: i2o: Fix typo in messages/i2o scripts/kernel-doc: check that non-void fcts describe their return value Kernel-doc: Convention: Use a "Return" section to describe return values radeon: Fix typo and copy/paste error in comments doc: Remove unnecessary declarations from Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c various: Fix spelling of "asynchronous" in comments. Fix misspellings of "whether" in comments. eisa: Fix spelling of "asynchronous". various: Fix spelling of "registered" in comments. doc: fix quite a few typos within Documentation target: iscsi: fix comment typos in target/iscsi drivers treewide: fix typo of "suport" in various comments and Kconfig treewide: fix typo of "suppport" in various comments ...
I've legally changed my name with New York State, the US Social Security Administration, et al. This patch propagates the name change and change in initials and login to comments in the kernel source as well. Signed-off-by: Nadia Yvette Chambers <nyc@holomorphy.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>