linux-toradex.git/kernel/trace/trace_functions.c, branch v4.6-rc3

tracing: Make tracer_flags use the right set_flag callback

2016-03-08T16:19:08+00:00

When I was updating the ftrace_stress test of ltp. I encountered
a strange phenomemon, excute following steps:

echo nop > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/current_tracer
echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/options/funcgraph-cpu
bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument

check dmesg:
[ 1024.903855] nop_test_refuse flag set to 0: we refuse.Now cat trace_options to see the result

The reason is that the trace option test will randomly setup trace
option under tracing/options no matter what the current_tracer is.
but the set_tracer_option is always using the set_flag callback
from the current_tracer. This patch adds a pointer to tracer_flags
and make it point to the tracer it belongs to. When the option is
setup, the set_flag of the right tracer will be used no matter
what the the current_tracer is.

And the old dummy_tracer_flags is used for all the tracers which
doesn't have a tracer_flags, having issue to use it to save the
pointer of a tracer. So remove it and use dynamic dummy tracer_flags
for tracers needing a dummy tracer_flags, as a result, there are no
tracers sharing tracer_flags, so remove the check code.

And save the current tracer to trace_option_dentry seems not good as
it may waste mem space when mount the debug/trace fs more than one time.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1457444222-8654-1-git-send-email-chuhu@redhat.com

Signed-off-by: Chunyu Hu 
[ Fixed up function tracer options to work with the change ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing/trivial: Fix typos and make an int into a bool

2014-11-20T15:05:36+00:00

Fix up a few typos in comments and convert an int into a bool in
update_traceon_count().

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/546DD445.5080108@hitachi.com

Suggested-by: Masami Hiramatsu 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing: Fix race of function probes counting

2014-11-19T04:06:35+00:00

The function probe counting for traceon and traceoff suffered a race
condition where if the probe was executing on two or more CPUs at the
same time, it could decrement the counter by more than one when
disabling (or enabling) the tracer only once.

The way the traceon and traceoff probes are suppose to work is that
they disable (or enable) tracing once per count. If a user were to
echo 'schedule:traceoff:3' into set_ftrace_filter, then when the
schedule function was called, it would disable tracing. But the count
should only be decremented once (to 2). Then if the user enabled tracing
again (via tracing_on file), the next call to schedule would disable
tracing again and the count would be decremented to 1.

But if multiple CPUS called schedule at the same time, it is possible
that the count would be decremented more than once because of the
simple "count--" used.

By reading the count into a local variable and using memory barriers
we can guarantee that the count would only be decremented once per
disable (or enable).

The stack trace probe had a similar race, but here the stack trace will
decrement for each time it is called. But this had the read-modify-
write race, where it could stack trace more than the number of times
that was specified. This case we use a cmpxchg to stack trace only the
number of times specified.

The dump probes can still use the old "update_count()" function as
they only run once, and that is controlled by the dump logic
itself.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141118134643.4b550ee4@gandalf.local.home

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing: Replace seq_printf by simpler equivalents

2014-11-14T02:32:19+00:00

Using seq_printf to print a simple string or a single character is a
lot more expensive than it needs to be, since seq_puts and seq_putc
exist.

These patches do

  seq_printf(m, s) -> seq_puts(m, s)
  seq_printf(m, "%s", s) -> seq_puts(m, s)
  seq_printf(m, "%c", c) -> seq_putc(m, c)

Subsequent patches will simplify further.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1415479332-25944-2-git-send-email-linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk

Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing: Remove mock up poll wait function

2014-04-30T12:40:05+00:00

Now that the ring buffer has a built in way to wake up readers
when there's data, using irq_work such that it is safe to do it
in any context. But it was still using the old "poor man's"
wait polling that checks every 1/10 of a second to see if it
should wake up a waiter. This makes the latency for a wake up
excruciatingly long. No need to do that anymore.

Completely remove the different wait_poll types from the tracers
and have them all use the default one now.

Reported-by: Johannes Berg 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

ftrace: Remove global function list and call function directly

2014-04-21T17:59:25+00:00

Instead of having a list of global functions that are called,
as only one global function is allow to be enabled at a time, there's
no reason to have a list.

Instead, simply have all the users of the global ops, use the global ops
directly, instead of registering their own ftrace_ops. Just switch what
function is used before enabling the function tracer.

This removes a lot of code as well as the complexity involved with it.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing: Do not try to recreated toplevel set_ftrace_* files

2014-04-16T23:21:53+00:00

With the restructing of the function tracer working with instances, the
"top level" buffer is a bit special, as the function tracing is mapped
to the same set of filters. This is done by using a "global_ops" descriptor
and having the "set_ftrace_filter" and "set_ftrace_notrace" map to it.

When an instance is created, it creates the same files but its for the
local instance and not the global_ops.

The issues is that the local instance creation shares some code with
the global instance one and we end up trying to create th top level
"set_ftrace_*" files twice, and on boot up, we get an error like this:

 Could not create debugfs 'set_ftrace_filter' entry
 Could not create debugfs 'set_ftrace_notrace' entry

The reason they failed to be created was because they were created
twice, and the second time gives this error as you can not create the
same file twice.

Reported-by: Borislav Petkov 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

ftrace: Allow for function tracing instance to filter functions

2014-02-20T17:29:07+00:00

Create a "set_ftrace_filter" and "set_ftrace_notrace" files in the instance
directories to let users filter of functions to trace for the given instance.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

ftrace: Allow instances to use function tracing

2014-02-20T17:13:18+00:00

Allow instances (sub-buffers) to enable function tracing.
Each instance will have its own function tracing capability.
For now, instances will not have function stack tracing, or will
they be able to pick and choose what functions they can trace.

Picking and choosing their own functions will come later.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing: Pass trace_array to set_flag callback

2014-02-20T17:13:07+00:00

As options (flags) may affect instances instead of being global
the set_flag() callbacks need to receive the trace_array descriptor
of the instance they will be modifying.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt