linux-toradex.git/kernel/trace/trace_functions_graph.c, branch v5.17-rc5

tracing: in_irq() cleanup

2021-10-13T22:19:41+00:00

Replace the obsolete and ambiguos macro in_irq() with new
macro in_hardirq().

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210930000342.6016-1-changbin.du@gmail.com

Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek 
Signed-off-by: Changbin Du 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

tracing: Disable "other" permission bits in the tracefs files

2021-10-08T22:08:43+00:00

When building the files in the tracefs file system, do not by default set
any permissions for OTH (other). This will make it easier for admins who
want to define a group for accessing tracefs and not having to first
disable all the permission bits for "other" in the file system.

As tracing can leak sensitive information, it should never by default
allowing all users access. An admin can still set the permission bits for
others to have access, which may be useful for creating a honeypot and
seeing who takes advantage of it and roots the machine.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210818153038.864149276@goodmis.org

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

tracing: Fix various typos in comments

2021-03-23T18:08:18+00:00

Fix ~59 single-word typos in the tracing code comments, and fix
the grammar in a handful of places.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210322224546.GA1981273@gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210323174935.GA4176821@gmail.com

Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

tracing: Merge irqflags + preempt counter.

2021-02-02T22:02:06+00:00

The state of the interrupts (irqflags) and the preemption counter are
both passed down to tracing_generic_entry_update(). Only one bit of
irqflags is actually required: The on/off state. The complete 32bit
of the preemption counter isn't needed. Just whether of the upper bits
(softirq, hardirq and NMI) are set and the preemption depth is needed.

The irqflags and the preemption counter could be evaluated early and the
information stored in an integer `trace_ctx'.
tracing_generic_entry_update() would use the upper bits as the
TRACE_FLAG_* and the lower 8bit as the disabled-preemption depth
(considering that one must be substracted from the counter in one
special cases).

The actual preemption value is not used except for the tracing record.
The `irqflags' variable is mostly used only for the tracing record. An
exception here is for instance wakeup_tracer_call() or
probe_wakeup_sched_switch() which explicilty disable interrupts and use
that `irqflags' to save (and restore) the IRQ state and to record the
state.

Struct trace_event_buffer has also the `pc' and flags' members which can
be replaced with `trace_ctx' since their actual value is not used
outside of trace recording.

This will reduce tracing_generic_entry_update() to simply assign values
to struct trace_entry. The evaluation of the TRACE_FLAG_* bits is moved
to _tracing_gen_ctx_flags() which replaces preempt_count() and
local_save_flags() invocations.

As an example, ftrace_syscall_enter() may invoke:
- trace_buffer_lock_reserve() -> … -> tracing_generic_entry_update()
- event_trigger_unlock_commit()
  -> ftrace_trace_stack() -> … -> tracing_generic_entry_update()
  -> ftrace_trace_userstack() -> … -> tracing_generic_entry_update()

In this case the TRACE_FLAG_* bits were evaluated three times. By using
the `trace_ctx' they are evaluated once and assigned three times.

A build with all tracers enabled on x86-64 with and without the patch:

    text     data      bss      dec      hex    filename
21970669 17084168  7639260 46694097  2c87ed1 vmlinux.old
21970293 17084168  7639260 46693721  2c87d59 vmlinux.new

text shrank by 379 bytes, data remained constant.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210125194511.3924915-2-bigeasy@linutronix.de

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

fgraph: Make overruns 4 bytes in graph stack structure

2020-11-11T01:39:36+00:00

Inspecting the data structures of the function graph tracer, I found that
the overrun value is unsigned long, which is 8 bytes on a 64 bit machine,
and not only that, the depth is an int (4 bytes). The overrun can be simply
an unsigned int (4 bytes) and pack the ftrace_graph_ret structure better.

The depth is moved up next to the func, as it is used more often with func,
and improves cache locality.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

tracing: make tracing_init_dentry() returns an integer instead of a d_entry pointer

2020-09-19T02:17:14+00:00

Current tracing_init_dentry() return a d_entry pointer, while is not
necessary. This function returns NULL on success or error on failure,
which means there is no valid d_entry pointer return.

Let's return 0 on success and negative value for error.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200712011036.70948-5-richard.weiyang@linux.alibaba.com

Signed-off-by: Wei Yang 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

ring-buffer: Rename ring_buffer_read() to read_buffer_iter_advance()

2020-03-19T23:11:19+00:00

When the ring buffer was first created, the iterator followed the normal
producer/consumer operations where it had both a peek() operation, that just
returned the event at the current location, and a read(), that would return
the event at the current location and also increment the iterator such that
the next peek() or read() will return the next event.

The only use of the ring_buffer_read() is currently to move the iterator to
the next location and nothing now actually reads the event it returns.
Rename this function to its actual use case to ring_buffer_iter_advance(),
which also adds the "iter" part to the name, which is more meaningful. As
the timestamp returned by ring_buffer_read() was never used, there's no
reason that this new version should bother having returning it. It will also
become a void function.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200317213416.018928618@goodmis.org

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

tracing: Make struct ring_buffer less ambiguous

2020-01-13T18:19:38+00:00

As there's two struct ring_buffers in the kernel, it causes some confusion.
The other one being the perf ring buffer. It was agreed upon that as neither
of the ring buffers are generic enough to be used globally, they should be
renamed as:

   perf's ring_buffer -> perf_buffer
   ftrace's ring_buffer -> trace_buffer

This implements the changes to the ring buffer that ftrace uses.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191213140531.116b3200@gandalf.local.home

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

tracing: Rename trace_buffer to array_buffer

2020-01-13T18:19:38+00:00

As we are working to remove the generic "ring_buffer" name that is used by
both tracing and perf, the ring_buffer name for tracing will be renamed to
trace_buffer, and perf's ring buffer will be renamed to perf_buffer.

As there already exists a trace_buffer that is used by the trace_arrays, it
needs to be first renamed to array_buffer.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191213153553.GE20583@krava

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

fgraph: Remove redundant ftrace_graph_notrace_addr() test

2019-07-31T01:50:03+00:00

We already have tested it before. The second one should be removed.
With this change, the performance should have little improvement.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190730140850.7927-1-changbin.du@gmail.com

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 9cd2992f2d6c ("fgraph: Have set_graph_notrace only affect function_graph tracer")
Signed-off-by: Changbin Du 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)