Drop the obsolete "profile" naming used by perf for trace events. Perf can now do more than simple events counting, so generalize the API naming. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
We are taking a wrong regs snapshot when a trace event triggers.
Either we use get_irq_regs(), which gives us the interrupted
registers if we are in an interrupt, or we use task_pt_regs()
which gives us the state before we entered the kernel, assuming
we are lucky enough to be no kernel thread, in which case
task_pt_regs() returns the initial set of regs when the kernel
thread was started.
What we want is different. We need a hot snapshot of the regs,
so that we can get the instruction pointer to record in the
sample, the frame pointer for the callchain, and some other
things.
Let's use the new perf_fetch_caller_regs() for that.
Comparison with perf record -e lock: -R -a -f -g
Before:
perf [kernel] [k] __do_softirq
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--- __do_softirq
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|--55.16%-- __open
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--44.84%-- __write_nocancel
After:
perf [kernel] [k] perf_tp_event
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--- perf_tp_event
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|--41.07%-- lock_acquire
| |
| |--39.36%-- _raw_spin_lock
| | |
| | |--7.81%-- hrtimer_interrupt
| | | smp_apic_timer_interrupt
| | | apic_timer_interrupt
The old case was producing unreliable callchains. Now having
right frame and instruction pointers, we have the trace we
want.
Also syscalls and kprobe events already have the right regs,
let's use them instead of wasting a retrieval.
v2: Follow the rename perf_save_regs() -> perf_fetch_caller_regs()
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Archs <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (172 commits) perf_event, amd: Fix spinlock initialization perf_event: Fix preempt warning in perf_clock() perf tools: Flush maps on COMM events perf_events, x86: Split PMU definitions into separate files perf annotate: Handle samples not at objdump output addr boundaries perf_events, x86: Remove superflous MSR writes perf_events: Simplify code by removing cpu argument to hw_perf_group_sched_in() perf_events, x86: AMD event scheduling perf_events: Add new start/stop PMU callbacks perf_events: Report the MMAP pgoff value in bytes perf annotate: Defer allocating sym_priv->hist array perf symbols: Improve debugging information about symtab origins perf top: Use a macro instead of a constant variable perf symbols: Check the right return variable perf/scripts: Tag syscall_name helper as not yet available perf/scripts: Add perf-trace-python Documentation perf/scripts: Remove unnecessary PyTuple resizes perf/scripts: Add syscall tracing scripts perf/scripts: Add Python scripting engine perf/scripts: Remove check-perf-trace from listed scripts ... Fix trivial conflict in tools/perf/util/probe-event.c
Conflicts: scripts/recordmcount.pl Merge reason: Merge up to v2.6.33. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Wenji Huang <wenji.huang@oracle.com> LKML-Reference: <1266997226-6833-2-git-send-email-wenji.huang@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Trying to add a probe like: echo p:myprobe 0x10000 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/kprobe_events will fail since the wrong pointer is passed to strict_strtoul when trying to convert the address to an unsigned long. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> LKML-Reference: <20100210162346.GA6933@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The return values of the kprobe's tracing functions are meaningless, lets remove these. Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> LKML-Reference: <4B60E9A3.2040505@cn.fujitsu.com> [fweisbec@gmail: whitespace fixes, drop useless void returns in end of functions] Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Introduce ftrace_perf_buf_prepare() and ftrace_perf_buf_submit() to gather the common code that operates on raw events sampling buffer. This cleans up redundant code between regular trace events, syscall events and kprobe events. Changelog v1->v2: - Rename function name as per Masami and Frederic's suggestion - Add __kprobes for ftrace_perf_buf_prepare() and make ftrace_perf_buf_submit() inline as per Masami's suggestion - Export ftrace_perf_buf_prepare since modules will use it Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> LKML-Reference: <4B60E92D.9000808@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Update kprobe tracing self test for new syntax (it supports deleting individual probes, and drops $argN support) and behavior change (new probes are disabled in default). This selftest includes the following checks: - Adding function-entry probe and return probe with arguments. - Enabling these probes. - Deleting it individually. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com> Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <20100114051211.7814.29436.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>