linux-toradex.git/kernel/trace/trace_output.c, branch v4.12-rc1

trace: make trace_hwlat timestamp y2038 safe

2017-05-09T00:15:15+00:00

struct timespec is not y2038 safe on 32 bit machines and needs to be
replaced by struct timespec64 in order to represent times beyond year
2038 on such machines.

Fix all the timestamp representation in struct trace_hwlat and all the
corresponding implementations.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1491613030-11599-3-git-send-email-deepa.kernel@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani 
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to

2017-03-02T07:42:28+00:00

We are going to split  out of , which
will have to be picked up from other headers and a couple of .c files.

Create a trivial placeholder  file that just
maps to  to make this patch obviously correct and
bisectable.

The APIs that are going to be moved first are:

   mm_alloc()
   __mmdrop()
   mmdrop()
   mmdrop_async_fn()
   mmdrop_async()
   mmget_not_zero()
   mmput()
   mmput_async()
   get_task_mm()
   mm_access()
   mm_release()

Include the new header in the files that are going to need it.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to

2017-03-02T07:42:27+00:00

We are going to split  out of , which
will have to be picked up from other headers and .c files.

Create a trivial placeholder  file that just
maps to  to make this patch obviously correct and
bisectable.

Include the new header in the files that are going to need it.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

tracing: add __print_flags_u64()

2017-02-23T00:41:26+00:00

Patch series "DAX tracepoints, mm argument simplification", v4.

This contains both my DAX tracepoint code and Dave Jiang's MM argument
simplifications.  Dave's code was written with my tracepoint code as a
baseline, so it seemed simplest to keep them together in a single series.

This patch (of 7):

Add __print_flags_u64() and the helper trace_print_flags_seq_u64() in the
same spirit as __print_symbolic_u64() and trace_print_symbols_seq_u64().
These functions allow us to print symbols associated with flags that are
64 bits wide even on 32 bit machines.

These will be used by the DAX code so that we can print the flags set in a
pfn_t such as PFN_SG_CHAIN, PFN_SG_LAST, PFN_DEV and PFN_MAP.

Without this new function I was getting errors like the following when
compiling for i386:

  include/linux/pfn_t.h:13:22: warning: large integer implicitly truncated to unsigned type [-Woverflow]
   #define PFN_SG_CHAIN (1ULL << (BITS_PER_LONG_LONG - 1))
    ^

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1484085142-2297-2-git-send-email-ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler 
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt 
Cc: Dave Chinner 
Cc: Dave Jiang 
Cc: Jan Kara 
Cc: Matthew Wilcox 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

trace: rename trace_print_hex_seq arg and add kdoc

2017-02-03T20:50:18+00:00

Steven suggested to improve trace_print_hex_seq() a bit after commit
2acae0d5b0f7 ("trace: add variant without spacing in trace_print_hex_seq")
in two ways: i) by adding a kdoc comment for the helper function
itself and ii) by renaming 'spacing' argument into 'concatenate'
to better denote that we don't add spaces between each hex bytes.

Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt 
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

trace: add variant without spacing in trace_print_hex_seq

2017-01-25T18:17:47+00:00

For upcoming tracepoint support for BPF, we want to dump the program's
tag. Format should be similar to __print_hex(), but without spacing.
Add a __print_hex_str() variant for exactly that purpose that reuses
trace_print_hex_seq().

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann 
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tracing: Add new trace_marker_raw

2016-11-15T20:13:59+00:00

A new file is created:

 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_marker_raw

This allows for appications to create data structures and write the binary
data directly into it, and then read the trace data out from trace_pipe_raw
into the same type of data structure. This saves on converting numbers into
ASCII that would be required by trace_marker.

Suggested-by: Olof Johansson 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing: Add NMI tracing in hwlat detector

2016-09-02T16:47:55+00:00

As NMIs can also cause latency when interrupts are disabled, the hwlat
detectory has no way to know if the latency it detects is from an NMI or an
SMI or some other hardware glitch.

As ftrace_nmi_enter/exit() funtions are no longer used (except for sh, which
isn't supported anymore), I converted those to "arch_ftrace_nmi_enter/exit"
and use ftrace_nmi_enter/exit() to check if hwlat detector is tracing or
not, and if so, it calls into the hwlat utility.

Since the hwlat detector only has a single kthread that is spinning with
interrupts disabled, it marks what CPU it is on, and if the NMI callback
happens on that CPU, it records the time spent in that NMI. This is added to
the output that is generated by the hwlat detector as:

 #3     inner/outer(us):    9/9     ts:1470836488.206734548
 #4     inner/outer(us):    0/8     ts:1470836497.140808588
 #5     inner/outer(us):    0/6     ts:1470836499.140825168 nmi-total:5 nmi-count:1
 #6     inner/outer(us):    9/9     ts:1470836501.140841748

All time is still tracked in microseconds.

The NMI information is only shown when an NMI occurred during the sample.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing: Added hardware latency tracer

2016-09-02T16:47:51+00:00

The hardware latency tracer has been in the PREEMPT_RT patch for some time.
It is used to detect possible SMIs or any other hardware interruptions that
the kernel is unaware of. Note, NMIs may also be detected, but that may be
good to note as well.

The logic is pretty simple. It simply creates a thread that spins on a
single CPU for a specified amount of time (width) within a periodic window
(window). These numbers may be adjusted by their cooresponding names in

   /sys/kernel/tracing/hwlat_detector/

The defaults are window = 1000000 us (1 second)
                 width  =  500000 us (1/2 second)

The loop consists of:

	t1 = trace_clock_local();
	t2 = trace_clock_local();

Where trace_clock_local() is a variant of sched_clock().

The difference of t2 - t1 is recorded as the "inner" timestamp and also the
timestamp  t1 - prev_t2 is recorded as the "outer" timestamp. If either of
these differences are greater than the time denoted in
/sys/kernel/tracing/tracing_thresh then it records the event.

When this tracer is started, and tracing_thresh is zero, it changes to the
default threshold of 10 us.

The hwlat tracer in the PREEMPT_RT patch was originally written by
Jon Masters. I have modified it quite a bit and turned it into a
tracer.

Based-on-code-by: Jon Masters 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing: Record and show NMI state

2016-03-22T22:04:10+00:00

The latency tracer format has a nice column to indicate IRQ state, but
this is not able to tell us about NMI state.

When tracing perf interrupt handlers (which often run in NMI context)
it is very useful to see how the events nest.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160318153022.105068893@infradead.org

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt