linux-toradex.git/kernel/trace/trace_output.c, branch v5.12-rc5

tracing: Show real address for trace event arguments

2021-02-11T21:31:57+00:00

To help debugging kernel, show real address for trace event arguments
in tracefs/trace{,pipe} instead of hashed pointer value.

Since ftrace human-readable format uses vsprintf(), all %p are
translated to hash values instead of pointer address.

However, when debugging the kernel, raw address value gives a
hint when comparing with the memory mapping in the kernel.
(Those are sometimes used with crash log, which is not hashed too)
So converting %p with %px when calling trace_seq_printf().

Moreover, this is not improving the security because the tracefs
can be used only by root user and the raw address values are readable
from tracefs/percpu/cpu*/trace_pipe_raw file.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/160277370703.29307.5134475491761971203.stgit@devnote2

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

ftrace: Add recording of functions that caused recursion

2020-11-06T13:42:26+00:00

This adds CONFIG_FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION that will record to a file
"recursed_functions" all the functions that caused recursion while a
callback to the function tracer was running.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201106023548.102375687@goodmis.org

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Jonathan Corbet 
Cc: Guo Ren 
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" 
Cc: Helge Deller 
Cc: Michael Ellerman 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: Vasily Gorbik 
Cc: Christian Borntraeger 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" 
Cc: Kees Cook 
Cc: Anton Vorontsov 
Cc: Colin Cross 
Cc: Tony Luck 
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf 
Cc: Jiri Kosina 
Cc: Miroslav Benes 
Cc: Petr Mladek 
Cc: Joe Lawrence 
Cc: Kamalesh Babulal 
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab 
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior 
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-csky@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: live-patching@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

tracing: Make the space reserved for the pid wider

2020-09-18T16:42:11+00:00

For 64bit CONFIG_BASE_SMALL=0 systems PID_MAX_LIMIT is set by default to
4194304. During boot the kernel sets a new value based on number of CPUs
but no lower than 32768. It is 1024 per CPU so with 128 CPUs the default
becomes 131072 which needs six digits.
This value can be increased during run time but must not exceed the
initial upper limit.

Systemd sometime after v241 sets it to the upper limit during boot. The
result is that when the pid exceeds five digits, the trace output is a
little hard to read because it is no longer properly padded (same like
on big iron with 98+ CPUs).

Increase the pid padding to seven digits.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200904082331.dcdkrr3bkn3e4qlg@linutronix.de

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

tracing: Save one trace_event->type by using __TRACE_LAST_TYPE

2020-07-09T22:14:58+00:00

Static defined trace_event->type stops at (__TRACE_LAST_TYPE - 1) and
dynamic trace_event->type starts from (__TRACE_LAST_TYPE + 1).

To save one trace_event->type index, let's use __TRACE_LAST_TYPE.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200703020612.12930-3-richard.weiyang@linux.alibaba.com

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

tracing: Simplify defining of the next event id

2020-07-09T22:00:47+00:00

The value to be used and compared in trace_search_list() is "last + 1".
Let's just define next to be "last + 1" instead of doing the addition
each time.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200703020612.12930-2-richard.weiyang@linux.alibaba.com

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

mmap locking API: use coccinelle to convert mmap_sem rwsem call sites

2020-06-09T16:39:14+00:00

This change converts the existing mmap_sem rwsem calls to use the new mmap
locking API instead.

The change is generated using coccinelle with the following rule:

// spatch --sp-file mmap_lock_api.cocci --in-place --include-headers --dir .

@@
expression mm;
@@
(
-init_rwsem
+mmap_init_lock
|
-down_write
+mmap_write_lock
|
-down_write_killable
+mmap_write_lock_killable
|
-down_write_trylock
+mmap_write_trylock
|
-up_write
+mmap_write_unlock
|
-downgrade_write
+mmap_write_downgrade
|
-down_read
+mmap_read_lock
|
-down_read_killable
+mmap_read_lock_killable
|
-down_read_trylock
+mmap_read_trylock
|
-up_read
+mmap_read_unlock
)
-(&mm->mmap_sem)
+(mm)

Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Reviewed-by: Daniel Jordan 
Reviewed-by: Laurent Dufour 
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe 
Cc: Jerome Glisse 
Cc: John Hubbard 
Cc: Liam Howlett 
Cc: Matthew Wilcox 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Ying Han 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200520052908.204642-5-walken@google.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

tracing: Save off entry when peeking at next entry

2020-03-19T21:48:36+00:00

In order to have the iterator read the buffer even when it's still updating,
it requires that the ring buffer iterator saves each event in a separate
location outside the ring buffer such that its use is immutable.

There's one use case that saves off the event returned from the ring buffer
interator and calls it again to look at the next event, before going back to
use the first event. As the ring buffer iterator will only have a single
copy, this use case will no longer be supported.

Instead, have the one use case create its own buffer to store the first
event when looking at the next event. This way, when looking at the first
event again, it wont be corrupted by the second read.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200317213415.722539921@goodmis.org

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

tracing: Have hwlat ts be first instance and record count of instances

2020-03-03T22:33:43+00:00

The hwlat tracer runs a loop of width time during a given window. It then
reports the max latency over a given threshold and records a timestamp. But
this timestamp is the time after the width has finished, and not the time it
actually triggered.

Record the actual time when the latency was greater than the threshold as
well as the number of times it was greater in a given width per window.

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)

tracing: Use seq_buf_hex_dump() to dump buffers

2019-11-14T18:15:12+00:00

Without this, buffers can be printed with __print_array macro that has
no formatting options and can be hard to read. The other way is to
mimic formatting capability with multiple calls of trace event with one
call per row which gives performance impact and different timestamp in
each row.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1573130738-29390-2-git-send-email-piotrx.maziarz@linux.intel.com

Signed-off-by: Piotr Maziarz 
Signed-off-by: Cezary Rojewski 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)