linux-toradex.git/kernel/trace/trace_selftest.c, branch v3.10.2

tracing: Fix bad parameter passed in branch selftest

2013-05-29T20:00:03+00:00

The branch selftest calls trace_test_buffer(), but with the new code
it expects the first parameter to be a pointer to a struct trace_buffer.
All self tests were changed but the branch selftest was missed.

This caused either a crash or failed test when the branch selftest was
enabled.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130529141333.GA24064@localhost

Reported-by: Fengguang Wu 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing: Fix ftrace_dump()

2013-03-15T23:24:56+00:00

ftrace_dump() had a lot of issues. What ftrace_dump() does, is when
ftrace_dump_on_oops is set (via a kernel parameter or sysctl), it
will dump out the ftrace buffers to the console when either a oops,
panic, or a sysrq-z occurs.

This was written a long time ago when ftrace was fragile to recursion.
But it wasn't written well even for that.

There's a possible deadlock that can occur if a ftrace_dump() is happening
and an NMI triggers another dump. This is because it grabs a lock
before checking if the dump ran.

It also totally disables ftrace, and tracing for no good reasons.

As the ring_buffer now checks if it is read via a oops or NMI, where
there's a chance that the buffer gets corrupted, it will disable
itself. No need to have ftrace_dump() do the same.

ftrace_dump() is now cleaned up where it uses an atomic counter to
make sure only one dump happens at a time. A simple atomic_inc_return()
is enough that is needed for both other CPUs and NMIs. No need for
a spinlock, as if one CPU is running the dump, no other CPU needs
to do it too.

The tracing_on variable is turned off and not turned on. The original
code did this, but it wasn't pretty. By just disabling this variable
we get the result of not seeing traces that happen between crashes.

For sysrq-z, it doesn't get turned on, but the user can always write
a '1' to the tracing_on file. If they are using sysrq-z, then they should
know about tracing_on.

The new code is much easier to read and less error prone. No more
deadlock possibility when an NMI triggers here.

Reported-by: zhangwei(Jovi) 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing: Consolidate max_tr into main trace_array structure

2013-03-15T04:35:40+00:00

Currently, the way the latency tracers and snapshot feature works
is to have a separate trace_array called "max_tr" that holds the
snapshot buffer. For latency tracers, this snapshot buffer is used
to swap the running buffer with this buffer to save the current max
latency.

The only items needed for the max_tr is really just a copy of the buffer
itself, the per_cpu data pointers, the time_start timestamp that states
when the max latency was triggered, and the cpu that the max latency
was triggered on. All other fields in trace_array are unused by the
max_tr, making the max_tr mostly bloat.

This change removes the max_tr completely, and adds a new structure
called trace_buffer, that holds the buffer pointer, the per_cpu data
pointers, the time_start timestamp, and the cpu where the latency occurred.

The trace_array, now has two trace_buffers, one for the normal trace and
one for the max trace or snapshot. By doing this, not only do we remove
the bloat from the max_trace but the instances of traces can now use
their own snapshot feature and not have just the top level global_trace have
the snapshot feature and latency tracers for itself.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

ftrace: Fix function tracing recursion self test

2013-01-23T04:37:58+00:00

The function tracing recursion self test should not crash
the machine if the resursion test fails. If it detects that
the function tracing is recursing when it should not be, then
bail, don't go into an infinite recursive loop.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing: Fix selftest function recursion accounting

2013-01-23T04:35:11+00:00

The test that checks function recursion does things differently
if the arch does not support all ftrace features. But that really
doesn't make a difference with how the test runs, and either way
the count variable should be 2 at the end.

Currently the test wrongly fails for archs that don't support all
the ftrace features.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

ftrace: Move ARCH_SUPPORTS_FTRACE_SAVE_REGS in Kconfig

2013-01-21T18:22:35+00:00

Move SAVE_REGS support flag into Kconfig and rename
it to CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS. This also introduces
CONFIG_HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS which indicates
the architecture depending part of ftrace has a code
that saves full registers.
On the other hand, CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS indicates
the code is enabled.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120928081516.3560.72534.stgit@ltc138.sdl.hitachi.co.jp

Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing: Use irq_work for wake ups and remove _nowake_() functions

2012-11-02T14:21:52+00:00

Have the ring buffer commit function use the irq_work infrastructure to
wake up any waiters waiting on the ring buffer for new data. The irq_work
was created for such a purpose, where doing the actual wake up at the
time of adding data is too dangerous, as an event or function trace may
be in the midst of the work queue locks and cause deadlocks. The irq_work
will either delay the action to the next timer interrupt, or trigger an IPI
to itself forcing an interrupt to do the work (in a safe location).

With irq_work, all ring buffer commits can safely do wakeups, removing
the need for the ring buffer commit "nowake" variants, which were used
by events and function tracing. All commits can now safely use the
normal commit, and the "nowake" variants can be removed.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing: Make tracing_enabled be equal to tracing_on

2012-11-02T14:21:50+00:00

The tracing_enabled file has been deprecated as it never was able
to serve its purpose well. The tracing_on file has taken over.
Instead of having code to keep tracing_enabled, have the tracing_enabled
file just set tracing_on, and remove the tracing_enabled variable.

This allows us to remove the tracing_enabled file. The reason that
the remove is in a different change set and not removed here is
in case we find some lonely userspace tool that requires the file
to exist. Then the removal patch will get reverted, but this one
will not.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing: Fix wakeup_rt self test on virtual machines

2012-08-07T13:40:51+00:00

The warkeup_rt self test used msleep() calls to wait for real time
tasks to wake up and run. On bare-metal hardware, this was enough as
the scheduler should let the RT task run way before the non-RT task
wakes up from the msleep(). If it did not, then that would mean the
scheduler was broken.

But when dealing with virtual machines, this is a different story.
If the RT task wakes up on a VCPU, it's up to the host to decide when
that task gets to schedule, which can be far behind the time that the
non-RT task wakes up. In this case, the test would fail incorrectly.

As we are not testing the scheduler, but instead the wake up tracing,
we can use completions to wait and not depend on scheduler timings
to see if events happen on time.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1343663105.3847.7.camel@fedora

Reported-by: Fengguang Wu 
Tested-by: Fengguang Wu 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

ftrace: Add selftest to test function save-regs support

2012-07-31T14:29:54+00:00

Add selftests to test the save-regs functionality of ftrace.

If the arch supports saving regs, then it will make sure that regs is
at least not NULL in the callback.

If the arch does not support saving regs, it makes sure that the
registering of the ftrace_ops that requests saving regs fails.
It then tests the registering of the ftrace_ops succeeds if the
'IF_SUPPORTED' flag is set. Then it makes sure that the regs passed to
the function is NULL.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt