linux-toradex.git/kernel/trace/trace_stack.c, branch v3.15-rc8

tracing: Add BUG_ON when stack end location is over written

2014-03-24T14:39:11+00:00

It is difficult to detect a stack overrun when it
actually occurs.

We have observed that this type of corruption is often
silent and can go unnoticed. Once the corrupted region
is examined, the outcome is undefined and often
results in sporadic system crashes.

When the stack tracing feature is enabled, let's check
for this condition and take appropriate action.

Note: init_task doesn't get its stack end location
set to STACK_END_MAGIC.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1395669837-30209-1-git-send-email-atomlin@redhat.com

Signed-off-by: Aaron Tomlin 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing: Add generic tracing_lseek() function

2014-01-02T21:17:12+00:00

Trace event triggers added a lseek that uses the ftrace_filter_lseek()
function. Unfortunately, when function tracing is not configured in
that function is not defined and the kernel fails to build.

This is the second time that function was added to a file ops and
it broke the build due to requiring special config dependencies.

Make a generic tracing_lseek() that all the tracing utilities may
use.

Also, modify the old ftrace_filter_lseek() to return 0 instead of
1 on WRONLY. Not sure why it was a 1 as that does not make sense.

This also changes the old tracing_seek() to modify the file pos
pointer on WRONLY as well.

Reported-by: kbuild test robot 
Tested-by: Tom Zanussi 
Acked-by: Tom Zanussi 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

Merge tag 'trace-3.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace

2013-04-29T20:55:38+00:00

Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
 "Along with the usual minor fixes and clean ups there are a few major
  changes with this pull request.

   1) Multiple buffers for the ftrace facility

  This feature has been requested by many people over the last few
  years.  I even heard that Google was about to implement it themselves.
  I finally had time and cleaned up the code such that you can now
  create multiple instances of the ftrace buffer and have different
  events go to different buffers.  This way, a low frequency event will
  not be lost in the noise of a high frequency event.

  Note, currently only events can go to different buffers, the tracers
  (ie function, function_graph and the latency tracers) still can only
  be written to the main buffer.

   2) The function tracer triggers have now been extended.

  The function tracer had two triggers.  One to enable tracing when a
  function is hit, and one to disable tracing.  Now you can record a
  stack trace on a single (or many) function(s), take a snapshot of the
  buffer (copy it to the snapshot buffer), and you can enable or disable
  an event to be traced when a function is hit.

   3) A perf clock has been added.

  A "perf" clock can be chosen to be used when tracing.  This will cause
  ftrace to use the same clock as perf uses, and hopefully this will
  make it easier to interleave the perf and ftrace data for analysis."

* tag 'trace-3.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (82 commits)
  tracepoints: Prevent null probe from being added
  tracing: Compare to 1 instead of zero for is_signed_type()
  tracing: Remove obsolete macro guard _TRACE_PROFILE_INIT
  ftrace: Get rid of ftrace_profile_bits
  tracing: Check return value of tracing_init_dentry()
  tracing: Get rid of unneeded key calculation in ftrace_hash_move()
  tracing: Reset ftrace_graph_filter_enabled if count is zero
  tracing: Fix off-by-one on allocating stat->pages
  kernel: tracing: Use strlcpy instead of strncpy
  tracing: Update debugfs README file
  tracing: Fix ftrace_dump()
  tracing: Rename trace_event_mutex to trace_event_sem
  tracing: Fix comment about prefix in arch_syscall_match_sym_name()
  tracing: Convert trace_destroy_fields() to static
  tracing: Move find_event_field() into trace_events.c
  tracing: Use TRACE_MAX_PRINT instead of constant
  tracing: Use pr_warn_once instead of open coded implementation
  ring-buffer: Add ring buffer startup selftest
  tracing: Bring Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt up to date
  tracing: Add "perf" trace_clock
  ...

Conflicts:
	kernel/trace/ftrace.c
	kernel/trace/trace.c

tracing: Check return value of tracing_init_dentry()

2013-04-13T03:02:32+00:00

Check return value and bail out if it's NULL.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1365553093-10180-2-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org

Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing: Fix possible NULL pointer dereferences

2013-04-12T18:43:34+00:00

Currently set_ftrace_pid and set_graph_function files use seq_lseek
for their fops.  However seq_open() is called only for FMODE_READ in
the fops->open() so that if an user tries to seek one of those file
when she open it for writing, it sees NULL seq_file and then panic.

It can be easily reproduced with following command:

  $ cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing
  $ echo 1234 | sudo tee -a set_ftrace_pid

In this example, GNU coreutils' tee opens the file with fopen(, "a")
and then the fopen() internally calls lseek().

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1365663302-2170-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org

Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing: Remove most or all of stack tracer stack size from stack_max_size

2013-03-15T04:36:07+00:00

Currently, the depth reported in the stack tracer stack_trace file
does not match the stack_max_size file. This is because the stack_max_size
includes the overhead of stack tracer itself while the depth does not.

The first time a max is triggered, a calculation is not performed that
figures out the overhead of the stack tracer and subtracts it from
the stack_max_size variable. The overhead is stored and is subtracted
from the reported stack size for comparing for a new max.

Now the stack_max_size corresponds to the reported depth:

 # cat stack_max_size
4640

 # cat stack_trace
        Depth    Size   Location    (48 entries)
        -----    ----   --------
  0)     4640      32   _raw_spin_lock+0x18/0x24
  1)     4608     112   ____cache_alloc+0xb7/0x22d
  2)     4496      80   kmem_cache_alloc+0x63/0x12f
  3)     4416      16   mempool_alloc_slab+0x15/0x17
[...]

While testing against and older gcc on x86 that uses mcount instead
of fentry, I found that pasing in ip + MCOUNT_INSN_SIZE let the
stack trace show one more function deep which was missing before.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing: Fix stack tracer with fentry use

2013-03-15T04:36:07+00:00

When gcc 4.6 on x86 is used, the function tracer will use the new
option -mfentry which does a call to "fentry" at every function
instead of "mcount". The significance of this is that fentry is
called as the first operation of the function instead of the mcount
usage of being called after the stack.

This causes the stack tracer to show some bogus results for the size
of the last function traced, as well as showing "ftrace_call" instead
of the function. This is due to the stack frame not being set up
by the function that is about to be traced.

 # cat stack_trace
        Depth    Size   Location    (48 entries)
        -----    ----   --------
  0)     4824     216   ftrace_call+0x5/0x2f
  1)     4608     112   ____cache_alloc+0xb7/0x22d
  2)     4496      80   kmem_cache_alloc+0x63/0x12f

The 216 size for ftrace_call includes both the ftrace_call stack
(which includes the saving of registers it does), as well as the
stack size of the parent.

To fix this, if CC_USING_FENTRY is defined, then the stack_tracer
will reserve the first item in stack_dump_trace[] array when
calling save_stack_trace(), and it will fill it in with the parent ip.
Then the code will look for the parent pointer on the stack and
give the real size of the parent's stack pointer:

 # cat stack_trace
        Depth    Size   Location    (14 entries)
        -----    ----   --------
  0)     2640      48   update_group_power+0x26/0x187
  1)     2592     224   update_sd_lb_stats+0x2a5/0x4ac
  2)     2368     160   find_busiest_group+0x31/0x1f1
  3)     2208     256   load_balance+0xd9/0x662

I'm Cc'ing stable, although it's not urgent, as it only shows bogus
size for item #0, the rest of the trace is legit. It should still be
corrected in previous stable releases.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing: Use stack of calling function for stack tracer

2013-03-15T04:36:06+00:00

Use the stack of stack_trace_call() instead of check_stack() as
the test pointer for max stack size. It makes it a bit cleaner
and a little more accurate.

Adding stable, as a later fix depends on this patch.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing: Remove unneeded checks from the stack tracer

2012-11-19T20:07:13+00:00

It seems that 'ftrace_enabled' flag should not be used inside the tracer
functions. The ftrace core is using this flag for internal purposes, and
the flag wasn't meant to be used in tracers' runtime checks.

stack tracer is the only tracer that abusing the flag. So stop it from
serving as a bad example.

Also, there is a local 'stack_trace_disabled' flag in the stack tracer,
which is never updated; so it can be removed as well.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1342637761-9655-1-git-send-email-anton.vorontsov@linaro.org

Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

ftrace: Add default recursion protection for function tracing

2012-07-31T14:29:52+00:00

As more users of the function tracer utility are being added, they do
not always add the necessary recursion protection. To protect from
function recursion due to tracing, if the callback ftrace_ops does not
specifically specify that it protects against recursion (by setting
the FTRACE_OPS_FL_RECURSION_SAFE flag), the list operation will be
called by the mcount trampoline which adds recursion protection.

If the flag is set, then the function will be called directly with no
extra protection.

Note, the list operation is called if more than one function callback
is registered, or if the arch does not support all of the function
tracer features.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt