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<title>ftrace, workqueuetrace: make workqueue tracepoints use TRACE_EVENT macro</title>
<updated>2009-06-01T23:10:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zhaolei</name>
<email>zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com</email>
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<published>2009-04-17T07:15:51+00:00</published>
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v3: zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com: Change TRACE_EVENT definition to new format
    introduced by Steven Rostedt: consolidate trace and trace_event headers
v2: kosaki@jp.fujitsu.com: print the function names instead of addr, and zap
    the work addr
v1: zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com: Make workqueue tracepoints use TRACE_EVENT macro

TRACE_EVENT is a more generic way to define tracepoints.
Doing so adds these new capabilities to the tracepoints:

  - zero-copy and per-cpu splice() tracing
  - binary tracing without printf overhead
  - structured logging records exposed under /debug/tracing/events
  - trace events embedded in function tracer output and other plugins
  - user-defined, per tracepoint filter expressions

Then, this patch converts DEFINE_TRACE to TRACE_EVENT in workqueue related
tracepoints.

[ Impact: expand workqueue tracer to events tracing ]

Signed-off-by: Zhao Lei &lt;zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Tom Zanussi &lt;tzanussi@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
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v3: zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com: Change TRACE_EVENT definition to new format
    introduced by Steven Rostedt: consolidate trace and trace_event headers
v2: kosaki@jp.fujitsu.com: print the function names instead of addr, and zap
    the work addr
v1: zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com: Make workqueue tracepoints use TRACE_EVENT macro

TRACE_EVENT is a more generic way to define tracepoints.
Doing so adds these new capabilities to the tracepoints:

  - zero-copy and per-cpu splice() tracing
  - binary tracing without printf overhead
  - structured logging records exposed under /debug/tracing/events
  - trace events embedded in function tracer output and other plugins
  - user-defined, per tracepoint filter expressions

Then, this patch converts DEFINE_TRACE to TRACE_EVENT in workqueue related
tracepoints.

[ Impact: expand workqueue tracer to events tracing ]

Signed-off-by: Zhao Lei &lt;zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Tom Zanussi &lt;tzanussi@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>work_on_cpu(): rewrite it to create a kernel thread on demand</title>
<updated>2009-04-09T00:20:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrew Morton</name>
<email>akpm@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2009-04-09T15:50:37+00:00</published>
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Impact: circular locking bugfix

The various implemetnations and proposed implemetnations of work_on_cpu()
are vulnerable to various deadlocks because they all used queues of some
form.

Unrelated pieces of kernel code thus gained dependencies wherein if one
work_on_cpu() caller holds a lock which some other work_on_cpu() callback
also takes, the kernel could rarely deadlock.

Fix this by creating a short-lived kernel thread for each work_on_cpu()
invokation.

This is not terribly fast, but the only current caller of work_on_cpu() is
pci_call_probe().

It would be nice to find some other way of doing the node-local
allocations in the PCI probe code so that we can zap work_on_cpu()
altogether.  The code there is rather nasty.  I can't think of anything
simple at this time...

Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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Impact: circular locking bugfix

The various implemetnations and proposed implemetnations of work_on_cpu()
are vulnerable to various deadlocks because they all used queues of some
form.

Unrelated pieces of kernel code thus gained dependencies wherein if one
work_on_cpu() caller holds a lock which some other work_on_cpu() callback
also takes, the kernel could rarely deadlock.

Fix this by creating a short-lived kernel thread for each work_on_cpu()
invokation.

This is not terribly fast, but the only current caller of work_on_cpu() is
pci_call_probe().

It would be nice to find some other way of doing the node-local
allocations in the PCI probe code so that we can zap work_on_cpu()
altogether.  The code there is rather nasty.  I can't think of anything
simple at this time...

Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'tracing-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip</title>
<updated>2009-04-05T18:04:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2009-04-05T18:04:19+00:00</published>
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* 'tracing-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (413 commits)
  tracing, net: fix net tree and tracing tree merge interaction
  tracing, powerpc: fix powerpc tree and tracing tree interaction
  ring-buffer: do not remove reader page from list on ring buffer free
  function-graph: allow unregistering twice
  trace: make argument 'mem' of trace_seq_putmem() const
  tracing: add missing 'extern' keywords to trace_output.h
  tracing: provide trace_seq_reserve()
  blktrace: print out BLK_TN_MESSAGE properly
  blktrace: extract duplidate code
  blktrace: fix memory leak when freeing struct blk_io_trace
  blktrace: fix blk_probes_ref chaos
  blktrace: make classic output more classic
  blktrace: fix off-by-one bug
  blktrace: fix the original blktrace
  blktrace: fix a race when creating blk_tree_root in debugfs
  blktrace: fix timestamp in binary output
  tracing, Text Edit Lock: cleanup
  tracing: filter fix for TRACE_EVENT_FORMAT events
  ftrace: Using FTRACE_WARN_ON() to check "freed record" in ftrace_release()
  x86: kretprobe-booster interrupt emulation code fix
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts in
 arch/parisc/include/asm/ftrace.h
 include/linux/memory.h
 kernel/extable.c
 kernel/module.c
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* 'tracing-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (413 commits)
  tracing, net: fix net tree and tracing tree merge interaction
  tracing, powerpc: fix powerpc tree and tracing tree interaction
  ring-buffer: do not remove reader page from list on ring buffer free
  function-graph: allow unregistering twice
  trace: make argument 'mem' of trace_seq_putmem() const
  tracing: add missing 'extern' keywords to trace_output.h
  tracing: provide trace_seq_reserve()
  blktrace: print out BLK_TN_MESSAGE properly
  blktrace: extract duplidate code
  blktrace: fix memory leak when freeing struct blk_io_trace
  blktrace: fix blk_probes_ref chaos
  blktrace: make classic output more classic
  blktrace: fix off-by-one bug
  blktrace: fix the original blktrace
  blktrace: fix a race when creating blk_tree_root in debugfs
  blktrace: fix timestamp in binary output
  tracing, Text Edit Lock: cleanup
  tracing: filter fix for TRACE_EVENT_FORMAT events
  ftrace: Using FTRACE_WARN_ON() to check "freed record" in ftrace_release()
  x86: kretprobe-booster interrupt emulation code fix
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts in
 arch/parisc/include/asm/ftrace.h
 include/linux/memory.h
 kernel/extable.c
 kernel/module.c
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<entry>
<title>workqueue: avoid recursion in run_workqueue()</title>
<updated>2009-04-03T02:05:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lai Jiangshan</name>
<email>laijs@cn.fujitsu.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-04-02T23:58:24+00:00</published>
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1) lockdep will complain when run_workqueue() performs recursion.

2) The recursive implementation of run_workqueue() means that
   flush_workqueue() and its documentation are inconsistent.  This may
   hide deadlocks and other bugs.

3) The recursion in run_workqueue() will poison cwq-&gt;current_work, but
   flush_work() and __cancel_work_timer(), etcetera need a reliable
   cwq-&gt;current_work.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan &lt;laijs@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;dada1@cosmosbay.com&gt;
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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1) lockdep will complain when run_workqueue() performs recursion.

2) The recursive implementation of run_workqueue() means that
   flush_workqueue() and its documentation are inconsistent.  This may
   hide deadlocks and other bugs.

3) The recursion in run_workqueue() will poison cwq-&gt;current_work, but
   flush_work() and __cancel_work_timer(), etcetera need a reliable
   cwq-&gt;current_work.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan &lt;laijs@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;dada1@cosmosbay.com&gt;
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'tracing/core-v2' into tracing-for-linus</title>
<updated>2009-04-01T22:49:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@elte.hu</email>
</author>
<published>2009-04-01T19:54:19+00:00</published>
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Conflicts:
	include/linux/slub_def.h
	lib/Kconfig.debug
	mm/slob.c
	mm/slub.c
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Conflicts:
	include/linux/slub_def.h
	lib/Kconfig.debug
	mm/slob.c
	mm/slub.c
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<entry>
<title>cpumask: use new cpumask_ functions in core code.</title>
<updated>2009-03-30T11:35:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rusty Russell</name>
<email>rusty@rustcorp.com.au</email>
</author>
<published>2009-03-31T04:05:15+00:00</published>
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Impact: cleanup

Time to clean up remaining laggards using the old cpu_ functions.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com
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Impact: cleanup

Time to clean up remaining laggards using the old cpu_ functions.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com
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<entry>
<title>Merge branches 'tracing/ftrace', 'tracing/kmemtrace' and 'linus' into tracing/core</title>
<updated>2009-02-03T05:25:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@elte.hu</email>
</author>
<published>2009-02-03T05:25:38+00:00</published>
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<title>work_on_cpu: Use our own workqueue.</title>
<updated>2009-01-19T21:36:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rusty Russell</name>
<email>rusty@rustcorp.com.au</email>
</author>
<published>2009-01-16T23:31:15+00:00</published>
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Impact: remove potential clashes with generic kevent workqueue

Annoyingly, some places we want to use work_on_cpu are already in
workqueues.  As per Ingo's suggestion, we create a different workqueue
for work_on_cpu.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis &lt;travis@sgi.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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Impact: remove potential clashes with generic kevent workqueue

Annoyingly, some places we want to use work_on_cpu are already in
workqueues.  As per Ingo's suggestion, we create a different workqueue
for work_on_cpu.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis &lt;travis@sgi.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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<entry>
<title>work_on_cpu: don't try to get_online_cpus() in work_on_cpu.</title>
<updated>2009-01-19T21:36:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rusty Russell</name>
<email>rusty@rustcorp.com.au</email>
</author>
<published>2009-01-16T23:31:15+00:00</published>
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Impact: remove potential circular lock dependency with cpu hotplug lock

This has caused more problems than it solved, with a pile of cpu
hotplug locking issues.

Followup patches will get_online_cpus() in callers that need it, but
if they don't do it they're no worse than before when they were using
set_cpus_allowed without locking.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis &lt;travis@sgi.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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Impact: remove potential circular lock dependency with cpu hotplug lock

This has caused more problems than it solved, with a pile of cpu
hotplug locking issues.

Followup patches will get_online_cpus() in callers that need it, but
if they don't do it they're no worse than before when they were using
set_cpus_allowed without locking.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis &lt;travis@sgi.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tracing: add a new workqueue tracer</title>
<updated>2009-01-14T11:11:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Frederic Weisbecker</name>
<email>fweisbec@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-01-12T22:15:46+00:00</published>
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Impact: new tracer

The workqueue tracer provides some statistical informations
about each cpu workqueue thread such as the number of the
works inserted and executed since their creation. It can help
to evaluate the amount of work each of them have to perform.
For example it can help a developer to decide whether he should
choose a per cpu workqueue instead of a singlethreaded one.

It only traces statistical informations for now but it will probably later
provide event tracing too.

Such a tracer could help too, and be improved, to help rt priority sorted
workqueue development.

To have a snapshot of the workqueues state at any time, just do

cat /debugfs/tracing/trace_stat/workqueues

Ie:

  1    125        125       reiserfs/1
  1      0          0       scsi_tgtd/1
  1      0          0       aio/1
  1      0          0       ata/1
  1    114        114       kblockd/1
  1      0          0       kintegrityd/1
  1   2147       2147       events/1

  0      0          0       kpsmoused
  0    105        105       reiserfs/0
  0      0          0       scsi_tgtd/0
  0      0          0       aio/0
  0      0          0       ata_aux
  0      0          0       ata/0
  0      0          0       cqueue
  0      0          0       kacpi_notify
  0      0          0       kacpid
  0    149        149       kblockd/0
  0      0          0       kintegrityd/0
  0   1000       1000       khelper
  0   2270       2270       events/0

Changes in V2:

_ Drop the static array based on NR_CPU and dynamically allocate the stat array
  with num_possible_cpus() and other cpu mask facilities....
_ Trace workqueue insertion at a bit lower level (insert_work instead of queue_work) to handle
  even the workqueue barriers.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;srostedt@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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Impact: new tracer

The workqueue tracer provides some statistical informations
about each cpu workqueue thread such as the number of the
works inserted and executed since their creation. It can help
to evaluate the amount of work each of them have to perform.
For example it can help a developer to decide whether he should
choose a per cpu workqueue instead of a singlethreaded one.

It only traces statistical informations for now but it will probably later
provide event tracing too.

Such a tracer could help too, and be improved, to help rt priority sorted
workqueue development.

To have a snapshot of the workqueues state at any time, just do

cat /debugfs/tracing/trace_stat/workqueues

Ie:

  1    125        125       reiserfs/1
  1      0          0       scsi_tgtd/1
  1      0          0       aio/1
  1      0          0       ata/1
  1    114        114       kblockd/1
  1      0          0       kintegrityd/1
  1   2147       2147       events/1

  0      0          0       kpsmoused
  0    105        105       reiserfs/0
  0      0          0       scsi_tgtd/0
  0      0          0       aio/0
  0      0          0       ata_aux
  0      0          0       ata/0
  0      0          0       cqueue
  0      0          0       kacpi_notify
  0      0          0       kacpid
  0    149        149       kblockd/0
  0      0          0       kintegrityd/0
  0   1000       1000       khelper
  0   2270       2270       events/0

Changes in V2:

_ Drop the static array based on NR_CPU and dynamically allocate the stat array
  with num_possible_cpus() and other cpu mask facilities....
_ Trace workqueue insertion at a bit lower level (insert_work instead of queue_work) to handle
  even the workqueue barriers.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;srostedt@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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