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* tracing: combine the default tracers into one configSteven Rostedt2009-06-011-16/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | Both event tracer and sched switch plugin are selected by default by all generic tracers. But if no generic tracer is enabled, their options appear. But ether one of them will select the other, thus it only makes sense to have the default tracers be selected by one option. [ Impact: clean up kconfig menu ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* tracing: fix config options to not show when automatically selectedSteven Rostedt2009-06-011-15/+28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There are two options that are selected by all tracers, but we want to have those options available when no tracer is selected. These are The event tracer and sched switch tracer. The are enabled by all tracers, but if a tracer is not selected we want the options to appear. All tracers including them select TRACING. Thus what we would like to do is: config EVENT_TRACER bool "prompt" depends on TRACING select TRACING But that gives us a bug in the kbuild system since we just created a circular dependency. We only want the prompt to show when TRACING is off. This patch adds GENERIC_TRACER that all tracers will select instead of TRACING. The two options (sched switch and event tracer) will select TRACING directly and depend on !GENERIC_TRACER. This solves the cicular dependency. [ Impact: hide options that are selected by default ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* ftrace: Add task_comm support for trace_eventZhaolei2009-05-261-2/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If we enable a trace event alone without any tracer running (such as function tracer, sched switch tracer, etc...) it can't output enough task command information. We need to use the tracing_{start/stop}_cmdline_record() helpers which are designed to keep track of cmdlines for any tasks that were scheduled during the tracing. Before this patch: # echo 1 > debugfs/tracing/events/sched/sched_switch/enable # cat debugfs/tracing/trace # tracer: nop # # TASK-PID CPU# TIMESTAMP FUNCTION # | | | | | <...>-2289 [000] 526276.724790: sched_switch: task bash:2289 [120] ==> sshd:2287 [120] <...>-2287 [000] 526276.725231: sched_switch: task sshd:2287 [120] ==> bash:2289 [120] <...>-2289 [000] 526276.725452: sched_switch: task bash:2289 [120] ==> sshd:2287 [120] <...>-2287 [000] 526276.727181: sched_switch: task sshd:2287 [120] ==> swapper:0 [140] <idle>-0 [000] 526277.032734: sched_switch: task swapper:0 [140] ==> events/0:5 [115] <...>-5 [000] 526277.032782: sched_switch: task events/0:5 [115] ==> swapper:0 [140] ... After this patch: # tracer: nop # # TASK-PID CPU# TIMESTAMP FUNCTION # | | | | | bash-2269 [000] 527347.989229: sched_switch: task bash:2269 [120] ==> sshd:2267 [120] sshd-2267 [000] 527347.990960: sched_switch: task sshd:2267 [120] ==> bash:2269 [120] bash-2269 [000] 527347.991143: sched_switch: task bash:2269 [120] ==> sshd:2267 [120] sshd-2267 [000] 527347.992959: sched_switch: task sshd:2267 [120] ==> swapper:0 [140] <idle>-0 [000] 527348.531989: sched_switch: task swapper:0 [140] ==> events/0:5 [115] events/0-5 [000] 527348.532115: sched_switch: task events/0:5 [115] ==> swapper:0 [140] ... Changelog: v1->v2: Update Kconfig to select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER in ENABLE_EVENT_TRACING v2->v3: v2 can solve problem that was caused by config EVENT_TRACING alone, but when CONFIG_FTRACE is off and CONFIG_TRACING is selected by other config, compile fail happened again. This version solves it. [ Impact: fix incomplete output of event tracing ] Signed-off-by: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> LKML-Reference: <4A14FDFE.2080402@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
* tracing: have menu default enabled when kernel debug is configuredSteven Rostedt2009-05-071-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Tracing can be very helpful to debug the kernel. When DEBUG_KERNEL is enabled it is nice to enable the trace menu as well. This patch only make the tracing menu enabled by default, it does not make any of the tracers enabled. And the menu is only enabled by default if DEBUG_KERNEL is enabled. [ Impact: show tracing options to those debugging the kernel ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* ring-buffer: add benchmark and testerSteven Rostedt2009-05-061-0/+16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds code that can benchmark the ring buffer as well as test it. This code can be compiled into the kernel (not recommended) or as a module. A separate ring buffer is used to not interfer with other users, like ftrace. It creates a producer and a consumer (option to disable creation of the consumer) and will run for 10 seconds, then sleep for 10 seconds and then repeat. While running, the producer will write 10 byte loads into the ring buffer with just putting in the current CPU number. The reader will continually try to read the buffer. The reader will alternate from reading the buffer via event by event, or by full pages. The output is a pr_info, thus it will fill up the syslogs. Starting ring buffer hammer End ring buffer hammer Time: 9000349 (usecs) Overruns: 12578640 Read: 5358440 (by events) Entries: 0 Total: 17937080 Missed: 0 Hit: 17937080 Entries per millisec: 1993 501 ns per entry Sleeping for 10 secs Starting ring buffer hammer End ring buffer hammer Time: 9936350 (usecs) Overruns: 0 Read: 28146644 (by pages) Entries: 74 Total: 28146718 Missed: 0 Hit: 28146718 Entries per millisec: 2832 353 ns per entry Sleeping for 10 secs Time: is the time the test ran Overruns: the number of events that were overwritten and not read Read: the number of events read (either by pages or events) Entries: the number of entries left in the buffer (the by pages will only read full pages) Total: Entries + Read + Overruns Missed: the number of entries that failed to write Hit: the number of entries that were written The above example shows that it takes ~353 nanosecs per entry when there is a reader, reading by pages (and no overruns) The event by event reader slowed the producer down to 501 nanosecs. [ Impact: see how changes to the ring buffer affect stability and performance ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* tracing: rename EVENT_TRACER config to ENABLE_EVENT_TRACINGSteven Rostedt2009-04-201-1/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently we have two configs: EVENT_TRACING and EVENT_TRACER. All tracers enable EVENT_TRACING. The EVENT_TRACER is only a convenience to enable the EVENT_TRACING when no other tracers are enabled. The names EVENT_TRACER and EVENT_TRACING are too similar and confusing. This patch renames EVENT_TRACER to ENABLE_EVENT_TRACING to be more appropriate to what it actually does, as well as add a comment in the help menu to explain the option's purpose. [ Impact: rename config option to reduce confusion ] Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* tracing: create menuconfig for tracing infrastructureSteven Rostedt2009-04-201-2/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | During testing we often use randconfig to test various kernels. The current configuration set up does not give an easy way to disable all tracing with a single config. The case where randconfig would test all tracing disabled is very unlikely. This patch adds a config option to enable or disable all tracing. It is hooked into the tracing menu just like other submenus are done. [ Impact: allow randconfig to easily produce all traces disabled ] Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* tracing: change branch profiling to a choice selectionSteven Rostedt2009-04-201-6/+33
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch makes the branch profiling into a choice selection: None - no branch profiling likely/unlikely - only profile likely/unlikely branches all - profile all branches The all profiler will also enable the likely/unlikely branches. This does not change the way the profiler works or the dependencies between the profilers. What this patch does, is keep the branch profiling from being selected by an allyesconfig make. The branch profiler is very intrusive and it is known to break various architecture builds when selected as an allyesconfig. [ Impact: prevent branch profiler from being selected in allyesconfig ] Reported-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Reported-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/coreIngo Molnar2009-04-141-2/+2
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | Merge reason: merge latest tracing fixes to avoid conflicts in kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c with upcoming change Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * tracing: fix document referencesLi Zefan2009-04-101-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When moving documents to Documentation/trace/, I forgot to grep Kconfig to find out those references. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi> Cc: eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro LKML-Reference: <49DE97EF.7080208@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | tracing/infrastructure: separate event tracer from event supportTom Zanussi2009-04-141-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add a new config option, CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING that gets selected when CONFIG_TRACING is selected and adds everything needed by the stuff in trace_export - basically all the event tracing support needed by e.g. bprint, minus the actual events, which are only included if CONFIG_EVENT_TRACER is selected. So CONFIG_EVENT_TRACER can be used to turn on or off the generated events (what I think of as the 'event tracer'), while CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING turns on or off the base event tracing support used by both the event tracer and the other things such as bprint that can't be configured out. Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com LKML-Reference: <1239178441.10295.34.camel@tropicana> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/coreIngo Molnar2009-04-071-5/+4
|\ \ | |/ | | | | | | | | Merge reason: update to upstream tracing facilities Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * Merge branch 'tracing-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-04-051-15/+108
| |\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * '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
| * | trivial: fix typos/grammar errors in Kconfig textsMatt LaPlante2009-03-301-5/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
* | | tracing: move function profiler data out of function structSteven Rostedt2009-03-241-7/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: reduce size of memory in function profiler The function profiler originally introduces its counters into the function records itself. There is 20 thousand different functions on a normal system, and that is adding 20 thousand counters for profiling event when not needed. A normal run of the profiler yields only a couple of thousand functions executed, depending on what is being profiled. This means we have around 18 thousand useless counters. This patch rectifies this by moving the data out of the function records used by dynamic ftrace. Data is preallocated to hold the functions when the profiling begins. Checks are made during profiling to see if more recorcds should be allocated, and they are allocated if it is safe to do so. This also removes the dependency from using dynamic ftrace, and also removes the overhead by having it enabled. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
* | | tracing: add function profilerSteven Rostedt2009-03-241-0/+19
| |/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: new profiling feature This patch adds a function profiler. In debugfs/tracing/ two new files are created. function_profile_enabled - to enable or disable profiling trace_stat/functions - the profiled functions. For example: echo 1 > /debugfs/tracing/function_profile_enabled ./hackbench 50 echo 0 > /debugfs/tracing/function_profile_enabled yields: cat /debugfs/tracing/trace_stat/functions Function Hit -------- --- _spin_lock 10106442 _spin_unlock 10097492 kfree 6013704 _spin_unlock_irqrestore 4423941 _spin_lock_irqsave 4406825 __phys_addr 4181686 __slab_free 4038222 dput 4030130 path_put 4023387 unroll_tree_refs 4019532 [...] The most hit functions are listed first. Functions that are not hit are not listed. This feature depends on and uses dynamic function tracing. When the function profiling is disabled, no overhead occurs. But it still takes up around 300KB to hold the data, thus it is not recomended to keep it enabled for systems low on memory. When a '1' is echoed into the function_profile_enabled file, the counters for is function is reset back to zero. Thus you can see what functions are hit most by different programs. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
* | tracing: Fix TRACING_SUPPORT dependency for PPC32Anton Vorontsov2009-03-231-1/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | commit 40ada30f9621fbd831ac2437b9a2a399aa ("tracing: clean up menu"), despite the "clean up" in its purpose, introduced a behavioural change for Kconfig symbols: we no longer able to select tracing support on PPC32 (because IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT isn't yet implemented). The IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT is not mandatory for most tracers, tracing core has a special case for platforms w/o irqflags (which, by the way, has become useless as of the commit above). Though according to Ingo Molnar, there was periodic build failures on weird, unmaintained architectures that had no irqflags-tracing support and hence didn't know the raw_irqs_save/restore primitives. Thus we'd better not enable irqflags-less tracing for all architectures. This patch restores the old behaviour for PPC32, and thus brings the tracing back. Other architectures can either add themselves to the exception list or (better) implement TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT. Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com> Acked-b: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org LKML-Reference: <20090323220724.GA9851@oksana.dev.rtsoft.ru> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | tracing/syscalls: select kallsysmsFrederic Weisbecker2009-03-161-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Syscall tracing must select kallsysms. The arch code builds a table to find the syscall metadata by syscall number. It needs the syscalls names resolution from the symbol table to know which name found on the syscalls metadatas match a function pointer from the arch sys_call_table. Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <1237151439-6755-4-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | tracing/ftrace: syscall tracing infrastructure, basicsFrederic Weisbecker2009-03-131-0/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Provide basic callbacks to do syscall tracing. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: <1236401580-5758-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> [ simplified it to a trace_printk() for now. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | tracing/core: drop the old trace_printk() implementation in favour of ↵Frederic Weisbecker2009-03-061-6/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | trace_bprintk() Impact: faster and lighter tracing Now that we have trace_bprintk() which is faster and consume lesser memory than trace_printk() and has the same purpose, we can now drop the old implementation in favour of the binary one from trace_bprintk(), which means we move all the implementation of trace_bprintk() to trace_printk(), so the Api doesn't change except that we must now use trace_seq_bprintk() to print the TRACE_PRINT entries. Some changes result of this: - Previously, trace_bprintk depended of a single tracer and couldn't work without. This tracer has been dropped and the whole implementation of trace_printk() (like the module formats management) is now integrated in the tracing core (comes with CONFIG_TRACING), though we keep the file trace_printk (previously trace_bprintk.c) where we can find the module management. Thus we don't overflow trace.c - changes some parts to use trace_seq_bprintk() to print TRACE_PRINT entries. - change a bit trace_printk/trace_vprintk macros to support non-builtin formats constants, and fix 'const' qualifiers warnings. But this is all transparent for developers. - etc... V2: - Rebase against last changes - Fix mispell on the changelog V3: - Rebase against last changes (moving trace_printk() to kernel.h) Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> LKML-Reference: <1236356510-8381-5-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | tracing: infrastructure for supporting binary recordLai Jiangshan2009-03-061-0/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: save on memory for tracing Current tracers are typically using a struct(like struct ftrace_entry, struct ctx_switch_entry, struct special_entr etc...)to record a binary event. These structs can only record a their own kind of events. A new kind of tracer need a new struct and a lot of code too handle it. So we need a generic binary record for events. This infrastructure is for this purpose. [fweisbec@gmail.com: rebase against latest -tip, make it safe while sched tracing as reported by Steven Rostedt] Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> LKML-Reference: <1236356510-8381-3-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | tracing: current tip/master can't enable ftraceKOSAKI Motohiro2009-03-061-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | After commit 40ada30f9621fbd831ac2437b9a2a399aad34b00, "make menuconfig" doesn't display "Tracer" item. Following modification restores it.
* | tracing: clean up menuIngo Molnar2009-03-051-13/+16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Clean up menu structure, introduce TRACING_SUPPORT switch that signals whether an architecture supports various instrumentation mechanisms. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | tracing: add event trace infrastructureSteven Rostedt2009-02-241-0/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch creates the event tracing infrastructure of ftrace. It will create the files: /debug/tracing/available_events /debug/tracing/set_event The available_events will list the trace points that have been registered with the event tracer. set_events will allow the user to enable or disable an event hook. example: # echo sched_wakeup > /debug/tracing/set_event Will enable the sched_wakeup event (if it is registered). # echo "!sched_wakeup" >> /debug/tracing/set_event Will disable the sched_wakeup event (and only that event). # echo > /debug/tracing/set_event Will disable all events (notice the '>') # cat /debug/tracing/available_events > /debug/tracing/set_event Will enable all registered event hooks. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
* | Merge branches 'tracing/blktrace', 'tracing/ftrace' and 'tracing/urgent' ↵Ingo Molnar2009-02-191-0/+2
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| * tracing: have function trace select kallsymsSteven Rostedt2009-02-181-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: fix output of function tracer to be useful The function tracer is pretty useless if KALLSYMS is not configured. Unless you are good at reading hex values, the function tracer should select the KALLSYMS configuration. Also, the dynamic function tracer will fail its self test if KALLSYMS is not selected. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
| * trace: mmiotrace to the tracer menu in KconfigPekka Paalanen2009-02-151-0/+23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: cosmetic change in Kconfig menu layout This patch was originally suggested by Peter Zijlstra, but seems it was forgotten. CONFIG_MMIOTRACE and CONFIG_MMIOTRACE_TEST were selectable directly under the Kernel hacking / debugging menu in the kernel configuration system. They were present only for x86 and x86_64. Other tracers that use the ftrace tracing framework are in their own sub-menu. This patch moves the mmiotrace configuration options there. Since the Kconfig file, where the tracer menu is, is not architecture specific, HAVE_MMIOTRACE_SUPPORT is introduced and provided only by x86/x86_64. CONFIG_MMIOTRACE now depends on it. Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | tracing/sysprof: add missing tracing_{start,stop}_record_cmdline()Frederic Weisbecker2009-02-111-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add the missing pair tracing_{start,stop}_record_cmdline() to record well the cmdline associated with pid. Changes in v2: - fix a build error, the sched_switch tracer is needed to record the cmdline. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | tracing/blktrace: move the tracing file to kernel/trace, fixIngo Molnar2009-02-091-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: build fix The BLK_DEV_IO_TRACE entry used to be in block/Kconfig - which file itself was dependent on CONFIG_BLOCK. But now the entry is in kernel/trace/Kconfig - which is present even on !CONFIG_BLOCK. So add a 'depends on BLOCK' to BLK_DEV_IO_TRACE. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | tracing/blktrace: move the tracing file to kernel/traceFrederic Weisbecker2009-02-091-0/+23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: cleanup Move blktrace.c to kernel/trace, also move its config entry. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | ring-buffer: add NMI protection for spinlocksSteven Rostedt2009-02-071-0/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: prevent deadlock in NMI The ring buffers are not yet totally lockless with writing to the buffer. When a writer crosses a page, it grabs a per cpu spinlock to protect against a reader. The spinlocks taken by a writer are not to protect against other writers, since a writer can only write to its own per cpu buffer. The spinlocks protect against readers that can touch any cpu buffer. The writers are made to be reentrant with the spinlocks disabling interrupts. The problem arises when an NMI writes to the buffer, and that write crosses a page boundary. If it grabs a spinlock, it can be racing with another writer (since disabling interrupts does not protect against NMIs) or with a reader on the same CPU. Luckily, most of the users are not reentrant and protects against this issue. But if a user of the ring buffer becomes reentrant (which is what the ring buffers do allow), if the NMI also writes to the ring buffer then we risk the chance of a deadlock. This patch moves the ftrace_nmi_enter called by nmi_enter() to the ring buffer code. It replaces the current ftrace_nmi_enter that is used by arch specific code to arch_ftrace_nmi_enter and updates the Kconfig to handle it. When an NMI is called, it will set a per cpu variable in the ring buffer code and will clear it when the NMI exits. If a write to the ring buffer crosses page boundaries inside an NMI, a trylock is used on the spin lock instead. If the spinlock fails to be acquired, then the entry is discarded. This bug appeared in the ftrace work in the RT tree, where event tracing is reentrant. This workaround solved the deadlocks that appeared there. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
* | trace: let boot trace be chosen by command lineSteven Rostedt2009-02-031-4/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Now that we have a working ftrace=<tracer> function, make the boot tracer get activated by it. This way we can turn it on or off without recompiling the kernel, as well as keeping the selftests on. The selftests are disabled whenever a default tracer starts running. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | tracing: add a new workqueue tracerFrederic Weisbecker2009-01-141-0/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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 <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | trace: mmiotrace to the tracer menu in KconfigPekka Paalanen2009-01-111-0/+23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: cosmetic change in Kconfig menu layout This patch was originally suggested by Peter Zijlstra, but seems it was forgotten. CONFIG_MMIOTRACE and CONFIG_MMIOTRACE_TEST were selectable directly under the Kernel hacking / debugging menu in the kernel configuration system. They were present only for x86 and x86_64. Other tracers that use the ftrace tracing framework are in their own sub-menu. This patch moves the mmiotrace configuration options there. Since the Kconfig file, where the tracer menu is, is not architecture specific, HAVE_MMIOTRACE_SUPPORT is introduced and provided only by x86/x86_64. CONFIG_MMIOTRACE now depends on it. Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | kmemtrace: Remove the relay version of kmemtraceEduard - Gabriel Munteanu2009-01-061-2/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: cleanup kmemtrace now uses ftrace. This patch removes the relay version. Signed-off-by: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | tracing/kmemtrace: export kmemtrace_mark_alloc_node() / kmemtrace_mark_free()Ingo Molnar2008-12-301-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: build fix Also fix up Kconfig dependencies and include files. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | tracing/kmemtrace: normalize the raw tracer event to the unified tracing APIFrederic Weisbecker2008-12-301-0/+22
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: new tracer plugin This patch adapts kmemtrace raw events tracing to the unified tracing API. To enable and use this tracer, just do the following: echo kmemtrace > /debugfs/tracing/current_tracer cat /debugfs/tracing/trace You will have the following output: # tracer: kmemtrace # # # ALLOC TYPE REQ GIVEN FLAGS POINTER NODE CALLER # FREE | | | | | | | | # | type_id 1 call_site 18446744071565527833 ptr 18446612134395152256 type_id 0 call_site 18446744071565585597 ptr 18446612134405955584 bytes_req 4096 bytes_alloc 4096 gfp_flags 208 node -1 type_id 1 call_site 18446744071565585534 ptr 18446612134405955584 type_id 0 call_site 18446744071565585597 ptr 18446612134405955584 bytes_req 4096 bytes_alloc 4096 gfp_flags 208 node -1 type_id 0 call_site 18446744071565636711 ptr 18446612134345164672 bytes_req 240 bytes_alloc 240 gfp_flags 208 node -1 type_id 1 call_site 18446744071565585534 ptr 18446612134405955584 type_id 0 call_site 18446744071565585597 ptr 18446612134405955584 bytes_req 4096 bytes_alloc 4096 gfp_flags 208 node -1 type_id 0 call_site 18446744071565636711 ptr 18446612134345164912 bytes_req 240 bytes_alloc 240 gfp_flags 208 node -1 type_id 1 call_site 18446744071565585534 ptr 18446612134405955584 type_id 0 call_site 18446744071565585597 ptr 18446612134405955584 bytes_req 4096 bytes_alloc 4096 gfp_flags 208 node -1 type_id 0 call_site 18446744071565636711 ptr 18446612134345165152 bytes_req 240 bytes_alloc 240 gfp_flags 208 node -1 type_id 0 call_site 18446744071566144042 ptr 18446612134346191680 bytes_req 1304 bytes_alloc 1312 gfp_flags 208 node -1 type_id 1 call_site 18446744071565585534 ptr 18446612134405955584 type_id 0 call_site 18446744071565585597 ptr 18446612134405955584 bytes_req 4096 bytes_alloc 4096 gfp_flags 208 node -1 type_id 1 call_site 18446744071565585534 ptr 18446612134405955584 That was to stay backward compatible with the format output produced in inux/tracepoint.h. This is the default ouput, but note that I tried something else. If you change an option: echo kmem_minimalistic > /debugfs/trace_options and then cat /debugfs/trace, you will have the following output: # tracer: kmemtrace # # # ALLOC TYPE REQ GIVEN FLAGS POINTER NODE CALLER # FREE | | | | | | | | # | - C 0xffff88007c088780 file_free_rcu + K 4096 4096 000000d0 0xffff88007cad6000 -1 getname - C 0xffff88007cad6000 putname + K 4096 4096 000000d0 0xffff88007cad6000 -1 getname + K 240 240 000000d0 0xffff8800790dc780 -1 d_alloc - C 0xffff88007cad6000 putname + K 4096 4096 000000d0 0xffff88007cad6000 -1 getname + K 240 240 000000d0 0xffff8800790dc870 -1 d_alloc - C 0xffff88007cad6000 putname + K 4096 4096 000000d0 0xffff88007cad6000 -1 getname + K 240 240 000000d0 0xffff8800790dc960 -1 d_alloc + K 1304 1312 000000d0 0xffff8800791d7340 -1 reiserfs_alloc_inode - C 0xffff88007cad6000 putname + K 4096 4096 000000d0 0xffff88007cad6000 -1 getname - C 0xffff88007cad6000 putname + K 992 1000 000000d0 0xffff880079045b58 -1 alloc_inode + K 768 1024 000080d0 0xffff88007c096400 -1 alloc_pipe_info + K 240 240 000000d0 0xffff8800790dca50 -1 d_alloc + K 272 320 000080d0 0xffff88007c088780 -1 get_empty_filp + K 272 320 000080d0 0xffff88007c088000 -1 get_empty_filp Yeah I shall confess kmem_minimalistic should be: kmem_alternative. Whatever, I find it more readable but this a personal opinion of course. We can drop it if you want. On the ALLOC/FREE column, + means an allocation and - a free. On the type column, you have K = kmalloc, C = cache, P = page I would like the flags to be GFP_* strings but that would not be easy to not break the column with strings.... About the node...it seems to always be -1. I don't know why but that shouldn't be difficult to find. I moved linux/tracepoint.h to trace/tracepoint.h as well. I think that would be more easy to find the tracer headers if they are all in their common directory. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* trace: add a way to enable or disable the stack tracerSteven Rostedt2008-12-181-4/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: enhancement to stack tracer The stack tracer currently is either on when configured in or off when it is not. It can not be disabled when it is configured on. (besides disabling the function tracer that it uses) This patch adds a way to enable or disable the stack tracer at run time. It defaults off on bootup, but a kernel parameter 'stacktrace' has been added to enable it on bootup. A new sysctl has been added "kernel.stack_tracer_enabled" to let the user enable or disable the stack tracer at run time. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* x86, bts, ftrace: adapt the hw-branch-tracer to the ds.c interfaceMarkus Metzger2008-12-121-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | Impact: restructure code, cleanup Remove BTS bits from the hw-branch-tracer (renamed from bts-tracer) and use the ds interface. Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markut.t.metzger@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* tracing/function-graph-tracer: enabled by defaultIngo Molnar2008-12-031-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | CONFIG_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER depends on FUNCTION_TRACER already, (turning it non-default) so it so making it default-n is pointless. So enable it by default - it's a nice extension of the function tracer. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
*-. Merge branches 'tracing/blktrace', 'tracing/ftrace', ↵Ingo Molnar2008-11-271-8/+22
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | 'tracing/function-graph-tracer' and 'tracing/power-tracer' into tracing/core
| | * tracing: add "power-tracer": C/P state tracer to help power optimizationArjan van de Ven2008-11-261-0/+11
| |/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: new "power-tracer" ftrace plugin This patch adds a C/P-state ftrace plugin that will generate detailed statistics about the C/P-states that are being used, so that we can look at detailed decisions that the C/P-state code is making, rather than the too high level "average" that we have today. An example way of using this is: mount -t debugfs none /sys/kernel/debug echo cstate > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/current_tracer echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/tracing_enabled sleep 1 echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/tracing_enabled cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace | perl scripts/trace/cstate.pl > out.svg Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * tracing/function-return-tracer: change the name into function-graph-tracerFrederic Weisbecker2008-11-261-8/+11
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: cleanup This patch changes the name of the "return function tracer" into function-graph-tracer which is a more suitable name for a tracing which makes one able to retrieve the ordered call stack during the code flow. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* x86, bts, ftrace: a BTS ftrace plug-in prototypeMarkus Metzger2008-11-251-0/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: add new ftrace plugin A prototype for a BTS ftrace plug-in. The tracer collects branch trace in a cyclic buffer for each cpu. The tracer is not configurable and the trace for each snapshot is appended when doing cat /debug/tracing/trace. This is a proof of concept that will be extended with future patches to become a (hopefully) useful tool. Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
*---. Merge branches 'tracing/branch-tracer', 'tracing/fastboot', ↵Ingo Molnar2008-11-241-0/+3
|\ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | 'tracing/ftrace', 'tracing/function-return-tracer', 'tracing/power-tracer', 'tracing/powerpc', 'tracing/ring-buffer', 'tracing/stack-tracer' and 'tracing/urgent' into tracing/core
| | | * tracing/stack-tracer: introduce CONFIG_USER_STACKTRACE_SUPPORTTörök Edwin2008-11-231-0/+3
| | |/ | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: cleanup User stack tracing is just implemented for x86, but it is not x86 specific. Introduce a generic config flag, that is currently enabled only for x86. When other arches implement it, they will have to SELECT USER_STACKTRACE_SUPPORT. Signed-off-by: Török Edwin <edwintorok@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | | trace: profile all if conditionalsSteven Rostedt2008-11-231-0/+16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: feature to profile if statements This patch adds a branch profiler for all if () statements. The results will be found in: /debugfs/tracing/profile_branch For example: miss hit % Function File Line ------- --------- - -------- ---- ---- 0 1 100 x86_64_start_reservations head64.c 127 0 1 100 copy_bootdata head64.c 69 1 0 0 x86_64_start_kernel head64.c 111 32 0 0 set_intr_gate desc.h 319 1 0 0 reserve_ebda_region head.c 51 1 0 0 reserve_ebda_region head.c 47 0 1 100 reserve_ebda_region head.c 42 0 0 X maxcpus main.c 165 Miss means the branch was not taken. Hit means the branch was taken. The percent is the percentage the branch was taken. This adds a significant amount of overhead and should only be used by those analyzing their system. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | | trace: consolidate unlikely and likely profilerSteven Rostedt2008-11-231-2/+1
|/ / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: clean up to make one profiler of like and unlikely tracer The likely and unlikely profiler prints out the file and line numbers of the annotated branches that it is profiling. It shows the number of times it was correct or incorrect in its guess. Having two different files or sections for that matter to tell us if it was a likely or unlikely is pretty pointless. We really only care if it was correct or not. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | tracing/function-return-tracer: support for dynamic ftrace on function ↵Frederic Weisbecker2008-11-161-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | return tracer This patch adds the support for dynamic tracing on the function return tracer. The whole difference with normal dynamic function tracing is that we don't need to hook on a particular callback. The only pro that we want is to nop or set dynamically the calls to ftrace_caller (which is ftrace_return_caller here). Some security checks ensure that we are not trying to launch dynamic tracing for return tracing while normal function tracing is already running. An example of trace with getnstimeofday set as a filter: ktime_get_ts+0x22/0x50 -> getnstimeofday (2283 ns) ktime_get_ts+0x22/0x50 -> getnstimeofday (1396 ns) ktime_get_ts+0x22/0x50 -> getnstimeofday (1382 ns) ktime_get_ts+0x22/0x50 -> getnstimeofday (1825 ns) ktime_get_ts+0x22/0x50 -> getnstimeofday (1426 ns) ktime_get_ts+0x22/0x50 -> getnstimeofday (1464 ns) ktime_get_ts+0x22/0x50 -> getnstimeofday (1524 ns) ktime_get_ts+0x22/0x50 -> getnstimeofday (1382 ns) ktime_get_ts+0x22/0x50 -> getnstimeofday (1382 ns) ktime_get_ts+0x22/0x50 -> getnstimeofday (1434 ns) ktime_get_ts+0x22/0x50 -> getnstimeofday (1464 ns) ktime_get_ts+0x22/0x50 -> getnstimeofday (1502 ns) ktime_get_ts+0x22/0x50 -> getnstimeofday (1404 ns) ktime_get_ts+0x22/0x50 -> getnstimeofday (1397 ns) ktime_get_ts+0x22/0x50 -> getnstimeofday (1051 ns) ktime_get_ts+0x22/0x50 -> getnstimeofday (1314 ns) ktime_get_ts+0x22/0x50 -> getnstimeofday (1344 ns) ktime_get_ts+0x22/0x50 -> getnstimeofday (1163 ns) ktime_get_ts+0x22/0x50 -> getnstimeofday (1390 ns) ktime_get_ts+0x22/0x50 -> getnstimeofday (1374 ns) Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | trace: rename unlikely profiler to branch profilerSteven Rostedt2008-11-121-5/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: name change of unlikely tracer and profiler Ingo Molnar suggested changing the config from UNLIKELY_PROFILE to BRANCH_PROFILING. I never did like the "unlikely" name so I went one step farther, and renamed all the unlikely configurations to a "BRANCH" variant. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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