Porting ftrace to the marker infrastructure.
Don't need to chain to the wakeup tracer from the sched tracer, because markers
support multiple probes connected.
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
CC: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To support the forthcoming "immediate values" marker optimization, we must have
a way to declare markers in few code paths that does not use instruction
modification based enable. This will be the case of printk(), some traps and
eventually lockdep instrumentation.
Changelog :
- Fix reversed boolean logic of "generic".
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> :
> Not in this patch, but I noticed:
>
> #define __trace_mark(name, call_private, format, args...) \
> do { \
> static const char __mstrtab_##name[] \
> __attribute__((section("__markers_strings"))) \
> = #name "\0" format; \
> static struct marker __mark_##name \
> __attribute__((section("__markers"), aligned(8))) = \
> { __mstrtab_##name, &__mstrtab_##name[sizeof(#name)], \
> 0, 0, marker_probe_cb, \
> { __mark_empty_function, NULL}, NULL }; \
> __mark_check_format(format, ## args); \
> if (unlikely(__mark_##name.state)) { \
> (*__mark_##name.call) \
> (&__mark_##name, call_private, \
> format, ## args); \
> } \
> } while (0)
>
> In this call:
>
> (*__mark_##name.call) \
> (&__mark_##name, call_private, \
> format, ## args); \
>
> you make gcc allocate duplicate format string. You can use
> &__mstrtab_##name[sizeof(#name)] instead since it holds the same string,
> or drop ", format," above and "const char *fmt" from here:
>
> void (*call)(const struct marker *mdata, /* Probe wrapper */
> void *call_private, const char *fmt, ...);
>
> since mdata->format is the same and all callees which need it can take it there.
Very good point. I actually thought about dropping it, since it would
remove an unnecessary argument from the stack. And actually, since I now
have the marker_probe_cb sitting between the marker site and the
callbacks, there is no API change required. Thanks :)
Mathieu
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
CC: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Currently there is no protection from the root user to use up all of
memory for trace buffers. If the root user allocates too many entries,
the OOM killer might start kill off all tasks.
This patch adds an algorith to check the following condition:
pages_requested > (freeable_memory + current_trace_buffer_pages) / 4
If the above is met then the allocation fails. The above prevents more
than 1/4th of freeable memory from being used by trace buffers.
To determine the freeable_memory, I made determine_dirtyable_memory in
mm/page-writeback.c global.
Special thanks goes to Peter Zijlstra for suggesting the above calculation.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Provides kernel modules a way to register custom page fault handlers.
On every page fault this will call a list of registered functions. The
functions may handle the fault and force do_page_fault() to return
immediately.
This functionality is similar to the now removed page fault notifiers.
Custom page fault handlers are used by debugging and reverse engineering
tools. Mmiotrace is one such tool and a patch to add it into the tree
will follow.
The custom page fault handlers are called earlier in do_page_fault()
than the page fault notifiers were.
Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Since ftrace touches practically every function. If we detect any
anomaly, we want to fully disable ftrace. This patch adds code
to try shutdown ftrace as much as possible without doing any more
harm is something is detected not quite correct.
This only kills ftrace, this patch does have checks for other parts of
the tracer (irqsoff, wakeup, etc.).
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
The ftrace dynamic function update allocates a record to store the
instruction pointers that are being modified. If the modified
instruction pointer fails to update, then the record is marked as
failed and nothing more is done.
Worse, if the modification fails, but the record ip function is still
called, it will allocate a new record and try again. In just a matter
of time, will this cause a serious memory leak and crash the system.
This patch plugs this memory leak. When a record fails, it is
included back into the pool of records to be used. Now a record may
fail over and over again, but the number of allocated records will
not increase.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This patch adds a startup self test on dynamic code modification
and filters. The test filters on a specific function, makes sure that
no other function is traced, exectutes the function, then makes sure that
the function is traced.
This patch also fixes a slight bug with the ftrace selftest, where
tracer_enabled was not being set.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
disable the tracer while kexec pulls the rug from under the old
kernel.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This patch adds two files to the debugfs system:
/debugfs/tracing/available_filter_functions
and
/debugfs/tracing/set_ftrace_filter
The available_filter_functions lists all functions that has been
recorded by the ftraced that has called the ftrace_record_ip function.
This is to allow users to see what functions have been converted
to nops and can be enabled for tracing.
To enable functions, simply echo the names (whitespace delimited)
into set_ftrace_filter. Simple wildcards are also allowed.
echo 'scheduler' > /debugfs/tracing/set_ftrace_filter
Will have only the scheduler be activated when tracing is enabled.
echo 'sched_*' > /debugfs/tracing/set_ftrace_filter
Will have only the functions starting with 'sched_' be activated.
echo '*lock' > /debugfs/tracing/set_ftrace_filter
Will have only functions ending with 'lock' be activated.
echo '*lock*' > /debugfs/tracing/set_ftrace_filter
Will have only functions with 'lock' in its name be activated.
Note: 'sched*lock' will not work. The only wildcards that are
allowed is an asterisk and the beginning and or end of the string
passed in.
Multiple names can be passed in with whitespace delimited:
echo 'scheduler *lock *acpi*' > /debugfs/tracing/set_ftrace_filter
is also the same as:
echo 'scheduler' > /debugfs/tracing/set_ftrace_filter
echo '*lock' >> /debugfs/tracing/set_ftrace_filter
echo '*acpi*' >> /debugfs/tracing/set_ftrace_filter
Appending does just that. It appends to the list.
To disable all filters simply echo an empty line in:
echo > /debugfs/tracing/set_ftrace_filter
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This patch replaces the indirect call to the mcount function
pointer with a direct call that will be patched by the
dynamic ftrace routines.
On boot up, the mcount function calls the ftace_stub function.
When the dynamic ftrace code is initialized, the ftrace_stub
is replaced with a call to the ftrace_record_ip, which records
the instruction pointers of the locations that call it.
Later, the ftraced daemon will call kstop_machine and patch all
the locations to nops.
When a ftrace is enabled, the original calls to mcount will now
be set top call ftrace_caller, which will do a direct call
to the registered ftrace function. This direct call is also patched
when the function that should be called is updated.
All patching is performed by a kstop_machine routine to prevent any
type of race conditions that is associated with modifying code
on the fly.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This patch moves the memory management of the ftrace
records out of the arch code and into the generic code
making the arch code simpler.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This patch patches the call to mcount with nops instead
of a jmp over the mcount call.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This patch adds back the sysctl ftrace_enabled. This time it is
defaulted to on, if DYNAMIC_FTRACE is configured. When ftrace_enabled
is disabled, the ftrace function is set to the stub return.
If DYNAMIC_FTRACE is also configured, on ftrace_enabled = 0,
the registered ftrace functions will all be set to jmps, but no more
new calls to ftrace recording (used to find the ftrace calling sites)
will be called.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This patch adds a feature to dynamically replace the ftrace code
with the jmps to allow a kernel with ftrace configured to run
as fast as it can without it configured.
The way this works, is on bootup (if ftrace is enabled), a ftrace
function is registered to record the instruction pointer of all
places that call the function.
Later, if there's still any code to patch, a kthread is awoken
(rate limited to at most once a second) that performs a stop_machine,
and replaces all the code that was called with a jmp over the call
to ftrace. It only replaces what was found the previous time. Typically
the system reaches equilibrium quickly after bootup and there's no code
patching needed at all.
e.g.
call ftrace /* 5 bytes */
is replaced with
jmp 3f /* jmp is 2 bytes and we jump 3 forward */
3:
When we want to enable ftrace for function tracing, the IP recording
is removed, and stop_machine is called again to replace all the locations
of that were recorded back to the call of ftrace. When it is disabled,
we replace the code back to the jmp.
Allocation is done by the kthread. If the ftrace recording function is
called, and we don't have any record slots available, then we simply
skip that call. Once a second a new page (if needed) is allocated for
recording new ftrace function calls. A large batch is allocated at
boot up to get most of the calls there.
Because we do this via stop_machine, we don't have to worry about another
CPU executing a ftrace call as we modify it. But we do need to worry
about NMI's so all functions that might be called via nmi must be
annotated with notrace_nmi. When this code is configured in, the NMI code
will not call notrace.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Add preempt off timings. A lot of kernel core code is taken from the RT patch
latency trace that was written by Ingo Molnar.
This adds "preemptoff" and "preemptirqsoff" to /debugfs/tracing/available_tracers
Now instead of just tracing irqs off, preemption off can be selected
to be recorded.
When this is selected, it shares the same files as irqs off timings.
One can either trace preemption off, irqs off, or one or the other off.
By echoing "preemptoff" into /debugfs/tracing/current_tracer, recording
of preempt off only is performed. "irqsoff" will only record the time
irqs are disabled, but "preemptirqsoff" will take the total time irqs
or preemption are disabled. Runtime switching of these options is now
supported by simpling echoing in the appropriate trace name into
/debugfs/tracing/current_tracer.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
If CONFIG_FTRACE is selected and /proc/sys/kernel/ftrace_enabled is
set to a non-zero value the ftrace routine will be called everytime
we enter a kernel function that is not marked with the "notrace"
attribute.
The ftrace routine will then call a registered function if a function
happens to be registered.
[ This code has been highly hacked by Steven Rostedt and Ingo Molnar,
so don't blame Arnaldo for all of this ;-) ]
Update:
It is now possible to register more than one ftrace function.
If only one ftrace function is registered, that will be the
function that ftrace calls directly. If more than one function
is registered, then ftrace will call a function that will loop
through the functions to call.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Add the notrace annotations to the vsyscall functions - there we are
not in kernel context yet, so the tracer function cannot (and must not)
be called.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
notrace signals that a function should not be traced. Most of the
time this is used by tracers to annotate code that cannot be
traced - it's in a volatile state (such as in user vdso context
or NMI context) or it's in the tracer internals.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
The tracer may need to call preempt_enable and disable functions
for time keeping and such. The trace gets ugly when we see these
functions show up for all traces. To make the output cleaner
this patch adds preempt_enable_notrace and preempt_disable_notrace
to be used by tracer (and debugging) functions.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
The tracer wants to be able to convert the state number
into a user visible character. This patch pulls that conversion
string out the scheduler into the header. This way if it were to
ever change, other parts of the kernel will know.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
add 3 lightweight callbacks to the tracer backend.
zero impact if tracing is turned off.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
The for_each_cpu_mask loop is used quite often in the kernel. It
makes use of two functions: first_cpu and next_cpu. This patch
changes for_each_cpu_mask to use only the latter. Because next_cpu
finds the next eligible cpu _after_ the given one, the iteration
variable has to be initialized to -1 and next_cpu has to be
called with this value before the first iteration. An x86_64
defconfig kernel (from sched/latest) is about 2500 bytes smaller
with this patch applied:
text data bss dec hex filename
6222517 917952 749932 7890401 7865e1 vmlinux.orig
6219922 917952 749932 7887806 785bbe vmlinux
The same size reduction is seen for defconfig+MAXSMP
text data bss dec hex filename
6241772 2563968 1492716 10298456 9d2458 vmlinux.orig
6239211 2563968 1492716 10295895 9d1a57 vmlinux
Signed-off-by: Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@fastmail.fm>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Change references from for_each_cpu_mask to for_each_cpu_mask_nr
where appropriate
Reviewed-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
commit 2d474871e2fb092eb46a0930aba5442e10eb96cc
Author: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Date: Mon May 12 21:21:13 2008 +0200
* Increase performance for systems with large count NR_CPUS by limiting
the range of the cpumask operators that loop over the bits in a cpumask_t
variable. This removes a large amount of wasted cpu cycles.
* Add performance variants of the cpumask operators:
int cpus_weight_nr(mask) Same using nr_cpu_ids instead of NR_CPUS
int first_cpu_nr(mask) Number lowest set bit, or nr_cpu_ids
int next_cpu_nr(cpu, mask) Next cpu past 'cpu', or nr_cpu_ids
for_each_cpu_mask_nr(cpu, mask) for-loop cpu over mask using nr_cpu_ids
* Modify following to use performance variants:
#define num_online_cpus() cpus_weight_nr(cpu_online_map)
#define num_possible_cpus() cpus_weight_nr(cpu_possible_map)
#define num_present_cpus() cpus_weight_nr(cpu_present_map)
#define for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) for_each_cpu_mask_nr((cpu), ...)
#define for_each_online_cpu(cpu) for_each_cpu_mask_nr((cpu), ...)
#define for_each_present_cpu(cpu) for_each_cpu_mask_nr((cpu), ...)
* Comment added to include/linux/cpumask.h:
Note: The alternate operations with the suffix "_nr" are used
to limit the range of the loop to nr_cpu_ids instead of
NR_CPUS when NR_CPUS > 64 for performance reasons.
If NR_CPUS is <= 64 then most assembler bitmask
operators execute faster with a constant range, so
the operator will continue to use NR_CPUS.
Another consideration is that nr_cpu_ids is initialized
to NR_CPUS and isn't lowered until the possible cpus are
discovered (including any disabled cpus). So early uses
will span the entire range of NR_CPUS.
(The net effect is that for systems with 64 or less CPU's there are no
functional changes.)
For inclusion into sched-devel/latest tree.
Based on:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
+ sched-devel/latest .../mingo/linux-2.6-sched-devel.git
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
CR4 manipulation is not protected against interrupts and preemption,
but KVM uses smp_function_call to manipulate the X86_CR4_VMXE bit
either from the CPU hotplug code or from the kvm_init call.
We need to protect the CR4 manipulation from both interrupts and
preemption.
Original bug report: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/5/7/48
Bugzilla entry: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10642
This is not a regression from 2.6.25, it's a long standing and hard to
trigger bug.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
OMAP has two include loops in its header files:
asm-arm/hardware.h <- asm-arm/arch-omap/io.h <-
asm-arm/arch-omap/hardware.h <- asm-arm/hardware.h
asm-arm/arch-omap/board-palmte.h <-
asm-arm/arch-omap/hardware.h <- asm-arm/hardware.h <-
asm-arm/arch-omap/gpio.h <- asm-arm/arch-omap/board-palmte.h
Circular include dependencies are dangerous since they can result in
inconsistent definitions being provided to other code, especially if
'#ifndef' constructs are used.
Solve these by removing the offending includes, and add additional
includes where necessary.
Acked-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
For the simple read_cpuid() macro case the variable processor_id has
no definition on use of the macro. Add an extern for it. Move all the
processor ID macros into the #ifndef __ASSEMBLEY__ block.
Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
The non-MMU case also needs the type definition of pgtable_t.
So move it out of a CONFIG_MMU conditional section.
Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Herbert Xu points out that the use of seperate feature bits for features
to be propagated to VLAN devices is going to get messy real soon.
Replace the VLAN feature bits by a bitmask of feature flags to be
propagated and restore the old GSO_SHIFT/MASK values.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Compiling ppc64_defconfig with gcc 4.3 gives thes warnings:
arch/powerpc/sysdev/mpic.c: In function 'mpic_irq_get_priority':
arch/powerpc/sysdev/mpic.c:1351: warning: 'is_ipi' may be used uninitialized in this function
arch/powerpc/sysdev/mpic.c: In function 'mpic_irq_set_priority':
arch/powerpc/sysdev/mpic.c:1328: warning: 'is_ipi' may be used uninitialized in this function
It turns out that in the cases where is_ipi is uninitialized, another
variable (mpic) will be NULL and it is dereferenced. Protect against
this by returning if mpic is NULL in mpic_irq_set_priority, and removing
mpic_irq_get_priority completely as it has no in tree callers.
This has the nice side effect of making the warning go away.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Some chips (like the SoCs from Freescale) report the wrong value in NIRQ
and this causes issues if its doesn't match or exceed the value of
irq_count.
Add a flag that board code can set to just use irq_count instead of
FRR[NIRQ]. Eventually we'll add a device tree property with the number
of sources.
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
This works around bugs in older binutils' objcopy.
The placement of these sections does not really matter,
but it confused the buggy old BFD libraries.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
The purpose of nla_parse_nested_compat() is to parse attributes which
contain a struct followed by a stream of nested attributes. So far,
it called nla_parse_nested() to parse the stream of nested attributes
which was wrong, as nla_parse_nested() expects a container attribute
as data which holds the attribute stream. It needs to call
nla_parse() directly while pointing at the next possible alignment
point after the struct in the beginning of the attribute.
With this patch, I can no longer reproduce the reported leftover
warnings.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Non-PAE operation has been deprecated in Xen for a while, and is
rarely tested or used. xen-unstable has now officially dropped
non-PAE support. Since Xen/pvops' non-PAE support has also been
broken for a while, we may as well completely drop it altogether.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
