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Author SHA1 Message Date
Qiang.Zhang
4b6b08f2e4 tracing/osnoise: Fix missed cpus_read_unlock() in start_per_cpu_kthreads()
When start_kthread() return error, the cpus_read_unlock() need
to be called.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210831022919.27630-1-qiang.zhang@windriver.com

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Fixes: c8895e271f ("trace/osnoise: Support hotplug operations")
Acked-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Qiang.Zhang <qiang.zhang@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2021-09-08 15:10:24 -04:00
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
99c37d1a63 tracing: Replace deprecated CPU-hotplug functions.
The functions get_online_cpus() and put_online_cpus() have been
deprecated during the CPU hotplug rework. They map directly to
cpus_read_lock() and cpus_read_unlock().

Replace deprecated CPU-hotplug functions with the official version.
The behavior remains unchanged.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210803141621.780504-37-bigeasy@linutronix.de

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2021-08-17 15:47:14 -04:00
Daniel Bristot de Oliveira
0e05ba498d trace/osnoise: Print a stop tracing message
When using osnoise/timerlat with stop tracing, sometimes it is
not clear in which CPU the stop condition was hit, mainly
when using some extra events.

Print a message informing in which CPU the trace stopped, like
in the example below:

          <idle>-0       [006] d.h.  2932.676616: #1672599 context    irq timer_latency     34689 ns
          <idle>-0       [006] dNh.  2932.676618: irq_noise: local_timer:236 start 2932.676615639 duration 2391 ns
          <idle>-0       [006] dNh.  2932.676620: irq_noise: virtio0-output.0:47 start 2932.676620180 duration 86 ns
          <idle>-0       [003] d.h.  2932.676621: #1673374 context    irq timer_latency      1200 ns
          <idle>-0       [006] d...  2932.676623: thread_noise: swapper/6:0 start 2932.676615964 duration 4339 ns
          <idle>-0       [003] dNh.  2932.676623: irq_noise: local_timer:236 start 2932.676620597 duration 1881 ns
          <idle>-0       [006] d...  2932.676623: sched_switch: prev_comm=swapper/6 prev_pid=0 prev_prio=120 prev_state=R ==> next_comm=timerlat/6 next_pid=852 next_prio=4
      timerlat/6-852     [006] ....  2932.676623: #1672599 context thread timer_latency     41931 ns
          <idle>-0       [003] d...  2932.676623: thread_noise: swapper/3:0 start 2932.676620854 duration 880 ns
          <idle>-0       [003] d...  2932.676624: sched_switch: prev_comm=swapper/3 prev_pid=0 prev_prio=120 prev_state=R ==> next_comm=timerlat/3 next_pid=849 next_prio=4
      timerlat/6-852     [006] ....  2932.676624: timerlat_main: stop tracing hit on cpu 6
      timerlat/3-849     [003] ....  2932.676624: #1673374 context thread timer_latency      4310 ns

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/b30a0d7542adba019185f44ee648e60e14923b11.1626598844.git.bristot@kernel.org

Cc: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2021-08-12 13:35:56 -04:00
Daniel Bristot de Oliveira
e1c4ad4a7f trace/timerlat: Add a header with PREEMPT_RT additional fields
Some extra flags are printed to the trace header when using the
PREEMPT_RT config. The extra flags are: need-resched-lazy,
preempt-lazy-depth, and migrate-disable.

Without printing these fields, the timerlat specific fields are
shifted by three positions, for example:

 # tracer: timerlat
 #
 #                                _-----=> irqs-off
 #                               / _----=> need-resched
 #                              | / _---=> hardirq/softirq
 #                              || / _--=> preempt-depth
 #                              || /
 #                              ||||             ACTIVATION
 #           TASK-PID      CPU# ||||   TIMESTAMP    ID            CONTEXT                LATENCY
 #              | |         |   ||||      |         |                  |                       |
           <idle>-0       [000] d..h...  3279.798871: #1     context    irq timer_latency       830 ns
            <...>-807     [000] .......  3279.798881: #1     context thread timer_latency     11301 ns

Add a new header for timerlat with the missing fields, to be used
when the PREEMPT_RT is enabled.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/babb83529a3211bd0805be0b8c21608230202c55.1626598844.git.bristot@kernel.org

Cc: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2021-08-12 13:35:56 -04:00
Daniel Bristot de Oliveira
d03721a6e7 trace/osnoise: Add a header with PREEMPT_RT additional fields
Some extra flags are printed to the trace header when using the
PREEMPT_RT config. The extra flags are: need-resched-lazy,
preempt-lazy-depth, and migrate-disable.

Without printing these fields, the osnoise specific fields are
shifted by three positions, for example:

 # tracer: osnoise
 #
 #                                _-----=> irqs-off
 #                               / _----=> need-resched
 #                              | / _---=> hardirq/softirq
 #                              || / _--=> preempt-depth                            MAX
 #                              || /                                             SINGLE      Interference counters:
 #                              ||||               RUNTIME      NOISE  %% OF CPU  NOISE    +-----------------------------+
 #           TASK-PID      CPU# ||||   TIMESTAMP    IN US       IN US  AVAILABLE  IN US     HW    NMI    IRQ   SIRQ THREAD
 #              | |         |   ||||      |           |             |    |            |      |      |      |      |      |
            <...>-741     [000] .......  1105.690909: 1000000        234  99.97660      36     21      0   1001     22      3
            <...>-742     [001] .......  1105.691923: 1000000        281  99.97190     197      7      0   1012     35     14
            <...>-743     [002] .......  1105.691958: 1000000       1324  99.86760     118     11      0   1016    155    143
            <...>-744     [003] .......  1105.691998: 1000000        109  99.98910      21      4      0   1004     33      7
            <...>-745     [004] .......  1105.692015: 1000000       2023  99.79770      97     37      0   1023     52     18

Add a new header for osnoise with the missing fields, to be used
when the PREEMPT_RT is enabled.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1f03289d2a51fde5a58c2e7def063dc630820ad1.1626598844.git.bristot@kernel.org

Cc: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2021-08-12 13:35:56 -04:00
Daniel Bristot de Oliveira
6a82f42a2e trace/timerlat: Fix indentation on timerlat_main()
Dan Carpenter reported that:

 The patch a955d7eac1: "trace: Add timerlat tracer" from Jun 22,
 2021, leads to the following static checker warning:

	kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c:1400 timerlat_main()
	warn: inconsistent indenting

here:
  1389          while (!kthread_should_stop()) {
  1390                  now = ktime_to_ns(hrtimer_cb_get_time(&tlat->timer));
  1391                  diff = now - tlat->abs_period;
  1392
  1393                  s.seqnum = tlat->count;
  1394                  s.timer_latency = diff;
  1395                  s.context = THREAD_CONTEXT;
  1396
  1397                  trace_timerlat_sample(&s);
  1398
  1399  #ifdef CONFIG_STACKTRACE
  1400          if (osnoise_data.print_stack)
                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
	    This should be indented another tab?

  1401                  if (osnoise_data.print_stack <= time_to_us(diff))
  1402                          timerlat_dump_stack();
  1403  #endif /* CONFIG_STACKTRACE */
  1404
  1405                  tlat->tracing_thread = false;
  1406                  if (osnoise_data.stop_tracing_total)
  1407                          if (time_to_us(diff) >= osnoise_data.stop_tracing_total)
  1408                                  osnoise_stop_tracing();
  1409
  1410                  wait_next_period(tlat);
  1411          }

And the static checker is right. Fix the indentation.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/3d5d8c9258fbdcfa9d3c7362941b3d13a2a28d9d.1624986368.git.bristot@redhat.com

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: a955d7eac1 ("trace: Add timerlat tracer")
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2021-06-29 16:37:50 -04:00
Daniel Bristot de Oliveira
19c3eaa722 trace/osnoise: Make 'noise' variable s64 in run_osnoise()
Dab Carpenter reported that:

 The patch bce29ac9ce: "trace: Add osnoise tracer" from Jun 22,
 2021, leads to the following static checker warning:

	kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c:1103 run_osnoise()
	warn: unsigned 'noise' is never less than zero.

In this part of the code:

  1100                  /*
  1101                   * This shouldn't happen.
  1102                   */
  1103                  if (noise < 0) {
                            ^^^^^^^^^
  1104                          osnoise_taint("negative noise!");
  1105                          goto out;
  1106                  }
  1107

And the static checker is right because 'noise' is u64.

Make noise s64 and keep the check. It is important to check if
the time read is behaving correctly - so we can trust the results.

I also re-arranged some variable declarations.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/acd7cd6e7d56b798a298c3bc8139a390b3c4ab52.1624986368.git.bristot@redhat.com

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: bce29ac9ce ("trace: Add osnoise tracer")
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2021-06-29 16:37:50 -04:00
Daniel Bristot de Oliveira
498627b4ac trace/osnoise: Fix return value on osnoise_init_hotplug_support
kernel test robot reported:

  >> kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c:1584:2: error: void function
  'osnoise_init_hotplug_support' should not return a
  value [-Wreturn-type]
           return 0;

When !CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU.

Fix it problem by removing the return value.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/c7fc67f1a117cc88bab2e508c898634872795341.1624872608.git.bristot@redhat.com

Fixes: c8895e271f ("trace/osnoise: Support hotplug operations")
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2021-06-28 14:12:27 -04:00
Daniel Bristot de Oliveira
2a81afa326 trace/osnoise: Make interval u64 on osnoise_main
kernel test robot reported:

  >> kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c:966:3: warning: comparison of distinct
     pointer types ('typeof ((interval)) *' (aka 'long long *') and
     'uint64_t *' (aka 'unsigned long long *'))
     [-Wcompare-distinct-pointer-types]
                   do_div(interval, USEC_PER_MSEC);
                   ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
   include/asm-generic/div64.h:228:28: note: expanded from macro 'do_div'
           (void)(((typeof((n)) *)0) == ((uint64_t *)0));  \
                  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ^  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

As interval cannot be negative because sample_period >= sample_runtime,
making interval u64 on osnoise_main() is enough to fix this problem.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/4ae1e7780563598563de079a3ef6d4d10b5f5546.1624872608.git.bristot@redhat.com

Fixes: bce29ac9ce ("trace: Add osnoise tracer")
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2021-06-28 14:12:26 -04:00
Daniel Bristot de Oliveira
f7d9f6370e trace/osnoise: Fix 'no previous prototype' warnings
kernel test robot reported some osnoise functions with "no previous
prototype."

Fix these warnings by making local functions static, and by adding:

 void osnoise_trace_irq_entry(int id);
 void osnoise_trace_irq_exit(int id, const char *desc);

to include/linux/trace.h.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/e40d3cb4be8bde921f4b40fa6a095cf85ab807bd.1624872608.git.bristot@redhat.com

Fixes: bce29ac9ce ("trace: Add osnoise tracer")
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2021-06-28 14:12:26 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (VMware)
b96285e10a tracing: Have osnoise_main() add a quiescent state for task rcu
ftracetest triggered:

 INFO: rcu_tasks detected stalls on tasks:
 00000000b92b832d: .. nvcsw: 1/1 holdout: 1 idle_cpu: -1/7
 task:osnoise/7       state:R  running task     stack:    0 pid: 2133 ppid:     2 flags:0x00004000
 Call Trace:
  ? asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x12/0x20
  ? asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x12/0x20
  ? trace_hardirqs_on+0x2b/0xe0
  ? asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x12/0x20
  ? trace_clock_local+0xc/0x20
  ? osnoise_main+0x10e/0x450
  ? trace_softirq_entry_callback+0x50/0x50
  ? kthread+0x153/0x170
  ? __kthread_bind_mask+0x60/0x60
  ? ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30

While running osnoise tracer with other tracers that rely on
synchronize_rcu_tasks(), where that just hung.

The reason is that osnoise_main() never schedules out if the interval
is less than 1, and this will cause synchronize_rcu_tasks() to never
return.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210628114953.6dc06a91@oasis.local.home

Fixes: bce29ac9ce ("trace: Add osnoise tracer")
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2021-06-28 14:11:41 -04:00
Daniel Bristot de Oliveira
c8895e271f trace/osnoise: Support hotplug operations
Enable and disable osnoise/timerlat thread during on CPU hotplug online
and offline operations respectivelly.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-doc/20210621134636.5b332226@oasis.local.home/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/39f98590b3caeb3c32f09526214058efe0e9272a.1624372313.git.bristot@redhat.com

Cc: Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Kate Carcia <kcarcia@redhat.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Alexandre Chartre <alexandre.chartre@oracle.com>
Cc: Clark Willaims <williams@redhat.com>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2021-06-25 19:57:24 -04:00
Daniel Bristot de Oliveira
a955d7eac1 trace: Add timerlat tracer
The timerlat tracer aims to help the preemptive kernel developers to
found souces of wakeup latencies of real-time threads. Like cyclictest,
the tracer sets a periodic timer that wakes up a thread. The thread then
computes a *wakeup latency* value as the difference between the *current
time* and the *absolute time* that the timer was set to expire. The main
goal of timerlat is tracing in such a way to help kernel developers.

Usage

Write the ASCII text "timerlat" into the current_tracer file of the
tracing system (generally mounted at /sys/kernel/tracing).

For example:

        [root@f32 ~]# cd /sys/kernel/tracing/
        [root@f32 tracing]# echo timerlat > current_tracer

It is possible to follow the trace by reading the trace trace file:

  [root@f32 tracing]# cat trace
  # tracer: timerlat
  #
  #                              _-----=> irqs-off
  #                             / _----=> need-resched
  #                            | / _---=> hardirq/softirq
  #                            || / _--=> preempt-depth
  #                            || /
  #                            ||||             ACTIVATION
  #         TASK-PID      CPU# ||||   TIMESTAMP    ID            CONTEXT                LATENCY
  #            | |         |   ||||      |         |                  |                       |
          <idle>-0       [000] d.h1    54.029328: #1     context    irq timer_latency       932 ns
           <...>-867     [000] ....    54.029339: #1     context thread timer_latency     11700 ns
          <idle>-0       [001] dNh1    54.029346: #1     context    irq timer_latency      2833 ns
           <...>-868     [001] ....    54.029353: #1     context thread timer_latency      9820 ns
          <idle>-0       [000] d.h1    54.030328: #2     context    irq timer_latency       769 ns
           <...>-867     [000] ....    54.030330: #2     context thread timer_latency      3070 ns
          <idle>-0       [001] d.h1    54.030344: #2     context    irq timer_latency       935 ns
           <...>-868     [001] ....    54.030347: #2     context thread timer_latency      4351 ns

The tracer creates a per-cpu kernel thread with real-time priority that
prints two lines at every activation. The first is the *timer latency*
observed at the *hardirq* context before the activation of the thread.
The second is the *timer latency* observed by the thread, which is the
same level that cyclictest reports. The ACTIVATION ID field
serves to relate the *irq* execution to its respective *thread* execution.

The irq/thread splitting is important to clarify at which context
the unexpected high value is coming from. The *irq* context can be
delayed by hardware related actions, such as SMIs, NMIs, IRQs
or by a thread masking interrupts. Once the timer happens, the delay
can also be influenced by blocking caused by threads. For example, by
postponing the scheduler execution via preempt_disable(),  by the
scheduler execution, or by masking interrupts. Threads can
also be delayed by the interference from other threads and IRQs.

The timerlat can also take advantage of the osnoise: traceevents.
For example:

        [root@f32 ~]# cd /sys/kernel/tracing/
        [root@f32 tracing]# echo timerlat > current_tracer
        [root@f32 tracing]# echo osnoise > set_event
        [root@f32 tracing]# echo 25 > osnoise/stop_tracing_total_us
        [root@f32 tracing]# tail -10 trace
             cc1-87882   [005] d..h...   548.771078: #402268 context    irq timer_latency      1585 ns
             cc1-87882   [005] dNLh1..   548.771082: irq_noise: local_timer:236 start 548.771077442 duration 4597 ns
             cc1-87882   [005] dNLh2..   548.771083: irq_noise: reschedule:253 start 548.771083017 duration 56 ns
             cc1-87882   [005] dNLh2..   548.771086: irq_noise: call_function_single:251 start 548.771083811 duration 2048 ns
             cc1-87882   [005] dNLh2..   548.771088: irq_noise: call_function_single:251 start 548.771086814 duration 1495 ns
             cc1-87882   [005] dNLh2..   548.771091: irq_noise: call_function_single:251 start 548.771089194 duration 1558 ns
             cc1-87882   [005] dNLh2..   548.771094: irq_noise: call_function_single:251 start 548.771091719 duration 1932 ns
             cc1-87882   [005] dNLh2..   548.771096: irq_noise: call_function_single:251 start 548.771094696 duration 1050 ns
             cc1-87882   [005] d...3..   548.771101: thread_noise:      cc1:87882 start 548.771078243 duration 10909 ns
      timerlat/5-1035    [005] .......   548.771103: #402268 context thread timer_latency     25960 ns

For further information see: Documentation/trace/timerlat-tracer.rst

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/71f18efc013e1194bcaea1e54db957de2b19ba62.1624372313.git.bristot@redhat.com

Cc: Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Kate Carcia <kcarcia@redhat.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Alexandre Chartre <alexandre.chartre@oracle.com>
Cc: Clark Willaims <williams@redhat.com>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2021-06-25 19:57:24 -04:00
Daniel Bristot de Oliveira
bce29ac9ce trace: Add osnoise tracer
In the context of high-performance computing (HPC), the Operating System
Noise (*osnoise*) refers to the interference experienced by an application
due to activities inside the operating system. In the context of Linux,
NMIs, IRQs, SoftIRQs, and any other system thread can cause noise to the
system. Moreover, hardware-related jobs can also cause noise, for example,
via SMIs.

The osnoise tracer leverages the hwlat_detector by running a similar
loop with preemption, SoftIRQs and IRQs enabled, thus allowing all
the sources of *osnoise* during its execution. Using the same approach
of hwlat, osnoise takes note of the entry and exit point of any
source of interferences, increasing a per-cpu interference counter. The
osnoise tracer also saves an interference counter for each source of
interference. The interference counter for NMI, IRQs, SoftIRQs, and
threads is increased anytime the tool observes these interferences' entry
events. When a noise happens without any interference from the operating
system level, the hardware noise counter increases, pointing to a
hardware-related noise. In this way, osnoise can account for any
source of interference. At the end of the period, the osnoise tracer
prints the sum of all noise, the max single noise, the percentage of CPU
available for the thread, and the counters for the noise sources.

Usage

Write the ASCII text "osnoise" into the current_tracer file of the
tracing system (generally mounted at /sys/kernel/tracing).

For example::

        [root@f32 ~]# cd /sys/kernel/tracing/
        [root@f32 tracing]# echo osnoise > current_tracer

It is possible to follow the trace by reading the trace trace file::

        [root@f32 tracing]# cat trace
        # tracer: osnoise
        #
        #                                _-----=> irqs-off
        #                               / _----=> need-resched
        #                              | / _---=> hardirq/softirq
        #                              || / _--=> preempt-depth                            MAX
        #                              || /                                             SINGLE     Interference counters:
        #                              ||||               RUNTIME      NOISE   % OF CPU  NOISE    +-----------------------------+
        #           TASK-PID      CPU# ||||   TIMESTAMP    IN US       IN US  AVAILABLE  IN US     HW    NMI    IRQ   SIRQ THREAD
        #              | |         |   ||||      |           |             |    |            |      |      |      |      |      |
                   <...>-859     [000] ....    81.637220: 1000000        190  99.98100       9     18      0   1007     18      1
                   <...>-860     [001] ....    81.638154: 1000000        656  99.93440      74     23      0   1006     16      3
                   <...>-861     [002] ....    81.638193: 1000000       5675  99.43250     202      6      0   1013     25     21
                   <...>-862     [003] ....    81.638242: 1000000        125  99.98750      45      1      0   1011     23      0
                   <...>-863     [004] ....    81.638260: 1000000       1721  99.82790     168      7      0   1002     49     41
                   <...>-864     [005] ....    81.638286: 1000000        263  99.97370      57      6      0   1006     26      2
                   <...>-865     [006] ....    81.638302: 1000000        109  99.98910      21      3      0   1006     18      1
                   <...>-866     [007] ....    81.638326: 1000000       7816  99.21840     107      8      0   1016     39     19

In addition to the regular trace fields (from TASK-PID to TIMESTAMP), the
tracer prints a message at the end of each period for each CPU that is
running an osnoise/CPU thread. The osnoise specific fields report:

 - The RUNTIME IN USE reports the amount of time in microseconds that
   the osnoise thread kept looping reading the time.
 - The NOISE IN US reports the sum of noise in microseconds observed
   by the osnoise tracer during the associated runtime.
 - The % OF CPU AVAILABLE reports the percentage of CPU available for
   the osnoise thread during the runtime window.
 - The MAX SINGLE NOISE IN US reports the maximum single noise observed
   during the runtime window.
 - The Interference counters display how many each of the respective
   interference happened during the runtime window.

Note that the example above shows a high number of HW noise samples.
The reason being is that this sample was taken on a virtual machine,
and the host interference is detected as a hardware interference.

Tracer options

The tracer has a set of options inside the osnoise directory, they are:

 - osnoise/cpus: CPUs at which a osnoise thread will execute.
 - osnoise/period_us: the period of the osnoise thread.
 - osnoise/runtime_us: how long an osnoise thread will look for noise.
 - osnoise/stop_tracing_us: stop the system tracing if a single noise
   higher than the configured value happens. Writing 0 disables this
   option.
 - osnoise/stop_tracing_total_us: stop the system tracing if total noise
   higher than the configured value happens. Writing 0 disables this
   option.
 - tracing_threshold: the minimum delta between two time() reads to be
   considered as noise, in us. When set to 0, the default value will
   be used, which is currently 5 us.

Additional Tracing

In addition to the tracer, a set of tracepoints were added to
facilitate the identification of the osnoise source.

 - osnoise:sample_threshold: printed anytime a noise is higher than
   the configurable tolerance_ns.
 - osnoise:nmi_noise: noise from NMI, including the duration.
 - osnoise:irq_noise: noise from an IRQ, including the duration.
 - osnoise:softirq_noise: noise from a SoftIRQ, including the
   duration.
 - osnoise:thread_noise: noise from a thread, including the duration.

Note that all the values are *net values*. For example, if while osnoise
is running, another thread preempts the osnoise thread, it will start a
thread_noise duration at the start. Then, an IRQ takes place, preempting
the thread_noise, starting a irq_noise. When the IRQ ends its execution,
it will compute its duration, and this duration will be subtracted from
the thread_noise, in such a way as to avoid the double accounting of the
IRQ execution. This logic is valid for all sources of noise.

Here is one example of the usage of these tracepoints::

       osnoise/8-961     [008] d.h.  5789.857532: irq_noise: local_timer:236 start 5789.857529929 duration 1845 ns
       osnoise/8-961     [008] dNh.  5789.858408: irq_noise: local_timer:236 start 5789.858404871 duration 2848 ns
     migration/8-54      [008] d...  5789.858413: thread_noise: migration/8:54 start 5789.858409300 duration 3068 ns
       osnoise/8-961     [008] ....  5789.858413: sample_threshold: start 5789.858404555 duration 8723 ns interferences 2

In this example, a noise sample of 8 microseconds was reported in the last
line, pointing to two interferences. Looking backward in the trace, the
two previous entries were about the migration thread running after a
timer IRQ execution. The first event is not part of the noise because
it took place one millisecond before.

It is worth noticing that the sum of the duration reported in the
tracepoints is smaller than eight us reported in the sample_threshold.
The reason roots in the overhead of the entry and exit code that happens
before and after any interference execution. This justifies the dual
approach: measuring thread and tracing.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/e649467042d60e7b62714c9c6751a56299d15119.1624372313.git.bristot@redhat.com

Cc: Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Kate Carcia <kcarcia@redhat.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Alexandre Chartre <alexandre.chartre@oracle.com>
Cc: Clark Willaims <williams@redhat.com>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com>
[
  Made the following functions static:
   trace_irqentry_callback()
   trace_irqexit_callback()
   trace_intel_irqentry_callback()
   trace_intel_irqexit_callback()

  Added to include/trace.h:
   osnoise_arch_register()
   osnoise_arch_unregister()

  Fixed define logic for LATENCY_FS_NOTIFY

  Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2021-06-25 19:57:01 -04:00