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Steven Rostedt
9366c1ba13 ring-buffer: Fix race between integrity check and readers
The function rb_check_pages() was added to make sure the ring buffer's
pages were sane. This check is done when the ring buffer size is modified
as well as when the iterator is released (closing the "trace" file),
as that was considered a non fast path and a good place to do a sanity
check.

The problem is that the check does not have any locks around it.
If one process were to read the trace file, and another were to read
the raw binary file, the check could happen while the reader is reading
the file.

The issues with this is that the check requires to clear the HEAD page
before doing the full check and it restores it afterward. But readers
require the HEAD page to exist before it can read the buffer, otherwise
it gives a nasty warning and disables the buffer.

By adding the reader lock around the check, this keeps the race from
happening.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.6
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-11-30 11:09:57 -05:00
Steven Rostedt
54f7be5b83 ring-buffer: Fix NULL pointer if rb_set_head_page() fails
The function rb_set_head_page() searches the list of ring buffer
pages for a the page that has the HEAD page flag set. If it does
not find it, it will do a WARN_ON(), disable the ring buffer and
return NULL, as this should never happen.

But if this bug happens to happen, not all callers of this function
can handle a NULL pointer being returned from it. That needs to be
fixed.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.0+
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-11-30 11:09:28 -05:00
Dan Carpenter
70f77b3f7e ftrace: Clear bits properly in reset_iter_read()
There is a typo here where '&' is used instead of '|' and it turns the
statement into a noop.  The original code is equivalent to:

	iter->flags &= ~((1 << 2) & (1 << 4));

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120609161027.GD6488@elgon.mountain

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # all of them
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-11-15 16:10:17 -05:00
Ingo Molnar
ef8ff74ed8 Merge branch 'tip/perf/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace into perf/urgent
Pull ftrace ring-buffer resizing fix from Steve Rostedt.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-10-21 19:53:34 +02:00
Vaibhav Nagarnaik
8e49f418c9 ring-buffer: Check for uninitialized cpu buffer before resizing
With a system where, num_present_cpus < num_possible_cpus, even if all
CPUs are online, non-present CPUs don't have per_cpu buffers allocated.
If per_cpu/<cpu>/buffer_size_kb is modified for such a CPU, it can cause
a panic due to NULL dereference in ring_buffer_resize().

To fix this, resize operation is allowed only if the per-cpu buffer has
been initialized.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1349912427-6486-1-git-send-email-vnagarnaik@google.com

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.5+
Signed-off-by: Vaibhav Nagarnaik <vnagarnaik@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-10-11 12:21:48 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
dc92b1f9ab Merge branch 'virtio-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux
Pull virtio changes from Rusty Russell:
 "New workflow: same git trees pulled by linux-next get sent straight to
  Linus.  Git is awkward at shuffling patches compared with quilt or mq,
  but that doesn't happen often once things get into my -next branch."

* 'virtio-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux: (24 commits)
  lguest: fix occasional crash in example launcher.
  virtio-blk: Disable callback in virtblk_done()
  virtio_mmio: Don't attempt to create empty virtqueues
  virtio_mmio: fix off by one error allocating queue
  drivers/virtio/virtio_pci.c: fix error return code
  virtio: don't crash when device is buggy
  virtio: remove CONFIG_VIRTIO_RING
  virtio: add help to CONFIG_VIRTIO option.
  virtio: support reserved vqs
  virtio: introduce an API to set affinity for a virtqueue
  virtio-ring: move queue_index to vring_virtqueue
  virtio_balloon: not EXPERIMENTAL any more.
  virtio-balloon: dependency fix
  virtio-blk: fix NULL checking in virtblk_alloc_req()
  virtio-blk: Add REQ_FLUSH and REQ_FUA support to bio path
  virtio-blk: Add bio-based IO path for virtio-blk
  virtio: console: fix error handling in init() function
  tools: Fix pthread flag for Makefile of trace-agent used by virtio-trace
  tools: Add guest trace agent as a user tool
  virtio/console: Allocate scatterlist according to the current pipe size
  ...
2012-10-07 21:04:56 +09:00
Linus Torvalds
7f60ba388f 1. We no longer ad-hoc to the function tracer "high level" infrastructure
and no longer use its debugfs knobs. The change slightly touches
    kernel/trace directory, but it got the needed ack from Steven Rostedt:
    http://lkml.org/lkml/2012/8/21/688
 2. Added maintainers entry;
 3. A bunch of fixes, nothing special.
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Merge tag 'for-v3.7' of git://git.infradead.org/users/cbou/linux-pstore

Pull pstore changes from Anton Vorontsov:

 1) We no longer ad-hoc to the function tracer "high level"
    infrastructure and no longer use its debugfs knobs.  The change
    slightly touches kernel/trace directory, but it got the needed ack
    from Steven Rostedt:

      http://lkml.org/lkml/2012/8/21/688

 2) Added maintainers entry;

 3) A bunch of fixes, nothing special.

* tag 'for-v3.7' of git://git.infradead.org/users/cbou/linux-pstore:
  pstore: Avoid recursive spinlocks in the oops_in_progress case
  pstore/ftrace: Convert to its own enable/disable debugfs knob
  pstore/ram: Add missing platform_device_unregister
  MAINTAINERS: Add pstore maintainers
  pstore/ram: Mark ramoops_pstore_write_buf() as notrace
  pstore/ram: Fix printk format warning
  pstore/ram: Fix possible NULL dereference
2012-10-07 17:30:50 +09:00
Linus Torvalds
437589a74b Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace
Pull user namespace changes from Eric Biederman:
 "This is a mostly modest set of changes to enable basic user namespace
  support.  This allows the code to code to compile with user namespaces
  enabled and removes the assumption there is only the initial user
  namespace.  Everything is converted except for the most complex of the
  filesystems: autofs4, 9p, afs, ceph, cifs, coda, fuse, gfs2, ncpfs,
  nfs, ocfs2 and xfs as those patches need a bit more review.

  The strategy is to push kuid_t and kgid_t values are far down into
  subsystems and filesystems as reasonable.  Leaving the make_kuid and
  from_kuid operations to happen at the edge of userspace, as the values
  come off the disk, and as the values come in from the network.
  Letting compile type incompatible compile errors (present when user
  namespaces are enabled) guide me to find the issues.

  The most tricky areas have been the places where we had an implicit
  union of uid and gid values and were storing them in an unsigned int.
  Those places were converted into explicit unions.  I made certain to
  handle those places with simple trivial patches.

  Out of that work I discovered we have generic interfaces for storing
  quota by projid.  I had never heard of the project identifiers before.
  Adding full user namespace support for project identifiers accounts
  for most of the code size growth in my git tree.

  Ultimately there will be work to relax privlige checks from
  "capable(FOO)" to "ns_capable(user_ns, FOO)" where it is safe allowing
  root in a user names to do those things that today we only forbid to
  non-root users because it will confuse suid root applications.

  While I was pushing kuid_t and kgid_t changes deep into the audit code
  I made a few other cleanups.  I capitalized on the fact we process
  netlink messages in the context of the message sender.  I removed
  usage of NETLINK_CRED, and started directly using current->tty.

  Some of these patches have also made it into maintainer trees, with no
  problems from identical code from different trees showing up in
  linux-next.

  After reading through all of this code I feel like I might be able to
  win a game of kernel trivial pursuit."

Fix up some fairly trivial conflicts in netfilter uid/git logging code.

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: (107 commits)
  userns: Convert the ufs filesystem to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
  userns: Convert the udf filesystem to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
  userns: Convert ubifs to use kuid/kgid
  userns: Convert squashfs to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
  userns: Convert reiserfs to use kuid and kgid where appropriate
  userns: Convert jfs to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
  userns: Convert jffs2 to use kuid and kgid where appropriate
  userns: Convert hpfs to use kuid and kgid where appropriate
  userns: Convert btrfs to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
  userns: Convert bfs to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
  userns: Convert affs to use kuid/kgid wherwe appropriate
  userns: On alpha modify linux_to_osf_stat to use convert from kuids and kgids
  userns: On ia64 deal with current_uid and current_gid being kuid and kgid
  userns: On ppc convert current_uid from a kuid before printing.
  userns: Convert s390 getting uid and gid system calls to use kuid and kgid
  userns: Convert s390 hypfs to use kuid and kgid where appropriate
  userns: Convert binder ipc to use kuids
  userns: Teach security_path_chown to take kuids and kgids
  userns: Add user namespace support to IMA
  userns: Convert EVM to deal with kuids and kgids in it's hmac computation
  ...
2012-10-02 11:11:09 -07:00
Masami Hiramatsu
d55cb6cf14 ftrace: Allow stealing pages from pipe buffer
Use generic steal operation on pipe buffer to allow stealing
ring buffer's read page from pipe buffer.

Note that this could reduce the performance of splice on the
splice_write side operation without affinity setting.
Since the ring buffer's read pages are allocated on the
tracing-node, but the splice user does not always execute
splice write side operation on the same node. In this case,
the page will be accessed from the another node.
Thus, it is strongly recommended to assign the splicing
thread to corresponding node.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2012-09-28 15:05:12 +09:30
Ezequiel Garcia
8781915ad2 trace: Move trace event enable from fs_initcall to core_initcall
This patch splits trace event initialization in two stages:
 * ftrace enable
 * sysfs event entry creation

This allows to capture trace events from an earlier point
by using 'trace_event' kernel parameter and is important
to trace boot-up allocations.

Note that, in order to enable events at core_initcall,
it's necessary to move init_ftrace_syscalls() from
core_initcall to early_initcall.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1347461277-25302-1-git-send-email-elezegarcia@gmail.com

Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-09-24 14:13:02 -04:00
Mandeep Singh Baines
5224c3a315 tracing: Add an option for disabling markers
In our application, we have trace markers spread through user-space.
We have markers in GL, X, etc. These are super handy for Chrome's
about:tracing feature (Chrome + system + kernel trace view), but
can be very distracting when you're trying to debug a kernel issue.

I normally, use "grep -v tracing_mark_write" but it would be nice
if I could just temporarily disable markers all together.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1347066739-26285-1-git-send-email-msb@chromium.org

CC: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-09-24 14:10:44 -04:00
Eric W. Biederman
d20b92ab66 userns: Teach trace to use from_kuid
- When tracing capture the kuid.
- When displaying the data to user space convert the kuid into the
  user namespace of the process that opened the report file.

Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2012-09-18 01:01:34 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
26f45274af Merge branch 'tip/perf/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace into perf/core
Pull tracing updates from Steve Rostedt.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-09-14 10:06:51 +02:00
Josh Triplett
ea632e9f12 trace: Stop compiling in trace_clock unconditionally
Commit 56449f437 "tracing: make the trace clocks available generally",
in April 2009, made trace_clock available unconditionally, since
CONFIG_X86_DS used it too.

Commit faa4602e47 "x86, perf, bts, mm: Delete the never used BTS-ptrace code",
in March 2010, removed CONFIG_X86_DS, and now only CONFIG_RING_BUFFER (split
out from CONFIG_TRACING for general use) has a dependency on trace_clock. So,
only compile in trace_clock with CONFIG_RING_BUFFER or CONFIG_TRACING
enabled.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120903024513.GA19583@leaf

Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-09-13 22:52:08 -04:00
Yuanhan Liu
76bab1b78a tracing: Skip printing "OK" if failed to disable event
No acutal case found. But logically, we should skip "OK" in case any
error met.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1346051625-25231-1-git-send-email-yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com

Signed-off-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-09-13 22:52:07 -04:00
Anton Vorontsov
65f8c95e46 pstore/ftrace: Convert to its own enable/disable debugfs knob
With this patch we no longer reuse function tracer infrastructure, now
we register our own tracer back-end via a debugfs knob.

It's a bit more code, but that is the only downside. On the bright side we
have:

- Ability to make persistent_ram module removable (when needed, we can
  move ftrace_ops struct into a module). Note that persistent_ram is still
  not removable for other reasons, but with this patch it's just one
  thing less to worry about;

- Pstore part is more isolated from the generic function tracer. We tried
  it already by registering our own tracer in available_tracers, but that
  way we're loosing ability to see the traces while we record them to
  pstore. This solution is somewhere in the middle: we only register
  "internal ftracer" back-end, but not the "front-end";

- When there is only pstore tracing enabled, the kernel will only write
  to the pstore buffer, omitting function tracer buffer (which, of course,
  still can be enabled via 'echo function > current_tracer').

Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
2012-09-06 22:16:58 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
508dc4f8ee Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core
Pick up the latest fixes because upcoming uprobes changes will rely on it.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-08-28 18:05:55 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
781d062482 ftrace: Do not test frame pointers if -mfentry is used
The function graph has a test to check if the frame pointer is
corrupted, which can happen with various options of gcc with mcount.
But this is not an issue with -mfentry as -mfentry does not need nor use
frame pointers for function graph tracing.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120807194059.773895870@goodmis.org

Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-08-23 11:25:29 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
a2546fae01 ftrace: Add -mfentry to Makefile on function tracer
Thanks to Andi Kleen, gcc 4.6.0 now supports -mfentry for x86
(and hopefully soon for other archs). What this does is to have
the function profiler start at the beginning of the function
instead of after the stack is set up. As plain -pg (mcount) is
called after the stack is set up, and in some cases can have issues
with the function graph tracer. It also requires frame pointers to
be enabled.

The -mfentry now calls __fentry__ at the beginning of the function.
This allows for compiling without frame pointers and even has the
ability to access parameters if needed.

If the architecture and the compiler both support -mfentry then
use that instead.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120807194059.392617243@goodmis.org

Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-08-23 11:25:02 -04:00
Ingo Molnar
a0e0fac633 Merge branch 'tip/perf/core-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace into perf/core
Pull ftrace fixlets from Steve Rostedt.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-08-21 11:36:49 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
bcada3d4b8 perf/core improvements and fixes:
. Fix include order for bison/flex-generated C files, from Ben Hutchings
 
  . Build fixes and documentation corrections from David Ahern
 
  . Group parsing support, from Jiri Olsa
 
  . UI/gtk refactorings and improvements from Namhyung Kim
 
  . NULL deref fix for perf script, from Namhyung Kim
 
  . Assorted cleanups from Robert Richter
 
  . Let O= makes handle relative paths, from Steven Rostedt
 
 Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Merge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/core

Pull perf/core improvements and fixes from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:

 * Fix include order for bison/flex-generated C files, from Ben Hutchings

 * Build fixes and documentation corrections from David Ahern

 * Group parsing support, from Jiri Olsa

 * UI/gtk refactorings and improvements from Namhyung Kim

 * NULL deref fix for perf script, from Namhyung Kim

 * Assorted cleanups from Robert Richter

 * Let O= makes handle relative paths, from Steven Rostedt

 * perf script python fixes, from Feng Tang.

 * Improve 'perf lock' error message when the needed tracepoints
   are not present, from David Ahern.

 * Initial bash completion support, from Frederic Weisbecker

 * Allow building without libelf, from Namhyung Kim.

 * Support DWARF CFI based unwind to have callchains when %bp
   based unwinding is not possible, from Jiri Olsa.

 * Symbol resolution fixes, while fixing support PPC64 files with an .opt ELF
   section was the end goal, several fixes for code that handles all
   architectures and cleanups are included, from Cody Schafer.

 * Add a description for the JIT interface, from Andi Kleen.

 * Assorted fixes for Documentation and build in 32 bit, from Robert Richter

 * Add support for non-tracepoint events in perf script python, from Feng Tang

 * Cache the libtraceevent event_format associated to each evsel early, so that we
   avoid relookups, i.e. calling pevent_find_event repeatedly when processing
   tracepoint events.

   [ This is to reduce the surface contact with libtraceevents and make clear what
     is that the perf tools needs from that lib: so far parsing the common and per
     event fields. ]

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-08-21 11:27:00 +02:00
Will Deacon
60916a9382 tracing/syscalls: Fix perf syscall tracing when syscall_nr == -1
syscall_get_nr can return -1 in the case that the task is not executing
a system call.

This patch fixes perf_syscall_{enter,exit} to check that the syscall
number is valid before using it as an index into a bitmap.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1345137254-7377-1-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com

Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Wade Farnsworth <wade_farnsworth@mentor.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-08-17 15:19:46 -04:00
Wang Tianhong
87abb3b15c tracing/trivial: Fix some typos in kernel/trace
Fix some typos in kernel/trace.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1343887320.2228.9.camel@louis-ThinkPad-T410

Signed-off-by: Wang Tianhong <wangthbj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-08-07 09:43:32 -04:00
Jiri Olsa
92d8d4a8b0 tracing/filter: Add missing initialization
Add missing initialization for ret variable. Its initialization
is based on the re_cnt variable, which is being set deep down
in the ftrace_function_filter_re function.

I'm not sure compilers would be smart enough to see this in near
future, so killing the warning this way.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1340120894-9465-2-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-08-07 09:42:47 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
3c18c10bde tracing: Fix wakeup_rt self test on virtual machines
The warkeup_rt self test used msleep() calls to wait for real time
tasks to wake up and run. On bare-metal hardware, this was enough as
the scheduler should let the RT task run way before the non-RT task
wakes up from the msleep(). If it did not, then that would mean the
scheduler was broken.

But when dealing with virtual machines, this is a different story.
If the RT task wakes up on a VCPU, it's up to the host to decide when
that task gets to schedule, which can be far behind the time that the
non-RT task wakes up. In this case, the test would fail incorrectly.

As we are not testing the scheduler, but instead the wake up tracing,
we can use completions to wait and not depend on scheduler timings
to see if events happen on time.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1343663105.3847.7.camel@fedora

Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Tested-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-08-07 09:40:51 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
bd463a0606 Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull perf fixes from Ingo Molnar:
 "Fix merge window fallout and fix sleep profiling (this was always
  broken, so it's not a fix for the merge window - we can skip this one
  from the head of the tree)."

* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  perf/trace: Add ability to set a target task for events
  perf/x86: Fix USER/KERNEL tagging of samples properly
  perf/x86/intel/uncore: Make UNCORE_PMU_HRTIMER_INTERVAL 64-bit
2012-08-03 10:57:20 -07:00
Andrew Vagin
e6dab5ffab perf/trace: Add ability to set a target task for events
A few events are interesting not only for a current task.
For example, sched_stat_* events are interesting for a task
which wakes up. For this reason, it will be good if such
events will be delivered to a target task too.

Now a target task can be set by using __perf_task().

The original idea and a draft patch belongs to Peter Zijlstra.

I need these events for profiling sleep times. sched_switch is used for
getting callchains and sched_stat_* is used for getting time periods.
These events are combined in user space, then it can be analyzed by
perf tools.

Inspired-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1342016098-213063-1-git-send-email-avagin@openvz.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-07-31 17:02:05 +02:00
Masami Hiramatsu
647664eaf4 ftrace: add ftrace_set_filter_ip() for address based filter
Add a new filter update interface ftrace_set_filter_ip()
to set ftrace filter by ip address, not only glob pattern.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120605102808.27845.67952.stgit@localhost.localdomain

Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-07-31 10:29:55 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
ad97772ad8 ftrace: Add selftest to test function save-regs support
Add selftests to test the save-regs functionality of ftrace.

If the arch supports saving regs, then it will make sure that regs is
at least not NULL in the callback.

If the arch does not support saving regs, it makes sure that the
registering of the ftrace_ops that requests saving regs fails.
It then tests the registering of the ftrace_ops succeeds if the
'IF_SUPPORTED' flag is set. Then it makes sure that the regs passed to
the function is NULL.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-07-31 10:29:54 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
ea701f11da ftrace: Add selftest to test function trace recursion protection
Add selftests to test the function tracing recursion protection actually
does work. It also tests if a ftrace_ops states it will perform its own
protection. Although, even if the ftrace_ops states it will protect itself,
the ftrace infrastructure may still provide protection if the arch does
not support all features or another ftrace_ops is registered.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-07-31 10:29:54 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
47239c4d8d ftrace: Only compile ftrace selftest if selftests are enabled
No need to compile in the ftrace selftest helper file if selftests are
not being executed.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-07-31 10:29:53 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
4740974a68 ftrace: Add default recursion protection for function tracing
As more users of the function tracer utility are being added, they do
not always add the necessary recursion protection. To protect from
function recursion due to tracing, if the callback ftrace_ops does not
specifically specify that it protects against recursion (by setting
the FTRACE_OPS_FL_RECURSION_SAFE flag), the list operation will be
called by the mcount trampoline which adds recursion protection.

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

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

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-07-31 10:29:52 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
b13bc8dda8 Staging tree patches for 3.6-rc1
Here's the big staging tree merge for the 3.6-rc1 merge window.
 
 There are some patches in here outside of drivers/staging/, notibly the iio
 code (which is still stradeling the staging / not staging boundry), the pstore
 code, and the tracing code.  All of these have gotten ackes from the various
 subsystem maintainers to be included in this tree.  The pstore and tracing
 patches are related, and are coming here as they replace one of the android
 staging drivers.
 
 Otherwise, the normal staging mess.  Lots of cleanups and a few new drivers
 (some iio drivers, and the large csr wireless driver abomination.)
 
 Note, you will get a merge issue with the following files:
 	drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/s626.h
 	drivers/staging/gdm72xx/netlink_k.c
 both of which should be trivial for you to handle.
 
 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Merge tag 'staging-3.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging

Pull staging tree patches from Greg Kroah-Hartman:
 "Here's the big staging tree merge for the 3.6-rc1 merge window.

  There are some patches in here outside of drivers/staging/, notibly
  the iio code (which is still stradeling the staging / not staging
  boundry), the pstore code, and the tracing code.  All of these have
  gotten acks from the various subsystem maintainers to be included in
  this tree.  The pstore and tracing patches are related, and are coming
  here as they replace one of the android staging drivers.

  Otherwise, the normal staging mess.  Lots of cleanups and a few new
  drivers (some iio drivers, and the large csr wireless driver
  abomination.)

  Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>"

Fixed up trivial conflicts in drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/s626.h and
drivers/staging/gdm72xx/netlink_k.c

* tag 'staging-3.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging: (1108 commits)
  staging: csr: delete a bunch of unused library functions
  staging: csr: remove csr_utf16.c
  staging: csr: remove csr_pmem.h
  staging: csr: remove CsrPmemAlloc
  staging: csr: remove CsrPmemFree()
  staging: csr: remove CsrMemAllocDma()
  staging: csr: remove CsrMemCalloc()
  staging: csr: remove CsrMemAlloc()
  staging: csr: remove CsrMemFree() and CsrMemFreeDma()
  staging: csr: remove csr_util.h
  staging: csr: remove CsrOffSetOf()
  stating: csr: remove unneeded #includes in csr_util.c
  staging: csr: make CsrUInt16ToHex static
  staging: csr: remove CsrMemCpy()
  staging: csr: remove CsrStrLen()
  staging: csr: remove CsrVsnprintf()
  staging: csr: remove CsrStrDup
  staging: csr: remove CsrStrChr()
  staging: csr: remove CsrStrNCmp
  staging: csr: remove CsrStrCmp
  ...
2012-07-26 11:14:49 -07:00
Steven Rostedt
08f6fba503 ftrace/x86: Add separate function to save regs
Add a way to have different functions calling different trampolines.
If a ftrace_ops wants regs saved on the return, then have only the
functions with ops registered to save regs. Functions registered by
other ops would not be affected, unless the functions overlap.

If one ftrace_ops registered functions A, B and C and another ops
registered fucntions to save regs on A, and D, then only functions
A and D would be saving regs. Function B and C would work as normal.
Although A is registered by both ops: normal and saves regs; this is fine
as saving the regs is needed to satisfy one of the ops that calls it
but the regs are ignored by the other ops function.

x86_64 implements the full regs saving, and i386 just passes a NULL
for regs to satisfy the ftrace_ops passing. Where an arch must supply
both regs and ftrace_ops parameters, even if regs is just NULL.

It is OK for an arch to pass NULL regs. All function trace users that
require regs passing must add the flag FTRACE_OPS_FL_SAVE_REGS when
registering the ftrace_ops. If the arch does not support saving regs
then the ftrace_ops will fail to register. The flag
FTRACE_OPS_FL_SAVE_REGS_IF_SUPPORTED may be set that will prevent the
ftrace_ops from failing to register. In this case, the handler may
either check if regs is not NULL or check if ARCH_SUPPORTS_FTRACE_SAVE_REGS.
If the arch supports passing regs it will set this macro and pass regs
for ops that request them. All other archs will just pass NULL.

Link: Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120711195745.107705970@goodmis.org

Cc: Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@fastmail.fm>
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-07-19 13:20:03 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
a1e2e31d17 ftrace: Return pt_regs to function trace callback
Return as the 4th paramater to the function tracer callback the pt_regs.

Later patches that implement regs passing for the architectures will require
having the ftrace_ops set the SAVE_REGS flag, which will tell the arch
to take the time to pass a full set of pt_regs to the ftrace_ops callback
function. If the arch does not support it then it should pass NULL.

If an arch can pass full regs, then it should define:
 ARCH_SUPPORTS_FTRACE_SAVE_REGS to 1

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120702201821.019966811@goodmis.org

Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-07-19 13:18:49 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
ccf3672d53 ftrace: Consolidate arch dependent functions with 'list' function
As the function tracer starts to get more features, the support for
theses features will spread out throughout the different architectures
over time. These features boil down to what each arch does in the
mcount trampoline (the ftrace_caller).

Currently there's two features that are not the same throughout the
archs.

 1) Support to stop function tracing before the callback
 2) passing of the ftrace ops

Both of these require placing an indirect function to support the
features if the mcount trampoline does not.

On a side note, for all architectures, when more than one callback
is registered to the function tracer, an intermediate 'list' function
is called by the mcount trampoline to iterate through the callbacks
that are registered.

Instead of making a separate function for each of these features,
and requiring several indirect calls, just use the single 'list' function
as the intermediate, to handle all cases. If an arch does not support
the 'stop function tracing' or the passing of ftrace ops, just force
it to use the list function that will handle the features required.

This makes the code cleaner and simpler and removes a lot of
 #ifdefs in the code.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120612225424.495625483@goodmis.org

Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-07-19 13:18:22 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
2f5f6ad939 ftrace: Pass ftrace_ops as third parameter to function trace callback
Currently the function trace callback receives only the ip and parent_ip
of the function that it traced. It would be more powerful to also return
the ops that registered the function as well. This allows the same function
to act differently depending on what ftrace_ops registered it.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120612225424.267254552@goodmis.org

Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-07-19 13:17:35 -04:00
Ingo Molnar
6e0f17be03 Merge branch 'tip/perf/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace into perf/core
Pull tracing fix from Steve Rostedt.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-07-18 11:18:00 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
a2fe194723 Merge branch 'linus' into perf/core
Pick up the latest ring-buffer fixes, before applying a new fix.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-07-18 11:17:17 +02:00
Anton Vorontsov
f555f1231a tracing/function: Convert func_set_flag() to a switch statement
Since the function accepts just one bit, we can use the switch
construction instead of if/else if/...

Just a cosmetic change, there should be no functional changes.

Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-07-17 10:15:04 -07:00
Anton Vorontsov
21f679404a tracing/function: Introduce persistent trace option
This patch introduces 'func_ptrace' option, now available in
/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/options when function tracer
is selected.

The patch also adds some tiny code that calls back to pstore
to record the trace. The callback is no-op when PSTORE=n.

Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-07-17 10:07:00 -07:00
Anton Vorontsov
b2ad368beb tracing: Fix initialization failure path in tracing_set_tracer()
If tracer->init() fails, current code will leave current_tracer pointing
to an unusable tracer, which at best makes 'current_tracer' report
inaccurate value.

Fix the issue by pointing current_tracer to nop tracer, and only update
current_tracer with the new one after all the initialization succeeds.

Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-07-17 09:50:53 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
ab93eb8216 Merge branches 'core-urgent-for-linus', 'perf-urgent-for-linus' and 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull RCU, perf, and scheduler fixes from Ingo Molnar.

The RCU fix is a revert for an optimization that could cause deadlocks.

One of the scheduler commits (164c33c6ad "sched: Fix fork() error path
to not crash") is correct but not complete (some architectures like Tile
are not covered yet) - the resulting additional fixes are still WIP and
Ingo did not want to delay these pending fixes.  See this thread on
lkml:

  [PATCH] fork: fix error handling in dup_task()

The perf fixes are just trivial oneliners.

* 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  Revert "rcu: Move PREEMPT_RCU preemption to switch_to() invocation"

* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  perf kvm: Fix segfault with report and mixed guestmount use
  perf kvm: Fix regression with guest machine creation
  perf script: Fix format regression due to libtraceevent merge
  ring-buffer: Fix accounting of entries when removing pages
  ring-buffer: Fix crash due to uninitialized new_pages list head

* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  MAINTAINERS/sched: Update scheduler file pattern
  sched/nohz: Rewrite and fix load-avg computation -- again
  sched: Fix fork() error path to not crash
2012-07-14 11:16:24 -07:00
Dan Carpenter
93574fcc5b tracing: Check for allocation failure in __tracing_open()
Clean up and return -ENOMEM on if the kzalloc() fails.

This also prevents a potential crash, as the pointer that failed to
allocate would be later used.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120711063507.GF11812@elgon.mountain

Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-07-11 19:56:26 -04:00
Ingo Molnar
35c2f48c66 Merge branch 'tip/perf/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace into perf/core
Pull tracing updates from Steve Rostedt.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-07-06 11:12:17 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
90574ebb7e Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core
Merge this branch to pick up a fixlet and to update to a more recent base.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-07-05 21:10:23 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
a3da2c6913 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block
Pull block bits from Jens Axboe:
 "As vacation is coming up, thought I'd better get rid of my pending
  changes in my for-linus branch for this iteration.  It contains:

   - Two patches for mtip32xx.  Killing a non-compliant sysfs interface
     and moving it to debugfs, where it belongs.

   - A few patches from Asias.  Two legit bug fixes, and one killing an
     interface that is no longer in use.

   - A patch from Jan, making the annoying partition ioctl warning a bit
     less annoying, by restricting it to !CAP_SYS_RAWIO only.

   - Three bug fixes for drbd from Lars Ellenberg.

   - A fix for an old regression for umem, it hasn't really worked since
     the plugging scheme was changed in 3.0.

   - A few fixes from Tejun.

   - A splice fix from Eric Dumazet, fixing an issue with pipe
     resizing."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
  scsi: Silence unnecessary warnings about ioctl to partition
  block: Drop dead function blk_abort_queue()
  block: Mitigate lock unbalance caused by lock switching
  block: Avoid missed wakeup in request waitqueue
  umem: fix up unplugging
  splice: fix racy pipe->buffers uses
  drbd: fix null pointer dereference with on-congestion policy when diskless
  drbd: fix list corruption by failing but already aborted reads
  drbd: fix access of unallocated pages and kernel panic
  xen/blkfront: Add WARN to deal with misbehaving backends.
  blkcg: drop local variable @q from blkg_destroy()
  mtip32xx: Create debugfs entries for troubleshooting
  mtip32xx: Remove 'registers' and 'flags' from sysfs
  blkcg: fix blkg_alloc() failure path
  block: blkcg_policy_cfq shouldn't be used if !CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED
  block: fix return value on cfq_init() failure
  mtip32xx: Remove version.h header file inclusion
  xen/blkback: Copy id field when doing BLKIF_DISCARD.
2012-07-03 15:45:10 -07:00
Vaibhav Nagarnaik
48fdc72f23 ring-buffer: Fix accounting of entries when removing pages
When removing pages from the ring buffer, its state is not reset. This
means that the counters need to be correctly updated to account for the
pages removed.

Update the overrun counter to reflect the removed events from the pages.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1340998301-1715-1-git-send-email-vnagarnaik@google.com

Cc: Justin Teravest <teravest@google.com>
Cc: David Sharp <dhsharp@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Vaibhav Nagarnaik <vnagarnaik@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-06-29 16:17:17 -04:00
Vaibhav Nagarnaik
44b99462d9 ring-buffer: Fix crash due to uninitialized new_pages list head
The new_pages list head in the cpu_buffer is not initialized. When
adding pages to the ring buffer, if the memory allocation fails in
ring_buffer_resize, the clean up handler tries to free up the allocated
pages from all the cpu buffers. The panic is caused by referencing the
uninitialized new_pages list head.

Initializing the new_pages list head in rb_allocate_cpu_buffer fixes
this.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1340391005-10880-1-git-send-email-vnagarnaik@google.com

Cc: Justin Teravest <teravest@google.com>
Cc: David Sharp <dhsharp@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Vaibhav Nagarnaik <vnagarnaik@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-06-29 16:16:35 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
a5fb833172 ring-buffer: Fix uninitialized read_stamp
The ring buffer reader page is used to swap a page from the writable
ring buffer. If the writer happens to be on that page, it ends up on the
reader page, but will simply move off of it, back into the writable ring
buffer as writes are added.

The time stamp passed back to the readers is stored in the cpu_buffer per
CPU descriptor. This stamp is updated when a swap of the reader page takes
place, and it reads the current stamp from the page taken from the writable
ring buffer. Everytime a writer goes to a new page, it updates the time stamp
of that page.

The problem happens if a reader reads a page from an empty per CPU ring buffer.
If the buffer is empty, the swap still takes place, placing the writer at the
start of the reader page. If at a later time, a write happens, it updates the
page's time stamp and continues. But the problem is that the read_stamp does
not get updated, because the page was already swapped.

The solution to this was to not swap the page if the ring buffer happens to
be empty. This also removes the side effect that the writes on the reader
page will not get updated because the writer never gets back on the reader
page without a swap. That is, if a read happens on an empty buffer, but then
no reads happen for a while. If a swap took place, and the writer were to start
writing a lot of data (function tracer), it will start overflowing the ring buffer
and overwrite the older data. But because the writer never goes back onto the
reader page, the data left on the reader page never gets overwritten. This
causes the reader to see really old data, followed by a jump to newer data.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1340060577-9112-1-git-send-email-dhsharp@google.com
Google-Bug-Id: 6410455
Reported-by: David Sharp <dhsharp@google.com>
tested-by: David Sharp <dhsharp@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-06-28 13:52:15 -04:00