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Steven Rostedt (VMware)
bcea3f96e1 tracing: Add SPDX License format tags to tracing files
Add the SPDX License header to ease license compliance management.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2018-08-16 19:08:06 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (VMware)
3f1756dc21 tracing: More reverting of "tracing: Centralize preemptirq tracepoints and unify their usage"
Joel Fernandes created a nice patch that cleaned up the duplicate hooks used
by lockdep and irqsoff latency tracer. It made both use tracepoints. But the
latency tracer is triggering warnings when using tracepoints to call into
the latency tracer's routines. Mainly, they can be called from NMI context.
If that happens, then the SRCU may not work properly because on some
architectures, SRCU is not safe to be called in both NMI and non-NMI
context.

This is a partial revert of the clean up patch c3bc8fd637 ("tracing:
Centralize preemptirq tracepoints and unify their usage") that adds back the
direct calls into the latency tracer. It also only calls the trace events
when not in NMI.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180809210654.622445925@goodmis.org
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Fixes: c3bc8fd637 ("tracing: Centralize preemptirq tracepoints and unify their usage")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2018-08-10 15:12:00 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (VMware)
f27107fa20 tracing/irqsoff: Handle preempt_count for different configs
I was hitting the following warning:

WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at kernel/trace/trace_irqsoff.c:631 tracer_hardirqs_off+0x15/0x2a

Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.18.0-rc6-test+ #13
Hardware name: MSI MS-7823/CSM-H87M-G43 (MS-7823), BIOS V1.6 02/22/2014
EIP: tracer_hardirqs_off+0x15/0x2a
Code: ff 85 c0 74 0e 8b 45 00 8b 50 04 8b 45 04 e8 35 ff ff ff 5d c3 55 64 a1 cc 37 51 c1 a9 ff ff ff 7f 89 e5 53 89 d3 89 ca 75 02 <0f> 0b e8 90 fc ff ff 85 c0 74 07 89 d8 e8 0c ff ff ff 5b 5d c3 55
EAX: 80000000 EBX: c04337f0 ECX: c04338e3 EDX: c04338e3
ESI: c04337f0 EDI: c04338e3 EBP: f2aa1d68 ESP: f2aa1d64
DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 00e0 SS: 0068 EFLAGS: 00210046
CR0: 80050033 CR2: 00000000 CR3: 01668000 CR4: 001406f0
Call Trace:
 trace_irq_disable_rcuidle+0x63/0x6c
 trace_hardirqs_off+0x26/0x30
 default_send_IPI_mask_allbutself_logical+0x31/0x93
 default_send_IPI_allbutself+0x37/0x48
 native_send_call_func_ipi+0x4d/0x6a
 smp_call_function_many+0x165/0x19d
 ? add_nops+0x34/0x34
 ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x2d/0x2d
 ? add_nops+0x34/0x34
 smp_call_function+0x1f/0x23
 on_each_cpu+0x15/0x43
 ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x2d/0x2d
 ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x2d/0x2d
 ? trace_irq_disable_rcuidle+0x1/0x6c
 text_poke_bp+0xa0/0xc2
 ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x2d/0x2d
 arch_jump_label_transform+0xa7/0xcb
 ? trace_irq_disable_rcuidle+0x5/0x6c
 __jump_label_update+0x3e/0x6d
 jump_label_update+0x7d/0x81
 static_key_slow_inc_cpuslocked+0x58/0x6d
 static_key_slow_inc+0x19/0x20
 tracepoint_probe_register_prio+0x19e/0x1d1
 ? start_critical_timings+0x1c/0x1c
 tracepoint_probe_register+0xf/0x11
 irqsoff_tracer_init+0x21/0xf2
 tracer_init+0x16/0x1a
 trace_selftest_startup_irqsoff+0x25/0xc4
 run_tracer_selftest+0xca/0x131
 register_tracer+0xd5/0x172
 ? trace_event_define_fields_preemptirq_template+0x45/0x45
 init_irqsoff_tracer+0xd/0x11
 do_one_initcall+0xab/0x1e8
 ? rcu_read_lock_sched_held+0x3d/0x44
 ? trace_initcall_level+0x52/0x86
 kernel_init_freeable+0x195/0x21a
 ? rest_init+0xb4/0xb4
 kernel_init+0xd/0xe4
 ret_from_fork+0x2e/0x38

It is due to running a CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY kernel, which would trigger
this warning every time:

	WARN_ON_ONCE(preempt_count());

Because on CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY, preempt_count() is always zero.

This warning is to make sure preempt_count is set because
tracer_hardirqs_on() does a preempt_enable_notrace() to make the
preempt_trace() work properly, as being called by a trace event, the trace
event code disables preemption, and the tracer wants to know what the
preemption was before it was called.

Instead of enabling preemption like this, just record the preempt_count,
subtract PREEMPT_DISABLE_OFFSET from it (which is zero with !CONFIG_PREEMPT
set), and pass that value to the necessary functions, which should use the
passed in parameter instead of calling preempt_count() directly.

Fixes: da5b3ebb45 ("tracing: irqsoff: Account for additional preempt_disable")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2018-08-10 15:12:00 -04:00
Joel Fernandes (Google)
da5b3ebb45 tracing: irqsoff: Account for additional preempt_disable
Recently we tried to make the preemptirqsoff tracer to use irqsoff
tracepoint probes. However this causes issues as reported by Masami:

[2.271078] Testing tracer preemptirqsoff: .. no entries found ..FAILED!
[2.381015] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at /home/mhiramat/ksrc/linux/kernel/
trace/trace.c:1512 run_tracer_selftest+0xf3/0x154

This is due to the tracepoint code increasing the preempt nesting count
by calling an additional preempt_disable before calling into the
preemptoff tracer which messes up the preempt_count() check in
tracer_hardirqs_off.

To fix this, make the irqsoff tracer probes balance the additional outer
preempt_disable with a preempt_enable_notrace.

The other way to fix this is to just use SRCU for all tracepoints.
However we can't do that because we can't use NMIs from RCU context.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180806034049.67949-1-joel@joelfernandes.org

Fixes: c3bc8fd637 ("tracing: Centralize preemptirq tracepoints and unify their usage")
Fixes: e6753f23d9 ("tracepoint: Make rcuidle tracepoint callers use SRCU")
Reported-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2018-08-06 21:55:24 -04:00
Joel Fernandes (Google)
c3bc8fd637 tracing: Centralize preemptirq tracepoints and unify their usage
This patch detaches the preemptirq tracepoints from the tracers and
keeps it separate.

Advantages:
* Lockdep and irqsoff event can now run in parallel since they no longer
have their own calls.

* This unifies the usecase of adding hooks to an irqsoff and irqson
event, and a preemptoff and preempton event.
  3 users of the events exist:
  - Lockdep
  - irqsoff and preemptoff tracers
  - irqs and preempt trace events

The unification cleans up several ifdefs and makes the code in preempt
tracer and irqsoff tracers simpler. It gets rid of all the horrific
ifdeferry around PROVE_LOCKING and makes configuration of the different
users of the tracepoints more easy and understandable. It also gets rid
of the time_* function calls from the lockdep hooks used to call into
the preemptirq tracer which is not needed anymore. The negative delta in
lines of code in this patch is quite large too.

In the patch we introduce a new CONFIG option PREEMPTIRQ_TRACEPOINTS
as a single point for registering probes onto the tracepoints. With
this,
the web of config options for preempt/irq toggle tracepoints and its
users becomes:

 PREEMPT_TRACER   PREEMPTIRQ_EVENTS  IRQSOFF_TRACER PROVE_LOCKING
       |                 |     \         |           |
       \    (selects)    /      \        \ (selects) /
      TRACE_PREEMPT_TOGGLE       ----> TRACE_IRQFLAGS
                      \                  /
                       \ (depends on)   /
                     PREEMPTIRQ_TRACEPOINTS

Other than the performance tests mentioned in the previous patch, I also
ran the locking API test suite. I verified that all tests cases are
passing.

I also injected issues by not registering lockdep probes onto the
tracepoints and I see failures to confirm that the probes are indeed
working.

This series + lockdep probes not registered (just to inject errors):
[    0.000000]      hard-irqs-on + irq-safe-A/21:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
[    0.000000]      soft-irqs-on + irq-safe-A/21:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
[    0.000000]        sirq-safe-A => hirqs-on/12:FAILED|FAILED|  ok  |
[    0.000000]        sirq-safe-A => hirqs-on/21:FAILED|FAILED|  ok  |
[    0.000000]          hard-safe-A + irqs-on/12:FAILED|FAILED|  ok  |
[    0.000000]          soft-safe-A + irqs-on/12:FAILED|FAILED|  ok  |
[    0.000000]          hard-safe-A + irqs-on/21:FAILED|FAILED|  ok  |
[    0.000000]          soft-safe-A + irqs-on/21:FAILED|FAILED|  ok  |
[    0.000000]     hard-safe-A + unsafe-B #1/123:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
[    0.000000]     soft-safe-A + unsafe-B #1/123:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |

With this series + lockdep probes registered, all locking tests pass:

[    0.000000]      hard-irqs-on + irq-safe-A/21:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
[    0.000000]      soft-irqs-on + irq-safe-A/21:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
[    0.000000]        sirq-safe-A => hirqs-on/12:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
[    0.000000]        sirq-safe-A => hirqs-on/21:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
[    0.000000]          hard-safe-A + irqs-on/12:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
[    0.000000]          soft-safe-A + irqs-on/12:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
[    0.000000]          hard-safe-A + irqs-on/21:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
[    0.000000]          soft-safe-A + irqs-on/21:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
[    0.000000]     hard-safe-A + unsafe-B #1/123:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |
[    0.000000]     soft-safe-A + unsafe-B #1/123:  ok  |  ok  |  ok  |

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180730222423.196630-4-joel@joelfernandes.org

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2018-07-31 11:32:27 -04:00
Joel Fernandes (Google)
2b27ece6c5 tracing/irqsoff: Split reset into separate functions
Split reset functions into seperate functions in preparation
of future patches that need to do tracer specific reset.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180628182149.226164-4-joel@joelfernandes.org

Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2018-07-26 10:50:17 -04:00
Joel Fernandes
d59158162e tracing: Add support for preempt and irq enable/disable events
Preempt and irq trace events can be used for tracing the start and
end of an atomic section which can be used by a trace viewer like
systrace to graphically view the start and end of an atomic section and
correlate them with latencies and scheduling issues.

This also serves as a prelude to using synthetic events or probes to
rewrite the preempt and irqsoff tracers, along with numerous benefits of
using trace events features for these events.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171006005432.14244-3-joelaf@google.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171010225137.17370-1-joelaf@google.com

Cc: Peter Zilstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: kernel-team@android.com
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2017-10-10 18:58:43 -04:00
Joel Fernandes
aaecaa0b5f tracing: Prepare to add preempt and irq trace events
In preparation of adding irqsoff and preemptsoff enable and disable trace
events, move required functions and code to make it easier to add these events
in a later patch. This patch is just code movement and no functional change.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171006005432.14244-2-joelaf@google.com

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: kernel-team@android.com
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2017-10-06 15:10:55 -04:00
Thomas Gleixner
a5a1d1c291 clocksource: Use a plain u64 instead of cycle_t
There is no point in having an extra type for extra confusion. u64 is
unambiguous.

Conversion was done with the following coccinelle script:

@rem@
@@
-typedef u64 cycle_t;

@fix@
typedef cycle_t;
@@
-cycle_t
+u64

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
2016-12-25 11:04:12 +01:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
1a41442864 tracing/fgraph: Have wakeup and irqsoff tracers ignore graph functions too
Currently both the wakeup and irqsoff traces do not handle set_graph_notrace
well. The ftrace infrastructure will ignore the return paths of all
functions leaving them hanging without an end:

  # echo '*spin*' > set_graph_notrace
  # cat trace
  [...]
          _raw_spin_lock() {
            preempt_count_add() {
            do_raw_spin_lock() {
          update_rq_clock();

Where the '*spin*' functions should have looked like this:

          _raw_spin_lock() {
            preempt_count_add();
            do_raw_spin_lock();
          }
          update_rq_clock();

Instead, have the wakeup and irqsoff tracers ignore the functions that are
set by the set_graph_notrace like the function_graph tracer does. Move
the logic in the function_graph tracer into a header to allow wakeup and
irqsoff tracers to use it as well.

Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-12-09 09:21:35 -05:00
Dmitry Safonov
741f3a69f1 tracing: Remove redundant reset per-CPU buff in irqsoff tracer
There is no reason to do it twice: from commit b6f11df26f
("trace: Call tracing_reset_online_cpus before tracer->init()")
resetting of per-CPU buffers done before tracer->init() call.

tracer->init() calls {irqs,preempt,preemptirqs}off_tracer_init() and it
calls __irqsoff_tracer_init(), which resets per-CPU ringbuffer second
time.
It's slowpath, but anyway.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1445278226-16187-1-git-send-email-0x7f454c46@gmail.com

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-03-18 16:39:11 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
cb86e05390 tracing: Have preempt(irqs)off trace preempt disabled functions
Joel Fernandes reported that the function tracing of preempt disabled
sections was not being reported when running either the preemptirqsoff or
preemptoff tracers. This was due to the fact that the function tracer
callback for those tracers checked if irqs were disabled before tracing. But
this fails when we want to trace preempt off locations as well.

Joel explained that he wanted to see funcitons where interrupts are enabled
but preemption was disabled. The expected output he wanted:

   <...>-2265    1d.h1 3419us : preempt_count_sub <-irq_exit
   <...>-2265    1d..1 3419us : __do_softirq <-irq_exit
   <...>-2265    1d..1 3419us : msecs_to_jiffies <-__do_softirq
   <...>-2265    1d..1 3420us : irqtime_account_irq <-__do_softirq
   <...>-2265    1d..1 3420us : __local_bh_disable_ip <-__do_softirq
   <...>-2265    1..s1 3421us : run_timer_softirq <-__do_softirq
   <...>-2265    1..s1 3421us : hrtimer_run_pending <-run_timer_softirq
   <...>-2265    1..s1 3421us : _raw_spin_lock_irq <-run_timer_softirq
   <...>-2265    1d.s1 3422us : preempt_count_add <-_raw_spin_lock_irq
   <...>-2265    1d.s2 3422us : _raw_spin_unlock_irq <-run_timer_softirq
   <...>-2265    1..s2 3422us : preempt_count_sub <-_raw_spin_unlock_irq
   <...>-2265    1..s1 3423us : rcu_bh_qs <-__do_softirq
   <...>-2265    1d.s1 3423us : irqtime_account_irq <-__do_softirq
   <...>-2265    1d.s1 3423us : __local_bh_enable <-__do_softirq

There's a comment saying that the irq disabled check is because there's a
possible race that tracing_cpu may be set when the function is executed. But
I don't remember that race. For now, I added a check for preemption being
enabled too to not record the function, as there would be no race if that
was the case. I need to re-investigate this, as I'm now thinking that the
tracing_cpu will always be correct. But no harm in keeping the check for
now, except for the slight performance hit.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1457770386-88717-1-git-send-email-agnel.joel@gmail.com

Fixes: 5e6d2b9cfa "tracing: Use one prologue for the preempt irqs off tracer function tracers"
Cc: stable@vget.kernel.org # 2.6.37+
Reported-by: Joel Fernandes <agnel.joel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-03-18 12:47:38 -04:00
Yaowei Bai
79851821b2 tracing: report_latency() in trace_irqsoff.c can return boolean
This patch makes report_latency return bool due to this
particular function only using either one or zero as its
return value.

No functional change.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1443537816-5788-3-git-send-email-bywxiaobai@163.com

Signed-off-by: Yaowei Bai <bywxiaobai@163.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-11-02 14:20:19 -05:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
983f938ae6 tracing: Move trace_flags from global to a trace_array field
In preparation to make trace options per instance, the global trace_flags
needs to be moved from being a global variable to a field within the trace
instance trace_array structure.

There's still more work to do, as there's some functions that use
trace_flags without passing in a way to get to the current_trace array. For
those, the global_trace is used directly (from trace.c). This includes
setting and clearing the trace_flags. This means that when a new instance is
created, it just gets the trace_flags of the global_trace and will not be
able to modify them. Depending on the functions that have access to the
trace_array, the flags of an instance may not affect parts of its trace,
where the global_trace is used. These will be fixed in future changes.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-09-30 15:22:55 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
8179e8a15b tracing: Do not create function tracer options when not compiled in
When the function tracer is not compiled in, do not create the option files
for it.

Fix up both the sched_wakeup and irqsoff tracers to handle the change.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-09-29 15:01:34 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
729358da95 tracing: Only create function graph options when it is compiled in
Do not create fuction graph tracer options when function graph tracer is not
even compiled in.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-09-29 13:23:58 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
03905582fd tracing: Move "display-graph" option to main options
In order to facilitate making all tracer options visible even when the
tracer is not active, we need to get rid of duplicate options. Any option
that is shared between multiple tracers really should be a main option.

As the wakeup and irqsoff tracers both use the "display-graph" option, and
use it exactly the same way, move that option from the tracer options to the
main options and consolidate them.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-09-29 12:56:40 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
3efb5f21a3 tracing: Remove unneeded includes of debugfs.h and fs.h
The creation of tracing files and directories is for the most part
encapsulated in helper functions in trace.c. Other files do not need to
include debugfs.h or fs.h, as they may have needed to in the past.

Remove them from the files that do not need them.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-01-22 11:19:48 -05:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
02f2f7646f tracing: Allow irq/preempt tracers to be used by instances
The irqsoff, preemptoff and preemptirqsoff tracers can now be used by
instances. But they may only be used by one instance at a time (including
the top level directory). This allows multiple tracers to run while the
irqsoff (and friends) tracer is running simultaneously.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2014-04-21 13:59:29 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
6d9b3fa5e7 tracing: Move tracing_max_latency into trace_array
In preparation for letting the latency tracers be used by instances,
remove the global tracing_max_latency variable and add a max_latency
field to the trace_array that the latency tracers will now use.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2014-04-21 13:59:26 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
4104d326b6 ftrace: Remove global function list and call function directly
Instead of having a list of global functions that are called,
as only one global function is allow to be enabled at a time, there's
no reason to have a list.

Instead, simply have all the users of the global ops, use the global ops
directly, instead of registering their own ftrace_ops. Just switch what
function is used before enabling the function tracer.

This removes a lot of code as well as the complexity involved with it.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2014-04-21 13:59:25 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
68114e5eb8 Most of the changes were largely clean ups, and some documentation.
But there were a few features that were added.
 
 Uprobes now work with event triggers and multi buffers.
 Uprobes have support under ftrace and perf.
 
 The big feature is that the function tracer can now be used within the
 multi buffer instances. That is, you can now trace some functions
 in one buffer, others in another buffer, all functions in a third buffer
 and so on. They are basically agnostic from each other. This only
 works for the function tracer and not for the function graph trace,
 although you can have the function graph tracer running in the top level
 buffer (or any tracer for that matter) and have different function tracing
 going on in the sub buffers.
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Merge tag 'trace-3.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace

Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
 "Most of the changes were largely clean ups, and some documentation.
  But there were a few features that were added:

  Uprobes now work with event triggers and multi buffers and have
  support under ftrace and perf.

  The big feature is that the function tracer can now be used within the
  multi buffer instances.  That is, you can now trace some functions in
  one buffer, others in another buffer, all functions in a third buffer
  and so on.  They are basically agnostic from each other.  This only
  works for the function tracer and not for the function graph trace,
  although you can have the function graph tracer running in the top
  level buffer (or any tracer for that matter) and have different
  function tracing going on in the sub buffers"

* tag 'trace-3.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (45 commits)
  tracing: Add BUG_ON when stack end location is over written
  tracepoint: Remove unused API functions
  Revert "tracing: Move event storage for array from macro to standalone function"
  ftrace: Constify ftrace_text_reserved
  tracepoints: API doc update to tracepoint_probe_register() return value
  tracepoints: API doc update to data argument
  ftrace: Fix compilation warning about control_ops_free
  ftrace/x86: BUG when ftrace recovery fails
  ftrace: Warn on error when modifying ftrace function
  ftrace: Remove freelist from struct dyn_ftrace
  ftrace: Do not pass data to ftrace_dyn_arch_init
  ftrace: Pass retval through return in ftrace_dyn_arch_init()
  ftrace: Inline the code from ftrace_dyn_table_alloc()
  ftrace: Cleanup of global variables ftrace_new_pgs and ftrace_update_cnt
  tracing: Evaluate len expression only once in __dynamic_array macro
  tracing: Correctly expand len expressions from __dynamic_array macro
  tracing/module: Replace include of tracepoint.h with jump_label.h in module.h
  tracing: Fix event header migrate.h to include tracepoint.h
  tracing: Fix event header writeback.h to include tracepoint.h
  tracing: Warn if a tracepoint is not set via debugfs
  ...
2014-04-03 10:26:31 -07:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
bf6065b5c7 tracing: Pass trace_array to flag_changed callback
As options (flags) may affect instances instead of being global
the flag_changed() callbacks need to receive the trace_array descriptor
of the instance they will be modifying.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2014-02-20 12:13:08 -05:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
8c1a49aedb tracing: Pass trace_array to set_flag callback
As options (flags) may affect instances instead of being global
the set_flag() callbacks need to receive the trace_array descriptor
of the instance they will be modifying.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2014-02-20 12:13:07 -05:00
Andi Kleen
285c00adf6 asmlinkage: Make trace_hardirqs_on/off_caller visible
These functions are called from assembler, and thus need to be
__visible.

Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1391845930-28580-12-git-send-email-ak@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2014-02-13 18:14:54 -08:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
10246fa35d tracing: Use flag buffer_disabled for irqsoff tracer
If the ring buffer is disabled and the irqsoff tracer records a trace it
will clear out its buffer and lose the data it had previously recorded.

Currently there's a callback when writing to the tracing_of file, but if
tracing is disabled via the function tracer trigger, it will not inform
the irqsoff tracer to stop recording.

By using the "mirror" flag (buffer_disabled) in the trace_array, that keeps
track of the status of the trace_array's buffer, it gives the irqsoff
tracer a fast way to know if it should record a new trace or not.
The flag may be a little behind the real state of the buffer, but it
should not affect the trace too much. It's more important for the irqsoff
tracer to be fast.

Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-07-01 20:34:28 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
328df4759c tracing: Add function-trace option to disable function tracing of latency tracers
Currently, the only way to stop the latency tracers from doing function
tracing is to fully disable the function tracer from the proc file
system:

  echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/ftrace_enabled

This is a big hammer approach as it disables function tracing for
all users. This includes kprobes, perf, stack tracer, etc.

Instead, create a function-trace option that the latency tracers can
check to determine if it should enable function tracing or not.
This option can be set or cleared even while the tracer is active
and the tracers will disable or enable function tracing depending
on how the option was set.

Instead of using the proc file, disable latency function tracing with

  echo 0 > /debug/tracing/options/function-trace

Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-03-15 00:36:08 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
12883efb67 tracing: Consolidate max_tr into main trace_array structure
Currently, the way the latency tracers and snapshot feature works
is to have a separate trace_array called "max_tr" that holds the
snapshot buffer. For latency tracers, this snapshot buffer is used
to swap the running buffer with this buffer to save the current max
latency.

The only items needed for the max_tr is really just a copy of the buffer
itself, the per_cpu data pointers, the time_start timestamp that states
when the max latency was triggered, and the cpu that the max latency
was triggered on. All other fields in trace_array are unused by the
max_tr, making the max_tr mostly bloat.

This change removes the max_tr completely, and adds a new structure
called trace_buffer, that holds the buffer pointer, the per_cpu data
pointers, the time_start timestamp, and the cpu where the latency occurred.

The trace_array, now has two trace_buffers, one for the normal trace and
one for the max trace or snapshot. By doing this, not only do we remove
the bloat from the max_trace but the instances of traces can now use
their own snapshot feature and not have just the top level global_trace have
the snapshot feature and latency tracers for itself.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-03-15 00:35:40 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
a7603ff4b5 tracing: Replace the static global per_cpu arrays with allocated per_cpu
The global and max-tr currently use static per_cpu arrays for the CPU data
descriptors. But in order to get new allocated trace_arrays, they need to
be allocated per_cpu arrays. Instead of using the static arrays, switch
the global and max-tr to use allocated data.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-03-15 00:34:43 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
2b6080f28c tracing: Encapsulate global_trace and remove dependencies on global vars
The global_trace variable in kernel/trace/trace.c has been kept 'static' and
local to that file so that it would not be used too much outside of that
file. This has paid off, even though there were lots of changes to make
the trace_array structure more generic (not depending on global_trace).

Removal of a lot of direct usages of global_trace is needed to be able to
create more trace_arrays such that we can add multiple buffers.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-03-15 00:34:42 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
613f04a0f5 tracing: Prevent buffer overwrite disabled for latency tracers
The latency tracers require the buffers to be in overwrite mode,
otherwise they get screwed up. Force the buffers to stay in overwrite
mode when latency tracers are enabled.

Added a flag_changed() method to the tracer structure to allow
the tracers to see what flags are being changed, and also be able
to prevent the change from happing.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-03-14 23:40:21 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
a2013a13e6 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
Pull trivial branch from Jiri Kosina:
 "Usual stuff -- comment/printk typo fixes, documentation updates, dead
  code elimination."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (39 commits)
  HOWTO: fix double words typo
  x86 mtrr: fix comment typo in mtrr_bp_init
  propagate name change to comments in kernel source
  doc: Update the name of profiling based on sysfs
  treewide: Fix typos in various drivers
  treewide: Fix typos in various Kconfig
  wireless: mwifiex: Fix typo in wireless/mwifiex driver
  messages: i2o: Fix typo in messages/i2o
  scripts/kernel-doc: check that non-void fcts describe their return value
  Kernel-doc: Convention: Use a "Return" section to describe return values
  radeon: Fix typo and copy/paste error in comments
  doc: Remove unnecessary declarations from Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c
  various: Fix spelling of "asynchronous" in comments.
  Fix misspellings of "whether" in comments.
  eisa: Fix spelling of "asynchronous".
  various: Fix spelling of "registered" in comments.
  doc: fix quite a few typos within Documentation
  target: iscsi: fix comment typos in target/iscsi drivers
  treewide: fix typo of "suport" in various comments and Kconfig
  treewide: fix typo of "suppport" in various comments
  ...
2012-12-13 12:00:02 -08:00
Nadia Yvette Chambers
6d49e352ae propagate name change to comments in kernel source
I've legally changed my name with New York State, the US Social Security
Administration, et al. This patch propagates the name change and change
in initials and login to comments in the kernel source as well.

Signed-off-by: Nadia Yvette Chambers <nyc@holomorphy.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2012-12-06 10:39:54 +01:00
Hiraku Toyooka
f43c738bfa tracing: Change tracer's integer flags to bool
print_max and use_max_tr in struct tracer are "int" variables and
used like flags. This is wasteful, so change the type to "bool".

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20121002082710.9807.86393.stgit@falsita

Signed-off-by: Hiraku Toyooka <hiraku.toyooka.gu@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-10-31 16:45:25 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
6f4156723c tracing: Allow tracers to start at core initcall
There's times during debugging that it is helpful to see traces of early
boot functions. But the tracers are initialized at device_initcall()
which is quite late during the boot process. Setting the kernel command
line parameter ftrace=function will not show anything until the function
tracer is initialized. This prevents being able to trace functions before
device_initcall().

There's no reason that the tracers need to be initialized so late in the
boot process. Move them up to core_initcall() as they still need to come
after early_initcall() which initializes the tracing buffers.

Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2012-10-31 16:45:24 -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
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
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
efc96737bd Merge branch 'tip/perf/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace into perf/core 2011-11-11 08:19:37 +01:00
Jiri Olsa
7e9a49ef54 tracing/latency: Fix header output for latency tracers
In case the the graph tracer (CONFIG_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER) or even the
function tracer (CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER) are not set, the latency tracers
do not display proper latency header.

The involved/fixed latency tracers are:
        wakeup_rt
        wakeup
        preemptirqsoff
        preemptoff
        irqsoff

The patch adds proper handling of tracer configuration options for latency
tracers, and displaying correct header info accordingly.

* The current output (for wakeup tracer) with both graph and function
  tracers disabled is:

  # tracer: wakeup
  #
    <idle>-0       0d.h5    1us+:      0:120:R   + [000]     7:  0:R watchdog/0
    <idle>-0       0d.h5    3us+: ttwu_do_activate.clone.1 <-try_to_wake_up
    ...

* The fixed output is:

  # tracer: wakeup
  #
  # wakeup latency trace v1.1.5 on 3.1.0-tip+
  # --------------------------------------------------------------------
  # latency: 55 us, #4/4, CPU#0 | (M:preempt VP:0, KP:0, SP:0 HP:0 #P:2)
  #    -----------------
  #    | task: migration/0-6 (uid:0 nice:0 policy:1 rt_prio:99)
  #    -----------------
  #
  #                  _------=> CPU#
  #                 / _-----=> irqs-off
  #                | / _----=> need-resched
  #                || / _---=> hardirq/softirq
  #                ||| / _--=> preempt-depth
  #                |||| /     delay
  #  cmd     pid   ||||| time  |   caller
  #     \   /      |||||  \    |   /
       cat-1129    0d..4    1us :   1129:120:R   + [000]     6:  0:R migration/0
       cat-1129    0d..4    2us+: ttwu_do_activate.clone.1 <-try_to_wake_up

* The current output (for wakeup tracer) with only function
  tracer enabled is:

  # tracer: wakeup
  #
       cat-1140    0d..4    1us+:   1140:120:R   + [000]     6:  0:R migration/0
       cat-1140    0d..4    2us : ttwu_do_activate.clone.1 <-try_to_wake_up

* The fixed output is:
  # tracer: wakeup
  #
  # wakeup latency trace v1.1.5 on 3.1.0-tip+
  # --------------------------------------------------------------------
  # latency: 207 us, #109/109, CPU#1 | (M:preempt VP:0, KP:0, SP:0 HP:0 #P:2)
  #    -----------------
  #    | task: watchdog/1-12 (uid:0 nice:0 policy:1 rt_prio:99)
  #    -----------------
  #
  #                  _------=> CPU#
  #                 / _-----=> irqs-off
  #                | / _----=> need-resched
  #                || / _---=> hardirq/softirq
  #                ||| / _--=> preempt-depth
  #                |||| /     delay
  #  cmd     pid   ||||| time  |   caller
  #     \   /      |||||  \    |   /
    <idle>-0       1d.h5    1us+:      0:120:R   + [001]    12:  0:R watchdog/1
    <idle>-0       1d.h5    3us : ttwu_do_activate.clone.1 <-try_to_wake_up

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111107150849.GE1807@m.brq.redhat.com

Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-11-07 13:48:35 -05:00
Linus Torvalds
7115e3fcf4 Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (121 commits)
  perf symbols: Increase symbol KSYM_NAME_LEN size
  perf hists browser: Refuse 'a' hotkey on non symbolic views
  perf ui browser: Use libslang to read keys
  perf tools: Fix tracing info recording
  perf hists browser: Elide DSO column when it is set to just one DSO, ditto for threads
  perf hists: Don't consider filtered entries when calculating column widths
  perf hists: Don't decay total_period for filtered entries
  perf hists browser: Honour symbol_conf.show_{nr_samples,total_period}
  perf hists browser: Do not exit on tab key with single event
  perf annotate browser: Don't change selection line when returning from callq
  perf tools: handle endianness of feature bitmap
  perf tools: Add prelink suggestion to dso update message
  perf script: Fix unknown feature comment
  perf hists browser: Apply the dso and thread filters when merging new batches
  perf hists: Move the dso and thread filters from hist_browser
  perf ui browser: Honour the xterm colors
  perf top tui: Give color hints just on the percentage, like on --stdio
  perf ui browser: Make the colors configurable and change the defaults
  perf tui: Remove unneeded call to newtCls on startup
  perf hists: Don't format the percentage on hist_entry__snprintf
  ...

Fix up conflicts in arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.c manually.

Ingo's tree did the insane "add volatile to const array", which just
doesn't make sense ("volatile const"?).  But we could remove the const
*and* make the array volatile to make doubly sure that gcc doesn't
optimize it away..

Also fix up kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c non-data-conflicts manually: the
reader_lock has been turned into a raw lock by the core locking merge,
and there was a new user of it introduced in this perf core merge.  Make
sure that new use also uses the raw accessor functions.
2011-10-26 17:03:38 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
e36de1de4a tracing: Fix preemptirqsoff tracer to not stop at preempt off
If irqs are disabled when preemption count reaches zero, the
preemptirqsoff tracer should not flag that as the end.

When interrupts are enabled and preemption count is not zero
the preemptirqsoff correctly continues its tracing.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-09-22 11:11:51 -04:00
Thomas Gleixner
5389f6fad2 locking, tracing: Annotate tracing locks as raw
The tracing locks can be taken in atomic context and therefore
cannot be preempted on -rt - annotate it.

In mainline this change documents the low level nature of
the lock - otherwise there's no functional difference. Lockdep
and Sparse checking will work as usual.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-09-13 11:11:52 +02:00
Jiri Olsa
321e68b095 tracing, function_graph: Remove dependency of abstime and duration fields on latency
The display of absolute time and duration fields is based on the
latency field. This was added during the irqsoff/wakeup tracers
graph support changes.

It's causing confusion in what fields will be displayed for the
function_graph tracer itself. So I'm removing this depency, and
adding absolute time and duration fields to the preemptirqsoff
preemptoff irqsoff wakeup tracers.

With following commands:
	# echo function_graph > ./current_tracer
	# cat trace

This is what it looked like before:
# tracer: function_graph
#
#     TIME        CPU  DURATION                  FUNCTION CALLS
#      |          |     |   |                     |   |   |   |
 0)   0.068 us    |          } /* page_add_file_rmap */
 0)               |          _raw_spin_unlock() {
...

This is what it looks like now:
# tracer: function_graph
#
# CPU  DURATION                  FUNCTION CALLS
# |     |   |                     |   |   |   |
 0)   0.068 us    |                } /* add_preempt_count */
 0)   0.993 us    |              } /* vfsmount_lock_local_lock */
...

For preemptirqsoff preemptoff irqsoff wakeup tracers,
this is what it looked like before:
SNIP
#                       _-----=> irqs-off
#                      / _----=> need-resched
#                     | / _---=> hardirq/softirq
#                     || / _--=> preempt-depth
#                     ||| / _-=> lock-depth
#                     |||| /
# CPU  TASK/PID       |||||  DURATION                  FUNCTION CALLS
# |     |    |        |||||   |   |                     |   |   |   |
 1)    <idle>-0    |  d..1  0.000 us    |  acpi_idle_enter_simple();
...

This is what it looks like now:
SNIP
#
#                                       _-----=> irqs-off
#                                      / _----=> need-resched
#                                     | / _---=> hardirq/softirq
#                                     || / _--=> preempt-depth
#                                     ||| /
#     TIME        CPU  TASK/PID       ||||  DURATION                  FUNCTION CALLS
#      |          |     |    |        ||||   |   |                     |   |   |   |
   19.847735 |   1)    <idle>-0    |  d..1  0.000 us    |  acpi_idle_enter_simple();
...

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1307113131-10045-2-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-06-14 22:48:47 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
b848914ce3 ftrace: Implement separate user function filtering
ftrace_ops that are registered to trace functions can now be
agnostic to each other in respect to what functions they trace.
Each ops has their own hash of the functions they want to trace
and a hash to what they do not want to trace. A empty hash for
the functions they want to trace denotes all functions should
be traced that are not in the notrace hash.

Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2011-05-18 15:29:50 -04:00
Lucas De Marchi
25985edced Fix common misspellings
Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
Tejun Heo
2ce802f62b lockdep: Move early boot local IRQ enable/disable status to init/main.c
During early boot, local IRQ is disabled until IRQ subsystem is
properly initialized.  During this time, no one should enable
local IRQ and some operations which usually are not allowed with
IRQ disabled, e.g. operations which might sleep or require
communications with other processors, are allowed.

lockdep tracked this with early_boot_irqs_off/on() callbacks.
As other subsystems need this information too, move it to
init/main.c and make it generally available.  While at it,
toggle the boolean to early_boot_irqs_disabled instead of
enabled so that it can be initialized with %false and %true
indicates the exceptional condition.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <20110120110635.GB6036@htj.dyndns.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-01-20 13:32:33 +01:00
Steven Rostedt
5e6d2b9cfa tracing: Use one prologue for the preempt irqs off tracer function tracers
The preempt and irqsoff tracers have three types of function tracers.
Normal function tracer, function graph entry, and function graph return.
Each of these use a complex dance to prevent recursion and whether
to trace the data or not (depending if interrupts are enabled or not).

This patch moves the duplicate code into a single routine, to
prevent future mistakes with modifying duplicate complex code.

Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-10-18 10:53:36 -04:00
Jiri Olsa
0a772620a2 tracing: Make graph related irqs/preemptsoff functions global
Move trace_graph_function() and print_graph_headers_flags() functions
to the trace_function_graph.c to be globaly available.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1285243253-7372-3-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-10-18 10:53:28 -04:00
KOSAKI Motohiro
ef710e100c tracing: Shrink max latency ringbuffer if unnecessary
Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt says

  buffer_size_kb:

        This sets or displays the number of kilobytes each CPU
        buffer can hold. The tracer buffers are the same size
        for each CPU. The displayed number is the size of the
        CPU buffer and not total size of all buffers. The
        trace buffers are allocated in pages (blocks of memory
        that the kernel uses for allocation, usually 4 KB in size).
        If the last page allocated has room for more bytes
        than requested, the rest of the page will be used,
        making the actual allocation bigger than requested.
        ( Note, the size may not be a multiple of the page size
          due to buffer management overhead. )

        This can only be updated when the current_tracer
        is set to "nop".

But it's incorrect. currently total memory consumption is
'buffer_size_kb x CPUs x 2'.

Why two times difference is there? because ftrace implicitly allocate
the buffer for max latency too.

That makes sad result when admin want to use large buffer. (If admin
want full logging and makes detail analysis). example, If admin
have 24 CPUs machine and write 200MB to buffer_size_kb, the system
consume ~10GB memory (200MB x 24 x 2). umm.. 5GB memory waste is
usually unacceptable.

Fortunatelly, almost all users don't use max latency feature.
The max latency buffer can be disabled easily.

This patch shrink buffer size of the max latency buffer if
unnecessary.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100701104554.DA2D.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-07-21 10:20:17 -04:00