Impact: introduce new ptrace facility
Add arch_ptrace_untrace() function that is called when the tracer
detaches (either voluntarily or when the tracing task dies);
ptrace_disable() is only called on a voluntary detach.
Add ptrace_fork() and arch_ptrace_fork(). They are called when a
traced task is forked.
Clear DS and BTS related fields on fork.
Release DS resources and reclaim memory in ptrace_untrace(). This
releases resources already when the tracing task dies. We used to do
that when the traced task dies.
Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: change the reporting of empty BTS records
Correctly report a cleared BTS record as invalid. Used to be reported
as branch from 0 to 0.
Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup
Optimistically allocate a DS context. It is extremely unlikely that
one already existed. This simplifies the code a lot.
Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: build fix
arch/x86/kernel/ds.c: In function 'ds_request':
arch/x86/kernel/ds.c:236: sorry, unimplemented: inlining failed in call to 'ds_get_context': recursive inlining
but the recursion here is scary ...
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup
Move the BTS bits from ptrace.c into ds.c.
Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: make the ds code more debuggable
Turn BUG_ON's into WARN_ON_ONCE.
Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: restructure DS memory allocation to be done by the usage site of DS
Require pre-allocated buffers in ds.h.
Move the BTS buffer allocation for ptrace into ptrace.c.
The pointer to the allocated buffer is stored in the traced task's
task_struct together with the handle returned by ds_request_bts().
Removes memory accounting code.
Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: generalize the DS code to shared buffers
Change the in-kernel ds.h interface to identify the tracer via a
handle returned on ds_request_~().
Tracers used to be identified via their task_struct.
The changes are required to allow DS to be shared between different
tasks, which is needed for perfmon2 and for ftrace.
For ptrace, the handle is stored in the traced task's task_struct.
This should probably go into a (arch-specific) ptrace context some
time.
Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: fix sleeping-with-spinlock-held bugs/crashes
- Turn a wrmsr to write the DS_AREA MSR into a wrmsrl.
- Use irqsave variants of spinlocks.
- Do not allocate memory while holding spinlocks.
Reported-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@googlemail.com>
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: fix DS hw enablement on 64-bit x86
Fix the PEBS record size in the DS configuration.
Reported-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup
Move the CONFIG guard from the .c file into the makefile.
Reported-by: Andi Kleen <andi-suse@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
this compiler warning:
arch/x86/kernel/ds.c: In function 'ds_request':
arch/x86/kernel/ds.c:368: warning: 'context' may be used uninitialized in this function
Shows that the code flow in ds_request() is buggy - it goes into
the unlock+release-context path even when the context is not allocated
yet.
First allocate the context, then do the other checks.
Also, take care with GFP allocations under the ds_lock spinlock.
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Fix a problem where ds_request() returned an error without releasing the
ds lock.
Reported-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: widen BTS/PEBS ptrace enablement to more CPU models
Move BTS initialisation out of an #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64 guard.
Assume core2 BTS and DS layout for future models of family 6 processors.
Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
fix:
arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c:763:29: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer
arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c:777:46: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer
arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c:1115:45: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer
arch/x86/kernel/ds.c:482:26: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer
arch/x86/kernel/ds.c:487:25: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
fix:
arch/x86/kernel/ds.c: In function ‘ds_allocate_buffer':
arch/x86/kernel/ds.c:339: error: implicit declaration of function ‘PAGE_ALIGN'
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Polish the ds.h interface and add support for PEBS.
Ds.c is meant to be the resource allocator for per-thread and per-cpu
BTS and PEBS recording.
It is used by ptrace/utrace to provide execution tracing of debugged tasks.
It will be used by profilers (e.g. perfmon2).
It may be used by kernel debuggers to provide a kernel execution trace.
Changes in detail:
- guard DS and ptrace by CONFIG macros
- separate DS and BTS more clearly
- simplify field accesses
- add functions to manage PEBS buffers
- add simple protection/allocation mechanism
- added support for Atom
Opens:
- buffer overflow handling
Currently, only circular buffers are supported. This is all we need
for debugging. Profilers would want an overflow notification.
This is planned to be added when perfmon2 is made to use the ds.h
interface.
- utrace intermediate layer
Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
We should call for kfree if only we really need it.
Though it's safe to call kfree with NULL pointer passed
in this code we've already tested the pointer and can
eliminate the call
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Support BTS recording of 32bit and 64bit tasks from 32bit or 64bit tasks.
Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Here's the new ptrace BTS API that supports two different overflow handling mechanisms (wrap-around and buffer-full-signal) to support two different use cases (debugging and profiling).
It further combines buffer allocation and configuration.
Opens:
- memory rlimit
- overflow signal
What would be the right signal to use?
Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Replace sched_clock() with jiffies for BTS timestamps.
Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Changes to the last version:
- split implementation into two layers: ds/bts and ptrace
- renamed TIF's
- save/restore ds save area msr in __switch_to_xtra()
- make block-stepping only look at BTF bit
Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
