The first is a cut and paste issue that changed the amount of stack
to skip when tracing a stack dump from 0 to 6, which basically made
the stack disappear for small stack traces.
The second fix is just removing an unused field in a struct that is no
longer used, and currently just wastes space.
The third is another cut-and-paste fix that had a tracepoint recording
the wrong field (it was recording the previous field a second time).
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Merge tag 'trace-v4.5-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull minor tracing fixes from Steven Rostedt:
"This includes three minor fixes, mostly due to cut-and-paste issues.
The first is a cut and paste issue that changed the amount of stack to
skip when tracing a stack dump from 0 to 6, which basically made the
stack disappear for small stack traces.
The second fix is just removing an unused field in a struct that is no
longer used, and currently just wastes space.
The third is another cut-and-paste fix that had a tracepoint recording
the wrong field (it was recording the previous field a second time)"
* tag 'trace-v4.5-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
tracing/dma-buf/fence: Fix timeline str value on fence_annotate_wait_on
ftrace: Remove unused nr_trampolines var
tracing: Fix stacktrace skip depth in trace_buffer_unlock_commit_regs()
minor fixes.
Here's what else is new:
o A new TRACE_EVENT_FN_COND macro, combining both _FN and _COND for
those that want both.
o New selftest to test the instance create and delete
o Better debug output when ftrace fails
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Merge tag 'trace-v4.5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
"Not much new with tracing for this release. Mostly just clean ups and
minor fixes.
Here's what else is new:
- A new TRACE_EVENT_FN_COND macro, combining both _FN and _COND for
those that want both.
- New selftest to test the instance create and delete
- Better debug output when ftrace fails"
* tag 'trace-v4.5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (24 commits)
ftrace: Fix the race between ftrace and insmod
ftrace: Add infrastructure for delayed enabling of module functions
x86: ftrace: Fix the comments for ftrace_modify_code_direct()
tracing: Fix comment to use tracing_on over tracing_enable
metag: ftrace: Fix the comments for ftrace_modify_code
sh: ftrace: Fix the comments for ftrace_modify_code()
ia64: ftrace: Fix the comments for ftrace_modify_code()
ftrace: Clean up ftrace_module_init() code
ftrace: Join functions ftrace_module_init() and ftrace_init_module()
tracing: Introduce TRACE_EVENT_FN_COND macro
tracing: Use seq_buf_used() in seq_buf_to_user() instead of len
bpf: Constify bpf_verifier_ops structure
ftrace: Have ftrace_ops_get_func() handle RCU and PER_CPU flags too
ftrace: Remove use of control list and ops
ftrace: Fix output of enabled_functions for showing tramp
ftrace: Fix a typo in comment
ftrace: Show all tramps registered to a record on ftrace_bug()
ftrace: Add variable ftrace_expected for archs to show expected code
ftrace: Add new type to distinguish what kind of ftrace_bug()
tracing: Update cond flag when enabling or disabling a trigger
...
Qiu Peiyang pointed out that there's a race when enabling function tracing
and loading a module. In order to make the modifications of converting nops
in the prologue of functions into callbacks, the text needs to be converted
from read-only to read-write. When enabling function tracing, the text
permission is updated, the functions are modified, and then they are put
back.
When loading a module, the updates to convert function calls to mcount is
done before the module text is set to read-only. But after it is done, the
module text is visible by the function tracer. Thus we have the following
race:
CPU 0 CPU 1
----- -----
start function tracing
set text to read-write
load_module
add functions to ftrace
set module text read-only
update all functions to callbacks
modify module functions too
< Can't it's read-only >
When this happens, ftrace detects the issue and disables itself till the
next reboot.
To fix this, a new DISABLED flag is added for ftrace records, which all
module functions get when they are added. Then later, after the module code
is all set, the records will have the DISABLED flag cleared, and they will
be enabled if any callback wants all functions to be traced.
Note, this doesn't add the delay to later. It simply changes the
ftrace_module_init() to do both the setting of DISABLED records, and then
immediately calls the enable code. This helps with testing this new code as
it has the same behavior as previously. Another change will come after this
to have the ftrace_module_enable() called after the text is set to
read-only.
Cc: Qiu Peiyang <peiyangx.qiu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
If the module init code fails after calling ftrace_module_init() and before
calling do_init_module(), we can suffer from a memory leak. This is because
ftrace_module_init() allocates pages to store the locations that ftrace
hooks are placed in the module text. If do_init_module() fails, it still
calls the MODULE_GOING notifiers which will tell ftrace to do a clean up of
the pages it allocated for the module. But if load_module() fails before
then, the pages allocated by ftrace_module_init() will never be freed.
Call ftrace_release_mod() on the module if load_module() fails before
getting to do_init_module().
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/567CEA31.1070507@intel.com
Reported-by: "Qiu, PeiyangX" <peiyangx.qiu@intel.com>
Fixes: a949ae560a "ftrace/module: Hardcode ftrace_module_init() call into load_module()"
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v2.6.38+
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Currently perf has its own list function within the ftrace infrastructure
that seems to be used only to allow for it to have per-cpu disabling as well
as a check to make sure that it's not called while RCU is not watching. It
uses something called the "control_ops" which is used to iterate over ops
under it with the control_list_func().
The problem is that this control_ops and control_list_func unnecessarily
complicates the code. By replacing FTRACE_OPS_FL_CONTROL with two new flags
(FTRACE_OPS_FL_RCU and FTRACE_OPS_FL_PER_CPU) we can remove all the code
that is special with the control ops and add the needed checks within the
generic ftrace_list_func().
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
When an anomaly is found while modifying function code, ftrace_bug() is
called which disables the function tracing infrastructure and reports
information about what failed. If the code that is to be replaced does not
match what is expected, then actual code is shown. Currently there is no
arch generic way to show what was expected.
Add a new variable pointer calld ftrace_expected that the arch code can set
to point to what it expected so that ftrace_bug() can report the actual text
as well as the text that was expected to be there.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The ftrace function hook utility has several internal checks to make sure
that whatever it modifies is exactly what it expects to be modifying. This
is essential as modifying running code can be extremely dangerous to the
system.
When an anomaly is detected, ftrace_bug() is called which sends a splat to
the console and disables function tracing. There's some extra information
that is printed to help diagnose the issue.
One thing that is missing though is output of what ftrace was doing at the
time of the crash. Was it updating a call site or perhaps converting a call
site to a nop? A new global enum variable is created to state what ftrace
was doing at the time of the anomaly, and this is reported in ftrace_bug().
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Now that max_stack_lock is a global variable, it requires a naming
convention that is unlikely to collide. Rename it to the same naming
convention that the other stack_trace variables have.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
A stack frame may be used in a different way depending on cpu architecture.
Thus it is not always appropriate to slurp the stack contents, as current
check_stack() does, in order to calcurate a stack index (height) at a given
function call. At least not on arm64.
In addition, there is a possibility that we will mistakenly detect a stale
stack frame which has not been overwritten.
This patch makes check_stack() a weak function so as to later implement
arch-specific version.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1446182741-31019-5-git-send-email-takahiro.akashi@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Commit 4104d326b6 ("ftrace: Remove global function list and call function
directly") simplified the ftrace code by removing the global_ops list with a
new design. But this cleanup also broke the filtering of PIDs that are added
to the set_ftrace_pid file.
Add back the proper hooks to have pid filtering working once again.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.16+
Reported-by: Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org>
Reported-by: Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add the kernel command line tp_printk option that will have tracepoints
that are active sent to printk() as well as to the trace buffer.
Passing "tp_printk" will activate this. To turn it off, the sysctl
/proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk can have '0' echoed into it. Note,
this only works if the cmdline option is used. Echoing 1 into the sysctl
file without the cmdline option will have no affect.
Note, this is a dangerous option. Having high frequency tracepoints send
their data to printk() can possibly cause a live lock. This is another
reason why this is only active if the command line option is used.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.11.1412121539300.16494@nanos
Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Enabling tracepoints at boot up can be very useful. The tracepoint
can be initialized right after RCU has been. There's no need to
wait for the early_initcall() to be called. That's too late for some
things that can use tracepoints for debugging. Move the logic to
enable tracepoints out of the initcalls and into init/main.c to
right after rcu_init().
This also allows trace_printk() to be used early too.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.11.1412121539300.16494@nanos
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141214164104.307127356@goodmis.org
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Introduce FTRACE_OPS_FL_IPMODIFY to avoid conflict among
ftrace users who may modify regs->ip to change the execution
path. If two or more users modify the regs->ip on the same
function entry, one of them will be broken. So they must add
IPMODIFY flag and make sure that ftrace_set_filter_ip() succeeds.
Note that ftrace doesn't allow ftrace_ops which has IPMODIFY
flag to have notrace hash, and the ftrace_ops must have a
filter hash (so that the ftrace_ops can hook only specific
entries), because it strongly depends on the address and
must be allowed for only few selected functions.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141121102516.11844.27829.stgit@localhost.localdomain
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Seth Jennings <sjenning@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz>
Cc: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
Cc: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
[ fixed up some of the comments ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Stack traces that happen from function tracing check if the address
on the stack is a __kernel_text_address(). That is, is the address
kernel code. This calls core_kernel_text() which returns true
if the address is part of the builtin kernel code. It also calls
is_module_text_address() which returns true if the address belongs
to module code.
But what is missing is ftrace dynamically allocated trampolines.
These trampolines are allocated for individual ftrace_ops that
call the ftrace_ops callback functions directly. But if they do a
stack trace, the code checking the stack wont detect them as they
are neither core kernel code nor module address space.
Adding another field to ftrace_ops that also stores the size of
the trampoline assigned to it we can create a new function called
is_ftrace_trampoline() that returns true if the address is a
dynamically allocate ftrace trampoline. Note, it ignores trampolines
that are not dynamically allocated as they will return true with
the core_kernel_text() function.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141119034829.497125839@goodmis.org
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
With the introduction of the dynamic trampolines, it is useful that if
things go wrong that ftrace_bug() produces more information about what
the current state is. This can help debug issues that may arise.
Ftrace has lots of checks to make sure that the state of the system it
touchs is exactly what it expects it to be. When it detects an abnormality
it calls ftrace_bug() and disables itself to prevent any further damage.
It is crucial that ftrace_bug() produces sufficient information that
can be used to debug the situation.
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Tested-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The current method of handling multiple function callbacks is to register
a list function callback that calls all the other callbacks based on
their hash tables and compare it to the function that the callback was
called on. But this is very inefficient.
For example, if you are tracing all functions in the kernel and then
add a kprobe to a function such that the kprobe uses ftrace, the
mcount trampoline will switch from calling the function trace callback
to calling the list callback that will iterate over all registered
ftrace_ops (in this case, the function tracer and the kprobes callback).
That means for every function being traced it checks the hash of the
ftrace_ops for function tracing and kprobes, even though the kprobes
is only set at a single function. The kprobes ftrace_ops is checked
for every function being traced!
Instead of calling the list function for functions that are only being
traced by a single callback, we can call a dynamically allocated
trampoline that calls the callback directly. The function graph tracer
already uses a direct call trampoline when it is being traced by itself
but it is not dynamically allocated. It's trampoline is static in the
kernel core. The infrastructure that called the function graph trampoline
can also be used to call a dynamically allocated one.
For now, only ftrace_ops that are not dynamically allocated can have
a trampoline. That is, users such as function tracer or stack tracer.
kprobes and perf allocate their ftrace_ops, and until there's a safe
way to free the trampoline, it can not be used. The dynamically allocated
ftrace_ops may, although, use the trampoline if the kernel is not
compiled with CONFIG_PREEMPT. But that will come later.
Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Tested-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Allowing function callbacks to declare their own trampolines requires
that each ftrace_ops that has a trampoline must have some sort of
accounting that keeps track of which ops has a trampoline attached
to a record.
The easy way to solve this was to add a "tramp_hash" that created a
hash entry for every function that a ops uses with a trampoline.
But since we can have literally tens of thousands of functions being
traced, that means we need tens of thousands of descriptors to map
the ops to the function in the hash. This is quite expensive and
can cause enabling and disabling the function graph tracer to take
some time to start and stop. It can take up to several seconds to
disable or enable all functions in the function graph tracer for this
reason.
The better approach albeit more complex, is to keep track of how ops
are being enabled and disabled, and use that along with the counting
of the number of ops attached to records, to determive what ops has
a trampoline attached to a record at enabling and disabling of
tracing.
To do this, the tramp_hash has been replaced with an old_filter_hash
and old_notrace_hash, which get the copy of the ops filter_hash and
notrace_hash respectively. The old hashes is kept until the ops has
been modified or removed and the old hashes are used with the logic
of the accounting to determine the ops that have the trampoline of
a record. The reason this has less of a footprint is due to the trick
that an "empty" hash in the filter_hash means "all functions" and
an empty hash in the notrace hash means "no functions" in the hash.
This is much more efficienct, doesn't have the delay, and takes up
much less memory, as we do not need to map all the functions but
just figure out which functions are mapped at the time it is
enabled or disabled.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add three new flags for ftrace_ops:
FTRACE_OPS_FL_ADDING
FTRACE_OPS_FL_REMOVING
FTRACE_OPS_FL_MODIFYING
These will be set for the ftrace_ops when they are first added
to the function tracing, being removed from function tracing
or just having their functions changed from function tracing,
respectively.
This will be needed to remove the tramp_hash, which can grow quite
big. The tramp_hash is used to note what functions a ftrace_ops
is using a trampoline for. Denoting which ftrace_ops is being
modified, will allow us to use the ftrace_ops hashes themselves,
which are much smaller as they have a global flag to denote if
a ftrace_ops is tracing all functions, as well as a notrace hash
if the ftrace_ops is tracing all but a few. The tramp_hash just
creates a hash item for every function, which can go into the 10s
of thousands if all functions are using the ftrace_ops trampoline.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add the helper function to what the mcount trampoline is to call
for a ftrace_ops function. This helper will be used by arch code
in the future to set up dynamic trampolines. But as this does the
same tests that are performed in choosing what function to call for
the default mcount trampoline, might as well use it to clean up
the existing code.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Currently the top level debug file system function tracer shares its
ftrace_ops with the function graph tracer. This was thought to be fine
because the tracers are not used together, as one can only enable
function or function_graph tracer in the current_tracer file.
But that assumption proved to be incorrect. The function profiler
can use the function graph tracer when function tracing is enabled.
Since all function graph users uses the function tracing ftrace_ops
this causes a conflict and when a user enables both function profiling
as well as the function tracer it will crash ftrace and disable it.
The quick solution so far is to move them as separate ftrace_ops like
it was earlier. The problem though is to synchronize the functions that
are traced because both function and function_graph tracer are limited
by the selections made in the set_ftrace_filter and set_ftrace_notrace
files.
To handle this, a new structure is made called ftrace_ops_hash. This
structure will now hold the filter_hash and notrace_hash, and the
ftrace_ops will point to this structure. That will allow two ftrace_ops
to share the same hashes.
Since most ftrace_ops do not share the hashes, and to keep allocation
simple, the ftrace_ops structure will include both a pointer to the
ftrace_ops_hash called func_hash, as well as the structure itself,
called local_hash. When the ops are registered, the func_hash pointer
will be initialized to point to the local_hash within the ftrace_ops
structure. Some of the ftrace internal ftrace_ops will be initialized
statically. This will allow for the function and function_graph tracer
to have separate ops but still share the same hash tables that determine
what functions they trace.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.16 (apply after 3.17-rc4 is out)
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Having two fields within the same struct that is off by one character
can be confusing and error prone. Rename the counter "trampolines"
to "nr_trampolines" to explicitly show it is a counter and not to
be confused by the "trampoline" field.
Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
All users of function_trace_stop and HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACE_MCOUNT_TEST have
been removed. We can safely remove them from the kernel.
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
function_trace_stop is no longer used to disable function tracing.
This means that archs are no longer limited if it does not support
checking this variable in the mcount trampoline.
No need to use the list_func for archs that do not support this
obsolete method.
Acked-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
There are no more kernel users of ftrace_stop() and ftrace_start().
Remove them.
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
ftrace_stop() is going away as it disables parts of function tracing
that affects users that should not be affected. But ftrace_graph_stop()
is built on ftrace_stop(). Here's another example of killing all of
function tracing because something went wrong with function graph
tracing.
Instead of disabling all users of function tracing on function graph
error, disable only function graph tracing.
A new function is created called ftrace_graph_is_dead(). This is called
in strategic paths to prevent function graph from doing more harm and
allowing at least a warning to be printed before the system crashes.
NOTE: ftrace_stop() is still used until all the archs are converted over
to use ftrace_graph_is_dead(). After that, ftrace_stop() will be removed.
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Currently if an arch supports function graph tracing, the core code will
just assign the function graph trampoline to the function graph addr that
gets called.
But as the old method for function graph tracing always calls the function
trampoline first and that calls the function graph trampoline, some
archs may have the function graph trampoline dependent on operations that
were done in the function trampoline. This causes function graph tracer
to break on those archs.
Instead of having the default be to set the function graph ftrace_ops
to the function graph trampoline, have it instead just set it to zero
which will keep it from jumping to a trampoline that is not set up
to be jumped directly too.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/53BED155.9040607@nvidia.com
Reported-by: Tuomas Tynkkynen <ttynkkynen@nvidia.com>
Tested-by: Tuomas Tynkkynen <ttynkkynen@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Function graph tracing is a bit different than the function tracers, as
it is processed after either the ftrace_caller or ftrace_regs_caller
and we only have one place to modify the jump to ftrace_graph_caller,
the jump needs to happen after the restore of registeres.
The function graph tracer is dependent on the function tracer, where
even if the function graph tracing is going on by itself, the save and
restore of registers is still done for function tracing regardless of
if function tracing is happening, before it calls the function graph
code.
If there's no function tracing happening, it is possible to just call
the function graph tracer directly, and avoid the wasted effort to save
and restore regs for function tracing.
This requires adding new flags to the dyn_ftrace records:
FTRACE_FL_TRAMP
FTRACE_FL_TRAMP_EN
The first is set if the count for the record is one, and the ftrace_ops
associated to that record has its own trampoline. That way the mcount code
can call that trampoline directly.
In the future, trampolines can be added to arbitrary ftrace_ops, where you
can have two or more ftrace_ops registered to ftrace (like kprobes and perf)
and if they are not tracing the same functions, then instead of doing a
loop to check all registered ftrace_ops against their hashes, just call the
ftrace_ops trampoline directly, which would call the registered ftrace_ops
function directly.
Without this patch perf showed:
0.05% hackbench [kernel.kallsyms] [k] ftrace_caller
0.05% hackbench [kernel.kallsyms] [k] arch_local_irq_save
0.05% hackbench [kernel.kallsyms] [k] native_sched_clock
0.04% hackbench [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __buffer_unlock_commit
0.04% hackbench [kernel.kallsyms] [k] preempt_trace
0.04% hackbench [kernel.kallsyms] [k] prepare_ftrace_return
0.04% hackbench [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __this_cpu_preempt_check
0.04% hackbench [kernel.kallsyms] [k] ftrace_graph_caller
See that the ftrace_caller took up more time than the ftrace_graph_caller
did.
With this patch:
0.05% hackbench [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __buffer_unlock_commit
0.04% hackbench [kernel.kallsyms] [k] call_filter_check_discard
0.04% hackbench [kernel.kallsyms] [k] ftrace_graph_caller
0.04% hackbench [kernel.kallsyms] [k] sched_clock
The ftrace_caller is no where to be found and ftrace_graph_caller still
takes up the same percentage.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The ftrace dynamic record has a flags element that also has a counter.
Instead of hard coding "rec->flags & ~FTRACE_FL_MASK" all over the
place. Use a macro instead.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
As new flags will be added to the ftrace dynamic record, and since
the flags field is also a counter, converting the numbers used to
do the shifting and masking into a set of macros where we only need
to deal with the max bit count of the counter and the number of bits
for the flags will prevent mistakes in the future.
Dealing with only two numbers is much easier than updating all the
macros that deal with shifting and masking.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
to help out the rest of the kernel to ease their use of trace events.
The big change for this release is the allowing of other tracers,
such as the latency tracers, to be used in the trace instances and allow
for function or function graph tracing to be in the top level
simultaneously.
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Merge tag 'trace-3.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
"Lots of tweaks, small fixes, optimizations, and some helper functions
to help out the rest of the kernel to ease their use of trace events.
The big change for this release is the allowing of other tracers, such
as the latency tracers, to be used in the trace instances and allow
for function or function graph tracing to be in the top level
simultaneously"
* tag 'trace-3.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (44 commits)
tracing: Fix memory leak on instance deletion
tracing: Fix leak of ring buffer data when new instances creation fails
tracing/kprobes: Avoid self tests if tracing is disabled on boot up
tracing: Return error if ftrace_trace_arrays list is empty
tracing: Only calculate stats of tracepoint benchmarks for 2^32 times
tracing: Convert stddev into u64 in tracepoint benchmark
tracing: Introduce saved_cmdlines_size file
tracing: Add __get_dynamic_array_len() macro for trace events
tracing: Remove unused variable in trace_benchmark
tracing: Eliminate double free on failure of allocation on boot up
ftrace/x86: Call text_ip_addr() instead of the duplicated code
tracing: Print max callstack on stacktrace bug
tracing: Move locking of trace_cmdline_lock into start/stop seq calls
tracing: Try again for saved cmdline if failed due to locking
tracing: Have saved_cmdlines use the seq_read infrastructure
tracing: Add tracepoint benchmark tracepoint
tracing: Print nasty banner when trace_printk() is in use
tracing: Add funcgraph_tail option to print function name after closing braces
tracing: Eliminate duplicate TRACE_GRAPH_PRINT_xx defines
tracing: Add __bitmask() macro to trace events to cpumasks and other bitmasks
...
Most archs with HAVE_ARCH_CALLER_ADDR have pretty much the same
definitions of CALLER_ADDRx(n). Instead of duplicating the code for all
the archs, define a ftrace_return_address0() and
ftrace_return_address(n) that can be overwritten by the archs if they
need to do something different. Instead of 7 macros in every arch, we
now only have at most 2 (and actually only 1 as
ftrace_return_address0() should be the same for all archs).
The CALLER_ADDRx(n) will now be defined in linux/ftrace.h and use the
ftrace_return_address*(n?) macros. This removes a lot of the duplicate
code.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/p/1400585464-30333-1-git-send-email-takahiro.akashi@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
As the decision to what needs to be done (converting a call to the
ftrace_caller to ftrace_caller_regs or to convert from ftrace_caller_regs
to ftrace_caller) can easily be determined from the rec->flags of
FTRACE_FL_REGS and FTRACE_FL_REGS_EN, there's no need to have the
ftrace_check_record() return either a UPDATE_MODIFY_CALL_REGS or a
UPDATE_MODIFY_CALL. Just he latter is enough. This added flag causes
more complexity than is required. Remove it.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Move and rename get_ftrace_addr() and get_ftrace_addr_old() to
ftrace_get_addr_new() and ftrace_get_addr_curr() respectively.
This moves these two helper functions in the generic code out from
the arch specific code, and renames them to have a better generic
name. This will allow other archs to use them as well as makes it
a bit easier to work on getting separate trampolines for different
functions.
ftrace_get_addr_new() returns the trampoline address that the mcount
call address will be converted to.
ftrace_get_addr_curr() returns the trampoline address of what the
mcount call address currently jumps to.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
A race exists between module loading and enabling of function tracer.
CPU 1 CPU 2
----- -----
load_module()
module->state = MODULE_STATE_COMING
register_ftrace_function()
mutex_lock(&ftrace_lock);
ftrace_startup()
update_ftrace_function();
ftrace_arch_code_modify_prepare()
set_all_module_text_rw();
<enables-ftrace>
ftrace_arch_code_modify_post_process()
set_all_module_text_ro();
[ here all module text is set to RO,
including the module that is
loading!! ]
blocking_notifier_call_chain(MODULE_STATE_COMING);
ftrace_init_module()
[ tries to modify code, but it's RO, and fails!
ftrace_bug() is called]
When this race happens, ftrace_bug() will produces a nasty warning and
all of the function tracing features will be disabled until reboot.
The simple solution is to treate module load the same way the core
kernel is treated at boot. To hardcode the ftrace function modification
of converting calls to mcount into nops. This is done in init/main.c
there's no reason it could not be done in load_module(). This gives
a better control of the changes and doesn't tie the state of the
module to its notifiers as much. Ftrace is special, it needs to be
treated as such.
The reason this would work, is that the ftrace_module_init() would be
called while the module is in MODULE_STATE_UNFORMED, which is ignored
by the set_all_module_text_ro() call.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1395637826-3312-1-git-send-email-indou.takao@jp.fujitsu.com
Reported-by: Takao Indoh <indou.takao@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 2.6.38+
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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>
The 'freelist' member was introduced to 'struct dyn_ftrace' in commit
ee000b7f9f (tracing: use union for
multi-usages field), but the use of this member was later removed in
3208230983 (ftrace: Remove usage of
"freed" records). Remove also the 'freelist' member now.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1393268401-24379-5-git-send-email-jslaby@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
As the data parameter is not really used by any ftrace_dyn_arch_init,
remove that from ftrace_dyn_arch_init. This also removes the addr
local variable from ftrace_init which is now unused.
Note the documentation was imprecise as it did not suggest to set
(*data) to 0.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1393268401-24379-4-git-send-email-jslaby@suse.cz
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Create a "set_ftrace_filter" and "set_ftrace_notrace" files in the instance
directories to let users filter of functions to trace for the given instance.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Passing data to the function callback was originally done by adding the
ftrace_ops in another structure, and using the container_of() to get
the field. But this adds a bit more complexity than it is worth, and
adding a simple .private field to ftrace_ops makes things a lot easier.
But be warned, the .private data should not be freed once it is used
unless the ftrace_ops itself has gone through the necessary freeing
routines. A simple synchronize_sched() is not enough as functions
can be traced that are called outside the view of RCU and all its
concoctions.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Trace event triggers added a lseek that uses the ftrace_filter_lseek()
function. Unfortunately, when function tracing is not configured in
that function is not defined and the kernel fails to build.
This is the second time that function was added to a file ops and
it broke the build due to requiring special config dependencies.
Make a generic tracing_lseek() that all the tracing utilities may
use.
Also, modify the old ftrace_filter_lseek() to return 0 instead of
1 on WRONLY. Not sure why it was a 1 as that does not make sense.
This also changes the old tracing_seek() to modify the file pos
pointer on WRONLY as well.
Reported-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Tested-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add a traceoff_on_warning option in both the kernel command line as well
as a sysctl option. When set, any WARN*() function that is hit will cause
the tracing_on variable to be cleared, which disables writing to the
ring buffer.
This is useful especially when tracing a bug with function tracing. When
a warning is hit, the print caused by the warning can flood the trace with
the functions that producing the output for the warning. This can make the
resulting trace useless by either hiding where the bug happened, or worse,
by overflowing the buffer and losing the trace of the bug totally.
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
This is a leftover after ftrace_regex_lseek() was renamed to
ftrace_filter_lseek() and then ftrace_filter_lseek() was moved
out side of CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/51B1A1BD.40905@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Fix a deadlock on ftrace_regex_lock which happens when setting
an enable_event trigger on dynamic kprobe event as below.
----
sh-2.05b# echo p vfs_symlink > kprobe_events
sh-2.05b# echo vfs_symlink:enable_event:kprobes:p_vfs_symlink_0 > set_ftrace_filter
=============================================
[ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ]
3.9.0+ #35 Not tainted
---------------------------------------------
sh/72 is trying to acquire lock:
(ftrace_regex_lock){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff810ba6c1>] ftrace_set_hash+0x81/0x1f0
but task is already holding lock:
(ftrace_regex_lock){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff810b7cbd>] ftrace_regex_write.isra.29.part.30+0x3d/0x220
other info that might help us debug this:
Possible unsafe locking scenario:
CPU0
----
lock(ftrace_regex_lock);
lock(ftrace_regex_lock);
*** DEADLOCK ***
----
To fix that, this introduces a finer regex_lock for each ftrace_ops.
ftrace_regex_lock is too big of a lock which protects all
filter/notrace_hash operations, but it doesn't need to be a global
lock after supporting multiple ftrace_ops because each ftrace_ops
has its own filter/notrace_hash.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130509054417.30398.84254.stgit@mhiramat-M0-7522
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
[ Added initialization flag and automate mutex initialization for
non ftrace.c ftrace_probes. ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Along with the usual minor fixes and clean ups there are a few major
changes with this pull request.
1) Multiple buffers for the ftrace facility
This feature has been requested by many people over the last few years.
I even heard that Google was about to implement it themselves. I finally
had time and cleaned up the code such that you can now create multiple
instances of the ftrace buffer and have different events go to different
buffers. This way, a low frequency event will not be lost in the noise
of a high frequency event.
Note, currently only events can go to different buffers, the tracers
(ie. function, function_graph and the latency tracers) still can only
be written to the main buffer.
2) The function tracer triggers have now been extended.
The function tracer had two triggers. One to enable tracing when a
function is hit, and one to disable tracing. Now you can record a
stack trace on a single (or many) function(s), take a snapshot of the
buffer (copy it to the snapshot buffer), and you can enable or disable
an event to be traced when a function is hit.
3) A perf clock has been added.
A "perf" clock can be chosen to be used when tracing. This will cause
ftrace to use the same clock as perf uses, and hopefully this will make
it easier to interleave the perf and ftrace data for analysis.
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Merge tag 'trace-3.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
"Along with the usual minor fixes and clean ups there are a few major
changes with this pull request.
1) Multiple buffers for the ftrace facility
This feature has been requested by many people over the last few
years. I even heard that Google was about to implement it themselves.
I finally had time and cleaned up the code such that you can now
create multiple instances of the ftrace buffer and have different
events go to different buffers. This way, a low frequency event will
not be lost in the noise of a high frequency event.
Note, currently only events can go to different buffers, the tracers
(ie function, function_graph and the latency tracers) still can only
be written to the main buffer.
2) The function tracer triggers have now been extended.
The function tracer had two triggers. One to enable tracing when a
function is hit, and one to disable tracing. Now you can record a
stack trace on a single (or many) function(s), take a snapshot of the
buffer (copy it to the snapshot buffer), and you can enable or disable
an event to be traced when a function is hit.
3) A perf clock has been added.
A "perf" clock can be chosen to be used when tracing. This will cause
ftrace to use the same clock as perf uses, and hopefully this will
make it easier to interleave the perf and ftrace data for analysis."
* tag 'trace-3.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (82 commits)
tracepoints: Prevent null probe from being added
tracing: Compare to 1 instead of zero for is_signed_type()
tracing: Remove obsolete macro guard _TRACE_PROFILE_INIT
ftrace: Get rid of ftrace_profile_bits
tracing: Check return value of tracing_init_dentry()
tracing: Get rid of unneeded key calculation in ftrace_hash_move()
tracing: Reset ftrace_graph_filter_enabled if count is zero
tracing: Fix off-by-one on allocating stat->pages
kernel: tracing: Use strlcpy instead of strncpy
tracing: Update debugfs README file
tracing: Fix ftrace_dump()
tracing: Rename trace_event_mutex to trace_event_sem
tracing: Fix comment about prefix in arch_syscall_match_sym_name()
tracing: Convert trace_destroy_fields() to static
tracing: Move find_event_field() into trace_events.c
tracing: Use TRACE_MAX_PRINT instead of constant
tracing: Use pr_warn_once instead of open coded implementation
ring-buffer: Add ring buffer startup selftest
tracing: Bring Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt up to date
tracing: Add "perf" trace_clock
...
Conflicts:
kernel/trace/ftrace.c
kernel/trace/trace.c
As ftrace_filter_lseek is now used with ftrace_pid_fops, it needs to
be moved out of the #ifdef CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE section as the
ftrace_pid_fops is defined when DYNAMIC_FTRACE is not.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Currently set_ftrace_pid and set_graph_function files use seq_lseek
for their fops. However seq_open() is called only for FMODE_READ in
the fops->open() so that if an user tries to seek one of those file
when she open it for writing, it sees NULL seq_file and then panic.
It can be easily reproduced with following command:
$ cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing
$ echo 1234 | sudo tee -a set_ftrace_pid
In this example, GNU coreutils' tee opens the file with fopen(, "a")
and then the fopen() internally calls lseek().
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1365663302-2170-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Linus Torvalds
Dmitry Safonov
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
AKASHI Takahiro
Masami Hiramatsu
Sasha Levin
Jiri Slaby
Tom Zanussi
Namhyung Kim
Li Zefan