commit caf4c86bf1 upstream.
At the moment running osnoise on a nohz_full CPU or uncontested FIFO
priority and a PREEMPT_RCU kernel might have the side effect of
extending grace periods too much. This will entice RCU to force a
context switch on the wayward CPU to end the grace period, all while
introducing unwarranted noise into the tracer. This behaviour is
unavoidable as overly extending grace periods might exhaust the system's
memory.
This same exact problem is what extended quiescent states (EQS) were
created for, conversely, rcu_momentary_dyntick_idle() emulates them by
performing a zero duration EQS. So let's make use of it.
In the common case rcu_momentary_dyntick_idle() is fairly inexpensive:
atomically incrementing a local per-CPU counter and doing a store. So it
shouldn't affect osnoise's measurements (which has a 1us granularity),
so we'll call it unanimously.
The uncommon case involve calling rcu_momentary_dyntick_idle() after
having the osnoise process:
- Receive an expedited quiescent state IPI with preemption disabled or
during an RCU critical section. (activates rdp->cpu_no_qs.b.exp
code-path).
- Being preempted within in an RCU critical section and having the
subsequent outermost rcu_read_unlock() called with interrupts
disabled. (t->rcu_read_unlock_special.b.blocked code-path).
Neither of those are possible at the moment, and are unlikely to be in
the future given the osnoise's loop design. On top of this, the noise
generated by the situations described above is unavoidable, and if not
exposed by rcu_momentary_dyntick_idle() will be eventually seen in
subsequent rcu_read_unlock() calls or schedule operations.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220307180740.577607-1-nsaenzju@redhat.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: bce29ac9ce ("trace: Add osnoise tracer")
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzju@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
[ Upstream commit dd990352f0 ]
osnoise's runtime and period are in the microseconds scale, but it is
currently sleeping in the millisecond's scale. This behavior roots in the
usage of hwlat as the skeleton for osnoise.
Make osnoise to sleep in the microseconds scale. Also, move the sleep to
a specialized function.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/302aa6c7bdf2d131719b22901905e9da122a11b2.1645197336.git.bristot@kernel.org
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
commit 0878355b51 upstream.
If start_per_cpu_kthreads() called from osnoise_workload_start() returns
error, event hooks are left in broken state: unhook_irq_events() called
but unhook_thread_events() and unhook_softirq_events() not called, and
trace_osnoise_callback_enabled flag not cleared.
On the next tracer enable, hooks get not installed due to
trace_osnoise_callback_enabled flag.
And on the further tracer disable an attempt to remove non-installed
hooks happened, hitting a WARN_ON_ONCE() in tracepoint_remove_func().
Fix the error path by adding the missing part of cleanup.
While at this, introduce osnoise_unhook_events() to avoid code
duplication between this error path and normal tracer disable.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220109153459.3701773-1-nikita.yushchenko@virtuozzo.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: bce29ac9ce ("trace: Add osnoise tracer")
Acked-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Nikita Yushchenko <nikita.yushchenko@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
[ Upstream commit 21ccc9cd72 ]
When building the files in the tracefs file system, do not by default set
any permissions for OTH (other). This will make it easier for admins who
want to define a group for accessing tracefs and not having to first
disable all the permission bits for "other" in the file system.
As tracing can leak sensitive information, it should never by default
allowing all users access. An admin can still set the permission bits for
others to have access, which may be useful for creating a honeypot and
seeing who takes advantage of it and roots the machine.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210818153038.864149276@goodmis.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
When start_kthread() return error, the cpus_read_unlock() need
to be called.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210831022919.27630-1-qiang.zhang@windriver.com
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Fixes: c8895e271f ("trace/osnoise: Support hotplug operations")
Acked-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Qiang.Zhang <qiang.zhang@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The functions get_online_cpus() and put_online_cpus() have been
deprecated during the CPU hotplug rework. They map directly to
cpus_read_lock() and cpus_read_unlock().
Replace deprecated CPU-hotplug functions with the official version.
The behavior remains unchanged.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210803141621.780504-37-bigeasy@linutronix.de
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Some extra flags are printed to the trace header when using the
PREEMPT_RT config. The extra flags are: need-resched-lazy,
preempt-lazy-depth, and migrate-disable.
Without printing these fields, the timerlat specific fields are
shifted by three positions, for example:
# tracer: timerlat
#
# _-----=> irqs-off
# / _----=> need-resched
# | / _---=> hardirq/softirq
# || / _--=> preempt-depth
# || /
# |||| ACTIVATION
# TASK-PID CPU# |||| TIMESTAMP ID CONTEXT LATENCY
# | | | |||| | | | |
<idle>-0 [000] d..h... 3279.798871: #1 context irq timer_latency 830 ns
<...>-807 [000] ....... 3279.798881: #1 context thread timer_latency 11301 ns
Add a new header for timerlat with the missing fields, to be used
when the PREEMPT_RT is enabled.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/babb83529a3211bd0805be0b8c21608230202c55.1626598844.git.bristot@kernel.org
Cc: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Some extra flags are printed to the trace header when using the
PREEMPT_RT config. The extra flags are: need-resched-lazy,
preempt-lazy-depth, and migrate-disable.
Without printing these fields, the osnoise specific fields are
shifted by three positions, for example:
# tracer: osnoise
#
# _-----=> irqs-off
# / _----=> need-resched
# | / _---=> hardirq/softirq
# || / _--=> preempt-depth MAX
# || / SINGLE Interference counters:
# |||| RUNTIME NOISE %% OF CPU NOISE +-----------------------------+
# TASK-PID CPU# |||| TIMESTAMP IN US IN US AVAILABLE IN US HW NMI IRQ SIRQ THREAD
# | | | |||| | | | | | | | | | |
<...>-741 [000] ....... 1105.690909: 1000000 234 99.97660 36 21 0 1001 22 3
<...>-742 [001] ....... 1105.691923: 1000000 281 99.97190 197 7 0 1012 35 14
<...>-743 [002] ....... 1105.691958: 1000000 1324 99.86760 118 11 0 1016 155 143
<...>-744 [003] ....... 1105.691998: 1000000 109 99.98910 21 4 0 1004 33 7
<...>-745 [004] ....... 1105.692015: 1000000 2023 99.79770 97 37 0 1023 52 18
Add a new header for osnoise with the missing fields, to be used
when the PREEMPT_RT is enabled.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1f03289d2a51fde5a58c2e7def063dc630820ad1.1626598844.git.bristot@kernel.org
Cc: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Dab Carpenter reported that:
The patch bce29ac9ce0b: "trace: Add osnoise tracer" from Jun 22,
2021, leads to the following static checker warning:
kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c:1103 run_osnoise()
warn: unsigned 'noise' is never less than zero.
In this part of the code:
1100 /*
1101 * This shouldn't happen.
1102 */
1103 if (noise < 0) {
^^^^^^^^^
1104 osnoise_taint("negative noise!");
1105 goto out;
1106 }
1107
And the static checker is right because 'noise' is u64.
Make noise s64 and keep the check. It is important to check if
the time read is behaving correctly - so we can trust the results.
I also re-arranged some variable declarations.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/acd7cd6e7d56b798a298c3bc8139a390b3c4ab52.1624986368.git.bristot@redhat.com
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: bce29ac9ce ("trace: Add osnoise tracer")
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
kernel test robot reported:
>> kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c:1584:2: error: void function
'osnoise_init_hotplug_support' should not return a
value [-Wreturn-type]
return 0;
When !CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU.
Fix it problem by removing the return value.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/c7fc67f1a117cc88bab2e508c898634872795341.1624872608.git.bristot@redhat.com
Fixes: c8895e271f ("trace/osnoise: Support hotplug operations")
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
kernel test robot reported:
>> kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c:966:3: warning: comparison of distinct
pointer types ('typeof ((interval)) *' (aka 'long long *') and
'uint64_t *' (aka 'unsigned long long *'))
[-Wcompare-distinct-pointer-types]
do_div(interval, USEC_PER_MSEC);
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
include/asm-generic/div64.h:228:28: note: expanded from macro 'do_div'
(void)(((typeof((n)) *)0) == ((uint64_t *)0)); \
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ^ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
As interval cannot be negative because sample_period >= sample_runtime,
making interval u64 on osnoise_main() is enough to fix this problem.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/4ae1e7780563598563de079a3ef6d4d10b5f5546.1624872608.git.bristot@redhat.com
Fixes: bce29ac9ce ("trace: Add osnoise tracer")
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
kernel test robot reported some osnoise functions with "no previous
prototype."
Fix these warnings by making local functions static, and by adding:
void osnoise_trace_irq_entry(int id);
void osnoise_trace_irq_exit(int id, const char *desc);
to include/linux/trace.h.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/e40d3cb4be8bde921f4b40fa6a095cf85ab807bd.1624872608.git.bristot@redhat.com
Fixes: bce29ac9ce ("trace: Add osnoise tracer")
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
ftracetest triggered:
INFO: rcu_tasks detected stalls on tasks:
00000000b92b832d: .. nvcsw: 1/1 holdout: 1 idle_cpu: -1/7
task:osnoise/7 state:R running task stack: 0 pid: 2133 ppid: 2 flags:0x00004000
Call Trace:
? asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x12/0x20
? asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x12/0x20
? trace_hardirqs_on+0x2b/0xe0
? asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x12/0x20
? trace_clock_local+0xc/0x20
? osnoise_main+0x10e/0x450
? trace_softirq_entry_callback+0x50/0x50
? kthread+0x153/0x170
? __kthread_bind_mask+0x60/0x60
? ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
While running osnoise tracer with other tracers that rely on
synchronize_rcu_tasks(), where that just hung.
The reason is that osnoise_main() never schedules out if the interval
is less than 1, and this will cause synchronize_rcu_tasks() to never
return.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210628114953.6dc06a91@oasis.local.home
Fixes: bce29ac9ce ("trace: Add osnoise tracer")
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Enable and disable osnoise/timerlat thread during on CPU hotplug online
and offline operations respectivelly.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-doc/20210621134636.5b332226@oasis.local.home/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/39f98590b3caeb3c32f09526214058efe0e9272a.1624372313.git.bristot@redhat.com
Cc: Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Kate Carcia <kcarcia@redhat.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Alexandre Chartre <alexandre.chartre@oracle.com>
Cc: Clark Willaims <williams@redhat.com>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The timerlat tracer aims to help the preemptive kernel developers to
found souces of wakeup latencies of real-time threads. Like cyclictest,
the tracer sets a periodic timer that wakes up a thread. The thread then
computes a *wakeup latency* value as the difference between the *current
time* and the *absolute time* that the timer was set to expire. The main
goal of timerlat is tracing in such a way to help kernel developers.
Usage
Write the ASCII text "timerlat" into the current_tracer file of the
tracing system (generally mounted at /sys/kernel/tracing).
For example:
[root@f32 ~]# cd /sys/kernel/tracing/
[root@f32 tracing]# echo timerlat > current_tracer
It is possible to follow the trace by reading the trace trace file:
[root@f32 tracing]# cat trace
# tracer: timerlat
#
# _-----=> irqs-off
# / _----=> need-resched
# | / _---=> hardirq/softirq
# || / _--=> preempt-depth
# || /
# |||| ACTIVATION
# TASK-PID CPU# |||| TIMESTAMP ID CONTEXT LATENCY
# | | | |||| | | | |
<idle>-0 [000] d.h1 54.029328: #1 context irq timer_latency 932 ns
<...>-867 [000] .... 54.029339: #1 context thread timer_latency 11700 ns
<idle>-0 [001] dNh1 54.029346: #1 context irq timer_latency 2833 ns
<...>-868 [001] .... 54.029353: #1 context thread timer_latency 9820 ns
<idle>-0 [000] d.h1 54.030328: #2 context irq timer_latency 769 ns
<...>-867 [000] .... 54.030330: #2 context thread timer_latency 3070 ns
<idle>-0 [001] d.h1 54.030344: #2 context irq timer_latency 935 ns
<...>-868 [001] .... 54.030347: #2 context thread timer_latency 4351 ns
The tracer creates a per-cpu kernel thread with real-time priority that
prints two lines at every activation. The first is the *timer latency*
observed at the *hardirq* context before the activation of the thread.
The second is the *timer latency* observed by the thread, which is the
same level that cyclictest reports. The ACTIVATION ID field
serves to relate the *irq* execution to its respective *thread* execution.
The irq/thread splitting is important to clarify at which context
the unexpected high value is coming from. The *irq* context can be
delayed by hardware related actions, such as SMIs, NMIs, IRQs
or by a thread masking interrupts. Once the timer happens, the delay
can also be influenced by blocking caused by threads. For example, by
postponing the scheduler execution via preempt_disable(), by the
scheduler execution, or by masking interrupts. Threads can
also be delayed by the interference from other threads and IRQs.
The timerlat can also take advantage of the osnoise: traceevents.
For example:
[root@f32 ~]# cd /sys/kernel/tracing/
[root@f32 tracing]# echo timerlat > current_tracer
[root@f32 tracing]# echo osnoise > set_event
[root@f32 tracing]# echo 25 > osnoise/stop_tracing_total_us
[root@f32 tracing]# tail -10 trace
cc1-87882 [005] d..h... 548.771078: #402268 context irq timer_latency 1585 ns
cc1-87882 [005] dNLh1.. 548.771082: irq_noise: local_timer:236 start 548.771077442 duration 4597 ns
cc1-87882 [005] dNLh2.. 548.771083: irq_noise: reschedule:253 start 548.771083017 duration 56 ns
cc1-87882 [005] dNLh2.. 548.771086: irq_noise: call_function_single:251 start 548.771083811 duration 2048 ns
cc1-87882 [005] dNLh2.. 548.771088: irq_noise: call_function_single:251 start 548.771086814 duration 1495 ns
cc1-87882 [005] dNLh2.. 548.771091: irq_noise: call_function_single:251 start 548.771089194 duration 1558 ns
cc1-87882 [005] dNLh2.. 548.771094: irq_noise: call_function_single:251 start 548.771091719 duration 1932 ns
cc1-87882 [005] dNLh2.. 548.771096: irq_noise: call_function_single:251 start 548.771094696 duration 1050 ns
cc1-87882 [005] d...3.. 548.771101: thread_noise: cc1:87882 start 548.771078243 duration 10909 ns
timerlat/5-1035 [005] ....... 548.771103: #402268 context thread timer_latency 25960 ns
For further information see: Documentation/trace/timerlat-tracer.rst
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/71f18efc013e1194bcaea1e54db957de2b19ba62.1624372313.git.bristot@redhat.com
Cc: Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Kate Carcia <kcarcia@redhat.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Alexandre Chartre <alexandre.chartre@oracle.com>
Cc: Clark Willaims <williams@redhat.com>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
In the context of high-performance computing (HPC), the Operating System
Noise (*osnoise*) refers to the interference experienced by an application
due to activities inside the operating system. In the context of Linux,
NMIs, IRQs, SoftIRQs, and any other system thread can cause noise to the
system. Moreover, hardware-related jobs can also cause noise, for example,
via SMIs.
The osnoise tracer leverages the hwlat_detector by running a similar
loop with preemption, SoftIRQs and IRQs enabled, thus allowing all
the sources of *osnoise* during its execution. Using the same approach
of hwlat, osnoise takes note of the entry and exit point of any
source of interferences, increasing a per-cpu interference counter. The
osnoise tracer also saves an interference counter for each source of
interference. The interference counter for NMI, IRQs, SoftIRQs, and
threads is increased anytime the tool observes these interferences' entry
events. When a noise happens without any interference from the operating
system level, the hardware noise counter increases, pointing to a
hardware-related noise. In this way, osnoise can account for any
source of interference. At the end of the period, the osnoise tracer
prints the sum of all noise, the max single noise, the percentage of CPU
available for the thread, and the counters for the noise sources.
Usage
Write the ASCII text "osnoise" into the current_tracer file of the
tracing system (generally mounted at /sys/kernel/tracing).
For example::
[root@f32 ~]# cd /sys/kernel/tracing/
[root@f32 tracing]# echo osnoise > current_tracer
It is possible to follow the trace by reading the trace trace file::
[root@f32 tracing]# cat trace
# tracer: osnoise
#
# _-----=> irqs-off
# / _----=> need-resched
# | / _---=> hardirq/softirq
# || / _--=> preempt-depth MAX
# || / SINGLE Interference counters:
# |||| RUNTIME NOISE % OF CPU NOISE +-----------------------------+
# TASK-PID CPU# |||| TIMESTAMP IN US IN US AVAILABLE IN US HW NMI IRQ SIRQ THREAD
# | | | |||| | | | | | | | | | |
<...>-859 [000] .... 81.637220: 1000000 190 99.98100 9 18 0 1007 18 1
<...>-860 [001] .... 81.638154: 1000000 656 99.93440 74 23 0 1006 16 3
<...>-861 [002] .... 81.638193: 1000000 5675 99.43250 202 6 0 1013 25 21
<...>-862 [003] .... 81.638242: 1000000 125 99.98750 45 1 0 1011 23 0
<...>-863 [004] .... 81.638260: 1000000 1721 99.82790 168 7 0 1002 49 41
<...>-864 [005] .... 81.638286: 1000000 263 99.97370 57 6 0 1006 26 2
<...>-865 [006] .... 81.638302: 1000000 109 99.98910 21 3 0 1006 18 1
<...>-866 [007] .... 81.638326: 1000000 7816 99.21840 107 8 0 1016 39 19
In addition to the regular trace fields (from TASK-PID to TIMESTAMP), the
tracer prints a message at the end of each period for each CPU that is
running an osnoise/CPU thread. The osnoise specific fields report:
- The RUNTIME IN USE reports the amount of time in microseconds that
the osnoise thread kept looping reading the time.
- The NOISE IN US reports the sum of noise in microseconds observed
by the osnoise tracer during the associated runtime.
- The % OF CPU AVAILABLE reports the percentage of CPU available for
the osnoise thread during the runtime window.
- The MAX SINGLE NOISE IN US reports the maximum single noise observed
during the runtime window.
- The Interference counters display how many each of the respective
interference happened during the runtime window.
Note that the example above shows a high number of HW noise samples.
The reason being is that this sample was taken on a virtual machine,
and the host interference is detected as a hardware interference.
Tracer options
The tracer has a set of options inside the osnoise directory, they are:
- osnoise/cpus: CPUs at which a osnoise thread will execute.
- osnoise/period_us: the period of the osnoise thread.
- osnoise/runtime_us: how long an osnoise thread will look for noise.
- osnoise/stop_tracing_us: stop the system tracing if a single noise
higher than the configured value happens. Writing 0 disables this
option.
- osnoise/stop_tracing_total_us: stop the system tracing if total noise
higher than the configured value happens. Writing 0 disables this
option.
- tracing_threshold: the minimum delta between two time() reads to be
considered as noise, in us. When set to 0, the default value will
be used, which is currently 5 us.
Additional Tracing
In addition to the tracer, a set of tracepoints were added to
facilitate the identification of the osnoise source.
- osnoise:sample_threshold: printed anytime a noise is higher than
the configurable tolerance_ns.
- osnoise:nmi_noise: noise from NMI, including the duration.
- osnoise:irq_noise: noise from an IRQ, including the duration.
- osnoise:softirq_noise: noise from a SoftIRQ, including the
duration.
- osnoise:thread_noise: noise from a thread, including the duration.
Note that all the values are *net values*. For example, if while osnoise
is running, another thread preempts the osnoise thread, it will start a
thread_noise duration at the start. Then, an IRQ takes place, preempting
the thread_noise, starting a irq_noise. When the IRQ ends its execution,
it will compute its duration, and this duration will be subtracted from
the thread_noise, in such a way as to avoid the double accounting of the
IRQ execution. This logic is valid for all sources of noise.
Here is one example of the usage of these tracepoints::
osnoise/8-961 [008] d.h. 5789.857532: irq_noise: local_timer:236 start 5789.857529929 duration 1845 ns
osnoise/8-961 [008] dNh. 5789.858408: irq_noise: local_timer:236 start 5789.858404871 duration 2848 ns
migration/8-54 [008] d... 5789.858413: thread_noise: migration/8:54 start 5789.858409300 duration 3068 ns
osnoise/8-961 [008] .... 5789.858413: sample_threshold: start 5789.858404555 duration 8723 ns interferences 2
In this example, a noise sample of 8 microseconds was reported in the last
line, pointing to two interferences. Looking backward in the trace, the
two previous entries were about the migration thread running after a
timer IRQ execution. The first event is not part of the noise because
it took place one millisecond before.
It is worth noticing that the sum of the duration reported in the
tracepoints is smaller than eight us reported in the sample_threshold.
The reason roots in the overhead of the entry and exit code that happens
before and after any interference execution. This justifies the dual
approach: measuring thread and tracing.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/e649467042d60e7b62714c9c6751a56299d15119.1624372313.git.bristot@redhat.com
Cc: Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Kate Carcia <kcarcia@redhat.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Alexandre Chartre <alexandre.chartre@oracle.com>
Cc: Clark Willaims <williams@redhat.com>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
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Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com>
[
Made the following functions static:
trace_irqentry_callback()
trace_irqexit_callback()
trace_intel_irqentry_callback()
trace_intel_irqexit_callback()
Added to include/trace.h:
osnoise_arch_register()
osnoise_arch_unregister()
Fixed define logic for LATENCY_FS_NOTIFY
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Nicolas Saenz Julienne
Daniel Bristot de Oliveira
Nikita Yushchenko
Steven Rostedt (VMware)
Qiang.Zhang
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
Daniel Bristot de Oliveira