18 May, 2010
3 commits
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* 'tracing-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
tracing: Fix "integer as NULL pointer" warning.
tracing: Fix tracepoint.h DECLARE_TRACE() to allow more than one header
tracing: Make the documentation clear on trace_event boot option
ring-buffer: Wrap open-coded WARN_ONCE
tracing: Convert nop macros to static inlines
tracing: Fix sleep time function profiling
tracing: Show sample std dev in function profiling
tracing: Add documentation for trace commands mod, traceon/traceoff
ring-buffer: Make benchmark handle missed events
ring-buffer: Make non-consuming read less expensive with lots of cpus.
tracing: Add graph output support for irqsoff tracer
tracing: Have graph flags passed in to ouput functions
tracing: Add ftrace events for graph tracer
tracing: Dump either the oops's cpu source or all cpus buffers
tracing: Fix uninitialized variable of tracing/trace output -
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* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (49 commits)
stop_machine: Move local variable closer to the usage site in cpu_stop_cpu_callback()
sched, wait: Use wrapper functions
sched: Remove a stale comment
ondemand: Make the iowait-is-busy time a sysfs tunable
ondemand: Solve a big performance issue by counting IOWAIT time as busy
sched: Intoduce get_cpu_iowait_time_us()
sched: Eliminate the ts->idle_lastupdate field
sched: Fold updating of the last_update_time_info into update_ts_time_stats()
sched: Update the idle statistics in get_cpu_idle_time_us()
sched: Introduce a function to update the idle statistics
sched: Add a comment to get_cpu_idle_time_us()
cpu_stop: add dummy implementation for UP
sched: Remove rq argument to the tracepoints
rcu: need barrier() in UP synchronize_sched_expedited()
sched: correctly place paranioa memory barriers in synchronize_sched_expedited()
sched: kill paranoia check in synchronize_sched_expedited()
sched: replace migration_thread with cpu_stop
stop_machine: reimplement using cpu_stop
cpu_stop: implement stop_cpu[s]()
sched: Fix select_idle_sibling() logic in select_task_rq_fair()
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* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (311 commits)
perf tools: Add mode to build without newt support
perf symbols: symbol inconsistency message should be done only at verbose=1
perf tui: Add explicit -lslang option
perf options: Type check all the remaining OPT_ variants
perf options: Type check OPT_BOOLEAN and fix the offenders
perf options: Check v type in OPT_U?INTEGER
perf options: Introduce OPT_UINTEGER
perf tui: Add workaround for slang < 2.1.4
perf record: Fix bug mismatch with -c option definition
perf options: Introduce OPT_U64
perf tui: Add help window to show key associations
perf tui: Make <- exit menus too
perf newt: Add single key shortcuts for zoom into DSO and threads
perf newt: Exit browser unconditionally when CTRL+C, q or Q is pressed
perf newt: Fix the 'A'/'a' shortcut for annotate
perf newt: Make <- exit the ui_browser
x86, perf: P4 PMU - fix counters management logic
perf newt: Make <- zoom out filters
perf report: Report number of events, not samples
perf hist: Clarify events_stats fields usage
...Fix up trivial conflicts in kernel/fork.c and tools/perf/builtin-record.c
07 May, 2010
2 commits
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struct rq isn't visible outside of sched.o so its near useless to
expose the pointer, also there are no users of it, so remove it.Acked-by: Steven Rostedt
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra
LKML-Reference:
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The original code doesn't work because "call" is never NULL there.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter
LKML-Reference:
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt
06 May, 2010
1 commit
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kernel/trace/trace_output.c:256:24: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer
Signed-off-by: Thiago Farina
LKML-Reference:
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt
05 May, 2010
1 commit
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Wrap open-coded WARN_ONCE functionality into the equivalent macro.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov
LKML-Reference:
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt
01 May, 2010
1 commit
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The breakpoint generic layer assumes that archs always know in advance
the static number of address registers available to host breakpoints
through the HBP_NUM macro.However this is not true for every archs. For example Arm needs to get
this information dynamically to handle the compatiblity between
different versions.To solve this, this patch proposes to drop the static HBP_NUM macro
and let the arch provide the number of available slots through a
new hw_breakpoint_slots() function. For archs that have
CONFIG_HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS selected, it will be called once
as the number of registers fits for instruction and data breakpoints
together.
For the others it will be called first to get the number of
instruction breakpoint registers and another time to get the
data breakpoint registers, the targeted type is given as a
parameter of hw_breakpoint_slots().Reported-by: Will Deacon
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker
Acked-by: Paul Mundt
Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar
Cc: K. Prasad
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Jason Wessel
Cc: Ingo Molnar
28 Apr, 2010
5 commits
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When sleep_time is off the function profiler ignores the time that a task
is scheduled out. When the task is scheduled out a timestamp is taken.
When the task is scheduled back in, the timestamp is compared to the
current time and the saved calltimes are adjusted accordingly.But when stopping the function profiler, the sched switch hook that
does this adjustment was stopped before shutting down the tracer.
This allowed some tasks to not get their timestamps set when they
scheduled out. When the function profiler started again, this would
skew the times of the scheduler functions.This patch moves the stopping of the sched switch to after the function
profiler is stopped. It also ignores zero set calltimes, which may
happen on start up.Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt
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When combined with function graph tracing the ftrace function profiler
also prints the average run time of functions. While this gives us some
good information, it doesn't tell us anything about the variance of the
run times of the function. This change prints out the s^2 sample
standard deviation alongside the average.This change adds one entry to the profile record structure. This
increases the memory footprint of the function profiler by 1/3 on a
32-bit system, and by 1/5 on a 64-bit system when function graphing is
enabled, though the memory is only allocated when the profiler is turned
on. During the profiling, one extra line of code adds the squared
calltime to the new record entry, so this should not adversly affect
performance.Note that the square of the sample standard deviation is printed because
there is no sqrt implementation for unsigned long long in the kernel.Signed-off-by: Chase Douglas
LKML-Reference:[ fixed comment about ns^2 -> us^2 conversion ]
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With the addition of the "missed events" flags that is stored in the
commit field of the ring buffer page, the ring_buffer_benchmark
was not updated to handle this. If events are missed, then the
missed events flag is set in the ring buffer page, the benchmark
will count that flag as part of the size of the page and will hit the BUG()
when it tries to read beyond the page.The solution is simply to have the ring buffer benchmark mask off
the extra bits.Reported-by: Ingo Molnar
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When performing a non-consuming read, a synchronize_sched() is
performed once for every cpu which is actively tracing.This is very expensive, and can make it take several seconds to open
up the 'trace' file with lots of cpus.Only one synchronize_sched() call is actually necessary. What is
desired is for all cpus to see the disabling state change. So we
transform the existing sequence:for_each_cpu() {
ring_buffer_read_start();
}where each ring_buffer_start() call performs a synchronize_sched(),
into the following:for_each_cpu() {
ring_buffer_read_prepare();
}
ring_buffer_read_prepare_sync();
for_each_cpu() {
ring_buffer_read_start();
}wherein only the single ring_buffer_read_prepare_sync() call needs to
do the synchronize_sched().The first phase, via ring_buffer_read_prepare(), allocates the 'iter'
memory and increments ->record_disabled.In the second phase, ring_buffer_read_prepare_sync() makes sure this
->record_disabled state is visible fully to all cpus.And in the final third phase, the ring_buffer_read_start() calls reset
the 'iter' objects allocated in the first phase since we now know that
none of the cpus are adding trace entries any more.This makes openning the 'trace' file nearly instantaneous on a
sparc64 Niagara2 box with 128 cpus tracing.Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
LKML-Reference:
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Add function graph output to irqsoff tracer.
The graph output is enabled by setting new 'display-graph' trace option.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa
LKML-Reference:
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt
27 Apr, 2010
2 commits
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Let the function graph tracer have custom flags passed to its
output functions.Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa
LKML-Reference:
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Add ftrace events for graph tracer, so the graph output could be shared
with other tracers.Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa
LKML-Reference:
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt
22 Apr, 2010
1 commit
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The ftrace_dump_on_oops kernel parameter, sysctl and sysrq let one
dump every cpu buffers when an oops or panic happens.It's nice when you have few cpus but it may take ages if have many,
plus you miss the real origin of the problem in all the cpu traces.Sometimes, all you need is to dump the cpu buffer that triggered the
opps, most of the time it is our main interest.This patch modifies ftrace_dump_on_oops to handle this choice.
The ftrace_dump_on_oops kernel parameter, when it comes alone, has
the same behaviour than before. But ftrace_dump_on_oops=orig_cpu
will only dump the buffer of the cpu that oops'ed.Similarly, sysctl kernel.ftrace_dump_on_oops=1 and
echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/ftrace_dump_on_oops keep their previous
behaviour. But setting 2 jumps into cpu origin dump mode.v2: Fix double setup
v3: Fix spelling issues reported by Randy Dunlap
v4: Also update __ftrace_dump in the selftestsSigned-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker
Acked-by: David S. Miller
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: Li Zefan
Cc: Lai Jiangshan
15 Apr, 2010
1 commit
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Support basic types of integer (u8, u16, u32, u64, s8, s16, s32, s64) in
kprobe tracer. With this patch, users can specify above basic types on
each arguments after ':'. If omitted, the argument type is set as
unsigned long (u32 or u64, arch-dependent).e.g.
echo 'p account_system_time+0 hardirq_offset=%si:s32' > kprobe_eventsadds a probe recording hardirq_offset in signed-32bits value on the
entry of account_system_time.Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Steven Rostedt
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Mike Galbraith
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker
LKML-Reference:
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
14 Apr, 2010
1 commit
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08 Apr, 2010
2 commits
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Semantic conflict: arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event_intel_ds.c
Merge reason: pick up latest fixes, fix the conflict
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
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Conflicts:
include/linux/module.h
kernel/module.cSemantic conflict:
include/trace/events/module.hMerge reason: Resolve the conflict with upstream commit 5fbfb18 ("Fix up
possibly racy module refcounting")Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
05 Apr, 2010
3 commits
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Because a local variable is not initialized, I got these
when I did 'cat tracing/trace'. (not trace_pipe):CPU:0 [LOST 18446744071579453134 EVENTS]
ps-3099 [000] 560.770221: lock_acquire: ffff880030865010 &(&dentry->d_lock)->rlock
CPU:0 [LOST 18446744071579453134 EVENTS]
ps-3099 [000] 560.770221: lock_release: ffff880030865010 &(&dentry->d_lock)->rlock
CPU:0 [LOST 18446612133255294080 EVENTS]
ps-3099 [000] 560.770221: lock_acquire: ffff880030865010 &(&dentry->d_lock)->rlock
CPU:0 [LOST 18446744071579453134 EVENTS]
ps-3099 [000] 560.770222: lock_release: ffff880030865010 &(&dentry->d_lock)->rlock
CPU:0 [LOST 18446744071579453134 EVENTS]
ps-3099 [000] 560.770222: lock_release: ffffffff816cfb98 dcache_lockSee peek_next_entry(), it does not set *lost_events when we 'cat tracing/trace'
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan
LKML-Reference:
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt -
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* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
perf: Always build the powerpc perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs version
perf: Always build the stub perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs version
perf, probe-finder: Build fix on Debian
perf/scripts: Tuple was set from long in both branches in python_process_event()
perf: Fix 'perf sched record' deadlock
perf, x86: Fix callgraphs of 32-bit processes on 64-bit kernels
perf, x86: Fix AMD hotplug & constraint initialization
x86: Move notify_cpu_starting() callback to a later stage
x86,kgdb: Always initialize the hw breakpoint attribute
perf: Use hot regs with software sched switch/migrate events
perf: Correctly align perf event tracing buffer
03 Apr, 2010
1 commit
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Conflicts:
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.cMerge reason: Resolve the conflict, pick up fixes
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
01 Apr, 2010
4 commits
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The trace event buffer used by perf to record raw sample events
is typed as an array of char and may then not be aligned to 8
by alloc_percpu().But we need it to be aligned to 8 in sparc64 because we cast
this buffer into a random structure type built by the TRACE_EVENT()
macro to store the traces. So if a random 64 bits field is accessed
inside, it may be not under an expected good alignment.Use an array of long instead to force the appropriate alignment, and
perform a compile time check to ensure the size in byte of the buffer
is a multiple of sizeof(long) so that its actual size doesn't get
shrinked under us.This fixes unaligned accesses reported while using perf lock
in sparc 64.Suggested-by: David Miller
Suggested-by: Tejun Heo
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: David Miller
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Currently, binary readers of the ring buffer only know where events were
lost, but not how many events were lost at that location.
This information is available, but it would require adding another
field to the sub buffer header to include it.But when a event can not fit at the end of a sub buffer, it is written
to the next sub buffer. This means there is a good chance that the
buffer may have room to hold this counter. If it does, write
the counter at the end of the sub buffer and set another flag
in the data size field that states that this information exists.Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt
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Now that the ring buffer can keep track of where events are lost.
Use this information to the output of trace_pipe:hackbench-3588 [001] 1326.701660: lock_acquire: ffffffff816591e0 read rcu_read_lock
hackbench-3588 [001] 1326.701661: lock_acquire: ffff88003f4091f0 &(&dentry->d_lock)->rlock
hackbench-3588 [001] 1326.701664: lock_release: ffff88003f4091f0 &(&dentry->d_lock)->rlock
CPU:1 [LOST 673 EVENTS]
hackbench-3588 [001] 1326.702711: kmem_cache_free: call_site=ffffffff81102b85 ptr=ffff880026d96738
hackbench-3588 [001] 1326.702712: lock_release: ffff88003e1480a8 &mm->mmap_sem
hackbench-3588 [001] 1326.702713: lock_acquire: ffff88003e1480a8 &mm->mmap_semEven works with the function graph tracer:
2) ! 170.098 us | }
2) 4.036 us | rcu_irq_exit();
2) 3.657 us | idle_cpu();
2) ! 190.301 us | }
CPU:2 [LOST 2196 EVENTS]
2) 0.853 us | } /* cancel_dirty_page */
2) | remove_from_page_cache() {
2) 1.578 us | _raw_spin_lock_irq();
2) | __remove_from_page_cache() {Note, it does not work with the iterator "trace" file, since it requires
the use of consuming the page from the ring buffer to determine how many
events were lost, which the iterator does not do.Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt
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Currently, when the ring buffer drops events, it does not record
the fact that it did so. It does inform the writer that the event
was dropped by returning a NULL event, but it does not put in any
place holder where the event was dropped.This is not a trivial thing to add because the ring buffer mostly
runs in overwrite (flight recorder) mode. That is, when the ring
buffer is full, new data will overwrite old data.In a produce/consumer mode, where new data is simply dropped when
the ring buffer is full, it is trivial to add the placeholder
for dropped events. When there's more room to write new data, then
a special event can be added to notify the reader about the dropped
events.But in overwrite mode, any new write can overwrite events. A place
holder can not be inserted into the ring buffer since there never
may be room. A reader could also come in at anytime and miss the
placeholder.Luckily, the way the ring buffer works, the read side can find out
if events were lost or not, and how many events. Everytime a write
takes place, if it overwrites the header page (the next read) it
updates a "overrun" variable that keeps track of the number of
lost events. When a reader swaps out a page from the ring buffer,
it can record this number, perfom the swap, and then check to
see if the number changed, and take the diff if it has, which would be
the number of events dropped. This can be stored by the reader
and returned to callers of the reader.Since the reader page swap will fail if the writer moved the head
page since the time the reader page set up the swap, this gives room
to record the overruns without worrying about races. If the reader
sets up the pages, records the overrun, than performs the swap,
if the swap succeeds, then the overrun variable has not been
updated since the setup before the swap.For binary readers of the ring buffer, a flag is set in the header
of each sub page (sub buffer) of the ring buffer. This flag is embedded
in the size field of the data on the sub buffer, in the 31st bit (the size
can be 32 or 64 bits depending on the architecture), but only 27
bits needs to be used for the actual size (less actually).We could add a new field in the sub buffer header to also record the
number of events dropped since the last read, but this will change the
format of the binary ring buffer a bit too much. Perhaps this change can
be made if the information on the number of events dropped is considered
important enough.Note, the notification of dropped events is only used by consuming reads
or peeking at the ring buffer. Iterating over the ring buffer does not
keep this information because the necessary data is only available when
a page swap is made, and the iterator does not swap out pages.Cc: Robert Richter
Cc: Andi Kleen
Cc: Li Zefan
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Cc: "Luis Claudio R. Goncalves"
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt
30 Mar, 2010
3 commits
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…it slab.h inclusion from percpu.h
percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py
The script does the followings.
* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used,
gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains
core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
doesn't seem to be any matching order.* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
file.The conversion was done in the following steps.
1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400
files.2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion,
some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added
inclusions to around 150 files.3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h
inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each
slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
necessary.6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.
7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).* x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
* powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
* sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
* ia64 SMP allmodconfig
* s390 SMP allmodconfig
* alpha SMP allmodconfig
* um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
a separate patch and serve as bisection point.Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com> -
In some error handling cases the lock is not unlocked. The return is
converted to a goto, to share the unlock at the end of the function.A simplified version of the semantic patch that finds this problem is as
follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)//
@r exists@
expression E1;
identifier f;
@@f (...) { }
//Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall
LKML-Reference:
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# echo 1 > events/enable
# echo global > trace_clock------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: at kernel/lockdep.c:3162 check_flags+0xb2/0x190()
...
---[ end trace 3f86734a89416623 ]---
possible reason: unannotated irqs-on.
...There's no reason to use the raw_local_irq_save() in trace_clock_global.
The local_irq_save() version is fine, and does not cause the bug in lockdep.Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan
LKML-Reference:
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt
27 Mar, 2010
1 commit
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* 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
ring-buffer: Do 8 byte alignment for 64 bit that can not handle 4 byte align
26 Mar, 2010
1 commit
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Support for the PMU's BTS features has been upstreamed in
v2.6.32, but we still have the old and disabled ptrace-BTS,
as Linus noticed it not so long ago.It's buggy: TIF_DEBUGCTLMSR is trampling all over that MSR without
regard for other uses (perf) and doesn't provide the flexibility
needed for perf either.Its users are ptrace-block-step and ptrace-bts, since ptrace-bts
was never used and ptrace-block-step can be implemented using a
much simpler approach.So axe all 3000 lines of it. That includes the *locked_memory*()
APIs in mm/mlock.c as well.Reported-by: Linus Torvalds
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Roland McGrath
Cc: Oleg Nesterov
Cc: Markus Metzger
Cc: Steven Rostedt
Cc: Andrew Morton
LKML-Reference:
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
19 Mar, 2010
2 commits
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The ring buffer uses 4 byte alignment while recording events into the
buffer, even on 64bit machines. This saves space when there are lots
of events being recorded at 4 byte boundaries.The ring buffer has a zero copy method to write into the buffer, with
the reserving of space and then committing it. This may cause problems
when writing an 8 byte word into a 4 byte alignment (not 8). For x86 and
PPC this is not an issue, but on some architectures this would cause an
out-of-alignment exception.This patch uses CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS to determine
if it is OK to use 4 byte alignments on 64 bit machines. If it is not,
it forces the ring buffer event header to be 8 bytes and not 4,
and will align the length of the data to be 8 byte aligned.
This keeps the data payload at 8 byte alignments and will allow these
machines to run without issue.The trick to this is that the header can be either 4 bytes or 8 bytes
depending on the length of the data payload. The 4 byte header
has a length field that supports up to 112 bytes. If the length of
the data is more than 112, the length field is set to zero, and the actual
length is stored in the next 4 bytes after the header.When CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS is not set, the code forces
zero in the 4 byte header forcing the length to be stored in the 4 byte
array, even with a small data load. It also forces the length of the
data load to be 8 byte aligned. The combination of these two guarantee
that the data is always at 8 byte alignment.Tested-by: Frederic Weisbecker
(on sparc64)
Reported-by: Frederic Weisbecker
Acked-by: David S. Miller
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt -
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* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (35 commits)
perf: Fix unexported generic perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs
perf record: Don't try to find buildids in a zero sized file
perf: export perf_trace_regs and perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs
perf, x86: Fix hw_perf_enable() event assignment
perf, ppc: Fix compile error due to new cpu notifiers
perf: Make the install relative to DESTDIR if specified
kprobes: Calculate the index correctly when freeing the out-of-line execution slot
perf tools: Fix sparse CPU numbering related bugs
perf_event: Fix oops triggered by cpu offline/online
perf: Drop the obsolete profile naming for trace events
perf: Take a hot regs snapshot for trace events
perf: Introduce new perf_fetch_caller_regs() for hot regs snapshot
perf/x86-64: Use frame pointer to walk on irq and process stacks
lockdep: Move lock events under lockdep recursion protection
perf report: Print the map table just after samples for which no map was found
perf report: Add multiple event support
perf session: Change perf_session post processing functions to take histogram tree
perf session: Add storage for seperating event types in report
perf session: Change add_hist_entry to take the tree root instead of session
perf record: Add ID and to recorded event data when recording multiple events
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17 Mar, 2010
1 commit
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perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs() is exported for the overriden x86
version, but not for the generic weak version.As a general rule, weak functions should not have their symbol
exported in the same file they are defined.So let's export it on trace_event_perf.c as it is used by trace
events only.This fixes:
ERROR: ".perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs" [fs/xfs/xfs.ko] undefined!
ERROR: ".perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs" [arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/spufs.ko] undefined!-v2: And also only build it if trace events are enabled.
-v3: Fix changelog mistakeReported-by: Stephen Rothwell
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Xiao Guangrong
Cc: Paul Mackerras
LKML-Reference:
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
14 Mar, 2010
2 commits
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* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
locking: Make sparse work with inline spinlocks and rwlocks
x86/mce: Fix RCU lockdep splats
rcu: Increase RCU CPU stall timeouts if PROVE_RCU
ftrace: Replace read_barrier_depends() with rcu_dereference_raw()
rcu: Suppress RCU lockdep warnings during early boot
rcu, ftrace: Fix RCU lockdep splat in ftrace_perf_buf_prepare()
rcu: Suppress __mpol_dup() false positive from RCU lockdep
rcu: Make rcu_read_lock_sched_held() handle !PREEMPT
rcu: Add control variables to lockdep_rcu_dereference() diagnostics
rcu, cgroup: Relax the check in task_subsys_state() as early boot is now handled by lockdep-RCU
rcu: Use wrapper function instead of exporting tasklist_lock
sched, rcu: Fix rcu_dereference() for RCU-lockdep
rcu: Make task_subsys_state() RCU-lockdep checks handle boot-time use
rcu: Fix holdoff for accelerated GPs for last non-dynticked CPU
x86/gart: Unexport gart_iommu_apertureFix trivial conflicts in kernel/trace/ftrace.c
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* 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
tracing: Do not record user stack trace from NMI context
tracing: Disable buffer switching when starting or stopping trace
tracing: Use same local variable when resetting the ring buffer
function-graph: Init curr_ret_stack with ret_stack
ring-buffer: Move disabled check into preempt disable section
function-graph: Add tracing_thresh support to function_graph tracer
tracing: Update the comm field in the right variable in update_max_tr
function-graph: Use comment notation for func names of dangling '}'
function-graph: Fix unused reference to ftrace_set_func()
tracing: Fix warning in s_next of trace file ops
tracing: Include irqflags headers from trace clock
13 Mar, 2010
2 commits
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A bug was found with Li Zefan's ftrace_stress_test that caused applications
to segfault during the test.Placing a tracing_off() in the segfault code, and examining several
traces, I found that the following was always the case. The lock tracer
was enabled (lockdep being required) and userstack was enabled. Testing
this out, I just enabled the two, but that was not good enough. I needed
to run something else that could trigger it. Running a load like hackbench
did not work, but executing a new program would. The following would
trigger the segfault within seconds:# echo 1 > /debug/tracing/options/userstacktrace
# echo 1 > /debug/tracing/events/lock/enable
# while :; do ls > /dev/null ; doneEnabling the function graph tracer and looking at what was happening
I finally noticed that all cashes happened just after an NMI.1) | copy_user_handle_tail() {
1) | bad_area_nosemaphore() {
1) | __bad_area_nosemaphore() {
1) | no_context() {
1) | fixup_exception() {
1) 0.319 us | search_exception_tables();
1) 0.873 us | }
[...]
1) 0.314 us | __rcu_read_unlock();
1) 0.325 us | native_apic_mem_write();
1) 0.943 us | }
1) 0.304 us | rcu_nmi_exit();
[...]
1) 0.479 us | find_vma();
1) | bad_area() {
1) | __bad_area() {After capturing several traces of failures, all of them happened
after an NMI. Curious about this, I added a trace_printk() to the NMI
handler to read the regs->ip to see where the NMI happened. In which I
found out it was here:ffffffff8135b660 :
ffffffff8135b660: 48 83 ec 78 sub $0x78,%rsp
ffffffff8135b664: e8 97 01 00 00 callq ffffffff8135b800What was happening is that the NMI would happen at the place that a page
fault occurred. It would call rcu_read_lock() which was traced by
the lock events, and the user_stack_trace would run. This would trigger
a page fault inside the NMI. I do not see where the CR2 register is
saved or restored in NMI handling. This means that it would corrupt
the page fault handling that the NMI interrupted.The reason the while loop of ls helped trigger the bug, was that
each execution of ls would cause lots of pages to be faulted in, and
increase the chances of the race happening.The simple solution is to not allow user stack traces in NMI context.
After this patch, I ran the above "ls" test for a couple of hours
without any issues. Without this patch, the bug would trigger in less
than a minute.Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reported-by: Li Zefan
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt -
When the trace iterator is read, tracing_start() and tracing_stop()
is called to stop tracing while the iterator is processing the trace
output.These functions disable both the standard buffer and the max latency
buffer. But if the wakeup tracer is running, it can switch these
buffers between the two disables:buffer = global_trace.buffer;
if (buffer)
ring_buffer_record_disable(buffer);<<
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt