21 Sep, 2009
1 commit
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Signed-off-by: Anand Gadiyar
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina
27 Aug, 2009
1 commit
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Kernel threads don't call syscalls using the sysenter/sysexit
path. Instead they directly call the sys_* or do_* functions
that implement the syscalls inside the kernel.The current syscall tracepoints only bind the sysenter/sysexit
path, then it has no effect to trace the kernel thread calls
to syscalls in that path.
Setting the TIF_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINT flag is then useless for these.Actually there is only one case when a kernel thread can reach the
usual syscall exit tracing path: when we create a kernel thread, the
child comes to ret_from_fork and is the fork() return is then traced.
But this information alone is useless, then we don't want to set the
TIF flags for these threads.Kernel threads have task_struct->mm set to NULL.
(Thanks to Heiko for that hint ;-)
The idea is then to check the mm field in syscall_regfunc() and
set the flag accordingly.Signed-off-by: Hendrik Brueckner
Cc: Jason Baron
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Lai Jiangshan
Cc: Steven Rostedt
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers
Cc: Jiaying Zhang
Cc: Martin Bligh
Cc: Li Zefan
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky
Cc: Paul Mundt
Cc: Heiko Carstens
Cc: Hendrik Brueckner
LKML-Reference:
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker
26 Aug, 2009
3 commits
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It's not strictly correct for the tracepoint reg/unreg callbacks to
occur when a client is hooking up, because the actual tracepoint may not
be present yet. This happens to be fine for syscall, since that's in
the core kernel, but it would cause problems for tracepoints defined in
a module that hasn't been loaded yet. It also means the reg/unreg has
to be EXPORTed for any modules to use the tracepoint (as in SystemTap).This patch removes DECLARE_TRACE_WITH_CALLBACK, and instead introduces
DEFINE_TRACE_FN which stores the callbacks in struct tracepoint. The
callbacks are used now when the active state of the tracepoint changes
in set_tracepoint & disable_tracepoint.This also introduces TRACE_EVENT_FN, so ftrace events can also provide
registration callbacks if needed.Signed-off-by: Josh Stone
Cc: Jason Baron
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Li Zefan
Cc: Steven Rostedt
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers
Cc: Jiaying Zhang
Cc: Martin Bligh
Cc: Lai Jiangshan
Cc: Paul Mundt
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky
Cc: Heiko Carstens
LKML-Reference:
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker -
The syscall enter/exit tracepoints are only supported on archs that
HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS, so the declarations should be #ifdef'ed.
Also, the definition of syscall_regfunc and syscall_unregfunc should
depend on this same config, rather than the ftrace-specific one.Signed-off-by: Josh Stone
Cc: Jason Baron
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Li Zefan
Cc: Steven Rostedt
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers
Cc: Jiaying Zhang
Cc: Martin Bligh
Cc: Lai Jiangshan
LKML-Reference:
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker -
s/HAVE_FTRACE_SYSCALLS/HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS/g
s/TIF_SYSCALL_FTRACE/TIF_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINT/gThe syscall enter/exit tracing is no longer specific to just ftrace, so
they now have names that reflect their tie to tracepoints instead.Signed-off-by: Josh Stone
Cc: Jason Baron
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Li Zefan
Cc: Steven Rostedt
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers
Cc: Jiaying Zhang
Cc: Martin Bligh
Cc: Lai Jiangshan
Cc: Paul Mundt
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky
Cc: Heiko Carstens
LKML-Reference:
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker
25 Aug, 2009
1 commit
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Signed-off-by: Anirban Sinha
Reviewed-by: Li Zefan
Cc: "Oleg Nesterov"
LKML-Reference:
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
14 Aug, 2009
1 commit
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The new syscall_regfunc()/unregfunc() functions rely on
the existence of TIF_SYSCALL_FTRACE - but that TIF flag
is only offered by HAVE_FTRACE_SYSCALLS.Cc: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc: Jason Baron
Cc: Steven Rostedt
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
LKML-Reference:
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
12 Aug, 2009
1 commit
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add two tracepoints in syscall exit and entry path, conditioned on
TIF_SYSCALL_FTRACE. Supports the syscall trace event code.Signed-off-by: Jason Baron
Cc: Lai Jiangshan
Cc: Steven Rostedt
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers
Cc: Jiaying Zhang
Cc: Martin Bligh
Cc: Li Zefan
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker
19 Mar, 2009
2 commits
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Zero-sized tracepoint sections can occur if tracing is enabled but
no tracepoint is defined. Do not emit a warning in that case.Cc: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc: Steven Rostedt
Cc: Jaswinder Singh Rajput
LKML-Reference:
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar -
Change this crash:
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null)
IP: [] tracepoint_update_probe_range+0x1f/0x9b
PGD 13d5fb067 PUD 13d688067 PMD 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] SMPTo a more debuggable WARN_ONCE().
Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc: Steven Rostedt
LKML-Reference:
[ moved the check outside the lock and added a WARN_ON(). ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
16 Nov, 2008
3 commits
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fix:
kernel/marker.c: In function 'marker_module_notify':
kernel/marker.c:905: error: 'MODULE_STATE_COMING' undeclared (first use in this function)
[...]Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
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Impact: cleanup
Use module notifiers for tracepoint updates rather than adding a hook in
module.c.Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar -
Impact: fix race
Set the probe array pointer to NULL when the tracepoint is disabled.
The probe array point not being NULL could generate a race condition
where the reader would dereference a freed pointer.Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
03 Nov, 2008
2 commits
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Impact: add new tracepoint APIs to allow the batched registration of probes
new APIs separate tracepoint_probe_register(),
tracepoint_probe_unregister() into 2 steps. The first step of them
is just update tracepoint_entry, not connect or disconnect.this patch introduces tracepoint_probe_update_all() for update all.
these APIs are very useful for registering lots of probes
but just updating once. Another very important thing is that
*_noupdate APIs do not require module_mutex.Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar -
Impact: simplify implementation
Now, unused memory is handled by struct tp_probes.
old code use these three field to handle unused memory.
struct tracepoint_entry {
...
struct rcu_head rcu;
void *oldptr;
unsigned char rcu_pending:1;
...
};in this way, unused memory is handled by struct tracepoint_entry.
it bring reenter bug(it was fixed) and tracepoint.c is filled
full of ".*rcu.*" code statements. this patch removes all these.and:
rcu_barrier_sched() is removed.
Do not need regain tracepoints_mutex after tracepoint_update_probes()
several little cleanup.Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
27 Oct, 2008
1 commit
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Impact: fix kernel crash that can trigger during tracing
If we try to remove a probe that has not been already registered,
the tracepoint_entry_remove_probe() function will dereference a NULL
pointer.Check the probe before removing it to avoid crashes.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
14 Oct, 2008
4 commits
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The tracepoints had the same problem markers did have wrt reentrancy. Apply a
similar fix using a rcu_barrier after each tracepoint mutex lock.Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar -
Make tracepoints use rcu sched. (cleanup)
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar -
Steven Rostedt suggested:
| Wouldn't it look nicer to have: (TRACEPOINT_TABLE_SIZE - 1) ?
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers
Cc: Steven Rostedt
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Implementation of kernel tracepoints. Inspired from the Linux Kernel
Markers. Allows complete typing verification by declaring both tracing
statement inline functions and probe registration/unregistration static
inline functions within the same macro "DEFINE_TRACE". No format string
is required. See the tracepoint Documentation and Samples patches for
usage examples.Taken from the documentation patch :
"A tracepoint placed in code provides a hook to call a function (probe)
that you can provide at runtime. A tracepoint can be "on" (a probe is
connected to it) or "off" (no probe is attached). When a tracepoint is
"off" it has no effect, except for adding a tiny time penalty (checking
a condition for a branch) and space penalty (adding a few bytes for the
function call at the end of the instrumented function and adds a data
structure in a separate section). When a tracepoint is "on", the
function you provide is called each time the tracepoint is executed, in
the execution context of the caller. When the function provided ends its
execution, it returns to the caller (continuing from the tracepoint
site).You can put tracepoints at important locations in the code. They are
lightweight hooks that can pass an arbitrary number of parameters, which
prototypes are described in a tracepoint declaration placed in a header
file."Addition and removal of tracepoints is synchronized by RCU using the
scheduler (and preempt_disable) as guarantees to find a quiescent state
(this is really RCU "classic"). The update side uses rcu_barrier_sched()
with call_rcu_sched() and the read/execute side uses
"preempt_disable()/preempt_enable()".We make sure the previous array containing probes, which has been
scheduled for deletion by the rcu callback, is indeed freed before we
proceed to the next update. It therefore limits the rate of modification
of a single tracepoint to one update per RCU period. The objective here
is to permit fast batch add/removal of probes on _different_
tracepoints.Changelog :
- Use #name ":" #proto as string to identify the tracepoint in the
tracepoint table. This will make sure not type mismatch happens due to
connexion of a probe with the wrong type to a tracepoint declared with
the same name in a different header.
- Add tracepoint_entry_free_old.
- Change __TO_TRACE to get rid of the 'i' iterator.Masami Hiramatsu :
Tested on x86-64.Performance impact of a tracepoint : same as markers, except that it
adds about 70 bytes of instructions in an unlikely branch of each
instrumented function (the for loop, the stack setup and the function
call). It currently adds a memory read, a test and a conditional branch
at the instrumentation site (in the hot path). Immediate values will
eventually change this into a load immediate, test and branch, which
removes the memory read which will make the i-cache impact smaller
(changing the memory read for a load immediate removes 3-4 bytes per
site on x86_32 (depending on mov prefixes), or 7-8 bytes on x86_64, it
also saves the d-cache hit).About the performance impact of tracepoints (which is comparable to
markers), even without immediate values optimizations, tests done by
Hideo Aoki on ia64 show no regression. His test case was using hackbench
on a kernel where scheduler instrumentation (about 5 events in code
scheduler code) was added.Quoting Hideo Aoki about Markers :
I evaluated overhead of kernel marker using linux-2.6-sched-fixes git
tree, which includes several markers for LTTng, using an ia64 server.While the immediate trace mark feature isn't implemented on ia64, there
is no major performance regression. So, I think that we don't have any
issues to propose merging marker point patches into Linus's tree from
the viewpoint of performance impact.I prepared two kernels to evaluate. The first one was compiled without
CONFIG_MARKERS. The second one was enabled CONFIG_MARKERS.I downloaded the original hackbench from the following URL:
http://devresources.linux-foundation.org/craiger/hackbench/src/hackbench.cI ran hackbench 5 times in each condition and calculated the average and
difference between the kernels.The parameter of hackbench: every 50 from 50 to 800
The number of CPUs of the server: 2, 4, and 8Below is the results. As you can see, major performance regression
wasn't found in any case. Even if number of processes increases,
differences between marker-enabled kernel and marker- disabled kernel
doesn't increase. Moreover, if number of CPUs increases, the differences
doesn't increase either.Curiously, marker-enabled kernel is better than marker-disabled kernel
in more than half cases, although I guess it comes from the difference
of memory access pattern.* 2 CPUs
Number of | without | with | diff | diff |
processes | Marker [Sec] | Marker [Sec] | [Sec] | [%] |
--------------------------------------------------------------
50 | 4.811 | 4.872 | +0.061 | +1.27 |
100 | 9.854 | 10.309 | +0.454 | +4.61 |
150 | 15.602 | 15.040 | -0.562 | -3.6 |
200 | 20.489 | 20.380 | -0.109 | -0.53 |
250 | 25.798 | 25.652 | -0.146 | -0.56 |
300 | 31.260 | 30.797 | -0.463 | -1.48 |
350 | 36.121 | 35.770 | -0.351 | -0.97 |
400 | 42.288 | 42.102 | -0.186 | -0.44 |
450 | 47.778 | 47.253 | -0.526 | -1.1 |
500 | 51.953 | 52.278 | +0.325 | +0.63 |
550 | 58.401 | 57.700 | -0.701 | -1.2 |
600 | 63.334 | 63.222 | -0.112 | -0.18 |
650 | 68.816 | 68.511 | -0.306 | -0.44 |
700 | 74.667 | 74.088 | -0.579 | -0.78 |
750 | 78.612 | 79.582 | +0.970 | +1.23 |
800 | 85.431 | 85.263 | -0.168 | -0.2 |
--------------------------------------------------------------* 4 CPUs
Number of | without | with | diff | diff |
processes | Marker [Sec] | Marker [Sec] | [Sec] | [%] |
--------------------------------------------------------------
50 | 2.586 | 2.584 | -0.003 | -0.1 |
100 | 5.254 | 5.283 | +0.030 | +0.56 |
150 | 8.012 | 8.074 | +0.061 | +0.76 |
200 | 11.172 | 11.000 | -0.172 | -1.54 |
250 | 13.917 | 14.036 | +0.119 | +0.86 |
300 | 16.905 | 16.543 | -0.362 | -2.14 |
350 | 19.901 | 20.036 | +0.135 | +0.68 |
400 | 22.908 | 23.094 | +0.186 | +0.81 |
450 | 26.273 | 26.101 | -0.172 | -0.66 |
500 | 29.554 | 29.092 | -0.461 | -1.56 |
550 | 32.377 | 32.274 | -0.103 | -0.32 |
600 | 35.855 | 35.322 | -0.533 | -1.49 |
650 | 39.192 | 38.388 | -0.804 | -2.05 |
700 | 41.744 | 41.719 | -0.025 | -0.06 |
750 | 45.016 | 44.496 | -0.520 | -1.16 |
800 | 48.212 | 47.603 | -0.609 | -1.26 |
--------------------------------------------------------------* 8 CPUs
Number of | without | with | diff | diff |
processes | Marker [Sec] | Marker [Sec] | [Sec] | [%] |
--------------------------------------------------------------
50 | 2.094 | 2.072 | -0.022 | -1.07 |
100 | 4.162 | 4.273 | +0.111 | +2.66 |
150 | 6.485 | 6.540 | +0.055 | +0.84 |
200 | 8.556 | 8.478 | -0.078 | -0.91 |
250 | 10.458 | 10.258 | -0.200 | -1.91 |
300 | 12.425 | 12.750 | +0.325 | +2.62 |
350 | 14.807 | 14.839 | +0.032 | +0.22 |
400 | 16.801 | 16.959 | +0.158 | +0.94 |
450 | 19.478 | 19.009 | -0.470 | -2.41 |
500 | 21.296 | 21.504 | +0.208 | +0.98 |
550 | 23.842 | 23.979 | +0.137 | +0.57 |
600 | 26.309 | 26.111 | -0.198 | -0.75 |
650 | 28.705 | 28.446 | -0.259 | -0.9 |
700 | 31.233 | 31.394 | +0.161 | +0.52 |
750 | 34.064 | 33.720 | -0.344 | -1.01 |
800 | 36.320 | 36.114 | -0.206 | -0.57 |
--------------------------------------------------------------Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu
Acked-by: 'Peter Zijlstra'
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar