1) With the changing of the code for filtering events by pid, from
a list of pids to a bitmask, we can now easily implement following
forks. With a new tracing option "event-fork" which, when set, will
have tasks with pids in set_event_pid, when they fork, to have their
child pids added to set_event_pid and the child will be traced as well.
Note, if "event-fork" is set and a task with its pid in set_event_pid
exits, its pid will be removed from set_event_pid
2) The addition of Tom Zanussi's hist triggers. This includes a very
thorough documentatino on how to use the hist triggers with events.
This introduces a quick and easy way to get histogram data from
events and their fields.
Some other cleanups and updates were added as well. Like Masami Hiramatsu
added test cases for the event trigger and hist triggers. Also I added
a speed up of filtering by using a temp buffer when filters are set.
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Merge tag 'trace-v4.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
"This includes two new updates for the ftrace infrastructure.
- With the changing of the code for filtering events by pid, from a
list of pids to a bitmask, we can now easily implement following
forks. With a new tracing option "event-fork" which, when set,
will have tasks with pids in set_event_pid, when they fork, to have
their child pids added to set_event_pid and the child will be
traced as well.
Note, if "event-fork" is set and a task with its pid in
set_event_pid exits, its pid will be removed from set_event_pid
- The addition of Tom Zanussi's hist triggers. This includes a very
thorough documentatino on how to use the hist triggers with events.
This introduces a quick and easy way to get histogram data from
events and their fields.
Some other cleanups and updates were added as well. Like Masami
Hiramatsu added test cases for the event trigger and hist triggers.
Also I added a speed up of filtering by using a temp buffer when
filters are set"
* tag 'trace-v4.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (45 commits)
tracing: Use temp buffer when filtering events
tracing: Remove TRACE_EVENT_FL_USE_CALL_FILTER logic
tracing: Remove unused function trace_current_buffer_lock_reserve()
tracing: Remove one use of trace_current_buffer_lock_reserve()
tracing: Have trace_buffer_unlock_commit() call the _regs version with NULL
tracing: Remove unused function trace_current_buffer_discard_commit()
tracing: Move trace_buffer_unlock_commit{_regs}() to local header
tracing: Fold filter_check_discard() into its only user
tracing: Make filter_check_discard() local
tracing: Move event_trigger_unlock_commit{_regs}() to local header
tracing: Don't use the address of the buffer array name in copy_from_user
tracing: Handle tracing_map_alloc_elts() error path correctly
tracing: Add check for NULL event field when creating hist field
tracing: checking for NULL instead of IS_ERR()
tracing: Do not inherit event-fork option for instances
tracing: Fix unsigned comparison to zero in hist trigger code
kselftests/ftrace: Add a test for log2 modifier of hist trigger
tracing: Add hist trigger 'log2' modifier
kselftests/ftrace: Add hist trigger testcases
kselftests/ftrace : Add event trigger testcases
...
In netdevice.h we removed the structure in net-next that is being
changes in 'net'. In macsec.c and rtnetlink.c we have overlaps
between fixes in 'net' and the u64 attribute changes in 'net-next'.
The mlx5 conflicts have to do with vxlan support dependencies.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Filtering of events requires the data to be written to the ring buffer
before it can be decided to filter or not. This is because the parameters of
the filter are based on the result that is written to the ring buffer and
not on the parameters that are passed into the trace functions.
The ftrace ring buffer is optimized for writing into the ring buffer and
committing. The discard procedure used when filtering decides the event
should be discarded is much more heavy weight. Thus, using a temporary
filter when filtering events can speed things up drastically.
Without a temp buffer we have:
# trace-cmd start -p nop
# perf stat -r 10 hackbench 50
0.790706626 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.71% )
# trace-cmd start -e all
# perf stat -r 10 hackbench 50
1.566904059 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.27% )
# trace-cmd start -e all -f 'common_preempt_count==20'
# perf stat -r 10 hackbench 50
1.690598511 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.19% )
# trace-cmd start -e all -f 'common_preempt_count!=20'
# perf stat -r 10 hackbench 50
1.707486364 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.30% )
The first run above is without any tracing, just to get a based figure.
hackbench takes ~0.79 seconds to run on the system.
The second run enables tracing all events where nothing is filtered. This
increases the time by 100% and hackbench takes 1.57 seconds to run.
The third run filters all events where the preempt count will equal "20"
(this should never happen) thus all events are discarded. This takes 1.69
seconds to run. This is 10% slower than just committing the events!
The last run enables all events and filters where the filter will commit all
events, and this takes 1.70 seconds to run. The filtering overhead is
approximately 10%. Thus, the discard and commit of an event from the ring
buffer may be about the same time.
With this patch, the numbers change:
# trace-cmd start -p nop
# perf stat -r 10 hackbench 50
0.778233033 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.38% )
# trace-cmd start -e all
# perf stat -r 10 hackbench 50
1.582102692 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.28% )
# trace-cmd start -e all -f 'common_preempt_count==20'
# perf stat -r 10 hackbench 50
1.309230710 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.22% )
# trace-cmd start -e all -f 'common_preempt_count!=20'
# perf stat -r 10 hackbench 50
1.786001924 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.20% )
The first run is again the base with no tracing.
The second run is all tracing with no filtering. It is a little slower, but
that may be well within the noise.
The third run shows that discarding all events only took 1.3 seconds. This
is a speed up of 23%! The discard is much faster than even the commit.
The one downside is shown in the last run. Events that are not discarded by
the filter will take longer to add, this is due to the extra copy of the
event.
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Currently register functions for events will be called
through the 'reg' field of event class directly without
any check when seting up triggers.
Triggers for events that don't support register through
debug fs (events under events/ftrace are for trace-cmd to
read event format, and most of them don't have a register
function except events/ftrace/functionx) can't be enabled
at all, and an oops will be hit when setting up trigger
for those events, so just not creating them is an easy way
to avoid the oops.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1462275274-3911-1-git-send-email-chuhu@redhat.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.14+
Fixes: 85f2b08268 ("tracing: Add basic event trigger framework")
Signed-off-by: Chunyu Hu <chuhu@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The only user of trace_current_buffer_lock_reserve() is in the boot up self
tests. Restructure the code a little to have that code use what everything
else uses: trace_event_buffer_lock_reserve().
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
'hist' triggers allow users to continually aggregate trace events,
which can then be viewed afterwards by simply reading a 'hist' file
containing the aggregation in a human-readable format.
The basic idea is very simple and boils down to a mechanism whereby
trace events, rather than being exhaustively dumped in raw form and
viewed directly, are automatically 'compressed' into meaningful tables
completely defined by the user.
This is done strictly via single-line command-line commands and
without the aid of any kind of programming language or interpreter.
A surprising number of typical use cases can be accomplished by users
via this simple mechanism. In fact, a large number of the tasks that
users typically do using the more complicated script-based tracing
tools, at least during the initial stages of an investigation, can be
accomplished by simply specifying a set of keys and values to be used
in the creation of a hash table.
The Linux kernel trace event subsystem happens to provide an extensive
list of keys and values ready-made for such a purpose in the form of
the event format files associated with each trace event. By simply
consulting the format file for field names of interest and by plugging
them into the hist trigger command, users can create an endless number
of useful aggregations to help with investigating various properties
of the system. See Documentation/trace/events.txt for examples.
hist triggers are implemented on top of the existing event trigger
infrastructure, and as such are consistent with the existing triggers
from a user's perspective as well.
The basic syntax follows the existing trigger syntax. Users start an
aggregation by writing a 'hist' trigger to the event of interest's
trigger file:
# echo hist:keys=xxx [ if filter] > event/trigger
Once a hist trigger has been set up, by default it continually
aggregates every matching event into a hash table using the event key
and a value field named 'hitcount'.
To view the aggregation at any point in time, simply read the 'hist'
file in the same directory as the 'trigger' file:
# cat event/hist
The detailed syntax provides additional options for user control, and
is described exhaustively in Documentation/trace/events.txt and in the
virtual tracing/README file in the tracing subsystem.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/72d263b5e1853fe9c314953b65833c3aa75479f2.1457029949.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add the infrastructure needed to have the PIDs in set_event_pid to
automatically add PIDs of the children of the tasks that have their PIDs in
set_event_pid. This will also remove PIDs from set_event_pid when a task
exits
This is implemented by adding hooks into the fork and exit tracepoints. On
fork, the PIDs are added to the list, and on exit, they are removed.
Add a new option called event_fork that when set, PIDs in set_event_pid will
automatically get their children PIDs added when they fork, as well as any
task that exits will have its PID removed from set_event_pid.
This works for instances as well.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
In order to add the ability to let tasks that are filtered by the events
have their children also be traced on fork (and then not traced on exit),
convert the array into a pid bitmask. Most of the time the number of pids is
only 32768 pids or a 4k bitmask, which is the same size as the default list
currently is, and that list could grow if more pids are listed.
This also greatly simplifies the code.
Suggested-by: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The name "check_ignore_pid" is confusing in trying to figure out if the pid
should be ignored or not. Rename it to "ignore_this_task" which is pretty
straight forward, as a task (not a pid) is passed in, and should if true
should be ignored.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
during bpf program loading remember the last byte of ctx access
and at the time of attaching the program to tracepoint check that
the program doesn't access bytes beyond defined in tracepoint fields
This also disallows access to __dynamic_array fields, but can be
relaxed in the future.
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Commit 9f61668073 "tracing: Allow triggers to filter for CPU ids and
process names" added a 'comm' filter that will filter events based on the
current tasks struct 'comm'. But this now hides the ability to filter events
that have a 'comm' field too. For example, sched_migrate_task trace event.
That has a 'comm' field of the task to be migrated.
echo 'comm == "bash"' > events/sched_migrate_task/filter
will now filter all sched_migrate_task events for tasks named "bash" that
migrates other tasks (in interrupt context), instead of seeing when "bash"
itself gets migrated.
This fix requires a couple of changes.
1) Change the look up order for filter predicates to look at the events
fields before looking at the generic filters.
2) Instead of basing the filter function off of the "comm" name, have the
generic "comm" filter have its own filter_type (FILTER_COMM). Test
against the type instead of the name to assign the filter function.
3) Add a new "COMM" filter that works just like "comm" but will filter based
on the current task, even if the trace event contains a "comm" field.
Do the same for "cpu" field, adding a FILTER_CPU and a filter "CPU".
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.3+
Fixes: 9f61668073 "tracing: Allow triggers to filter for CPU ids and process names"
Reported-by: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The ftrace:function event is only displayed for parsing the function tracer
data. It is not used to enable function tracing, and does not include an
"enable" file in its event directory.
Originally, this event was kept separate from other events because it did
not have a ->reg parameter. But perf added a "reg" parameter for its use
which caused issues, because it made the event available to functions where
it was not compatible for.
Commit 9b63776fa3 "tracing: Do not enable function event with enable"
added a TRACE_EVENT_FL_IGNORE_ENABLE flag that prevented the function event
from being enabled by normal trace events. But this commit missed keeping
the function event from being displayed by the "available_events" directory,
which is used to show what events can be enabled by set_event.
One documented way to enable all events is to:
cat available_events > set_event
But because the function event is displayed in the available_events, this
now causes an INVALID error:
cat: write error: Invalid argument
Reported-by: Chunyu Hu <chuhu@redhat.com>
Fixes: 9b63776fa3 "tracing: Do not enable function event with enable"
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.4+
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The set_event_pid filter relies on attaching to the sched_switch and
sched_wakeup tracepoints to see if it should filter the tracing on schedule
tracepoints. By adding the callbacks to sched_wakeup, pids in the
set_event_pid file will trace the wakeups of those tasks with those pids.
But sched_wakeup_new and sched_waking were missed. These two should also be
traced. Luckily, these tracepoints share the same class as sched_wakeup
which means they can use the same pre and post callbacks as sched_wakeup
does.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
stable tags to them. I searched through my INBOX just as the merge window
opened and found lots of patches to pull. I ran them through all my tests
and they were in linux-next for a few days.
Features added this release:
----------------------------
o Module globbing. You can now filter function tracing to several
modules. # echo '*:mod:*snd*' > set_ftrace_filter (Dmitry Safonov)
o Tracer specific options are now visible even when the tracer is not
active. It was rather annoying that you can only see and modify tracer
options after enabling the tracer. Now they are in the options/ directory
even when the tracer is not active. Although they are still only visible
when the tracer is active in the trace_options file.
o Trace options are now per instance (although some of the tracer specific
options are global)
o New tracefs file: set_event_pid. If any pid is added to this file, then
all events in the instance will filter out events that are not part of
this pid. sched_switch and sched_wakeup events handle next and the wakee
pids.
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Merge tag 'trace-v4.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull tracking updates from Steven Rostedt:
"Most of the changes are clean ups and small fixes. Some of them have
stable tags to them. I searched through my INBOX just as the merge
window opened and found lots of patches to pull. I ran them through
all my tests and they were in linux-next for a few days.
Features added this release:
----------------------------
- Module globbing. You can now filter function tracing to several
modules. # echo '*:mod:*snd*' > set_ftrace_filter (Dmitry Safonov)
- Tracer specific options are now visible even when the tracer is not
active. It was rather annoying that you can only see and modify
tracer options after enabling the tracer. Now they are in the
options/ directory even when the tracer is not active. Although
they are still only visible when the tracer is active in the
trace_options file.
- Trace options are now per instance (although some of the tracer
specific options are global)
- New tracefs file: set_event_pid. If any pid is added to this file,
then all events in the instance will filter out events that are not
part of this pid. sched_switch and sched_wakeup events handle next
and the wakee pids"
* tag 'trace-v4.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (68 commits)
tracefs: Fix refcount imbalance in start_creating()
tracing: Put back comma for empty fields in boot string parsing
tracing: Apply tracer specific options from kernel command line.
tracing: Add some documentation about set_event_pid
ring_buffer: Remove unneeded smp_wmb() before wakeup of reader benchmark
tracing: Allow dumping traces without tracking trace started cpus
ring_buffer: Fix more races when terminating the producer in the benchmark
ring_buffer: Do no not complete benchmark reader too early
tracing: Remove redundant TP_ARGS redefining
tracing: Rename max_stack_lock to stack_trace_max_lock
tracing: Allow arch-specific stack tracer
recordmcount: arm64: Replace the ignored mcount call into nop
recordmcount: Fix endianness handling bug for nop_mcount
tracepoints: Fix documentation of RCU lockdep checks
tracing: ftrace_event_is_function() can return boolean
tracing: is_legal_op() can return boolean
ring-buffer: rb_event_is_commit() can return boolean
ring-buffer: rb_per_cpu_empty() can return boolean
ring_buffer: ring_buffer_empty{cpu}() can return boolean
ring-buffer: rb_is_reader_page() can return boolean
...
Both early_enable_events() and apply_trace_boot_options() parse a boot
string that may get parsed later on. They both use strsep() which converts a
comma into a nul character. To still allow the boot string to be parsed
again the same way, the nul character gets converted back to a comma after
the token is processed.
The problem is that these two functions check for an empty parameter (two
commas in a row ",,"), and continue the loop if the parameter is empty, but
fails to place the comma back. In this case, the second parsing will end at
this blank field, and not process fields afterward.
In most cases, users should not have an empty field, but if its going to be
checked, the code might as well be correct.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
For the case where pids are already in set_event_pid, and one is added or
removed then each CPU should be checked to make sure that the new or old pid
is on or not on a CPU.
For example:
# echo 123 >> set_event_pid
or
# echo '!123' >> set_event_pid
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20151030061643.GA19480@cac
Suggested-by: Jiaxing Wang <hello.wjx@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
p_start() and p_stop() are seq_file functions that match. Teach sparse to
know that rcu_read_lock_sched() that is taken by p_start() is released by
p_stop.
Reported-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
My tests found that if a task is running but not filtered when set_event_pid
is modified, then it can still be traced.
Call on_each_cpu() to check if the current running task should be filtered
and update the per cpu flags of tr->data appropriately.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add the necessary hooks to use the pids loaded in set_event_pid to filter
all the events enabled in the tracing instance that match the pids listed.
Two probes are added to both sched_switch and sched_wakeup tracepoints to be
called before other probes are called and after the other probes are called.
The first is used to set the necessary flags to let the probes know to test
if they should be traced or not.
The sched_switch pre probe will set the "ignore_pid" flag if neither the
previous or next task has a matching pid.
The sched_switch probe will set the "ignore_pid" flag if the next task
does not match the matching pid.
The pre probe allows for probes tracing sched_switch to be traced if
necessary.
The sched_wakeup pre probe will set the "ignore_pid" flag if neither the
current task nor the wakee task has a matching pid.
The sched_wakeup post probe will set the "ignore_pid" flag if the current
task does not have a matching pid.
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Create a tracing directory called set_event_pid, which currently has no
function, but will be used to filter all events for the tracing instance or
the pids that are added to the file.
The reason no functionality is added with this commit is that this commit
focuses on the creation and removal of the pids in a safe manner. And tests
can be made against this change to make sure things are correct before
hooking features to the list of pids.
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The kernel now has kstrdup_const/kfree_const for reusing .rodata
(typically string literals) when possible; there's no reason to
duplicate that logic in the tracing system. Moreover, as the comment
above core_kernel_data states, it may not always return true for
.rodata - that is for example the case on x86_64, where we thus end up
kstrdup'ing all the passed-in strings.
Arguably, testing for .rodata explicitly (as kstrdup_const does) is
also more correct: I don't think one is supposed to be able to change
the name after creating the event_subsystem by passing the address of
a static char (but non-const) array.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1441833841-12955-1-git-send-email-linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk
Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
In preparation for the multi buffer instances to have their own trace_flags,
the check in ftrace_trace_stack() needs to test the trace_array descriptor
flag that is for the current event, not the global_trace descriptor.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
In preparation to make trace options per instance, the global trace_flags
needs to be moved from being a global variable to a field within the trace
instance trace_array structure.
There's still more work to do, as there's some functions that use
trace_flags without passing in a way to get to the current_trace array. For
those, the global_trace is used directly (from trace.c). This includes
setting and clearing the trace_flags. This means that when a new instance is
created, it just gets the trace_flags of the global_trace and will not be
able to modify them. Depending on the functions that have access to the
trace_array, the flags of an instance may not affect parts of its trace,
where the global_trace is used. These will be fixed in future changes.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
In preparation for having trace options be per instance, the trace_array
needs to be passed to the trace_buffer_unlock_commit(). The
trace_event_buffer_lock_reserve() already passes in the trace_event_file
where the trace_array can be derived from.
Also added a "__init" to the boot up test event plus function tracing
function function_test_events_call().
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
By extending the filter rules by more generic fields
we can write triggers filters like
echo 'stacktrace if cpu == 1' > \
/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/raw_syscalls/sys_enter/trigger
or
echo 'stacktrace if comm == sshd' > \
/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/raw_syscalls/sys_enter/trigger
CPU and COMM are not part of struct trace_entry. We could add the two
new fields to ftrace_common_field list and fix up all depending
sides. But that looks pretty ugly. Another thing I would like to
avoid that the 'format' file contents changes.
All this can be avoided by introducing another list which contains
non field members of struct trace_entry.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1439210146-24707-1-git-send-email-daniel.wagner@bmw-carit.de
Signed-off-by: Daniel Wagner <daniel.wagner@bmw-carit.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The name "ftrace" really refers to the function hook infrastructure. It
is not about the trace_events. The FTRACE_EVENT_FL_* flags are flags to
do with the trace_event files in the tracefs directory. They are not related
to function tracing. Rename them to a more descriptive name.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The name "ftrace" really refers to the function hook infrastructure. It
is not about the trace_events. The structure ftrace_subsystem_dir holds
the information about trace event subsystems. It should not be named
ftrace, rename it to trace_subsystem_dir.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The name "ftrace" really refers to the function hook infrastructure. It
is not about the trace_events. ftrace_event_name() returns the name of
an event tracepoint, has nothing to do with function tracing. Rename it
to trace_event_name().
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The name "ftrace" really refers to the function hook infrastructure. It
is not about the trace_events. The ftrace_event_buffer functions and data
structures are for trace_events and not for function hooks. Rename them
to trace_event_buffer*.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The name "ftrace" really refers to the function hook infrastructure. It
is not about the trace_events. The structures ftrace_event_call and
ftrace_event_class have nothing to do with the function hooks, and are
really trace_event structures. Rename ftrace_event_* to trace_event_*.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The name "ftrace" really refers to the function hook infrastructure. It
is not about the trace_events. The structure ftrace_event_file is really
about trace events and not "ftrace". Rename it to trace_event_file.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The name "ftrace" really refers to the function hook infrastructure. It
is not about the trace_events. The functions (un)register_ftrace_event() is
really about trace_events, and the name should be register_trace_event()
instead.
Also renamed ftrace_event_reg() to trace_event_reg() for the same reason.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Pull fourth vfs update from Al Viro:
"d_inode() annotations from David Howells (sat in for-next since before
the beginning of merge window) + four assorted fixes"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
RCU pathwalk breakage when running into a symlink overmounting something
fix I_DIO_WAKEUP definition
direct-io: only inc/dec inode->i_dio_count for file systems
fs/9p: fix readdir()
VFS: assorted d_backing_inode() annotations
VFS: fs/inode.c helpers: d_inode() annotations
VFS: fs/cachefiles: d_backing_inode() annotations
VFS: fs library helpers: d_inode() annotations
VFS: assorted weird filesystems: d_inode() annotations
VFS: normal filesystems (and lustre): d_inode() annotations
VFS: security/: d_inode() annotations
VFS: security/: d_backing_inode() annotations
VFS: net/: d_inode() annotations
VFS: net/unix: d_backing_inode() annotations
VFS: kernel/: d_inode() annotations
VFS: audit: d_backing_inode() annotations
VFS: Fix up some ->d_inode accesses in the chelsio driver
VFS: Cachefiles should perform fs modifications on the top layer only
VFS: AF_UNIX sockets should call mknod on the top layer only
The first is a bug when ftrace_dump_on_oops is triggered in atomic context
and function graph tracer is the tracer that is being reported.
The second fix is bad parsing of the trace_events from the kernel
command line, where it would ignore specific events if the system
name is used with defining the event(it enables all events within the
system).
The last one is a fix to the TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM(), where a check was missing
to see if the ptr was incremented to the end of the string, but the loop
increments it again and can miss the nul delimiter to stop processing.
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Merge tag 'trace-v4.1-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull tracing fixes from Steven Rostedt:
"This adds three fixes for the tracing code.
The first is a bug when ftrace_dump_on_oops is triggered in atomic
context and function graph tracer is the tracer that is being
reported.
The second fix is bad parsing of the trace_events from the kernel
command line, where it would ignore specific events if the system name
is used with defining the event(it enables all events within the
system).
The last one is a fix to the TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM(), where a check was
missing to see if the ptr was incremented to the end of the string,
but the loop increments it again and can miss the nul delimiter to
stop processing"
* tag 'trace-v4.1-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
tracing: Fix possible out of bounds memory access when parsing enums
tracing: Fix incorrect enabling of trace events by boot cmdline
tracing: Handle ftrace_dump() atomic context in graph_trace_open()
The code that replaces the enum names with the enum values in the
tracepoints' format files could possible miss the end of string nul
character. This was caused by processing things like backslashes, quotes
and other tokens. After processing the tokens, a check for the nul
character needed to be done before continuing the loop, because the loop
incremented the pointer before doing the check, which could bypass the nul
character.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/552E661D.5060502@oracle.com
Reported-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> # via KASan
Tested-by: Andrey Ryabinin <a.ryabinin@samsung.com>
Fixes: 0c564a538a "tracing: Add TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM() macro to map enums to their values"
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
There is a problem that trace events are not properly enabled with
boot cmdline. The problem is that if we pass "trace_event=kmem:mm_page_alloc"
to the boot cmdline, it enables all kmem trace events, and not just
the page_alloc event.
This is caused by the parsing mechanism. When we parse the cmdline, the buffer
contents is modified due to tokenization. And, if we use this buffer
again, we will get the wrong result.
Unfortunately, this buffer is be accessed three times to set trace events
properly at boot time. So, we need to handle this situation.
There is already code handling ",", but we need another for ":".
This patch adds it.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1429159484-22977-1-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.19+
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
[ added missing return ret; ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
relayfs and tracefs are dealing with inodes of their own;
those two act as filesystem drivers
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
of the TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM() macro that can be used by tracepoints.
Tracepoints have helper functions for the TP_printk() called
__print_symbolic() and __print_flags() that lets a numeric number be
displayed as a a human comprehensible text. What is placed in the
TP_printk() is also shown in the tracepoint format file such that
user space tools like perf and trace-cmd can parse the binary data
and express the values too. Unfortunately, the way the TRACE_EVENT()
macro works, anything placed in the TP_printk() will be shown pretty
much exactly as is. The problem arises when enums are used. That's
because unlike macros, enums will not be changed into their values
by the C pre-processor. Thus, the enum string is exported to the
format file, and this makes it useless for user space tools.
The TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM() solves this by converting the enum strings
in the TP_printk() format into their number, and that is what is
shown to user space. For example, the tracepoint tlb_flush currently
has this in its format file:
__print_symbolic(REC->reason,
{ TLB_FLUSH_ON_TASK_SWITCH, "flush on task switch" },
{ TLB_REMOTE_SHOOTDOWN, "remote shootdown" },
{ TLB_LOCAL_SHOOTDOWN, "local shootdown" },
{ TLB_LOCAL_MM_SHOOTDOWN, "local mm shootdown" })
After adding:
TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM(TLB_FLUSH_ON_TASK_SWITCH);
TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM(TLB_REMOTE_SHOOTDOWN);
TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM(TLB_LOCAL_SHOOTDOWN);
TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM(TLB_LOCAL_MM_SHOOTDOWN);
Its format file will contain this:
__print_symbolic(REC->reason,
{ 0, "flush on task switch" },
{ 1, "remote shootdown" },
{ 2, "local shootdown" },
{ 3, "local mm shootdown" })
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Merge tag 'trace-v4.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
"Some clean ups and small fixes, but the biggest change is the addition
of the TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM() macro that can be used by tracepoints.
Tracepoints have helper functions for the TP_printk() called
__print_symbolic() and __print_flags() that lets a numeric number be
displayed as a a human comprehensible text. What is placed in the
TP_printk() is also shown in the tracepoint format file such that user
space tools like perf and trace-cmd can parse the binary data and
express the values too. Unfortunately, the way the TRACE_EVENT()
macro works, anything placed in the TP_printk() will be shown pretty
much exactly as is. The problem arises when enums are used. That's
because unlike macros, enums will not be changed into their values by
the C pre-processor. Thus, the enum string is exported to the format
file, and this makes it useless for user space tools.
The TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM() solves this by converting the enum strings in
the TP_printk() format into their number, and that is what is shown to
user space. For example, the tracepoint tlb_flush currently has this
in its format file:
__print_symbolic(REC->reason,
{ TLB_FLUSH_ON_TASK_SWITCH, "flush on task switch" },
{ TLB_REMOTE_SHOOTDOWN, "remote shootdown" },
{ TLB_LOCAL_SHOOTDOWN, "local shootdown" },
{ TLB_LOCAL_MM_SHOOTDOWN, "local mm shootdown" })
After adding:
TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM(TLB_FLUSH_ON_TASK_SWITCH);
TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM(TLB_REMOTE_SHOOTDOWN);
TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM(TLB_LOCAL_SHOOTDOWN);
TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM(TLB_LOCAL_MM_SHOOTDOWN);
Its format file will contain this:
__print_symbolic(REC->reason,
{ 0, "flush on task switch" },
{ 1, "remote shootdown" },
{ 2, "local shootdown" },
{ 3, "local mm shootdown" })"
* tag 'trace-v4.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (27 commits)
tracing: Add enum_map file to show enums that have been mapped
writeback: Export enums used by tracepoint to user space
v4l: Export enums used by tracepoints to user space
SUNRPC: Export enums in tracepoints to user space
mm: tracing: Export enums in tracepoints to user space
irq/tracing: Export enums in tracepoints to user space
f2fs: Export the enums in the tracepoints to userspace
net/9p/tracing: Export enums in tracepoints to userspace
x86/tlb/trace: Export enums in used by tlb_flush tracepoint
tracing/samples: Update the trace-event-sample.h with TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM()
tracing: Allow for modules to convert their enums to values
tracing: Add TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM() macro to map enums to their values
tracing: Update trace-event-sample with TRACE_SYSTEM_VAR documentation
tracing: Give system name a pointer
brcmsmac: Move each system tracepoints to their own header
iwlwifi: Move each system tracepoints to their own header
mac80211: Move message tracepoints to their own header
tracing: Add TRACE_SYSTEM_VAR to xhci-hcd
tracing: Add TRACE_SYSTEM_VAR to kvm-s390
tracing: Add TRACE_SYSTEM_VAR to intel-sst
...
Update the infrastructure such that modules that declare TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM()
will have those enums converted into their values in the tracepoint
print fmt strings.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/87vbhjp74q.fsf@rustcorp.com.au
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Several tracepoints use the helper functions __print_symbolic() or
__print_flags() and pass in enums that do the mapping between the
binary data stored and the value to print. This works well for reading
the ASCII trace files, but when the data is read via userspace tools
such as perf and trace-cmd, the conversion of the binary value to a
human string format is lost if an enum is used, as userspace does not
have access to what the ENUM is.
For example, the tracepoint trace_tlb_flush() has:
__print_symbolic(REC->reason,
{ TLB_FLUSH_ON_TASK_SWITCH, "flush on task switch" },
{ TLB_REMOTE_SHOOTDOWN, "remote shootdown" },
{ TLB_LOCAL_SHOOTDOWN, "local shootdown" },
{ TLB_LOCAL_MM_SHOOTDOWN, "local mm shootdown" })
Which maps the enum values to the strings they represent. But perf and
trace-cmd do no know what value TLB_LOCAL_MM_SHOOTDOWN is, and would
not be able to map it.
With TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM(), developers can place these in the event header
files and ftrace will convert the enums to their values:
By adding:
TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM(TLB_FLUSH_ON_TASK_SWITCH);
TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM(TLB_REMOTE_SHOOTDOWN);
TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM(TLB_LOCAL_SHOOTDOWN);
TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM(TLB_LOCAL_MM_SHOOTDOWN);
$ cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/tlb/tlb_flush/format
[...]
__print_symbolic(REC->reason,
{ 0, "flush on task switch" },
{ 1, "remote shootdown" },
{ 2, "local shootdown" },
{ 3, "local mm shootdown" })
The above is what userspace expects to see, and tools do not need to
be modified to parse them.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150403013802.220157513@goodmis.org
Cc: Guilherme Cox <cox@computer.org>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@gmail.com>
Cc: Xie XiuQi <xiexiuqi@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
o Several clean ups to the code
One such clean up was to convert to 64 bit time keeping, in the
ring buffer benchmark code.
o Adding of __print_array() helper macro for TRACE_EVENT()
o Updating the sample/trace_events/ to add samples of different ways to
make trace events. Lots of features have been added since the sample
code was made, and these features are mostly unknown. Developers
have been making their own hacks to do things that are already available.
o Performance improvements. Most notably, I found a performance bug where
a waiter that is waiting for a full page from the ring buffer will
see that a full page is not available, and go to sleep. The sched
event caused by it going to sleep would cause it to wake up again.
It would see that there was still not a full page, and go back to sleep
again, and that would wake it up again, until finally it would see a
full page. This change has been marked for stable.
Other improvements include removing global locks from fast paths.
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Merge tag 'trace-v3.20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
"The updates included in this pull request for ftrace are:
o Several clean ups to the code
One such clean up was to convert to 64 bit time keeping, in the
ring buffer benchmark code.
o Adding of __print_array() helper macro for TRACE_EVENT()
o Updating the sample/trace_events/ to add samples of different ways
to make trace events. Lots of features have been added since the
sample code was made, and these features are mostly unknown.
Developers have been making their own hacks to do things that are
already available.
o Performance improvements. Most notably, I found a performance bug
where a waiter that is waiting for a full page from the ring buffer
will see that a full page is not available, and go to sleep. The
sched event caused by it going to sleep would cause it to wake up
again. It would see that there was still not a full page, and go
back to sleep again, and that would wake it up again, until finally
it would see a full page. This change has been marked for stable.
Other improvements include removing global locks from fast paths"
* tag 'trace-v3.20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
ring-buffer: Do not wake up a splice waiter when page is not full
tracing: Fix unmapping loop in tracing_mark_write
tracing: Add samples of DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS() and DEFINE_EVENT()
tracing: Add TRACE_EVENT_FN example
tracing: Add TRACE_EVENT_CONDITION sample
tracing: Update the TRACE_EVENT fields available in the sample code
tracing: Separate out initializing top level dir from instances
tracing: Make tracing_init_dentry_tr() static
trace: Use 64-bit timekeeping
tracing: Add array printing helper
tracing: Remove newline from trace_printk warning banner
tracing: Use IS_ERR() check for return value of tracing_init_dentry()
tracing: Remove unneeded includes of debugfs.h and fs.h
tracing: Remove taking of trace_types_lock in pipe files
tracing: Add ref count to tracer for when they are being read by pipe
debugfs was fine for the tracing facility as a quick way to get
an interface. Now that tracing has matured, it should separate itself
from debugfs such that it can be mounted separately without needing
to mount all of debugfs with it. That is, users resist using tracing
because it requires mounting debugfs. Having tracing have its own file
system lets users get the features of tracing without needing to bring
in the rest of the kernel's debug infrastructure.
Another reason for tracefs is that debubfs does not support mkdir.
Currently, to create instances, one does a mkdir in the tracing/instance
directory. This is implemented via a hack that forces debugfs to do
something it is not intended on doing. By converting over to tracefs, this
hack can be removed and mkdir can be properly implemented. This patch does
not address this yet, but it lays the ground work for that to be done.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Pull in Al Viro's changes to debugfs that implement the new primitive:
debugfs_create_automount(), that creates a directory in debugfs that will
safely mount another file system automatically when debugfs is mounted.
This will let tracefs automount itself on top of debugfs/tracing directory.
tracing_init_dentry() will soon return NULL as a valid pointer for the
top level tracing directroy. NULL can not be used as an error value.
Instead, switch to ERR_PTR() and check the return status with
IS_ERR().
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Commit 5f893b2639 "tracing: Move enabling tracepoints to just after
rcu_init()" broke the enabling of system call events from the command
line. The reason was that the enabling of command line trace events
was moved before PID 1 started, and the syscall tracepoints require
that all tasks have the TIF_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINT flag set. But the
swapper task (pid 0) is not part of that. Since the swapper task is the
only task that is running at this early in boot, no task gets the
flag set, and the tracepoint never gets reached.
Instead of setting the swapper task flag (there should be no reason to
do that), re-enabled trace events again after the init thread (PID 1)
has been started. It requires disabling all command line events and
re-enabling them, as just enabling them again will not reset the logic
to set the TIF_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINT flag, as the syscall tracepoint will
be fooled into thinking that it was already set, and wont try setting
it again. For this reason, we must first disable it and re-enable it.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1421188517-18312-1-git-send-email-mpe@ellerman.id.au
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150115040506.216066449@goodmis.org
Reported-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
as I thought it might be. I'm pushing this in now.
This will allow Thomas to debug his irq work for 3.20.
This adds two new features:
1) Allow traceopoints to be enabled right after mm_init(). By passing
in the trace_event= kernel command line parameter, tracepoints can be
enabled at boot up. For debugging things like the initialization of
interrupts, it is needed to have tracepoints enabled very early. People
have asked about this before and this has been on my todo list. As it
can be helpful for Thomas to debug his upcoming 3.20 IRQ work, I'm
pushing this now. This way he can add tracepoints into the IRQ set up
and have users enable them when things go wrong.
2) Have the tracepoints printed via printk() (the console) when they
are triggered. If the irq code locks up or reboots the box, having the
tracepoint output go into the kernel ring buffer is useless for
debugging. But being able to add the tp_printk kernel command line
option along with the trace_event= option will have these tracepoints
printed as they occur, and that can be really useful for debugging
early lock up or reboot problems.
This code is not that intrusive and it passed all my tests. Thomas tried
them out too and it works for his needs.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141214201609.126831471@goodmis.org
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Merge tag 'trace-3.19-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
"As the merge window is still open, and this code was not as complex as
I thought it might be. I'm pushing this in now.
This will allow Thomas to debug his irq work for 3.20.
This adds two new features:
1) Allow traceopoints to be enabled right after mm_init().
By passing in the trace_event= kernel command line parameter,
tracepoints can be enabled at boot up. For debugging things like
the initialization of interrupts, it is needed to have tracepoints
enabled very early. People have asked about this before and this
has been on my todo list. As it can be helpful for Thomas to debug
his upcoming 3.20 IRQ work, I'm pushing this now. This way he can
add tracepoints into the IRQ set up and have users enable them when
things go wrong.
2) Have the tracepoints printed via printk() (the console) when they
are triggered.
If the irq code locks up or reboots the box, having the tracepoint
output go into the kernel ring buffer is useless for debugging.
But being able to add the tp_printk kernel command line option
along with the trace_event= option will have these tracepoints
printed as they occur, and that can be really useful for debugging
early lock up or reboot problems.
This code is not that intrusive and it passed all my tests. Thomas
tried them out too and it works for his needs.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141214201609.126831471@goodmis.org"
* tag 'trace-3.19-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
tracing: Add tp_printk cmdline to have tracepoints go to printk()
tracing: Move enabling tracepoints to just after rcu_init()
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>
clean ups from that branch.
This code solves the issue of performing stack dumps from NMI context.
The issue is that printk() is not safe from NMI context as if the NMI
were to trigger when a printk() was being performed, the NMI could
deadlock from the printk() internal locks. This has been seen in practice.
With lots of review from Petr Mladek, this code went through several
iterations, and we feel that it is now at a point of quality to be
accepted into mainline.
Here's what is contained in this patch set:
o Creates a "seq_buf" generic buffer utility that allows a descriptor
to be passed around where functions can write their own "printk()"
formatted strings into it. The generic version was pulled out of
the trace_seq() code that was made specifically for tracing.
o The seq_buf code was change to model the seq_file code. I have
a patch (not included for 3.19) that converts the seq_file.c code
over to use seq_buf.c like the trace_seq.c code does. This was done
to make sure that seq_buf.c is compatible with seq_file.c. I may
try to get that patch in for 3.20.
o The seq_buf.c file was moved to lib/ to remove it from being dependent
on CONFIG_TRACING.
o The printk() was updated to allow for a per_cpu "override" of
the internal calls. That is, instead of writing to the console, a call
to printk() may do something else. This made it easier to allow the
NMI to change what printk() does in order to call dump_stack() without
needing to update that code as well.
o Finally, the dump_stack from all CPUs via NMI code was converted to
use the seq_buf code. The caller to trigger the NMI code would wait
till all the NMIs finished, and then it would print the seq_buf
data to the console safely from a non NMI context.
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Merge tag 'trace-seq-buf-3.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull nmi-safe seq_buf printk update from Steven Rostedt:
"This code is a fork from the trace-3.19 pull as it needed the
trace_seq clean ups from that branch.
This code solves the issue of performing stack dumps from NMI context.
The issue is that printk() is not safe from NMI context as if the NMI
were to trigger when a printk() was being performed, the NMI could
deadlock from the printk() internal locks. This has been seen in
practice.
With lots of review from Petr Mladek, this code went through several
iterations, and we feel that it is now at a point of quality to be
accepted into mainline.
Here's what is contained in this patch set:
- Creates a "seq_buf" generic buffer utility that allows a descriptor
to be passed around where functions can write their own "printk()"
formatted strings into it. The generic version was pulled out of
the trace_seq() code that was made specifically for tracing.
- The seq_buf code was change to model the seq_file code. I have a
patch (not included for 3.19) that converts the seq_file.c code
over to use seq_buf.c like the trace_seq.c code does. This was
done to make sure that seq_buf.c is compatible with seq_file.c. I
may try to get that patch in for 3.20.
- The seq_buf.c file was moved to lib/ to remove it from being
dependent on CONFIG_TRACING.
- The printk() was updated to allow for a per_cpu "override" of the
internal calls. That is, instead of writing to the console, a call
to printk() may do something else. This made it easier to allow
the NMI to change what printk() does in order to call dump_stack()
without needing to update that code as well.
- Finally, the dump_stack from all CPUs via NMI code was converted to
use the seq_buf code. The caller to trigger the NMI code would
wait till all the NMIs finished, and then it would print the
seq_buf data to the console safely from a non NMI context
One added bonus is that this code also makes the NMI dump stack work
on PREEMPT_RT kernels. As printk() includes sleeping locks on
PREEMPT_RT, printk() only writes to console if the console does not
use any rt_mutex converted spin locks. Which a lot do"
* tag 'trace-seq-buf-3.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
x86/nmi: Fix use of unallocated cpumask_var_t
printk/percpu: Define printk_func when printk is not defined
x86/nmi: Perform a safe NMI stack trace on all CPUs
printk: Add per_cpu printk func to allow printk to be diverted
seq_buf: Move the seq_buf code to lib/
seq-buf: Make seq_buf_bprintf() conditional on CONFIG_BINARY_PRINTF
tracing: Add seq_buf_get_buf() and seq_buf_commit() helper functions
tracing: Have seq_buf use full buffer
seq_buf: Add seq_buf_can_fit() helper function
tracing: Add paranoid size check in trace_printk_seq()
tracing: Use trace_seq_used() and seq_buf_used() instead of len
tracing: Clean up tracing_fill_pipe_page()
seq_buf: Create seq_buf_used() to find out how much was written
tracing: Add a seq_buf_clear() helper and clear len and readpos in init
tracing: Convert seq_buf fields to be like seq_file fields
tracing: Convert seq_buf_path() to be like seq_path()
tracing: Create seq_buf layer in trace_seq
