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Linus Torvalds
c3fa27d136 Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (470 commits)
  x86: Fix comments of register/stack access functions
  perf tools: Replace %m with %a in sscanf
  hw-breakpoints: Keep track of user disabled breakpoints
  tracing/syscalls: Make syscall events print callbacks static
  tracing: Add DEFINE_EVENT(), DEFINE_SINGLE_EVENT() support to docbook
  perf: Don't free perf_mmap_data until work has been done
  perf_event: Fix compile error
  perf tools: Fix _GNU_SOURCE macro related strndup() build error
  trace_syscalls: Remove unused syscall_name_to_nr()
  trace_syscalls: Simplify syscall profile
  trace_syscalls: Remove duplicate init_enter_##sname()
  trace_syscalls: Add syscall_nr field to struct syscall_metadata
  trace_syscalls: Remove enter_id exit_id
  trace_syscalls: Set event_enter_##sname->data to its metadata
  trace_syscalls: Remove unused event_syscall_enter and event_syscall_exit
  perf_event: Initialize data.period in perf_swevent_hrtimer()
  perf probe: Simplify event naming
  perf probe: Add --list option for listing current probe events
  perf probe: Add argv_split() from lib/argv_split.c
  perf probe: Move probe event utility functions to probe-event.c
  ...
2009-12-05 15:30:21 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
96fa2b508d Merge branch 'tracing-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'tracing-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (40 commits)
  tracing: Separate raw syscall from syscall tracer
  ring-buffer-benchmark: Add parameters to set produce/consumer priorities
  tracing, function tracer: Clean up strstrip() usage
  ring-buffer benchmark: Run producer/consumer threads at nice +19
  tracing: Remove the stale include/trace/power.h
  tracing: Only print objcopy version warning once from recordmcount
  tracing: Prevent build warning: 'ftrace_graph_buf' defined but not used
  ring-buffer: Move access to commit_page up into function used
  tracing: do not disable interrupts for trace_clock_local
  ring-buffer: Add multiple iterations between benchmark timestamps
  kprobes: Sanitize struct kretprobe_instance allocations
  tracing: Fix to use __always_unused attribute
  compiler: Introduce __always_unused
  tracing: Exit with error if a weak function is used in recordmcount.pl
  tracing: Move conditional into update_funcs() in recordmcount.pl
  tracing: Add regex for weak functions in recordmcount.pl
  tracing: Move mcount section search to front of loop in recordmcount.pl
  tracing: Fix objcopy revision check in recordmcount.pl
  tracing: Check absolute path of input file in recordmcount.pl
  tracing: Correct the check for number of arguments in recordmcount.pl
  ...
2009-12-05 09:53:36 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
26fb20d008 Merge branch 'perf/mce' into perf/core
Merge reason: It's ready for v2.6.33.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-03 20:11:06 +01:00
Lai Jiangshan
3bbe84e9d3 trace_syscalls: Simplify syscall profile
use only one prof_sysenter_enable() instead of
prof_sysenter_enable_##sname()

use only one prof_sysenter_disable() instead of
prof_sysenter_disable_##sname()

use only one prof_sysexit_enable() instead of
prof_sysexit_enable_##sname()

use only one prof_sysexit_disable() instead of
prof_sysexit_disable_##sname()

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B14D2A1.8060304@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-01 17:33:30 +01:00
Lai Jiangshan
a1301da099 trace_syscalls: Remove duplicate init_enter_##sname()
use only one init_syscall_trace instead of
many init_enter_##sname()/init_exit_##sname()

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B14D29B.6090708@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-01 17:33:30 +01:00
Lai Jiangshan
c252f65793 trace_syscalls: Add syscall_nr field to struct syscall_metadata
Add syscall_nr field to struct syscall_metadata,
it helps us to get syscall number easier.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B14D293.6090800@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-01 17:33:29 +01:00
Lai Jiangshan
fcc19438dd trace_syscalls: Remove enter_id exit_id
use ->enter_event->id instead of ->enter_id
use ->exit_event->id instead of ->exit_id

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B14D288.7030001@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-01 17:33:29 +01:00
Lai Jiangshan
31c16b1334 trace_syscalls: Set event_enter_##sname->data to its metadata
Set event_enter_##sname->data to its metadata,
it makes codes simpler.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B14D282.7050709@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-01 17:33:28 +01:00
Lai Jiangshan
bf56a4ea9f trace_syscalls: Remove unused event_syscall_enter and event_syscall_exit
fix event_enter_##sname->event
fix event_exit_##sname->event

remove unused event_syscall_enter and event_syscall_exit

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B14D278.4090209@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-01 17:33:28 +01:00
Masami Hiramatsu
ba005e1f41 tracepoint: Add signal loss events
Add signal_overflow_fail and signal_lose_info tracepoints
for signal-lost events.

Changes in v3:
 - Add docbook style comments

Changes in v2:
 - Use siginfo string macro

Suggested-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>
Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091124215658.30449.9934.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-26 10:55:38 +01:00
Masami Hiramatsu
f9d4257e01 tracepoint: Add signal deliver event
Add a tracepoint where a process gets a signal. This tracepoint
shows signal-number, sa-handler and sa-flag.

Changes in v3:
 - Add docbook style comments

Changes in v2:
 - Add siginfo argument
 - Fix comment

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>
Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091124215651.30449.20926.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-26 10:55:38 +01:00
Masami Hiramatsu
d1eb650ff4 tracepoint: Move signal sending tracepoint to events/signal.h
Move signal sending event to events/signal.h. This patch also
renames sched_signal_send event to signal_generate.

Changes in v4:
 - Fix a typo of task_struct pointer.

Changes in v3:
 - Add docbook style comments

Changes in v2:
 - Add siginfo argument
 - Add siginfo storing macro

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>
Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091124215645.30449.60208.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-26 10:55:37 +01:00
Li Zefan
470dda7417 tracing: Restore original format of sched events
The original format for sched_stat_iowait and sched_stat_sleep:

  $ cat events/sched/sched_stat_iowait/format
  ...
  print fmt: "comm=%s pid=%d delay=%Lu [ns]", ...
  $ cat events/sched/sched_stat_sleep/format
  ...
  print fmt: "comm=%s pid=%d delay=%Lu [ns]", ...

But commit commit 75ec29ab84
("tracing: Convert some sched trace events to DEFINE_EVENT and
_PRINT") broke the format:

  $ cat events/sched/sched_stat_iowait/format
  print fmt: "task: %s:%d iowait: %Lu [ns]", ...
  $ cat events/sched/sched_stat_sleep/format
  print fmt: "task: %s:%d sleep: %Lu [ns]", ...

No change in functionality.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B0E2951.9050800@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-26 09:14:05 +01:00
Li Zefan
b5eb34c359 tracing: Convert some ext4 events to DEFINE_TRACE
Use DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS to remove duplicate code:

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
 294695    6104     340  301139   49853 fs/ext4/ext4.o.old
 289983    6104     324  296411   485db fs/ext4/ext4.o

5 events are convertd:

  ext4__write_begin: ext4_write_begin, ext4_da_write_begin
  ext4__write_end: ext4_{ordered, writeback, journalled}_write_end

No change in functionality.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B0E2938.2040708@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-26 09:14:05 +01:00
Li Zefan
071688f36e tracing: Convert some jbd2 events to DEFINE_EVENT
Use DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS to remove duplicate code:

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  34903    1693     448   37044    90b4 fs/jbd2/journal.o.old
  31931    1693     416   34040    84f8 fs/jbd2/journal.o

Four events are converted:

  jbd2_commit: jbd2_start_commit,
               jbd2_commit_{locking, flushing, logging}

No change in functionality.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B0E290F.7030909@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-26 09:14:04 +01:00
Li Zefan
77ca1e0294 tracing: Convert some block events to DEFINE_EVENT
use DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS to remove duplicate code:

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  53570    3284     184   57038    dece block/blk-core.o.old
  43702    3284     144   47130    b81a block/blk-core.o

12 events are converted:

  block_rq: block_rq_insert, block_rq_issue
  block_rq_with_error: block_rq_{abort, requeue, complete}
  block_bio: block_bio_{backmerge, frontmerge, queue}
  block_get_rq: block_getrq, block_sleeprq
  block_unplug: block_unplug_timer, block_unplug_io

No change in functionality.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B0E28E6.7060609@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-26 09:14:04 +01:00
Li Zefan
7703466b4c tracing: Convert some power events to DEFINE_EVENT
Use DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS to remove duplicate code:

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
   4312     524      12    4848    12f0 kernel/trace/power-traces.o.old
   3455     524       8    3987     f93 kernel/trace/power-traces.o

Two events are converted:

  power: power_start, power_frequency

No change in functionality.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <4B0E28C2.1090906@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-26 09:14:03 +01:00
Li Zefan
382ece710b tracing: Convert some workqueue events to DEFINE_EVENT
Use DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS to remove duplicate code:

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  13171     800      72   14043    36db kernel/workqueue.o.old
  12243     800      68   13111    3337 kernel/workqueue.o

Two events are converted:

  workqueue: workqueue_insertion, workqueue_execution

No change in functionality.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B0E289F.5010104@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-26 09:14:03 +01:00
Li Zefan
c467307c1a tracing: Convert softirq events to DEFINE_EVENT
Use DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS to remove duplicate code:

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  12781     952      36   13769    35c9 kernel/softirq.o.old
  11981     952      32   12965    32a5 kernel/softirq.o

Two events are converted:

  softirq: softirq_entry, softirq_exit

No change in functionality.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B0E287F.4030708@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-26 09:14:03 +01:00
Li Zefan
53d0422c2d tracing: Convert some kmem events to DEFINE_EVENT
Use DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS to remove duplicate code:

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
 333987   69800   27228  431015   693a7 mm/built-in.o.old
 330030   69800   27228  427058   68432 mm/built-in.o

8 events are converted:

  kmem_alloc: kmalloc, kmem_cache_alloc
  kmem_alloc_node: kmalloc_node, kmem_cache_alloc_node
  kmem_free: kfree, kmem_cache_free
  mm_page: mm_page_alloc_zone_locked, mm_page_pcpu_drain

No change in functionality.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
LKML-Reference: <4B0E286A.2000405@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-26 09:14:02 +01:00
Li Zefan
925684d6d5 tracing: Convert module refcnt events to DEFINE_EVENT
Use DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS to remove duplicate code:

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  29854    1980     128   31962    7cda kernel/module.o.old
  28750    1980     128   30858    788a kernel/module.o

Two events are converted:

  module_refcnt: module_get, module_put

No change in functionality.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B0E283B.3010508@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-26 09:14:02 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
091ad3658e events: Rename TRACE_EVENT_TEMPLATE() to DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS()
It is not quite obvious at first sight what TRACE_EVENT_TEMPLATE
does: does it define an event as well beyond defining a template?

To clarify this, rename it to DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS, which follows
the various 'DECLARE_*()' idioms we already have in the kernel:

  DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS(class)

    DEFINE_EVENT(class, event1)
    DEFINE_EVENT(class, event2)
    DEFINE_EVENT(class, event3)

To complete this logic we should also rename TRACE_EVENT() to:

  DEFINE_SINGLE_EVENT(single_event)

... but in a more quiet moment of the kernel cycle.

Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B0E286A.2000405@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-26 09:04:55 +01:00
Lai Jiangshan
b8007ef742 tracing: Separate raw syscall from syscall tracer
The current syscall tracer mixes raw syscalls and real syscalls.

echo 1 > events/syscalls/enable
And we get these from the output:

(XXXX insteads "            grep-20914 [001] 588211.446347" .. etc)

XXXX: sys_read(fd: 3, buf: 80609a8, count: 7000)
XXXX: sys_enter: NR 3 (3, 80609a8, 7000, a, 1000, bfce8ef8)
XXXX: sys_read -> 0x138
XXXX: sys_exit: NR 3 = 312
XXXX: sys_read(fd: 3, buf: 8060ae0, count: 7000)
XXXX: sys_enter: NR 3 (3, 8060ae0, 7000, a, 1000, bfce8ef8)
XXXX: sys_read -> 0x138
XXXX: sys_exit: NR 3 = 312

There are 2 drawbacks here.
A) two almost identical records are saved in ringbuffer
   when a syscall enters or exits. (4 records for every syscall)
   This wastes precious space in the ring buffer.
B) the lines including "sys_enter/sys_exit" produces
   hardly any useful information for the output (no labels).

The user can use this method to prevent these drawbacks:
echo 1 > events/syscalls/enable
echo 0 > events/syscalls/sys_enter/enable
echo 0 > events/syscalls/sys_exit/enable

But this is not user friendly. So we separate raw syscall
from syscall tracer.

After this fix applied:
syscall tracer's output (echo 1 > events/syscalls/enable):

XXXX: sys_read(fd: 3, buf: bfe87d88, count: 200)
XXXX: sys_read -> 0x200
XXXX: sys_fstat64(fd: 3, statbuf: bfe87c98)
XXXX: sys_fstat64 -> 0x0
XXXX: sys_close(fd: 3)

raw syscall tracer's output (echo 1 > events/raw_syscalls/enable):

XXXX: sys_enter: NR 175 (0, bf92bf18, bf92bf98, 8, b748cff4, bf92bef8)
XXXX: sys_exit: NR 175 = 0
XXXX: sys_enter: NR 175 (2, bf92bf98, 0, 8, b748cff4, bf92bef8)
XXXX: sys_exit: NR 175 = 0
XXXX: sys_enter: NR 3 (9, bf927f9c, 4000, b77e2518, b77dce60, bf92bff8)

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4AEFC37C.5080609@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-11-25 14:20:06 -05:00
Steven Rostedt
75ec29ab84 tracing: Convert some sched trace events to DEFINE_EVENT and _PRINT
Converting some of the scheduler trace events to use the
TRACE_EVENT_TEMPLATE, DEFINE_EVENT and DEFINE_EVENT_PRINT helped to
save some space:

$ size kernel/sched.o-*
   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
  79299	   6776	   2520	  88595	  15a13	kernel/sched.o-notrace
 101941	  11896	   2584	 116421	  1c6c5	kernel/sched.o-templ
 104779	  11896	   2584	 119259	  1d1db	kernel/sched.o-trace

sched.o-notrace is without any tracepoints compiled
sched.o-templ is with this patch
sched.o-trace is the tracepoints before this patch

The trace events converted to DEFINE_EVENT:

sched_wakeup, sched_wakeup_new, sched_process_free, sched_process_exit,
and sched_stat_wait.

The trace events converted to DEFINE_EVENT_PRINT:

sched_stat_sleep and sched_stat_iowait.

Note, since the TRACE_EVENT_TEMPLATE always uses a print, the
sched_stat_wait print format is defined in the template and this
template is used by sched_stat_sleep and sched_stat_iowait. But the
later two override the print format.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-11-24 18:24:00 -05:00
Steven Rostedt
e5bc972168 tracing: Create new DEFINE_EVENT_PRINT
After creating the TRACE_EVENT_TEMPLATE I started to look at other
trace points to see what duplication was made. I noticed that there
are several trace points where they are almost identical except for
the name and the output format. Since TRACE_EVENT_TEMPLATE was successful
in bringing down the size of trace events, I added a DEFINE_EVENT_PRINT.

DEFINE_EVENT_PRINT is used just like DEFINE_EVENT is. That is, the
DEFINE_EVENT_PRINT also uses a TRACE_EVENT_TEMPLATE, but it allows the
developer to overwrite the print format. If there are two or more
TRACE_EVENTS that are identical except for the name and print, then
they can be converted to use a TRACE_EVENT_TEMPLATE. Since the
TRACE_EVENT_TEMPLATE already does the print output, the first trace event
would have its print format held in the TRACE_EVENT_TEMPLATE and
be defined with a DEFINE_EVENT. The rest will use the DEFINE_EVENT_PRINT
and override the print format.

Converting the sched trace points to both DEFINE_EVENT and
DEFINE_EVENT_PRINT. Five were converted to DEFINE_EVENT and two were
converted to DEFINE_EVENT_PRINT.

I was able to get the following:

$ size kernel/sched.o-*
   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
  79299	   6776	   2520	  88595	  15a13	kernel/sched.o-notrace
 101941	  11896	   2584	 116421	  1c6c5	kernel/sched.o-templ
 104779	  11896	   2584	 119259	  1d1db	kernel/sched.o-trace

sched.o-notrace is the scheduler compiled with no trace points.
sched.o-templ is with the use of DEFINE_EVENT and DEFINE_EVENT_PRINT
sched.o-trace is the current trace events.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-11-24 18:23:53 -05:00
Steven Rostedt
ff038f5c37 tracing: Create new TRACE_EVENT_TEMPLATE
There are some places in the kernel that define several tracepoints and
they are all identical besides the name. The code to enable, disable and
record is created for every trace point even if most of the code is
identical.

This patch adds TRACE_EVENT_TEMPLATE that lets the developer create
a template TRACE_EVENT and create trace points with DEFINE_EVENT, which
is based off of a given template. Each trace point used by this
will share most of the code, and bring down the size of the kernel
when there are several duplicate events.

Usage is:

TRACE_EVENT_TEMPLATE(name, proto, args, tstruct, assign, print);

Which would be the same as defining a normal TRACE_EVENT.

To create the trace events that the trace points will use:

DEFINE_EVENT(template, name, proto, args) is done. The template
is the name of the TRACE_EVENT_TEMPLATE to use. The name is the
name of the trace point. The parameters proto and args must be the same
as the proto and args of the template. If they are not the same,
then a compile error will result. I tried hard removing this duplication
but the C preprocessor is not powerful enough (or my CPP magic
experience points is not at a high enough level) to not need them.

A lot of trace events are coming in with new XFS development. Most of
the trace points are identical except for the name. The following shows
the advantage of having TRACE_EVENT_TEMPLATE:

$ size fs/xfs/xfs.o.*
    text          data     bss     dec     hex filename
  452114          2788    3520  458422   6feb6 fs/xfs/xfs.o.old
  638482         38116    3744  680342   a6196 fs/xfs/xfs.o.template
  996954         38116    4480 1039550   fdcbe fs/xfs/xfs.o.trace

xfs.o.old is without any tracepoints.
xfs.o.template uses the new TRACE_EVENT_TEMPLATE.
xfs.o.trace uses the current TRACE_EVENT macros.

Requested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-11-24 17:52:11 -05:00
Peter Zijlstra
4ed7c92d68 perf_events: Undo some recursion damage
Make perf_swevent_get_recursion_context return a context number
and disable preemption.

This could be used to remove the IRQ disable from the trace bit
and index the per-cpu buffer with.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <20091123103819.993226816@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-23 11:49:57 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker
ce71b9df88 tracing: Use the perf recursion protection from trace event
When we commit a trace to perf, we first check if we are
recursing in the same buffer so that we don't mess-up the buffer
with a recursing trace. But later on, we do the same check from
perf to avoid commit recursion. The recursion check is desired
early before we touch the buffer but we want to do this check
only once.

Then export the recursion protection from perf and use it from
the trace events before submitting a trace.

v2: Put appropriate Reported-by tag

Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1258864015-10579-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-22 09:03:42 +01:00
Josh Stone
192dcf1d17 tracing: Remove the stale include/trace/power.h
Commit 6161352 moved the power tracing to include/trace/events/,
but left the old header behind.  No one is using the old header,
and its declarations are now incorrect, so it should be removed.

Signed-off-by: Josh Stone <jistone@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1258578415-14752-1-git-send-email-jistone@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-19 05:38:40 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
a7b63425a4 Merge branch 'perf/core' into perf/probes
Resolved merge conflict in tools/perf/Makefile

Merge reason: we want to queue up a dependent patch.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-17 10:17:47 +01:00
Johannes Berg
811cb50baf tracing: Fix event format export
For some reason the export of the event print format to userspace
uses '#fmt' which breaks if the format string is anything but a plain
string, for example if it is built with macros then the macro names
are exported instead of their contents.

Use
	"\"%s\"", fmt
instead of
	"%s", #fmt
to export the string and not the way it is built.

For example, in net/mac80211/driver-trace.h for the trace event drv_start
there is:

        TP_printk(
                LOCAL_PR_FMT, LOCAL_PR_ARG
        )

Which use to produce:

 print fmt: LOCAL_PR_FMT, REC->wiphy_name

Now produces:

 print fmt: "%s", REC->wiphy_name

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
LKML-Reference: <20091113224009.GB23942@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-11-13 22:20:34 -05:00
Frederic Weisbecker
67178767b9 tracing: Rename 'lockdep' event subsystem into 'lock'
Lockdep events subsystem gathers various locking related events
such as a request, release, contention or acquisition of a lock.

The name of this event subsystem is a bit of a misnomer since
these events are not quite related to lockdep but more generally
to locking, ie: these events are not reporting lock dependencies
or possible deadlock scenario but pure locking events.

Hence this rename.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <1258103194-843-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-13 10:48:27 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker
444a2a3bcd tracing, perf_events: Protect the buffer from recursion in perf
While tracing using events with perf, if one enables the
lockdep:lock_acquire event, it will infect every other perf
trace events.

Basically, you can enable whatever set of trace events through
perf but if this event is part of the set, the only result we
can get is a long list of lock_acquire events of rcu read lock,
and only that.

This is because of a recursion inside perf.

1) When a trace event is triggered, it will fill a per cpu
   buffer and submit it to perf.

2) Perf will commit this event but will also protect some data
   using rcu_read_lock

3) A recursion appears: rcu_read_lock triggers a lock_acquire
   event that will fill the per cpu event and then submit the
   buffer to perf.

4) Perf detects a recursion and ignores it

5) Perf continues its work on the previous event, but its buffer
   has been overwritten by the lock_acquire event, it has then
   been turned into a lock_acquire event of rcu read lock

Such scenario also happens with lock_release with
rcu_read_unlock().

We could turn the rcu_read_lock() into __rcu_read_lock() to drop
the lock debugging from perf fast path, but that would make us
lose the rcu debugging and that doesn't prevent from other
possible kind of recursion from perf in the future.

This patch adds a recursion protection based on a counter on the
perf trace per cpu buffers to solve the problem.

-v2: Fixed lost whitespace, added reviewed-by tag

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1257477185-7838-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-08 10:31:42 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
9de09ace8d Merge branch 'tracing/urgent' into tracing/core
Merge reason: Pick up fixes and move base from -rc1 to -rc5.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-29 09:02:20 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
4331595650 Merge branch 'perf/core' into perf/probes
Conflicts:
	tools/perf/Makefile

Merge reason:

 - fix the conflict
 - pick up the pr_*() infrastructure to queue up dependent patch

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-23 08:23:20 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
bb3c3e8071 Merge commit 'v2.6.32-rc5' into perf/probes
Conflicts:
	kernel/trace/trace_event_profile.c

Merge reason: update to -rc5 and resolve conflict.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-17 09:58:25 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
434a83c3fb events: Harmonize event field names and print output names
Now that we can filter based on fields via perf record, people
will start using filter expressions and will expect them to
be obvious.

The primary way to see which fields are available is by looking
at the trace output, such as:

  gcc-18676 [000]   343.011728: irq_handler_entry: irq=0 handler=timer
  cc1-18677 [000]   343.012727: irq_handler_entry: irq=0 handler=timer
  cc1-18677 [000]   343.032692: irq_handler_entry: irq=0 handler=timer
  cc1-18677 [000]   343.033690: irq_handler_entry: irq=0 handler=timer
  cc1-18677 [000]   343.034687: irq_handler_entry: irq=0 handler=timer
  cc1-18677 [000]   343.035686: irq_handler_entry: irq=0 handler=timer
  cc1-18677 [000]   343.036684: irq_handler_entry: irq=0 handler=timer

While 'irq==0' filters work, the 'handler==<x>' filter expression
does not work:

  $ perf record -R -f -a -e irq:irq_handler_entry --filter handler=timer sleep 1
   Error: failed to set filter with 22 (Invalid argument)

The problem is that while an 'irq' field exists and is recognized
as a filter field - 'handler' does not exist - its name is 'name'
in the output.

To solve this, we need to synchronize the printout and the field
names, wherever possible.

In cases where the printout prints a non-field, we enclose
that information in square brackets, such as:

  perf-1380  [013]   724.903505: softirq_exit: vec=9 [action=RCU]
  perf-1380  [013]   724.904482: softirq_exit: vec=1 [action=TIMER]

This way users can use filter expressions more intuitively: all
fields that show up as 'primary' (non-bracketed) information is
filterable.

This patch harmonizes the field names for all irq, bkl, power,
sched and timer events.

We might in fact think about dropping the print format bit of
generic tracepoints altogether, and just print the fields that
are being recorded.

Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-15 12:42:03 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
713490e02e Merge branch 'tracing/core' into perf/core
Merge reason: to add event filter support we need the following
commits from the tracing tree:

 3f6fe06: tracing/filters: Unify the regex parsing helpers
 1889d20: tracing/filters: Provide basic regex support
 737f453: tracing/filters: Cleanup useless headers

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-15 11:34:00 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
c44fc77084 tracing: Move syscalls metadata handling from arch to core
Most of the syscalls metadata processing is done from arch.
But these operations are mostly generic accross archs. Especially now
that we have a common variable name that expresses the number of
syscalls supported by an arch: NR_syscalls, the only remaining bits
that need to reside in arch is the syscall nr to addr translation.

v2: Compare syscalls symbols only after the "sys" prefix so that we
    avoid spurious mismatches with archs that have syscalls wrappers,
    in which case syscalls symbols have "SyS" prefixed aliases.
    (Reported by: Heiko Carstens)

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2009-10-14 09:53:56 +02:00
Hidetoshi Seto
8968f9d3dc perf_event, x86, mce: Use TRACE_EVENT() for MCE logging
This approach is the first baby step towards solving many of the
structural problems the x86 MCE logging code is having today:

 - It has a private ring-buffer implementation that has a number
   of limitations and has been historically fragile and buggy.

 - It is using a quirky /dev/mcelog ioctl driven ABI that is MCE
   specific. /dev/mcelog is not part of any larger logging
   framework and hence has remained on the fringes for many years.

 - The MCE logging code is still very unclean partly due to its ABI
   limitations. Fields are being reused for multiple purposes, and
   the whole message structure is limited and x86 specific to begin
   with.

All in one, the x86 tree would like to move away from this private
implementation of an event logging facility to a broader framework.

By using perf events we gain the following advantages:

 - Multiple user-space agents can access MCE events. We can have an
   mcelog daemon running but also a system-wide tracer capturing
   important events in flight-recorder mode.

 - Sampling support: the kernel and the user-space call-chain of MCE
   events can be stored and analyzed as well. This way actual patterns
   of bad behavior can be matched to precisely what kind of activity
   happened in the kernel (and/or in the app) around that moment in
   time.

 - Coupling with other hardware and software events: the PMU can track a
   number of other anomalies - monitoring software might chose to
   monitor those plus the MCE events as well - in one coherent stream of
   events.

 - Discovery of MCE sources - tracepoints are enumerated and tools can
   act upon the existence (or non-existence) of various channels of MCE
   information.

 - Filtering support: we just subscribe to and act upon the events we
   are interested in. Then even on a per event source basis there's
   in-kernel filter expressions available that can restrict the amount
   of data that hits the event channel.

 - Arbitrary deep per cpu buffering of events - we can buffer 32
   entries or we can buffer as much as we want, as long as we have
   the RAM.

 - An NMI-safe ring-buffer implementation - mappable to user-space.

 - Built-in support for timestamping of events, PID markers, CPU
   markers, etc.

 - A rich ABI accessible over system call interface. Per cpu, per task
   and per workload monitoring of MCE events can be done this way. The
   ABI itself has a nice, meaningful structure.

 - Extensible ABI: new fields can be added without breaking tooling.
   New tracepoints can be added as the hardware side evolves. There's
   various parsers that can be used.

 - Lots of scheduling/buffering/batching modes of operandi for MCE
   events. poll() support. mmap() support. read() support. You name it.

 - Rich tooling support: even without any MCE specific extensions added
   the 'perf' tool today offers various views of MCE data: perf report,
   perf stat, perf trace can all be used to view logged MCE events and
   perhaps correlate them to certain user-space usage patterns. But it
   can be used directly as well, for user-space agents and policy action
   in mcelog, etc.

With this we hope to achieve significant code cleanup and feature
improvements in the MCE code, and we hope to be able to drop the
/dev/mcelog facility in the end.

This patch is just a plain dumb dump of mce_log() records to
the tracepoints / perf events framework - a first proof of
concept step.

Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <4AD42A0D.7050104@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-13 09:43:38 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
9dbdd6c41c Merge commit 'v2.6.32-rc4' into perf/core
Merge reason: we were on an -rc1 base, merge up to -rc4.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-13 09:31:34 +02:00
Tom Zanussi
26a50744b2 tracing/events: Add 'signed' field to format files
The sign info used for filters in the kernel is also useful to
applications that process the trace stream.  Add it to the format
files and make it available to userspace.

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: lizf@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: hch@infradead.org
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1254809398-8078-2-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-06 15:04:45 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
58e57fbd1c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (41 commits)
  Revert "Seperate read and write statistics of in_flight requests"
  cfq-iosched: don't delay async queue if it hasn't dispatched at all
  block: Topology ioctls
  cfq-iosched: use assigned slice sync value, not default
  cfq-iosched: rename 'desktop' sysfs entry to 'low_latency'
  cfq-iosched: implement slower async initiate and queue ramp up
  cfq-iosched: delay async IO dispatch, if sync IO was just done
  cfq-iosched: add a knob for desktop interactiveness
  Add a tracepoint for block request remapping
  block: allow large discard requests
  block: use normal I/O path for discard requests
  swapfile: avoid NULL pointer dereference in swapon when s_bdev is NULL
  fs/bio.c: move EXPORT* macros to line after function
  Add missing blk_trace_remove_sysfs to be in pair with blk_trace_init_sysfs
  cciss: fix build when !PROC_FS
  block: Do not clamp max_hw_sectors for stacking devices
  block: Set max_sectors correctly for stacking devices
  cciss: cciss_host_attr_groups should be const
  cciss: Dynamically allocate the drive_info_struct for each logical drive.
  cciss: Add usage_count attribute to each logical drive in /sys
  ...
2009-10-04 12:39:14 -07:00
Jun'ichi Nomura
b0da3f0dad Add a tracepoint for block request remapping
Since 2.6.31 now has request-based device-mapper, it's useful to have
a tracepoint for request-remapping as well as bio-remapping.
This patch adds a tracepoint for request-remapping, trace_block_rq_remap().

Signed-off-by: Kiyoshi Ueda <k-ueda@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-10-01 21:19:34 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
0aa73ba1c4 Merge branch 'tracing/urgent' into tracing/core
Merge reason: Pick up latest fixes and update to latest upstream.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-01 11:20:48 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
9f44fdc518 Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4:
  ext4: Fix time encoding with extra epoch bits
  ext4: Add a stub for mpage_da_data in the trace header
  jbd2: Use tracepoints for history file
  ext4: Use tracepoints for mb_history trace file
  ext4, jbd2: Drop unneeded printks at mount and unmount time
  ext4: Handle nested ext4_journal_start/stop calls without a journal
  ext4: Make sure ext4_dirty_inode() updates the inode in no journal mode
  ext4: Avoid updating the inode table bh twice in no journal mode
  ext4: EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT: Check for different original and donor inodes first
  ext4: async direct IO for holes and fallocate support
  ext4: Use end_io callback to avoid direct I/O fallback to buffered I/O
  ext4: Split uninitialized extents for direct I/O
  ext4: release reserved quota when block reservation for delalloc retry
  ext4: Adjust ext4_da_writepages() to write out larger contiguous chunks
  ext4: Fix hueristic which avoids group preallocation for closed files
  ext4: Use ext4_msg() for ext4_da_writepage() errors
  ext4: Update documentation about quota mount options
2009-09-30 09:32:30 -07:00
Josh Stone
0ef1224940 ext4: Add a stub for mpage_da_data in the trace header
The tracepoint ext4_da_write_pages has a struct mpage_da_data*
parameter, but that struct is only defined in fs/ext4/ext4.h.  This
patch adds a forward declaration for that struct, so this tracepoint
header can still be used by tools like SystemTap.

This is a continuation of the fix in commit 3661d286.

http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10703

Signed-off-by: Josh Stone <jistone@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-09-30 00:51:22 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o
bf6993276f jbd2: Use tracepoints for history file
The /proc/fs/jbd2/<dev>/history was maintained manually; by using
tracepoints, we can get all of the existing functionality of the /proc
file plus extra capabilities thanks to the ftrace infrastructure.  We
save memory as a bonus.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-09-30 00:32:06 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o
296c355cd6 ext4: Use tracepoints for mb_history trace file
The /proc/fs/ext4/<dev>/mb_history was maintained manually, and had a
number of problems: it required a largish amount of memory to be
allocated for each ext4 filesystem, and the s_mb_history_lock
introduced a CPU contention problem.  

By ripping out the mb_history code and replacing it with ftrace
tracepoints, and we get more functionality: timestamps, event
filtering, the ability to correlate mballoc history with other ext4
tracepoints, etc.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-09-30 00:32:42 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o
55138e0bc2 ext4: Adjust ext4_da_writepages() to write out larger contiguous chunks
Work around problems in the writeback code to force out writebacks in
larger chunks than just 4mb, which is just too small.  This also works
around limitations in the ext4 block allocator, which can't allocate
more than 2048 blocks at a time.  So we need to defeat the round-robin
characteristics of the writeback code and try to write out as many
blocks in one inode before allowing the writeback code to move on to
another inode.  We add a a new per-filesystem tunable,
max_writeback_mb_bump, which caps this to a default of 128mb per
inode.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-09-29 13:31:31 -04:00