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Steven Rostedt a9a5776380 tracing: Allow events to share their print functions
Multiple events may use the same method to print their data.
Instead of having all events have a pointer to their print funtions,
the trace_event structure now points to a trace_event_functions structure
that will hold the way to print ouf the event.

The event itself is now passed to the print function to let the print
function know what kind of event it should print.

This opens the door to consolidating the way several events print
their output.

   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
4913961	1088356	 861512	6863829	 68bbd5	vmlinux.orig
4900382	1048964	 861512	6810858	 67ecea	vmlinux.init
4900446	1049028	 861512	6810986	 67ed6a	vmlinux.preprint

This change slightly increases the size but is needed for the next change.

v3: Fix the branch tracer events to handle this change.

v2: Fix the new function graph tracer event calls to handle this change.

Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-05-14 14:20:32 -04:00
Steven Rostedt f81c972d27 tracing: consolidate code between trace_output.c and trace_function_graph.c
Both trace_output.c and trace_function_graph.c do basically the same
thing to handle the printing of the latency-format. This patch moves
the code into one function that both can use.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-11 14:24:13 -04:00
Steven Rostedt 110bf2b764 tracing: add protection around module events unload
When reading the trace buffer, there is a race that when a module
is unloaded it removes events that is stilled referenced in the buffers.
This patch adds the protection around the unloading of the events
from modules and the reading of the trace buffers.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-06-09 17:29:07 -04:00
Lai Jiangshan 4f5359685a tracing: add trace_event_read_lock()
I found that there is nothing to protect event_hash in
ftrace_find_event(). Rcu protects the event hashlist
but not the event itself while we use it after its extraction
through ftrace_find_event().

This lack of a proper locking in this spot opens a race
window between any event dereferencing and module removal.

Eg:

--Task A--

print_trace_line(trace) {
  event = find_ftrace_event(trace)

--Task B--

trace_module_remove_events(mod) {
  list_trace_events_module(ev, mod) {
    unregister_ftrace_event(ev->event) {
      hlist_del(ev->event->node)
        list_del(....)
    }
  }
}
|--> module removed, the event has been dropped

--Task A--

  event->print(trace); // Dereferencing freed memory

If the event retrieved belongs to a module and this module
is concurrently removed, we may end up dereferencing a data
from a freed module.

RCU could solve this, but it would add latency to the kernel and
forbid tracers output callbacks to call any sleepable code.
So this fix converts 'trace_event_mutex' to a read/write semaphore,
and adds trace_event_read_lock() to protect ftrace_find_event().

[ Impact: fix possible freed memory dereference in ftrace ]

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <4A114806.7090302@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-05-25 23:53:41 +02:00
Steven Rostedt 97f2025153 tracing/events: move declarations from trace directory to core include
In preparation to allowing trace events to happen in modules, we need
to move some of the local declarations in the kernel/trace directory
into include/linux.

This patch simply moves the declarations and performs no context changes.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-04-14 12:57:58 -04:00
Steven Rostedt 9504504cba tracing: make trace_seq operations available for core kernel
In the process to make TRACE_EVENT macro work for modules, the trace_seq
operations must be available for core kernel code.

These operations are quite useful and can be used for other implementations.

The main idea is that we create a trace_seq handle that acts very much
like the seq_file handle.

	struct trace_seq *s = kmalloc(sizeof(*s, GFP_KERNEL);

	trace_seq_init(s);
	trace_seq_printf(s, "some data %d\n", variable);

	printk("%s", s->buffer);

The main use is to allow a top level function call several other functions
that may store printf like data into the buffer. Then at the end, the top
level function can process all the data with any method it would like to.
It could be passed to userspace, output via printk or even use seq_file:

	trace_seq_to_user(s, ubuf, cnt);
	seq_puts(m, s->buffer);

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-04-14 12:57:57 -04:00
Ingo Molnar 93776a8ec7 Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/core
Merge reason: update to upstream tracing facilities

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-07 13:47:45 +02:00
Li Zefan b14b70a6a4 trace: make argument 'mem' of trace_seq_putmem() const
Impact: fix build warning

I passed a const value to trace_seq_putmem(), and I got compile warning.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-31 17:45:13 +02:00
Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu f285901bb2 tracing: add missing 'extern' keywords to trace_output.h
Impact: cleanup

Many declarations within trace_output.h are missing the 'extern' keyword
in an inconsistent manner. This adds 'extern' where it should be.

Signed-off-by: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-31 17:45:07 +02:00
Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu bdd6df6af9 tracing: provide trace_seq_reserve()
trace_seq_reserve() allows a caller to reserve space in a trace_seq and
write directly into it. This makes it easier to export binary data to
userspace via the tracing interface, by simply filling in a struct.

Signed-off-by: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-31 17:45:02 +02:00
Steven Rostedt 0706f1c48c tracing: adding function timings to function profiler
If the function graph trace is enabled, the function profiler will
use it to take the timing of the functions.

 cat /debug/tracing/trace_stat/functions

  Function                               Hit    Time
  --------                               ---    ----
  mwait_idle                             127    183028.4 us
  schedule                                26    151997.7 us
  __schedule                              31    151975.1 us
  sys_wait4                                2    74080.53 us
  do_wait                                  2    74077.80 us
  sys_newlstat                           138    39929.16 us
  do_path_lookup                         179    39845.79 us
  vfs_lstat_fd                           138    39761.97 us
  user_path_at                           153    39469.58 us
  path_walk                              179    39435.76 us
  __link_path_walk                       189    39143.73 us
[...]

Note the times are skewed due to the function graph tracer not taking
into account schedules.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-03-24 23:41:09 -04:00
Steven Rostedt 5ef841f6f3 tracing: make print_(b)printk_msg_only global
This patch makes print_printk_msg_only and print_bprintk_msg_only
global for other functions to use. It also renames them by adding
a "trace_" to the beginning to avoid namespace collisions.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-03-19 15:57:55 -04:00
Frederic Weisbecker 769b0441f4 tracing/core: drop the old trace_printk() implementation in favour of trace_bprintk()
Impact: faster and lighter tracing

Now that we have trace_bprintk() which is faster and consume lesser
memory than trace_printk() and has the same purpose, we can now drop
the old implementation in favour of the binary one from trace_bprintk(),
which means we move all the implementation of trace_bprintk() to
trace_printk(), so the Api doesn't change except that we must now use
trace_seq_bprintk() to print the TRACE_PRINT entries.

Some changes result of this:

- Previously, trace_bprintk depended of a single tracer and couldn't
  work without. This tracer has been dropped and the whole implementation
  of trace_printk() (like the module formats management) is now integrated
  in the tracing core (comes with CONFIG_TRACING), though we keep the file
  trace_printk (previously trace_bprintk.c) where we can find the module
  management. Thus we don't overflow trace.c

- changes some parts to use trace_seq_bprintk() to print TRACE_PRINT entries.

- change a bit trace_printk/trace_vprintk macros to support non-builtin formats
  constants, and fix 'const' qualifiers warnings. But this is all transparent for
  developers.

- etc...

V2:

- Rebase against last changes
- Fix mispell on the changelog

V3:

- Rebase against last changes (moving trace_printk() to kernel.h)

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <1236356510-8381-5-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-06 17:59:12 +01:00
Steven Rostedt 5fd73f8624 tracing: remove extra latency_trace method from trace structure
Impact: clean up

The trace and latency_trace function pointers are identical for
every tracer but the function tracer. The differences in the function
tracer are trivial (latency output puts paranthesis around parent).

This patch removes the latency_trace pointer and all prints will
now just use the trace output function pointer.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
2009-03-04 21:42:04 -05:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo ae7462b4f1 trace: make the trace_event callbacks return enum print_line_t
As they actually all return these enumerators.

Reported-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-04 20:48:39 +01:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 2c9b238eb3 trace: Change struct trace_event callbacks parameter list
Impact: API change

The trace_seq and trace_entry are in trace_iterator, where there are
more fields that may be needed by tracers, so just pass the
tracer_iterator as is already the case for struct tracer->print_line.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-03 14:03:52 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker c4a8e8be2d trace: better manage the context info for events
Impact: make trace_event more convenient for tracers

All tracers (for the moment) that use the struct trace_event want to
have the context info printed before their own output: the pid/cmdline,
cpu, and timestamp.

But some other tracers that want to implement their trace_event
callbacks will not necessary need these information or they may want to
format them as they want.

This patch adds a new default-enabled trace option:
TRACE_ITER_CONTEXT_INFO When disabled through:

echo nocontext-info > /debugfs/tracing/trace_options

The pid, cpu and timestamps headers will not be printed.

IE with the sched_switch tracer with context-info (default):

     bash-2935 [001] 100.356561: 2935:120:S ==> [001]  0:140:R <idle>
   <idle>-0    [000] 100.412804:    0:140:R   + [000] 11:115:S events/0
   <idle>-0    [000] 100.412816:    0:140:R ==> [000] 11:115:R events/0
 events/0-11   [000] 100.412829:   11:115:S ==> [000]  0:140:R <idle>

Without context-info:

 2935:120:S ==> [001]  0:140:R <idle>
    0:140:R   + [000] 11:115:S events/0
    0:140:R ==> [000] 11:115:R events/0
   11:115:S ==> [000]  0:140:R <idle>

A tracer can disable it at runtime by clearing the bit
TRACE_ITER_CONTEXT_INFO in trace_flags.

The print routines were renamed to trace_print_context and
trace_print_lat_context, so that they can be used by tracers if they
want to use them for one of the trace_event callbacks.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-03 14:03:52 +01:00
Steven Rostedt c37abc5515 trace: add gcc printf check to trace_seq_printf
Andrew Morton suggested adding a printf checker to trace_seq_printf
since there are a number of users that have improper format arguments.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-16 12:17:29 +01:00
Lai Jiangshan 6c1a99afbd ftrace: fix trace_output
Impact: fix bug for handling partial line

trace_seq_printf(), seq_print_userip_objs(), ... return
0          -- partial line was written
other(>0)  -- success

duplicate output is also removed in trace_print_raw().

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-16 12:15:20 +01:00
Steven Rostedt f633cef020 ftrace: change trace.c to use registered events
Impact: rework trace.c to use new event register API

Almost every ftrace event has to implement its output display in
trace.c through a different function. Some events did not handle
all the formats (trace, latency-trace, raw, hex, binary), and
this method does not scale well.

This patch converts the format functions to use the event API to
find the event and and print its format. Currently, we have
a print function for trace, latency_trace, raw, hex and binary.
A trace_nop_print is available if the event wants to avoid output
on a particular format.

Perhaps other tracers could use this in the future (like mmiotrace and
function_graph).

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-29 12:46:12 +01:00
Steven Rostedt f0868d1e23 ftrace: set up trace event hash infrastructure
Impact: simplify/generalize/refactor trace.c

The trace.c file is becoming more difficult to maintain due to the
growing number of events. There is several formats that an event may
be printed. This patch sets up the infrastructure of an event hash to
allow for events to register how they should be printed.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-29 12:46:11 +01:00