This patch adds a ftrace tracing backend which sends trace event to
ftrace marker file. You can effectively compare qemu trace data and
kernel(especially, kvm.ko when using KVM) trace data.
The ftrace backend is restricted to Linux only.
To try out the ftrace backend:
$ ./configure --trace-backend=ftrace
$ make
if you use KVM, enable kvm events in ftrace:
# sudo echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kvm/enable
After running qemu by root user, you can get the trace:
# cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace
Signed-off-by: Eiichi Tsukata <eiichi.tsukata.xh@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Make sure to rebuild generated-events.o when ./configure options change.
This prevents linker errors when a stale generated-events.o gets linked
with code compiled against fresh headers. For example, try building
with ./configure --enable-trace-backend=stderr followed by ./configure
--enable-trace-backend=dtrace.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
The backend is forced to dump event numbers using 64 bits, as TraceEventID is
an enum.
Signed-off-by: Lluís Vilanova <vilanova@ac.upc.edu>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
This interface decouples event obtaining from interaction.
Events can be obtained through three different methods:
* identifier
* name
* simple wildcard pattern
Signed-off-by: Lluís Vilanova <vilanova@ac.upc.edu>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Uses tracetool to generate a backend-independent tracing event description
(struct TraceEvent).
The values for such structure are generated with the non-public "events"
backend ("events-c" frontend).
The generation of the defines to check if an event is statically enabled is also
moved to the "events" backend ("events-h" frontend).
Signed-off-by: Lluís Vilanova <vilanova@ac.upc.edu>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
g_thread_create() was deprecated in favor of g_thread_new() and
g_cond_new() was deprecated in favor of GCond initialization. If the
host has glib 2.31 or newer, avoid using the deprecated functions.
This patch solves compiler warnings that are generated when glib's
deprecated functions are used.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Message-id: 1360676045-9204-3-git-send-email-stefanha@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Juan reported that RHEL 6.4 hosts give compiler warnings because we use
unsigned int while glib prototypes use volatile gint in trace/simple.c.
trace/simple.c:223: error: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of 'g_atomic_int_compare_and_exchange' differ in signedness
These variables are only accessed with glib atomic int functions so
let's play it by the book and use volatile gint.
Reported-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Message-id: 1360676045-9204-2-git-send-email-stefanha@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
The GLib Reference Manual says:
It is very important that all accesses to a particular integer or
pointer be performed using only this API and that different sizes
of operation are not mixed or used on overlapping memory
regions. Never read or assign directly from or to a value --
always use this API.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Harsh Prateek Bora <harsh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
We use atomic operations to keep track of dropped events.
Inconveniently, GLib supports only int and void * atomics, but the
counter dropped_events is uint64_t. Can't stop commit 62bab732: a
quick (gint *)&dropped_events bludgeons the compiler into submission.
That cast is okay only when int is exactly 64 bits wide, which it
commonly isn't.
If int is even wider, we clobber whatever follows dropped_events. Not
worth worrying about, as none of the machines that interest us have
such morbidly obese ints.
That leaves the common case: int narrower than 64 bits.
Harmless on little endian hosts: we just don't access the most
significant bits of dropped_events. They remain zero.
On big endian hosts, we use only the most significant bits of
dropped_events as counter. The least significant bits remain zero.
However, we write out the full value, which is the correct counter
shifted left a bunch of places.
Fix by changing the variables involved to int.
There's another, equally suspicious-looking (gint *)&trace_idx
argument to g_atomic_int_compare_and_exchange(), but that one casts
unsigned *, so it's okay. But it's also superfluous, because GLib's
atomic int operations work just fine for unsigned. Drop it.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Lluís Vilanova <vilanova@ac.upc.edu>
--
Changes in v2:
* Do not depend on "qemu-timer-common.o".
* Use "$(obj)" in rules to refer to the build sub-directory.
* Remove dependencies against "$(GENERATED_HEADERS)".
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Disable trace events prefixed with a '-'. Useful
to enable a group of tracepoints with exceptions,
like this:
usb_xhci_port_*
-usb_xhci_port_read
which will enable all xhci port tracepoints except reads.
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
asprintf is not available for all hosts. g_strdup_printf is
more portable and simplifies the code because if does not
need error handling.
The static variable does not need an explicit assignment to be NULL.
Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Declaring a TraceRecord on the stack works fine. No need for a
uint8_t array and pointer aliasing.
Signed-off-by: Harsh Prateek Bora <harsh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The buffer argument is void* so it is not necessary to cast.
Signed-off-by: Harsh Prateek Bora <harsh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The TraceRecordHeader is really the header for the entire trace log
file. It's not per-record header so make this obvious by renaming it.
Signed-off-by: Harsh Prateek Bora <harsh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Existing simpletrace backend allows to trace at max 6 args and does not
support strings. This newer tracelog format gets rid of fixed size records
and therefore allows to trace variable number of args including strings.
Sample trace with strings:
v9fs_version 0.000 tag=0xffff id=0x64 msize=0x2000 version=9P2000.L
v9fs_version_return 6.705 tag=0xffff id=0x64 msize=0x2000 version=9P2000.L
Signed-off-by: Harsh Prateek Bora <harsh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Going forward with simpletrace v2 variable size trace records, we cannot
have a generic function to print trace event info and therefore this
interface becomes invalid.
As per Stefan Hajnoczi:
"This command is only available from the human monitor. It's not very
useful because it historically hasn't been able to pretty-print events
or show them in the right order (we use a ringbuffer but it prints
them out from index 0).
Therefore, I don't think we're under any obligation to keep this
command around. No one has complained about it's limitations - I
think this is a sign that no one has used it. I'd be okay with a
patch that removes it."
Ref: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2012-01/msg01268.html
Signed-off-by: Harsh Prateek Bora <harsh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
It is convenient for debug to be able to switch on/off some events easily.
The only possibility now is to remove event name from the file completely
and type it again when we want it back.
The patch adds '#' symbol handling as a comment specifier.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This patch makes trace_thread_create() to use its function arg to
initialize thread. The other choice is to make this a function to use
void arg, but i prefer this way.
Signed-off-by: Jun Koi <junkoi2004@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
since commit f9b29ca03 included in release 2.31 (docs below say 2.32 but
that is not correct) and onwards g_thread_init is deprecated and calling
it is not required:
http://developer.gnome.org/glib/unstable/glib-Deprecated-Thread-APIs.html#g-thread-init
g_thread_init has been deprecated since version 2.32 and should not be
used in newly-written code. This function is no longer necessary. The
GLib threading system is automatically initialized at the start of your
program.
Fixes bulid failure when warnings are treated as errors on fedora 17.
I only tested the change to vl.c, and copy pasted to the two other
locations (couldn't decide if a wrapper for calling g_thread_init is
uglier).
Signed-off-by: Alon Levy <alevy@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
A basic wildcard matching is supported in both the monitor command
"trace-event" and the events list file. That means you can enable/disable
the events having a common prefix in a batch. For example, virtio-blk trace
events could be enabled using:
trace-event virtio_blk_* on
Signed-off-by: Mark Wu <wudxw@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
For Windows portability the simple trace backend must use the 'b' file
open mode. This prevents the stdio library from mangling 0x0a/0x0d
newline characters.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Convert the simple trace backend to glib so that it works under Windows.
We cannot use pthread directly but glib provides portable abstractions.
Also use glib atomics instead of newish gcc builtins which may not be
supported on Windows toolchains.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Uses the generic interface provided in "trace/control.h" in order to provide
a programmatic interface as well as command line and monitor controls.
Signed-off-by: Fabien Chouteau <chouteau@adacore.com>
Signed-off-by: Lluís Vilanova <vilanova@ac.upc.edu>
The "-trace events" argument can be used to provide a file with a list of trace
event names that will be enabled prior to starting execution, thus providing
early tracing.
This saves the user from manually toggling event states through the monitor
interface or whichever backend-specific interface.
Signed-off-by: Lluís Vilanova <vilanova@ac.upc.edu>
Generalize the 'st_print_trace_events' and 'st_change_trace_event_state' into
backend-specific 'trace_print_events' and 'trace_event_set_state' (respectively)
in the "trace/control.h" file.
Signed-off-by: Lluís Vilanova <vilanova@ac.upc.edu>
A default implementation for backend-specific routines is provided in
"trace/default.c", which backends can override by setting "trace_default=no" in
"configure".
Signed-off-by: Lluís Vilanova <vilanova@ac.upc.edu>
