The names used to display the field and type in the event format
files are copied, as well as the system name that is displayed.
All these names are created by constant values passed in.
If one of theses values were to be removed by a module, the module
would also be required to remove any event it created.
By using the strings directly, we can save over 100K of memory.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The event structures used by the trace events are mostly persistent,
but they are also allocated by kmalloc, which is not the best at
allocating space for what is used. By converting these kmallocs
into kmem_cache_allocs, we can save over 50K of space that is
permanently allocated.
After boot we have:
slab name active allocated size
--------- ------ --------- ----
ftrace_event_file 979 1005 56 67 1
ftrace_event_field 2301 2310 48 77 1
The ftrace_event_file has at boot up 979 active objects out of
1005 allocated in the slabs. Each object is 56 bytes. In a normal
kmalloc, that would allocate 64 bytes for each object.
1005 - 979 = 26 objects not used
26 * 56 = 1456 bytes wasted
But if we used kmalloc:
64 - 56 = 8 bytes unused per allocation
8 * 979 = 7832 bytes wasted
7832 - 1456 = 6376 bytes in savings
Doing the same for ftrace_event_field where there's 2301 objects
allocated in a slab that can hold 2310 with 48 bytes each we have:
2310 - 2301 = 9 objects not used
9 * 48 = 432 bytes wasted
A kmalloc would also use 64 bytes per object:
64 - 48 = 16 bytes unused per allocation
16 * 2301 = 36816 bytes wasted!
36816 - 432 = 36384 bytes in savings
This change gives us a total of 42760 bytes in savings. At least
on my machine, but as there's a lot of these persistent objects
for all configurations that use trace points, this is a net win.
Thanks to Ezequiel Garcia for his trace_analyze presentation which
pointed out the wasted space in my code.
Cc: Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
With the new descriptors used to allow multiple buffers in the
tracing directory added, the kernel command line parameter
trace_events=... no longer works. This is because the top level
(global) trace array now has a list of descriptors associated
with the events and the files in the debugfs directory. But in
early bootup, when the command line is processed and the events
enabled, the trace array list of events has not been set up yet.
Without the list of events in the trace array, the setting of
events to record will fail because it would not match any events.
The solution is to set up the top level array in two stages.
The first is to just add the ftrace file descriptors that just point
to the events. This will allow events to be enabled and start tracing.
The second stage is called after the filesystem is set up, and this
stage will create the debugfs event files and directories associated
with the trace array events.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add a method to the hijacked dentry descriptor of the
"instances" directory to allow for rmdir to remove an
instance of a multibuffer.
Example:
cd /debug/tracing/instances
mkdir hello
ls
hello/
rmdir hello
ls
Like the mkdir method, the i_mutex is dropped for the instances
directory. The instances directory is created at boot up and can
not be renamed or removed. The trace_types_lock mutex is used to
synchronize adding and removing of instances.
I've run several stress tests with different threads trying to
create and delete directories of the same name, and it has stood
up fine.
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add the interface ("instances" directory) to add multiple buffers
to ftrace. To create a new instance, simply do a mkdir in the
instances directory:
This will create a directory with the following:
# cd instances
# mkdir foo
# ls foo
buffer_size_kb free_buffer trace_clock trace_pipe
buffer_total_size_kb set_event trace_marker tracing_enabled
events/ trace trace_options tracing_on
Currently only events are able to be set, and there isn't a way
to delete a buffer when one is created (yet).
Note, the i_mutex lock is dropped from the parent "instances"
directory during the mkdir operation. As the "instances" directory
can not be renamed or deleted (created on boot), I do not see
any harm in dropping the lock. The creation of the sub directories
is protected by trace_types_lock mutex, which only lets one
instance get into the code path at a time. If two tasks try to
create or delete directories of the same name, only one will occur
and the other will fail with -EEXIST.
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Currently the syscall events record into the global buffer. But if
multiple buffers are in place, then we need to have syscall events
record in the proper buffers.
By adding descriptors to pass to the syscall event functions, the
syscall events can now record into the buffers that have been assigned
to them (one event may be applied to mulitple buffers).
This will allow tracing high volume syscalls along with seldom occurring
syscalls without losing the seldom syscall events.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The global and max-tr currently use static per_cpu arrays for the CPU data
descriptors. But in order to get new allocated trace_arrays, they need to
be allocated per_cpu arrays. Instead of using the static arrays, switch
the global and max-tr to use allocated data.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Pass the struct ftrace_event_file *ftrace_file to the
trace_event_buffer_lock_reserve() (new function that replaces the
trace_current_buffer_lock_reserver()).
The ftrace_file holds a pointer to the trace_array that is in use.
In the case of multiple buffers with different trace_arrays, this
allows different events to be recorded into different buffers.
Also fixed some of the stale comments in include/trace/ftrace.h
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The global_trace variable in kernel/trace/trace.c has been kept 'static' and
local to that file so that it would not be used too much outside of that
file. This has paid off, even though there were lots of changes to make
the trace_array structure more generic (not depending on global_trace).
Removal of a lot of direct usages of global_trace is needed to be able to
create more trace_arrays such that we can add multiple buffers.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Both RING_BUFFER_ALL_CPUS and TRACE_PIPE_ALL_CPU are defined as
-1 and used to say that all the ring buffers are to be modified
or read (instead of just a single cpu, which would be >= 0).
There's no reason to keep TRACE_PIPE_ALL_CPU as it is also started
to be used for more than what it was created for, and now that
the ring buffer code added a generic RING_BUFFER_ALL_CPUS define,
we can clean up the trace code to use that instead and remove
the TRACE_PIPE_ALL_CPU macro.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The trace events for ftrace are all defined via global variables.
The arrays of events and event systems are linked to a global list.
This prevents multiple users of the event system (what to enable and
what not to).
By adding descriptors to represent the event/file relation, as well
as to which trace_array descriptor they are associated with, allows
for more than one set of events to be defined. Once the trace events
files have a link between the trace event and the trace_array they
are associated with, we can create multiple trace_arrays that can
record separate events in separate buffers.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The latency tracers require the buffers to be in overwrite mode,
otherwise they get screwed up. Force the buffers to stay in overwrite
mode when latency tracers are enabled.
Added a flag_changed() method to the tracer structure to allow
the tracers to see what flags are being changed, and also be able
to prevent the change from happing.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Changing the overwrite mode for the ring buffer via the trace
option only sets the normal buffer. But the snapshot buffer could
swap with it, and then the snapshot would be in non overwrite mode
and the normal buffer would be in overwrite mode, even though the
option flag states otherwise.
Keep the two buffers overwrite modes in sync.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Seems that the tracer flags have never been protected from
synchronous writes. Luckily, admins don't usually modify the
tracing flags via two different tasks. But if scripts were to
be used to modify them, then they could get corrupted.
Move the trace_types_lock that protects against tracers changing
to also protect the flags being set.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Because function tracing is very invasive, and can even trace
calls to rcu_read_lock(), RCU access in function tracing is done
with preempt_disable_notrace(). This requires a synchronize_sched()
for updates and not a synchronize_rcu().
Function probes (traceon, traceoff, etc) must be freed after
a synchronize_sched() after its entry has been removed from the
hash. But call_rcu() is used. Fix this by using call_rcu_sched().
Also fix the usage to use hlist_del_rcu() instead of hlist_del().
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Although the swap is wrapped with a spin_lock, the assignment
of the temp buffer used to swap is not within that lock.
It needs to be moved into that lock, otherwise two swaps
happening on two different CPUs, can end up using the wrong
temp buffer to assign in the swap.
Luckily, all current callers of the swap function appear to have
their own locks. But in case something is added that allows two
different callers to call the swap, then there's a chance that
this race can trigger and corrupt the buffers.
New code is coming soon that will allow for this race to trigger.
I've Cc'd stable, so this bug will not show up if someone backports
one of the changes that can trigger this bug.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To use the tracing snapshot feature, writing a '1' into the snapshot
file causes the snapshot buffer to be allocated if it has not already
been allocated and dose a 'swap' with the main buffer, so that the
snapshot now contains what was in the main buffer, and the main buffer
now writes to what was the snapshot buffer.
To free the snapshot buffer, a '0' is written into the snapshot file.
To clear the snapshot buffer, any number but a '0' or '1' is written
into the snapshot file. But if the file is not allocated it returns
-EINVAL error code. This is rather pointless. It is better just to
do nothing and return success.
Acked-by: Hiraku Toyooka <hiraku.toyooka.gu@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
When cat'ing the snapshot file, instead of showing an empty trace
header like the trace file does, show how to use the snapshot
feature.
Also, this is a good place to show if the snapshot has been allocated
or not. Users may want to "pre allocate" the snapshot to have a fast
"swap" of the current buffer. Otherwise, a swap would be slow and might
fail as it would need to allocate the snapshot buffer, and that might
fail under tight memory constraints.
Here's what it looked like before:
# tracer: nop
#
# entries-in-buffer/entries-written: 0/0 #P:4
#
# _-----=> irqs-off
# / _----=> need-resched
# | / _---=> hardirq/softirq
# || / _--=> preempt-depth
# ||| / delay
# TASK-PID CPU# |||| TIMESTAMP FUNCTION
# | | | |||| | |
Here's what it looks like now:
# tracer: nop
#
#
# * Snapshot is freed *
#
# Snapshot commands:
# echo 0 > snapshot : Clears and frees snapshot buffer
# echo 1 > snapshot : Allocates snapshot buffer, if not already allocated.
# Takes a snapshot of the main buffer.
# echo 2 > snapshot : Clears snapshot buffer (but does not allocate)
# (Doesn't have to be '2' works with any number that
# is not a '0' or '1')
Acked-by: Hiraku Toyooka <hiraku.toyooka.gu@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The prompt to enable DYNAMIC_FTRACE (the ability to nop and
enable function tracing at run time) had a confusing statement:
"enable/disable ftrace tracepoints dynamically"
This was written before tracepoints were added to the kernel,
but now that tracepoints have been added, this is very confusing
and has confused people enough to give wrong information during
presentations.
Not only that, I looked at the help text, and it still references
that dreaded daemon that use to wake up once a second to update
the nop locations and brick NICs, that hasn't been around for over
five years.
Time to bring the text up to the current decade.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Pull async changes from Tejun Heo:
"These are followups for the earlier deadlock issue involving async
ending up waiting for itself through block requesting module[1]. The
following changes are made by these commits.
- Instead of requesting default elevator on each request_queue init,
block now requests it once early during boot.
- Kmod triggers warning if invoked from an async worker.
- Async synchronization implementation has been reimplemented. It's
a lot simpler now."
* 'for-3.9-async' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq:
async: initialise list heads to fix crash
async: replace list of active domains with global list of pending items
async: keep pending tasks on async_domain and remove async_pending
async: use ULLONG_MAX for infinity cookie value
async: bring sanity to the use of words domain and running
async, kmod: warn on synchronous request_module() from async workers
block: don't request module during elevator init
init, block: try to load default elevator module early during boot
Pull workqueue changes from Tejun Heo:
"A lot of reorganization is going on mostly to prepare for worker pools
with custom attributes so that workqueue can replace custom pool
implementations in places including writeback and btrfs and make CPU
assignment in crypto more flexible.
workqueue evolved from purely per-cpu design and implementation, so
there are a lot of assumptions regarding being bound to CPUs and even
unbound workqueues are implemented as an extension of the model -
workqueues running on the special unbound CPU. Bulk of changes this
round are about promoting worker_pools as the top level abstraction
replacing global_cwq (global cpu workqueue). At this point, I'm
fairly confident about getting custom worker pools working pretty soon
and ready for the next merge window.
Lai's patches are replacing the convoluted mb() dancing workqueue has
been doing with much simpler mechanism which only depends on
assignment atomicity of long. For details, please read the commit
message of 0b3dae68ac ("workqueue: simplify is-work-item-queued-here
test"). While the change ends up adding one pointer to struct
delayed_work, the inflation in percentage is less than five percent
and it decouples delayed_work logic a lot more cleaner from usual work
handling, removes the unusual memory barrier dancing, and allows for
further simplification, so I think the trade-off is acceptable.
There will be two more workqueue related pull requests and there are
some shared commits among them. I'll write further pull requests
assuming this pull request is pulled first."
* 'for-3.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: (37 commits)
workqueue: un-GPL function delayed_work_timer_fn()
workqueue: rename cpu_workqueue to pool_workqueue
workqueue: reimplement is_chained_work() using current_wq_worker()
workqueue: fix is_chained_work() regression
workqueue: pick cwq instead of pool in __queue_work()
workqueue: make get_work_pool_id() cheaper
workqueue: move nr_running into worker_pool
workqueue: cosmetic update in try_to_grab_pending()
workqueue: simplify is-work-item-queued-here test
workqueue: make work->data point to pool after try_to_grab_pending()
workqueue: add delayed_work->wq to simplify reentrancy handling
workqueue: make work_busy() test WORK_STRUCT_PENDING first
workqueue: replace WORK_CPU_NONE/LAST with WORK_CPU_END
workqueue: post global_cwq removal cleanups
workqueue: rename nr_running variables
workqueue: remove global_cwq
workqueue: remove worker_pool->gcwq
workqueue: replace for_each_worker_pool() with for_each_std_worker_pool()
workqueue: make freezing/thawing per-pool
workqueue: make hotplug processing per-pool
...
Pull workqueue [delayed_]work_pending() cleanups from Tejun Heo:
"This is part of on-going cleanups to remove / minimize usages of
workqueue interfaces which are deprecated and/or misleading.
This round drops a number of usages of [delayed_]work_pending(), which
are dangerous as they lack any form of synchronization and thus often
lead to buggy / unnecessary code. There are a couple legitimate use
cases in kernel. Hopefully, they can be converted and
[delayed_]work_pending() can be removed completely. Even if not,
removing most of misuses should make it more difficult to find
examples of misuses and thus slow down growth of them.
These changes are independent from other workqueue changes."
* 'for-3.9-cleanups' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq:
wimax/i2400m: fix i2400m->wake_tx_skb handling
kprobes: fix wait_for_kprobe_optimizer()
ipw2x00: simplify scan_event handling
video/exynos: don't use [delayed_]work_pending()
tty/max3100: don't use [delayed_]work_pending()
x86/mce: don't use [delayed_]work_pending()
rfkill: don't use [delayed_]work_pending()
wl1251: don't use [delayed_]work_pending()
thinkpad_acpi: don't use [delayed_]work_pending()
mwifiex: don't use [delayed_]work_pending()
sja1000: don't use [delayed_]work_pending()
Pull two x86 kernel build changes from Ingo Molnar:
"The first change modifies how 'make oldconfig' works on cross-bitness
situations on x86. It was felt the new behavior of preserving the
bitness of the .config is more logical. This is a leftover of the
merge.
The second change eliminates a Perl warning. (There's another, more
complete fix resulting of this warning fix, which second fix in flight
to you via the kbuild tree, which will remove the timeconst.pl script
altogether.)"
* 'x86-build-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
timeconst.pl: Eliminate Perl warning
x86: Default to ARCH=x86 to avoid overriding CONFIG_64BIT
Pull x86/apic changes from Ingo Molnar:
"Main changes:
- Multiple MSI support added to the APIC, PCI and AHCI code - acked
by all relevant maintainers, by Alexander Gordeev.
The advantage is that multiple AHCI ports can have multiple MSI
irqs assigned, and can thus spread to multiple CPUs.
[ Drivers can make use of this new facility via the
pci_enable_msi_block_auto() method ]
- x86 IOAPIC code from interrupt remapping cleanups from Joerg
Roedel:
These patches move all interrupt remapping specific checks out of
the x86 core code and replaces the respective call-sites with
function pointers. As a result the interrupt remapping code is
better abstraced from x86 core interrupt handling code.
- Various smaller improvements, fixes and cleanups."
* 'x86-apic-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (26 commits)
x86/intel/irq_remapping: Clean up x2apic opt-out security warning mess
x86, kvm: Fix intialization warnings in kvm.c
x86, irq: Move irq_remapped out of x86 core code
x86, io_apic: Introduce eoi_ioapic_pin call-back
x86, msi: Introduce x86_msi.compose_msi_msg call-back
x86, irq: Introduce setup_remapped_irq()
x86, irq: Move irq_remapped() check into free_remapped_irq
x86, io-apic: Remove !irq_remapped() check from __target_IO_APIC_irq()
x86, io-apic: Move CONFIG_IRQ_REMAP code out of x86 core
x86, irq: Add data structure to keep AMD specific irq remapping information
x86, irq: Move irq_remapping_enabled declaration to iommu code
x86, io_apic: Remove irq_remapping_enabled check in setup_timer_IRQ0_pin
x86, io_apic: Move irq_remapping_enabled checks out of check_timer()
x86, io_apic: Convert setup_ioapic_entry to function pointer
x86, io_apic: Introduce set_affinity function pointer
x86, msi: Use IRQ remapping specific setup_msi_irqs routine
x86, hpet: Introduce x86_msi_ops.setup_hpet_msi
x86, io_apic: Introduce x86_io_apic_ops.print_entries for debugging
x86, io_apic: Introduce x86_io_apic_ops.disable()
x86, apic: Mask IO-APIC and PIC unconditionally on LAPIC resume
...
Pull timer changes from Ingo Molnar:
"Main changes:
- ntp: Add CONFIG_RTC_SYSTOHC: a generic RTC driver facility
complementing the existing CONFIG_RTC_HCTOSYS, which uses NTP to
keep the hardware clock updated.
- posix-timers: Fix clock_adjtime to always return timex data on
success. This is changing the ABI, but no breakage was expected
and found - caution is warranted nevertheless.
- platform persistent clock improvements/cleanups.
- clockevents: refactor timer broadcast handling to be more generic
and less duplicated with matching architecture code (mostly ARM
motivated.)
- various fixes and cleanups"
* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
timers/x86/hpet: Use HPET_COUNTER to specify the hpet counter in vread_hpet()
posix-cpu-timers: Fix nanosleep task_struct leak
clockevents: Fix generic broadcast for FEAT_C3STOP
time, Fix setting of hardware clock in NTP code
hrtimer: Prevent hrtimer_enqueue_reprogram race
clockevents: Add generic timer broadcast function
clockevents: Add generic timer broadcast receiver
timekeeping: Switch HAS_PERSISTENT_CLOCK to ALWAYS_USE_PERSISTENT_CLOCK
x86/time/rtc: Don't print extended CMOS year when reading RTC
x86: Select HAS_PERSISTENT_CLOCK on x86
timekeeping: Add CONFIG_HAS_PERSISTENT_CLOCK option
rtc: Skip the suspend/resume handling if persistent clock exist
timekeeping: Add persistent_clock_exist flag
posix-timers: Fix clock_adjtime to always return timex data on success
Round the calculated scale factor in set_cyc2ns_scale()
NTP: Add a CONFIG_RTC_SYSTOHC configuration
MAINTAINERS: Update John Stultz's email
time: create __getnstimeofday for WARNless calls
Pull preparatory smp/hotplug patches from Ingo Molnar:
"Some early preparatory changes for the WIP hotplug rework by Thomas
Gleixner."
* 'smp-hotplug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
stop_machine: Use smpboot threads
stop_machine: Store task reference in a separate per cpu variable
smpboot: Allow selfparking per cpu threads
Pull scheduler changes from Ingo Molnar:
"Main changes:
- scheduler side full-dynticks (user-space execution is undisturbed
and receives no timer IRQs) preparation changes that convert the
cputime accounting code to be full-dynticks ready, from Frederic
Weisbecker.
- Initial sched.h split-up changes, by Clark Williams
- select_idle_sibling() performance improvement by Mike Galbraith:
" 1 tbench pair (worst case) in a 10 core + SMT package:
pre 15.22 MB/sec 1 procs
post 252.01 MB/sec 1 procs "
- sched_rr_get_interval() ABI fix/change. We think this detail is not
used by apps (so it's not an ABI in practice), but lets keep it
under observation.
- misc RT scheduling cleanups, optimizations"
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (24 commits)
sched/rt: Add <linux/sched/rt.h> header to <linux/init_task.h>
cputime: Remove irqsave from seqlock readers
sched, powerpc: Fix sched.h split-up build failure
cputime: Restore CPU_ACCOUNTING config defaults for PPC64
sched/rt: Move rt specific bits into new header file
sched/rt: Add a tuning knob to allow changing SCHED_RR timeslice
sched: Move sched.h sysctl bits into separate header
sched: Fix signedness bug in yield_to()
sched: Fix select_idle_sibling() bouncing cow syndrome
sched/rt: Further simplify pick_rt_task()
sched/rt: Do not account zero delta_exec in update_curr_rt()
cputime: Safely read cputime of full dynticks CPUs
kvm: Prepare to add generic guest entry/exit callbacks
cputime: Use accessors to read task cputime stats
cputime: Allow dynamic switch between tick/virtual based cputime accounting
cputime: Generic on-demand virtual cputime accounting
cputime: Move default nsecs_to_cputime() to jiffies based cputime file
cputime: Librarize per nsecs resolution cputime definitions
cputime: Avoid multiplication overflow on utime scaling
context_tracking: Export context state for generic vtime
...
Fix up conflict in kernel/context_tracking.c due to comment additions.
Pull perf changes from Ingo Molnar:
"There are lots of improvements, the biggest changes are:
Main kernel side changes:
- Improve uprobes performance by adding 'pre-filtering' support, by
Oleg Nesterov.
- Make some POWER7 events available in sysfs, equivalent to what was
done on x86, from Sukadev Bhattiprolu.
- tracing updates by Steve Rostedt - mostly misc fixes and smaller
improvements.
- Use perf/event tracing to report PCI Express advanced errors, by
Tony Luck.
- Enable northbridge performance counters on AMD family 15h, by Jacob
Shin.
- This tracing commit:
tracing: Remove the extra 4 bytes of padding in events
changes the ABI. All involved parties (PowerTop in particular)
seem to agree that it's safe to do now with the introduction of
libtraceevent, but the devil is in the details ...
Main tooling side changes:
- Add 'event group view', from Namyung Kim:
To use it, 'perf record' should group events when recording. And
then perf report parses the saved group relation from file header
and prints them together if --group option is provided. You can
use the 'perf evlist' command to see event group information:
$ perf record -e '{ref-cycles,cycles}' noploop 1
[ perf record: Woken up 2 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.385 MB perf.data (~16807 samples) ]
$ perf evlist --group
{ref-cycles,cycles}
With this example, default perf report will show you each event
separately.
You can use --group option to enable event group view:
$ perf report --group
...
# group: {ref-cycles,cycles}
# ========
# Samples: 7K of event 'anon group { ref-cycles, cycles }'
# Event count (approx.): 6876107743
#
# Overhead Command Shared Object Symbol
# ................ ....... ................. ..........................
99.84% 99.76% noploop noploop [.] main
0.07% 0.00% noploop ld-2.15.so [.] strcmp
0.03% 0.00% noploop [kernel.kallsyms] [k] timerqueue_del
0.03% 0.03% noploop [kernel.kallsyms] [k] sched_clock_cpu
0.02% 0.00% noploop [kernel.kallsyms] [k] account_user_time
0.01% 0.00% noploop [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __alloc_pages_nodemask
0.00% 0.00% noploop [kernel.kallsyms] [k] native_write_msr_safe
0.00% 0.11% noploop [kernel.kallsyms] [k] _raw_spin_lock
0.00% 0.06% noploop [kernel.kallsyms] [k] find_get_page
0.00% 0.02% noploop [kernel.kallsyms] [k] rcu_check_callbacks
0.00% 0.02% noploop [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __current_kernel_time
As you can see the Overhead column now contains both of ref-cycles
and cycles and header line shows group information also - 'anon
group { ref-cycles, cycles }'. The output is sorted by period of
group leader first.
- Initial GTK+ annotate browser, from Namhyung Kim.
- Add option for runtime switching perf data file in perf report,
just press 's' and a menu with the valid files found in the current
directory will be presented, from Feng Tang.
- Add support to display whole group data for raw columns, from Jiri
Olsa.
- Add per processor socket count aggregation in perf stat, from
Stephane Eranian.
- Add interval printing in 'perf stat', from Stephane Eranian.
- 'perf test' improvements
- Add support for wildcards in tracepoint system name, from Jiri
Olsa.
- Add anonymous huge page recognition, from Joshua Zhu.
- perf build-id cache now can show DSOs present in a perf.data file
that are not in the cache, to integrate with build-id servers being
put in place by organizations such as Fedora.
- perf top now shares more of the evsel config/creation routines with
'record', paving the way for further integration like 'top'
snapshots, etc.
- perf top now supports DWARF callchains.
- Fix mmap limitations on 32-bit, fix from David Miller.
- 'perf bench numa mem' NUMA performance measurement suite
- ... and lots of fixes, performance improvements, cleanups and other
improvements I failed to list - see the shortlog and git log for
details."
* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (270 commits)
perf/x86/amd: Enable northbridge performance counters on AMD family 15h
perf/hwbp: Fix cleanup in case of kzalloc failure
perf tools: Fix build with bison 2.3 and older.
perf tools: Limit unwind support to x86 archs
perf annotate: Make it to be able to skip unannotatable symbols
perf gtk/annotate: Fail early if it can't annotate
perf gtk/annotate: Show source lines with gray color
perf gtk/annotate: Support multiple event annotation
perf ui/gtk: Implement basic GTK2 annotation browser
perf annotate: Fix warning message on a missing vmlinux
perf buildid-cache: Add --update option
uprobes/perf: Avoid uprobe_apply() whenever possible
uprobes/perf: Teach trace_uprobe/perf code to use UPROBE_HANDLER_REMOVE
uprobes/perf: Teach trace_uprobe/perf code to pre-filter
uprobes/perf: Teach trace_uprobe/perf code to track the active perf_event's
uprobes: Introduce uprobe_apply()
perf: Introduce hw_perf_event->tp_target and ->tp_list
uprobes/perf: Always increment trace_uprobe->nhit
uprobes/tracing: Kill uprobe_trace_consumer, embed uprobe_consumer into trace_uprobe
uprobes/tracing: Introduce is_trace_uprobe_enabled()
...
Pull irq core changes from Ingo Molnar:
"The biggest changes are the IRQ-work and printk changes from Frederic
Weisbecker, which prepare the code for 'full dynticks' (the ability to
stop or slow down the periodic tick arbitrarily, not just in idle time
as today):
- Don't stop tick with irq works pending. This fix is generally
useful and concerns archs that can't raise self IPIs.
- Flush irq works before CPU offlining.
- Introduce "lazy" irq works that can wait for the next tick to be
executed, unless it's stopped.
- Implement klogd wake up using irq work. This removes the ad-hoc
printk_tick()/printk_needs_cpu() hooks and make it working even in
dynticks mode.
- Cleanups and fixes."
* 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
genirq: Export enable/disable_percpu_irq()
arch Kconfig: Remove references to IRQ_PER_CPU
irq_work: Remove return value from the irq_work_queue() function
genirq: Avoid deadlock in spurious handling
printk: Wake up klogd using irq_work
irq_work: Make self-IPIs optable
irq_work: Warn if there's still work on cpu_down
irq_work: Flush work on CPU_DYING
irq_work: Don't stop the tick with pending works
nohz: Add API to check tick state
irq_work: Remove CONFIG_HAVE_IRQ_WORK
irq_work: Fix racy check on work pending flag
irq_work: Fix racy IRQ_WORK_BUSY flag setting
Pull RCU changes from Ingo Molnar:
"SRCU changes:
- These include debugging aids, updates that move towards the goal of
permitting srcu_read_lock() and srcu_read_unlock() to be used from
idle and offline CPUs, and a few small fixes.
Changes to rcutorture and to RCU documentation:
- Posted to LKML at https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/1/26/188
Enhancements to uniprocessor handling in tiny RCU:
- Posted to LKML at https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/1/27/2
Tag RCU callbacks with grace-period number to simplify callback
advancement:
- Posted to LKML at https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/1/26/203
Miscellaneous fixes:
- Posted to LKML at https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/1/26/204"
* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (27 commits)
srcu: use ACCESS_ONCE() to access sp->completed in srcu_read_lock()
srcu: Update synchronize_srcu_expedited()'s comments
srcu: Update synchronize_srcu()'s comments
srcu: Remove checks preventing idle CPUs from calling srcu_read_lock()
srcu: Remove checks preventing offline CPUs from calling srcu_read_lock()
srcu: Simple cleanup for cleanup_srcu_struct()
srcu: Add might_sleep() annotation to synchronize_srcu()
srcu: Simplify __srcu_read_unlock() via this_cpu_dec()
rcu: Allow rcutorture to be built at low optimization levels
rcu: Make rcutorture's shuffler task shuffle recently added tasks
rcu: Allow TREE_PREEMPT_RCU on UP systems
rcu: Provide RCU CPU stall warnings for tiny RCU
context_tracking: Add comments on interface and internals
rcu: Remove obsolete Kconfig option from comment
rcu: Remove unused code originally used for context tracking
rcu: Consolidate debugging Kconfig options
rcu: Correct 'optimized' to 'optimize' in header comment
rcu: Trace callback acceleration
rcu: Tag callback lists with corresponding grace-period number
rcutorture: Don't compare ptr with 0
...
commit d8e794dfd5 ("workqueue: set
delayed_work->timer function on initialization") exports function
delayed_work_timer_fn() only for GPL modules. This makes delayed-works
unusable for non-GPL modules, because initialization macro now requires
GPL symbol. For example schedule_delayed_work() available for non-GPL.
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.7
The reader side code has no requirement to disable interrupts while
sampling data. The sequence counter is enough to ensure consistency.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Commit: c1bf08ac "ftrace: Be first to run code modification on modules"
changed ftrace module notifier's priority to INT_MAX in order to
process the ftrace nops before anything else could touch them
(namely kprobes). This was the correct thing to do.
Unfortunately, the ftrace module notifier also contains the ftrace
clean up code. As opposed to the set up code, this code should be
run *after* all the module notifiers have run in case a module is doing
correct clean-up and unregisters its ftrace hooks. Basically, ftrace
needs to do clean up on module removal, as it needs to know about code
being removed so that it doesn't try to modify that code. But after it
removes the module from its records, if a ftrace user tries to remove
a probe, that removal will fail due as the record of that code segment
no longer exists.
Nothing really bad happens if the probe removal is called after ftrace
did the clean up, but the ftrace removal function will return an error.
Correct code (such as kprobes) will produce a WARN_ON() if it fails
to remove the probe. As people get annoyed by frivolous warnings, it's
best to do the ftrace clean up after everything else.
By splitting the ftrace_module_notifier into two notifiers, one that
does the module load setup that is run at high priority, and the other
that is called for module clean up that is run at low priority, the
problem is solved.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The trinity fuzzer triggered a task_struct reference leak via
clock_nanosleep with CPU_TIMERs. do_cpu_nanosleep() calls
posic_cpu_timer_create(), but misses a corresponding
posix_cpu_timer_del() which leads to the task_struct reference leak.
Reported-and-tested-by: Tommi Rantala <tt.rantala@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130215100810.GF4392@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Obviously this is a typo and could result in memory leaks if kzalloc
fails on a given cpu.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baluta <dbaluta@ixiacom.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1360186160-7566-1-git-send-email-dbaluta@ixiacom.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Use the smpboot thread infrastructure. Mark the stopper thread
selfparking and park it after it has finished the take_cpu_down()
work.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Veen <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <rw@linutronix.de>
Cc: Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130131120741.686315164@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To allow the stopper thread being managed by the smpboot thread
infrastructure separate out the task storage from the stopper data
structure.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Veen <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <rw@linutronix.de>
Cc: Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130131120741.626690384@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
The stop machine threads are still killed when a cpu goes offline. The
reason is that the thread is used to bring the cpu down, so it can't
be parked along with the other per cpu threads.
Allow a per cpu thread to be excluded from automatic parking, so it
can park itself once it's done
Add a create callback function as well.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Veen <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <rw@linutronix.de>
Cc: Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130131120741.553993267@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
workqueue has moved away from global_cwqs to worker_pools and with the
scheduled custom worker pools, wforkqueues will be associated with
pools which don't have anything to do with CPUs. The workqueue code
went through significant amount of changes recently and mass renaming
isn't likely to hurt much additionally. Let's replace 'cpu' with
'pool' so that it reflects the current design.
* s/struct cpu_workqueue_struct/struct pool_workqueue/
* s/cpu_wq/pool_wq/
* s/cwq/pwq/
This patch is purely cosmetic.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
is_chained_work() was added before current_wq_worker() and implemented
its own ham-fisted way of finding out whether %current is a workqueue
worker - it iterates through all possible workers.
Drop the custom implementation and reimplement using
current_wq_worker().
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
c9e7cf273f ("workqueue: move busy_hash from global_cwq to
worker_pool") incorrectly converted is_chained_work() to use
get_gcwq() inside for_each_gcwq_cpu() while removing get_gcwq().
As cwq might not exist for all possible workqueue CPUs, @cwq can be
NULL and the following cwq deferences can lead to oops.
Fix it by using for_each_cwq_cpu() instead, which is the better one to
use anyway as we only need to check pools that the wq is associated
with.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
The tracing of ia32 compat system calls has been a bit of a pain as they
use different system call numbers than the 64bit equivalents.
I wrote a simple 'lls' program that lists files. I compiled it as a i686
ELF binary and ran it under a x86_64 box. This is the result:
echo 0 > /debug/tracing/tracing_on
echo 1 > /debug/tracing/events/syscalls/enable
echo 1 > /debug/tracing/tracing_on ; ./lls ; echo 0 > /debug/tracing/tracing_on
grep lls /debug/tracing/trace
[.. skipping calls before TS_COMPAT is set ...]
lls-1127 [005] d... 936.409188: sys_recvfrom(fd: 0, ubuf: 4d560fc4, size: 0, flags: 8048034, addr: 8, addr_len: f7700420)
lls-1127 [005] d... 936.409190: sys_recvfrom -> 0x8a77000
lls-1127 [005] d... 936.409211: sys_lgetxattr(pathname: 0, name: 1000, value: 3, size: 22)
lls-1127 [005] d... 936.409215: sys_lgetxattr -> 0xf76ff000
lls-1127 [005] d... 936.409223: sys_dup2(oldfd: 4d55ae9b, newfd: 4)
lls-1127 [005] d... 936.409228: sys_dup2 -> 0xfffffffffffffffe
lls-1127 [005] d... 936.409236: sys_newfstat(fd: 4d55b085, statbuf: 80000)
lls-1127 [005] d... 936.409242: sys_newfstat -> 0x3
lls-1127 [005] d... 936.409243: sys_removexattr(pathname: 3, name: ffcd0060)
lls-1127 [005] d... 936.409244: sys_removexattr -> 0x0
lls-1127 [005] d... 936.409245: sys_lgetxattr(pathname: 0, name: 19614, value: 1, size: 2)
lls-1127 [005] d... 936.409248: sys_lgetxattr -> 0xf76e5000
lls-1127 [005] d... 936.409248: sys_newlstat(filename: 3, statbuf: 19614)
lls-1127 [005] d... 936.409249: sys_newlstat -> 0x0
lls-1127 [005] d... 936.409262: sys_newfstat(fd: f76fb588, statbuf: 80000)
lls-1127 [005] d... 936.409279: sys_newfstat -> 0x3
lls-1127 [005] d... 936.409279: sys_close(fd: 3)
lls-1127 [005] d... 936.421550: sys_close -> 0x200
lls-1127 [005] d... 936.421558: sys_removexattr(pathname: 3, name: ffcd00d0)
lls-1127 [005] d... 936.421560: sys_removexattr -> 0x0
lls-1127 [005] d... 936.421569: sys_lgetxattr(pathname: 4d564000, name: 1b1abc, value: 5, size: 802)
lls-1127 [005] d... 936.421574: sys_lgetxattr -> 0x4d564000
lls-1127 [005] d... 936.421575: sys_capget(header: 4d70f000, dataptr: 1000)
lls-1127 [005] d... 936.421580: sys_capget -> 0x0
lls-1127 [005] d... 936.421580: sys_lgetxattr(pathname: 4d710000, name: 3000, value: 3, size: 812)
lls-1127 [005] d... 936.421589: sys_lgetxattr -> 0x4d710000
lls-1127 [005] d... 936.426130: sys_lgetxattr(pathname: 4d713000, name: 2abc, value: 3, size: 32)
lls-1127 [005] d... 936.426141: sys_lgetxattr -> 0x4d713000
lls-1127 [005] d... 936.426145: sys_newlstat(filename: 3, statbuf: f76ff3f0)
lls-1127 [005] d... 936.426146: sys_newlstat -> 0x0
lls-1127 [005] d... 936.431748: sys_lgetxattr(pathname: 0, name: 1000, value: 3, size: 22)
Obviously I'm not calling newfstat with a fd of 4d55b085. The calls are
obviously incorrect, and confusing.
Other efforts have been made to fix this:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/3/26/367
But the real solution is to rewrite the syscall internals and come up
with a fixed solution. One that doesn't require all the kluge that the
current solution has.
Thus for now, instead of outputting incorrect data, simply ignore them.
With this patch the changes now have:
#> grep lls /debug/tracing/trace
#>
Compat system calls simply are not traced. If users need compat
syscalls, then they should just use the raw syscall tracepoints.
For an architecture to make their compat syscalls ignored, it must
define ARCH_TRACE_IGNORE_COMPAT_SYSCALLS (done in asm/ftrace.h) and also
define an arch_trace_is_compat_syscall() function that will return true
if the current task should ignore tracing the syscall.
I want to stress that this change does not affect actual syscalls in any
way, shape or form. It is only used within the tracing system and
doesn't interfere with the syscall logic at all. The changes are
consolidated nicely into trace_syscalls.c and asm/ftrace.h.
I had to make one small modification to asm/thread_info.h and that was
to remove the include of asm/ftrace.h. As asm/ftrace.h required the
current_thread_info() it was causing include hell. That include was
added back in 2008 when the function graph tracer was added:
commit caf4b323 "tracing, x86: add low level support for ftrace return tracing"
It does not need to be included there.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1360703939.21867.99.camel@gandalf.local.home
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
We're forgetting to reenable local interrupts on an error path.
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Reported-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Commit 12ad100046: "clockevents: Add generic timer broadcast function"
made tick_device_uses_broadcast set up the generic broadcast function
for dummy devices (where !tick_device_is_functional(dev)), but neglected
to set up the broadcast function for devices that stop in low power
states (with the CLOCK_EVT_FEAT_C3STOP flag).
When these devices enter low power states they will not have the generic
broadcast function assigned, and will bring down the system when an
attempt is made to broadcast to them.
This patch ensures that the broadcast function is also assigned for
devices which require broadcast in low power states.
Reported-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Tested-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: nico@linaro.org
Cc: Marc.Zyngier@arm.com
Cc: Will.Deacon@arm.com
Cc: santosh.shilimkar@ti.com
Cc: john.stultz@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
wait_for_kprobe_optimizer() seems largely broken. It uses
optimizer_comp which is never re-initialized, so
wait_for_kprobe_optimizer() will never wait for anything once
kprobe_optimizer() finishes all pending jobs for the first time.
Also, aside from completion, delayed_work_pending() is %false once
kprobe_optimizer() starts execution and wait_for_kprobe_optimizer()
won't wait for it.
Reimplement it so that it flushes optimizing_work until
[un]optimizing_lists are empty. Note that this also makes
optimizing_work execute immediately if someone's waiting for it, which
is the nicer behavior.
Only compile tested.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
At init time, if the system time is "warped" forward in warp_clock()
it will differ from the hardware clock by sys_tz.tz_minuteswest. This time
difference is not taken into account when ntp updates the hardware clock,
and this causes the system time to jump forward by this offset every reboot.
The kernel must take this offset into account when writing the system time
to the hardware clock in the ntp code. This patch adds
persistent_clock_is_local which indicates that an offset has been applied
in warp_clock() and accounts for the "warp" before writing the hardware
clock.
x86 does not have this problem as rtc writes are software limited to a
+/-15 minute window relative to the current rtc time. Other arches, such
as powerpc, however do a full synchronization of the system time to the
rtc and will see this problem.
[v2]: generated against tip/timers/core
Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
