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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>

Ftrace has a snapshot feature available from kernel space and
latency tracers (e.g. irqsoff) are using it. This patch enables
user applictions to take a snapshot via debugfs.

Add "snapshot" debugfs file in "tracing" directory.

  snapshot:
    This is used to take a snapshot and to read the output of the
    snapshot.

     # echo 1 > snapshot

    This will allocate the spare buffer for snapshot (if it is
    not allocated), and take a snapshot.

     # cat snapshot

    This will show contents of the snapshot.

     # echo 0 > snapshot

    This will free the snapshot if it is allocated.

    Any other positive values will clear the snapshot contents if
    the snapshot is allocated, or return EINVAL if it is not allocated.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20121226025300.3252.86850.stgit@liselsia



Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: David Sharp <dhsharp@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Hiraku Toyooka <hiraku.toyooka.gu@hitachi.com>
[
   Fixed irqsoff selftest and also a conflict with a change
   that fixes the update_max_tr.
]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

Using context bit recursion checking, we can help increase the
performance of the ring buffer.

Before this patch:

 # echo function > /debug/tracing/current_tracer
 # for i in `seq 10`; do ./hackbench 50; done
Time: 10.285
Time: 10.407
Time: 10.243
Time: 10.372
Time: 10.380
Time: 10.198
Time: 10.272
Time: 10.354
Time: 10.248
Time: 10.253

(average: 10.3012)

Now we have:

 # echo function > /debug/tracing/current_tracer
 # for i in `seq 10`; do ./hackbench 50; done
Time: 9.712
Time: 9.824
Time: 9.861
Time: 9.827
Time: 9.962
Time: 9.905
Time: 9.886
Time: 10.088
Time: 9.861
Time: 9.834

(average: 9.876)

 a 4% savings!
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

When function tracing occurs, the following steps are made:
  If arch does not support a ftrace feature:
   call internal function (uses INTERNAL bits) which calls...
  If callback is registered to the "global" list, the list
   function is called and recursion checks the GLOBAL bits.
   then this function calls...
  The function callback, which can use the FTRACE bits to
   check for recursion.

Now if the arch does not suppport a feature, and it calls
the global list function which calls the ftrace callback
all three of these steps will do a recursion protection.
There's no reason to do one if the previous caller already
did. The recursion that we are protecting against will
go through the same steps again.

To prevent the multiple recursion checks, if a recursion
bit is set that is higher than the MAX bit of the current
check, then we know that the check was made by the previous
caller, and we can skip the current check.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

Convert the bits into enums which makes the code a little easier
to maintain.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

Currently for recursion checking in the function tracer, ftrace
tests a task_struct bit to determine if the function tracer had
recursed or not. If it has, then it will will return without going
further.

But this leads to races. If an interrupt came in after the bit
was set, the functions being traced would see that bit set and
think that the function tracer recursed on itself, and would return.

Instead add a bit for each context (normal, softirq, irq and nmi).

A check of which context the task is in is made before testing the
associated bit. Now if an interrupt preempts the function tracer
after the previous context has been set, the interrupt functions
can still be traced.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

With the addition of the "tsc" clock, formatting timestamps to look like
fractional seconds is misleading. Mark clocks as either in nanoseconds or
not, and format non-nanosecond timestamps as decimal integers.

Tested:
$ cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
$ cat trace_clock
[local] global tsc
$ echo sched_switch > set_event
$ echo 1 > tracing_on ; sleep 0.0005 ; echo 0 > tracing_on
$ cat trace
          <idle>-0     [000]  6330.555552: sched_switch: prev_comm=swapper prev_pid=0 prev_prio=120 prev_state=R ==> next_comm=bash next_pid=29964 next_prio=120
           sleep-29964 [000]  6330.555628: sched_switch: prev_comm=bash prev_pid=29964 prev_prio=120 prev_state=S ==> next_comm=swapper next_pid=0 next_prio=120
  ...
$ echo 1 > options/latency-format
$ cat trace
  <idle>-0       0 4104553247us+: sched_switch: prev_comm=swapper prev_pid=0 prev_prio=120 prev_state=R ==> next_comm=bash next_pid=29964 next_prio=120
   sleep-29964   0 4104553322us+: sched_switch: prev_comm=bash prev_pid=29964 prev_prio=120 prev_state=S ==> next_comm=swapper next_pid=0 next_prio=120
  ...
$ echo tsc > trace_clock
$ cat trace
$ echo 1 > tracing_on ; sleep 0.0005 ; echo 0 > tracing_on
$ echo 0 > options/latency-format
$ cat trace
          <idle>-0     [000] 16490053398357: sched_switch: prev_comm=swapper prev_pid=0 prev_prio=120 prev_state=R ==> next_comm=bash next_pid=31128 next_prio=120
           sleep-31128 [000] 16490053588518: sched_switch: prev_comm=bash prev_pid=31128 prev_prio=120 prev_state=S ==> next_comm=swapper next_pid=0 next_prio=120
  ...
echo 1 > options/latency-format
$ cat trace
  <idle>-0       0 91557653238+: sched_switch: prev_comm=swapper prev_pid=0 prev_prio=120 prev_state=R ==> next_comm=bash next_pid=31128 next_prio=120
   sleep-31128   0 91557843399+: sched_switch: prev_comm=bash prev_pid=31128 prev_prio=120 prev_state=S ==> next_comm=swapper next_pid=0 next_prio=120
  ...

v2:
Move arch-specific bits out of generic code.
v4:
Fix x86_32 build due to 64-bit division.

Google-Bug-Id: 6980623
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1352837903-32191-2-git-send-email-dhsharp@google.com



Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sharp <dhsharp@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

Have the ring buffer commit function use the irq_work infrastructure to
wake up any waiters waiting on the ring buffer for new data. The irq_work
was created for such a purpose, where doing the actual wake up at the
time of adding data is too dangerous, as an event or function trace may
be in the midst of the work queue locks and cause deadlocks. The irq_work
will either delay the action to the next timer interrupt, or trigger an IPI
to itself forcing an interrupt to do the work (in a safe location).

With irq_work, all ring buffer commits can safely do wakeups, removing
the need for the ring buffer commit "nowake" variants, which were used
by events and function tracing. All commits can now safely use the
normal commit, and the "nowake" variants can be removed.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

The function register_tracer() is only used by kernel core code,
that never needs to remove the tracer. As trace_events have become
the main way to add new tracing to the kernel, the need to
unregister a tracer has diminished. Remove the unused function
unregister_tracer(). If a need arises where we need it, then we
can always add it back.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

Whenever an event is registered, the comm of tasks are saved at
every task switch instead of saving them at every event. But if
an event isn't executed much, the comm cache will be filled up
by tasks that did not record the event and you lose out on the comms
that did.

Here's an example, if you enable the following events:

echo 1 > /debug/tracing/events/kvm/kvm_cr/enable
echo 1 > /debug/tracing/events/net/net_dev_xmit/enable

Note, there's no kvm running on this machine so the first event will
never be triggered, but because it is enabled, the storing of comms
will continue. If we now disable the network event:

echo 0 > /debug/tracing/events/net/net_dev_xmit/enable

and look at the trace:

cat /debug/tracing/trace
            sshd-2672  [001] ..s2   375.731616: net_dev_xmit: dev=eth0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6de0 len=242 rc=0
            sshd-2672  [001] ..s1   375.731617: net_dev_xmit: dev=br0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6de0 len=242 rc=0
            sshd-2672  [001] ..s2   375.859356: net_dev_xmit: dev=eth0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6de0 len=242 rc=0
            sshd-2672  [001] ..s1   375.859357: net_dev_xmit: dev=br0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6de0 len=242 rc=0
            sshd-2672  [001] ..s2   375.947351: net_dev_xmit: dev=eth0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6de0 len=242 rc=0
            sshd-2672  [001] ..s1   375.947352: net_dev_xmit: dev=br0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6de0 len=242 rc=0
            sshd-2672  [001] ..s2   376.035383: net_dev_xmit: dev=eth0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6de0 len=242 rc=0
            sshd-2672  [001] ..s1   376.035383: net_dev_xmit: dev=br0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6de0 len=242 rc=0
            sshd-2672  [001] ..s2   377.563806: net_dev_xmit: dev=eth0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6de0 len=226 rc=0
            sshd-2672  [001] ..s1   377.563807: net_dev_xmit: dev=br0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6de0 len=226 rc=0
            sshd-2672  [001] ..s2   377.563834: net_dev_xmit: dev=eth0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6be0 len=114 rc=0
            sshd-2672  [001] ..s1   377.563842: net_dev_xmit: dev=br0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6be0 len=114 rc=0

We see that process 2672 which triggered the events has the comm "sshd".
But if we run hackbench for a bit and look again:

cat /debug/tracing/trace
           <...>-2672  [001] ..s2   375.731616: net_dev_xmit: dev=eth0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6de0 len=242 rc=0
           <...>-2672  [001] ..s1   375.731617: net_dev_xmit: dev=br0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6de0 len=242 rc=0
           <...>-2672  [001] ..s2   375.859356: net_dev_xmit: dev=eth0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6de0 len=242 rc=0
           <...>-2672  [001] ..s1   375.859357: net_dev_xmit: dev=br0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6de0 len=242 rc=0
           <...>-2672  [001] ..s2   375.947351: net_dev_xmit: dev=eth0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6de0 len=242 rc=0
           <...>-2672  [001] ..s1   375.947352: net_dev_xmit: dev=br0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6de0 len=242 rc=0
           <...>-2672  [001] ..s2   376.035383: net_dev_xmit: dev=eth0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6de0 len=242 rc=0
           <...>-2672  [001] ..s1   376.035383: net_dev_xmit: dev=br0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6de0 len=242 rc=0
           <...>-2672  [001] ..s2   377.563806: net_dev_xmit: dev=eth0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6de0 len=226 rc=0
           <...>-2672  [001] ..s1   377.563807: net_dev_xmit: dev=br0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6de0 len=226 rc=0
           <...>-2672  [001] ..s2   377.563834: net_dev_xmit: dev=eth0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6be0 len=114 rc=0
           <...>-2672  [001] ..s1   377.563842: net_dev_xmit: dev=br0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6be0 len=114 rc=0

The stored "sshd" comm has been flushed out and we get a useless "<...>".

But by only storing comms after a trace event occurred, we can run
hackbench all day and still get the same output.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

If comm recording is not enabled when trace_printk() is used then
you just get this type of output:

[ adding trace_printk("hello! %d", irq); in do_IRQ ]

           <...>-2843  [001] d.h.    80.812300: do_IRQ: hello! 14
           <...>-2734  [002] d.h2    80.824664: do_IRQ: hello! 14
           <...>-2713  [003] d.h.    80.829971: do_IRQ: hello! 14
           <...>-2814  [000] d.h.    80.833026: do_IRQ: hello! 14

By enabling the comm recorder when trace_printk is enabled:

       hackbench-6715  [001] d.h.   193.233776: do_IRQ: hello! 21
            sshd-2659  [001] d.h.   193.665862: do_IRQ: hello! 21
          <idle>-0     [001] d.h1   193.665996: do_IRQ: hello! 21
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

print_max and use_max_tr in struct tracer are "int" variables and
used like flags. This is wasteful, so change the type to "bool".

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20121002082710.9807.86393.stgit@falsita

Signed-off-by: Hiraku Toyooka <hiraku.toyooka.gu@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

In our application, we have trace markers spread through user-space.
We have markers in GL, X, etc. These are super handy for Chrome's
about:tracing feature (Chrome + system + kernel trace view), but
can be very distracting when you're trying to debug a kernel issue.

I normally, use "grep -v tracing_mark_write" but it would be nice
if I could just temporarily disable markers all together.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1347066739-26285-1-git-send-email-msb@chromium.org



CC: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

- When tracing capture the kuid.
- When displaying the data to user space convert the kuid into the
  user namespace of the process that opened the report file.

Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>

Add selftests to test the save-regs functionality of ftrace.

If the arch supports saving regs, then it will make sure that regs is
at least not NULL in the callback.

If the arch does not support saving regs, it makes sure that the
registering of the ftrace_ops that requests saving regs fails.
It then tests the registering of the ftrace_ops succeeds if the
'IF_SUPPORTED' flag is set. Then it makes sure that the regs passed to
the function is NULL.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

Replace the NR_CPUS array of buffer_iter from the trace_iterator
with an allocated array. This will just create an array of
possible CPUS instead of the max number specified.

The use of NR_CPUS in that array caused allocation failures for
machines that were tight on memory. This did not cause any failures
to the system itself (no crashes), but caused unnecessary failures
for reading the trace files.

Added a helper function called 'trace_buffer_iter()' that returns
the buffer_iter item or NULL if it is not defined or the array was
not allocated. Some routines do not require the array
(tracing_open_pipe() for one).
Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

Implements trace_event support for uprobes. In its current form
it can be used to put probes at a specified offset in a file and
dump the required registers when the code flow reaches the
probed address.

The following example shows how to dump the instruction pointer
and %ax a register at the probed text address.  Here we are
trying to probe zfree in /bin/zsh:

 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
 # cat /proc/`pgrep  zsh`/maps | grep /bin/zsh | grep r-xp
 00400000-0048a000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 130904 /bin/zsh
 # objdump -T /bin/zsh | grep -w zfree
 0000000000446420 g    DF .text  0000000000000012  Base
 zfree # echo 'p /bin/zsh:0x46420 %ip %ax' > uprobe_events
 # cat uprobe_events
 p:uprobes/p_zsh_0x46420 /bin/zsh:0x0000000000046420
 # echo 1 > events/uprobes/enable
 # sleep 20
 # echo 0 > events/uprobes/enable
 # cat trace
 # tracer: nop
 #
 #           TASK-PID    CPU#    TIMESTAMP  FUNCTION
 #              | |       |          |         |
              zsh-24842 [006] 258544.995456: p_zsh_0x46420: (0x446420) arg1=446421 arg2=79
              zsh-24842 [007] 258545.000270: p_zsh_0x46420: (0x446420) arg1=446421 arg2=79
              zsh-24842 [002] 258545.043929: p_zsh_0x46420: (0x446420) arg1=446421 arg2=79
              zsh-24842 [004] 258547.046129: p_zsh_0x46420: (0x446420) arg1=446421 arg2=79
Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Cc: Anton Arapov <anton@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120411103043.GB29437@linux.vnet.ibm.com

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

Add a debugfs entry under per_cpu/ folder for each cpu called
buffer_size_kb to control the ring buffer size for each CPU
independently.

If the global file buffer_size_kb is used to set size, the individual
ring buffers will be adjusted to the given size. The buffer_size_kb will
report the common size to maintain backward compatibility.

If the buffer_size_kb file under the per_cpu/ directory is used to
change buffer size for a specific CPU, only the size of the respective
ring buffer is updated. When tracing/buffer_size_kb is read, it reports
'X' to indicate that sizes of per_cpu ring buffers are not equivalent.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1328212844-11889-1-git-send-email-vnagarnaik@google.com



Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Rubin <mrubin@google.com>
Cc: David Sharp <dhsharp@google.com>
Cc: Justin Teravest <teravest@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Vaibhav Nagarnaik <vnagarnaik@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

Currently, trace_printk() uses a single buffer to write into
to calculate the size and format needed to save the trace. To
do this safely in an SMP environment, a spin_lock() is taken
to only allow one writer at a time to the buffer. But this could
also affect what is being traced, and add synchronization that
would not be there otherwise.

Ideally, using percpu buffers would be useful, but since trace_printk()
is only used in development, having per cpu buffers for something
never used is a waste of space. Thus, the use of the trace_bprintk()
format section is changed to be used for static fmts as well as dynamic ones.
Then at boot up, we can check if the section that holds the trace_printk
formats is non-empty, and if it does contain something, then we
know a trace_printk() has been added to the kernel. At this time
the trace_printk per cpu buffers are allocated. A check is also
done at module load time in case a module is added that contains a
trace_printk().

Once the buffers are allocated, they are never freed. If you use
a trace_printk() then you should know what you are doing.

A buffer is made for each type of context:

  normal
  softirq
  irq
  nmi

The context is checked and the appropriate buffer is used.
This allows for totally lockless usage of trace_printk(),
and they no longer even disable interrupts.
Requested-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

Today's -next fails to link for me:

kernel/built-in.o:(.data+0x178e50): undefined reference to `perf_ftrace_event_register'

It looks like multiple fixes have been merged for the issue fixed by
commit fa73dc94 (tracing: Fix build breakage without CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS)
though I can't identify the other changes that have gone in at the
minute, it's possible that the changes which caused the breakage fixed
by the previous commit got dropped but the fix made it in.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1334307179-21255-1-git-send-email-broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com



Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

Today's -next fails to build for me:

  CC      kernel/trace/trace_export.o
In file included from kernel/trace/trace_export.c:197: kernel/trace/trace_entries.h:58: error: 'perf_ftrace_event_register' undeclared here (not in a function)
make[2]: *** [kernel/trace/trace_export.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [kernel/trace] Error 2
make: *** [kernel] Error 2

because as of ced390 (ftrace, perf: Add support to use function
tracepoint in perf) perf_trace_event_register() is declared in trace.h
only if CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS is enabled but I don't have that set.

Ensure that we always have a definition of perf_trace_event_register()
by making the definition unconditional.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1330426967-17067-1-git-send-email-broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com



Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

As the ring-buffer code is being used by other facilities in the
kernel, having tracing_on file disable *all* buffers is not a desired
affect. It should only disable the ftrace buffers that are being used.

Move the code into the trace.c file and use the buffer disabling
for tracing_on() and tracing_off(). This way only the ftrace buffers
will be affected by them and other kernel utilities will not be
confused to why their output suddenly stopped.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

Adding support to filter function trace event via perf
interface. It is now possible to use filter interface
in the perf tool like:

  perf record -e ftrace:function --filter="(ip == mm_*)" ls

The filter syntax is restricted to the the 'ip' field only,
and following operators are accepted '==' '!=' '||', ending
up with the filter strings like:

  ip == f1[, ]f2 ... || ip != f3[, ]f4 ...

with comma ',' or space ' ' as a function separator. If the
space ' ' is used as a separator, the right side of the
assignment needs to be enclosed in double quotes '"', e.g.:

  perf record -e ftrace:function --filter '(ip == do_execve,sys_*,ext*)' ls
  perf record -e ftrace:function --filter '(ip == "do_execve,sys_*,ext*")' ls
  perf record -e ftrace:function --filter '(ip == "do_execve sys_* ext*")' ls

The '==' operator adds trace filter with same effect as would
be added via set_ftrace_filter file.

The '!=' operator adds trace filter with same effect as would
be added via set_ftrace_notrace file.

The right side of the '!=', '==' operators is list of functions
or regexp. to be added to filter separated by space.

The '||' operator is used for connecting multiple filter definitions
together. It is possible to have more than one '==' and '!='
operators within one filter string.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1329317514-8131-8-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

Adding FILTER_TRACE_FN event field type for function tracepoint
event, so it can be properly recognized within filtering code.

Currently all fields of ftrace subsystem events share the common
field type FILTER_OTHER. Since the function trace fields need
special care within the filtering code we need to recognize it
properly, hence adding the FILTER_TRACE_FN event type.

Adding filter parameter to the FTRACE_ENTRY macro, to specify the
filter field type for the event.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1329317514-8131-7-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

Adding perf registration support for the ftrace function event,
so it is now possible to register it via perf interface.

The perf_event struct statically contains ftrace_ops as a handle
for function tracer. The function tracer is registered/unregistered
in open/close actions.

To be efficient, we enable/disable ftrace_ops each time the traced
process is scheduled in/out (via TRACE_REG_PERF_(ADD|DELL) handlers).
This way tracing is enabled only when the process is running.
Intentionally using this way instead of the event's hw state
PERF_HES_STOPPED, which would not disable the ftrace_ops.

It is now possible to use function trace within perf commands
like:

  perf record -e ftrace:function ls
  perf stat -e ftrace:function ls

Allowed only for root.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1329317514-8131-6-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com

Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

Adding FTRACE_ENTRY_REG macro so particular ftrace entries
could specify registration function and thus become accesible
via perf.

This will be used in upcomming patch for function trace.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1329317514-8131-5-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com

Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

Adding a way to temporarily enable/disable ftrace_ops. The change
follows the same way as 'global' ftrace_ops are done.

Introducing 2 global ftrace_ops - control_ops and ftrace_control_list
which take over all ftrace_ops registered with FTRACE_OPS_FL_CONTROL
flag. In addition new per cpu flag called 'disabled' is also added to
ftrace_ops to provide the control information for each cpu.

When ftrace_ops with FTRACE_OPS_FL_CONTROL is registered, it is
set as disabled for all cpus.

The ftrace_control_list contains all the registered 'control' ftrace_ops.
The control_ops provides function which iterates ftrace_control_list
and does the check for 'disabled' flag on current cpu.

Adding 3 inline functions:
  ftrace_function_local_disable/ftrace_function_local_enable
  - enable/disable the ftrace_ops on current cpu
  ftrace_function_local_disabled
  - get disabled ftrace_ops::disabled value for current cpu

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1329317514-8131-2-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com

Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

People keep asking how to get the preempt count, irq, and need resched info
and we keep telling them to enable the latency format. Some developers think
that traces without this info is completely useless, and for a lot of tasks
it is useless.

The first option was to enable the latency trace as the default format, but
the header for the latency format is pretty useless for most tracers and
it also does the timestamp in straight microseconds from the time the trace
started. This is sometimes more difficult to read as the default trace is
seconds from the start of boot up.

Latency format:

 # tracer: nop
 #
 # nop latency trace v1.1.5 on 3.2.0-rc1-test+
 # --------------------------------------------------------------------
 # latency: 0 us, #159771/64234230, CPU#1 | (M:preempt VP:0, KP:0, SP:0 HP:0 #P:4)
 #    -----------------
 #    | task: -0 (uid:0 nice:0 policy:0 rt_prio:0)
 #    -----------------
 #
 #                  _------=> CPU#
 #                 / _-----=> irqs-off
 #                | / _----=> need-resched
 #                || / _---=> hardirq/softirq
 #                ||| / _--=> preempt-depth
 #                |||| /     delay
 #  cmd     pid   ||||| time  |   caller
 #     \   /      |||||  \    |   /
 migratio-6       0...2 41778231us+: rcu_note_context_switch <-__schedule
 migratio-6       0...2 41778233us : trace_rcu_utilization <-rcu_note_context_switch
 migratio-6       0...2 41778235us+: rcu_sched_qs <-rcu_note_context_switch
 migratio-6       0d..2 41778236us+: rcu_preempt_qs <-rcu_note_context_switch
 migratio-6       0...2 41778238us : trace_rcu_utilization <-rcu_note_context_switch
 migratio-6       0...2 41778239us+: debug_lockdep_rcu_enabled <-__schedule

default format:

 # tracer: nop
 #
 #           TASK-PID    CPU#    TIMESTAMP  FUNCTION
 #              | |       |          |         |
      migration/0-6     [000]    50.025810: rcu_note_context_switch <-__schedule
      migration/0-6     [000]    50.025812: trace_rcu_utilization <-rcu_note_context_switch
      migration/0-6     [000]    50.025813: rcu_sched_qs <-rcu_note_context_switch
      migration/0-6     [000]    50.025815: rcu_preempt_qs <-rcu_note_context_switch
      migration/0-6     [000]    50.025817: trace_rcu_utilization <-rcu_note_context_switch
      migration/0-6     [000]    50.025818: debug_lockdep_rcu_enabled <-__schedule
      migration/0-6     [000]    50.025820: debug_lockdep_rcu_enabled <-__schedule

The latency format header has latency information that is pretty meaningless
for most tracers. Although some of the header is useful, and we can add that
later to the default format as well.

What is really useful with the latency format is the irqs-off, need-resched
hard/softirq context and the preempt count.

This commit adds the option irq-info which is on by default that adds this
information:

 # tracer: nop
 #
 #                              _-----=> irqs-off
 #                             / _----=> need-resched
 #                            | / _---=> hardirq/softirq
 #                            || / _--=> preempt-depth
 #                            ||| /     delay
 #           TASK-PID   CPU#  ||||    TIMESTAMP  FUNCTION
 #              | |       |   ||||       |         |
           <idle>-0     [000] d..2    49.309305: cpuidle_get_driver <-cpuidle_idle_call
           <idle>-0     [000] d..2    49.309307: mwait_idle <-cpu_idle
           <idle>-0     [000] d..2    49.309309: need_resched <-mwait_idle
           <idle>-0     [000] d..2    49.309310: test_ti_thread_flag <-need_resched
           <idle>-0     [000] d..2    49.309312: trace_power_start.constprop.13 <-mwait_idle
           <idle>-0     [000] d..2    49.309313: trace_cpu_idle <-mwait_idle
           <idle>-0     [000] d..2    49.309315: need_resched <-mwait_idle

If a user wants the old format, they can disable the 'irq-info' option:

 # tracer: nop
 #
 #           TASK-PID   CPU#      TIMESTAMP  FUNCTION
 #              | |       |          |         |
           <idle>-0     [000]     49.309305: cpuidle_get_driver <-cpuidle_idle_call
           <idle>-0     [000]     49.309307: mwait_idle <-cpu_idle
           <idle>-0     [000]     49.309309: need_resched <-mwait_idle
           <idle>-0     [000]     49.309310: test_ti_thread_flag <-need_resched
           <idle>-0     [000]     49.309312: trace_power_start.constprop.13 <-mwait_idle
           <idle>-0     [000]     49.309313: trace_cpu_idle <-mwait_idle
           <idle>-0     [000]     49.309315: need_resched <-mwait_idle
Requested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

In case the the graph tracer (CONFIG_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER) or even the
function tracer (CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER) are not set, the latency tracers
do not display proper latency header.

The involved/fixed latency tracers are:
        wakeup_rt
        wakeup
        preemptirqsoff
        preemptoff
        irqsoff

The patch adds proper handling of tracer configuration options for latency
tracers, and displaying correct header info accordingly.

* The current output (for wakeup tracer) with both graph and function
  tracers disabled is:

  # tracer: wakeup
  #
    <idle>-0       0d.h5    1us+:      0:120:R   + [000]     7:  0:R watchdog/0
    <idle>-0       0d.h5    3us+: ttwu_do_activate.clone.1 <-try_to_wake_up
    ...

* The fixed output is:

  # tracer: wakeup
  #
  # wakeup latency trace v1.1.5 on 3.1.0-tip+
  # --------------------------------------------------------------------
  # latency: 55 us, #4/4, CPU#0 | (M:preempt VP:0, KP:0, SP:0 HP:0 #P:2)
  #    -----------------
  #    | task: migration/0-6 (uid:0 nice:0 policy:1 rt_prio:99)
  #    -----------------
  #
  #                  _------=> CPU#
  #                 / _-----=> irqs-off
  #                | / _----=> need-resched
  #                || / _---=> hardirq/softirq
  #                ||| / _--=> preempt-depth
  #                |||| /     delay
  #  cmd     pid   ||||| time  |   caller
  #     \   /      |||||  \    |   /
       cat-1129    0d..4    1us :   1129:120:R   + [000]     6:  0:R migration/0
       cat-1129    0d..4    2us+: ttwu_do_activate.clone.1 <-try_to_wake_up

* The current output (for wakeup tracer) with only function
  tracer enabled is:

  # tracer: wakeup
  #
       cat-1140    0d..4    1us+:   1140:120:R   + [000]     6:  0:R migration/0
       cat-1140    0d..4    2us : ttwu_do_activate.clone.1 <-try_to_wake_up

* The fixed output is:
  # tracer: wakeup
  #
  # wakeup latency trace v1.1.5 on 3.1.0-tip+
  # --------------------------------------------------------------------
  # latency: 207 us, #109/109, CPU#1 | (M:preempt VP:0, KP:0, SP:0 HP:0 #P:2)
  #    -----------------
  #    | task: watchdog/1-12 (uid:0 nice:0 policy:1 rt_prio:99)
  #    -----------------
  #
  #                  _------=> CPU#
  #                 / _-----=> irqs-off
  #                | / _----=> need-resched
  #                || / _---=> hardirq/softirq
  #                ||| / _--=> preempt-depth
  #                |||| /     delay
  #  cmd     pid   ||||| time  |   caller
  #     \   /      |||||  \    |   /
    <idle>-0       1d.h5    1us+:      0:120:R   + [001]    12:  0:R watchdog/1
    <idle>-0       1d.h5    3us : ttwu_do_activate.clone.1 <-try_to_wake_up

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111107150849.GE1807@m.brq.redhat.com



Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

As the function tracer is very intrusive, lots of self checks are
performed on the tracer and if something is found to be strange
it will shut itself down keeping it from corrupting the rest of the
kernel. This shutdown may still allow functions to be traced, as the
tracing only stops new modifications from happening. Trying to stop
the function tracer itself can cause more harm as it requires code
modification.

Although a WARN_ON() is executed, a user may not notice it. To help
the user see that something isn't right with the tracing of the system
a big warning is added to the output of the tracer that lets the user
know that their data may be incomplete.
Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

Adding automated tests running as late_initcall. Tests are
compiled in with CONFIG_FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST option.

Adding test event "ftrace_test_filter" used to simulate
filter processing during event occurance.

String filters are compiled and tested against several
test events with different values.

Also testing that evaluation of explicit predicates is ommited
due to the lazy filter evaluation.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1313072754-4620-11-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

The field_name was used just for finding event's fields. This way we
don't need to care about field_name allocation/free.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1313072754-4620-4-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

This allows us to move duplicated code in <asm/atomic.h>
(atomic_inc_not_zero() for now) to <linux/atomic.h>
Signed-off-by: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

If a function is set to be traced by the set_graph_function, but the
option funcgraph-irqs is zero, and the traced function happens to be
called from a interrupt, it will not be traced.

The point of funcgraph-irqs is to not trace interrupts when we are
preempted by an irq, not to not trace functions we want to trace that
happen to be *in* a irq.

Luckily the current->trace_recursion element is perfect to add a flag
to help us be able to trace functions within an interrupt even when
we are not tracing interrupts that preempt the trace.
Reported-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

The event system is freed when its nr_events is set to zero. This happens
when a module created an event system and then later the module is
removed. Modules may share systems, so the system is allocated when
it is created and freed when the modules are unloaded and all the
events under the system are removed (nr_events set to zero).

The problem arises when a task opened the "filter" file for the
system. If the module is unloaded and it removed the last event for
that system, the system structure is freed. If the task that opened
the filter file accesses the "filter" file after the system has
been freed, the system will access an invalid pointer.

By adding a ref_count, and using it to keep track of what
is using the event system, we can free it after all users
are finished with the event system.

Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

Fix to support kernel stack trace correctly on kprobe-tracer.
Since the execution path of kprobe-based dynamic events is different
from other tracepoint-based events, normal ftrace_trace_stack() doesn't
work correctly. To fix that, this introduces ftrace_trace_stack_regs()
which traces stack via pt_regs instead of current stack register.

e.g.

 # echo p schedule+4 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/kprobe_events
 # echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/options/stacktrace
 # echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kprobes/enable
 # head -n 20 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace
            bash-2968  [000] 10297.050245: p_schedule_4: (schedule+0x4/0x4ca)
            bash-2968  [000] 10297.050247: <stack trace>
 => schedule_timeout
 => n_tty_read
 => tty_read
 => vfs_read
 => sys_read
 => system_call_fastpath
     kworker/0:1-2940  [000] 10297.050265: p_schedule_4: (schedule+0x4/0x4ca)
     kworker/0:1-2940  [000] 10297.050266: <stack trace>
 => worker_thread
 => kthread
 => kernel_thread_helper
            sshd-1132  [000] 10297.050365: p_schedule_4: (schedule+0x4/0x4ca)
            sshd-1132  [000] 10297.050365: <stack trace>
 => sysret_careful

Note: Even with this fix, the first entry will be skipped
if the probe is put on the function entry area before
the frame pointer is set up (usually, that is 4 bytes
 (push %bp; mov %sp %bp) on x86), because stack unwinder
depends on the frame pointer.
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: yrl.pp-manager.tt@hitachi.com
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110608070934.17777.17116.stgit@fedora15

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>