tracing/core: drop the old trace_printk() implementation in favour of trace_bprintk()
Impact: faster and lighter tracing
Now that we have trace_bprintk() which is faster and consume lesser
memory than trace_printk() and has the same purpose, we can now drop
the old implementation in favour of the binary one from trace_bprintk(),
which means we move all the implementation of trace_bprintk() to
trace_printk(), so the Api doesn't change except that we must now use
trace_seq_bprintk() to print the TRACE_PRINT entries.
Some changes result of this:
- Previously, trace_bprintk depended of a single tracer and couldn't
work without. This tracer has been dropped and the whole implementation
of trace_printk() (like the module formats management) is now integrated
in the tracing core (comes with CONFIG_TRACING), though we keep the file
trace_printk (previously trace_bprintk.c) where we can find the module
management. Thus we don't overflow trace.c
- changes some parts to use trace_seq_bprintk() to print TRACE_PRINT entries.
- change a bit trace_printk/trace_vprintk macros to support non-builtin formats
constants, and fix 'const' qualifiers warnings. But this is all transparent for
developers.
- etc...
V2:
- Rebase against last changes
- Fix mispell on the changelog
V3:
- Rebase against last changes (moving trace_printk() to kernel.h)
Lai Jiangshan [Fri, 6 Mar 2009 16:21:48 +0000 (17:21 +0100)]
tracing: add trace_bprintk()
Impact: add a generic printk() for tracing, like trace_printk()
trace_bprintk() uses the infrastructure to record events on ring_buffer.
[ fweisbec@gmail.com: ported to latest -tip, made it work if
!CONFIG_MODULES, never free the format strings from modules
because we can't keep track of them and conditionnaly create
the ftrace format strings section (reported by Steven Rostedt) ]
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <1236356510-8381-4-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Lai Jiangshan [Fri, 6 Mar 2009 16:21:47 +0000 (17:21 +0100)]
tracing: infrastructure for supporting binary record
Impact: save on memory for tracing
Current tracers are typically using a struct(like struct ftrace_entry,
struct ctx_switch_entry, struct special_entr etc...)to record a binary
event. These structs can only record a their own kind of events.
A new kind of tracer need a new struct and a lot of code too handle it.
So we need a generic binary record for events. This infrastructure
is for this purpose.
[fweisbec@gmail.com: rebase against latest -tip, make it safe while sched
tracing as reported by Steven Rostedt]
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <1236356510-8381-3-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
vsprintf: unify the format decoding layer for its 3 users
An new optimization is making its way to ftrace. Its purpose is to
make trace_printk() consuming less memory and be faster.
Written by Lai Jiangshan, the approach is to delay the formatting
job from tracing time to output time.
Currently, a call to trace_printk() will format the whole string and
insert it into the ring buffer. Then you can read it on /debug/tracing/trace
file.
The new implementation stores the address of the format string and
the binary parameters into the ring buffer, making the packet more compact
and faster to insert.
Later, when the user exports the traces, the format string is retrieved
with the binary parameters and the formatting job is eventually done.
The new implementation rewrites a lot of format decoding bits from
vsnprintf() function, making now 3 differents functions to maintain
in their duplicated parts of printf format decoding bits.
Suggested by Ingo Molnar, this patch tries to factorize the most
possible common bits from these functions.
The real common part between them is the format decoding. Although
they do somewhat similar jobs, their way to export or import the parameters
is very different. Thus, only the decoding layer is extracted, unless you see
other parts that could be worth factorized.
Changes in V2:
- Address a suggestion from Linus to group the format_decode() parameters inside
a structure.
Changes in v3:
- Address other cleanups suggested by Ingo and Linus such as passing the
printf_spec struct to the format helpers: pointer()/number()/string()
Note that this struct is passed by copy and not by address. This is to
avoid side effects because these functions often change these values and the
changes shoudn't be persistant when a callee helper returns.
It would be too risky.
- Various cleanups (code alignement, switch/case instead of if/else fountains).
- Fix a bug that printed the first format specifier following a %p
Changes in v4:
- drop unapropriate const qualifier loss while casting fmt to a char *
(thanks to Vegard Nossum for having pointed this out).
tracing, Text Edit Lock - SMP alternatives support
Use the mutual exclusion provided by the text edit lock in alternatives code.
Since alternative_smp_* will be called from module init code, etc,
we'd better protect it from other subsystems.
tracing, Text Edit Lock - Architecture Independent Code
This is an architecture independant synchronization around kernel text
modifications through use of a global mutex.
A mutex has been chosen so that kprobes, the main user of this, can sleep
during memory allocation between the memory read of the instructions it
must replace and the memory write of the breakpoint.
Other user of this interface: immediate values.
Paravirt and alternatives are always done when SMP is inactive, so there
is no need to use locks.
Steven Rostedt [Fri, 6 Mar 2009 02:35:29 +0000 (21:35 -0500)]
tracing: add format files for ftrace default entries
Impact: allow user apps to read binary format of basic ftrace entries
Currently, only defined raw events export their formats so a binary
reader can parse them. There's no reason that the default ftrace entries
can't export their formats.
This patch adds a subsystem called "ftrace" in the events directory
that includes the ftrace entries for basic ftrace recorded items.
These only have three files in the events directory:
type : printf
available_types : printf
format : format for the event entry
Steven Rostedt [Thu, 5 Mar 2009 16:45:43 +0000 (11:45 -0500)]
tracing: move print of event format to separate file
Impact: clean up
Move the macro that creates the event format file to a separate header.
This will allow the default ftrace events to use this same macro
to create the formats to read those events.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Steven Rostedt [Thu, 5 Mar 2009 15:35:56 +0000 (10:35 -0500)]
tracing: add tracing_on/tracing_off to kernel.h
Impact: cleanup
The functions tracing_start/tracing_stop have been moved to kernel.h.
These are not the functions a developer most likely wants to use
when they want to insert a place to stop tracing and restart it from
user space.
tracing_start/tracing_stop was created to work with things like
suspend to ram, where even calling smp_processor_id() can crash the
system. The tracing_start/tracing_stop was used to stop the tracer from
doing anything. These are still light weight functions, but add a bit
more overhead to be able to stop the tracers. They also have no interface
back to userland. That is, if the kernel calls tracing_stop, userland
can not start tracing.
What a developer most likely wants to use is tracing_on/tracing_off.
These are very light weight functions (simply sets or clears a bit).
These functions just stop recording into the ring buffer. The tracers
don't even know that this happens except that they would receive NULL
from the ring_buffer_lock_reserve function.
Also, there's a way for the user land to enable or disable this bit.
In debugfs/tracing/tracing_on, a user may echo "0" (same as tracing_off())
or echo "1" (same as tracing_on()) into this file. This becomes handy when
a kernel developer is debugging and wants tracing to turn off when it
hits an anomaly. Then the developer can examine the trace, and restart
tracing if they want to try again (echo 1 > tracing_on).
This patch moves the prototypes for tracing_on/tracing_off to kernel.h
and comments their use, so that a kernel developer will know how
to use them.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
x86-32: use specific __vmalloc_start_set flag in __virt_addr_valid
Rather than relying on the ever-unreliable system_state,
add a specific __vmalloc_start_set flag to indicate whether
the vmalloc area has meaningful boundaries yet, and use that
in x86-32's __phys_addr and __virt_addr_valid.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
In file included from /usr/src/all/linux-next/arch/x86/include/asm/page.h:8,
from /usr/src/all/linux-next/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h:18,
from /usr/src/all/linux-next/arch/x86/include/asm/atomic_32.h:6,
from /usr/src/all/linux-next/arch/x86/include/asm/atomic.h:2,
from include/linux/crypto.h:20,
from arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets_32.c:7,
from arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets.c:2:
/usr/src/all/linux-next/arch/x86/include/asm/page_types.h:54: warning: parameter has incomplete type
/usr/src/all/linux-next/arch/x86/include/asm/page_types.h:56: warning: parameter has incomplete type
In file included from /usr/src/all/linux-next/arch/x86/include/asm/page.h:8,
from /usr/src/all/linux-next/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h:18,
from include/linux/prefetch.h:14,
from include/linux/list.h:6,
from include/linux/module.h:9,
from init/main.c:13:
/usr/src/all/linux-next/arch/x86/include/asm/page_types.h:54: warning: parameter has incomplete type
/usr/src/all/linux-next/arch/x86/include/asm/page_types.h:56: warning: parameter has incomplete type
This is a bogus warning, but moving the pat-related functions
into asm/pat.h and including asm/pgtable_types.h should fix it.
Pekka Enberg [Thu, 5 Mar 2009 12:54:59 +0000 (14:54 +0200)]
x86: unify kernel_physical_mapping_init() call in init_memory_mapping()
Impact: cleanup
The 64-bit version of init_memory_mapping() uses the last mapped
address returned from kernel_physical_mapping_init() whereas the
32-bit version doesn't. This patch adds relevant ifdefs to both
versions of the function to reduce the diff between them.
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <1236257708-27269-8-git-send-email-penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Pekka Enberg [Thu, 5 Mar 2009 12:54:57 +0000 (14:54 +0200)]
x86: remove unnecessary save_mr() sanity check
Impact: cleanup
The save_mr() function already checks that start_pfn is less than
end_pfn so we can remove the unnecessary check which reduces the
diff between the 32-bit and the 64-bit versions of init_memory_mapping().
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <1236257708-27269-6-git-send-email-penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Pekka Enberg [Thu, 5 Mar 2009 12:54:54 +0000 (14:54 +0200)]
x86: find_early_table_space() unification
Impact: cleanup
There are some minor differences between the 32-bit and 64-bit
find_early_table_space() functions. This patch wraps those
differences under CONFIG_X86_32 to make the function identical
on both configurations.
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <1236257708-27269-3-git-send-email-penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
tracing/function-graph-tracer: use the more lightweight local clock
Impact: decrease hangs risks with the graph tracer on slow systems
Since the function graph tracer can spend too much time on timer
interrupts, it's better now to use the more lightweight local
clock. Anyway, the function graph traces are more reliable on a
per cpu trace.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <49af243d.06e9300a.53ad.ffff840c@mx.google.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Ingo Molnar [Thu, 5 Mar 2009 09:24:48 +0000 (10:24 +0100)]
tracing: rename ftrace_printk() => trace_printk()
Impact: cleanup
Use a more generic name - this also allows the prototype to move
to kernel.h and be generally available to kernel developers who
want to do some quick tracing.
Steven Rostedt [Thu, 5 Mar 2009 03:15:30 +0000 (22:15 -0500)]
tracing: have latency tracers set the latency format
The latency tracers (irqsoff, preemptoff, preemptirqsoff, and wakeup)
are pretty useless with the default output format. This patch makes them
automatically enable the latency format when they are selected. They
also record the state of the latency option, and if it was not enabled
when selected, they disable it on reset.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Steven Rostedt [Thu, 5 Mar 2009 02:57:29 +0000 (21:57 -0500)]
tracing: consolidate print_lat_fmt and print_trace_fmt
Impact: clean up
Both print_lat_fmt and print_trace_fmt do pretty much the same thing
except for one different function call. This patch consolidates the
two functions and adds an if statement to perform the difference.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Steven Rostedt [Thu, 5 Mar 2009 02:42:04 +0000 (21:42 -0500)]
tracing: remove extra latency_trace method from trace structure
Impact: clean up
The trace and latency_trace function pointers are identical for
every tracer but the function tracer. The differences in the function
tracer are trivial (latency output puts paranthesis around parent).
This patch removes the latency_trace pointer and all prints will
now just use the trace output function pointer.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Steven Rostedt [Thu, 5 Mar 2009 01:34:24 +0000 (20:34 -0500)]
tracing: add latency output format option
With the removal of the latency_trace file, we lost the ability
to see some of the finer details in a trace. Like the state of
interrupts enabled, the preempt count, need resched, and if we
are in an interrupt handler, softirq handler or not.
This patch simply creates an option to bring back the old format.
This also removes the warning about an unused variable that held
the latency_trace file operations.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Steven Rostedt [Thu, 5 Mar 2009 00:10:05 +0000 (19:10 -0500)]
tracing: do not return EFAULT if read copied anything
Impact: fix trace read to conform to standards
Andrew Morton, Theodore Tso and H. Peter Anvin brought to my attention
that a userspace read should not return -EFAULT if it succeeded in
copying anything. It should only return -EFAULT if it failed to copy
at all.
This patch modifies the check of copy_from_user and updates the return
code appropriately.
I also used H. Peter Anvin's short cut rule to just test ret == count.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Steven Rostedt [Wed, 4 Mar 2009 04:52:42 +0000 (23:52 -0500)]
ring-buffer: fix timestamp in partial ring_buffer_page_read
If a partial ring_buffer_page_read happens, then some of the
incremental timestamps may be lost. This patch writes the
recent timestamp into the page that is passed back to the caller.
A partial ring_buffer_page_read is where the full page would not
be written back to the user, and instead, just part of the page
is copied to the user. A full page would be a page swap with the
ring buffer and the timestamps would be correct.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
added a new field to the iterator called cpu_file. This was a handle
to differentiate between the per cpu trace output files and the
all cpu "trace" file. The all cpu "trace" file required setting this
to TRACE_PIPE_ALL_CPU.
The problem is that the ftrace_dump sets up its own iterator but was
not updated to handle this change. The result was only CPU 0 printing
out on crash and a lot of "<0>"'s also being printed.
Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linuxtronix.de> Tested-by: Darren Hart <dvhtc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Daniel Glöckner [Wed, 4 Mar 2009 18:42:27 +0000 (19:42 +0100)]
x86, math-emu: fix init_fpu for task != current
Impact: fix math-emu related crash while using GDB/ptrace
init_fpu() calls finit to initialize a task's xstate, while finit always
works on the current task. If we use PTRACE_GETFPREGS on another
process and both processes did not already use floating point, we get
a null pointer exception in finit.
This patch creates a new function finit_task that takes a task_struct
parameter. finit becomes a wrapper that simply calls finit_task with
current. On the plus side this avoids many calls to get_current which
would each resolve to an inline assembler mov instruction.
An empty finit_task has been added to i387.h to avoid linker errors in
case the compiler still emits the call in init_fpu when
CONFIG_MATH_EMULATION is not defined.
The declaration of finit in i387.h has been removed as the remaining
code using this function gets its prototype from fpu_proto.h.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Glöckner <dg@emlix.com> Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: "Pallipadi Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Cc: Bill Metzenthen <billm@melbpc.org.au>
LKML-Reference: <E1Lew31-0004il-Fg@mailer.emlix.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Huang Ying [Wed, 4 Mar 2009 02:58:33 +0000 (10:58 +0800)]
x86: EFI: Back efi_ioremap with init_memory_mapping instead of FIX_MAP
Impact: Fix boot failure on EFI system with large runtime memory range
Brian Maly reported that some EFI system with large runtime memory
range can not boot. Because the FIX_MAP used to map runtime memory
range is smaller than run time memory range.
This patch fixes this issue by re-implement efi_ioremap() with
init_memory_mapping().
Reported-and-tested-by: Brian Maly <bmaly@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Brian Maly <bmaly@redhat.com> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <1236135513.6204.306.camel@yhuang-dev.sh.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Pekka Enberg [Wed, 4 Mar 2009 08:16:07 +0000 (10:16 +0200)]
x86: set_highmem_pages_init() cleanup, #2
Impact: cleanup
The zones are set up at this stage so there's a highmem zone
available even for the UMA case.
The only difference there is that for machines that have
CONFIG_HIGHMEM enabled but don't have any highmem available,
->zone_start_pfn is zero whereas highstart_pfn is non-zero).
The field is left zeroed because of the !size test in
free_area_init_core() but shouldn't be a problem because
add_highpages_with_active_regions() handles empty ranges just
fine.
Brian Maly [Wed, 4 Mar 2009 02:55:31 +0000 (21:55 -0500)]
x86: fix DMI on EFI
Impact: reactivate DMI quirks on EFI hardware
DMI tables are loaded by EFI, so the dmi calls must happen after
efi_init() and not before.
Currently Apple hardware uses DMI to determine the framebuffer mappings
for efifb. Without DMI working you also have no video on MacBook Pro.
This patch resolves the DMI issue for EFI hardware (DMI is now properly
detected at boot), and additionally efifb now loads on Apple hardware
(i.e. video works).
Signed-off-by: Brian Maly <bmaly@redhat> Acked-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Cc: ying.huang@intel.com
LKML-Reference: <49ADEDA3.1030406@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
arch/x86/kernel/setup.c | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
Ingo Molnar [Wed, 4 Mar 2009 10:47:17 +0000 (11:47 +0100)]
x86, mce: fix build failure in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/threshold.c
Impact: build fix
The APIC code rewrite in the x86 tree broke the x86/mce branch:
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/threshold.c: In function ‘mce_threshold_interrupt’:
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/threshold.c:24: error: implicit declaration of function ‘ack_APIC_irq’
Tony Breeds [Tue, 3 Mar 2009 17:59:30 +0000 (17:59 +0000)]
powerpc: Run sbc610 USB fixup code only on the appropriate platform.
commit a969e76a7101bf5f3d369563df1ca1253dd6131b (powerpc: Correct USB
support for GE Fanuc SBC610) introduced a fixup for NEC usb controllers.
This fixup should only run on GEF SBC610 boards.
Steven Rostedt [Tue, 2 Dec 2008 03:20:19 +0000 (22:20 -0500)]
tracing: add binary buffer files for use with splice
Impact: new feature
This patch creates a directory of files that correspond to the
per CPU ring buffers. These are binary files and are made to
be used with splice. This is the fastest way to extract data from
the ftrace ring buffers.
Thanks to Jiaying Zhang for pushing me to get this code fixed,
and to Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu for his splice code that helped
me debug my code.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Steven Rostedt [Wed, 4 Mar 2009 00:51:40 +0000 (19:51 -0500)]
ring-buffer: make ring_buffer_read_page read from start on partial page
Impact: dont leave holes in read buffer page
The ring_buffer_read_page swaps a given page with the reader page
of the ring buffer, if certain conditions are set:
1) requested length is big enough to hold entire page data
2) a writer is not currently on the page
3) the page is not partially consumed.
Instead of swapping with the supplied page. It copies the data to
the supplied page instead. But currently the data is copied in the
same offset as the source page. This causes a hole at the start
of the reader page. This complicates the use of this function.
Instead, it should copy the data at the beginning of the function
and update the index fields accordingly.
Other small clean ups are also done in this patch.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Steven Rostedt [Tue, 3 Mar 2009 18:53:07 +0000 (13:53 -0500)]
ring-buffer: replace sizeof of event header with offsetof
Impact: fix to possible alignment problems on some archs.
Some arch compilers include an NULL char array in the sizeof field.
Since the ring_buffer_event type includes one of these, it is better
to use the "offsetof" instead, to avoid strange bugs on these archs.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Steven Rostedt [Tue, 3 Mar 2009 05:27:49 +0000 (00:27 -0500)]
ring-buffer: fix ring_buffer_read_page
The ring_buffer_read_page was broken if it were to only copy part
of the page. This patch fixes that up as well as adds a parameter
to allow a length field, in order to only copy part of the buffer page.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
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