Currently the trace_event structures are placed in the _ftrace_events
section, and at link time, the linker makes one large array of all
the trace_event structures. On boot up, this array is read (much like
the initcall sections) and the events are processed.
The problem is that there is no guarantee that gcc will place complex
structures nicely together in an array format. Two structures in the
same file may be placed awkwardly, because gcc has no clue that they
are suppose to be in an array.
A hack was used previous to force the alignment to 4, to pack the
structures together. But this caused alignment issues with other
architectures (sparc).
Instead of packing the structures into an array, the structures' addresses
are now put into the _ftrace_event section. As pointers are always the
natural alignment, gcc should always pack them tightly together
(otherwise initcall, extable, etc would also fail).
By having the pointers to the structures in the section, we can still
iterate the trace_events without causing unnecessary alignment problems
with other architectures, or depending on the current behaviour of
gcc that will likely change in the future just to tick us kernel developers
off a little more.
The _ftrace_event section is also moved into the .init.data section
as it is now only needed at boot up.
Suggested-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Currently we have in something like the sched_switch event:
field:char prev_comm[TASK_COMM_LEN]; offset:12; size:16; signed:1;
When a userspace tool such as perf tries to parse this, the
TASK_COMM_LEN is meaningless. This is done because the TRACE_EVENT() macro
simply uses a #len to show the string of the length. When the length is
an enum, we get a string that means nothing for tools.
By adding a static buffer and a mutex to protect it, we can store the
string into that buffer with snprintf and show the actual number.
Now we get:
field:char prev_comm[16]; offset:12; size:16; signed:1;
Something much more useful.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
As for the raw syscalls events, individual syscall events won't
leak system wide information on task bound tracing. Allow non
privileged users to use them in such workflow.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
This introduces the new TRACE_EVENT_FLAGS() macro in order
to set up initial event flags value.
This macro must simply follow the definition of a trace event
and take the event name and the flag value as parameters:
TRACE_EVENT(my_event, .....
....
);
TRACE_EVENT_FLAGS(my_event, 1)
This will set up 1 as the initial my_event->flags value.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Drop the cpparg() macro that wraps CPP parameters. We already have
the PARAM() macro for that, no need to have several versions.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
__print_flags() and __print_symbolic() use percpu trace_seq:
1) Its memory is allocated at compile time, it wastes memory if we don't use tracing.
2) It is percpu data and it wastes more memory for multi-cpus system.
3) It disables preemption when it executes its core routine
"trace_seq_printf(s, "%s: ", #call);" and introduces latency.
So we move this trace_seq to struct trace_iterator.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4C078350.7090106@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Because kprobes and syscalls need special processing to register
events, the class->reg() method was created to handle the differences.
But instead of creating a default ->reg for perf and ftrace events,
the code was scattered with:
if (class->reg)
class->reg();
else
default_reg();
This is messy and can also lead to bugs.
This patch cleans up this code and creates a default reg() entry for
the events allowing for the code to directly call the class->reg()
without the condition.
Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Drop this argument now that we always want to rewind only to the
state of the first caller.
It means frame pointers are not necessary anymore to reliably get
the source of an event. But this also means we need this helper
to be a macro now, as an inline function is not an option since
we need to know when to provide a default implentation.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
tracepoint_probe_unregister() does not synchronize against the probe
callbacks, so do that explicitly. This properly serializes the callbacks
and the free of the data used therein.
Also, use this_cpu_ptr() where possible.
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1274438476.1674.1702.camel@laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (61 commits)
tracing: Add __used annotation to event variable
perf, trace: Fix !x86 build bug
perf report: Support multiple events on the TUI
perf annotate: Fix up usage of the build id cache
x86/mmiotrace: Remove redundant instruction prefix checks
perf annotate: Add TUI interface
perf tui: Remove annotate from popup menu after failure
perf report: Don't start the TUI if -D is used
perf: Fix getline undeclared
perf: Optimize perf_tp_event_match()
perf: Remove more code from the fastpath
perf: Optimize the !vmalloc backed buffer
perf: Optimize perf_output_copy()
perf: Fix wakeup storm for RO mmap()s
perf-record: Share per-cpu buffers
perf-record: Remove -M
perf: Ensure that IOC_OUTPUT isn't used to create multi-writer buffers
perf, trace: Optimize tracepoints by using per-tracepoint-per-cpu hlist to track events
perf, trace: Optimize tracepoints by removing IRQ-disable from perf/tracepoint interaction
perf tui: Allow disabling the TUI on a per command basis in ~/.perfconfig
...
The TRACE_EVENT() macros automate creation of trace events. To automate
initialization, the set up variables are loaded in a special section
that is read on boot up. GCC is not aware that these static variables
are used and will complain about them if we do not inform GCC that
they are indeed used.
One of the declarations of the event element was missing a __used
annotation. This patch adds it.
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6: (182 commits)
[SCSI] aacraid: add an ifdef'd device delete case instead of taking the device offline
[SCSI] aacraid: prohibit access to array container space
[SCSI] aacraid: add support for handling ATA pass-through commands.
[SCSI] aacraid: expose physical devices for models with newer firmware
[SCSI] aacraid: respond automatically to volumes added by config tool
[SCSI] fcoe: fix fcoe module ref counting
[SCSI] libfcoe: FIP Keep-Alive messages for VPorts are sent with incorrect port_id and wwn
[SCSI] libfcoe: Fix incorrect MAC address clearing
[SCSI] fcoe: fix a circular locking issue with rtnl and sysfs mutex
[SCSI] libfc: Move the port_id into lport
[SCSI] fcoe: move link speed checking into its own routine
[SCSI] libfc: Remove extra pointer check
[SCSI] libfc: Remove unused fc_get_host_port_type
[SCSI] fcoe: fixes wrong error exit in fcoe_create
[SCSI] libfc: set seq_id for incoming sequence
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Updates to ISP82xx support.
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Optionally disable target reset.
[SCSI] qla2xxx: ensure flash operation and host reset via sg_reset are mutually exclusive
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Silence bogus warning by gcc for wrap and did.
[SCSI] qla2xxx: T10 DIF support added.
...
Avoid the swevent hash-table by using per-tracepoint
hlists.
Also, avoid conditionals on the fast path by ordering
with probe unregister so that we should never get on
the callback path without the data being there.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <20100521090710.473188012@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
When we've got but a single event per tracepoint
there is no reason to try and multiplex it so don't.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Tested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (311 commits)
perf tools: Add mode to build without newt support
perf symbols: symbol inconsistency message should be done only at verbose=1
perf tui: Add explicit -lslang option
perf options: Type check all the remaining OPT_ variants
perf options: Type check OPT_BOOLEAN and fix the offenders
perf options: Check v type in OPT_U?INTEGER
perf options: Introduce OPT_UINTEGER
perf tui: Add workaround for slang < 2.1.4
perf record: Fix bug mismatch with -c option definition
perf options: Introduce OPT_U64
perf tui: Add help window to show key associations
perf tui: Make <- exit menus too
perf newt: Add single key shortcuts for zoom into DSO and threads
perf newt: Exit browser unconditionally when CTRL+C, q or Q is pressed
perf newt: Fix the 'A'/'a' shortcut for annotate
perf newt: Make <- exit the ui_browser
x86, perf: P4 PMU - fix counters management logic
perf newt: Make <- zoom out filters
perf report: Report number of events, not samples
perf hist: Clarify events_stats fields usage
...
Fix up trivial conflicts in kernel/fork.c and tools/perf/builtin-record.c
Now that the trace_event structure is embedded in the ftrace_event_call
structure, there is no need for the ftrace_event_call id field.
The id field is the same as the trace_event type field.
Removing the id and re-arranging the structure brings down the tracepoint
footprint by another 5K.
text data bss dec hex filename
4913961 1088356 861512 6863829 68bbd5 vmlinux.orig
4895024 1023812 861512 6780348 6775bc vmlinux.print
4894944 1018052 861512 6774508 675eec vmlinux.id
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Currently, every event has its own trace_event structure. This is
fine since the structure is needed anyway. But the print function
structure (trace_event_functions) is now separate. Since the output
of the trace event is done by the class (with the exception of events
defined by DEFINE_EVENT_PRINT), it makes sense to have the class
define the print functions that all events in the class can use.
This makes a bigger deal with the syscall events since all syscall events
use the same class. The savings here is another 30K.
text data bss dec hex filename
4913961 1088356 861512 6863829 68bbd5 vmlinux.orig
4900382 1048964 861512 6810858 67ecea vmlinux.init
4900446 1049028 861512 6810986 67ed6a vmlinux.preprint
4895024 1023812 861512 6780348 6775bc vmlinux.print
To accomplish this, and to let the class know what event is being
printed, the event structure is embedded in the ftrace_event_call
structure. This should not be an issues since the event structure
was created for each event anyway.
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Multiple events may use the same method to print their data.
Instead of having all events have a pointer to their print funtions,
the trace_event structure now points to a trace_event_functions structure
that will hold the way to print ouf the event.
The event itself is now passed to the print function to let the print
function know what kind of event it should print.
This opens the door to consolidating the way several events print
their output.
text data bss dec hex filename
4913961 1088356 861512 6863829 68bbd5 vmlinux.orig
4900382 1048964 861512 6810858 67ecea vmlinux.init
4900446 1049028 861512 6810986 67ed6a vmlinux.preprint
This change slightly increases the size but is needed for the next change.
v3: Fix the branch tracer events to handle this change.
v2: Fix the new function graph tracer event calls to handle this change.
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The raw_init function pointer in the event is used to initialize
various kinds of events. The type of initialization needed is usually
classed to the kind of event it is.
Two events with the same class will always have the same initialization
function, so it makes sense to move this to the class structure.
Perhaps even making a special system structure would work since
the initialization is the same for all events within a system.
But since there's no system structure (yet), this will just move it
to the class.
text data bss dec hex filename
4913961 1088356 861512 6863829 68bbd5 vmlinux.orig
4900375 1053380 861512 6815267 67fe23 vmlinux.fields
4900382 1048964 861512 6810858 67ecea vmlinux.init
The text grew very slightly, but this is a constant growth that happened
with the changing of the C files that call the init code.
The bigger savings is the data which will be saved the more events share
a class.
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Move the defined fields from the event to the class structure.
Since the fields of the event are defined by the class they belong
to, it makes sense to have the class hold the information instead
of the individual events. The events of the same class would just
hold duplicate information.
After this change the size of the kernel dropped another 3K:
text data bss dec hex filename
4913961 1088356 861512 6863829 68bbd5 vmlinux.orig
4900252 1057412 861512 6819176 680d68 vmlinux.regs
4900375 1053380 861512 6815267 67fe23 vmlinux.fields
Although the text increased, this was mainly due to the C files
having to adapt to the change. This is a constant increase, where
new tracepoints will not increase the Text. But the big drop is
in the data size (as well as needed allocations to hold the fields).
This will give even more savings as more tracepoints are created.
Note, if just TRACE_EVENT()s are used and not DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS()
with several DEFINE_EVENT()s, then the savings will be lost. But
we are pushing developers to consolidate events with DEFINE_EVENT()
so this should not be an issue.
The kprobes define a unique class to every new event, but are dynamic
so it should not be a issue.
The syscalls however have a single class but the fields for the individual
events are different. The syscalls use a metadata to define the
fields. I moved the fields list from the event to the metadata and
added a "get_fields()" function to the class. This function is used
to find the fields. For normal events and kprobes, get_fields() just
returns a pointer to the fields list_head in the class. For syscall
events, it returns the fields list_head in the metadata for the event.
v2: Fixed the syscall fields. The syscall metadata needs a list
of fields for both enter and exit.
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
This patch removes the register functions of TRACE_EVENT() to enable
and disable tracepoints. The registering of a event is now down
directly in the trace_events.c file. The tracepoint_probe_register()
is now called directly.
The prototypes are no longer type checked, but this should not be
an issue since the tracepoints are created automatically by the
macros. If a prototype is incorrect in the TRACE_EVENT() macro, then
other macros will catch it.
The trace_event_class structure now holds the probes to be called
by the callbacks. This removes needing to have each event have
a separate pointer for the probe.
To handle kprobes and syscalls, since they register probes in a
different manner, a "reg" field is added to the ftrace_event_class
structure. If the "reg" field is assigned, then it will be called for
enabling and disabling of the probe for either ftrace or perf. To let
the reg function know what is happening, a new enum (trace_reg) is
created that has the type of control that is needed.
With this new rework, the 82 kernel events and 618 syscall events
has their footprint dramatically lowered:
text data bss dec hex filename
4913961 1088356 861512 6863829 68bbd5 vmlinux.orig
4914025 1088868 861512 6864405 68be15 vmlinux.class
4918492 1084612 861512 6864616 68bee8 vmlinux.tracepoint
4900252 1057412 861512 6819176 680d68 vmlinux.regs
The size went from 6863829 to 6819176, that's a total of 44K
in savings. With tracepoints being continuously added, this is
critical that the footprint becomes minimal.
v5: Added #ifdef CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS around a reference to perf
specific structure in trace_events.c.
v4: Fixed trace self tests to check probe because regfunc no longer
exists.
v3: Updated to handle void *data in beginning of probe parameters.
Also added the tracepoint: check_trace_callback_type_##call().
v2: Changed the callback probes to pass void * and typecast the
value within the function.
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
This patch adds data to be passed to tracepoint callbacks.
The created functions from DECLARE_TRACE() now need a mandatory data
parameter. For example:
DECLARE_TRACE(mytracepoint, int value, value)
Will create the register function:
int register_trace_mytracepoint((void(*)(void *data, int value))probe,
void *data);
As the first argument, all callbacks (probes) must take a (void *data)
parameter. So a callback for the above tracepoint will look like:
void myprobe(void *data, int value)
{
}
The callback may choose to ignore the data parameter.
This change allows callbacks to register a private data pointer along
with the function probe.
void mycallback(void *data, int value);
register_trace_mytracepoint(mycallback, mydata);
Then the mycallback() will receive the "mydata" as the first parameter
before the args.
A more detailed example:
DECLARE_TRACE(mytracepoint, TP_PROTO(int status), TP_ARGS(status));
/* In the C file */
DEFINE_TRACE(mytracepoint, TP_PROTO(int status), TP_ARGS(status));
[...]
trace_mytracepoint(status);
/* In a file registering this tracepoint */
int my_callback(void *data, int status)
{
struct my_struct my_data = data;
[...]
}
[...]
my_data = kmalloc(sizeof(*my_data), GFP_KERNEL);
init_my_data(my_data);
register_trace_mytracepoint(my_callback, my_data);
The same callback can also be registered to the same tracepoint as long
as the data registered is different. Note, the data must also be used
to unregister the callback:
unregister_trace_mytracepoint(my_callback, my_data);
Because of the data parameter, tracepoints declared this way can not have
no args. That is:
DECLARE_TRACE(mytracepoint, TP_PROTO(void), TP_ARGS());
will cause an error.
If no arguments are needed, a new macro can be used instead:
DECLARE_TRACE_NOARGS(mytracepoint);
Since there are no arguments, the proto and args fields are left out.
This is part of a series to make the tracepoint footprint smaller:
text data bss dec hex filename
4913961 1088356 861512 6863829 68bbd5 vmlinux.orig
4914025 1088868 861512 6864405 68be15 vmlinux.class
4918492 1084612 861512 6864616 68bee8 vmlinux.tracepoint
Again, this patch also increases the size of the kernel, but
lays the ground work for decreasing it.
v5: Fixed net/core/drop_monitor.c to handle these updates.
v4: Moved the DECLARE_TRACE() DECLARE_TRACE_NOARGS out of the
#ifdef CONFIG_TRACE_POINTS, since the two are the same in both
cases. The __DECLARE_TRACE() is what changes.
Thanks to Frederic Weisbecker for pointing this out.
v3: Made all register_* functions require data to be passed and
all callbacks to take a void * parameter as its first argument.
This makes the calling functions comply with C standards.
Also added more comments to the modifications of DECLARE_TRACE().
v2: Made the DECLARE_TRACE() have the ability to pass arguments
and added a new DECLARE_TRACE_NOARGS() for tracepoints that
do not need any arguments.
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
This patch creates a ftrace_event_class struct that event structs point to.
This class struct will be made to hold information to modify the
events. Currently the class struct only holds the events system name.
This patch slightly increases the size, but this change lays the ground work
of other changes to make the footprint of tracepoints smaller.
With 82 standard tracepoints, and 618 system call tracepoints
(two tracepoints per syscall: enter and exit):
text data bss dec hex filename
4913961 1088356 861512 6863829 68bbd5 vmlinux.orig
4914025 1088868 861512 6864405 68be15 vmlinux.class
This patch also cleans up some stale comments in ftrace.h.
v2: Fixed missing semi-colon in macro.
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
__print_hex() prints values in an array in hex (w/o '0x') (space separated)
EX) 92 33 32 f3 ee 4d
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Tomohiro Kusumi <kusumi.tomohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Kei Tokunaga <tokunaga.keiich@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
Trace events can be defined from a template using
DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS/DEFINE_EVENT or directly with TRACE_EVENT.
In both cases we have a template tracepoint handler, used to
record the trace, to which we pass our ftrace event instance.
In the function level, if the class is named "foo" and the event
is named "blah", we have the following chain of calls:
perf_trace_blah() -> perf_trace_templ_foo()
In the case we have several events sharing the class "blah",
we'll have multiple users of perf_trace_templ_foo(), and it
won't be inlined by the compiler. This is usually what happens
with the DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS/DEFINE_EVENT based definition.
But if perf_trace_blah() is the only caller of perf_trace_templ_foo()
there are fair chances that it will be inlined.
The problem is that we fetch the regs from perf_trace_templ_foo()
after we rewinded the frame pointer to the second caller, we want
to reach the caller of perf_trace_blah() to get the right source
of the event. And we do this by always assuming that
perf_trace_templ_foo() is not inlined. But as shown above this
is not always true. And if it is inlined we miss the first caller,
losing the most important level of precision.
We get:
61.31% ls [kernel.kallsyms] [k] do_softirq
|
--- do_softirq
irq_exit
do_IRQ
common_interrupt
|
|--25.00%-- tty_buffer_request_room
Instead of:
61.31% ls [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __do_softirq
|
--- __do_softirq
do_softirq
irq_exit
do_IRQ
common_interrupt
|
|--25.00%-- tty_buffer_request_room
To fix this, we fetch the regs from perf_trace_blah() rather than
perf_trace_templ_foo() so that we don't have to deal with inlining
surprises.
That also bring us the advantage of having the true source of the
event even if we don't have frame pointers.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Make some comments consistent with the code.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4BA97FD0.7090202@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (35 commits)
perf: Fix unexported generic perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs
perf record: Don't try to find buildids in a zero sized file
perf: export perf_trace_regs and perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs
perf, x86: Fix hw_perf_enable() event assignment
perf, ppc: Fix compile error due to new cpu notifiers
perf: Make the install relative to DESTDIR if specified
kprobes: Calculate the index correctly when freeing the out-of-line execution slot
perf tools: Fix sparse CPU numbering related bugs
perf_event: Fix oops triggered by cpu offline/online
perf: Drop the obsolete profile naming for trace events
perf: Take a hot regs snapshot for trace events
perf: Introduce new perf_fetch_caller_regs() for hot regs snapshot
perf/x86-64: Use frame pointer to walk on irq and process stacks
lockdep: Move lock events under lockdep recursion protection
perf report: Print the map table just after samples for which no map was found
perf report: Add multiple event support
perf session: Change perf_session post processing functions to take histogram tree
perf session: Add storage for seperating event types in report
perf session: Change add_hist_entry to take the tree root instead of session
perf record: Add ID and to recorded event data when recording multiple events
...
Drop the obsolete "profile" naming used by perf for trace events.
Perf can now do more than simple events counting, so generalize
the API naming.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
We are taking a wrong regs snapshot when a trace event triggers.
Either we use get_irq_regs(), which gives us the interrupted
registers if we are in an interrupt, or we use task_pt_regs()
which gives us the state before we entered the kernel, assuming
we are lucky enough to be no kernel thread, in which case
task_pt_regs() returns the initial set of regs when the kernel
thread was started.
What we want is different. We need a hot snapshot of the regs,
so that we can get the instruction pointer to record in the
sample, the frame pointer for the callchain, and some other
things.
Let's use the new perf_fetch_caller_regs() for that.
Comparison with perf record -e lock: -R -a -f -g
Before:
perf [kernel] [k] __do_softirq
|
--- __do_softirq
|
|--55.16%-- __open
|
--44.84%-- __write_nocancel
After:
perf [kernel] [k] perf_tp_event
|
--- perf_tp_event
|
|--41.07%-- lock_acquire
| |
| |--39.36%-- _raw_spin_lock
| | |
| | |--7.81%-- hrtimer_interrupt
| | | smp_apic_timer_interrupt
| | | apic_timer_interrupt
The old case was producing unreliable callchains. Now having
right frame and instruction pointers, we have the trace we
want.
Also syscalls and kprobe events already have the right regs,
let's use them instead of wasting a retrieval.
v2: Follow the rename perf_save_regs() -> perf_fetch_caller_regs()
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Archs <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
GCC 4.5 introduces behavior that forces the alignment of structures to
use the largest possible value. The default value is 32 bytes, so if
some structures are defined with a 4-byte alignment and others aren't
declared with an alignment constraint at all - it will align at 32-bytes.
For things like the ftrace events, this results in a non-standard array.
When initializing the ftrace subsystem, we traverse the _ftrace_events
section and call the initialization callback for each event. When the
structures are misaligned, we could be treating another part of the
structure (or the zeroed out space between them) as a function pointer.
This patch forces the alignment for all the ftrace_event_call structures
to 4 bytes.
Without this patch, the kernel fails to boot very early when built with
gcc 4.5.
It's trivial to check the alignment of the members of the array, so it
might be worthwhile to add something to the build system to do that
automatically. Unfortunately, that only covers this case. I've asked one
of the gcc developers about adding a warning when this condition is seen.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B85770B.6010901@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The functions used to implement the TRACE_EVENT macro show up in
function tracing. This is considered a distraction, and these should
not be displayed. For example:
<idle>-0 [000] 57.202149: task_of <-update_stats_wait_end
<idle>-0 [000] 57.202149: ftrace_raw_event_sched_stat_wait <-update_stats_wait_end
<idle>-0 [000] 57.202150: ftrace_raw_event_id_sched_stat_template <-ftrace_raw_event_sched_stat_wait
<idle>-0 [000] 57.202150: sched_stat_wait: comm=sshd pid=2735 delay=19207 [ns]
The "ftrace_raw_event_*" traces are just the utility functions used
by TRACE_EVENT tracepoints.
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Requested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Introduce ftrace_perf_buf_prepare() and ftrace_perf_buf_submit() to
gather the common code that operates on raw events sampling buffer.
This cleans up redundant code between regular trace events, syscall
events and kprobe events.
Changelog v1->v2:
- Rename function name as per Masami and Frederic's suggestion
- Add __kprobes for ftrace_perf_buf_prepare() and make
ftrace_perf_buf_submit() inline as per Masami's suggestion
- Export ftrace_perf_buf_prepare since modules will use it
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <4B60E92D.9000808@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
The previous patches added the use of print_fmt string and changes
the trace_define_field() function to also create the fields and
format output for the event format files.
text data bss dec hex filename
5857201 1355780 9336808 16549789 fc879d vmlinux
5884589 1351684 9337896 16574169 fce6d9 vmlinux-orig
The above shows the size of the vmlinux after this patch set
compared to the vmlinux-orig which is before the patch set.
This saves us 27k on text, 1k on bss and adds just 4k of data.
The total savings of 24k in size.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B273D4D.40604@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
This is part of a patch set that removes the show_format method
in the ftrace event macros.
The print_fmt field is added to hold the string that shows
the print_fmt in the event format files. This patch only adds
the field but it is currently not used. Later patches will use
this field to enable us to remove the show_format field
and function.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B273D3E.2000704@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add is_signed_type() call to trace_define_field() in ftrace macros.
The code previously just passed in 0 (false), disregarding whether
or not the field was actually a signed type.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B273D3A.6020007@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Quoted from Ingo:
| This reminds me - i think we should eliminate CONFIG_EVENT_PROFILE -
| it's an unnecessary Kconfig complication. If both PERF_EVENTS and
| EVENT_TRACING is enabled we should expose generic tracepoints.
|
| Nor is it limited to event 'profiling', so it has become a misnomer as
| well.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <4B2F1557.2050705@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Like total_profile_count, struct ftrace_event_call::profile_count
is protected by event_mutex, so it doesn't need to be atomic_t.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <4B1DC549.5010705@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Move the printk from each ftrace_raw_reg_event_foo() to
its caller ftrace_event_enable_disable(). This avoids each
regfunc trace event callbacks to handle a same error report
that can be carried from the caller.
See how much space this saves:
text data bss dec hex filename
5345151 1961864 7103260 14410275 dbe223 vmlinux.o.old
5331487 1961864 7103260 14396611 dbacc3 vmlinux.o
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B1DC4AC.802@cn.fujitsu.com>
[start cmdline record before calling regfunc to avoid lost
window of pid to comm resolution]
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Call trace_define_common_fields() in event_create_dir() only.
This avoids trace events to handle it from their define_fields
callbacks and shrinks the kernel code size:
text data bss dec hex filename
5346802 1961864 7103260 14411926 dbe896 vmlinux.o.old
5345151 1961864 7103260 14410275 dbe223 vmlinux.o
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B1DC49C.8000107@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Use a generic trace_event_raw_init() function for all event's raw_init
callbacks (but kprobes) instead of defining the same version for each
of these.
This shrinks the kernel code:
text data bss dec hex filename
5355293 1961928 7103260 14420481 dc0a01 vmlinux.o.old
5346802 1961864 7103260 14411926 dbe896 vmlinux.o
raw_init can't be removed, because ftrace events and kprobe events
use different raw_init callbacks. Though it's possible to totally
remove raw_init, I choose to leave it as it is for now.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
LKML-Reference: <4B1DC48C.7080603@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
