It has been thought that the per-user file descriptors limit would also
limit the resources that a normal user can request via the epoll
interface. Vegard Nossum reported a very simple program (a modified
version attached) that can make a normal user to request a pretty large
amount of kernel memory, well within the its maximum number of fds. To
solve such problem, default limits are now imposed, and /proc based
configuration has been introduced. A new directory has been created,
named /proc/sys/fs/epoll/ and inside there, there are two configuration
points:
max_user_instances = Maximum number of devices - per user
max_user_watches = Maximum number of "watched" fds - per user
The current default for "max_user_watches" limits the memory used by epoll
to store "watches", to 1/32 of the amount of the low RAM. As example, a
256MB 32bit machine, will have "max_user_watches" set to roughly 90000.
That should be enough to not break existing heavy epoll users. The
default value for "max_user_instances" is set to 128, that should be
enough too.
This also changes the userspace, because a new error code can now come out
from EPOLL_CTL_ADD (-ENOSPC). The EMFILE from epoll_create() was already
listed, so that should be ok.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use get_current_user()]
Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Vegard Nossum <vegardno@ifi.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Impact: extend information in /proc/sched_debug
This patch adds uid information in sched_debug for CONFIG_USER_SCHED
Signed-off-by: Arun R Bharadwaj <arun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
sched: prevent divide by zero error in cpu_avg_load_per_task, update
sched, cpusets: fix warning in kernel/cpuset.c
sched: prevent divide by zero error in cpu_avg_load_per_task
* 'irq-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
irq.h: fix missing/extra kernel-doc
genirq: __irq_set_trigger: change pr_warning to pr_debug
irq: fix typo
x86: apic honour irq affinity which was set in early boot
genirq: fix the affinity setting in setup_irq
genirq: keep affinities set from userspace across free/request_irq()
All architectures now use the generic compat_sys_ptrace, as should every
new architecture that needs 32bit compat (if we'll ever get another).
Remove the now superflous __ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_SYS_PTRACE define, and also
kill a comment about __ARCH_SYS_PTRACE that was added after
__ARCH_SYS_PTRACE was already gone.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Regarding the bug addressed in:
4cd4262: sched: prevent divide by zero error in cpu_avg_load_per_task
Linus points out that the fix is not complete:
> There's nothing that keeps gcc from deciding not to reload
> rq->nr_running.
>
> Of course, in _practice_, I don't think gcc ever will (if it decides
> that it will spill, gcc is likely going to decide that it will
> literally spill the local variable to the stack rather than decide to
> reload off the pointer), but it's a valid compiler optimization, and
> it even has a name (rematerialization).
>
> So I suspect that your patch does fix the bug, but it still leaves the
> fairly unlikely _potential_ for it to re-appear at some point.
>
> We have ACCESS_ONCE() as a macro to guarantee that the compiler
> doesn't rematerialize a pointer access. That also would clarify
> the fact that we access something unsafe outside a lock.
So make sure our nr_running value is immutable and cannot change
after we check it for nonzero.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
this warning:
kernel/cpuset.c: In function ‘generate_sched_domains’:
kernel/cpuset.c:588: warning: ‘ndoms’ may be used uninitialized in this function
triggers because GCC does not recognize that ndoms stays uninitialized
only if doms is NULL - but that flow is covered at the end of
generate_sched_domains().
Help out GCC by initializing this variable to 0. (that's prudent anyway)
Also, this function needs a splitup and code flow simplification:
with 160 lines length it's clearly too long.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: fix build error on branch tracer
This should fix a build error reported on alpha in linux-next:
CC kernel/trace/trace_branch.o
kernel/trace/trace_branch.c: In function 'probe_likely_condition':
kernel/trace/trace_branch.c:44: error: implicit declaration of function 'raw_local_irq_save'
kernel/trace/trace_branch.c:76: error: implicit declaration of function 'raw_local_irq_restore'
Unfortunately, I can't test it since I don't have any Alpha build environment.
Reported-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Move double_lock_balance()/double_unlock_balance() higher to fix the following
with gcc-3.4.6:
CC kernel/sched.o
In file included from kernel/sched.c:1605:
kernel/sched_rt.c: In function `find_lock_lowest_rq':
kernel/sched_rt.c:914: sorry, unimplemented: inlining failed in call to 'double_unlock_balance': function body not available
kernel/sched_rt.c:1077: sorry, unimplemented: called from here
make[2]: *** [kernel/sched.o] Error 1
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: make ftrace position computing more sane
First remove useless ->pos field. Then we needn't check seq_printf
in .show like other place.
Signed-off-by: Liming Wang <liming.wang@windriver.com>
Reviewed-by: Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
There are architectures that still have no stacktrace support.
Signed-off-by: Török Edwin <edwintorok@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: increase the visual qualities of the call-graph-tracer output
This patch applies various trace output formatting changes:
- CPU is now a decimal number, followed by a parenthesis.
- Overhead is now on the second column (gives a good visibility)
- Cost is now on the third column, can't exceed 9999.99 us. It is
followed by a virtual line based on a "|" character.
- Functions calls are now the last column on the right. This way, we
haven't dynamic column (which flow is harder to follow) on its right.
- CPU and Overhead have their own option flag. They are default-on but you
can disable them easily:
echo nofuncgraph-cpu > trace_options
echo nofuncgraph-overhead > trace_options
TODO:
_ Refactoring of the thread switch output.
_ Give a default-off option to output the thread and its pid on each row.
_ Provide headers
_ ....
Here is an example of the new trace style:
0) | mutex_unlock() {
0) 0.639 us | __mutex_unlock_slowpath();
0) 1.607 us | }
0) | remove_wait_queue() {
0) 0.616 us | _spin_lock_irqsave();
0) 0.616 us | _spin_unlock_irqrestore();
0) 2.779 us | }
0) 0.495 us | n_tty_set_room();
0) ! 9999.999 us | }
0) | tty_ldisc_deref() {
0) 0.615 us | _spin_lock_irqsave();
0) 0.616 us | _spin_unlock_irqrestore();
0) 2.793 us | }
0) | current_fs_time() {
0) 0.488 us | current_kernel_time();
0) 0.495 us | timespec_trunc();
0) 2.486 us | }
0) ! 9999.999 us | }
0) ! 9999.999 us | }
0) ! 9999.999 us | }
0) | sys_read() {
0) 0.796 us | fget_light();
0) | vfs_read() {
0) | rw_verify_area() {
0) | security_file_permission() {
0) 0.488 us | cap_file_permission();
0) 1.720 us | }
0) 3. 4 us | }
0) | tty_read() {
0) 0.488 us | tty_paranoia_check();
0) | tty_ldisc_ref_wait() {
0) | tty_ldisc_try() {
0) 0.615 us | _spin_lock_irqsave();
0) 0.615 us | _spin_unlock_irqrestore();
0) 5.436 us | }
0) 6.427 us | }
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: enhance the output of the graph-tracer
This patch applies some ideas of Ingo Molnar and Steven Rostedt.
* Output leaf functions in one line with parenthesis, semicolon and duration
output.
* Add a second column (after cpu) for an overhead sign.
if duration > 100 us, "!"
if duration > 10 us, "+"
else " "
* Print output in us with remaining nanosec: u.n
* Print duration on the right end, following the indentation of the functions.
Use also visual clues: "-" on entry call (no duration to output) and "+" on
return (duration output).
The name of the tracer has been fixed as well: function-branch becomes
function_branch.
Here is an example of the new output:
CPU[000] dequeue_entity() { -
CPU[000] update_curr() { -
CPU[000] update_min_vruntime(); + 0.512 us
CPU[000] } + 1.504 us
CPU[000] clear_buddies(); + 0.481 us
CPU[000] update_min_vruntime(); + 0.504 us
CPU[000] } + 4.557 us
CPU[000] hrtick_update() { -
CPU[000] hrtick_start_fair(); + 0.489 us
CPU[000] } + 1.443 us
CPU[000] + } + 14.655 us
CPU[000] + } + 15.678 us
CPU[000] + } + 16.686 us
CPU[000] msecs_to_jiffies(); + 0.481 us
CPU[000] put_prev_task_fair(); + 0.504 us
CPU[000] pick_next_task_fair(); + 0.482 us
CPU[000] pick_next_task_rt(); + 0.504 us
CPU[000] pick_next_task_fair(); + 0.481 us
CPU[000] pick_next_task_idle(); + 0.489 us
CPU[000] _spin_trylock(); + 0.655 us
CPU[000] _spin_unlock(); + 0.609 us
CPU[000] ------------8<---------- thread bash-2794 ------------8<----------
CPU[000] finish_task_switch() { -
CPU[000] _spin_unlock_irq(); + 0.722 us
CPU[000] } + 2.369 us
CPU[000] ! } + 501972.605 us
CPU[000] ! } + 501973.763 us
CPU[000] copy_from_read_buf() { -
CPU[000] _spin_lock_irqsave(); + 0.670 us
CPU[000] _spin_unlock_irqrestore(); + 0.699 us
CPU[000] copy_to_user() { -
CPU[000] might_fault() { -
CPU[000] __might_sleep(); + 0.503 us
CPU[000] } + 1.632 us
CPU[000] __copy_to_user_ll(); + 0.542 us
CPU[000] } + 3.858 us
CPU[000] tty_audit_add_data() { -
CPU[000] _spin_lock_irq(); + 0.609 us
CPU[000] _spin_unlock_irq(); + 0.624 us
CPU[000] } + 3.196 us
CPU[000] _spin_lock_irqsave(); + 0.624 us
CPU[000] _spin_unlock_irqrestore(); + 0.625 us
CPU[000] + } + 13.611 us
CPU[000] copy_from_read_buf() { -
CPU[000] _spin_lock_irqsave(); + 0.624 us
CPU[000] _spin_unlock_irqrestore(); + 0.616 us
CPU[000] } + 2.820 us
CPU[000]
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: fix divide by zero crash in scheduler rebalance irq
While testing the branch profiler, I hit this crash:
divide error: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
[...]
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8024a008>] [<ffffffff8024a008>] cpu_avg_load_per_task+0x50/0x7f
[...]
Call Trace:
<IRQ> <0> [<ffffffff8024fd43>] find_busiest_group+0x3e5/0xcaa
[<ffffffff8025da75>] rebalance_domains+0x2da/0xa21
[<ffffffff80478769>] ? find_next_bit+0x1b2/0x1e6
[<ffffffff8025e2ce>] run_rebalance_domains+0x112/0x19f
[<ffffffff8026d7c2>] __do_softirq+0xa8/0x232
[<ffffffff8020ea7c>] call_softirq+0x1c/0x3e
[<ffffffff8021047a>] do_softirq+0x94/0x1cd
[<ffffffff8026d5eb>] irq_exit+0x6b/0x10e
[<ffffffff8022e6ec>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0xd3/0xff
[<ffffffff8020e4b3>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x13/0x20
The code for cpu_avg_load_per_task has:
if (rq->nr_running)
rq->avg_load_per_task = rq->load.weight / rq->nr_running;
The runqueue lock is not held here, and there is nothing that prevents
the rq->nr_running from going to zero after it passes the if condition.
The branch profiler simply made the race window bigger.
This patch saves off the rq->nr_running to a local variable and uses that
for both the condition and the division.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: prevent unnecessary stack recursion
if the resched flag was set before we entered, then don't reschedule.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: new "power-tracer" ftrace plugin
This patch adds a C/P-state ftrace plugin that will generate
detailed statistics about the C/P-states that are being used,
so that we can look at detailed decisions that the C/P-state
code is making, rather than the too high level "average"
that we have today.
An example way of using this is:
mount -t debugfs none /sys/kernel/debug
echo cstate > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/current_tracer
echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/tracing_enabled
sleep 1
echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/tracing_enabled
cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace | perl scripts/trace/cstate.pl > out.svg
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: enhancement for function graph tracer
When run on a SMP box, the function graph tracer is confusing because
it shows the different CPUS as changes in the trace.
This patch adds the annotation of 'CPU[###]' where ### is a three digit
number. The output will look similar to this:
CPU[001] dput() {
CPU[000] } 726
CPU[001] } 487
CPU[000] do_softirq() {
CPU[001] } 2221
CPU[000] __do_softirq() {
CPU[000] __local_bh_disable() {
CPU[001] unroll_tree_refs() {
CPU[000] } 569
CPU[001] } 501
CPU[000] rcu_process_callbacks() {
CPU[001] kfree() {
What makes this nice is that now you can grep the file and produce
readable format for a particular CPU.
# cat /debug/tracing/trace > /tmp/trace
# grep '^CPU\[000\]' /tmp/trace > /tmp/trace0
# grep '^CPU\[001\]' /tmp/trace > /tmp/trace1
Will give you:
# head /tmp/trace0
CPU[000] ------------8<---------- thread sshd-3899 ------------8<----------
CPU[000] inotify_dentry_parent_queue_event() {
CPU[000] } 2531
CPU[000] inotify_inode_queue_event() {
CPU[000] } 505
CPU[000] } 69626
CPU[000] } 73089
CPU[000] audit_syscall_exit() {
CPU[000] path_put() {
CPU[000] dput() {
# head /tmp/trace1
CPU[001] ------------8<---------- thread pcscd-3446 ------------8<----------
CPU[001] } 4186
CPU[001] dput() {
CPU[001] } 543
CPU[001] vfs_permission() {
CPU[001] inode_permission() {
CPU[001] shmem_permission() {
CPU[001] generic_permission() {
CPU[001] } 501
CPU[001] } 2205
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: enhancement to function graph tracer
Export the trace_find_cmdline so the function graph tracer can
use it to print the comms of the threads.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: feature
This patch enables function tracing and function return to run together.
I've tested this by enabling the stack tracer and return tracer, where
both the function entry and function return are used together with
dynamic ftrace.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: more efficient code for ftrace graph tracer
This patch uses the dynamic patching, when available, to patch
the function graph code into the kernel.
This patch will ease the way for letting both function tracing
and function graph tracing run together.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: feature to function trace a single thread
This patch adds the ability to function trace a single thread.
The file:
/debugfs/tracing/set_ftrace_pid
contains the pid to trace. Valid pids are any positive integer.
Writing any negative number to this file will disable the pid
tracing and the function tracer will go back to tracing all of
threads.
This feature works with both static and dynamic function tracing.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: feature
This patch sets a C-like output for the function graph tracing.
For this aim, we now call two handler for each function: one on the entry
and one other on return. This way we can draw a well-ordered call stack.
The pid of the previous trace is loosely stored to be compared against
the one of the current trace to see if there were a context switch.
Without this little feature, the call tree would seem broken at
some locations.
We could use the sched_tracer to capture these sched_events but this
way of processing is much more simpler.
2 spaces have been chosen for indentation to fit the screen while deep
calls. The time of execution in nanosecs is printed just after closed
braces, it seems more easy this way to find the corresponding function.
If the time was printed as a first column, it would be not so easy to
find the corresponding function if it is called on a deep depth.
I plan to output the return value but on 32 bits CPU, the return value
can be 32 or 64, and its difficult to guess on which case we are.
I don't know what would be the better solution on X86-32: only print
eax (low-part) or even edx (high-part).
Actually it's thee same problem when a function return a 8 bits value, the
high part of eax could contain junk values...
Here is an example of trace:
sys_read() {
fget_light() {
} 526
vfs_read() {
rw_verify_area() {
security_file_permission() {
cap_file_permission() {
} 519
} 1564
} 2640
do_sync_read() {
pipe_read() {
__might_sleep() {
} 511
pipe_wait() {
prepare_to_wait() {
} 760
deactivate_task() {
dequeue_task() {
dequeue_task_fair() {
dequeue_entity() {
update_curr() {
update_min_vruntime() {
} 504
} 1587
clear_buddies() {
} 512
add_cfs_task_weight() {
} 519
update_min_vruntime() {
} 511
} 5602
dequeue_entity() {
update_curr() {
update_min_vruntime() {
} 496
} 1631
clear_buddies() {
} 496
update_min_vruntime() {
} 527
} 4580
hrtick_update() {
hrtick_start_fair() {
} 488
} 1489
} 13700
} 14949
} 16016
msecs_to_jiffies() {
} 496
put_prev_task_fair() {
} 504
pick_next_task_fair() {
} 489
pick_next_task_rt() {
} 496
pick_next_task_fair() {
} 489
pick_next_task_idle() {
} 489
------------8<---------- thread 4 ------------8<----------
finish_task_switch() {
} 1203
do_softirq() {
__do_softirq() {
__local_bh_disable() {
} 669
rcu_process_callbacks() {
__rcu_process_callbacks() {
cpu_quiet() {
rcu_start_batch() {
} 503
} 1647
} 3128
__rcu_process_callbacks() {
} 542
} 5362
_local_bh_enable() {
} 587
} 8880
} 9986
kthread_should_stop() {
} 669
deactivate_task() {
dequeue_task() {
dequeue_task_fair() {
dequeue_entity() {
update_curr() {
calc_delta_mine() {
} 511
update_min_vruntime() {
} 511
} 2813
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup
This patch changes the name of the "return function tracer" into
function-graph-tracer which is a more suitable name for a tracing
which makes one able to retrieve the ordered call stack during
the code flow.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: add new ftrace plugin
A prototype for a BTS ftrace plug-in.
The tracer collects branch trace in a cyclic buffer for each cpu.
The tracer is not configurable and the trace for each snapshot is
appended when doing cat /debug/tracing/trace.
This is a proof of concept that will be extended with future patches
to become a (hopefully) useful tool.
Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Add a callback to allow an ftrace plug-in to write its own header.
Move the call to trace->open() up a few lines.
The changes are required by the BTS ftrace plug-in.
Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The user_ns is moved from nsproxy to user_struct, so that a struct
cred by itself is sufficient to determine access (which it otherwise
would not be). Corresponding ecryptfs fixes (by David Howells) are
here as well.
Fix refcounting. The following rules now apply:
1. The task pins the user struct.
2. The user struct pins its user namespace.
3. The user namespace pins the struct user which created it.
User namespaces are cloned during copy_creds(). Unsharing a new user_ns
is no longer possible. (We could re-add that, but it'll cause code
duplication and doesn't seem useful if PAM doesn't need to clone user
namespaces).
When a user namespace is created, its first user (uid 0) gets empty
keyrings and a clean group_info.
This incorporates a previous patch by David Howells. Here
is his original patch description:
>I suggest adding the attached incremental patch. It makes the following
>changes:
>
> (1) Provides a current_user_ns() macro to wrap accesses to current's user
> namespace.
>
> (2) Fixes eCryptFS.
>
> (3) Renames create_new_userns() to create_user_ns() to be more consistent
> with the other associated functions and because the 'new' in the name is
> superfluous.
>
> (4) Moves the argument and permission checks made for CLONE_NEWUSER to the
> beginning of do_fork() so that they're done prior to making any attempts
> at allocation.
>
> (5) Calls create_user_ns() after prepare_creds(), and gives it the new creds
> to fill in rather than have it return the new root user. I don't imagine
> the new root user being used for anything other than filling in a cred
> struct.
>
> This also permits me to get rid of a get_uid() and a free_uid(), as the
> reference the creds were holding on the old user_struct can just be
> transferred to the new namespace's creator pointer.
>
> (6) Makes create_user_ns() reset the UIDs and GIDs of the creds under
> preparation rather than doing it in copy_creds().
>
>David
>Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Changelog:
Oct 20: integrate dhowells comments
1. leave thread_keyring alone
2. use current_user_ns() in set_user()
Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Since CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID is in fact translated to -6, the switch
statement in cpu_clock_sample_group() must first mask off the irrelevant
bits, similar to cpu_clock_sample().
Signed-off-by: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
--
posix-cpu-timers.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
Impact: avoid losing some traces when a task is freed
do_exit() is not the last function called when a task finishes.
There are still some functions which are to be called such as
ree_task(). So we delay the freeing of the return stack to the
last moment.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: fix mmiotrace overrun tracing
When ftrace framework moved to use the ring buffer facility, the buffer
overrun detection was broken after 2.6.27 by commit
| commit 3928a8a2d98081d1bc3c0a84a2d70e29b90ecf1c
| Author: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| Date: Mon Sep 29 23:02:41 2008 -0400
|
| ftrace: make work with new ring buffer
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| This patch ports ftrace over to the new ring buffer.
The detection is now fixed by using the ring buffer API.
When mmiotrace detects a buffer overrun, it will report the number of
lost events. People reading an mmiotrace log must know if something was
missed, otherwise the data may not make sense.
Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: fix race
vma->vm_file reference is only stable while holding the mmap_sem,
so move usage of it to within the critical section.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup
User stack tracing is just implemented for x86, but it is not x86 specific.
Introduce a generic config flag, that is currently enabled only for x86.
When other arches implement it, they will have to
SELECT USER_STACKTRACE_SUPPORT.
Signed-off-by: Török Edwin <edwintorok@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: fix refcounting/object-access bug
Hold mmap_sem while looking up/accessing vma.
Hold the RCU lock while using the task we looked up.
Signed-off-by: Török Edwin <edwintorok@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: fix compiler warning
The ftrace_pointers used in the branch profiler are constant values.
They should never change. But the compiler complains when they are
passed into the debugfs_create_file as a data pointer, because the
function discards the qualifier.
This patch typecasts the parameter to debugfs_create_file back to
a void pointer. To remind the callbacks that they are pointing to
a constant value, I also modified the callback local pointers to
be const struct ftrace_pointer * as well.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: add new API to disable all of ftrace on anomalies
It case of a serious anomaly being detected (like something caught by
lockdep) it is a good idea to disable all tracing immediately, without
grabing any locks.
This patch adds ftrace_off_permanent that disables the tracers, function
tracing and ring buffers without a way to enable them again. This should
only be used when something serious has been detected.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: feature to permanently disable ring buffer
This patch adds a API to the ring buffer code that will permanently
disable the ring buffer from ever recording. This should only be
called when some serious anomaly is detected, and the system
may be in an unstable state. When that happens, shutting down the
recording to the ring buffers may be appropriate.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: feature to profile if statements
This patch adds a branch profiler for all if () statements.
The results will be found in:
/debugfs/tracing/profile_branch
For example:
miss hit % Function File Line
------- --------- - -------- ---- ----
0 1 100 x86_64_start_reservations head64.c 127
0 1 100 copy_bootdata head64.c 69
1 0 0 x86_64_start_kernel head64.c 111
32 0 0 set_intr_gate desc.h 319
1 0 0 reserve_ebda_region head.c 51
1 0 0 reserve_ebda_region head.c 47
0 1 100 reserve_ebda_region head.c 42
0 0 X maxcpus main.c 165
Miss means the branch was not taken. Hit means the branch was taken.
The percent is the percentage the branch was taken.
This adds a significant amount of overhead and should only be used
by those analyzing their system.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup on output of branch profiler
When a branch has not been taken, it does not make sense to show
a percentage incorrect or hit. This patch changes the behaviour
to print out a 'X' when the branch has not been executed yet.
For example:
correct incorrect % Function File Line
------- --------- - -------- ---- ----
2096 0 0 do_arch_prctl process_64.c 832
0 0 X do_arch_prctl process_64.c 804
2604 0 0 IS_ERR err.h 34
130228 5765 4 __switch_to process_64.c 673
0 0 X enable_TSC process_64.c 448
0 0 X disable_TSC process_64.c 431
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: clean up to make one profiler of like and unlikely tracer
The likely and unlikely profiler prints out the file and line numbers
of the annotated branches that it is profiling. It shows the number
of times it was correct or incorrect in its guess. Having two
different files or sections for that matter to tell us if it was a
likely or unlikely is pretty pointless. We really only care if
it was correct or not.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
