user/sven/linux.git/include/linux/ring_buffer.h, branch v4.9.235

tracing: kdb: Fix ftdump to not sleep

2019-04-05T20:29:05Z

[ Upstream commit 31b265b3baaf55f209229888b7ffea523ddab366 ] As reported back in 2016-11 [1], the "ftdump" kdb command triggers a BUG for "sleeping function called from invalid context". kdb's "ftdump" command wants to call ring_buffer_read_prepare() in atomic context. A very simple solution for this is to add allocation flags to ring_buffer_read_prepare() so kdb can call it without triggering the allocation error. This patch does that. Note that in the original email thread about this, it was suggested that perhaps the solution for kdb was to either preallocate the buffer ahead of time or create our own iterator. I'm hoping that this alternative of adding allocation flags to ring_buffer_read_prepare() can be considered since it means I don't need to duplicate more of the core trace code into "trace_kdb.c" (for either creating my own iterator or re-preparing a ring allocator whose memory was already allocated). NOTE: another option for kdb is to actually figure out how to make it reuse the existing ftrace_dump() function and totally eliminate the duplication. This sounds very appealing and actually works (the "sr z" command can be seen to properly dump the ftrace buffer). The downside here is that ftrace_dump() fully consumes the trace buffer. Unless that is changed I'd rather not use it because it means "ftdump | grep xyz" won't be very useful to search the ftrace buffer since it will throw away the whole trace on the first grep. A future patch to dump only the last few lines of the buffer will also be hard to implement. [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161117191605.GA21459@google.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190308193205.213659-1-dianders@chromium.org Reported-by: Brian Norris Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

ring_buffer: tracing: Inherit the tracing setting to next ring buffer

2018-08-09T10:17:59Z

commit 73c8d8945505acdcbae137c2e00a1232e0be709f upstream. Maintain the tracing on/off setting of the ring_buffer when switching to the trace buffer snapshot. Taking a snapshot is done by swapping the backup ring buffer (max_tr_buffer). But since the tracing on/off setting is defined by the ring buffer, when swapping it, the tracing on/off setting can also be changed. This causes a strange result like below: /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # cat tracing_on 1 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # echo 0 > tracing_on /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # cat tracing_on 0 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # echo 1 > snapshot /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # cat tracing_on 1 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # echo 1 > snapshot /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # cat tracing_on 0 We don't touch tracing_on, but snapshot changes tracing_on setting each time. This is an anomaly, because user doesn't know that each "ring_buffer" stores its own tracing-enable state and the snapshot is done by swapping ring buffers. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/153149929558.11274.11730609978254724394.stgit@devbox Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Shuah Khan Cc: Tom Zanussi Cc: Hiraku Toyooka Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: debdd57f5145 ("tracing: Make a snapshot feature available from userspace") Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu [ Updated commit log and comment in the code ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ring_buffer: ring_buffer_empty{cpu}() can return boolean

2015-11-02T19:23:38Z

Make ring_buffer_empty() and ring_buffer_empty_cpu() return bool. No functional change. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1443537816-5788-5-git-send-email-bywxiaobai@163.com Signed-off-by: Yaowei Bai Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing: Do not busy wait in buffer splice

2014-11-10T21:45:43Z

On a !PREEMPT kernel, attempting to use trace-cmd results in a soft lockup: # trace-cmd record -e raw_syscalls:* -F false NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 22s! [trace-cmd:61] ... Call Trace: [] ? __wake_up_common+0x90/0x90 [] wait_on_pipe+0x35/0x40 [] tracing_buffers_splice_read+0x2e3/0x3c0 [] ? tracing_stats_read+0x2a0/0x2a0 [] ? _raw_spin_unlock+0x2b/0x40 [] ? do_read_fault+0x21b/0x290 [] ? handle_mm_fault+0x2ba/0xbd0 [] ? trace_event_buffer_lock_reserve+0x40/0x80 [] ? trace_buffer_lock_reserve+0x22/0x60 [] ? trace_event_buffer_lock_reserve+0x40/0x80 [] do_splice_to+0x6d/0x90 [] SyS_splice+0x7c1/0x800 [] tracesys_phase2+0xd3/0xd8 The problem is this: tracing_buffers_splice_read() calls ring_buffer_wait() to wait for data in the ring buffers. The buffers are not empty so ring_buffer_wait() returns immediately. But tracing_buffers_splice_read() calls ring_buffer_read_page() with full=1, meaning it only wants to read a full page. When the full page is not available, tracing_buffers_splice_read() tries to wait again with ring_buffer_wait(), which again returns immediately, and so on. Fix this by adding a "full" argument to ring_buffer_wait() which will make ring_buffer_wait() wait until the writer has left the reader's page, i.e. until full-page reads will succeed. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1415645194-25379-1-git-send-email-rabin@rab.in Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.16+ Fixes: b1169cc69ba9 ("tracing: Remove mock up poll wait function") Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

ring-buffer: Check if buffer exists before polling

2014-06-10T13:46:00Z

The per_cpu buffers are created one per possible CPU. But these do not mean that those CPUs are online, nor do they even exist. With the addition of the ring buffer polling, it assumes that the caller polls on an existing buffer. But this is not the case if the user reads trace_pipe from a CPU that does not exist, and this causes the kernel to crash. Simple fix is to check the cpu against buffer bitmask against to see if the buffer was allocated or not and return -ENODEV if it is not. More updates were done to pass the -ENODEV back up to userspace. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5393DB61.6060707@oracle.com Reported-by: Sasha Levin Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.10+ Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing/ring-buffer: Move poll wake ups into ring buffer code

2013-03-15T04:34:50Z

Move the logic to wake up on ring buffer data into the ring buffer code itself. This simplifies the tracing code a lot and also has the added benefit that waiters on one of the instance buffers can be woken only when data is added to that instance instead of data added to any instance. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

ring-buffer: Add stats field for amount read from trace ring buffer

2013-01-30T16:01:53Z

Add a stat about the number of events read from the ring buffer: # cat /debug/tracing/per_cpu/cpu0/stats entries: 39869 overrun: 870512 commit overrun: 0 bytes: 1449912 oldest event ts: 6561.368690 now ts: 6565.246426 dropped events: 0 read events: 112 <-- Added Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

ring-buffer: Change unsigned long type of ring_buffer_oldest_event_ts() to u64

2012-11-02T14:21:48Z

ring_buffer_oldest_event_ts() should return a value of u64 type, because ring_buffer_per_cpu->buffer_page->buffer_data_page->time_stamp is u64 type. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1349998076-15495-5-git-send-email-dhsharp@google.com Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Vaibhav Nagarnaik Signed-off-by: Yoshihiro YUNOMAE Signed-off-by: David Sharp Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

ring-buffer: Add a 'dropped events' counter

2012-10-31T20:45:27Z

The existing 'overrun' counter is incremented when the ring buffer wraps around, with overflow on (the default). We wanted a way to count requests lost from the buffer filling up with overflow off, too. I decided to add a new counter instead of retro-fitting the existing one because it seems like a different statistic to count conceptually, and also because of how the code was structured. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1310765038-26399-1-git-send-email-slavapestov@google.com Signed-off-by: Slava Pestov Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

ring-buffer: Add per_cpu ring buffer control files

2012-04-24T01:17:51Z

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 Cc: Michael Rubin Cc: David Sharp Cc: Justin Teravest Signed-off-by: Vaibhav Nagarnaik Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt