user/sven/linux.git/kernel/trace/trace.h, branch v3.12.27

ring-buffer: Check if buffer exists before polling

2014-07-18T13:51:30Z

commit 8b8b36834d0fff67fc8668093f4312dd04dcf21d upstream. 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 Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby

Merge tag 'trace-3.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace

2013-09-09T21:42:15Z

Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt: "Not much changes for the 3.12 merge window. The major tracing changes are still in flux, and will have to wait for 3.13. The changes for 3.12 are mostly clean ups and minor fixes. H Peter Anvin added a check to x86_32 static function tracing that helps a small segment of the kernel community. Oleg Nesterov had a few changes from 3.11, but were mostly clean ups and not worth pushing in the -rc time frame. Li Zefan had small clean up with annotating a raw_init with __init. I fixed a slight race in updating function callbacks, but the race is so small and the bug that happens when it occurs is so minor it's not even worth pushing to stable. The only real enhancement is from Alexander Z Lam that made the tracing_cpumask work for trace buffer instances, instead of them all sharing a global cpumask" * tag 'trace-3.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: ftrace/rcu: Do not trace debug_lockdep_rcu_enabled() x86-32, ftrace: Fix static ftrace when early microcode is enabled ftrace: Fix a slight race in modifying what function callback gets traced tracing: Make tracing_cpumask available for all instances tracing: Kill the !CONFIG_MODULES code in trace_events.c tracing: Don't pass file_operations array to event_create_dir() tracing: Kill trace_create_file_ops() and friends tracing/syscalls: Annotate raw_init function with __init

Merge branch 'rcu/next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu into core/rcu

2013-09-03T05:41:11Z

Pull RCU updates from Paul E. McKenney: " * Update RCU documentation. These were posted to LKML at https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/8/19/611. * Miscellaneous fixes. These were posted to LKML at https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/8/19/619. * Full-system idle detection. This is for use by Frederic Weisbecker's adaptive-ticks mechanism. Its purpose is to allow the timekeeping CPU to shut off its tick when all other CPUs are idle. These were posted to LKML at https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/8/19/648. * Improve rcutorture test coverage. These were posted to LKML at https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/8/19/675. " Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

tracing: Make tracing_cpumask available for all instances

2013-08-22T16:45:24Z

Allow tracer instances to disable tracing by cpu by moving the static global tracing_cpumask into trace_array. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/921622317f239bfc2283cac2242647801ef584f2.1375980149.git.azl@google.com Cc: Vaibhav Nagarnaik Cc: David Sharp Cc: Alexander Z Lam Signed-off-by: Alexander Z Lam Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing: Add __tracepoint_string() to export string pointers

2013-07-26T17:39:44Z

There are several tracepoints (mostly in RCU), that reference a string pointer and uses the print format of "%s" to display the string that exists in the kernel, instead of copying the actual string to the ring buffer (saves time and ring buffer space). But this has an issue with userspace tools that read the binary buffers that has the address of the string but has no access to what the string itself is. The end result is just output that looks like: rcu_dyntick: ffffffff818adeaa 1 0 rcu_dyntick: ffffffff818adeb5 0 140000000000000 rcu_dyntick: ffffffff818adeb5 0 140000000000000 rcu_utilization: ffffffff8184333b rcu_utilization: ffffffff8184333b The above is pretty useless when read by the userspace tools. Ideally we would want something that looks like this: rcu_dyntick: Start 1 0 rcu_dyntick: End 0 140000000000000 rcu_dyntick: Start 140000000000000 0 rcu_callback: rcu_preempt rhp=0xffff880037aff710 func=put_cred_rcu 0/4 rcu_callback: rcu_preempt rhp=0xffff880078961980 func=file_free_rcu 0/5 rcu_dyntick: End 0 1 The trace_printk() which also only stores the address of the string format instead of recording the string into the buffer itself, exports the mapping of kernel addresses to format strings via the printk_format file in the debugfs tracing directory. The tracepoint strings can use this same method and output the format to the same file and the userspace tools will be able to decipher the address without any modification. The tracepoint strings need its own section to save the strings because the trace_printk section will cause the trace_printk() buffers to be allocated if anything exists within the section. trace_printk() is only used for debugging and should never exist in the kernel, we can not use the trace_printk sections. Add a new tracepoint_str section that will also be examined by the output of the printk_format file. Cc: Paul E. McKenney Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing: Kill trace_cpu struct/members

2013-07-24T15:22:53Z

After the previous changes trace_array_cpu->trace_cpu and trace_array->trace_cpu becomes write-only. Remove these members and kill "struct trace_cpu" as well. As a side effect this also removes memset(per_cpu_memory, 0). It was not needed, alloc_percpu() returns zero-filled memory. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130723152613.GA23741@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing: Kill trace_array->waiter

2013-07-19T14:56:02Z

Trivial. trace_array->waiter has no users since 6eaaa5d5 "tracing/core: use appropriate waiting on trace_pipe". Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130719142036.GA1594@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing: Add ref_data to function and fgraph tracer structs

2013-07-19T01:31:31Z

The selftest for function and function graph tracers are defined as __init, as they are only executed at boot up. The "tracer" structs that are associated to those tracers are not setup as __init as they are used after boot. To stop mismatch warnings, those structures need to be annotated with __ref_data. Currently, the tracer structures are defined to __read_mostly, as they do not really change. But in the future they should be converted to consts, but that will take a little work because they have a "next" pointer that gets updated when they are registered. That will have to wait till the next major release. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1373596735.17876.84.camel@gandalf.local.home Reported-by: kbuild test robot Reported-by: Chen Gang Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

Merge tag 'trace-3.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace

2013-07-11T16:02:09Z

Pull tracing changes from Steven Rostedt: "The majority of the changes here are cleanups for the large changes that were added to 3.10, which includes several bug fixes that have been marked for stable. As for new features, there were a few, but nothing to write to LWN about. These include: New function trigger called "dump" and "cpudump" that will cause ftrace to dump its buffer to the console when the function is called. The difference between "dump" and "cpudump" is that "dump" will dump the entire contents of the ftrace buffer, where as "cpudump" will only dump the contents of the ftrace buffer for the CPU that called the function. Another small enhancement is a new sysctl switch called "traceoff_on_warning" which, when enabled, will disable tracing if any WARN_ON() is triggered. This is useful if you want to debug what caused a warning and do not want to risk losing your trace data by the ring buffer overwriting the data before you can disable it. There's also a kernel command line option that will make this enabled at boot up called the same thing" * tag 'trace-3.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (34 commits) tracing: Make tracing_open_generic_{tr,tc}() static tracing: Remove ftrace() function tracing: Remove TRACE_EVENT_TYPE enum definition tracing: Make tracer_tracing_{off,on,is_on}() static tracing: Fix irqs-off tag display in syscall tracing uprobes: Fix return value in error handling path tracing: Fix race between deleting buffer and setting events tracing: Add trace_array_get/put() to event handling tracing: Get trace_array ref counts when accessing trace files tracing: Add trace_array_get/put() to handle instance refs better tracing: Protect ftrace_trace_arrays list in trace_events.c tracing: Make trace_marker use the correct per-instance buffer ftrace: Do not run selftest if command line parameter is set tracing/kprobes: Don't pass addr=ip to perf_trace_buf_submit() tracing: Use flag buffer_disabled for irqsoff tracer tracing/kprobes: Turn trace_probe->files into list_head tracing: Fix disabling of soft disable tracing: Add missing syscall_metadata comment tracing: Simplify code for showing of soft disabled flag tracing/kprobes: Kill probe_enable_lock ...

tracing: Remove ftrace() function

2013-07-03T00:42:32Z

The only caller of function ftrace(...) was removed a long time ago, so remove the function body as well. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1365564393-10972-10-git-send-email-jovi.zhangwei@huawei.com Signed-off-by: zhangwei(Jovi) Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt