user/sven/linux.git/kernel/trace/trace.h, branch v5.9.1

ftrace: Fix ftrace_trace_task return value

2020-08-03T20:12:31Z

I was attempting to use pid filtering with function_graph, but it wasn't allowing anything to make it through. Turns out ftrace_trace_task returns false if ftrace_ignore_pid is not-empty, which isn't correct anymore. We're now setting it to FTRACE_PID_IGNORE if we need to ignore that pid, otherwise it's set to the pid (which is weird considering the name) or to FTRACE_PID_TRACE. Fix the check to check for != FTRACE_PID_IGNORE. With this we can now use function_graph with pid filtering. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200725005048.1790-1-josef@toxicpanda.com Fixes: 717e3f5ebc82 ("ftrace: Make function trace pid filtering a bit more exact") Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

tracing: Move pipe reference to trace array instead of current_tracer

2020-06-30T18:29:33Z

If a process has the trace_pipe open on a trace_array, the current tracer for that trace array should not be changed. This was original enforced by a global lock, but when instances were introduced, it was moved to the current_trace. But this structure is shared by all instances, and a trace_pipe is for a single instance. There's no reason that a process that has trace_pipe open on one instance should prevent another instance from changing its current tracer. Move the reference counter to the trace_array instead. This is marked as "Fixes" but is more of a clean up than a true fix. Backport if you want, but its not critical. Fixes: cf6ab6d9143b1 ("tracing: Add ref count to tracer for when they are being read by pipe") Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

tracing: Make ftrace packed events have align of 1

2020-06-17T01:21:02Z

When using trace-cmd on 5.6-rt for the function graph tracer, the output was corrupted. It gave output like this: funcgraph_entry: func=0xffffffff depth=38982 funcgraph_entry: func=0x1ffffffff depth=16044 funcgraph_exit: func=0xffffffff overrun=0x92539aaf00000000 calltime=0x92539c9900000072 rettime=0x100000072 depth=11084 funcgraph_exit: func=0xffffffff overrun=0x9253946e00000000 calltime=0x92539e2100000072 rettime=0x72 depth=26033702 funcgraph_entry: func=0xffffffff depth=85798 funcgraph_entry: func=0x1ffffffff depth=12044 The reason was because the tracefs/events/ftrace/funcgraph_entry/exit format file was incorrect. The -rt kernel adds more common fields to the trace events. Namely, common_migrate_disable and common_preempt_lazy_count. Each is one byte in size. This changes the alignment of the normal payload. Most events are aligned normally, but the function and function graph events are defined with a "PACKED" macro, that packs their payload. As the offsets displayed in the format files are now calculated by an aligned field, the aligned field for function and function graph events should be 1, not their normal alignment. With aligning of the funcgraph_entry event, the format file has: field:unsigned short common_type; offset:0; size:2; signed:0; field:unsigned char common_flags; offset:2; size:1; signed:0; field:unsigned char common_preempt_count; offset:3; size:1; signed:0; field:int common_pid; offset:4; size:4; signed:1; field:unsigned char common_migrate_disable; offset:8; size:1; signed:0; field:unsigned char common_preempt_lazy_count; offset:9; size:1; signed:0; field:unsigned long func; offset:16; size:8; signed:0; field:int depth; offset:24; size:4; signed:1; But the actual alignment is: field:unsigned short common_type; offset:0; size:2; signed:0; field:unsigned char common_flags; offset:2; size:1; signed:0; field:unsigned char common_preempt_count; offset:3; size:1; signed:0; field:int common_pid; offset:4; size:4; signed:1; field:unsigned char common_migrate_disable; offset:8; size:1; signed:0; field:unsigned char common_preempt_lazy_count; offset:9; size:1; signed:0; field:unsigned long func; offset:12; size:8; signed:0; field:int depth; offset:20; size:4; signed:1; Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200609220041.2a3b527f@oasis.local.home Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 04ae87a52074e ("ftrace: Rework event_create_dir()") Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

tracing: Add hist_debug trace event files for histogram debugging

2020-06-01T12:22:30Z

Add a new "hist_debug" file for each trace event, which when read will dump out a bunch of internal details about the hist triggers defined on that event. This is normally off but can be enabled by saying 'y' to the new CONFIG_HIST_TRIGGERS_DEBUG config option. This is in support of the new Documentation file describing histogram internals, Documentation/trace/histogram-design.rst, which was requested by developers trying to understand the internals when extending or making use of the hist triggers for higher-level tools. The histogram-design.rst documentation refers to the hist_debug files and demonstrates their use with output in the test examples. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/77914c22b0ba493d9783c53bbfbc6087d6a7e1b1.1585941485.git.zanussi@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

tracing: Create set_event_notrace_pid to not trace tasks

2020-03-27T20:39:02Z

There's currently a way to select a task that should only have its events traced, but there's no way to select a task not to have itsevents traced. Add a set_event_notrace_pid file that acts the same as set_event_pid (and is also affected by event-fork), but the task pids in this file will not be traced even if they are listed in the set_event_pid file. This makes it easy for tools like trace-cmd to "hide" itself from beint traced by events when it is recording other tasks. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

ftrace: Create set_ftrace_notrace_pid to not trace tasks

2020-03-27T20:39:02Z

There's currently a way to select a task that should only be traced by functions, but there's no way to select a task not to be traced by the function tracer. Add a set_ftrace_notrace_pid file that acts the same as set_ftrace_pid (and is also affected by function-fork), but the task pids in this file will not be traced even if they are listed in the set_ftrace_pid file. This makes it easy for tools like trace-cmd to "hide" itself from the function tracer when it is recording other tasks. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

ftrace: Make function trace pid filtering a bit more exact

2020-03-27T20:39:02Z

The set_ftrace_pid file is used to filter function tracing to only trace tasks that are listed in that file. Instead of testing the pids listed in that file (it's a bitmask) at each function trace event, the logic is done via a sched_switch hook. A flag is set when the next task to run is in the list of pids in the set_ftrace_pid file. But the sched_switch hook is not at the exact location of when the task switches, and the flag gets set before the task to be traced actually runs. This leaves a residue of traced functions that do not belong to the pid that should be filtered on. By changing the logic slightly, where instead of having a boolean flag to test, record the pid that should be traced, with special values for not to trace and always trace. Then at each function call, a check will be made to see if the function should be ignored, or if the current pid matches the function that should be traced, and only trace if it matches (or if it has the special value to always trace). Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

tracing: Do not disable tracing when reading the trace file

2020-03-27T20:39:01Z

When opening the "trace" file, it is no longer necessary to disable tracing. Note, a new option is created called "pause-on-trace", when set, will cause the trace file to emulate its original behavior. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200317213416.903351225@goodmis.org Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

tracing: Remove unused TRACE_BUFFER bits

2020-03-03T22:34:02Z

Commit 567cd4da54ff ("ring-buffer: User context bit recursion checking") added the TRACE_BUFFER bits to be used in the current task's trace_recursion field. But the final submission of the logic removed the use of those bits, but never removed the bits themselves (they were never used in upstream Linux). These can be safely removed. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

Merge tag 'trace-v5.6-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace

2020-02-06T07:12:11Z

Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt: - Added new "bootconfig". This looks for a file appended to initrd to add boot config options, and has been discussed thoroughly at Linux Plumbers. Very useful for adding kprobes at bootup. Only enabled if "bootconfig" is on the real kernel command line. - Created dynamic event creation. Merges common code between creating synthetic events and kprobe events. - Rename perf "ring_buffer" structure to "perf_buffer" - Rename ftrace "ring_buffer" structure to "trace_buffer" Had to rename existing "trace_buffer" to "array_buffer" - Allow trace_printk() to work withing (some) tracing code. - Sort of tracing configs to be a little better organized - Fixed bug where ftrace_graph hash was not being protected properly - Various other small fixes and clean ups * tag 'trace-v5.6-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (88 commits) bootconfig: Show the number of nodes on boot message tools/bootconfig: Show the number of bootconfig nodes bootconfig: Add more parse error messages bootconfig: Use bootconfig instead of boot config ftrace: Protect ftrace_graph_hash with ftrace_sync ftrace: Add comment to why rcu_dereference_sched() is open coded tracing: Annotate ftrace_graph_notrace_hash pointer with __rcu tracing: Annotate ftrace_graph_hash pointer with __rcu bootconfig: Only load bootconfig if "bootconfig" is on the kernel cmdline tracing: Use seq_buf for building dynevent_cmd string tracing: Remove useless code in dynevent_arg_pair_add() tracing: Remove check_arg() callbacks from dynevent args tracing: Consolidate some synth_event_trace code tracing: Fix now invalid var_ref_vals assumption in trace action tracing: Change trace_boot to use synth_event interface tracing: Move tracing selftests to bottom of menu tracing: Move mmio tracer config up with the other tracers tracing: Move tracing test module configs together tracing: Move all function tracing configs together tracing: Documentation for in-kernel synthetic event API ...