user/sven/linux.git/kernel/trace/trace_functions.c, branch v3.9.7

tracing: Fix unsigned int compare of zero in recursion check

2013-01-24T12:52:34Z

Dan's smatch found a compare bug with the result of the trace_test_and_set_recursion() and comparing to less than zero. If the function fails, it returns -1, but was saved in an unsigned int, which will never be less than zero and will ignore the result of the test if a recursion did happen. Luckily this is the last of the recursion tests, as the infrastructure of ftrace would catch recursions before it got here, except for some few exceptions. Reported-by: Dan Carpenter Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

ftrace: Use only the preempt version of function tracing

2013-01-23T04:38:02Z

The function tracer had two different versions of function tracing. The disabling of irqs version and the preempt disable version. As function tracing in very intrusive and can cause nasty recursion issues, it has its own recursion protection. But the old method to do this was a flat layer. If it detected that a recursion was happening then it would just return without recording. This made the preempt version (much faster than the irq disabling one) not very useful, because if an interrupt were to occur after the recursion flag was set, the interrupt would not be traced at all, because every function that was traced would think it recursed on itself (due to the context it preempted setting the recursive flag). Now that we have a recursion flag for every context level, we no longer need to worry about that. We can disable preemption, set the current context recursion check bit, and go on. If an interrupt were to come along, it would check its own context bit and happily continue to trace. As the preempt version is faster than the irq disable version, there's no more reason to keep the preempt version around. And the irq disable version still had an issue with missing out on tracing NMI code. Remove the irq disable function tracer version and have the preempt disable version be the default (and only version). Before this patch we had from running: # echo function > /debug/tracing/current_tracer # for i in `seq 10`; do ./hackbench 50; done Time: 12.028 Time: 11.945 Time: 11.925 Time: 11.964 Time: 12.002 Time: 11.910 Time: 11.944 Time: 11.929 Time: 11.941 Time: 11.924 (average: 11.9512) Now we have: # echo function > /debug/tracing/current_tracer # for i in `seq 10`; do ./hackbench 50; done Time: 10.285 Time: 10.407 Time: 10.243 Time: 10.372 Time: 10.380 Time: 10.198 Time: 10.272 Time: 10.354 Time: 10.248 Time: 10.253 (average: 10.3012) a 13.8% savings! Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial

2012-12-13T20:00:02Z

Pull trivial branch from Jiri Kosina: "Usual stuff -- comment/printk typo fixes, documentation updates, dead code elimination." * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (39 commits) HOWTO: fix double words typo x86 mtrr: fix comment typo in mtrr_bp_init propagate name change to comments in kernel source doc: Update the name of profiling based on sysfs treewide: Fix typos in various drivers treewide: Fix typos in various Kconfig wireless: mwifiex: Fix typo in wireless/mwifiex driver messages: i2o: Fix typo in messages/i2o scripts/kernel-doc: check that non-void fcts describe their return value Kernel-doc: Convention: Use a "Return" section to describe return values radeon: Fix typo and copy/paste error in comments doc: Remove unnecessary declarations from Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c various: Fix spelling of "asynchronous" in comments. Fix misspellings of "whether" in comments. eisa: Fix spelling of "asynchronous". various: Fix spelling of "registered" in comments. doc: fix quite a few typos within Documentation target: iscsi: fix comment typos in target/iscsi drivers treewide: fix typo of "suport" in various comments and Kconfig treewide: fix typo of "suppport" in various comments ...

propagate name change to comments in kernel source

2012-12-06T09:39:54Z

I've legally changed my name with New York State, the US Social Security Administration, et al. This patch propagates the name change and change in initials and login to comments in the kernel source as well. Signed-off-by: Nadia Yvette Chambers Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina

tracing: Allow tracers to start at core initcall

2012-10-31T20:45:24Z

There's times during debugging that it is helpful to see traces of early boot functions. But the tracers are initialized at device_initcall() which is quite late during the boot process. Setting the kernel command line parameter ftrace=function will not show anything until the function tracer is initialized. This prevents being able to trace functions before device_initcall(). There's no reason that the tracers need to be initialized so late in the boot process. Move them up to core_initcall() as they still need to come after early_initcall() which initializes the tracing buffers. Cc: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing: Replace strict_strto* with kstrto*

2012-10-31T20:45:23Z

* remove old string conversions with kstrto* Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120926200838.GC1244@0x90.at Signed-off-by: Daniel Walter Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

Merge tag 'for-v3.7' of git://git.infradead.org/users/cbou/linux-pstore

2012-10-07T08:30:50Z

Pull pstore changes from Anton Vorontsov: 1) We no longer ad-hoc to the function tracer "high level" infrastructure and no longer use its debugfs knobs. The change slightly touches kernel/trace directory, but it got the needed ack from Steven Rostedt: http://lkml.org/lkml/2012/8/21/688 2) Added maintainers entry; 3) A bunch of fixes, nothing special. * tag 'for-v3.7' of git://git.infradead.org/users/cbou/linux-pstore: pstore: Avoid recursive spinlocks in the oops_in_progress case pstore/ftrace: Convert to its own enable/disable debugfs knob pstore/ram: Add missing platform_device_unregister MAINTAINERS: Add pstore maintainers pstore/ram: Mark ramoops_pstore_write_buf() as notrace pstore/ram: Fix printk format warning pstore/ram: Fix possible NULL dereference

pstore/ftrace: Convert to its own enable/disable debugfs knob

2012-09-07T05:16:58Z

With this patch we no longer reuse function tracer infrastructure, now we register our own tracer back-end via a debugfs knob. It's a bit more code, but that is the only downside. On the bright side we have: - Ability to make persistent_ram module removable (when needed, we can move ftrace_ops struct into a module). Note that persistent_ram is still not removable for other reasons, but with this patch it's just one thing less to worry about; - Pstore part is more isolated from the generic function tracer. We tried it already by registering our own tracer in available_tracers, but that way we're loosing ability to see the traces while we record them to pstore. This solution is somewhere in the middle: we only register "internal ftracer" back-end, but not the "front-end"; - When there is only pstore tracing enabled, the kernel will only write to the pstore buffer, omitting function tracer buffer (which, of course, still can be enabled via 'echo function > current_tracer'). Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov

Merge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/core

2012-08-21T09:27:00Z

Pull perf/core improvements and fixes from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo: * Fix include order for bison/flex-generated C files, from Ben Hutchings * Build fixes and documentation corrections from David Ahern * Group parsing support, from Jiri Olsa * UI/gtk refactorings and improvements from Namhyung Kim * NULL deref fix for perf script, from Namhyung Kim * Assorted cleanups from Robert Richter * Let O= makes handle relative paths, from Steven Rostedt * perf script python fixes, from Feng Tang. * Improve 'perf lock' error message when the needed tracepoints are not present, from David Ahern. * Initial bash completion support, from Frederic Weisbecker * Allow building without libelf, from Namhyung Kim. * Support DWARF CFI based unwind to have callchains when %bp based unwinding is not possible, from Jiri Olsa. * Symbol resolution fixes, while fixing support PPC64 files with an .opt ELF section was the end goal, several fixes for code that handles all architectures and cleanups are included, from Cody Schafer. * Add a description for the JIT interface, from Andi Kleen. * Assorted fixes for Documentation and build in 32 bit, from Robert Richter * Add support for non-tracepoint events in perf script python, from Feng Tang * Cache the libtraceevent event_format associated to each evsel early, so that we avoid relookups, i.e. calling pevent_find_event repeatedly when processing tracepoint events. [ This is to reduce the surface contact with libtraceevents and make clear what is that the perf tools needs from that lib: so far parsing the common and per event fields. ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

ftrace: Add default recursion protection for function tracing

2012-07-31T14:29:52Z

As more users of the function tracer utility are being added, they do not always add the necessary recursion protection. To protect from function recursion due to tracing, if the callback ftrace_ops does not specifically specify that it protects against recursion (by setting the FTRACE_OPS_FL_RECURSION_SAFE flag), the list operation will be called by the mcount trampoline which adds recursion protection. If the flag is set, then the function will be called directly with no extra protection. Note, the list operation is called if more than one function callback is registered, or if the arch does not support all of the function tracer features. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt