user/sven/linux.git/kernel/trace/trace_output.c, branch v6.1.12

tracing: Make sure trace_printk() can output as soon as it can be used

2023-02-01T07:34:37Z

commit 3bb06eb6e9acf7c4a3e1b5bc87aed398ff8e2253 upstream. Currently trace_printk() can be used as soon as early_trace_init() is called from start_kernel(). But if a crash happens, and "ftrace_dump_on_oops" is set on the kernel command line, all you get will be: [ 0.456075] -0 0dN.2. 347519us : Unknown type 6 [ 0.456075] -0 0dN.2. 353141us : Unknown type 6 [ 0.456075] -0 0dN.2. 358684us : Unknown type 6 This is because the trace_printk() event (type 6) hasn't been registered yet. That gets done via an early_initcall(), which may be early, but not early enough. Instead of registering the trace_printk() event (and other ftrace events, which are not trace events) via an early_initcall(), have them registered at the same time that trace_printk() can be used. This way, if there is a crash before early_initcall(), then the trace_printk()s will actually be useful. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230104161412.019f6c55@gandalf.local.home Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Fixes: e725c731e3bb1 ("tracing: Split tracing initialization into two for early initialization") Reported-by: "Joel Fernandes (Google)" Tested-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tracing: Remove usage of list iterator after the loop body

2022-04-27T21:19:30Z

In preparation to limit the scope of the list iterator variable to the traversal loop, use a dedicated pointer to point to the found element [1]. Before, the code implicitly used the head when no element was found when using &pos->list. Since the new variable is only set if an element was found, the head needs to be used explicitly if the variable is NULL. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220427170734.819891-2-jakobkoschel@gmail.com Cc: Ingo Molnar Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wgRr_D8CB-D9Kg-c=EHreAsk5SqXPwr9Y7k9sA6cWXJ6w@mail.gmail.com/ [1] Signed-off-by: Jakob Koschel Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google)

tracing: Use WARN instead of printk and WARN_ON

2022-04-26T21:58:52Z

Use `WARN(cond, ...)` instead of `if (cond)` + `printk(...)` + `WARN_ON(1)`. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220424131932.3606-1-guozhengkui@vivo.com Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Guo Zhengkui Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google)

tracing: Account bottom half disabled sections.

2022-01-13T21:23:04Z

Disabling only bottom halves via local_bh_disable() disables also preemption but this remains invisible to tracing. On a CONFIG_PREEMPT kernel one might wonder why there is no scheduling happening despite the N flag in the trace. The reason might be the a rcu_read_lock_bh() section. Add a 'b' to the tracing output if in task context with disabled bottom halves. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YbcbtdtC/bjCKo57@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing: Show kretprobe unknown indicator only for kretprobe_trampoline

2021-10-01T01:24:08Z

ftrace shows "[unknown/kretprobe'd]" indicator all addresses in the kretprobe_trampoline, but the modified address by kretprobe should be only kretprobe_trampoline+0. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/163163056044.489837.794883849706638013.stgit@devnote2 Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) Tested-by: Andrii Nakryiko Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

kprobes: treewide: Make it harder to refer kretprobe_trampoline directly

2021-10-01T01:24:06Z

Since now there is kretprobe_trampoline_addr() for referring the address of kretprobe trampoline code, we don't need to access kretprobe_trampoline directly. Make it harder to refer by renaming it to __kretprobe_trampoline(). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/163163045446.489837.14510577516938803097.stgit@devnote2 Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

tracing: Add migrate-disabled counter to tracing output.

2021-09-03T23:42:35Z

migrate_disable() forbids task migration to another CPU. It is available since v5.11 and has already users such as highmem or BPF. It is useful to observe this task state in tracing which already has other states like the preemption counter. Instead of adding the migrate disable counter as a new entry to struct trace_entry, which would extend the whole struct by four bytes, it is squashed into the preempt-disable counter. The lower four bits represent the preemption counter, the upper four bits represent the migrate disable counter. Both counter shouldn't exceed 15 but if they do, there is a safety net which caps the value at 15. Add the migrate-disable counter to the trace entry so it shows up in the trace. Due to the users mentioned above, it is already possible to observe it: | bash-1108 [000] ...21 73.950578: rss_stat: mm_id=2213312838 curr=0 type=MM_ANONPAGES size=8192B | bash-1108 [000] d..31 73.951222: irq_disable: caller=flush_tlb_mm_range+0x115/0x130 parent=ptep_clear_flush+0x42/0x50 | bash-1108 [000] d..31 73.951222: tlb_flush: pages:1 reason:local mm shootdown (3) The last value is the migrate-disable counter. Things that popped up: - trace_print_lat_context() does not print the migrate counter. Not sure if it should. It is used in "verbose" mode and uses 8 digits and I'm not sure ther is something processing the value. - trace_define_common_fields() now defines a different variable. This probably breaks things. No ide what to do in order to preserve the old behaviour. Since this is used as a filter it should be split somehow to be able to match both nibbles here. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210810132625.ylssabmsrkygokuv@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner [bigeasy: patch description.] Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior [ SDR: Removed change to common_preempt_count field name ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

trace: Add timerlat tracer

2021-06-25T23:57:24Z

The timerlat tracer aims to help the preemptive kernel developers to found souces of wakeup latencies of real-time threads. Like cyclictest, the tracer sets a periodic timer that wakes up a thread. The thread then computes a *wakeup latency* value as the difference between the *current time* and the *absolute time* that the timer was set to expire. The main goal of timerlat is tracing in such a way to help kernel developers. Usage Write the ASCII text "timerlat" into the current_tracer file of the tracing system (generally mounted at /sys/kernel/tracing). For example: [root@f32 ~]# cd /sys/kernel/tracing/ [root@f32 tracing]# echo timerlat > current_tracer It is possible to follow the trace by reading the trace trace file: [root@f32 tracing]# cat trace # tracer: timerlat # # _-----=> irqs-off # / _----=> need-resched # | / _---=> hardirq/softirq # || / _--=> preempt-depth # || / # |||| ACTIVATION # TASK-PID CPU# |||| TIMESTAMP ID CONTEXT LATENCY # | | | |||| | | | | -0 [000] d.h1 54.029328: #1 context irq timer_latency 932 ns <...>-867 [000] .... 54.029339: #1 context thread timer_latency 11700 ns -0 [001] dNh1 54.029346: #1 context irq timer_latency 2833 ns <...>-868 [001] .... 54.029353: #1 context thread timer_latency 9820 ns -0 [000] d.h1 54.030328: #2 context irq timer_latency 769 ns <...>-867 [000] .... 54.030330: #2 context thread timer_latency 3070 ns -0 [001] d.h1 54.030344: #2 context irq timer_latency 935 ns <...>-868 [001] .... 54.030347: #2 context thread timer_latency 4351 ns The tracer creates a per-cpu kernel thread with real-time priority that prints two lines at every activation. The first is the *timer latency* observed at the *hardirq* context before the activation of the thread. The second is the *timer latency* observed by the thread, which is the same level that cyclictest reports. The ACTIVATION ID field serves to relate the *irq* execution to its respective *thread* execution. The irq/thread splitting is important to clarify at which context the unexpected high value is coming from. The *irq* context can be delayed by hardware related actions, such as SMIs, NMIs, IRQs or by a thread masking interrupts. Once the timer happens, the delay can also be influenced by blocking caused by threads. For example, by postponing the scheduler execution via preempt_disable(), by the scheduler execution, or by masking interrupts. Threads can also be delayed by the interference from other threads and IRQs. The timerlat can also take advantage of the osnoise: traceevents. For example: [root@f32 ~]# cd /sys/kernel/tracing/ [root@f32 tracing]# echo timerlat > current_tracer [root@f32 tracing]# echo osnoise > set_event [root@f32 tracing]# echo 25 > osnoise/stop_tracing_total_us [root@f32 tracing]# tail -10 trace cc1-87882 [005] d..h... 548.771078: #402268 context irq timer_latency 1585 ns cc1-87882 [005] dNLh1.. 548.771082: irq_noise: local_timer:236 start 548.771077442 duration 4597 ns cc1-87882 [005] dNLh2.. 548.771083: irq_noise: reschedule:253 start 548.771083017 duration 56 ns cc1-87882 [005] dNLh2.. 548.771086: irq_noise: call_function_single:251 start 548.771083811 duration 2048 ns cc1-87882 [005] dNLh2.. 548.771088: irq_noise: call_function_single:251 start 548.771086814 duration 1495 ns cc1-87882 [005] dNLh2.. 548.771091: irq_noise: call_function_single:251 start 548.771089194 duration 1558 ns cc1-87882 [005] dNLh2.. 548.771094: irq_noise: call_function_single:251 start 548.771091719 duration 1932 ns cc1-87882 [005] dNLh2.. 548.771096: irq_noise: call_function_single:251 start 548.771094696 duration 1050 ns cc1-87882 [005] d...3.. 548.771101: thread_noise: cc1:87882 start 548.771078243 duration 10909 ns timerlat/5-1035 [005] ....... 548.771103: #402268 context thread timer_latency 25960 ns For further information see: Documentation/trace/timerlat-tracer.rst Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/71f18efc013e1194bcaea1e54db957de2b19ba62.1624372313.git.bristot@redhat.com Cc: Phil Auld Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Cc: Kate Carcia Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Alexandre Chartre Cc: Clark Willaims Cc: John Kacur Cc: Juri Lelli Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: x86@kernel.org Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

trace: Add osnoise tracer

2021-06-25T23:57:01Z

In the context of high-performance computing (HPC), the Operating System Noise (*osnoise*) refers to the interference experienced by an application due to activities inside the operating system. In the context of Linux, NMIs, IRQs, SoftIRQs, and any other system thread can cause noise to the system. Moreover, hardware-related jobs can also cause noise, for example, via SMIs. The osnoise tracer leverages the hwlat_detector by running a similar loop with preemption, SoftIRQs and IRQs enabled, thus allowing all the sources of *osnoise* during its execution. Using the same approach of hwlat, osnoise takes note of the entry and exit point of any source of interferences, increasing a per-cpu interference counter. The osnoise tracer also saves an interference counter for each source of interference. The interference counter for NMI, IRQs, SoftIRQs, and threads is increased anytime the tool observes these interferences' entry events. When a noise happens without any interference from the operating system level, the hardware noise counter increases, pointing to a hardware-related noise. In this way, osnoise can account for any source of interference. At the end of the period, the osnoise tracer prints the sum of all noise, the max single noise, the percentage of CPU available for the thread, and the counters for the noise sources. Usage Write the ASCII text "osnoise" into the current_tracer file of the tracing system (generally mounted at /sys/kernel/tracing). For example:: [root@f32 ~]# cd /sys/kernel/tracing/ [root@f32 tracing]# echo osnoise > current_tracer It is possible to follow the trace by reading the trace trace file:: [root@f32 tracing]# cat trace # tracer: osnoise # # _-----=> irqs-off # / _----=> need-resched # | / _---=> hardirq/softirq # || / _--=> preempt-depth MAX # || / SINGLE Interference counters: # |||| RUNTIME NOISE % OF CPU NOISE +-----------------------------+ # TASK-PID CPU# |||| TIMESTAMP IN US IN US AVAILABLE IN US HW NMI IRQ SIRQ THREAD # | | | |||| | | | | | | | | | | <...>-859 [000] .... 81.637220: 1000000 190 99.98100 9 18 0 1007 18 1 <...>-860 [001] .... 81.638154: 1000000 656 99.93440 74 23 0 1006 16 3 <...>-861 [002] .... 81.638193: 1000000 5675 99.43250 202 6 0 1013 25 21 <...>-862 [003] .... 81.638242: 1000000 125 99.98750 45 1 0 1011 23 0 <...>-863 [004] .... 81.638260: 1000000 1721 99.82790 168 7 0 1002 49 41 <...>-864 [005] .... 81.638286: 1000000 263 99.97370 57 6 0 1006 26 2 <...>-865 [006] .... 81.638302: 1000000 109 99.98910 21 3 0 1006 18 1 <...>-866 [007] .... 81.638326: 1000000 7816 99.21840 107 8 0 1016 39 19 In addition to the regular trace fields (from TASK-PID to TIMESTAMP), the tracer prints a message at the end of each period for each CPU that is running an osnoise/CPU thread. The osnoise specific fields report: - The RUNTIME IN USE reports the amount of time in microseconds that the osnoise thread kept looping reading the time. - The NOISE IN US reports the sum of noise in microseconds observed by the osnoise tracer during the associated runtime. - The % OF CPU AVAILABLE reports the percentage of CPU available for the osnoise thread during the runtime window. - The MAX SINGLE NOISE IN US reports the maximum single noise observed during the runtime window. - The Interference counters display how many each of the respective interference happened during the runtime window. Note that the example above shows a high number of HW noise samples. The reason being is that this sample was taken on a virtual machine, and the host interference is detected as a hardware interference. Tracer options The tracer has a set of options inside the osnoise directory, they are: - osnoise/cpus: CPUs at which a osnoise thread will execute. - osnoise/period_us: the period of the osnoise thread. - osnoise/runtime_us: how long an osnoise thread will look for noise. - osnoise/stop_tracing_us: stop the system tracing if a single noise higher than the configured value happens. Writing 0 disables this option. - osnoise/stop_tracing_total_us: stop the system tracing if total noise higher than the configured value happens. Writing 0 disables this option. - tracing_threshold: the minimum delta between two time() reads to be considered as noise, in us. When set to 0, the default value will be used, which is currently 5 us. Additional Tracing In addition to the tracer, a set of tracepoints were added to facilitate the identification of the osnoise source. - osnoise:sample_threshold: printed anytime a noise is higher than the configurable tolerance_ns. - osnoise:nmi_noise: noise from NMI, including the duration. - osnoise:irq_noise: noise from an IRQ, including the duration. - osnoise:softirq_noise: noise from a SoftIRQ, including the duration. - osnoise:thread_noise: noise from a thread, including the duration. Note that all the values are *net values*. For example, if while osnoise is running, another thread preempts the osnoise thread, it will start a thread_noise duration at the start. Then, an IRQ takes place, preempting the thread_noise, starting a irq_noise. When the IRQ ends its execution, it will compute its duration, and this duration will be subtracted from the thread_noise, in such a way as to avoid the double accounting of the IRQ execution. This logic is valid for all sources of noise. Here is one example of the usage of these tracepoints:: osnoise/8-961 [008] d.h. 5789.857532: irq_noise: local_timer:236 start 5789.857529929 duration 1845 ns osnoise/8-961 [008] dNh. 5789.858408: irq_noise: local_timer:236 start 5789.858404871 duration 2848 ns migration/8-54 [008] d... 5789.858413: thread_noise: migration/8:54 start 5789.858409300 duration 3068 ns osnoise/8-961 [008] .... 5789.858413: sample_threshold: start 5789.858404555 duration 8723 ns interferences 2 In this example, a noise sample of 8 microseconds was reported in the last line, pointing to two interferences. Looking backward in the trace, the two previous entries were about the migration thread running after a timer IRQ execution. The first event is not part of the noise because it took place one millisecond before. It is worth noticing that the sum of the duration reported in the tracepoints is smaller than eight us reported in the sample_threshold. The reason roots in the overhead of the entry and exit code that happens before and after any interference execution. This justifies the dual approach: measuring thread and tracing. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/e649467042d60e7b62714c9c6751a56299d15119.1624372313.git.bristot@redhat.com Cc: Phil Auld Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Cc: Kate Carcia Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Alexandre Chartre Cc: Clark Willaims Cc: John Kacur Cc: Juri Lelli Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: x86@kernel.org Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira [ Made the following functions static: trace_irqentry_callback() trace_irqexit_callback() trace_intel_irqentry_callback() trace_intel_irqexit_callback() Added to include/trace.h: osnoise_arch_register() osnoise_arch_unregister() Fixed define logic for LATENCY_FS_NOTIFY Reported-by: kernel test robot ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

ftrace: Reuse the output of the function tracer for func_repeats

2021-04-15T20:34:26Z

The func_repeats event shows the output of the function tracer followed by a count of the number of repeats the previous function had made, as well as the timestamp of the last function that was repeated. The printing of the function should be the same as is for the function it is displaying. Reuse the code in trace_fn_trace() by making a helper function print_fn_trace() and use it for trace_func_repeats_print(). Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)