user/sven/linux.git/kernel/trace, branch v3.0-rc2

ftrace: Add internal recursive checks

2011-05-26T02:13:49Z

Witold reported a reboot caused by the selftests of the dynamic function tracer. He sent me a config and I used ktest to do a config_bisect on it (as my config did not cause the crash). It pointed out that the problem config was CONFIG_PROVE_RCU. What happened was that if multiple callbacks are attached to the function tracer, we iterate a list of callbacks. Because the list is managed by synchronize_sched() and preempt_disable, the access to the pointers uses rcu_dereference_raw(). When PROVE_RCU is enabled, the rcu_dereference_raw() calls some debugging functions, which happen to be traced. The tracing of the debug function would then call rcu_dereference_raw() which would then call the debug function and then... well you get the idea. I first wrote two different patches to solve this bug. 1) add a __rcu_dereference_raw() that would not do any checks. 2) add notrace to the offending debug functions. Both of these patches worked. Talking with Paul McKenney on IRC, he suggested to add recursion detection instead. This seemed to be a better solution, so I decided to implement it. As the task_struct already has a trace_recursion to detect recursion in the ring buffer, and that has a very small number it allows, I decided to use that same variable to add flags that can detect the recursion inside the infrastructure of the function tracer. I plan to change it so that the task struct bit can be checked in mcount, but as that requires changes to all archs, I will hold that off to the next merge window. Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Paul E. McKenney Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1306348063.1465.116.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com Reported-by: Witold Baryluk Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing: Add __print_symbolic_u64 to avoid warnings on 32bit machine

2011-05-26T02:13:44Z

Filesystem, like Btrfs, has some "ULL" macros, and when these macros are passed to tracepoints'__print_symbolic(), there will be 64->32 truncate WARNINGS during compiling on 32bit box. Signed-off-by: Liu Bo Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4DACE6E0.7000507@cn.fujitsu.com Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

ftrace: Set ops->flag to enabled even on static function tracing

2011-05-26T02:13:42Z

When dynamic ftrace is not configured, the ops->flags still needs to have its FTRACE_OPS_FL_ENABLED bit set in ftrace_startup(). Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing: Have event with function tracer check error return

2011-05-26T02:13:39Z

The self tests for event tracer does not check if the function tracing was successfully activated. It needs to before it continues the tests, otherwise the wrong errors may be reported. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

ftrace: Have ftrace_startup() return failure code

2011-05-26T02:13:37Z

The register_ftrace_function() returns an error code on failure except if the call to ftrace_startup() fails. Add a error return to ftrace_startup() if it fails to start, allowing register_ftrace_funtion() to return a proper error value. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

Merge branches 'sched-core-for-linus' and 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

2011-05-20T00:41:22Z

* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (60 commits) sched: Fix and optimise calculation of the weight-inverse sched: Avoid going ahead if ->cpus_allowed is not changed sched, rt: Update rq clock when unthrottling of an otherwise idle CPU sched: Remove unused parameters from sched_fork() and wake_up_new_task() sched: Shorten the construction of the span cpu mask of sched domain sched: Wrap the 'cfs_rq->nr_spread_over' field with CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG sched: Remove unused 'this_best_prio arg' from balance_tasks() sched: Remove noop in alloc_rt_sched_group() sched: Get rid of lock_depth sched: Remove obsolete comment from scheduler_tick() sched: Fix sched_domain iterations vs. RCU sched: Next buddy hint on sleep and preempt path sched: Make set_*_buddy() work on non-task entities sched: Remove need_migrate_task() sched: Move the second half of ttwu() to the remote cpu sched: Restructure ttwu() some more sched: Rename ttwu_post_activation() to ttwu_do_wakeup() sched: Remove rq argument from ttwu_stat() sched: Remove rq->lock from the first half of ttwu() sched: Drop rq->lock from sched_exec() ... * 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: sched: Fix rt_rq runtime leakage bug

ftrace: Add self-tests for multiple function trace users

2011-05-18T23:24:51Z

Add some basic sanity tests for multiple users of the function tracer at startup. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

ftrace: Modify ftrace_set_filter/notrace to take ops

2011-05-18T23:22:52Z

Since users of the function tracer can now pick and choose which functions they want to trace agnostically from other users of the function tracer, we need to pass the ops struct to the ftrace_set_filter() functions. The functions ftrace_set_global_filter() and ftrace_set_global_notrace() is added to keep the old filter functions which are used to modify the generic function tracers. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

ftrace: Allow dynamically allocated function tracers

2011-05-18T19:29:51Z

Now that functions may be selected individually, it only makes sense that we should allow dynamically allocated trace structures to be traced. This will allow perf to allocate a ftrace_ops structure at runtime and use it to pick and choose which functions that structure will trace. Note, a dynamically allocated ftrace_ops will always be called indirectly instead of being called directly from the mcount in entry.S. This is because there's no safe way to prevent mcount from being preempted before calling the function, unless we modify every entry.S to do so (not likely). Thus, dynamically allocated functions will now be called by the ftrace_ops_list_func() that loops through the ops that are allocated if there are more than one op allocated at a time. This loop is protected with a preempt_disable. To determine if an ftrace_ops structure is allocated or not, a new util function was added to the kernel/extable.c called core_kernel_data(), which returns 1 if the address is between _sdata and _edata. Cc: Paul E. McKenney Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

ftrace: Implement separate user function filtering

2011-05-18T19:29:50Z

ftrace_ops that are registered to trace functions can now be agnostic to each other in respect to what functions they trace. Each ops has their own hash of the functions they want to trace and a hash to what they do not want to trace. A empty hash for the functions they want to trace denotes all functions should be traced that are not in the notrace hash. Cc: Paul E. McKenney Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt