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If we return -1 in the ops->stack for the stacktrace saving, we end up
breaking out of the loop if the stack we are tracing is in the exception
stack. This causes traces like:
<idle>-0 [002] 34263.745825: raise_softirq_irqoff <-__blk_complete_request
<idle>-0 [002] 34263.745826:
<= 0
<= 0
<= 0
<= 0
<= 0
<= 0
<= 0
By returning "0" instead, the irq stack is saved as well, and we see:
<idle>-0 [003] 883.280992: raise_softirq_irqoff <-__hrtimer_star
t_range_ns
<idle>-0 [003] 883.280992:
<= hrtimer_start_range_ns
<= tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick
<= cpu_idle
<= start_secondary
<=
<= 0
<= 0
[ Impact: record stacks from interrupts ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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This is a bit of micro-optimizations. But since the ring buffer is used
in tracing every function call, it is an extreme hot path. Every nanosecond
counts.
This change shows over 5% improvement in the ring-buffer-benchmark.
[ Impact: more efficient code ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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The ring_buffer_time_stamp that is exported adds a little more overhead
than is needed for using it internally. This patch adds an internal
timestamp function that can be inlined (a single line function)
and used internally for the ring buffer.
[ Impact: a little less overhead to the ring buffer ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Doing some small changes in the fast path of the ring buffer recording
saves over 3% in the ring-buffer-benchmark test.
[ Impact: a little faster ring buffer recording ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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The event length is calculated and passed in to rb_reserve_next_event
in two different locations. Having rb_reserve_next_event do the
calculations directly makes only one location to do the change and
causes the calculation to be inlined by gcc.
Before:
text data bss dec hex filename
16538 24 12 16574 40be kernel/trace/ring_buffer.o
After:
text data bss dec hex filename
16490 24 12 16526 408e kernel/trace/ring_buffer.o
[ Impact: smaller more efficient code ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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The rb_reserve_next_event is only called for the data type (type = 0).
There is no reason to pass in the type to the function.
Before:
text data bss dec hex filename
16554 24 12 16590 40ce kernel/trace/ring_buffer.o
After:
text data bss dec hex filename
16538 24 12 16574 40be kernel/trace/ring_buffer.o
[ Impact: cleaner, smaller and slightly more efficient code ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Although we check if "missed" is not zero, we divide by hit + missed,
and the addition can possible overflow and become a divide by zero.
This patch checks for this case, and will report it when it happens
then modify "hit" to make the calculation be non zero.
[ Impact: prevent possible divide by zero in ring-buffer-benchmark ]
Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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The use of numeric constants is discouraged. It is cleaner and more
descriptive to use macros for constant time conversions.
This patch also removes an extra new line.
[ Impact: more descriptive time conversions ]
Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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The last argument of block_remap prober is the original sector
before remap, so it should be 'from', not 'to'.
[ Impact: clean up ]
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: "Alan D. Brunelle" <Alan.Brunelle@hp.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A07CE86.5090301@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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I got this:
8,0 1 305.417782332 2037 I R 32 (ffffff9e 10 00 ...) [bash]
It should be:
8,0 1 305.417782332 2037 I R 32 (9e 10 00 ...) [bash]
[ Impact: fix output of pc events ]
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A07C6B3.9080802@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Other parts of the kernel may need to be able to enable or disable
specific events. Especially parts that create trace events.
[ Impact: allow enabling of trace events by those that create the event ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Commit 8f31bfe538ebafac187d2d4465a92e1d9ee6d8c2
tracing/events: clean up for ftrace_set_clr_event()
Moved out the code for ftrace_set_clr_event into a helper funciton but
did not initialize the return value. As a result, we do not warn about
a typo in the echoing of events in set_event.
This patch restores the old warning:
# echo foobar > set_event
-bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
[ Impact: restore warning of invalid entries to set_event ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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A smarter way to figure out the output of an enable file.
[ Impact: clean up ]
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A0399A5.2080603@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Add a helper function __ftrace_set_clr_event(), and replace some
ftrace_set_clr_event() calls with this helper, thus we don't need any
kstrdup() or kmalloc().
As a side effect, this patch fixes an issue in self tests code, which is
similar to the one fixed in commit d6bf81ef0f7474434c2a049e8bf3c9146a14dd96
("tracing: append ":*" to internal setting of system events")
It's a small issue and won't cause any bug in fact, but we should do things
right anyway.
[ Impact: prevent spurious event-enabling in tracing self-tests ]
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A03998E.3020503@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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There's a WARN_ON in the ring buffer code that makes sure preemption
is disabled. It checks "!preempt_count()". But when CONFIG_PREEMPT is not
enabled, preempt_count() is always zero, and this will trigger the warning.
[ Impact: prevent false warning on non preemptible kernels ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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It is nice to see the overhead of the benchmark test when tracing is
disabled. That is, we turn off the ring buffer just to see what the
cost of running the loop that calls into the ring buffer is.
Currently, if no entries wer made, we get 0. This is not informative.
This patch changes it to check if we had any "missed" (non recorded)
events. If so, a total count is also reported.
[ Impact: evaluate the over head of the ring buffer benchmark test ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Calling cond_resched at every iteration of the loop adds a bit of
overhead to the benchmark.
This patch does two things.
1) only calls cond-resched when CONFIG_PREEMPT is not enabled
2) only calls cond-resched after so many traces has been performed.
[ Impact: less overhead to the ring-buffer-benchmark ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Tracing can be very helpful to debug the kernel. When DEBUG_KERNEL is
enabled it is nice to enable the trace menu as well.
This patch only make the tracing menu enabled by default, it does not
make any of the tracers enabled. And the menu is only enabled by
default if DEBUG_KERNEL is enabled.
[ Impact: show tracing options to those debugging the kernel ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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The system enabling of events uses the same code as the set_event file.
It passes in the name of the system to the parser and that will enable
all the events that has that system as a name.
The problem is that it will also enable events with the same name as the
system.
If you have system name foo, and system name bar, but within the system
bar, there exists an event called foo. By setting the system name foo,
you will also be enabling the event foo in the system bar. This is not
an expected result.
The solution is to pass in "foo:*", which will only enable the system
foo and not events called foo.
[ Impact: prevent accidental enabling of events with same name as a system ]
Reported-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Ingo Molnar thought that the code to calculate the time in cond_resched
is a bit too ugly and is not needed. This patch removes it and replaces
it with a simple call to cond_resched. I kept the comment that explains
the reason for the cond_resched.
[ Impact: remove ugly code ]
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Merge reason: this topic is ready for upstream now. It passed
Oleg's review and Andrew had no further mm/*
objections/observations either.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Merge reason: tracing/core was on a .30-rc1 base and was missing out on
on a handful of tracing fixes present in .30-rc5-almost.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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In filter_add_subsystem_pred() we should release event_mutex before
calling filter_free_subsystem_preds(), since both functions hold
event_mutex.
[ Impact: fix deadlock when writing invalid pred into subsystem filter ]
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: tzanussi@gmail.com
Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
LKML-Reference: <4A028993.7020509@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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When we set a filter for an event, such as:
echo "name == my_lock_name" > \
/debug/tracing/events/lockdep/lock_acquired/filter
then the following order of token type is parsed:
- space
- operator
- parentheses
- operand
Because the operators and parentheses have a higher precedence
than the operand characters, which is normal, then we can't
use any string containing such special characters:
()=<>!&|
To get this support and also avoid ambiguous intepretation from
the parser or the human, we can do it using double quotes so that
we keep the usual languages habits.
Then after this patch you can still declare string condition like
before:
echo name == myname
But if you want to compare against a string containing an operator
character, you can use double quotes:
echo 'name == "&myname"'
Don't forget to include the whole expression into single quotes or
the double ones will be eaten by echo.
[ Impact: support strings with special characters for tracing filters ]
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Zhaolei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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Currently the filtering infrastructure supports well the
numeric types and fixed sized array types.
But the recently added __string() field uses a specific
indirect offset mechanism which requires a specific
predicate. Until now it wasn't supported.
This patch adds this support and implies very few changes,
only a new predicate is needed, the management of this specific
field can be done through the usual string helpers in the
filtering infrastructure.
[ Impact: support all kinds of strings in the tracing filters ]
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Zhaolei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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With the current event directory, you can only enable individual events.
The file debugfs/tracing/set_event is used to be able to enable or
disable several events at once. But that can still be awkward.
This patch adds hierarchical enabling of events. That is, each directory
in debugfs/tracing/events has an "enable" file. This file can enable
or disable all events within the directory and below.
# echo 1 > /debugfs/tracing/events/enable
will enable all events.
# echo 1 > /debugfs/tracing/events/sched/enable
will enable all events in the sched subsystem.
# echo 1 > /debugfs/tracing/events/enable
# echo 0 > /debugfs/tracing/events/irq/enable
will enable all events, but then disable just the irq subsystem events.
When reading one of these enable files, there are four results:
0 - all events this file affects are disabled
1 - all events this file affects are enabled
X - there is a mixture of events enabled and disabled
? - this file does not affect any event
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Li Zefan found that there's a race using the event ids of events and
modules. When a module is loaded, an event id is incremented. We only
have 16 bits for event ids (65536) and there is a possible (but highly
unlikely) race that we could load and unload a module that registers
events so many times that the event id counter overflows.
When it overflows, it then restarts and goes looking for available
ids. An id is available if it was added by a module and released.
The race is if you have one module add an id, and then is removed.
Another module loaded can use that same event id. But if the old module
still had events in the ring buffer, the new module's call back would
get bogus data. At best (and most likely) the output would just be
garbage. But if the module for some reason used pointers (not recommended)
then this could potentially crash.
The safest thing to do is just reset the ring buffer if a module that
registered events is removed.
[ Impact: prevent unpredictable results of event id overflows ]
Reported-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <49FEAFD0.30106@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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When creating trace events for ftrace, the header file with the TRACE_EVENT
macros must also have a macro called TRACE_SYSTEM. This macro describes
the name of the system the TRACE_EVENTS are defined for. It also doubles
as a way for the define_trace.h file to include the file that included
it.
For example:
in irq.h
#define TRACE_SYSTEM irq
[...]
#include <trace/define_trace.h>
The define_trace will use TRACE_SYSTEM to include irq.h. But if the name
of the trace system does not match the name of the trace header file,
one can override it with:
Which will change define_trace.h to inclued foo_trace.h instead of foo.h
The sample comments this, but people that use the sample code will more
likely use the code and not read the comments. This patch changes the
sample code to use the TRACE_INCLUDE_FILE to better show developers how to
use it.
[ Impact: make sample less confusing to developers ]
Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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The ring buffer benchmark/test runs a producer for 10 seconds.
This is done with preemption and interrupts enabled. But if the kernel
is not compiled with CONFIG_PREEMPT, it basically stops everything
but interrupts for 10 seconds.
Although this is just a test and is not for production, this attribute
can be quite annoying. It can also spawn badness elsewhere.
This patch solves the issues by calling "cond_resched" when the system
is not compiled with CONFIG_PREEMPT. It also keeps track of the time
spent to call cond_resched such that it does not go against the
time calculations. That is, if the task schedules away, the time scheduled
out is removed from the test data. Note, this only works for non PREEMPT
because we do not know when the task is scheduled out if we have PREEMPT
enabled.
[ Impact: prevent test from stopping the world for 10 seconds ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Ingo Molnar thought the code would be cleaner if we used a function call
instead of a goto for moving the tail page. After implementing this,
it seems that gcc still inlines the result and the output is pretty much
the same. Since this is considered a cleaner approach, might as well
implement it.
[ Impact: code clean up ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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The result of the allocation of the ring buffer read page in the
ring buffer bench mark does not check the return to see if a page
was actually allocated. This patch fixes that.
[ Impact: avoid NULL dereference ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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The code in __rb_reserve_next checks on page overflow if it is the
original commiter and then resets the page back to the original
setting. Although this is fine, and the code is correct, it is
a bit fragil. Some experimental work I did breaks it easily.
The better and more robust solution is to have all commiters that
overflow the page, simply subtract what they added.
[ Impact: more robust ring buffer account management ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Use -I$(src) to add the current directory the include path.
[ Impact: cleanup ]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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This compiler warning:
CC kernel/trace/trace_output.o
kernel/trace/trace_output.c: In function ‘register_ftrace_event’:
kernel/trace/trace_output.c:544: warning: ‘list’ may be used uninitialized in this function
Is wrong as 'list' is always initialized - but GCC (4.3.2) does not
recognize this relationship properly.
Work around the warning by initializing the variable to NULL.
[ Impact: fix false positive compiler warning ]
Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Remove redundant from-sector parameter: it's /always/ the bio's sector
passed in.
[ Impact: cleanup ]
Signed-off-by: Alan D. Brunelle <alan.brunelle@hp.com>
Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <49FF517C.7000503@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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This attempts to clarify names utilized during block I/O remap
operations (partition, volume manager). It correctly matches up the
/from/ information for both device & sector. This takes in the concept
from Kosaki Motohiro and extends it to include better naming for the
"device_from" field.
[ Impact: cleanup ]
Signed-off-by: Alan D. Brunelle <alan.brunelle@hp.com>
Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <49FF4FAE.3000301@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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The orig_cpu parameter in trace_sched_migrate_task() is not necessary,
it can be got by using task_cpu(p) in the probe.
[ Impact: micro-optimization ]
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
[ modified from Mathieu's patch. The original patch is at:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123791201716239&w=2 ]
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
LKML-Reference: <49FFFDB7.1050402@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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A module will add/remove its trace events when it gets loaded/unloaded, so
the ftrace_events list is not "const", and concurrent access needs to be
protected.
This patch thus fixes races between loading/unloding modules and read
'available_events' or read/write 'set_event', etc.
Below shows how to reproduce the race:
# for ((; ;)) { cat /mnt/tracing/available_events; } > /dev/null &
# for ((; ;)) { insmod trace-events-sample.ko; rmmod sample; } &
After a while:
BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 0010011c
IP: [<c1080f27>] t_next+0x1b/0x2d
...
Call Trace:
[<c10c90e6>] ? seq_read+0x217/0x30d
[<c10c8ecf>] ? seq_read+0x0/0x30d
[<c10b4c19>] ? vfs_read+0x8f/0x136
[<c10b4fc3>] ? sys_read+0x40/0x65
[<c1002a68>] ? sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x36
[ Impact: fix races when concurrent accessing ftrace_events list ]
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <4A00F709.3080800@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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When unloading a module, memory allocated by init_preds() and
trace_define_field() is not freed.
[ Impact: fix memory leak ]
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A00F6E0.3040503@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Normally a config should be default to n. This patch also makes the
sample module-only, like SAMPLE_MARKERS and SAMPLE_TRACEPOINTS.
[ Impact: don't build trace event sample by default ]
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A00F6C0.8090803@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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The sample is useful for testing, and I'm using it. But after
loading the module, it keeps saying hi every 10 seconds, this may
be disturbing.
Also Steven said commenting out the "hi" helped in causing races. :)
[ Impact: make testing a bit easier ]
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A00F6AD.2070008@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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This patch adds code that can benchmark the ring buffer as well as
test it. This code can be compiled into the kernel (not recommended)
or as a module.
A separate ring buffer is used to not interfer with other users, like
ftrace. It creates a producer and a consumer (option to disable creation
of the consumer) and will run for 10 seconds, then sleep for 10 seconds
and then repeat.
While running, the producer will write 10 byte loads into the ring
buffer with just putting in the current CPU number. The reader will
continually try to read the buffer. The reader will alternate from reading
the buffer via event by event, or by full pages.
The output is a pr_info, thus it will fill up the syslogs.
Starting ring buffer hammer
End ring buffer hammer
Time: 9000349 (usecs)
Overruns: 12578640
Read: 5358440 (by events)
Entries: 0
Total: 17937080
Missed: 0
Hit: 17937080
Entries per millisec: 1993
501 ns per entry
Sleeping for 10 secs
Starting ring buffer hammer
End ring buffer hammer
Time: 9936350 (usecs)
Overruns: 0
Read: 28146644 (by pages)
Entries: 74
Total: 28146718
Missed: 0
Hit: 28146718
Entries per millisec: 2832
353 ns per entry
Sleeping for 10 secs
Time: is the time the test ran
Overruns: the number of events that were overwritten and not read
Read: the number of events read (either by pages or events)
Entries: the number of entries left in the buffer
(the by pages will only read full pages)
Total: Entries + Read + Overruns
Missed: the number of entries that failed to write
Hit: the number of entries that were written
The above example shows that it takes ~353 nanosecs per entry when
there is a reader, reading by pages (and no overruns)
The event by event reader slowed the producer down to 501 nanosecs.
[ Impact: see how changes to the ring buffer affect stability and performance ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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In the hot path of the ring buffer "__rb_reserve_next" there's a big
if statement that does not even return back to the work flow.
code;
if (cross to next page) {
[ lots of code ]
return;
}
more code;
The condition is even the unlikely path, although we do not denote it
with an unlikely because gcc is fine with it. The condition is true when
the write crosses a page boundary, and we need to start at a new page.
Having this if statement makes it hard to read, but calling another
function to do the work is also not appropriate, because we are using a lot
of variables that were set before the if statement, and we do not want to
send them as parameters.
This patch changes it to a goto:
code;
if (cross to next page)
goto next_page;
more code;
return;
next_page:
[ lots of code]
This makes the code easier to understand, and a bit more obvious.
The output from gcc is practically identical. For some reason, gcc decided
to use different registers when I switched it to a goto. But other than that,
the logic is the same.
[ Impact: easier to read code ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6
* 'drm-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6:
drm/r128: fix r128 ioremaps to use ioremap_wc.
drm: cleanup properly in drm_get_dev() failure paths
drm: clean the map list before destroying the hash table
drm: remove unreachable code in drm_sysfs.c
drm: add control node checks missing from kms merge
drm/kms: don't try to shortcut drm mode set function
drm/radeon: bump minor version for occlusion queries support
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When adding the EXPORT_SYMBOL to some of the tracing API, I accidently
used EXPORT_SYMBOL instead of EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL. This patch fixes
that mistake.
[ Impact: export the tracing code only for GPL modules ]
Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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The only references in the kernel to the .text.sched section are in
recordmcount.pl. Since the code it has is intended to be example code
it should refer to real kernel sections. So change it to .sched.text
instead.
[ Impact: consistency in comments ]
Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@mit.edu>
LKML-Reference: <1241136371-10768-1-git-send-email-tabbott@mit.edu>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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This should allow r128 to start working again since PAT changes.
taken from F-11 kernel.
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6:
[IA64] xen_domu_defconfig: fix build issues/warnings
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madvise(MADV_WILLNEED) forces page cache readahead on a range of memory
backed by a file. The assumption is made that the page required is
order-0 and "normal" page cache.
On hugetlbfs, this assumption is not true and order-0 pages are
allocated and inserted into the hugetlbfs page cache. This leaks
hugetlbfs page reservations and can cause BUGs to trigger related to
corrupted page tables.
This patch causes MADV_WILLNEED to be ignored for hugetlbfs-backed
regions.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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As a precaution, it is best to disable writing to the ring buffers
when reseting them.
[ Impact: prevent weird things if write happens during reset ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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