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2009-09-09tracing: move PRED macros to trace_events_filter.cLi Zefan
Move DEFINE_COMPARISON_PRED() and DEFINE_EQUALITY_PRED() to kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: <4AA8579B.4020706@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-04tracing/filters: Defer pred allocation, fix memory leakLi Zefan
The predicates of an event and their filter structure are allocated when we create an event filter for the first time. These objects must be created once but each time we come with a new filter, we overwrite such pre-existing allocation, if any. Thus, this patch checks if the filter has already been allocated before going ahead. Spotted-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <4A9CB1BA.3060402@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-08-31tracing/filters: Defer pred allocationLi Zefan
init_preds() allocates about 5392 bytes of memory (on x86_32) for a TRACE_EVENT. With my config, at system boot total memory occupied is: 5392 * (642 + 15) == 3459KB 642 == cat available_events | wc -l 15 == number of dirs in events/ftrace That's quite a lot, so we'd better defer memory allocation util it's needed, that's when filter is used. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <4A9B8EA5.6020700@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-26tracing/filters: Support filtering for char * stringsLi Zefan
Usually, char * entries are dangerous in traces because the string can be released whereas a pointer to it can still wait to be read from the ring buffer. But sometimes we can assume it's safe, like in case of RO data (eg: __file__ or __line__, used in bkl trace event). If these RO data are in a module and so is the call to the trace event, then it's safe, because the ring buffer will be flushed once this module get unloaded. To allow char * to be treated as a string: TRACE_EVENT(..., TP_STRUCT__entry( __field_ext(const char *, name, FILTER_PTR_STRING) ... ) ... ); The filtering will not dereference "char *" unless the developer explicitly sets FILTER_PTR_STR in __field_ext. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: <4A7B9287.90205@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-08-26tracing/filters: Add __field_ext() to TRACE_EVENTLi Zefan
Add __field_ext(), so a field can be assigned to a specific filter_type, which matches a corresponding filter function. For example, a later patch will allow this: __field_ext(const char *, str, FILTER_PTR_STR); Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: <4A7B9272.6050709@cn.fujitsu.com> [ Fixed a -1 to FILTER_OTHER Forward ported to latest kernel. ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-08-26tracing/filters: Add filter_type to struct ftrace_event_fieldLi Zefan
The type of a field is stored as a string in @type, and here we add @filter_type which is an enum value. This prepares for later patches, so we can specifically assign different @filter_type for the same @type. For example normally a "char *" field is treated as a ptr, but we may want it to be treated as a string when doing filting. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: <4A7B925E.9030605@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-08-08tracing/filters: Don't use pred on alloc failureTom Zanussi
Dan Carpenter sent me a fix to prevent pred from being used if it couldn't be allocated. This updates his patch for the same problem in the tracing tree (which has changed this code quite substantially). Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: <1249746576.6453.30.camel@tropicana> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> The original report: create_logical_pred() could sometimes return NULL. It's a static checker complaining rather than problems at runtime...
2009-07-20tracing/filters: improve subsystem filterLi Zefan
Currently a subsystem filter should be applicable to all events under the subsystem, and if it failed, all the event filters will be cleared. Those behaviors make subsys filter much less useful: # echo 'vec == 1' > irq/softirq_entry/filter # echo 'irq == 5' > irq/filter bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument # cat irq/softirq_entry/filter none I'd expect it set the filter for irq_handler_entry/exit, and not touch softirq_entry/exit. The basic idea is, try to see if the filter can be applied to which events, and then just apply to the those events: # echo 'vec == 1' > softirq_entry/filter # echo 'irq == 5' > filter # cat irq_handler_entry/filter irq == 5 # cat softirq_entry/filter vec == 1 Changelog for v2: - do some cleanups to address Frederic's comments. Inspired-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <4A63D485.7030703@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-07-20tracing/events: record the size of dynamic arraysLi Zefan
When a dynamic array is defined, we add __data_loc_foo in trace_entry to record the offset of the array, but the size of the array is not recorded, which causes 2 problems: - the event filter just compares the first 2 chars of the strings. - parsers can't parse dynamic arrays. So we encode the size of each dynamic array in the higher 16 bits of __data_loc_foo, while the offset is in lower 16 bits. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: <4A5E964A.9000403@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-07-10tracing/filter: Remove preds from struct event_subsystemXiao Guangrong
No need to save preds to event_subsystem, because it's not used. Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> LKML-Reference: <4A55A83C.1030005@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-16tracing/filters: fix race between filter setting and module unloadLi Zefan
Module unload is protected by event_mutex, while setting filter is protected by filter_mutex. This leads to the race: echo 'bar == 0 || bar == 10' \ | > sample/filter | | insmod sample.ko add_pred("bar == 0") | -> n_preds == 1 | add_pred("bar == 100") | -> n_preds == 2 | | rmmod sample.ko | insmod sample.ko add_pred("&&") | -> n_preds == 1 (should be 3) | Now event->filter->preds is corrupted. An then when filter_match_preds() is called, the WARN_ON() in it will be triggered. To avoid the race, we remove filter_mutex, and replace it with event_mutex. [ Impact: prevent corruption of filters by module removing and loading ] Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: <4A375A4D.6000205@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-06-16tracing/filters: free filter_string in destroy_preds()Li Zefan
filter->filter_string is not freed when unloading a module: # insmod trace-events-sample.ko # echo "bar < 100" > /mnt/tracing/events/sample/foo_bar/filter # rmmod trace-events-sample.ko [ Impact: fix memory leak when unloading module ] Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: <4A375A30.9060802@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-06-15tracing/filters: strloc should be unsigned shortLi Zefan
I forgot to update filter code accordingly in "tracing/events: change the type of __str_loc_item to unsigned short" (commt b0aae68cc5508f3c2fbf728988c954db4c8b8a53) It can cause system crash: # echo 1 > tracing/events/irq/irq_handler_entry/enable # echo 'name == eth0' > tracing/events/irq/irq_handler_entry/filter [ Impact: fix crash while filtering on __string() field ] Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: <4A35B905.3090500@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-06-15tracing/filters: operand can be negativeLi Zefan
This should be a bug: # cat format name: foo_bar ID: 71 format: ... field:int bar; offset:24; size:4; # echo 'bar < 0' > filter # echo 'bar < -1' > filter bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument [ Impact: fix to allow negative operand in filer expr ] Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: <4A35B8DF.60400@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-06-01tracing/events: introduce __dynamic_array()Li Zefan
__string() is limited: - it's a char array, but we may want to define array with other types - a source string should be available, but we may just know the string size We introduce __dynamic_array() to break those limitations, and __string() becomes a wrapper of it. As a side effect, now __get_str() can be used in TP_fast_assign but not only TP_print. Take XFS for example, we have the string length in the dirent, but the string itself is not NULL-terminated, so __dynamic_array() can be used: TRACE_EVENT(xfs_dir2, TP_PROTO(struct xfs_da_args *args), TP_ARGS(args), TP_STRUCT__entry( __field(int, namelen) __dynamic_array(char, name, args->namelen + 1) ... ), TP_fast_assign( char *name = __get_str(name); if (args->namelen) memcpy(name, args->name, args->namelen); name[args->namelen] = '\0'; __entry->namelen = args->namelen; ), TP_printk("name %.*s namelen %d", __entry->namelen ? __get_str(name) : NULL __entry->namelen) ); [ Impact: allow defining dynamic size arrays ] Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: <4A2384D2.3080403@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-05-14tracing/filters: fix off-by-one bugLi Zefan
We should leave the last slot for the ending '\0'. [ Impact: fix possible crash when the length of an operand is 128 ] Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: <4A0CDC8C.30602@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-05-14tracing/filters: add missing unlock in a failure pathLi Zefan
[ Impact: fix deadlock in a rare case we fail to allocate memory ] Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: <4A0CDC6F.7070200@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-05-07tracing/events: fix concurrent access to ftrace_events list, fixLi Zefan
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>
2009-05-07tracing/filters: support for operator reserved characters in stringsFrederic Weisbecker
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>
2009-05-07tracing/filters: support for filters of dynamic sized arraysFrederic Weisbecker
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>
2009-05-06tracing/events: fix concurrent access to ftrace_events listLi Zefan
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>
2009-05-06tracing/events: fix memory leak when unloading moduleLi Zefan
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>
2009-04-29tracing/filters: a better event parserTom Zanussi
Replace the current event parser hack with a better one. Filters are no longer specified predicate by predicate, but all at once and can use parens and any of the following operators: numeric fields: ==, !=, <, <=, >, >= string fields: ==, != predicates can be combined with the logical operators: &&, || examples: "common_preempt_count > 4" > filter "((sig >= 10 && sig < 15) || sig == 17) && comm != bash" > filter If there was an error, the erroneous string along with an error message can be seen by looking at the filter e.g.: ((sig >= 10 && sig < 15) || dsig == 17) && comm != bash ^ parse_error: Field not found Currently the caret for an error always appears at the beginning of the filter; a real position should be used, but the error message should be useful even without it. To clear a filter, '0' can be written to the filter file. Filters can also be set or cleared for a complete subsystem by writing the same filter as would be written to an individual event to the filter file at the root of the subsytem. Note however, that if any event in the subsystem lacks a field specified in the filter being set, the set will fail and all filters in the subsytem are automatically cleared. This change from the previous version was made because using only the fields that happen to exist for a given event would most likely result in a meaningless filter. Because the logical operators are now implemented as predicates, the maximum number of predicates in a filter was increased from 8 to 16. [ Impact: add new, extended trace-filter implementation ] Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: <1240905899.6416.121.camel@tropicana> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-29tracing/filters: move preds into event_filter objectTom Zanussi
Create a new event_filter object, and move the pred-related members out of the call and subsystem objects and into the filter object - the details of the filter implementation don't need to be exposed in the call and subsystem in any case, and it will also help make the new parser implementation a little cleaner. [ Impact: refactor trace-filter code to prepare for new features ] Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: <1240905887.6416.119.camel@tropicana> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-21tracing/filters: allow user-input to be integer-like stringLi Zefan
Suppose we would like to trace all tasks named '123', but this will fail: # echo 'parent_comm == 123' > events/sched/sched_process_fork/filter bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument Don't guess the type of the filter pred in filter_parse(), but instead we check it in __filter_add_pred(). [ Impact: extend allowed filter field string values ] Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <49ED8DEB.6000700@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-17tracing/filters: add filter_mutex to protect filter predicatesTom Zanussi
This patch adds a filter_mutex to prevent the filter predicates from being accessed concurrently by various external functions. It's based on a previous patch by Li Zefan: "[PATCH 7/7] tracing/filters: make filter preds RCU safe" v2 changes: - fixed wrong value returned in a add_subsystem_pred() failure case noticed by Li Zefan. [ Impact: fix trace filter corruption/crashes on parallel access ] Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Tested-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com LKML-Reference: <1239946028.6639.13.camel@tropicana> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-14tracing/events: add export symbols for trace events in modulesSteven Rostedt
Impact: let modules add trace events The trace event code requires some functions to be exported to allow modules to use TRACE_EVENT. This patch adds EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL to the necessary functions. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-04-14tracing/events: convert event call sites to use a link listSteven Rostedt
Impact: makes it possible to define events in modules The events are created by reading down the section that they are linked in by the macros. But this is not scalable to modules. This patch converts the manipulations to use a global link list, and on boot up it adds the items in the section to the list. This change will allow modules to add their tracing events to the list as well. Note, this change alone does not permit modules to use the TRACE_EVENT macros, but the change is needed for them to eventually do so. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-04-14tracing/filters: allow on-the-fly filter switchingTom Zanussi
This patch allows event filters to be safely removed or switched on-the-fly while avoiding the use of rcu or the suspension of tracing of previous versions. It does it by adding a new filter_pred_none() predicate function which does nothing and by never deallocating either the predicates or any of the filter_pred members used in matching; the predicate lists are allocated and initialized during ftrace_event_calls initialization. Whenever a filter is removed or replaced, the filter_pred_* functions currently in use by the affected ftrace_event_call are immediately switched over to to the filter_pred_none() function, while the rest of the filter_pred members are left intact, allowing any currently executing filter_pred_* functions to finish up, using the values they're currently using. In the case of filter replacement, the new predicate values are copied into the old predicates after the above step, and the filter_pred_none() functions are replaced by the filter_pred_* functions for the new filter. In this case, it is possible though very unlikely that a previous filter_pred_* is still running even after the filter_pred_none() switch and the switch to the new filter_pred_*. In that case, however, because nothing has been deallocated in the filter_pred, the worst that can happen is that the old filter_pred_* function sees the new values and as a result produces either a false positive or a false negative, depending on the values it finds. So one downside to this method is that rarely, it can produce a bad match during the filter switch, but it should be possible to live with that, IMHO. The other downside is that at least in this patch the predicate lists are always pre-allocated, taking up memory from the start. They could probably be allocated on first-use, and de-allocated when tracing is completely stopped - if this patch makes sense, I could create another one to do that later on. Oh, and it also places a restriction on the size of __arrays in events, currently set to 128, since they can't be larger than the now embedded str_val arrays in the filter_pred struct. Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com LKML-Reference: <1239610670.6660.49.camel@tropicana> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-14Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/coreIngo Molnar
Merge reason: merge latest tracing fixes to avoid conflicts in kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c with upcoming change Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-14tracing/filters: add run-time field descriptions to TRACE_EVENT_FORMAT eventsTom Zanussi
This patch adds run-time field descriptions to all the event formats exported using TRACE_EVENT_FORMAT. It also hooks up all the tracers that use them (i.e. the tracers in the 'ftrace subsystem') so they can also have their output filtered by the event-filtering mechanism. When I was testing this, there were a couple of things that fooled me into thinking the filters weren't working, when actually they were - I'll mention them here so others don't make the same mistakes (and file bug reports. ;-) One is that some of the tracers trace multiple events e.g. the sched_switch tracer uses the context_switch and wakeup events, and if you don't set filters on all of the traced events, the unfiltered output from the events without filters on them can make it look like the filtering as a whole isn't working properly, when actually it is doing what it was asked to do - it just wasn't asked to do the right thing. The other is that for the really high-volume tracers e.g. the function tracer, the volume of filtered events can be so high that it pushes the unfiltered events out of the ring buffer before they can be read so e.g. cat'ing the trace file repeatedly shows either no output, or once in awhile some output but that isn't there the next time you read the trace, which isn't what you normally expect when reading the trace file. If you read from the trace_pipe file though, you can catch them before they disappear. Changes from v1: As suggested by Frederic Weisbecker: - get rid of externs in functions - added unlikely() to filter_check_discard() Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-12tracing/filters: return proper error code when writing filter fileLi Zefan
- propagate return value of filter_add_pred() to the user - return -ENOSPC but not -ENOMEM or -EINVAL when the filter array is full Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> LKML-Reference: <49E04CF0.3010105@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-12tracing/filters: allow user input integer to be oct or hexLi Zefan
Before patch: # echo 'parent_pid == 0x10' > events/sched/sched_process_fork/filter # cat sched/sched_process_fork/filter parent_pid == 0 After patch: # cat sched/sched_process_fork/filter parent_pid == 16 Also check the input more strictly. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> LKML-Reference: <49E04C53.4010600@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-12tracing/filters: fix NULL pointer dereferenceLi Zefan
Try this, and you'll see NULL pointer dereference bug: # echo -n 'parent_comm ==' > sched/sched_process_fork/filter Because we passed NULL ptr to simple_strtoull(). Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> LKML-Reference: <49E04C43.1050504@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-24tracing/filters: disallow integer values for string filters and vice versaTom Zanussi
Impact: fix filter use boundary condition / crash Make sure filters for string fields don't use integer values and vice versa. Getting it wrong can crash the system or produce bogus results. Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fr=E9d=E9ric?= Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <1237878882.8339.61.camel@charm-linux> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-24tracing/filters: use trace_seq_printf() to print filtersTom Zanussi
Impact: cleanup Instead of just using the trace_seq buffer to print the filters, use trace_seq_printf() as it was intended to be used. Reported-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fr=E9d=E9ric?= Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <1237878871.8339.59.camel@charm-linux> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-24tracing/filters: use list_for_each_entryTom Zanussi
Impact: cleanup No need to use the safe version here, so use list_for_each_entry instead of list_for_each_entry_safe in find_event_field(). Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fr=E9d=E9ric?= Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <1237878841.8339.57.camel@charm-linux> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-23tracing/filters: clean up filter_add_subsystem_pred()Tom Zanussi
Impact: cleanup, memory leak fix This patch cleans up filter_add_subsystem_pred(): - searches for the field before creating a copy of the pred - fixes memory leak in the case a predicate isn't applied - if -ENOMEM, makes sure there's no longer a reference to the pred so the caller can free the half-finished filter - changes the confusing i == MAX_FILTER_PRED - 1 comparison previously remarked upon This affects only per-subsystem event filtering. Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fr=E9d=E9ric?= Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <1237796808.7527.40.camel@charm-linux> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-23tracing/filters: fix bug in copy_pred()Tom Zanussi
Impact: fix potential crash on subsystem filter expression freeing When making a copy of the predicate, pred->field_name needs to be duplicated in the copy as well, otherwise bad things can happen due to later multiple frees of the same string. This affects only per-subsystem event filtering. Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fr=E9d=E9ric?= Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <1237796802.7527.39.camel@charm-linux> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-23tracing/filters: use list_for_each_entry_safeTom Zanussi
Impact: cleanup Use list_for_each_entry_safe instead of list_for_each_entry in find_event_field(). Reported-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> LKML-Reference: <1237796788.7527.35.camel@charm-linux> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-22tracing: add per-subsystem filteringTom Zanussi
This patch adds per-subsystem filtering to the event tracing subsystem. It adds a 'filter' debugfs file to each subsystem directory. This file can be written to to set filters; reading from it will display the current set of filters set for that subsystem. Basically what it does is propagate the filter down to each event contained in the subsystem. If a particular event doesn't have a field with the name specified in the filter, it simply doesn't get set for that event. You can verify whether or not the filter was set for a particular event by looking at the filter file for that event. As with per-event filters, compound expressions are supported, echoing '0' to the subsystem's filter file clears all filters in the subsystem, etc. Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <1237710677.7703.49.camel@charm-linux> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-22tracing: add per-event filteringTom Zanussi
This patch adds per-event filtering to the event tracing subsystem. It adds a 'filter' debugfs file to each event directory. This file can be written to to set filters; reading from it will display the current set of filters set for that event. Basically, any field listed in the 'format' file for an event can be filtered on (including strings, but not yet other array types) using either matching ('==') or non-matching ('!=') 'predicates'. A 'predicate' can be either a single expression: # echo pid != 0 > filter # cat filter pid != 0 or a compound expression of up to 8 sub-expressions combined using '&&' or '||': # echo comm == Xorg > filter # echo "&& sig != 29" > filter # cat filter comm == Xorg && sig != 29 Only events having field values matching an expression will be available in the trace output; non-matching events are discarded. Note that a compound expression is built up by echoing each sub-expression separately - it's not the most efficient way to do things, but it keeps the parser simple and assumes that compound expressions will be relatively uncommon. In any case, a subsequent patch introducing a way to set filters for entire subsystems should mitigate any need to do this for lots of events. Setting a filter without an '&&' or '||' clears the previous filter completely and sets the filter to the new expression: # cat filter comm == Xorg && sig != 29 # echo comm != Xorg # cat filter comm != Xorg To clear a filter, echo 0 to the filter file: # echo 0 > filter # cat filter none The limit of 8 predicates for a compound expression is arbitrary - for efficiency, it's implemented as an array of pointers to predicates, and 8 seemed more than enough for any filter... Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <1237710665.7703.48.camel@charm-linux> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>