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2010-03-10perf: Drop the obsolete profile naming for trace eventsFrederic Weisbecker
Drop the obsolete "profile" naming used by perf for trace events. Perf can now do more than simple events counting, so generalize the API naming. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
2010-03-10perf: Take a hot regs snapshot for trace eventsFrederic Weisbecker
We are taking a wrong regs snapshot when a trace event triggers. Either we use get_irq_regs(), which gives us the interrupted registers if we are in an interrupt, or we use task_pt_regs() which gives us the state before we entered the kernel, assuming we are lucky enough to be no kernel thread, in which case task_pt_regs() returns the initial set of regs when the kernel thread was started. What we want is different. We need a hot snapshot of the regs, so that we can get the instruction pointer to record in the sample, the frame pointer for the callchain, and some other things. Let's use the new perf_fetch_caller_regs() for that. Comparison with perf record -e lock: -R -a -f -g Before: perf [kernel] [k] __do_softirq | --- __do_softirq | |--55.16%-- __open | --44.84%-- __write_nocancel After: perf [kernel] [k] perf_tp_event | --- perf_tp_event | |--41.07%-- lock_acquire | | | |--39.36%-- _raw_spin_lock | | | | | |--7.81%-- hrtimer_interrupt | | | smp_apic_timer_interrupt | | | apic_timer_interrupt The old case was producing unreliable callchains. Now having right frame and instruction pointers, we have the trace we want. Also syscalls and kprobe events already have the right regs, let's use them instead of wasting a retrieval. v2: Follow the rename perf_save_regs() -> perf_fetch_caller_regs() Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Cc: Archs <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
2010-02-28Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (172 commits) perf_event, amd: Fix spinlock initialization perf_event: Fix preempt warning in perf_clock() perf tools: Flush maps on COMM events perf_events, x86: Split PMU definitions into separate files perf annotate: Handle samples not at objdump output addr boundaries perf_events, x86: Remove superflous MSR writes perf_events: Simplify code by removing cpu argument to hw_perf_group_sched_in() perf_events, x86: AMD event scheduling perf_events: Add new start/stop PMU callbacks perf_events: Report the MMAP pgoff value in bytes perf annotate: Defer allocating sym_priv->hist array perf symbols: Improve debugging information about symtab origins perf top: Use a macro instead of a constant variable perf symbols: Check the right return variable perf/scripts: Tag syscall_name helper as not yet available perf/scripts: Add perf-trace-python Documentation perf/scripts: Remove unnecessary PyTuple resizes perf/scripts: Add syscall tracing scripts perf/scripts: Add Python scripting engine perf/scripts: Remove check-perf-trace from listed scripts ... Fix trivial conflict in tools/perf/util/probe-event.c
2010-02-27Merge branch 'tracing/core' of ↵Ingo Molnar
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing into tracing/core
2010-02-25tracing: Fix typo in prof_sysexit_enable()Wenji Huang
Signed-off-by: Wenji Huang <wenji.huang@oracle.com> LKML-Reference: <1266997226-6833-1-git-send-email-wenji.huang@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-02-17tracing: Unify arch_syscall_addr() implementationsMike Frysinger
Most implementations of arch_syscall_addr() are the same, so create a default version in common code and move the one piece that differs (the syscall table) to asm/syscall.h. New arch ports don't have to waste time copying & pasting this simple function. The s390/sparc versions need to be different, so document why. Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> LKML-Reference: <1264498803-17278-1-git-send-email-vapier@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2010-01-29perf: Factorize trace events raw sample buffer operationsXiao Guangrong
Introduce ftrace_perf_buf_prepare() and ftrace_perf_buf_submit() to gather the common code that operates on raw events sampling buffer. This cleans up redundant code between regular trace events, syscall events and kprobe events. Changelog v1->v2: - Rename function name as per Masami and Frederic's suggestion - Add __kprobes for ftrace_perf_buf_prepare() and make ftrace_perf_buf_submit() inline as per Masami's suggestion - Export ftrace_perf_buf_prepare since modules will use it Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> LKML-Reference: <4B60E92D.9000808@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2010-01-06tracing: Remove show_format and related macros from TRACE_EVENTLai Jiangshan
The previous patches added the use of print_fmt string and changes the trace_define_field() function to also create the fields and format output for the event format files. text data bss dec hex filename 5857201 1355780 9336808 16549789 fc879d vmlinux 5884589 1351684 9337896 16574169 fce6d9 vmlinux-orig The above shows the size of the vmlinux after this patch set compared to the vmlinux-orig which is before the patch set. This saves us 27k on text, 1k on bss and adds just 4k of data. The total savings of 24k in size. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: <4B273D4D.40604@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-01-06tracing: Have syscall tracing call its own init functionSteven Rostedt
In the clean up of having all events call one specific function, the syscall event init was changed to call this helper function. With the new print_fmt updates, the syscalls need to do special initializations. This patch converts the syscall events to call its own init function again. Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2010-01-06tracing/syscalls: Init print_fmt for syscall eventsLai Jiangshan
This is part of a patch set that removes the show_format method in the ftrace event macros. Add the print_fmt initialization to the syscall events. The print_fmt is still not used, but will be in the follow up patches. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: <4B273D41.609@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-12-28perf events: Remove CONFIG_EVENT_PROFILELi Zefan
Quoted from Ingo: | This reminds me - i think we should eliminate CONFIG_EVENT_PROFILE - | it's an unnecessary Kconfig complication. If both PERF_EVENTS and | EVENT_TRACING is enabled we should expose generic tracepoints. | | Nor is it limited to event 'profiling', so it has become a misnomer as | well. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <4B2F1557.2050705@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-13tracing: Move a printk out of ftrace_raw_reg_event_foo()Li Zefan
Move the printk from each ftrace_raw_reg_event_foo() to its caller ftrace_event_enable_disable(). This avoids each regfunc trace event callbacks to handle a same error report that can be carried from the caller. See how much space this saves: text data bss dec hex filename 5345151 1961864 7103260 14410275 dbe223 vmlinux.o.old 5331487 1961864 7103260 14396611 dbacc3 vmlinux.o Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <4B1DC4AC.802@cn.fujitsu.com> [start cmdline record before calling regfunc to avoid lost window of pid to comm resolution] Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-12-13tracing: Pull up calls to trace_define_common_fields()Li Zefan
Call trace_define_common_fields() in event_create_dir() only. This avoids trace events to handle it from their define_fields callbacks and shrinks the kernel code size: text data bss dec hex filename 5346802 1961864 7103260 14411926 dbe896 vmlinux.o.old 5345151 1961864 7103260 14410275 dbe223 vmlinux.o Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <4B1DC49C.8000107@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-12-01trace_syscalls: Remove unused syscall_name_to_nr()Lai Jiangshan
After duplications are removed, syscall_name_to_nr() is unused. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <4B14D2A6.6060803@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-01trace_syscalls: Simplify syscall profileLai Jiangshan
use only one prof_sysenter_enable() instead of prof_sysenter_enable_##sname() use only one prof_sysenter_disable() instead of prof_sysenter_disable_##sname() use only one prof_sysexit_enable() instead of prof_sysexit_enable_##sname() use only one prof_sysexit_disable() instead of prof_sysexit_disable_##sname() Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <4B14D2A1.8060304@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-01trace_syscalls: Remove duplicate init_enter_##sname()Lai Jiangshan
use only one init_syscall_trace instead of many init_enter_##sname()/init_exit_##sname() Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <4B14D29B.6090708@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-01trace_syscalls: Add syscall_nr field to struct syscall_metadataLai Jiangshan
Add syscall_nr field to struct syscall_metadata, it helps us to get syscall number easier. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <4B14D293.6090800@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-01trace_syscalls: Remove enter_id exit_idLai Jiangshan
use ->enter_event->id instead of ->enter_id use ->exit_event->id instead of ->exit_id Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <4B14D288.7030001@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-01trace_syscalls: Set event_enter_##sname->data to its metadataLai Jiangshan
Set event_enter_##sname->data to its metadata, it makes codes simpler. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <4B14D282.7050709@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-01trace_syscalls: Remove unused event_syscall_enter and event_syscall_exitLai Jiangshan
fix event_enter_##sname->event fix event_exit_##sname->event remove unused event_syscall_enter and event_syscall_exit Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <4B14D278.4090209@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-27trace_syscalls: Add syscall nr fieldLai Jiangshan
Field syscall number is missed in syscall_enter_define_fields()/ syscall_exit_define_fields(). Syscall number is also needed for event filter or other users. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> LKML-Reference: <4B0E330D.1070206@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-23perf_events: Undo some recursion damagePeter Zijlstra
Make perf_swevent_get_recursion_context return a context number and disable preemption. This could be used to remove the IRQ disable from the trace bit and index the per-cpu buffer with. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> LKML-Reference: <20091123103819.993226816@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-22tracing: Forget about the NMI buffer for syscall eventsFrederic Weisbecker
We are never in an NMI context when we commit a syscall trace to perf. So just forget about the nmi buffer there. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <1258863695-10464-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-22tracing: Use the perf recursion protection from trace eventFrederic Weisbecker
When we commit a trace to perf, we first check if we are recursing in the same buffer so that we don't mess-up the buffer with a recursing trace. But later on, we do the same check from perf to avoid commit recursion. The recursion check is desired early before we touch the buffer but we want to do this check only once. Then export the recursion protection from perf and use it from the trace events before submitting a trace. v2: Put appropriate Reported-by tag Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <1258864015-10579-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-08tracing, perf_events: Protect the buffer from recursion in perfFrederic Weisbecker
While tracing using events with perf, if one enables the lockdep:lock_acquire event, it will infect every other perf trace events. Basically, you can enable whatever set of trace events through perf but if this event is part of the set, the only result we can get is a long list of lock_acquire events of rcu read lock, and only that. This is because of a recursion inside perf. 1) When a trace event is triggered, it will fill a per cpu buffer and submit it to perf. 2) Perf will commit this event but will also protect some data using rcu_read_lock 3) A recursion appears: rcu_read_lock triggers a lock_acquire event that will fill the per cpu event and then submit the buffer to perf. 4) Perf detects a recursion and ignores it 5) Perf continues its work on the previous event, but its buffer has been overwritten by the lock_acquire event, it has then been turned into a lock_acquire event of rcu read lock Such scenario also happens with lock_release with rcu_read_unlock(). We could turn the rcu_read_lock() into __rcu_read_lock() to drop the lock debugging from perf fast path, but that would make us lose the rcu debugging and that doesn't prevent from other possible kind of recursion from perf in the future. This patch adds a recursion protection based on a counter on the perf trace per cpu buffers to solve the problem. -v2: Fixed lost whitespace, added reviewed-by tag Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <1257477185-7838-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-23Merge branch 'perf/core' into perf/probesIngo Molnar
Conflicts: tools/perf/Makefile Merge reason: - fix the conflict - pick up the pr_*() infrastructure to queue up dependent patch Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-17Merge commit 'v2.6.32-rc5' into perf/probesIngo Molnar
Conflicts: kernel/trace/trace_event_profile.c Merge reason: update to -rc5 and resolve conflict. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-15Merge branch 'tracing/core' into perf/coreIngo Molnar
Merge reason: to add event filter support we need the following commits from the tracing tree: 3f6fe06: tracing/filters: Unify the regex parsing helpers 1889d20: tracing/filters: Provide basic regex support 737f453: tracing/filters: Cleanup useless headers Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-14tracing: Move syscalls metadata handling from arch to coreFrederic Weisbecker
Most of the syscalls metadata processing is done from arch. But these operations are mostly generic accross archs. Especially now that we have a common variable name that expresses the number of syscalls supported by an arch: NR_syscalls, the only remaining bits that need to reside in arch is the syscall nr to addr translation. v2: Compare syscalls symbols only after the "sys" prefix so that we avoid spurious mismatches with archs that have syscalls wrappers, in which case syscalls symbols have "SyS" prefixed aliases. (Reported by: Heiko Carstens) Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2009-10-06tracing/events: Add 'signed' field to format filesTom Zanussi
The sign info used for filters in the kernel is also useful to applications that process the trace stream. Add it to the format files and make it available to userspace. Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: lizf@cn.fujitsu.com Cc: hch@infradead.org Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <1254809398-8078-2-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-06tracing/syscalls: Use long for syscall ret format and field definitionsTom Zanussi
The syscall event definitions use long for the syscall exit ret value, but unsigned long for the same thing in the format and field definitions. Change them all to long. Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: lizf@cn.fujitsu.com Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <1254808849-7829-4-git-send-email-tzanussi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-23Merge commit 'linus/master' into tracing/kprobesFrederic Weisbecker
Conflicts: kernel/trace/Makefile kernel/trace/trace.h kernel/trace/trace_event_types.h kernel/trace/trace_export.c Merge reason: Sync with latest significant tracing core changes.
2009-09-21Merge branch 'perfcounters-rename-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'perfcounters-rename-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: perf: Tidy up after the big rename perf: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -> Performance Events perf_counter: Rename 'event' to event_id/hw_event perf_counter: Rename list_entry -> group_entry, counter_list -> group_list Manually resolved some fairly trivial conflicts with the tracing tree in include/trace/ftrace.h and kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c.
2009-09-21perf: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -> Performance EventsIngo Molnar
Bye-bye Performance Counters, welcome Performance Events! In the past few months the perfcounters subsystem has grown out its initial role of counting hardware events, and has become (and is becoming) a much broader generic event enumeration, reporting, logging, monitoring, analysis facility. Naming its core object 'perf_counter' and naming the subsystem 'perfcounters' has become more and more of a misnomer. With pending code like hw-breakpoints support the 'counter' name is less and less appropriate. All in one, we've decided to rename the subsystem to 'performance events' and to propagate this rename through all fields, variables and API names. (in an ABI compatible fashion) The word 'event' is also a bit shorter than 'counter' - which makes it slightly more convenient to write/handle as well. Thanks goes to Stephane Eranian who first observed this misnomer and suggested a rename. User-space tooling and ABI compatibility is not affected - this patch should be function-invariant. (Also, defconfigs were not touched to keep the size down.) This patch has been generated via the following script: FILES=$(find * -type f | grep -vE 'oprofile|[^K]config') sed -i \ -e 's/PERF_EVENT_/PERF_RECORD_/g' \ -e 's/PERF_COUNTER/PERF_EVENT/g' \ -e 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g' \ -e 's/nb_counters/nb_events/g' \ -e 's/swcounter/swevent/g' \ -e 's/tpcounter_event/tp_event/g' \ $FILES for N in $(find . -name perf_counter.[ch]); do M=$(echo $N | sed 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g') mv $N $M done FILES=$(find . -name perf_event.*) sed -i \ -e 's/COUNTER_MASK/REG_MASK/g' \ -e 's/COUNTER/EVENT/g' \ -e 's/\<event\>/event_id/g' \ -e 's/counter/event/g' \ -e 's/Counter/Event/g' \ $FILES ... to keep it as correct as possible. This script can also be used by anyone who has pending perfcounters patches - it converts a Linux kernel tree over to the new naming. We tried to time this change to the point in time where the amount of pending patches is the smallest: the end of the merge window. Namespace clashes were fixed up in a preparatory patch - and some stylistic fallout will be fixed up in a subsequent patch. ( NOTE: 'counters' are still the proper terminology when we deal with hardware registers - and these sed scripts are a bit over-eager in renaming them. I've undone some of that, but in case there's something left where 'counter' would be better than 'event' we can undo that on an individual basis instead of touching an otherwise nicely automated patch. ) Suggested-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Reviewed-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-18tracing: Allocate the ftrace event profile buffer dynamicallyFrederic Weisbecker
Currently the trace event profile buffer is allocated in the stack. But this may be too much for the stack, as the events can have large statically defined field size and can also grow with dynamic arrays. Allocate two per cpu buffer for all profiled events. The first cpu buffer is used to host every non-nmi context traces. It is protected by disabling the interrupts while writing and committing the trace. The second buffer is reserved for nmi. So that there is no race between them and the first buffer. The whole write/commit section is rcu protected because we release these buffers while deactivating the last profiling trace event. v2: Move the buffers from trace_event to be global, as pointed by Steven Rostedt. v3: Fix the syscall events to handle the profiling buffer races by disabling interrupts, now that the buffers are globals. Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-11Merge commit 'tracing/core' into tracing/kprobesFrederic Weisbecker
Conflicts: kernel/trace/trace_export.c kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c Merge reason: This topic branch lacks an important build fix in tracing/core: 0dd7b74787eaf7858c6c573353a83c3e2766e674: tracing: Fix double CPP substitution in TRACE_EVENT_FN that prevents from multiple tracepoint headers inclusion crashes. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-09-04tracing: pass around ring buffer instead of tracerSteven Rostedt
The latency tracers (irqsoff and wakeup) can swap trace buffers on the fly. If an event is happening and has reserved data on one of the buffers, and the latency tracer swaps the global buffer with the max buffer, the result is that the event may commit the data to the wrong buffer. This patch changes the API to the trace recording to be recieve the buffer that was used to reserve a commit. Then this buffer can be passed in to the commit. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-08-27tracing: Remove unneeded pointer castsFrederic Weisbecker
Cleaup uneeded casts from void * to char * in syscalls tracing file. Reported-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-08-27tracing: Restore the const qualifier for field names and types definitionFrederic Weisbecker
Restore the const qualifier in field's name and type parameters of trace_define_field that was lost while solving a conflict. Fields names and types are defined as builtin constant strings in static TRACE_EVENTs. But kprobes allocates these dynamically. That said, we still want to always pass these strings as const char * in trace_define_fields() to avoid any further accidental writes on the pointed strings. Reported-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-08-27tracing: Ftrace dynamic ftrace_event_call supportMasami Hiramatsu
Add dynamic ftrace_event_call support to ftrace. Trace engines can add new ftrace_event_call to ftrace on the fly. Each operator function of the call takes an ftrace_event_call data structure as an argument, because these functions may be shared among several ftrace_event_calls. Changes from v13: - Define remove_subsystem_dir() always (revirt a2ca5e03), because trace_remove_event_call() uses it. - Modify syscall tracer because of ftrace_event_call change. [fweisbec@gmail.com: Fixed conflict against latest tracing/core] Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com> Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Przemysław Pawełczyk <przemyslaw@pawelczyk.it> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <20090813203453.31965.71901.stgit@localhost.localdomain> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-08-26tracing: Convert event tracing code to use NR_syscallsJason Baron
Convert the syscalls event tracing code to use NR_syscalls, instead of FTRACE_SYSCALL_MAX. NR_syscalls is standard accross most arches, and reduces code confusion/complexity. Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Cc: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com> Cc: Martin Bligh <mbligh@google.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Josh Stone <jistone@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: H. Peter Anwin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <9b4f1a84ecae57cc6599412772efa36f0d2b815b.1251146513.git.jbaron@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-08-26tracing: Check invalid syscall nr while tracing syscallsHendrik Brueckner
Most arch syscall_get_nr() implementations returns -1 if the syscall number is not valid. Accessing the bit field without a check might result in a kernel oops (at least I saw it on s390 for ftrace selftest). Before this change, this problem did not occur, because the invalid syscall number (-1) caused syscall_nr_to_meta() to return NULL. There are at least two scenarios where syscall_get_nr() can return -1: 1. For example, ptrace stores an invalid syscall number, and thus, tracing code resets it. (see do_syscall_trace_enter in arch/s390/kernel/ptrace.c) 2. The syscall_regfunc() (kernel/tracepoint.c) sets the TIF_SYSCALL_FTRACE (now: TIF_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINT) flag for all threads which include kernel threads. However, the ftrace selftest triggers a kernel oops when testing syscall trace points: - The kernel thread is started as ususal (do_fork()), - tracing code sets TIF_SYSCALL_FTRACE, - the ret_from_fork() function is triggered and starts ftrace_syscall_exit() with an invalid syscall number. To avoid these scenarios, I suggest to check the syscall_nr. For instance, the ftrace selftest fails for s390 (with config option CONFIG_FTRACE_SYSCALLS set) and produces the following kernel oops. Unable to handle kernel pointer dereference at virtual kernel address 2000000000 Oops: 0038 [#1] PREEMPT SMP Modules linked in: CPU: 0 Not tainted 2.6.31-rc6-next-20090819-dirty #18 Process kthreadd (pid: 818, task: 000000003ea207e8, ksp: 000000003e813eb8) Krnl PSW : 0704100180000000 00000000000ea54c (ftrace_syscall_exit+0x58/0xdc) R:0 T:1 IO:1 EX:1 Key:0 M:1 W:0 P:0 AS:0 CC:1 PM:0 EA:3 Krnl GPRS: 0000000000000000 00000000000e0000 ffffffffffffffff 20000000008c2650 0000000000000007 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ffffffffffffffff 000000003e813d78 000000003e813f58 0000000000505ba8 000000003e813e18 000000003e813d78 Krnl Code: 00000000000ea540: e330d0000008 ag %r3,0(%r13) 00000000000ea546: a7480007 lhi %r4,7 00000000000ea54a: 1442 nr %r4,%r2 >00000000000ea54c: e31030000090 llgc %r1,0(%r3) 00000000000ea552: 5410d008 n %r1,8(%r13) 00000000000ea556: 8a104000 sra %r1,0(%r4) 00000000000ea55a: 5410d00c n %r1,12(%r13) 00000000000ea55e: 1211 ltr %r1,%r1 Call Trace: ([<0000000000000000>] 0x0) [<000000000001fa22>] do_syscall_trace_exit+0x132/0x18c [<000000000002d0c4>] sysc_return+0x0/0x8 [<000000000001c738>] kernel_thread_starter+0x0/0xc Last Breaking-Event-Address: [<00000000000ea51e>] ftrace_syscall_exit+0x2a/0xdc Signed-off-by: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Cc: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com> Cc: Martin Bligh <mbligh@google.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> LKML-Reference: <20090825125027.GE4639@cetus.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-08-26Merge branch 'tracing/core' of ↵Ingo Molnar
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing into tracing/core Conflicts: include/linux/tracepoint.h Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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: Create generic syscall TRACE_EVENTsJosh Stone
This converts the syscall_enter/exit tracepoints into TRACE_EVENTs, so you can have generic ftrace events that capture all system calls with arguments and return values. These generic events are also renamed to sys_enter/exit, so they're more closely aligned to the specific sys_enter_foo events. Signed-off-by: Josh Stone <jistone@redhat.com> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Cc: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com> Cc: Martin Bligh <mbligh@google.com> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <1251150194-1713-5-git-send-email-jistone@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-08-20tracing/syscalls: Fix the output of syscalls with no argumentsLi Zefan
Before: # echo 1 > events/syscalls/sys_enter_sync/enable # cat events/syscalls/sys_enter_sync/format ... field:int nr; offset:12; size:4; print fmt: "# sync # cat trace ... sync-8950 [000] 2366.087670: sys_sync( After: # echo 1 > events/syscalls/sys_enter_sync/enable # cat events/syscalls/sys_enter_sync/format ... field:int nr; offset:12; size:4; print fmt: "" # sync # cat trace sync-2134 [001] 136.780735: sys_sync() Reported-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <4A8D05AF.20103@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-19tracing/syscalls: Add filtering supportLi Zefan
Add filtering support for syscall events: # echo 'mode == 0666' > events/syscalls/sys_enter_open # echo 'ret == 0' > events/syscalls/sys_exit_open # echo 1 > events/syscalls/sys_enter_open # echo 1 > events/syscalls/sys_exit_open # cat trace ... modprobe-3084 [001] 117.463140: sys_open(filename: 917d3e8, flags: 0, mode: 1b6) modprobe-3084 [001] 117.463176: sys_open -> 0x0 less-3086 [001] 117.510455: sys_open(filename: 9c6bdb8, flags: 8000, mode: 1b6) sendmail-2574 [001] 122.145840: sys_open(filename: b807a365, flags: 0, mode: 1b6) ... Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <4A8BAFCB.1040006@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-19tracing/syscalls: Add fields format for exit eventsLi Zefan
Add "format" file for syscall exit events: # cat events/syscalls/sys_exit_open/format name: sys_exit_open ID: 344 format: field:unsigned short common_type; offset:0; size:2; field:unsigned char common_flags; offset:2; size:1; field:unsigned char common_preempt_count; offset:3; size:1; field:int common_pid; offset:4; size:4; field:int common_tgid; offset:8; size:4; field:int nr; offset:12; size:4; field:unsigned long ret; offset:16; size:4; Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <4A8BAF61.3060307@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-19tracing/syscalls: Fix fields format for enter eventsLi Zefan
The "format" file of a trace event is originally for parsers to parse ftrace binary output. But the "format" file of a syscall event can only be used by perfcounter, because it describes the format of struct syscall_enter_record not struct syscall_trace_enter. To fix this, we remove struct syscall_enter_record, and then struct syscall_trace_enter will be used by both perf profile and ftrace. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <4A8BAF39.1030404@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-17tracing/syscalls: Fix to print parameter typesLi Zefan
When syscall tracing was implemented as a tracer, "syscall_arg_type" trace option could be set to enable the display of syscall parameter types. Now this option is gone since it's no longer a tracer, but the code is still there but dead. So we remove dead code and re-enable the printing of paramete types via the verbose option: # echo verbose > trace_options # echo syscalls > set_event # cat trace ... bash-3331 [000] 95.348937: sys_fcntl64 -> 0x1 bash-3331 [000] 95.348942: sys_close(unsigned int fd: a) ... Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <4A891AF6.5050102@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>