History log of /linux-master/kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c
Revision Date Author Comments
# ba8ea723 12-Oct-2023 Artem Savkov <asavkov@redhat.com>

bpf: Change syscall_nr type to int in struct syscall_tp_t

linux-rt-devel tree contains a patch (b1773eac3f29c ("sched: Add support
for lazy preemption")) that adds an extra member to struct trace_entry.
This causes the offset of args field in struct trace_event_raw_sys_enter
be different from the one in struct syscall_trace_enter:

struct trace_event_raw_sys_enter {
struct trace_entry ent; /* 0 12 */

/* XXX last struct has 3 bytes of padding */
/* XXX 4 bytes hole, try to pack */

long int id; /* 16 8 */
long unsigned int args[6]; /* 24 48 */
/* --- cacheline 1 boundary (64 bytes) was 8 bytes ago --- */
char __data[]; /* 72 0 */

/* size: 72, cachelines: 2, members: 4 */
/* sum members: 68, holes: 1, sum holes: 4 */
/* paddings: 1, sum paddings: 3 */
/* last cacheline: 8 bytes */
};

struct syscall_trace_enter {
struct trace_entry ent; /* 0 12 */

/* XXX last struct has 3 bytes of padding */

int nr; /* 12 4 */
long unsigned int args[]; /* 16 0 */

/* size: 16, cachelines: 1, members: 3 */
/* paddings: 1, sum paddings: 3 */
/* last cacheline: 16 bytes */
};

This, in turn, causes perf_event_set_bpf_prog() fail while running bpf
test_profiler testcase because max_ctx_offset is calculated based on the
former struct, while off on the latter:

10488 if (is_tracepoint || is_syscall_tp) {
10489 int off = trace_event_get_offsets(event->tp_event);
10490
10491 if (prog->aux->max_ctx_offset > off)
10492 return -EACCES;
10493 }

What bpf program is actually getting is a pointer to struct
syscall_tp_t, defined in kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c. This patch fixes
the problem by aligning struct syscall_tp_t with struct
syscall_trace_(enter|exit) and changing the tests to use these structs
to dereference context.

Signed-off-by: Artem Savkov <asavkov@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20231013054219.172920-1-asavkov@redhat.com


# d3c4db86 01-Aug-2023 Yauheni Kaliuta <ykaliuta@redhat.com>

tracing: bpf: use struct trace_entry in struct syscall_tp_t

bpf tracepoint program uses struct trace_event_raw_sys_enter as
argument where trace_entry is the first field. Use the same instead
of unsigned long long since if it's amended (for example by RT
patch) it accesses data with wrong offset.

Signed-off-by: Yauheni Kaliuta <ykaliuta@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230801075222.7717-1-ykaliuta@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>


# b8752064 17-Nov-2022 Qiujun Huang <hqjagain@gmail.com>

tracing: Remove unused __bad_type_size() method

__bad_type_size() is unused after
commit 04ae87a52074("ftrace: Rework event_create_dir()").
So, remove it.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/D062EC2E-7DB7-4402-A67E-33C3577F551E@gmail.com

Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Qiujun Huang <hqjagain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>


# cb1c45fb 10-Apr-2022 Jeff Xie <xiehuan09@gmail.com>

tracing: Make tp_printk work on syscall tracepoints

Currently the tp_printk option has no effect on syscall tracepoint.
When adding the kernel option parameter tp_printk, then:

echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/syscalls/enable

When running any application, no trace information is printed on the
terminal.

Now added printk for syscall tracepoints.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220410145025.681144-1-xiehuan09@gmail.com

Signed-off-by: Jeff Xie <xiehuan09@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>


# 3e2a56e6 07-Jan-2022 Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

tracing: Have syscall trace events use trace_event_buffer_lock_reserve()

Currently, the syscall trace events call trace_buffer_lock_reserve()
directly, which means that it misses out on some of the filtering
optimizations provided by the helper function
trace_event_buffer_lock_reserve(). Have the syscall trace events call that
instead, as it was missed when adding the update to use the temp buffer
when filtering.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220107225839.823118570@goodmis.org

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Fixes: 0fc1b09ff1ff4 ("tracing: Use temp buffer when filtering events")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>


# 36590c50 25-Jan-2021 Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>

tracing: Merge irqflags + preempt counter.

The state of the interrupts (irqflags) and the preemption counter are
both passed down to tracing_generic_entry_update(). Only one bit of
irqflags is actually required: The on/off state. The complete 32bit
of the preemption counter isn't needed. Just whether of the upper bits
(softirq, hardirq and NMI) are set and the preemption depth is needed.

The irqflags and the preemption counter could be evaluated early and the
information stored in an integer `trace_ctx'.
tracing_generic_entry_update() would use the upper bits as the
TRACE_FLAG_* and the lower 8bit as the disabled-preemption depth
(considering that one must be substracted from the counter in one
special cases).

The actual preemption value is not used except for the tracing record.
The `irqflags' variable is mostly used only for the tracing record. An
exception here is for instance wakeup_tracer_call() or
probe_wakeup_sched_switch() which explicilty disable interrupts and use
that `irqflags' to save (and restore) the IRQ state and to record the
state.

Struct trace_event_buffer has also the `pc' and flags' members which can
be replaced with `trace_ctx' since their actual value is not used
outside of trace recording.

This will reduce tracing_generic_entry_update() to simply assign values
to struct trace_entry. The evaluation of the TRACE_FLAG_* bits is moved
to _tracing_gen_ctx_flags() which replaces preempt_count() and
local_save_flags() invocations.

As an example, ftrace_syscall_enter() may invoke:
- trace_buffer_lock_reserve() -> … -> tracing_generic_entry_update()
- event_trigger_unlock_commit()
-> ftrace_trace_stack() -> … -> tracing_generic_entry_update()
-> ftrace_trace_userstack() -> … -> tracing_generic_entry_update()

In this case the TRACE_FLAG_* bits were evaluated three times. By using
the `trace_ctx' they are evaluated once and assigned three times.

A build with all tracers enabled on x86-64 with and without the patch:

text data bss dec hex filename
21970669 17084168 7639260 46694097 2c87ed1 vmlinux.old
21970293 17084168 7639260 46693721 2c87d59 vmlinux.new

text shrank by 379 bytes, data remained constant.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210125194511.3924915-2-bigeasy@linutronix.de

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>


# 31537cf8 08-Jan-2020 Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

tracing: Initialize ret in syscall_enter_define_fields()

If syscall_enter_define_fields() is called on a system call with no
arguments, the return code variable "ret" will never get initialized.
Initialize it to zero.

Fixes: 04ae87a52074e ("ftrace: Rework event_create_dir()")
Reported-by: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/0FA8C6E3-D9F5-416D-A1B0-5E4CD583A101@lca.pw


# 13292494 13-Dec-2019 Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

tracing: Make struct ring_buffer less ambiguous

As there's two struct ring_buffers in the kernel, it causes some confusion.
The other one being the perf ring buffer. It was agreed upon that as neither
of the ring buffers are generic enough to be used globally, they should be
renamed as:

perf's ring_buffer -> perf_buffer
ftrace's ring_buffer -> trace_buffer

This implements the changes to the ring buffer that ftrace uses.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191213140531.116b3200@gandalf.local.home

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>


# 1c5eb448 09-Jan-2020 Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

tracing: Rename trace_buffer to array_buffer

As we are working to remove the generic "ring_buffer" name that is used by
both tracing and perf, the ring_buffer name for tracing will be renamed to
trace_buffer, and perf's ring buffer will be renamed to perf_buffer.

As there already exists a trace_buffer that is used by the trace_arrays, it
needs to be first renamed to array_buffer.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191213153553.GE20583@krava

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>


# 04ae87a5 24-Oct-2019 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>

ftrace: Rework event_create_dir()

Rework event_create_dir() to use an array of static data instead of
function pointers where possible.

The problem is that it would call the function pointer on module load
before parse_args(), possibly even before jump_labels were initialized.
Luckily the generated functions don't use jump_labels but it still seems
fragile. It also gets in the way of changing when we make the module map
executable.

The generated function are basically calling trace_define_field() with a
bunch of static arguments. So instead of a function, capture these
arguments in a static array, avoiding the function call.

Now there are a number of cases where the fields are dynamic (syscall
arguments, kprobes and uprobes), in which case a static array does not
work, for these we preserve the function call. Luckily all these cases
are not related to modules and so we can retain the function call for
them.

Also fix up all broken tracepoint definitions that now generate a
compile error.

Tested-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191111132458.342979914@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>


# 0e242208 15-Nov-2019 Hassan Naveed <hnaveed@wavecomp.com>

tracing: Use xarray for syscall trace events

Currently, a lot of memory is wasted for architectures like MIPS when
init_ftrace_syscalls() allocates the array for syscalls using kcalloc.
This is because syscalls numbers start from 4000, 5000 or 6000 and
array elements up to that point are unused.
Fix this by using a data structure more suited to storing sparsely
populated arrays. The XARRAY data structure, implemented using radix
trees, is much more memory efficient for storing the syscalls in
question.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191115234314.21599-1-hnaveed@wavecomp.com

Signed-off-by: Hassan Naveed <hnaveed@wavecomp.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Burton <paulburton@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>


# b35f549d 07-Nov-2016 Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

syscalls: Remove start and number from syscall_get_arguments() args

At Linux Plumbers, Andy Lutomirski approached me and pointed out that the
function call syscall_get_arguments() implemented in x86 was horribly
written and not optimized for the standard case of passing in 0 and 6 for
the starting index and the number of system calls to get. When looking at
all the users of this function, I discovered that all instances pass in only
0 and 6 for these arguments. Instead of having this function handle
different cases that are never used, simply rewrite it to return the first 6
arguments of a system call.

This should help out the performance of tracing system calls by ptrace,
ftrace and perf.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161107213233.754809394@goodmis.org

Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Cc: Dave Martin <dave.martin@arm.com>
Cc: "Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv@altlinux.org>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: linux-snps-arc@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-c6x-dev@linux-c6x.org
Cc: uclinux-h8-devel@lists.sourceforge.jp
Cc: linux-hexagon@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
Cc: nios2-dev@lists.rocketboards.org
Cc: openrisc@lists.librecores.org
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-sh@vger.kernel.org
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-um@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-xtensa@linux-xtensa.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com> # MIPS parts
Acked-by: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com> # For xtensa changes
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> # For the arm64 bits
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> # for x86
Reviewed-by: Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org>
Reported-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>


# d08e4113 07-Nov-2016 Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

tracing/syscalls: Pass in hardcoded 6 into syscall_get_arguments()

The only users that calls syscall_get_arguments() with a variable and not a
hard coded '6' is ftrace_syscall_enter(). syscall_get_arguments() can be
optimized by removing a variable input, and always grabbing 6 arguments
regardless of what the system call actually uses.

Change ftrace_syscall_enter() to pass the 6 args into a local stack array
and copy the necessary arguments into the trace event as needed.

This is needed to remove two parameters from syscall_get_arguments().

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161107213233.627583542@goodmis.org

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>


# b2441318 01-Nov-2017 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
- file had no licensing information it it.
- file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
- file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
- Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
- Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5
lines of source
- File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5
lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

- when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
COPYING file license applied.

For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 11139

and resulted in the first patch in this series.

If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930

and resulted in the second patch in this series.

- if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
it (per prior point). Results summary:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270
GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17
LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15
GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14
((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5
LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4
LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1

and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

- when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
the concluded license(s).

- when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

- In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

- When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

- If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
- a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
license ids and scores
- reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
- reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>


# e87c6bc3 24-Oct-2017 Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>

bpf: permit multiple bpf attachments for a single perf event

This patch enables multiple bpf attachments for a
kprobe/uprobe/tracepoint single trace event.
Each trace_event keeps a list of attached perf events.
When an event happens, all attached bpf programs will
be executed based on the order of attachment.

A global bpf_event_mutex lock is introduced to protect
prog_array attaching and detaching. An alternative will
be introduce a mutex lock in every trace_event_call
structure, but it takes a lot of extra memory.
So a global bpf_event_mutex lock is a good compromise.

The bpf prog detachment involves allocation of memory.
If the allocation fails, a dummy do-nothing program
will replace to-be-detached program in-place.

Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>


# 8fd0fbbe 11-Oct-2017 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>

perf/ftrace: Revert ("perf/ftrace: Fix double traces of perf on ftrace:function")

Revert commit:

75e8387685f6 ("perf/ftrace: Fix double traces of perf on ftrace:function")

The reason I instantly stumbled on that patch is that it only addresses the
ftrace situation and doesn't mention the other _5_ places that use this
interface. It doesn't explain why those don't have the problem and if not, why
their solution doesn't work for ftrace.

It doesn't, but this is just putting more duct tape on.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171011080224.200565770@infradead.org

Cc: Zhou Chengming <zhouchengming1@huawei.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>


# 609320c8 07-Sep-2017 Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>

perf/bpf: fix a clang compilation issue

clang does not support variable length array for structure member.
It has the following error during compilation:

kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c:568:17: error: fields must have a constant size:
'variable length array in structure' extension will never be supported
unsigned long args[sys_data->nb_args];
^

The fix is to use a fixed array length instead.

Reported-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>


# 75e83876 25-Aug-2017 Zhou Chengming <zhouchengming1@huawei.com>

perf/ftrace: Fix double traces of perf on ftrace:function

When running perf on the ftrace:function tracepoint, there is a bug
which can be reproduced by:

perf record -e ftrace:function -a sleep 20 &
perf record -e ftrace:function ls
perf script

ls 10304 [005] 171.853235: ftrace:function:
perf_output_begin
ls 10304 [005] 171.853237: ftrace:function:
perf_output_begin
ls 10304 [005] 171.853239: ftrace:function:
task_tgid_nr_ns
ls 10304 [005] 171.853240: ftrace:function:
task_tgid_nr_ns
ls 10304 [005] 171.853242: ftrace:function:
__task_pid_nr_ns
ls 10304 [005] 171.853244: ftrace:function:
__task_pid_nr_ns

We can see that all the function traces are doubled.

The problem is caused by the inconsistency of the register
function perf_ftrace_event_register() with the probe function
perf_ftrace_function_call(). The former registers one probe
for every perf_event. And the latter handles all perf_events
on the current cpu. So when two perf_events on the current cpu,
the traces of them will be doubled.

So this patch adds an extra parameter "event" for perf_tp_event,
only send sample data to this event when it's not NULL.

Signed-off-by: Zhou Chengming <zhouchengming1@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: acme@kernel.org
Cc: alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com
Cc: huawei.libin@huawei.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1503668977-12526-1-git-send-email-zhouchengming1@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>


# cf5f5cea 04-Aug-2017 Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>

bpf: add support for sys_enter_* and sys_exit_* tracepoints

Currently, bpf programs cannot be attached to sys_enter_* and sys_exit_*
style tracepoints. The iovisor/bcc issue #748
(https://github.com/iovisor/bcc/issues/748) documents this issue.
For example, if you try to attach a bpf program to tracepoints
syscalls/sys_enter_newfstat, you will get the following error:
# ./tools/trace.py t:syscalls:sys_enter_newfstat
Ioctl(PERF_EVENT_IOC_SET_BPF): Invalid argument
Failed to attach BPF to tracepoint

The main reason is that syscalls/sys_enter_* and syscalls/sys_exit_*
tracepoints are treated differently from other tracepoints and there
is no bpf hook to it.

This patch adds bpf support for these syscalls tracepoints by
. permitting bpf attachment in ioctl PERF_EVENT_IOC_SET_BPF
. calling bpf programs in perf_syscall_enter and perf_syscall_exit

The legality of bpf program ctx access is also checked.
Function trace_event_get_offsets returns correct max offset for each
specific syscall tracepoint, which is compared against the maximum offset
access in bpf program.

Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>


# d282b9c0 12-Sep-2016 Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>

tracing/syscalls: fix multiline in error message text

pr_info message spans two lines and the literal string is missing
a white space between words. Add the white space.

Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>


# 1e1dcd93 06-Apr-2016 Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>

perf: split perf_trace_buf_prepare into alloc and update parts

split allows to move expensive update of 'struct trace_entry' to later phase.
Repurpose unused 1st argument of perf_tp_event() to indicate event type.

While splitting use temp variable 'rctx' instead of '*rctx' to avoid
unnecessary loads done by the compiler due to -fno-strict-aliasing

Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>


# dbfeaa7a 09-Dec-2015 Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>

tracing: Add get_syscall_name()

Add a utility function to grab the syscall name from the syscall
metadata, given a syscall id.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/be26a8dfe3f15e16a837799f1c1e2b4d62742843.1449767187.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>


# 026842d1 26-Feb-2016 Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.com>

tracing/syscalls: Rename "/format" tracepoint field name "nr" to "__syscall_nr:

Some tracepoint have multiple fields with the same name, "nr", the first
one is a unique syscall ID, the other is a syscall argument:

# cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/syscalls/sys_enter_io_getevents/format
name: sys_enter_io_getevents
ID: 747
format:
field:unsigned short common_type; offset:0; size:2; signed:0;
field:unsigned char common_flags; offset:2; size:1; signed:0;
field:unsigned char common_preempt_count; offset:3; size:1; signed:0;
field:int common_pid; offset:4; size:4; signed:1;

field:int nr; offset:8; size:4; signed:1;
field:aio_context_t ctx_id; offset:16; size:8; signed:0;
field:long min_nr; offset:24; size:8; signed:0;
field:long nr; offset:32; size:8; signed:0;
field:struct io_event * events; offset:40; size:8; signed:0;
field:struct timespec * timeout; offset:48; size:8; signed:0;

print fmt: "ctx_id: 0x%08lx, min_nr: 0x%08lx, nr: 0x%08lx, events: 0x%08lx, timeout: 0x%08lx", ((unsigned long)(REC->ctx_id)), ((unsigned long)(REC->min_nr)), ((unsigned long)(REC->nr)), ((unsigned long)(REC->events)), ((unsigned long)(REC->timeout))
#

Fix it by renaming the "/format" common tracepoint field "nr" to "__syscall_nr".

Signed-off-by: Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.com>
[ Do not rename the struct member, just the '/format' field name ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160226132301.3ae065a4@gandalf.local.home
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# 983f938a 30-Sep-2015 Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

tracing: Move trace_flags from global to a trace_array field

In preparation to make trace options per instance, the global trace_flags
needs to be moved from being a global variable to a field within the trace
instance trace_array structure.

There's still more work to do, as there's some functions that use
trace_flags without passing in a way to get to the current_trace array. For
those, the global_trace is used directly (from trace.c). This includes
setting and clearing the trace_flags. This means that when a new instance is
created, it just gets the trace_flags of the global_trace and will not be
able to modify them. Depending on the functions that have access to the
trace_array, the flags of an instance may not affect parts of its trace,
where the global_trace is used. These will be fixed in future changes.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>


# 09a5059a 13-May-2015 Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

tracing: Rename ftrace_trigger_soft_disabled() to trace_trigger_soft_disabled()

The name "ftrace" really refers to the function hook infrastructure. It
is not about the trace_events. The ftrace_trigger_soft_disabled() tests if a
trace_event is soft disabled (called but not traced), and returns true if
it is. It has nothing to do with function tracing and should be renamed.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>


# 2425bcb9 05-May-2015 Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

tracing: Rename ftrace_event_{call,class} to trace_event_{call,class}

The name "ftrace" really refers to the function hook infrastructure. It
is not about the trace_events. The structures ftrace_event_call and
ftrace_event_class have nothing to do with the function hooks, and are
really trace_event structures. Rename ftrace_event_* to trace_event_*.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>


# 7f1d2f82 05-May-2015 Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

tracing: Rename ftrace_event_file to trace_event_file

The name "ftrace" really refers to the function hook infrastructure. It
is not about the trace_events. The structure ftrace_event_file is really
about trace events and not "ftrace". Rename it to trace_event_file.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>


# 86038c5e 15-Dec-2014 Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>

perf: Avoid horrible stack usage

Both Linus (most recent) and Steve (a while ago) reported that perf
related callbacks have massive stack bloat.

The problem is that software events need a pt_regs in order to
properly report the event location and unwind stack. And because we
could not assume one was present we allocated one on stack and filled
it with minimal bits required for operation.

Now, pt_regs is quite large, so this is undesirable. Furthermore it
turns out that most sites actually have a pt_regs pointer available,
making this even more onerous, as the stack space is pointless waste.

This patch addresses the problem by observing that software events
have well defined nesting semantics, therefore we can use static
per-cpu storage instead of on-stack.

Linus made the further observation that all but the scheduler callers
of perf_sw_event() have a pt_regs available, so we change the regular
perf_sw_event() to require a valid pt_regs (where it used to be
optional) and add perf_sw_event_sched() for the scheduler.

We have a scheduler specific call instead of a more generic _noregs()
like construct because we can assume non-recursion from the scheduler
and thereby simplify the code further (_noregs would have to put the
recursion context call inline in order to assertain which __perf_regs
element to use).

One last note on the implementation of perf_trace_buf_prepare(); we
allow .regs = NULL for those cases where we already have a pt_regs
pointer available and do not need another.

Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Reported-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Javi Merino <javi.merino@arm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Vaibhav Nagarnaik <vnagarnaik@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141216115041.GW3337@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>


# 5f893b26 12-Dec-2014 Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

tracing: Move enabling tracepoints to just after rcu_init()

Enabling tracepoints at boot up can be very useful. The tracepoint
can be initialized right after RCU has been. There's no need to
wait for the early_initcall() to be called. That's too late for some
things that can use tracepoints for debugging. Move the logic to
enable tracepoints out of the initcalls and into init/main.c to
right after rcu_init().

This also allows trace_printk() to be used early too.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.11.1412121539300.16494@nanos
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141214164104.307127356@goodmis.org

Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>


# 183742f0 12-Nov-2014 Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

tracing: Do not use return values of trace_seq_printf() in syscall tracing

The functions trace_seq_printf() and friends will not be returning values
soon and will be void functions. To know if they succeeded or not, the
functions trace_seq_has_overflowed() and trace_handle_return() should be
used instead.

Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>


# 086ba77a 29-Oct-2014 Rabin Vincent <rabin@rab.in>

tracing/syscalls: Ignore numbers outside NR_syscalls' range

ARM has some private syscalls (for example, set_tls(2)) which lie
outside the range of NR_syscalls. If any of these are called while
syscall tracing is being performed, out-of-bounds array access will
occur in the ftrace and perf sys_{enter,exit} handlers.

# trace-cmd record -e raw_syscalls:* true && trace-cmd report
...
true-653 [000] 384.675777: sys_enter: NR 192 (0, 1000, 3, 4000022, ffffffff, 0)
true-653 [000] 384.675812: sys_exit: NR 192 = 1995915264
true-653 [000] 384.675971: sys_enter: NR 983045 (76f74480, 76f74000, 76f74b28, 76f74480, 76f76f74, 1)
true-653 [000] 384.675988: sys_exit: NR 983045 = 0
...

# trace-cmd record -e syscalls:* true
[ 17.289329] Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address aaaaaace
[ 17.289590] pgd = 9e71c000
[ 17.289696] [aaaaaace] *pgd=00000000
[ 17.289985] Internal error: Oops: 5 [#1] PREEMPT SMP ARM
[ 17.290169] Modules linked in:
[ 17.290391] CPU: 0 PID: 704 Comm: true Not tainted 3.18.0-rc2+ #21
[ 17.290585] task: 9f4dab00 ti: 9e710000 task.ti: 9e710000
[ 17.290747] PC is at ftrace_syscall_enter+0x48/0x1f8
[ 17.290866] LR is at syscall_trace_enter+0x124/0x184

Fix this by ignoring out-of-NR_syscalls-bounds syscall numbers.

Commit cd0980fc8add "tracing: Check invalid syscall nr while tracing syscalls"
added the check for less than zero, but it should have also checked
for greater than NR_syscalls.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/p/1414620418-29472-1-git-send-email-rabin@rab.in

Fixes: cd0980fc8add "tracing: Check invalid syscall nr while tracing syscalls"
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 2.6.33+
Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent <rabin@rab.in>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>


# fb5a613b 22-Aug-2014 Andreea-Cristina Bernat <bernat.ada@gmail.com>

kernel: trace_syscalls: Replace rcu_assign_pointer() with RCU_INIT_POINTER()

The uses of "rcu_assign_pointer()" are NULLing out the pointers.
According to RCU_INIT_POINTER()'s block comment:
"1. This use of RCU_INIT_POINTER() is NULLing out the pointer"
it is better to use it instead of rcu_assign_pointer() because it has a
smaller overhead.

The following Coccinelle semantic patch was used:
@@
@@

- rcu_assign_pointer
+ RCU_INIT_POINTER
(..., NULL)

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/p/20140822142822.GA32391@ada

Signed-off-by: Andreea-Cristina Bernat <bernat.ada@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>


# 13a1e4ae 06-Jan-2014 Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

tracing: Consolidate event trigger code

The event trigger code that checks for callback triggers before and
after recording of an event has lots of flags checks. This code is
duplicated throughout the ftrace events, kprobes and system calls.
They all do the exact same checks against the event flags.

Added helper functions ftrace_trigger_soft_disabled(),
event_trigger_unlock_commit() and event_trigger_unlock_commit_regs()
that consolidated the code and these are used instead.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140106222703.5e7dbba2@gandalf.local.home

Acked-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>


# 4bf0566d 06-Jan-2014 Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>

tracing: Remove double-underscore naming in syscall trigger invocations

There's no reason to use double-underscores for any variable name in
ftrace_syscall_enter()/exit(), since those functions aren't generated
and there's no need to avoid namespace collisions as with the event
macros, which is where the original invocation code came from.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/0b489c9d1f7ee315cff60fa0e4c2b433ade8ae0d.1389036657.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>


# bac5fb97 24-Oct-2013 Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>

tracing: Add and use generic set_trigger_filter() implementation

Add a generic event_command.set_trigger_filter() op implementation and
have the current set of trigger commands use it - this essentially
gives them all support for filters.

Syntactically, filters are supported by adding 'if <filter>' just
after the command, in which case only events matching the filter will
invoke the trigger. For example, to add a filter to an
enable/disable_event command:

echo 'enable_event:system:event if common_pid == 999' > \
.../othersys/otherevent/trigger

The above command will only enable the system:event event if the
common_pid field in the othersys:otherevent event is 999.

As another example, to add a filter to a stacktrace command:

echo 'stacktrace if common_pid == 999' > \
.../somesys/someevent/trigger

The above command will only trigger a stacktrace if the common_pid
field in the event is 999.

The filter syntax is the same as that described in the 'Event
filtering' section of Documentation/trace/events.txt.

Because triggers can now use filters, the trigger-invoking logic needs
to be moved in those cases - e.g. for ftrace_raw_event_calls, if a
trigger has a filter associated with it, the trigger invocation now
needs to happen after the { assign; } part of the call, in order for
the trigger condition to be tested.

There's still a SOFT_DISABLED-only check at the top of e.g. the
ftrace_raw_events function, so when an event is soft disabled but not
because of the presence of a trigger, the original SOFT_DISABLED
behavior remains unchanged.

There's also a bit of trickiness in that some triggers need to avoid
being invoked while an event is currently in the process of being
logged, since the trigger may itself log data into the trace buffer.
Thus we make sure the current event is committed before invoking those
triggers. To do that, we split the trigger invocation in two - the
first part (event_triggers_call()) checks the filter using the current
trace record; if a command has the post_trigger flag set, it sets a
bit for itself in the return value, otherwise it directly invoks the
trigger. Once all commands have been either invoked or set their
return flag, event_triggers_call() returns. The current record is
then either committed or discarded; if any commands have deferred
their triggers, those commands are finally invoked following the close
of the current event by event_triggers_post_call().

To simplify the above and make it more efficient, the TRIGGER_COND bit
is introduced, which is set only if a soft-disabled trigger needs to
use the log record for filter testing or needs to wait until the
current log record is closed.

The syscall event invocation code is also changed in analogous ways.

Because event triggers need to be able to create and free filters,
this also adds a couple external wrappers for the existing
create_filter and free_filter functions, which are too generic to be
made extern functions themselves.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/7164930759d8719ef460357f143d995406e4eead.1382622043.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>


# 85f2b082 24-Oct-2013 Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>

tracing: Add basic event trigger framework

Add a 'trigger' file for each trace event, enabling 'trace event
triggers' to be set for trace events.

'trace event triggers' are patterned after the existing 'ftrace
function triggers' implementation except that triggers are written to
per-event 'trigger' files instead of to a single file such as the
'set_ftrace_filter' used for ftrace function triggers.

The implementation is meant to be entirely separate from ftrace
function triggers, in order to keep the respective implementations
relatively simple and to allow them to diverge.

The event trigger functionality is built on top of SOFT_DISABLE
functionality. It adds a TRIGGER_MODE bit to the ftrace_event_file
flags which is checked when any trace event fires. Triggers set for a
particular event need to be checked regardless of whether that event
is actually enabled or not - getting an event to fire even if it's not
enabled is what's already implemented by SOFT_DISABLE mode, so trigger
mode directly reuses that. Event trigger essentially inherit the soft
disable logic in __ftrace_event_enable_disable() while adding a bit of
logic and trigger reference counting via tm_ref on top of that in a
new trace_event_trigger_enable_disable() function. Because the base
__ftrace_event_enable_disable() code now needs to be invoked from
outside trace_events.c, a wrapper is also added for those usages.

The triggers for an event are actually invoked via a new function,
event_triggers_call(), and code is also added to invoke them for
ftrace_raw_event calls as well as syscall events.

The main part of the patch creates a new trace_events_trigger.c file
to contain the trace event triggers implementation.

The standard open, read, and release file operations are implemented
here.

The open() implementation sets up for the various open modes of the
'trigger' file. It creates and attaches the trigger iterator and sets
up the command parser. If opened for reading set up the trigger
seq_ops.

The read() implementation parses the event trigger written to the
'trigger' file, looks up the trigger command, and passes it along to
that event_command's func() implementation for command-specific
processing.

The release() implementation does whatever cleanup is needed to
release the 'trigger' file, like releasing the parser and trigger
iterator, etc.

A couple of functions for event command registration and
unregistration are added, along with a list to add them to and a mutex
to protect them, as well as an (initially empty) registration function
to add the set of commands that will be added by future commits, and
call to it from the trace event initialization code.

also added are a couple trigger-specific data structures needed for
these implementations such as a trigger iterator and a struct for
trigger-specific data.

A couple structs consisting mostly of function meant to be implemented
in command-specific ways, event_command and event_trigger_ops, are
used by the generic event trigger command implementations. They're
being put into trace.h alongside the other trace_event data structures
and functions, in the expectation that they'll be needed in several
trace_event-related files such as trace_events_trigger.c and
trace_events.c.

The event_command.func() function is meant to be called by the trigger
parsing code in order to add a trigger instance to the corresponding
event. It essentially coordinates adding a live trigger instance to
the event, and arming the triggering the event.

Every event_command func() implementation essentially does the
same thing for any command:

- choose ops - use the value of param to choose either a number or
count version of event_trigger_ops specific to the command
- do the register or unregister of those ops
- associate a filter, if specified, with the triggering event

The reg() and unreg() ops allow command-specific implementations for
event_trigger_op registration and unregistration, and the
get_trigger_ops() op allows command-specific event_trigger_ops
selection to be parameterized. When a trigger instance is added, the
reg() op essentially adds that trigger to the triggering event and
arms it, while unreg() does the opposite. The set_filter() function
is used to associate a filter with the trigger - if the command
doesn't specify a set_filter() implementation, the command will ignore
filters.

Each command has an associated trigger_type, which serves double duty,
both as a unique identifier for the command as well as a value that
can be used for setting a trigger mode bit during trigger invocation.

The signature of func() adds a pointer to the event_command struct,
used to invoke those functions, along with a command_data param that
can be passed to the reg/unreg functions. This allows func()
implementations to use command-specific blobs and supports code
re-use.

The event_trigger_ops.func() command corrsponds to the trigger 'probe'
function that gets called when the triggering event is actually
invoked. The other functions are used to list the trigger when
needed, along with a couple mundane book-keeping functions.

This also moves event_file_data() into trace.h so it can be used
outside of trace_events.c.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/316d95061accdee070aac8e5750afba0192fa5b9.1382622043.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Idea-by: Steve Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>


# 3ccb0123 02-Dec-2013 Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

tracing: Only run synchronize_sched() at instance deletion time

It has been reported that boot up with FTRACE_SELFTEST enabled can take a
very long time. There can be stalls of over a minute.

This was tracked down to the synchronize_sched() called when a system call
event is disabled. As the self tests enable and disable thousands of events,
this makes the synchronize_sched() get called thousands of times.

The synchornize_sched() was added with d562aff93bfb53 "tracing: Add support
for SOFT_DISABLE to syscall events" which caused this regression (added
in 3.13-rc1).

The synchronize_sched() is to protect against the events being accessed
when a tracer instance is being deleted. When an instance is being deleted
all the events associated to it are unregistered. The synchronize_sched()
makes sure that no more users are running when it finishes.

Instead of calling synchronize_sched() for all syscall events, we only
need to call it once, after the events are unregistered and before the
instance is deleted. The event_mutex is held during this action to
prevent new users from enabling events.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131203124120.427b9661@gandalf.local.home

Reported-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz>
Tested-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>


# d562aff9 24-Oct-2013 Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>

tracing: Add support for SOFT_DISABLE to syscall events

The original SOFT_DISABLE patches didn't add support for soft disable
of syscall events; this adds it.

Add an array of ftrace_event_file pointers indexed by syscall number
to the trace array and remove the existing enabled bitmaps, which as a
result are now redundant. The ftrace_event_file structs in turn
contain the soft disable flags we need for per-syscall soft disable
accounting.

Adding ftrace_event_files also means we can remove the USE_CALL_FILTER
bit, thus enabling multibuffer filter support for syscall events.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/6e72b566e85d8df8042f133efbc6c30e21fb017e.1382620672.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>


# f306cc82 24-Oct-2013 Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>

tracing: Update event filters for multibuffer

The trace event filters are still tied to event calls rather than
event files, which means you don't get what you'd expect when using
filters in the multibuffer case:

Before:

# echo 'bytes_alloc > 8192' > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kmem/kmalloc/filter
# cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kmem/kmalloc/filter
bytes_alloc > 8192
# mkdir /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/instances/test1
# echo 'bytes_alloc > 2048' > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/instances/test1/events/kmem/kmalloc/filter
# cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kmem/kmalloc/filter
bytes_alloc > 2048
# cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/instances/test1/events/kmem/kmalloc/filter
bytes_alloc > 2048

Setting the filter in tracing/instances/test1/events shouldn't affect
the same event in tracing/events as it does above.

After:

# echo 'bytes_alloc > 8192' > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kmem/kmalloc/filter
# cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kmem/kmalloc/filter
bytes_alloc > 8192
# mkdir /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/instances/test1
# echo 'bytes_alloc > 2048' > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/instances/test1/events/kmem/kmalloc/filter
# cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kmem/kmalloc/filter
bytes_alloc > 8192
# cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/instances/test1/events/kmem/kmalloc/filter
bytes_alloc > 2048

We'd like to just move the filter directly from ftrace_event_call to
ftrace_event_file, but there are a couple cases that don't yet have
multibuffer support and therefore have to continue using the current
event_call-based filters. For those cases, a new USE_CALL_FILTER bit
is added to the event_call flags, whose main purpose is to keep the
old behavior for those cases until they can be updated with
multibuffer support; at that point, the USE_CALL_FILTER flag (and the
new associated call_filter_check_discard() function) can go away.

The multibuffer support also made filter_current_check_discard()
redundant, so this change removes that function as well and replaces
it with filter_check_discard() (or call_filter_check_discard() as
appropriate).

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/f16e9ce4270c62f46b2e966119225e1c3cca7e60.1382620672.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>


# 3ddc77f6 27-Mar-2013 Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>

tracing/syscalls: Annotate raw_init function with __init

init_syscall_trace() can only be called during kernel bootup only, so we can
mark it and the functions it calls as __init.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/51528E89.6080508@huawei.com

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>


# cd92bf61 17-Jun-2013 Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>

tracing/perf: Move the PERF_MAX_TRACE_SIZE check into perf_trace_buf_prepare()

Every perf_trace_buf_prepare() caller does
WARN_ONCE(size > PERF_MAX_TRACE_SIZE, message) and "message" is
almost the same.

Shift this WARN_ONCE() into perf_trace_buf_prepare(). This changes
the meaning of _ONCE, but I think this is fine.

- 4947014 2932448 10104832 17984294 1126b26 vmlinux
+ 4948422 2932448 10104832 17985702 11270a6 vmlinux

on my build.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130617170211.GA19813@redhat.com

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>


# 421c7860 17-Jun-2013 Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>

tracing/syscall: Avoid perf_trace_buf_*() if sys_data->perf_events is empty

perf_trace_buf_prepare() + perf_trace_buf_submit(head, task => NULL)
make no sense if hlist_empty(head). Change perf_syscall_enter/exit()
to check sys_data->{enter,exit}_event->perf_events beforehand.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130617170207.GA19806@redhat.com

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>


# 146c3442 15-Jul-2013 zhangwei(Jovi) <jovi.zhangwei@huawei.com>

tracing: Use trace_seq_puts()/trace_seq_putc() where possible

For string without format specifiers, use trace_seq_puts()
or trace_seq_putc().

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/51E3B3AC.1000605@huawei.com

Signed-off-by: zhangwei(Jovi) <jovi.zhangwei@huawei.com>
[ fixed a trace_seq_putc(s, " ") to trace_seq_putc(s, ' ') ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>


# 11034ae9 09-Apr-2013 zhangwei(Jovi) <jovi.zhangwei@huawei.com>

tracing: Fix irqs-off tag display in syscall tracing

All syscall tracing irqs-off tags are wrong, the syscall enter entry doesn't
disable irqs.

[root@jovi tracing]#echo "syscalls:sys_enter_open" > set_event
[root@jovi tracing]# cat trace
# tracer: nop
#
# entries-in-buffer/entries-written: 13/13 #P:2
#
# _-----=> irqs-off
# / _----=> need-resched
# | / _---=> hardirq/softirq
# || / _--=> preempt-depth
# ||| / delay
# TASK-PID CPU# |||| TIMESTAMP FUNCTION
# | | | |||| | |
irqbalance-513 [000] d... 56115.496766: sys_open(filename: 804e1a6, flags: 0, mode: 1b6)
irqbalance-513 [000] d... 56115.497008: sys_open(filename: 804e1bb, flags: 0, mode: 1b6)
sendmail-771 [000] d... 56115.827982: sys_open(filename: b770e6d1, flags: 0, mode: 1b6)

The reason is syscall tracing doesn't record irq_flags into buffer.
The proper display is:

[root@jovi tracing]#echo "syscalls:sys_enter_open" > set_event
[root@jovi tracing]# cat trace
# tracer: nop
#
# entries-in-buffer/entries-written: 14/14 #P:2
#
# _-----=> irqs-off
# / _----=> need-resched
# | / _---=> hardirq/softirq
# || / _--=> preempt-depth
# ||| / delay
# TASK-PID CPU# |||| TIMESTAMP FUNCTION
# | | | |||| | |
irqbalance-514 [001] .... 46.213921: sys_open(filename: 804e1a6, flags: 0, mode: 1b6)
irqbalance-514 [001] .... 46.214160: sys_open(filename: 804e1bb, flags: 0, mode: 1b6)
<...>-920 [001] .... 47.307260: sys_open(filename: 4e82a0c5, flags: 80000, mode: 0)

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1365564393-10972-3-git-send-email-jovi.zhangwei@huawei.com

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 2.6.35
Signed-off-by: zhangwei(Jovi) <jovi.zhangwei@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>


# 36a78e9e 11-Mar-2013 zhangwei(Jovi) <jovi.zhangwei@huawei.com>

tracing: Fix comment about prefix in arch_syscall_match_sym_name()

ppc64 has its own syscall prefix like ".SyS" or ".sys". Make the
comment in arch_syscall_match_sym_name() more understandable.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/513D842F.40205@huawei.com

Signed-off-by: zhangwei(Jovi) <jovi.zhangwei@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>


# 12883efb 05-Mar-2013 Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) <srostedt@redhat.com>

tracing: Consolidate max_tr into main trace_array structure

Currently, the way the latency tracers and snapshot feature works
is to have a separate trace_array called "max_tr" that holds the
snapshot buffer. For latency tracers, this snapshot buffer is used
to swap the running buffer with this buffer to save the current max
latency.

The only items needed for the max_tr is really just a copy of the buffer
itself, the per_cpu data pointers, the time_start timestamp that states
when the max latency was triggered, and the cpu that the max latency
was triggered on. All other fields in trace_array are unused by the
max_tr, making the max_tr mostly bloat.

This change removes the max_tr completely, and adds a new structure
called trace_buffer, that holds the buffer pointer, the per_cpu data
pointers, the time_start timestamp, and the cpu where the latency occurred.

The trace_array, now has two trace_buffers, one for the normal trace and
one for the max trace or snapshot. By doing this, not only do we remove
the bloat from the max_trace but the instances of traces can now use
their own snapshot feature and not have just the top level global_trace have
the snapshot feature and latency tracers for itself.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>


# 523c8113 03-Mar-2013 Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>

tracing: Fix some section mismatch warnings

As we've added __init annotation to field-defining functions, we should
add __refdata annotation to event_call variables, which reference those
functions.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/51343C1F.2050502@huawei.com

Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>


# b8aae39f 20-Feb-2013 Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>

tracing/syscalls: Annotate field-defining functions with __init

These two functions are called during kernel boot only.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/51258796.7020704@huawei.com

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>


# 12ab74ee 08-Aug-2012 Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>

tracing: Make syscall events suitable for multiple buffers

Currently the syscall events record into the global buffer. But if
multiple buffers are in place, then we need to have syscall events
record in the proper buffers.

By adding descriptors to pass to the syscall event functions, the
syscall events can now record into the buffers that have been assigned
to them (one event may be applied to mulitple buffers).

This will allow tracing high volume syscalls along with seldom occurring
syscalls without losing the seldom syscall events.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>


# f431b634 12-Feb-2013 Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

tracing/syscalls: Allow archs to ignore tracing compat syscalls

The tracing of ia32 compat system calls has been a bit of a pain as they
use different system call numbers than the 64bit equivalents.

I wrote a simple 'lls' program that lists files. I compiled it as a i686
ELF binary and ran it under a x86_64 box. This is the result:

echo 0 > /debug/tracing/tracing_on
echo 1 > /debug/tracing/events/syscalls/enable
echo 1 > /debug/tracing/tracing_on ; ./lls ; echo 0 > /debug/tracing/tracing_on

grep lls /debug/tracing/trace

[.. skipping calls before TS_COMPAT is set ...]

lls-1127 [005] d... 936.409188: sys_recvfrom(fd: 0, ubuf: 4d560fc4, size: 0, flags: 8048034, addr: 8, addr_len: f7700420)
lls-1127 [005] d... 936.409190: sys_recvfrom -> 0x8a77000
lls-1127 [005] d... 936.409211: sys_lgetxattr(pathname: 0, name: 1000, value: 3, size: 22)
lls-1127 [005] d... 936.409215: sys_lgetxattr -> 0xf76ff000
lls-1127 [005] d... 936.409223: sys_dup2(oldfd: 4d55ae9b, newfd: 4)
lls-1127 [005] d... 936.409228: sys_dup2 -> 0xfffffffffffffffe
lls-1127 [005] d... 936.409236: sys_newfstat(fd: 4d55b085, statbuf: 80000)
lls-1127 [005] d... 936.409242: sys_newfstat -> 0x3
lls-1127 [005] d... 936.409243: sys_removexattr(pathname: 3, name: ffcd0060)
lls-1127 [005] d... 936.409244: sys_removexattr -> 0x0
lls-1127 [005] d... 936.409245: sys_lgetxattr(pathname: 0, name: 19614, value: 1, size: 2)
lls-1127 [005] d... 936.409248: sys_lgetxattr -> 0xf76e5000
lls-1127 [005] d... 936.409248: sys_newlstat(filename: 3, statbuf: 19614)
lls-1127 [005] d... 936.409249: sys_newlstat -> 0x0
lls-1127 [005] d... 936.409262: sys_newfstat(fd: f76fb588, statbuf: 80000)
lls-1127 [005] d... 936.409279: sys_newfstat -> 0x3
lls-1127 [005] d... 936.409279: sys_close(fd: 3)
lls-1127 [005] d... 936.421550: sys_close -> 0x200
lls-1127 [005] d... 936.421558: sys_removexattr(pathname: 3, name: ffcd00d0)
lls-1127 [005] d... 936.421560: sys_removexattr -> 0x0
lls-1127 [005] d... 936.421569: sys_lgetxattr(pathname: 4d564000, name: 1b1abc, value: 5, size: 802)
lls-1127 [005] d... 936.421574: sys_lgetxattr -> 0x4d564000
lls-1127 [005] d... 936.421575: sys_capget(header: 4d70f000, dataptr: 1000)
lls-1127 [005] d... 936.421580: sys_capget -> 0x0
lls-1127 [005] d... 936.421580: sys_lgetxattr(pathname: 4d710000, name: 3000, value: 3, size: 812)
lls-1127 [005] d... 936.421589: sys_lgetxattr -> 0x4d710000
lls-1127 [005] d... 936.426130: sys_lgetxattr(pathname: 4d713000, name: 2abc, value: 3, size: 32)
lls-1127 [005] d... 936.426141: sys_lgetxattr -> 0x4d713000
lls-1127 [005] d... 936.426145: sys_newlstat(filename: 3, statbuf: f76ff3f0)
lls-1127 [005] d... 936.426146: sys_newlstat -> 0x0
lls-1127 [005] d... 936.431748: sys_lgetxattr(pathname: 0, name: 1000, value: 3, size: 22)

Obviously I'm not calling newfstat with a fd of 4d55b085. The calls are
obviously incorrect, and confusing.

Other efforts have been made to fix this:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/3/26/367

But the real solution is to rewrite the syscall internals and come up
with a fixed solution. One that doesn't require all the kluge that the
current solution has.

Thus for now, instead of outputting incorrect data, simply ignore them.
With this patch the changes now have:

#> grep lls /debug/tracing/trace
#>

Compat system calls simply are not traced. If users need compat
syscalls, then they should just use the raw syscall tracepoints.

For an architecture to make their compat syscalls ignored, it must
define ARCH_TRACE_IGNORE_COMPAT_SYSCALLS (done in asm/ftrace.h) and also
define an arch_trace_is_compat_syscall() function that will return true
if the current task should ignore tracing the syscall.

I want to stress that this change does not affect actual syscalls in any
way, shape or form. It is only used within the tracing system and
doesn't interfere with the syscall logic at all. The changes are
consolidated nicely into trace_syscalls.c and asm/ftrace.h.

I had to make one small modification to asm/thread_info.h and that was
to remove the include of asm/ftrace.h. As asm/ftrace.h required the
current_thread_info() it was causing include hell. That include was
added back in 2008 when the function graph tracer was added:

commit caf4b323 "tracing, x86: add low level support for ftrace return tracing"

It does not need to be included there.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1360703939.21867.99.camel@gandalf.local.home

Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>


# 6aea49cb 21-Nov-2012 Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>

tracing/syscalls: Make local functions static

Some functions in the syscall tracing is used only locally to
the file, but they are labeled global. Convert them to static functions.

Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>


# 6f86ab9f 07-Jun-2012 Vaibhav Nagarnaik <vnagarnaik@google.com>

tracing: Cleanup unnecessary function declarations

The functions defined in include/trace/syscalls.h are not used directly
since struct ftrace_event_class was introduced. Remove them from the
header file and rearrange the ftrace_event_class declarations in
trace_syscalls.c.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1339112785-21806-2-git-send-email-vnagarnaik@google.com

Signed-off-by: Vaibhav Nagarnaik <vnagarnaik@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>


# 8781915a 12-Sep-2012 Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@gmail.com>

trace: Move trace event enable from fs_initcall to core_initcall

This patch splits trace event initialization in two stages:
* ftrace enable
* sysfs event entry creation

This allows to capture trace events from an earlier point
by using 'trace_event' kernel parameter and is important
to trace boot-up allocations.

Note that, in order to enable events at core_initcall,
it's necessary to move init_ftrace_syscalls() from
core_initcall to early_initcall.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1347461277-25302-1-git-send-email-elezegarcia@gmail.com

Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>


# 60916a93 16-Aug-2012 Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>

tracing/syscalls: Fix perf syscall tracing when syscall_nr == -1

syscall_get_nr can return -1 in the case that the task is not executing
a system call.

This patch fixes perf_syscall_{enter,exit} to check that the syscall
number is valid before using it as an index into a bitmap.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1345137254-7377-1-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com

Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Wade Farnsworth <wade_farnsworth@mentor.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>


# e6dab5ff 11-Jul-2012 Andrew Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>

perf/trace: Add ability to set a target task for events

A few events are interesting not only for a current task.
For example, sched_stat_* events are interesting for a task
which wakes up. For this reason, it will be good if such
events will be delivered to a target task too.

Now a target task can be set by using __perf_task().

The original idea and a draft patch belongs to Peter Zijlstra.

I need these events for profiling sleep times. sched_switch is used for
getting callchains and sched_stat_* is used for getting time periods.
These events are combined in user space, then it can be analyzed by
perf tools.

Inspired-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1342016098-213063-1-git-send-email-avagin@openvz.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>


# 489c75c3 15-Feb-2012 Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>

ftrace, perf: Add add/del tracepoint perf registration actions

Adding TRACE_REG_PERF_ADD and TRACE_REG_PERF_DEL to handle
perf event schedule in/out actions.

The add action is invoked for when the perf event is scheduled in,
while the del action is invoked when the event is scheduled out.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1329317514-8131-4-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com

Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>


# ceec0b6f 15-Feb-2012 Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>

ftrace, perf: Add open/close tracepoint perf registration actions

Adding TRACE_REG_PERF_OPEN and TRACE_REG_PERF_CLOSE to differentiate
register/unregister from open/close actions.

The register/unregister actions are invoked for the first/last
tracepoint user when opening/closing the event.

The open/close actions are invoked for each tracepoint user when
opening/closing the event.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1329317514-8131-3-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com

Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>


# 47b0edcb 29-Nov-2011 Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>

tracing/trivial: Use kcalloc instead of kzalloc to allocate array

The advantage of kcalloc is, that will prevent integer overflows which could
result from the multiplication of number of elements and size and it is also
a bit nicer to read.

The semantic patch that makes this change is available
in https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/11/25/107

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1322600880.1534.347.camel@localhost.localdomain

Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>


# 72142fd4 07-Jan-2012 H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>

x86: Move <asm/asm-offsets.h> from trace_syscalls.c to asm/syscall.h

This reverts commit d5e553d6e0a4bdea43adae7373e3fa144b9a1aaa, which
caused large numbers of build warnings on PowerPC.

This moves the #include <asm/asm-offsets.h> to <asm/syscall.h>, which
makes some kind of sense since NR_syscalls is syscalls related.

Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111214181545.6e13bc954cb7ddce9086e861@canb.auug.org.au


# d5e553d6 11-Nov-2011 H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>

trace: Include <asm/asm-offsets.h> in trace_syscalls.c

Include <asm/asm-offsets.h> into trace_syscalls.c, to allow for
NR_syscalls to be automatically generated.

Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>


# 56d82e00 26-May-2011 Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>

kernel: Add <linux/module.h> to files using it implicitly

These files are doing things like module_put and try_module_get
so they need to call out the module.h for explicit inclusion,
rather than getting it via <linux/device.h> which we ideally want
to remove the module.h inclusion from.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>


# ae07f551 02-Feb-2011 Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>

tracing/syscalls: Early terminate search for sys_ni_syscall

Many system calls are unimplemented and mapped to sys_ni_syscall, but at
boot ftrace would still search through every syscall metadata entry for
a match which wouldn't be there.

This patch adds causes the search to terminate early if the system call
is not mapped.

Signed-off-by: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <1296703645-18718-7-git-send-email-imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>


# b2d55496 02-Feb-2011 Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>

tracing/syscalls: Allow arch specific syscall symbol matching

Some architectures have unusual symbol names and the generic code to
match the symbol name with the function name for the syscall metadata
will fail. For example, symbols on PPC64 start with a period and the
generic code will fail to match them.

This patch moves the match logic out into a separate function which an
arch can override by defining ARCH_HAS_SYSCALL_MATCH_SYM_NAME in
asm/ftrace.h and implementing arch_syscall_match_sym_name.

Signed-off-by: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <1296703645-18718-5-git-send-email-imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>


# c763ba06 02-Feb-2011 Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>

tracing/syscalls: Make arch_syscall_addr weak

Some architectures use non-trivial system call tables and will not work
with the generic arch_syscall_addr code. For example, PowerPC64 uses a
table of twin long longs.

This patch makes the generic arch_syscall_addr weak to allow
architectures with non-trivial system call tables to override it.

Signed-off-by: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <1296703645-18718-4-git-send-email-imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>


# 3773b389 02-Feb-2011 Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>

tracing/syscalls: Convert redundant syscall_nr checks into WARN_ON

With the ftrace events now checking if the syscall_nr is valid upon
initialisation it should no longer be possible to register or unregister
a syscall event without a valid syscall_nr since they should not be
created. This adds a WARN_ON_ONCE in the register and unregister
functions to locate potential regressions in the future.

Signed-off-by: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <1296703645-18718-3-git-send-email-imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>


# ba976970 02-Feb-2011 Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>

tracing/syscalls: Don't add events for unmapped syscalls

FTRACE_SYSCALLS would create events for each and every system call, even
if it had failed to map the system call's name with it's number. This
resulted in a number of events being created that would not behave as
expected.

This could happen, for example, on architectures who's symbol names are
unusual and will not match the system call name. It could also happen
with system calls which were mapped to sys_ni_syscall.

This patch changes the default system call number in the metadata to -1.
If the system call name from the metadata is not successfully mapped to
a system call number during boot, than the event initialisation routine
will now return an error, preventing the event from being created.

Signed-off-by: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <1296703645-18718-2-git-send-email-imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>


# 3d56e331 02-Feb-2011 Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>

tracing: Replace syscall_meta_data struct array with pointer array

Currently the syscall_meta structures for the syscall tracepoints are
placed in the __syscall_metadata section, and at link time, the linker
makes one large array of all these syscall metadata structures. On boot
up, this array is read (much like the initcall sections) and the syscall
data is processed.

The problem is that there is no guarantee that gcc will place complex
structures nicely together in an array format. Two structures in the
same file may be placed awkwardly, because gcc has no clue that they
are suppose to be in an array.

A hack was used previous to force the alignment to 4, to pack the
structures together. But this caused alignment issues with other
architectures (sparc).

Instead of packing the structures into an array, the structures' addresses
are now put into the __syscall_metadata section. As pointers are always the
natural alignment, gcc should always pack them tightly together
(otherwise initcall, extable, etc would also fail).

By having the pointers to the structures in the section, we can still
iterate the trace_events without causing unnecessary alignment problems
with other architectures, or depending on the current behaviour of
gcc that will likely change in the future just to tick us kernel developers
off a little more.

The __syscall_metadata section is also moved into the .init.data section
as it is now only needed at boot up.

Suggested-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>


# 7f85803a 14-Jan-2011 Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>

tracing: Remove syscall_exit_fields

There is no need for syscall_exit_fields as the syscall
exit event class can already host the fields in its structure,
like most other trace events do by default. Use that
default behavior instead.

Following this scheme, we don't need anymore to override the
get_fields() callback of the syscall exit event class either.

Hence both syscall_exit_fields and syscall_get_exit_fields() can
be removed.

Also changed some indentation to keep the following under 80
characters:

".fields = LIST_HEAD_INIT(event_class_syscall_exit.fields),"

Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4D301C0E.8090408@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>


# c9642c49 24-May-2010 Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>

tracing: Use a global field list for all syscall exit events

All syscall exit events have the same fields.

The kernel size drops 2.5K:

text data bss dec hex filename
7018612 2034376 7251132 16304120 f8c7f8 vmlinux.o.orig
7018612 2031888 7251132 16301632 f8be40 vmlinux.o

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4BFA3746.8070100@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>


# 3771f077 20-May-2010 Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>

perf_events, trace: Fix probe unregister race

tracepoint_probe_unregister() does not synchronize against the probe
callbacks, so do that explicitly. This properly serializes the callbacks
and the free of the data used therein.

Also, use this_cpu_ptr() where possible.

Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1274438476.1674.1702.camel@laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>


# 1c024eca 19-May-2010 Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>

perf, trace: Optimize tracepoints by using per-tracepoint-per-cpu hlist to track events

Avoid the swevent hash-table by using per-tracepoint
hlists.

Also, avoid conditionals on the fast path by ordering
with probe unregister so that we should never get on
the callback path without the data being there.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <20100521090710.473188012@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>


# b7e2ecef 19-May-2010 Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>

perf, trace: Optimize tracepoints by removing IRQ-disable from perf/tracepoint interaction

Improves performance.

Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <1274259525.5605.10352.camel@twins>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>


# 4f41c013 18-May-2010 Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>

perf/ftrace: Optimize perf/tracepoint interaction for single events

When we've got but a single event per tracepoint
there is no reason to try and multiplex it so don't.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Tested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>


# 32c0edae 23-Apr-2010 Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>

tracing: Remove duplicate id information in event structure

Now that the trace_event structure is embedded in the ftrace_event_call
structure, there is no need for the ftrace_event_call id field.
The id field is the same as the trace_event type field.

Removing the id and re-arranging the structure brings down the tracepoint
footprint by another 5K.

text data bss dec hex filename
4913961 1088356 861512 6863829 68bbd5 vmlinux.orig
4895024 1023812 861512 6780348 6775bc vmlinux.print
4894944 1018052 861512 6774508 675eec vmlinux.id

Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>


# 80decc70 23-Apr-2010 Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>

tracing: Move print functions into event class

Currently, every event has its own trace_event structure. This is
fine since the structure is needed anyway. But the print function
structure (trace_event_functions) is now separate. Since the output
of the trace event is done by the class (with the exception of events
defined by DEFINE_EVENT_PRINT), it makes sense to have the class
define the print functions that all events in the class can use.

This makes a bigger deal with the syscall events since all syscall events
use the same class. The savings here is another 30K.

text data bss dec hex filename
4913961 1088356 861512 6863829 68bbd5 vmlinux.orig
4900382 1048964 861512 6810858 67ecea vmlinux.init
4900446 1049028 861512 6810986 67ed6a vmlinux.preprint
4895024 1023812 861512 6780348 6775bc vmlinux.print

To accomplish this, and to let the class know what event is being
printed, the event structure is embedded in the ftrace_event_call
structure. This should not be an issues since the event structure
was created for each event anyway.

Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>


# a9a57763 22-Apr-2010 Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>

tracing: Allow events to share their print functions

Multiple events may use the same method to print their data.
Instead of having all events have a pointer to their print funtions,
the trace_event structure now points to a trace_event_functions structure
that will hold the way to print ouf the event.

The event itself is now passed to the print function to let the print
function know what kind of event it should print.

This opens the door to consolidating the way several events print
their output.

text data bss dec hex filename
4913961 1088356 861512 6863829 68bbd5 vmlinux.orig
4900382 1048964 861512 6810858 67ecea vmlinux.init
4900446 1049028 861512 6810986 67ed6a vmlinux.preprint

This change slightly increases the size but is needed for the next change.

v3: Fix the branch tracer events to handle this change.

v2: Fix the new function graph tracer event calls to handle this change.

Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>


# 0405ab80 22-Apr-2010 Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>

tracing: Move raw_init from events to class

The raw_init function pointer in the event is used to initialize
various kinds of events. The type of initialization needed is usually
classed to the kind of event it is.

Two events with the same class will always have the same initialization
function, so it makes sense to move this to the class structure.

Perhaps even making a special system structure would work since
the initialization is the same for all events within a system.
But since there's no system structure (yet), this will just move it
to the class.

text data bss dec hex filename
4913961 1088356 861512 6863829 68bbd5 vmlinux.orig
4900375 1053380 861512 6815267 67fe23 vmlinux.fields
4900382 1048964 861512 6810858 67ecea vmlinux.init

The text grew very slightly, but this is a constant growth that happened
with the changing of the C files that call the init code.
The bigger savings is the data which will be saved the more events share
a class.

Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>


# 2e33af02 22-Apr-2010 Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>

tracing: Move fields from event to class structure

Move the defined fields from the event to the class structure.
Since the fields of the event are defined by the class they belong
to, it makes sense to have the class hold the information instead
of the individual events. The events of the same class would just
hold duplicate information.

After this change the size of the kernel dropped another 3K:

text data bss dec hex filename
4913961 1088356 861512 6863829 68bbd5 vmlinux.orig
4900252 1057412 861512 6819176 680d68 vmlinux.regs
4900375 1053380 861512 6815267 67fe23 vmlinux.fields

Although the text increased, this was mainly due to the C files
having to adapt to the change. This is a constant increase, where
new tracepoints will not increase the Text. But the big drop is
in the data size (as well as needed allocations to hold the fields).
This will give even more savings as more tracepoints are created.

Note, if just TRACE_EVENT()s are used and not DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS()
with several DEFINE_EVENT()s, then the savings will be lost. But
we are pushing developers to consolidate events with DEFINE_EVENT()
so this should not be an issue.

The kprobes define a unique class to every new event, but are dynamic
so it should not be a issue.

The syscalls however have a single class but the fields for the individual
events are different. The syscalls use a metadata to define the
fields. I moved the fields list from the event to the metadata and
added a "get_fields()" function to the class. This function is used
to find the fields. For normal events and kprobes, get_fields() just
returns a pointer to the fields list_head in the class. For syscall
events, it returns the fields list_head in the metadata for the event.

v2: Fixed the syscall fields. The syscall metadata needs a list
of fields for both enter and exit.

Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>


# 2239291a 20-Apr-2010 Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>

tracing: Remove per event trace registering

This patch removes the register functions of TRACE_EVENT() to enable
and disable tracepoints. The registering of a event is now down
directly in the trace_events.c file. The tracepoint_probe_register()
is now called directly.

The prototypes are no longer type checked, but this should not be
an issue since the tracepoints are created automatically by the
macros. If a prototype is incorrect in the TRACE_EVENT() macro, then
other macros will catch it.

The trace_event_class structure now holds the probes to be called
by the callbacks. This removes needing to have each event have
a separate pointer for the probe.

To handle kprobes and syscalls, since they register probes in a
different manner, a "reg" field is added to the ftrace_event_class
structure. If the "reg" field is assigned, then it will be called for
enabling and disabling of the probe for either ftrace or perf. To let
the reg function know what is happening, a new enum (trace_reg) is
created that has the type of control that is needed.

With this new rework, the 82 kernel events and 618 syscall events
has their footprint dramatically lowered:

text data bss dec hex filename
4913961 1088356 861512 6863829 68bbd5 vmlinux.orig
4914025 1088868 861512 6864405 68be15 vmlinux.class
4918492 1084612 861512 6864616 68bee8 vmlinux.tracepoint
4900252 1057412 861512 6819176 680d68 vmlinux.regs

The size went from 6863829 to 6819176, that's a total of 44K
in savings. With tracepoints being continuously added, this is
critical that the footprint becomes minimal.

v5: Added #ifdef CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS around a reference to perf
specific structure in trace_events.c.

v4: Fixed trace self tests to check probe because regfunc no longer
exists.

v3: Updated to handle void *data in beginning of probe parameters.
Also added the tracepoint: check_trace_callback_type_##call().

v2: Changed the callback probes to pass void * and typecast the
value within the function.

Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>


# 38516ab5 20-Apr-2010 Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>

tracing: Let tracepoints have data passed to tracepoint callbacks

This patch adds data to be passed to tracepoint callbacks.

The created functions from DECLARE_TRACE() now need a mandatory data
parameter. For example:

DECLARE_TRACE(mytracepoint, int value, value)

Will create the register function:

int register_trace_mytracepoint((void(*)(void *data, int value))probe,
void *data);

As the first argument, all callbacks (probes) must take a (void *data)
parameter. So a callback for the above tracepoint will look like:

void myprobe(void *data, int value)
{
}

The callback may choose to ignore the data parameter.

This change allows callbacks to register a private data pointer along
with the function probe.

void mycallback(void *data, int value);

register_trace_mytracepoint(mycallback, mydata);

Then the mycallback() will receive the "mydata" as the first parameter
before the args.

A more detailed example:

DECLARE_TRACE(mytracepoint, TP_PROTO(int status), TP_ARGS(status));

/* In the C file */

DEFINE_TRACE(mytracepoint, TP_PROTO(int status), TP_ARGS(status));

[...]

trace_mytracepoint(status);

/* In a file registering this tracepoint */

int my_callback(void *data, int status)
{
struct my_struct my_data = data;
[...]
}

[...]
my_data = kmalloc(sizeof(*my_data), GFP_KERNEL);
init_my_data(my_data);
register_trace_mytracepoint(my_callback, my_data);

The same callback can also be registered to the same tracepoint as long
as the data registered is different. Note, the data must also be used
to unregister the callback:

unregister_trace_mytracepoint(my_callback, my_data);

Because of the data parameter, tracepoints declared this way can not have
no args. That is:

DECLARE_TRACE(mytracepoint, TP_PROTO(void), TP_ARGS());

will cause an error.

If no arguments are needed, a new macro can be used instead:

DECLARE_TRACE_NOARGS(mytracepoint);

Since there are no arguments, the proto and args fields are left out.

This is part of a series to make the tracepoint footprint smaller:

text data bss dec hex filename
4913961 1088356 861512 6863829 68bbd5 vmlinux.orig
4914025 1088868 861512 6864405 68be15 vmlinux.class
4918492 1084612 861512 6864616 68bee8 vmlinux.tracepoint

Again, this patch also increases the size of the kernel, but
lays the ground work for decreasing it.

v5: Fixed net/core/drop_monitor.c to handle these updates.

v4: Moved the DECLARE_TRACE() DECLARE_TRACE_NOARGS out of the
#ifdef CONFIG_TRACE_POINTS, since the two are the same in both
cases. The __DECLARE_TRACE() is what changes.
Thanks to Frederic Weisbecker for pointing this out.

v3: Made all register_* functions require data to be passed and
all callbacks to take a void * parameter as its first argument.
This makes the calling functions comply with C standards.

Also added more comments to the modifications of DECLARE_TRACE().

v2: Made the DECLARE_TRACE() have the ability to pass arguments
and added a new DECLARE_TRACE_NOARGS() for tracepoints that
do not need any arguments.

Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>


# 8f082018 20-Apr-2010 Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>

tracing: Create class struct for events

This patch creates a ftrace_event_class struct that event structs point to.
This class struct will be made to hold information to modify the
events. Currently the class struct only holds the events system name.

This patch slightly increases the size, but this change lays the ground work
of other changes to make the footprint of tracepoints smaller.

With 82 standard tracepoints, and 618 system call tracepoints
(two tracepoints per syscall: enter and exit):

text data bss dec hex filename
4913961 1088356 861512 6863829 68bbd5 vmlinux.orig
4914025 1088868 861512 6864405 68be15 vmlinux.class

This patch also cleans up some stale comments in ftrace.h.

v2: Fixed missing semi-colon in macro.

Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>


# 5a0e3ad6 24-Mar-2010 Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h

percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used,
gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains
core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400
files.

2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion,
some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added
inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h
inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each
slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

* x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
* powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
* sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
* ia64 SMP allmodconfig
* s390 SMP allmodconfig
* alpha SMP allmodconfig
* um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>


# 97d5a220 04-Mar-2010 Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>

perf: Drop the obsolete profile naming for trace events

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>


# c530665c 02-Mar-2010 Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>

perf: Take a hot regs snapshot for trace events

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>


# 6574658b 24-Feb-2010 Wenji Huang <wenji.huang@oracle.com>

tracing: Fix typo in prof_sysexit_enable()

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>


# e7b8e675 26-Jan-2010 Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>

tracing: Unify arch_syscall_addr() implementations

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>


# 430ad5a6 27-Jan-2010 Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>

perf: Factorize trace events raw sample buffer operations

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>


# 0fa0edaf 15-Dec-2009 Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>

tracing: Remove show_format and related macros from TRACE_EVENT

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>


# c7ef3a90 28-Dec-2009 Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>

tracing: Have syscall tracing call its own init function

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>


# 50307a45 15-Dec-2009 Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>

tracing/syscalls: Init print_fmt for syscall events

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>


# 07b139c8 20-Dec-2009 Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>

perf events: Remove CONFIG_EVENT_PROFILE

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>


# 3b8e4273 07-Dec-2009 Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>

tracing: Move a printk out of ftrace_raw_reg_event_foo()

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>


# 614a71a2 07-Dec-2009 Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>

tracing: Pull up calls to trace_define_common_fields()

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>


# 7be077f5 01-Dec-2009 Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>

trace_syscalls: Remove unused syscall_name_to_nr()

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>


# 3bbe84e9 01-Dec-2009 Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>

trace_syscalls: Simplify syscall profile

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>


# a1301da0 01-Dec-2009 Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>

trace_syscalls: Remove duplicate init_enter_##sname()

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>


# c252f657 01-Dec-2009 Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>

trace_syscalls: Add syscall_nr field to struct syscall_metadata

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>


# fcc19438 01-Dec-2009 Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>

trace_syscalls: Remove enter_id exit_id

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>


# 31c16b13 01-Dec-2009 Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>

trace_syscalls: Set event_enter_##sname->data to its metadata

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>


# bf56a4ea 01-Dec-2009 Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>

trace_syscalls: Remove unused event_syscall_enter and event_syscall_exit

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>


# 0f1ef51d 26-Nov-2009 Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>

trace_syscalls: Add syscall nr field

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>


# 4ed7c92d 23-Nov-2009 Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>

perf_events: Undo some recursion damage

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>


# 28889bf9 21-Nov-2009 Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>

tracing: Forget about the NMI buffer for syscall events

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>


# ce71b9df 21-Nov-2009 Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>

tracing: Use the perf recursion protection from trace event

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>


# 444a2a3b 05-Nov-2009 Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>

tracing, perf_events: Protect the buffer from recursion in perf

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>


# c44fc770 18-Sep-2009 Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>

tracing: Move syscalls metadata handling from arch to core

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>


# 26a50744 06-Oct-2009 Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>

tracing/events: Add 'signed' field to format files

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>


# ee949a86 06-Oct-2009 Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>

tracing/syscalls: Use long for syscall ret format and field definitions

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>


# cdd6c482 20-Sep-2009 Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

perf: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -> Performance Events

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>


# 20ab4425 17-Sep-2009 Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>

tracing: Allocate the ftrace event profile buffer dynamically

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>


# e77405ad 02-Sep-2009 Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>

tracing: pass around ring buffer instead of tracer

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>


# f8468f36 26-Aug-2009 Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>

tracing: Remove unneeded pointer casts

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>


# aeaeae11 26-Aug-2009 Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>

tracing: Restore the const qualifier for field names and types definition

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>


# bd1a5c84 13-Aug-2009 Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>

tracing: Ftrace dynamic ftrace_event_call support

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>


# 57421dbb 24-Aug-2009 Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>

tracing: Convert event tracing code to use NR_syscalls

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>


# cd0980fc 25-Aug-2009 Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

tracing: Check invalid syscall nr while tracing syscalls

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>


# 43b51ead 06-Aug-2009 Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>

tracing/filters: Add __field_ext() to TRACE_EVENT

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>


# 1c569f02 24-Aug-2009 Josh Stone <jistone@redhat.com>

tracing: Create generic syscall TRACE_EVENTs

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>


# 4539f077 20-Aug-2009 Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>

tracing/syscalls: Fix the output of syscalls with no arguments

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>


# 540b7b8d 19-Aug-2009 Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>

tracing/syscalls: Add filtering support

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>


# 10a5b66f 19-Aug-2009 Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>

tracing/syscalls: Add fields format for exit events

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>


# e6971969 19-Aug-2009 Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>

tracing/syscalls: Fix fields format for enter events

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>


# ba8b3a40 17-Aug-2009 Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>

tracing/syscalls: Fix to print parameter types

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>


# 19007a67 11-Aug-2009 Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>

tracing: Support for syscall events raw records in perfcounters

This bring the support for raw syscall events in perfcounters.
The arguments or exit value are saved as a raw sample using
the PERF_SAMPLE_RAW attribute in a perf counter.

Example (for now you must explicitly set the PERF_SAMPLE_RAW flag
in perf record):

perf record -e syscalls:sys_enter_open -f -F 1 -a
perf report -D

0x2cbb8 [0x50]: event: 9
.
. ... raw event: size 80 bytes
. 0000: 09 00 00 00 02 00 50 00 20 e9 39 ab 0a 7f 00 00 ......P. .9....
. 0010: bc 14 00 00 bc 14 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ...............
. 0020: 2c 00 00 00 15 01 01 00 bc 14 00 00 bc 14 00 00 ,..............
^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ..........................
Event Size struct trace_entry

. 0030: 00 00 00 00 46 98 43 02 00 00 00 00 80 08 00 00 ....F.C........
^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
ptr to file name open flags

. 0040: 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ...............
^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
. open mode padding

0x2cbb8 [0x50]: PERF_EVENT_SAMPLE (IP, 2): 5308: 0x7f0aab39e920 period: 1

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>


# dc4ddb4c 11-Aug-2009 Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>

tracing: Add fields format definition for syscall events

Define the format of the syscall trace fields to parse the binary
values from a raw trace using the syscall events "format" file.

This is defined dynamically using the syscalls metadata.
It prepares the export of syscall event raw records to perf
counters.

Example:

$ cat /debug/tracing/events/syscalls/sys_enter_sched_getparam/format
name: sys_enter_sched_getparam
ID: 39
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:pid_t pid; offset:12; size:8;
field:struct sched_param * param; offset:20; size:8;

print fmt: "pid: 0x%08lx, param: 0x%08lx", ((unsigned long)(REC->pid)), ((unsigned long)(REC->param))

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>


# f4b5ffcc 10-Aug-2009 Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>

tracing: Add perf counter support for syscalls tracing

The perf counter support is automated for usual trace events. But we
have to define specific callbacks for this to handle syscalls trace
events

Make 'perf stat -e syscalls:sys_enter_blah' work with syscall style
tracepoints.

Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
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: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>


# 64c12e04 10-Aug-2009 Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>

tracing: Add individual syscalls tracepoint id support

The current state of syscalls tracepoints generates only one event id
for every syscall events.

This patch associates an id with each syscall trace event, so that we
can identify each syscall trace event using the 'perf' tool.

Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
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: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>


# fb34a08c 10-Aug-2009 Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>

tracing: Add trace events for each syscall entry/exit

Layer Frederic's syscall tracer on tracepoints. We create trace events
via hooking into the SYSCALL_DEFINE macros. This allows us to
individually toggle syscall entry and exit points on/off.

Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
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: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>


# 066e0378 10-Aug-2009 Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>

tracing: Call arch_init_ftrace_syscalls at boot

Call arch_init_ftrace_syscalls at boot, so we can determine early the
set of syscalls for the syscall trace events.

Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
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: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>


# 47788c58 08-Apr-2009 Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>

tracing/syscalls: use a dedicated file header

Impact: fix build warnings and possibe compat misbehavior on IA64

Building a kernel on ia64 might trigger these ugly build warnings:

CC arch/ia64/ia32/sys_ia32.o
In file included from arch/ia64/ia32/sys_ia32.c:55:
arch/ia64/ia32/ia32priv.h:290:1: warning: "elf_check_arch" redefined
In file included from include/linux/elf.h:7,
from include/linux/module.h:14,
from include/linux/ftrace.h:8,
from include/linux/syscalls.h:68,
from arch/ia64/ia32/sys_ia32.c:18:
arch/ia64/include/asm/elf.h:19:1: warning: this is the location of the previous definition
[...]

sys_ia32.c includes linux/syscalls.h which in turn includes linux/ftrace.h
to import the syscalls tracing prototypes.

But including ftrace.h can pull too much things for a low level file,
especially on ia64 where the ia32 private headers conflict with higher
level headers.

Now we isolate the syscall tracing headers in their own lightweight file.

Reported-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Tested-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com>
Cc: Michael Rubin <mrubin@google.com>
Cc: Martin Bligh <mbligh@google.com>
Cc: Michael Davidson <md@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090408184058.GB6017@nowhere>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>


# 5be71b61 15-Mar-2009 Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>

tracing/syscalls: protect thread flag toggling from races

Impact: fix syscall tracer enable/disable race

The current thread flag toggling is racy as shown in the following
scenario:

- task A is the last user of syscall tracing, it releases the
TIF_SYSCALL_FTRACE on each tasks

- at the same time task B start syscall tracing. refcount == 0 so
it sets up TIF_SYSCALL_FTRACE on each tasks.

The effect of the mixup is unpredictable.
So this fix adds a mutex on {start,stop}_syscall_tracing().

Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
LKML-Reference: <1237151439-6755-3-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>


# 64044345 15-Mar-2009 Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>

tracing/syscalls: various cleanups

Impact: cleanup

- Drop unused cpu variable
- Fix some errors on comments

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1237151439-6755-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>


# ac99c58c 15-Mar-2009 Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>

tracing/syscalls: fix missing release of tracing

Impact: fix 'stuck' syscall tracer

The syscall tracer uses a refcounter to enable several users
simultaneously.

But the refcounter did not behave correctly and always restored
its value to 0 after calling start_syscall_tracing(). Therefore,
stop_syscall_tracing() couldn't release correctly the tasks from
tracing.

Also the tracer forgot to reset the buffer when it is released.

Drop the pointless refcount decrement on start_syscall_tracing()
and reset the buffer when we release the tracer.

This fixes two reported issue:

- when we switch from syscall tracer to another tracer, syscall
tracing continued.

- incorrect use of the refcount.

Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1237151439-6755-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>


# bed1ffca 13-Mar-2009 Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>

tracing/syscalls: core infrastructure for syscalls tracing, enhancements

Impact: new feature

This adds the generic support for syscalls tracing. This is
currently exploited through a devoted tracer but other tracing
engines can use it. (They just have to play with
{start,stop}_ftrace_syscalls() and use the display callbacks
unless they want to override them.)

The syscalls prototypes definitions are abused here to steal
some metadata informations:

- syscall name, param types, param names, number of params

The syscall addr is not directly saved during this definition
because we don't know if its prototype is available in the
namespace. But we don't really need it. The arch has just to
build a function able to resolve the syscall number to its
metadata struct.

The current tracer prints the syscall names, parameters names
and values (and their types optionally). Currently the value is
a raw hex but higher level values diplaying is on my TODO list.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1236955332-10133-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>


# ee08c6ec 06-Mar-2009 Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>

tracing/ftrace: syscall tracing infrastructure, basics

Provide basic callbacks to do syscall tracing.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <1236401580-5758-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
[ simplified it to a trace_printk() for now. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>