kernel/include/trace/ftrace.h, branch linux-3.17.y

tracing: Add __field_struct macro for TRACE_EVENT()

2014-06-21T04:18:42Z

Currently the __field() macro in TRACE_EVENT is only good for primitive values, such as integers and pointers, but it fails on complex data types such as structures or unions. This is because the __field() macro determines if the variable is signed or not with the test of: (((type)(-1)) < (type)1) Unfortunately, that fails when type is a structure. Since trace events should support structures as fields a new macro is created for such a case called __field_struct() which acts exactly the same as __field() does but it does not do the signed type check and just uses a constant false for that answer. Cc: Tony Luck Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing: Add __get_dynamic_array_len() macro for trace events

2014-06-04T18:29:33Z

If a trace event uses a dynamic array for something other than a string then there's currently no way the TP_printk() can figure out what size it is. A __get_dynamic_array_len() is required to know the length. This also simplifies the __get_bitmask() macro which required it as well, but instead just hardcoded it. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing: Add __bitmask() macro to trace events to cpumasks and other bitmasks

2014-05-15T15:29:37Z

Being able to show a cpumask of events can be useful as some events may affect only some CPUs. There is no standard way to record the cpumask and converting it to a string is rather expensive during the trace as traces happen in hotpaths. It would be better to record the raw event mask and be able to parse it at print time. The following macros were added for use with the TRACE_EVENT() macro: __bitmask() __assign_bitmask() __get_bitmask() To test this, I added this to the sched_migrate_task event, which looked like this: TRACE_EVENT(sched_migrate_task, TP_PROTO(struct task_struct *p, int dest_cpu, const struct cpumask *cpus), TP_ARGS(p, dest_cpu, cpus), TP_STRUCT__entry( __array( char, comm, TASK_COMM_LEN ) __field( pid_t, pid ) __field( int, prio ) __field( int, orig_cpu ) __field( int, dest_cpu ) __bitmask( cpumask, num_possible_cpus() ) ), TP_fast_assign( memcpy(__entry->comm, p->comm, TASK_COMM_LEN); __entry->pid = p->pid; __entry->prio = p->prio; __entry->orig_cpu = task_cpu(p); __entry->dest_cpu = dest_cpu; __assign_bitmask(cpumask, cpumask_bits(cpus), num_possible_cpus()); ), TP_printk("comm=%s pid=%d prio=%d orig_cpu=%d dest_cpu=%d cpumask=%s", __entry->comm, __entry->pid, __entry->prio, __entry->orig_cpu, __entry->dest_cpu, __get_bitmask(cpumask)) ); With the output of: ksmtuned-3613 [003] d..2 485.220508: sched_migrate_task: comm=ksmtuned pid=3615 prio=120 orig_cpu=3 dest_cpu=2 cpumask=00000000,0000000f migration/1-13 [001] d..5 485.221202: sched_migrate_task: comm=ksmtuned pid=3614 prio=120 orig_cpu=1 dest_cpu=0 cpumask=00000000,0000000f awk-3615 [002] d.H5 485.221747: sched_migrate_task: comm=rcu_preempt pid=7 prio=120 orig_cpu=0 dest_cpu=1 cpumask=00000000,000000ff migration/2-18 [002] d..5 485.222062: sched_migrate_task: comm=ksmtuned pid=3615 prio=120 orig_cpu=2 dest_cpu=3 cpumask=00000000,0000000f Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1399377998-14870-6-git-send-email-javi.merino@arm.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140506132238.22e136d1@gandalf.local.home Suggested-by: Javi Merino Tested-by: Javi Merino Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing: Fix anonymous unions in struct ftrace_event_call

2014-04-10T00:02:55Z

gcc <= 4.5.x has significant limitations with respect to initialization of anonymous unions within structures. They need to be surrounded by brackets, _and_ they need to be initialized in the same order in which they appear in the structure declaration. Link: http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10676 Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1397077568-3156-1-git-send-email-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracepoint: Use struct pointer instead of name hash for reg/unreg tracepoints

2014-04-09T00:43:28Z

Register/unregister tracepoint probes with struct tracepoint pointer rather than tracepoint name. This change, which vastly simplifies tracepoint.c, has been proposed by Steven Rostedt. It also removes 8.8kB (mostly of text) to the vmlinux size. From this point on, the tracers need to pass a struct tracepoint pointer to probe register/unregister. A probe can now only be connected to a tracepoint that exists. Moreover, tracers are responsible for unregistering the probe before the module containing its associated tracepoint is unloaded. text data bss dec hex filename 10443444 4282528 10391552 25117524 17f4354 vmlinux.orig 10434930 4282848 10391552 25109330 17f2352 vmlinux Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1396992381-23785-2-git-send-email-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com CC: Ingo Molnar CC: Frederic Weisbecker CC: Andrew Morton CC: Frank Ch. Eigler CC: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers [ SDR - fixed return val in void func in tracepoint_module_going() ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

Merge tag 'trace-3.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace

2014-04-03T17:26:31Z

Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt: "Most of the changes were largely clean ups, and some documentation. But there were a few features that were added: Uprobes now work with event triggers and multi buffers and have support under ftrace and perf. The big feature is that the function tracer can now be used within the multi buffer instances. That is, you can now trace some functions in one buffer, others in another buffer, all functions in a third buffer and so on. They are basically agnostic from each other. This only works for the function tracer and not for the function graph trace, although you can have the function graph tracer running in the top level buffer (or any tracer for that matter) and have different function tracing going on in the sub buffers" * tag 'trace-3.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (45 commits) tracing: Add BUG_ON when stack end location is over written tracepoint: Remove unused API functions Revert "tracing: Move event storage for array from macro to standalone function" ftrace: Constify ftrace_text_reserved tracepoints: API doc update to tracepoint_probe_register() return value tracepoints: API doc update to data argument ftrace: Fix compilation warning about control_ops_free ftrace/x86: BUG when ftrace recovery fails ftrace: Warn on error when modifying ftrace function ftrace: Remove freelist from struct dyn_ftrace ftrace: Do not pass data to ftrace_dyn_arch_init ftrace: Pass retval through return in ftrace_dyn_arch_init() ftrace: Inline the code from ftrace_dyn_table_alloc() ftrace: Cleanup of global variables ftrace_new_pgs and ftrace_update_cnt tracing: Evaluate len expression only once in __dynamic_array macro tracing: Correctly expand len expressions from __dynamic_array macro tracing/module: Replace include of tracepoint.h with jump_label.h in module.h tracing: Fix event header migrate.h to include tracepoint.h tracing: Fix event header writeback.h to include tracepoint.h tracing: Warn if a tracepoint is not set via debugfs ...

Revert "tracing: Move event storage for array from macro to standalone function"

2014-03-21T17:11:41Z

I originally wrote commit 35bb4399bd0e to shrink the size of the overhead of tracepoints by several kilobytes. Later, I received a patch from Vaibhav Nagarnaik that fixed a bug in the same code that this commit touches. Not only did it fix a bug, it also removed code and shrunk the size of the overhead of trace events even more than this commit did. Since this commit is scheduled for 3.15 and Vaibhav's patch is already in mainline, I need to revert this patch in order to keep it from conflicting with Vaibhav's patch. Not to mention, Vaibhav's patch makes this patch obsolete. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140320225637.0226041b@gandalf.local.home Cc: Vaibhav Nagarnaik Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing: Fix array size mismatch in format string

2014-03-20T17:21:05Z

In event format strings, the array size is reported in two locations. One in array subscript and then via the "size:" attribute. The values reported there have a mismatch. For e.g., in sched:sched_switch the prev_comm and next_comm character arrays have subscript values as [32] where as the actual field size is 16. name: sched_switch ID: 301 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:char prev_comm[32]; offset:8; size:16; signed:1; field:pid_t prev_pid; offset:24; size:4; signed:1; field:int prev_prio; offset:28; size:4; signed:1; field:long prev_state; offset:32; size:8; signed:1; field:char next_comm[32]; offset:40; size:16; signed:1; field:pid_t next_pid; offset:56; size:4; signed:1; field:int next_prio; offset:60; size:4; signed:1; After bisection, the following commit was blamed: 92edca0 tracing: Use direct field, type and system names This commit removes the duplication of strings for field->name and field->type assuming that all the strings passed in __trace_define_field() are immutable. This is not true for arrays, where the type string is created in event_storage variable and field->type for all array fields points to event_storage. Use __stringify() to create a string constant for the type string. Also, get rid of event_storage and event_storage_mutex that are not needed anymore. also, an added benefit is that this reduces the overhead of events a bit more: text data bss dec hex filename 8424787 2036472 1302528 11763787 b3804b vmlinux 8420814 2036408 1302528 11759750 b37086 vmlinux.patched Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1392349908-29685-1-git-send-email-vnagarnaik@google.com Cc: Laurent Chavey Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.10+ Signed-off-by: Vaibhav Nagarnaik Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing: Evaluate len expression only once in __dynamic_array macro

2014-03-07T15:06:11Z

Use a temporary variable to store the expansion of the len expression. If the evaluation is expensive, this commit will ensure it is evaluated only once inside ftrace_get_offsets_. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1393651938-16418-3-git-send-email-filbranden@google.com Signed-off-by: Filipe Brandenburger Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing: Correctly expand len expressions from __dynamic_array macro

2014-03-07T15:06:10Z

This fixes expansion of the len argument in __dynamic_array macros. The previous code from commit 7d536cb3f would not fully evaluate the expression before multiplying its result by the size of the type. This went unnoticed because the length stored in the high 16 bits of the offset (which is the one that was broken here) is only used by filter_pred_strloc which only acts on strings for which the size of the type is 1. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1393651938-16418-2-git-send-email-filbranden@google.com Signed-off-by: Filipe Brandenburger Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt