For backward compatibility, older tooling expects to see the kernel_stack
event with a "caller" field that is a fixed size array of 8 addresses. The
code now supports more than 8 with an added "size" field that states the
real number of entries. But the "caller" field still just looks like a
fixed size to user space.
Since the tracing macros that create the user space format files also
creates the structures that those files represent, the kernel_stack event
structure had its "caller" field a fixed size of 8, but in reality, when
it is allocated on the ring buffer, it can hold more if the stack trace is
bigger that 8 functions. The copying of these entries was simply done with
a memcpy():
size = nr_entries * sizeof(unsigned long);
memcpy(entry->caller, fstack->calls, size);
The FORTIFY_SOURCE logic noticed at runtime that when the nr_entries was
larger than 8, that the memcpy() was writing more than what the structure
stated it can hold and it complained about it. This is because the
FORTIFY_SOURCE code is unaware that the amount allocated is actually
enough to hold the size. It does not expect that a fixed size field will
hold more than the fixed size.
This was originally solved by hiding the caller assignment with some
pointer arithmetic.
ptr = ring_buffer_data();
entry = ptr;
ptr += offsetof(typeof(*entry), caller);
memcpy(ptr, fstack->calls, size);
But it is considered bad form to hide from kernel hardening. Instead, make
it work nicely with FORTIFY_SOURCE by adding a new __stack_array() macro
that is specific for this one special use case. The macro will take 4
arguments: type, item, len, field (whereas the __array() macro takes just
the first three). This macro will act just like the __array() macro when
creating the code to deal with the format file that is exposed to user
space. But for the kernel, it will turn the caller field into:
type item[] __counted_by(field);
or for this instance:
unsigned long caller[] __counted_by(size);
Now the kernel code can expose the assignment of the caller to the
FORTIFY_SOURCE and everyone is happy!
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230712105235.5fc441aa@gandalf.local.home/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230713092605.2ddb9788@rorschach.local.home
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
Suggested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
After commit 3087c61ed2 ("tools/testing/selftests/bpf: replace open-coded 16 with TASK_COMM_LEN"),
the content of the format file under
/sys/kernel/tracing/events/task/task_newtask was changed from
field:char comm[16]; offset:12; size:16; signed:0;
to
field:char comm[TASK_COMM_LEN]; offset:12; size:16; signed:0;
John reported that this change breaks older versions of perfetto.
Then Mathieu pointed out that this behavioral change was caused by the
use of __stringify(_len), which happens to work on macros, but not on enum
labels. And he also gave the suggestion on how to fix it:
:One possible solution to make this more robust would be to extend
:struct trace_event_fields with one more field that indicates the length
:of an array as an actual integer, without storing it in its stringified
:form in the type, and do the formatting in f_show where it belongs.
The result as follows after this change,
$ cat /sys/kernel/tracing/events/task/task_newtask/format
field:char comm[16]; offset:12; size:16; signed:0;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/Y+QaZtz55LIirsUO@google.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230210155921.4610-1-laoar.shao@gmail.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230212151303.12353-1-laoar.shao@gmail.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>
Cc: Kajetan Puchalski <kajetan.puchalski@arm.com>
CC: Qais Yousef <qyousef@layalina.io>
Fixes: 3087c61ed2 ("tools/testing/selftests/bpf: replace open-coded 16 with TASK_COMM_LEN")
Reported-by: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>
Debugged-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Suggested-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Use a more generic form for __section that requires quotes to avoid
complications with clang and gcc differences.
Remove the quote operator # from compiler_attributes.h __section macro.
Convert all unquoted __section(foo) uses to quoted __section("foo").
Also convert __attribute__((section("foo"))) uses to __section("foo")
even if the __attribute__ has multiple list entry forms.
Conversion done using the script at:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/75393e5ddc272dc7403de74d645e6c6e0f4e70eb.camel@perches.com/2-convert_section.pl
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@gooogle.com>
Reviewed-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
When using trace-cmd on 5.6-rt for the function graph tracer, the output was
corrupted. It gave output like this:
funcgraph_entry: func=0xffffffff depth=38982
funcgraph_entry: func=0x1ffffffff depth=16044
funcgraph_exit: func=0xffffffff overrun=0x92539aaf00000000 calltime=0x92539c9900000072 rettime=0x100000072 depth=11084
funcgraph_exit: func=0xffffffff overrun=0x9253946e00000000 calltime=0x92539e2100000072 rettime=0x72 depth=26033702
funcgraph_entry: func=0xffffffff depth=85798
funcgraph_entry: func=0x1ffffffff depth=12044
The reason was because the tracefs/events/ftrace/funcgraph_entry/exit format
file was incorrect. The -rt kernel adds more common fields to the trace
events. Namely, common_migrate_disable and common_preempt_lazy_count. Each
is one byte in size. This changes the alignment of the normal payload. Most
events are aligned normally, but the function and function graph events are
defined with a "PACKED" macro, that packs their payload. As the offsets
displayed in the format files are now calculated by an aligned field, the
aligned field for function and function graph events should be 1, not their
normal alignment.
With aligning of the funcgraph_entry event, the format file has:
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:unsigned char common_migrate_disable; offset:8; size:1; signed:0;
field:unsigned char common_preempt_lazy_count; offset:9; size:1; signed:0;
field:unsigned long func; offset:16; size:8; signed:0;
field:int depth; offset:24; size:4; signed:1;
But the actual alignment is:
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:unsigned char common_migrate_disable; offset:8; size:1; signed:0;
field:unsigned char common_preempt_lazy_count; offset:9; size:1; signed:0;
field:unsigned long func; offset:12; size:8; signed:0;
field:int depth; offset:20; size:4; signed:1;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200609220041.2a3b527f@oasis.local.home
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 04ae87a520 ("ftrace: Rework event_create_dir()")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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>
The event_class_ftrace_##call and event_##call do not seem
to be used outside of trace_export.c so make them both static
to avoid a number of sparse warnings:
kernel/trace/trace_entries.h:59:1: warning: symbol 'event_class_ftrace_function' was not declared. Should it be static?
kernel/trace/trace_entries.h:59:1: warning: symbol '__event_function' was not declared. Should it be static?
kernel/trace/trace_entries.h:77:1: warning: symbol 'event_class_ftrace_funcgraph_entry' was not declared. Should it be static?
kernel/trace/trace_entries.h:77:1: warning: symbol '__event_funcgraph_entry' was not declared. Should it be static?
kernel/trace/trace_entries.h:93:1: warning: symbol 'event_class_ftrace_funcgraph_exit' was not declared. Should it be static?
kernel/trace/trace_entries.h:93:1: warning: symbol '__event_funcgraph_exit' was not declared. Should it be static?
kernel/trace/trace_entries.h:129:1: warning: symbol 'event_class_ftrace_context_switch' was not declared. Should it be static?
kernel/trace/trace_entries.h:129:1: warning: symbol '__event_context_switch' was not declared. Should it be static?
kernel/trace/trace_entries.h:149:1: warning: symbol 'event_class_ftrace_wakeup' was not declared. Should it be static?
kernel/trace/trace_entries.h:149:1: warning: symbol '__event_wakeup' was not declared. Should it be static?
kernel/trace/trace_entries.h:171:1: warning: symbol 'event_class_ftrace_kernel_stack' was not declared. Should it be static?
kernel/trace/trace_entries.h:171:1: warning: symbol '__event_kernel_stack' was not declared. Should it be static?
kernel/trace/trace_entries.h:191:1: warning: symbol 'event_class_ftrace_user_stack' was not declared. Should it be static?
kernel/trace/trace_entries.h:191:1: warning: symbol '__event_user_stack' was not declared. Should it be static?
kernel/trace/trace_entries.h:214:1: warning: symbol 'event_class_ftrace_bprint' was not declared. Should it be static?
kernel/trace/trace_entries.h:214:1: warning: symbol '__event_bprint' was not declared. Should it be static?
kernel/trace/trace_entries.h:230:1: warning: symbol 'event_class_ftrace_print' was not declared. Should it be static?
kernel/trace/trace_entries.h:230:1: warning: symbol '__event_print' was not declared. Should it be static?
kernel/trace/trace_entries.h:247:1: warning: symbol 'event_class_ftrace_raw_data' was not declared. Should it be static?
kernel/trace/trace_entries.h:247:1: warning: symbol '__event_raw_data' was not declared. Should it be static?
kernel/trace/trace_entries.h:262:1: warning: symbol 'event_class_ftrace_bputs' was not declared. Should it be static?
kernel/trace/trace_entries.h:262:1: warning: symbol '__event_bputs' was not declared. Should it be static?
kernel/trace/trace_entries.h:277:1: warning: symbol 'event_class_ftrace_mmiotrace_rw' was not declared. Should it be static?
kernel/trace/trace_entries.h:277:1: warning: symbol '__event_mmiotrace_rw' was not declared. Should it be static?
kernel/trace/trace_entries.h:298:1: warning: symbol 'event_class_ftrace_mmiotrace_map' was not declared. Should it be static?
kernel/trace/trace_entries.h:298:1: warning: symbol '__event_mmiotrace_map' was not declared. Should it be static?
kernel/trace/trace_entries.h:322:1: warning: symbol 'event_class_ftrace_branch' was not declared. Should it be static?
kernel/trace/trace_entries.h:322:1: warning: symbol '__event_branch' was not declared. Should it be static?
kernel/trace/trace_entries.h:343:1: warning: symbol 'event_class_ftrace_hwlat' was not declared. Should it be static?
kernel/trace/trace_entries.h:343:1: warning: symbol '__event_hwlat' was not declared. Should it be static?
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191015121012.18824-1-ben.dooks@codethink.co.uk
Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben.dooks@codethink.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Allow writing to the trace_markers file initiate triggers defined in
tracefs/ftrace/print/trigger file. This will allow of user space to trigger
the same type of triggers (including histograms) that the trace events use.
Had to create a ftrace_event_register() function that will become the
trace_marker print event's reg() function. This is required because of how
triggers are enabled:
event_trigger_write() {
event_trigger_regex_write() {
trigger_process_regex() {
for p in trigger_commands {
p->func(); /* trigger_snapshot_cmd->func */
event_trigger_callback() {
cmd_ops->reg() /* register_trigger() */ {
trace_event_trigger_enable_disable() {
trace_event_enable_disable() {
call->class->reg();
Without the reg() function, the trigger code will call a NULL pointer and
crash the system.
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>
Cc: Karim Yaghmour <karim.yaghmour@opersys.com>
Cc: Brendan Gregg <bgregg@netflix.com>
Suggested-by: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The dynamic arrays defined for ftrace internal events, such as the buf field
for trace_marker (ftrace/print) did not have brackets which makes the filter
code not accept it as a string. This is not currently an issues because the
filter code doesn't do anything for these events, but they will in the
future, and this needs to be fixed for when it does.
Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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>
Make ftrace_event_is_function() return bool to improve readability
due to this particular function only using either one or zero as its
return value.
No functional change.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1443537816-5788-9-git-send-email-bywxiaobai@163.com
Signed-off-by: Yaowei Bai <bywxiaobai@163.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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>
TRACE_EVENT_FL_USE_CALL_FILTER flag in ftrace:functon event can be
removed. This flag was first introduced in commit
f306cc82a9 ("tracing: Update event filters for multibuffer").
Now, the only place uses this flag is ftrace:function, but the filter of
ftrace:function has a different code path with events/syscalls and
events/tracepoints. It uses ftrace_filter_write() and perf's
ftrace_profile_set_filter() to set the filter, the functionality of file
'tracing/events/ftrace/function/filter' is bypassed in function
init_pred(), in which case, neither call->filter nor file->filter is
used.
So we can safely remove TRACE_EVENT_FL_USE_CALL_FILTER flag from
ftrace:function events.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1425367294-27852-1-git-send-email-hekuang@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: He Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The creation of tracing files and directories is for the most part
encapsulated in helper functions in trace.c. Other files do not need to
include debugfs.h or fs.h, as they may have needed to in the past.
Remove them from the files that do not need them.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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 <chavey@google.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.10+
Signed-off-by: Vaibhav Nagarnaik <vnagarnaik@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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>
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>
With the adding of function tracing event to perf, it caused a
side effect that produces the following warning when enabling all
events in ftrace:
# echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/enable
[console]
event trace: Could not enable event function
This is because when enabling all events via the debugfs system
it ignores events that do not have a ->reg() function assigned.
This was to skip over the ftrace internal events (as they are
not TRACE_EVENTs). But as the ftrace function event now has
a ->reg() function attached to it for use with perf, it is no
longer ignored.
Worse yet, this ->reg() function is being called when it should
not be. It returns an error and causes the above warning to
be printed.
By adding a new event_call flag (TRACE_EVENT_FL_IGNORE_ENABLE)
and have all ftrace internel event structures have it set,
setting the events/enable will no longe try to incorrectly enable
the function event and does not warn.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Adding FILTER_TRACE_FN event field type for function tracepoint
event, so it can be properly recognized within filtering code.
Currently all fields of ftrace subsystem events share the common
field type FILTER_OTHER. Since the function trace fields need
special care within the filtering code we need to recognize it
properly, hence adding the FILTER_TRACE_FN event type.
Adding filter parameter to the FTRACE_ENTRY macro, to specify the
filter field type for the event.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1329317514-8131-7-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Adding perf registration support for the ftrace function event,
so it is now possible to register it via perf interface.
The perf_event struct statically contains ftrace_ops as a handle
for function tracer. The function tracer is registered/unregistered
in open/close actions.
To be efficient, we enable/disable ftrace_ops each time the traced
process is scheduled in/out (via TRACE_REG_PERF_(ADD|DELL) handlers).
This way tracing is enabled only when the process is running.
Intentionally using this way instead of the event's hw state
PERF_HES_STOPPED, which would not disable the ftrace_ops.
It is now possible to use function trace within perf commands
like:
perf record -e ftrace:function ls
perf stat -e ftrace:function ls
Allowed only for root.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1329317514-8131-6-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>
Adding FTRACE_ENTRY_REG macro so particular ftrace entries
could specify registration function and thus become accesible
via perf.
This will be used in upcomming patch for function trace.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1329317514-8131-5-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>
Currently the trace_event structures are placed in the _ftrace_events
section, and at link time, the linker makes one large array of all
the trace_event structures. On boot up, this array is read (much like
the initcall sections) and the events are 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 _ftrace_event 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 _ftrace_event 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>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Currently we have in something like the sched_switch event:
field:char prev_comm[TASK_COMM_LEN]; offset:12; size:16; signed:1;
When a userspace tool such as perf tries to parse this, the
TASK_COMM_LEN is meaningless. This is done because the TRACE_EVENT() macro
simply uses a #len to show the string of the length. When the length is
an enum, we get a string that means nothing for tools.
By adding a static buffer and a mutex to protect it, we can store the
string into that buffer with snprintf and show the actual number.
Now we get:
field:char prev_comm[16]; offset:12; size:16; signed:1;
Something much more useful.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
raw_init callback is optional.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4BFA37D4.7070500@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
This is part of a patch set that removes the show_format method
in the ftrace event macros.
The print_fmt field is added to hold the string that shows
the print_fmt in the event format files. This patch only adds
the field but it is currently not used. Later patches will use
this field to enable us to remove the show_format field
and function.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B273D3E.2000704@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
This is part of a patch set that removes the show_format method
in the ftrace event macros.
This patch set requires that all fields are added to the
ftrace_event_call->fields. This patch changes __dynamic_array()
to call trace_define_field() to include fields that use __dynamic_array().
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B273D36.8090100@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add is_signed_type() call to trace_define_field() in ftrace macros.
The code previously just passed in 0 (false), disregarding whether
or not the field was actually a signed type.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B273D3A.6020007@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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>
____ftrace_check_##name() is used for compile-time check on
F_printk() only, so it should be marked as __unused instead
of __used.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <4AEE2D01.4010305@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Conflicts:
tools/perf/Makefile
Merge reason:
- fix the conflict
- pick up the pr_*() infrastructure to queue up dependent patch
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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>
Make sure F_printk() has corrent format and args, and make sure
changes in F_STRUCT() won't break F_printk().
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4AADF6CC.1060809@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
This patch changes the way the format files in
debugfs/tracing/events/ftrace/*/format
are created. It uses the new trace_entries.h file to automate the
creation of the format files to ensure that they are always in sync
with the actual structures. This is the same methodology used to
create the format files for the TRACE_EVENT macro.
This also updates the filter creation that was built on the creation
of the format files.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Conflicts:
kernel/trace/trace_export.c
kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
Merge reason: This topic branch lacks an important
build fix in tracing/core:
0dd7b74787eaf7858c6c573353a83c3e2766e674:
tracing: Fix double CPP substitution in TRACE_EVENT_FN
that prevents from multiple tracepoint headers inclusion crashes.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
init_preds() allocates about 5392 bytes of memory (on x86_32) for
a TRACE_EVENT. With my config, at system boot total memory occupied
is:
5392 * (642 + 15) == 3459KB
642 == cat available_events | wc -l
15 == number of dirs in events/ftrace
That's quite a lot, so we'd better defer memory allocation util
it's needed, that's when filter is used.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A9B8EA5.6020700@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Use TRACE_FIELD_ZERO(type, item) instead of TRACE_FIELD_ZERO_CHAR(item).
This also includes a typo fix of TRACE_ZERO_CHAR() macro.
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: <20090813203501.31965.30172.stgit@localhost.localdomain>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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>
Steven Rostedt (Google)