- New user_events interface. User space can register an event with the kernel
describing the format of the event. Then it will receive a byte in a page
mapping that it can check against. A privileged task can then enable that
event like any other event, which will change the mapped byte to true,
telling the user space application to start writing the event to the
tracing buffer.
- Add new "ftrace_boot_snapshot" kernel command line parameter. When set,
the tracing buffer will be saved in the snapshot buffer at boot up when
the kernel hands things over to user space. This will keep the traces that
happened at boot up available even if user space boot up has tracing as
well.
- Have TRACE_EVENT_ENUM() also update trace event field type descriptions.
Thus if a static array defines its size with an enum, the user space trace
event parsers can still know how to parse that array.
- Add new TRACE_CUSTOM_EVENT() macro. This acts the same as the
TRACE_EVENT() macro, but will attach to an existing tracepoint. This will
make one tracepoint be able to trace different content and not be stuck at
only what the original TRACE_EVENT() macro exports.
- Fixes to tracing error logging.
- Better saving of cmdlines to PIDs when tracing (use the wakeup events for
mapping).
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Merge tag 'trace-v5.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
- New user_events interface. User space can register an event with the
kernel describing the format of the event. Then it will receive a
byte in a page mapping that it can check against. A privileged task
can then enable that event like any other event, which will change
the mapped byte to true, telling the user space application to start
writing the event to the tracing buffer.
- Add new "ftrace_boot_snapshot" kernel command line parameter. When
set, the tracing buffer will be saved in the snapshot buffer at boot
up when the kernel hands things over to user space. This will keep
the traces that happened at boot up available even if user space boot
up has tracing as well.
- Have TRACE_EVENT_ENUM() also update trace event field type
descriptions. Thus if a static array defines its size with an enum,
the user space trace event parsers can still know how to parse that
array.
- Add new TRACE_CUSTOM_EVENT() macro. This acts the same as the
TRACE_EVENT() macro, but will attach to an existing tracepoint. This
will make one tracepoint be able to trace different content and not
be stuck at only what the original TRACE_EVENT() macro exports.
- Fixes to tracing error logging.
- Better saving of cmdlines to PIDs when tracing (use the wakeup events
for mapping).
* tag 'trace-v5.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (30 commits)
tracing: Have type enum modifications copy the strings
user_events: Add trace event call as root for low permission cases
tracing/user_events: Use alloc_pages instead of kzalloc() for register pages
tracing: Add snapshot at end of kernel boot up
tracing: Have TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM affect trace event types as well
tracing: Fix strncpy warning in trace_events_synth.c
user_events: Prevent dyn_event delete racing with ioctl add/delete
tracing: Add TRACE_CUSTOM_EVENT() macro
tracing: Move the defines to create TRACE_EVENTS into their own files
tracing: Add sample code for custom trace events
tracing: Allow custom events to be added to the tracefs directory
tracing: Fix last_cmd_set() string management in histogram code
user_events: Fix potential uninitialized pointer while parsing field
tracing: Fix allocation of last_cmd in last_cmd_set()
user_events: Add documentation file
user_events: Add sample code for typical usage
user_events: Add self-test for validator boundaries
user_events: Add self-test for perf_event integration
user_events: Add self-test for dynamic_events integration
user_events: Add self-test for ftrace integration
...
Using strnlen(dest, str, n) is confusing, as the size of dest must be
strlen(dest) + n + 1. Even more confusing, using sizeof(string constant)
gives you strlen(string constant) + 1 and not just strlen().
These two together made using strncat() with a constant string a bit off
in the calculations as we have:
len = sizeof(HIST_PREFIX) + strlen(str) + 1;
kfree(last_cmd);
last_cmd = kzalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);
strcpy(last_cmd, HIST_PREFIX);
len -= sizeof(HIST_PREFIX) + 1;
strncat(last_cmd, str, len);
The above works if we s/sizeof/strlen/ with HIST_PREFIX (which is defined
as "hist:", but because sizeof(HIST_PREFIX) is equal to
strlen(HIST_PREFIX) + 1, we can drop the +1 in the code. But at least
comment that we are doing so.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/202203082112.Iu7tvFl4-lkp@intel.com/
Fixes: 9f8e5aee93 ("tracing: Fix allocation of last_cmd in last_cmd_set()")
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
When trying to add a histogram against an event with the "cpu" field, it
was impossible due to "cpu" being a keyword to key off of the running CPU.
So to fix this, it was changed to "common_cpu" to match the other generic
fields (like "common_pid"). But since some scripts used "cpu" for keying
off of the CPU (for events that did not have "cpu" as a field, which is
most of them), a backward compatibility trick was added such that if "cpu"
was used as a key, and the event did not have "cpu" as a field name, then
it would fallback and switch over to "common_cpu".
This fix has a couple of subtle bugs. One was that when switching over to
"common_cpu", it did not change the field name, it just set a flag. But
the code still found a "cpu" field. The "cpu" field is used for filtering
and is returned when the event does not have a "cpu" field.
This was found by:
# cd /sys/kernel/tracing
# echo hist:key=cpu,pid:sort=cpu > events/sched/sched_wakeup/trigger
# cat events/sched/sched_wakeup/hist
Which showed the histogram unsorted:
{ cpu: 19, pid: 1175 } hitcount: 1
{ cpu: 6, pid: 239 } hitcount: 2
{ cpu: 23, pid: 1186 } hitcount: 14
{ cpu: 12, pid: 249 } hitcount: 2
{ cpu: 3, pid: 994 } hitcount: 5
Instead of hard coding the "cpu" checks, take advantage of the fact that
trace_event_field_field() returns a special field for "cpu" and "CPU" if
the event does not have "cpu" as a field. This special field has the
"filter_type" of "FILTER_CPU". Check that to test if the returned field is
of the CPU type instead of doing the string compare.
Also, fix the sorting bug by testing for the hist_field flag of
HIST_FIELD_FL_CPU when setting up the sort routine. Otherwise it will use
the special CPU field to know what compare routine to use, and since that
special field does not have a size, it returns tracing_map_cmp_none.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 1e3bac71c5 ("tracing/histogram: Rename "cpu" to "common_cpu"")
Reported-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The strncat() used in last_cmd_set() includes the nul byte of length of
the string being copied in, when it should only hold the size of the
string being copied (not the nul byte). Change it to subtract the length
of the allocated space and the nul byte to pass that into the strncat().
Also, assign "len" instead of initializing it to zero and its first update
is to do a "+=".
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/202202140628.fj6e4w4v-lkp@intel.com/
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Currently, hist trigger command error strings are restricted to a
length of MAX_FILTER_STR_VAL (256), which is too short for some
commands already seen in the wild (with cmd strings longer than that
showing up truncated in err_log).
Remove the restriction so that no hist trigger command error string is
ever truncated.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/0f9d46407222eaf6632cd3b417bc50a11f401b71.1643399022.git.zanussi@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The patch ec5ce0987541: "tracing: Allow whitespace to surround hist
trigger filter" from Jan 15, 2018, leads to the following Smatch
static checker warning:
kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c:6199 event_hist_trigger_parse()
warn: 'p' can't be NULL.
Since p is always checked for a NULL value at the top of loop and
nothing in the rest of the loop will set it to NULL, the warning
is correct and might as well be 1 to silence the warning.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/a1d4c79766c0cf61e20438dc35244d216633fef6.1643319703.git.zanussi@kernel.org
Fixes: ec5ce09875 ("tracing: Allow whitespace to surround hist trigger filter")
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The recent rename of event_hist_trigger_parse() caused smatch
re-evaluation of trace_events_hist.c and as a result an old warning
was found:
kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c:6174 event_hist_trigger_parse()
error: we previously assumed 'glob' could be null (see line 6166)
glob should never be null (and apparently smatch can also figure that
out and skip the warning when using the cross-function DB (but which
can't be used with a 0day build as it takes too much time to
generate)).
Nonetheless for clarity, remove the test but add a WARN_ON() in case
the code ever changes.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/96925e5c1f116654ada7ea0613d930b1266b5e1c.1643319703.git.zanussi@kernel.org
Fixes: f404da6e1d ("tracing: Add 'last error' error facility for hist triggers")
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
kfree() is missing on an error path to free the memory allocated by
kstrdup():
p = param = kstrdup(data->params[i], GFP_KERNEL);
So it is better to free it via kfree(p).
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/tencent_C52895FD37802832A3E5B272D05008866F0A@qq.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: d380dcde9a ("tracing: Fix now invalid var_ref_vals assumption in trace action")
Signed-off-by: Xiaoke Wang <xkernel.wang@foxmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The name of the func() callback on event_trigger_ops is too generic
and is easily confused with other callbacks with that name, so change
it to something that reflects its actual purpose.
In this case, the main purpose of the callback is to implement an
event trigger, so call it trigger() instead.
Also add some more documentation to event_trigger_ops describing the
callbacks a bit better.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/36ab812e3ee74ee03ae0043fda41a858ee728c00.1641823001.git.zanussi@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The name of the func() callback on event_command is too generic and is
easily confused with other callbacks with that name, so change it to
something that reflects its actual purpose.
In this case, the main purpose of the callback is to parse an event
command, so call it parse() instead.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/7784e321840752ed88aac0b349c0c685fc9247b1.1641823001.git.zanussi@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add '__rel_loc' new dynamic data location attribute which encodes
the data location from the next to the field itself.
The '__data_loc' is used for encoding the dynamic data location on
the trace event record. But '__data_loc' is not useful if the writer
doesn't know the event header (e.g. user event), because it records
the dynamic data offset from the entry of the record, not the field
itself.
This new '__rel_loc' attribute encodes the data location relatively
from the next of the field. For example, when there is a record like
below (the number in the parentheses is the size of fields)
|header(N)|common(M)|fields(K)|__data_loc(4)|fields(L)|data(G)|
In this case, '__data_loc' field will be
__data_loc = (G << 16) | (N+M+K+4+L)
If '__rel_loc' is used, this will be
|header(N)|common(M)|fields(K)|__rel_loc(4)|fields(L)|data(G)|
where
__rel_loc = (G << 16) | (L)
This case shows L bytes after the '__rel_loc' attribute field,
if there is no fields after the __rel_loc field, L must be 0.
This is relatively easy (and no need to consider the kernel header
change) when the event data fields are composed by user who doesn't
know header and common fields.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/163757341258.510314.4214431827833229956.stgit@devnote2
Cc: Beau Belgrave <beaub@linux.microsoft.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
When comparing two strings for the "onmatch" histogram trigger, fields
that are strings use string comparisons, which do not care about being
signed or not.
Do not fail to match two string fields if one is unsigned char array and
the other is a signed char array.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20211129123043.5cfd687a@gandalf.local.home/
Cc: stable@vgerk.kernel.org
Cc: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Cc: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>
Fixes: b05e89ae7c ("tracing: Accept different type for synthetic event fields")
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramatsu@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Calling destroy_hist_field() on an expression will recursively free
any operands associated with the expression. If during expression
parsing the operands of the expression are already set when an error
is encountered, there is no need to explicity free the operands. Doing
so will result in destroy_hist_field() being called twice for the
operands and lead to a use-after-free (UAF) error.
If the operands are associated with the expression, only call
destroy_hist_field() on the expression since the operands will be
recursively freed.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wgcrEbFgkw9720H3tW-AhHOoEKhYwZinYJw4FpzSaJ6_Q@mail.gmail.com/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211118011542.1420131-1-kaleshsingh@google.com
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com>
Fixes: 8b5d46fd7a ("tracing/histogram: Optimize division by constants")
Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
A fix to only copy the size of the field to the histogram string
did not take into account that the size can be larger than the
storage.
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Merge tag 'trace-v5.16-5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull tracing fix from Steven Rostedt:
"Update to tracing histogram variable string copy
A fix to only copy the size of the field to the histogram string did
not take into account that the size can be larger than the storage"
* tag 'trace-v5.16-5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
tracing: Add length protection to histogram string copies
The string copies to the histogram storage has a max size of 256 bytes
(defined by MAX_FILTER_STR_VAL). Only the string size of the event field
needs to be copied to the event storage, but no more than what is in the
event storage. Although nothing should be bigger than 256 bytes, there's
no protection against overwriting of the storage if one day there is.
Copy no more than the destination size, and enforce it.
Also had to turn MAX_FILTER_STR_VAL into an unsigned int, to keep the
min() comparison of the string sizes of comparable types.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wjREUihCGrtRBwfX47y_KrLCGjiq3t6QtoNJpmVrAEb1w@mail.gmail.com/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211114132834.183429a4@rorschach.local.home
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Fixes: 63f84ae6b8 ("tracing/histogram: Do not copy the fixed-size char array field over the field size")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
- Make local osnoise_instances static
- Copy just actual size of histogram strings
- Properly check missing operands in histogram expressions
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Merge tag 'trace-v5.16-4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull tracing fixes from Steven Rostedt:
"Three tracing fixes:
- Make local osnoise_instances static
- Copy just actual size of histogram strings
- Properly check missing operands in histogram expressions"
* tag 'trace-v5.16-4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
tracing/histogram: Fix check for missing operands in an expression
tracing/histogram: Do not copy the fixed-size char array field over the field size
tracing/osnoise: Make osnoise_instances static
If a binary operation is detected while parsing an expression string,
the operand strings are deduced by splitting the experssion string at
the position of the detected binary operator. Both operand strings are
sub-strings (can be empty string) of the expression string but will
never be NULL.
Currently a NULL check is used for missing operands, fix this by
checking for empty strings instead.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211112191324.1302505-1-kaleshsingh@google.com
Signed-off-by: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com>
Fixes: 9710b2f341 ("tracing: Fix operator precedence for hist triggers expression")
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Do not copy the fixed-size char array field of the events over
the field size. The histogram treats char array as a string and
there are 2 types of char array in the event, fixed-size and
dynamic string. The dynamic string (__data_loc) field must be
null terminated, but the fixed-size char array field may not
be null terminated (not a string, but just a data).
In that case, histogram can copy the data after the field.
This uses the original field size for fixed-size char array
field to restrict the histogram not to access over the original
field size.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/163673292822.195747.3696966210526410250.stgit@devnote2
Fixes: 02205a6752 (tracing: Add support for 'field variables')
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
- osnoise and timerlat updates that will work with the RTLA tool (Real-Time
Linux Analysis). Specifically it disconnects the work load (threads
that look for latency) from the tracing instances attached to them,
allowing for more than one instance to retrieve data from the work load.
- Optimization on division in the trace histogram trigger code to use shift
and multiply when possible. Also added documentation.
- Fix prototype to my_direct_func in direct ftrace trampoline sample code.
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Merge tag 'trace-v5.16-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull more tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
- osnoise and timerlat updates that will work with the RTLA tool
(Real-Time Linux Analysis).
Specifically it disconnects the work load (threads that look for
latency) from the tracing instances attached to them, allowing for
more than one instance to retrieve data from the work load.
- Optimization on division in the trace histogram trigger code to use
shift and multiply when possible. Also added documentation.
- Fix prototype to my_direct_func in direct ftrace trampoline sample
code.
* tag 'trace-v5.16-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
ftrace/samples: Add missing prototype for my_direct_func
tracing/selftests: Add tests for hist trigger expression parsing
tracing/histogram: Document hist trigger variables
tracing/histogram: Update division by 0 documentation
tracing/histogram: Optimize division by constants
tracing/osnoise: Remove PREEMPT_RT ifdefs from inside functions
tracing/osnoise: Remove STACKTRACE ifdefs from inside functions
tracing/osnoise: Allow multiple instances of the same tracer
tracing/osnoise: Remove TIMERLAT ifdefs from inside functions
tracing/osnoise: Support a list of trace_array *tr
tracing/osnoise: Use start/stop_per_cpu_kthreads() on osnoise_cpus_write()
tracing/osnoise: Split workload start from the tracer start
tracing/osnoise: Improve comments about barrier need for NMI callbacks
tracing/osnoise: Do not follow tracing_cpumask
- kprobes: Restructured stack unwinder to show properly on x86 when a stack
dump happens from a kretprobe callback.
- Fix to bootconfig parsing
- Have tracefs allow owner and group permissions by default (only denying
others). There's been pressure to allow non root to tracefs in a
controlled fashion, and using groups is probably the safest.
- Bootconfig memory managament updates.
- Bootconfig clean up to have the tools directory be less dependent on
changes in the kernel tree.
- Allow perf to be traced by function tracer.
- Rewrite of function graph tracer to be a callback from the function tracer
instead of having its own trampoline (this change will happen on an arch
by arch basis, and currently only x86_64 implements it).
- Allow multiple direct trampolines (bpf hooks to functions) be batched
together in one synchronization.
- Allow histogram triggers to add variables that can perform calculations
against the event's fields.
- Use the linker to determine architecture callbacks from the ftrace
trampoline to allow for proper parameter prototypes and prevent warnings
from the compiler.
- Extend histogram triggers to key off of variables.
- Have trace recursion use bit magic to determine preempt context over if
branches.
- Have trace recursion disable preemption as all use cases do anyway.
- Added testing for verification of tracing utilities.
- Various small clean ups and fixes.
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Merge tag 'trace-v5.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
- kprobes: Restructured stack unwinder to show properly on x86 when a
stack dump happens from a kretprobe callback.
- Fix to bootconfig parsing
- Have tracefs allow owner and group permissions by default (only
denying others). There's been pressure to allow non root to tracefs
in a controlled fashion, and using groups is probably the safest.
- Bootconfig memory managament updates.
- Bootconfig clean up to have the tools directory be less dependent on
changes in the kernel tree.
- Allow perf to be traced by function tracer.
- Rewrite of function graph tracer to be a callback from the function
tracer instead of having its own trampoline (this change will happen
on an arch by arch basis, and currently only x86_64 implements it).
- Allow multiple direct trampolines (bpf hooks to functions) be batched
together in one synchronization.
- Allow histogram triggers to add variables that can perform
calculations against the event's fields.
- Use the linker to determine architecture callbacks from the ftrace
trampoline to allow for proper parameter prototypes and prevent
warnings from the compiler.
- Extend histogram triggers to key off of variables.
- Have trace recursion use bit magic to determine preempt context over
if branches.
- Have trace recursion disable preemption as all use cases do anyway.
- Added testing for verification of tracing utilities.
- Various small clean ups and fixes.
* tag 'trace-v5.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (101 commits)
tracing/histogram: Fix semicolon.cocci warnings
tracing/histogram: Fix documentation inline emphasis warning
tracing: Increase PERF_MAX_TRACE_SIZE to handle Sentinel1 and docker together
tracing: Show size of requested perf buffer
bootconfig: Initialize ret in xbc_parse_tree()
ftrace: do CPU checking after preemption disabled
ftrace: disable preemption when recursion locked
tracing/histogram: Document expression arithmetic and constants
tracing/histogram: Optimize division by a power of 2
tracing/histogram: Covert expr to const if both operands are constants
tracing/histogram: Simplify handling of .sym-offset in expressions
tracing: Fix operator precedence for hist triggers expression
tracing: Add division and multiplication support for hist triggers
tracing: Add support for creating hist trigger variables from literal
selftests/ftrace: Stop tracing while reading the trace file by default
MAINTAINERS: Update KPROBES and TRACING entries
test_kprobes: Move it from kernel/ to lib/
docs, kprobes: Remove invalid URL and add new reference
samples/kretprobes: Fix return value if register_kretprobe() failed
lib/bootconfig: Fix the xbc_get_info kerneldoc
...
If the divisor is a constant use specific division functions to
avoid extra branches when the trigger is hit.
If the divisor constant but not a power of 2, the division can be
replaced with a multiplication and shift in the following case:
Let X = dividend and Y = divisor.
Choose Z = some power of 2. If Y <= Z, then:
X / Y = (X * (Z / Y)) / Z
(Z / Y) is a constant (mult) which is calculated at parse time, so:
X / Y = (X * mult) / Z
The division by Z can be replaced by a shift since Z is a power of 2:
X / Y = (X * mult) >> shift
As long, as X < Z the results will not be off by more than 1.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211029232410.3494196-1-kaleshsingh@google.com
Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The division is a slow operation. If the divisor is a power of 2, use a
shift instead.
Results were obtained using Android's version of perf (simpleperf[1]) as
described below:
1. hist_field_div() is modified to call 2 test functions:
test_hist_field_div_[not]_optimized(); passing them the
same args. Use noinline and volatile to ensure these are
not optimized out by the compiler.
2. Create a hist event trigger that uses division:
events/kmem/rss_stat$ echo 'hist:keys=common_pid:x=size/<divisor>'
>> trigger
events/kmem/rss_stat$ echo 'hist:keys=common_pid:vals=$x'
>> trigger
3. Run Android's lmkd_test[2] to generate rss_stat events, and
record CPU samples with Android's simpleperf:
simpleperf record -a --exclude-perf --post-unwind=yes -m 16384 -g
-f 2000 -o perf.data
== Results ==
Divisor is a power of 2 (divisor == 32):
test_hist_field_div_not_optimized | 8,717,091 cpu-cycles
test_hist_field_div_optimized | 1,643,137 cpu-cycles
If the divisor is a power of 2, the optimized version is ~5.3x faster.
Divisor is not a power of 2 (divisor == 33):
test_hist_field_div_not_optimized | 4,444,324 cpu-cycles
test_hist_field_div_optimized | 5,497,958 cpu-cycles
If the divisor is not a power of 2, as expected, the optimized version is
slightly slower (~24% slower).
[1] https://android.googlesource.com/platform/system/extras/+/master/simpleperf/doc/README.md
[2] https://cs.android.com/android/platform/superproject/+/master:system/memory/lmkd/tests/lmkd_test.cpp
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211025200852.3002369-7-kaleshsingh@google.com
Signed-off-by: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com>
Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
If both operands of a hist trigger expression are constants, convert the
expression to a constant. This optimization avoids having to perform the
same calculation multiple times and also saves on memory since the
merged constants are represented by a single struct hist_field instead
or multiple.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211025200852.3002369-6-kaleshsingh@google.com
Signed-off-by: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com>
Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The '-' in .sym-offset can confuse the hist trigger arithmetic
expression parsing. Simplify the handling of this by replacing the
'sym-offset' with 'symXoffset'. This allows us to correctly evaluate
expressions where the user may have inadvertently added a .sym-offset
modifier to one of the operands in an expression, instead of bailing
out. In this case the .sym-offset has no effect on the evaluation of the
expression. The only valid use of the .sym-offset is as a hist key
modifier.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211025200852.3002369-5-kaleshsingh@google.com
Signed-off-by: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com>
Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The current histogram expression evaluation logic evaluates the
expression from right to left. This can lead to incorrect results
if the operations are not associative (as is the case for subtraction
and, the now added, division operators).
e.g. 16-8-4-2 should be 2 not 10 --> 16-8-4-2 = ((16-8)-4)-2
64/8/4/2 should be 1 not 16 --> 64/8/4/2 = ((64/8)/4)/2
Division and multiplication are currently limited to single operation
expression due to operator precedence support not yet implemented.
Rework the expression parsing to support the correct evaluation of
expressions containing operators of different precedences; and fix
the associativity error by evaluating expressions with operators of
the same precedence from left to right.
Examples:
(1) echo 'hist:keys=common_pid:a=8,b=4,c=2,d=1,w=$a-$b-$c-$d' \
>> event/trigger
(2) echo 'hist:keys=common_pid:x=$a/$b/3/2' >> event/trigger
(3) echo 'hist:keys=common_pid:y=$a+10/$c*1024' >> event/trigger
(4) echo 'hist:keys=common_pid:z=$a/$b+$c*$d' >> event/trigger
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211025200852.3002369-4-kaleshsingh@google.com
Signed-off-by: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Adds basic support for division and multiplication operations for
hist trigger variable expressions.
For simplicity this patch only supports, division and multiplication
for a single operation expression (e.g. x=$a/$b), as currently
expressions are always evaluated right to left. This can lead to some
incorrect results:
e.g. echo 'hist:keys=common_pid:x=8-4-2' >> event/trigger
8-4-2 should evaluate to 2 i.e. (8-4)-2
but currently x evaluate to 6 i.e. 8-(4-2)
Multiplication and division in sub-expressions will work correctly, once
correct operator precedence support is added (See next patch in this
series).
For the undefined case of division by 0, the histogram expression
evaluates to (u64)(-1). Since this cannot be detected when the
expression is created, it is the responsibility of the user to be
aware and account for this possibility.
Examples:
echo 'hist:keys=common_pid:a=8,b=4,x=$a/$b' \
>> event/trigger
echo 'hist:keys=common_pid:y=5*$b' \
>> event/trigger
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211025200852.3002369-3-kaleshsingh@google.com
Signed-off-by: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Currently hist trigger expressions don't support the use of numeric
literals:
e.g. echo 'hist:keys=common_pid:x=$y-1234'
--> is not valid expression syntax
Having the ability to use numeric constants in hist triggers supports
a wider range of expressions for creating variables.
Add support for creating trace event histogram variables from numeric
literals.
e.g. echo 'hist:keys=common_pid:x=1234,y=size-1024' >> event/trigger
A negative numeric constant is created, using unary minus operator
(parentheses are required).
e.g. echo 'hist:keys=common_pid:z=-(2)' >> event/trigger
Constants can be used with division/multiplication (added in the
next patch in this series) to implement granularity filters for frequent
trace events. For instance we can limit emitting the rss_stat
trace event to when there is a 512KB cross over in the rss size:
# Create a synthetic event to monitor instead of the high frequency
# rss_stat event
echo 'rss_stat_throttled unsigned int mm_id; unsigned int curr;
int member; long size' >> tracing/synthetic_events
# Create a hist trigger that emits the synthetic rss_stat_throttled
# event only when the rss size crosses a 512KB boundary.
echo 'hist:keys=keys=mm_id,member:bucket=size/0x80000:onchange($bucket)
.rss_stat_throttled(mm_id,curr,member,size)'
>> events/kmem/rss_stat/trigger
A use case for using constants with addition/subtraction is not yet
known, but for completeness the use of constants are supported for all
operators.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211025200852.3002369-2-kaleshsingh@google.com
Signed-off-by: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
clang started warning about excessive stack usage in
hist_trigger_print_key()
kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c:4723:13: error: stack frame size (1336) exceeds limit (1024) in function 'hist_trigger_print_key' [-Werror,-Wframe-larger-than]
The problem is that there are two 512-byte arrays on the stack if
hist_trigger_stacktrace_print() gets inlined. I don't think this has
changed in the past five years, but something probably changed the
inlining decisions made by the compiler, so the problem is now made
more obvious.
Rather than printing the symbol names into separate buffers, it
seems we can simply use the special %ps format string modifier
to print the pointers symbolically and get rid of both buffers.
Marking hist_trigger_stacktrace_print() would be a simpler
way of avoiding the warning, but that would not address the
excessive stack usage.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211019153337.294790-1-arnd@kernel.org
Fixes: 69a0200c2e ("tracing: Add hist trigger support for stacktraces as keys")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20211015095704.49a99859@gandalf.local.home/
Reviewed-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Setting the hist_elt_data.field_var_str[] array unconditionally to a
size of SYNTH_FIELD_MAX elements wastes space unnecessarily. The
actual number of elements needed can be calculated at run-time
instead.
In most cases, this will save a lot of space since it's a per-elt
array which isn't normally close to being full. It also allows us to
increase SYNTH_FIELD_MAX without worrying about even more wastage when
we do that.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/d52ae0ad5e1b59af7c4f54faf3fc098461fd82b3.camel@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Allow common_pid.execname to be saved in a variable in one histogram to be
passed to another histogram that can pass it as a parameter to a synthetic
event.
># echo 'hist:keys=pid:__arg__1=common_timestamp.usecs:arg2=common_pid.execname' \
> events/sched/sched_waking/trigger
># echo 'wakeup_lat s32 pid; u64 delta; char wake_comm[]' > synthetic_events
># echo 'hist:keys=next_pid:pid=next_pid,delta=common_timestamp.usecs-$__arg__1,exec=$arg2'\
':onmatch(sched.sched_waking).trace(wakeup_lat,$pid,$delta,$exec)' \
> events/sched/sched_switch/trigger
The above is a wake up latency synthetic event setup that passes the execname
of the common_pid that woke the task to the scheduling of that task, which
triggers a synthetic event that passes the original execname as a
parameter to display it.
># echo 1 > events/synthetic/enable
># cat trace
<idle>-0 [006] d..4 186.863801: wakeup_lat: pid=1306 delta=65 wake_comm=kworker/u16:3
<idle>-0 [000] d..4 186.863858: wakeup_lat: pid=163 delta=27 wake_comm=<idle>
<idle>-0 [001] d..4 186.863903: wakeup_lat: pid=1307 delta=36 wake_comm=kworker/u16:4
<idle>-0 [000] d..4 186.863927: wakeup_lat: pid=163 delta=5 wake_comm=<idle>
<idle>-0 [006] d..4 186.863957: wakeup_lat: pid=1306 delta=24 wake_comm=kworker/u16:3
sshd-1306 [006] d..4 186.864051: wakeup_lat: pid=61 delta=62 wake_comm=<idle>
<idle>-0 [000] d..4 186.965030: wakeup_lat: pid=609 delta=18 wake_comm=<idle>
<idle>-0 [006] d..4 186.987582: wakeup_lat: pid=1306 delta=65 wake_comm=kworker/u16:3
<idle>-0 [000] d..4 186.987639: wakeup_lat: pid=163 delta=27 wake_comm=<idle>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210722142837.458596338@goodmis.org
Reviewed-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Instead of kstrdup("const", GFP_KERNEL), have the hist_field type simply
assign the constant hist_field->type = "const"; And when the value passed
to it is a variable, use "kstrdup_const(var, GFP_KERNEL);" which will just
copy the value if the variable is already a constant. This saves on having
to allocate when not needed.
All frees of the hist_field->type will need to use kfree_const().
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210722142837.280718447@goodmis.org
Suggested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
There's been several times I wished the histogram logic had a "grouping"
feature for the buckets. Currently, each bucket has a size of one. That
is, if you trace the amount of requested allocations, each allocation is
its own bucket, even if you are interested in what allocates 100 bytes or
less, 100 to 200, 200 to 300, etc.
Also, without grouping, it fills up the allocated histogram buckets
quickly. If you are tracking latency, and don't care if something is 200
microseconds off, or 201 microseconds off, but want to track them by say
10 microseconds each. This can not currently be done.
There is a log2 but that grouping get's too big too fast for a lot of
cases.
Introduce a "buckets=SIZE" command to each field where it will record in a
rounded number. For example:
># echo 'hist:keys=bytes_req.buckets=100:sort=bytes_req' > events/kmem/kmalloc/trigger
># cat events/kmem/kmalloc/hist
# event histogram
#
# trigger info:
hist:keys=bytes_req.buckets=100:vals=hitcount:sort=bytes_req.buckets=100:size=2048
[active]
#
{ bytes_req: ~ 0-99 } hitcount: 3149
{ bytes_req: ~ 100-199 } hitcount: 1468
{ bytes_req: ~ 200-299 } hitcount: 39
{ bytes_req: ~ 300-399 } hitcount: 306
{ bytes_req: ~ 400-499 } hitcount: 364
{ bytes_req: ~ 500-599 } hitcount: 32
{ bytes_req: ~ 600-699 } hitcount: 69
{ bytes_req: ~ 700-799 } hitcount: 37
{ bytes_req: ~ 1200-1299 } hitcount: 16
{ bytes_req: ~ 1400-1499 } hitcount: 30
{ bytes_req: ~ 2000-2099 } hitcount: 6
{ bytes_req: ~ 4000-4099 } hitcount: 2168
{ bytes_req: ~ 5000-5099 } hitcount: 6
Totals:
Hits: 7690
Entries: 13
Dropped: 0
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210707213921.980359719@goodmis.org
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Since the string type can not be the target of the addition / subtraction
operation, it must be rejected. Without this fix, the string type silently
converted to digits.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/162742654278.290973.1523000673366456634.stgit@devnote2
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 100719dcef ("tracing: Add simple expression support to hist triggers")
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
When working on my user space applications, I found a bug in the synthetic
event code where the automated synthetic event field was not matching the
event field calculation it was attached to. Looking deeper into it, it was
because the calculation hist_field was not given a size.
The synthetic event fields are matched to their hist_fields either by
having the field have an identical string type, or if that does not match,
then the size and signed values are used to match the fields.
The problem arose when I tried to match a calculation where the fields
were "unsigned int". My tool created a synthetic event of type "u32". But
it failed to match. The string was:
diff=field1-field2:onmatch(event).trace(synth,$diff)
Adding debugging into the kernel, I found that the size of "diff" was 0.
And since it was given "unsigned int" as a type, the histogram fallback
code used size and signed. The signed matched, but the size of u32 (4) did
not match zero, and the event failed to be created.
This can be worse if the field you want to match is not one of the
acceptable fields for a synthetic event. As event fields can have any type
that is supported in Linux, this can cause an issue. For example, if a
type is an enum. Then there's no way to use that with any calculations.
Have the calculation field simply take on the size of what it is
calculating.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210730171951.59c7743f@oasis.local.home
Cc: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 100719dcef ("tracing: Add simple expression support to hist triggers")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Currently the histogram logic allows the user to write "cpu" in as an
event field, and it will record the CPU that the event happened on.
The problem with this is that there's a lot of events that have "cpu"
as a real field, and using "cpu" as the CPU it ran on, makes it
impossible to run histograms on the "cpu" field of events.
For example, if I want to have a histogram on the count of the
workqueue_queue_work event on its cpu field, running:
># echo 'hist:keys=cpu' > events/workqueue/workqueue_queue_work/trigger
Gives a misleading and wrong result.
Change the command to "common_cpu" as no event should have "common_*"
fields as that's a reserved name for fields used by all events. And
this makes sense here as common_cpu would be a field used by all events.
Now we can even do:
># echo 'hist:keys=common_cpu,cpu if cpu < 100' > events/workqueue/workqueue_queue_work/trigger
># cat events/workqueue/workqueue_queue_work/hist
# event histogram
#
# trigger info: hist:keys=common_cpu,cpu:vals=hitcount:sort=hitcount:size=2048 if cpu < 100 [active]
#
{ common_cpu: 0, cpu: 2 } hitcount: 1
{ common_cpu: 0, cpu: 4 } hitcount: 1
{ common_cpu: 7, cpu: 7 } hitcount: 1
{ common_cpu: 0, cpu: 7 } hitcount: 1
{ common_cpu: 0, cpu: 1 } hitcount: 1
{ common_cpu: 0, cpu: 6 } hitcount: 2
{ common_cpu: 0, cpu: 5 } hitcount: 2
{ common_cpu: 1, cpu: 1 } hitcount: 4
{ common_cpu: 6, cpu: 6 } hitcount: 4
{ common_cpu: 5, cpu: 5 } hitcount: 14
{ common_cpu: 4, cpu: 4 } hitcount: 26
{ common_cpu: 0, cpu: 0 } hitcount: 39
{ common_cpu: 2, cpu: 2 } hitcount: 184
Now for backward compatibility, I added a trick. If "cpu" is used, and
the field is not found, it will fall back to "common_cpu" and work as
it did before. This way, it will still work for old programs that use
"cpu" to get the actual CPU, but if the event has a "cpu" as a field, it
will get that event's "cpu" field, which is probably what it wants
anyway.
I updated the tracefs/README to include documentation about both the
common_timestamp and the common_cpu. This way, if that text is present in
the README, then an application can know that common_cpu is supported over
just plain "cpu".
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210721110053.26b4f641@oasis.local.home
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 8b7622bf94 ("tracing: Add cpu field for hist triggers")
Reviewed-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
With the addition of simple mathematical operations (plus and minus), the
parsing of the "sym-offset" modifier broke, as it took the '-' part of the
"sym-offset" as a minus, and tried to break it up into a mathematical
operation of "field.sym - offset", in which case it failed to parse
(unless the event had a field called "offset").
Both .sym and .sym-offset modifiers should not be entered into
mathematical calculations anyway. If ".sym-offset" is found in the
modifier, then simply make it not an operation that can be calculated on.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210707110821.188ae255@oasis.local.home
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 100719dcef ("tracing: Add simple expression support to hist triggers")
Reviewed-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
ret is assigned return value of event_hist_trigger_func, but the value
is unused. It is better to warn when returned value is negative,
rather than just ignoring it.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210529061423.GA103954@hyeyoo
Signed-off-by: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Variable event_var is set to 'ERR_PTR(-EINVAL)', but this value
is never read as it is overwritten or not used later on, hence
it is a redundant assignment and can be removed.
Clean up the following clang-analyzer warning:
kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c:2437:21: warning: Value stored to
'event_var' during its initialization is never read
[clang-analyzer-deadcode.DeadStores].
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1620470236-26562-1-git-send-email-jiapeng.chong@linux.alibaba.com
Reported-by: Abaci Robot <abaci@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiapeng Chong <jiapeng.chong@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Currently, the trace histograms relies on it using absolute time stamps to
trigger the tracing to not use the temp buffer if filters are set. That's
because the histograms need the full timestamp that is saved in the ring
buffer. That is no longer the case, as the ring_buffer_event_time_stamp()
can now return the time stamp for all events without all triggering a full
absolute time stamp.
Now that the absolute time stamp is an unrelated dependency to not using
the filters. There's nothing about having absolute timestamps to keep from
using the filter buffer. Instead, change the interface to explicitly state
to disable filter buffering that the histogram logic can use.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210316164113.847886563@goodmis.org
Reviewed-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Currently, ring_buffer_event_time_stamp() only returns an accurate time
stamp of the event if it has an absolute extended time stamp attached to
it. To make it more robust, use the event_stamp() in case the event does
not have an absolute value attached to it.
This will allow ring_buffer_event_time_stamp() to be used in more cases
than just histograms, and it will also allow histograms to not require
including absolute values all the time.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210316164113.704830885@goodmis.org
Reviewed-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The ring_buffer_event_time_stamp() is going to be updated to extract the
time stamp for the event without needing it to be set to have absolute
values for all events. But to do so, it needs the buffer that the event is
on as the buffer saves information for the event before it is committed to
the buffer.
If the trace buffer is disabled, a temporary buffer is used, and there's
no access to this buffer from the current histogram triggers, even though
it is passed to the trace event code.
Pass the buffer that the event is on all the way down to the histogram
triggers.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210316164113.542448131@goodmis.org
Reviewed-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Currently, sythetic events only support static string fields such as:
# echo 'test_latency u64 lat; char somename[32]' > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/synthetic_events
Which is fine, but wastes a lot of space in the event.
It also prevents the most commonly-defined strings in the existing
trace events e.g. those defined using __string(), from being passed to
synthetic events via the trace() action.
With this change, synthetic events with dynamic fields can be defined:
# echo 'test_latency u64 lat; char somename[]' > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/synthetic_events
And the trace() action can be used to generate events using either
dynamic or static strings:
# echo 'hist:keys=name:lat=common_timestamp.usecs-$ts0:onmatch(sys.event).test_latency($lat,name)' > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events
The synthetic event dynamic strings are implemented in the same way as
the existing __data_loc strings and appear as such in the format file.
[ <rostedt@goodmis.org>: added __set_synth_event_print_fmt() changes:
I added the following to make it work with trace-cmd. Dynamic strings
must have __get_str() for events in the print_fmt otherwise it can't be
parsed correctly. ]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/cover.1601588066.git.zanussi@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/3ed35b6d0e390f5b94cb4a9ba1cc18f5982ab277.1601848695.git.zanussi@kernel.org
Tested-by: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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