1. 14 Apr, 2009 3 commits
    • Steven Rostedt's avatar
      tracing: make trace_seq operations available for core kernel · 9504504c
      Steven Rostedt authored
      In the process to make TRACE_EVENT macro work for modules, the trace_seq
      operations must be available for core kernel code.
      
      These operations are quite useful and can be used for other implementations.
      
      The main idea is that we create a trace_seq handle that acts very much
      like the seq_file handle.
      
      	struct trace_seq *s = kmalloc(sizeof(*s, GFP_KERNEL);
      
      	trace_seq_init(s);
      	trace_seq_printf(s, "some data %d\n", variable);
      
      	printk("%s", s->buffer);
      
      The main use is to allow a top level function call several other functions
      that may store printf like data into the buffer. Then at the end, the top
      level function can process all the data with any method it would like to.
      It could be passed to userspace, output via printk or even use seq_file:
      
      	trace_seq_to_user(s, ubuf, cnt);
      	seq_puts(m, s->buffer);
      Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      9504504c
    • Steven Rostedt's avatar
      tracing: create automated trace defines · a8d154b0
      Steven Rostedt authored
      This patch lowers the number of places a developer must modify to add
      new tracepoints. The current method to add a new tracepoint
      into an existing system is to write the trace point macro in the
      trace header with one of the macros TRACE_EVENT, TRACE_FORMAT or
      DECLARE_TRACE, then they must add the same named item into the C file
      with the macro DEFINE_TRACE(name) and then add the trace point.
      
      This change cuts out the needing to add the DEFINE_TRACE(name).
      Every file that uses the tracepoint must still include the trace/<type>.h
      file, but the one C file must also add a define before the including
      of that file.
      
       #define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
       #include <trace/mytrace.h>
      
      This will cause the trace/mytrace.h file to also produce the C code
      necessary to implement the trace point.
      
      Note, if more than one trace/<type>.h is used to create the C code
      it is best to list them all together.
      
       #define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
       #include <trace/foo.h>
       #include <trace/bar.h>
       #include <trace/fido.h>
      
      Thanks to Mathieu Desnoyers and Christoph Hellwig for coming up with
      the cleaner solution of the define above the includes over my first
      design to have the C code include a "special" header.
      
      This patch converts sched, irq and lockdep and skb to use this new
      method.
      
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
      Cc: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
      Cc: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
      Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      a8d154b0
    • Steven Rostedt's avatar
      tracing: consolidate trace and trace_event headers · ea20d929
      Steven Rostedt authored
      Impact: clean up
      
      Neil Horman (et. al.) criticized the way the trace events were broken up
      into two files. The reason for that was that ftrace needed to separate out
      the declarations from where the #include <linux/tracepoint.h> was used.
      It then dawned on me that the tracepoint.h header only needs to define the
      TRACE_EVENT macro if it is not already defined.
      
      The solution is simply to test if TRACE_EVENT is defined, and if it is not
      then the linux/tracepoint.h header can define it. This change consolidates
      all the <traces>.h and <traces>_event_types.h into the <traces>.h file.
      Reported-by: default avatarNeil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
      Reported-by: default avatarTheodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
      Reported-by: default avatarJiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com>
      Cc: Zhaolei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
      Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
      Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
      Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      ea20d929
  2. 13 Apr, 2009 31 commits
  3. 12 Apr, 2009 6 commits
    • Frederic Weisbecker's avatar
      lockdep: continue lock debugging despite some taints · 574bbe78
      Frederic Weisbecker authored
      Impact: broaden lockdep checks
      
      Lockdep is disabled after any kernel taints. This might be convenient
      to ignore bad locking issues which sources come from outside the kernel
      tree. Nevertheless, it might be a frustrating experience for the
      staging developers or those who experience a warning but are focused
      on another things that require lockdep.
      
      The v2 of this patch simply don't disable anymore lockdep in case
      of TAINT_CRAP and TAINT_WARN events.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Cc: LTP <ltp-list@lists.sourceforge.net>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
      Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
      LKML-Reference: <1239412638-6739-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      574bbe78
    • Frederic Weisbecker's avatar
      lockdep: warn about lockdep disabling after kernel taint · 9eeba613
      Frederic Weisbecker authored
      Impact: provide useful missing info for developers
      
      Kernel taint can occur in several situations such as warnings,
      load of prorietary or staging modules, bad page, etc...
      
      But when such taint happens, a developer might still be working on
      the kernel, expecting that lockdep is still enabled. But a taint
      disables lockdep without ever warning about it.
      Such a kernel behaviour doesn't really help for kernel development.
      
      This patch adds this missing warning.
      
      Since the taint is done most of the time after the main message that
      explain the real source issue, it seems safe to warn about it inside
      add_taint() so that it appears at last, without hurting the main
      information.
      
      v2: Use a generic helper to disable lockdep instead of an
          open coded xchg().
      Signed-off-by: default avatarFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
      LKML-Reference: <1239412638-6739-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      9eeba613
    • Li Zefan's avatar
      blktrace: fix output of BLK_TC_PC events · 66de7792
      Li Zefan authored
      BLK_TC_PC events should be treated differently with BLK_TC_FS events.
      
      Before this patch:
      
       # echo 1 > /sys/block/sda/sda1/trace/enable
       # echo pc > /sys/block/sda/sda1/trace/act_mask
       # echo blk > /debugfs/tracing/current_tracer
       # (generate some BLK_TC_PC events)
       # cat trace
              bash-2184  [000]  1774.275413:   8,7    I   N [bash]
              bash-2184  [000]  1774.275435:   8,7    D   N [bash]
              bash-2184  [000]  1774.275540:   8,7    I   R [bash]
              bash-2184  [000]  1774.275547:   8,7    D   R [bash]
       ksoftirqd/0-4     [000]  1774.275580:   8,7    C   N 0 [0]
              bash-2184  [000]  1774.275648:   8,7    I   R [bash]
              bash-2184  [000]  1774.275653:   8,7    D   R [bash]
       ksoftirqd/0-4     [000]  1774.275682:   8,7    C   N 0 [0]
              bash-2184  [000]  1774.275739:   8,7    I   R [bash]
              bash-2184  [000]  1774.275744:   8,7    D   R [bash]
       ksoftirqd/0-4     [000]  1774.275771:   8,7    C   N 0 [0]
              bash-2184  [000]  1774.275804:   8,7    I   R [bash]
              bash-2184  [000]  1774.275808:   8,7    D   R [bash]
       ksoftirqd/0-4     [000]  1774.275836:   8,7    C   N 0 [0]
      
      After this patch:
      
       # cat trace
              bash-2263  [000]   366.782149:   8,7    I   N 0 (00 ..) [bash]
              bash-2263  [000]   366.782323:   8,7    D   N 0 (00 ..) [bash]
              bash-2263  [000]   366.782557:   8,7    I   R 8 (25 00 ..) [bash]
              bash-2263  [000]   366.782560:   8,7    D   R 8 (25 00 ..) [bash]
       ksoftirqd/0-4     [000]   366.782582:   8,7    C   N (25 00 ..) [0]
              bash-2263  [000]   366.782648:   8,7    I   R 8 (5a 00 3f 00) [bash]
              bash-2263  [000]   366.782650:   8,7    D   R 8 (5a 00 3f 00) [bash]
       ksoftirqd/0-4     [000]   366.782669:   8,7    C   N (5a 00 3f 00) [0]
              bash-2263  [000]   366.782710:   8,7    I   R 8 (5a 00 08 00) [bash]
              bash-2263  [000]   366.782713:   8,7    D   R 8 (5a 00 08 00) [bash]
       ksoftirqd/0-4     [000]   366.782730:   8,7    C   N (5a 00 08 00) [0]
              bash-2263  [000]   366.783375:   8,7    I   R 36 (5a 00 08 00) [bash]
              bash-2263  [000]   366.783379:   8,7    D   R 36 (5a 00 08 00) [bash]
       ksoftirqd/0-4     [000]   366.783404:   8,7    C   N (5a 00 08 00) [0]
      
      This is what we do with PC events in user-space blktrace.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLi Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
      Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      LKML-Reference: <49D32387.9040106@cn.fujitsu.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      66de7792
    • Li Zefan's avatar
      blktrace: fix output of unknown events · b78825d6
      Li Zefan authored
      Not all events are pc (packet command) events. An event is a pc
      event only if it has BLK_TC_PC bit set.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLi Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
      Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      LKML-Reference: <49D3236D.3090705@cn.fujitsu.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      b78825d6
    • Zhaolei's avatar
      tracing, kmemtrace: Make kmem tracepoints use TRACE_EVENT macro · fc182a43
      Zhaolei authored
      TRACE_EVENT is a more generic way to define tracepoints.
      Doing so adds these new capabilities to this tracepoint:
      
        - zero-copy and per-cpu splice() tracing
        - binary tracing without printf overhead
        - structured logging records exposed under /debug/tracing/events
        - trace events embedded in function tracer output and other plugins
        - user-defined, per tracepoint filter expressions
      Signed-off-by: default avatarZhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarEduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
      Acked-by: default avatarPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
      Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
      LKML-Reference: <49DEE6DA.80600@cn.fujitsu.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      fc182a43
    • Zhaolei's avatar
      tracing, kmemtrace: Separate include/trace/kmemtrace.h to kmemtrace part and tracepoint part · 02af61bb
      Zhaolei authored
      Impact: refactor code for future changes
      
      Current kmemtrace.h is used both as header file of kmemtrace and kmem's
      tracepoints definition.
      
      Tracepoints' definition file may be used by other code, and should only have
      definition of tracepoint.
      
      We can separate include/trace/kmemtrace.h into 2 files:
      
        include/linux/kmemtrace.h: header file for kmemtrace
        include/trace/kmem.h:      definition of kmem tracepoints
      Signed-off-by: default avatarZhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarEduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
      Acked-by: default avatarPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
      Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
      LKML-Reference: <49DEE68A.5040902@cn.fujitsu.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      02af61bb