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  1. 23 Jan, 2009 2 commits
    • Frederic Weisbecker's avatar
      tracing/function-graph-tracer: various fixes and features · 9005f3eb
      Frederic Weisbecker authored 
      This patch brings various bugfixes:

- Drop the first irrelevant task switch on the very beginning of a trace.

- Drop the OVERHEAD word from the headers, the DURATION word is sufficient
  and will not overlap other columns.

- Make the headers fit well their respective columns whatever the
  selected options.

Ie, default options:

 # tracer: function_graph
 #
 # CPU  DURATION                  FUNCTION CALLS
 # |     |   |                     |   |   |   |

  1)   0.646 us    |                    }
  1)               |                    mem_cgroup_del_lru_list() {
  1)   0.624 us    |                      lookup_page_cgroup();
  1)   1.970 us    |                    }

 echo funcgraph-proc > trace_options

 # tracer: function_graph
 #
 # CPU  TASK/PID        DURATION                  FUNCTION CALLS
 # |    |    |           |   |                     |   |   |   |

  0)   bash-2937    |   0.895 us    |                }
  0)   bash-2937    |   0.888 us    |                __rcu_read_unlock();
  0)   bash-2937    |   0.864 us    |                conv_uni_to_pc();
  0)   bash-2937    |   1.015 us    |                __rcu_read_lock();

 echo nofuncgraph-cpu > trace_options
 echo nofuncgraph-proc > trace_options

 # tracer: function_graph
 #
 #   DURATION                  FUNCTION CALLS
 #    |   |                     |   |   |   |

   3.752 us    |                  native_pud_val();
   0.616 us    |                  native_pud_val();
   0.624 us    |                  native_pmd_val();

About features, one can now disable the duration (this will hide the
overhead too for convenient reasons and because on  doesn't need
overhead if it hasn't the duration):

 echo nofuncgraph-duration > trace_options

 # tracer: function_graph
 #
 #                FUNCTION CALLS
 #                |   |   |   |

           cap_vm_enough_memory() {
             __vm_enough_memory() {
               vm_acct_memory();
             }
           }
         }

And at last, an option to print the absolute time:

 //Restart from default options
 echo funcgraph-abstime > trace_options

 # tracer: function_graph
 #
 #      TIME       CPU  DURATION                  FUNCTION CALLS
 #       |         |     |   |                     |   |   |   |

   261.339774 |   1) + 42.823 us   |    }
   261.339775 |   1)   1.045 us    |    _spin_lock_irq();
   261.339777 |   1)   0.940 us    |    _spin_lock_irqsave();
   261.339778 |   1)   0.752 us    |    _spin_unlock_irqrestore();
   261.339780 |   1)   0.857 us    |    _spin_unlock_irq();
   261.339782 |   1)               |    flush_to_ldisc() {
   261.339783 |   1)               |      tty_ldisc_ref() {
   261.339783 |   1)               |        tty_ldisc_try() {
   261.339784 |   1)   1.075 us    |          _spin_lock_irqsave();
   261.339786 |   1)   0.842 us    |          _spin_unlock_irqrestore();
   261.339788 |   1)   4.211 us    |        }
   261.339788 |   1)   5.662 us    |      }

The format is seconds.usecs.

I guess no one needs the nanosec precision here, the main goal is to have
an overview about the general timings of events, and to see the place when
the trace switches from one cpu to another.

ie:

   274.874760 |   1)   0.676 us    |      _spin_unlock();
   274.874762 |   1)   0.609 us    |      native_load_sp0();
   274.874763 |   1)   0.602 us    |      native_load_tls();
   274.878739 |   0)   0.722 us    |                  }
   274.878740 |   0)   0.714 us    |                  native_pmd_val();
   274.878741 |   0)   0.730 us    |                  native_pmd_val();

Here there is a 4000 usecs difference when we switch the cpu.

Changes in V2:

- Completely fix the first pointless task switch.
Signed-off-by: default avatarFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      9005f3eb
    • Ingo Molnar's avatar
      Merge branch 'tracing/ftrace' into tracing/core · 9b036389
      Ingo Molnar authored
      9b036389
  3. 22 Jan, 2009 6 commits
  5. 20 Jan, 2009 7 commits
  7. 18 Jan, 2009 2 commits
    • Steven Rostedt's avatar
      ftrace: test for running of recordmcount.pl twice on an object · b43f7093
      Steven Rostedt authored 
      Impact: fix failure of dynamic function tracer selftest

In a course of development, a developer does several makes on their
kernel. Sometimes, the make might do something abnormal. In the
case of running the recordmcount.pl script on an object twice,
the script will duplicate all the calls to mcount in the __mcount_loc
section.

On boot up, the dynamic function tracer is careful when it modifies
code, and performs several consistency checks. One is to not modify
the call site if it is not what it expects it to be. If a function
call site is listed twice, the first entry will convert the site
to a nop, and the second will fail because it expected to see a
call to mcount, but instead it sees a nop. Thus, the function tracer
is disabled.

Eric Sesterhenn reported seeing:

[    1.055440] ftrace: converting mcount calls to 0f 1f 44 00 00
[    1.055568] ftrace: allocating 29418 entries in 116 pages
[    1.061000] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[    1.061000] WARNING: at kernel/trace/ftrace.c:441

 [...]

[    1.060000] ---[ end trace 4eaa2a86a8e2da23 ]---
[    1.060000] ftrace failed to modify [<c0118072>] check_corruption+0x3/0x2d
[    1.060000]  actual: 0f:1f:44:00:00

This warning shows that check_corruption+0x3 already had a nop in
its place (0x0f1f440000). After compiling another kernel the problem
went away.

Later Eric Paris notice the same type of issue. Luckily, he saved
the vmlinux file that caused it. In the file we found a bunch of
duplicate mcount call site records, which lead us to the script.

Perhaps this problem only happens to people named Eric.

This patch changes the script to test if the __mcount_loc already
exists in the object file, and if it does, it will print out
an error message and kill the compile.
Reported-by: default avatarEric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
Reported-by: default avatarEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      b43f7093
    • Ingo Molnar's avatar
      Merge branch 'tracing/ftrace'; commit 'v2.6.29-rc2' into tracing/core · 4092762a
      Ingo Molnar authored
      4092762a
  9. 16 Jan, 2009 23 commits
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