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Linus Torvalds
a2ded784cd tracing updates for 6.8:
- Allow kernel trace instance creation to specify what events are created
   Inside the kernel, a subsystem may create a tracing instance that it can
   use to send events to user space. This sub-system may not care about the
   thousands of events that exist in eventfs. Allow the sub-system to specify
   what sub-systems of events it cares about, and only those events are exposed
   to this instance.
 
 - Allow the ring buffer to be broken up into bigger sub-buffers than just the
   architecture page size. A new tracefs file called "buffer_subbuf_size_kb"
   is created. The user can now specify a minimum size the sub-buffer may be
   in kilobytes. Note, that the implementation currently make the sub-buffer
   size a power of 2 pages (1, 2, 4, 8, 16, ...) but the user only writes in
   kilobyte size, and the sub-buffer will be updated to the next size that
   it will can accommodate it. If the user writes in 10, it will change the
   size to be 4 pages on x86 (16K), as that is the next available size that
   can hold 10K pages.
 
 - Update the debug output when a corrupt time is detected in the ring buffer.
   If the ring buffer detects inconsistent timestamps, there's a debug config
   options that will dump the contents of the meta data of the sub-buffer that
   is used for debugging. Add some more information to this dump that helps
   with debugging.
 
 - Add more timestamp debugging checks (only triggers when the config is enabled)
 
 - Increase the trace_seq iterator to 2 page sizes.
 
 - Allow strings written into tracefs_marker to be larger. Up to just under
   2 page sizes (based on what trace_seq can hold).
 
 - Increase the trace_maker_raw write to be as big as a sub-buffer can hold.
 
 - Remove 32 bit time stamp logic, now that the rb_time_cmpxchg() has been
   removed.
 
 - More selftests were added.
 
 - Some code clean ups as well.
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Merge tag 'trace-v6.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace

Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:

 - Allow kernel trace instance creation to specify what events are
   created

   Inside the kernel, a subsystem may create a tracing instance that it
   can use to send events to user space. This sub-system may not care
   about the thousands of events that exist in eventfs. Allow the
   sub-system to specify what sub-systems of events it cares about, and
   only those events are exposed to this instance.

 - Allow the ring buffer to be broken up into bigger sub-buffers than
   just the architecture page size.

   A new tracefs file called "buffer_subbuf_size_kb" is created. The
   user can now specify a minimum size the sub-buffer may be in
   kilobytes. Note, that the implementation currently make the
   sub-buffer size a power of 2 pages (1, 2, 4, 8, 16, ...) but the user
   only writes in kilobyte size, and the sub-buffer will be updated to
   the next size that it will can accommodate it. If the user writes in
   10, it will change the size to be 4 pages on x86 (16K), as that is
   the next available size that can hold 10K pages.

 - Update the debug output when a corrupt time is detected in the ring
   buffer. If the ring buffer detects inconsistent timestamps, there's a
   debug config options that will dump the contents of the meta data of
   the sub-buffer that is used for debugging. Add some more information
   to this dump that helps with debugging.

 - Add more timestamp debugging checks (only triggers when the config is
   enabled)

 - Increase the trace_seq iterator to 2 page sizes.

 - Allow strings written into tracefs_marker to be larger. Up to just
   under 2 page sizes (based on what trace_seq can hold).

 - Increase the trace_maker_raw write to be as big as a sub-buffer can
   hold.

 - Remove 32 bit time stamp logic, now that the rb_time_cmpxchg() has
   been removed.

 - More selftests were added.

 - Some code clean ups as well.

* tag 'trace-v6.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: (29 commits)
  ring-buffer: Remove stale comment from ring_buffer_size()
  tracing histograms: Simplify parse_actions() function
  tracing/selftests: Remove exec permissions from trace_marker.tc test
  ring-buffer: Use subbuf_order for buffer page masking
  tracing: Update subbuffer with kilobytes not page order
  ringbuffer/selftest: Add basic selftest to test changing subbuf order
  ring-buffer: Add documentation on the buffer_subbuf_order file
  ring-buffer: Just update the subbuffers when changing their allocation order
  ring-buffer: Keep the same size when updating the order
  tracing: Stop the tracing while changing the ring buffer subbuf size
  tracing: Update snapshot order along with main buffer order
  ring-buffer: Make sure the spare sub buffer used for reads has same size
  ring-buffer: Do no swap cpu buffers if order is different
  ring-buffer: Clear pages on error in ring_buffer_subbuf_order_set() failure
  ring-buffer: Read and write to ring buffers with custom sub buffer size
  ring-buffer: Set new size of the ring buffer sub page
  ring-buffer: Add interface for configuring trace sub buffer size
  ring-buffer: Page size per ring buffer
  ring-buffer: Have ring_buffer_print_page_header() be able to access ring_buffer_iter
  ring-buffer: Check if absolute timestamp goes backwards
  ...
2024-01-18 14:35:29 -08:00
Steven Rostedt (Google)
4b2df884b8 ring-buffer/Documentation: Add documentation on buffer_percent file
When the buffer_percent file was added to the kernel, the documentation
should have been updated to document what that file does.

Acked-by: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Fixes: 03329f9939 ("tracing: Add tracefs file buffer_percentage")
Signed-off-by: "Steven Rostedt (Google)" <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231229122402.537eb252@gandalf.local.home
2024-01-03 14:41:52 -07:00
Steven Rostedt (Google)
2f84b39f48 tracing: Update subbuffer with kilobytes not page order
Using page order for deciding what the size of the ring buffer sub buffers
are is exposing a bit too much of the implementation. Although the sub
buffers are only allocated in orders of pages, allow the user to specify
the minimum size of each sub-buffer via kilobytes like they can with the
buffer size itself.

If the user specifies 3 via:

  echo 3 > buffer_subbuf_size_kb

Then the sub-buffer size will round up to 4kb (on a 4kb page size system).

If they specify:

  echo 6 > buffer_subbuf_size_kb

The sub-buffer size will become 8kb.

and so on.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20231219185631.809766769@goodmis.org

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Tzvetomir Stoyanov <tz.stoyanov@gmail.com>
Cc: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2023-12-21 11:04:15 -05:00
Steven Rostedt (Google)
7c3f480265 ring-buffer: Add documentation on the buffer_subbuf_order file
Add to the documentation how to use the buffer_subbuf_order file to change
the size and how it affects what events can be added to the ring buffer.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20231219185631.230636734@goodmis.org

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Tzvetomir Stoyanov <tz.stoyanov@gmail.com>
Cc: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2023-12-21 11:03:13 -05:00
Yuanhsi Chung
7c49ca6b02 Documentation: Fix filename typo in ftrace doc
The filename for setting the cpumask should be `tracing_cpumask`,
instead of `tracing_cpu_mask`.

Signed-off-by: Yuanhsi Chung <freshliver.cys@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20231104103329.215139-1-freshliver.cys@gmail.com>
2023-11-17 09:07:02 -07:00
Bjorn Helgaas
d56b699d76 Documentation: Fix typos
Fix typos in Documentation.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230814212822.193684-4-helgaas@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2023-08-18 11:29:03 -06:00
Donglin Peng
fc30ace06f tracing: Fix warnings when building htmldocs for function graph retval
When building htmldocs, the following warnings appear:

Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst:2797: WARNING: Literal block expected; none found.
Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst:2816: WARNING: Literal block expected; none found.

So fix it.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230623143517.19ffc6c0@canb.auug.org.au/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230623071728.25688-1-pengdonglin@sangfor.com.cn

Fixes: 21c094d3f8 ("tracing: Add documentation for funcgraph-retval and funcgraph-retval-hex")
Signed-off-by: Donglin Peng <pengdonglin@sangfor.com.cn>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2023-06-23 10:42:12 -04:00
Jiri Olsa
83f74441bc ftrace: Show all functions with addresses in available_filter_functions_addrs
Adding new available_filter_functions_addrs file that shows all available
functions (same as available_filter_functions) together with addresses,
like:

  # cat available_filter_functions_addrs | head
  ffffffff81000770 __traceiter_initcall_level
  ffffffff810007c0 __traceiter_initcall_start
  ffffffff81000810 __traceiter_initcall_finish
  ffffffff81000860 trace_initcall_finish_cb
  ...

Note displayed address is the patch-site address and can differ from
/proc/kallsyms address.

It's useful to have address avilable for traceable symbols, so we don't
need to allways cross check kallsyms with available_filter_functions
(or the other way around) and have all the data in single file.

For backwards compatibility reasons we can't change the existing
available_filter_functions file output, but we need to add new file.

The problem is that we need to do 2 passes:

 - through available_filter_functions and find out if the function is traceable
 - through /proc/kallsyms to get the address for traceable function

Having available_filter_functions symbols together with addresses allow
us to skip the kallsyms step and we are ok with the address in
available_filter_functions_addr not being the function entry, because
kprobe_multi uses fprobe and that handles both entry and patch-site
address properly.

We have 2 interfaces how to create kprobe_multi link:

  a) passing symbols to kernel

     1) user gathers symbols and need to ensure that they are
        trace-able -> pass through available_filter_functions file

     2) kernel takes those symbols and translates them to addresses
        through kallsyms api

     3) addresses are passed to fprobe/ftrace through:

         register_fprobe_ips
         -> ftrace_set_filter_ips

  b) passing addresses to kernel

     1) user gathers symbols and needs to ensure that they are
        trace-able -> pass through available_filter_functions file

     2) user takes those symbols and translates them to addresses
       through /proc/kallsyms

     3) addresses are passed to the kernel and kernel calls:

         register_fprobe_ips
         -> ftrace_set_filter_ips

The new available_filter_functions_addrs file helps us with option b),
because we can make 'b 1' and 'b 2' in one step - while filtering traceable
functions, we get the address directly.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230611130029.1202298-1-jolsa@kernel.org

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Jackie Liu <liuyun01@kylinos.cn> # x86
Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Suggested-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2023-06-22 10:39:16 -04:00
Donglin Peng
21c094d3f8 tracing: Add documentation for funcgraph-retval and funcgraph-retval-hex
Add documentation for the two newly introduced options for the
function_graph tracer. The funcgraph-retval option is used to
control whether or not to display the return value, while the
funcgraph-retval-hex option is used to control the display
format of the return value.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/2b5635f05146161b54c9ea6307e25efe5ccebdad.1680954589.git.pengdonglin@sangfor.com.cn

Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Donglin Peng <pengdonglin@sangfor.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2023-06-20 18:38:37 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
e919a3f705 Minor tracing updates:
- Make buffer_percent read/write. The buffer_percent file is how users can
   state how long to block on the tracing buffer depending on how much
   is in the buffer. When it hits the "buffer_percent" it will wake the
   task waiting on the buffer. For some reason it was set to read-only.
   This was not noticed because testing was done as root without SELinux,
   but with SELinux it will prevent even root to write to it without having
   CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE.
 
 - The "touched_functions" was added this merge window, but one of the
   reasons for adding it was not implemented. That was to show what functions
   were not only touched, but had either a direct trampoline attached to
   it, or a kprobe or live kernel patching that can "hijack" the function
   to run a different function. The point is to know if there's functions
   in the kernel that may not be behaving as the kernel code shows. This can
   be used for debugging. TODO: Add this information to kernel oops too.
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Merge tag 'trace-v6.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace

Pull more tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:

 - Make buffer_percent read/write.

   The buffer_percent file is how users can state how long to block on
   the tracing buffer depending on how much is in the buffer. When it
   hits the "buffer_percent" it will wake the task waiting on the
   buffer. For some reason it was set to read-only.

   This was not noticed because testing was done as root without
   SELinux, but with SELinux it will prevent even root to write to it
   without having CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE.

 - The "touched_functions" was added this merge window, but one of the
   reasons for adding it was not implemented.

   That was to show what functions were not only touched, but had either
   a direct trampoline attached to it, or a kprobe or live kernel
   patching that can "hijack" the function to run a different function.
   The point is to know if there's functions in the kernel that may not
   be behaving as the kernel code shows. This can be used for debugging.

   TODO: Add this information to kernel oops too.

* tag 'trace-v6.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
  ftrace: Add MODIFIED flag to show if IPMODIFY or direct was attached
  tracing: Fix permissions for the buffer_percent file
2023-05-05 13:11:02 -07:00
Steven Rostedt (Google)
6ce2c04fcb ftrace: Add MODIFIED flag to show if IPMODIFY or direct was attached
If a function had ever had IPMODIFY or DIRECT attached to it, where this
is how live kernel patching and BPF overrides work, mark them and display
an "M" in the enabled_functions and touched_functions files. This can be
used for debugging. If a function had been modified and later there's a bug
in the code related to that function, this can be used to know if the cause
is possibly from a live kernel patch or a BPF program that changed the
behavior of the code.

Also update the documentation on the enabled_functions and
touched_functions output, as it was missing direct callers and CALL_OPS.
And include this new modify attribute.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230502213233.004e3ae4@gandalf.local.home

Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2023-05-05 11:09:25 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
d579c468d7 tracing updates for 6.4:
- User events are finally ready!
   After lots of collaboration between various parties, we finally locked
   down on a stable interface for user events that can also work with user
   space only tracing. This is implemented by telling the kernel (or user
   space library, but that part is user space only and not part of this
   patch set), where the variable is that the application uses to know if
   something is listening to the trace. There's also an interface to tell
   the kernel about these events, which will show up in the
   /sys/kernel/tracing/events/user_events/ directory, where it can be
    enabled. When it's enabled, the kernel will update the variable, to tell
   the application to start writing to the kernel.
   See https://lwn.net/Articles/927595/
 
 - Cleaned up the direct trampolines code to simplify arm64 addition of
   direct trampolines. Direct trampolines use the ftrace interface but
   instead of jumping to the ftrace trampoline, applications (mostly BPF)
   can register their own trampoline for performance reasons.
 
 - Some updates to the fprobe infrastructure. fprobes are more efficient than
   kprobes, as it does not need to save all the registers that kprobes on
   ftrace do. More work needs to be done before the fprobes will be exposed
   as dynamic events.
 
 - More updates to references to the obsolete path of
   /sys/kernel/debug/tracing for the new /sys/kernel/tracing path.
 
 - Add a seq_buf_do_printk() helper to seq_bufs, to print a large buffer line
   by line instead of all at once. There's users in production kernels that
   have a large data dump that originally used printk() directly, but the
   data dump was larger than what printk() allowed as a single print.
   Using seq_buf() to do the printing fixes that.
 
 - Add /sys/kernel/tracing/touched_functions that shows all functions that
   was every traced by ftrace or a direct trampoline. This is used for
   debugging issues where a traced function could have caused a crash by
   a bpf program or live patching.
 
 - Add a "fields" option that is similar to "raw" but outputs the fields of
   the events. It's easier to read by humans.
 
 - Some minor fixes and clean ups.
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Merge tag 'trace-v6.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace

Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:

 - User events are finally ready!

   After lots of collaboration between various parties, we finally
   locked down on a stable interface for user events that can also work
   with user space only tracing.

   This is implemented by telling the kernel (or user space library, but
   that part is user space only and not part of this patch set), where
   the variable is that the application uses to know if something is
   listening to the trace.

   There's also an interface to tell the kernel about these events,
   which will show up in the /sys/kernel/tracing/events/user_events/
   directory, where it can be enabled.

   When it's enabled, the kernel will update the variable, to tell the
   application to start writing to the kernel.

   See https://lwn.net/Articles/927595/

 - Cleaned up the direct trampolines code to simplify arm64 addition of
   direct trampolines.

   Direct trampolines use the ftrace interface but instead of jumping to
   the ftrace trampoline, applications (mostly BPF) can register their
   own trampoline for performance reasons.

 - Some updates to the fprobe infrastructure. fprobes are more efficient
   than kprobes, as it does not need to save all the registers that
   kprobes on ftrace do. More work needs to be done before the fprobes
   will be exposed as dynamic events.

 - More updates to references to the obsolete path of
   /sys/kernel/debug/tracing for the new /sys/kernel/tracing path.

 - Add a seq_buf_do_printk() helper to seq_bufs, to print a large buffer
   line by line instead of all at once.

   There are users in production kernels that have a large data dump
   that originally used printk() directly, but the data dump was larger
   than what printk() allowed as a single print.

   Using seq_buf() to do the printing fixes that.

 - Add /sys/kernel/tracing/touched_functions that shows all functions
   that was every traced by ftrace or a direct trampoline. This is used
   for debugging issues where a traced function could have caused a
   crash by a bpf program or live patching.

 - Add a "fields" option that is similar to "raw" but outputs the fields
   of the events. It's easier to read by humans.

 - Some minor fixes and clean ups.

* tag 'trace-v6.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: (41 commits)
  ring-buffer: Sync IRQ works before buffer destruction
  tracing: Add missing spaces in trace_print_hex_seq()
  ring-buffer: Ensure proper resetting of atomic variables in ring_buffer_reset_online_cpus
  recordmcount: Fix memory leaks in the uwrite function
  tracing/user_events: Limit max fault-in attempts
  tracing/user_events: Prevent same address and bit per process
  tracing/user_events: Ensure bit is cleared on unregister
  tracing/user_events: Ensure write index cannot be negative
  seq_buf: Add seq_buf_do_printk() helper
  tracing: Fix print_fields() for __dyn_loc/__rel_loc
  tracing/user_events: Set event filter_type from type
  ring-buffer: Clearly check null ptr returned by rb_set_head_page()
  tracing: Unbreak user events
  tracing/user_events: Use print_format_fields() for trace output
  tracing/user_events: Align structs with tabs for readability
  tracing/user_events: Limit global user_event count
  tracing/user_events: Charge event allocs to cgroups
  tracing/user_events: Update documentation for ABI
  tracing/user_events: Use write ABI in example
  tracing/user_events: Add ABI self-test
  ...
2023-04-28 15:57:53 -07:00
Lin Yu Chen
c9b951c313 docs: trace: Fix typo in ftrace.rst
There is a typo in the sentence "A kernel developer must be
conscience ...". The word conscience should be conscious.
This patch fixes it.

Signed-off-by: Lin Yu Chen <starpt.official@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230412183739.89894-1-starpt.official@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2023-04-20 17:53:38 -06:00
Steven Rostedt (Google)
80a76994b2 tracing: Add "fields" option to show raw trace event fields
The hex, raw and bin formats come from the old PREEMPT_RT patch set
latency tracer. That actually gave real alternatives to reading the ascii
buffer. But they have started to bit rot and they do not give a good
representation of the tracing data.

Add "fields" option that will read the trace event fields and parse the
data from how the fields are defined:

With "fields" = 0 (default)

 echo 1 > events/sched/sched_switch/enable
 cat trace
         <idle>-0       [003] d..2.   540.078653: sched_switch: prev_comm=swapper/3 prev_pid=0 prev_prio=120 prev_state=R ==> next_comm=kworker/3:1 next_pid=83 next_prio=120
     kworker/3:1-83      [003] d..2.   540.078860: sched_switch: prev_comm=kworker/3:1 prev_pid=83 prev_prio=120 prev_state=I ==> next_comm=swapper/3 next_pid=0 next_prio=120
          <idle>-0       [003] d..2.   540.206423: sched_switch: prev_comm=swapper/3 prev_pid=0 prev_prio=120 prev_state=R ==> next_comm=sshd next_pid=807 next_prio=120
            sshd-807     [003] d..2.   540.206531: sched_switch: prev_comm=sshd prev_pid=807 prev_prio=120 prev_state=S ==> next_comm=swapper/3 next_pid=0 next_prio=120
          <idle>-0       [001] d..2.   540.206597: sched_switch: prev_comm=swapper/1 prev_pid=0 prev_prio=120 prev_state=R ==> next_comm=kworker/u16:4 next_pid=58 next_prio=120
   kworker/u16:4-58      [001] d..2.   540.206617: sched_switch: prev_comm=kworker/u16:4 prev_pid=58 prev_prio=120 prev_state=I ==> next_comm=bash next_pid=830 next_prio=120
            bash-830     [001] d..2.   540.206678: sched_switch: prev_comm=bash prev_pid=830 prev_prio=120 prev_state=R ==> next_comm=kworker/u16:4 next_pid=58 next_prio=120
   kworker/u16:4-58      [001] d..2.   540.206696: sched_switch: prev_comm=kworker/u16:4 prev_pid=58 prev_prio=120 prev_state=I ==> next_comm=bash next_pid=830 next_prio=120
            bash-830     [001] d..2.   540.206713: sched_switch: prev_comm=bash prev_pid=830 prev_prio=120 prev_state=R ==> next_comm=kworker/u16:4 next_pid=58 next_prio=120

 echo 1 > options/fields
           <...>-998     [002] d..2.   538.643732: sched_switch: next_prio=0x78 (120) next_pid=0x0 (0) next_comm=swapper/2 prev_state=0x20 (32) prev_prio=0x78 (120) prev_pid=0x3e6 (998) prev_comm=trace-cmd
          <idle>-0       [001] d..2.   538.643806: sched_switch: next_prio=0x78 (120) next_pid=0x33e (830) next_comm=bash prev_state=0x0 (0) prev_prio=0x78 (120) prev_pid=0x0 (0) prev_comm=swapper/1
            bash-830     [001] d..2.   538.644106: sched_switch: next_prio=0x78 (120) next_pid=0x3a (58) next_comm=kworker/u16:4 prev_state=0x0 (0) prev_prio=0x78 (120) prev_pid=0x33e (830) prev_comm=bash
   kworker/u16:4-58      [001] d..2.   538.644130: sched_switch: next_prio=0x78 (120) next_pid=0x33e (830) next_comm=bash prev_state=0x80 (128) prev_prio=0x78 (120) prev_pid=0x3a (58) prev_comm=kworker/u16:4
            bash-830     [001] d..2.   538.644180: sched_switch: next_prio=0x78 (120) next_pid=0x3a (58) next_comm=kworker/u16:4 prev_state=0x0 (0) prev_prio=0x78 (120) prev_pid=0x33e (830) prev_comm=bash
   kworker/u16:4-58      [001] d..2.   538.644185: sched_switch: next_prio=0x78 (120) next_pid=0x33e (830) next_comm=bash prev_state=0x80 (128) prev_prio=0x78 (120) prev_pid=0x3a (58) prev_comm=kworker/u16:4
            bash-830     [001] d..2.   538.644204: sched_switch: next_prio=0x78 (120) next_pid=0x0 (0) next_comm=swapper/1 prev_state=0x1 (1) prev_prio=0x78 (120) prev_pid=0x33e (830) prev_comm=bash
          <idle>-0       [003] d..2.   538.644211: sched_switch: next_prio=0x78 (120) next_pid=0x327 (807) next_comm=sshd prev_state=0x0 (0) prev_prio=0x78 (120) prev_pid=0x0 (0) prev_comm=swapper/3
            sshd-807     [003] d..2.   538.644340: sched_switch: next_prio=0x78 (120) next_pid=0x0 (0) next_comm=swapper/3 prev_state=0x1 (1) prev_prio=0x78 (120) prev_pid=0x327 (807) prev_comm=sshd

It traces the data safely without using the trace print formatting.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230328145156.497651be@gandalf.local.home

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Beau Belgrave <beaub@linux.microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2023-03-29 06:52:08 -04:00
Ross Zwisler
2abfcd293b docs: ftrace: always use canonical ftrace path
The canonical location for the tracefs filesystem is at /sys/kernel/tracing.

But, from Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst:

  Before 4.1, all ftrace tracing control files were within the debugfs
  file system, which is typically located at /sys/kernel/debug/tracing.
  For backward compatibility, when mounting the debugfs file system,
  the tracefs file system will be automatically mounted at:

  /sys/kernel/debug/tracing

Many parts of Documentation still reference this older debugfs path, so
let's update them to avoid confusion.

Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <zwisler@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230125213251.2013791-1-zwisler@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2023-01-31 14:02:30 -07:00
Christian Brauner
ed5a7047d2
attr: use consistent sgid stripping checks
Currently setgid stripping in file_remove_privs()'s should_remove_suid()
helper is inconsistent with other parts of the vfs. Specifically, it only
raises ATTR_KILL_SGID if the inode is S_ISGID and S_IXGRP but not if the
inode isn't in the caller's groups and the caller isn't privileged over the
inode although we require this already in setattr_prepare() and
setattr_copy() and so all filesystem implement this requirement implicitly
because they have to use setattr_{prepare,copy}() anyway.

But the inconsistency shows up in setgid stripping bugs for overlayfs in
xfstests (e.g., generic/673, generic/683, generic/685, generic/686,
generic/687). For example, we test whether suid and setgid stripping works
correctly when performing various write-like operations as an unprivileged
user (fallocate, reflink, write, etc.):

echo "Test 1 - qa_user, non-exec file $verb"
setup_testfile
chmod a+rws $junk_file
commit_and_check "$qa_user" "$verb" 64k 64k

The test basically creates a file with 6666 permissions. While the file has
the S_ISUID and S_ISGID bits set it does not have the S_IXGRP set. On a
regular filesystem like xfs what will happen is:

sys_fallocate()
-> vfs_fallocate()
   -> xfs_file_fallocate()
      -> file_modified()
         -> __file_remove_privs()
            -> dentry_needs_remove_privs()
               -> should_remove_suid()
            -> __remove_privs()
               newattrs.ia_valid = ATTR_FORCE | kill;
               -> notify_change()
                  -> setattr_copy()

In should_remove_suid() we can see that ATTR_KILL_SUID is raised
unconditionally because the file in the test has S_ISUID set.

But we also see that ATTR_KILL_SGID won't be set because while the file
is S_ISGID it is not S_IXGRP (see above) which is a condition for
ATTR_KILL_SGID being raised.

So by the time we call notify_change() we have attr->ia_valid set to
ATTR_KILL_SUID | ATTR_FORCE. Now notify_change() sees that
ATTR_KILL_SUID is set and does:

ia_valid = attr->ia_valid |= ATTR_MODE
attr->ia_mode = (inode->i_mode & ~S_ISUID);

which means that when we call setattr_copy() later we will definitely
update inode->i_mode. Note that attr->ia_mode still contains S_ISGID.

Now we call into the filesystem's ->setattr() inode operation which will
end up calling setattr_copy(). Since ATTR_MODE is set we will hit:

if (ia_valid & ATTR_MODE) {
        umode_t mode = attr->ia_mode;
        vfsgid_t vfsgid = i_gid_into_vfsgid(mnt_userns, inode);
        if (!vfsgid_in_group_p(vfsgid) &&
            !capable_wrt_inode_uidgid(mnt_userns, inode, CAP_FSETID))
                mode &= ~S_ISGID;
        inode->i_mode = mode;
}

and since the caller in the test is neither capable nor in the group of the
inode the S_ISGID bit is stripped.

But assume the file isn't suid then ATTR_KILL_SUID won't be raised which
has the consequence that neither the setgid nor the suid bits are stripped
even though it should be stripped because the inode isn't in the caller's
groups and the caller isn't privileged over the inode.

If overlayfs is in the mix things become a bit more complicated and the bug
shows up more clearly. When e.g., ovl_setattr() is hit from
ovl_fallocate()'s call to file_remove_privs() then ATTR_KILL_SUID and
ATTR_KILL_SGID might be raised but because the check in notify_change() is
questioning the ATTR_KILL_SGID flag again by requiring S_IXGRP for it to be
stripped the S_ISGID bit isn't removed even though it should be stripped:

sys_fallocate()
-> vfs_fallocate()
   -> ovl_fallocate()
      -> file_remove_privs()
         -> dentry_needs_remove_privs()
            -> should_remove_suid()
         -> __remove_privs()
            newattrs.ia_valid = ATTR_FORCE | kill;
            -> notify_change()
               -> ovl_setattr()
                  // TAKE ON MOUNTER'S CREDS
                  -> ovl_do_notify_change()
                     -> notify_change()
                  // GIVE UP MOUNTER'S CREDS
     // TAKE ON MOUNTER'S CREDS
     -> vfs_fallocate()
        -> xfs_file_fallocate()
           -> file_modified()
              -> __file_remove_privs()
                 -> dentry_needs_remove_privs()
                    -> should_remove_suid()
                 -> __remove_privs()
                    newattrs.ia_valid = attr_force | kill;
                    -> notify_change()

The fix for all of this is to make file_remove_privs()'s
should_remove_suid() helper to perform the same checks as we already
require in setattr_prepare() and setattr_copy() and have notify_change()
not pointlessly requiring S_IXGRP again. It doesn't make any sense in the
first place because the caller must calculate the flags via
should_remove_suid() anyway which would raise ATTR_KILL_SGID.

While we're at it we move should_remove_suid() from inode.c to attr.c
where it belongs with the rest of the iattr helpers. Especially since it
returns ATTR_KILL_S{G,U}ID flags. We also rename it to
setattr_should_drop_suidgid() to better reflect that it indicates both
setuid and setgid bit removal and also that it returns attr flags.

Running xfstests with this doesn't report any regressions. We should really
try and use consistent checks.

Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) <brauner@kernel.org>
2022-10-18 10:09:47 +02:00
Leo Yan
9c1ab6d54a docs: ftrace: Correct access mode
The documentation gives an example for opening trace marker with
write-only mode, but the flag WR_ONLY is not defined by glibc.

Use O_WRONLY to replace it.

Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221008083250.3160-1-leo.yan@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-10-10 12:50:53 -06:00
Kurt Kanzenbach
4d1257bbc2 tracing: Add documentation for trace clock tai
Add documentation for newly introduced trace clock "tai".
This clock corresponds to CLOCK_TAI.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220414091805.89667-4-kurt@linutronix.de

Signed-off-by: Kurt Kanzenbach <kurt@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2022-04-27 17:19:30 -04:00
Huichun Feng
cc2cf6796a docs: ftrace: fix ambiguous sentence
The sentence looks ambiguous, rephrase it by adding ", there".

Signed-off-by: Huichun Feng <foxhoundsk.tw@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ching-Chun (Jim) Huang <jserv@ccns.ncku.edu.tw>
Signed-off-by: Chun-Hung Tseng <henrybear327@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220111052000.2675944-1-foxhoundsk.tw@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-01-17 14:56:16 -07:00
Zhaoyu Liu
951e0d0020 docs: ftrace: fix the wrong path of tracefs
Delete "tracing" due to it has been included in /proc/mounts.
Delete "echo nop > $tracefs/tracing/current_tracer", maybe
this command is redundant.

Signed-off-by: Zhaoyu Liu <zackary.liu.pro@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2021-11-15 02:50:39 -07:00
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
c7483d823e Documentation: Replace deprecated CPU-hotplug functions.
The functions get_online_cpus() and put_online_cpus() have been
deprecated during the CPU hotplug rework. They map directly to
cpus_read_lock() and cpus_read_unlock().

Update the documentation accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210803141621.780504-2-bigeasy@linutronix.de
2021-08-28 01:46:17 +02:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
81a2d57873 docs: trace: ftrace.rst: avoid using ReST :doc:foo markup
The :doc:`foo` tag is auto-generated via automarkup.py.
So, use the filename at the sources, instead of :doc:`foo`.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/cf9b03ff4b7917d9846503f198372bc6b821445b.1623824363.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2021-06-17 13:24:39 -06:00
Haocheng Xie
6ad1800071 docs: Fix typos in Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst
Fix the usage of "a/the" and improve the readability.

Signed-off-by: Haocheng Xie <xiehaocheng.cn@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210531083905.25763-1-xiehaocheng.cn@gmail.com
[jc: tweaked wording slightly]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2021-06-01 16:52:28 -06:00
Masami Hiramatsu
a345a6718b tracing: Add ptr-hash option to show the hashed pointer value
Add tracefs/options/hash-ptr option to show hashed pointer
value by %p in event printk format string.

For the security reason, normal printk will show the hashed
pointer value (encrypted by random number) with %p to printk
buffer to hide the real address. But the tracefs/trace always
shows real address for debug. To bridge those outputs, add an
option to switch the output format. Ftrace users can use it
to find the hashed value corresponding to the real address
in trace log.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/160277372504.29307.14909828808982012211.stgit@devnote2

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2021-02-11 16:31:57 -05:00
Linus Torvalds
2324d50d05 It's been a busy cycle for documentation - hopefully the busiest for a
while to come.  Changes include:
 
  - Some new Chinese translations
 
  - Progress on the battle against double words words and non-HTTPS URLs
 
  - Some block-mq documentation
 
  - More RST conversions from Mauro.  At this point, that task is
    essentially complete, so we shouldn't see this kind of churn again for a
    while.  Unless we decide to switch to asciidoc or something...:)
 
  - Lots of typo fixes, warning fixes, and more.
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Merge tag 'docs-5.9' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "It's been a busy cycle for documentation - hopefully the busiest for a
  while to come. Changes include:

   - Some new Chinese translations

   - Progress on the battle against double words words and non-HTTPS
     URLs

   - Some block-mq documentation

   - More RST conversions from Mauro. At this point, that task is
     essentially complete, so we shouldn't see this kind of churn again
     for a while. Unless we decide to switch to asciidoc or
     something...:)

   - Lots of typo fixes, warning fixes, and more"

* tag 'docs-5.9' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (195 commits)
  scripts/kernel-doc: optionally treat warnings as errors
  docs: ia64: correct typo
  mailmap: add entry for <alobakin@marvell.com>
  doc/zh_CN: add cpu-load Chinese version
  Documentation/admin-guide: tainted-kernels: fix spelling mistake
  MAINTAINERS: adjust kprobes.rst entry to new location
  devices.txt: document rfkill allocation
  PCI: correct flag name
  docs: filesystems: vfs: correct flag name
  docs: filesystems: vfs: correct sync_mode flag names
  docs: path-lookup: markup fixes for emphasis
  docs: path-lookup: more markup fixes
  docs: path-lookup: fix HTML entity mojibake
  CREDITS: Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones
  docs: process: Add an example for creating a fixes tag
  doc/zh_CN: add Chinese translation prefer section
  doc/zh_CN: add clearing-warn-once Chinese version
  doc/zh_CN: add admin-guide index
  doc:it_IT: process: coding-style.rst: Correct __maybe_unused compiler label
  futex: MAINTAINERS: Re-add selftests directory
  ...
2020-08-04 22:47:54 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
1747db54f8 Documentation: trace/ftrace: drop doubled words
Drop the doubled words "for" and "that".

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200703212453.30553-2-rdunlap@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-07-05 14:40:55 -06:00
Manbing
3e28c5ca1d trace doc: correct names of varous tracing documents
Some documents were converted from the plain text documentation
to reStructuredText format; update references to match.

Signed-off-by: Manbing <manbing3@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200630185356.3467-1-manbing3@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-07-05 14:08:35 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig
ed00aabd5e block: rename generic_make_request to submit_bio_noacct
generic_make_request has always been very confusingly misnamed, so rename
it to submit_bio_noacct to make it clear that it is submit_bio minus
accounting and a few checks.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2020-07-01 07:27:24 -06:00
Eric W. Biederman
2388777a0a exec: Rename flush_old_exec begin_new_exec
There is and has been for a very long time been a lot more going on in
flush_old_exec than just flushing the old state.  After the movement
of code from setup_new_exec there is a whole lot more going on than
just flushing the old executables state.

Rename flush_old_exec to begin_new_exec to more accurately reflect
what this function does.

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2020-05-07 16:55:47 -05:00
Steven Rostedt (VMware)
2ab2a0924b tracing: Add documentation on set_ftrace_notrace_pid and set_event_notrace_pid
Update the tracing documentation to reflect the new files in the tracing
directory.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2020-03-27 16:39:02 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (VMware)
8a815e6b8b tracing: Have the document reflect that the trace file keeps tracing enabled
Now that reading the trace file does not temporarly stop tracing while it is
open, update the document to reflect this fact.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200317213417.209675068@goodmis.org

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2020-03-27 16:39:02 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (VMware)
06e0a548ba tracing: Do not disable tracing when reading the trace file
When opening the "trace" file, it is no longer necessary to disable tracing.

Note, a new option is created called "pause-on-trace", when set, will cause
the trace file to emulate its original behavior.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200317213416.903351225@goodmis.org

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2020-03-27 16:39:01 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (VMware)
b396bfdebf tracing: Have hwlat ts be first instance and record count of instances
The hwlat tracer runs a loop of width time during a given window. It then
reports the max latency over a given threshold and records a timestamp. But
this timestamp is the time after the width has finished, and not the time it
actually triggered.

Record the actual time when the latency was greater than the threshold as
well as the number of times it was greater in a given width per window.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2020-03-03 17:33:43 -05:00
Frank A. Cancio Bello
5b8914a67e docs: ftrace: Fix typos
Fix minor typos in the doc.

Suggested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Frank A. Cancio Bello <frank@generalsoftwareinc.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/9ef705d0208a4ca0852fed69bc0838a589a4df85.1577231751.git.frank@generalsoftwareinc.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-01-10 10:52:28 -07:00
Frank A. Cancio Bello
a65d634e63 docs: ftrace: Clarify the RAM impact of buffer_size_kb
The current text could mislead the user into believing that the number
of pages allocated by each CPU ring buffer is calculated by the round
up of the division: buffer_size_kb / PAGE_SIZE.

Clarifies that a few extra pages may be allocated to accommodate buffer
management meta-data.

Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Suggested-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Frank A. Cancio Bello <frank@generalsoftwareinc.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/6f33be5f3d60e5ffc061d8d2b329d3d3ccf22a8c.1577231751.git.frank@generalsoftwareinc.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-01-10 10:51:34 -07:00
Frank A. Cancio Bello
d693b2883c docs: ftrace: Specifies when buffers get clear
Clarify a few places where the ring buffer and the "snapshot" buffer
are cleared as a side effect of an operation.

This will avoid users lost of tracing data because of these so far
undocumented behavior.

Signed-off-by: Frank A. Cancio Bello <frank@generalsoftwareinc.com>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191218191553.q4lwyxmquvtjzjfz@frank-laptop
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-12-19 09:18:33 -07:00
Miroslav Benes
7162431dcf ftrace: Introduce PERMANENT ftrace_ops flag
Livepatch uses ftrace for redirection to new patched functions. It means
that if ftrace is disabled, all live patched functions are disabled as
well. Toggling global 'ftrace_enabled' sysctl thus affect it directly.
It is not a problem per se, because only administrator can set sysctl
values, but it still may be surprising.

Introduce PERMANENT ftrace_ops flag to amend this. If the
FTRACE_OPS_FL_PERMANENT is set on any ftrace ops, the tracing cannot be
disabled by disabling ftrace_enabled. Equally, a callback with the flag
set cannot be registered if ftrace_enabled is disabled.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191016113316.13415-2-mbenes@suse.cz

Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2019-11-04 09:33:15 -05:00
Peter Wu
f12fcca653 docs: ftrace: clarify when tracing is disabled by the trace file
The current text could mislead the user into believing that only read()
disables tracing. Clarify that any open() call that requests read access
disables tracing.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAADnVQ+hU6QOC_dPmpjnuv=9g4SQEeaMEMqXOS2WpMj=q=LdiQ@mail.gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Peter Wu <peter@lekensteyn.nl>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-09-02 07:14:53 -06:00
Linus Torvalds
d2d8b14604 The major changes in this tracing update includes:
- Removing of non-DYNAMIC_FTRACE from 32bit x86
 
  - Removing of mcount support from x86
 
  - Emulating a call from int3 on x86_64, fixes live kernel patching
 
  - Consolidated Tracing Error logs file
 
 Minor updates:
 
  - Removal of klp_check_compiler_support()
 
  - kdb ftrace dumping output changes
 
  - Accessing and creating ftrace instances from inside the kernel
 
  - Clean up of #define if macro
 
  - Introduction of TRACE_EVENT_NOP() to disable trace events based on config
    options
 
 And other minor fixes and clean ups
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Merge tag 'trace-v5.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace

Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
 "The major changes in this tracing update includes:

   - Removal of non-DYNAMIC_FTRACE from 32bit x86

   - Removal of mcount support from x86

   - Emulating a call from int3 on x86_64, fixes live kernel patching

   - Consolidated Tracing Error logs file

  Minor updates:

   - Removal of klp_check_compiler_support()

   - kdb ftrace dumping output changes

   - Accessing and creating ftrace instances from inside the kernel

   - Clean up of #define if macro

   - Introduction of TRACE_EVENT_NOP() to disable trace events based on
     config options

  And other minor fixes and clean ups"

* tag 'trace-v5.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (44 commits)
  x86: Hide the int3_emulate_call/jmp functions from UML
  livepatch: Remove klp_check_compiler_support()
  ftrace/x86: Remove mcount support
  ftrace/x86_32: Remove support for non DYNAMIC_FTRACE
  tracing: Simplify "if" macro code
  tracing: Fix documentation about disabling options using trace_options
  tracing: Replace kzalloc with kcalloc
  tracing: Fix partial reading of trace event's id file
  tracing: Allow RCU to run between postponed startup tests
  tracing: Fix white space issues in parse_pred() function
  tracing: Eliminate const char[] auto variables
  ring-buffer: Fix mispelling of Calculate
  tracing: probeevent: Fix to make the type of $comm string
  tracing: probeevent: Do not accumulate on ret variable
  tracing: uprobes: Re-enable $comm support for uprobe events
  ftrace/x86_64: Emulate call function while updating in breakpoint handler
  x86_64: Allow breakpoints to emulate call instructions
  x86_64: Add gap to int3 to allow for call emulation
  tracing: kdb: Allow ftdump to skip all but the last few entries
  tracing: Add trace_total_entries() / trace_total_entries_cpu()
  ...
2019-05-15 16:05:47 -07:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
3df5ffd2e5 docs: trace: fix some Sphinx warnings
There are some warnings produced when building trace. Fix them.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-04-16 09:08:32 -06:00
Tom Zanussi
26a9449179 tracing: Add tracing/error_log Documentation
Move most of the hist trigger extended error documentation to
ftrace.rst and expand on it to fully document tracing/error_log.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/c5d53c8f643ef6844d6ad8d0200c116936730b01.1554072478.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com

Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2019-04-08 09:22:50 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (VMware)
f79b3f3385 ftrace: Allow enabling of filters via index of available_filter_functions
Enabling of large number of functions by echoing in a large subset of the
functions in available_filter_functions can take a very long time. The
process requires testing all functions registered by the function tracer
(which is in the 10s of thousands), and doing a kallsyms lookup to convert
the ip address into a name, then comparing that name with the string passed
in.

When a function causes the function tracer to crash the system, a binary
bisect of the available_filter_functions can be done to find the culprit.
But this requires passing in half of the functions in
available_filter_functions over and over again, which makes it basically a
O(n^2) operation. With 40,000 functions, that ends up bing 1,600,000,000
opertions! And enabling this can take over 20 minutes.

As a quick speed up, if a number is passed into one of the filter files,
instead of doing a search, it just enables the function at the corresponding
line of the available_filter_functions file. That is:

 # echo 50 > set_ftrace_filter
 # cat set_ftrace_filter
 x86_pmu_commit_txn

 # head -50 available_filter_functions | tail -1
 x86_pmu_commit_txn

This allows setting of half the available_filter_functions to take place in
less than a second!

 # time seq 20000 > set_ftrace_filter
 real    0m0.042s
 user    0m0.005s
 sys     0m0.015s

 # wc -l set_ftrace_filter
 20000 set_ftrace_filter

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2019-02-15 13:10:09 -05:00
Changbin Du
88d380eb06 tracing/doc: Add latency tracer funcgraph example
This add an example about how to use funcgraph with latency tracers.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190101154614.8887-6-changbin.du@gmail.com

Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2019-02-06 11:56:19 -05:00
Amir Livneh
2a1e03ca33 doc: tracing: Fix a number of typos
Trivial fixes to spelling mistakes in ftrace.rst

v2: tripple -> triple

Signed-off-by: Amir Livneh <alivneh@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-11-07 15:52:39 -07:00
Masami Hiramatsu
8a2933cfe7 docs: tracing: Add stacktrace filter command
Add a description of stacktrace filter command.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-08-31 16:34:49 -06:00
Masami Hiramatsu
1fee4f7752 doc: tracing: Fix a typo of trace_stat
The name of the directory for per-cpu function statistics
is trace_stat, not trace_stats.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-07-26 15:48:10 -06:00
Linus Torvalds
5eb6eed7e0 One new feature was added to ftrace, which is the trace_marker now supports
triggers. For example:
 
   # cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing
   # echo 'snapshot' > events/ftrace/print/trigger
   # echo 'cause snapshot' > trace_marker
 
 The rest of the changes are various clean ups and also one stable fix that
 was added late in the cycle.
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Merge tag 'trace-v4.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace

Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
 "One new feature was added to ftrace, which is the trace_marker now
  supports triggers. For example:

    # cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing
    # echo 'snapshot' > events/ftrace/print/trigger
    # echo 'cause snapshot' > trace_marker

  The rest of the changes are various clean ups and also one stable fix
  that was added late in the cycle"

* tag 'trace-v4.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (21 commits)
  tracing: Use match_string() instead of open coding it in trace_set_options()
  branch-check: fix long->int truncation when profiling branches
  ring-buffer: Fix typo in comment
  ring-buffer: Fix a bunch of typos in comments
  tracing/selftest: Add test to test simple snapshot trigger for trace_marker
  tracing/selftest: Add test to test hist trigger between kernel event and trace_marker
  tracing/selftest: Add selftests to test trace_marker histogram triggers
  ftrace/selftest: Fix reset_trigger() to handle triggers with filters
  ftrace/selftest: Have the reset_trigger code be a bit more careful
  tracing: Document trace_marker triggers
  tracing: Allow histogram triggers to access ftrace internal events
  tracing: Prevent further users of zero size static arrays in trace events
  tracing: Have zero size length in filter logic be full string
  tracing: Add trigger file for trace_markers tracefs/ftrace/print
  tracing: Do not show filter file for ftrace internal events
  tracing: Add brackets in ftrace event dynamic arrays
  tracing: Have event_trace_init() called by trace_init_tracefs()
  tracing: Add __find_event_file() to find event files without restrictions
  tracing: Do not reference event data in post call triggers
  tracepoints: Fix the descriptions of tracepoint_probe_register{_prio}
  ...
2018-06-06 16:39:18 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
eeee3149aa There's been a fair amount of work in the docs tree this time around,
including:
 
  - Extensive RST conversions and organizational work in the
    memory-management docs thanks to Mike Rapoport.
 
  - An update of Documentation/features from Andrea Parri and a script to
    keep it updated.
 
  - Various LICENSES updates from Thomas, along with a script to check SPDX
    tags.
 
  - Work to fix dangling references to documentation files; this involved a
    fair number of one-liner comment changes outside of Documentation/
 
 ...and the usual list of documentation improvements, typo fixes, etc.
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Merge tag 'docs-4.18' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "There's been a fair amount of work in the docs tree this time around,
  including:

   - Extensive RST conversions and organizational work in the
     memory-management docs thanks to Mike Rapoport.

   - An update of Documentation/features from Andrea Parri and a script
     to keep it updated.

   - Various LICENSES updates from Thomas, along with a script to check
     SPDX tags.

   - Work to fix dangling references to documentation files; this
     involved a fair number of one-liner comment changes outside of
     Documentation/

  ... and the usual list of documentation improvements, typo fixes, etc"

* tag 'docs-4.18' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (103 commits)
  Documentation: document hung_task_panic kernel parameter
  docs/admin-guide/mm: add high level concepts overview
  docs/vm: move ksm and transhuge from "user" to "internals" section.
  docs: Use the kerneldoc comments for memalloc_no*()
  doc: document scope NOFS, NOIO APIs
  docs: update kernel versions and dates in tables
  docs/vm: transhuge: split userspace bits to admin-guide/mm/transhuge
  docs/vm: transhuge: minor updates
  docs/vm: transhuge: change sections order
  Documentation: arm: clean up Marvell Berlin family info
  Documentation: gpio: driver: Fix a typo and some odd grammar
  docs: ranoops.rst: fix location of ramoops.txt
  scripts/documentation-file-ref-check: rewrite it in perl with auto-fix mode
  docs: uio-howto.rst: use a code block to solve a warning
  mm, THP, doc: Add document for thp_swpout/thp_swpout_fallback
  w1: w1_io.c: fix a kernel-doc warning
  Documentation/process/posting: wrap text at 80 cols
  docs: admin-guide: add cgroup-v2 documentation
  Revert "Documentation/features/vm: Remove arch support status file for 'pte_special'"
  Documentation: refcount-vs-atomic: Update reference to LKMM doc.
  ...
2018-06-04 12:34:27 -07:00
Steven Rostedt (VMware)
d3439f9d6c tracing: Document trace_marker triggers
Add documentation and an example on how to use trace_marker triggers.

Reviewed-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2018-05-29 08:29:30 -04:00
Thomas Gleixner
a3ed0e4393 Revert: Unify CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME
Revert commits

92af4dcb4e ("tracing: Unify the "boot" and "mono" tracing clocks")
127bfa5f43 ("hrtimer: Unify MONOTONIC and BOOTTIME clock behavior")
7250a4047a ("posix-timers: Unify MONOTONIC and BOOTTIME clock behavior")
d6c7270e91 ("timekeeping: Remove boot time specific code")
f2d6fdbfd2 ("Input: Evdev - unify MONOTONIC and BOOTTIME clock behavior")
d6ed449afd ("timekeeping: Make the MONOTONIC clock behave like the BOOTTIME clock")
72199320d4 ("timekeeping: Add the new CLOCK_MONOTONIC_ACTIVE clock")

As stated in the pull request for the unification of CLOCK_MONOTONIC and
CLOCK_BOOTTIME, it was clear that we might have to revert the change.

As reported by several folks systemd and other applications rely on the
documented behaviour of CLOCK_MONOTONIC on Linux and break with the above
changes. After resume daemons time out and other timeout related issues are
observed. Rafael compiled this list:

* systemd kills daemons on resume, after >WatchdogSec seconds
  of suspending (Genki Sky).  [Verified that that's because systemd uses
  CLOCK_MONOTONIC and expects it to not include the suspend time.]

* systemd-journald misbehaves after resume:
  systemd-journald[7266]: File /var/log/journal/016627c3c4784cd4812d4b7e96a34226/system.journal
corrupted or uncleanly shut down, renaming and replacing.
  (Mike Galbraith).

* NetworkManager reports "networking disabled" and networking is broken
  after resume 50% of the time (Pavel).  [May be because of systemd.]

* MATE desktop dims the display and starts the screensaver right after
  system resume (Pavel).

* Full system hang during resume (me).  [May be due to systemd or NM or both.]

That happens on debian and open suse systems.

It's sad, that these problems were neither catched in -next nor by those
folks who expressed interest in this change.

Reported-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
Reported-by: Genki Sky <sky@genki.is>,
Reported-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Kevin Easton <kevin@guarana.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mark Salyzyn <salyzyn@android.com>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2018-04-26 14:53:32 +02:00