311 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Gaurav Kohli
04f51df12d tracing: Fix race in trace_open and buffer resize call
commit bbeb97464eefc65f506084fd9f18f21653e01137 upstream.

Below race can come, if trace_open and resize of
cpu buffer is running parallely on different cpus
CPUX                                CPUY
				    ring_buffer_resize
				    atomic_read(&buffer->resize_disabled)
tracing_open
tracing_reset_online_cpus
ring_buffer_reset_cpu
rb_reset_cpu
				    rb_update_pages
				    remove/insert pages
resetting pointer

This race can cause data abort or some times infinte loop in
rb_remove_pages and rb_insert_pages while checking pages
for sanity.

Take buffer lock to fix this.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1601976833-24377-1-git-send-email-gkohli@codeaurora.org

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 83f40318dab00 ("ring-buffer: Make removal of ring buffer pages atomic")
Reported-by: Denis Efremov <efremov@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Gaurav Kohli <gkohli@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2021-01-30 13:27:16 +01:00
Steven Rostedt (VMware)
b0db2f09db ring-buffer: Fix recursion protection transitions between interrupt context
[ Upstream commit b02414c8f045ab3b9afc816c3735bc98c5c3d262 ]

The recursion protection of the ring buffer depends on preempt_count() to be
correct. But it is possible that the ring buffer gets called after an
interrupt comes in but before it updates the preempt_count(). This will
trigger a false positive in the recursion code.

Use the same trick from the ftrace function callback recursion code which
uses a "transition" bit that gets set, to allow for a single recursion for
to handle transitions between contexts.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 567cd4da54ff4 ("ring-buffer: User context bit recursion checking")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2020-11-18 18:26:23 +01:00
Qiujun Huang
f14b7bf830 ring-buffer: Return 0 on success from ring_buffer_resize()
commit 0a1754b2a97efa644aa6e84d1db5b17c42251483 upstream.

We don't need to check the new buffer size, and the return value
had confused resize_buffer_duplicate_size().
...
	ret = ring_buffer_resize(trace_buf->buffer,
		per_cpu_ptr(size_buf->data,cpu_id)->entries, cpu_id);
	if (ret == 0)
		per_cpu_ptr(trace_buf->data, cpu_id)->entries =
			per_cpu_ptr(size_buf->data, cpu_id)->entries;
...

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201019142242.11560-1-hqjagain@gmail.com

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: d60da506cbeb3 ("tracing: Add a resize function to make one buffer equivalent to another buffer")
Signed-off-by: Qiujun Huang <hqjagain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2020-11-10 10:23:59 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra
56f9da8521 trace: Fix preempt_enable_no_resched() abuse
commit d6097c9e4454adf1f8f2c9547c2fa6060d55d952 upstream.

Unless the very next line is schedule(), or implies it, one must not use
preempt_enable_no_resched(). It can cause a preemption to go missing and
thereby cause arbitrary delays, breaking the PREEMPT=y invariant.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190423200318.GY14281@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net

Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: huang ying <huang.ying.caritas@gmail.com>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 2c2d7329d8af ("tracing/ftrace: use preempt_enable_no_resched_notrace in ring_buffer_time_stamp()")
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-05-02 09:32:00 +02:00
Douglas Anderson
3085d41e89 tracing: kdb: Fix ftdump to not sleep
[ Upstream commit 31b265b3baaf55f209229888b7ffea523ddab366 ]

As reported back in 2016-11 [1], the "ftdump" kdb command triggers a
BUG for "sleeping function called from invalid context".

kdb's "ftdump" command wants to call ring_buffer_read_prepare() in
atomic context.  A very simple solution for this is to add allocation
flags to ring_buffer_read_prepare() so kdb can call it without
triggering the allocation error.  This patch does that.

Note that in the original email thread about this, it was suggested
that perhaps the solution for kdb was to either preallocate the buffer
ahead of time or create our own iterator.  I'm hoping that this
alternative of adding allocation flags to ring_buffer_read_prepare()
can be considered since it means I don't need to duplicate more of the
core trace code into "trace_kdb.c" (for either creating my own
iterator or re-preparing a ring allocator whose memory was already
allocated).

NOTE: another option for kdb is to actually figure out how to make it
reuse the existing ftrace_dump() function and totally eliminate the
duplication.  This sounds very appealing and actually works (the "sr
z" command can be seen to properly dump the ftrace buffer).  The
downside here is that ftrace_dump() fully consumes the trace buffer.
Unless that is changed I'd rather not use it because it means "ftdump
| grep xyz" won't be very useful to search the ftrace buffer since it
will throw away the whole trace on the first grep.  A future patch to
dump only the last few lines of the buffer will also be hard to
implement.

[1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161117191605.GA21459@google.com

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190308193205.213659-1-dianders@chromium.org

Reported-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2019-04-05 22:29:05 +02:00
Vaibhav Nagarnaik
be910e74f6 ring-buffer: Allow for rescheduling when removing pages
commit 83f365554e47997ec68dc4eca3f5dce525cd15c3 upstream.

When reducing ring buffer size, pages are removed by scheduling a work
item on each CPU for the corresponding CPU ring buffer. After the pages
are removed from ring buffer linked list, the pages are free()d in a
tight loop. The loop does not give up CPU until all pages are removed.
In a worst case behavior, when lot of pages are to be freed, it can
cause system stall.

After the pages are removed from the list, the free() can happen while
the work is rescheduled. Call cond_resched() in the loop to prevent the
system hangup.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180907223129.71994-1-vnagarnaik@google.com

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 83f40318dab00 ("ring-buffer: Make removal of ring buffer pages atomic")
Reported-by: Jason Behmer <jbehmer@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Vaibhav Nagarnaik <vnagarnaik@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-09-29 03:07:32 -07:00
Masami Hiramatsu
a26030a63e ring_buffer: tracing: Inherit the tracing setting to next ring buffer
commit 73c8d8945505acdcbae137c2e00a1232e0be709f upstream.

Maintain the tracing on/off setting of the ring_buffer when switching
to the trace buffer snapshot.

Taking a snapshot is done by swapping the backup ring buffer
(max_tr_buffer). But since the tracing on/off setting is defined
by the ring buffer, when swapping it, the tracing on/off setting
can also be changed. This causes a strange result like below:

  /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # cat tracing_on
  1
  /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # echo 0 > tracing_on
  /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # cat tracing_on
  0
  /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # echo 1 > snapshot
  /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # cat tracing_on
  1
  /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # echo 1 > snapshot
  /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # cat tracing_on
  0

We don't touch tracing_on, but snapshot changes tracing_on
setting each time. This is an anomaly, because user doesn't know
that each "ring_buffer" stores its own tracing-enable state and
the snapshot is done by swapping ring buffers.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/153149929558.11274.11730609978254724394.stgit@devbox

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Hiraku Toyooka <hiraku.toyooka@cybertrust.co.jp>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: debdd57f5145 ("tracing: Make a snapshot feature available from userspace")
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
[ Updated commit log and comment in the code ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-08-09 12:17:59 +02:00
Steven Rostedt (VMware)
2e0d458c31 ring-buffer: Mask out the info bits when returning buffer page length
commit 45d8b80c2ac5d21cd1e2954431fb676bc2b1e099 upstream.

Two info bits were added to the "commit" part of the ring buffer data page
when returned to be consumed. This was to inform the user space readers that
events have been missed, and that the count may be stored at the end of the
page.

What wasn't handled, was the splice code that actually called a function to
return the length of the data in order to zero out the rest of the page
before sending it up to user space. These data bits were returned with the
length making the value negative, and that negative value was not checked.
It was compared to PAGE_SIZE, and only used if the size was less than
PAGE_SIZE. Luckily PAGE_SIZE is unsigned long which made the compare an
unsigned compare, meaning the negative size value did not end up causing a
large portion of memory to be randomly zeroed out.

Fixes: 66a8cb95ed040 ("ring-buffer: Add place holder recording of dropped events")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-01-02 20:35:07 +01:00
Steven Rostedt (VMware)
d80e90712a ring-buffer: Have ring_buffer_iter_empty() return true when empty
commit 78f7a45dac2a2d2002f98a3a95f7979867868d73 upstream.

I noticed that reading the snapshot file when it is empty no longer gives a
status. It suppose to show the status of the snapshot buffer as well as how
to allocate and use it. For example:

 ># cat snapshot
 # tracer: nop
 #
 #
 # * Snapshot is allocated *
 #
 # Snapshot commands:
 # echo 0 > snapshot : Clears and frees snapshot buffer
 # echo 1 > snapshot : Allocates snapshot buffer, if not already allocated.
 #                      Takes a snapshot of the main buffer.
 # echo 2 > snapshot : Clears snapshot buffer (but does not allocate or free)
 #                      (Doesn't have to be '2' works with any number that
 #                       is not a '0' or '1')

But instead it just showed an empty buffer:

 ># cat snapshot
 # tracer: nop
 #
 # entries-in-buffer/entries-written: 0/0   #P:4
 #
 #                              _-----=> irqs-off
 #                             / _----=> need-resched
 #                            | / _---=> hardirq/softirq
 #                            || / _--=> preempt-depth
 #                            ||| /     delay
 #           TASK-PID   CPU#  ||||    TIMESTAMP  FUNCTION
 #              | |       |   ||||       |         |

What happened was that it was using the ring_buffer_iter_empty() function to
see if it was empty, and if it was, it showed the status. But that function
was returning false when it was empty. The reason was that the iter header
page was on the reader page, and the reader page was empty, but so was the
buffer itself. The check only tested to see if the iter was on the commit
page, but the commit page was no longer pointing to the reader page, but as
all pages were empty, the buffer is also.

Fixes: 651e22f2701b ("ring-buffer: Always reset iterator to reader page")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-04-27 09:10:37 +02:00
Wei Yongjun
703cebf6e9 ring-buffer: Fix return value check in test_ringbuffer()
commit 62277de758b155dc04b78f195a1cb5208c37b2df upstream.

In case of error, the function kthread_run() returns ERR_PTR()
and never returns NULL. The NULL test in the return value check
should be replaced with IS_ERR().

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1466184839-14927-1-git-send-email-weiyj_lk@163.com

Fixes: 6c43e554a ("ring-buffer: Add ring buffer startup selftest")
Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-04-12 12:41:12 +02:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
59643d1535 ring-buffer: Prevent overflow of size in ring_buffer_resize()
If the size passed to ring_buffer_resize() is greater than MAX_LONG - BUF_PAGE_SIZE
then the DIV_ROUND_UP() will return zero.

Here's the details:

  # echo 18014398509481980 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/buffer_size_kb

tracing_entries_write() processes this and converts kb to bytes.

 18014398509481980 << 10 = 18446744073709547520

and this is passed to ring_buffer_resize() as unsigned long size.

 size = DIV_ROUND_UP(size, BUF_PAGE_SIZE);

Where DIV_ROUND_UP(a, b) is (a + b - 1)/b

BUF_PAGE_SIZE is 4080 and here

 18446744073709547520 + 4080 - 1 = 18446744073709551599

where 18446744073709551599 is still smaller than 2^64

 2^64 - 18446744073709551599 = 17

But now 18446744073709551599 / 4080 = 4521260802379792

and size = size * 4080 = 18446744073709551360

This is checked to make sure its still greater than 2 * 4080,
which it is.

Then we convert to the number of buffer pages needed.

 nr_page = DIV_ROUND_UP(size, BUF_PAGE_SIZE)

but this time size is 18446744073709551360 and

 2^64 - (18446744073709551360 + 4080 - 1) = -3823

Thus it overflows and the resulting number is less than 4080, which makes

  3823 / 4080 = 0

an nr_pages is set to this. As we already checked against the minimum that
nr_pages may be, this causes the logic to fail as well, and we crash the
kernel.

There's no reason to have the two DIV_ROUND_UP() (that's just result of
historical code changes), clean up the code and fix this bug.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.5+
Fixes: 83f40318dab00 ("ring-buffer: Make removal of ring buffer pages atomic")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-05-13 16:44:20 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
9b94a8fba5 ring-buffer: Use long for nr_pages to avoid overflow failures
The size variable to change the ring buffer in ftrace is a long. The
nr_pages used to update the ring buffer based on the size is int. On 64 bit
machines this can cause an overflow problem.

For example, the following will cause the ring buffer to crash:

 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing
 # echo 10 > buffer_size_kb
 # echo 8556384240 > buffer_size_kb

Then you get the warning of:

 WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 318 at kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:1527 rb_update_pages+0x22f/0x260

Which is:

  RB_WARN_ON(cpu_buffer, nr_removed);

Note each ring buffer page holds 4080 bytes.

This is because:

 1) 10 causes the ring buffer to have 3 pages.
    (10kb requires 3 * 4080 pages to hold)

 2) (2^31 / 2^10  + 1) * 4080 = 8556384240
    The value written into buffer_size_kb is shifted by 10 and then passed
    to ring_buffer_resize(). 8556384240 * 2^10 = 8761737461760

 3) The size passed to ring_buffer_resize() is then divided by BUF_PAGE_SIZE
    which is 4080. 8761737461760 / 4080 = 2147484672

 4) nr_pages is subtracted from the current nr_pages (3) and we get:
    2147484669. This value is saved in a signed integer nr_pages_to_update

 5) 2147484669 is greater than 2^31 but smaller than 2^32, a signed int
    turns into the value of -2147482627

 6) As the value is a negative number, in update_pages_handler() it is
    negated and passed to rb_remove_pages() and 2147482627 pages will
    be removed, which is much larger than 3 and it causes the warning
    because not all the pages asked to be removed were removed.

Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118001

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 2.6.28+
Fixes: 7a8e76a3829f1 ("tracing: unified trace buffer")
Reported-by: Hao Qin <QEver.cn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-05-13 11:12:20 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
4239c38fe0 ring-buffer: Process commits whenever moving to a new page.
When crossing over to a new page, commit the current work. This will allow
readers to get data with less latency, and also simplifies the work to get
timestamps working for interrupted events.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-11-25 15:24:05 -05:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
70004986ff ring-buffer: Remove redundant update of page timestamp
The first commit of a buffer page updates the timestamp of that page. No
need to have the update to the next page add the timestamp too. It will only
be replaced by the first commit on that page anyway.

Only update to a page if it contains an event.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-11-24 09:29:16 -05:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
8573636ea7 ring-buffer: Use READ_ONCE() for most tail_page access
As cpu_buffer->tail_page may be modified by interrupts at almost any time,
the flow of logic is very important. Do not let gcc get smart with
re-reading cpu_buffer->tail_page by adding READ_ONCE() around most of its
accesses.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-11-24 09:29:15 -05:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
bd1b7cd360 ring-buffer: Put back the length if crossed page with add_timestamp
Commit fcc742eaad7c "ring-buffer: Add event descriptor to simplify passing
data" added a descriptor that holds various data instead of passing around
several variables through parameters. The problem was that one of the
parameters was modified in a function and the code was designed not to have
an effect on that modified  parameter. Now that the parameter is a
descriptor and any modifications to it are non-volatile, the size of the
data could be unnecessarily expanded.

Remove the extra space added if a timestamp was added and the event went
across the page.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.3+
Fixes: fcc742eaad7c "ring-buffer: Add event descriptor to simplify passing data"
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-11-24 09:27:25 -05:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
b81f472a20 ring-buffer: Update read stamp with first real commit on page
Do not update the read stamp after swapping out the reader page from the
write buffer. If the reader page is swapped out of the buffer before an
event is written to it, then the read_stamp may get an out of date
timestamp, as the page timestamp is updated on the first commit to that
page.

rb_get_reader_page() only returns a page if it has an event on it, otherwise
it will return NULL. At that point, check if the page being returned has
events and has not been read yet. Then at that point update the read_stamp
to match the time stamp of the reader page.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 2.6.30+
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-11-24 09:23:17 -05:00
Yaowei Bai
cdb2a0a915 ring-buffer: rb_event_is_commit() can return boolean
Make rb_event_is_commit() return bool to improve readability
due to this particular function only using either one or zero as its
return value.

No functional change.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1443537816-5788-7-git-send-email-bywxiaobai@163.com

Signed-off-by: Yaowei Bai <bywxiaobai@163.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-11-02 14:25:29 -05:00
Yaowei Bai
da58834cf2 ring-buffer: rb_per_cpu_empty() can return boolean
Makes rb_per_cpu_empty() return bool to improve readability.

No functional change.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1443537816-5788-6-git-send-email-bywxiaobai@163.com

Signed-off-by: Yaowei Bai <bywxiaobai@163.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-11-02 14:24:27 -05:00
Yaowei Bai
3d4e204d81 ring_buffer: ring_buffer_empty{cpu}() can return boolean
Make ring_buffer_empty() and ring_buffer_empty_cpu() return bool.

No functional change.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1443537816-5788-5-git-send-email-bywxiaobai@163.com

Signed-off-by: Yaowei Bai <bywxiaobai@163.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-11-02 14:23:38 -05:00
Yaowei Bai
06ca320952 ring-buffer: rb_is_reader_page() can return boolean
Make rb_is_reader_page() return bool to improve readability due to this
particular function only using either true or false as its return value.

No functional change.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1443537816-5788-4-git-send-email-bywxiaobai@163.com

Signed-off-by: Yaowei Bai <bywxiaobai@163.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-11-02 14:23:20 -05:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
b7dc42fd79 ring-buffer: Revert "ring-buffer: Get timestamp after event is allocated"
The commit a4543a2fa9ef31 "ring-buffer: Get timestamp after event is
allocated" is needed for some future work. But after adding it, there is a
race somewhere that causes the saved timestamp to have a slight shift, and
get ahead of the actual timestamp and make it look like time goes backwards.

I'm still looking into why this happens, but in the mean time, this is
holding up other work to get in. I'm reverting the change for now (which
makes the problem go away), and will add it back after I know what is wrong
and fix it.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-09-03 08:57:12 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
d90fd77402 ring-buffer: Reorganize function locations
Functions in ring-buffer.c have gotten interleaved between different
use cases. Move the functions around to get like functions closer
together. This may or may not help gcc keep cache locality, but it
makes it a little easier to work with the code.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-07-20 22:30:49 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
7d75e6833b ring-buffer: Make sure event has enough room for extend and padding
Now that events only add time extends after it is committed, in case
an event comes in before it can discard the allocated event, the time
extend needs to be stored within the event. If the event is bigger
than then size needed for the time extend, padding must be added.
The minimum padding size is 8 bytes. Thus if the event is 12 bytes
(size of time extend + 4), there will not be enough room to add both
the time extend and padding. Make sure all events are either 8 bytes
or 16 or more bytes.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-07-20 22:30:49 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
a4543a2fa9 ring-buffer: Get timestamp after event is allocated
Move the capturing of the timestamp to after an event is allocated.
If the event is not a commit (where it is an event that preempted
another event), then no timestamp is needed, because the delta of
nested events is always zero.

If the event starts on a new page, no delta needs to be calculated
as the full timestamp will be added to the page header, and the
event will have a delta of zero.

Now if the event requires a time extend (the delta does not fit
in the 27 bit delta slot in the header), then the event is discarded,
the length is extended to hold the TIME_EXTEND event that allows for
a 59 bit delta, and the commit is tried again.

If the event can't be discarded (another event came in after it),
then the TIME_EXTEND is added directly to the allocated event and
the rest of the event is given padding.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-07-20 22:30:48 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
9826b2733a ring-buffer: Move the adding of the extended timestamp out of line
Requiring a extended time stamp is an uncommon occurrence, and it is
best to do it out of line when needed.

Add a noinline function that handles the extended timestamp and
have it called with an unlikely to completely move it out of the
fast path.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-07-20 22:30:47 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
fcc742eaad ring-buffer: Add event descriptor to simplify passing data
Add rb_event_info descriptor to pass event info to functions a bit
easier than using a bunch of parameters. This will also allow for
changing the code around a bit to find better fast paths.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-07-20 22:30:46 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
a497adb45b ring-buffer: Add enum names for the context levels
Instead of having hard coded numbers for the context levels, use
enums to describe them more.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-05-29 10:39:08 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
3c6296f716 ring-buffer: Remove useless unused tracing_off_permanent()
The tracing_off_permanent() call is a way to disable all ring_buffers.
Nothing uses it and nothing should use it, as tracing_off() and
friends are better, as they disable the ring buffers related to
tracing. The tracing_off_permanent() even disabled non tracing
ring buffers. This is a bit drastic, and was added to handle NMIs
doing outputs that could corrupt the ring buffer when only tracing
used them. It is now obsolete and adds a little overhead, it should
be removed.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-05-28 16:47:39 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
289a5a25c5 ring-buffer: Give NMIs a chance to lock the reader_lock
Currently, if an NMI does a dump of a ring buffer, it disables
all ring buffers from ever doing any writes again. This is because
it wont take the locks for the cpu_buffer and this can cause
corruption if it preempted a read, or a read happens on another
CPU for the current cpu buffer. This is a bit overkill.

First, it should at least try to take the lock, and if it fails
then disable it. Also, there's no need to disable all ring
buffers, even those that are unrelated to what is being read.
Only disable the per cpu ring buffer that is being read if
it can not get the lock for it.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-05-28 16:47:01 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
985e871b28 ring-buffer: Add trace_recursive checks to ring_buffer_write()
The ring_buffer_write() function isn't protected by the trace recursive
writes. Luckily, this function is not used as much and is unlikely
to ever recurse. But it should still have the protection, because
even a call to ring_buffer_lock_reserve() could cause ring buffer
corruption if called when ring_buffer_write() is being used.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-05-27 10:48:56 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
6776221bfe ring-buffer: Allways do the trace_recursive checks
Currently the trace_recursive checks are only done if CONFIG_TRACING
is enabled. That was because there use to be a dependency with tracing
for the recursive checks (it used the task_struct trace recursive
variable). But now it uses its own variable and there is no dependency.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-05-27 10:44:43 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
58a09ec6e3 ring-buffer: Move recursive check to per_cpu descriptor
Instead of using a global per_cpu variable to perform the recursive
checks into the ring buffer, use the already existing per_cpu descriptor
that is part of the ring buffer itself.

Not only does this simplify the code, it also allows for one ring buffer
to be used within the guts of the use of another ring buffer. For example
trace_printk() can now be used within the ring buffer to record changes
done by an instance into the main ring buffer. The recursion checks
will prevent the trace_printk() itself from causing recursive issues
with the main ring buffer (it is just ignored), but the recursive
checks wont prevent the trace_printk() from recording other ring buffers.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-05-27 10:42:36 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
3205f8063b ring-buffer: Add unlikelys to make fast path the default
I was running the trace_event benchmark and noticed that the times
to record a trace_event was all over the place. I looked at the assembly
of the ring_buffer_lock_reserver() and saw this:

 <ring_buffer_lock_reserve>:
       31 c0                   xor    %eax,%eax
       48 83 3d 76 47 bd 00    cmpq   $0x1,0xbd4776(%rip)        # ffffffff81d10d60 <ring_buffer_flags>
       01
       55                      push   %rbp
       48 89 e5                mov    %rsp,%rbp
       75 1d                   jne    ffffffff8113c60d <ring_buffer_lock_reserve+0x2d>
       65 ff 05 69 e3 ec 7e    incl   %gs:0x7eece369(%rip)        # a960 <__preempt_count>
       8b 47 08                mov    0x8(%rdi),%eax
       85 c0                   test   %eax,%eax
 +---- 74 12                   je     ffffffff8113c610 <ring_buffer_lock_reserve+0x30>
 |     65 ff 0d 5b e3 ec 7e    decl   %gs:0x7eece35b(%rip)        # a960 <__preempt_count>
 |     0f 84 85 00 00 00       je     ffffffff8113c690 <ring_buffer_lock_reserve+0xb0>
 |     31 c0                   xor    %eax,%eax
 |     5d                      pop    %rbp
 |     c3                      retq
 |     90                      nop
 +---> 65 44 8b 05 48 e3 ec    mov    %gs:0x7eece348(%rip),%r8d        # a960 <__preempt_count>
       7e
       41 81 e0 ff ff ff 7f    and    $0x7fffffff,%r8d
       b0 08                   mov    $0x8,%al
       65 8b 0d 58 36 ed 7e    mov    %gs:0x7eed3658(%rip),%ecx        # fc80 <current_context>
       41 f7 c0 00 ff 1f 00    test   $0x1fff00,%r8d
       74 1e                   je     ffffffff8113c64f <ring_buffer_lock_reserve+0x6f>
       41 f7 c0 00 00 10 00    test   $0x100000,%r8d
       b0 01                   mov    $0x1,%al
       75 13                   jne    ffffffff8113c64f <ring_buffer_lock_reserve+0x6f>
       41 81 e0 00 00 0f 00    and    $0xf0000,%r8d
       49 83 f8 01             cmp    $0x1,%r8
       19 c0                   sbb    %eax,%eax
       83 e0 02                and    $0x2,%eax
       83 c0 02                add    $0x2,%eax
       85 c8                   test   %ecx,%eax
       75 ab                   jne    ffffffff8113c5fe <ring_buffer_lock_reserve+0x1e>
       09 c8                   or     %ecx,%eax
       65 89 05 24 36 ed 7e    mov    %eax,%gs:0x7eed3624(%rip)        # fc80 <current_context>

The arrow is the fast path.

After adding the unlikely's, the fast path looks a bit better:

 <ring_buffer_lock_reserve>:
       31 c0                   xor    %eax,%eax
       48 83 3d 76 47 bd 00    cmpq   $0x1,0xbd4776(%rip)        # ffffffff81d10d60 <ring_buffer_flags>
       01
       55                      push   %rbp
       48 89 e5                mov    %rsp,%rbp
       75 7b                   jne    ffffffff8113c66b <ring_buffer_lock_reserve+0x8b>
       65 ff 05 69 e3 ec 7e    incl   %gs:0x7eece369(%rip)        # a960 <__preempt_count>
       8b 47 08                mov    0x8(%rdi),%eax
       85 c0                   test   %eax,%eax
       0f 85 9f 00 00 00       jne    ffffffff8113c6a1 <ring_buffer_lock_reserve+0xc1>
       65 8b 0d 57 e3 ec 7e    mov    %gs:0x7eece357(%rip),%ecx        # a960 <__preempt_count>
       81 e1 ff ff ff 7f       and    $0x7fffffff,%ecx
       b0 08                   mov    $0x8,%al
       65 8b 15 68 36 ed 7e    mov    %gs:0x7eed3668(%rip),%edx        # fc80 <current_context>
       f7 c1 00 ff 1f 00       test   $0x1fff00,%ecx
       75 50                   jne    ffffffff8113c670 <ring_buffer_lock_reserve+0x90>
       85 d0                   test   %edx,%eax
       75 7d                   jne    ffffffff8113c6a1 <ring_buffer_lock_reserve+0xc1>
       09 d0                   or     %edx,%eax
       65 89 05 53 36 ed 7e    mov    %eax,%gs:0x7eed3653(%rip)        # fc80 <current_context>
       65 8b 05 fc da ec 7e    mov    %gs:0x7eecdafc(%rip),%eax        # a130 <cpu_number>
       89 c2                   mov    %eax,%edx

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-05-21 17:39:29 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
af658dca22 tracing: Rename ftrace_event.h to trace_events.h
The term "ftrace" is really the infrastructure of the function hooks,
and not the trace events. Rename ftrace_event.h to trace_events.h to
represent the trace_event infrastructure and decouple the term ftrace
from it.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-05-13 14:05:12 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
d631c8cceb ring-buffer: Remove duplicate use of '&' in recursive code
A clean up of the recursive protection code changed

  val = this_cpu_read(current_context);
  val--;
  val &= this_cpu_read(current_context);

to

  val = this_cpu_read(current_context);
  val &= val & (val - 1);

Which has a duplicate use of '&' as the above is the same as

  val = val & (val - 1);

Actually, it would be best to remove that line altogether and
just add it to where it is used.

And Christoph even mentioned that it can be further compacted to
just a single line:

  __this_cpu_and(current_context, __this_cpu_read(current_context) - 1);

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/alpine.DEB.2.11.1503271423580.23114@gentwo.org

Suggested-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-03-30 13:36:31 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
80a9b64e2c ring-buffer: Replace this_cpu_*() with __this_cpu_*()
It has come to my attention that this_cpu_read/write are horrible on
architectures other than x86. Worse yet, they actually disable
preemption or interrupts! This caused some unexpected tracing results
on ARM.

   101.356868: preempt_count_add <-ring_buffer_lock_reserve
   101.356870: preempt_count_sub <-ring_buffer_lock_reserve

The ring_buffer_lock_reserve has recursion protection that requires
accessing a per cpu variable. But since preempt_disable() is traced, it
too got traced while accessing the variable that is suppose to prevent
recursion like this.

The generic version of this_cpu_read() and write() are:

 #define this_cpu_generic_read(pcp)					\
 ({	typeof(pcp) ret__;						\
	preempt_disable();						\
	ret__ = *this_cpu_ptr(&(pcp));					\
	preempt_enable();						\
	ret__;								\
 })

 #define this_cpu_generic_to_op(pcp, val, op)				\
 do {									\
	unsigned long flags;						\
	raw_local_irq_save(flags);					\
	*__this_cpu_ptr(&(pcp)) op val;					\
	raw_local_irq_restore(flags);					\
 } while (0)

Which is unacceptable for locations that know they are within preempt
disabled or interrupt disabled locations.

Paul McKenney stated that __this_cpu_() versions produce much better code on
other architectures than this_cpu_() does, if we know that the call is done in
a preempt disabled location.

I also changed the recursive_unlock() to use two local variables instead
of accessing the per_cpu variable twice.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150317114411.GE3589@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150317104038.312e73d1@gandalf.local.home

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Reported-by: Uwe Kleine-Koenig <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Tested-by: Uwe Kleine-Koenig <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-03-25 08:56:49 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
1e0d6714ac ring-buffer: Do not wake up a splice waiter when page is not full
When an application connects to the ring buffer via splice, it can only
read full pages. Splice does not work with partial pages. If there is
not enough data to fill a page, the splice command will either block
or return -EAGAIN (if set to nonblock).

Code was added where if the page is not full, to just sleep again.
The problem is, it will get woken up again on the next event. That
is, when something is written into the ring buffer, if there is a waiter
it will wake it up. The waiter would then check the buffer, see that
it still does not have enough data to fill a page and go back to sleep.
To make matters worse, when the waiter goes back to sleep, it could
cause another event, which would wake it back up again to see it
doesn't have enough data and sleep again. This produces a tremendous
overhead and fills the ring buffer with noise.

For example, recording sched_switch on an idle system for 10 seconds
produces 25,350,475 events!!!

Create another wait queue for those waiters wanting full pages.
When an event is written, it only wakes up waiters if there's a full
page of data. It does not wake up the waiter if the page is not yet
full.

After this change, recording sched_switch on an idle system for 10
seconds produces only 800 events. Getting rid of 25,349,675 useless
events (99.9969% of events!!), is something to take seriously.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.16+
Cc: Rabin Vincent <rabin@rab.in>
Fixes: e30f53aad220 "tracing: Do not busy wait in buffer splice"
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-02-11 07:41:42 -05:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
3efb5f21a3 tracing: Remove unneeded includes of debugfs.h and fs.h
The creation of tracing files and directories is for the most part
encapsulated in helper functions in trace.c. Other files do not need to
include debugfs.h or fs.h, as they may have needed to in the past.

Remove them from the files that do not need them.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-01-22 11:19:48 -05:00
Linus Torvalds
1dd7dcb6ea There was a lot of clean ups and minor fixes. One of those clean ups was
to the trace_seq code. It also removed the return values to the
 trace_seq_*() functions and use trace_seq_has_overflowed() to see if
 the buffer filled up or not. This is similar to work being done to the
 seq_file code as well in another tree.
 
 Some of the other goodies include:
 
  o Added some "!" (NOT) logic to the tracing filter.
 
  o Fixed the frame pointer logic to the x86_64 mcount trampolines
 
  o Added the logic for dynamic trampolines on !CONFIG_PREEMPT systems.
    That is, the ftrace trampoline can be dynamically allocated
    and be called directly by functions that only have a single hook
    to them.
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Merge tag 'trace-3.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace

Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
 "There was a lot of clean ups and minor fixes.  One of those clean ups
  was to the trace_seq code.  It also removed the return values to the
  trace_seq_*() functions and use trace_seq_has_overflowed() to see if
  the buffer filled up or not.  This is similar to work being done to
  the seq_file code as well in another tree.

  Some of the other goodies include:

   - Added some "!" (NOT) logic to the tracing filter.

   - Fixed the frame pointer logic to the x86_64 mcount trampolines

   - Added the logic for dynamic trampolines on !CONFIG_PREEMPT systems.
     That is, the ftrace trampoline can be dynamically allocated and be
     called directly by functions that only have a single hook to them"

* tag 'trace-3.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (55 commits)
  tracing: Truncated output is better than nothing
  tracing: Add additional marks to signal very large time deltas
  Documentation: describe trace_buf_size parameter more accurately
  tracing: Allow NOT to filter AND and OR clauses
  tracing: Add NOT to filtering logic
  ftrace/fgraph/x86: Have prepare_ftrace_return() take ip as first parameter
  ftrace/x86: Get rid of ftrace_caller_setup
  ftrace/x86: Have save_mcount_regs macro also save stack frames if needed
  ftrace/x86: Add macro MCOUNT_REG_SIZE for amount of stack used to save mcount regs
  ftrace/x86: Simplify save_mcount_regs on getting RIP
  ftrace/x86: Have save_mcount_regs store RIP in %rdi for first parameter
  ftrace/x86: Rename MCOUNT_SAVE_FRAME and add more detailed comments
  ftrace/x86: Move MCOUNT_SAVE_FRAME out of header file
  ftrace/x86: Have static tracing also use ftrace_caller_setup
  ftrace/x86: Have static function tracing always test for function graph
  kprobes: Add IPMODIFY flag to kprobe_ftrace_ops
  ftrace, kprobes: Support IPMODIFY flag to find IP modify conflict
  kprobes/ftrace: Recover original IP if pre_handler doesn't change it
  tracing/trivial: Fix typos and make an int into a bool
  tracing: Deletion of an unnecessary check before iput()
  ...
2014-12-10 19:58:13 -08:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
c0cd93aa16 ring-buffer: Remove check of trace_seq_{puts,printf}() return values
Remove checking the return value of all trace_seq_puts(). It was wrong
anyway as only the last return value mattered. But as the trace_seq_puts()
is going to be a void function in the future, we should not be checking
the return value of it anyway.

Just return !trace_seq_has_overflowed() instead.

Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2014-11-19 15:25:40 -05:00
Rabin Vincent
e30f53aad2 tracing: Do not busy wait in buffer splice
On a !PREEMPT kernel, attempting to use trace-cmd results in a soft
lockup:

 # trace-cmd record -e raw_syscalls:* -F false
 NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 22s! [trace-cmd:61]
 ...
 Call Trace:
  [<ffffffff8105b580>] ? __wake_up_common+0x90/0x90
  [<ffffffff81092e25>] wait_on_pipe+0x35/0x40
  [<ffffffff810936e3>] tracing_buffers_splice_read+0x2e3/0x3c0
  [<ffffffff81093300>] ? tracing_stats_read+0x2a0/0x2a0
  [<ffffffff812d10ab>] ? _raw_spin_unlock+0x2b/0x40
  [<ffffffff810dc87b>] ? do_read_fault+0x21b/0x290
  [<ffffffff810de56a>] ? handle_mm_fault+0x2ba/0xbd0
  [<ffffffff81095c80>] ? trace_event_buffer_lock_reserve+0x40/0x80
  [<ffffffff810951e2>] ? trace_buffer_lock_reserve+0x22/0x60
  [<ffffffff81095c80>] ? trace_event_buffer_lock_reserve+0x40/0x80
  [<ffffffff8112415d>] do_splice_to+0x6d/0x90
  [<ffffffff81126971>] SyS_splice+0x7c1/0x800
  [<ffffffff812d1edd>] tracesys_phase2+0xd3/0xd8

The problem is this: tracing_buffers_splice_read() calls
ring_buffer_wait() to wait for data in the ring buffers.  The buffers
are not empty so ring_buffer_wait() returns immediately.  But
tracing_buffers_splice_read() calls ring_buffer_read_page() with full=1,
meaning it only wants to read a full page.  When the full page is not
available, tracing_buffers_splice_read() tries to wait again with
ring_buffer_wait(), which again returns immediately, and so on.

Fix this by adding a "full" argument to ring_buffer_wait() which will
make ring_buffer_wait() wait until the writer has left the reader's
page, i.e.  until full-page reads will succeed.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1415645194-25379-1-git-send-email-rabin@rab.in

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.16+
Fixes: b1169cc69ba9 ("tracing: Remove mock up poll wait function")
Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent <rabin@rab.in>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2014-11-10 16:45:43 -05:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
24607f114f ring-buffer: Fix infinite spin in reading buffer
Commit 651e22f2701b "ring-buffer: Always reset iterator to reader page"
fixed one bug but in the process caused another one. The reset is to
update the header page, but that fix also changed the way the cached
reads were updated. The cache reads are used to test if an iterator
needs to be updated or not.

A ring buffer iterator, when created, disables writes to the ring buffer
but does not stop other readers or consuming reads from happening.
Although all readers are synchronized via a lock, they are only
synchronized when in the ring buffer functions. Those functions may
be called by any number of readers. The iterator continues down when
its not interrupted by a consuming reader. If a consuming read
occurs, the iterator starts from the beginning of the buffer.

The way the iterator sees that a consuming read has happened since
its last read is by checking the reader "cache". The cache holds the
last counts of the read and the reader page itself.

Commit 651e22f2701b changed what was saved by the cache_read when
the rb_iter_reset() occurred, making the iterator never match the cache.
Then if the iterator calls rb_iter_reset(), it will go into an
infinite loop by checking if the cache doesn't match, doing the reset
and retrying, just to see that the cache still doesn't match! Which
should never happen as the reset is suppose to set the cache to the
current value and there's locks that keep a consuming reader from
having access to the data.

Fixes: 651e22f2701b "ring-buffer: Always reset iterator to reader page"
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2014-10-02 16:51:18 -04:00
Josef Bacik
4ce97dbf50 trace: Fix epoll hang when we race with new entries
Epoll on trace_pipe can sometimes hang in a weird case.  If the ring buffer is
empty when we set waiters_pending but an event shows up exactly at that moment
we can miss being woken up by the ring buffers irq work.  Since
ring_buffer_empty() is inherently racey we will sometimes think that the buffer
is not empty.  So we don't get woken up and we don't think there are any events
even though there were some ready when we added the watch, which makes us hang.
This patch fixes this by making sure that we are actually on the wait list
before we set waiters_pending, and add a memory barrier to make sure
ring_buffer_empty() is going to be correct.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/p/1408989581-23727-1-git-send-email-jbacik@fb.com

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.10+
Cc: Martin Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2014-08-25 20:18:11 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
fc335c1b68 This contains a fix for two long standing bugs. Both of which are
rarely ever hit, and requires the user to do something that users rarely
 do. It took a few special test cases to even trigger this bug,
 and one of them was just one test in the process of finishing up as another
 one started.
 
 Both bugs have to do with the ring buffer iterator rb_iter_peek(), but one
 is more indirect than the other.
 
 The fist bug fix is simply an increase in the safety net loop counter.
 The counter makes sure that the rb_iter_peek() only iterates the number
 of times we expect it can, and no more. Well, there was one way it could
 iterate one more than we expected, and that caused the ring buffer
 to shutdown with a nasty warning. The fix was simply to up that counter by
 one.
 
 The other bug has to be with rb_iter_reset() (called by rb_iter_peek()).
 This happens when a user reads both the trace_pipe and trace files.
 The trace_pipe is a consuming read and does not use the ring buffer
 iterator, but the trace file is not a consuming read and does use the
 ring buffer iterator. When the trace file is being read, if it detects
 that a consuming read occurred, it resets the iterator and starts over.
 But the reset code that does this (rb_iter_reset()), checks if the
 reader_page is linked to the ring buffer or not, and will look into
 the ring buffer itself if it is not. This is wrong, as it should always
 try to read the reader page first. Not to mention, the code that looked
 into the ring buffer did it wrong, and used the header_page "read" offset
 to start reading on that page. That offset is bogus for pages in the
 writable ring buffer, and was corrupting the iterator, and it would start
 returning bogus events.
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Merge tag 'trace-fixes-3.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace

Pull trace file read iterator fixes from Steven Rostedt:
 "This contains a fix for two long standing bugs.  Both of which are
  rarely ever hit, and requires the user to do something that users
  rarely do.  It took a few special test cases to even trigger this bug,
  and one of them was just one test in the process of finishing up as
  another one started.

  Both bugs have to do with the ring buffer iterator rb_iter_peek(), but
  one is more indirect than the other.

  The fist bug fix is simply an increase in the safety net loop counter.
  The counter makes sure that the rb_iter_peek() only iterates the
  number of times we expect it can, and no more.  Well, there was one
  way it could iterate one more than we expected, and that caused the
  ring buffer to shutdown with a nasty warning.  The fix was simply to
  up that counter by one.

  The other bug has to be with rb_iter_reset() (called by
  rb_iter_peek()).  This happens when a user reads both the trace_pipe
  and trace files.  The trace_pipe is a consuming read and does not use
  the ring buffer iterator, but the trace file is not a consuming read
  and does use the ring buffer iterator.  When the trace file is being
  read, if it detects that a consuming read occurred, it resets the
  iterator and starts over.  But the reset code that does this
  (rb_iter_reset()), checks if the reader_page is linked to the ring
  buffer or not, and will look into the ring buffer itself if it is not.
  This is wrong, as it should always try to read the reader page first.
  Not to mention, the code that looked into the ring buffer did it
  wrong, and used the header_page "read" offset to start reading on that
  page.  That offset is bogus for pages in the writable ring buffer, and
  was corrupting the iterator, and it would start returning bogus
  events"

* tag 'trace-fixes-3.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
  ring-buffer: Always reset iterator to reader page
  ring-buffer: Up rb_iter_peek() loop count to 3
2014-08-09 17:29:36 -07:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
651e22f270 ring-buffer: Always reset iterator to reader page
When performing a consuming read, the ring buffer swaps out a
page from the ring buffer with a empty page and this page that
was swapped out becomes the new reader page. The reader page
is owned by the reader and since it was swapped out of the ring
buffer, writers do not have access to it (there's an exception
to that rule, but it's out of scope for this commit).

When reading the "trace" file, it is a non consuming read, which
means that the data in the ring buffer will not be modified.
When the trace file is opened, a ring buffer iterator is allocated
and writes to the ring buffer are disabled, such that the iterator
will not have issues iterating over the data.

Although the ring buffer disabled writes, it does not disable other
reads, or even consuming reads. If a consuming read happens, then
the iterator is reset and starts reading from the beginning again.

My tests would sometimes trigger this bug on my i386 box:

WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 5175 at kernel/trace/trace.c:1527 __trace_find_cmdline+0x66/0xaa()
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 5175 Comm: grep Not tainted 3.16.0-rc3-test+ #8
Hardware name:                  /DG965MQ, BIOS MQ96510J.86A.0372.2006.0605.1717 06/05/2006
 00000000 00000000 f09c9e1c c18796b3 c1b5d74c f09c9e4c c103a0e3 c1b5154b
 f09c9e78 00001437 c1b5d74c 000005f7 c10bd85a c10bd85a c1cac57c f09c9eb0
 ed0e0000 f09c9e64 c103a185 00000009 f09c9e5c c1b5154b f09c9e78 f09c9e80^M
Call Trace:
 [<c18796b3>] dump_stack+0x4b/0x75
 [<c103a0e3>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7e/0x95
 [<c10bd85a>] ? __trace_find_cmdline+0x66/0xaa
 [<c10bd85a>] ? __trace_find_cmdline+0x66/0xaa
 [<c103a185>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x33/0x35
 [<c10bd85a>] __trace_find_cmdline+0x66/0xaa^M
 [<c10bed04>] trace_find_cmdline+0x40/0x64
 [<c10c3c16>] trace_print_context+0x27/0xec
 [<c10c4360>] ? trace_seq_printf+0x37/0x5b
 [<c10c0b15>] print_trace_line+0x319/0x39b
 [<c10ba3fb>] ? ring_buffer_read+0x47/0x50
 [<c10c13b1>] s_show+0x192/0x1ab
 [<c10bfd9a>] ? s_next+0x5a/0x7c
 [<c112e76e>] seq_read+0x267/0x34c
 [<c1115a25>] vfs_read+0x8c/0xef
 [<c112e507>] ? seq_lseek+0x154/0x154
 [<c1115ba2>] SyS_read+0x54/0x7f
 [<c188488e>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
---[ end trace 3f507febd6b4cc83 ]---
>>>> ##### CPU 1 buffer started ####

Which was the __trace_find_cmdline() function complaining about the pid
in the event record being negative.

After adding more test cases, this would trigger more often. Strangely
enough, it would never trigger on a single test, but instead would trigger
only when running all the tests. I believe that was the case because it
required one of the tests to be shutting down via delayed instances while
a new test started up.

After spending several days debugging this, I found that it was caused by
the iterator becoming corrupted. Debugging further, I found out why
the iterator became corrupted. It happened with the rb_iter_reset().

As consuming reads may not read the full reader page, and only part
of it, there's a "read" field to know where the last read took place.
The iterator, must also start at the read position. In the rb_iter_reset()
code, if the reader page was disconnected from the ring buffer, the iterator
would start at the head page within the ring buffer (where writes still
happen). But the mistake there was that it still used the "read" field
to start the iterator on the head page, where it should always start
at zero because readers never read from within the ring buffer where
writes occur.

I originally wrote a patch to have it set the iter->head to 0 instead
of iter->head_page->read, but then I questioned why it wasn't always
setting the iter to point to the reader page, as the reader page is
still valid.  The list_empty(reader_page->list) just means that it was
successful in swapping out. But the reader_page may still have data.

There was a bug report a long time ago that was not reproducible that
had something about trace_pipe (consuming read) not matching trace
(iterator read). This may explain why that happened.

Anyway, the correct answer to this bug is to always use the reader page
an not reset the iterator to inside the writable ring buffer.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 2.6.28+
Fixes: d769041f8653 "ring_buffer: implement new locking"
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2014-08-06 16:06:34 -04:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
021de3d904 ring-buffer: Up rb_iter_peek() loop count to 3
After writting a test to try to trigger the bug that caused the
ring buffer iterator to become corrupted, I hit another bug:

 WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 5281 at kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:3766 rb_iter_peek+0x113/0x238()
 Modules linked in: ipt_MASQUERADE sunrpc [...]
 CPU: 1 PID: 5281 Comm: grep Tainted: G        W     3.16.0-rc3-test+ #143
 Hardware name: To Be Filled By O.E.M. To Be Filled By O.E.M./To be filled by O.E.M., BIOS SDBLI944.86P 05/08/2007
  0000000000000000 ffffffff81809a80 ffffffff81503fb0 0000000000000000
  ffffffff81040ca1 ffff8800796d6010 ffffffff810c138d ffff8800796d6010
  ffff880077438c80 ffff8800796d6010 ffff88007abbe600 0000000000000003
 Call Trace:
  [<ffffffff81503fb0>] ? dump_stack+0x4a/0x75
  [<ffffffff81040ca1>] ? warn_slowpath_common+0x7e/0x97
  [<ffffffff810c138d>] ? rb_iter_peek+0x113/0x238
  [<ffffffff810c138d>] ? rb_iter_peek+0x113/0x238
  [<ffffffff810c14df>] ? ring_buffer_iter_peek+0x2d/0x5c
  [<ffffffff810c6f73>] ? tracing_iter_reset+0x6e/0x96
  [<ffffffff810c74a3>] ? s_start+0xd7/0x17b
  [<ffffffff8112b13e>] ? kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0xda/0xea
  [<ffffffff8114cf94>] ? seq_read+0x148/0x361
  [<ffffffff81132d98>] ? vfs_read+0x93/0xf1
  [<ffffffff81132f1b>] ? SyS_read+0x60/0x8e
  [<ffffffff8150bf9f>] ? tracesys+0xdd/0xe2

Debugging this bug, which triggers when the rb_iter_peek() loops too
many times (more than 2 times), I discovered there's a case that can
cause that function to legitimately loop 3 times!

rb_iter_peek() is different than rb_buffer_peek() as the rb_buffer_peek()
only deals with the reader page (it's for consuming reads). The
rb_iter_peek() is for traversing the buffer without consuming it, and as
such, it can loop for one more reason. That is, if we hit the end of
the reader page or any page, it will go to the next page and try again.

That is, we have this:

 1. iter->head > iter->head_page->page->commit
    (rb_inc_iter() which moves the iter to the next page)
    try again

 2. event = rb_iter_head_event()
    event->type_len == RINGBUF_TYPE_TIME_EXTEND
    rb_advance_iter()
    try again

 3. read the event.

But we never get to 3, because the count is greater than 2 and we
cause the WARNING and return NULL.

Up the counter to 3.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 2.6.37+
Fixes: 69d1b839f7ee "ring-buffer: Bind time extend and data events together"
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2014-08-06 16:06:33 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
b8c0aa46b3 This pull request has a lot of work done. The main thing is the changes
to the ftrace function callback infrastructure. It's introducing a
 way to allow different functions to call directly different trampolines
 instead of all calling the same "mcount" one.
 
 The only user of this for now is the function graph tracer, which always
 had a different trampoline, but the function tracer trampoline was called
 and did basically nothing, and then the function graph tracer trampoline
 was called. The difference now, is that the function graph tracer
 trampoline can be called directly if a function is only being traced by
 the function graph trampoline. If function tracing is also happening on
 the same function, the old way is still done.
 
 The accounting for this takes up more memory when function graph tracing
 is activated, as it needs to keep track of which functions it uses.
 I have a new way that wont take as much memory, but it's not ready yet
 for this merge window, and will have to wait for the next one.
 
 Another big change was the removal of the ftrace_start/stop() calls that
 were used by the suspend/resume code that stopped function tracing when
 entering into suspend and resume paths. The stop of ftrace was done
 because there was some function that would crash the system if one called
 smp_processor_id()! The stop/start was a big hammer to solve the issue
 at the time, which was when ftrace was first introduced into Linux.
 Now ftrace has better infrastructure to debug such issues, and I found
 the problem function and labeled it with "notrace" and function tracing
 can now safely be activated all the way down into the guts of suspend
 and resume.
 
 Other changes include clean ups of uprobe code.
 Clean up of the trace_seq() code.
 And other various small fixes and clean ups to ftrace and tracing.
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Merge tag 'trace-3.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace

Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
 "This pull request has a lot of work done.  The main thing is the
  changes to the ftrace function callback infrastructure.  It's
  introducing a way to allow different functions to call directly
  different trampolines instead of all calling the same "mcount" one.

  The only user of this for now is the function graph tracer, which
  always had a different trampoline, but the function tracer trampoline
  was called and did basically nothing, and then the function graph
  tracer trampoline was called.  The difference now, is that the
  function graph tracer trampoline can be called directly if a function
  is only being traced by the function graph trampoline.  If function
  tracing is also happening on the same function, the old way is still
  done.

  The accounting for this takes up more memory when function graph
  tracing is activated, as it needs to keep track of which functions it
  uses.  I have a new way that wont take as much memory, but it's not
  ready yet for this merge window, and will have to wait for the next
  one.

  Another big change was the removal of the ftrace_start/stop() calls
  that were used by the suspend/resume code that stopped function
  tracing when entering into suspend and resume paths.  The stop of
  ftrace was done because there was some function that would crash the
  system if one called smp_processor_id()! The stop/start was a big
  hammer to solve the issue at the time, which was when ftrace was first
  introduced into Linux.  Now ftrace has better infrastructure to debug
  such issues, and I found the problem function and labeled it with
  "notrace" and function tracing can now safely be activated all the way
  down into the guts of suspend and resume

  Other changes include clean ups of uprobe code, clean up of the
  trace_seq() code, and other various small fixes and clean ups to
  ftrace and tracing"

* tag 'trace-3.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (57 commits)
  ftrace: Add warning if tramp hash does not match nr_trampolines
  ftrace: Fix trampoline hash update check on rec->flags
  ring-buffer: Use rb_page_size() instead of open coded head_page size
  ftrace: Rename ftrace_ops field from trampolines to nr_trampolines
  tracing: Convert local function_graph functions to static
  ftrace: Do not copy old hash when resetting
  tracing: let user specify tracing_thresh after selecting function_graph
  ring-buffer: Always run per-cpu ring buffer resize with schedule_work_on()
  tracing: Remove function_trace_stop and HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACE_MCOUNT_TEST
  s390/ftrace: remove check of obsolete variable function_trace_stop
  arm64, ftrace: Remove check of obsolete variable function_trace_stop
  Blackfin: ftrace: Remove check of obsolete variable function_trace_stop
  metag: ftrace: Remove check of obsolete variable function_trace_stop
  microblaze: ftrace: Remove check of obsolete variable function_trace_stop
  MIPS: ftrace: Remove check of obsolete variable function_trace_stop
  parisc: ftrace: Remove check of obsolete variable function_trace_stop
  sh: ftrace: Remove check of obsolete variable function_trace_stop
  sparc64,ftrace: Remove check of obsolete variable function_trace_stop
  tile: ftrace: Remove check of obsolete variable function_trace_stop
  ftrace: x86: Remove check of obsolete variable function_trace_stop
  ...
2014-08-04 11:50:00 -07:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
10e83fd01c ring-buffer: Use rb_page_size() instead of open coded head_page size
There's a helper function to get a ring buffer page size (the number
of bytes of data recorded on the page), called rb_page_size().
Use that instead of open coding it.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2014-07-23 19:45:12 -04:00
Corey Minyard
021c5b3445 ring-buffer: Always run per-cpu ring buffer resize with schedule_work_on()
The code for resizing the trace ring buffers has to run the per-cpu
resize on the CPU itself.  The code was using preempt_off() and
running the code for the current CPU directly, otherwise calling
schedule_work_on().

At least on RT this could result in the following:

|BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/rtmutex.c:673
|in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 607, name: bash
|3 locks held by bash/607:
|CPU: 0 PID: 607 Comm: bash Not tainted 3.12.15-rt25+ #124
|(rt_spin_lock+0x28/0x68)
|(free_hot_cold_page+0x84/0x3b8)
|(free_buffer_page+0x14/0x20)
|(rb_update_pages+0x280/0x338)
|(ring_buffer_resize+0x32c/0x3dc)
|(free_snapshot+0x18/0x38)
|(tracing_set_tracer+0x27c/0x2ac)

probably via
|cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
|echo 1 > events/enable ; sleep 2
|echo 1024 > buffer_size_kb

If we just always use schedule_work_on(), there's no need for the
preempt_off().  So do that.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/p/1405537633-31518-1-git-send-email-cminyard@mvista.com

Reported-by: Stanislav Meduna <stano@meduna.org>
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2014-07-18 13:58:12 -04:00