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Linus Torvalds
c3fa27d136 Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (470 commits)
  x86: Fix comments of register/stack access functions
  perf tools: Replace %m with %a in sscanf
  hw-breakpoints: Keep track of user disabled breakpoints
  tracing/syscalls: Make syscall events print callbacks static
  tracing: Add DEFINE_EVENT(), DEFINE_SINGLE_EVENT() support to docbook
  perf: Don't free perf_mmap_data until work has been done
  perf_event: Fix compile error
  perf tools: Fix _GNU_SOURCE macro related strndup() build error
  trace_syscalls: Remove unused syscall_name_to_nr()
  trace_syscalls: Simplify syscall profile
  trace_syscalls: Remove duplicate init_enter_##sname()
  trace_syscalls: Add syscall_nr field to struct syscall_metadata
  trace_syscalls: Remove enter_id exit_id
  trace_syscalls: Set event_enter_##sname->data to its metadata
  trace_syscalls: Remove unused event_syscall_enter and event_syscall_exit
  perf_event: Initialize data.period in perf_swevent_hrtimer()
  perf probe: Simplify event naming
  perf probe: Add --list option for listing current probe events
  perf probe: Add argv_split() from lib/argv_split.c
  perf probe: Move probe event utility functions to probe-event.c
  ...
2009-12-05 15:30:21 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
26fb20d008 Merge branch 'perf/mce' into perf/core
Merge reason: It's ready for v2.6.33.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-03 20:11:06 +01:00
Masami Hiramatsu
ba005e1f41 tracepoint: Add signal loss events
Add signal_overflow_fail and signal_lose_info tracepoints
for signal-lost events.

Changes in v3:
 - Add docbook style comments

Changes in v2:
 - Use siginfo string macro

Suggested-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>
Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091124215658.30449.9934.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-26 10:55:38 +01:00
Masami Hiramatsu
f9d4257e01 tracepoint: Add signal deliver event
Add a tracepoint where a process gets a signal. This tracepoint
shows signal-number, sa-handler and sa-flag.

Changes in v3:
 - Add docbook style comments

Changes in v2:
 - Add siginfo argument
 - Fix comment

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>
Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091124215651.30449.20926.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-26 10:55:38 +01:00
Masami Hiramatsu
d1eb650ff4 tracepoint: Move signal sending tracepoint to events/signal.h
Move signal sending event to events/signal.h. This patch also
renames sched_signal_send event to signal_generate.

Changes in v4:
 - Fix a typo of task_struct pointer.

Changes in v3:
 - Add docbook style comments

Changes in v2:
 - Add siginfo argument
 - Add siginfo storing macro

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>
Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091124215645.30449.60208.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-26 10:55:37 +01:00
Li Zefan
470dda7417 tracing: Restore original format of sched events
The original format for sched_stat_iowait and sched_stat_sleep:

  $ cat events/sched/sched_stat_iowait/format
  ...
  print fmt: "comm=%s pid=%d delay=%Lu [ns]", ...
  $ cat events/sched/sched_stat_sleep/format
  ...
  print fmt: "comm=%s pid=%d delay=%Lu [ns]", ...

But commit commit 75ec29ab84
("tracing: Convert some sched trace events to DEFINE_EVENT and
_PRINT") broke the format:

  $ cat events/sched/sched_stat_iowait/format
  print fmt: "task: %s:%d iowait: %Lu [ns]", ...
  $ cat events/sched/sched_stat_sleep/format
  print fmt: "task: %s:%d sleep: %Lu [ns]", ...

No change in functionality.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B0E2951.9050800@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-26 09:14:05 +01:00
Li Zefan
b5eb34c359 tracing: Convert some ext4 events to DEFINE_TRACE
Use DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS to remove duplicate code:

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
 294695    6104     340  301139   49853 fs/ext4/ext4.o.old
 289983    6104     324  296411   485db fs/ext4/ext4.o

5 events are convertd:

  ext4__write_begin: ext4_write_begin, ext4_da_write_begin
  ext4__write_end: ext4_{ordered, writeback, journalled}_write_end

No change in functionality.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B0E2938.2040708@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-26 09:14:05 +01:00
Li Zefan
071688f36e tracing: Convert some jbd2 events to DEFINE_EVENT
Use DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS to remove duplicate code:

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  34903    1693     448   37044    90b4 fs/jbd2/journal.o.old
  31931    1693     416   34040    84f8 fs/jbd2/journal.o

Four events are converted:

  jbd2_commit: jbd2_start_commit,
               jbd2_commit_{locking, flushing, logging}

No change in functionality.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B0E290F.7030909@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-26 09:14:04 +01:00
Li Zefan
77ca1e0294 tracing: Convert some block events to DEFINE_EVENT
use DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS to remove duplicate code:

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  53570    3284     184   57038    dece block/blk-core.o.old
  43702    3284     144   47130    b81a block/blk-core.o

12 events are converted:

  block_rq: block_rq_insert, block_rq_issue
  block_rq_with_error: block_rq_{abort, requeue, complete}
  block_bio: block_bio_{backmerge, frontmerge, queue}
  block_get_rq: block_getrq, block_sleeprq
  block_unplug: block_unplug_timer, block_unplug_io

No change in functionality.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B0E28E6.7060609@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-26 09:14:04 +01:00
Li Zefan
7703466b4c tracing: Convert some power events to DEFINE_EVENT
Use DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS to remove duplicate code:

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
   4312     524      12    4848    12f0 kernel/trace/power-traces.o.old
   3455     524       8    3987     f93 kernel/trace/power-traces.o

Two events are converted:

  power: power_start, power_frequency

No change in functionality.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <4B0E28C2.1090906@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-26 09:14:03 +01:00
Li Zefan
382ece710b tracing: Convert some workqueue events to DEFINE_EVENT
Use DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS to remove duplicate code:

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  13171     800      72   14043    36db kernel/workqueue.o.old
  12243     800      68   13111    3337 kernel/workqueue.o

Two events are converted:

  workqueue: workqueue_insertion, workqueue_execution

No change in functionality.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B0E289F.5010104@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-26 09:14:03 +01:00
Li Zefan
c467307c1a tracing: Convert softirq events to DEFINE_EVENT
Use DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS to remove duplicate code:

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  12781     952      36   13769    35c9 kernel/softirq.o.old
  11981     952      32   12965    32a5 kernel/softirq.o

Two events are converted:

  softirq: softirq_entry, softirq_exit

No change in functionality.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B0E287F.4030708@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-26 09:14:03 +01:00
Li Zefan
53d0422c2d tracing: Convert some kmem events to DEFINE_EVENT
Use DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS to remove duplicate code:

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
 333987   69800   27228  431015   693a7 mm/built-in.o.old
 330030   69800   27228  427058   68432 mm/built-in.o

8 events are converted:

  kmem_alloc: kmalloc, kmem_cache_alloc
  kmem_alloc_node: kmalloc_node, kmem_cache_alloc_node
  kmem_free: kfree, kmem_cache_free
  mm_page: mm_page_alloc_zone_locked, mm_page_pcpu_drain

No change in functionality.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
LKML-Reference: <4B0E286A.2000405@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-26 09:14:02 +01:00
Li Zefan
925684d6d5 tracing: Convert module refcnt events to DEFINE_EVENT
Use DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS to remove duplicate code:

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  29854    1980     128   31962    7cda kernel/module.o.old
  28750    1980     128   30858    788a kernel/module.o

Two events are converted:

  module_refcnt: module_get, module_put

No change in functionality.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B0E283B.3010508@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-26 09:14:02 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
091ad3658e events: Rename TRACE_EVENT_TEMPLATE() to DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS()
It is not quite obvious at first sight what TRACE_EVENT_TEMPLATE
does: does it define an event as well beyond defining a template?

To clarify this, rename it to DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS, which follows
the various 'DECLARE_*()' idioms we already have in the kernel:

  DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS(class)

    DEFINE_EVENT(class, event1)
    DEFINE_EVENT(class, event2)
    DEFINE_EVENT(class, event3)

To complete this logic we should also rename TRACE_EVENT() to:

  DEFINE_SINGLE_EVENT(single_event)

... but in a more quiet moment of the kernel cycle.

Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B0E286A.2000405@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-26 09:04:55 +01:00
Lai Jiangshan
b8007ef742 tracing: Separate raw syscall from syscall tracer
The current syscall tracer mixes raw syscalls and real syscalls.

echo 1 > events/syscalls/enable
And we get these from the output:

(XXXX insteads "            grep-20914 [001] 588211.446347" .. etc)

XXXX: sys_read(fd: 3, buf: 80609a8, count: 7000)
XXXX: sys_enter: NR 3 (3, 80609a8, 7000, a, 1000, bfce8ef8)
XXXX: sys_read -> 0x138
XXXX: sys_exit: NR 3 = 312
XXXX: sys_read(fd: 3, buf: 8060ae0, count: 7000)
XXXX: sys_enter: NR 3 (3, 8060ae0, 7000, a, 1000, bfce8ef8)
XXXX: sys_read -> 0x138
XXXX: sys_exit: NR 3 = 312

There are 2 drawbacks here.
A) two almost identical records are saved in ringbuffer
   when a syscall enters or exits. (4 records for every syscall)
   This wastes precious space in the ring buffer.
B) the lines including "sys_enter/sys_exit" produces
   hardly any useful information for the output (no labels).

The user can use this method to prevent these drawbacks:
echo 1 > events/syscalls/enable
echo 0 > events/syscalls/sys_enter/enable
echo 0 > events/syscalls/sys_exit/enable

But this is not user friendly. So we separate raw syscall
from syscall tracer.

After this fix applied:
syscall tracer's output (echo 1 > events/syscalls/enable):

XXXX: sys_read(fd: 3, buf: bfe87d88, count: 200)
XXXX: sys_read -> 0x200
XXXX: sys_fstat64(fd: 3, statbuf: bfe87c98)
XXXX: sys_fstat64 -> 0x0
XXXX: sys_close(fd: 3)

raw syscall tracer's output (echo 1 > events/raw_syscalls/enable):

XXXX: sys_enter: NR 175 (0, bf92bf18, bf92bf98, 8, b748cff4, bf92bef8)
XXXX: sys_exit: NR 175 = 0
XXXX: sys_enter: NR 175 (2, bf92bf98, 0, 8, b748cff4, bf92bef8)
XXXX: sys_exit: NR 175 = 0
XXXX: sys_enter: NR 3 (9, bf927f9c, 4000, b77e2518, b77dce60, bf92bff8)

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4AEFC37C.5080609@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-11-25 14:20:06 -05:00
Steven Rostedt
75ec29ab84 tracing: Convert some sched trace events to DEFINE_EVENT and _PRINT
Converting some of the scheduler trace events to use the
TRACE_EVENT_TEMPLATE, DEFINE_EVENT and DEFINE_EVENT_PRINT helped to
save some space:

$ size kernel/sched.o-*
   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
  79299	   6776	   2520	  88595	  15a13	kernel/sched.o-notrace
 101941	  11896	   2584	 116421	  1c6c5	kernel/sched.o-templ
 104779	  11896	   2584	 119259	  1d1db	kernel/sched.o-trace

sched.o-notrace is without any tracepoints compiled
sched.o-templ is with this patch
sched.o-trace is the tracepoints before this patch

The trace events converted to DEFINE_EVENT:

sched_wakeup, sched_wakeup_new, sched_process_free, sched_process_exit,
and sched_stat_wait.

The trace events converted to DEFINE_EVENT_PRINT:

sched_stat_sleep and sched_stat_iowait.

Note, since the TRACE_EVENT_TEMPLATE always uses a print, the
sched_stat_wait print format is defined in the template and this
template is used by sched_stat_sleep and sched_stat_iowait. But the
later two override the print format.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-11-24 18:24:00 -05:00
Frederic Weisbecker
67178767b9 tracing: Rename 'lockdep' event subsystem into 'lock'
Lockdep events subsystem gathers various locking related events
such as a request, release, contention or acquisition of a lock.

The name of this event subsystem is a bit of a misnomer since
these events are not quite related to lockdep but more generally
to locking, ie: these events are not reporting lock dependencies
or possible deadlock scenario but pure locking events.

Hence this rename.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <1258103194-843-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-13 10:48:27 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
9de09ace8d Merge branch 'tracing/urgent' into tracing/core
Merge reason: Pick up fixes and move base from -rc1 to -rc5.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-29 09:02:20 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
434a83c3fb events: Harmonize event field names and print output names
Now that we can filter based on fields via perf record, people
will start using filter expressions and will expect them to
be obvious.

The primary way to see which fields are available is by looking
at the trace output, such as:

  gcc-18676 [000]   343.011728: irq_handler_entry: irq=0 handler=timer
  cc1-18677 [000]   343.012727: irq_handler_entry: irq=0 handler=timer
  cc1-18677 [000]   343.032692: irq_handler_entry: irq=0 handler=timer
  cc1-18677 [000]   343.033690: irq_handler_entry: irq=0 handler=timer
  cc1-18677 [000]   343.034687: irq_handler_entry: irq=0 handler=timer
  cc1-18677 [000]   343.035686: irq_handler_entry: irq=0 handler=timer
  cc1-18677 [000]   343.036684: irq_handler_entry: irq=0 handler=timer

While 'irq==0' filters work, the 'handler==<x>' filter expression
does not work:

  $ perf record -R -f -a -e irq:irq_handler_entry --filter handler=timer sleep 1
   Error: failed to set filter with 22 (Invalid argument)

The problem is that while an 'irq' field exists and is recognized
as a filter field - 'handler' does not exist - its name is 'name'
in the output.

To solve this, we need to synchronize the printout and the field
names, wherever possible.

In cases where the printout prints a non-field, we enclose
that information in square brackets, such as:

  perf-1380  [013]   724.903505: softirq_exit: vec=9 [action=RCU]
  perf-1380  [013]   724.904482: softirq_exit: vec=1 [action=TIMER]

This way users can use filter expressions more intuitively: all
fields that show up as 'primary' (non-bracketed) information is
filterable.

This patch harmonizes the field names for all irq, bkl, power,
sched and timer events.

We might in fact think about dropping the print format bit of
generic tracepoints altogether, and just print the fields that
are being recorded.

Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-15 12:42:03 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
713490e02e Merge branch 'tracing/core' into perf/core
Merge reason: to add event filter support we need the following
commits from the tracing tree:

 3f6fe06: tracing/filters: Unify the regex parsing helpers
 1889d20: tracing/filters: Provide basic regex support
 737f453: tracing/filters: Cleanup useless headers

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-15 11:34:00 +02:00
Hidetoshi Seto
8968f9d3dc perf_event, x86, mce: Use TRACE_EVENT() for MCE logging
This approach is the first baby step towards solving many of the
structural problems the x86 MCE logging code is having today:

 - It has a private ring-buffer implementation that has a number
   of limitations and has been historically fragile and buggy.

 - It is using a quirky /dev/mcelog ioctl driven ABI that is MCE
   specific. /dev/mcelog is not part of any larger logging
   framework and hence has remained on the fringes for many years.

 - The MCE logging code is still very unclean partly due to its ABI
   limitations. Fields are being reused for multiple purposes, and
   the whole message structure is limited and x86 specific to begin
   with.

All in one, the x86 tree would like to move away from this private
implementation of an event logging facility to a broader framework.

By using perf events we gain the following advantages:

 - Multiple user-space agents can access MCE events. We can have an
   mcelog daemon running but also a system-wide tracer capturing
   important events in flight-recorder mode.

 - Sampling support: the kernel and the user-space call-chain of MCE
   events can be stored and analyzed as well. This way actual patterns
   of bad behavior can be matched to precisely what kind of activity
   happened in the kernel (and/or in the app) around that moment in
   time.

 - Coupling with other hardware and software events: the PMU can track a
   number of other anomalies - monitoring software might chose to
   monitor those plus the MCE events as well - in one coherent stream of
   events.

 - Discovery of MCE sources - tracepoints are enumerated and tools can
   act upon the existence (or non-existence) of various channels of MCE
   information.

 - Filtering support: we just subscribe to and act upon the events we
   are interested in. Then even on a per event source basis there's
   in-kernel filter expressions available that can restrict the amount
   of data that hits the event channel.

 - Arbitrary deep per cpu buffering of events - we can buffer 32
   entries or we can buffer as much as we want, as long as we have
   the RAM.

 - An NMI-safe ring-buffer implementation - mappable to user-space.

 - Built-in support for timestamping of events, PID markers, CPU
   markers, etc.

 - A rich ABI accessible over system call interface. Per cpu, per task
   and per workload monitoring of MCE events can be done this way. The
   ABI itself has a nice, meaningful structure.

 - Extensible ABI: new fields can be added without breaking tooling.
   New tracepoints can be added as the hardware side evolves. There's
   various parsers that can be used.

 - Lots of scheduling/buffering/batching modes of operandi for MCE
   events. poll() support. mmap() support. read() support. You name it.

 - Rich tooling support: even without any MCE specific extensions added
   the 'perf' tool today offers various views of MCE data: perf report,
   perf stat, perf trace can all be used to view logged MCE events and
   perhaps correlate them to certain user-space usage patterns. But it
   can be used directly as well, for user-space agents and policy action
   in mcelog, etc.

With this we hope to achieve significant code cleanup and feature
improvements in the MCE code, and we hope to be able to drop the
/dev/mcelog facility in the end.

This patch is just a plain dumb dump of mce_log() records to
the tracepoints / perf events framework - a first proof of
concept step.

Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <4AD42A0D.7050104@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-13 09:43:38 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
58e57fbd1c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (41 commits)
  Revert "Seperate read and write statistics of in_flight requests"
  cfq-iosched: don't delay async queue if it hasn't dispatched at all
  block: Topology ioctls
  cfq-iosched: use assigned slice sync value, not default
  cfq-iosched: rename 'desktop' sysfs entry to 'low_latency'
  cfq-iosched: implement slower async initiate and queue ramp up
  cfq-iosched: delay async IO dispatch, if sync IO was just done
  cfq-iosched: add a knob for desktop interactiveness
  Add a tracepoint for block request remapping
  block: allow large discard requests
  block: use normal I/O path for discard requests
  swapfile: avoid NULL pointer dereference in swapon when s_bdev is NULL
  fs/bio.c: move EXPORT* macros to line after function
  Add missing blk_trace_remove_sysfs to be in pair with blk_trace_init_sysfs
  cciss: fix build when !PROC_FS
  block: Do not clamp max_hw_sectors for stacking devices
  block: Set max_sectors correctly for stacking devices
  cciss: cciss_host_attr_groups should be const
  cciss: Dynamically allocate the drive_info_struct for each logical drive.
  cciss: Add usage_count attribute to each logical drive in /sys
  ...
2009-10-04 12:39:14 -07:00
Jun'ichi Nomura
b0da3f0dad Add a tracepoint for block request remapping
Since 2.6.31 now has request-based device-mapper, it's useful to have
a tracepoint for request-remapping as well as bio-remapping.
This patch adds a tracepoint for request-remapping, trace_block_rq_remap().

Signed-off-by: Kiyoshi Ueda <k-ueda@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-10-01 21:19:34 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
0aa73ba1c4 Merge branch 'tracing/urgent' into tracing/core
Merge reason: Pick up latest fixes and update to latest upstream.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-01 11:20:48 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
9f44fdc518 Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4:
  ext4: Fix time encoding with extra epoch bits
  ext4: Add a stub for mpage_da_data in the trace header
  jbd2: Use tracepoints for history file
  ext4: Use tracepoints for mb_history trace file
  ext4, jbd2: Drop unneeded printks at mount and unmount time
  ext4: Handle nested ext4_journal_start/stop calls without a journal
  ext4: Make sure ext4_dirty_inode() updates the inode in no journal mode
  ext4: Avoid updating the inode table bh twice in no journal mode
  ext4: EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT: Check for different original and donor inodes first
  ext4: async direct IO for holes and fallocate support
  ext4: Use end_io callback to avoid direct I/O fallback to buffered I/O
  ext4: Split uninitialized extents for direct I/O
  ext4: release reserved quota when block reservation for delalloc retry
  ext4: Adjust ext4_da_writepages() to write out larger contiguous chunks
  ext4: Fix hueristic which avoids group preallocation for closed files
  ext4: Use ext4_msg() for ext4_da_writepage() errors
  ext4: Update documentation about quota mount options
2009-09-30 09:32:30 -07:00
Josh Stone
0ef1224940 ext4: Add a stub for mpage_da_data in the trace header
The tracepoint ext4_da_write_pages has a struct mpage_da_data*
parameter, but that struct is only defined in fs/ext4/ext4.h.  This
patch adds a forward declaration for that struct, so this tracepoint
header can still be used by tools like SystemTap.

This is a continuation of the fix in commit 3661d286.

http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10703

Signed-off-by: Josh Stone <jistone@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-09-30 00:51:22 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o
bf6993276f jbd2: Use tracepoints for history file
The /proc/fs/jbd2/<dev>/history was maintained manually; by using
tracepoints, we can get all of the existing functionality of the /proc
file plus extra capabilities thanks to the ftrace infrastructure.  We
save memory as a bonus.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-09-30 00:32:06 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o
296c355cd6 ext4: Use tracepoints for mb_history trace file
The /proc/fs/ext4/<dev>/mb_history was maintained manually, and had a
number of problems: it required a largish amount of memory to be
allocated for each ext4 filesystem, and the s_mb_history_lock
introduced a CPU contention problem.  

By ripping out the mb_history code and replacing it with ftrace
tracepoints, and we get more functionality: timestamps, event
filtering, the ability to correlate mballoc history with other ext4
tracepoints, etc.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-09-30 00:32:42 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o
55138e0bc2 ext4: Adjust ext4_da_writepages() to write out larger contiguous chunks
Work around problems in the writeback code to force out writebacks in
larger chunks than just 4mb, which is just too small.  This also works
around limitations in the ext4 block allocator, which can't allocate
more than 2048 blocks at a time.  So we need to defeat the round-robin
characteristics of the writeback code and try to write out as many
blocks in one inode before allowing the writeback code to move on to
another inode.  We add a a new per-filesystem tunable,
max_writeback_mb_bump, which caps this to a default of 128mb per
inode.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-09-29 13:31:31 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
4187e7e9f1 Merge branch 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  modules, tracing: Remove stale struct marker signature from module_layout()
  tracing/workqueue: Use %pf in workqueue trace events
  tracing: Fix a comment and a trivial format issue in tracepoint.h
  tracing: Fix failure path in ftrace_regex_open()
  tracing: Fix failure path in ftrace_graph_write()
  tracing: Check the return value of trace_get_user()
  tracing: Fix off-by-one in trace_get_user()
2009-09-26 10:13:54 -07:00
Frederic Weisbecker
96a2c464de tracing/bkl: Add bkl ftrace events
Add two events lock_kernel and unlock_kernel() to trace the bkl uses.
This opens the door for userspace tools to perform statistics about
the callsites that use it, dependencies with other locks (by pairing
the trace with lock events), use with recursivity and so on...

The {__reacquire,release}_kernel_lock() events are not traced because
these are called from schedule, thus the sched events are sufficient
to trace them.

Example of a trace:

hald-addon-stor-4152  [000]   165.875501: unlock_kernel: depth: 0, fs/block_dev.c:1358 __blkdev_put()
hald-addon-stor-4152  [000]   167.832974: lock_kernel: depth: 0, fs/block_dev.c:1167 __blkdev_get()

How to get the callsites that acquire it recursively:

cd /debug/tracing/events/bkl
echo "lock_depth > 0" > filter

firefox-4951  [001]   206.276967: unlock_kernel: depth: 1, fs/reiserfs/super.c:575 reiserfs_dirty_inode()

You can also filter by file and/or line.

v2: Use of FILTER_PTR_STRING attribute for files and lines fields to
    make them traceable.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
2009-09-24 15:16:31 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
31bbb9b58d Merge branch 'timers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'timers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  itimers: Add tracepoints for itimer
  hrtimer: Add tracepoint for hrtimers
  timers: Add tracepoints for timer_list timers
  cputime: Optimize jiffies_to_cputime(1)
  itimers: Simplify arm_timer() code a bit
  itimers: Fix periodic tics precision
  itimers: Merge ITIMER_VIRT and ITIMER_PROF

Trivial header file include conflicts in kernel/fork.c
2009-09-23 09:46:15 -07:00
Anton Blanchard
9961079348 tracing/workqueue: Use %pf in workqueue trace events
Using %pf instead of %pF supresses printing of the function offset
which will always be 0 in the case of worklet functions.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Zhaolei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090922024033.GB31801@kryten>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2009-09-22 23:14:58 +02:00
Mel Gorman
0d3d062a6e tracing, page-allocator: add trace event for page traffic related to the buddy lists
The page allocation trace event reports that a page was successfully
allocated but it does not specify where it came from.  When analysing
performance, it can be important to distinguish between pages coming from
the per-cpu allocator and pages coming from the buddy lists as the latter
requires the zone lock to the taken and more data structures to be
examined.

This patch adds a trace event for __rmqueue reporting when a page is being
allocated from the buddy lists.  It distinguishes between being called to
refill the per-cpu lists or whether it is a high-order allocation.
Similarly, this patch adds an event to catch when the PCP lists are being
drained a little and pages are going back to the buddy lists.

This is trickier to draw conclusions from but high activity on those
events could explain why there were a large number of cache misses on a
page-allocator-intensive workload.  The coalescing and splitting of
buddies involves a lot of writing of page metadata and cache line bounces
not to mention the acquisition of an interrupt-safe lock necessary to
enter this path.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Li Ming Chun <macli@brc.ubc.ca>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:34 -07:00
Mel Gorman
e0fff1bd12 tracing, page-allocator: add trace events for anti-fragmentation falling back to other migratetypes
Fragmentation avoidance depends on being able to use free pages from lists
of the appropriate migrate type.  In the event this is not possible,
__rmqueue_fallback() selects a different list and in some circumstances
change the migratetype of the pageblock.  Simplistically, the more times
this event occurs, the more likely that fragmentation will be a problem
later for hugepage allocation at least but there are other considerations
such as the order of page being split to satisfy the allocation.

This patch adds a trace event for __rmqueue_fallback() that reports what
page is being used for the fallback, the orders of relevant pages, the
desired migratetype and the migratetype of the lists being used, whether
the pageblock changed type and whether this event is important with
respect to fragmentation avoidance or not.  This information can be used
to help analyse fragmentation avoidance and help decide whether
min_free_kbytes should be increased or not.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Li Ming Chun <macli@brc.ubc.ca>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:34 -07:00
Mel Gorman
4b4f278c03 tracing, page-allocator: add trace events for page allocation and page freeing
This patch adds trace events for the allocation and freeing of pages,
including the freeing of pagevecs.  Using the events, it will be known
what struct page and pfns are being allocated and freed and what the call
site was in many cases.

The page alloc tracepoints be used as an indicator as to whether the
workload was heavily dependant on the page allocator or not.  You can make
a guess based on vmstat but you can't get a per-process breakdown.
Depending on the call path, the call_site for page allocation may be
__get_free_pages() instead of a useful callsite.  Instead of passing down
a return address similar to slab debugging, the user should enable the
stacktrace and seg-addr options to get a proper stack trace.

The pagevec free tracepoint has a different usecase.  It can be used to
get a idea of how many pages are being dumped off the LRU and whether it
is kswapd doing the work or a process doing direct reclaim.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Li Ming Chun <macli@brc.ubc.ca>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:34 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
467f9957d9 Merge branch 'perfcounters-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perfcounters-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (58 commits)
  perf_counter: Fix perf_copy_attr() pointer arithmetic
  perf utils: Use a define for the maximum length of a trace event
  perf: Add timechart help text and add timechart to "perf help"
  tracing, x86, cpuidle: Move the end point of a C state in the power tracer
  perf utils: Be consistent about minimum text size in the svghelper
  perf timechart: Add "perf timechart record"
  perf: Add the timechart tool
  perf: Add a SVG helper library file
  tracing, perf: Convert the power tracer into an event tracer
  perf: Add a sample_event type to the event_union
  perf: Allow perf utilities to have "callback" options without arguments
  perf: Store trace event name/id pairs in perf.data
  perf: Add a timestamp to fork events
  sched_clock: Make it NMI safe
  perf_counter: Fix up swcounter throttling
  x86, perf_counter, bts: Optimize BTS overflow handling
  perf sched: Add --input=file option to builtin-sched.c
  perf trace: Sample timestamp and cpu when using record flag
  perf tools: Increase MAX_EVENT_LENGTH
  perf tools: Fix memory leak in read_ftrace_printk()
  ...
2009-09-20 15:54:37 -07:00
Arjan van de Ven
6161352142 tracing, perf: Convert the power tracer into an event tracer
This patch converts the existing power tracer into an event tracer,
so that power events (C states and frequency changes) can be
tracked via "perf".

This also removes the perl script that was used to demo the tracer;
its functionality is being replaced entirely with timechart.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090912130542.6d314860@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-19 11:42:12 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
929bf0d015 Merge branch 'linus' into perfcounters/core
Merge reason: Bring in tracing changes we depend on.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-19 11:28:41 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
3530c18862 Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (64 commits)
  ext4: Update documentation about quota mount options
  ext4: replace MAX_DEFRAG_SIZE with EXT_MAX_BLOCK
  ext4: Fix the alloc on close after a truncate hueristic
  ext4: Add a tracepoint for ext4_alloc_da_blocks()
  ext4: store EXT4_EXT_MIGRATE in i_state instead of i_flags
  ext4: limit block allocations for indirect-block files to < 2^32
  ext4: Fix different block exchange issue in EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT
  ext4: Add null extent check to ext_get_path
  ext4: Replace BUG_ON() with ext4_error() in move_extents.c
  ext4: Replace get_ext_path macro with an inline funciton
  ext4: Fix include/trace/events/ext4.h to work with Systemtap
  ext4: Fix initalization of s_flex_groups
  ext4: Always set dx_node's fake_dirent explicitly.
  ext4: Fix async commit mode to be safe by using a barrier
  ext4: Don't update superblock write time when filesystem is read-only
  ext4: Clarify the locking details in mballoc
  ext4: check for need init flag in ext4_mb_load_buddy
  ext4: move ext4_mb_init_group() function earlier in the mballoc.c
  ext4: Make non-journal fsync work properly
  ext4: Assure that metadata blocks are written during fsync in no journal mode
  ...
2009-09-18 10:56:26 -07:00
Li Zefan
5dd4de587f softirq: add BLOCK_IOPOLL to softirq_to_name
With BLOCK_IOPOLL_SOFTIRQ added, softirq_to_name[] and
show_softirq_name() needs to be updated.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4AB20398.8070209@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-17 15:53:44 -04:00
Ingo Molnar
45bd00d31d Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/core
Merge reason: Pick up kernel/softirq.c update for dependent fix.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-17 20:53:10 +02:00
Theodore Ts'o
fb40ba0d98 ext4: Add a tracepoint for ext4_alloc_da_blocks()
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-09-16 19:30:40 -04:00
Jens Axboe
1fe06ad892 writeback: get rid of wbc->for_writepages
It's only set, it's never checked. Kill it.

Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-16 15:16:18 +02:00
Theodore Ts'o
3661d28615 ext4: Fix include/trace/events/ext4.h to work with Systemtap
Using relative pathnames in #include statements interacts badly with
SystemTap, since the fs/ext4/*.h header files are not packaged up as
part of a distribution kernel's header files.  Since systemtap doesn't
use TP_fast_assign(), we can use a blind structure definition and then
make sure the needed header files are defined before the ext4 source
files #include the trace/events/ext4.h header file.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=512478

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-09-14 22:59:50 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
69def9f05d Merge branch 'kvm-updates/2.6.32' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm
* 'kvm-updates/2.6.32' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (202 commits)
  MAINTAINERS: update KVM entry
  KVM: correct error-handling code
  KVM: fix compile warnings on s390
  KVM: VMX: Check cpl before emulating debug register access
  KVM: fix misreporting of coalesced interrupts by kvm tracer
  KVM: x86: drop duplicate kvm_flush_remote_tlb calls
  KVM: VMX: call vmx_load_host_state() only if msr is cached
  KVM: VMX: Conditionally reload debug register 6
  KVM: Use thread debug register storage instead of kvm specific data
  KVM guest: do not batch pte updates from interrupt context
  KVM: Fix coalesced interrupt reporting in IOAPIC
  KVM guest: fix bogus wallclock physical address calculation
  KVM: VMX: Fix cr8 exiting control clobbering by EPT
  KVM: Optimize kvm_mmu_unprotect_page_virt() for tdp
  KVM: Document KVM_CAP_IRQCHIP
  KVM: Protect update_cr8_intercept() when running without an apic
  KVM: VMX: Fix EPT with WP bit change during paging
  KVM: Use kvm_{read,write}_guest_virt() to read and write segment descriptors
  KVM: x86 emulator: Add adc and sbb missing decoder flags
  KVM: Add missing #include
  ...
2009-09-14 17:43:43 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
d7e9660ad9 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6: (1623 commits)
  netxen: update copyright
  netxen: fix tx timeout recovery
  netxen: fix file firmware leak
  netxen: improve pci memory access
  netxen: change firmware write size
  tg3: Fix return ring size breakage
  netxen: build fix for INET=n
  cdc-phonet: autoconfigure Phonet address
  Phonet: back-end for autoconfigured addresses
  Phonet: fix netlink address dump error handling
  ipv6: Add IFA_F_DADFAILED flag
  net: Add DEVTYPE support for Ethernet based devices
  mv643xx_eth.c: remove unused txq_set_wrr()
  ucc_geth: Fix hangs after switching from full to half duplex
  ucc_geth: Rearrange some code to avoid forward declarations
  phy/marvell: Make non-aneg speed/duplex forcing work for 88E1111 PHYs
  drivers/net/phy: introduce missing kfree
  drivers/net/wan: introduce missing kfree
  net: force bridge module(s) to be GPL
  Subject: [PATCH] appletalk: Fix skb leak when ipddp interface is not loaded
  ...

Fixed up trivial conflicts:

 - arch/x86/include/asm/socket.h

   converted to <asm-generic/socket.h> in the x86 tree.  The generic
   header has the same new #define's, so that works out fine.

 - drivers/net/tun.c

   fix conflict between 89f56d1e9 ("tun: reuse struct sock fields") that
   switched over to using 'tun->socket.sk' instead of the redundantly
   available (and thus removed) 'tun->sk', and 2b980dbd ("lsm: Add hooks
   to the TUN driver") which added a new 'tun->sk' use.

   Noted in 'next' by Stephen Rothwell.
2009-09-14 10:37:28 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
f977bb4937 perf_counter, sched: Add sched_stat_runtime tracepoint
This allows more precise tracking of how the scheduler accounts
(and acts upon) a task having spent N nanoseconds of CPU time.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-13 18:17:28 +02:00
Carsten Emde
fe63b94a43 tracing: prevent NULL pointer dereference in ftrace_raw_event_block_bio_bounce
Booting 2.6.31 and executing
   echo 1 >/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/enable
leads to
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null)
IP: [<c032a583>] ftrace_raw_event_block_bio_bounce+0x4b/0xb9

Apparently,
   bio = bio_map_user(q, NULL, uaddr, len, reading, gfp_mask);
is called in block/blk-map.c:58 where bio->bi_bdev in set to NULL and
still is NULL when an attempt is made to evaluate bio->bi_bdev->bd_dev
in include/trace/events/block.h:189.

The tracepoint should ensure bio->bi_bdev is not dereferenced, if NULL.

Signed-off-by: Carsten Emde <C.Emde@osadl.org>
LKML-Reference: <4AAAC9B1.9060505@osadl.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-09-12 21:31:19 -04:00