bug that was caused by a race condition in initializing the hwlat
thread. When fixing this code, I realized that it should have been done
differently. Instead of doing the rewrite and sending that to stable,
I just sent the above commit to fix the bug that should be back ported.
This commit is on top of the quick fix commit to rewrite the code the
way it should have been written in the first place.
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Merge tag 'trace-v4.11-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull another tracing update from Steven Rostedt:
"Commit 79c6f448c8 ("tracing: Fix hwlat kthread migration") fixed a
bug that was caused by a race condition in initializing the hwlat
thread. When fixing this code, I realized that it should have been
done differently. Instead of doing the rewrite and sending that to
stable, I just sent the above commit to fix the bug that should be
back ported.
This commit is on top of the quick fix commit to rewrite the code the
way it should have been written in the first place"
* tag 'trace-v4.11-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
tracing: Clean up the hwlat binding code
and small optimizations.
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Merge tag 'trace-v4.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
"This release has no new tracing features, just clean ups, minor fixes
and small optimizations"
* tag 'trace-v4.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (25 commits)
tracing: Remove outdated ring buffer comment
tracing/probes: Fix a warning message to show correct maximum length
tracing: Fix return value check in trace_benchmark_reg()
tracing: Use modern function declaration
jump_label: Reduce the size of struct static_key
tracing/probe: Show subsystem name in messages
tracing/hwlat: Update old comment about migration
timers: Make flags output in the timer_start tracepoint useful
tracing: Have traceprobe_probes_write() not access userspace unnecessarily
tracing: Have COMM event filter key be treated as a string
ftrace: Have set_graph_function handle multiple functions in one write
ftrace: Do not hold references of ftrace_graph_{notrace_}hash out of graph_lock
tracing: Reset parser->buffer to allow multiple "puts"
ftrace: Have set_graph_functions handle write with RDWR
ftrace: Reset fgd->hash in ftrace_graph_write()
ftrace: Replace (void *)1 with a meaningful macro name FTRACE_GRAPH_EMPTY
ftrace: Create a slight optimization on searching the ftrace_hash
tracing: Add ftrace_hash_key() helper function
ftrace: Convert graph filter to use hash tables
ftrace: Expose ftrace_hash_empty and ftrace_lookup_ip
...
Instead of initializing the affinity of the hwlat kthread in the thread
itself, simply set up the initial affinity at thread creation. This
simplifies the code.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The hwlat tracer creates a kernel thread at start of the tracer. It is
pinned to a single CPU and will move to the next CPU after each period of
running. If the user modifies the migration thread's affinity, it will not
change after that happens.
The original code created the thread at the first instance it was called,
but later was changed to destroy the thread after the tracer was finished,
and would not be created until the next instance of the tracer was
established. The code that initialized the affinity was only called on the
initial instantiation of the tracer. After that, it was not initialized, and
the previous affinity did not match the current newly created one, making
it appear that the user modified the thread's affinity when it did not, and
the thread failed to migrate again.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 0330f7aa8e ("tracing: Have hwlat trace migrate across tracing_cpumask CPUs")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The function __buffer_unlock_commit() is called in a few places outside of
trace.c. But for the most part, it should really be inlined, as it is in the
hot path of the trace_events. For the callers outside of trace.c, create a
new function trace_buffer_unlock_commit_nostack(), as the reason it was used
was to avoid the stack tracing that trace_buffer_unlock_commit() could do.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161121183700.GW26852@two.firstfloor.org
Reported-by: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
As NMIs can also cause latency when interrupts are disabled, the hwlat
detectory has no way to know if the latency it detects is from an NMI or an
SMI or some other hardware glitch.
As ftrace_nmi_enter/exit() funtions are no longer used (except for sh, which
isn't supported anymore), I converted those to "arch_ftrace_nmi_enter/exit"
and use ftrace_nmi_enter/exit() to check if hwlat detector is tracing or
not, and if so, it calls into the hwlat utility.
Since the hwlat detector only has a single kthread that is spinning with
interrupts disabled, it marks what CPU it is on, and if the NMI callback
happens on that CPU, it records the time spent in that NMI. This is added to
the output that is generated by the hwlat detector as:
#3 inner/outer(us): 9/9 ts:1470836488.206734548
#4 inner/outer(us): 0/8 ts:1470836497.140808588
#5 inner/outer(us): 0/6 ts:1470836499.140825168 nmi-total:5 nmi-count:1
#6 inner/outer(us): 9/9 ts:1470836501.140841748
All time is still tracked in microseconds.
The NMI information is only shown when an NMI occurred during the sample.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Instead of having the hwlat detector thread stay on one CPU, have it migrate
across all the CPUs specified by tracing_cpumask. If the user modifies the
thread's CPU affinity, the migration will stop until the next instance that
the tracer is instantiated. The migration happens at the end of each window
(period).
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The hardware latency tracer has been in the PREEMPT_RT patch for some time.
It is used to detect possible SMIs or any other hardware interruptions that
the kernel is unaware of. Note, NMIs may also be detected, but that may be
good to note as well.
The logic is pretty simple. It simply creates a thread that spins on a
single CPU for a specified amount of time (width) within a periodic window
(window). These numbers may be adjusted by their cooresponding names in
/sys/kernel/tracing/hwlat_detector/
The defaults are window = 1000000 us (1 second)
width = 500000 us (1/2 second)
The loop consists of:
t1 = trace_clock_local();
t2 = trace_clock_local();
Where trace_clock_local() is a variant of sched_clock().
The difference of t2 - t1 is recorded as the "inner" timestamp and also the
timestamp t1 - prev_t2 is recorded as the "outer" timestamp. If either of
these differences are greater than the time denoted in
/sys/kernel/tracing/tracing_thresh then it records the event.
When this tracer is started, and tracing_thresh is zero, it changes to the
default threshold of 10 us.
The hwlat tracer in the PREEMPT_RT patch was originally written by
Jon Masters. I have modified it quite a bit and turned it into a
tracer.
Based-on-code-by: Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
