Currently, sythetic events only support static string fields such as:
# echo 'test_latency u64 lat; char somename[32]' > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/synthetic_events
Which is fine, but wastes a lot of space in the event.
It also prevents the most commonly-defined strings in the existing
trace events e.g. those defined using __string(), from being passed to
synthetic events via the trace() action.
With this change, synthetic events with dynamic fields can be defined:
# echo 'test_latency u64 lat; char somename[]' > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/synthetic_events
And the trace() action can be used to generate events using either
dynamic or static strings:
# echo 'hist:keys=name:lat=common_timestamp.usecs-$ts0:onmatch(sys.event).test_latency($lat,name)' > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events
The synthetic event dynamic strings are implemented in the same way as
the existing __data_loc strings and appear as such in the format file.
[ <rostedt@goodmis.org>: added __set_synth_event_print_fmt() changes:
I added the following to make it work with trace-cmd. Dynamic strings
must have __get_str() for events in the print_fmt otherwise it can't be
parsed correctly. ]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/cover.1601588066.git.zanussi@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/3ed35b6d0e390f5b94cb4a9ba1cc18f5982ab277.1601848695.git.zanussi@kernel.org
Tested-by: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
String variables created as field variables and save variables are
already handled properly by having their values copied when set. The
same isn't done for normal variables, but needs to be - simply saving
a pointer to a string contained in an old event isn't sufficient,
since that event's data may quickly become overwritten and therefore a
string pointer to it could yield garbage.
This change uses the same mechanism as field variables and simply
appends the new strings to the existing per-element field_var_str[]
array allocated for that purpose.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1c1a03798b02e67307412a0c719d1bfb69b13007.1601848695.git.zanussi@kernel.org
Fixes: 02205a6752 (tracing: Add support for 'field variables')
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
32 is too small for this value, and anyway it makes more sense to use
MAX_FILTER_STR_VAL, as this is also the value used for variable-length
__strings.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/6adfd1668ac1fd8670bd58206944a762061a5559.1601848695.git.zanussi@kernel.org
Tested-by: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
clang static analyzer reports this problem
trace_events_hist.c:3824:3: warning: Attempt to free
released memory
kfree(hist_data->attrs->var_defs.name[i]);
In parse_var_defs() if there is a problem allocating
var_defs.expr, the earlier var_defs.name is freed.
This free is duplicated by free_var_defs() which frees
the rest of the list.
Because free_var_defs() has to run anyway, remove the
second free fom parse_var_defs().
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200907135845.15804-1-trix@redhat.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 30350d65ac ("tracing: Add variable support to hist triggers")
Reviewed-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tom Rix <trix@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
With the addition of the in-kernel synthetic event API, synthetic
events are no longer specifically tied to the histogram triggers.
The synthetic event code is also making trace_event_hist.c very
bloated, so for those reasons, move it to a separate file,
trace_events_synth.c, along with a new trace_synth.h header file.
Because synthetic events are now independent from hist triggers, add a
new CONFIG_SYNTH_EVENTS config option, and have CONFIG_HIST_TRIGGERS
select it, and have CONFIG_SYNTH_EVENT_GEN_TEST depend on it.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4d1fa1f85ed5982706ac44844ac92451dcb04715.1590693308.git.zanussi@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add a new "hist_debug" file for each trace event, which when read will
dump out a bunch of internal details about the hist triggers defined
on that event.
This is normally off but can be enabled by saying 'y' to the new
CONFIG_HIST_TRIGGERS_DEBUG config option.
This is in support of the new Documentation file describing histogram
internals, Documentation/trace/histogram-design.rst, which was
requested by developers trying to understand the internals when
extending or making use of the hist triggers for higher-level tools.
The histogram-design.rst documentation refers to the hist_debug files
and demonstrates their use with output in the test examples.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/77914c22b0ba493d9783c53bbfbc6087d6a7e1b1.1585941485.git.zanussi@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Since trace_state.disabled is set in __synth_event_trace_start() at
the same time -ENOENT is returned, don't bother returning -ENOENT -
just have callers check trace_state.disabled instead, and avoid the
extra return val munging.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/87315c3889af870e8370e82b76cf48b426d70130.1585941485.git.zanussi@kernel.org
Suggested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@godmis.org>
Change in API of bootconfig (before it comes live in a release)
- Have a magic value "BOOTCONFIG" in initrd to know a bootconfig exists
- Set CONFIG_BOOT_CONFIG to 'n' by default
- Show error if "bootconfig" on cmdline but not compiled in
- Prevent redefining the same value
- Have a way to append values
- Added a SELECT BLK_DEV_INITRD to fix a build failure
Synthetic event fixes:
- Switch to raw_smp_processor_id() for recording CPU value in preempt
section. (No care for what the value actually is)
- Fix samples always recording u64 values
- Fix endianess
- Check number of values matches number of fields
- Fix a printing bug
Fix of trace_printk() breaking postponed start up tests
Make a function static that is only used in a single file.
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Merge tag 'trace-v5.6-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull tracing and bootconfig updates:
"Fixes and changes to bootconfig before it goes live in a release.
Change in API of bootconfig (before it comes live in a release):
- Have a magic value "BOOTCONFIG" in initrd to know a bootconfig
exists
- Set CONFIG_BOOT_CONFIG to 'n' by default
- Show error if "bootconfig" on cmdline but not compiled in
- Prevent redefining the same value
- Have a way to append values
- Added a SELECT BLK_DEV_INITRD to fix a build failure
Synthetic event fixes:
- Switch to raw_smp_processor_id() for recording CPU value in preempt
section. (No care for what the value actually is)
- Fix samples always recording u64 values
- Fix endianess
- Check number of values matches number of fields
- Fix a printing bug
Fix of trace_printk() breaking postponed start up tests
Make a function static that is only used in a single file"
* tag 'trace-v5.6-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
bootconfig: Fix CONFIG_BOOTTIME_TRACING dependency issue
bootconfig: Add append value operator support
bootconfig: Prohibit re-defining value on same key
bootconfig: Print array as multiple commands for legacy command line
bootconfig: Reject subkey and value on same parent key
tools/bootconfig: Remove unneeded error message silencer
bootconfig: Add bootconfig magic word for indicating bootconfig explicitly
bootconfig: Set CONFIG_BOOT_CONFIG=n by default
tracing: Clear trace_state when starting trace
bootconfig: Mark boot_config_checksum() static
tracing: Disable trace_printk() on post poned tests
tracing: Have synthetic event test use raw_smp_processor_id()
tracing: Fix number printing bug in print_synth_event()
tracing: Check that number of vals matches number of synth event fields
tracing: Make synth_event trace functions endian-correct
tracing: Make sure synth_event_trace() example always uses u64
Clear trace_state data structure when starting trace
in __synth_event_trace_start() internal function.
Currently trace_state is initialized only in the
synth_event_trace_start() API, but the trace_state
in synth_event_trace() and synth_event_trace_array()
are on the stack without initialization.
This means those APIs will see wrong parameters and
wil skip closing process in __synth_event_trace_end()
because trace_state->disabled may be !0.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/158193315899.8868.1781259176894639952.stgit@devnote2
Reviewed-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Fix a varargs-related bug in print_synth_event() which resulted in
strange output and oopses on 32-bit x86 systems. The problem is that
trace_seq_printf() expects the varargs to match the format string, but
print_synth_event() was always passing u64 values regardless. This
results in unspecified behavior when unpacking with va_arg() in
trace_seq_printf().
Add a function that takes the size into account when calling
trace_seq_printf().
Before:
modprobe-1731 [003] .... 919.039758: gen_synth_test: next_pid_field=777(null)next_comm_field=hula hoops ts_ns=1000000 ts_ms=1000 cpu=3(null)my_string_field=thneed my_int_field=598(null)
After:
insmod-1136 [001] .... 36.634590: gen_synth_test: next_pid_field=777 next_comm_field=hula hoops ts_ns=1000000 ts_ms=1000 cpu=1 my_string_field=thneed my_int_field=598
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/a9b59eb515dbbd7d4abe53b347dccf7a8e285657.1581720155.git.zanussi@kernel.org
Reported-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Commit 7276531d4036('tracing: Consolidate trace() functions')
inadvertently dropped the synth_event_trace() and
synth_event_trace_array() checks that verify the number of values
passed in matches the number of fields in the synthetic event being
traced, so add them back.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/32819cac708714693669e0dfe10fe9d935e94a16.1581720155.git.zanussi@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
synth_event_trace(), synth_event_trace_array() and
__synth_event_add_val() write directly into the trace buffer and need
to take endianness into account, like trace_event_raw_event_synth()
does.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/2011354355e405af9c9d28abba430d1f5ff7771a.1581720155.git.zanussi@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
- Fix an uninitialized variable
- Fix compile bug to bootconfig userspace tool (in tools directory)
- Suppress some error messages of bootconfig userspace tool
- Remove unneded CONFIG_LIBXBC from bootconfig
- Allocate bootconfig xbc_nodes dynamically.
To ease complaints about taking up static memory at boot up
- Use of parse_args() to parse bootconfig instead of strstr() usage
Prevents issues of double quotes containing the interested string
- Fix missing ring_buffer_nest_end() on synthetic event error path
- Return zero not -EINVAL on soft disabled synthetic event
(soft disabling must be the same as hard disabling, which returns zero)
- Consolidate synthetic event code (remove duplicate code)
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Merge tag 'trace-v5.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull tracing fixes from Steven Rostedt:
"Various fixes:
- Fix an uninitialized variable
- Fix compile bug to bootconfig userspace tool (in tools directory)
- Suppress some error messages of bootconfig userspace tool
- Remove unneded CONFIG_LIBXBC from bootconfig
- Allocate bootconfig xbc_nodes dynamically. To ease complaints about
taking up static memory at boot up
- Use of parse_args() to parse bootconfig instead of strstr() usage
Prevents issues of double quotes containing the interested string
- Fix missing ring_buffer_nest_end() on synthetic event error path
- Return zero not -EINVAL on soft disabled synthetic event (soft
disabling must be the same as hard disabling, which returns zero)
- Consolidate synthetic event code (remove duplicate code)"
* tag 'trace-v5.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
tracing: Consolidate trace() functions
tracing: Don't return -EINVAL when tracing soft disabled synth events
tracing: Add missing nest end to synth_event_trace_start() error case
tools/bootconfig: Suppress non-error messages
bootconfig: Allocate xbc_nodes array dynamically
bootconfig: Use parse_args() to find bootconfig and '--'
tracing/kprobe: Fix uninitialized variable bug
bootconfig: Remove unneeded CONFIG_LIBXBC
tools/bootconfig: Fix wrong __VA_ARGS__ usage
Move the checking, buffer reserve and buffer commit code in
synth_event_trace_start/end() into inline functions
__synth_event_trace_start/end() so they can also be used by
synth_event_trace() and synth_event_trace_array(), and then have all
those functions use them.
Also, change synth_event_trace_state.enabled to disabled so it only
needs to be set if the event is disabled, which is not normally the
case.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/b1f3108d0f450e58192955a300e31d0405ab4149.1581374549.git.zanussi@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
There's no reason to return -EINVAL when tracing a synthetic event if
it's soft disabled - treat it the same as if it were hard disabled and
return normally.
Have synth_event_trace() and synth_event_trace_array() just return
normally, and have synth_event_trace_start set the trace state to
disabled and return.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/df5d02a1625aff97c9866506c5bada6a069982ba.1581374549.git.zanussi@kernel.org
Fixes: 8dcc53ad95 ("tracing: Add synth_event_trace() and related functions")
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
If the ring_buffer reserve in synth_event_trace_start() fails, the
matching ring_buffer_nest_end() should be called in the error code,
since nothing else will ever call it in this case.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20abc444b3eeff76425f895815380abe7aa53ff8.1581374549.git.zanussi@kernel.org
Fixes: 8dcc53ad95 ("tracing: Add synth_event_trace() and related functions")
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
- Added new "bootconfig".
Looks for a file appended to initrd to add boot config options.
This has been discussed thoroughly at Linux Plumbers.
Very useful for adding kprobes at bootup.
Only enabled if "bootconfig" is on the real kernel command line.
- Created dynamic event creation.
Merges common code between creating synthetic events and
kprobe events.
- Rename perf "ring_buffer" structure to "perf_buffer"
- Rename ftrace "ring_buffer" structure to "trace_buffer"
Had to rename existing "trace_buffer" to "array_buffer"
- Allow trace_printk() to work withing (some) tracing code.
- Sort of tracing configs to be a little better organized
- Fixed bug where ftrace_graph hash was not being protected properly
- Various other small fixes and clean ups
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Merge tag 'trace-v5.6-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
- Added new "bootconfig".
This looks for a file appended to initrd to add boot config options,
and has been discussed thoroughly at Linux Plumbers.
Very useful for adding kprobes at bootup.
Only enabled if "bootconfig" is on the real kernel command line.
- Created dynamic event creation.
Merges common code between creating synthetic events and kprobe
events.
- Rename perf "ring_buffer" structure to "perf_buffer"
- Rename ftrace "ring_buffer" structure to "trace_buffer"
Had to rename existing "trace_buffer" to "array_buffer"
- Allow trace_printk() to work withing (some) tracing code.
- Sort of tracing configs to be a little better organized
- Fixed bug where ftrace_graph hash was not being protected properly
- Various other small fixes and clean ups
* tag 'trace-v5.6-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (88 commits)
bootconfig: Show the number of nodes on boot message
tools/bootconfig: Show the number of bootconfig nodes
bootconfig: Add more parse error messages
bootconfig: Use bootconfig instead of boot config
ftrace: Protect ftrace_graph_hash with ftrace_sync
ftrace: Add comment to why rcu_dereference_sched() is open coded
tracing: Annotate ftrace_graph_notrace_hash pointer with __rcu
tracing: Annotate ftrace_graph_hash pointer with __rcu
bootconfig: Only load bootconfig if "bootconfig" is on the kernel cmdline
tracing: Use seq_buf for building dynevent_cmd string
tracing: Remove useless code in dynevent_arg_pair_add()
tracing: Remove check_arg() callbacks from dynevent args
tracing: Consolidate some synth_event_trace code
tracing: Fix now invalid var_ref_vals assumption in trace action
tracing: Change trace_boot to use synth_event interface
tracing: Move tracing selftests to bottom of menu
tracing: Move mmio tracer config up with the other tracers
tracing: Move tracing test module configs together
tracing: Move all function tracing configs together
tracing: Documentation for in-kernel synthetic event API
...
The dynevent_cmd commands that build up the command string don't need
to do that themselves - there's a seq_buf facility that does pretty
much the same thing those command are doing manually, so use it
instead.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/eb8a6e835c964d0ab8a38cbf5ffa60746b54a465.1580506712.git.zanussi@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
It's kind of strange to have check_arg() callbacks as part of the arg
objects themselves; it makes more sense to just pass these in when the
args are added instead.
Remove the check_arg() callbacks from those objects which also means
removing the check_arg() args from the init functions, adding them to
the add functions and fixing up existing callers.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/c7708d6f177fcbe1a36b6e4e8e150907df0fa5d2.1580506712.git.zanussi@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The synth_event trace code contains some almost identical functions
and some small functions that are called only once - consolidate the
common code into single functions and fold in the small functions to
simplify the code overall.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/d1c8d8ad124a653b7543afe801d38c199ca5c20e.1580506712.git.zanussi@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The patch 'tracing: Fix histogram code when expression has same var as
value' added code to return an existing variable reference when
creating a new variable reference, which resulted in var_ref_vals
slots being reused instead of being duplicated.
The implementation of the trace action assumes that the end of the
var_ref_vals array starting at action_data.var_ref_idx corresponds to
the values that will be assigned to the trace params. The patch
mentioned above invalidates that assumption, which means that each
param needs to explicitly specify its index into var_ref_vals.
This fix changes action_data.var_ref_idx to an array of var ref
indexes to account for that.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1580335695.6220.8.camel@kernel.org
Fixes: 8bcebc77e8 ("tracing: Fix histogram code when expression has same var as value")
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Have trace_boot_add_synth_event() use the synth_event interface.
Also, rename synth_event_run_cmd() to synth_event_run_command() now
that trace_boot's version is gone.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/94f1fa0e31846d0bddca916b8663404b20559e34.1580323897.git.zanussi@kernel.org
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add an exported function named synth_event_trace(), allowing modules
or other kernel code to trace synthetic events.
Also added are several functions that allow the same functionality to
be broken out in a piecewise fashion, which are useful in situations
where tracing an event from a full array of values would be
cumbersome. Those functions are synth_event_trace_start/end() and
synth_event_add_(next)_val().
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/7a84de5f1854acf4144b57efe835ca645afa764f.1580323897.git.zanussi@kernel.org
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add functions used to generate synthetic event commands, built on top
of the dynevent_cmd interface.
synth_event_gen_cmd_start() is used to create a synthetic event
command using a variable arg list and
synth_event_gen_cmd_array_start() does the same thing but using an
array of field descriptors. synth_event_add_field(),
synth_event_add_field_str() and synth_event_add_fields() can be used
to add single fields one by one or as a group. Once all desired
fields are added, synth_event_gen_cmd_end() is used to actually
execute the command and create the event.
synth_event_create() does everything, including creating the event, in
a single call.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/38fef702fad5ef208009f459552f34a94befd860.1580323897.git.zanussi@kernel.org
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
create_or_delete_synth_event() contains code to delete a synthetic
event, which would be useful on its own - specifically, it would be
useful to allow event-creating modules to call it separately.
Separate out the delete code from that function and create an exported
function named synth_event_delete().
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/050db3b06df7f0a4b8a2922da602d1d879c7c1c2.1580323897.git.zanussi@kernel.org
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The 'hist:' prefix gets stripped from the command text during command
processing, but should be added back when displaying the command
during error processing.
Not only because it's what should be displayed but also because not
having it means the test cases fail because the caret is miscalculated
by the length of the prefix string.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/449df721f560042e22382f67574bcc5b4d830d3d.1561743018.git.zanussi@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
In the process of adding better error messages for sorting, I realized
that strsep was being used incorrectly and some of the error paths I
was expecting to be hit weren't and just fell through to the common
invalid key error case.
It also became obvious that for keyword assignments, it wasn't
necessary to save the full assignment and reparse it later, and having
a common empty-assignment check would also make more sense in terms of
error processing.
Change the code to fix these problems and simplify it for new error
message changes in a subsequent patch.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1c3ef0b6655deaf345f6faee2584a0298ac2d743.1561743018.git.zanussi@kernel.org
Fixes: e62347d245 ("tracing: Add hist trigger support for user-defined sorting ('sort=' param)")
Fixes: 7ef224d1d0 ("tracing: Add 'hist' event trigger command")
Fixes: a4072fe85b ("tracing: Add a clock attribute for hist triggers")
Reported-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Pull perf updates from Ingo Molnar:
"Kernel side changes:
- Ftrace is one of the last W^X violators (after this only KLP is
left). These patches move it over to the generic text_poke()
interface and thereby get rid of this oddity. This requires a
surprising amount of surgery, by Peter Zijlstra.
- x86/AMD PMUs: add support for 'Large Increment per Cycle Events' to
count certain types of events that have a special, quirky hw ABI
(by Kim Phillips)
- kprobes fixes by Masami Hiramatsu
Lots of tooling updates as well, the following subcommands were
updated: annotate/report/top, c2c, clang, record, report/top TUI,
sched timehist, tests; plus updates were done to the gtk ui, libperf,
headers and the parser"
* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (57 commits)
perf/x86/amd: Add support for Large Increment per Cycle Events
perf/x86/amd: Constrain Large Increment per Cycle events
perf/x86/intel/rapl: Add Comet Lake support
tracing: Initialize ret in syscall_enter_define_fields()
perf header: Use last modification time for timestamp
perf c2c: Fix return type for histogram sorting comparision functions
perf beauty sockaddr: Fix augmented syscall format warning
perf/ui/gtk: Fix gtk2 build
perf ui gtk: Add missing zalloc object
perf tools: Use %define api.pure full instead of %pure-parser
libperf: Setup initial evlist::all_cpus value
perf report: Fix no libunwind compiled warning break s390 issue
perf tools: Support --prefix/--prefix-strip
perf report: Clarify in help that --children is default
tools build: Fix test-clang.cpp with Clang 8+
perf clang: Fix build with Clang 9
kprobes: Fix optimize_kprobe()/unoptimize_kprobe() cancellation logic
tools lib: Fix builds when glibc contains strlcpy()
perf report/top: Make 'e' visible in the help and make it toggle showing callchains
perf report/top: Do not offer annotation for symbols without samples
...
While working on a tool to convert SQL syntex into the histogram language of
the kernel, I discovered the following bug:
# echo 'first u64 start_time u64 end_time pid_t pid u64 delta' >> synthetic_events
# echo 'hist:keys=pid:start=common_timestamp' > events/sched/sched_waking/trigger
# echo 'hist:keys=next_pid:delta=common_timestamp-$start,start2=$start:onmatch(sched.sched_waking).trace(first,$start2,common_timestamp,next_pid,$delta)' > events/sched/sched_switch/trigger
Would not display any histograms in the sched_switch histogram side.
But if I were to swap the location of
"delta=common_timestamp-$start" with "start2=$start"
Such that the last line had:
# echo 'hist:keys=next_pid:start2=$start,delta=common_timestamp-$start:onmatch(sched.sched_waking).trace(first,$start2,common_timestamp,next_pid,$delta)' > events/sched/sched_switch/trigger
The histogram works as expected.
What I found out is that the expressions clear out the value once it is
resolved. As the variables are resolved in the order listed, when
processing:
delta=common_timestamp-$start
The $start is cleared. When it gets to "start2=$start", it errors out with
"unresolved symbol" (which is silent as this happens at the location of the
trace), and the histogram is dropped.
When processing the histogram for variable references, instead of adding a
new reference for a variable used twice, use the same reference. That way,
not only is it more efficient, but the order will no longer matter in
processing of the variables.
From Tom Zanussi:
"Just to clarify some more about what the problem was is that without
your patch, we would have two separate references to the same variable,
and during resolve_var_refs(), they'd both want to be resolved
separately, so in this case, since the first reference to start wasn't
part of an expression, it wouldn't get the read-once flag set, so would
be read normally, and then the second reference would do the read-once
read and also be read but using read-once. So everything worked and
you didn't see a problem:
from: start2=$start,delta=common_timestamp-$start
In the second case, when you switched them around, the first reference
would be resolved by doing the read-once, and following that the second
reference would try to resolve and see that the variable had already
been read, so failed as unset, which caused it to short-circuit out and
not do the trigger action to generate the synthetic event:
to: delta=common_timestamp-$start,start2=$start
With your patch, we only have the single resolution which happens
correctly the one time it's resolved, so this can't happen."
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200116154216.58ca08eb@gandalf.local.home
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 067fe038e7 ("tracing: Add variable reference handling to hist triggers")
Reviewed-by: Tom Zanuss <zanussi@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
With CONFIG_PROVE_RCU_LIST, I had many suspicious RCU warnings
when I ran ftracetest trigger testcases.
-----
# dmesg -c > /dev/null
# ./ftracetest test.d/trigger
...
# dmesg | grep "RCU-list traversed" | cut -f 2 -d ] | cut -f 2 -d " "
kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c:6070
kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c:1760
kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c:5911
kernel/trace/trace_events_trigger.c:504
kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c:1810
kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c:3158
kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c:3105
kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c:5518
kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c:5998
kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c:6019
kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c:6044
kernel/trace/trace_events_trigger.c:1500
kernel/trace/trace_events_trigger.c:1540
kernel/trace/trace_events_trigger.c:539
kernel/trace/trace_events_trigger.c:584
-----
I investigated those warnings and found that the RCU-list
traversals in event trigger and hist didn't need to use
RCU version because those were called only under event_mutex.
I also checked other RCU-list traversals related to event
trigger list, and found that most of them were called from
event_hist_trigger_func() or hist_unregister_trigger() or
register/unregister functions except for a few cases.
Replace these unneeded RCU-list traversals with normal list
traversal macro and lockdep_assert_held() to check the
event_mutex is held.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/157680910305.11685.15110237954275915782.stgit@devnote2
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 30350d65ac ("tracing: Add variable support to hist triggers")
Reviewed-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
With CONFIG_PROVE_RCU_LIST, I had many suspicious RCU warnings
when I ran ftracetest trigger testcases.
-----
# dmesg -c > /dev/null
# ./ftracetest test.d/trigger
...
# dmesg | grep "RCU-list traversed" | cut -f 2 -d ] | cut -f 2 -d " "
kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c:6070
kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c:1760
kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c:5911
kernel/trace/trace_events_trigger.c:504
kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c:1810
kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c:3158
kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c:3105
kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c:5518
kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c:5998
kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c:6019
kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c:6044
kernel/trace/trace_events_trigger.c:1500
kernel/trace/trace_events_trigger.c:1540
kernel/trace/trace_events_trigger.c:539
kernel/trace/trace_events_trigger.c:584
-----
I investigated those warnings and found that the RCU-list
traversals in event trigger and hist didn't need to use
RCU version because those were called only under event_mutex.
I also checked other RCU-list traversals related to event
trigger list, and found that most of them were called from
event_hist_trigger_func() or hist_unregister_trigger() or
register/unregister functions except for a few cases.
Replace these unneeded RCU-list traversals with normal list
traversal macro and lockdep_assert_held() to check the
event_mutex is held.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/157680910305.11685.15110237954275915782.stgit@devnote2
Reviewed-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add synthetic event node support to boot time tracing.
The synthetic event is a kind of event node, but the group
name is "synthetic".
- ftrace.event.synthetic.EVENT.fields = FIELD[, FIELD2...]
Defines new synthetic event with FIELDs. Each field should be
"type varname".
The synthetic node requires "fields" string arraies, which defines
the fields as same as tracing/synth_events interface.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/157867241236.17873.12411615143321557709.stgit@devnote2
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Make the synthetic event accepts a different type field to record.
However, the size and signed flag must be same.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/157867235358.17873.61732996461602171.stgit@devnote2
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
As there's two struct ring_buffers in the kernel, it causes some confusion.
The other one being the perf ring buffer. It was agreed upon that as neither
of the ring buffers are generic enough to be used globally, they should be
renamed as:
perf's ring_buffer -> perf_buffer
ftrace's ring_buffer -> trace_buffer
This implements the changes to the ring buffer that ftrace uses.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191213140531.116b3200@gandalf.local.home
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
As we are working to remove the generic "ring_buffer" name that is used by
both tracing and perf, the ring_buffer name for tracing will be renamed to
trace_buffer, and perf's ring buffer will be renamed to perf_buffer.
As there already exists a trace_buffer that is used by the trace_arrays, it
needs to be first renamed to array_buffer.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191213153553.GE20583@krava
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
At least on PA-RISC and s390 synthetic histogram triggers are failing
selftests because trace_event_raw_event_synth() always writes a 64 bit
values, but the reader expects a field->size sized value. On little endian
machines this doesn't hurt, but on big endian this makes the reader always
read zero values.
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-devel/20191218074427.96184-4-svens@linux.ibm.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 4b147936fa ("tracing: Add support for 'synthetic' events")
Acked-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Rework event_create_dir() to use an array of static data instead of
function pointers where possible.
The problem is that it would call the function pointer on module load
before parse_args(), possibly even before jump_labels were initialized.
Luckily the generated functions don't use jump_labels but it still seems
fragile. It also gets in the way of changing when we make the module map
executable.
The generated function are basically calling trace_define_field() with a
bunch of static arguments. So instead of a function, capture these
arguments in a static array, avoiding the function call.
Now there are a number of cases where the fields are dynamic (syscall
arguments, kprobes and uprobes), in which case a static array does not
work, for these we preserve the function call. Luckily all these cases
are not related to modules and so we can retain the function call for
them.
Also fix up all broken tracepoint definitions that now generate a
compile error.
Tested-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191111132458.342979914@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Increase the maximum allowed count of synthetic event fields from 16 to 32
in order to allow for larger-than-usual events.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191115091730.9192-1-dedekind1@gmail.com
Reviewed-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
In the format of synthetic events, the "gfp_t" is shown as "signed:1",
but in fact the "gfp_t" is "unsigned", should be shown as "signed:0".
The issue can be reproduced by the following commands:
echo 'memlatency u64 lat; unsigned int order; gfp_t gfp_flags; int migratetype' > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/synthetic_events
cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/synthetic/memlatency/format
name: memlatency
ID: 2233
format:
field:unsigned short common_type; offset:0; size:2; signed:0;
field:unsigned char common_flags; offset:2; size:1; signed:0;
field:unsigned char common_preempt_count; offset:3; size:1; signed:0;
field:int common_pid; offset:4; size:4; signed:1;
field:u64 lat; offset:8; size:8; signed:0;
field:unsigned int order; offset:16; size:4; signed:0;
field:gfp_t gfp_flags; offset:24; size:4; signed:1;
field:int migratetype; offset:32; size:4; signed:1;
print fmt: "lat=%llu, order=%u, gfp_flags=%x, migratetype=%d", REC->lat, REC->order, REC->gfp_flags, REC->migratetype
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191018012034.6404-1-zhengjun.xing@linux.intel.com
Reviewed-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhengjun Xing <zhengjun.xing@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Added various checks on open tracefs calls to see if tracefs is in lockdown
mode, and if so, to return -EPERM.
Note, the event format files (which are basically standard on all machines)
as well as the enabled_functions file (which shows what is currently being
traced) are not lockde down. Perhaps they should be, but it seems counter
intuitive to lockdown information to help you know if the system has been
modified.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wj7fGPKUspr579Cii-w_y60PtRaiDgKuxVtBAMK0VNNkA@mail.gmail.com
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Currently, most files in the tracefs directory test if tracing_disabled is
set. If so, it should return -ENODEV. The tracing_disabled is called when
tracing is found to be broken. Originally it was done in case the ring
buffer was found to be corrupted, and we wanted to prevent reading it from
crashing the kernel. But it's also called if a tracing selftest fails on
boot. It's a one way switch. That is, once it is triggered, tracing is
disabled until reboot.
As most tracefs files can also be used by instances in the tracefs
directory, they need to be carefully done. Each instance has a trace_array
associated to it, and when the instance is removed, the trace_array is
freed. But if an instance is opened with a reference to the trace_array,
then it requires looking up the trace_array to get its ref counter (as there
could be a race with it being deleted and the open itself). Once it is
found, a reference is added to prevent the instance from being removed (and
the trace_array associated with it freed).
Combine the two checks (tracing_disabled and trace_array_get()) into a
single helper function. This will also make it easier to add lockdown to
tracefs later.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191011135458.7399da44@gandalf.local.home
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Original changelog from Steve Rostedt (except last sentence which
explains the problem, and the Fixes: tag):
I performed a three way histogram with the following commands:
echo 'irq_lat u64 lat pid_t pid' > synthetic_events
echo 'wake_lat u64 lat u64 irqlat pid_t pid' >> synthetic_events
echo 'hist:keys=common_pid:irqts=common_timestamp.usecs if function == 0xffffffff81200580' > events/timer/hrtimer_start/trigger
echo 'hist:keys=common_pid:lat=common_timestamp.usecs-$irqts:onmatch(timer.hrtimer_start).irq_lat($lat,pid) if common_flags & 1' > events/sched/sched_waking/trigger
echo 'hist:keys=pid:wakets=common_timestamp.usecs,irqlat=lat' > events/synthetic/irq_lat/trigger
echo 'hist:keys=next_pid:lat=common_timestamp.usecs-$wakets,irqlat=$irqlat:onmatch(synthetic.irq_lat).wake_lat($lat,$irqlat,next_pid)' > events/sched/sched_switch/trigger
echo 1 > events/synthetic/wake_lat/enable
Basically I wanted to see:
hrtimer_start (calling function tick_sched_timer)
Note:
# grep tick_sched_timer /proc/kallsyms
ffffffff81200580 t tick_sched_timer
And save the time of that, and then record sched_waking if it is called
in interrupt context and with the same pid as the hrtimer_start, it
will record the latency between that and the waking event.
I then look at when the task that is woken is scheduled in, and record
the latency between the wakeup and the task running.
At the end, the wake_lat synthetic event will show the wakeup to
scheduled latency, as well as the irq latency in from hritmer_start to
the wakeup. The problem is that I found this:
<idle>-0 [007] d... 190.485261: wake_lat: lat=27 irqlat=190485230 pid=698
<idle>-0 [005] d... 190.485283: wake_lat: lat=40 irqlat=190485239 pid=10
<idle>-0 [002] d... 190.488327: wake_lat: lat=56 irqlat=190488266 pid=335
<idle>-0 [005] d... 190.489330: wake_lat: lat=64 irqlat=190489262 pid=10
<idle>-0 [003] d... 190.490312: wake_lat: lat=43 irqlat=190490265 pid=77
<idle>-0 [005] d... 190.493322: wake_lat: lat=54 irqlat=190493262 pid=10
<idle>-0 [005] d... 190.497305: wake_lat: lat=35 irqlat=190497267 pid=10
<idle>-0 [005] d... 190.501319: wake_lat: lat=50 irqlat=190501264 pid=10
The irqlat seemed quite large! Investigating this further, if I had
enabled the irq_lat synthetic event, I noticed this:
<idle>-0 [002] d.s. 249.429308: irq_lat: lat=164968 pid=335
<idle>-0 [002] d... 249.429369: wake_lat: lat=55 irqlat=249429308 pid=335
Notice that the timestamp of the irq_lat "249.429308" is awfully
similar to the reported irqlat variable. In fact, all instances were
like this. It appeared that:
irqlat=$irqlat
Wasn't assigning the old $irqlat to the new irqlat variable, but
instead was assigning the $irqts to it.
The issue is that assigning the old $irqlat to the new irqlat variable
creates a variable reference alias, but the alias creation code
forgets to make sure the alias uses the same var_ref_idx to access the
reference.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1567375321.5282.12.camel@kernel.org
Cc: Linux Trace Devel <linux-trace-devel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: linux-rt-users <linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 7e8b88a30b ("tracing: Add hist trigger support for variable reference aliases")
Reported-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add "gfp_t" support in synthetic_events, then the "gfp_t" type
parameter in some functions can be traced.
Prints the gfp flags as hex in addition to the human-readable flag
string. Example output:
whoopsie-630 [000] ...1 78.969452: testevent: bar=b20 (GFP_ATOMIC|__GFP_ZERO)
rcuc/0-11 [000] ...1 81.097555: testevent: bar=a20 (GFP_ATOMIC)
rcuc/0-11 [000] ...1 81.583123: testevent: bar=a20 (GFP_ATOMIC)
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190712015308.9908-1-zhengjun.xing@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Zhengjun Xing <zhengjun.xing@linux.intel.com>
[ Added printing of flag names ]
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Pass extra arguments to match operation for checking
exact match. If the event doesn't support exact match,
it will be ignored.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/156095685930.28024.10405547027475590975.stgit@devnote2
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
