linux/kernel/trace/trace.c, branch v4.20

tracing: Export trace_dump_stack to modules

2018-10-27T15:15:03Z

There is no reason for this function to be unexprted and it's a useful debugging aid. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1539759103-5923-1-git-send-email-nborisov@suse.com Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

tracing: probeevent: Add $argN for accessing function args

2018-10-11T02:19:11Z

Add $argN special fetch variable for accessing function arguments. This allows user to trace the Nth argument easily at the function entry. Note that this returns most probably assignment of registers and stacks. In some case, it may not work well. If you need to access correct registers or stacks you should use perf-probe. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/152465888632.26224.3412465701570253696.stgit@devbox Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

tracing: probeevent: Add array type support

2018-10-11T02:19:10Z

Add array type support for probe events. This allows user to get arraied types from memory address. The array type syntax is TYPE[N] Where TYPE is one of types (u8/16/32/64,s8/16/32/64, x8/16/32/64, symbol, string) and N is a fixed value less than 64. The string array type is a bit different from other types. For other base types, [1] is equal to (e.g. +0(%di):x32[1] is same as +0(%di):x32.) But string[1] is not equal to string. The string type itself represents "char array", but string array type represents "char * array". So, for example, +0(%di):string[1] is equal to +0(+0(%di)):string. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/152465891533.26224.6150658225601339931.stgit@devbox Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

tracing: probeevent: Add symbol type

2018-10-11T02:19:10Z

Add "symbol" type to probeevent, which is an alias of u32 or u64 (depends on BITS_PER_LONG). This shows the result value in symbol+offset style. This type is only available with kprobe events. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/152465882860.26224.14779072294412467338.stgit@devbox Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

uprobes: Support SDT markers having reference count (semaphore)

2018-09-24T08:44:53Z

Userspace Statically Defined Tracepoints[1] are dtrace style markers inside userspace applications. Applications like PostgreSQL, MySQL, Pthread, Perl, Python, Java, Ruby, Node.js, libvirt, QEMU, glib etc have these markers embedded in them. These markers are added by developer at important places in the code. Each marker source expands to a single nop instruction in the compiled code but there may be additional overhead for computing the marker arguments which expands to couple of instructions. In case the overhead is more, execution of it can be omitted by runtime if() condition when no one is tracing on the marker: if (reference_counter > 0) { Execute marker instructions; } Default value of reference counter is 0. Tracer has to increment the reference counter before tracing on a marker and decrement it when done with the tracing. Implement the reference counter logic in core uprobe. User will be able to use it from trace_uprobe as well as from kernel module. New trace_uprobe definition with reference counter will now be: :[(ref_ctr_offset)] where ref_ctr_offset is an optional field. For kernel module, new variant of uprobe_register() has been introduced: uprobe_register_refctr(inode, offset, ref_ctr_offset, consumer) No new variant for uprobe_unregister() because it's assumed to have only one reference counter for one uprobe. [1] https://sourceware.org/systemtap/wiki/UserSpaceProbeImplementation Note: 'reference counter' is called as 'semaphore' in original Dtrace (or Systemtap, bcc and even in ELF) documentation and code. But the term 'semaphore' is misleading in this context. This is just a counter used to hold number of tracers tracing on a marker. This is not really used for any synchronization. So we are calling it a 'reference counter' in kernel / perf code. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180820044250.11659-2-ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu [Only trace_uprobe.c] Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov Reviewed-by: Song Liu Tested-by: Song Liu Signed-off-by: Ravi Bangoria Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

Merge tag 'trace-v4.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace

2018-08-21T01:32:00Z

Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt: - Restructure of lockdep and latency tracers This is the biggest change. Joel Fernandes restructured the hooks from irqs and preemption disabling and enabling. He got rid of a lot of the preprocessor #ifdef mess that they caused. He turned both lockdep and the latency tracers to use trace events inserted in the preempt/irqs disabling paths. But unfortunately, these started to cause issues in corner cases. Thus, parts of the code was reverted back to where lockdep and the latency tracers just get called directly (without using the trace events). But because the original change cleaned up the code very nicely we kept that, as well as the trace events for preempt and irqs disabling, but they are limited to not being called in NMIs. - Have trace events use SRCU for "rcu idle" calls. This was required for the preempt/irqs off trace events. But it also had to not allow them to be called in NMI context. Waiting till Paul makes an NMI safe SRCU API. - New notrace SRCU API to allow trace events to use SRCU. - Addition of mcount-nop option support - SPDX headers replacing GPL templates. - Various other fixes and clean ups. - Some fixes are marked for stable, but were not fully tested before the merge window opened. * tag 'trace-v4.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (44 commits) tracing: Fix SPDX format headers to use C++ style comments tracing: Add SPDX License format tags to tracing files tracing: Add SPDX License format to bpf_trace.c blktrace: Add SPDX License format header s390/ftrace: Add -mfentry and -mnop-mcount support tracing: Add -mcount-nop option support tracing: Avoid calling cc-option -mrecord-mcount for every Makefile tracing: Handle CC_FLAGS_FTRACE more accurately Uprobe: Additional argument arch_uprobe to uprobe_write_opcode() Uprobes: Simplify uprobe_register() body tracepoints: Free early tracepoints after RCU is initialized uprobes: Use synchronize_rcu() not synchronize_sched() tracing: Fix synchronizing to event changes with tracepoint_synchronize_unregister() ftrace: Remove unused pointer ftrace_swapper_pid tracing: More reverting of "tracing: Centralize preemptirq tracepoints and unify their usage" tracing/irqsoff: Handle preempt_count for different configs tracing: Partial revert of "tracing: Centralize preemptirq tracepoints and unify their usage" tracing: irqsoff: Account for additional preempt_disable trace: Use rcu_dereference_raw for hooks from trace-event subsystem tracing/kprobes: Fix within_notrace_func() to check only notrace functions ...

tracing: Add SPDX License format tags to tracing files

2018-08-16T23:08:06Z

Add the SPDX License header to ease license compliance management. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

Merge tag 'printk-for-4.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pmladek/printk

2018-08-15T18:18:53Z

Pull printk updates from Petr Mladek: - Different vendors have a different expectation about a console quietness. Make it configurable to reduce bike-shedding about the upstream default - Decide about the message visibility when the message is stored. It avoids races caused by a delayed console handling - Always store printk() messages into the per-CPU buffers again in NMI. The only exception is when flushing trace log in panic(). There the risk of loosing messages is worth an eventual reordering - Handle invalid %pO printf modifiers correctly - Better handle %p printf modifier tests before crng is initialized - Some clean up * tag 'printk-for-4.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pmladek/printk: lib/vsprintf: Do not handle %pO[^F] as %px printk: Fix warning about unused suppress_message_printing printk/nmi: Prevent deadlock when accessing the main log buffer in NMI printk: Create helper function to queue deferred console handling printk: Split the code for storing a message into the log buffer printk: Clean up syslog_print_all() printk: Remove unnecessary kmalloc() from syslog during clear printk: Make CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_QUIET configurable printk: make sure to print log on console. lib/test_printf.c: accept "ptrval" as valid result for plain 'p' tests

tracing: Make tracer_tracing_is_on() return bool

2018-08-01T20:08:57Z

There's code that expects tracer_tracing_is_on() to be either true or false, not some random number. Currently, it should only return one or zero, but just in case, change its return value to bool, to enforce it. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

tracing: Do not call start/stop() functions when tracing_on does not change

2018-08-01T20:01:02Z

Currently, when one echo's in 1 into tracing_on, the current tracer's "start()" function is executed, even if tracing_on was already one. This can lead to strange side effects. One being that if the hwlat tracer is enabled, and someone does "echo 1 > tracing_on" into tracing_on, the hwlat tracer's start() function is called again which will recreate another kernel thread, and make it unable to remove the old one. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1533120354-22923-1-git-send-email-erica.bugden@linutronix.de Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 2df8f8a6a897e ("tracing: Fix regression with irqsoff tracer and tracing_on file") Reported-by: Erica Bugden Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)