linux/kernel/trace/trace_event_perf.c, branch v3.16

kprobes, ftrace: Use NOKPROBE_SYMBOL macro in ftrace

2014-04-24T08:26:39Z

Use NOKPROBE_SYMBOL macro to protect functions from kprobes instead of __kprobes annotation in ftrace. This applies nokprobe_inline annotation for some cases, because NOKPROBE_SYMBOL() will inhibit inlining by referring the symbol address. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Steven Rostedt Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140417081828.26341.55152.stgit@ltc230.yrl.intra.hitachi.co.jp Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf: Disallow user-space stack dumps for function trace events

2014-03-11T10:57:58Z

Recent issues with user space callchains processing within page fault handler tracing showed as Peter said 'there's just too much fail surface'. The user space stack dump is just another source of the this issue. Related list discussions: http://marc.info/?t=139302086500001&r=1&w=2 http://marc.info/?t=139301437300003&r=1&w=2 Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Vince Weaver Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: H. Peter Anvin Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1393775800-13524-3-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf: Disallow user-space callchains for function trace events

2014-03-11T10:57:57Z

Recent issues with user space callchains processing within page fault handler tracing showed as Peter said 'there's just too much fail surface'. Related list discussions: http://marc.info/?t=139302086500001&r=1&w=2 http://marc.info/?t=139301437300003&r=1&w=2 Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Vince Weaver Cc: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1393775800-13524-2-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf/trace: Properly use u64 to hold event_id

2013-11-19T15:57:44Z

The 64-bit attr.config value for perf trace events was being copied into an "int" before doing a comparison, meaning the top 32 bits were being truncated. As far as I can tell this didn't cause any errors, but it did mean it was possible to create valid aliases for all the tracepoint ids which I don't think was intended. (For example, 0xffffffff00000018 and 0x18 both enable the same tracepoint). Signed-off-by: Vince Weaver Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.10.1311151236100.11932@vincent-weaver-1.um.maine.edu Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

ftrace, perf: Avoid infinite event generation loop

2013-11-19T15:57:40Z

Vince's perf-trinity fuzzer found yet another 'interesting' problem. When we sample the irq_work_exit tracepoint with period==1 (or PERF_SAMPLE_PERIOD) and we add an fasync SIGNAL handler we create an infinite event generation loop: ,-> | irq_work_exit() -> | trace_irq_work_exit() -> | ... | __perf_event_overflow() -> (due to fasync) | irq_work_queue() -> (irq_work_list must be empty) '--------- arch_irq_work_raise() Similar things can happen due to regular poll() wakeups if we exceed the ring-buffer wakeup watermark, or have an event_limit. To avoid this, dis-allow sampling this particular tracepoint. In order to achieve this, create a special perf_perm function pointer for each event and call this (when set) on trying to create a tracepoint perf event. [ roasted: use expr... to allow for ',' in your expression ] Reported-by: Vince Weaver Tested-by: Vince Weaver Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Dave Jones Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131114152304.GC5364@laptop.programming.kicks-ass.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf/ftrace: Fix paranoid level for enabling function tracer

2013-11-06T19:44:49Z

The current default perf paranoid level is "1" which has "perf_paranoid_kernel()" return false, and giving any operations that use it, access to normal users. Unfortunately, this includes function tracing and normal users should not be allowed to enable function tracing by default. The proper level is defined at "-1" (full perf access), which "perf_paranoid_tracepoint_raw()" will only give access to. Use that check instead for enabling function tracing. Reported-by: Dave Jones Reported-by: Vince Weaver Tested-by: Vince Weaver Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.4+ CVE: CVE-2013-2930 Fixes: ced39002f5ea ("ftrace, perf: Add support to use function tracepoint in perf") Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing/perf: Move the PERF_MAX_TRACE_SIZE check into perf_trace_buf_prepare()

2013-07-19T01:31:28Z

Every perf_trace_buf_prepare() caller does WARN_ONCE(size > PERF_MAX_TRACE_SIZE, message) and "message" is almost the same. Shift this WARN_ONCE() into perf_trace_buf_prepare(). This changes the meaning of _ONCE, but I think this is fine. - 4947014 2932448 10104832 17984294 1126b26 vmlinux + 4948422 2932448 10104832 17985702 11270a6 vmlinux on my build. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130617170211.GA19813@redhat.com Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing/function: Avoid perf_trace_buf_*() if event_function.perf_events is empty

2013-07-19T01:31:27Z

perf_trace_buf_prepare() + perf_trace_buf_submit(head, task => NULL) make no sense if hlist_empty(head). Change perf_ftrace_function_call() to check event_function.perf_events beforehand. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130617170204.GA19803@redhat.com Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

Merge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/core

2012-08-21T09:27:00Z

Pull perf/core improvements and fixes from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo: * Fix include order for bison/flex-generated C files, from Ben Hutchings * Build fixes and documentation corrections from David Ahern * Group parsing support, from Jiri Olsa * UI/gtk refactorings and improvements from Namhyung Kim * NULL deref fix for perf script, from Namhyung Kim * Assorted cleanups from Robert Richter * Let O= makes handle relative paths, from Steven Rostedt * perf script python fixes, from Feng Tang. * Improve 'perf lock' error message when the needed tracepoints are not present, from David Ahern. * Initial bash completion support, from Frederic Weisbecker * Allow building without libelf, from Namhyung Kim. * Support DWARF CFI based unwind to have callchains when %bp based unwinding is not possible, from Jiri Olsa. * Symbol resolution fixes, while fixing support PPC64 files with an .opt ELF section was the end goal, several fixes for code that handles all architectures and cleanups are included, from Cody Schafer. * Add a description for the JIT interface, from Andi Kleen. * Assorted fixes for Documentation and build in 32 bit, from Robert Richter * Add support for non-tracepoint events in perf script python, from Feng Tang * Cache the libtraceevent event_format associated to each evsel early, so that we avoid relookups, i.e. calling pevent_find_event repeatedly when processing tracepoint events. [ This is to reduce the surface contact with libtraceevents and make clear what is that the perf tools needs from that lib: so far parsing the common and per event fields. ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

perf/trace: Add ability to set a target task for events

2012-07-31T15:02:05Z

A few events are interesting not only for a current task. For example, sched_stat_* events are interesting for a task which wakes up. For this reason, it will be good if such events will be delivered to a target task too. Now a target task can be set by using __perf_task(). The original idea and a draft patch belongs to Peter Zijlstra. I need these events for profiling sleep times. sched_switch is used for getting callchains and sched_stat_* is used for getting time periods. These events are combined in user space, then it can be analyzed by perf tools. Inspired-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Arun Sharma Signed-off-by: Andrew Vagin Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1342016098-213063-1-git-send-email-avagin@openvz.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar