linux/kernel/trace/trace_events.c, branch v3.13

tracing: Only run synchronize_sched() at instance deletion time

2013-12-05T19:22:30Z

It has been reported that boot up with FTRACE_SELFTEST enabled can take a very long time. There can be stalls of over a minute. This was tracked down to the synchronize_sched() called when a system call event is disabled. As the self tests enable and disable thousands of events, this makes the synchronize_sched() get called thousands of times. The synchornize_sched() was added with d562aff93bfb53 "tracing: Add support for SOFT_DISABLE to syscall events" which caused this regression (added in 3.13-rc1). The synchronize_sched() is to protect against the events being accessed when a tracer instance is being deleted. When an instance is being deleted all the events associated to it are unregistered. The synchronize_sched() makes sure that no more users are running when it finishes. Instead of calling synchronize_sched() for all syscall events, we only need to call it once, after the events are unregistered and before the instance is deleted. The event_mutex is held during this action to prevent new users from enabling events. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131203124120.427b9661@gandalf.local.home Reported-by: Petr Mladek Acked-by: Tom Zanussi Acked-by: Petr Mladek Tested-by: Petr Mladek Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing: Do not assign filp->private_data to freed memory

2013-11-06T20:26:54Z

In system_tr_open(), the filp->private_data can be assigned the 'dir' variable even if it was freed. This is on the error path, and is harmless because the error return code will prevent filp->private_data from being used. But for correctness, we should not assign it to a recently freed variable, as that can cause static tools to give false warnings. Also have both subsystem_open() and system_tr_open() return -ENODEV if tracing has been disabled. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1383764571-7318-1-git-send-email-geyslan@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Geyslan G. Bem Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing: Update event filters for multibuffer

2013-11-05T21:50:20Z

The trace event filters are still tied to event calls rather than event files, which means you don't get what you'd expect when using filters in the multibuffer case: Before: # echo 'bytes_alloc > 8192' > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kmem/kmalloc/filter # cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kmem/kmalloc/filter bytes_alloc > 8192 # mkdir /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/instances/test1 # echo 'bytes_alloc > 2048' > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/instances/test1/events/kmem/kmalloc/filter # cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kmem/kmalloc/filter bytes_alloc > 2048 # cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/instances/test1/events/kmem/kmalloc/filter bytes_alloc > 2048 Setting the filter in tracing/instances/test1/events shouldn't affect the same event in tracing/events as it does above. After: # echo 'bytes_alloc > 8192' > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kmem/kmalloc/filter # cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kmem/kmalloc/filter bytes_alloc > 8192 # mkdir /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/instances/test1 # echo 'bytes_alloc > 2048' > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/instances/test1/events/kmem/kmalloc/filter # cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kmem/kmalloc/filter bytes_alloc > 8192 # cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/instances/test1/events/kmem/kmalloc/filter bytes_alloc > 2048 We'd like to just move the filter directly from ftrace_event_call to ftrace_event_file, but there are a couple cases that don't yet have multibuffer support and therefore have to continue using the current event_call-based filters. For those cases, a new USE_CALL_FILTER bit is added to the event_call flags, whose main purpose is to keep the old behavior for those cases until they can be updated with multibuffer support; at that point, the USE_CALL_FILTER flag (and the new associated call_filter_check_discard() function) can go away. The multibuffer support also made filter_current_check_discard() redundant, so this change removes that function as well and replaces it with filter_check_discard() (or call_filter_check_discard() as appropriate). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/f16e9ce4270c62f46b2e966119225e1c3cca7e60.1382620672.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing: Kill the !CONFIG_MODULES code in trace_events.c

2013-08-22T03:28:03Z

Move trace_module_nb under CONFIG_MODULES and kill the dummy trace_module_notify(). Imho it doesn't make sense to define "struct notifier_block" and its .notifier_call just to avoid "ifdef" in event_trace_init(), and all other !CONFIG_MODULES code has already gone away. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130731173137.GA31043@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing: Don't pass file_operations array to event_create_dir()

2013-08-22T03:25:06Z

Now that event_create_dir() and __trace_add_new_event() always use the same file_operations we can kill these arguments and simplify the code. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130731173135.GA31040@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing: Kill trace_create_file_ops() and friends

2013-08-22T02:31:23Z

trace_create_file_ops() allocates the copy of id/filter/format/enable file_operations to set "f_op->owner = mod" for fops_get(). However after the recent changes there is no reason to prevent rmmod even if one of these files is opened. A file operation can do nothing but fail after remove_event_file_dir() clears ->i_private for every file removed by trace_module_remove_events(). Kill "struct ftrace_module_file_ops" and fix the compilation errors. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130731173132.GA31033@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing: Add comment to describe special break case in probe_remove_event_call()

2013-07-31T17:16:22Z

The "break" used in the do_for_each_event_file() is used as an optimization as the loop is really a double loop. The loop searches all event files for each trace_array. There's only one matching event file per trace_array and after we find the event file for the trace_array, the break is used to jump to the next trace_array and start the search there. As this is not a standard way of using "break" in C code, it requires a comment right before the break to let people know what is going on. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing: trace_remove_event_call() should fail if call/file is in use

2013-07-31T17:12:48Z

Change trace_remove_event_call(call) to return the error if this call is active. This is what the callers assume but can't verify outside of the tracing locks. Both trace_kprobe.c/trace_uprobe.c need the additional changes, unregister_trace_probe() should abort if trace_remove_event_call() fails. The caller is going to free this call/file so we must ensure that nobody can use them after trace_remove_event_call() succeeds. debugfs should be fine after the previous changes and event_remove() does TRACE_REG_UNREGISTER, but still there are 2 reasons why we need the additional checks: - There could be a perf_event(s) attached to this tp_event, so the patch checks ->perf_refcount. - TRACE_REG_UNREGISTER can be suppressed by FTRACE_EVENT_FL_SOFT_MODE, so we simply check FTRACE_EVENT_FL_ENABLED protected by event_mutex. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130729175033.GB26284@redhat.com Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing: Change remove_event_file_dir() to clear "d_subdirs"->i_private

2013-07-30T02:57:11Z

Change remove_event_file_dir() to clear ->i_private for every file we are going to remove. We need to check file->dir != NULL because event_create_dir() can fail. debugfs_remove_recursive(NULL) is fine but the patch moves it under the same check anyway for readability. spin_lock(d_lock) and "d_inode != NULL" check are not needed afaics, but I do not understand this code enough. tracing_open_generic_file() and tracing_release_generic_file() can go away, ftrace_enable_fops and ftrace_event_filter_fops() use tracing_open_generic() but only to check tracing_disabled. This fixes all races with event_remove() or instance_delete(). f_op->read/write/whatever can never use the freed file/call, all event/* files were changed to check and use ->i_private under event_mutex. Note: this doesn't not fix other problems, event_remove() can destroy the active ftrace_event_call, we need more changes but those changes are completely orthogonal. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130728183527.GB16723@redhat.com Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing: Introduce remove_event_file_dir()

2013-07-30T02:57:10Z

Preparation for the next patch. Extract the common code from remove_event_from_tracers() and __trace_remove_event_dirs() into the new helper, remove_event_file_dir(). The patch looks more complicated than it actually is, it also moves remove_subsystem() up to avoid the forward declaration. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130726172547.GA3629@redhat.com Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt