linux/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c, branch v4.7

perf: split perf_trace_buf_prepare into alloc and update parts

2016-04-08T01:04:26Z

split allows to move expensive update of 'struct trace_entry' to later phase. Repurpose unused 1st argument of perf_tp_event() to indicate event type. While splitting use temp variable 'rctx' instead of '*rctx' to avoid unnecessary loads done by the compiler due to -fno-strict-aliasing Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

kernel/...: convert pr_warning to pr_warn

2016-03-22T22:36:02Z

Use the more common logging method with the eventual goal of removing pr_warning altogether. Miscellanea: - Realign arguments - Coalesce formats - Add missing space between a few coalesced formats Signed-off-by: Joe Perches Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki [kernel/power/suspend.c] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kprobes: Optimize hot path by using percpu counter to collect 'nhit' statistics

2016-02-09T10:08:58Z

When doing ebpf+kprobe on some hot TCP functions (e.g. tcp_rcv_established), the kprobe_dispatcher() function shows up in 'perf report'. In kprobe_dispatcher(), there is a lot of cache bouncing on 'tk->nhit++'. 'tk->nhit' and 'tk->tp.flags' also share the same cacheline. perf report (cycles:pp): 8.30% ipv4_dst_check 4.74% copy_user_enhanced_fast_string 3.93% dst_release 2.80% tcp_v4_rcv 2.31% queued_spin_lock_slowpath 2.30% _raw_spin_lock 1.88% mlx4_en_process_rx_cq 1.84% eth_get_headlen 1.81% ip_rcv_finish ~~~~ 1.71% kprobe_dispatcher ~~~~ 1.55% mlx4_en_xmit 1.09% __probe_kernel_read perf report after patch: 9.15% ipv4_dst_check 5.00% copy_user_enhanced_fast_string 4.12% dst_release 2.96% tcp_v4_rcv 2.50% _raw_spin_lock 2.39% queued_spin_lock_slowpath 2.11% eth_get_headlen 2.03% mlx4_en_process_rx_cq 1.69% mlx4_en_xmit 1.19% ip_rcv_finish 1.12% __probe_kernel_read 1.02% ehci_hcd_cleanup Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu Acked-by: Steven Rostedt Cc: Alexei Starovoitov Cc: Josef Bacik Cc: Kernel Team Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1454531308-2441898-1-git-send-email-kafai@fb.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

lib: introduce strncpy_from_unsafe()

2015-08-28T23:27:27Z

generalize FETCH_FUNC_NAME(memory, string) into strncpy_from_unsafe() and fix sparse warnings that were present in original implementation. Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tracing: Rename ftrace_trigger_soft_disabled() to trace_trigger_soft_disabled()

2015-05-13T19:25:39Z

The name "ftrace" really refers to the function hook infrastructure. It is not about the trace_events. The ftrace_trigger_soft_disabled() tests if a trace_event is soft disabled (called but not traced), and returns true if it is. It has nothing to do with function tracing and should be renamed. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing: Rename ftrace_event_name() to trace_event_name()

2015-05-13T18:20:14Z

The name "ftrace" really refers to the function hook infrastructure. It is not about the trace_events. ftrace_event_name() returns the name of an event tracepoint, has nothing to do with function tracing. Rename it to trace_event_name(). Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing: Rename ftrace_event_{call,class} to trace_event_{call,class}

2015-05-13T18:06:10Z

The name "ftrace" really refers to the function hook infrastructure. It is not about the trace_events. The structures ftrace_event_call and ftrace_event_class have nothing to do with the function hooks, and are really trace_event structures. Rename ftrace_event_* to trace_event_*. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing: Rename ftrace_event_file to trace_event_file

2015-05-13T18:05:16Z

The name "ftrace" really refers to the function hook infrastructure. It is not about the trace_events. The structure ftrace_event_file is really about trace events and not "ftrace". Rename it to trace_event_file. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing: Rename (un)register_ftrace_event() to (un)register_trace_event()

2015-05-13T18:05:14Z

The name "ftrace" really refers to the function hook infrastructure. It is not about the trace_events. The functions (un)register_ftrace_event() is really about trace_events, and the name should be register_trace_event() instead. Also renamed ftrace_event_reg() to trace_event_reg() for the same reason. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2015-04-14T21:37:47Z

Pull perf changes from Ingo Molnar: "Core kernel changes: - One of the more interesting features in this cycle is the ability to attach eBPF programs (user-defined, sandboxed bytecode executed by the kernel) to kprobes. This allows user-defined instrumentation on a live kernel image that can never crash, hang or interfere with the kernel negatively. (Right now it's limited to root-only, but in the future we might allow unprivileged use as well.) (Alexei Starovoitov) - Another non-trivial feature is per event clockid support: this allows, amongst other things, the selection of different clock sources for event timestamps traced via perf. This feature is sought by people who'd like to merge perf generated events with external events that were measured with different clocks: - cluster wide profiling - for system wide tracing with user-space events, - JIT profiling events etc. Matching perf tooling support is added as well, available via the -k, --clockid parameter to perf record et al. (Peter Zijlstra) Hardware enablement kernel changes: - x86 Intel Processor Trace (PT) support: which is a hardware tracer on steroids, available on Broadwell CPUs. The hardware trace stream is directly output into the user-space ring-buffer, using the 'AUX' data format extension that was added to the perf core to support hardware constraints such as the necessity to have the tracing buffer physically contiguous. This patch-set was developed for two years and this is the result. A simple way to make use of this is to use BTS tracing, the PT driver emulates BTS output - available via the 'intel_bts' PMU. More explicit PT specific tooling support is in the works as well - will probably be ready by 4.2. (Alexander Shishkin, Peter Zijlstra) - x86 Intel Cache QoS Monitoring (CQM) support: this is a hardware feature of Intel Xeon CPUs that allows the measurement and allocation/partitioning of caches to individual workloads. These kernel changes expose the measurement side as a new PMU driver, which exposes various QoS related PMU events. (The partitioning change is work in progress and is planned to be merged as a cgroup extension.) (Matt Fleming, Peter Zijlstra; CPU feature detection by Peter P Waskiewicz Jr) - x86 Intel Haswell LBR call stack support: this is a new Haswell feature that allows the hardware recording of call chains, plus tooling support. To activate this feature you have to enable it via the new 'lbr' call-graph recording option: perf record --call-graph lbr perf report or: perf top --call-graph lbr This hardware feature is a lot faster than stack walk or dwarf based unwinding, but has some limitations: - It reuses the current LBR facility, so LBR call stack and branch record can not be enabled at the same time. - It is only available for user-space callchains. (Yan, Zheng) - x86 Intel Broadwell CPU support and various event constraints and event table fixes for earlier models. (Andi Kleen) - x86 Intel HT CPUs event scheduling workarounds. This is a complex CPU bug affecting the SNB,IVB,HSW families that results in counter value corruption. The mitigation code is automatically enabled and is transparent. (Maria Dimakopoulou, Stephane Eranian) The perf tooling side had a ton of changes in this cycle as well, so I'm only able to list the user visible changes here, in addition to the tooling changes outlined above: User visible changes affecting all tools: - Improve support of compressed kernel modules (Jiri Olsa) - Save DSO loading errno to better report errors (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo) - Bash completion for subcommands (Yunlong Song) - Add 'I' event modifier for perf_event_attr.exclude_idle bit (Jiri Olsa) - Support missing -f to override perf.data file ownership. (Yunlong Song) - Show the first event with an invalid filter (David Ahern, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo) User visible changes in individual tools: 'perf data': New tool for converting perf.data to other formats, initially for the CTF (Common Trace Format) from LTTng (Jiri Olsa, Sebastian Siewior) 'perf diff': Add --kallsyms option (David Ahern) 'perf list': Allow listing events with 'tracepoint' prefix (Yunlong Song) Sort the output of the command (Yunlong Song) 'perf kmem': Respect -i option (Jiri Olsa) Print big numbers using thousands' group (Namhyung Kim) Allow -v option (Namhyung Kim) Fix alignment of slab result table (Namhyung Kim) 'perf probe': Support multiple probes on different binaries on the same command line (Masami Hiramatsu) Support unnamed union/structure members data collection. (Masami Hiramatsu) Check kprobes blacklist when adding new events. (Masami Hiramatsu) 'perf record': Teach 'perf record' about perf_event_attr.clockid (Peter Zijlstra) Support recording running/enabled time (Andi Kleen) 'perf sched': Improve the performance of 'perf sched replay' on high CPU core count machines (Yunlong Song) 'perf report' and 'perf top': Allow annotating entries in callchains in the hists browser (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo) Indicate which callchain entries are annotated in the TUI hists browser (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo) Add pid/tid filtering to 'report' and 'script' commands (David Ahern) Consider PERF_RECORD_ events with cpumode == 0 in 'perf top', removing one cause of long term memory usage buildup, i.e. not processing PERF_RECORD_EXIT events (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo) 'perf stat': Report unsupported events properly (Suzuki K. Poulose) Output running time and run/enabled ratio in CSV mode (Andi Kleen) 'perf trace': Handle legacy syscalls tracepoints (David Ahern, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo) Only insert blank duration bracket when tracing syscalls (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo) Filter out the trace pid when no threads are specified (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo) Dump stack on segfaults (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo) No need to explicitely enable evsels for workload started from perf, let it be enabled via perf_event_attr.enable_on_exec, removing some events that take place in the 'perf trace' before a workload is really started by it. (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo) Allow mixing with tracepoints and suppressing plain syscalls. (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo) There's also been a ton of infrastructure work done, such as the split-out of perf's build system into tools/build/ and other changes - see the shortlog and changelog for details" * 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (358 commits) perf/x86/intel/pt: Clean up the control flow in pt_pmu_hw_init() perf evlist: Fix type for references to data_head/tail perf probe: Check the orphaned -x option perf probe: Support multiple probes on different binaries perf buildid-list: Fix segfault when show DSOs with hits perf tools: Fix cross-endian analysis perf tools: Fix error path to do closedir() when synthesizing threads perf tools: Fix synthesizing fork_event.ppid for non-main thread perf tools: Add 'I' event modifier for exclude_idle bit perf report: Don't call map__kmap if map is NULL. perf tests: Fix attr tests perf probe: Fix ARM 32 building error perf tools: Merge all perf_event_attr print functions perf record: Add clockid parameter perf sched replay: Use replay_repeat to calculate the runavg of cpu usage instead of the default value 10 perf sched replay: Support using -f to override perf.data file ownership perf sched replay: Fix the EMFILE error caused by the limitation of the maximum open files perf sched replay: Handle the dead halt of sem_wait when create_tasks() fails for any task perf sched replay: Fix the segmentation fault problem caused by pr_err in threads perf sched replay: Realloc the memory of pid_to_task stepwise to adapt to the different pid_max configurations ...