linux/kernel/trace/trace_selftest.c, branch v3.8

tracing: Use irq_work for wake ups and remove _nowake_() functions

2012-11-02T14:21:52Z

Have the ring buffer commit function use the irq_work infrastructure to wake up any waiters waiting on the ring buffer for new data. The irq_work was created for such a purpose, where doing the actual wake up at the time of adding data is too dangerous, as an event or function trace may be in the midst of the work queue locks and cause deadlocks. The irq_work will either delay the action to the next timer interrupt, or trigger an IPI to itself forcing an interrupt to do the work (in a safe location). With irq_work, all ring buffer commits can safely do wakeups, removing the need for the ring buffer commit "nowake" variants, which were used by events and function tracing. All commits can now safely use the normal commit, and the "nowake" variants can be removed. Cc: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing: Make tracing_enabled be equal to tracing_on

2012-11-02T14:21:50Z

The tracing_enabled file has been deprecated as it never was able to serve its purpose well. The tracing_on file has taken over. Instead of having code to keep tracing_enabled, have the tracing_enabled file just set tracing_on, and remove the tracing_enabled variable. This allows us to remove the tracing_enabled file. The reason that the remove is in a different change set and not removed here is in case we find some lonely userspace tool that requires the file to exist. Then the removal patch will get reverted, but this one will not. Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing: Fix wakeup_rt self test on virtual machines

2012-08-07T13:40:51Z

The warkeup_rt self test used msleep() calls to wait for real time tasks to wake up and run. On bare-metal hardware, this was enough as the scheduler should let the RT task run way before the non-RT task wakes up from the msleep(). If it did not, then that would mean the scheduler was broken. But when dealing with virtual machines, this is a different story. If the RT task wakes up on a VCPU, it's up to the host to decide when that task gets to schedule, which can be far behind the time that the non-RT task wakes up. In this case, the test would fail incorrectly. As we are not testing the scheduler, but instead the wake up tracing, we can use completions to wait and not depend on scheduler timings to see if events happen on time. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1343663105.3847.7.camel@fedora Reported-by: Fengguang Wu Tested-by: Fengguang Wu Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

ftrace: Add selftest to test function save-regs support

2012-07-31T14:29:54Z

Add selftests to test the save-regs functionality of ftrace. If the arch supports saving regs, then it will make sure that regs is at least not NULL in the callback. If the arch does not support saving regs, it makes sure that the registering of the ftrace_ops that requests saving regs fails. It then tests the registering of the ftrace_ops succeeds if the 'IF_SUPPORTED' flag is set. Then it makes sure that the regs passed to the function is NULL. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

ftrace: Add selftest to test function trace recursion protection

2012-07-31T14:29:54Z

Add selftests to test the function tracing recursion protection actually does work. It also tests if a ftrace_ops states it will perform its own protection. Although, even if the ftrace_ops states it will protect itself, the ftrace infrastructure may still provide protection if the arch does not support all features or another ftrace_ops is registered. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

ftrace: Add default recursion protection for function tracing

2012-07-31T14:29:52Z

As more users of the function tracer utility are being added, they do not always add the necessary recursion protection. To protect from function recursion due to tracing, if the callback ftrace_ops does not specifically specify that it protects against recursion (by setting the FTRACE_OPS_FL_RECURSION_SAFE flag), the list operation will be called by the mcount trampoline which adds recursion protection. If the flag is set, then the function will be called directly with no extra protection. Note, the list operation is called if more than one function callback is registered, or if the arch does not support all of the function tracer features. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

ftrace: Return pt_regs to function trace callback

2012-07-19T17:18:49Z

Return as the 4th paramater to the function tracer callback the pt_regs. Later patches that implement regs passing for the architectures will require having the ftrace_ops set the SAVE_REGS flag, which will tell the arch to take the time to pass a full set of pt_regs to the ftrace_ops callback function. If the arch does not support it then it should pass NULL. If an arch can pass full regs, then it should define: ARCH_SUPPORTS_FTRACE_SAVE_REGS to 1 Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120702201821.019966811@goodmis.org Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

ftrace: Pass ftrace_ops as third parameter to function trace callback

2012-07-19T17:17:35Z

Currently the function trace callback receives only the ip and parent_ip of the function that it traced. It would be more powerful to also return the ops that registered the function as well. This allows the same function to act differently depending on what ftrace_ops registered it. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120612225424.267254552@goodmis.org Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

ftrace: Add self-tests for multiple function trace users

2011-05-18T23:24:51Z

Add some basic sanity tests for multiple users of the function tracer at startup. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

ftrace: Modify ftrace_set_filter/notrace to take ops

2011-05-18T23:22:52Z

Since users of the function tracer can now pick and choose which functions they want to trace agnostically from other users of the function tracer, we need to pass the ops struct to the ftrace_set_filter() functions. The functions ftrace_set_global_filter() and ftrace_set_global_notrace() is added to keep the old filter functions which are used to modify the generic function tracers. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt