linux/kernel/trace/trace_stack.c, branch v2.6.30

tracing: left align location header in stack_trace

2009-03-13T04:00:58Z

Ingo Molnar suggested, instead of: Depth Size Location (27 entries) ----- ---- -------- 0) 2880 48 lock_timer_base+0x2b/0x4f 1) 2832 80 __mod_timer+0x33/0xe0 2) 2752 16 __ide_set_handler+0x63/0x65 To have it be: Depth Size Location (27 entries) ----- ---- -------- 0) 2880 48 lock_timer_base+0x2b/0x4f 1) 2832 80 __mod_timer+0x33/0xe0 2) 2752 16 __ide_set_handler+0x63/0x65 Requested-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing: explain why stack tracer is empty

2009-03-13T01:15:01Z

If the stack tracing is disabled (by default) the stack_trace file will only contain the header: # cat /debug/tracing/stack_trace Depth Size Location (0 entries) ----- ---- -------- This can be frustrating to a developer that does not realize that the stack tracer is disabled. This patch adds the following text: # cat /debug/tracing/stack_trace Depth Size Location (0 entries) ----- ---- -------- # # Stack tracer disabled # # To enable the stack tracer, either add 'stacktrace' to the # kernel command line # or 'echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/stack_tracer_enabled' # Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing: fix stack tracer header

2009-03-13T01:15:01Z

The stack tracer use to look like this: # cat /debug/tracing/stack_trace Depth Size Location (57 entries) ----- ---- -------- 0) 5088 16 mempool_alloc_slab+0x16/0x18 1) 5072 144 mempool_alloc+0x4d/0xfe 2) 4928 16 scsi_sg_alloc+0x48/0x4a [scsi_mod] Now it looks like this: # cat /debug/tracing/stack_trace Depth Size Location (57 entries) ----- ---- -------- 0) 5088 16 mempool_alloc_slab+0x16/0x18 1) 5072 144 mempool_alloc+0x4d/0xfe 2) 4928 16 scsi_sg_alloc+0x48/0x4a [scsi_mod] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

trace: better use of stack_trace_enabled for boot up code

2008-12-18T11:56:56Z

Impact: clean up Andrew Morton suggested to use the stack_tracer_enabled variable to decide whether or not to start stack tracing on bootup. This lets us remove the start_stack_trace variable. Reported-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

trace: add a way to enable or disable the stack tracer

2008-12-18T11:56:24Z

Impact: enhancement to stack tracer The stack tracer currently is either on when configured in or off when it is not. It can not be disabled when it is configured on. (besides disabling the function tracer that it uses) This patch adds a way to enable or disable the stack tracer at run time. It defaults off on bootup, but a kernel parameter 'stacktrace' has been added to enable it on bootup. A new sysctl has been added "kernel.stack_tracer_enabled" to let the user enable or disable the stack tracer at run time. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

trace: fix output of stack trace

2008-12-03T16:15:02Z

Impact: fix to output of stack trace If a function is not found in the stack of the stack tracer, the number printed is quite strange. This fixes the algorithm to handle missing functions better. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

ftrace: replace raw_local_irq_save with local_irq_save

2008-12-03T07:56:19Z

Impact: fix for lockdep and ftrace The raw_local_irq_save/restore confuses lockdep. This patch converts them to the local_irq_save/restore variants. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Merge branches 'tracing/profiling', 'tracing/options' and 'tracing/urgent' into tracing/core

2008-11-23T08:10:32Z

function tracing: fix wrong position computing of stack_trace

2008-11-21T07:49:52Z

Impact: make output of stack_trace complete if buffer overruns When read buffer overruns, the output of stack_trace isn't complete. When printing records with seq_printf in t_show, if the read buffer has overruned by the current record, then this record won't be printed to user space through read buffer, it will just be dropped in this printing. When next printing, t_start should return the "*pos"th record, which is the one dropped by previous printing, but it just returns (m->private + *pos)th record. Here we use a more sane method to implement seq_operations which can be found in kernel code. Thus we needn't initialize m->private. About testing, it's not easy to overrun read buffer, but we can use seq_printf to print more padding bytes in t_show, then it's easy to check whether or not records are lost. This commit has been tested on both condition of overrun and non overrun. Signed-off-by: Liming Wang Acked-by: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

ftrace: insert in the ftrace_preempt_disable()/enable() functions

2008-11-04T09:09:49Z

Impact: use new, consolidated APIs in ftrace plugins This patch replaces the schedule safe preempt disable code with the ftrace_preempt_disable() and ftrace_preempt_enable() safe functions. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar