linux/tools/tracing, branch v6.4

rtla/timerlat: Fix "Previous IRQ" auto analysis' line

2023-04-25T23:26:59Z

The "Previous IRQ interference" line is misaligned and without a \n, breaking the tool's output: ## CPU 12 hit stop tracing, analyzing it ## Previous IRQ interference: up to 2.22 us IRQ handler delay: 18.06 us (0.00 %) IRQ latency: 18.52 us Timerlat IRQ duration: 4.41 us (0.00 %) Blocking thread: 216.93 us (0.03 %) Fix the output: ## CPU 7 hit stop tracing, analyzing it ## Previous IRQ interference: up to 8.93 us IRQ handler delay: 0.98 us (0.00 %) IRQ latency: 2.95 us Timerlat IRQ duration: 11.26 us (0.03 %) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-devel/8b5819077f15ccf24745c9bf3205451e16ee32d9.1679685525.git.bristot@kernel.org Fixes: 27e348b221f6 ("rtla/timerlat: Add auto-analysis core") Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google)

rtla/timerlat: Add auto-analysis only option

2023-04-25T23:26:17Z

Parsing and formating timerlat data might consume a reasonable amount of CPU time on very large systems, or when timerlat has a too short period. Add an option to run timerlat with auto-analysis enabled while skipping the statistics parsing. In this mode, rtla timerlat periodically checks if the tracing is on, going to sleep waiting for the stop tracing condition to stop tracing, or for the tracing session to finish. If the stop tracing condition is hit, the tool prints the auto analysis. Otherwise, the tool prints the max observed latency and exit. The max observed latency is captured via tracing_max_latency. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-devel/4dc514d1d5dc353c537a466a9b5af44c266b6da2.1680106912.git.bristot@kernel.org Cc: Jonathan Corbet Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google)

rtla: Add .gitignore file

2023-04-25T21:01:23Z

Add .gitignore file to ignore the rtla binary. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-devel/tencent_3C22A3418CD06196C2E5A84AE3EBC2281206@qq.com Signed-off-by: Rong Tao Acked-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google)

Merge tag 'trace-v6.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace

2023-02-23T18:20:49Z

Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt: - Add function names as a way to filter function addresses - Add sample module to test ftrace ops and dynamic trampolines - Allow stack traces to be passed from beginning event to end event for synthetic events. This will allow seeing the stack trace of when a task is scheduled out and recorded when it gets scheduled back in. - Add trace event helper __get_buf() to use as a temporary buffer when printing out trace event output. - Add kernel command line to create trace instances on boot up. - Add enabling of events to instances created at boot up. - Add trace_array_puts() to write into instances. - Allow boot instances to take a snapshot at the end of boot up. - Allow live patch modules to include trace events - Minor fixes and clean ups * tag 'trace-v6.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: (31 commits) tracing: Remove unnecessary NULL assignment tracepoint: Allow livepatch module add trace event tracing: Always use canonical ftrace path tracing/histogram: Fix stacktrace histogram Documententation tracing/histogram: Fix stacktrace key tracing/histogram: Fix a few problems with stacktrace variable printing tracing: Add BUILD_BUG() to make sure stacktrace fits in strings tracing/histogram: Don't use strlen to find length of stacktrace variables tracing: Allow boot instances to have snapshot buffers tracing: Add trace_array_puts() to write into instance tracing: Add enabling of events to boot instances tracing: Add creation of instances at boot command line tracing: Fix trace_event_raw_event_synth() if else statement samples: ftrace: Make some global variables static ftrace: sample: avoid open-coded 64-bit division samples: ftrace: Include the nospec-branch.h only for x86 tracing: Acquire buffer from temparary trace sequence tracing/histogram: Wrap remaining shell snippets in code blocks tracing/osnoise: No need for schedule_hrtimeout range bpf/tracing: Use stage6 of tracing to not duplicate macros ...

tracing: Always use canonical ftrace path

2023-02-18T19:34:09Z

The canonical location for the tracefs filesystem is at /sys/kernel/tracing. But, from Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst: Before 4.1, all ftrace tracing control files were within the debugfs file system, which is typically located at /sys/kernel/debug/tracing. For backward compatibility, when mounting the debugfs file system, the tracefs file system will be automatically mounted at: /sys/kernel/debug/tracing Many comments and Kconfig help messages in the tracing code still refer to this older debugfs path, so let's update them to avoid confusion. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230215223350.2658616-2-zwisler@google.com Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) Reviewed-by: Mukesh Ojha Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google)

rtla: Add hwnoise tool

2023-02-14T04:56:46Z

The hwnoise tool is a special mode for the osnoise top tool. hwnoise dispatches the osnoise tracer and displays a summary of the noise. The difference is that it runs the tracer with the OSNOISE_IRQ_DISABLE option set, thus only allowing only hardware-related noise, resulting in a simplified output. hwnoise has the same features of osnoise. An example of the tool's output: # rtla hwnoise -c 1-11 -T 1 -d 10m -q Hardware-related Noise duration: 0 00:10:00 | time is in us CPU Period Runtime Noise % CPU Aval Max Noise Max Single HW NMI 1 #599 599000000 138 99.99997 3 3 4 74 2 #599 599000000 85 99.99998 3 3 4 75 3 #599 599000000 86 99.99998 4 3 6 75 4 #599 599000000 81 99.99998 4 4 2 75 5 #599 599000000 85 99.99998 2 2 2 75 Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/2d6f49a6f3a4f8b51b2c806458b1cff71ad4d014.1675805361.git.bristot@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira Cc: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira Cc: Juri Lelli Cc: Clark Williams Cc: Bagas Sanjaya Cc: Jonathan Corbet Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google)

rtla/timerlat: Add auto-analysis support to timerlat top

2023-02-02T15:48:04Z

Currently, timerlat top displays the timerlat tracer latency results, saving the intuitive timerlat trace for the developer to analyze. This patch goes a step forward in the automaton of the scheduling latency analysis by providing a summary of the root cause of a latency higher than the passed "stop tracing" parameter if the trace stops. The output is intuitive enough for non-expert users to have a general idea of the root cause by looking at each factor's contribution percentage while keeping the technical detail in the output for more expert users to start an in dept debug or to correlate a root cause with an existing one. The terminology is in line with recent industry and academic publications to facilitate the understanding of both audiences. Here is one example of tool output: ----------------------------------------- %< ----------------------------------------------------- # taskset -c 0 timerlat -a 40 -c 1-23 -q Timer Latency 0 00:00:12 | IRQ Timer Latency (us) | Thread Timer Latency (us) CPU COUNT | cur min avg max | cur min avg max 1 #12322 | 0 0 1 15 | 10 3 9 31 2 #12322 | 3 0 1 12 | 10 3 9 23 3 #12322 | 1 0 1 21 | 8 2 8 34 4 #12322 | 1 0 1 17 | 10 2 11 33 5 #12322 | 0 0 1 12 | 8 3 8 25 6 #12322 | 1 0 1 14 | 16 3 11 35 7 #12322 | 0 0 1 14 | 9 2 8 29 8 #12322 | 1 0 1 22 | 9 3 9 34 9 #12322 | 0 0 1 14 | 8 2 8 24 10 #12322 | 1 0 0 12 | 9 3 8 24 11 #12322 | 0 0 0 15 | 6 2 7 29 12 #12321 | 1 0 0 13 | 5 3 8 23 13 #12319 | 0 0 1 14 | 9 3 9 26 14 #12321 | 1 0 0 13 | 6 2 8 24 15 #12321 | 1 0 1 15 | 12 3 11 27 16 #12318 | 0 0 1 13 | 7 3 10 24 17 #12319 | 0 0 1 13 | 11 3 9 25 18 #12318 | 0 0 0 12 | 8 2 8 20 19 #12319 | 0 0 1 18 | 10 2 9 28 20 #12317 | 0 0 0 20 | 9 3 8 34 21 #12318 | 0 0 0 13 | 8 3 8 28 22 #12319 | 0 0 1 11 | 8 3 10 22 23 #12320 | 28 0 1 28 | 41 3 11 41 rtla timerlat hit stop tracing ## CPU 23 hit stop tracing, analyzing it ## IRQ handler delay: 27.49 us (65.52 %) IRQ latency: 28.13 us Timerlat IRQ duration: 9.59 us (22.85 %) Blocking thread: 3.79 us (9.03 %) objtool:49256 3.79 us Blocking thread stacktrace -> timerlat_irq -> __hrtimer_run_queues -> hrtimer_interrupt -> __sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt -> sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt -> asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt -> _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore -> cgroup_rstat_flush_locked -> cgroup_rstat_flush_irqsafe -> mem_cgroup_flush_stats -> mem_cgroup_wb_stats -> balance_dirty_pages -> balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_flags -> btrfs_buffered_write -> btrfs_do_write_iter -> vfs_write -> __x64_sys_pwrite64 -> do_syscall_64 -> entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thread latency: 41.96 us (100%) The system has exit from idle latency! Max timerlat IRQ latency from idle: 17.48 us in cpu 4 Saving trace to timerlat_trace.txt ----------------------------------------- >% ----------------------------------------------------- In this case, the major factor was the delay suffered by the IRQ handler that handles timerlat wakeup: 65.52 %. This can be caused by the current thread masking interrupts, which can be seen in the blocking thread stacktrace: the current thread (objtool:49256) disabled interrupts via raw spin lock operations inside mem cgroup, while doing write syscall in a btrfs file system. A simple search for the function name on Google shows that this is a legit case for disabling the interrupts: cgroup: Use irqsave in cgroup_rstat_flush_locked() lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20220301122143.1521823-2-bigeasy@linutronix.de/ The output also prints other reasons for the latency root cause, such as: - an IRQ that happened before the IRQ handler that caused delays - The interference from NMI, IRQ, Softirq, and Threads The details about how these factors affect the scheduling latency can be found here: https://bristot.me/demystifying-the-real-time-linux-latency/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/3d45f40e630317f51ac6d678e2d96d310e495729.1675179318.git.bristot@kernel.org Cc: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira Cc: Jonathan Corbet Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google)

rtla/timerlat: Add auto-analysis core

2023-02-02T15:48:03Z

Currently, timerlat displays a summary of the timerlat tracer results saving the trace if the system hits a stop condition. While this represented a huge step forward, the root cause was not that is accessible to non-expert users. The auto-analysis fulfill this gap by parsing the trace timerlat runs, printing an intuitive auto-analysis. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1ee073822f6a2cbb33da0c817331d0d4045e837f.1675179318.git.bristot@kernel.org Cc: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira Cc: Jonathan Corbet Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google)

tools/tracing/rtla: osnoise_hist: display average with two-digit precision

2023-02-01T00:23:36Z

Calculate average value in osnoise-hist summary with two-digit precision to avoid displaying too optimitic results. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230103103400.275566-3-br015@umbiko.net Signed-off-by: Andreas Ziegler Acked-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google)

tools/tracing/rtla: osnoise_hist: use total duration for average calculation

2023-02-01T00:23:36Z

Sampled durations must be weighted by observed quantity, to arrive at a correct average duration value. Perform calculation of total duration by summing (duration * count). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230103103400.275566-2-br015@umbiko.net Fixes: 829a6c0b5698 ("rtla/osnoise: Add the hist mode") Signed-off-by: Andreas Ziegler Acked-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google)