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* ring-buffer: Synchronize resizing buffer with reader lockLai Jiangshan2009-11-041-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We got a sudden panic when we reduced the size of the ringbuffer. We can reproduce the panic by the following steps: echo 1 > events/sched/enable cat trace_pipe > /dev/null & while ((1)) do echo 12000 > buffer_size_kb echo 512 > buffer_size_kb done (not more than 5 seconds, panic ...) Reported-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> LKML-Reference: <4AF01735.9060409@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* tracing: Remove cpu arg from the rb_time_stamp() functionJiri Olsa2009-10-241-5/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | The cpu argument is not used inside the rb_time_stamp() function. Plus fix a typo. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <20091023233647.118547500@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* tracing: Fix comment typo and documentation exampleJiri Olsa2009-10-241-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | Trivial patch to fix a documentation example and to fix a comment. Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <20091023233646.871719877@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* includecheck fix: kernel/trace, ring_buffer.cJaswinder Singh Rajput2009-09-201-2/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | fix the following 'make includecheck' warning: kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c: trace.h is included more than once. Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> LKML-Reference: <1247068617.4382.107.camel@ht.satnam>
* ring-buffer: typecast cmpxchg to fix PowerPC warningSteven Rostedt2009-09-141-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The cmpxchg used by PowerPC does the following: ({ \ __typeof__(*(ptr)) _o_ = (o); \ __typeof__(*(ptr)) _n_ = (n); \ (__typeof__(*(ptr))) __cmpxchg((ptr), (unsigned long)_o_, \ (unsigned long)_n_, sizeof(*(ptr))); \ }) This does a type check of *ptr to both o and n. Unfortunately, the code in ring-buffer.c assigns longs to pointers and pointers to longs and causes a warning on PowerPC: ring_buffer.c: In function 'rb_head_page_set': ring_buffer.c:704: warning: initialization makes pointer from integer without a cast ring_buffer.c:704: warning: initialization makes pointer from integer without a cast ring_buffer.c: In function 'rb_head_page_replace': ring_buffer.c:797: warning: initialization makes integer from pointer without a cast This patch adds the typecasts inside cmpxchg to annotate that a long is being cast to a pointer and a pointer is being casted to a long and this removes the PowerPC warnings. Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* ring-buffer: consolidate interface of rb_buffer_peek()Robert Richter2009-09-091-7/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | rb_buffer_peek() operates with struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer only. Thus, instead of passing variables buffer and cpu it is better to use cpu_buffer directly. This also reduces the risk of races since cpu_buffer is not calculated twice. Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> LKML-Reference: <1249045084-3028-1-git-send-email-robert.richter@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* ring-buffer: only enable ring_buffer_swap_cpu when neededSteven Rostedt2009-09-041-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | Since the ability to swap the cpu buffers adds a small overhead to the recording of a trace, we only want to add it when needed. Only the irqsoff and preemptoff tracers use this feature, and both are not recommended for production kernels. This patch disables its use when neither irqsoff nor preemptoff is configured. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* ring-buffer: check for swapped buffers in start of committingSteven Rostedt2009-09-041-3/+17
| | | | | | | | | | Because the irqsoff tracer can swap an internal CPU buffer, it is possible that a swap happens between the start of the write and before the committing bit is set (the committing bit will disable swapping). This patch adds a check for this and will fail the write if it detects it. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* ring-buffer: disable all cpu buffers when one finds a problemSteven Rostedt2009-09-041-8/+13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently the way RB_WARN_ON works, is to disable either the current CPU buffer or all CPU buffers, depending on whether a ring_buffer or ring_buffer_per_cpu struct was passed into the macro. Most users of the RB_WARN_ON pass in the CPU buffer, so only the one CPU buffer gets disabled but the rest are still active. This may confuse users even though a warning is sent to the console. This patch changes the macro to disable the entire buffer even if the CPU buffer is passed in. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* ring-buffer: do not count discarded eventsSteven Rostedt2009-09-041-17/+54
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The latency tracers report the number of items in the trace buffer. This uses the ring buffer data to calculate this. Because discarded events are also counted, the numbers do not match the number of items that are printed. The ring buffer also adds a "padding" item to the end of each buffer page which also gets counted as a discarded item. This patch decrements the counter to the page entries on a discard. This allows us to ignore discarded entries while reading the buffer. Decrementing the counter is still safe since it can only happen while the committing flag is still set. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* ring-buffer: remove ring_buffer_event_discardSteven Rostedt2009-09-041-21/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The function ring_buffer_event_discard can be used on any item in the ring buffer, even after the item was committed. This function provides no safety nets and is very race prone. An item may be safely removed from the ring buffer before it is committed with the ring_buffer_discard_commit. Since there are currently no users of this function, and because this function is racey and error prone, this patch removes it altogether. Note, removing this function also allows the counters to ignore all discarded events (patches will follow). Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* ring-buffer: fix ring_buffer_read crossing pagesSteven Rostedt2009-09-041-4/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When the ring buffer uses an iterator (static read mode, not on the fly reading), when it crosses a page boundery, it will skip the first entry on the next page. The reason is that the last entry of a page is usually padding if the page is not full. The padding will not be returned to the user. The problem arises on ring_buffer_read because it also increments the iterator. Because both the read and peek use the same rb_iter_peek, the rb_iter_peak will return the padding but also increment to the next item. This is because the ring_buffer_peek will not incerment it itself. The ring_buffer_read will increment it again and then call rb_iter_peek again to get the next item. But that will be the second item, not the first one on the page. The reason this never showed up before, is because the ftrace utility always calls ring_buffer_peek first and only uses ring_buffer_read to increment to the next item. The ring_buffer_peek will always keep the pointer to a valid item and not padding. This just hid the bug. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* ring-buffer: remove unnecessary cpu_relaxSteven Rostedt2009-09-041-12/+4
| | | | | | | | | The loops in the ring buffer that use cpu_relax are not dependent on other CPUs. They simply came across some padding in the ring buffer and are skipping over them. It is a normal loop and does not require a cpu_relax. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* ring-buffer: do not swap buffers during a commitSteven Rostedt2009-09-041-2/+9
| | | | | | | If a commit is taking place on a CPU ring buffer, do not allow it to be swapped. Return -EBUSY when this is detected instead. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* ring-buffer: do not reset while in a commitSteven Rostedt2009-09-041-0/+4
| | | | | | | The callers of reset must ensure that no commit can be taking place at the time of the reset. If it does then we may corrupt the ring buffer. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/coreIngo Molnar2009-08-111-8/+7
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Conflicts: kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c We use the tracing/core version. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * ring-buffer: Fix memleak in ring_buffer_free()Eric Dumazet2009-08-071-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I noticed oprofile memleaked in linux-2.6 current tree, and tracked this ring-buffer leak. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <4A7C06B9.2090302@gmail.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * ring-buffer: Fix advance of reader in rb_buffer_peek()Robert Richter2009-08-061-6/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When calling rb_buffer_peek() from ring_buffer_consume() and a padding event is returned, the function rb_advance_reader() is called twice. This may lead to missing samples or under high workloads to the warning below. This patch fixes this. If a padding event is returned by rb_buffer_peek() it will be consumed by the calling function now. Also, I simplified some code in ring_buffer_consume(). ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: at /dev/shm/.source/linux/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:2289 rb_advance_reader+0x2e/0xc5() Hardware name: Anaheim Modules linked in: Pid: 29, comm: events/2 Tainted: G W 2.6.31-rc3-oprofile-x86_64-standard-00059-g5050dc2 #1 Call Trace: [<ffffffff8106776f>] ? rb_advance_reader+0x2e/0xc5 [<ffffffff81039ffe>] warn_slowpath_common+0x77/0x8f [<ffffffff8103a025>] warn_slowpath_null+0xf/0x11 [<ffffffff8106776f>] rb_advance_reader+0x2e/0xc5 [<ffffffff81068bda>] ring_buffer_consume+0xa0/0xd2 [<ffffffff81326933>] op_cpu_buffer_read_entry+0x21/0x9e [<ffffffff810be3af>] ? __find_get_block+0x4b/0x165 [<ffffffff8132749b>] sync_buffer+0xa5/0x401 [<ffffffff810be3af>] ? __find_get_block+0x4b/0x165 [<ffffffff81326c1b>] ? wq_sync_buffer+0x0/0x78 [<ffffffff81326c76>] wq_sync_buffer+0x5b/0x78 [<ffffffff8104aa30>] worker_thread+0x113/0x1ac [<ffffffff8104dd95>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x38 [<ffffffff8104a91d>] ? worker_thread+0x0/0x1ac [<ffffffff8104dc9a>] kthread+0x88/0x92 [<ffffffff8100bdba>] child_rip+0xa/0x20 [<ffffffff8104dc12>] ? kthread+0x0/0x92 [<ffffffff8100bdb0>] ? child_rip+0x0/0x20 ---[ end trace f561c0a58fcc89bd ]--- Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * ring-buffer: do not disable ring buffer on oops_in_progressSteven Rostedt2009-08-051-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The commit: commit e0fdace10e75dac67d906213b780ff1b1a4cc360 Author: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Date: Fri Aug 1 01:11:22 2008 -0700 debug_locks: set oops_in_progress if we will log messages. Otherwise lock debugging messages on runqueue locks can deadlock the system due to the wakeups performed by printk(). Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Will permanently set oops_in_progress on any lockdep failure. When this triggers it will cause any read from the ring buffer to permanently disable the ring buffer (not to mention no locking of printk). This patch removes the check. It keeps the print in NMI which makes sense. This is probably OK, since the ring buffer should not cause something to set oops_in_progress anyway. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * ring-buffer: fix check of try_to_discard resultSteven Rostedt2009-08-051-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The function ring_buffer_discard_commit inversed the code path of the result of try_to_discard. It should skip incrementing the entry counter if try_to_discard succeeded. But instead, it increments the entry conder if it succeeded to discard, and does not increment it if it fails. The result of this bug is that filtering will make the stat counters incorrect. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* | ring_buffer: Fix warning while ignoring cmpxchg return valueLai Jiangshan2009-07-161-2/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c: In function 'rb_tail_page_update': kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:849: warning: value computed is not used kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:850: warning: value computed is not used Add "(void)"s to fix this warning, because we don't need here to handle the fail case of cmpxchg, it's fine if an interrupt already did the job. Changed from V1: Add a comment(which is written by Steven) for it. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
* | ring-buffer: make locklessSteven Rostedt2009-07-071-148/+738
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch converts the ring buffers into a completely lockless buffer recording system. The read side still takes locks since we still serialize readers. But the writers are the ones that must be lockless (those can happen in NMIs). The main change is to the "head_page" pointer. We write to the tail, and read from the head. The "head_page" pointer in the cpu buffer is now just a reference to where to look. The real head page is now kept in the head_page->list->prev->next pointer. That is, in the list head of the previous page we set flags. The list pages are allocated to be aligned such that the lowest significant bits are always zero pointing to the list. This gives us play to put in flags to their pointers. bit 0: set when the page is a head page bit 1: set when the writer is moving the page (for overwrite mode) cmpxchg is used to update the pointer. When the writer wraps the buffer and the tail meets the head, in overwrite mode, the writer must move the head page forward. It first uses cmpxchg to change the pointer flag from 1 to 2. Once this is done, the reader on another CPU will not take the page from the buffer. The writers need to protect against interrupts (we don't bother with disabling interrupts because NMIs are allowed to write too). After the writer sets the pointer flag to 2, it takes care to manage interrupts coming in. This is discribed in detail within the comments of the code. Changes in version 2: - Let reader reset entries value of header page. - Fix tail page passing commit page on reader page test. - Always increment entries and write counter in rb_tail_page_update - Add safety check in rb_set_commit_to_write to break out of infinite loop - add mask in rb_is_reader_page [ Impact: lock free writing to the ring buffer ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
* | ring-buffer: make the buffer a true circular link listSteven Rostedt2009-07-071-17/+32
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch changes the ring buffer data pages from using a link list head pointer, to making each buffer page point to another buffer page and never back to a "head". This makes the handling of the ring buffer less complex, since the traversing of the ring buffer pages no longer needs to account for the head pointer. This change also is needed to make the ring buffer lockless. [ Changes in version 2: - Added change that Lai Jiangshan mentioned. From: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 11:25:48 +0800 LKML-Reference: <4A30793C.6090208@cn.fujitsu.com> I'm not sure whether these 4 lines: bpage = list_entry(pages.next, struct buffer_page, list); list_del_init(&bpage->list); cpu_buffer->pages = &bpage->list; list_splice(&pages, cpu_buffer->pages); equal to these 2 lines: cpu_buffer->pages = pages.next; list_del(&pages); If there are equivalent, I think the second one are simpler. It may be not a really necessarily cleanup. What I asked is: if there are equivalent, could you use these two line: cpu_buffer->pages = pages.next; list_del(&pages); ] [ Impact: simplify the ring buffer to help make it lockless ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
* ring-buffer: Make it generally availablePaul Mundt2009-06-251-0/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In hunting down the cause for the hwlat_detector ring buffer spew in my failed -next builds it became obvious that folks are now treating ring_buffer as something that is generic independent of tracing and thus, suitable for public driver consumption. Given that there are only a few minor areas in ring_buffer that have any reliance on CONFIG_TRACING or CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER, provide stubs for those and make it generally available. Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Jon Masters <jcm@jonmasters.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> LKML-Reference: <20090625053012.GB19944@linux-sh.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* Merge branch 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-06-201-118/+193
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (24 commits) tracing/urgent: warn in case of ftrace_start_up inbalance tracing/urgent: fix unbalanced ftrace_start_up function-graph: add stack frame test function-graph: disable when both x86_32 and optimize for size are configured ring-buffer: have benchmark test print to trace buffer ring-buffer: do not grab locks in nmi ring-buffer: add locks around rb_per_cpu_empty ring-buffer: check for less than two in size allocation ring-buffer: remove useless compile check for buffer_page size ring-buffer: remove useless warn on check ring-buffer: use BUF_PAGE_HDR_SIZE in calculating index tracing: update sample event documentation tracing/filters: fix race between filter setting and module unload tracing/filters: free filter_string in destroy_preds() ring-buffer: use commit counters for commit pointer accounting ring-buffer: remove unused variable ring-buffer: have benchmark test handle discarded events ring-buffer: prevent adding write in discarded area tracing/filters: strloc should be unsigned short tracing/filters: operand can be negative ... Fix up kmemcheck-induced conflict in kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c manually
| * ring-buffer: do not grab locks in nmiSteven Rostedt2009-06-171-8/+51
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If ftrace_dump_on_oops is set, and an NMI detects a lockup, then it will need to read from the ring buffer. But the read side of the ring buffer still takes locks. This patch adds a check on the read side that if it is in an NMI, then it will disable the ring buffer and not take any locks. Reads can still happen on a disabled ring buffer. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * ring-buffer: add locks around rb_per_cpu_emptySteven Rostedt2009-06-171-2/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | The checking of whether the buffer is empty or not needs to be serialized among the readers. Add the reader spin lock around it. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * ring-buffer: check for less than two in size allocationSteven Rostedt2009-06-171-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The ring buffer must have at least two pages allocated for the reader page swap to work. The page count check will miss the case of a zero size passed in. Even though a zero size ring buffer would probably fail an allocation, making the min size check for less than two instead of equal to one makes the code a bit more robust. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * ring-buffer: remove useless compile check for buffer_page sizeSteven Rostedt2009-06-171-11/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The original version of the ring buffer had a hack to map the page struct that held the pages of the buffer to also be the structure that the ring buffer would keep the pages in a link list. This overlap of the page struct was very dangerous and that hack was removed a while ago. But there was a check to make sure the buffer_page never became bigger than the page struct, and would fail the compile if it did. The check was only meaningful when we had the hack. Now that we have separate allocated descriptors for the buffer pages, we can remove this check. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * ring-buffer: remove useless warn on checkSteven Rostedt2009-06-161-3/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A check if "write > BUF_PAGE_SIZE" is done right after a if (write > BUF_PAGE_SIZE) return ...; Thus the check is actually testing the compiler and not the kernel. This is useless, remove it. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * ring-buffer: use BUF_PAGE_HDR_SIZE in calculating indexSteven Rostedt2009-06-161-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The index of the event is found by masking PAGE_MASK to it and subtracting the header size. Currently the header size is calculate by PAGE_SIZE - BUF_PAGE_SIZE, when we already have a macro BUF_PAGE_HDR_SIZE to define it. If we want to change BUF_PAGE_SIZE to something less than filling the rest of the page (this is done for debugging), then we break the algorithm to find the index. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * ring-buffer: use commit counters for commit pointer accountingSteven Rostedt2009-06-161-79/+75
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The ring buffer is made up of three sets of pointers. The head page pointer, which points to the next page for the reader to get. The commit pointer and commit index, which points to the page and index of the last committed write respectively. The tail pointer and tail index, which points to the page and the index of the last reserved data respectively (non committed). The commit pointer is only moved forward by the outer most writer. If a nested writer comes in, it will not move the pointer forward. The current implementation has a flaw. It assumes that the outer most writer successfully reserved data. There's a small race window where the outer most writer could find the tail pointer, but a nested writer could come in (via interrupt) and move the tail forward, and even the commit forward. The outer writer would not realized the commit moved forward and the accounting will break. This patch changes the design to use counters in the per cpu buffers to keep track of commits. The counters are incremented at the start of the commit, and decremented at the end. If the end commit counter is 1, then it moves the commit pointers. A loop is made to check for races between checking and moving the commit pointers. Only the outer commit should move the pointers anyway. The test of knowing if a reserve is equal to the last commit update is still needed to know for time keeping. The time code is much less racey than the commit updates. This change not only solves the mentioned race, but also makes the code simpler. [ Impact: fix commit race and simplify code ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * ring-buffer: remove unused variableSteven Rostedt2009-06-161-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix the compiler error: kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c: In function 'rb_move_tail': kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:1236: warning: unused variable 'event' Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * ring-buffer: prevent adding write in discarded areaSteven Rostedt2009-06-151-12/+56
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This a very tight race where an interrupt could come in and not have enough data to put into the end of a buffer page, and that it would fail to write and need to go to the next page. But if this happened when another writer was about to reserver their data, and that writer has smaller data to reserve, then it could succeed even though the interrupt moved the tail page. To pervent that, if we fail to store data, and by subtracting the amount we reserved we still have room for smaller data, we need to fill that space with "discarded" data. [ Impact: prevent race were buffer data may be lost ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * cpumask: use new operators in kernel/traceRusty Russell2009-06-151-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> LKML-Reference: <200906122115.30787.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* | trace: annotate bitfields in struct ring_buffer_eventVegard Nossum2009-06-151-0/+3
|/ | | | | | | | This gets rid of a heap of false-positive warnings from the tracer code due to the use of bitfields. [rebased for mainline inclusion] Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
* ring-buffer: fix ret in rb_add_time_stampSteven Rostedt2009-06-091-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | The update of ret got mistakenly added to the if statement of rb_try_to_discard. The variable ret should be 1 on commit and zero otherwise. [ Impact: fix compiler warning and real bug ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* ring-buffer: pass in lockdep class key for reader_lockPeter Zijlstra2009-06-081-2/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | On Sun, 7 Jun 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote: > Testing tracer sched_switch: <6>Starting ring buffer hammer > PASSED > Testing tracer sysprof: PASSED > Testing tracer function: PASSED > Testing tracer irqsoff: > ============================================= > PASSED > Testing tracer preemptoff: PASSED > Testing tracer preemptirqsoff: [ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ] > PASSED > Testing tracer branch: 2.6.30-rc8-tip-01972-ge5b9078-dirty #5760 > --------------------------------------------- > rb_consumer/431 is trying to acquire lock: > (&cpu_buffer->reader_lock){......}, at: [<c109eef7>] ring_buffer_reset_cpu+0x37/0x70 > > but task is already holding lock: > (&cpu_buffer->reader_lock){......}, at: [<c10a019e>] ring_buffer_consume+0x7e/0xc0 > > other info that might help us debug this: > 1 lock held by rb_consumer/431: > #0: (&cpu_buffer->reader_lock){......}, at: [<c10a019e>] ring_buffer_consume+0x7e/0xc0 The ring buffer is a generic structure, and can be used outside of ftrace. If ftrace traces within the use of the ring buffer, it can produce false positives with lockdep. This patch passes in a static lock key into the allocation of the ring buffer, so that different ring buffers will have their own lock class. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1244477919.13761.9042.camel@twins> [ store key in ring buffer descriptor ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* ring-buffer: discard timestamps that are at the start of the bufferSteven Rostedt2009-06-031-16/+21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Every buffer page in the ring buffer includes its own time stamp. When an event is recorded to the ring buffer with a delta time greater than what can be held in the event header, a time stamp event is created. If the the create timestamp falls over to the next buffer page, it is redundant because the buffer page holds a full time stamp. This patch will try to discard the time stamp when it falls to the start of the next page. This change also fixes a issues with disarding events. If most events are discarded, timestamps will start to creep into the ring buffer. If we do not discard the timestamps then they can fill up the ring buffer over time and waste space. This change will keep time stamps from filling up over another page. If something is recorded in the buffer page, and the rest is filtered, then the time stamps can only fill up to the end of the page. [ Impact: prevent time stamps from filling ring buffer ] Reported-by: Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* ring-buffer: try to discard unneeded timestampsSteven Rostedt2009-06-031-26/+41
| | | | | | | | | | | There are times that a race may happen that we add a timestamp in a nested write. This timestamp would just contain a zero delta and serves no purpose. Now that we have a way to discard events, this patch will try to discard the timestamp instead of just wasting the space in the ring buffer. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* ring-buffer: fix bug in ring_buffer_discard_commitTim Bird2009-06-031-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There's a bug in ring_buffer_discard_commit. The wrong pointer is being compared in order to check if the event can be freed from the buffer rather than discarded (i.e. marked as PAD). I noticed this when I was working on duration filtering. The bug is not deadly - it just results in lots of wasted space in the buffer. All filtered events are left in the buffer and marked as discarded, rather than being removed from the buffer to make space for other events. Unfortunately, when I fixed this bug, I got errors doing a filtered function trace. Multiple TIME_EXTEND events pile up in the buffer, and trigger the following loop overage warning in rb_iter_peek(): again: ... if (RB_WARN_ON(cpu_buffer, ++nr_loops > 10)) return NULL; I'm not sure what the best way is to fix this. I don't know if I should extend the loop threshhold, or if I should make the test more complex (ignore TIME_EXTEND events), or just get rid of this loop check completely. Note that if I implement a workaround for this, then I see another problem from rb_advance_iter(). I haven't tracked that one down yet. In general, it seems like the case of removing filtered events has not been working properly, and so some assumptions about buffer invariant conditions need to be revisited. Here's the patch for the simple fix: Compare correct pointer for checking if an event can be freed rather than left as discarded in the buffer. Signed-off-by: Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com> LKML-Reference: <4A25BE9E.5090909@am.sony.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* ring-buffer: move code around to remove some branchesSteven Rostedt2009-05-111-10/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | This is a bit of micro-optimizations. But since the ring buffer is used in tracing every function call, it is an extreme hot path. Every nanosecond counts. This change shows over 5% improvement in the ring-buffer-benchmark. [ Impact: more efficient code ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* ring-buffer: use internal time stamp functionSteven Rostedt2009-05-111-4/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | The ring_buffer_time_stamp that is exported adds a little more overhead than is needed for using it internally. This patch adds an internal timestamp function that can be inlined (a single line function) and used internally for the ring buffer. [ Impact: a little less overhead to the ring buffer ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* ring-buffer: small optimizationsSteven Rostedt2009-05-111-6/+6
| | | | | | | | | Doing some small changes in the fast path of the ring buffer recording saves over 3% in the ring-buffer-benchmark test. [ Impact: a little faster ring buffer recording ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* ring-buffer: move calculation of event lengthSteven Rostedt2009-05-111-5/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The event length is calculated and passed in to rb_reserve_next_event in two different locations. Having rb_reserve_next_event do the calculations directly makes only one location to do the change and causes the calculation to be inlined by gcc. Before: text data bss dec hex filename 16538 24 12 16574 40be kernel/trace/ring_buffer.o After: text data bss dec hex filename 16490 24 12 16526 408e kernel/trace/ring_buffer.o [ Impact: smaller more efficient code ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* ring-buffer: remove type parameter from rb_reserve_next_eventSteven Rostedt2009-05-111-4/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The rb_reserve_next_event is only called for the data type (type = 0). There is no reason to pass in the type to the function. Before: text data bss dec hex filename 16554 24 12 16590 40ce kernel/trace/ring_buffer.o After: text data bss dec hex filename 16538 24 12 16574 40be kernel/trace/ring_buffer.o [ Impact: cleaner, smaller and slightly more efficient code ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* ring-buffer: change WARN_ON from checking preempt_count to preemptibleSteven Rostedt2009-05-071-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | There's a WARN_ON in the ring buffer code that makes sure preemption is disabled. It checks "!preempt_count()". But when CONFIG_PREEMPT is not enabled, preempt_count() is always zero, and this will trigger the warning. [ Impact: prevent false warning on non preemptible kernels ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* ring-buffer: make moving the tail page a separate functionSteven Rostedt2009-05-061-40/+49
| | | | | | | | | | | | Ingo Molnar thought the code would be cleaner if we used a function call instead of a goto for moving the tail page. After implementing this, it seems that gcc still inlines the result and the output is pretty much the same. Since this is considered a cleaner approach, might as well implement it. [ Impact: code clean up ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* ring-buffer: remove unneeded conditional in rb_reserve_nextSteven Rostedt2009-05-061-5/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | The code in __rb_reserve_next checks on page overflow if it is the original commiter and then resets the page back to the original setting. Although this is fine, and the code is correct, it is a bit fragil. Some experimental work I did breaks it easily. The better and more robust solution is to have all commiters that overflow the page, simply subtract what they added. [ Impact: more robust ring buffer account management ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* ring-buffer: move big if statement downSteven Rostedt2009-05-051-107/+111
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In the hot path of the ring buffer "__rb_reserve_next" there's a big if statement that does not even return back to the work flow. code; if (cross to next page) { [ lots of code ] return; } more code; The condition is even the unlikely path, although we do not denote it with an unlikely because gcc is fine with it. The condition is true when the write crosses a page boundary, and we need to start at a new page. Having this if statement makes it hard to read, but calling another function to do the work is also not appropriate, because we are using a lot of variables that were set before the if statement, and we do not want to send them as parameters. This patch changes it to a goto: code; if (cross to next page) goto next_page; more code; return; next_page: [ lots of code] This makes the code easier to understand, and a bit more obvious. The output from gcc is practically identical. For some reason, gcc decided to use different registers when I switched it to a goto. But other than that, the logic is the same. [ Impact: easier to read code ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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