tracing: Remove TRACE_EVENT_FL_FILTERED logic

After commit dcb0b5575d24 ("tracing: Remove TRACE_EVENT_FL_USE_CALL_FILTER
logic"), no one's going to set the TRACE_EVENT_FL_FILTERED or change the
cal

tracing: Remove TRACE_EVENT_FL_FILTERED logic

After commit dcb0b5575d24 ("tracing: Remove TRACE_EVENT_FL_USE_CALL_FILTER
logic"), no one's going to set the TRACE_EVENT_FL_FILTERED or change the
call->filter, so remove related logic.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Zheng Yejian <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <[email protected]>

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tracing/branch-profiler: Replace deprecated strncpy with strscpy

strncpy() is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings
[1] and as such we should prefer more robust and less ambiguous

tracing/branch-profiler: Replace deprecated strncpy with strscpy

strncpy() is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings
[1] and as such we should prefer more robust and less ambiguous string
interfaces.

Both of these fields want to be NUL-terminated as per their use in
printk:

F_printk("%u:%s:%s (%u)%s",
__entry->line,
__entry->func, __entry->file, __entry->correct,
__entry->constant ? " CONSTANT" : "")

Use strscpy() as it NUL-terminates the destination buffer, so it doesn't
have to be done manually.

Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strncpy-on-nul-terminated-strings [1]
Link: https://manpages.debian.org/testing/linux-manual-4.8/strscpy.9.en.html
Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <[email protected]>
Cc: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20240826-strncpy-kernel-trace-trace_branch-c-v1-1-b2c14f2e9e84@google.com
Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <[email protected]>

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tracing: Merge irqflags + preempt counter.

The state of the interrupts (irqflags) and the preemption counter are
both passed down to tracing_generic_entry_update(). Only one bit of
irqflags is actua

tracing: Merge irqflags + preempt counter.

The state of the interrupts (irqflags) and the preemption counter are
both passed down to tracing_generic_entry_update(). Only one bit of
irqflags is actually required: The on/off state. The complete 32bit
of the preemption counter isn't needed. Just whether of the upper bits
(softirq, hardirq and NMI) are set and the preemption depth is needed.

The irqflags and the preemption counter could be evaluated early and the
information stored in an integer `trace_ctx'.
tracing_generic_entry_update() would use the upper bits as the
TRACE_FLAG_* and the lower 8bit as the disabled-preemption depth
(considering that one must be substracted from the counter in one
special cases).

The actual preemption value is not used except for the tracing record.
The `irqflags' variable is mostly used only for the tracing record. An
exception here is for instance wakeup_tracer_call() or
probe_wakeup_sched_switch() which explicilty disable interrupts and use
that `irqflags' to save (and restore) the IRQ state and to record the
state.

Struct trace_event_buffer has also the `pc' and flags' members which can
be replaced with `trace_ctx' since their actual value is not used
outside of trace recording.

This will reduce tracing_generic_entry_update() to simply assign values
to struct trace_entry. The evaluation of the TRACE_FLAG_* bits is moved
to _tracing_gen_ctx_flags() which replaces preempt_count() and
local_save_flags() invocations.

As an example, ftrace_syscall_enter() may invoke:
- trace_buffer_lock_reserve() -> … -> tracing_generic_entry_update()
- event_trigger_unlock_commit()
-> ftrace_trace_stack() -> … -> tracing_generic_entry_update()
-> ftrace_trace_userstack() -> … -> tracing_generic_entry_update()

In this case the TRACE_FLAG_* bits were evaluated three times. By using
the `trace_ctx' they are evaluated once and assigned three times.

A build with all tracers enabled on x86-64 with and without the patch:

text data bss dec hex filename
21970669 17084168 7639260 46694097 2c87ed1 vmlinux.old
21970293 17084168 7639260 46693721 2c87d59 vmlinux.new

text shrank by 379 bytes, data remained constant.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <[email protected]>

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tracing: Make struct ring_buffer less ambiguous

As there's two struct ring_buffers in the kernel, it causes some confusion.
The other one being the perf ring buffer. It was agreed upon that as neith

tracing: Make struct ring_buffer less ambiguous

As there's two struct ring_buffers in the kernel, it causes some confusion.
The other one being the perf ring buffer. It was agreed upon that as neither
of the ring buffers are generic enough to be used globally, they should be
renamed as:

perf's ring_buffer -> perf_buffer
ftrace's ring_buffer -> trace_buffer

This implements the changes to the ring buffer that ftrace uses.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <[email protected]>

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tracing: Rename trace_buffer to array_buffer

As we are working to remove the generic "ring_buffer" name that is used by
both tracing and perf, the ring_buffer name for tracing will be renamed to
tra

tracing: Rename trace_buffer to array_buffer

As we are working to remove the generic "ring_buffer" name that is used by
both tracing and perf, the ring_buffer name for tracing will be renamed to
trace_buffer, and perf's ring buffer will be renamed to perf_buffer.

As there already exists a trace_buffer that is used by the trace_arrays, it
needs to be first renamed to array_buffer.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191213153553.GE20583@krava

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <[email protected]>

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tracing: Use generic type for comparator function

Comparator function type, cmp_func_t, is defined in the types.h,
use it in the code.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191007135656.37734-3-andriy.s

tracing: Use generic type for comparator function

Comparator function type, cmp_func_t, is defined in the types.h,
use it in the code.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]

Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <[email protected]>

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x86/uaccess, ftrace: Fix ftrace_likely_update() vs. SMAP

For CONFIG_TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING=y the likely/unlikely things get
overloaded and generate callouts to this code, and thus also when
AC=1.

M

x86/uaccess, ftrace: Fix ftrace_likely_update() vs. SMAP

For CONFIG_TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING=y the likely/unlikely things get
overloaded and generate callouts to this code, and thus also when
AC=1.

Make it safe.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>

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License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine

License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
- file had no licensing information it it.
- file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
- file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
- Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
- Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5
lines of source
- File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5
lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

- when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
COPYING file license applied.

For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 11139

and resulted in the first patch in this series.

If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930

and resulted in the second patch in this series.

- if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
it (per prior point). Results summary:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270
GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17
LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15
GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14
((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5
LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4
LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1

and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

- when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
the concluded license(s).

- when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

- In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

- When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

- If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
- a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
license ids and scores
- reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
- reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

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tracing: Add the constant count for branch tracer

The unlikely/likely branch profiler now gets called even if the if statement
is a constant (always goes in one direction without a compare). Add a v

tracing: Add the constant count for branch tracer

The unlikely/likely branch profiler now gets called even if the if statement
is a constant (always goes in one direction without a compare). Add a value
to denote this in the likely/unlikely tracer as well.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <[email protected]>

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tracing: Show number of constants profiled in likely profiler

Now that constants are traced, it is useful to see the number of constants
that are traced in the likely/unlikely profiler in order to k

tracing: Show number of constants profiled in likely profiler

Now that constants are traced, it is useful to see the number of constants
that are traced in the likely/unlikely profiler in order to know if they
should be ignored or not.

The likely/unlikely will display a number after the "correct" number if a
"constant" count exists.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <[email protected]>

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tracing: Process constants for (un)likely() profiler

When running the likely/unlikely profiler, one of the results did not look
accurate. It noted that the unlikely() in link_path_walk() was 100%
in

tracing: Process constants for (un)likely() profiler

When running the likely/unlikely profiler, one of the results did not look
accurate. It noted that the unlikely() in link_path_walk() was 100%
incorrect. When I added a trace_printk() to see what was happening there, it
became 80% correct! Looking deeper into what whas happening, I found that
gcc split that if statement into two paths. One where the if statement
became a constant, the other path a variable. The other path had the if
statement always hit (making the unlikely there, always false), but since
the #define unlikely() has:

#define unlikely() (__builtin_constant_p(x) ? !!(x) : __branch_check__(x, 0))

Where constants are ignored by the branch profiler, the "constant" path
made by the compiler was ignored, even though it was hit 80% of the time.

By just passing the constant value to the __branch_check__() function and
tracing it out of line (as always correct, as likely/unlikely isn't a factor
for constants), then we get back the accurate readings of branches that were
optimized by gcc causing part of the execution to become constant.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <[email protected]>

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tracing: Make __buffer_unlock_commit() always_inline

The function __buffer_unlock_commit() is called in a few places outside of
trace.c. But for the most part, it should really be inlined, as it is

tracing: Make __buffer_unlock_commit() always_inline

The function __buffer_unlock_commit() is called in a few places outside of
trace.c. But for the most part, it should really be inlined, as it is in the
hot path of the trace_events. For the callers outside of trace.c, create a
new function trace_buffer_unlock_commit_nostack(), as the reason it was used
was to avoid the stack tracing that trace_buffer_unlock_commit() could do.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]

Reported-by: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>

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tracing: Remove {start,stop}_branch_trace

Both start_branch_trace() and stop_branch_trace() are used in only one
location, and are both static. As they are small functions there is no
need to keep t

tracing: Remove {start,stop}_branch_trace

Both start_branch_trace() and stop_branch_trace() are used in only one
location, and are both static. As they are small functions there is no
need to keep them separated out.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>

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tracing: Have branch tracer use recursive field of task struct

Fengguang Wu's tests triggered a bug in the branch tracer's start up
test when CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT set. This was because that config
a

tracing: Have branch tracer use recursive field of task struct

Fengguang Wu's tests triggered a bug in the branch tracer's start up
test when CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT set. This was because that config
adds some debug logic in the per cpu field, which calls back into
the branch tracer.

The branch tracer has its own recursive checks, but uses a per cpu
variable to implement it. If retrieving the per cpu variable calls
back into the branch tracer, you can see how things will break.

Instead of using a per cpu variable, use the trace_recursion field
of the current task struct. Simply set a bit when entering the
branch tracing and clear it when leaving. If the bit is set on
entry, just don't do the tracing.

There's also the case with lockdep, as the local_irq_save() called
before the recursion can also trigger code that can call back into
the function. Changing that to a raw_local_irq_save() will protect
that as well.

This prevents the recursion and the inevitable crash that follows.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]

Cc: [email protected] # 3.10+
Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Fengguang Wu <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>

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

The name "ftrace" really refers to the function hook infrastructure. It
is not about the trace_events. The structures ftrace_eve

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

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 <[email protected]>

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

The name "ftrace" really refers to the function hook infrastructure. It
is not about the trace_events. The functions (un)reg

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

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 <[email protected]>

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tracing: Remove unneeded includes of debugfs.h and fs.h

The creation of tracing files and directories is for the most part
encapsulated in helper functions in trace.c. Other files do not need to
inc

tracing: Remove unneeded includes of debugfs.h and fs.h

The creation of tracing files and directories is for the most part
encapsulated in helper functions in trace.c. Other files do not need to
include debugfs.h or fs.h, as they may have needed to in the past.

Remove them from the files that do not need them.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>

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tracing: Have branch tracer use trace_handle_return() helper function

The branch tracer should not be checking the trace_seq_printf() return value
as that will soon be void. There's a new trace_hand

tracing: Have branch tracer use trace_handle_return() helper function

The branch tracer should not be checking the trace_seq_printf() return value
as that will soon be void. There's a new trace_handle_return() helper function
that will return TRACE_TYPE_PARTIAL_LINE if the trace_seq overflowed
and TRACE_TYPE_HANDLED otherwise.

Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>

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tracing: Merge consecutive seq_puts calls

Consecutive seq_puts calls with literal strings can be merged to a
single call. This reduces the size of the generated code, and can also
lead to slight .ro

tracing: Merge consecutive seq_puts calls

Consecutive seq_puts calls with literal strings can be merged to a
single call. This reduces the size of the generated code, and can also
lead to slight .rodata reduction (because of fewer nul and padding
bytes). It should also shave a off a few clock cycles.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]

Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>

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tracing: Replace seq_printf by simpler equivalents

Using seq_printf to print a simple string or a single character is a
lot more expensive than it needs to be, since seq_puts and seq_putc
exist.

Th

tracing: Replace seq_printf by simpler equivalents

Using seq_printf to print a simple string or a single character is a
lot more expensive than it needs to be, since seq_puts and seq_putc
exist.

These patches do

seq_printf(m, s) -> seq_puts(m, s)
seq_printf(m, "%s", s) -> seq_puts(m, s)
seq_printf(m, "%c", c) -> seq_putc(m, c)

Subsequent patches will simplify further.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]

Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>

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tracing: Update event filters for multibuffer

The trace event filters are still tied to event calls rather than
event files, which means you don't get what you'd expect when using
filters in the mul

tracing: Update event filters for multibuffer

The trace event filters are still tied to event calls rather than
event files, which means you don't get what you'd expect when using
filters in the multibuffer case:

Before:

# echo 'bytes_alloc > 8192' > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kmem/kmalloc/filter
# cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kmem/kmalloc/filter
bytes_alloc > 8192
# mkdir /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/instances/test1
# echo 'bytes_alloc > 2048' > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/instances/test1/events/kmem/kmalloc/filter
# cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kmem/kmalloc/filter
bytes_alloc > 2048
# cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/instances/test1/events/kmem/kmalloc/filter
bytes_alloc > 2048

Setting the filter in tracing/instances/test1/events shouldn't affect
the same event in tracing/events as it does above.

After:

# echo 'bytes_alloc > 8192' > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kmem/kmalloc/filter
# cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kmem/kmalloc/filter
bytes_alloc > 8192
# mkdir /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/instances/test1
# echo 'bytes_alloc > 2048' > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/instances/test1/events/kmem/kmalloc/filter
# cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kmem/kmalloc/filter
bytes_alloc > 8192
# cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/instances/test1/events/kmem/kmalloc/filter
bytes_alloc > 2048

We'd like to just move the filter directly from ftrace_event_call to
ftrace_event_file, but there are a couple cases that don't yet have
multibuffer support and therefore have to continue using the current
event_call-based filters. For those cases, a new USE_CALL_FILTER bit
is added to the event_call flags, whose main purpose is to keep the
old behavior for those cases until they can be updated with
multibuffer support; at that point, the USE_CALL_FILTER flag (and the
new associated call_filter_check_discard() function) can go away.

The multibuffer support also made filter_current_check_discard()
redundant, so this change removes that function as well and replaces
it with filter_check_discard() (or call_filter_check_discard() as
appropriate).

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/f16e9ce4270c62f46b2e966119225e1c3cca7e60.1382620672.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>

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tracing: Fix the branch tracer that broke with buffer change

The changce to add the trace_buffer struct to have the trace array
have both the main buffer and max buffer broke the branch tracer
becau

tracing: Fix the branch tracer that broke with buffer change

The changce to add the trace_buffer struct to have the trace array
have both the main buffer and max buffer broke the branch tracer
because the change did not update that code. As the branch tracer
adds a significant amount of overhead, and must be selected via
a selection (not a allyesconfig) it was missed in testing.

Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>

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tracing: Replace the static global per_cpu arrays with allocated per_cpu

The global and max-tr currently use static per_cpu arrays for the CPU data
descriptors. But in order to get new allocated tra

tracing: Replace the static global per_cpu arrays with allocated per_cpu

The global and max-tr currently use static per_cpu arrays for the CPU data
descriptors. But in order to get new allocated trace_arrays, they need to
be allocated per_cpu arrays. Instead of using the static arrays, switch
the global and max-tr to use allocated data.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>

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tracing: Cache comms only after an event occurred

Whenever an event is registered, the comm of tasks are saved at
every task switch instead of saving them at every event. But if
an event isn't execu

tracing: Cache comms only after an event occurred

Whenever an event is registered, the comm of tasks are saved at
every task switch instead of saving them at every event. But if
an event isn't executed much, the comm cache will be filled up
by tasks that did not record the event and you lose out on the comms
that did.

Here's an example, if you enable the following events:

echo 1 > /debug/tracing/events/kvm/kvm_cr/enable
echo 1 > /debug/tracing/events/net/net_dev_xmit/enable

Note, there's no kvm running on this machine so the first event will
never be triggered, but because it is enabled, the storing of comms
will continue. If we now disable the network event:

echo 0 > /debug/tracing/events/net/net_dev_xmit/enable

and look at the trace:

cat /debug/tracing/trace
sshd-2672 [001] ..s2 375.731616: net_dev_xmit: dev=eth0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6de0 len=242 rc=0
sshd-2672 [001] ..s1 375.731617: net_dev_xmit: dev=br0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6de0 len=242 rc=0
sshd-2672 [001] ..s2 375.859356: net_dev_xmit: dev=eth0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6de0 len=242 rc=0
sshd-2672 [001] ..s1 375.859357: net_dev_xmit: dev=br0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6de0 len=242 rc=0
sshd-2672 [001] ..s2 375.947351: net_dev_xmit: dev=eth0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6de0 len=242 rc=0
sshd-2672 [001] ..s1 375.947352: net_dev_xmit: dev=br0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6de0 len=242 rc=0
sshd-2672 [001] ..s2 376.035383: net_dev_xmit: dev=eth0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6de0 len=242 rc=0
sshd-2672 [001] ..s1 376.035383: net_dev_xmit: dev=br0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6de0 len=242 rc=0
sshd-2672 [001] ..s2 377.563806: net_dev_xmit: dev=eth0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6de0 len=226 rc=0
sshd-2672 [001] ..s1 377.563807: net_dev_xmit: dev=br0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6de0 len=226 rc=0
sshd-2672 [001] ..s2 377.563834: net_dev_xmit: dev=eth0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6be0 len=114 rc=0
sshd-2672 [001] ..s1 377.563842: net_dev_xmit: dev=br0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6be0 len=114 rc=0

We see that process 2672 which triggered the events has the comm "sshd".
But if we run hackbench for a bit and look again:

cat /debug/tracing/trace
<...>-2672 [001] ..s2 375.731616: net_dev_xmit: dev=eth0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6de0 len=242 rc=0
<...>-2672 [001] ..s1 375.731617: net_dev_xmit: dev=br0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6de0 len=242 rc=0
<...>-2672 [001] ..s2 375.859356: net_dev_xmit: dev=eth0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6de0 len=242 rc=0
<...>-2672 [001] ..s1 375.859357: net_dev_xmit: dev=br0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6de0 len=242 rc=0
<...>-2672 [001] ..s2 375.947351: net_dev_xmit: dev=eth0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6de0 len=242 rc=0
<...>-2672 [001] ..s1 375.947352: net_dev_xmit: dev=br0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6de0 len=242 rc=0
<...>-2672 [001] ..s2 376.035383: net_dev_xmit: dev=eth0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6de0 len=242 rc=0
<...>-2672 [001] ..s1 376.035383: net_dev_xmit: dev=br0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6de0 len=242 rc=0
<...>-2672 [001] ..s2 377.563806: net_dev_xmit: dev=eth0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6de0 len=226 rc=0
<...>-2672 [001] ..s1 377.563807: net_dev_xmit: dev=br0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6de0 len=226 rc=0
<...>-2672 [001] ..s2 377.563834: net_dev_xmit: dev=eth0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6be0 len=114 rc=0
<...>-2672 [001] ..s1 377.563842: net_dev_xmit: dev=br0 skbaddr=ffff88005cbb6be0 len=114 rc=0

The stored "sshd" comm has been flushed out and we get a useless "<...>".

But by only storing comms after a trace event occurred, we can run
hackbench all day and still get the same output.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>

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tracing: Allow tracers to start at core initcall

There's times during debugging that it is helpful to see traces of early
boot functions. But the tracers are initialized at device_initcall()
which i

tracing: Allow tracers to start at core initcall

There's times during debugging that it is helpful to see traces of early
boot functions. But the tracers are initialized at device_initcall()
which is quite late during the boot process. Setting the kernel command
line parameter ftrace=function will not show anything until the function
tracer is initialized. This prevents being able to trace functions before
device_initcall().

There's no reason that the tracers need to be initialized so late in the
boot process. Move them up to core_initcall() as they still need to come
after early_initcall() which initializes the tracing buffers.

Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>

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