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<title>ftrace: Allow ftrace_ops to use the hashes from other ops</title>
<updated>2014-08-22T17:18:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
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<published>2014-08-15T21:23:02+00:00</published>
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Currently the top level debug file system function tracer shares its
ftrace_ops with the function graph tracer. This was thought to be fine
because the tracers are not used together, as one can only enable
function or function_graph tracer in the current_tracer file.

But that assumption proved to be incorrect. The function profiler
can use the function graph tracer when function tracing is enabled.
Since all function graph users uses the function tracing ftrace_ops
this causes a conflict and when a user enables both function profiling
as well as the function tracer it will crash ftrace and disable it.

The quick solution so far is to move them as separate ftrace_ops like
it was earlier. The problem though is to synchronize the functions that
are traced because both function and function_graph tracer are limited
by the selections made in the set_ftrace_filter and set_ftrace_notrace
files.

To handle this, a new structure is made called ftrace_ops_hash. This
structure will now hold the filter_hash and notrace_hash, and the
ftrace_ops will point to this structure. That will allow two ftrace_ops
to share the same hashes.

Since most ftrace_ops do not share the hashes, and to keep allocation
simple, the ftrace_ops structure will include both a pointer to the
ftrace_ops_hash called func_hash, as well as the structure itself,
called local_hash. When the ops are registered, the func_hash pointer
will be initialized to point to the local_hash within the ftrace_ops
structure. Some of the ftrace internal ftrace_ops will be initialized
statically. This will allow for the function and function_graph tracer
to have separate ops but still share the same hash tables that determine
what functions they trace.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.16 (apply after 3.17-rc4 is out)
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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Currently the top level debug file system function tracer shares its
ftrace_ops with the function graph tracer. This was thought to be fine
because the tracers are not used together, as one can only enable
function or function_graph tracer in the current_tracer file.

But that assumption proved to be incorrect. The function profiler
can use the function graph tracer when function tracing is enabled.
Since all function graph users uses the function tracing ftrace_ops
this causes a conflict and when a user enables both function profiling
as well as the function tracer it will crash ftrace and disable it.

The quick solution so far is to move them as separate ftrace_ops like
it was earlier. The problem though is to synchronize the functions that
are traced because both function and function_graph tracer are limited
by the selections made in the set_ftrace_filter and set_ftrace_notrace
files.

To handle this, a new structure is made called ftrace_ops_hash. This
structure will now hold the filter_hash and notrace_hash, and the
ftrace_ops will point to this structure. That will allow two ftrace_ops
to share the same hashes.

Since most ftrace_ops do not share the hashes, and to keep allocation
simple, the ftrace_ops structure will include both a pointer to the
ftrace_ops_hash called func_hash, as well as the structure itself,
called local_hash. When the ops are registered, the func_hash pointer
will be initialized to point to the local_hash within the ftrace_ops
structure. Some of the ftrace internal ftrace_ops will be initialized
statically. This will allow for the function and function_graph tracer
to have separate ops but still share the same hash tables that determine
what functions they trace.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.16 (apply after 3.17-rc4 is out)
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ftrace: Rename ftrace_ops field from trampolines to nr_trampolines</title>
<updated>2014-07-23T19:03:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-07-23T19:03:00+00:00</published>
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Having two fields within the same struct that is off by one character
can be confusing and error prone. Rename the counter "trampolines"
to "nr_trampolines" to explicitly show it is a counter and not to
be confused by the "trampoline" field.

Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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Having two fields within the same struct that is off by one character
can be confusing and error prone. Rename the counter "trampolines"
to "nr_trampolines" to explicitly show it is a counter and not to
be confused by the "trampoline" field.

Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tracing: Remove function_trace_stop and HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACE_MCOUNT_TEST</title>
<updated>2014-07-18T17:58:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-26T15:24:52+00:00</published>
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All users of function_trace_stop and HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACE_MCOUNT_TEST have
been removed. We can safely remove them from the kernel.

Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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All users of function_trace_stop and HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACE_MCOUNT_TEST have
been removed. We can safely remove them from the kernel.

Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ftrace: Remove check for HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACE_MCOUNT_TEST</title>
<updated>2014-07-18T17:57:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-25T17:26:59+00:00</published>
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function_trace_stop is no longer used to disable function tracing.
This means that archs are no longer limited if it does not support
checking this variable in the mcount trampoline.

No need to use the list_func for archs that do not support this
obsolete method.

Acked-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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function_trace_stop is no longer used to disable function tracing.
This means that archs are no longer limited if it does not support
checking this variable in the mcount trampoline.

No need to use the list_func for archs that do not support this
obsolete method.

Acked-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ftrace: Remove ftrace_start/stop()</title>
<updated>2014-07-18T17:56:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-25T15:25:19+00:00</published>
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There are no more kernel users of ftrace_stop() and ftrace_start().
Remove them.

Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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There are no more kernel users of ftrace_stop() and ftrace_start().
Remove them.

Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ftrace-graph: Remove dependency of ftrace_stop() from ftrace_graph_stop()</title>
<updated>2014-07-17T13:45:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-25T14:39:46+00:00</published>
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ftrace_stop() is going away as it disables parts of function tracing
that affects users that should not be affected. But ftrace_graph_stop()
is built on ftrace_stop(). Here's another example of killing all of
function tracing because something went wrong with function graph
tracing.

Instead of disabling all users of function tracing on function graph
error, disable only function graph tracing.

A new function is created called ftrace_graph_is_dead(). This is called
in strategic paths to prevent function graph from doing more harm and
allowing at least a warning to be printed before the system crashes.

NOTE: ftrace_stop() is still used until all the archs are converted over
to use ftrace_graph_is_dead(). After that, ftrace_stop() will be removed.

Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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ftrace_stop() is going away as it disables parts of function tracing
that affects users that should not be affected. But ftrace_graph_stop()
is built on ftrace_stop(). Here's another example of killing all of
function tracing because something went wrong with function graph
tracing.

Instead of disabling all users of function tracing on function graph
error, disable only function graph tracing.

A new function is created called ftrace_graph_is_dead(). This is called
in strategic paths to prevent function graph from doing more harm and
allowing at least a warning to be printed before the system crashes.

NOTE: ftrace_stop() is still used until all the archs are converted over
to use ftrace_graph_is_dead(). After that, ftrace_stop() will be removed.

Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ftrace: Allow archs to specify if they need a separate function graph trampoline</title>
<updated>2014-07-16T15:01:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-07-11T18:39:10+00:00</published>
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Currently if an arch supports function graph tracing, the core code will
just assign the function graph trampoline to the function graph addr that
gets called.

But as the old method for function graph tracing always calls the function
trampoline first and that calls the function graph trampoline, some
archs may have the function graph trampoline dependent on operations that
were done in the function trampoline. This causes function graph tracer
to break on those archs.

Instead of having the default be to set the function graph ftrace_ops
to the function graph trampoline, have it instead just set it to zero
which will keep it from jumping to a trampoline that is not set up
to be jumped directly too.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/53BED155.9040607@nvidia.com

Reported-by: Tuomas Tynkkynen &lt;ttynkkynen@nvidia.com&gt;
Tested-by: Tuomas Tynkkynen &lt;ttynkkynen@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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Currently if an arch supports function graph tracing, the core code will
just assign the function graph trampoline to the function graph addr that
gets called.

But as the old method for function graph tracing always calls the function
trampoline first and that calls the function graph trampoline, some
archs may have the function graph trampoline dependent on operations that
were done in the function trampoline. This causes function graph tracer
to break on those archs.

Instead of having the default be to set the function graph ftrace_ops
to the function graph trampoline, have it instead just set it to zero
which will keep it from jumping to a trampoline that is not set up
to be jumped directly too.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/53BED155.9040607@nvidia.com

Reported-by: Tuomas Tynkkynen &lt;ttynkkynen@nvidia.com&gt;
Tested-by: Tuomas Tynkkynen &lt;ttynkkynen@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ftrace: Optimize function graph to be called directly</title>
<updated>2014-07-01T11:13:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-05-07T01:56:17+00:00</published>
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Function graph tracing is a bit different than the function tracers, as
it is processed after either the ftrace_caller or ftrace_regs_caller
and we only have one place to modify the jump to ftrace_graph_caller,
the jump needs to happen after the restore of registeres.

The function graph tracer is dependent on the function tracer, where
even if the function graph tracing is going on by itself, the save and
restore of registers is still done for function tracing regardless of
if function tracing is happening, before it calls the function graph
code.

If there's no function tracing happening, it is possible to just call
the function graph tracer directly, and avoid the wasted effort to save
and restore regs for function tracing.

This requires adding new flags to the dyn_ftrace records:

  FTRACE_FL_TRAMP
  FTRACE_FL_TRAMP_EN

The first is set if the count for the record is one, and the ftrace_ops
associated to that record has its own trampoline. That way the mcount code
can call that trampoline directly.

In the future, trampolines can be added to arbitrary ftrace_ops, where you
can have two or more ftrace_ops registered to ftrace (like kprobes and perf)
and if they are not tracing the same functions, then instead of doing a
loop to check all registered ftrace_ops against their hashes, just call the
ftrace_ops trampoline directly, which would call the registered ftrace_ops
function directly.

Without this patch perf showed:

  0.05%  hackbench  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] ftrace_caller
  0.05%  hackbench  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] arch_local_irq_save
  0.05%  hackbench  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] native_sched_clock
  0.04%  hackbench  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] __buffer_unlock_commit
  0.04%  hackbench  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] preempt_trace
  0.04%  hackbench  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] prepare_ftrace_return
  0.04%  hackbench  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] __this_cpu_preempt_check
  0.04%  hackbench  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] ftrace_graph_caller

See that the ftrace_caller took up more time than the ftrace_graph_caller
did.

With this patch:

  0.05%  hackbench  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] __buffer_unlock_commit
  0.04%  hackbench  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] call_filter_check_discard
  0.04%  hackbench  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] ftrace_graph_caller
  0.04%  hackbench  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] sched_clock

The ftrace_caller is no where to be found and ftrace_graph_caller still
takes up the same percentage.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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Function graph tracing is a bit different than the function tracers, as
it is processed after either the ftrace_caller or ftrace_regs_caller
and we only have one place to modify the jump to ftrace_graph_caller,
the jump needs to happen after the restore of registeres.

The function graph tracer is dependent on the function tracer, where
even if the function graph tracing is going on by itself, the save and
restore of registers is still done for function tracing regardless of
if function tracing is happening, before it calls the function graph
code.

If there's no function tracing happening, it is possible to just call
the function graph tracer directly, and avoid the wasted effort to save
and restore regs for function tracing.

This requires adding new flags to the dyn_ftrace records:

  FTRACE_FL_TRAMP
  FTRACE_FL_TRAMP_EN

The first is set if the count for the record is one, and the ftrace_ops
associated to that record has its own trampoline. That way the mcount code
can call that trampoline directly.

In the future, trampolines can be added to arbitrary ftrace_ops, where you
can have two or more ftrace_ops registered to ftrace (like kprobes and perf)
and if they are not tracing the same functions, then instead of doing a
loop to check all registered ftrace_ops against their hashes, just call the
ftrace_ops trampoline directly, which would call the registered ftrace_ops
function directly.

Without this patch perf showed:

  0.05%  hackbench  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] ftrace_caller
  0.05%  hackbench  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] arch_local_irq_save
  0.05%  hackbench  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] native_sched_clock
  0.04%  hackbench  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] __buffer_unlock_commit
  0.04%  hackbench  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] preempt_trace
  0.04%  hackbench  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] prepare_ftrace_return
  0.04%  hackbench  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] __this_cpu_preempt_check
  0.04%  hackbench  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] ftrace_graph_caller

See that the ftrace_caller took up more time than the ftrace_graph_caller
did.

With this patch:

  0.05%  hackbench  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] __buffer_unlock_commit
  0.04%  hackbench  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] call_filter_check_discard
  0.04%  hackbench  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] ftrace_graph_caller
  0.04%  hackbench  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] sched_clock

The ftrace_caller is no where to be found and ftrace_graph_caller still
takes up the same percentage.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ftrace: Add ftrace_rec_counter() macro to simplify the code</title>
<updated>2014-06-30T14:09:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-05-07T17:46:45+00:00</published>
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The ftrace dynamic record has a flags element that also has a counter.
Instead of hard coding "rec-&gt;flags &amp; ~FTRACE_FL_MASK" all over the
place. Use a macro instead.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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The ftrace dynamic record has a flags element that also has a counter.
Instead of hard coding "rec-&gt;flags &amp; ~FTRACE_FL_MASK" all over the
place. Use a macro instead.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ftrace: Use macros for numbers in ftrace rec shift bits</title>
<updated>2014-06-30T14:09:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-05-07T16:42:28+00:00</published>
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As new flags will be added to the ftrace dynamic record, and since
the flags field is also a counter, converting the numbers used to
do the shifting and masking into a set of macros where we only need
to deal with the max bit count of the counter and the number of bits
for the flags will prevent mistakes in the future.

Dealing with only two numbers is much easier than updating all the
macros that deal with shifting and masking.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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As new flags will be added to the ftrace dynamic record, and since
the flags field is also a counter, converting the numbers used to
do the shifting and masking into a set of macros where we only need
to deal with the max bit count of the counter and the number of bits
for the flags will prevent mistakes in the future.

Dealing with only two numbers is much easier than updating all the
macros that deal with shifting and masking.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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