linux-stable.git/kernel/trace/ftrace.c, branch linux-2.6.35.y

ftrace: Only update the function code on write to filter files

2011-08-01T20:54:49+00:00

commit 058e297d34a404caaa5ed277de15698d8dc43000 upstream.

If function tracing is enabled, a read of the filter files will
cause the call to stop_machine to update the function trace sites.
It should only call stop_machine on write.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen

ftrace: Fix memory leak with function graph and cpu hotplug

2011-03-31T18:58:36+00:00

commit 868baf07b1a259f5f3803c1dc2777b6c358f83cf upstream.

When the fuction graph tracer starts, it needs to make a special
stack for each task to save the real return values of the tasks.
All running tasks have this stack created, as well as any new
tasks.

On CPU hot plug, the new idle task will allocate a stack as well
when init_idle() is called. The problem is that cpu hotplug does
not create a new idle_task. Instead it uses the idle task that
existed when the cpu went down.

ftrace_graph_init_task() will add a new ret_stack to the task
that is given to it. Because a clone will make the task
have a stack of its parent it does not check if the task's
ret_stack is already NULL or not. When the CPU hotplug code
starts a CPU up again, it will allocate a new stack even
though one already existed for it.

The solution is to treat the idle_task specially. In fact, the
function_graph code already does, just not at init_idle().
Instead of using the ftrace_graph_init_task() for the idle task,
which that function expects the task to be a clone, have a
separate ftrace_graph_init_idle_task(). Also, we will create a
per_cpu ret_stack that is used by the idle task. When we call
ftrace_graph_init_idle_task() it will check if the idle task's
ret_stack is NULL, if it is, then it will assign it the per_cpu
ret_stack.

Reported-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen

tracing: t_start: reset FTRACE_ITER_HASH in case of seek/pread

2010-09-20T20:36:34+00:00

commit df09162550fbb53354f0c88e85b5d0e6129ee9cc upstream.

Be sure to avoid entering t_show() with FTRACE_ITER_HASH set without
having properly started the iterator to iterate the hash.  This case is
degenerate and, as discovered by Robert Swiecki, can cause t_hash_show()
to misuse a pointer.  This causes a NULL ptr deref with possible security
implications.  Tracked as CVE-2010-3079.

Cc: Robert Swiecki 
Cc: Eugene Teo 
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tracing: Do not allow llseek to set_ftrace_filter

2010-09-20T20:36:33+00:00

commit 9c55cb12c1c172e2d51e85fbb5a4796ca86b77e7 upstream.

Reading the file set_ftrace_filter does three things.

1) shows whether or not filters are set for the function tracer
2) shows what functions are set for the function tracer
3) shows what triggers are set on any functions

3 is independent from 1 and 2.

The way this file currently works is that it is a state machine,
and as you read it, it may change state. But this assumption breaks
when you use lseek() on the file. The state machine gets out of sync
and the t_show() may use the wrong pointer and cause a kernel oops.

Luckily, this will only kill the app that does the lseek, but the app
dies while holding a mutex. This prevents anyone else from using the
set_ftrace_filter file (or any other function tracing file for that matter).

A real fix for this is to rewrite the code, but that is too much for
a -rc release or stable. This patch simply disables llseek on the
set_ftrace_filter() file for now, and we can do the proper fix for the
next major release.

Reported-by: Robert Swiecki 
Cc: Chris Wright 
Cc: Tavis Ormandy 
Cc: Eugene Teo 
Cc: vendor-sec@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tracing: Fix a race in function profile

2010-09-20T20:36:33+00:00

commit 3aaba20f26f58843e8f20611e5c0b1c06954310f upstream.

While we are reading trace_stat/functionX and someone just
disabled function_profile at that time, we can trigger this:

	divide error: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
	...
	EIP is at function_stat_show+0x90/0x230
	...

This fix just takes the ftrace_profile_lock and checks if
rec->counter is 0. If it's 0, we know the profile buffer
has been reset.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan 
LKML-Reference: <4C723644.4040708@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tracing: Let tracepoints have data passed to tracepoint callbacks

2010-05-14T13:50:34+00:00

This patch adds data to be passed to tracepoint callbacks.

The created functions from DECLARE_TRACE() now need a mandatory data
parameter. For example:

DECLARE_TRACE(mytracepoint, int value, value)

Will create the register function:

int register_trace_mytracepoint((void(*)(void *data, int value))probe,
                                void *data);

As the first argument, all callbacks (probes) must take a (void *data)
parameter. So a callback for the above tracepoint will look like:

void myprobe(void *data, int value)
{
}

The callback may choose to ignore the data parameter.

This change allows callbacks to register a private data pointer along
with the function probe.

	void mycallback(void *data, int value);

	register_trace_mytracepoint(mycallback, mydata);

Then the mycallback() will receive the "mydata" as the first parameter
before the args.

A more detailed example:

  DECLARE_TRACE(mytracepoint, TP_PROTO(int status), TP_ARGS(status));

  /* In the C file */

  DEFINE_TRACE(mytracepoint, TP_PROTO(int status), TP_ARGS(status));

  [...]

       trace_mytracepoint(status);

  /* In a file registering this tracepoint */

  int my_callback(void *data, int status)
  {
	struct my_struct my_data = data;
	[...]
  }

  [...]
	my_data = kmalloc(sizeof(*my_data), GFP_KERNEL);
	init_my_data(my_data);
	register_trace_mytracepoint(my_callback, my_data);

The same callback can also be registered to the same tracepoint as long
as the data registered is different. Note, the data must also be used
to unregister the callback:

	unregister_trace_mytracepoint(my_callback, my_data);

Because of the data parameter, tracepoints declared this way can not have
no args. That is:

  DECLARE_TRACE(mytracepoint, TP_PROTO(void), TP_ARGS());

will cause an error.

If no arguments are needed, a new macro can be used instead:

  DECLARE_TRACE_NOARGS(mytracepoint);

Since there are no arguments, the proto and args fields are left out.

This is part of a series to make the tracepoint footprint smaller:

   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
4913961	1088356	 861512	6863829	 68bbd5	vmlinux.orig
4914025	1088868	 861512	6864405	 68be15	vmlinux.class
4918492	1084612	 861512	6864616	 68bee8	vmlinux.tracepoint

Again, this patch also increases the size of the kernel, but
lays the ground work for decreasing it.

 v5: Fixed net/core/drop_monitor.c to handle these updates.

 v4: Moved the DECLARE_TRACE() DECLARE_TRACE_NOARGS out of the
     #ifdef CONFIG_TRACE_POINTS, since the two are the same in both
     cases. The __DECLARE_TRACE() is what changes.
     Thanks to Frederic Weisbecker for pointing this out.

 v3: Made all register_* functions require data to be passed and
     all callbacks to take a void * parameter as its first argument.
     This makes the calling functions comply with C standards.

     Also added more comments to the modifications of DECLARE_TRACE().

 v2: Made the DECLARE_TRACE() have the ability to pass arguments
     and added a new DECLARE_TRACE_NOARGS() for tracepoints that
     do not need any arguments.

Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers 
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu 
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Neil Horman 
Cc: David S. Miller 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

Merge branch 'sched/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip into trace/tip/tracing/core-4

2010-05-14T13:29:52+00:00

sched: Remove rq argument to the tracepoints

2010-05-07T09:28:17+00:00

struct rq isn't visible outside of sched.o so its near useless to
expose the pointer, also there are no users of it, so remove it.

Acked-by: Steven Rostedt 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra 
LKML-Reference: <1272997616.1642.207.camel@laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

tracing: Fix sleep time function profiling

2010-04-28T01:04:24+00:00

When sleep_time is off the function profiler ignores the time that a task
is scheduled out. When the task is scheduled out a timestamp is taken.
When the task is scheduled back in, the timestamp is compared to the
current time and the saved calltimes are adjusted accordingly.

But when stopping the function profiler, the sched switch hook that
does this adjustment was stopped before shutting down the tracer.
This allowed some tasks to not get their timestamps set when they
scheduled out. When the function profiler started again, this would
skew the times of the scheduler functions.

This patch moves the stopping of the sched switch to after the function
profiler is stopped. It also ignores zero set calltimes, which may
happen on start up.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing: Show sample std dev in function profiling

2010-04-27T22:23:15+00:00

When combined with function graph tracing the ftrace function profiler
also prints the average run time of functions. While this gives us some
good information, it doesn't tell us anything about the variance of the
run times of the function. This change prints out the s^2 sample
standard deviation alongside the average.

This change adds one entry to the profile record structure. This
increases the memory footprint of the function profiler by 1/3 on a
32-bit system, and by 1/5 on a 64-bit system when function graphing is
enabled, though the memory is only allocated when the profiler is turned
on. During the profiling, one extra line of code adds the squared
calltime to the new record entry, so this should not adversly affect
performance.

Note that the square of the sample standard deviation is printed because
there is no sqrt implementation for unsigned long long in the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Chase Douglas 
LKML-Reference: <1272304925-2436-1-git-send-email-chase.douglas@canonical.com>

[ fixed comment about ns^2 -> us^2 conversion ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt