linux-stable.git/kernel/trace/trace.c, branch v3.0.73

tracing: Prevent buffer overwrite disabled for latency tracers

2013-04-05T17:16:52+00:00

commit 613f04a0f51e6e68ac6fe571ab79da3c0a5eb4da upstream.

The latency tracers require the buffers to be in overwrite mode,
otherwise they get screwed up. Force the buffers to stay in overwrite
mode when latency tracers are enabled.

Added a flag_changed() method to the tracer structure to allow
the tracers to see what flags are being changed, and also be able
to prevent the change from happing.

[Backported for 3.4-stable. Re-added current_trace NULL checks; removed
allocated_snapshot field; adapted to tracing_trace_options_write without
trace_set_options.]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt 
Signed-off-by: Lingzhu Xiang 
Reviewed-by: CAI Qian 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tracing: Protect tracer flags with trace_types_lock

2013-04-05T17:16:52+00:00

commit 69d34da2984c95b33ea21518227e1f9470f11d95 upstream.

Seems that the tracer flags have never been protected from
synchronous writes. Luckily, admins don't usually modify the
tracing flags via two different tasks. But if scripts were to
be used to modify them, then they could get corrupted.

Move the trace_types_lock that protects against tracers changing
to also protect the flags being set.

[Backported for 3.4, 3.0-stable. Moved return to after unlock.]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt 
Signed-off-by: Lingzhu Xiang 
Reviewed-by: CAI Qian 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tracing: Fix race in snapshot swapping

2013-03-28T19:06:02+00:00

commit 2721e72dd10f71a3ba90f59781becf02638aa0d9 upstream.

Although the swap is wrapped with a spin_lock, the assignment
of the temp buffer used to swap is not within that lock.
It needs to be moved into that lock, otherwise two swaps
happening on two different CPUs, can end up using the wrong
temp buffer to assign in the swap.

Luckily, all current callers of the swap function appear to have
their own locks. But in case something is added that allows two
different callers to call the swap, then there's a chance that
this race can trigger and corrupt the buffers.

New code is coming soon that will allow for this race to trigger.

I've Cc'd stable, so this bug will not show up if someone backports
one of the changes that can trigger this bug.

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

tracing: change CPU ring buffer state from tracing_cpumask

2012-07-16T15:47:51+00:00

commit 71babb2705e2203a64c27ede13ae3508a0d2c16c upstream.

According to Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt:

tracing_cpumask:

        This is a mask that lets the user only trace
        on specified CPUS. The format is a hex string
        representing the CPUS.

The tracing_cpumask currently doesn't affect the tracing state of
per-CPU ring buffers.

This patch enables/disables CPU recording as its corresponding bit in
tracing_cpumask is set/unset.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1336096792-25373-3-git-send-email-vnagarnaik@google.com

Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Laurent Chavey 
Cc: Justin Teravest 
Cc: David Sharp 
Signed-off-by: Vaibhav Nagarnaik 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tracing: Fix returning of duplicate data after EOF in trace_pipe_raw

2011-11-11T17:35:53+00:00

commit 436fc280261dcfce5af38f08b89287750dc91cd2 upstream.

The trace_pipe_raw handler holds a cached page from the time the file
is opened to the time it is closed. The cached page is used to handle
the case of the user space buffer being smaller than what was read from
the ring buffer. The left over buffer is held in the cache so that the
next read will continue where the data left off.

After EOF is returned (no more data in the buffer), the index of
the cached page is set to zero. If a user app reads the page again
after EOF, the check in the buffer will see that the cached page
is less than page size and will return the cached page again. This
will cause reading the trace_pipe_raw again after EOF to return
duplicate data, making the output look like the time went backwards
but instead data is just repeated.

The fix is to not reset the index right after all data is read
from the cache, but to reset it after all data is read and more
data exists in the ring buffer.

Reported-by: Jeremy Eder 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge commit 'v2.6.39-rc7' into perf/core

2011-05-10T15:05:45+00:00

Merge reason: pull in the latest fixes.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Regression: partial revert "tracing: Remove lock_depth from event entry"

2011-05-06T20:20:59+00:00

This partially reverts commit e6e1e2593592a8f6f6380496655d8c6f67431266.

That commit changed the structure layout of the trace structure, which
in turn broke PowerTOP (1.9x generation) quite badly.

I appreciate not wanting to expose the variable in question, and
PowerTOP was not using it, so I've replaced the variable with just a
padding field - that way if in the future a new field is needed it can
just use this padding field.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'tip/perf/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into perf/core

2011-04-27T08:40:21+00:00

Conflicts:
	include/linux/perf_event.h

Merge reason: pick up the latest jump-label enhancements, they are cooked ready.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

tracing: Avoid soft lockup in trace_pipe

2011-04-04T16:18:24+00:00

running following commands:

  # enable the binary option
  echo 1 > ./options/bin
  # disable context info option
  echo 0 > ./options/context-info
  # tracing only events
  echo 1 > ./events/enable
  cat trace_pipe

plus forcing system to generate many tracing events,
is causing lockup (in NON preemptive kernels) inside
tracing_read_pipe function.

The issue is also easily reproduced by running ltp stress test.
(ftrace_stress_test.sh)

The reasons are:
 - bin/hex/raw output functions for events are set to
   trace_nop_print function, which prints nothing and
   returns TRACE_TYPE_HANDLED value
 - LOST EVENT trace do not handle trace_seq overflow

These reasons force the while loop in tracing_read_pipe
function never to break.

The attached patch fixies handling of lost event trace, and
changes trace_nop_print to print minimal info, which is needed
for the correct tracing_read_pipe processing.

v2 changes:
 - omit the cond_resched changes by trace_nop_print changes
 - WARN changed to WARN_ONCE and added info to be able
   to find out the culprit

v3 changes:
 - make more accurate patch comment

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa 
LKML-Reference: <20110325110518.GC1922@jolsa.brq.redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

Fix common misspellings

2011-03-31T14:26:23+00:00

Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi