linux-stable.git/kernel/trace/trace_events.c, branch v3.13.8

tracing: Fix array size mismatch in format string

2014-03-31T17:05:14+00:00

commit 87291347c49dc40aa339f587b209618201c2e527 upstream.

In event format strings, the array size is reported in two locations.
One in array subscript and then via the "size:" attribute. The values
reported there have a mismatch.

For e.g., in sched:sched_switch the prev_comm and next_comm character
arrays have subscript values as [32] where as the actual field size is
16.

name: sched_switch
ID: 301
format:
        field:unsigned short common_type;       offset:0;       size:2; signed:0;
        field:unsigned char common_flags;       offset:2;       size:1; signed:0;
        field:unsigned char common_preempt_count;       offset:3;       size:1;signed:0;
        field:int common_pid;   offset:4;       size:4; signed:1;

        field:char prev_comm[32];       offset:8;       size:16;        signed:1;
        field:pid_t prev_pid;   offset:24;      size:4; signed:1;
        field:int prev_prio;    offset:28;      size:4; signed:1;
        field:long prev_state;  offset:32;      size:8; signed:1;
        field:char next_comm[32];       offset:40;      size:16;        signed:1;
        field:pid_t next_pid;   offset:56;      size:4; signed:1;
        field:int next_prio;    offset:60;      size:4; signed:1;

After bisection, the following commit was blamed:
92edca0 tracing: Use direct field, type and system names

This commit removes the duplication of strings for field->name and
field->type assuming that all the strings passed in
__trace_define_field() are immutable. This is not true for arrays, where
the type string is created in event_storage variable and field->type for
all array fields points to event_storage.

Use __stringify() to create a string constant for the type string.

Also, get rid of event_storage and event_storage_mutex that are not
needed anymore.

also, an added benefit is that this reduces the overhead of events a bit more:

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
8424787 2036472 1302528 11763787         b3804b vmlinux
8420814 2036408 1302528 11759750         b37086 vmlinux.patched

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1392349908-29685-1-git-send-email-vnagarnaik@google.com

Cc: Laurent Chavey 
Signed-off-by: Vaibhav Nagarnaik 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tracing: Do not add event files for modules that fail tracepoints

2014-03-24T04:44:10+00:00

commit 45ab2813d40d88fc575e753c38478de242d03f88 upstream.

If a module fails to add its tracepoints due to module tainting, do not
create the module event infrastructure in the debugfs directory. As the events
will not work and worse yet, they will silently fail, making the user wonder
why the events they enable do not display anything.

Having a warning on module load and the events not visible to the users
will make the cause of the problem much clearer.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140227154923.265882695@goodmis.org

Fixes: 6d723736e472 "tracing/events: add support for modules to TRACE_EVENT"
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers 
Cc: Rusty Russell 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tracing: Only run synchronize_sched() at instance deletion time

2013-12-05T19:22:30+00:00

It has been reported that boot up with FTRACE_SELFTEST enabled can take a
very long time. There can be stalls of over a minute.

This was tracked down to the synchronize_sched() called when a system call
event is disabled. As the self tests enable and disable thousands of events,
this makes the synchronize_sched() get called thousands of times.

The synchornize_sched() was added with d562aff93bfb53 "tracing: Add support
for SOFT_DISABLE to syscall events" which caused this regression (added
in 3.13-rc1).

The synchronize_sched() is to protect against the events being accessed
when a tracer instance is being deleted. When an instance is being deleted
all the events associated to it are unregistered. The synchronize_sched()
makes sure that no more users are running when it finishes.

Instead of calling synchronize_sched() for all syscall events, we only
need to call it once, after the events are unregistered and before the
instance is deleted. The event_mutex is held during this action to
prevent new users from enabling events.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131203124120.427b9661@gandalf.local.home

Reported-by: Petr Mladek 
Acked-by: Tom Zanussi 
Acked-by: Petr Mladek 
Tested-by: Petr Mladek 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing: Do not assign filp->private_data to freed memory

2013-11-06T20:26:54+00:00

In system_tr_open(), the filp->private_data can be assigned the 'dir'
variable even if it was freed. This is on the error path, and is
harmless because the error return code will prevent filp->private_data
from being used. But for correctness, we should not assign it to
a recently freed variable, as that can cause static tools to give
false warnings.

Also have both subsystem_open() and system_tr_open() return -ENODEV
if tracing has been disabled.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1383764571-7318-1-git-send-email-geyslan@gmail.com

Signed-off-by: Geyslan G. Bem 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing: Update event filters for multibuffer

2013-11-05T21:50:20+00:00

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 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing: Kill the !CONFIG_MODULES code in trace_events.c

2013-08-22T03:28:03+00:00

Move trace_module_nb under CONFIG_MODULES and kill the dummy
trace_module_notify(). Imho it doesn't make sense to define
"struct notifier_block" and its .notifier_call just to avoid
"ifdef" in event_trace_init(), and all other !CONFIG_MODULES
code has already gone away.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130731173137.GA31043@redhat.com

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing: Don't pass file_operations array to event_create_dir()

2013-08-22T03:25:06+00:00

Now that event_create_dir() and __trace_add_new_event() always
use the same file_operations we can kill these arguments and
simplify the code.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130731173135.GA31040@redhat.com

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing: Kill trace_create_file_ops() and friends

2013-08-22T02:31:23+00:00

trace_create_file_ops() allocates the copy of id/filter/format/enable
file_operations to set "f_op->owner = mod" for fops_get().

However after the recent changes there is no reason to prevent rmmod
even if one of these files is opened. A file operation can do nothing
but fail after remove_event_file_dir() clears ->i_private for every
file removed by trace_module_remove_events().

Kill "struct ftrace_module_file_ops" and fix the compilation errors.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130731173132.GA31033@redhat.com

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing: Add comment to describe special break case in probe_remove_event_call()

2013-07-31T17:16:22+00:00

The "break" used in the do_for_each_event_file() is used as an optimization
as the loop is really a double loop. The loop searches all event files
for each trace_array. There's only one matching event file per trace_array
and after we find the event file for the trace_array, the break is used
to jump to the next trace_array and start the search there.

As this is not a standard way of using "break" in C code, it requires
a comment right before the break to let people know what is going on.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

tracing: trace_remove_event_call() should fail if call/file is in use

2013-07-31T17:12:48+00:00

Change trace_remove_event_call(call) to return the error if this
call is active. This is what the callers assume but can't verify
outside of the tracing locks. Both trace_kprobe.c/trace_uprobe.c
need the additional changes, unregister_trace_probe() should abort
if trace_remove_event_call() fails.

The caller is going to free this call/file so we must ensure that
nobody can use them after trace_remove_event_call() succeeds.
debugfs should be fine after the previous changes and event_remove()
does TRACE_REG_UNREGISTER, but still there are 2 reasons why we need
the additional checks:

- There could be a perf_event(s) attached to this tp_event, so the
  patch checks ->perf_refcount.

- TRACE_REG_UNREGISTER can be suppressed by FTRACE_EVENT_FL_SOFT_MODE,
  so we simply check FTRACE_EVENT_FL_ENABLED protected by event_mutex.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130729175033.GB26284@redhat.com

Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu 
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt