linux-stable.git/kernel/trace, branch v3.2.62

ring-buffer: Fix polling on trace_pipe

2014-08-06T17:07:37+00:00

commit 97b8ee845393701edc06e27ccec2876ff9596019 upstream.

ring_buffer_poll_wait() should always put the poll_table to its wait_queue
even there is immediate data available.  Otherwise, the following epoll and
read sequence will eventually hang forever:

1. Put some data to make the trace_pipe ring_buffer read ready first
2. epoll_ctl(efd, EPOLL_CTL_ADD, trace_pipe_fd, ee)
3. epoll_wait()
4. read(trace_pipe_fd) till EAGAIN
5. Add some more data to the trace_pipe ring_buffer
6. epoll_wait() -> this epoll_wait() will block forever

~ During the epoll_ctl(efd, EPOLL_CTL_ADD,...) call in step 2,
  ring_buffer_poll_wait() returns immediately without adding poll_table,
  which has poll_table->_qproc pointing to ep_poll_callback(), to its
  wait_queue.
~ During the epoll_wait() call in step 3 and step 6,
  ring_buffer_poll_wait() cannot add ep_poll_callback() to its wait_queue
  because the poll_table->_qproc is NULL and it is how epoll works.
~ When there is new data available in step 6, ring_buffer does not know
  it has to call ep_poll_callback() because it is not in its wait queue.
  Hence, block forever.

Other poll implementation seems to call poll_wait() unconditionally as the very
first thing to do.  For example, tcp_poll() in tcp.c.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/p/20140610060637.GA14045@devbig242.prn2.facebook.com

Fixes: 2a2cc8f7c4d0 "ftrace: allow the event pipe to be polled"
Reviewed-by: Chris Mason 
Signed-off-by: Martin Lau 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt 
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: the poll implementation looks rather different
 but does have a conditional return before and after the poll_wait() call;
 delete the return before it.]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

ftrace/module: Hardcode ftrace_module_init() call into load_module()

2014-06-09T12:29:03+00:00

commit a949ae560a511fe4e3adf48fa44fefded93e5c2b upstream.

A race exists between module loading and enabling of function tracer.

	CPU 1				CPU 2
	-----				-----
  load_module()
   module->state = MODULE_STATE_COMING

				register_ftrace_function()
				 mutex_lock(&ftrace_lock);
				 ftrace_startup()
				  update_ftrace_function();
				   ftrace_arch_code_modify_prepare()
				    set_all_module_text_rw();
				   
				    ftrace_arch_code_modify_post_process()
				     set_all_module_text_ro();

				[ here all module text is set to RO,
				  including the module that is
				  loading!! ]

   blocking_notifier_call_chain(MODULE_STATE_COMING);
    ftrace_init_module()

     [ tries to modify code, but it's RO, and fails!
       ftrace_bug() is called]

When this race happens, ftrace_bug() will produces a nasty warning and
all of the function tracing features will be disabled until reboot.

The simple solution is to treate module load the same way the core
kernel is treated at boot. To hardcode the ftrace function modification
of converting calls to mcount into nops. This is done in init/main.c
there's no reason it could not be done in load_module(). This gives
a better control of the changes and doesn't tie the state of the
module to its notifiers as much. Ftrace is special, it needs to be
treated as such.

The reason this would work, is that the ftrace_module_init() would be
called while the module is in MODULE_STATE_UNFORMED, which is ignored
by the set_all_module_text_ro() call.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1395637826-3312-1-git-send-email-indou.takao@jp.fujitsu.com

Reported-by: Takao Indoh 
Acked-by: Rusty Russell 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt 
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

blktrace: fix accounting of partially completed requests

2014-04-30T15:23:20+00:00

commit af5040da01ef980670b3741b3e10733ee3e33566 upstream.

trace_block_rq_complete does not take into account that request can
be partially completed, so we can get the following incorrect output
of blkparser:

  C   R 232 + 240 [0]
  C   R 240 + 232 [0]
  C   R 248 + 224 [0]
  C   R 256 + 216 [0]

but should be:

  C   R 232 + 8 [0]
  C   R 240 + 8 [0]
  C   R 248 + 8 [0]
  C   R 256 + 8 [0]

Also, the whole output summary statistics of completed requests and
final throughput will be incorrect.

This patch takes into account real completion size of the request and
fixes wrong completion accounting.

Signed-off-by: Roman Pen 
CC: Steven Rostedt 
CC: Frederic Weisbecker 
CC: Ingo Molnar 
CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe 
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: drop change in blk-mq.c]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

ftrace: Have function graph only trace based on global_ops filters

2014-04-01T23:59:00+00:00

commit 23a8e8441a0a74dd612edf81dc89d1600bc0a3d1 upstream.

Doing some different tests, I discovered that function graph tracing, when
filtered via the set_ftrace_filter and set_ftrace_notrace files, does
not always keep with them if another function ftrace_ops is registered
to trace functions.

The reason is that function graph just happens to trace all functions
that the function tracer enables. When there was only one user of
function tracing, the function graph tracer did not need to worry about
being called by functions that it did not want to trace. But now that there
are other users, this becomes a problem.

For example, one just needs to do the following:

 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing
 # echo schedule > set_ftrace_filter
 # echo function_graph > current_tracer
 # cat trace
[..]
 0)               |  schedule() {
 ------------------------------------------
 0)    -0    =>   rcu_pre-7
 ------------------------------------------

 0) ! 2980.314 us |  }
 0)               |  schedule() {
 ------------------------------------------
 0)   rcu_pre-7    =>    -0
 ------------------------------------------

 0) + 20.701 us   |  }

 # echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/stack_tracer_enabled
 # cat trace
[..]
 1) + 20.825 us   |      }
 1) + 21.651 us   |    }
 1) + 30.924 us   |  } /* SyS_ioctl */
 1)               |  do_page_fault() {
 1)               |    __do_page_fault() {
 1)   0.274 us    |      down_read_trylock();
 1)   0.098 us    |      find_vma();
 1)               |      handle_mm_fault() {
 1)               |        _raw_spin_lock() {
 1)   0.102 us    |          preempt_count_add();
 1)   0.097 us    |          do_raw_spin_lock();
 1)   2.173 us    |        }
 1)               |        do_wp_page() {
 1)   0.079 us    |          vm_normal_page();
 1)   0.086 us    |          reuse_swap_page();
 1)   0.076 us    |          page_move_anon_rmap();
 1)               |          unlock_page() {
 1)   0.082 us    |            page_waitqueue();
 1)   0.086 us    |            __wake_up_bit();
 1)   1.801 us    |          }
 1)   0.075 us    |          ptep_set_access_flags();
 1)               |          _raw_spin_unlock() {
 1)   0.098 us    |            do_raw_spin_unlock();
 1)   0.105 us    |            preempt_count_sub();
 1)   1.884 us    |          }
 1)   9.149 us    |        }
 1) + 13.083 us   |      }
 1)   0.146 us    |      up_read();

When the stack tracer was enabled, it enabled all functions to be traced, which
now the function graph tracer also traces. This is a side effect that should
not occur.

To fix this a test is added when the function tracing is changed, as well as when
the graph tracer is enabled, to see if anything other than the ftrace global_ops
function tracer is enabled. If so, then the graph tracer calls a test trampoline
that will look at the function that is being traced and compare it with the
filters defined by the global_ops.

As an optimization, if there's no other function tracers registered, or if
the only registered function tracers also use the global ops, the function
graph infrastructure will call the registered function graph callback directly
and not go through the test trampoline.

Fixes: d2d45c7a03a2 "tracing: Have stack_tracer use a separate list of functions"
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

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

2014-04-01T23:58:57+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: Ben Hutchings

ring-buffer: Fix first commit on sub-buffer having non-zero delta

2014-04-01T23:58:51+00:00

commit d651aa1d68a2f0a7ee65697b04c6a92f8c0a12f2 upstream.

Each sub-buffer (buffer page) has a full 64 bit timestamp. The events on
that page use a 27 bit delta against that timestamp in order to save on
bits written to the ring buffer. If the time between events is larger than
what the 27 bits can hold, a "time extend" event is added to hold the
entire 64 bit timestamp again and the events after that hold a delta from
that timestamp.

As a "time extend" is always paired with an event, it is logical to just
allocate the event with the time extend, to make things a bit more efficient.

Unfortunately, when the pairing code was written, it removed the "delta = 0"
from the first commit on a page, causing the events on the page to be
slightly skewed.

Fixes: 69d1b839f7ee "ring-buffer: Bind time extend and data events together"
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt 
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

ftrace: Fix synchronization location disabling and freeing ftrace_ops

2014-04-01T23:58:42+00:00

commit a4c35ed241129dd142be4cadb1e5a474a56d5464 upstream.

The synchronization needed after ftrace_ops are unregistered must happen
after the callback is disabled from becing called by functions.

The current location happens after the function is being removed from the
internal lists, but not after the function callbacks were disabled, leaving
the functions susceptible of being called after their callbacks are freed.

This affects perf and any externel users of function tracing (LTTng and
SystemTap).

Fixes: cdbe61bfe704 "ftrace: Allow dynamically allocated function tracers"
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt 
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: drop change for control ops]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings 
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt

ftrace: Use schedule_on_each_cpu() as a heavy synchronize_sched()

2014-04-01T23:58:42+00:00

commit 7614c3dc74733dff4b0e774f7a894b9ea6ec508c upstream.

The function tracer uses preempt_disable/enable_notrace() for
synchronization between reading registered ftrace_ops and unregistering
them.

Most of the ftrace_ops are global permanent structures that do not
require this synchronization. That is, ops may be added and removed from
the hlist but are never freed, and wont hurt if a synchronization is
missed.

But this is not true for dynamically created ftrace_ops or control_ops,
which are used by the perf function tracing.

The problem here is that the function tracer can be used to trace
kernel/user context switches as well as going to and from idle.
Basically, it can be used to trace blind spots of the RCU subsystem.
This means that even though preempt_disable() is done, a
synchronize_sched() will ignore CPUs that haven't made it out of user
space or idle. These can include functions that are being traced just
before entering or exiting the kernel sections.

To implement the RCU synchronization, instead of using
synchronize_sched() the use of schedule_on_each_cpu() is performed. This
means that when a dynamically allocated ftrace_ops, or a control ops is
being unregistered, all CPUs must be touched and execute a ftrace_sync()
stub function via the work queues. This will rip CPUs out from idle or
in dynamic tick mode. This only happens when a user disables perf
function tracing or other dynamically allocated function tracers, but it
allows us to continue to debug RCU and context tracking with function
tracing.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1369785676.15552.55.camel@gandalf.local.home

Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" 
Cc: Tejun Heo 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt 
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: drop change for control ops]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

ftrace: Initialize the ftrace profiler for each possible cpu

2014-02-15T19:20:13+00:00

commit c4602c1c818bd6626178d6d3fcc152d9f2f48ac0 upstream.

Ftrace currently initializes only the online CPUs. This implementation has
two problems:
- If we online a CPU after we enable the function profile, and then run the
  test, we will lose the trace information on that CPU.
  Steps to reproduce:
  # echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online
  # cd /tracing/
  # echo  >> set_ftrace_filter
  # echo 1 > function_profile_enabled
  # echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online
  # run test
- If we offline a CPU before we enable the function profile, we will not clear
  the trace information when we enable the function profile. It will trouble
  the users.
  Steps to reproduce:
  # cd /tracing/
  # echo  >> set_ftrace_filter
  # echo 1 > function_profile_enabled
  # run test
  # cat trace_stat/function*
  # echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online
  # echo 0 > function_profile_enabled
  # echo 1 > function_profile_enabled
  # cat trace_stat/function*
  # run test
  # cat trace_stat/function*

So it is better that we initialize the ftrace profiler for each possible cpu
every time we enable the function profile instead of just the online ones.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1387178401-10619-1-git-send-email-miaox@cn.fujitsu.com

Signed-off-by: Miao Xie 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt 
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

ftrace: Fix function graph with loading of modules

2014-01-03T04:33:36+00:00

commit 8a56d7761d2d041ae5e8215d20b4167d8aa93f51 upstream.

Commit 8c4f3c3fa9681 "ftrace: Check module functions being traced on reload"
fixed module loading and unloading with respect to function tracing, but
it missed the function graph tracer. If you perform the following

 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing
 # echo function_graph > current_tracer
 # modprobe nfsd
 # echo nop > current_tracer

You'll get the following oops message:

 ------------[ cut here ]------------
 WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 2910 at /linux.git/kernel/trace/ftrace.c:1640 __ftrace_hash_rec_update.part.35+0x168/0x1b9()
 Modules linked in: nfsd exportfs nfs_acl lockd ipt_MASQUERADE sunrpc ip6t_REJECT nf_conntrack_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv6 ip6table_filter ip6_tables uinput snd_hda_codec_idt
 CPU: 2 PID: 2910 Comm: bash Not tainted 3.13.0-rc1-test #7
 Hardware name: To Be Filled By O.E.M. To Be Filled By O.E.M./To be filled by O.E.M., BIOS SDBLI944.86P 05/08/2007
  0000000000000668 ffff8800787efcf8 ffffffff814fe193 ffff88007d500000
  0000000000000000 ffff8800787efd38 ffffffff8103b80a 0000000000000668
  ffffffff810b2b9a ffffffff81a48370 0000000000000001 ffff880037aea000
 Call Trace:
  [] dump_stack+0x4f/0x7c
  [] warn_slowpath_common+0x81/0x9b
  [] ? __ftrace_hash_rec_update.part.35+0x168/0x1b9
  [] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x1c
  [] __ftrace_hash_rec_update.part.35+0x168/0x1b9
  [] ? __mutex_lock_slowpath+0x364/0x364
  [] ftrace_shutdown+0xd7/0x12b
  [] unregister_ftrace_graph+0x49/0x78
  [] graph_trace_reset+0xe/0x10
  [] tracing_set_tracer+0xa7/0x26a
  [] tracing_set_trace_write+0x8b/0xbd
  [] ? ftrace_return_to_handler+0xb2/0xde
  [] ? __sb_end_write+0x5e/0x5e
  [] vfs_write+0xab/0xf6
  [] ftrace_graph_caller+0x85/0x85
  [] SyS_write+0x59/0x82
  [] ftrace_graph_caller+0x85/0x85
  [] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
 ---[ end trace 940358030751eafb ]---

The above mentioned commit didn't go far enough. Well, it covered the
function tracer by adding checks in __register_ftrace_function(). The
problem is that the function graph tracer circumvents that (for a slight
efficiency gain when function graph trace is running with a function
tracer. The gain was not worth this).

The problem came with ftrace_startup() which should always be called after
__register_ftrace_function(), if you want this bug to be completely fixed.

Anyway, this solution moves __register_ftrace_function() inside of
ftrace_startup() and removes the need to call them both.

Reported-by: Dave Wysochanski 
Fixes: ed926f9b35cd ("ftrace: Use counters to enable functions to trace")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt 
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings