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<title>Merge tag 'trace-3.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2014-06-09T23:39:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-09T23:39:15+00:00</published>
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Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
 "Lots of tweaks, small fixes, optimizations, and some helper functions
  to help out the rest of the kernel to ease their use of trace events.

  The big change for this release is the allowing of other tracers, such
  as the latency tracers, to be used in the trace instances and allow
  for function or function graph tracing to be in the top level
  simultaneously"

* tag 'trace-3.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (44 commits)
  tracing: Fix memory leak on instance deletion
  tracing: Fix leak of ring buffer data when new instances creation fails
  tracing/kprobes: Avoid self tests if tracing is disabled on boot up
  tracing: Return error if ftrace_trace_arrays list is empty
  tracing: Only calculate stats of tracepoint benchmarks for 2^32 times
  tracing: Convert stddev into u64 in tracepoint benchmark
  tracing: Introduce saved_cmdlines_size file
  tracing: Add __get_dynamic_array_len() macro for trace events
  tracing: Remove unused variable in trace_benchmark
  tracing: Eliminate double free on failure of allocation on boot up
  ftrace/x86: Call text_ip_addr() instead of the duplicated code
  tracing: Print max callstack on stacktrace bug
  tracing: Move locking of trace_cmdline_lock into start/stop seq calls
  tracing: Try again for saved cmdline if failed due to locking
  tracing: Have saved_cmdlines use the seq_read infrastructure
  tracing: Add tracepoint benchmark tracepoint
  tracing: Print nasty banner when trace_printk() is in use
  tracing: Add funcgraph_tail option to print function name after closing braces
  tracing: Eliminate duplicate TRACE_GRAPH_PRINT_xx defines
  tracing: Add __bitmask() macro to trace events to cpumasks and other bitmasks
  ...
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Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
 "Lots of tweaks, small fixes, optimizations, and some helper functions
  to help out the rest of the kernel to ease their use of trace events.

  The big change for this release is the allowing of other tracers, such
  as the latency tracers, to be used in the trace instances and allow
  for function or function graph tracing to be in the top level
  simultaneously"

* tag 'trace-3.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (44 commits)
  tracing: Fix memory leak on instance deletion
  tracing: Fix leak of ring buffer data when new instances creation fails
  tracing/kprobes: Avoid self tests if tracing is disabled on boot up
  tracing: Return error if ftrace_trace_arrays list is empty
  tracing: Only calculate stats of tracepoint benchmarks for 2^32 times
  tracing: Convert stddev into u64 in tracepoint benchmark
  tracing: Introduce saved_cmdlines_size file
  tracing: Add __get_dynamic_array_len() macro for trace events
  tracing: Remove unused variable in trace_benchmark
  tracing: Eliminate double free on failure of allocation on boot up
  ftrace/x86: Call text_ip_addr() instead of the duplicated code
  tracing: Print max callstack on stacktrace bug
  tracing: Move locking of trace_cmdline_lock into start/stop seq calls
  tracing: Try again for saved cmdline if failed due to locking
  tracing: Have saved_cmdlines use the seq_read infrastructure
  tracing: Add tracepoint benchmark tracepoint
  tracing: Print nasty banner when trace_printk() is in use
  tracing: Add funcgraph_tail option to print function name after closing braces
  tracing: Eliminate duplicate TRACE_GRAPH_PRINT_xx defines
  tracing: Add __bitmask() macro to trace events to cpumasks and other bitmasks
  ...
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<title>ftrace: Remove FTRACE_UPDATE_MODIFY_CALL_REGS flag</title>
<updated>2014-05-14T15:37:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-05-07T20:09:49+00:00</published>
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As the decision to what needs to be done (converting a call to the
ftrace_caller to ftrace_caller_regs or to convert from ftrace_caller_regs
to ftrace_caller) can easily be determined from the rec-&gt;flags of
FTRACE_FL_REGS and FTRACE_FL_REGS_EN, there's no need to have the
ftrace_check_record() return either a UPDATE_MODIFY_CALL_REGS or a
UPDATE_MODIFY_CALL. Just he latter is enough. This added flag causes
more complexity than is required. Remove it.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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As the decision to what needs to be done (converting a call to the
ftrace_caller to ftrace_caller_regs or to convert from ftrace_caller_regs
to ftrace_caller) can easily be determined from the rec-&gt;flags of
FTRACE_FL_REGS and FTRACE_FL_REGS_EN, there's no need to have the
ftrace_check_record() return either a UPDATE_MODIFY_CALL_REGS or a
UPDATE_MODIFY_CALL. Just he latter is enough. This added flag causes
more complexity than is required. Remove it.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<title>ftrace: Use the ftrace_addr helper functions to find the ftrace_addr</title>
<updated>2014-05-14T15:37:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-05-08T11:01:21+00:00</published>
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With the moving of the functions that determine what the mcount call site
should be replaced with into the generic code, there is a few places
in the generic code that can use them instead of hard coding it as it
does.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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With the moving of the functions that determine what the mcount call site
should be replaced with into the generic code, there is a few places
in the generic code that can use them instead of hard coding it as it
does.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<title>ftrace: Make get_ftrace_addr() and get_ftrace_addr_old() global</title>
<updated>2014-05-14T15:37:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-05-07T01:34:14+00:00</published>
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Move and rename get_ftrace_addr() and get_ftrace_addr_old() to
ftrace_get_addr_new() and ftrace_get_addr_curr() respectively.

This moves these two helper functions in the generic code out from
the arch specific code, and renames them to have a better generic
name. This will allow other archs to use them as well as makes it
a bit easier to work on getting separate trampolines for different
functions.

ftrace_get_addr_new() returns the trampoline address that the mcount
call address will be converted to.

ftrace_get_addr_curr() returns the trampoline address of what the
mcount call address currently jumps to.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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Move and rename get_ftrace_addr() and get_ftrace_addr_old() to
ftrace_get_addr_new() and ftrace_get_addr_curr() respectively.

This moves these two helper functions in the generic code out from
the arch specific code, and renames them to have a better generic
name. This will allow other archs to use them as well as makes it
a bit easier to work on getting separate trampolines for different
functions.

ftrace_get_addr_new() returns the trampoline address that the mcount
call address will be converted to.

ftrace_get_addr_curr() returns the trampoline address of what the
mcount call address currently jumps to.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ftrace: Always inline ftrace_hash_empty() helper function</title>
<updated>2014-05-14T15:37:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-05-01T16:44:50+00:00</published>
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The ftrace_hash_empty() function is a simple test:

	return !hash || !hash-&gt;count;

But gcc seems to want to make it a call. As this is in an extreme
hot path of the function tracer, there's no reason it needs to be
a call. I only wrote it to be a helper function anyway, otherwise
it would have been inlined manually.

Force gcc to inline it, as it could have also been a macro.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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The ftrace_hash_empty() function is a simple test:

	return !hash || !hash-&gt;count;

But gcc seems to want to make it a call. As this is in an extreme
hot path of the function tracer, there's no reason it needs to be
a call. I only wrote it to be a helper function anyway, otherwise
it would have been inlined manually.

Force gcc to inline it, as it could have also been a macro.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ftrace: Write in missing comment from a very old commit</title>
<updated>2014-05-14T15:37:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-05-07T19:06:14+00:00</published>
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Back in 2011 Commit ed926f9b35cda "ftrace: Use counters to enable
functions to trace" changed the way ftrace accounts for enabled
and disabled traced functions. There was a comment started as:

	/*
	 *
	 */

But never finished. Well, that's rather useless. I probably forgot
to save the file before committing it. And it passed review from all
this time.

Anyway, better late than never. I updated the comment to express what
is happening in that somewhat complex code.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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Back in 2011 Commit ed926f9b35cda "ftrace: Use counters to enable
functions to trace" changed the way ftrace accounts for enabled
and disabled traced functions. There was a comment started as:

	/*
	 *
	 */

But never finished. Well, that's rather useless. I probably forgot
to save the file before committing it. And it passed review from all
this time.

Anyway, better late than never. I updated the comment to express what
is happening in that somewhat complex code.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ftrace: Remove boolean of hash_enable and hash_disable</title>
<updated>2014-05-14T15:37:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-05-07T01:57:49+00:00</published>
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Commit 4104d326b670 "ftrace: Remove global function list and call
function directly" cleaned up the global_ops filtering and made
the code simpler, but it left a variable "hash_enable" that was used
to know if the hash functions should be updated or not. It was
updated if the global_ops did not override them. As the global_ops
are now no different than any other ftrace_ops, the hash always
gets updated and there's no reason to use the hash_enable boolean.

The same goes for hash_disable used in ftrace_shutdown().

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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Commit 4104d326b670 "ftrace: Remove global function list and call
function directly" cleaned up the global_ops filtering and made
the code simpler, but it left a variable "hash_enable" that was used
to know if the hash functions should be updated or not. It was
updated if the global_ops did not override them. As the global_ops
are now no different than any other ftrace_ops, the hash always
gets updated and there's no reason to use the hash_enable boolean.

The same goes for hash_disable used in ftrace_shutdown().

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tracing: Replace __get_cpu_var uses with this_cpu_ptr</title>
<updated>2014-05-06T02:40:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Lameter</name>
<email>cl@linux.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-04-29T19:17:40+00:00</published>
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Replace uses of &amp;__get_cpu_var for address calculation with this_cpu_ptr.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/p/alpine.DEB.2.10.1404291415560.18364@gentwo.org

Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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Replace uses of &amp;__get_cpu_var for address calculation with this_cpu_ptr.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/p/alpine.DEB.2.10.1404291415560.18364@gentwo.org

Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ftrace: Have function graph tracer use global_ops for filtering</title>
<updated>2014-05-02T03:21:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-05-02T03:05:31+00:00</published>
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Commit 4104d326b670 "ftrace: Remove global function list and call
function directly" cleaned up the global_ops filtering and made
the code simpler. But it left out function graph filtering which
also depended on that code. The function graph filtering still
needs to use global_ops as the filter otherwise it wont filter
at all.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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Commit 4104d326b670 "ftrace: Remove global function list and call
function directly" cleaned up the global_ops filtering and made
the code simpler. But it left out function graph filtering which
also depended on that code. The function graph filtering still
needs to use global_ops as the filter otherwise it wont filter
at all.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<title>ftrace/module: Hardcode ftrace_module_init() call into load_module()</title>
<updated>2014-04-28T14:37:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-04-24T14:40:12+00:00</published>
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A race exists between module loading and enabling of function tracer.

	CPU 1				CPU 2
	-----				-----
  load_module()
   module-&gt;state = MODULE_STATE_COMING

				register_ftrace_function()
				 mutex_lock(&amp;ftrace_lock);
				 ftrace_startup()
				  update_ftrace_function();
				   ftrace_arch_code_modify_prepare()
				    set_all_module_text_rw();
				   &lt;enables-ftrace&gt;
				    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 &lt;indou.takao@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Acked-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 2.6.38+
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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A race exists between module loading and enabling of function tracer.

	CPU 1				CPU 2
	-----				-----
  load_module()
   module-&gt;state = MODULE_STATE_COMING

				register_ftrace_function()
				 mutex_lock(&amp;ftrace_lock);
				 ftrace_startup()
				  update_ftrace_function();
				   ftrace_arch_code_modify_prepare()
				    set_all_module_text_rw();
				   &lt;enables-ftrace&gt;
				    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 &lt;indou.takao@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Acked-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 2.6.38+
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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