To synchronize the timestamps with the ring buffer reservation, there are
two timestamps that are saved in the buffer meta data.
1. before_stamp
2. write_stamp
When the two are equal, the write_stamp is considered valid, as in, it may
be used to calculate the delta of the next event as the write_stamp is the
timestamp of the previous reserved event on the buffer.
This is done by the following:
/*A*/ w = current position on the ring buffer
before = before_stamp
after = write_stamp
ts = read current timestamp
if (before != after) {
write_stamp is not valid, force adding an absolute
timestamp.
}
/*B*/ before_stamp = ts
/*C*/ write = local_add_return(event length, position on ring buffer)
if (w == write - event length) {
/* Nothing interrupted between A and C */
/*E*/ write_stamp = ts;
delta = ts - after
/*
* If nothing interrupted again,
* before_stamp == write_stamp and write_stamp
* can be used to calculate the delta for
* events that come in after this one.
*/
} else {
/*
* The slow path!
* Was interrupted between A and C.
*/
This is the place that there's a bug. We currently have:
after = write_stamp
ts = read current timestamp
/*F*/ if (write == current position on the ring buffer &&
after < ts && cmpxchg(write_stamp, after, ts)) {
delta = ts - after;
} else {
delta = 0;
}
The assumption is that if the current position on the ring buffer hasn't
moved between C and F, then it also was not interrupted, and that the last
event written has a timestamp that matches the write_stamp. That is the
write_stamp is valid.
But this may not be the case:
If a task context event was interrupted by softirq between B and C.
And the softirq wrote an event that got interrupted by a hard irq between
C and E.
and the hard irq wrote an event (does not need to be interrupted)
We have:
/*B*/ before_stamp = ts of normal context
---> interrupted by softirq
/*B*/ before_stamp = ts of softirq context
---> interrupted by hardirq
/*B*/ before_stamp = ts of hard irq context
/*E*/ write_stamp = ts of hard irq context
/* matches and write_stamp valid */
<----
/*E*/ write_stamp = ts of softirq context
/* No longer matches before_stamp, write_stamp is not valid! */
<---
w != write - length, go to slow path
// Right now the order of events in the ring buffer is:
//
// |-- softirq event --|-- hard irq event --|-- normal context event --|
//
after = write_stamp (this is the ts of softirq)
ts = read current timestamp
if (write == current position on the ring buffer [true] &&
after < ts [true] && cmpxchg(write_stamp, after, ts) [true]) {
delta = ts - after [Wrong!]
The delta is to be between the hard irq event and the normal context
event, but the above logic made the delta between the softirq event and
the normal context event, where the hard irq event is between the two. This
will shift all the remaining event timestamps on the sub-buffer
incorrectly.
The write_stamp is only valid if it matches the before_stamp. The cmpxchg
does nothing to help this.
Instead, the following logic can be done to fix this:
before = before_stamp
ts = read current timestamp
before_stamp = ts
after = write_stamp
if (write == current position on the ring buffer &&
after == before && after < ts) {
delta = ts - after
} else {
delta = 0;
}
The above will only use the write_stamp if it still matches before_stamp
and was tested to not have changed since C.
As a bonus, with this logic we do not need any 64-bit cmpxchg() at all!
This means the 32-bit rb_time_t workaround can finally be removed. But
that's for a later time.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20231218175229.58ec3daf@gandalf.local.home/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20231218230712.3a76b081@gandalf.local.home
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fixes: dd93942570 ("ring-buffer: Do not try to put back write_stamp")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
As the ring buffer recording requires cmpxchg() to work, if the
architecture does not support cmpxchg in NMI, then do not do any recording
within an NMI.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20231213175403.6fc18540@gandalf.local.home
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The rb_time_cmpxchg() on 32-bit architectures requires setting three
32-bit words to represent the 64-bit timestamp, with some salt for
synchronization. Those are: msb, top, and bottom
The issue is, the rb_time_cmpxchg() did not properly salt the msb portion,
and the msb that was written was stale.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20231215084114.20899342@rorschach.local.home
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Fixes: f03f2abce4 ("ring-buffer: Have 32 bit time stamps use all 64 bits")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The following race can cause rb_time_read() to observe a corrupted time
stamp:
rb_time_cmpxchg()
[...]
if (!rb_time_read_cmpxchg(&t->msb, msb, msb2))
return false;
if (!rb_time_read_cmpxchg(&t->top, top, top2))
return false;
<interrupted before updating bottom>
__rb_time_read()
[...]
do {
c = local_read(&t->cnt);
top = local_read(&t->top);
bottom = local_read(&t->bottom);
msb = local_read(&t->msb);
} while (c != local_read(&t->cnt));
*cnt = rb_time_cnt(top);
/* If top and msb counts don't match, this interrupted a write */
if (*cnt != rb_time_cnt(msb))
return false;
^ this check fails to catch that "bottom" is still not updated.
So the old "bottom" value is returned, which is wrong.
Fix this by checking that all three of msb, top, and bottom 2-bit cnt
values match.
The reason to favor checking all three fields over requiring a specific
update order for both rb_time_set() and rb_time_cmpxchg() is because
checking all three fields is more robust to handle partial failures of
rb_time_cmpxchg() when interrupted by nested rb_time_set().
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20231211201324.652870-1-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20231212193049.680122-1-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com
Fixes: f458a14534 ("ring-buffer: Test last update in 32bit version of __rb_time_read()")
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Mathieu Desnoyers pointed out an issue in the rb_time_cmpxchg() for 32 bit
architectures. That is:
static bool rb_time_cmpxchg(rb_time_t *t, u64 expect, u64 set)
{
unsigned long cnt, top, bottom, msb;
unsigned long cnt2, top2, bottom2, msb2;
u64 val;
/* The cmpxchg always fails if it interrupted an update */
if (!__rb_time_read(t, &val, &cnt2))
return false;
if (val != expect)
return false;
<<<< interrupted here!
cnt = local_read(&t->cnt);
The problem is that the synchronization counter in the rb_time_t is read
*after* the value of the timestamp is read. That means if an interrupt
were to come in between the value being read and the counter being read,
it can change the value and the counter and the interrupted process would
be clueless about it!
The counter needs to be read first and then the value. That way it is easy
to tell if the value is stale or not. If the counter hasn't been updated,
then the value is still good.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20231211201324.652870-1-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20231212115301.7a9c9a64@gandalf.local.home
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Fixes: 10464b4aa6 ("ring-buffer: Add rb_time_t 64 bit operations for speeding up 32 bit")
Reported-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Reviewed-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
When filtering is enabled, a temporary buffer is created to place the
content of the trace event output so that the filter logic can decide
from the trace event output if the trace event should be filtered out or
not. If it is to be filtered out, the content in the temporary buffer is
simply discarded, otherwise it is written into the trace buffer.
But if an interrupt were to come in while a previous event was using that
temporary buffer, the event written by the interrupt would actually go
into the ring buffer itself to prevent corrupting the data on the
temporary buffer. If the event is to be filtered out, the event in the
ring buffer is discarded, or if it fails to discard because another event
were to have already come in, it is turned into padding.
The update to the write_stamp in the rb_try_to_discard() happens after a
fix was made to force the next event after the discard to use an absolute
timestamp by setting the before_stamp to zero so it does not match the
write_stamp (which causes an event to use the absolute timestamp).
But there's an effort in rb_try_to_discard() to put back the write_stamp
to what it was before the event was added. But this is useless and
wasteful because nothing is going to be using that write_stamp for
calculations as it still will not match the before_stamp.
Remove this useless update, and in doing so, we remove another
cmpxchg64()!
Also update the comments to reflect this change as well as remove some
extra white space in another comment.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20231215081810.1f4f38fe@rorschach.local.home
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Cc: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com>
Fixes: b2dd797543 ("ring-buffer: Force absolute timestamp on discard of event")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
If an update to an event is interrupted by another event between the time
the initial event allocated its buffer and where it wrote to the
write_stamp, the code try to reset the write stamp back to the what it had
just overwritten. It knows that it was overwritten via checking the
before_stamp, and if it didn't match what it wrote to the before_stamp
before it allocated its space, it knows it was overwritten.
To put back the write_stamp, it uses the before_stamp it read. The problem
here is that by writing the before_stamp to the write_stamp it makes the
two equal again, which means that the write_stamp can be considered valid
as the last timestamp written to the ring buffer. But this is not
necessarily true. The event that interrupted the event could have been
interrupted in a way that it was interrupted as well, and can end up
leaving with an invalid write_stamp. But if this happens and returns to
this context that uses the before_stamp to update the write_stamp again,
it can possibly incorrectly make it valid, causing later events to have in
correct time stamps.
As it is OK to leave this function with an invalid write_stamp (one that
doesn't match the before_stamp), there's no reason to try to make it valid
again in this case. If this race happens, then just leave with the invalid
write_stamp and the next event to come along will just add a absolute
timestamp and validate everything again.
Bonus points: This gets rid of another cmpxchg64!
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20231214222921.193037a7@gandalf.local.home
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Cc: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com>
Fixes: a389d86f7f ("ring-buffer: Have nested events still record running time stamp")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
For the ring buffer iterator (non-consuming read), the event needs to be
copied into the iterator buffer to make sure that a writer does not
overwrite it while the user is reading it. If a write happens during the
copy, the buffer is simply discarded.
But the temp buffer itself was not big enough. The allocation of the
buffer was only BUF_MAX_DATA_SIZE, which is the maximum data size that can
be passed into the ring buffer and saved. But the temp buffer needs to
hold the meta data as well. That would be BUF_PAGE_SIZE and not
BUF_MAX_DATA_SIZE.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20231212072558.61f76493@gandalf.local.home
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Fixes: 785888c544 ("ring-buffer: Have rb_iter_head_event() handle concurrent writer")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The ring buffer timestamps are synchronized by two timestamp placeholders.
One is the "before_stamp" and the other is the "write_stamp" (sometimes
referred to as the "after stamp" but only in the comments. These two
stamps are key to knowing how to handle nested events coming in with a
lockless system.
When moving across sub-buffers, the before stamp is updated but the write
stamp is not. There's an effort to put back the before stamp to something
that seems logical in case there's nested events. But as the current event
is about to cross sub-buffers, and so will any new nested event that happens,
updating the before stamp is useless, and could even introduce new race
conditions.
The first event on a sub-buffer simply uses the sub-buffer's timestamp
and keeps a "delta" of zero. The "before_stamp" and "write_stamp" are not
used in the algorithm in this case. There's no reason to try to fix the
before_stamp when this happens.
As a bonus, it removes a cmpxchg() when crossing sub-buffers!
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20231211114420.36dde01b@gandalf.local.home
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Fixes: a389d86f7f ("ring-buffer: Have nested events still record running time stamp")
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Reading the ring buffer does a swap of a sub-buffer within the ring buffer
with a empty sub-buffer. This allows the reader to have full access to the
content of the sub-buffer that was swapped out without having to worry
about contention with the writer.
The readers call ring_buffer_alloc_read_page() to allocate a page that
will be used to swap with the ring buffer. When the code is finished with
the reader page, it calls ring_buffer_free_read_page(). Instead of freeing
the page, it stores it as a spare. Then next call to
ring_buffer_alloc_read_page() will return this spare instead of calling
into the memory management system to allocate a new page.
Unfortunately, on freeing of the ring buffer, this spare page is not
freed, and causes a memory leak.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20231210221250.7b9cc83c@rorschach.local.home
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Fixes: 73a757e631 ("ring-buffer: Return reader page back into existing ring buffer")
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The maximum ring buffer data size is the maximum size of data that can be
recorded on the ring buffer. Events must be smaller than the sub buffer
data size minus any meta data. This size is checked before trying to
allocate from the ring buffer because the allocation assumes that the size
will fit on the sub buffer.
The maximum size was calculated as the size of a sub buffer page (which is
currently PAGE_SIZE minus the sub buffer header) minus the size of the
meta data of an individual event. But it missed the possible adding of a
time stamp for events that are added long enough apart that the event meta
data can't hold the time delta.
When an event is added that is greater than the current BUF_MAX_DATA_SIZE
minus the size of a time stamp, but still less than or equal to
BUF_MAX_DATA_SIZE, the ring buffer would go into an infinite loop, looking
for a page that can hold the event. Luckily, there's a check for this loop
and after 1000 iterations and a warning is emitted and the ring buffer is
disabled. But this should never happen.
This can happen when a large event is added first, or after a long period
where an absolute timestamp is prefixed to the event, increasing its size
by 8 bytes. This passes the check and then goes into the algorithm that
causes the infinite loop.
For events that are the first event on the sub-buffer, it does not need to
add a timestamp, because the sub-buffer itself contains an absolute
timestamp, and adding one is redundant.
The fix is to check if the event is to be the first event on the
sub-buffer, and if it is, then do not add a timestamp.
This also fixes 32 bit adding a timestamp when a read of before_stamp or
write_stamp is interrupted. There's still no need to add that timestamp if
the event is going to be the first event on the sub buffer.
Also, if the buffer has "time_stamp_abs" set, then also check if the
length plus the timestamp is greater than the BUF_MAX_DATA_SIZE.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20231212104549.58863438@gandalf.local.home/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20231212071837.5fdd6c13@gandalf.local.home
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20231212111617.39e02849@gandalf.local.home
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Fixes: a4543a2fa9 ("ring-buffer: Get timestamp after event is allocated")
Fixes: 58fbc3c632 ("ring-buffer: Consolidate add_timestamp to remove some branches")
Reported-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev> # (on IRC)
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Since 64 bit cmpxchg() is very expensive on 32bit architectures, the
timestamp used by the ring buffer does some interesting tricks to be able
to still have an atomic 64 bit number. It originally just used 60 bits and
broke it up into two 32 bit words where the extra 2 bits were used for
synchronization. But this was not enough for all use cases, and all 64
bits were required.
The 32bit version of the ring buffer timestamp was then broken up into 3
32bit words using the same counter trick. But one update was not done. The
check to see if the read operation was done without interruption only
checked the first two words and not last one (like it had before this
update). Fix it by making sure all three updates happen without
interruption by comparing the initial counter with the last updated
counter.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20231206100050.3100b7bb@gandalf.local.home
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Fixes: f03f2abce4 ("ring-buffer: Have 32 bit time stamps use all 64 bits")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
There's a race where if an event is discarded from the ring buffer and an
interrupt were to happen at that time and insert an event, the time stamp
is still used from the discarded event as an offset. This can screw up the
timings.
If the event is going to be discarded, set the "before_stamp" to zero.
When a new event comes in, it compares the "before_stamp" with the
"write_stamp" and if they are not equal, it will insert an absolute
timestamp. This will prevent the timings from getting out of sync due to
the discarded event.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20231206100244.5130f9b3@gandalf.local.home
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Fixes: 6f6be606e7 ("ring-buffer: Force before_stamp and write_stamp to be different on discard")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Use try_cmpxchg instead of cmpxchg (*ptr, old, new) == old in
rb_insert_pages. x86 CMPXCHG instruction returns success in ZF flag,
so this change saves a compare after cmpxchg (and related move
instruction in front of cmpxchg).
No functional change intended.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230914163420.12923-1-ubizjak@gmail.com
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
It was discovered that the ring buffer polling was incorrectly stating
that read would not block, but that's because polling did not take into
account that reads will block if the "buffer-percent" was set. Instead,
the ring buffer polling would say reads would not block if there was any
data in the ring buffer. This was incorrect behavior from a user space
point of view. This was fixed by commit 42fb0a1e84 by having the polling
code check if the ring buffer had more data than what the user specified
"buffer percent" had.
The problem now is that the polling code did not register itself to the
writer that it wanted to wait for a specific "full" value of the ring
buffer. The result was that the writer would wake the polling waiter
whenever there was a new event. The polling waiter would then wake up, see
that there's not enough data in the ring buffer to notify user space and
then go back to sleep. The next event would wake it up again.
Before the polling fix was added, the code would wake up around 100 times
for a hackbench 30 benchmark. After the "fix", due to the constant waking
of the writer, it would wake up over 11,0000 times! It would never leave
the kernel, so the user space behavior was still "correct", but this
definitely is not the desired effect.
To fix this, have the polling code add what it's waiting for to the
"shortest_full" variable, to tell the writer not to wake it up if the
buffer is not as full as it expects to be.
Note, after this fix, it appears that the waiter is now woken up around 2x
the times it was before (~200). This is a tremendous improvement from the
11,000 times, but I will need to spend some time to see why polling is
more aggressive in its wakeups than the read blocking code.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230929180113.01c2cae3@rorschach.local.home
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Fixes: 42fb0a1e84 ("tracing/ring-buffer: Have polling block on watermark")
Reported-by: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@inria.fr>
Tested-by: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@inria.fr>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The 'bytes' info in file 'per_cpu/cpu<X>/stats' means the number of
bytes in cpu buffer that have not been consumed. However, currently
after consuming data by reading file 'trace_pipe', the 'bytes' info
was not changed as expected.
# cat per_cpu/cpu0/stats
entries: 0
overrun: 0
commit overrun: 0
bytes: 568 <--- 'bytes' is problematical !!!
oldest event ts: 8651.371479
now ts: 8653.912224
dropped events: 0
read events: 8
The root cause is incorrect stat on cpu_buffer->read_bytes. To fix it:
1. When stat 'read_bytes', account consumed event in rb_advance_reader();
2. When stat 'entries_bytes', exclude the discarded padding event which
is smaller than minimum size because it is invisible to reader. Then
use rb_page_commit() instead of BUF_PAGE_SIZE at where accounting for
page-based read/remove/overrun.
Also correct the comments of ring_buffer_bytes_cpu() in this patch.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230921125425.1708423-1-zhengyejian1@huawei.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: c64e148a3b ("trace: Add ring buffer stats to measure rate of events")
Signed-off-by: Zheng Yejian <zhengyejian1@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
When iterating over the ring buffer while the ring buffer is active, the
writer can corrupt the reader. There's barriers to help detect this and
handle it, but that code missed the case where the last event was at the
very end of the page and has only 4 bytes left.
The checks to detect the corruption by the writer to reads needs to see the
length of the event. If the length in the first 4 bytes is zero then the
length is stored in the second 4 bytes. But if the writer is in the process
of updating that code, there's a small window where the length in the first
4 bytes could be zero even though the length is only 4 bytes. That will
cause rb_event_length() to read the next 4 bytes which could happen to be off the
allocated page.
To protect against this, fail immediately if the next event pointer is
less than 8 bytes from the end of the commit (last byte of data), as all
events must be a minimum of 8 bytes anyway.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230905141245.26470-1-Tze-nan.Wu@mediatek.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230907122820.0899019c@gandalf.local.home
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Reported-by: Tze-nan Wu <Tze-nan.Wu@mediatek.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
When user resize all trace ring buffer through file 'buffer_size_kb',
then in ring_buffer_resize(), kernel allocates buffer pages for each
cpu in a loop.
If the kernel preemption model is PREEMPT_NONE and there are many cpus
and there are many buffer pages to be allocated, it may not give up cpu
for a long time and finally cause a softlockup.
To avoid it, call cond_resched() after each cpu buffer allocation.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230906081930.3939106-1-zhengyejian1@huawei.com
Cc: <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Zheng Yejian <zhengyejian1@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Use try_cmpxchg instead of cmpxchg (*ptr, old, new) == old in
ring_buffer.c. x86 CMPXCHG instruction returns success in ZF flag,
so this change saves a compare after cmpxchg (and related move
instruction in front of cmpxchg).
No functional change intended.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230714154418.8884-1-ubizjak@gmail.com
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Fix kernel-doc warnings:
kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:954: warning: Function parameter or
member 'cpu' not described in 'ring_buffer_wake_waiters'
kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:3383: warning: Excess function parameter
'event' description in 'ring_buffer_unlock_commit'
kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:5359: warning: Excess function parameter
'cpu' description in 'ring_buffer_reset_online_cpus'
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230724140827.1023266-2-cuigaosheng1@huawei.com
Cc: <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Gaosheng Cui <cuigaosheng1@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
When pages are removed in rb_remove_pages(), 'cpu_buffer->read' is set
to 0 in order to make sure any read iterators reset themselves. However,
this will mess 'entries' stating, see following steps:
# cd /sys/kernel/tracing/
# 1. Enlarge ring buffer prepare for later reducing:
# echo 20 > per_cpu/cpu0/buffer_size_kb
# 2. Write a log into ring buffer of cpu0:
# taskset -c 0 echo "hello1" > trace_marker
# 3. Read the log:
# cat per_cpu/cpu0/trace_pipe
<...>-332 [000] ..... 62.406844: tracing_mark_write: hello1
# 4. Stop reading and see the stats, now 0 entries, and 1 event readed:
# cat per_cpu/cpu0/stats
entries: 0
[...]
read events: 1
# 5. Reduce the ring buffer
# echo 7 > per_cpu/cpu0/buffer_size_kb
# 6. Now entries became unexpected 1 because actually no entries!!!
# cat per_cpu/cpu0/stats
entries: 1
[...]
read events: 0
To fix it, introduce 'page_removed' field to count total removed pages
since last reset, then use it to let read iterators reset themselves
instead of changing the 'read' pointer.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230724054040.3489499-1-zhengyejian1@huawei.com
Cc: <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: <vnagarnaik@google.com>
Fixes: 83f40318da ("ring-buffer: Make removal of ring buffer pages atomic")
Signed-off-by: Zheng Yejian <zhengyejian1@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Soft lockup occurs when reading file 'trace_pipe':
watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#6 stuck for 22s! [cat:4488]
[...]
RIP: 0010:ring_buffer_empty_cpu+0xed/0x170
RSP: 0018:ffff88810dd6fc48 EFLAGS: 00000246
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000246 RCX: ffffffff93d1aaeb
RDX: ffff88810a280040 RSI: 0000000000000008 RDI: ffff88811164b218
RBP: ffff88811164b218 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffff88815156600f
R10: ffffed102a2acc01 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 0000000051651901
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff888115e49500 R15: 0000000000000000
[...]
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f8d853c2000 CR3: 000000010dcd8000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
__find_next_entry+0x1a8/0x4b0
? peek_next_entry+0x250/0x250
? down_write+0xa5/0x120
? down_write_killable+0x130/0x130
trace_find_next_entry_inc+0x3b/0x1d0
tracing_read_pipe+0x423/0xae0
? tracing_splice_read_pipe+0xcb0/0xcb0
vfs_read+0x16b/0x490
ksys_read+0x105/0x210
? __ia32_sys_pwrite64+0x200/0x200
? switch_fpu_return+0x108/0x220
do_syscall_64+0x33/0x40
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x61/0xc6
Through the vmcore, I found it's because in tracing_read_pipe(),
ring_buffer_empty_cpu() found some buffer is not empty but then it
cannot read anything due to "rb_num_of_entries() == 0" always true,
Then it infinitely loop the procedure due to user buffer not been
filled, see following code path:
tracing_read_pipe() {
... ...
waitagain:
tracing_wait_pipe() // 1. find non-empty buffer here
trace_find_next_entry_inc() // 2. loop here try to find an entry
__find_next_entry()
ring_buffer_empty_cpu(); // 3. find non-empty buffer
peek_next_entry() // 4. but peek always return NULL
ring_buffer_peek()
rb_buffer_peek()
rb_get_reader_page()
// 5. because rb_num_of_entries() == 0 always true here
// then return NULL
// 6. user buffer not been filled so goto 'waitgain'
// and eventually leads to an deadloop in kernel!!!
}
By some analyzing, I found that when resetting ringbuffer, the 'entries'
of its pages are not all cleared (see rb_reset_cpu()). Then when reducing
the ringbuffer, and if some reduced pages exist dirty 'entries' data, they
will be added into 'cpu_buffer->overrun' (see rb_remove_pages()), which
cause wrong 'overrun' count and eventually cause the deadloop issue.
To fix it, we need to clear every pages in rb_reset_cpu().
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230708225144.3785600-1-zhengyejian1@huawei.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: a5fb833172 ("ring-buffer: Fix uninitialized read_stamp")
Signed-off-by: Zheng Yejian <zhengyejian1@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
- User events are finally ready!
After lots of collaboration between various parties, we finally locked
down on a stable interface for user events that can also work with user
space only tracing. This is implemented by telling the kernel (or user
space library, but that part is user space only and not part of this
patch set), where the variable is that the application uses to know if
something is listening to the trace. There's also an interface to tell
the kernel about these events, which will show up in the
/sys/kernel/tracing/events/user_events/ directory, where it can be
enabled. When it's enabled, the kernel will update the variable, to tell
the application to start writing to the kernel.
See https://lwn.net/Articles/927595/
- Cleaned up the direct trampolines code to simplify arm64 addition of
direct trampolines. Direct trampolines use the ftrace interface but
instead of jumping to the ftrace trampoline, applications (mostly BPF)
can register their own trampoline for performance reasons.
- Some updates to the fprobe infrastructure. fprobes are more efficient than
kprobes, as it does not need to save all the registers that kprobes on
ftrace do. More work needs to be done before the fprobes will be exposed
as dynamic events.
- More updates to references to the obsolete path of
/sys/kernel/debug/tracing for the new /sys/kernel/tracing path.
- Add a seq_buf_do_printk() helper to seq_bufs, to print a large buffer line
by line instead of all at once. There's users in production kernels that
have a large data dump that originally used printk() directly, but the
data dump was larger than what printk() allowed as a single print.
Using seq_buf() to do the printing fixes that.
- Add /sys/kernel/tracing/touched_functions that shows all functions that
was every traced by ftrace or a direct trampoline. This is used for
debugging issues where a traced function could have caused a crash by
a bpf program or live patching.
- Add a "fields" option that is similar to "raw" but outputs the fields of
the events. It's easier to read by humans.
- Some minor fixes and clean ups.
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Merge tag 'trace-v6.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
- User events are finally ready!
After lots of collaboration between various parties, we finally
locked down on a stable interface for user events that can also work
with user space only tracing.
This is implemented by telling the kernel (or user space library, but
that part is user space only and not part of this patch set), where
the variable is that the application uses to know if something is
listening to the trace.
There's also an interface to tell the kernel about these events,
which will show up in the /sys/kernel/tracing/events/user_events/
directory, where it can be enabled.
When it's enabled, the kernel will update the variable, to tell the
application to start writing to the kernel.
See https://lwn.net/Articles/927595/
- Cleaned up the direct trampolines code to simplify arm64 addition of
direct trampolines.
Direct trampolines use the ftrace interface but instead of jumping to
the ftrace trampoline, applications (mostly BPF) can register their
own trampoline for performance reasons.
- Some updates to the fprobe infrastructure. fprobes are more efficient
than kprobes, as it does not need to save all the registers that
kprobes on ftrace do. More work needs to be done before the fprobes
will be exposed as dynamic events.
- More updates to references to the obsolete path of
/sys/kernel/debug/tracing for the new /sys/kernel/tracing path.
- Add a seq_buf_do_printk() helper to seq_bufs, to print a large buffer
line by line instead of all at once.
There are users in production kernels that have a large data dump
that originally used printk() directly, but the data dump was larger
than what printk() allowed as a single print.
Using seq_buf() to do the printing fixes that.
- Add /sys/kernel/tracing/touched_functions that shows all functions
that was every traced by ftrace or a direct trampoline. This is used
for debugging issues where a traced function could have caused a
crash by a bpf program or live patching.
- Add a "fields" option that is similar to "raw" but outputs the fields
of the events. It's easier to read by humans.
- Some minor fixes and clean ups.
* tag 'trace-v6.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: (41 commits)
ring-buffer: Sync IRQ works before buffer destruction
tracing: Add missing spaces in trace_print_hex_seq()
ring-buffer: Ensure proper resetting of atomic variables in ring_buffer_reset_online_cpus
recordmcount: Fix memory leaks in the uwrite function
tracing/user_events: Limit max fault-in attempts
tracing/user_events: Prevent same address and bit per process
tracing/user_events: Ensure bit is cleared on unregister
tracing/user_events: Ensure write index cannot be negative
seq_buf: Add seq_buf_do_printk() helper
tracing: Fix print_fields() for __dyn_loc/__rel_loc
tracing/user_events: Set event filter_type from type
ring-buffer: Clearly check null ptr returned by rb_set_head_page()
tracing: Unbreak user events
tracing/user_events: Use print_format_fields() for trace output
tracing/user_events: Align structs with tabs for readability
tracing/user_events: Limit global user_event count
tracing/user_events: Charge event allocs to cgroups
tracing/user_events: Update documentation for ABI
tracing/user_events: Use write ABI in example
tracing/user_events: Add ABI self-test
...
If something was written to the buffer just before destruction,
it may be possible (maybe not in a real system, but it did
happen in ARCH=um with time-travel) to destroy the ringbuffer
before the IRQ work ran, leading this KASAN report (or a crash
without KASAN):
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in irq_work_run_list+0x11a/0x13a
Read of size 8 at addr 000000006d640a48 by task swapper/0
CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Tainted: G W O 6.3.0-rc1 #7
Stack:
60c4f20f 0c203d48 41b58ab3 60f224fc
600477fa 60f35687 60c4f20f 601273dd
00000008 6101eb00 6101eab0 615be548
Call Trace:
[<60047a58>] show_stack+0x25e/0x282
[<60c609e0>] dump_stack_lvl+0x96/0xfd
[<60c50d4c>] print_report+0x1a7/0x5a8
[<603078d3>] kasan_report+0xc1/0xe9
[<60308950>] __asan_report_load8_noabort+0x1b/0x1d
[<60232844>] irq_work_run_list+0x11a/0x13a
[<602328b4>] irq_work_tick+0x24/0x34
[<6017f9dc>] update_process_times+0x162/0x196
[<6019f335>] tick_sched_handle+0x1a4/0x1c3
[<6019fd9e>] tick_sched_timer+0x79/0x10c
[<601812b9>] __hrtimer_run_queues.constprop.0+0x425/0x695
[<60182913>] hrtimer_interrupt+0x16c/0x2c4
[<600486a3>] um_timer+0x164/0x183
[...]
Allocated by task 411:
save_stack_trace+0x99/0xb5
stack_trace_save+0x81/0x9b
kasan_save_stack+0x2d/0x54
kasan_set_track+0x34/0x3e
kasan_save_alloc_info+0x25/0x28
____kasan_kmalloc+0x8b/0x97
__kasan_kmalloc+0x10/0x12
__kmalloc+0xb2/0xe8
load_elf_phdrs+0xee/0x182
[...]
The buggy address belongs to the object at 000000006d640800
which belongs to the cache kmalloc-1k of size 1024
The buggy address is located 584 bytes inside of
freed 1024-byte region [000000006d640800, 000000006d640c00)
Add the appropriate irq_work_sync() so the work finishes before
the buffers are destroyed.
Prior to the commit in the Fixes tag below, there was only a
single global IRQ work, so this issue didn't exist.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230427175920.a76159263122.I8295e405c44362a86c995e9c2c37e3e03810aa56@changeid
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Fixes: 15693458c4 ("tracing/ring-buffer: Move poll wake ups into ring buffer code")
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
In ring_buffer_reset_online_cpus, the buffer_size_kb write operation
may permanently fail if the cpu_online_mask changes between two
for_each_online_buffer_cpu loops. The number of increases and decreases
on both cpu_buffer->resize_disabled and cpu_buffer->record_disabled may be
inconsistent, causing some CPUs to have non-zero values for these atomic
variables after the function returns.
This issue can be reproduced by "echo 0 > trace" while hotplugging cpu.
After reproducing success, we can find out buffer_size_kb will not be
functional anymore.
To prevent leaving 'resize_disabled' and 'record_disabled' non-zero after
ring_buffer_reset_online_cpus returns, we ensure that each atomic variable
has been set up before atomic_sub() to it.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230426062027.17451-1-Tze-nan.Wu@mediatek.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: npiggin@gmail.com
Fixes: b23d7a5f4a ("ring-buffer: speed up buffer resets by avoiding synchronize_rcu for each CPU")
Reviewed-by: Cheng-Jui Wang <cheng-jui.wang@mediatek.com>
Signed-off-by: Tze-nan Wu <Tze-nan.Wu@mediatek.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
In error case, 'buffer_page' returned by rb_set_head_page() is NULL,
currently check '&buffer_page->list' is equivalent to check 'buffer_page'
due to 'list' is the first member of 'buffer_page', but suppose it is not
some time, 'head_page' would be wild memory while check would be bypassed.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230414071729.57312-1-zhengyejian1@huawei.com
Cc: <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Zheng Yejian <zhengyejian1@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
When user reads file 'trace_pipe', kernel keeps printing following logs
that warn at "cpu_buffer->reader_page->read > rb_page_size(reader)" in
rb_get_reader_page(). It just looks like there's an infinite loop in
tracing_read_pipe(). This problem occurs several times on arm64 platform
when testing v5.10 and below.
Call trace:
rb_get_reader_page+0x248/0x1300
rb_buffer_peek+0x34/0x160
ring_buffer_peek+0xbc/0x224
peek_next_entry+0x98/0xbc
__find_next_entry+0xc4/0x1c0
trace_find_next_entry_inc+0x30/0x94
tracing_read_pipe+0x198/0x304
vfs_read+0xb4/0x1e0
ksys_read+0x74/0x100
__arm64_sys_read+0x24/0x30
el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x7c/0x1bc
do_el0_svc+0x2c/0x94
el0_svc+0x20/0x30
el0_sync_handler+0xb0/0xb4
el0_sync+0x160/0x180
Then I dump the vmcore and look into the problematic per_cpu ring_buffer,
I found that tail_page/commit_page/reader_page are on the same page while
reader_page->read is obviously abnormal:
tail_page == commit_page == reader_page == {
.write = 0x100d20,
.read = 0x8f9f4805, // Far greater than 0xd20, obviously abnormal!!!
.entries = 0x10004c,
.real_end = 0x0,
.page = {
.time_stamp = 0x857257416af0,
.commit = 0xd20, // This page hasn't been full filled.
// .data[0...0xd20] seems normal.
}
}
The root cause is most likely the race that reader and writer are on the
same page while reader saw an event that not fully committed by writer.
To fix this, add memory barriers to make sure the reader can see the
content of what is committed. Since commit a0fcaaed0c ("ring-buffer: Fix
race between reset page and reading page") has added the read barrier in
rb_get_reader_page(), here we just need to add the write barrier.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230325021247.2923907-1-zhengyejian1@huawei.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 77ae365eca ("ring-buffer: make lockless")
Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Zheng Yejian <zhengyejian1@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Use try_cmpxchg instead of cmpxchg (*ptr, old, new) == old.
x86 CMPXCHG instruction returns success in ZF flag, so this change
saves a compare after cmpxchg (and related move instruction in
front of cmpxchg).
Also, try_cmpxchg implicitly assigns old *ptr value to "old" when cmpxchg
fails. There is no need to re-read the value in the loop.
No functional change intended.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230305155532.5549-4-ubizjak@gmail.com
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mukesh Ojha <quic_mojha@quicinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The return values of some functions are of boolean type. Change the
type of these function to bool and adjust their return values. Also
change type of some internal varibles to bool.
No functional change intended.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230305155532.5549-3-ubizjak@gmail.com
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Mukesh Ojha <quic_mojha@quicinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The results of some static functions are not used. Change the
type of these function to void and remove unnecessary returns.
No functional change intended.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230305155532.5549-2-ubizjak@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Mukesh Ojha <quic_mojha@quicinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
- Fix setting affinity of hwlat threads in containers
Using sched_set_affinity() has unwanted side effects when being
called within a container. Use set_cpus_allowed_ptr() instead.
- Fix per cpu thread management of the hwlat tracer
* Do not start per_cpu threads if one is already running for the CPU.
* When starting per_cpu threads, do not clear the kthread variable
as it may already be set to running per cpu threads
- Fix return value for test_gen_kprobe_cmd()
On error the return value was overwritten by being set to
the result of the call from kprobe_event_delete(), which would
likely succeed, and thus have the function return success.
- Fix splice() reads from the trace file that was broken by
36e2c7421f ("fs: don't allow splice read/write without explicit ops")
- Remove obsolete and confusing comment in ring_buffer.c
The original design of the ring buffer used struct page flags
for tricks to optimize, which was shortly removed due to them
being tricks. But a comment for those tricks remained.
- Set local functions and variables to static
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Merge tag 'trace-v6.3-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace
Pull tracing fixes from Steven Rostedt:
- Fix setting affinity of hwlat threads in containers
Using sched_set_affinity() has unwanted side effects when being
called within a container. Use set_cpus_allowed_ptr() instead
- Fix per cpu thread management of the hwlat tracer:
- Do not start per_cpu threads if one is already running for the CPU
- When starting per_cpu threads, do not clear the kthread variable
as it may already be set to running per cpu threads
- Fix return value for test_gen_kprobe_cmd()
On error the return value was overwritten by being set to the result
of the call from kprobe_event_delete(), which would likely succeed,
and thus have the function return success
- Fix splice() reads from the trace file that was broken by commit
36e2c7421f ("fs: don't allow splice read/write without explicit
ops")
- Remove obsolete and confusing comment in ring_buffer.c
The original design of the ring buffer used struct page flags for
tricks to optimize, which was shortly removed due to them being
tricks. But a comment for those tricks remained
- Set local functions and variables to static
* tag 'trace-v6.3-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
tracing/hwlat: Replace sched_setaffinity with set_cpus_allowed_ptr
ring-buffer: remove obsolete comment for free_buffer_page()
tracing: Make splice_read available again
ftrace: Set direct_ops storage-class-specifier to static
trace/hwlat: Do not start per-cpu thread if it is already running
trace/hwlat: Do not wipe the contents of per-cpu thread data
tracing/osnoise: set several trace_osnoise.c variables storage-class-specifier to static
tracing: Fix wrong return in kprobe_event_gen_test.c
The comment refers to mm/slob.c which is being removed. It comes from
commit ed56829cb3 ("ring_buffer: reset buffer page when freeing") and
according to Steven the borrowed code was a page mapcount and mapping
reset, which was later removed by commit e4c2ce82ca ("ring_buffer:
allocate buffer page pointer"). Thus the comment is not accurate anyway,
remove it.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230315142446.27040-1-vbabka@suse.cz
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Reported-by: Mike Rapoport <mike.rapoport@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Fixes: e4c2ce82ca ("ring_buffer: allocate buffer page pointer")
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Mukesh Ojha <quic_mojha@quicinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
- Add function names as a way to filter function addresses
- Add sample module to test ftrace ops and dynamic trampolines
- Allow stack traces to be passed from beginning event to end event for
synthetic events. This will allow seeing the stack trace of when a task is
scheduled out and recorded when it gets scheduled back in.
- Add trace event helper __get_buf() to use as a temporary buffer when printing
out trace event output.
- Add kernel command line to create trace instances on boot up.
- Add enabling of events to instances created at boot up.
- Add trace_array_puts() to write into instances.
- Allow boot instances to take a snapshot at the end of boot up.
- Allow live patch modules to include trace events
- Minor fixes and clean ups
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Merge tag 'trace-v6.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
- Add function names as a way to filter function addresses
- Add sample module to test ftrace ops and dynamic trampolines
- Allow stack traces to be passed from beginning event to end event for
synthetic events. This will allow seeing the stack trace of when a
task is scheduled out and recorded when it gets scheduled back in.
- Add trace event helper __get_buf() to use as a temporary buffer when
printing out trace event output.
- Add kernel command line to create trace instances on boot up.
- Add enabling of events to instances created at boot up.
- Add trace_array_puts() to write into instances.
- Allow boot instances to take a snapshot at the end of boot up.
- Allow live patch modules to include trace events
- Minor fixes and clean ups
* tag 'trace-v6.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: (31 commits)
tracing: Remove unnecessary NULL assignment
tracepoint: Allow livepatch module add trace event
tracing: Always use canonical ftrace path
tracing/histogram: Fix stacktrace histogram Documententation
tracing/histogram: Fix stacktrace key
tracing/histogram: Fix a few problems with stacktrace variable printing
tracing: Add BUILD_BUG() to make sure stacktrace fits in strings
tracing/histogram: Don't use strlen to find length of stacktrace variables
tracing: Allow boot instances to have snapshot buffers
tracing: Add trace_array_puts() to write into instance
tracing: Add enabling of events to boot instances
tracing: Add creation of instances at boot command line
tracing: Fix trace_event_raw_event_synth() if else statement
samples: ftrace: Make some global variables static
ftrace: sample: avoid open-coded 64-bit division
samples: ftrace: Include the nospec-branch.h only for x86
tracing: Acquire buffer from temparary trace sequence
tracing/histogram: Wrap remaining shell snippets in code blocks
tracing/osnoise: No need for schedule_hrtimeout range
bpf/tracing: Use stage6 of tracing to not duplicate macros
...
The canonical location for the tracefs filesystem is at /sys/kernel/tracing.
But, from Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst:
Before 4.1, all ftrace tracing control files were within the debugfs
file system, which is typically located at /sys/kernel/debug/tracing.
For backward compatibility, when mounting the debugfs file system,
the tracefs file system will be automatically mounted at:
/sys/kernel/debug/tracing
Many comments and Kconfig help messages in the tracing code still refer
to this older debugfs path, so let's update them to avoid confusion.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230215223350.2658616-2-zwisler@google.com
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Mukesh Ojha <quic_mojha@quicinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <zwisler@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
It seems a data race between ring_buffer writing and integrity check.
That is, RB_FLAG of head_page is been updating, while at same time
RB_FLAG was cleared when doing integrity check rb_check_pages():
rb_check_pages() rb_handle_head_page():
-------- --------
rb_head_page_deactivate()
rb_head_page_set_normal()
rb_head_page_activate()
We do intergrity test of the list to check if the list is corrupted and
it is still worth doing it. So, let's refactor rb_check_pages() such that
we no longer clear and set flag during the list sanity checking.
[1] and [2] are the test to reproduce and the crash report respectively.
1:
``` read_trace.sh
while true;
do
# the "trace" file is closed after read
head -1 /sys/kernel/tracing/trace > /dev/null
done
```
``` repro.sh
sysctl -w kernel.panic_on_warn=1
# function tracer will writing enough data into ring_buffer
echo function > /sys/kernel/tracing/current_tracer
./read_trace.sh &
./read_trace.sh &
./read_trace.sh &
./read_trace.sh &
./read_trace.sh &
./read_trace.sh &
./read_trace.sh &
./read_trace.sh &
```
2:
------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: CPU: 9 PID: 62 at kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:2653
rb_move_tail+0x450/0x470
Modules linked in:
CPU: 9 PID: 62 Comm: ksoftirqd/9 Tainted: G W 6.2.0-rc6+
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS
rel-1.15.0-0-g2dd4b9b3f840-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:rb_move_tail+0x450/0x470
Code: ff ff 4c 89 c8 f0 4d 0f b1 02 48 89 c2 48 83 e2 fc 49 39 d0 75 24
83 e0 03 83 f8 02 0f 84 e1 fb ff ff 48 8b 57 10 f0 ff 42 08 <0f> 0b 83
f8 02 0f 84 ce fb ff ff e9 db
RSP: 0018:ffffb5564089bd00 EFLAGS: 00000203
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff9db385a2bf81 RCX: ffffb5564089bd18
RDX: ffff9db281110100 RSI: 0000000000000fe4 RDI: ffff9db380145400
RBP: ffff9db385a2bf80 R08: ffff9db385a2bfc0 R09: ffff9db385a2bfc2
R10: ffff9db385a6c000 R11: ffff9db385a2bf80 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00000000000003e8 R14: ffff9db281110100 R15: ffffffffbb006108
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff9db3bdcc0000(0000)
knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00005602323024c8 CR3: 0000000022e0c000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
Call Trace:
<TASK>
ring_buffer_lock_reserve+0x136/0x360
? __do_softirq+0x287/0x2df
? __pfx_rcu_softirq_qs+0x10/0x10
trace_function+0x21/0x110
? __pfx_rcu_softirq_qs+0x10/0x10
? __do_softirq+0x287/0x2df
function_trace_call+0xf6/0x120
0xffffffffc038f097
? rcu_softirq_qs+0x5/0x140
rcu_softirq_qs+0x5/0x140
__do_softirq+0x287/0x2df
run_ksoftirqd+0x2a/0x30
smpboot_thread_fn+0x188/0x220
? __pfx_smpboot_thread_fn+0x10/0x10
kthread+0xe7/0x110
? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
ret_from_fork+0x2c/0x50
</TASK>
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
[ crash report and test reproducer credit goes to Zheng Yejian]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/1676376403-16462-1-git-send-email-quic_mojha@quicinc.com
Cc: <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 1039221cc2 ("ring-buffer: Do not disable recording when there is an iterator")
Reported-by: Zheng Yejian <zhengyejian1@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Mukesh Ojha <quic_mojha@quicinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
In a previous commit 7433632c9f, buffer, buffer->buffers and
buffer->buffers[cpu] in ring_buffer_wake_waiters() can be NULL,
and thus the related checks are added.
However, in the same call stack, these variables are also used in
ring_buffer_free_read_page():
tracing_buffers_release()
ring_buffer_wake_waiters(iter->array_buffer->buffer)
cpu_buffer = buffer->buffers[cpu] -> Add checks by previous commit
ring_buffer_free_read_page(iter->array_buffer->buffer)
cpu_buffer = buffer->buffers[cpu] -> No check
Thus, to avod possible null-pointer derefernces, the related checks
should be added.
These results are reported by a static tool designed by myself.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230113125501.760324-1-baijiaju1990@gmail.com
Reported-by: TOTE Robot <oslab@tsinghua.edu.cn>
Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
With the new command line option that allows trace event triggers to be
added at boot, the "snapshot" trigger will allocate the snapshot buffer
very early, when interrupts can not be enabled. Allocating the ring buffer
is not the problem, but it also resizes it, which is, as the resize code
does synchronization that can not be preformed at early boot.
To handle this, first change the raw_spin_lock_irq() in rb_insert_pages()
to raw_spin_lock_irqsave(), such that the unlocking of that spin lock will
not enable interrupts.
Next, where it calls schedule_work_on(), disable migration and check if
the CPU to update is the current CPU, and if so, perform the work
directly, otherwise re-enable migration and call the schedule_work_on() to
the CPU that is being updated. The rb_insert_pages() just needs to be run
on the CPU that it is updating, and does not need preemption nor
interrupts disabled when calling it.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/Y5J%2FCajlNh1gexvo@google.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20221209101151.1fec1167@gandalf.local.home
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Fixes: a01fdc897f ("tracing: Add trace_trigger kernel command line option")
Reported-by: Ross Zwisler <zwisler@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Tested-by: Ross Zwisler <zwisler@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
After commit a389d86f7f ("ring-buffer: Have nested events still record
running time stamp"), the "event" parameter is no longer used in either
ring_buffer_unlock_commit() or rb_commit(). Best to remove it.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1666274811-24138-1-git-send-email-chensong_2000@189.cn
Signed-off-by: Song Chen <chensong_2000@189.cn>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
rb_head_page_deactivate() expects cpu_buffer to contain a valid list of
->pages, so verify that the list is actually present before calling it.
Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with the SVACE
static analysis tool.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221114143129.3534443-1-d-tatianin@yandex-team.ru
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 77ae365eca ("ring-buffer: make lockless")
Signed-off-by: Daniil Tatianin <d-tatianin@yandex-team.ru>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The function ring_buffer_nr_dirty_pages() was created to find out how many
pages are filled in the ring buffer. There's two running counters. One is
incremented whenever a new page is touched (pages_touched) and the other
is whenever a page is read (pages_read). The dirty count is the number
touched minus the number read. This is used to determine if a blocked task
should be woken up if the percentage of the ring buffer it is waiting for
is hit.
The problem is that it does not take into account dropped pages (when the
new writes overwrite pages that were not read). And then the dirty pages
will always be greater than the percentage.
This makes the "buffer_percent" file inaccurate, as the number of dirty
pages end up always being larger than the percentage, event when it's not
and this causes user space to be woken up more than it wants to be.
Add a new counter to keep track of lost pages, and include that in the
accounting of dirty pages so that it is actually accurate.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221021123013.55fb6055@gandalf.local.home
Fixes: 2c2b0a78b3 ("ring-buffer: Add percentage of ring buffer full to wake up reader")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Currently the way polling works on the ring buffer is broken. It will
return immediately if there's any data in the ring buffer whereas a read
will block until the watermark (defined by the tracefs buffer_percent file)
is hit.
That is, a select() or poll() will return as if there's data available,
but then the following read will block. This is broken for the way
select()s and poll()s are supposed to work.
Have the polling on the ring buffer also block the same way reads and
splice does on the ring buffer.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221020231427.41be3f26@gandalf.local.home
Cc: Linux Trace Kernel <linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Primiano Tucci <primiano@google.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 1e0d6714ac ("ring-buffer: Do not wake up a splice waiter when page is not full")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
On some machines the number of listed CPUs may be bigger than the actual
CPUs that exist. The tracing subsystem allocates a per_cpu directory with
access to the per CPU ring buffer via a cpuX file. But to save space, the
ring buffer will only allocate buffers for online CPUs, even though the
CPU array will be as big as the nr_cpu_ids.
With the addition of waking waiters on the ring buffer when closing the
file, the ring_buffer_wake_waiters() now needs to make sure that the
buffer is allocated (with the irq_work allocated with it) before trying to
wake waiters, as it will cause a NULL pointer dereference.
While debugging this, I added a NULL check for the buffer itself (which is
OK to do), and also NULL pointer checks against buffer->buffers (which is
not fine, and will WARN) as well as making sure the CPU number passed in
is within the nr_cpu_ids (which is also not fine if it isn't).
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/87h6zklb6n.wl-tiwai@suse.de/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAM6Wdxc0KRJMXVAA0Y=u6Jh2V=uWB-_Fn6M4xRuNppfXzL1mUg@mail.gmail.com/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20221101191009.1e7378c8@rorschach.local.home
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Steven Noonan <steven.noonan@gmail.com>
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1204705
Reported-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Reported-by: Roland Ruckerbauer <roland.rucky@gmail.com>
Fixes: f3ddb74ad0 ("tracing: Wake up ring buffer waiters on closing of the file")
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:895: warning: expecting prototype for ring_buffer_nr_pages_dirty(). Prototype was for ring_buffer_nr_dirty_pages() instead.
kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:5313: warning: expecting prototype for ring_buffer_reset_cpu(). Prototype was for ring_buffer_reset_online_cpus() instead.
kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:5382: warning: expecting prototype for rind_buffer_empty(). Prototype was for ring_buffer_empty() instead.
Link: https://bugzilla.openanolis.cn/show_bug.cgi?id=2340
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221009020642.12506-1-jiapeng.chong@linux.alibaba.com
Reported-by: Abaci Robot <abaci@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiapeng Chong <jiapeng.chong@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The ring buffer is broken up into sub buffers (currently of page size).
Each sub buffer has a pointer to its "tail" (the last event written to the
sub buffer). When a new event is requested, the tail is locally
incremented to cover the size of the new event. This is done in a way that
there is no need for locking.
If the tail goes past the end of the sub buffer, the process of moving to
the next sub buffer takes place. After setting the current sub buffer to
the next one, the previous one that had the tail go passed the end of the
sub buffer needs to be reset back to the original tail location (before
the new event was requested) and the rest of the sub buffer needs to be
"padded".
The race happens when a reader takes control of the sub buffer. As readers
do a "swap" of sub buffers from the ring buffer to get exclusive access to
the sub buffer, it replaces the "head" sub buffer with an empty sub buffer
that goes back into the writable portion of the ring buffer. This swap can
happen as soon as the writer moves to the next sub buffer and before it
updates the last sub buffer with padding.
Because the sub buffer can be released to the reader while the writer is
still updating the padding, it is possible for the reader to see the event
that goes past the end of the sub buffer. This can cause obvious issues.
To fix this, add a few memory barriers so that the reader definitely sees
the updates to the sub buffer, and also waits until the writer has put
back the "tail" of the sub buffer back to the last event that was written
on it.
To be paranoid, it will only spin for 1 second, otherwise it will
warn and shutdown the ring buffer code. 1 second should be enough as
the writer does have preemption disabled. If the writer doesn't move
within 1 second (with preemption disabled) something is horribly
wrong. No interrupt should last 1 second!
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220830120854.7545-1-jiazi.li@transsion.com/
Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216369
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220929104909.0650a36c@gandalf.local.home
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: c7b0930857 ("ring-buffer: prevent adding write in discarded area")
Reported-by: Jiazi.Li <jiazi.li@transsion.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
On closing of a file that represents a ring buffer or flushing the file,
there may be waiters on the ring buffer that needs to be woken up and exit
the ring_buffer_wait() function.
Add ring_buffer_wake_waiters() to wake up the waiters on the ring buffer
and allow them to exit the wait loop.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220928133938.28dc2c27@gandalf.local.home
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Fixes: 15693458c4 ("tracing/ring-buffer: Move poll wake ups into ring buffer code")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The wake up waiters only checks the "wakeup_full" variable and not the
"full_waiters_pending". The full_waiters_pending is set when a waiter is
added to the wait queue. The wakeup_full is only set when an event is
triggered, and it clears the full_waiters_pending to avoid multiple calls
to irq_work_queue().
The irq_work callback really needs to check both wakeup_full as well as
full_waiters_pending such that this code can be used to wake up waiters
when a file is closed that represents the ring buffer and the waiters need
to be woken up.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220927231824.209460321@goodmis.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Fixes: 15693458c4 ("tracing/ring-buffer: Move poll wake ups into ring buffer code")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The logic to know when the shortest waiters on the ring buffer should be
woken up or not has uses a less than instead of a greater than compare,
which causes the shortest_full to actually be the longest.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220927231823.718039222@goodmis.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Fixes: 2c2b0a78b3 ("ring-buffer: Add percentage of ring buffer full to wake up reader")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
If a page is partially read, and then the splice system call is run
against the ring buffer, it will always fail to read, no matter how much
is in the ring buffer. That's because the code path for a partial read of
the page does will fail if the "full" flag is set.
The splice system call wants full pages, so if the read of the ring buffer
is not yet full, it should return zero, and the splice will block. But if
a previous read was done, where the beginning has been consumed, it should
still be given to the splice caller if the rest of the page has been
written to.
This caused the splice command to never consume data in this scenario, and
let the ring buffer just fill up and lose events.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220927144317.46be6b80@gandalf.local.home
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 8789a9e7df ("ring-buffer: read page interface")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
When the new logic was made to handle deltas of events from interrupts
that interrupted other events, it required 64 bit local atomics.
Unfortunately, 64 bit local atomics are expensive on 32 bit architectures.
Thus, commit 10464b4aa6 ("ring-buffer: Add rb_time_t 64 bit operations
for speeding up 32 bit") created a type of seq lock timer for 32 bits.
It used two 32 bit local atomics, but required 2 bits from them each for
synchronization, making it only 60 bits.
Add a new "msb" field to hold the extra 4 bits that are cut off.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220426175338.3807ca4f@gandalf.local.home/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220427170812.53cc7139@gandalf.local.home
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
There's an absolute timestamp event in the ring buffer, but this only
saves 59 bits of the timestamp, as the 5 MSB is used for meta data
(stating it is an absolute time stamp). This was never an issue as all the
clocks currently in use never used those 5 MSB. But now there's a new
clock (TAI) that does.
To handle this case, when reading an absolute timestamp, a previous full
timestamp is passed in, and the 5 MSB of that timestamp is OR'd to the
absolute timestamp (if any of the 5 MSB are set), and then to test for
overflow, if the new result is smaller than the passed in previous
timestamp, then 1 << 59 is added to it.
All the extra processing is done on the reader "slow" path, with the
exception of the "too big delta" check, and the reading of timestamps
for histograms.
Note, libtraceevent will need to be updated to handle this case as well.
But this is not a user space regression, as user space was never able to
handle any timestamps that used more than 59 bits.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220426175338.3807ca4f@gandalf.local.home/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220427153339.16c33f75@gandalf.local.home
Cc: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Kurt Kanzenbach <kurt@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The resetting of the entire ring buffer use to simply go through and reset
each individual CPU buffer that had its own protection and synchronization.
But this was very slow, due to performing a synchronization for each CPU.
The code was reshuffled to do one disabling of all CPU buffers, followed
by a single RCU synchronization, and then the resetting of each of the CPU
buffers. But unfortunately, the mutex that prevented multiple occurrences
of resetting the buffer was not moved to the upper function, and there is
nothing to protect from it.
Take the ring buffer mutex around the global reset.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: b23d7a5f4a ("ring-buffer: speed up buffer resets by avoiding synchronize_rcu for each CPU")
Reported-by: "Tzvetomir Stoyanov (VMware)" <tz.stoyanov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Now that there are three different instances of doing the addition trick
to the preempt_count() and NMI_MASK, HARDIRQ_MASK and SOFTIRQ_OFFSET
macros, it deserves a helper function defined in the preempt.h header.
Add the interrupt_context_level() helper and replace the three instances
that do that logic with it.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20211015142541.4badd8a9@gandalf.local.home/
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Instead of having branches that adds noise to the branch prediction, use
the addition logic to set the bit for the level of interrupt context that
the state is currently in. This copies the logic from perf's
get_recursion_context() function.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20211015161702.GF174703@worktop.programming.kicks-ass.net/
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The functions get_online_cpus() and put_online_cpus() have been
deprecated during the CPU hotplug rework. They map directly to
cpus_read_lock() and cpus_read_unlock().
Replace deprecated CPU-hotplug functions with the official version.
The behavior remains unchanged.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210803141621.780504-37-bigeasy@linutronix.de
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The "rb_per_cpu_empty()" misinterpret the condition (as not-empty) when
"head_page" and "commit_page" of "struct ring_buffer_per_cpu" points to
the same buffer page, whose "buffer_data_page" is empty and "read" field
is non-zero.
An error scenario could be constructed as followed (kernel perspective):
1. All pages in the buffer has been accessed by reader(s) so that all of
them will have non-zero "read" field.
2. Read and clear all buffer pages so that "rb_num_of_entries()" will
return 0 rendering there's no more data to read. It is also required
that the "read_page", "commit_page" and "tail_page" points to the same
page, while "head_page" is the next page of them.
3. Invoke "ring_buffer_lock_reserve()" with large enough "length"
so that it shot pass the end of current tail buffer page. Now the
"head_page", "commit_page" and "tail_page" points to the same page.
4. Discard current event with "ring_buffer_discard_commit()", so that
"head_page", "commit_page" and "tail_page" points to a page whose buffer
data page is now empty.
When the error scenario has been constructed, "tracing_read_pipe" will
be trapped inside a deadloop: "trace_empty()" returns 0 since
"rb_per_cpu_empty()" returns 0 when it hits the CPU containing such
constructed ring buffer. Then "trace_find_next_entry_inc()" always
return NULL since "rb_num_of_entries()" reports there's no more entry
to read. Finally "trace_seq_to_user()" returns "-EBUSY" spanking
"tracing_read_pipe" back to the start of the "waitagain" loop.
I've also written a proof-of-concept script to construct the scenario
and trigger the bug automatically, you can use it to trace and validate
my reasoning above:
https://github.com/aegistudio/RingBufferDetonator.git
Tests has been carried out on linux kernel 5.14-rc2
(2734d6c1b1), my fixed version
of kernel (for testing whether my update fixes the bug) and
some older kernels (for range of affected kernels). Test result is
also attached to the proof-of-concept repository.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-devel/YPaNxsIlb2yjSi5Y@aegistudio/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-devel/YPgrN85WL9VyrZ55@aegistudio
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: bf41a158ca ("ring-buffer: make reentrant")
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Haoran Luo <www@aegistudio.net>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The ring_buffer_event_time_stamp() must be only called by an event that has
not been committed yet, and is on the buffer that is passed in. This was
used to help debug converting the histogram logic over to using the new
time stamp code, and was proven to be very useful.
Add a verifier that can check that this is the case, and extra WARN_ONs to
catch unexpected use cases.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210316164113.987294354@goodmis.org
Reviewed-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Currently, ring_buffer_event_time_stamp() only returns an accurate time
stamp of the event if it has an absolute extended time stamp attached to
it. To make it more robust, use the event_stamp() in case the event does
not have an absolute value attached to it.
This will allow ring_buffer_event_time_stamp() to be used in more cases
than just histograms, and it will also allow histograms to not require
including absolute values all the time.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210316164113.704830885@goodmis.org
Reviewed-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add a place to save the current event time stamp for each level of nesting.
This will be used to retrieve the time stamp of the current event before it
is committed.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210316164113.399089673@goodmis.org
Reviewed-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The exported use of ring_buffer_event_time_stamp() is going to become
different than how it is used internally. Move the internal logic out into a
static function called rb_event_time_stamp(), and have the internal callers
call that instead.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210316164113.257790481@goodmis.org
Reviewed-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
When the CONFIG_RING_BUFFER_VALIDATE_TIME_DELTAS is enabled, and the time
stamps are detected as not being valid, it reports information about the
write stamp, but does not show the before_stamp which is still useful
information. Also, it should give a warning once, such that tests detect
this happening.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Part of the logic of the new time stamp code depends on the before_stamp and
the write_stamp to be different if the write_stamp does not match the last
event on the buffer, as it will be used to calculate the delta of the next
event written on the buffer.
The discard logic depends on this, as the next event to come in needs to
inject a full timestamp as it can not rely on the last event timestamp in
the buffer because it is unknown due to events after it being discarded. But
by changing the write_stamp back to the time before it, it forces the next
event to use a full time stamp, instead of relying on it.
The issue came when a full time stamp was used for the event, and
rb_time_delta() returns zero in that case. The update to the write_stamp
(which subtracts delta) made it not change. Then when the event is removed
from the buffer, because the before_stamp and write_stamp still match, the
next event written would calculate its delta from the write_stamp, but that
would be wrong as the write_stamp is of the time of the event that was
discarded.
In the case that the delta change being made to write_stamp is zero, set the
before_stamp to zero as well, and this will force the next event to inject a
full timestamp and not use the current write_stamp.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: a389d86f7f ("ring-buffer: Have nested events still record running time stamp")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Remove the cpumask check, as we has done it at the beginning of
the function.
Also fix a typo. s/also the on the/also on the/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201224144634.3210-1-hqjagain@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Qiujun Huang <hqjagain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The cpu_buffer argument is not used inside the rb_inc_page() after
commit 3adc54fa82 ("ring-buffer: make the buffer a true circular link
list").
And cpu_buffer argument is not used inside the two functions too,
rb_is_head_page/rb_set_list_to_head.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201225140356.23008-1-hqjagain@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Qiujun Huang <hqjagain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The major update to this release is that there's a new arch config option called:
CONFIG_HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS. Currently, only x86_64 enables it.
All the ftrace callbacks now take a struct ftrace_regs instead of a struct
pt_regs. If the architecture has HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS enabled, then
the ftrace_regs will have enough information to read the arguments of the
function being traced, as well as access to the stack pointer. This way, if
a user (like live kernel patching) only cares about the arguments, then it
can avoid using the heavier weight "regs" callback, that puts in enough
information in the struct ftrace_regs to simulate a breakpoint exception
(needed for kprobes).
New config option that audits the timestamps of the ftrace ring buffer at
most every event recorded. The "check_buffer()" calls will conflict with
mainline, because I purposely added the check without including the fix that
it caught, which is in mainline. Running a kernel built from the commit of
the added check will trigger it.
Ftrace recursion protection has been cleaned up to move the protection to
the callback itself (this saves on an extra function call for those
callbacks).
Perf now handles its own RCU protection and does not depend on ftrace to do
it for it (saving on that extra function call).
New debug option to add "recursed_functions" file to tracefs that lists all
the places that triggered the recursion protection of the function tracer.
This will show where things need to be fixed as recursion slows down the
function tracer.
The eval enum mapping updates done at boot up are now offloaded to a work
queue, as it caused a noticeable pause on slow embedded boards.
Various clean ups and last minute fixes.
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Merge tag 'trace-v5.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
"The major update to this release is that there's a new arch config
option called CONFIG_HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS.
Currently, only x86_64 enables it. All the ftrace callbacks now take a
struct ftrace_regs instead of a struct pt_regs. If the architecture
has HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS enabled, then the ftrace_regs will
have enough information to read the arguments of the function being
traced, as well as access to the stack pointer.
This way, if a user (like live kernel patching) only cares about the
arguments, then it can avoid using the heavier weight "regs" callback,
that puts in enough information in the struct ftrace_regs to simulate
a breakpoint exception (needed for kprobes).
A new config option that audits the timestamps of the ftrace ring
buffer at most every event recorded.
Ftrace recursion protection has been cleaned up to move the protection
to the callback itself (this saves on an extra function call for those
callbacks).
Perf now handles its own RCU protection and does not depend on ftrace
to do it for it (saving on that extra function call).
New debug option to add "recursed_functions" file to tracefs that
lists all the places that triggered the recursion protection of the
function tracer. This will show where things need to be fixed as
recursion slows down the function tracer.
The eval enum mapping updates done at boot up are now offloaded to a
work queue, as it caused a noticeable pause on slow embedded boards.
Various clean ups and last minute fixes"
* tag 'trace-v5.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (33 commits)
tracing: Offload eval map updates to a work queue
Revert: "ring-buffer: Remove HAVE_64BIT_ALIGNED_ACCESS"
ring-buffer: Add rb_check_bpage in __rb_allocate_pages
ring-buffer: Fix two typos in comments
tracing: Drop unneeded assignment in ring_buffer_resize()
tracing: Disable ftrace selftests when any tracer is running
seq_buf: Avoid type mismatch for seq_buf_init
ring-buffer: Fix a typo in function description
ring-buffer: Remove obsolete rb_event_is_commit()
ring-buffer: Add test to validate the time stamp deltas
ftrace/documentation: Fix RST C code blocks
tracing: Clean up after filter logic rewriting
tracing: Remove the useless value assignment in test_create_synth_event()
livepatch: Use the default ftrace_ops instead of REGS when ARGS is available
ftrace/x86: Allow for arguments to be passed in to ftrace_regs by default
ftrace: Have the callbacks receive a struct ftrace_regs instead of pt_regs
MAINTAINERS: assign ./fs/tracefs to TRACING
tracing: Fix some typos in comments
ftrace: Remove unused varible 'ret'
ring-buffer: Add recording of ring buffer recursion into recursed_functions
...
It was believed that metag was the only architecture that required the ring
buffer to keep 8 byte words aligned on 8 byte architectures, and with its
removal, it was assumed that the ring buffer code did not need to handle
this case. It appears that sparc64 also requires this.
The following was reported on a sparc64 boot up:
kernel: futex hash table entries: 65536 (order: 9, 4194304 bytes, linear)
kernel: Running postponed tracer tests:
kernel: Testing tracer function:
kernel: Kernel unaligned access at TPC[552a20] trace_function+0x40/0x140
kernel: Kernel unaligned access at TPC[552a24] trace_function+0x44/0x140
kernel: Kernel unaligned access at TPC[552a20] trace_function+0x40/0x140
kernel: Kernel unaligned access at TPC[552a24] trace_function+0x44/0x140
kernel: Kernel unaligned access at TPC[552a20] trace_function+0x40/0x140
kernel: PASSED
Need to put back the 64BIT aligned code for the ring buffer.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CADxRZqzXQRYgKc=y-KV=S_yHL+Y8Ay2mh5ezeZUnpRvg+syWKw@mail.gmail.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 86b3de60a0 ("ring-buffer: Remove HAVE_64BIT_ALIGNED_ACCESS")
Reported-by: Anatoly Pugachev <matorola@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
It may be better to check each page is aligned by 4 bytes. The 2
least significant bits of the address will be used as flags.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201015113842.2921-1-hqjagain@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Qiujun Huang <hqjagain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Since commit 0a1754b2a9 ("ring-buffer: Return 0 on success from
ring_buffer_resize()"), computing the size is not needed anymore.
Drop unneeded assignment in ring_buffer_resize().
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201214084503.3079-1-lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Commit a389d86f7f ("ring-buffer: Have nested events still record running
time stamp") removed the only uses of rb_event_is_commit() in
rb_update_event() and rb_update_write_stamp().
Hence, since then, make CC=clang W=1 warns:
kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:2763:1:
warning: unused function 'rb_event_is_commit' [-Wunused-function]
Remove this obsolete function.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201117053703.11275-1-lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
While debugging a situation where a delta for an event was calucalted wrong,
I realize there was nothing making sure that the delta of events are
correct. If a single event has an incorrect delta, then all events after it
will also have one. If the discrepency gets large enough, it could cause
the time stamps to go backwards when crossing sub buffers, that record a
full 64 bit time stamp, and the new deltas are added to that.
Add a way to validate the events at most events and when crossing a buffer
page. This will help make sure that the deltas are always correct. This test
will detect if they are ever corrupted.
The test adds a high overhead to the ring buffer recording, as it does the
audit for almost every event, and should only be used for testing the ring
buffer.
This will catch the bug that is fixed by commit 55ea4cf403 ("ring-buffer:
Update write stamp with the correct ts"), which is not applied when this
commit is applied.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The current ring buffer logic checks to see if the updating of the event
buffer was interrupted, and if it is, it will try to fix up the before stamp
with the write stamp to make them equal again. This logic is flawed, because
if it is not interrupted, the two are guaranteed to be different, as the
current event just updated the before stamp before allocation. This
guarantees that the next event (this one or another interrupting one) will
think it interrupted the time updates of a previous event and inject an
absolute time stamp to compensate.
The correct logic is to always update the timestamps when traversing to a
new sub buffer.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: a389d86f7f ("ring-buffer: Have nested events still record running time stamp")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
In the slow path of __rb_reserve_next() a nested event(s) can happen
between evaluating the timestamp delta of the current event and updating
write_stamp via local_cmpxchg(); in this case the delta is not valid
anymore and it should be set to 0 (same timestamp as the interrupting
event), since the event that we are currently processing is not the last
event in the buffer.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/X8IVJcp1gRE+FJCJ@xps-13-7390
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lwn.net/Articles/831207
Fixes: a389d86f7f ("ring-buffer: Have nested events still record running time stamp")
Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <andrea.righi@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The write stamp, used to calculate deltas between events, was updated with
the stale "ts" value in the "info" structure, and not with the updated "ts"
variable. This caused the deltas between events to be inaccurate, and when
crossing into a new sub buffer, had time go backwards.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201124223917.795844-1-elavila@google.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: a389d86f7f ("ring-buffer: Have nested events still record running time stamp")
Reported-by: "J. Avila" <elavila@google.com>
Tested-by: Daniel Mentz <danielmentz@google.com>
Tested-by: Will McVicker <willmcvicker@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add a new config RING_BUFFER_RECORD_RECURSION that will place functions that
recurse from the ring buffer into the ftrace recused_functions file.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The recursion protection of the ring buffer depends on preempt_count() to be
correct. But it is possible that the ring buffer gets called after an
interrupt comes in but before it updates the preempt_count(). This will
trigger a false positive in the recursion code.
Use the same trick from the ftrace function callback recursion code which
uses a "transition" bit that gets set, to allow for a single recursion for
to handle transitions between contexts.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 567cd4da54 ("ring-buffer: User context bit recursion checking")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
We don't need to check the new buffer size, and the return value
had confused resize_buffer_duplicate_size().
...
ret = ring_buffer_resize(trace_buf->buffer,
per_cpu_ptr(size_buf->data,cpu_id)->entries, cpu_id);
if (ret == 0)
per_cpu_ptr(trace_buf->data, cpu_id)->entries =
per_cpu_ptr(size_buf->data, cpu_id)->entries;
...
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201019142242.11560-1-hqjagain@gmail.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: d60da506cb ("tracing: Add a resize function to make one buffer equivalent to another buffer")
Signed-off-by: Qiujun Huang <hqjagain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Below race can come, if trace_open and resize of
cpu buffer is running parallely on different cpus
CPUX CPUY
ring_buffer_resize
atomic_read(&buffer->resize_disabled)
tracing_open
tracing_reset_online_cpus
ring_buffer_reset_cpu
rb_reset_cpu
rb_update_pages
remove/insert pages
resetting pointer
This race can cause data abort or some times infinte loop in
rb_remove_pages and rb_insert_pages while checking pages
for sanity.
Take buffer lock to fix this.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1601976833-24377-1-git-send-email-gkohli@codeaurora.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: b23d7a5f4a ("ring-buffer: speed up buffer resets by avoiding synchronize_rcu for each CPU")
Signed-off-by: Gaurav Kohli <gkohli@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
- The biggest news in that the tracing ring buffer can now time events that
interrupted other ring buffer events. Before this change, if an interrupt
came in while recording another event, and that interrupt also had an
event, those events would all have the same time stamp as the event it
interrupted. Now, with the new design, those events will have a unique time
stamp and rightfully display the time for those events that were recorded
while interrupting another event.
- Bootconfig how has an "override" operator that lets the users have a
default config, but then add options to override the default.
- A fix was made to properly filter function graph tracing to the ftrace
PIDs. This came in at the end of the -rc cycle, and needs to be backported.
- Several clean ups, performance updates, and minor fixes as well.
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Merge tag 'trace-v5.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
- The biggest news in that the tracing ring buffer can now time events
that interrupted other ring buffer events.
Before this change, if an interrupt came in while recording another
event, and that interrupt also had an event, those events would all
have the same time stamp as the event it interrupted.
Now, with the new design, those events will have a unique time stamp
and rightfully display the time for those events that were recorded
while interrupting another event.
- Bootconfig how has an "override" operator that lets the users have a
default config, but then add options to override the default.
- A fix was made to properly filter function graph tracing to the
ftrace PIDs. This came in at the end of the -rc cycle, and needs to
be backported.
- Several clean ups, performance updates, and minor fixes as well.
* tag 'trace-v5.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (39 commits)
tracing: Add trace_array_init_printk() to initialize instance trace_printk() buffers
kprobes: Fix compiler warning for !CONFIG_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE
tracing: Use trace_sched_process_free() instead of exit() for pid tracing
bootconfig: Fix to find the initargs correctly
Documentation: bootconfig: Add bootconfig override operator
tools/bootconfig: Add testcases for value override operator
lib/bootconfig: Add override operator support
kprobes: Remove show_registers() function prototype
tracing/uprobe: Remove dead code in trace_uprobe_register()
kprobes: Fix NULL pointer dereference at kprobe_ftrace_handler
ftrace: Fix ftrace_trace_task return value
tracepoint: Use __used attribute definitions from compiler_attributes.h
tracepoint: Mark __tracepoint_string's __used
trace : Have tracing buffer info use kvzalloc instead of kzalloc
tracing: Remove outdated comment in stack handling
ftrace: Do not let direct or IPMODIFY ftrace_ops be added to module and set trampolines
ftrace: Setup correct FTRACE_FL_REGS flags for module
tracing/hwlat: Honor the tracing_cpumask
tracing/hwlat: Drop the duplicate assignment in start_kthread()
tracing: Save one trace_event->type by using __TRACE_LAST_TYPE
...
Using uninitialized_var() is dangerous as it papers over real bugs[1]
(or can in the future), and suppresses unrelated compiler warnings
(e.g. "unused variable"). If the compiler thinks it is uninitialized,
either simply initialize the variable or make compiler changes.
In preparation for removing[2] the[3] macro[4], remove all remaining
needless uses with the following script:
git grep '\buninitialized_var\b' | cut -d: -f1 | sort -u | \
xargs perl -pi -e \
's/\buninitialized_var\(([^\)]+)\)/\1/g;
s:\s*/\* (GCC be quiet|to make compiler happy) \*/$::g;'
drivers/video/fbdev/riva/riva_hw.c was manually tweaked to avoid
pathological white-space.
No outstanding warnings were found building allmodconfig with GCC 9.3.0
for x86_64, i386, arm64, arm, powerpc, powerpc64le, s390x, mips, sparc64,
alpha, and m68k.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200603174714.192027-1-glider@google.com/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CA+55aFw+Vbj0i=1TGqCR5vQkCzWJ0QxK6CernOU6eedsudAixw@mail.gmail.com/
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CA+55aFwgbgqhbp1fkxvRKEpzyR5J8n1vKT1VZdz9knmPuXhOeg@mail.gmail.com/
[4] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CA+55aFz2500WfbKXAx8s67wrm9=yVJu65TpLgN_ybYNv0VEOKA@mail.gmail.com/
Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@mellanox.com> # drivers/infiniband and mlx4/mlx5
Acked-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com> # IB
Acked-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org> # wireless drivers
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com> # erofs
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
After tweaking the ring buffer to be a bit faster, a warning is triggering
on one of my machines, and causing my tests to fail. This warning is caused
when the delta (current time stamp minus previous time stamp), is larger
than the max time held by the ring buffer (59 bits).
If the clock were to go backwards slightly, this would then easily trigger
this warning. The machine that it triggered on, the clock did go backwards
by around 450 nanoseconds, and this happened after a recalibration of the
TSC clock. Now that the ring buffer is faster, it detects this, and the
delta that is used larger than the max, the warning is triggered and my test
fails.
To handle the clock going backwards, look at the saved before and after time
stamps. If they are the same, it means that the current event did not
interrupt another event, and that those timestamp are of a previous event
that was recorded. If the max delta is triggered, look at those time stamps,
make sure they are the same, then use them to compare with the current
timestamp. If the current timestamp is less than the before/after time
stamps, then that means the clock being used went backward.
Print out a message that this has happened, but do not warn about it (and
only print the message once).
Still do the warning if the delta is indeed larger than what can be used.
Also remove the unneeded KERN_WARNING from the WARN_ONCE() print.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
After doing some benchmarks and examining the code, I found that the ring
buffer clock calls were quite expensive, and noticed that it uses
retpolines. This is because the ring buffer clock is programmable, and can
be set. But in most cases it simply uses the fastest ns unit clock which is
the trace_clock_local(). For RETPOLINE builds, checking if the ring buffer
clock is set to trace_clock_local() and then calling it directly has brought
the time of an event on my i7 box from an average of 93 nanoseconds an event
down to 83 nanoseconds an event, and the minimum time from 81 nanoseconds to
68 nanoseconds!
Suggested-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Make a helper function rb_add_timestamp() that moves the adding of the
extended time stamps into its own function. Also, remove the noinline and
inline for the functions it calls, as recent benchmarks appear they do not
make a difference (just let gcc decide).
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Reorganize a little the logic to handle adding the absolute time stamp,
extended and forced time stamps, in such a way to remove a branch or two.
This is just a micro optimization.
Also add before and after time stamps to the rb_event_info structure to
display those values in the rb_check_timestamps() code, if something were to
go wrong.
Suggested-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
It is the uncommon case where an event crosses a sub buffer boundary (page)
mark that check at the end of reserving an event as unlikely.
Suggested-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
On a 144 thread system, `perf ftrace` takes about 20 seconds to start
up, due to calling synchronize_rcu() for each CPU.
cat /proc/108560/stack
0xc0003e7eb336f470
__switch_to+0x2e0/0x480
__wait_rcu_gp+0x20c/0x220
synchronize_rcu+0x9c/0xc0
ring_buffer_reset_cpu+0x88/0x2e0
tracing_reset_online_cpus+0x84/0xe0
tracing_open+0x1d4/0x1f0
On a system with 10x more threads, it starts to become an annoyance.
Batch these up so we disable all the per-cpu buffers first, then
synchronize_rcu() once, then reset each of the buffers. This brings
the time down to about 0.5s.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200625053403.2386972-1-npiggin@gmail.com
Tested-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@ozlabs.org>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
After a discussion with the new time algorithm to have nested events still
have proper time keeping but required using local64_t atomic operations.
Mathieu was concerned about the performance this would have on 32 bit
machines, as in most cases, atomic 64 bit operations on them can be
expensive.
As the ring buffer's timing needs do not require full features of local64_t,
a wrapper is made to implement a new rb_time_t operation that uses two longs
on 32 bit machines but still uses the local64_t operations on 64 bit
machines. There's a switch that can be made in the file to force 64 bit to
use the 32 bit version just for testing purposes.
All reads do not need to succeed if a read happened while the stamp being
read is in the process of being updated. The requirement is that all reads
must succed that were done by an interrupting event (where this event was
interrupted by another event that did the write). Or if the event itself did
the write first. That is: rb_time_set(t, x) followed by rb_time_read(t) will
always succeed (even if it gets interrupted by another event that writes to
t. The result of the read will be either the previous set, or a set
performed by an interrupting event.
If the read is done by an event that interrupted another event that was in
the process of setting the time stamp, and no other event came along to
write to that time stamp, it will fail and the rb_time_read() will return
that it failed (the value to read will be undefined).
A set will always write to the time stamp and return with a valid time
stamp, such that any read after it will be valid.
A cmpxchg may fail if it interrupted an event that was in the process of
updating the time stamp just like the reads do. Other than that, it will act
like a normal cmpxchg.
The way this works is that the rb_time_t is made of of three fields. A cnt,
that gets updated atomically everyting a modification is made. A top that
represents the most significant 30 bits of the time, and a bottom to
represent the least significant 30 bits of the time. Notice, that the time
values is only 60 bits long (where the ring buffer only uses 59 bits, which
gives us 18 years of nanoseconds!).
The top two bits of both the top and bottom is a 2 bit counter that gets set
by the value of the least two significant bits of the cnt. A read of the top
and the bottom where both the top and bottom have the same most significant
top 2 bits, are considered a match and a valid 60 bit number can be created
from it. If they do not match, then the number is considered invalid, and
this must only happen if an event interrupted another event in the midst of
updating the time stamp.
This is only used for 32 bits machines as 64 bit machines can get better
performance out of the local64_t. This has been tested heavily by forcing 64
bit to use this logic.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200625225345.18cf5881@oasis.local.home
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200629025259.309232719@goodmis.org
Inspired-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Instead of calling out the absolute test for each time to check if the
ring buffer wants absolute time stamps for all its recording, incorporate it
with the add_timestamp field and turn it into flags for faster processing
between wanting a absolute tag and needing to force one.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200629025259.154892368@goodmis.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Up until now, if an event is interrupted while it is recorded by an
interrupt, and that interrupt records events, the time of those events will
all be the same. This is because events only record the delta of the time
since the previous event (or beginning of a page), and to handle updating
the time keeping for that of nested events is extremely racy. After years of
thinking about this and several failed attempts, I finally have a solution
to solve this puzzle.
The problem is that you need to atomically calculate the delta and then
update the time stamp you made the delta from, as well as then record it
into the buffer, all this while at any time an interrupt can come in and
do the same thing. This is easy to solve with heavy weight atomics, but that
would be detrimental to the performance of the ring buffer. The current
state of affairs sacrificed the time deltas for nested events for
performance.
The reason for previous failed attempts at solving this puzzle was because I
was trying to completely avoid slow atomic operations like cmpxchg. I final
came to the conclusion to always avoid cmpxchg is not possible, which is why
those previous attempts always failed. But it is possible to pick one path
(the most common case) and avoid cmpxchg in that path, which is the "fast
path". The most common case is that an event will not be interrupted and
have other events added into it. An event can detect if it has
interrupted another event, and for these cases we can make it the slow
path and use the heavy operations like cmpxchg.
One more player was added to the game that made this possible, and that is
the "absolute timestamp" (by Tom Zanussi) that allows us to inject a full 59
bit time stamp. (Of course this breaks if a machine is running for more than
18 years without a reboot!).
There's barrier() placements around for being paranoid, even when they
are not needed because of other atomic functions near by. But those
should not hurt, as if they are not needed, they basically become a nop.
Note, this also makes the race window much smaller, which means there
are less slow paths to slow down the performance.
The basic idea is that there's two main paths taken.
1) Not being interrupted between time stamps and reserving buffer space.
In this case, the time stamps taken are true to the location in the
buffer.
2) Was interrupted by another path between taking time stamps and reserving
buffer space.
The objective is to know what the delta is from the last reserved location
in the buffer.
As it is possible to detect if an event is interrupting another event before
reserving data, space is added to the length to be reserved to inject a full
time stamp along with the event being reserved.
When an event is not interrupted, the write stamp is always the time of the
last event written to the buffer.
In path 1, there's two sub paths we care about:
a) The event did not interrupt another event.
b) The event interrupted another event.
In case a, as the write stamp was read and known to be correct, the delta
between the current time stamp and the write stamp is the delta between the
current event and the previously recorded event.
In case b, extra space was reserved to just put the full time stamp into the
buffer. Which is done, as stated, in this path the time stamp taken is known
to match the location in the buffer.
In path 2, there's also two sub paths we care about:
a) The event was not interrupted by another event since it reserved space
on the buffer and re-reading the write stamp.
b) The event was interrupted by another event.
In case a, the write stamp is that of the last event that interrupted this
event between taking the time stamps and reserving. As no event came in
after re-reading the write stamp, that event is known to be the time of the
event directly before this event and the delta can be the new time stamp and
the write stamp.
In case b, one or more events came in between reserving the event and
re-reading he write stamp. Since this event's buffer reservation is between
other events at this path, there's no way to know what the delta is. But
because an event interrupted this event after it started, its fine to just
give a zero delta, and take the same time stamp as the events that happened
within the event being recorded.
Here's the implementation of the design of this solution:
All this is per cpu, and only needs to worry about nested events (not
parallel events).
The players:
write_tail: The index in the buffer where new events can be written to.
It is incremented via local_add() to reserve space for a new event.
before_stamp: A time stamp set by all events before reserving space.
write_stamp: A time stamp updated by events after it has successfully
reserved space.
/* Save the current position of write */
[A] w = local_read(write_tail);
barrier();
/* Read both before and write stamps before touching anything */
before = local_read(before_stamp);
after = local_read(write_stamp);
barrier();
/*
* If before and after are the same, then this event is not
* interrupting a time update. If it is, then reserve space for adding
* a full time stamp (this can turn into a time extend which is
* just an extended time delta but fill up the extra space).
*/
if (after != before)
abs = true;
ts = clock();
/* Now update the before_stamp (everyone does this!) */
[B] local_set(before_stamp, ts);
/* Now reserve space on the buffer */
[C] write = local_add_return(len, write_tail);
/* Set tail to be were this event's data is */
tail = write - len;
if (w == tail) {
/* Nothing interrupted this between A and C */
[D] local_set(write_stamp, ts);
barrier();
[E] save_before = local_read(before_stamp);
if (!abs) {
/* This did not interrupt a time update */
delta = ts - after;
} else {
delta = ts; /* The full time stamp will be in use */
}
if (ts != save_before) {
/* slow path - Was interrupted between C and E */
/* The update to write_stamp could have overwritten the update to
* it by the interrupting event, but before and after should be
* the same for all completed top events */
after = local_read(write_stamp);
if (save_before > after)
local_cmpxchg(write_stamp, after, save_before);
}
} else {
/* slow path - Interrupted between A and C */
after = local_read(write_stamp);
temp_ts = clock();
barrier();
[F] if (write == local_read(write_tail) && after < temp_ts) {
/* This was not interrupted since C and F
* The last write_stamp is still valid for the previous event
* in the buffer. */
delta = temp_ts - after;
/* OK to keep this new time stamp */
ts = temp_ts;
} else {
/* Interrupted between C and F
* Well, there's no use to try to know what the time stamp
* is for the previous event. Just set delta to zero and
* be the same time as that event that interrupted us before
* the reservation of the buffer. */
delta = 0;
}
/* No need to use full timestamps here */
abs = 0;
}
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200625094454.732790f7@oasis.local.home
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200627010041.517736087@goodmis.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200629025258.957440797@goodmis.org
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Currently the ring buffer makes events that happen in interrupts that preempt
another event have a delta of zero. (Hopefully we can change this soon). But
this is to deal with the races of updating a global counter with lockless
and nesting functions updating deltas.
With the addition of absolute time stamps, the time extend didn't follow
this rule. A time extend can happen if two events happen longer than 2^27
nanoseconds appart, as the delta time field in each event is only 27 bits.
If that happens, then a time extend is injected with 2^59 bits of
nanoseconds to use (18 years). But if the 2^27 nanoseconds happen between
two events, and as it is writing the event, an interrupt triggers, it will
see the 2^27 difference as well and inject a time extend of its own. But a
recent change made the time extend logic not take into account the nesting,
and this can cause two time extend deltas to happen moving the time stamp
much further ahead than the current time. This gets all reset when the ring
buffer moves to the next page, but that can cause time to appear to go
backwards.
This was observed in a trace-cmd recording, and since the data is saved in a
file, with trace-cmd report --debug, it was possible to see that this indeed
did happen!
bash-52501 110d... 81778.908247: sched_switch: bash:52501 [120] S ==> swapper/110:0 [120] [12770284:0x2e8:64]
<idle>-0 110d... 81778.908757: sched_switch: swapper/110:0 [120] R ==> bash:52501 [120] [509947:0x32c:64]
TIME EXTEND: delta:306454770 length:0
bash-52501 110.... 81779.215212: sched_swap_numa: src_pid=52501 src_tgid=52388 src_ngid=52501 src_cpu=110 src_nid=2 dst_pid=52509 dst_tgid=52388 dst_ngid=52501 dst_cpu=49 dst_nid=1 [0:0x378:48]
TIME EXTEND: delta:306458165 length:0
bash-52501 110dNh. 81779.521670: sched_wakeup: migration/110:565 [0] success=1 CPU:110 [0:0x3b4:40]
and at the next page, caused the time to go backwards:
bash-52504 110d... 81779.685411: sched_switch: bash:52504 [120] S ==> swapper/110:0 [120] [8347057:0xfb4:64]
CPU:110 [SUBBUFFER START] [81779379165886:0x1320000]
<idle>-0 110dN.. 81779.379166: sched_wakeup: bash:52504 [120] success=1 CPU:110 [0:0x10:40]
<idle>-0 110d... 81779.379167: sched_switch: swapper/110:0 [120] R ==> bash:52504 [120] [1168:0x3c:64]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200622151815.345d1bf5@oasis.local.home
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: dc4e2801d4 ("ring-buffer: Redefine the unimplemented RINGBUF_TYPE_TIME_STAMP")
Reported-by: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@inria.fr>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
There's a lot of checks to make sure the ring buffer is working, and if an
anomaly is detected, it safely shuts itself down. But there's a few cases
that it will call BUG(), which defeats the point of being safe (it crashes
the kernel when an anomaly is found!). There's no reason for them. Switch
them all to either WARN_ON_ONCE() (when no ring buffer descriptor is present),
or to RB_WARN_ON() (when a ring buffer descriptor is present).
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
If the function tracer is running and the trace file is read (which uses the
ring buffer iterator), the iterator can get in sync with the writes, and
caues it to fail to find a page with content it can read three times. This
causes a warning and deactivation of the ring buffer code.
Looking at the other cases of failure to get an event, it appears that
there's a chance that the writer could cause them too. Since the iterator is
a "best effort" to read the ring buffer if there's an active writer (the
consumer reader is made for this case "see trace_pipe"), if it fails to get
an event after three tries, simply give up and return NULL. Don't warn, nor
disable the ring buffer on this failure.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200429090508.GG5770@shao2-debian
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Fixes: ff84c50cfb ("ring-buffer: Do not die if rb_iter_peek() fails more than thrice")
Tested-by: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Have the ring_buffer_iterator set a flag if events were dropped as it were
to go and peek at the next event. Have the trace file display this fact if
it happened with a "LOST EVENTS" message.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200317213417.045858900@goodmis.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Now that the iterator can handle a concurrent writer, do not disable writing
to the ring buffer when there is an iterator present.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200317213416.759770696@goodmis.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
When the ring buffer becomes writable for even when the trace file is read,
it must still not be resized. But since tracers can be activated while the
trace file is being read, the irqsoff tracer can modify the per CPU buffers,
and this can cause the reader of the trace file to update the wrong buffer's
resize disable bit, as the irqsoff tracer swaps out cpu buffers.
By making the resize disable per cpu_buffer, it makes the update follow the
per cpu_buffer even if it's swapped out with the snapshot buffer and keeps
the release of the trace file modifying the same data as the open did.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
As it is fine to perform several "peeks" of event data in the ring buffer
via the iterator before moving it forward, do not re-read the event, just
return what was read before. Otherwise, it can cause inconsistent results,
especially when testing multiple CPU buffers to interleave them.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200317213416.592032170@goodmis.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
As the iterator will be reading a live buffer, and if the event being read
is on a page that a writer crosses, it will fail and try again, the
condition in rb_iter_peek() that only allows a retry to happen three times
is no longer valid. Allow rb_iter_peek() to retry more than three times
without killing the ring buffer, but only if rb_iter_head_event() had failed
at least once.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200317213416.452888193@goodmis.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Have the ring_buffer_iter structure have a place to store an event, such
that it can not be overwritten by a writer, and load it in such a way via
rb_iter_head_event() that it will return NULL and reset the iter to the
start of the current page if a writer updated the page.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200317213416.306959216@goodmis.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Have the ring_buffer_iter structure contain a page_stamp, such that it can
be used to see if the writer entered the page the iterator is on. When going
to a new page, the iterator will record the time stamp of that page. When
reading events, it can copy the event to an internal buffer on the iterator
(to be implemented later), then check the page's time stamp with its own to
see if the writer entered the page. If so, it will need to try to read the
event again.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200317213416.163549674@goodmis.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
When the ring buffer was first created, the iterator followed the normal
producer/consumer operations where it had both a peek() operation, that just
returned the event at the current location, and a read(), that would return
the event at the current location and also increment the iterator such that
the next peek() or read() will return the next event.
The only use of the ring_buffer_read() is currently to move the iterator to
the next location and nothing now actually reads the event it returns.
Rename this function to its actual use case to ring_buffer_iter_advance(),
which also adds the "iter" part to the name, which is more meaningful. As
the timestamp returned by ring_buffer_read() was never used, there's no
reason that this new version should bother having returning it. It will also
become a void function.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200317213416.018928618@goodmis.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
It was complained about that when the trace file is read, that the tracing
is disabled, as the iterator expects writing to the buffer it reads is not
updated. Several steps are needed to make the iterator handle a writer,
by testing if things have changed as it reads.
This step is to make ring_buffer_empty() expect the buffer to be changing.
Note if the current location of the iterator is overwritten, then it will
return false as new data is being added. Note, that this means that data
will be skipped.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200317213415.870741809@goodmis.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Also fixes a couple of typos
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1401992525-10417-1-git-send-email-fabf@skynet.be
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
[ Found this deep in the abyss of my INBOX ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
As there's two struct ring_buffers in the kernel, it causes some confusion.
The other one being the perf ring buffer. It was agreed upon that as neither
of the ring buffers are generic enough to be used globally, they should be
renamed as:
perf's ring_buffer -> perf_buffer
ftrace's ring_buffer -> trace_buffer
This implements the changes to the ring buffer that ftrace uses.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191213140531.116b3200@gandalf.local.home
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191206092503.303d6a57@canb.auug.org.au
Cc: Linux Next Mailing List <linux-next@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
If lockdown is disabling tracing on boot up, it prevents the tracing files
from even bering created. But when that happens, there's several places that
will give a warning that the files were not created as that is usually a
sign of a bug.
Add in strategic locations where a check is made to see if tracing is
disabled by lockdown, and if it is, do not go further, and fail silently
(but print that tracing is disabled by lockdown, without doing a WARN_ON()).
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@google.com>
Fixes: 17911ff38a ("tracing: Add locked_down checks to the open calls of files created for tracefs")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Commit c19fa94a8f ("Add HAVE_64BIT_ALIGNED_ACCESS") added the config for
architectures that required 64bit aligned access for all 64bit words. As
the ftrace ring buffer stores data on 4 byte alignment, this config option
was used to force it to store data on 8 byte alignment to make sure the data
being stored and written directly into the ring buffer was 8 byte aligned as
it would cause issues trying to write an 8 byte word on a 4 not 8 byte
aligned memory location.
But with the removal of the metag architecture, which was the only
architecture to use this, there is no architecture supported by Linux that
requires 8 byte aligne access for all 8 byte words (4 byte alignment is good
enough). Removing this config can simplify the code a bit.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
- Removing of non-DYNAMIC_FTRACE from 32bit x86
- Removing of mcount support from x86
- Emulating a call from int3 on x86_64, fixes live kernel patching
- Consolidated Tracing Error logs file
Minor updates:
- Removal of klp_check_compiler_support()
- kdb ftrace dumping output changes
- Accessing and creating ftrace instances from inside the kernel
- Clean up of #define if macro
- Introduction of TRACE_EVENT_NOP() to disable trace events based on config
options
And other minor fixes and clean ups
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Merge tag 'trace-v5.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
"The major changes in this tracing update includes:
- Removal of non-DYNAMIC_FTRACE from 32bit x86
- Removal of mcount support from x86
- Emulating a call from int3 on x86_64, fixes live kernel patching
- Consolidated Tracing Error logs file
Minor updates:
- Removal of klp_check_compiler_support()
- kdb ftrace dumping output changes
- Accessing and creating ftrace instances from inside the kernel
- Clean up of #define if macro
- Introduction of TRACE_EVENT_NOP() to disable trace events based on
config options
And other minor fixes and clean ups"
* tag 'trace-v5.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (44 commits)
x86: Hide the int3_emulate_call/jmp functions from UML
livepatch: Remove klp_check_compiler_support()
ftrace/x86: Remove mcount support
ftrace/x86_32: Remove support for non DYNAMIC_FTRACE
tracing: Simplify "if" macro code
tracing: Fix documentation about disabling options using trace_options
tracing: Replace kzalloc with kcalloc
tracing: Fix partial reading of trace event's id file
tracing: Allow RCU to run between postponed startup tests
tracing: Fix white space issues in parse_pred() function
tracing: Eliminate const char[] auto variables
ring-buffer: Fix mispelling of Calculate
tracing: probeevent: Fix to make the type of $comm string
tracing: probeevent: Do not accumulate on ret variable
tracing: uprobes: Re-enable $comm support for uprobe events
ftrace/x86_64: Emulate call function while updating in breakpoint handler
x86_64: Allow breakpoints to emulate call instructions
x86_64: Add gap to int3 to allow for call emulation
tracing: kdb: Allow ftdump to skip all but the last few entries
tracing: Add trace_total_entries() / trace_total_entries_cpu()
...
Unless the very next line is schedule(), or implies it, one must not use
preempt_enable_no_resched(). It can cause a preemption to go missing and
thereby cause arbitrary delays, breaking the PREEMPT=y invariant.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190423200318.GY14281@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net
Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: huang ying <huang.ying.caritas@gmail.com>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 2c2d7329d8 ("tracing/ftrace: use preempt_enable_no_resched_notrace in ring_buffer_time_stamp()")
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
As reported back in 2016-11 [1], the "ftdump" kdb command triggers a
BUG for "sleeping function called from invalid context".
kdb's "ftdump" command wants to call ring_buffer_read_prepare() in
atomic context. A very simple solution for this is to add allocation
flags to ring_buffer_read_prepare() so kdb can call it without
triggering the allocation error. This patch does that.
Note that in the original email thread about this, it was suggested
that perhaps the solution for kdb was to either preallocate the buffer
ahead of time or create our own iterator. I'm hoping that this
alternative of adding allocation flags to ring_buffer_read_prepare()
can be considered since it means I don't need to duplicate more of the
core trace code into "trace_kdb.c" (for either creating my own
iterator or re-preparing a ring allocator whose memory was already
allocated).
NOTE: another option for kdb is to actually figure out how to make it
reuse the existing ftrace_dump() function and totally eliminate the
duplication. This sounds very appealing and actually works (the "sr
z" command can be seen to properly dump the ftrace buffer). The
downside here is that ftrace_dump() fully consumes the trace buffer.
Unless that is changed I'd rather not use it because it means "ftdump
| grep xyz" won't be very useful to search the ftrace buffer since it
will throw away the whole trace on the first grep. A future patch to
dump only the last few lines of the buffer will also be hard to
implement.
[1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161117191605.GA21459@google.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190308193205.213659-1-dianders@chromium.org
Reported-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Commit 6b7e633fe9 ("tracing: Remove extra zeroing out of the ring
buffer page") removed the only caller of ring_buffer_page_len(). The
function is now unused and may be removed.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181228133847.106177-1-mbenes@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
- Rework of the kprobe/uprobe and synthetic events to consolidate all
the dynamic event code. This will make changes in the future easier.
- Partial rewrite of the function graph tracing infrastructure.
This will allow for multiple users of hooking onto functions
to get the callback (return) of the function. This is the ground
work for having kprobes and function graph tracer using one code base.
- Clean up of the histogram code that will facilitate adding more
features to the histograms in the future.
- Addition of str_has_prefix() and a few use cases. There currently
is a similar function strstart() that is used in a few places, but
only returns a bool and not a length. These instances will be
removed in the future to use str_has_prefix() instead.
- A few other various clean ups as well.
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Merge tag 'trace-v4.21' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
- Rework of the kprobe/uprobe and synthetic events to consolidate all
the dynamic event code. This will make changes in the future easier.
- Partial rewrite of the function graph tracing infrastructure. This
will allow for multiple users of hooking onto functions to get the
callback (return) of the function. This is the ground work for having
kprobes and function graph tracer using one code base.
- Clean up of the histogram code that will facilitate adding more
features to the histograms in the future.
- Addition of str_has_prefix() and a few use cases. There currently is
a similar function strstart() that is used in a few places, but only
returns a bool and not a length. These instances will be removed in
the future to use str_has_prefix() instead.
- A few other various clean ups as well.
* tag 'trace-v4.21' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (57 commits)
tracing: Use the return of str_has_prefix() to remove open coded numbers
tracing: Have the historgram use the result of str_has_prefix() for len of prefix
tracing: Use str_has_prefix() instead of using fixed sizes
tracing: Use str_has_prefix() helper for histogram code
string.h: Add str_has_prefix() helper function
tracing: Make function ‘ftrace_exports’ static
tracing: Simplify printf'ing in seq_print_sym
tracing: Avoid -Wformat-nonliteral warning
tracing: Merge seq_print_sym_short() and seq_print_sym_offset()
tracing: Add hist trigger comments for variable-related fields
tracing: Remove hist trigger synth_var_refs
tracing: Use hist trigger's var_ref array to destroy var_refs
tracing: Remove open-coding of hist trigger var_ref management
tracing: Use var_refs[] for hist trigger reference checking
tracing: Change strlen to sizeof for hist trigger static strings
tracing: Remove unnecessary hist trigger struct field
tracing: Fix ftrace_graph_get_ret_stack() to use task and not current
seq_buf: Use size_t for len in seq_buf_puts()
seq_buf: Make seq_buf_puts() null-terminate the buffer
arm64: Use ftrace_graph_get_ret_stack() instead of curr_ret_stack
...
Add a "buffer_percentage" file, that allows users to specify how much of the
buffer (percentage of pages) need to be filled before waking up a task
blocked on a per cpu trace_pipe_raw file.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Instead of just waiting for a page to be full before waking up a pending
reader, allow the reader to pass in a "percentage" of pages that have
content before waking up a reader. This should help keep the process of
reading the events not cause wake ups that constantly cause reading of the
buffer.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Now that synchronize_rcu() waits for preempt-disable regions of code
as well as RCU read-side critical sections, synchronize_sched() can
be replaced by synchronize_rcu(). Similarly, call_rcu_sched() can be
replaced by call_rcu(). This commit therefore makes these changes.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
When reducing ring buffer size, pages are removed by scheduling a work
item on each CPU for the corresponding CPU ring buffer. After the pages
are removed from ring buffer linked list, the pages are free()d in a
tight loop. The loop does not give up CPU until all pages are removed.
In a worst case behavior, when lot of pages are to be freed, it can
cause system stall.
After the pages are removed from the list, the free() can happen while
the work is rescheduled. Call cond_resched() in the loop to prevent the
system hangup.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180907223129.71994-1-vnagarnaik@google.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 83f40318da ("ring-buffer: Make removal of ring buffer pages atomic")
Reported-by: Jason Behmer <jbehmer@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Vaibhav Nagarnaik <vnagarnaik@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The value of ring_buffer_record_is_set_on() is either true or false, so have
its return value be bool.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The value of ring_buffer_record_is_on() is either true or false, so have its
return value be bool.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Maintain the tracing on/off setting of the ring_buffer when switching
to the trace buffer snapshot.
Taking a snapshot is done by swapping the backup ring buffer
(max_tr_buffer). But since the tracing on/off setting is defined
by the ring buffer, when swapping it, the tracing on/off setting
can also be changed. This causes a strange result like below:
/sys/kernel/debug/tracing # cat tracing_on
1
/sys/kernel/debug/tracing # echo 0 > tracing_on
/sys/kernel/debug/tracing # cat tracing_on
0
/sys/kernel/debug/tracing # echo 1 > snapshot
/sys/kernel/debug/tracing # cat tracing_on
1
/sys/kernel/debug/tracing # echo 1 > snapshot
/sys/kernel/debug/tracing # cat tracing_on
0
We don't touch tracing_on, but snapshot changes tracing_on
setting each time. This is an anomaly, because user doesn't know
that each "ring_buffer" stores its own tracing-enable state and
the snapshot is done by swapping ring buffers.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/153149929558.11274.11730609978254724394.stgit@devbox
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Hiraku Toyooka <hiraku.toyooka@cybertrust.co.jp>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: debdd57f51 ("tracing: Make a snapshot feature available from userspace")
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
[ Updated commit log and comment in the code ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
An anonymous source sent me a bunch of typo fixes in the comments of
ring_buffer.c file. That source did not want to be associated to this patch
because they don't want to be known as "one of those" commiters (you know who
you are!). They gave me permission to sign this off in my own name.
Suggested-by: One-of-those-commiters@YouKnowWhoYouAre.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
As si_mem_available() can say there is enough memory even though the memory
available is not useable by the ring buffer, it is best to not kill innocent
applications because the ring buffer is taking up all the memory while it is
trying to allocate a great deal of memory.
If the allocator is user space (because kernel threads can also increase the
size of the kernel ring buffer on boot up), then after si_mem_available()
says there is enough memory, set the OOM killer to kill the current task if
an OOM triggers during the allocation.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180404062340.GD6312@dhcp22.suse.cz
Suggested-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The ring buffer is made up of a link list of pages. When making the ring
buffer bigger, it will allocate all the pages it needs before adding to the
ring buffer, and if it fails, it frees them and returns an error. This makes
increasing the ring buffer size an all or nothing action. When this was
first created, the pages were allocated with "NORETRY". This was to not
cause any Out-Of-Memory (OOM) actions from allocating the ring buffer. But
NORETRY was too strict, as the ring buffer would fail to expand even when
there's memory available, but was taken up in the page cache.
Commit 848618857d ("tracing/ring_buffer: Try harder to allocate") changed
the allocating from NORETRY to RETRY_MAYFAIL. The RETRY_MAYFAIL would
allocate from the page cache, but if there was no memory available, it would
simple fail the allocation and not trigger an OOM.
This worked fine, but had one problem. As the ring buffer would allocate one
page at a time, it could take up all memory in the system before it failed
to allocate and free that memory. If the allocation is happening and the
ring buffer allocates all memory and then tries to take more than available,
its allocation will not trigger an OOM, but if there's any allocation that
happens someplace else, that could trigger an OOM, even though once the ring
buffer's allocation fails, it would free up all the previous memory it tried
to allocate, and allow other memory allocations to succeed.
Commit d02bd27bd3 ("mm/page_alloc.c: calculate 'available' memory in a
separate function") separated out si_mem_availble() as a separate function
that could be used to see how much memory is available in the system. Using
this function to make sure that the ring buffer could be allocated before it
tries to allocate pages we can avoid allocating all memory in the system and
making it vulnerable to OOMs if other allocations are taking place.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1522320104-6573-1-git-send-email-zhaoyang.huang@spreadtrum.com
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Fixes: 848618857d ("tracing/ring_buffer: Try harder to allocate")
Requires: d02bd27bd3 ("mm/page_alloc.c: calculate 'available' memory in a separate function")
Reported-by: Zhaoyang Huang <huangzhaoyang@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Mention the alternative of adding trace_clock=global to the kernel
command line when we detect that we've used an unstable clock across a
suspend/resume cycle.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180330150132.16903-2-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The ring-buffer code has recusion protection in case tracing ends up tracing
itself, the ring-buffer will detect that it was called at the same context
(normal, softirq, interrupt or NMI), and not continue to record the event.
With the histogram synthetic events, they are called while tracing another
event at the same context. The recusion protection triggers because it
detects tracing at the same context and stops it.
Add ring_buffer_nest_start() and ring_buffer_nest_end() that will notify the
ring buffer that a trace is about to happen within another trace and that it
is intended, and not to trigger the recursion blocking.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
RINGBUF_TYPE_TIME_STAMP is defined but not used, and from what I can
gather was reserved for something like an absolute timestamp feature
for the ring buffer, if not a complete replacement of the current
time_delta scheme.
This code redefines RINGBUF_TYPE_TIME_STAMP to implement absolute time
stamps. Another way to look at it is that it essentially forces
extended time_deltas for all events.
The motivation for doing this is to enable time_deltas that aren't
dependent on previous events in the ring buffer, making it feasible to
use the ring_buffer_event timetamps in a more random-access way, for
purposes other than serial event printing.
To set/reset this mode, use tracing_set_timestamp_abs() from the
previous interface patch.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/477b362dba1ce7fab9889a1a8e885a62c472f041.1516069914.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Define a new function, tracing_set_time_stamp_abs(), which can be used
to enable or disable the use of absolute timestamps rather than time
deltas for a trace array.
Only the interface is added here; a subsequent patch will add the
underlying implementation.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ce96119de44c7fe0ee44786d15254e9b493040d3.1516069914.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Baohong Liu <baohong.liu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
This is the mindless scripted replacement of kernel use of POLL*
variables as described by Al, done by this script:
for V in IN OUT PRI ERR RDNORM RDBAND WRNORM WRBAND HUP RDHUP NVAL MSG; do
L=`git grep -l -w POLL$V | grep -v '^t' | grep -v /um/ | grep -v '^sa' | grep -v '/poll.h$'|grep -v '^D'`
for f in $L; do sed -i "-es/^\([^\"]*\)\(\<POLL$V\>\)/\\1E\\2/" $f; done
done
with de-mangling cleanups yet to come.
NOTE! On almost all architectures, the EPOLL* constants have the same
values as the POLL* constants do. But they keyword here is "almost".
For various bad reasons they aren't the same, and epoll() doesn't
actually work quite correctly in some cases due to this on Sparc et al.
The next patch from Al will sort out the final differences, and we
should be all done.
Scripted-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull poll annotations from Al Viro:
"This introduces a __bitwise type for POLL### bitmap, and propagates
the annotations through the tree. Most of that stuff is as simple as
'make ->poll() instances return __poll_t and do the same to local
variables used to hold the future return value'.
Some of the obvious brainos found in process are fixed (e.g. POLLIN
misspelled as POLL_IN). At that point the amount of sparse warnings is
low and most of them are for genuine bugs - e.g. ->poll() instance
deciding to return -EINVAL instead of a bitmap. I hadn't touched those
in this series - it's large enough as it is.
Another problem it has caught was eventpoll() ABI mess; select.c and
eventpoll.c assumed that corresponding POLL### and EPOLL### were
equal. That's true for some, but not all of them - EPOLL### are
arch-independent, but POLL### are not.
The last commit in this series separates userland POLL### values from
the (now arch-independent) kernel-side ones, converting between them
in the few places where they are copied to/from userland. AFAICS, this
is the least disruptive fix preserving poll(2) ABI and making epoll()
work on all architectures.
As it is, it's simply broken on sparc - try to give it EPOLLWRNORM and
it will trigger only on what would've triggered EPOLLWRBAND on other
architectures. EPOLLWRBAND and EPOLLRDHUP, OTOH, are never triggered
at all on sparc. With this patch they should work consistently on all
architectures"
* 'misc.poll' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (37 commits)
make kernel-side POLL... arch-independent
eventpoll: no need to mask the result of epi_item_poll() again
eventpoll: constify struct epoll_event pointers
debugging printk in sg_poll() uses %x to print POLL... bitmap
annotate poll(2) guts
9p: untangle ->poll() mess
->si_band gets POLL... bitmap stored into a user-visible long field
ring_buffer_poll_wait() return value used as return value of ->poll()
the rest of drivers/*: annotate ->poll() instances
media: annotate ->poll() instances
fs: annotate ->poll() instances
ipc, kernel, mm: annotate ->poll() instances
net: annotate ->poll() instances
apparmor: annotate ->poll() instances
tomoyo: annotate ->poll() instances
sound: annotate ->poll() instances
acpi: annotate ->poll() instances
crypto: annotate ->poll() instances
block: annotate ->poll() instances
x86: annotate ->poll() instances
...
In bringing back the context checks, the code checks first if its normal
(non-interrupt) context, and then for NMI then IRQ then softirq. The final
check is redundant. Since the if branch is only hit if the context is one of
NMI, IRQ, or SOFTIRQ, if it's not NMI or IRQ there's no reason to check if
it is SOFTIRQ. The current code returns the same result even if its not a
SOFTIRQ. Which is confusing.
pc & SOFTIRQ_OFFSET ? 2 : RB_CTX_SOFTIRQ
Is redundant as RB_CTX_SOFTIRQ *is* 2!
Fixes: a0e3a18f4b ("ring-buffer: Bring back context level recursive checks")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Commit 1a149d7d3f ("ring-buffer: Rewrite trace_recursive_(un)lock() to be
simpler") replaced the context level recursion checks with a simple counter.
This would prevent the ring buffer code from recursively calling itself more
than the max number of contexts that exist (Normal, softirq, irq, nmi). But
this change caused a lockup in a specific case, which was during suspend and
resume using a global clock. Adding a stack dump to see where this occurred,
the issue was in the trace global clock itself:
trace_buffer_lock_reserve+0x1c/0x50
__trace_graph_entry+0x2d/0x90
trace_graph_entry+0xe8/0x200
prepare_ftrace_return+0x69/0xc0
ftrace_graph_caller+0x78/0xa8
queued_spin_lock_slowpath+0x5/0x1d0
trace_clock_global+0xb0/0xc0
ring_buffer_lock_reserve+0xf9/0x390
The function graph tracer traced queued_spin_lock_slowpath that was called
by trace_clock_global. This pointed out that the trace_clock_global() is not
reentrant, as it takes a spin lock. It depended on the ring buffer recursive
lock from letting that happen.
By removing the context detection and adding just a max number of allowable
recursions, it allowed the trace_clock_global() to be entered again and try
to retake the spinlock it already held, causing a deadlock.
Fixes: 1a149d7d3f ("ring-buffer: Rewrite trace_recursive_(un)lock() to be simpler")
Reported-by: David Weinehall <david.weinehall@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To free the reader page that is allocated with ring_buffer_alloc_read_page(),
ring_buffer_free_read_page() must be called. For faster performance, this
page can be reused by the ring buffer to avoid having to free and allocate
new pages.
The issue arises when the page is used with a splice pipe into the
networking code. The networking code may up the page counter for the page,
and keep it active while sending it is queued to go to the network. The
incrementing of the page ref does not prevent it from being reused in the
ring buffer, and this can cause the page that is being sent out to the
network to be modified before it is sent by reading new data.
Add a check to the page ref counter, and only reuse the page if it is not
being used anywhere else.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 73a757e631 ("ring-buffer: Return reader page back into existing ring buffer")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Two info bits were added to the "commit" part of the ring buffer data page
when returned to be consumed. This was to inform the user space readers that
events have been missed, and that the count may be stored at the end of the
page.
What wasn't handled, was the splice code that actually called a function to
return the length of the data in order to zero out the rest of the page
before sending it up to user space. These data bits were returned with the
length making the value negative, and that negative value was not checked.
It was compared to PAGE_SIZE, and only used if the size was less than
PAGE_SIZE. Luckily PAGE_SIZE is unsigned long which made the compare an
unsigned compare, meaning the negative size value did not end up causing a
large portion of memory to be randomly zeroed out.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 66a8cb95ed ("ring-buffer: Add place holder recording of dropped events")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
This fixes the following warning when building with clang:
kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:1842:1: error: unused function
'__rb_data_page_index' [-Werror,-Wunused-function]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170518001415.5223-1-mka@chromium.org
Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
- Now allow module init functions to be traced
- Clean up some unused or not used by config events (saves space)
- Clean up of trace histogram code
- Add support for preempt and interrupt enabled/disable events
- Other various clean ups
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Merge tag 'trace-v4.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull tracing updates from
- allow module init functions to be traced
- clean up some unused or not used by config events (saves space)
- clean up of trace histogram code
- add support for preempt and interrupt enabled/disable events
- other various clean ups
* tag 'trace-v4.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (30 commits)
tracing, thermal: Hide cpu cooling trace events when not in use
tracing, thermal: Hide devfreq trace events when not in use
ftrace: Kill FTRACE_OPS_FL_PER_CPU
perf/ftrace: Small cleanup
perf/ftrace: Fix function trace events
perf/ftrace: Revert ("perf/ftrace: Fix double traces of perf on ftrace:function")
tracing, dma-buf: Remove unused trace event dma_fence_annotate_wait_on
tracing, memcg, vmscan: Hide trace events when not in use
tracing/xen: Hide events that are not used when X86_PAE is not defined
tracing: mark trace_test_buffer as __maybe_unused
printk: Remove superfluous memory barriers from printk_safe
ftrace: Clear hashes of stale ips of init memory
tracing: Add support for preempt and irq enable/disable events
tracing: Prepare to add preempt and irq trace events
ftrace/kallsyms: Have /proc/kallsyms show saved mod init functions
ftrace: Add freeing algorithm to free ftrace_mod_maps
ftrace: Save module init functions kallsyms symbols for tracing
ftrace: Allow module init functions to be traced
ftrace: Add a ftrace_free_mem() function for modules to use
tracing: Reimplement log2
...
Patch series "kmemcheck: kill kmemcheck", v2.
As discussed at LSF/MM, kill kmemcheck.
KASan is a replacement that is able to work without the limitation of
kmemcheck (single CPU, slow). KASan is already upstream.
We are also not aware of any users of kmemcheck (or users who don't
consider KASan as a suitable replacement).
The only objection was that since KASAN wasn't supported by all GCC
versions provided by distros at that time we should hold off for 2
years, and try again.
Now that 2 years have passed, and all distros provide gcc that supports
KASAN, kill kmemcheck again for the very same reasons.
This patch (of 4):
Remove kmemcheck annotations, and calls to kmemcheck from the kernel.
[alexander.levin@verizon.com: correctly remove kmemcheck call from dma_map_sg_attrs]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171012192151.26531-1-alexander.levin@verizon.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171007030159.22241-2-alexander.levin@verizon.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Tim Hansen <devtimhansen@gmail.com>
Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegardno@ifi.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Please do not apply this to mainline directly, instead please re-run the
coccinelle script shown below and apply its output.
For several reasons, it is desirable to use {READ,WRITE}_ONCE() in
preference to ACCESS_ONCE(), and new code is expected to use one of the
former. So far, there's been no reason to change most existing uses of
ACCESS_ONCE(), as these aren't harmful, and changing them results in
churn.
However, for some features, the read/write distinction is critical to
correct operation. To distinguish these cases, separate read/write
accessors must be used. This patch migrates (most) remaining
ACCESS_ONCE() instances to {READ,WRITE}_ONCE(), using the following
coccinelle script:
----
// Convert trivial ACCESS_ONCE() uses to equivalent READ_ONCE() and
// WRITE_ONCE()
// $ make coccicheck COCCI=/home/mark/once.cocci SPFLAGS="--include-headers" MODE=patch
virtual patch
@ depends on patch @
expression E1, E2;
@@
- ACCESS_ONCE(E1) = E2
+ WRITE_ONCE(E1, E2)
@ depends on patch @
expression E;
@@
- ACCESS_ONCE(E)
+ READ_ONCE(E)
----
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: mpe@ellerman.id.au
Cc: shuah@kernel.org
Cc: snitzer@redhat.com
Cc: thor.thayer@linux.intel.com
Cc: tj@kernel.org
Cc: viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk
Cc: will.deacon@arm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1508792849-3115-19-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
The current method to prevent the ring buffer from entering into a recursize
loop is to use a bitmask and set the bit that maps to the current context
(normal, softirq, irq or NMI), and if that bit was already set, it is
considered a recursive loop.
New code is being added that may require the ring buffer to be entered a
second time in the current context. The recursive locking prevents that from
happening. Instead of mapping a bitmask to the current context, just allow 4
levels of nesting in the ring buffer. This matches the 4 context levels that
it can already nest. It is highly unlikely to have more than two levels,
thus it should be fine when we add the second entry into the ring buffer. If
that proves to be a problem, we can always up the number to 8.
An added benefit is that reading preempt_count() to get the current level
adds a very slight but noticeable overhead. This removes that need.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Chunyu Hu reported:
"per_cpu trace directories and files are created for all possible cpus,
but only the cpus which have ever been on-lined have their own per cpu
ring buffer (allocated by cpuhp threads). While trace_buffers_open, the
open handler for trace file 'trace_pipe_raw' is always trying to access
field of ring_buffer_per_cpu, and would panic with the NULL pointer.
Align the behavior of trace_pipe_raw with trace_pipe, that returns -NODEV
when openning it if that cpu does not have trace ring buffer.
Reproduce:
cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/per_cpu/cpu31/trace_pipe_raw
(cpu31 is never on-lined, this is a 16 cores x86_64 box)
Tested with:
1) boot with maxcpus=14, read trace_pipe_raw of cpu15.
Got -NODEV.
2) oneline cpu15, read trace_pipe_raw of cpu15.
Get the raw trace data.
Call trace:
[ 5760.950995] RIP: 0010:ring_buffer_alloc_read_page+0x32/0xe0
[ 5760.961678] tracing_buffers_read+0x1f6/0x230
[ 5760.962695] __vfs_read+0x37/0x160
[ 5760.963498] ? __vfs_read+0x5/0x160
[ 5760.964339] ? security_file_permission+0x9d/0xc0
[ 5760.965451] ? __vfs_read+0x5/0x160
[ 5760.966280] vfs_read+0x8c/0x130
[ 5760.967070] SyS_read+0x55/0xc0
[ 5760.967779] do_syscall_64+0x67/0x150
[ 5760.968687] entry_SYSCALL64_slow_path+0x25/0x25"
This was introduced by the addition of the feature to reuse reader pages
instead of re-allocating them. The problem is that the allocation of a
reader page (which is per cpu) does not check if the cpu is online and set
up for the ring buffer.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1500880866-1177-1-git-send-email-chuhu@redhat.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 73a757e631 ("ring-buffer: Return reader page back into existing ring buffer")
Reported-by: Chunyu Hu <chuhu@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
ftrace can fail to allocate per-CPU ring buffer on systems with a large
number of CPUs coupled while large amounts of cache happening in the
page cache. Currently the ring buffer allocation doesn't retry in the VM
implementation even if direct-reclaim made some progress but still
wasn't able to find a free page. On retrying I see that the allocations
almost always succeed. The retry doesn't happen because __GFP_NORETRY is
used in the tracer to prevent the case where we might OOM, however if we
drop __GFP_NORETRY, we risk destabilizing the system if OOM killer is
triggered. To prevent this situation, use the __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL flag
introduced recently [1].
Tested the following still succeeds without destabilizing a system with
1GB memory.
echo 300000 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/buffer_size_kb
[1] https://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=149820805124906&w=2
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170713021416.8897-1-joelaf@google.com
Cc: Tim Murray <timmurray@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
