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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2021-11-01 20:05:19 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2021-11-01 20:05:19 -0700
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Merge tag 'trace-v5.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt: - kprobes: Restructured stack unwinder to show properly on x86 when a stack dump happens from a kretprobe callback. - Fix to bootconfig parsing - Have tracefs allow owner and group permissions by default (only denying others). There's been pressure to allow non root to tracefs in a controlled fashion, and using groups is probably the safest. - Bootconfig memory managament updates. - Bootconfig clean up to have the tools directory be less dependent on changes in the kernel tree. - Allow perf to be traced by function tracer. - Rewrite of function graph tracer to be a callback from the function tracer instead of having its own trampoline (this change will happen on an arch by arch basis, and currently only x86_64 implements it). - Allow multiple direct trampolines (bpf hooks to functions) be batched together in one synchronization. - Allow histogram triggers to add variables that can perform calculations against the event's fields. - Use the linker to determine architecture callbacks from the ftrace trampoline to allow for proper parameter prototypes and prevent warnings from the compiler. - Extend histogram triggers to key off of variables. - Have trace recursion use bit magic to determine preempt context over if branches. - Have trace recursion disable preemption as all use cases do anyway. - Added testing for verification of tracing utilities. - Various small clean ups and fixes. * tag 'trace-v5.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (101 commits) tracing/histogram: Fix semicolon.cocci warnings tracing/histogram: Fix documentation inline emphasis warning tracing: Increase PERF_MAX_TRACE_SIZE to handle Sentinel1 and docker together tracing: Show size of requested perf buffer bootconfig: Initialize ret in xbc_parse_tree() ftrace: do CPU checking after preemption disabled ftrace: disable preemption when recursion locked tracing/histogram: Document expression arithmetic and constants tracing/histogram: Optimize division by a power of 2 tracing/histogram: Covert expr to const if both operands are constants tracing/histogram: Simplify handling of .sym-offset in expressions tracing: Fix operator precedence for hist triggers expression tracing: Add division and multiplication support for hist triggers tracing: Add support for creating hist trigger variables from literal selftests/ftrace: Stop tracing while reading the trace file by default MAINTAINERS: Update KPROBES and TRACING entries test_kprobes: Move it from kernel/ to lib/ docs, kprobes: Remove invalid URL and add new reference samples/kretprobes: Fix return value if register_kretprobe() failed lib/bootconfig: Fix the xbc_get_info kerneldoc ...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/trace/histogram.rst14
-rw-r--r--Documentation/trace/kprobes.rst2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/trace/timerlat-tracer.rst24
3 files changed, 27 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/trace/histogram.rst b/Documentation/trace/histogram.rst
index 533415644c54..66ec972dfb78 100644
--- a/Documentation/trace/histogram.rst
+++ b/Documentation/trace/histogram.rst
@@ -1763,6 +1763,20 @@ using the same key and variable from yet another event::
# echo 'hist:key=pid:wakeupswitch_lat=$wakeup_lat+$switchtime_lat ...' >> event3/trigger
+Expressions support the use of addition, subtraction, multiplication and
+division operators (+-\*/).
+
+Note that division by zero always returns -1.
+
+Numeric constants can also be used directly in an expression::
+
+ # echo 'hist:keys=next_pid:timestamp_secs=common_timestamp/1000000 ...' >> event/trigger
+
+or assigned to a variable and referenced in a subsequent expression::
+
+ # echo 'hist:keys=next_pid:us_per_sec=1000000 ...' >> event/trigger
+ # echo 'hist:keys=next_pid:timestamp_secs=common_timestamp/$us_per_sec ...' >> event/trigger
+
2.2.2 Synthetic Events
----------------------
diff --git a/Documentation/trace/kprobes.rst b/Documentation/trace/kprobes.rst
index 998149ce2fd9..f318bceda1e6 100644
--- a/Documentation/trace/kprobes.rst
+++ b/Documentation/trace/kprobes.rst
@@ -784,6 +784,6 @@ References
For additional information on Kprobes, refer to the following URLs:
-- https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-kprobes/index.html
+- https://lwn.net/Articles/132196/
- https://www.kernel.org/doc/ols/2006/ols2006v2-pages-109-124.pdf
diff --git a/Documentation/trace/timerlat-tracer.rst b/Documentation/trace/timerlat-tracer.rst
index c7cbb557aee7..64d1fe6e9b93 100644
--- a/Documentation/trace/timerlat-tracer.rst
+++ b/Documentation/trace/timerlat-tracer.rst
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Timerlat tracer
###############
The timerlat tracer aims to help the preemptive kernel developers to
-find souces of wakeup latencies of real-time threads. Like cyclictest,
+find sources of wakeup latencies of real-time threads. Like cyclictest,
the tracer sets a periodic timer that wakes up a thread. The thread then
computes a *wakeup latency* value as the difference between the *current
time* and the *absolute time* that the timer was set to expire. The main
@@ -50,14 +50,14 @@ The second is the *timer latency* observed by the thread. The ACTIVATION
ID field serves to relate the *irq* execution to its respective *thread*
execution.
-The *irq*/*thread* splitting is important to clarify at which context
+The *irq*/*thread* splitting is important to clarify in which context
the unexpected high value is coming from. The *irq* context can be
-delayed by hardware related actions, such as SMIs, NMIs, IRQs
-or by a thread masking interrupts. Once the timer happens, the delay
+delayed by hardware-related actions, such as SMIs, NMIs, IRQs,
+or by thread masking interrupts. Once the timer happens, the delay
can also be influenced by blocking caused by threads. For example, by
-postponing the scheduler execution via preempt_disable(), by the
-scheduler execution, or by masking interrupts. Threads can
-also be delayed by the interference from other threads and IRQs.
+postponing the scheduler execution via preempt_disable(), scheduler
+execution, or masking interrupts. Threads can also be delayed by the
+interference from other threads and IRQs.
Tracer options
---------------------
@@ -68,14 +68,14 @@ directory. The timerlat configs are:
- cpus: CPUs at which a timerlat thread will execute.
- timerlat_period_us: the period of the timerlat thread.
- - osnoise/stop_tracing_us: stop the system tracing if a
+ - stop_tracing_us: stop the system tracing if a
timer latency at the *irq* context higher than the configured
value happens. Writing 0 disables this option.
- stop_tracing_total_us: stop the system tracing if a
- timer latency at the *thread* context higher than the configured
+ timer latency at the *thread* context is higher than the configured
value happens. Writing 0 disables this option.
- - print_stack: save the stack of the IRQ ocurrence, and print
- it afte the *thread context* event".
+ - print_stack: save the stack of the IRQ occurrence, and print
+ it after the *thread context* event".
timerlat and osnoise
----------------------------
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ For example::
timerlat/5-1035 [005] ....... 548.771104: #402268 context thread timer_latency 39960 ns
In this case, the root cause of the timer latency does not point to a
-single cause, but to multiple ones. Firstly, the timer IRQ was delayed
+single cause but to multiple ones. Firstly, the timer IRQ was delayed
for 13 us, which may point to a long IRQ disabled section (see IRQ
stacktrace section). Then the timer interrupt that wakes up the timerlat
thread took 7597 ns, and the qxl:21 device IRQ took 7139 ns. Finally,