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2018-07-26doc: tracing: Fix a typo of trace_statMasami Hiramatsu1-2/+2
The name of the directory for per-cpu function statistics is trace_stat, not trace_stats. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-06-06Merge tag 'trace-v4.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-traceLinus Torvalds1-0/+5
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt: "One new feature was added to ftrace, which is the trace_marker now supports triggers. For example: # cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # echo 'snapshot' > events/ftrace/print/trigger # echo 'cause snapshot' > trace_marker The rest of the changes are various clean ups and also one stable fix that was added late in the cycle" * tag 'trace-v4.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (21 commits) tracing: Use match_string() instead of open coding it in trace_set_options() branch-check: fix long->int truncation when profiling branches ring-buffer: Fix typo in comment ring-buffer: Fix a bunch of typos in comments tracing/selftest: Add test to test simple snapshot trigger for trace_marker tracing/selftest: Add test to test hist trigger between kernel event and trace_marker tracing/selftest: Add selftests to test trace_marker histogram triggers ftrace/selftest: Fix reset_trigger() to handle triggers with filters ftrace/selftest: Have the reset_trigger code be a bit more careful tracing: Document trace_marker triggers tracing: Allow histogram triggers to access ftrace internal events tracing: Prevent further users of zero size static arrays in trace events tracing: Have zero size length in filter logic be full string tracing: Add trigger file for trace_markers tracefs/ftrace/print tracing: Do not show filter file for ftrace internal events tracing: Add brackets in ftrace event dynamic arrays tracing: Have event_trace_init() called by trace_init_tracefs() tracing: Add __find_event_file() to find event files without restrictions tracing: Do not reference event data in post call triggers tracepoints: Fix the descriptions of tracepoint_probe_register{_prio} ...
2018-06-04Merge tag 'docs-4.18' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds1-1/+6
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "There's been a fair amount of work in the docs tree this time around, including: - Extensive RST conversions and organizational work in the memory-management docs thanks to Mike Rapoport. - An update of Documentation/features from Andrea Parri and a script to keep it updated. - Various LICENSES updates from Thomas, along with a script to check SPDX tags. - Work to fix dangling references to documentation files; this involved a fair number of one-liner comment changes outside of Documentation/ ... and the usual list of documentation improvements, typo fixes, etc" * tag 'docs-4.18' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (103 commits) Documentation: document hung_task_panic kernel parameter docs/admin-guide/mm: add high level concepts overview docs/vm: move ksm and transhuge from "user" to "internals" section. docs: Use the kerneldoc comments for memalloc_no*() doc: document scope NOFS, NOIO APIs docs: update kernel versions and dates in tables docs/vm: transhuge: split userspace bits to admin-guide/mm/transhuge docs/vm: transhuge: minor updates docs/vm: transhuge: change sections order Documentation: arm: clean up Marvell Berlin family info Documentation: gpio: driver: Fix a typo and some odd grammar docs: ranoops.rst: fix location of ramoops.txt scripts/documentation-file-ref-check: rewrite it in perl with auto-fix mode docs: uio-howto.rst: use a code block to solve a warning mm, THP, doc: Add document for thp_swpout/thp_swpout_fallback w1: w1_io.c: fix a kernel-doc warning Documentation/process/posting: wrap text at 80 cols docs: admin-guide: add cgroup-v2 documentation Revert "Documentation/features/vm: Remove arch support status file for 'pte_special'" Documentation: refcount-vs-atomic: Update reference to LKMM doc. ...
2018-05-29tracing: Document trace_marker triggersSteven Rostedt (VMware)1-0/+5
Add documentation and an example on how to use trace_marker triggers. Reviewed-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2018-04-26Revert: Unify CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIMEThomas Gleixner1-3/+11
Revert commits 92af4dcb4e1c ("tracing: Unify the "boot" and "mono" tracing clocks") 127bfa5f4342 ("hrtimer: Unify MONOTONIC and BOOTTIME clock behavior") 7250a4047aa6 ("posix-timers: Unify MONOTONIC and BOOTTIME clock behavior") d6c7270e913d ("timekeeping: Remove boot time specific code") f2d6fdbfd238 ("Input: Evdev - unify MONOTONIC and BOOTTIME clock behavior") d6ed449afdb3 ("timekeeping: Make the MONOTONIC clock behave like the BOOTTIME clock") 72199320d49d ("timekeeping: Add the new CLOCK_MONOTONIC_ACTIVE clock") As stated in the pull request for the unification of CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME, it was clear that we might have to revert the change. As reported by several folks systemd and other applications rely on the documented behaviour of CLOCK_MONOTONIC on Linux and break with the above changes. After resume daemons time out and other timeout related issues are observed. Rafael compiled this list: * systemd kills daemons on resume, after >WatchdogSec seconds of suspending (Genki Sky). [Verified that that's because systemd uses CLOCK_MONOTONIC and expects it to not include the suspend time.] * systemd-journald misbehaves after resume: systemd-journald[7266]: File /var/log/journal/016627c3c4784cd4812d4b7e96a34226/system.journal corrupted or uncleanly shut down, renaming and replacing. (Mike Galbraith). * NetworkManager reports "networking disabled" and networking is broken after resume 50% of the time (Pavel). [May be because of systemd.] * MATE desktop dims the display and starts the screensaver right after system resume (Pavel). * Full system hang during resume (me). [May be due to systemd or NM or both.] That happens on debian and open suse systems. It's sad, that these problems were neither catched in -next nor by those folks who expressed interest in this change. Reported-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net> Reported-by: Genki Sky <sky@genki.is>, Reported-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Kevin Easton <kevin@guarana.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mark Salyzyn <salyzyn@android.com> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2018-04-16Documentation: ftrace: clarify filters with dynamic ftrace and graphSteffen Maier1-1/+6
I fell into the trap of having set up function tracer with a very limited filter and then switched over to function_graph and was erroneously wondering why the latter did not trace what I expected, which was the full unabridged graph recursion. Signed-off-by: Steffen Maier <maier@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-04-10Merge tag 'trace-v4.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-traceLinus Torvalds1-0/+24
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt: "New features: - Tom Zanussi's extended histogram work. This adds the synthetic events to have histograms from multiple event data Adds triggers "onmatch" and "onmax" to call the synthetic events Several updates to the histogram code from this - Allow way to nest ring buffer calls in the same context - Allow absolute time stamps in ring buffer - Rewrite of filter code parsing based on Al Viro's suggestions - Setting of trace_clock to global if TSC is unstable (on boot) - Better OOM handling when allocating large ring buffers - Added initcall tracepoints (consolidated initcall_debug code with them) And other various fixes and clean ups" * tag 'trace-v4.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (68 commits) init: Have initcall_debug still work without CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS init, tracing: Have printk come through the trace events for initcall_debug init, tracing: instrument security and console initcall trace events init, tracing: Add initcall trace events tracing: Add rcu dereference annotation for test func that touches filter->prog tracing: Add rcu dereference annotation for filter->prog tracing: Fixup logic inversion on setting trace_global_clock defaults tracing: Hide global trace clock from lockdep ring-buffer: Add set/clear_current_oom_origin() during allocations ring-buffer: Check if memory is available before allocation lockdep: Add print_irqtrace_events() to __warn vsprintf: Do not preprocess non-dereferenced pointers for bprintf (%px and %pK) tracing: Uninitialized variable in create_tracing_map_fields() tracing: Make sure variable string fields are NULL-terminated tracing: Add action comparisons when testing matching hist triggers tracing: Don't add flag strings when displaying variable references tracing: Fix display of hist trigger expressions containing timestamps ftrace: Drop a VLA in module_exists() tracing: Mention trace_clock=global when warning about unstable clocks tracing: Default to using trace_global_clock if sched_clock is unstable ...
2018-04-04Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tipLinus Torvalds1-15/+7
Pull time(r) updates from Thomas Gleixner: "A small set of updates for timers and timekeeping: - The most interesting change is the consolidation of clock MONOTONIC and clock BOOTTIME. Clock MONOTONIC behaves now exactly like clock BOOTTIME and does not longer ignore the time spent in suspend. A new clock MONOTONIC_ACTIVE is provived which behaves like clock MONOTONIC in kernels before this change. This allows applications to programmatically check for the clock MONOTONIC behaviour. As discussed in the review thread, this has the potential of breaking user space and we might have to revert this. Knock on wood that we can avoid that exercise. - Updates to the NTP mechanism to improve accuracy - A new kernel internal data structure to aid the ongoing Y2038 work. - Cleanups and simplifications of the clocksource code. - Make the alarmtimer code play nicely with debugobjects" * 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: alarmtimer: Init nanosleep alarm timer on stack y2038: Introduce struct __kernel_old_timeval tracing: Unify the "boot" and "mono" tracing clocks hrtimer: Unify MONOTONIC and BOOTTIME clock behavior posix-timers: Unify MONOTONIC and BOOTTIME clock behavior timekeeping: Remove boot time specific code Input: Evdev - unify MONOTONIC and BOOTTIME clock behavior timekeeping: Make the MONOTONIC clock behave like the BOOTTIME clock timekeeping: Add the new CLOCK_MONOTONIC_ACTIVE clock timekeeping/ntp: Determine the multiplier directly from NTP tick length timekeeping/ntp: Don't align NTP frequency adjustments to ticks clocksource: Use ATTRIBUTE_GROUPS clocksource: Use DEVICE_ATTR_RW/RO/WO to define device attributes clocksource: Don't walk the clocksource list for empty override
2018-03-07docs: ftrace: fix a few formatting issuesJonathan Corbet1-4/+4
Make sure that literal * characters are not interpreted as emphasis markers. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-03-07trace doc: convert trace/ftrace.txt to rst formatChangbin Du1-0/+3332
This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format and add it into Sphinx TOC tree. No essential content change. Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>