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When the ring buffer timestamp verifier triggers, it dumps the content of
the sub-buffer. But currently it only dumps the timestamps and the offset
of the data as well as the deltas. It would be even more informative if
the event data also showed the interrupt context level it was in.
That is, if each event showed that the event was written in normal,
softirq, irq or NMI context. Then a better idea about how the events may
have been interrupted from each other.
As the payload of the ring buffer is really a black box of the ring
buffer, just assume that if the payload is larger than a trace entry, that
it is a trace entry. As trace entries have the interrupt context
information saved in a flags field, look at that location and report the
output of the flags.
If the payload is not a trace entry, there's no way to really know, and
the information will be garbage. But that's OK, because this is for
debugging only (this output is not used in production as the buffer check
that calls it causes a huge overhead to the tracing). This information,
when available, is crucial for debugging timestamp issues. If it's
garbage, it will also be pretty obvious that its garbage too.
As this output usually happens in kselftests of the tracing code, the user
will know what the payload is at the time.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20231219074542.6f304601@gandalf.local.home
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Suggested-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Each event has a 27 bit timestamp delta that is used to hold the delta
from the last event. If the time between events is greater than 2^27, then
a timestamp is added that holds a 59 bit absolute timestamp.
Until a389d86f7fd09 ("ring-buffer: Have nested events still record running
time stamp"), if an interrupt interrupted an event in progress, all the
events delta would be zero to not deal with the races that need to be
handled. The commit a389d86f7fd09 changed that to handle the races giving
all events, even those that preempt other events, still have an accurate
timestamp.
To handle those races requires performing 64-bit cmpxchg on the
timestamps. But doing 64-bit cmpxchg on 32-bit architectures is considered
very slow. To try to deal with this the timestamp logic was broken into
two and then three 32-bit cmpxchgs, with the thought that two (or three)
32-bit cmpxchgs are still faster than a single 64-bit cmpxchg on 32-bit
architectures.
Part of the problem with this is that I didn't have any 32-bit
architectures to test on. After hitting several subtle bugs in this code,
an effort was made to try and see if three 32-bit cmpxchgs are indeed
faster than a single 64-bit. After a few people brushed off the dust of
their old 32-bit machines, tests were done, and even though 32-bit cmpxchg
was faster than a single 64-bit, it was in the order of 50% at best, not
300%.
After some more refactoring of the code, all 4 64-bit cmpxchg were removed:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20231211114420.36dde01b@gandalf.local.home
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20231214222921.193037a7@gandalf.local.home
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20231215081810.1f4f38fe@rorschach.local.home
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20231218230712.3a76b081@gandalf.local.home/
With all the 64-bit cmpxchg removed, the complex 32-bit workaround can also be
removed.
The 32-bit and 64-bit logic is now exactly the same.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20231213214632.15047c40@gandalf.local.home/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20231219074303.28f9abda@gandalf.local.home
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>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Steven Rostedt (Google)