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authorDonglin Peng <pengdonglin@sangfor.com.cn>2023-04-08 05:42:15 -0700
committerSteven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>2023-06-20 18:38:37 -0400
commita1be9ccc57f07d54278be34eed6bd679bc941c97 (patch)
tree42e7e1e5dac6c414e1f49fff9a0f54c91961adc1 /kernel/trace/fgraph.c
parentf3d40e6545594c22733d091c5ec6b8ff345cbd57 (diff)
function_graph: Support recording and printing the return value of function
Analyzing system call failures with the function_graph tracer can be a time-consuming process, particularly when locating the kernel function that first returns an error in the trace logs. This change aims to simplify the process by recording the function return value to the 'retval' member of 'ftrace_graph_ret' and printing it when outputting the trace log. We have introduced new trace options: funcgraph-retval and funcgraph-retval-hex. The former controls whether to display the return value, while the latter controls the display format. Please note that even if a function's return type is void, a return value will still be printed. You can simply ignore it. This patch only establishes the fundamental infrastructure. Subsequent patches will make this feature available on some commonly used processor architectures. Here is an example: I attempted to attach the demo process to a cpu cgroup, but it failed: echo `pidof demo` > /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu/test/tasks -bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument The strace logs indicate that the write system call returned -EINVAL(-22): ... write(1, "273\n", 4) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument) ... To capture trace logs during a write system call, use the following commands: cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/ echo 0 > tracing_on echo > trace echo *sys_write > set_graph_function echo *spin* > set_graph_notrace echo *rcu* >> set_graph_notrace echo *alloc* >> set_graph_notrace echo preempt* >> set_graph_notrace echo kfree* >> set_graph_notrace echo $$ > set_ftrace_pid echo function_graph > current_tracer echo 1 > options/funcgraph-retval echo 0 > options/funcgraph-retval-hex echo 1 > tracing_on echo `pidof demo` > /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu/test/tasks echo 0 > tracing_on cat trace > ~/trace.log To locate the root cause, search for error code -22 directly in the file trace.log and identify the first function that returned -22. Once you have identified this function, examine its code to determine the root cause. For example, in the trace log below, cpu_cgroup_can_attach returned -22 first, so we can focus our analysis on this function to identify the root cause. ... 1) | cgroup_migrate() { 1) 0.651 us | cgroup_migrate_add_task(); /* = 0xffff93fcfd346c00 */ 1) | cgroup_migrate_execute() { 1) | cpu_cgroup_can_attach() { 1) | cgroup_taskset_first() { 1) 0.732 us | cgroup_taskset_next(); /* = 0xffff93fc8fb20000 */ 1) 1.232 us | } /* cgroup_taskset_first = 0xffff93fc8fb20000 */ 1) 0.380 us | sched_rt_can_attach(); /* = 0x0 */ 1) 2.335 us | } /* cpu_cgroup_can_attach = -22 */ 1) 4.369 us | } /* cgroup_migrate_execute = -22 */ 1) 7.143 us | } /* cgroup_migrate = -22 */ ... Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1fc502712c981e0e6742185ba242992170ac9da8.1680954589.git.pengdonglin@sangfor.com.cn Tested-by: Florian Kauer <florian.kauer@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Donglin Peng <pengdonglin@sangfor.com.cn> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/trace/fgraph.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/trace/fgraph.c23
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/fgraph.c b/kernel/trace/fgraph.c
index ea3d7bb235d3..cd2c35b1dd8f 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/fgraph.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/fgraph.c
@@ -243,12 +243,16 @@ struct fgraph_ret_regs;
* Send the trace to the ring-buffer.
* @return the original return address.
*/
-unsigned long ftrace_return_to_handler(unsigned long frame_pointer)
+static unsigned long __ftrace_return_to_handler(struct fgraph_ret_regs *ret_regs,
+ unsigned long frame_pointer)
{
struct ftrace_graph_ret trace;
unsigned long ret;
ftrace_pop_return_trace(&trace, &ret, frame_pointer);
+#ifdef CONFIG_FUNCTION_GRAPH_RETVAL
+ trace.retval = fgraph_ret_regs_return_value(ret_regs);
+#endif
trace.rettime = trace_clock_local();
ftrace_graph_return(&trace);
/*
@@ -269,6 +273,23 @@ unsigned long ftrace_return_to_handler(unsigned long frame_pointer)
return ret;
}
+/*
+ * After all architecures have selected HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_RETVAL, we can
+ * leave only ftrace_return_to_handler(ret_regs).
+ */
+#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_RETVAL
+unsigned long ftrace_return_to_handler(struct fgraph_ret_regs *ret_regs)
+{
+ return __ftrace_return_to_handler(ret_regs,
+ fgraph_ret_regs_frame_pointer(ret_regs));
+}
+#else
+unsigned long ftrace_return_to_handler(unsigned long frame_pointer)
+{
+ return __ftrace_return_to_handler(NULL, frame_pointer);
+}
+#endif
+
/**
* ftrace_graph_get_ret_stack - return the entry of the shadow stack
* @task: The task to read the shadow stack from