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2018-10-30Merge tag 'trace-v4.20' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt: "The biggest change here is the updates to kprobes Back in January I posted patches to create function based events. These were the events that you suggested I make to allow developers to easily create events in code where no trace event exists. After posting those changes for review, it was suggested that we implement this instead with kprobes. The problem with kprobes is that the interface is too complex and needs to be simplified. Masami Hiramatsu posted patches in March and I've been playing with them a bit. There's been a bit of clean up in the kprobe code that was inspired by the function based event patches, and a couple of enhancements to the kprobe event interface. - If the arch supports it (we added support for x86), you can place a kprobe event at the start of a function and use $arg1, $arg2, etc to reference the arguments of a function. (Before you needed to know what register or where on the stack the argument was). - The second is a way to see array of events. For example, if you reference a mac address, you can add: echo 'p:mac ip_rcv perm_addr=+574($arg2):x8[6]' > kprobe_events And this will produce: mac: (ip_rcv+0x0/0x140) perm_addr={0x52,0x54,0x0,0xc0,0x76,0xec} Other changes include - Exporting trace_dump_stack to modules - Have the stack tracer trace the entire stack (stop trying to remove tracing itself, as we keep removing too much). - Added support for SDT in uprobes" [ SDT - "Statically Defined Tracing" are userspace markers for tracing. Let's not use random TLA's in explanations unless they are fairly well-established as generic (at least for kernel people) - Linus ] * tag 'trace-v4.20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (24 commits) tracing: Have stack tracer trace full stack tracing: Export trace_dump_stack to modules tracing: probeevent: Fix uninitialized used of offset in parse args tracing/kprobes: Allow kprobe-events to record module symbol tracing/kprobes: Check the probe on unloaded module correctly tracing/uprobes: Fix to return -EFAULT if copy_from_user failed tracing: probeevent: Add $argN for accessing function args x86: ptrace: Add function argument access API tracing: probeevent: Add array type support tracing: probeevent: Add symbol type tracing: probeevent: Unify fetch_insn processing common part tracing: probeevent: Append traceprobe_ for exported function tracing: probeevent: Return consumed bytes of dynamic area tracing: probeevent: Unify fetch type tables tracing: probeevent: Introduce new argument fetching code tracing: probeevent: Remove NOKPROBE_SYMBOL from print functions tracing: probeevent: Cleanup argument field definition tracing: probeevent: Cleanup print argument functions trace_uprobe: support reference counter in fd-based uprobe perf probe: Support SDT markers having reference counter (semaphore) ...
2018-10-26Merge tag 'char-misc-4.20-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc Pull char/misc driver updates from Greg KH: "Here is the big set of char/misc patches for 4.20-rc1. Loads of things here, we have new code in all of these driver subsystems: - fpga - stm - extcon - nvmem - eeprom - hyper-v - gsmi - coresight - thunderbolt - vmw_balloon - goldfish - soundwire along with lots of fixes and minor changes to other small drivers. All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported issues" * tag 'char-misc-4.20-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (245 commits) Documentation/security-bugs: Clarify treatment of embargoed information lib: Fix ia64 bootloader linkage MAINTAINERS: Clarify UIO vs UIOVEC maintainer docs/uio: fix a grammar nitpick docs: fpga: document programming fpgas using regions fpga: add devm_fpga_region_create fpga: bridge: add devm_fpga_bridge_create fpga: mgr: add devm_fpga_mgr_create hv_balloon: Replace spin_is_locked() with lockdep sgi-xp: Replace spin_is_locked() with lockdep eeprom: New ee1004 driver for DDR4 memory eeprom: at25: remove unneeded 'at25_remove' w1: IAD Register is yet readable trough iad sys file. Fix snprintf (%u for unsigned, count for max size). misc: mic: scif: remove set but not used variables 'src_dma_addr, dst_dma_addr' misc: mic: fix a DMA pool free failure platform: goldfish: pipe: Add a blank line to separate varibles and code platform: goldfish: pipe: Remove redundant casting platform: goldfish: pipe: Call misc_deregister if init fails platform: goldfish: pipe: Move the file-scope goldfish_pipe_dev variable into the driver state platform: goldfish: pipe: Move the file-scope goldfish_pipe_miscdev variable into the driver state ...
2018-10-18docs: Fix typos in histogram.rstMasanari Iida
This patch fixes some spelling typos. Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-10-11stm class: SPDX-ify the documentationAlexander Shishkin
Add the SPDX header to the STM class documentation. Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Tested-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-10-11stm class: Update documentation to match the new identification rulesAlexander Shishkin
The rules and order of identification of trace sources against the "stp-policy" have changed; update the documentation to reflect that. Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-10-11stm class: Document the MIPI SyS-T protocol usageAlexander Shishkin
Add a document describing MIPI SyS-T protocol driver usage. Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Tested-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-10-10tracing: probeevent: Add $argN for accessing function argsMasami Hiramatsu
Add $argN special fetch variable for accessing function arguments. This allows user to trace the Nth argument easily at the function entry. Note that this returns most probably assignment of registers and stacks. In some case, it may not work well. If you need to access correct registers or stacks you should use perf-probe. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/152465888632.26224.3412465701570253696.stgit@devbox Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2018-10-10tracing: probeevent: Add array type supportMasami Hiramatsu
Add array type support for probe events. This allows user to get arraied types from memory address. The array type syntax is TYPE[N] Where TYPE is one of types (u8/16/32/64,s8/16/32/64, x8/16/32/64, symbol, string) and N is a fixed value less than 64. The string array type is a bit different from other types. For other base types, <base-type>[1] is equal to <base-type> (e.g. +0(%di):x32[1] is same as +0(%di):x32.) But string[1] is not equal to string. The string type itself represents "char array", but string array type represents "char * array". So, for example, +0(%di):string[1] is equal to +0(+0(%di)):string. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/152465891533.26224.6150658225601339931.stgit@devbox Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2018-10-10tracing: probeevent: Add symbol typeMasami Hiramatsu
Add "symbol" type to probeevent, which is an alias of u32 or u64 (depends on BITS_PER_LONG). This shows the result value in symbol+offset style. This type is only available with kprobe events. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/152465882860.26224.14779072294412467338.stgit@devbox Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2018-08-31docs: tracing: Add stacktrace filter commandMasami Hiramatsu
Add a description of stacktrace filter command. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-08-14Merge tag 'docs-4.19' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds
Pull documentation update from Jonathan Corbet: "This was a moderately busy cycle for docs, with the usual collection of small fixes and updates. We also have new ktime_get_*() docs from Arnd, some kernel-doc fixes, a new set of Italian translations (non so se vale la pena, ma non fa male - speriamo bene), and some extensive early memory-management documentation improvements from Mike Rapoport" * tag 'docs-4.19' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (52 commits) Documentation: corrections to console/console.txt Documentation: add ioctl number entry for v4l2-subdev.h Remove gendered language from management style documentation scripts/kernel-doc: Escape all literal braces in regexes docs/mm: add description of boot time memory management docs/mm: memblock: add overview documentation docs/mm: memblock: add kernel-doc description for memblock types docs/mm: memblock: add kernel-doc comments for memblock_add[_node] docs/mm: memblock: update kernel-doc comments mm/memblock: add a name for memblock flags enumeration docs/mm: bootmem: add overview documentation docs/mm: bootmem: add kernel-doc description of 'struct bootmem_data' docs/mm: bootmem: fix kernel-doc warnings docs/mm: nobootmem: fixup kernel-doc comments mm/bootmem: drop duplicated kernel-doc comments Documentation: vm.txt: Adding 'nr_hugepages_mempolicy' parameter description. doc:it_IT: translation for kernel-hacking docs: Fix the reference labels in Locking.rst doc: tracing: Fix a typo of trace_stat mm: Introduce new type vm_fault_t ...
2018-07-26doc: tracing: Fix a typo of trace_statMasami Hiramatsu
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>
2018-07-26cpufreq: trace frequency limits changeRuchi Kandoi
systrace used for tracing for Android systems has carried a patch for many years in the Android tree that traces when the cpufreq limits change. With the help of this information, systrace can know when the policy limits change and can visually display the data. Lets add upstream support for the same. Signed-off-by: Ruchi Kandoi <kandoiruchi@google.com> Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org> Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2018-07-23Documentation: kprobetrace: document 'trigger' fileAndreas Ziegler
As the other files are documented explicitly, let's add a short description for 'trigger' as well. Signed-off-by: Andreas Ziegler <andreas.ziegler@fau.de> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-07-23Documentation: {u,k}probes: fix filename for event enablingAndreas Ziegler
The per-event files to enable or disable kprobes and uprobes are named 'enable', not 'enabled'. Fix the corresponding documentation. Signed-off-by: Andreas Ziegler <andreas.ziegler@fau.de> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-07-02docs: histogram.txt: convert it to ReST file formatMauro Carvalho Chehab
Despite being mentioned at Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst as a rst file, this file was still a text one, with several issues. Convert it to ReST and add it to the trace index: - Mark the document title as such; - Identify and indent the literal blocks; - Use the proper markups for table. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-06-21tracing: Fix some errors in histogram documentationJoel Fernandes (Google)
Fix typos, inconsistencies in using quotes, incorrect section number, etc. in the trace histogram documentation. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180614224859.55864-1-joel@joelfernandes.org Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Acked-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2018-06-15docs: Fix some broken referencesMauro Carvalho Chehab
As we move stuff around, some doc references are broken. Fix some of them via this script: ./scripts/documentation-file-ref-check --fix Manually checked if the produced result is valid, removing a few false-positives. Acked-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Acked-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org> Acked-by: Charles Keepax <ckeepax@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> Acked-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Acked-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-06-15docs: fix broken references with multiple hintsMauro Carvalho Chehab
The script: ./scripts/documentation-file-ref-check --fix Gives multiple hints for broken references on some files. Manually use the one that applies for some files. Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Acked-by: James Morris <james.morris@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Acked-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-06-06Merge tag 'trace-v4.18' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace 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} ...
2018-06-05Merge tag 'char-misc-4.18-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc Pull char/misc driver updates from Greg KH: "Here is the "big" char and misc driver patches for 4.18-rc1. It's not a lot of stuff here, but there are some highlights: - coreboot driver updates - soundwire driver updates - android binder updates - fpga big sync, mostly documentation - lots of minor driver updates All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported issues" * tag 'char-misc-4.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (81 commits) vmw_balloon: fixing double free when batching mode is off MAINTAINERS: Add driver-api/fpga path fpga: clarify that unregister functions also free documentation: fpga: move fpga-region.txt to driver-api documentation: fpga: add bridge document to driver-api documentation: fpga: move fpga-mgr.txt to driver-api Documentation: fpga: move fpga overview to driver-api fpga: region: kernel-doc fixes fpga: bridge: kernel-doc fixes fpga: mgr: kernel-doc fixes fpga: use SPDX fpga: region: change api, add fpga_region_create/free fpga: bridge: change api, don't use drvdata fpga: manager: change api, don't use drvdata fpga: region: don't use drvdata in common fpga code Drivers: hv: vmbus: Removed an unnecessary cast from void * ver_linux: Drop redundant calls to system() to test if file is readable ver_linux: Move stderr redirection from function parameter to function body misc: IBM Virtual Management Channel Driver (VMC) rpmsg: Correct support for MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() ...
2018-06-04Merge tag 'docs-4.18' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds
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)
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>
2018-05-14coresight: Remove %px for printing pcsr valueLeo Yan
The driver prints pcsr twice: the first time it uses specifier %px to print hexadecimal pcsr value and the second time uses specifier %pS for output kernel symbols. As suggested by Kees, using %pS should be sufficient and %px isn't necessary; the reason is if the pcsr is a kernel space address, we can easily get to know the code line from %pS format, on the other hand, if the pcsr value doesn't fall into kernel space range (e.g. if the CPU is stuck in firmware), %pS also gives out pcsr hexadecimal value. So this commit removes useless %px and update section "Output format" in the document for alignment between the code and document. Suggested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-04-27coresight: Grouping all perf tools oriented section togetherMathieu Poirier
This patch groups together section pertaining to the perf tools. That way everything is at the same place rather than spread out. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-04-27coresight: Add section for integration with the perf toolsMathieu Poirier
Adding a section that document how to use the Coresight framework and drivers from the perf tools. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-04-27coresight: Remove obsolete reference to "owner" in CoreSight descriptorMathieu Poirier
Field "owner" of struct coresight_desc has been removed a while back but the documentation was not updated to reflect the changes. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-04-27linux-next: ftrace/docs: Fix spelling typos in ftrace-users.rstMasanari Iida
This patch corrects some spelling typo in ftrace-users.rst Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-04-26Revert: Unify CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIMEThomas Gleixner
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 Maier
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 ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace 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 ...
2018-04-05mm, page_alloc: wakeup kcompactd even if kswapd cannot free more memoryDavid Rientjes
Kswapd will not wakeup if per-zone watermarks are not failing or if too many previous attempts at background reclaim have failed. This can be true if there is a lot of free memory available. For high- order allocations, kswapd is responsible for waking up kcompactd for background compaction. If the zone is not below its watermarks or reclaim has recently failed (lots of free memory, nothing left to reclaim), kcompactd does not get woken up. When __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM is not allowed, allow kcompactd to still be woken up even if kswapd will not reclaim. This allows high-order allocations, such as thp, to still trigger background compaction even when the zone has an abundance of free memory. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.20.1803111659420.209721@chino.kir.corp.google.com Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-04-04Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 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
2018-04-03Merge tag 'docs-4.17' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "There's been a fair amount of activity in Documentation/ this time around: - Lots of work aligning Documentation/ABI with reality, done by Aishwarya Pant. - The trace documentation has been converted to RST by Changbin Du - I thrashed up kernel-doc to deal with a parsing issue and to try to make the code more readable. It's still a 20+-year-old Perl hack, though. - Lots of other updates, typo fixes, and more" * tag 'docs-4.17' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (82 commits) Documentation/process: update FUSE project website docs: kernel-doc: fix parsing of arrays dmaengine: Fix spelling for parenthesis in dmatest documentation dmaengine: Make dmatest.rst indeed reST compatible dmaengine: Add note to dmatest documentation about supported channels Documentation: magic-numbers: Fix typo Documentation: admin-guide: add kvmconfig, xenconfig and tinyconfig commands Input: alps - Update documentation for trackstick v3 format Documentation: Mention why %p prints ptrval COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files COPYING: create a new file with points to the Kernel license files Input: trackpoint: document sysfs interface xfs: Change URL for the project in xfs.txt char/bsr: add sysfs interface documentation acpi: nfit: document sysfs interface block: rbd: update sysfs interface Documentation/sparse: fix typo Documentation/CodingStyle: Add an example for braces docs/vm: update 00-INDEX kernel-doc: Remove __sched markings ...
2018-03-13tracing: Unify the "boot" and "mono" tracing clocksThomas Gleixner
Unify the "boot" and "mono" tracing clocks and document the new behaviour. 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> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180301165150.489635255@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-03-10tracing: Add a clock attribute for hist triggersTom Zanussi
The default clock if timestamps are used in a histogram is "global". If timestamps aren't used, the clock is irrelevant. Use the "clock=" param only if you want to override the default "global" clock for a histogram with timestamps. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/427bed1389c5d22aa40c3e0683e30cc3d151e260.1516069914.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Rajvi Jingar <rajvi.jingar@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2018-03-10tracing: Add inter-event hist trigger DocumentationTom Zanussi
Add background and details on inter-event hist triggers, including hist variables, synthetic events, and actions. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/b0414efb66535aa52aa7411f58c3d56724027fce.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>
2018-03-10tracing: Add 'last error' error facility for hist triggersTom Zanussi
With the addition of variables and actions, it's become necessary to provide more detailed error information to users about syntax errors. Add a 'last error' facility accessible via the erroring event's 'hist' file. Reading the hist file after an error will display more detailed information about what went wrong, if information is available. This extended error information will be available until the next hist trigger command for that event. # echo xxx > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/sched/sched_wakeup/trigger echo: write error: Invalid argument # cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/sched/sched_wakeup/hist ERROR: Couldn't yyy: zzz Last command: xxx Also add specific error messages for variable and action errors. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/64e9c422fc8aeafcc2f7a3b4328c0cffe7969129.1516069914.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>
2018-03-10tracing: Add cpu field for hist triggersTom Zanussi
A common key to use in a histogram is the cpuid - add a new cpu 'synthetic' field named 'cpu' for that purpose. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/89537645bfc957e0d76e2cacf5f0ada88691a6cc.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>
2018-03-10tracing: Add usecs modifier for hist trigger timestampsTom Zanussi
Appending .usecs onto a common_timestamp field will cause the timestamp value to be in microseconds instead of the default nanoseconds. A typical latency histogram using usecs would look like this: # echo 'hist:keys=pid,prio:ts0=common_timestamp.usecs ... # echo 'hist:keys=next_pid:wakeup_lat=common_timestamp.usecs-$ts0 ... This also adds an external trace_clock_in_ns() to trace.c for the timestamp conversion. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4e813705a170b3e13e97dc3135047362fb1a39f3.1516069914.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>
2018-03-10tracing: Add timestamp_mode trace fileTom Zanussi
Add a new option flag indicating whether or not the ring buffer is in 'absolute timestamp' mode. Currently this is only set/unset by hist triggers that make use of a common_timestamp. As such, there's no reason to make this writeable for users - its purpose is only to allow users to determine unequivocally whether or not the ring buffer is in that mode (although absolute timestamps can coexist with the normal delta timestamps, when the ring buffer is in absolute mode, timestamps written while absolute mode is in effect take up more space in the buffer, and are not as efficient). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e8aa7b1cde1cf15014e66545d06ac6ef2ebba456.1516069914.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>
2018-03-10tracing: Add Documentation for log2 modifierTom Zanussi
Add a line for the log2 modifier, to keep it aligned with tracing/README. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/a419028bccab155749a4b8702d5b97af75f1578f.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>
2018-03-10tracing: Move hist trigger Documentation to histogram.txtTom Zanussi
The hist trigger Documentation takes up a large part of events.txt - since it will be getting even larger, move it to a separate file. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/92761155ea4f529e590821b1e02207fe8619f248.1516069914.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>
2018-03-07docs: ftrace: fix a few formatting issuesJonathan Corbet
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/stm.txt to rst formatChangbin Du
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>
2018-03-07trace doc: convert trace/intel_th.txt to rst formatChangbin Du
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>
2018-03-07trace doc: convert trace/hwlat_detector.txt to rst fromatChangbin Du
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>
2018-03-07trace doc: convert trace/mmiotrace.txt to rst formatChangbin Du
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>
2018-03-07trace doc: convert trace/events-msr.txt to rst formatChangbin Du
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>
2018-03-07trace doc: convert trace/events-nmi.txt to rst formatChangbin Du
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>