From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Subject: [git pull] tracing fixes
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:08:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090219170818.GA27350@elte.hu> (raw)
Linus,
Please pull the latest tracing-fixes-for-linus git tree from:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip.git tracing-fixes-for-linus
Thanks,
Ingo
------------------>
Frederic Weisbecker (1):
tracing/function-graph-tracer: trace the idle tasks
Steven Rostedt (3):
tracing: disable tracing while testing ring buffer
tracing: have function trace select kallsyms
tracing: limit the number of loops the ring buffer self test can make
kernel/trace/Kconfig | 2 ++
kernel/trace/ftrace.c | 6 +++++-
kernel/trace/trace_selftest.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/trace/Kconfig b/kernel/trace/Kconfig
index 58a93fb..34e707e 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/Kconfig
+++ b/kernel/trace/Kconfig
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ config FUNCTION_TRACER
depends on HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACER
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
select FRAME_POINTER
+ select KALLSYMS
select TRACING
select CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER
help
@@ -238,6 +239,7 @@ config STACK_TRACER
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
select FUNCTION_TRACER
select STACKTRACE
+ select KALLSYMS
help
This special tracer records the maximum stack footprint of the
kernel and displays it in debugfs/tracing/stack_trace.
diff --git a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
index 9a236ff..fdf913d 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
@@ -2033,7 +2033,7 @@ free:
static int start_graph_tracing(void)
{
struct ftrace_ret_stack **ret_stack_list;
- int ret;
+ int ret, cpu;
ret_stack_list = kmalloc(FTRACE_RETSTACK_ALLOC_SIZE *
sizeof(struct ftrace_ret_stack *),
@@ -2042,6 +2042,10 @@ static int start_graph_tracing(void)
if (!ret_stack_list)
return -ENOMEM;
+ /* The cpu_boot init_task->ret_stack will never be freed */
+ for_each_online_cpu(cpu)
+ ftrace_graph_init_task(idle_task(cpu));
+
do {
ret = alloc_retstack_tasklist(ret_stack_list);
} while (ret == -EAGAIN);
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_selftest.c b/kernel/trace/trace_selftest.c
index 88c8eb7..bc8e80a 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_selftest.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_selftest.c
@@ -23,10 +23,20 @@ static int trace_test_buffer_cpu(struct trace_array *tr, int cpu)
{
struct ring_buffer_event *event;
struct trace_entry *entry;
+ unsigned int loops = 0;
while ((event = ring_buffer_consume(tr->buffer, cpu, NULL))) {
entry = ring_buffer_event_data(event);
+ /*
+ * The ring buffer is a size of trace_buf_size, if
+ * we loop more than the size, there's something wrong
+ * with the ring buffer.
+ */
+ if (loops++ > trace_buf_size) {
+ printk(KERN_CONT ".. bad ring buffer ");
+ goto failed;
+ }
if (!trace_valid_entry(entry)) {
printk(KERN_CONT ".. invalid entry %d ",
entry->type);
@@ -57,11 +67,20 @@ static int trace_test_buffer(struct trace_array *tr, unsigned long *count)
cnt = ring_buffer_entries(tr->buffer);
+ /*
+ * The trace_test_buffer_cpu runs a while loop to consume all data.
+ * If the calling tracer is broken, and is constantly filling
+ * the buffer, this will run forever, and hard lock the box.
+ * We disable the ring buffer while we do this test to prevent
+ * a hard lock up.
+ */
+ tracing_off();
for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
ret = trace_test_buffer_cpu(tr, cpu);
if (ret)
break;
}
+ tracing_on();
__raw_spin_unlock(&ftrace_max_lock);
local_irq_restore(flags);
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2009-02-19 17:08 Ingo Molnar [this message]
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2010-04-04 10:09 [GIT PULL] tracing fixes Ingo Molnar
2010-03-13 16:33 Ingo Molnar
2010-02-14 9:09 Ingo Molnar
2010-02-15 1:40 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2010-02-15 4:50 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-02-15 16:57 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2010-01-31 17:23 Ingo Molnar
2010-01-16 16:57 Ingo Molnar
2009-12-31 11:55 Ingo Molnar
2009-12-15 20:31 Ingo Molnar
2009-12-10 19:40 Ingo Molnar
2009-11-04 15:49 Ingo Molnar
2009-11-01 15:26 Ingo Molnar
2009-10-13 18:17 Ingo Molnar
2009-10-08 18:52 Ingo Molnar
2009-10-02 12:37 Ingo Molnar
2009-09-26 12:23 Ingo Molnar
2009-09-21 13:02 Ingo Molnar
2009-09-21 16:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-09-21 16:22 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-09-26 16:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-10-01 19:02 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-08-25 18:02 Ingo Molnar
2009-08-09 16:08 Ingo Molnar
2009-08-04 19:01 Ingo Molnar
2009-07-10 16:25 Ingo Molnar
2009-06-26 18:56 Ingo Molnar
2009-06-20 16:53 Ingo Molnar
2009-05-18 14:29 Ingo Molnar
2009-05-05 9:31 Ingo Molnar
2009-04-17 1:01 Ingo Molnar
2009-04-13 17:32 Ingo Molnar
2009-04-09 15:45 Ingo Molnar
2009-04-07 19:23 Ingo Molnar
2009-02-17 16:37 [git pull] " Ingo Molnar
2009-02-11 14:25 Ingo Molnar
2009-02-04 19:08 Ingo Molnar
2009-01-30 23:02 Ingo Molnar
2009-01-11 14:47 Ingo Molnar
2008-11-29 19:34 Ingo Molnar
2008-11-20 11:26 Ingo Molnar
2008-11-18 14:46 Ingo Molnar
2008-11-11 18:24 Ingo Molnar
2008-11-03 18:03 Ingo Molnar
2008-08-28 13:31 Ingo Molnar
2008-07-26 19:52 Ingo Molnar
2008-07-17 17:32 Ingo Molnar
2008-07-18 2:52 ` Steven Rostedt
2008-07-18 3:02 ` Steven Rostedt
2008-07-18 8:41 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-18 10:35 ` Ingo Molnar
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