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From: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] tracing: separate raw syscall from syscall tracer
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:45:32 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AEFC37C.5080609@cn.fujitsu.com> (raw)


current syscall tracer mixes raw syscalls and real syscalls.

echo 1 > events/syscalls/enable
And we get these from the output:

(XXXX insteads "            grep-20914 [001] 588211.446347" .. etc)

XXXX: sys_read(fd: 3, buf: 80609a8, count: 7000)
XXXX: sys_enter: NR 3 (3, 80609a8, 7000, a, 1000, bfce8ef8)
XXXX: sys_read -> 0x138
XXXX: sys_exit: NR 3 = 312
XXXX: sys_read(fd: 3, buf: 8060ae0, count: 7000)
XXXX: sys_enter: NR 3 (3, 8060ae0, 7000, a, 1000, bfce8ef8)
XXXX: sys_read -> 0x138
XXXX: sys_exit: NR 3 = 312

There are 2 drawbacks here.
A) two almost identical records are saved in ringbuffer
   when a syscall enters or exits. (4 records for every syscall)
   it wastes too much.
B) the lines include "sys_enter/sys_exit" makes
   we hardly get the useful information for the output.

The user can use this method to prevent these drawbacks:
echo 1 > events/syscalls/enable
echo 0 > events/syscalls/sys_enter/enable
echo 0 > events/syscalls/sys_exit/enable

But it's not friendly for users. So we separate raw syscall
from syscall tracer.

After this fix applied:
syscall tracer's output (echo 1 > events/syscalls/enable):

XXXX: sys_read(fd: 3, buf: bfe87d88, count: 200)
XXXX: sys_read -> 0x200
XXXX: sys_fstat64(fd: 3, statbuf: bfe87c98)
XXXX: sys_fstat64 -> 0x0
XXXX: sys_close(fd: 3)

raw syscall tracer's output (echo 1 > events/raw_syscalls/enable):

XXXX: sys_enter: NR 175 (0, bf92bf18, bf92bf98, 8, b748cff4, bf92bef8)
XXXX: sys_exit: NR 175 = 0
XXXX: sys_enter: NR 175 (2, bf92bf98, 0, 8, b748cff4, bf92bef8)
XXXX: sys_exit: NR 175 = 0
XXXX: sys_enter: NR 3 (9, bf927f9c, 4000, b77e2518, b77dce60, bf92bff8)

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
---
diff --git a/include/trace/events/syscalls.h b/include/trace/events/syscalls.h
index 397dff2..fb726ac 100644
--- a/include/trace/events/syscalls.h
+++ b/include/trace/events/syscalls.h
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 #undef TRACE_SYSTEM
-#define TRACE_SYSTEM syscalls
+#define TRACE_SYSTEM raw_syscalls
+#define TRACE_INCLUDE_FILE syscalls
 
 #if !defined(_TRACE_EVENTS_SYSCALLS_H) || defined(TRACE_HEADER_MULTI_READ)
 #define _TRACE_EVENTS_SYSCALLS_H



             reply	other threads:[~2009-11-03  5:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-03  5:45 Lai Jiangshan [this message]
2009-11-03  8:23 ` [PATCH] tracing: separate raw syscall from syscall tracer Frederic Weisbecker
2009-11-25  2:08   ` Lai Jiangshan
2009-11-25  3:41     ` Steven Rostedt
2009-11-26  9:54 ` [tip:tracing/core] tracing: Separate " tip-bot for Lai Jiangshan

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