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* [PATCH v2 0/6] Function tracing support for pstore
@ 2012-06-15 17:07 Anton Vorontsov
  2012-06-15 17:08 ` [PATCH 1/6] tracing: Fix initialization failure path in tracing_set_tracer() Anton Vorontsov
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From: Anton Vorontsov @ 2012-06-15 17:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Greg Kroah-Hartman, Kees Cook, Colin Cross, Tony Luck,
	Steven Rostedt, Frederic Weisbecker, Ingo Molnar
  Cc: Arnd Bergmann, John Stultz, Shuah Khan, arve,
	Rebecca Schultz Zavin, Jesper Juhl, Randy Dunlap, Stephen Boyd,
	Thomas Meyer, Andrew Morton, Marco Stornelli, WANG Cong,
	linux-kernel, devel, linaro-kernel, patches, kernel-team

Hi all,

In v2:
- Do not introduce a separate 'persistent' tracer, but introduce an
  option to the existing 'function' tracer.

Rationale for this patch set:

With this support kernel can save functions call chain log into a
persistent ram buffer that can be decoded and dumped after reboot
through pstore filesystem. It can be used to determine what function
was last called before a hang or an unexpected reset (caused by, for
example, a buggy driver that abuses HW).

Here's a "nano howto", to get the idea:

 # mount -t debugfs debugfs /sys/kernel/debug/
 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing
 # echo function > current_tracer
 # echo 1 > options/func_pstore
 # reboot -f
 [...]
 # mount -t pstore pstore /mnt/
 # tail /mnt/ftrace-ramoops
 0 ffffffff8101ea64  ffffffff8101bcda  native_apic_mem_read <- disconnect_bsp_APIC+0x6a/0xc0
 0 ffffffff8101ea44  ffffffff8101bcf6  native_apic_mem_write <- disconnect_bsp_APIC+0x86/0xc0
 0 ffffffff81020084  ffffffff8101a4b5  hpet_disable <- native_machine_shutdown+0x75/0x90
 0 ffffffff81005f94  ffffffff8101a4bb  iommu_shutdown_noop <- native_machine_shutdown+0x7b/0x90
 0 ffffffff8101a6a1  ffffffff8101a437  native_machine_emergency_restart <- native_machine_restart+0x37/0x40
 0 ffffffff811f9876  ffffffff8101a73a  acpi_reboot <- native_machine_emergency_restart+0xaa/0x1e0
 0 ffffffff8101a514  ffffffff8101a772  mach_reboot_fixups <- native_machine_emergency_restart+0xe2/0x1e0
 0 ffffffff811d9c54  ffffffff8101a7a0  __const_udelay <- native_machine_emergency_restart+0x110/0x1e0
 0 ffffffff811d9c34  ffffffff811d9c80  __delay <- __const_udelay+0x30/0x40
 0 ffffffff811d9d14  ffffffff811d9c3f  delay_tsc <- __delay+0xf/0x20

Mostly the code comes from trace_persistent.c driver found in the
Android git tree, written by Colin Cross <ccross@android.com>
(according to sign-off history). I reworked the driver a little bit,
and ported it to pstore subsystem.

---
 Documentation/ramoops.txt      |   25 +++++++++
 fs/pstore/Kconfig              |   12 +++++
 fs/pstore/Makefile             |    6 +++
 fs/pstore/ftrace.c             |   35 +++++++++++++
 fs/pstore/inode.c              |  111 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 fs/pstore/internal.h           |   49 ++++++++++++++++++
 fs/pstore/platform.c           |   12 ++++-
 fs/pstore/ram.c                |   54 ++++++++++++++-----
 include/linux/pstore.h         |   13 +++++
 include/linux/pstore_ram.h     |    1 +
 kernel/trace/trace.c           |    7 +--
 kernel/trace/trace_functions.c |   25 +++++++--
 12 files changed, 325 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)

-- 
Anton Vorontsov
Email: cbouatmailru@gmail.com

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2012-06-15 17:07 [PATCH v2 0/6] Function tracing support for pstore Anton Vorontsov
2012-06-15 17:08 ` [PATCH 1/6] tracing: Fix initialization failure path in tracing_set_tracer() Anton Vorontsov
2012-06-15 22:00   ` Steven Rostedt
2012-06-15 17:08 ` [PATCH 2/6] pstore: Introduce write_buf backend callback Anton Vorontsov
2012-06-15 17:08 ` [PATCH 3/6] pstore: Add persistent function tracing Anton Vorontsov
2012-06-15 21:40   ` Luck, Tony
2012-06-15 21:55     ` Steven Rostedt
2012-06-15 22:00       ` Luck, Tony
2012-06-15 22:09         ` Colin Cross
2012-06-15 22:10         ` Steven Rostedt
2012-06-15 22:19           ` Luck, Tony
2012-06-15 22:23             ` Colin Cross
2012-06-15 22:37               ` Luck, Tony
2012-06-15 22:42               ` Steven Rostedt
2012-06-15 22:28             ` Steven Rostedt
2012-06-15 17:08 ` [PATCH 4/6] tracing/function: Introduce persistent trace option Anton Vorontsov
2012-06-15 17:08 ` [PATCH 5/6] pstore/ram: Convert to write_buf callback Anton Vorontsov
2012-06-15 17:08 ` [PATCH 6/6] pstore/ram: Add ftrace messages handling Anton Vorontsov
2012-06-15 21:28 ` [PATCH v2 0/6] Function tracing support for pstore Greg Kroah-Hartman

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