Re: Ftrace for Microblaze - notrace

[Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>]

Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 14:32 +0100, Michal Simek wrote:
>> Hi Thomas, Ingo, Steven and others
>>
>> I am working on ftrace support for Microblaze. I have done basic ftrace
>> support - initcall, kmemtrace and other.
>> Currently I am working on function trace support.  I did asm code as is
>> written in Documentation/trace/ftrace-design.txt.
>>
>> I have two poins/questions.
>>
>> I desided to use HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACE_MCOUNT_TEST - just test 
>> function_trace_stop in asm code - that shouldn't be a problem.
> 
> Yeah, and if you don't have that, it is taken care of in the generic
> code too.

jj, I know - asm checking is just two instruction - that's why I use it.

> 
>> I disable -pg in main Makefile because not work for me (more info below) 
>> and I enable it just for two file in arch/microblaze (irq.c and intc.c) 
>> - recompile kernel and test. Log is below and you can see that I am able 
>> to see output for function. That's why I think that my mcount function 
>> should be correct. Am I right?
>>
>> uclinux login: root
>> Password:
>> # cd ; mkdir /debug; mount -t debugfs none /debug; cat 
>> /debug/tracing/available_
>> tracers; echo function > /debug/tracing/current_tracer;echo 1 > 
>> /debug/tracing/t
>> racing_enabled;cat /debug/tracing/trace | head -n 10
>> wakeup_rt wakeup function sched_switch nop
>> # tracer: function
>> #
>> #           TASK-PID    CPU#    TIMESTAMP  FUNCTION
>> #              | |       |          |         |
>>                sh-52    [000]   184.940000: irq_call <-do_IRQ
>>                sh-52    [000]   184.940000: do_IRQ <-get_irq
>>                sh-52    [000]   184.940000: handle_level_irq <-intc_mask_ack
>>                sh-52    [000]   184.950000: handle_level_irq 
>> <-intc_enable_or_unmask
>>                sh-52    [000]   184.950000: do_IRQ <-get_irq
>>                sh-52    [000]   184.950000: handle_level_irq <-intc_mask_ack
>> #
>>
>>
>> When is used -pg flag kernel stops when I enable function tracer.
>> Interesting is that freeze than I setup function tracing (echo function 
>>  > .../current/tracer). Is it correct behavior? I think that trace 
>> should start after (echo 1>  .../tracing_enabled).
> 
> No, tracing_enabled is default on and should not be used (may go away).
> Tracing starts as soon as you echo function into current_tracer.

ok


> 
>>
>> The next thing is about annotation notrace. I look at all arch. Is there 
>> any algorithm which function should use it? I think that this could be a 
>>   reason why I my kernel freeze when enable function tracer.
>>
>> I tested to add -pg flag for process.c file and after it kernel freeze 
>> too. Is it mean that problem could be there?
> 
> Probably.

Is there any manual or instruction which functions are dangerous and 
especially why?


> 
>> Any other suggestion?
> 
> Just remember that -pg is very intrusive. I don't know your arch, nor
> have I seen the code you did to update it. You can disable the -pg from
> process.c by adding in the Makefile:
> 
> CFLAGS_REMOVE_process.o = -pg

jj, I know how to do it.

> 
> And that will keep the process.c from being compiled with it. There may
> be other files in the arch that should not have it. There's several in
> x86 and in PowerPC.

Do you know why they exclude it?

Can I use any special debug features? I mean I look at kernel.h and 
there are some trace_printk function - but they don't work for me. Is it 
possible to use them or not?

Thanks,
Michal

> 
> -- Steve
> 
>