Re: [PATCH] ftrace: add tracing_thresh support to function_graph tracer (v3)

Steven Rostedt
2010-02-26T04:37:58Z

Tim, FYI, It's best to email my rostedt@goodmis.org account. Or CC both
if you want. But I check my redhat mail at most once a day, and maybe
not event that.

On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 15:36 -0800, Tim Bird wrote:
> Add support for tracing_thresh to the function_graph tracer. This
> version of this feature isolates the checks into new entry and
> return functions, to avoid adding more conditional code into the
> main function_graph paths.
>
> Also, add support for specifying tracing_thresh on the kernel
> command line. When used like so: "tracing_thresh=200 ftrace=function_graph"
> this can be used to analyse system startup. It is important to disable
> tracing soon after boot, in order to avoid losing the trace data.
>
> Note: the elimination of 'notrace' in the definition of '__init'
> may be controversial. This can be removed, or made conditional,
> if it's a bit too scary, but it worked OK for me. Tracing during
> kernel startup still works, just with no visibility of routines
> declared __init.

It basically is a nop if you have DYNAMIC_FTRACE defined. Remember that
little bug that caused the killing of e1000e NICs? One of the
conditions that made that happen was that there's no way to know when a
__init function will disappear.

But notrace isn't there to protect against that. The recordmcount.pl
code wont even look at a function declared with __init. This means that
the __init functions will always call mcount if you remove this notrace.
That's not really a big deal because mcount is defined as:

ENTRY(mcount)
retq
END(mcount)

So you just made all those init functions call this little mcount
routine. I bet you wont notice the impact.

At boot up, all mcount callers that recordmcount reported are recorded
and converted to nops. When we enable function tracing, we don't make
them call mcount again, but instead we make them call a little heavier
function "ftrace_caller".

Now, your patch will have an impact if you do not enable DYNAMIC_FTRACE,
because then all callers to mcount can be traced. But then you have a
13% overhead in the system.

>
> Signed-off-by: Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>
> ---
> include/linux/init.h | 2 +-
> kernel/trace/trace.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++--
> kernel/trace/trace.h | 3 ++-
> kernel/trace/trace_functions_graph.c | 32 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
> 4 files changed, 50 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> --- a/include/linux/init.h
> +++ b/include/linux/init.h
> @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
>
> /* These are for everybody (although not all archs will actually
> discard it in modules) */
> -#define __init __section(.init.text) __cold notrace
> +#define __init __section(.init.text) __cold

This isn't needed as I explained above.

> #define __initdata __section(.init.data)
> #define __initconst __section(.init.rodata)
> #define __exitdata __section(.exit.data)
> --- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
> @@ -297,6 +297,21 @@ static int __init set_buf_size(char *str
> }
> __setup("trace_buf_size=", set_buf_size);
>
> +static int __init set_tracing_thresh(char *str)
> +{
> + unsigned long threshhold;
> + int ret;
> +
> + if (!str)
> + return 0;
> + ret = strict_strtoul(str, 0, &threshhold);
> + if (ret < 0)
> + return 0;
> + tracing_thresh = threshhold * 1000;
> + return 1;
> +}
> +__setup("tracing_thresh=", set_tracing_thresh);
> +
> unsigned long nsecs_to_usecs(unsigned long nsecs)
> {
> return nsecs / 1000;
> @@ -502,9 +517,10 @@ static ssize_t trace_seq_to_buffer(struc
> static arch_spinlock_t ftrace_max_lock =
> (arch_spinlock_t)__ARCH_SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED;
>
> +unsigned long __read_mostly tracing_thresh;
> +
> #ifdef CONFIG_TRACER_MAX_TRACE
> unsigned long __read_mostly tracing_max_latency;
> -unsigned long __read_mostly tracing_thresh;
>
> /*
> * Copy the new maximum trace into the separate maximum-trace
> @@ -4181,10 +4197,10 @@ static __init int tracer_init_debugfs(vo
> #ifdef CONFIG_TRACER_MAX_TRACE
> trace_create_file("tracing_max_latency", 0644, d_tracer,
> &tracing_max_latency, &tracing_max_lat_fops);
> +#endif
>
> trace_create_file("tracing_thresh", 0644, d_tracer,
> &tracing_thresh, &tracing_max_lat_fops);
> -#endif
>
> trace_create_file("README", 0444, d_tracer,
> NULL, &tracing_readme_fops);
> --- a/kernel/trace/trace.h
> +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.h
> @@ -396,9 +396,10 @@ extern int process_new_ksym_entry(char *
>
> extern unsigned long nsecs_to_usecs(unsigned long nsecs);
>
> +extern unsigned long tracing_thresh;
> +
> #ifdef CONFIG_TRACER_MAX_TRACE
> extern unsigned long tracing_max_latency;
> -extern unsigned long tracing_thresh;
>
> void update_max_tr(struct trace_array *tr, struct task_struct *tsk, int cpu);
> void update_max_tr_single(struct trace_array *tr,
> --- a/kernel/trace/trace_functions_graph.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_functions_graph.c
> @@ -241,6 +241,14 @@ int trace_graph_entry(struct ftrace_grap
> return ret;
> }
>
> +int trace_graph_thresh_entry(struct ftrace_graph_ent *trace)
> +{
> + if (tracing_thresh)
> + return 1;
> + else
> + return trace_graph_entry(trace);
> +}
> +
> static void __trace_graph_return(struct trace_array *tr,
> struct ftrace_graph_ret *trace,
> unsigned long flags,
> @@ -287,13 +295,27 @@ void trace_graph_return(struct ftrace_gr
> local_irq_restore(flags);
> }
>
> +void trace_graph_thresh_return(struct ftrace_graph_ret *trace)
> +{
> + if (tracing_thresh &&
> + (trace->rettime - trace->calltime < tracing_thresh))
> + return;
> + else
> + trace_graph_return(trace);
> +}
> +
> static int graph_trace_init(struct trace_array *tr)
> {
> int ret;
>
> graph_array = tr;
> - ret = register_ftrace_graph(&trace_graph_return,
> - &trace_graph_entry);
> + if (tracing_thresh)
> + ret = register_ftrace_graph(&trace_graph_thresh_return,
> + &trace_graph_thresh_entry);
> + else
> + ret = register_ftrace_graph(&trace_graph_return,
> + &trace_graph_entry);
> +
> if (ret)
> return ret;
> tracing_start_cmdline_record();
> @@ -891,7 +913,11 @@ print_graph_return(struct ftrace_graph_r
> return TRACE_TYPE_PARTIAL_LINE;
> }
>
> - ret = trace_seq_printf(s, "}\n");
> + if (tracing_thresh) {
> + ret = trace_seq_printf(s, "} (%ps)\n", (void *)trace->func);

Ah, this isn't what I wanted. I wanted something a bit more complex ;-)

I was thinking of keeping a small stack per cpu that keeps track of
previous entries. If a exit is called that does not have a matching
entry (can easily check the depth parameter) then we should print out
the function name. This way, even without the tracing_thresh tracer, we
can see what dangling '}'s are. This happens now with the current
tracer.

I can add this tomorrow. Then I can take this patch and cut out the
stuff not needed.

-- Steve

> + } else {
> + ret = trace_seq_printf(s, "}\n");
> + }
> if (!ret)
> return TRACE_TYPE_PARTIAL_LINE;
>
>
>
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