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* Merge tag 'trace-v5.18' of ↵Linus Torvalds2022-03-2339-570/+4169
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt: - New user_events interface. User space can register an event with the kernel describing the format of the event. Then it will receive a byte in a page mapping that it can check against. A privileged task can then enable that event like any other event, which will change the mapped byte to true, telling the user space application to start writing the event to the tracing buffer. - Add new "ftrace_boot_snapshot" kernel command line parameter. When set, the tracing buffer will be saved in the snapshot buffer at boot up when the kernel hands things over to user space. This will keep the traces that happened at boot up available even if user space boot up has tracing as well. - Have TRACE_EVENT_ENUM() also update trace event field type descriptions. Thus if a static array defines its size with an enum, the user space trace event parsers can still know how to parse that array. - Add new TRACE_CUSTOM_EVENT() macro. This acts the same as the TRACE_EVENT() macro, but will attach to an existing tracepoint. This will make one tracepoint be able to trace different content and not be stuck at only what the original TRACE_EVENT() macro exports. - Fixes to tracing error logging. - Better saving of cmdlines to PIDs when tracing (use the wakeup events for mapping). * tag 'trace-v5.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (30 commits) tracing: Have type enum modifications copy the strings user_events: Add trace event call as root for low permission cases tracing/user_events: Use alloc_pages instead of kzalloc() for register pages tracing: Add snapshot at end of kernel boot up tracing: Have TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM affect trace event types as well tracing: Fix strncpy warning in trace_events_synth.c user_events: Prevent dyn_event delete racing with ioctl add/delete tracing: Add TRACE_CUSTOM_EVENT() macro tracing: Move the defines to create TRACE_EVENTS into their own files tracing: Add sample code for custom trace events tracing: Allow custom events to be added to the tracefs directory tracing: Fix last_cmd_set() string management in histogram code user_events: Fix potential uninitialized pointer while parsing field tracing: Fix allocation of last_cmd in last_cmd_set() user_events: Add documentation file user_events: Add sample code for typical usage user_events: Add self-test for validator boundaries user_events: Add self-test for perf_event integration user_events: Add self-test for dynamic_events integration user_events: Add self-test for ftrace integration ...
| * tracing: Have type enum modifications copy the stringsSteven Rostedt (Google)2022-03-201-1/+61
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When an enum is used in the visible parts of a trace event that is exported to user space, the user space applications like perf and trace-cmd do not have a way to know what the value of the enum is. To solve this, at boot up (or module load) the printk formats are modified to replace the enum with their numeric value in the string output. Array fields of the event are defined by [<nr-elements>] in the type portion of the format file so that the user space parsers can correctly parse the array into the appropriate size chunks. But in some trace events, an enum is used in defining the size of the array, which once again breaks the parsing of user space tooling. This was solved the same way as the print formats were, but it modified the type strings of the trace event. This caused crashes in some architectures because, as supposed to the print string, is a const string value. This was not detected on x86, as it appears that const strings are still writable (at least in boot up), but other architectures this is not the case, and writing to a const string will cause a kernel fault. To fix this, use kstrdup() to copy the type before modifying it. If the trace event is for the core kernel there's no need to free it because the string will be in use for the life of the machine being on line. For modules, create a link list to store all the strings being allocated for modules and when the module is removed, free them. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/yt9dr1706b4i.fsf@linux.ibm.com/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220318153432.3984b871@gandalf.local.home Tested-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> Tested-by: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com> Reported-by: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com> Fixes: b3bc8547d3be ("tracing: Have TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM affect trace event types as well") Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * user_events: Add trace event call as root for low permission casesBeau Belgrave2022-03-151-2/+37
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Tracefs by default is locked down heavily. System operators can open up some files, such as user_events to a broader set of users. These users do not have access within tracefs beyond just the user_event files. Due to this restriction the trace_add_event_call/remove calls will silently fail since the caller does not have permissions to create directories. To fix this trace_add_event_call/remove calls will be issued with override creds of the global root UID. Creds are reverted immediately afterward. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220308222807.2040-1-beaub@linux.microsoft.com Signed-off-by: Beau Belgrave <beaub@linux.microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * tracing/user_events: Use alloc_pages instead of kzalloc() for register pagesSteven Rostedt (Google)2022-03-121-6/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | kzalloc virtual addresses do not work with SetPageReserved, use the actual page virtual addresses instead via alloc_pages. The issue is reported when booting with user_events and DEBUG_VM_PGFLAGS=y. Also make the number of events based on the ORDER. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CADYN=9+xY5Vku3Ws5E9S60SM5dCFfeGeRBkmDFbcxX0ZMoFing@mail.gmail.com/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220311223028.1865-1-beaub@linux.microsoft.com/ Cc: Beau Belgrave <beaub@linux.microsoft.com> Reported-by: Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * tracing: Add snapshot at end of kernel boot upSteven Rostedt (Google)2022-03-114-1/+38
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add ftrace_boot_snapshot kernel parameter that will take a snapshot at the end of boot up just before switching over to user space (it happens during the kernel freeing of init memory). This is useful when there's interesting data that can be collected from kernel start up, but gets overridden by user space start up code. With this option, the ring buffer content from the boot up traces gets saved in the snapshot at the end of boot up. This trace can be read from: /sys/kernel/tracing/snapshot Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * tracing: Have TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM affect trace event types as wellSteven Rostedt (Google)2022-03-111-0/+28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The macro TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM is used to convert enums in the kernel to their actual value when they are exported to user space via the trace event format file. Currently only the enums in the "print fmt" (TP_printk in the TRACE_EVENT macro) have the enums converted. But the enums can be used to denote array size: field:unsigned int fc_ineligible_rc[EXT4_FC_REASON_MAX]; offset:12; size:36; signed:0; The EXT4_FC_REASON_MAX has no meaning to userspace but it needs to know that information to know how to parse the array. Have the array indexes also be parsed as well. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/cover.1646922487.git.riteshh@linux.ibm.com/ Reported-by: Ritesh Harjani <riteshh@linux.ibm.com> Tested-by: Ritesh Harjani <riteshh@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * tracing: Fix strncpy warning in trace_events_synth.cTom Zanussi2022-03-111-4/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 0-day reported the strncpy error below: ../kernel/trace/trace_events_synth.c: In function 'last_cmd_set': ../kernel/trace/trace_events_synth.c:65:9: warning: 'strncpy' specified bound depends on the length o\ f the source argument [-Wstringop-truncation] 65 | strncpy(last_cmd, str, strlen(str) + 1); | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ../kernel/trace/trace_events_synth.c:65:32: note: length computed here 65 | strncpy(last_cmd, str, strlen(str) + 1); | ^~~~~~~~~~~ There's no reason to use strncpy here, in fact there's no reason to do anything but a simple kstrdup() (note we don't even need to check for failure since last_cmod is expected to be either the last cmd string or NULL, and the containing function is a void return). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/77deca8cbfd226981b3f1eab203967381e9b5bd9.camel@kernel.org Fixes: 27c888da9867 ("tracing: Remove size restriction on synthetic event cmd error logging") Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * user_events: Prevent dyn_event delete racing with ioctl add/deleteBeau Belgrave2022-03-111-6/+40
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Find user_events always while under the event_mutex and before leaving the lock, add a ref count to the user_event. This ensures that all paths under the event_mutex that check the ref counts will be synchronized. The ioctl add/delete paths are protected by the reg_mutex. However, dyn_event is only protected by the event_mutex. The dyn_event delete path cannot acquire reg_mutex, since that could cause a deadlock between the ioctl delete case acquiring event_mutex after acquiring the reg_mutex. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220310001141.1660-1-beaub@linux.microsoft.com Signed-off-by: Beau Belgrave <beaub@linux.microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * tracing: Add TRACE_CUSTOM_EVENT() macroSteven Rostedt (Google)2022-03-116-237/+441
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | To make it really easy to add custom events from modules, add a TRACE_CUSTOM_EVENT() macro that acts just like the TRACE_EVENT() macro, but creates a custom event to an already existing tracepoint. The trace_custom_sched.[ch] has been updated to use this new macro to show how simple it is. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220303220625.738622494@goodmis.org Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * tracing: Move the defines to create TRACE_EVENTS into their own filesSteven Rostedt (Google)2022-03-119-491/+527
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In an effort to add custom event macros that can be used to create your own custom events based on existing tracepoints, move the defines of the special macros used in TRACE_EVENT() into their own files such that they can be reused for TRACE_CUSTOM_EVENT(). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220303220625.553406495@goodmis.org Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * tracing: Add sample code for custom trace eventsSteven Rostedt (Google)2022-03-114-1/+281
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add sample code to show how to create custom trace events in the tracefs directory that can be enabled and modified like any event in tracefs (including triggers, histograms, synthetic events and event probes). The example is creating a custom sched_switch and a sched_waking to limit what is recorded: If the custom sched switch only records the prev_prio, next_prio and next_pid, it can bring the size from 64 bytes per event, down to just 16 bytes! If sched_waking only records the prio and pid of the woken event, it will bring the size down from 36 bytes to 12 bytes per event. This will allow for a much smaller footprint into the ring buffer and keep more events from dropping. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220303220625.369226746@goodmis.org Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org> Suggested-by: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * tracing: Allow custom events to be added to the tracefs directorySteven Rostedt (Google)2022-03-101-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Allow custom events to be added to the events directory in the tracefs file system. For example, a module could be installed that attaches to an event and wants to be enabled and disabled via the tracefs file system. It would use trace_add_event_call() to add the event to the tracefs directory, and trace_remove_event_call() to remove it. Make both those functions EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220303220625.186988045@goodmis.org Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * tracing: Fix last_cmd_set() string management in histogram codeSteven Rostedt (Google)2022-03-101-2/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Using strnlen(dest, str, n) is confusing, as the size of dest must be strlen(dest) + n + 1. Even more confusing, using sizeof(string constant) gives you strlen(string constant) + 1 and not just strlen(). These two together made using strncat() with a constant string a bit off in the calculations as we have: len = sizeof(HIST_PREFIX) + strlen(str) + 1; kfree(last_cmd); last_cmd = kzalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL); strcpy(last_cmd, HIST_PREFIX); len -= sizeof(HIST_PREFIX) + 1; strncat(last_cmd, str, len); The above works if we s/sizeof/strlen/ with HIST_PREFIX (which is defined as "hist:", but because sizeof(HIST_PREFIX) is equal to strlen(HIST_PREFIX) + 1, we can drop the +1 in the code. But at least comment that we are doing so. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/202203082112.Iu7tvFl4-lkp@intel.com/ Fixes: 9f8e5aee93ed2 ("tracing: Fix allocation of last_cmd in last_cmd_set()") Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * user_events: Fix potential uninitialized pointer while parsing fieldBeau Belgrave2022-03-101-1/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Ensure name is initialized by default to NULL to prevent possible edge cases that could lead to it being left uninitialized. Add an explicit check for NULL name to ensure edge boundaries. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20220224105334.GA2248@kili/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-devel/20220224181637.2129-1-beaub@linux.microsoft.com Signed-off-by: Beau Belgrave <beaub@linux.microsoft.com> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * tracing: Fix allocation of last_cmd in last_cmd_set()Steven Rostedt (Google)2022-02-241-3/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The strncat() used in last_cmd_set() includes the nul byte of length of the string being copied in, when it should only hold the size of the string being copied (not the nul byte). Change it to subtract the length of the allocated space and the nul byte to pass that into the strncat(). Also, assign "len" instead of initializing it to zero and its first update is to do a "+=". Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/202202140628.fj6e4w4v-lkp@intel.com/ Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * user_events: Add documentation fileBeau Belgrave2022-02-112-0/+217
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add a documentation file about user_events with example code, etc. explaining how it may be used. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220118204326.2169-13-beaub@linux.microsoft.com Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Beau Belgrave <beaub@linux.microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * user_events: Add sample code for typical usageBeau Belgrave2022-02-112-0/+96
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add sample code for user_events typical usage to show how to register and monitor status, as well as to write out data. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220118204326.2169-12-beaub@linux.microsoft.com Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Beau Belgrave <beaub@linux.microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * user_events: Add self-test for validator boundariesBeau Belgrave2022-02-111-0/+65
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Tests to ensure validator boundary cases are working correctly within close and far bounds. Ensures __data_loc and __rel_loc strings are null terminated and within range. Ensures min size checks work as expected. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220118204326.2169-11-beaub@linux.microsoft.com Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Beau Belgrave <beaub@linux.microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * user_events: Add self-test for perf_event integrationBeau Belgrave2022-02-112-1/+169
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Tests perf can be attached to and written out correctly. Ensures attach updates status bits in user programs. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220118204326.2169-10-beaub@linux.microsoft.com Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Beau Belgrave <beaub@linux.microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * user_events: Add self-test for dynamic_events integrationBeau Belgrave2022-02-112-1/+131
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Tests matching deletes, creation of basic and complex types. Ensures common patterns work correctly when interacting with dynamic_events file. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220118204326.2169-9-beaub@linux.microsoft.com Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Beau Belgrave <beaub@linux.microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * user_events: Add self-test for ftrace integrationBeau Belgrave2022-02-113-0/+397
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Tests basic functionality of registering/deregistering, status and writing data out via ftrace mechanisms within user_events. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220118204326.2169-8-beaub@linux.microsoft.com Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Beau Belgrave <beaub@linux.microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * user_events: Validate user payloads for size and null terminationBeau Belgrave2022-02-111-14/+133
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add validation to ensure data is at or greater than the min size for the fields of the event. If a dynamic array is used and is a type of char, ensure null termination of the array exists. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220118204326.2169-7-beaub@linux.microsoft.com Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Beau Belgrave <beaub@linux.microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * user_events: Optimize writing events by only copying data onceBeau Belgrave2022-02-111-30/+85
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pass iterator through to probes to allow copying data directly to the probe buffers instead of taking multiple copies. Enables eBPF user and raw iterator types out to programs for no-copy scenarios. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220118204326.2169-6-beaub@linux.microsoft.com Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Beau Belgrave <beaub@linux.microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * user_events: Add basic perf and eBPF supportBeau Belgrave2022-02-111-1/+71
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Adds support to write out user_event data to perf_probe/perf files as well as to any attached eBPF program. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220118204326.2169-5-beaub@linux.microsoft.com Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Beau Belgrave <beaub@linux.microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * user_events: Handle matching arguments from dyn_eventsBeau Belgrave2022-02-111-1/+76
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Ensures that when dynamic events requests a match with arguments that they match what is in the user_event. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220118204326.2169-4-beaub@linux.microsoft.com Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Beau Belgrave <beaub@linux.microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * user_events: Add print_fmt generation support for basic typesBeau Belgrave2022-02-111-2/+113
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Addes print_fmt format generation for basic types that are supported for user processes. Only supports sizes that are the same on 32 and 64 bit. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220118204326.2169-3-beaub@linux.microsoft.com Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Beau Belgrave <beaub@linux.microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * user_events: Add minimal support for trace_event into ftraceBeau Belgrave2022-02-114-0/+1318
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Minimal support for interacting with dynamic events, trace_event and ftrace. Core outline of flow between user process, ioctl and trace_event APIs. User mode processes that wish to use trace events to get data into ftrace, perf, eBPF, etc are limited to uprobes today. The user events features enables an ABI for user mode processes to create and write to trace events that are isolated from kernel level trace events. This enables a faster path for tracing from user mode data as well as opens managed code to participate in trace events, where stub locations are dynamic. User processes often want to trace only when it's useful. To enable this a set of pages are mapped into the user process space that indicate the current state of the user events that have been registered. User processes can check if their event is hooked to a trace/probe, and if it is, emit the event data out via the write() syscall. Two new files are introduced into tracefs to accomplish this: user_events_status - This file is mmap'd into participating user mode processes to indicate event status. user_events_data - This file is opened and register/delete ioctl's are issued to create/open/delete trace events that can be used for tracing. The typical scenario is on process start to mmap user_events_status. Processes then register the events they plan to use via the REG ioctl. The ioctl reads and updates the passed in user_reg struct. The status_index of the struct is used to know the byte in the status page to check for that event. The write_index of the struct is used to describe that event when writing out to the fd that was used for the ioctl call. The data must always include this index first when writing out data for an event. Data can be written either by write() or by writev(). For example, in memory: int index; char data[]; Psuedo code example of typical usage: struct user_reg reg; int page_fd = open("user_events_status", O_RDWR); char *page_data = mmap(NULL, PAGE_SIZE, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, page_fd, 0); close(page_fd); int data_fd = open("user_events_data", O_RDWR); reg.size = sizeof(reg); reg.name_args = (__u64)"test"; ioctl(data_fd, DIAG_IOCSREG, &reg); int status_id = reg.status_index; int write_id = reg.write_index; struct iovec io[2]; io[0].iov_base = &write_id; io[0].iov_len = sizeof(write_id); io[1].iov_base = payload; io[1].iov_len = sizeof(payload); if (page_data[status_id]) writev(data_fd, io, 2); User events are also exposed via the dynamic_events tracefs file for both create and delete. Current status is exposed via the user_events_status tracefs file. Simple example to register a user event via dynamic_events: echo u:test >> dynamic_events cat dynamic_events u:test If an event is hooked to a probe, the probe hooked shows up: echo 1 > events/user_events/test/enable cat user_events_status 1:test # Used by ftrace Active: 1 Busy: 1 Max: 4096 If an event is not hooked to a probe, no probe status shows up: echo 0 > events/user_events/test/enable cat user_events_status 1:test Active: 1 Busy: 0 Max: 4096 Users can describe the trace event format via the following format: name[:FLAG1[,FLAG2...] [field1[;field2...]] Each field has the following format: type name Example for char array with a size of 20 named msg: echo 'u:detailed char[20] msg' >> dynamic_events cat dynamic_events u:detailed char[20] msg Data offsets are based on the data written out via write() and will be updated to reflect the correct offset in the trace_event fields. For dynamic data it is recommended to use the new __rel_loc data type. This type will be the same as __data_loc, but the offset is relative to this entry. This allows user_events to not worry about what common fields are being inserted before the data. The above format is valid for both the ioctl and the dynamic_events file. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220118204326.2169-2-beaub@linux.microsoft.com Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Beau Belgrave <beaub@linux.microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * tracing: Save both wakee and current on wakeup eventsSteven Rostedt (Google)2022-02-111-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Use the sched_switch function to save both the wakee and the waker comms in the saved cmdlines list when sched_wakeup is done. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * tracing: Remove size restriction on synthetic event cmd error loggingTom Zanussi2022-02-111-3/+14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently, synthetic event command error strings are restricted to a length of MAX_FILTER_STR_VAL (256), which is too short for some commands already seen in the wild (with cmd strings longer than that showing up truncated in err_log). Remove the restriction so that no synthetic event command error string is ever truncated. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/0376692396a81d0b795127c66ea92ca5bf60f481.1643399022.git.zanussi@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * tracing: Remove size restriction on hist trigger cmd error loggingTom Zanussi2022-02-111-7/+23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently, hist trigger command error strings are restricted to a length of MAX_FILTER_STR_VAL (256), which is too short for some commands already seen in the wild (with cmd strings longer than that showing up truncated in err_log). Remove the restriction so that no hist trigger command error string is ever truncated. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/0f9d46407222eaf6632cd3b417bc50a11f401b71.1643399022.git.zanussi@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * tracing: Remove size restriction on tracing_log_err cmd stringsTom Zanussi2022-02-112-14/+43
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently, tracing_log_err.cmd strings are restricted to a length of MAX_FILTER_STR_VAL (256), which is too short for some commands already seen in the wild (with cmd strings longer than that showing up truncated). Remove the restriction so that no command string is ever truncated. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/ca965f23256b350ebd94b3dc1a319f28e8267f5f.1643319703.git.zanussi@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* | Merge tag 'trace-rtla-v5.18' of ↵Linus Torvalds2022-03-2313-28/+903
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace Pull RTLA tracing tool updates from Steven Rostedt: "Real Time Analysis Tool updatesfor 5.18: - Support for adjusting tracing_threashold - Add -a (auto) option to make it easier for users to debug in the field - Add -e option to add more events to the trace - Add --trigger option to add triggers to events - Add --filter option to filter events - Add support to save histograms to the file - Add --dma-latency to set /dev/cpu_dma_latency - Other fixes and cleanups" * tag 'trace-rtla-v5.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: rtla: Tools main loop cleanup rtla/timerlat: Add --dma-latency option rtla/osnoise: Fix osnoise hist stop tracing message rtla: Check for trace off also in the trace instance rtla/trace: Save event histogram output to a file rtla: Add --filter support rtla/trace: Add trace event filter helpers rtla: Add --trigger support rtla/trace: Add trace event trigger helpers rtla: Add -e/--event support rtla/trace: Add trace events helpers rtla/timerlat: Add the automatic trace option rtla/osnoise: Add the automatic trace option rtla/osnoise: Add an option to set the threshold rtla/osnoise: Add support to adjust the tracing_thresh
| * | rtla: Tools main loop cleanupDaniel Bristot de Oliveira2022-03-154-5/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I probably started using "do {} while();", but changed all but osnoise_top to "while(){};" leaving the ; behind. Cleanup the main loop code, making all tools use "while() {}" Changcheng Deng reported this problem, as reported by coccicheck: Fix the following coccicheck review: ./tools/tracing/rtla/src/timerlat_hist.c: 800: 2-3: Unneeded semicolon ./tools/tracing/rtla/src/osnoise_hist.c: 776: 2-3: Unneeded semicolon ./tools/tracing/rtla/src/timerlat_top.c: 596: 2-3: Unneeded semicolon Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/3c1642110aa87c396f5da4a037dabc72dbb9c601.1646247211.git.bristot@kernel.org Cc: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org> Cc: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Reported-by: Changcheng Deng <deng.changcheng@zte.com.cn> Reported-by: Zeal Robot <zealci@zte.com.cn> Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * | rtla/timerlat: Add --dma-latency optionDaniel Bristot de Oliveira2022-03-155-4/+91
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add the --dma-latency to set /dev/cpu_dma_latency to the specified value, this aims to avoid having exit from idle states latencies that could be influencing the analysis. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/72ddb0d913459f13217086dadafad88a7c46dd28.1646247211.git.bristot@kernel.org Cc: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org> Cc: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * | rtla/osnoise: Fix osnoise hist stop tracing messageDaniel Bristot de Oliveira2022-03-151-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | rtla osnoise hist is printing the following message when hitting stop tracing: printf("rtla timelat hit stop tracing\n"); which is obviosly wrong. s/timerlat/osnoise/ fixing the printf. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/2b8f090556fe37b81d183b74ce271421f131c77b.1646247211.git.bristot@kernel.org Fixes: 829a6c0b5698 ("rtla/osnoise: Add the hist mode") Cc: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org> Cc: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * | rtla: Check for trace off also in the trace instanceDaniel Bristot de Oliveira2022-03-156-8/+28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | With the addition of --trigger option, it is also possible to stop the trace from the -t tracing instance using the traceoff trigger. Make rtla tools to check if the trace is stopped also in the trace instance, stopping the execution of the tool. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/59fc7c6f23dddd5c8b7ef1782cf3da51ea2ce0f5.1646247211.git.bristot@kernel.org Cc: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org> Cc: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * | rtla/trace: Save event histogram output to a fileDaniel Bristot de Oliveira2022-03-152-1/+62
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The hist: trigger generates a histogram in the file sys/event/hist. If the hist: trigger is used, automatically save the histogram output of the event sys:event in the sys_event_hist.txt file. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/b5c906af31d4e022ffe87fb0848fac5c089087c8.1646247211.git.bristot@kernel.org Cc: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org> Cc: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * | rtla: Add --filter supportDaniel Bristot de Oliveira2022-03-155-10/+70
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add --filter option. This option enables a trace event filtering of the previous -e sys:event argument. This option is available for all current tools. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/509d70b6348d3e5bcbf1f07ab725ce08d063149a.1646247211.git.bristot@kernel.org Cc: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org> Cc: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * | rtla/trace: Add trace event filter helpersDaniel Bristot de Oliveira2022-03-152-0/+86
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add a set of helper functions to allow rtla tools to filter events in the trace instance. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/12623b1684684549d53b90f4bf66fae44584fd14.1646247211.git.bristot@kernel.org Cc: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org> Cc: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * | rtla: Add --trigger supportDaniel Bristot de Oliveira2022-03-155-10/+65
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add --trigger option. This option enables a trace event trigger to the previous -e sys:event argument, allowing some advanced tracing options. For instance, in a system with CPUs 2:23 isolated, it is possible to get a stack trace of thread wakeup targeting those CPUs while running osnoise with the following command line: # osnoise top -c 2-23 -a 50 -e sched:sched_wakeup --trigger="stacktrace if target_cpu >= 2" This option is available for all current tools. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/07d2983d5f71261d4da89dbaf02efcad100ab8ee.1646247211.git.bristot@kernel.org Cc: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org> Cc: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * | rtla/trace: Add trace event trigger helpersDaniel Bristot de Oliveira2022-03-152-1/+91
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add a set of helper functions to allow rtla tools to trigger event actions in the trace instance. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/e0d31abe879a78a5600b64f904d0dfa8f76e4fbb.1646247211.git.bristot@kernel.org Cc: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org> Cc: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * | rtla: Add -e/--event supportDaniel Bristot de Oliveira2022-03-155-11/+114
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add -e/--event option. This option enables an event in the trace (-t) session. The argument can be a specific event, e.g., -e sched:sched_switch, or all events of a system group, e.g., -e sched. Multiple -e are allowed. It is only active when -t or -a are set. This option is available for all current tools. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/6a3b753be9b1e811953995f7f21a86918ad13390.1646247211.git.bristot@kernel.org Cc: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org> Cc: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * | rtla/trace: Add trace events helpersDaniel Bristot de Oliveira2022-03-152-0/+119
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add a set of helper functions to allow the rtla tools to enable additional tracepoints in the trace instance. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/932398b36c1bbaa22c7810d7a40ca9b8c5595b94.1646247211.git.bristot@kernel.org Cc: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org> Cc: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * | rtla/timerlat: Add the automatic trace optionDaniel Bristot de Oliveira2022-03-153-7/+46
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add the -a/--auto <arg in us> option. This option sets some commonly used options while debugging the system. It aims to help users produce reports in the field, reducing the number of arguments passed to the tool in the first approach to a problem. It is equivalent to setting osnoise/stop_tracing_total_us and print_stack with the argument, and saving the trace to timerlat_trace.txt file if the trace is stopped automatically. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/92438f7ef132c731f538cebdf77850300afe04a5.1646247211.git.bristot@kernel.org Cc: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org> Cc: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * | rtla/osnoise: Add the automatic trace optionDaniel Bristot de Oliveira2022-03-153-6/+37
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add the -a/--auto <arg in us> option. This option sets some commonly used options while debugging the system. It aims to help users produce reports in the field, reducing the number of arguments passed to the tool in the first approach to a problem. It is equivalent to setting osnoise/stop_tracing_us with the argument, setting tracing_thresh to 1 us, and saving the trace to osnoise_trace.txt file if the trace is stopped automatically. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/ef04c961b227eb93a83cd0b54bfca45e1a381b77.1646247211.git.bristot@kernel.org Cc: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org> Cc: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * | rtla/osnoise: Add an option to set the thresholdDaniel Bristot de Oliveira2022-03-153-7/+40
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add the -T/--threshold option to set the minimum threshold to be considered a noise to osnoise top and hist commands. Also update the man pages. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/031861200ffdb24a1df4aa72c458706889a20d5d.1646247211.git.bristot@kernel.org Cc: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org> Cc: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
| * | rtla/osnoise: Add support to adjust the tracing_threshDaniel Bristot de Oliveira2022-03-152-0/+91
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | osnoise uses the tracing_thresh parameter to define the delta between two reads of the time to be considered a noise. Add support to get and set the tracing_thresh from osnoise tools. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/715ad2a53fd40e41bab8c3f1214c1a94e12fb595.1646247211.git.bristot@kernel.org Cc: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org> Cc: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* | | Merge tag 'printk-for-5.18' of ↵Linus Torvalds2022-03-235-36/+161
|\ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/printk/linux Pull printk updates from Petr Mladek: - Make %pK behave the same as %p for kptr_restrict == 0 also with no_hash_pointers parameter - Ignore the default console in the device tree also when console=null or console="" is used on the command line - Document console=null and console="" behavior - Prevent a deadlock and a livelock caused by console_lock in panic() - Make console_lock available for panicking CPU - Fast query for the next to-be-used sequence number - Use the expected return values in printk.devkmsg __setup handler - Use the correct atomic operations in wake_up_klogd() irq_work handler - Avoid possible unaligned access when handling %4cc printing format * tag 'printk-for-5.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/printk/linux: printk: fix return value of printk.devkmsg __setup handler vsprintf: Fix %pK with kptr_restrict == 0 printk: make suppress_panic_printk static printk: Set console_set_on_cmdline=1 when __add_preferred_console() is called with user_specified == true Docs: printk: add 'console=null|""' to admin/kernel-parameters printk: use atomic updates for klogd work printk: Drop console_sem during panic printk: Avoid livelock with heavy printk during panic printk: disable optimistic spin during panic printk: Add panic_in_progress helper vsprintf: Move space out of string literals in fourcc_string() vsprintf: Fix potential unaligned access printk: ringbuffer: Improve prb_next_seq() performance
| * \ \ Merge branch 'rework/fast-next-seq' into for-linusPetr Mladek2022-03-212-5/+49
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| | * | | printk: ringbuffer: Improve prb_next_seq() performancePetr Mladek2022-01-262-5/+49
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | prb_next_seq() always iterates from the first known sequence number. In the worst case, it might loop 8k times for 256kB buffer, 15k times for 512kB buffer, and 64k times for 2MB buffer. It was reported that polling and reading using syslog interface might occupy 50% of CPU. Speedup the search by storing @id of the last finalized descriptor. The loop is still needed because the @id is stored and read in the best effort way. An atomic variable is used to keep the @id consistent. But the stores and reads are not serialized against each other. The descriptor could get reused in the meantime. The related sequence number will be used only when it is still valid. An invalid value should be read _only_ when there is a flood of messages and the ringbuffer is rapidly reused. The performance is the least problem in this case. Reported-by: Chunlei Wang <chunlei.wang@mediatek.com> Signed-off-by: Mukesh Ojha <quic_mojha@quicinc.com> Reviewed-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1642770388-17327-1-git-send-email-quic_mojha@quicinc.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/YXlddJxLh77DKfIO@alley/T/#m43062e8b2a17f8dbc8c6ccdb8851fb0dbaabbb14