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<title>tracing: Use atomic64_inc_return() in trace_clock_counter()</title>
<updated>2024-12-14T19:03:58+00:00</updated>
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<name>Uros Bizjak</name>
<email>ubizjak@gmail.com</email>
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<published>2024-10-07T08:56:28+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit eb887c4567d1b0e7684c026fe7df44afa96589e6 ]

Use atomic64_inc_return(&amp;ref) instead of atomic64_add_return(1, &amp;ref)
to use optimized implementation and ease register pressure around
the primitive for targets that implement optimized variant.

Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20241007085651.48544-1-ubizjak@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Uros Bizjak &lt;ubizjak@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit eb887c4567d1b0e7684c026fe7df44afa96589e6 ]

Use atomic64_inc_return(&amp;ref) instead of atomic64_add_return(1, &amp;ref)
to use optimized implementation and ease register pressure around
the primitive for targets that implement optimized variant.

Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20241007085651.48544-1-ubizjak@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Uros Bizjak &lt;ubizjak@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Do no increment trace_clock_global() by one</title>
<updated>2021-06-18T13:10:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (VMware)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-06-17T21:12:35+00:00</published>
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The trace_clock_global() tries to make sure the events between CPUs is
somewhat in order. A global value is used and updated by the latest read
of a clock. If one CPU is ahead by a little, and is read by another CPU, a
lock is taken, and if the timestamp of the other CPU is behind, it will
simply use the other CPUs timestamp.

The lock is also only taken with a "trylock" due to tracing, and strange
recursions can happen. The lock is not taken at all in NMI context.

In the case where the lock is not able to be taken, the non synced
timestamp is returned. But it will not be less than the saved global
timestamp.

The problem arises because when the time goes "backwards" the time
returned is the saved timestamp plus 1. If the lock is not taken, and the
plus one to the timestamp is returned, there's a small race that can cause
the time to go backwards!

	CPU0				CPU1
	----				----
				trace_clock_global() {
				    ts = clock() [ 1000 ]
				    trylock(clock_lock) [ success ]
				    global_ts = ts; [ 1000 ]

				    &lt;interrupted by NMI&gt;
 trace_clock_global() {
    ts = clock() [ 999 ]
    if (ts &lt; global_ts)
	ts = global_ts + 1 [ 1001 ]

    trylock(clock_lock) [ fail ]

    return ts [ 1001]
 }
				    unlock(clock_lock);
				    return ts; [ 1000 ]
				}

 trace_clock_global() {
    ts = clock() [ 1000 ]
    if (ts &lt; global_ts) [ false 1000 == 1000 ]

    trylock(clock_lock) [ success ]
    global_ts = ts; [ 1000 ]
    unlock(clock_lock)

    return ts; [ 1000 ]
 }

The above case shows to reads of trace_clock_global() on the same CPU, but
the second read returns one less than the first read. That is, time when
backwards, and this is not what is allowed by trace_clock_global().

This was triggered by heavy tracing and the ring buffer checker that tests
for the clock going backwards:

 Ring buffer clock went backwards: 20613921464 -&gt; 20613921463
 ------------[ cut here ]------------
 WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 0 at kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:3412 check_buffer+0x1b9/0x1c0
 Modules linked in:
 [..]
 [CPU: 2]TIME DOES NOT MATCH expected:20620711698 actual:20620711697 delta:6790234 before:20613921463 after:20613921463
   [20613915818] PAGE TIME STAMP
   [20613915818] delta:0
   [20613915819] delta:1
   [20613916035] delta:216
   [20613916465] delta:430
   [20613916575] delta:110
   [20613916749] delta:174
   [20613917248] delta:499
   [20613917333] delta:85
   [20613917775] delta:442
   [20613917921] delta:146
   [20613918321] delta:400
   [20613918568] delta:247
   [20613918768] delta:200
   [20613919306] delta:538
   [20613919353] delta:47
   [20613919980] delta:627
   [20613920296] delta:316
   [20613920571] delta:275
   [20613920862] delta:291
   [20613921152] delta:290
   [20613921464] delta:312
   [20613921464] delta:0 TIME EXTEND
   [20613921464] delta:0

This happened more than once, and always for an off by one result. It also
started happening after commit aafe104aa9096 was added.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: aafe104aa9096 ("tracing: Restructure trace_clock_global() to never block")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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The trace_clock_global() tries to make sure the events between CPUs is
somewhat in order. A global value is used and updated by the latest read
of a clock. If one CPU is ahead by a little, and is read by another CPU, a
lock is taken, and if the timestamp of the other CPU is behind, it will
simply use the other CPUs timestamp.

The lock is also only taken with a "trylock" due to tracing, and strange
recursions can happen. The lock is not taken at all in NMI context.

In the case where the lock is not able to be taken, the non synced
timestamp is returned. But it will not be less than the saved global
timestamp.

The problem arises because when the time goes "backwards" the time
returned is the saved timestamp plus 1. If the lock is not taken, and the
plus one to the timestamp is returned, there's a small race that can cause
the time to go backwards!

	CPU0				CPU1
	----				----
				trace_clock_global() {
				    ts = clock() [ 1000 ]
				    trylock(clock_lock) [ success ]
				    global_ts = ts; [ 1000 ]

				    &lt;interrupted by NMI&gt;
 trace_clock_global() {
    ts = clock() [ 999 ]
    if (ts &lt; global_ts)
	ts = global_ts + 1 [ 1001 ]

    trylock(clock_lock) [ fail ]

    return ts [ 1001]
 }
				    unlock(clock_lock);
				    return ts; [ 1000 ]
				}

 trace_clock_global() {
    ts = clock() [ 1000 ]
    if (ts &lt; global_ts) [ false 1000 == 1000 ]

    trylock(clock_lock) [ success ]
    global_ts = ts; [ 1000 ]
    unlock(clock_lock)

    return ts; [ 1000 ]
 }

The above case shows to reads of trace_clock_global() on the same CPU, but
the second read returns one less than the first read. That is, time when
backwards, and this is not what is allowed by trace_clock_global().

This was triggered by heavy tracing and the ring buffer checker that tests
for the clock going backwards:

 Ring buffer clock went backwards: 20613921464 -&gt; 20613921463
 ------------[ cut here ]------------
 WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 0 at kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:3412 check_buffer+0x1b9/0x1c0
 Modules linked in:
 [..]
 [CPU: 2]TIME DOES NOT MATCH expected:20620711698 actual:20620711697 delta:6790234 before:20613921463 after:20613921463
   [20613915818] PAGE TIME STAMP
   [20613915818] delta:0
   [20613915819] delta:1
   [20613916035] delta:216
   [20613916465] delta:430
   [20613916575] delta:110
   [20613916749] delta:174
   [20613917248] delta:499
   [20613917333] delta:85
   [20613917775] delta:442
   [20613917921] delta:146
   [20613918321] delta:400
   [20613918568] delta:247
   [20613918768] delta:200
   [20613919306] delta:538
   [20613919353] delta:47
   [20613919980] delta:627
   [20613920296] delta:316
   [20613920571] delta:275
   [20613920862] delta:291
   [20613921152] delta:290
   [20613921464] delta:312
   [20613921464] delta:0 TIME EXTEND
   [20613921464] delta:0

This happened more than once, and always for an off by one result. It also
started happening after commit aafe104aa9096 was added.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: aafe104aa9096 ("tracing: Restructure trace_clock_global() to never block")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Restructure trace_clock_global() to never block</title>
<updated>2021-04-30T17:48:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (VMware)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-04-30T16:17:58+00:00</published>
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It was reported that a fix to the ring buffer recursion detection would
cause a hung machine when performing suspend / resume testing. The
following backtrace was extracted from debugging that case:

Call Trace:
 trace_clock_global+0x91/0xa0
 __rb_reserve_next+0x237/0x460
 ring_buffer_lock_reserve+0x12a/0x3f0
 trace_buffer_lock_reserve+0x10/0x50
 __trace_graph_return+0x1f/0x80
 trace_graph_return+0xb7/0xf0
 ? trace_clock_global+0x91/0xa0
 ftrace_return_to_handler+0x8b/0xf0
 ? pv_hash+0xa0/0xa0
 return_to_handler+0x15/0x30
 ? ftrace_graph_caller+0xa0/0xa0
 ? trace_clock_global+0x91/0xa0
 ? __rb_reserve_next+0x237/0x460
 ? ring_buffer_lock_reserve+0x12a/0x3f0
 ? trace_event_buffer_lock_reserve+0x3c/0x120
 ? trace_event_buffer_reserve+0x6b/0xc0
 ? trace_event_raw_event_device_pm_callback_start+0x125/0x2d0
 ? dpm_run_callback+0x3b/0xc0
 ? pm_ops_is_empty+0x50/0x50
 ? platform_get_irq_byname_optional+0x90/0x90
 ? trace_device_pm_callback_start+0x82/0xd0
 ? dpm_run_callback+0x49/0xc0

With the following RIP:

RIP: 0010:native_queued_spin_lock_slowpath+0x69/0x200

Since the fix to the recursion detection would allow a single recursion to
happen while tracing, this lead to the trace_clock_global() taking a spin
lock and then trying to take it again:

ring_buffer_lock_reserve() {
  trace_clock_global() {
    arch_spin_lock() {
      queued_spin_lock_slowpath() {
        /* lock taken */
        (something else gets traced by function graph tracer)
          ring_buffer_lock_reserve() {
            trace_clock_global() {
              arch_spin_lock() {
                queued_spin_lock_slowpath() {
                /* DEAD LOCK! */

Tracing should *never* block, as it can lead to strange lockups like the
above.

Restructure the trace_clock_global() code to instead of simply taking a
lock to update the recorded "prev_time" simply use it, as two events
happening on two different CPUs that calls this at the same time, really
doesn't matter which one goes first. Use a trylock to grab the lock for
updating the prev_time, and if it fails, simply try again the next time.
If it failed to be taken, that means something else is already updating
it.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210430121758.650b6e8a@gandalf.local.home

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Tested-by: Konstantin Kharlamov &lt;hi-angel@yandex.ru&gt;
Tested-by: Todd Brandt &lt;todd.e.brandt@linux.intel.com&gt;
Fixes: b02414c8f045 ("ring-buffer: Fix recursion protection transitions between interrupt context") # started showing the problem
Fixes: 14131f2f98ac3 ("tracing: implement trace_clock_*() APIs") # where the bug happened
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=212761
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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It was reported that a fix to the ring buffer recursion detection would
cause a hung machine when performing suspend / resume testing. The
following backtrace was extracted from debugging that case:

Call Trace:
 trace_clock_global+0x91/0xa0
 __rb_reserve_next+0x237/0x460
 ring_buffer_lock_reserve+0x12a/0x3f0
 trace_buffer_lock_reserve+0x10/0x50
 __trace_graph_return+0x1f/0x80
 trace_graph_return+0xb7/0xf0
 ? trace_clock_global+0x91/0xa0
 ftrace_return_to_handler+0x8b/0xf0
 ? pv_hash+0xa0/0xa0
 return_to_handler+0x15/0x30
 ? ftrace_graph_caller+0xa0/0xa0
 ? trace_clock_global+0x91/0xa0
 ? __rb_reserve_next+0x237/0x460
 ? ring_buffer_lock_reserve+0x12a/0x3f0
 ? trace_event_buffer_lock_reserve+0x3c/0x120
 ? trace_event_buffer_reserve+0x6b/0xc0
 ? trace_event_raw_event_device_pm_callback_start+0x125/0x2d0
 ? dpm_run_callback+0x3b/0xc0
 ? pm_ops_is_empty+0x50/0x50
 ? platform_get_irq_byname_optional+0x90/0x90
 ? trace_device_pm_callback_start+0x82/0xd0
 ? dpm_run_callback+0x49/0xc0

With the following RIP:

RIP: 0010:native_queued_spin_lock_slowpath+0x69/0x200

Since the fix to the recursion detection would allow a single recursion to
happen while tracing, this lead to the trace_clock_global() taking a spin
lock and then trying to take it again:

ring_buffer_lock_reserve() {
  trace_clock_global() {
    arch_spin_lock() {
      queued_spin_lock_slowpath() {
        /* lock taken */
        (something else gets traced by function graph tracer)
          ring_buffer_lock_reserve() {
            trace_clock_global() {
              arch_spin_lock() {
                queued_spin_lock_slowpath() {
                /* DEAD LOCK! */

Tracing should *never* block, as it can lead to strange lockups like the
above.

Restructure the trace_clock_global() code to instead of simply taking a
lock to update the recorded "prev_time" simply use it, as two events
happening on two different CPUs that calls this at the same time, really
doesn't matter which one goes first. Use a trylock to grab the lock for
updating the prev_time, and if it fails, simply try again the next time.
If it failed to be taken, that means something else is already updating
it.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210430121758.650b6e8a@gandalf.local.home

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Tested-by: Konstantin Kharlamov &lt;hi-angel@yandex.ru&gt;
Tested-by: Todd Brandt &lt;todd.e.brandt@linux.intel.com&gt;
Fixes: b02414c8f045 ("ring-buffer: Fix recursion protection transitions between interrupt context") # started showing the problem
Fixes: 14131f2f98ac3 ("tracing: implement trace_clock_*() APIs") # where the bug happened
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=212761
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Add SPDX License format tags to tracing files</title>
<updated>2018-08-16T23:08:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (VMware)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-16T15:23:53+00:00</published>
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Add the SPDX License header to ease license compliance management.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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Add the SPDX License header to ease license compliance management.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Hide global trace clock from lockdep</title>
<updated>2018-04-06T12:56:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (VMware)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-04T18:50:15+00:00</published>
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Function tracing can trace in NMIs and such. If the TSC is determined
to be unstable, the tracing clock will switch to the global clock on
boot up, unless "trace_clock" is specified on the kernel command line.

The global clock disables interrupts to access sched_clock_cpu(), and in
doing so can be done within lockdep internals (because of function
tracing and NMIs). This can trigger false lockdep splats.

The trace_clock_global() is special, best not to trace the irq logic
within it.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180404145015.77bde42d@gandalf.local.home

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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Function tracing can trace in NMIs and such. If the TSC is determined
to be unstable, the tracing clock will switch to the global clock on
boot up, unless "trace_clock" is specified on the kernel command line.

The global clock disables interrupts to access sched_clock_cpu(), and in
doing so can be done within lockdep internals (because of function
tracing and NMIs). This can trigger false lockdep splats.

The trace_clock_global() is special, best not to trace the irq logic
within it.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180404145015.77bde42d@gandalf.local.home

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to &lt;linux/sched/clock.h&gt;</title>
<updated>2017-03-02T07:42:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-01T15:36:40+00:00</published>
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We are going to split &lt;linux/sched/clock.h&gt; out of &lt;linux/sched.h&gt;, which
will have to be picked up from other headers and .c files.

Create a trivial placeholder &lt;linux/sched/clock.h&gt; file that just
maps to &lt;linux/sched.h&gt; to make this patch obviously correct and
bisectable.

Include the new header in the files that are going to need it.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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We are going to split &lt;linux/sched/clock.h&gt; out of &lt;linux/sched.h&gt;, which
will have to be picked up from other headers and .c files.

Create a trivial placeholder &lt;linux/sched/clock.h&gt; file that just
maps to &lt;linux/sched.h&gt; to make this patch obviously correct and
bisectable.

Include the new header in the files that are going to need it.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Export tracing clock functions</title>
<updated>2015-05-12T19:56:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jerry Snitselaar</name>
<email>jsnitsel@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-30T15:10:24+00:00</published>
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Critical tracepoint hooks should never call anything that takes a lock,
so they are unable to call getrawmonotonic() or ktime_get().

Export the rest of the tracing clock functions so can be used in
tracepoint hooks.

Background: We have a customer that adds their own module and registers
a tracepoint hook to sched_wakeup. They were using ktime_get() for a
time source, but it grabs a seq lock and caused a deadlock to occur.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1430406624-22609-1-git-send-email-jsnitsel@redhat.com

Signed-off-by: Jerry Snitselaar &lt;jsnitsel@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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Critical tracepoint hooks should never call anything that takes a lock,
so they are unable to call getrawmonotonic() or ktime_get().

Export the rest of the tracing clock functions so can be used in
tracepoint hooks.

Background: We have a customer that adds their own module and registers
a tracepoint hook to sched_wakeup. They were using ktime_get() for a
time source, but it grabs a seq lock and caused a deadlock to occur.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1430406624-22609-1-git-send-email-jsnitsel@redhat.com

Signed-off-by: Jerry Snitselaar &lt;jsnitsel@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tracing: Fix wraparound problems in "uptime" trace clock</title>
<updated>2014-07-21T13:56:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tony Luck</name>
<email>tony.luck@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-07-18T18:43:01+00:00</published>
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The "uptime" trace clock added in:

    commit 8aacf017b065a805d27467843490c976835eb4a5
    tracing: Add "uptime" trace clock that uses jiffies

has wraparound problems when the system has been up more
than 1 hour 11 minutes and 34 seconds. It converts jiffies
to nanoseconds using:
        (u64)jiffies_to_usecs(jiffy) * 1000ULL
but since jiffies_to_usecs() only returns a 32-bit value, it
truncates at 2^32 microseconds.  An additional problem on 32-bit
systems is that the argument is "unsigned long", so fixing the
return value only helps until 2^32 jiffies (49.7 days on a HZ=1000
system).

Avoid these problems by using jiffies_64 as our basis, and
not converting to nanoseconds (we do convert to clock_t because
user facing API must not be dependent on internal kernel
HZ values).

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/p/99d63c5bfe9b320a3b428d773825a37095bf6a51.1405708254.git.tony.luck@intel.com

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.10+
Fixes: 8aacf017b065 "tracing: Add "uptime" trace clock that uses jiffies"
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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The "uptime" trace clock added in:

    commit 8aacf017b065a805d27467843490c976835eb4a5
    tracing: Add "uptime" trace clock that uses jiffies

has wraparound problems when the system has been up more
than 1 hour 11 minutes and 34 seconds. It converts jiffies
to nanoseconds using:
        (u64)jiffies_to_usecs(jiffy) * 1000ULL
but since jiffies_to_usecs() only returns a 32-bit value, it
truncates at 2^32 microseconds.  An additional problem on 32-bit
systems is that the argument is "unsigned long", so fixing the
return value only helps until 2^32 jiffies (49.7 days on a HZ=1000
system).

Avoid these problems by using jiffies_64 as our basis, and
not converting to nanoseconds (we do convert to clock_t because
user facing API must not be dependent on internal kernel
HZ values).

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/p/99d63c5bfe9b320a3b428d773825a37095bf6a51.1405708254.git.tony.luck@intel.com

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.10+
Fixes: 8aacf017b065 "tracing: Add "uptime" trace clock that uses jiffies"
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Add "uptime" trace clock that uses jiffies</title>
<updated>2013-03-15T04:36:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-14T17:13:45+00:00</published>
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Add a simple trace clock called "uptime" for those that are
interested in the uptime of the trace. It uses jiffies as that's
the safest method, as other uptime clocks grab seq locks, which could
cause a deadlock if taken from an event or function tracer.

Requested-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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Add a simple trace clock called "uptime" for those that are
interested in the uptime of the trace. It uses jiffies as that's
the safest method, as other uptime clocks grab seq locks, which could
cause a deadlock if taken from an event or function tracer.

Requested-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2013-02-20T01:49:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-02-20T01:49:41+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=8f55cea410dbc56114bb71a3742032070c8108d0'/>
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Pull perf changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "There are lots of improvements, the biggest changes are:

  Main kernel side changes:

   - Improve uprobes performance by adding 'pre-filtering' support, by
     Oleg Nesterov.

   - Make some POWER7 events available in sysfs, equivalent to what was
     done on x86, from Sukadev Bhattiprolu.

   - tracing updates by Steve Rostedt - mostly misc fixes and smaller
     improvements.

   - Use perf/event tracing to report PCI Express advanced errors, by
     Tony Luck.

   - Enable northbridge performance counters on AMD family 15h, by Jacob
     Shin.

   - This tracing commit:

        tracing: Remove the extra 4 bytes of padding in events

     changes the ABI.  All involved parties (PowerTop in particular)
     seem to agree that it's safe to do now with the introduction of
     libtraceevent, but the devil is in the details ...

  Main tooling side changes:

   - Add 'event group view', from Namyung Kim:

     To use it, 'perf record' should group events when recording.  And
     then perf report parses the saved group relation from file header
     and prints them together if --group option is provided.  You can
     use the 'perf evlist' command to see event group information:

        $ perf record -e '{ref-cycles,cycles}' noploop 1
        [ perf record: Woken up 2 times to write data ]
        [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.385 MB perf.data (~16807 samples) ]

        $ perf evlist --group
        {ref-cycles,cycles}

     With this example, default perf report will show you each event
     separately.

     You can use --group option to enable event group view:

        $ perf report --group
        ...
        # group: {ref-cycles,cycles}
        # ========
        # Samples: 7K of event 'anon group { ref-cycles, cycles }'
        # Event count (approx.): 6876107743
        #
        #         Overhead  Command      Shared Object                      Symbol
        # ................  .......  .................  ..........................
            99.84%  99.76%  noploop  noploop            [.] main
             0.07%   0.00%  noploop  ld-2.15.so         [.] strcmp
             0.03%   0.00%  noploop  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] timerqueue_del
             0.03%   0.03%  noploop  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] sched_clock_cpu
             0.02%   0.00%  noploop  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] account_user_time
             0.01%   0.00%  noploop  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] __alloc_pages_nodemask
             0.00%   0.00%  noploop  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] native_write_msr_safe
             0.00%   0.11%  noploop  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] _raw_spin_lock
             0.00%   0.06%  noploop  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] find_get_page
             0.00%   0.02%  noploop  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] rcu_check_callbacks
             0.00%   0.02%  noploop  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] __current_kernel_time

     As you can see the Overhead column now contains both of ref-cycles
     and cycles and header line shows group information also - 'anon
     group { ref-cycles, cycles }'.  The output is sorted by period of
     group leader first.

   - Initial GTK+ annotate browser, from Namhyung Kim.

   - Add option for runtime switching perf data file in perf report,
     just press 's' and a menu with the valid files found in the current
     directory will be presented, from Feng Tang.

   - Add support to display whole group data for raw columns, from Jiri
     Olsa.

   - Add per processor socket count aggregation in perf stat, from
     Stephane Eranian.

   - Add interval printing in 'perf stat', from Stephane Eranian.

   - 'perf test' improvements

   - Add support for wildcards in tracepoint system name, from Jiri
     Olsa.

   - Add anonymous huge page recognition, from Joshua Zhu.

   - perf build-id cache now can show DSOs present in a perf.data file
     that are not in the cache, to integrate with build-id servers being
     put in place by organizations such as Fedora.

   - perf top now shares more of the evsel config/creation routines with
     'record', paving the way for further integration like 'top'
     snapshots, etc.

   - perf top now supports DWARF callchains.

   - Fix mmap limitations on 32-bit, fix from David Miller.

   - 'perf bench numa mem' NUMA performance measurement suite

   - ... and lots of fixes, performance improvements, cleanups and other
     improvements I failed to list - see the shortlog and git log for
     details."

* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (270 commits)
  perf/x86/amd: Enable northbridge performance counters on AMD family 15h
  perf/hwbp: Fix cleanup in case of kzalloc failure
  perf tools: Fix build with bison 2.3 and older.
  perf tools: Limit unwind support to x86 archs
  perf annotate: Make it to be able to skip unannotatable symbols
  perf gtk/annotate: Fail early if it can't annotate
  perf gtk/annotate: Show source lines with gray color
  perf gtk/annotate: Support multiple event annotation
  perf ui/gtk: Implement basic GTK2 annotation browser
  perf annotate: Fix warning message on a missing vmlinux
  perf buildid-cache: Add --update option
  uprobes/perf: Avoid uprobe_apply() whenever possible
  uprobes/perf: Teach trace_uprobe/perf code to use UPROBE_HANDLER_REMOVE
  uprobes/perf: Teach trace_uprobe/perf code to pre-filter
  uprobes/perf: Teach trace_uprobe/perf code to track the active perf_event's
  uprobes: Introduce uprobe_apply()
  perf: Introduce hw_perf_event-&gt;tp_target and -&gt;tp_list
  uprobes/perf: Always increment trace_uprobe-&gt;nhit
  uprobes/tracing: Kill uprobe_trace_consumer, embed uprobe_consumer into trace_uprobe
  uprobes/tracing: Introduce is_trace_uprobe_enabled()
  ...
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Pull perf changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "There are lots of improvements, the biggest changes are:

  Main kernel side changes:

   - Improve uprobes performance by adding 'pre-filtering' support, by
     Oleg Nesterov.

   - Make some POWER7 events available in sysfs, equivalent to what was
     done on x86, from Sukadev Bhattiprolu.

   - tracing updates by Steve Rostedt - mostly misc fixes and smaller
     improvements.

   - Use perf/event tracing to report PCI Express advanced errors, by
     Tony Luck.

   - Enable northbridge performance counters on AMD family 15h, by Jacob
     Shin.

   - This tracing commit:

        tracing: Remove the extra 4 bytes of padding in events

     changes the ABI.  All involved parties (PowerTop in particular)
     seem to agree that it's safe to do now with the introduction of
     libtraceevent, but the devil is in the details ...

  Main tooling side changes:

   - Add 'event group view', from Namyung Kim:

     To use it, 'perf record' should group events when recording.  And
     then perf report parses the saved group relation from file header
     and prints them together if --group option is provided.  You can
     use the 'perf evlist' command to see event group information:

        $ perf record -e '{ref-cycles,cycles}' noploop 1
        [ perf record: Woken up 2 times to write data ]
        [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.385 MB perf.data (~16807 samples) ]

        $ perf evlist --group
        {ref-cycles,cycles}

     With this example, default perf report will show you each event
     separately.

     You can use --group option to enable event group view:

        $ perf report --group
        ...
        # group: {ref-cycles,cycles}
        # ========
        # Samples: 7K of event 'anon group { ref-cycles, cycles }'
        # Event count (approx.): 6876107743
        #
        #         Overhead  Command      Shared Object                      Symbol
        # ................  .......  .................  ..........................
            99.84%  99.76%  noploop  noploop            [.] main
             0.07%   0.00%  noploop  ld-2.15.so         [.] strcmp
             0.03%   0.00%  noploop  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] timerqueue_del
             0.03%   0.03%  noploop  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] sched_clock_cpu
             0.02%   0.00%  noploop  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] account_user_time
             0.01%   0.00%  noploop  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] __alloc_pages_nodemask
             0.00%   0.00%  noploop  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] native_write_msr_safe
             0.00%   0.11%  noploop  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] _raw_spin_lock
             0.00%   0.06%  noploop  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] find_get_page
             0.00%   0.02%  noploop  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] rcu_check_callbacks
             0.00%   0.02%  noploop  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] __current_kernel_time

     As you can see the Overhead column now contains both of ref-cycles
     and cycles and header line shows group information also - 'anon
     group { ref-cycles, cycles }'.  The output is sorted by period of
     group leader first.

   - Initial GTK+ annotate browser, from Namhyung Kim.

   - Add option for runtime switching perf data file in perf report,
     just press 's' and a menu with the valid files found in the current
     directory will be presented, from Feng Tang.

   - Add support to display whole group data for raw columns, from Jiri
     Olsa.

   - Add per processor socket count aggregation in perf stat, from
     Stephane Eranian.

   - Add interval printing in 'perf stat', from Stephane Eranian.

   - 'perf test' improvements

   - Add support for wildcards in tracepoint system name, from Jiri
     Olsa.

   - Add anonymous huge page recognition, from Joshua Zhu.

   - perf build-id cache now can show DSOs present in a perf.data file
     that are not in the cache, to integrate with build-id servers being
     put in place by organizations such as Fedora.

   - perf top now shares more of the evsel config/creation routines with
     'record', paving the way for further integration like 'top'
     snapshots, etc.

   - perf top now supports DWARF callchains.

   - Fix mmap limitations on 32-bit, fix from David Miller.

   - 'perf bench numa mem' NUMA performance measurement suite

   - ... and lots of fixes, performance improvements, cleanups and other
     improvements I failed to list - see the shortlog and git log for
     details."

* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (270 commits)
  perf/x86/amd: Enable northbridge performance counters on AMD family 15h
  perf/hwbp: Fix cleanup in case of kzalloc failure
  perf tools: Fix build with bison 2.3 and older.
  perf tools: Limit unwind support to x86 archs
  perf annotate: Make it to be able to skip unannotatable symbols
  perf gtk/annotate: Fail early if it can't annotate
  perf gtk/annotate: Show source lines with gray color
  perf gtk/annotate: Support multiple event annotation
  perf ui/gtk: Implement basic GTK2 annotation browser
  perf annotate: Fix warning message on a missing vmlinux
  perf buildid-cache: Add --update option
  uprobes/perf: Avoid uprobe_apply() whenever possible
  uprobes/perf: Teach trace_uprobe/perf code to use UPROBE_HANDLER_REMOVE
  uprobes/perf: Teach trace_uprobe/perf code to pre-filter
  uprobes/perf: Teach trace_uprobe/perf code to track the active perf_event's
  uprobes: Introduce uprobe_apply()
  perf: Introduce hw_perf_event-&gt;tp_target and -&gt;tp_list
  uprobes/perf: Always increment trace_uprobe-&gt;nhit
  uprobes/tracing: Kill uprobe_trace_consumer, embed uprobe_consumer into trace_uprobe
  uprobes/tracing: Introduce is_trace_uprobe_enabled()
  ...
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