[PATCHV5 1/3] tracing: add a possibility of exporting function trace to other places instead of ring buffer only

Steven Rostedt rostedt at goodmis.org
Tue Aug 30 07:30:42 PDT 2016


On Tue, 30 Aug 2016 16:07:28 +0800
Chunyan Zhang <zhang.chunyan at linaro.org> wrote:

> Currently Function traces can be only exported to ring buffer, this
> patch added trace_export concept which can process traces and export
> them to a registered destination as an addition to the current only
> output of Ftrace - i.e. ring buffer.
> 
> In this way, if we want Function traces to be sent to other destination
> rather than ring buffer only, we just need to register a new
> trace_export and implement its own .commit() callback or just use
> 'trace_generic_commit()' which this patch also added and hooks up its
> own .write() function for writing traces to the storage.
> 
> With this patch, only Function trace (trace type is TRACE_FN)
> is supported.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chunyan Zhang <zhang.chunyan at linaro.org>
> ---
>  include/linux/trace.h |  35 ++++++++++++
>  kernel/trace/trace.c  | 155 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  kernel/trace/trace.h  |   1 +
>  3 files changed, 190 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>  create mode 100644 include/linux/trace.h
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/trace.h b/include/linux/trace.h
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..30ded92
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/include/linux/trace.h
> @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
> +#ifndef _LINUX_TRACE_H
> +#define _LINUX_TRACE_H
> +
> +#include <linux/ring_buffer.h>
> +struct trace_array;
> +
> +#ifdef CONFIG_TRACING
> +/*
> + * The trace export - an export of Ftrace. The trace_export can process
> + * traces and export them to a registered destination as an addition to
> + * the current only output of Ftrace - i.e. ring buffer.
> + *
> + * If you want traces to be sent to some other place rather than
> + * ring buffer only, just need to register a new trace_export and
> + * implement its own .commit() callback or just directly use
> + * 'trace_generic_commit()' and hooks up its own .write() function
> + * for writing traces to the storage.
> + *
> + * next		- pointer to the next trace_export
> + * commit	- commit the traces to the destination
> + * write	- copy traces which have been delt with ->commit() to
> + *		  the destination
> + */
> +struct trace_export {
> +	struct trace_export __rcu	*next;
> +	void (*commit)(struct trace_array *, struct ring_buffer_event *);
> +	void (*write)(const char *, unsigned int);
> +};
> +
> +int register_ftrace_export(struct trace_export *export);
> +int unregister_ftrace_export(struct trace_export *export);
> +
> +#endif	/* CONFIG_TRACING */
> +
> +#endif	/* _LINUX_TRACE_H */
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
> index dade4c9..3163fa6 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
> @@ -40,6 +40,7 @@
>  #include <linux/poll.h>
>  #include <linux/nmi.h>
>  #include <linux/fs.h>
> +#include <linux/trace.h>
>  #include <linux/sched/rt.h>
>  
>  #include "trace.h"
> @@ -2128,6 +2129,155 @@ void trace_buffer_unlock_commit_regs(struct trace_array *tr,
>  	ftrace_trace_userstack(buffer, flags, pc);
>  }
>  
> +static DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE(ftrace_exports_enabled);
> +
> +static void ftrace_exports_enable(void)
> +{
> +	static_branch_enable(&ftrace_exports_enabled);
> +}
> +
> +static void ftrace_exports_disable(void)
> +{
> +	static_branch_disable(&ftrace_exports_enabled);
> +}
> +
> +static size_t trace_size[] = {
> +	[TRACE_FN]		= sizeof(struct ftrace_entry),
> +	[TRACE_CTX]		= sizeof(struct ctx_switch_entry),
> +	[TRACE_WAKE]		= sizeof(struct ctx_switch_entry),
> +	[TRACE_STACK]		= sizeof(struct stack_entry),
> +	[TRACE_PRINT]		= sizeof(struct print_entry),
> +	[TRACE_BPRINT]		= sizeof(struct bprint_entry),
> +	[TRACE_MMIO_RW]		= sizeof(struct trace_mmiotrace_rw),
> +	[TRACE_MMIO_MAP]	= sizeof(struct trace_mmiotrace_map),
> +	[TRACE_BRANCH]		= sizeof(struct trace_branch),
> +	[TRACE_GRAPH_RET]	= sizeof(struct ftrace_graph_ret_entry),
> +	[TRACE_GRAPH_ENT]	= sizeof(struct ftrace_graph_ent_entry),
> +	[TRACE_USER_STACK]	= sizeof(struct userstack_entry),
> +	[TRACE_BPUTS]		= sizeof(struct bputs_entry),
> +};
> +
> +static void
> +trace_generic_commit(struct trace_array *tr,
> +	       struct ring_buffer_event *event)
> +{
> +	struct trace_entry *entry;
> +	struct trace_export *export = tr->export;

Why not just pass in the export directly?

> +	unsigned int size = 0;
> +
> +	entry = ring_buffer_event_data(event);
> +
> +	size = trace_size[entry->type];

BTW, it would make much more sense if you just did:

	size = ring_buffer_event_length(event);

and get rid of that silly array, as that is prone to bugs if you add a
new type.

> +	if (!size)
> +		return;
> +
> +	if (export && export->write)
> +		export->write((char *)entry, size);
> +}
> +
> +static DEFINE_MUTEX(ftrace_export_lock);
> +
> +static struct trace_export __rcu *ftrace_exports_list __read_mostly;
> +
> +static inline void
> +ftrace_exports(struct trace_array *tr, struct ring_buffer_event *event)
> +{
> +	struct trace_export *export;
> +
> +	preempt_disable_notrace();
> +
> +	for (export = rcu_dereference_raw_notrace(ftrace_exports_list);
> +	     export && export->commit;
> +	     export = rcu_dereference_raw_notrace(export->next)) {
> +		tr->export = export;
> +		export->commit(tr, event);

Um, what's the commit for?

Why not just call the trace_generic_commit() above. Nothing has
anything different. But change that name. Maybe call it
"process_export()" or something. And pass the export directly and get
rid of the tr->export.

> +	}
> +
> +	preempt_enable_notrace();
> +}
> +
> +static inline void
> +add_trace_export(struct trace_export **list, struct trace_export *export)
> +{
> +	rcu_assign_pointer(export->next, *list);
> +	/*
> +	 * We are entering export into the list but another
> +	 * CPU might be walking that list. We need to make sure
> +	 * the export->next pointer is valid before another CPU sees
> +	 * the export pointer included into the list.
> +	 */
> +	rcu_assign_pointer(*list, export);
> +}
> +
> +static inline int
> +rm_trace_export(struct trace_export **list, struct trace_export *export)
> +{
> +	struct trace_export **p;
> +
> +	for (p = list; *p != NULL; p = &(*p)->next)
> +		if (*p == export)
> +			break;
> +
> +	if (*p != export)
> +		return -1;
> +
> +	rcu_assign_pointer(*p, (*p)->next);
> +
> +	return 0;
> +}
> +
> +static inline void
> +add_ftrace_export(struct trace_export **list, struct trace_export *export)
> +{
> +	if (*list == NULL)
> +		ftrace_exports_enable();
> +
> +	add_trace_export(list, export);
> +}
> +
> +static inline int
> +rm_ftrace_export(struct trace_export **list, struct trace_export *export)
> +{
> +	int ret;
> +
> +	ret = rm_trace_export(list, export);
> +	if (*list == NULL)
> +		ftrace_exports_disable();
> +
> +	return ret;
> +}
> +
> +int register_ftrace_export(struct trace_export *export)
> +{
> +	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!export->write))
> +		return -1;
> +
> +	mutex_lock(&ftrace_export_lock);
> +
> +	export->commit = trace_generic_commit;
> +
> +	add_ftrace_export(&ftrace_exports_list, export);
> +
> +	mutex_unlock(&ftrace_export_lock);
> +
> +	return 0;
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(register_ftrace_export);
> +
> +int unregister_ftrace_export(struct trace_export *export)
> +{
> +	int ret;
> +
> +	mutex_lock(&ftrace_export_lock);
> +
> +	ret = rm_ftrace_export(&ftrace_exports_list, export);
> +
> +	mutex_unlock(&ftrace_export_lock);
> +
> +	return ret;
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(unregister_ftrace_export);
> +
>  void
>  trace_function(struct trace_array *tr,
>  	       unsigned long ip, unsigned long parent_ip, unsigned long flags,
> @@ -2146,8 +2296,11 @@ trace_function(struct trace_array *tr,
>  	entry->ip			= ip;
>  	entry->parent_ip		= parent_ip;
>  
> -	if (!call_filter_check_discard(call, entry, buffer, event))
> +	if (!call_filter_check_discard(call, entry, buffer, event)) {
> +		if (static_branch_unlikely(&ftrace_exports_enabled))
> +			ftrace_exports(tr, event);
>  		__buffer_unlock_commit(buffer, event);

We do the generic commit here.

-- Steve

> +	}
>  }
>  
>  #ifdef CONFIG_STACKTRACE
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.h b/kernel/trace/trace.h
> index f783df4..26a3088 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/trace.h
> +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.h
> @@ -260,6 +260,7 @@ struct trace_array {
>  	/* function tracing enabled */
>  	int			function_enabled;
>  #endif
> +	struct trace_export	*export;
>  };
>  
>  enum {




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