tracing: Centralize preemptirq tracepoints and unify their usage
This patch detaches the preemptirq tracepoints from the tracers and
keeps it separate.
Advantages:
* Lockdep and irqsoff event can now run in parallel since they no longer
have their own calls.
* This unifies the usecase of adding hooks to an irqsoff and irqson
event, and a preemptoff and preempton event.
3 users of the events exist:
- Lockdep
- irqsoff and preemptoff tracers
- irqs and preempt trace events
The unification cleans up several ifdefs and makes the code in preempt
tracer and irqsoff tracers simpler. It gets rid of all the horrific
ifdeferry around PROVE_LOCKING and makes configuration of the different
users of the tracepoints more easy and understandable. It also gets rid
of the time_* function calls from the lockdep hooks used to call into
the preemptirq tracer which is not needed anymore. The negative delta in
lines of code in this patch is quite large too.
In the patch we introduce a new CONFIG option PREEMPTIRQ_TRACEPOINTS
as a single point for registering probes onto the tracepoints. With
this,
the web of config options for preempt/irq toggle tracepoints and its
users becomes:
PREEMPT_TRACER PREEMPTIRQ_EVENTS IRQSOFF_TRACER PROVE_LOCKING
| | \ | |
\ (selects) / \ \ (selects) /
TRACE_PREEMPT_TOGGLE ----> TRACE_IRQFLAGS
\ /
\ (depends on) /
PREEMPTIRQ_TRACEPOINTS
Other than the performance tests mentioned in the previous patch, I also
ran the locking API test suite. I verified that all tests cases are
passing.
I also injected issues by not registering lockdep probes onto the
tracepoints and I see failures to confirm that the probes are indeed
working.
This series + lockdep probes not registered (just to inject errors):
[ 0.000000] hard-irqs-on + irq-safe-A/21: ok | ok | ok |
[ 0.000000] soft-irqs-on + irq-safe-A/21: ok | ok | ok |
[ 0.000000] sirq-safe-A => hirqs-on/12:FAILED|FAILED| ok |
[ 0.000000] sirq-safe-A => hirqs-on/21:FAILED|FAILED| ok |
[ 0.000000] hard-safe-A + irqs-on/12:FAILED|FAILED| ok |
[ 0.000000] soft-safe-A + irqs-on/12:FAILED|FAILED| ok |
[ 0.000000] hard-safe-A + irqs-on/21:FAILED|FAILED| ok |
[ 0.000000] soft-safe-A + irqs-on/21:FAILED|FAILED| ok |
[ 0.000000] hard-safe-A + unsafe-B #1/123: ok | ok | ok |
[ 0.000000] soft-safe-A + unsafe-B #1/123: ok | ok | ok |
With this series + lockdep probes registered, all locking tests pass:
[ 0.000000] hard-irqs-on + irq-safe-A/21: ok | ok | ok |
[ 0.000000] soft-irqs-on + irq-safe-A/21: ok | ok | ok |
[ 0.000000] sirq-safe-A => hirqs-on/12: ok | ok | ok |
[ 0.000000] sirq-safe-A => hirqs-on/21: ok | ok | ok |
[ 0.000000] hard-safe-A + irqs-on/12: ok | ok | ok |
[ 0.000000] soft-safe-A + irqs-on/12: ok | ok | ok |
[ 0.000000] hard-safe-A + irqs-on/21: ok | ok | ok |
[ 0.000000] soft-safe-A + irqs-on/21: ok | ok | ok |
[ 0.000000] hard-safe-A + unsafe-B #1/123: ok | ok | ok |
[ 0.000000] soft-safe-A + unsafe-B #1/123: ok | ok | ok |
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180730222423.196630-4-joel@joelfernandes.org
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
diff --git a/kernel/trace/Kconfig b/kernel/trace/Kconfig
index 4d4eb15..036cec1 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/Kconfig
+++ b/kernel/trace/Kconfig
@@ -82,6 +82,15 @@
Allow the use of ring_buffer_swap_cpu.
Adds a very slight overhead to tracing when enabled.
+config PREEMPTIRQ_TRACEPOINTS
+ bool
+ depends on TRACE_PREEMPT_TOGGLE || TRACE_IRQFLAGS
+ select TRACING
+ default y
+ help
+ Create preempt/irq toggle tracepoints if needed, so that other parts
+ of the kernel can use them to generate or add hooks to them.
+
# All tracer options should select GENERIC_TRACER. For those options that are
# enabled by all tracers (context switch and event tracer) they select TRACING.
# This allows those options to appear when no other tracer is selected. But the
@@ -155,18 +164,20 @@
the return value. This is done by setting the current return
address on the current task structure into a stack of calls.
+config TRACE_PREEMPT_TOGGLE
+ bool
+ help
+ Enables hooks which will be called when preemption is first disabled,
+ and last enabled.
config PREEMPTIRQ_EVENTS
bool "Enable trace events for preempt and irq disable/enable"
select TRACE_IRQFLAGS
- depends on DEBUG_PREEMPT || !PROVE_LOCKING
- depends on TRACING
+ select TRACE_PREEMPT_TOGGLE if PREEMPT
+ select GENERIC_TRACER
default n
help
Enable tracing of disable and enable events for preemption and irqs.
- For tracing preempt disable/enable events, DEBUG_PREEMPT must be
- enabled. For tracing irq disable/enable events, PROVE_LOCKING must
- be disabled.
config IRQSOFF_TRACER
bool "Interrupts-off Latency Tracer"
@@ -203,6 +214,7 @@
select RING_BUFFER_ALLOW_SWAP
select TRACER_SNAPSHOT
select TRACER_SNAPSHOT_PER_CPU_SWAP
+ select TRACE_PREEMPT_TOGGLE
help
This option measures the time spent in preemption-off critical
sections, with microsecond accuracy.