This patch adds per-event filtering to the event tracing subsystem.
It adds a 'filter' debugfs file to each event directory. This file can
be written to to set filters; reading from it will display the current
set of filters set for that event.
Basically, any field listed in the 'format' file for an event can be
filtered on (including strings, but not yet other array types) using
either matching ('==') or non-matching ('!=') 'predicates'. A
'predicate' can be either a single expression:
# echo pid != 0 > filter
# cat filter
pid != 0
or a compound expression of up to 8 sub-expressions combined using '&&'
or '||':
# echo comm == Xorg > filter
# echo "&& sig != 29" > filter
# cat filter
comm == Xorg
&& sig != 29
Only events having field values matching an expression will be available
in the trace output; non-matching events are discarded.
Note that a compound expression is built up by echoing each
sub-expression separately - it's not the most efficient way to do
things, but it keeps the parser simple and assumes that compound
expressions will be relatively uncommon. In any case, a subsequent
patch introducing a way to set filters for entire subsystems should
mitigate any need to do this for lots of events.
Setting a filter without an '&&' or '||' clears the previous filter
completely and sets the filter to the new expression:
# cat filter
comm == Xorg
&& sig != 29
# echo comm != Xorg
# cat filter
comm != Xorg
To clear a filter, echo 0 to the filter file:
# echo 0 > filter
# cat filter
none
The limit of 8 predicates for a compound expression is arbitrary - for
efficiency, it's implemented as an array of pointers to predicates, and
8 seemed more than enough for any filter...
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1237710665.7703.48.camel@charm-linux>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This patch overloads RINGBUF_TYPE_PADDING to provide a way to discard
events from the ring buffer, for the event-filtering mechanism
introduced in a subsequent patch.
I did the initial version but thanks to Steven Rostedt for adding
the parts that actually made it work. ;-)
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup.
This patch fixes the following sparse warnings:
kernel/trace/trace.c:385:9: warning: symbol 'trace_seq_to_buffer' was
not declared. Should it be static?
kernel/trace/trace_clock.c:29:13: warning: symbol 'trace_clock_local'
was not declared. Should it be static?
kernel/trace/trace_clock.c:54:13: warning: symbol 'trace_clock' was not
declared. Should it be static?
kernel/trace/trace_clock.c:74:13: warning: symbol 'trace_clock_global'
was not declared. Should it be static?
Signed-off-by: Dmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@movial.com>
LKML-Reference: <1237741871-5827-4-git-send-email-dmitri.vorobiev@movial.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup.
The global mutex text_mutex if declared in linux/memory.h, so
this file needs to be included into kernel/extable.c, where the
same mutex is defined. This fixes the following sparse warning:
kernel/extable.c:32:1: warning: symbol 'text_mutex' was not declared.
Should it be static?
Signed-off-by: Dmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@movial.com>
LKML-Reference: <1237741871-5827-3-git-send-email-dmitri.vorobiev@movial.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This patch makes the field descriptions defined for event tracing
available at run-time, for the event-filtering mechanism introduced
in a subsequent patch.
The common event fields are prepended with 'common_' in the format
display, allowing them to be distinguished from the other fields
that might internally have same name and can therefore be
unambiguously used in filters.
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1237710639.7703.46.camel@charm-linux>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Instead of using ftrace_dump_on_oops, it's far more convenient
to have the trace leading up to a self-test failure available
in /debug/tracing/trace.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <1237694675-23509-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: detect tracing related hangs
Sometimes, with some configs, the function graph tracer can make
the timer interrupt too much slow, hanging the kernel in an endless
loop of timer interrupts servicing.
As suggested by Ingo, this patch brings a watchdog which stops the
selftest after a defined number of functions traced, definitely
disabling this tracer.
For those who want to debug the cause of the function graph trace
hang, you can pass the ftrace_dump_on_oops kernel parameter to dump
the traces after this hang detection.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <1237694675-23509-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
bdev->bd_disk can be NULL, if the block device is not opened.
Try this against an unmounted partition, and you'll see NULL dereference:
# echo 1 > /sys/block/sda/sda5/enable
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <49C30098.6080107@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
do_blk_trace_setup() may return EBUSY, but the current code
doesn't decrease blk_probes_ref in this case.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <49C2F5FF.80002@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
blk_register_tracepoints() always returns 0, so make it return void,
thus we don't need to use blk_probe_mutex to protect blk_probes_ref.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <49C2F5EA.8060606@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
It doesn't have to be a counter, and it can be a bool flag instead.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <49C2F5D3.8090104@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
When we failed to create "block" debugfs dir, we should do some
cleanups.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <49C2F5B2.8000800@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: remove a section warning
CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH raises the following warning on -tip:
WARNING: kernel/trace/built-in.o(.text+0x5bc5): Section mismatch in
reference from the function ring_buffer_alloc() to the function
.cpuinit.text:rb_cpu_notify()
The function ring_buffer_alloc() references
the function __cpuinit rb_cpu_notify().
This is actually harmless. The code in the ring buffer don't build
rb_cpu_notify and other cpu hotplug stuffs when !CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
so we have no risk to reference freed memory here (it would even
be harmless if we unconditionally build it because register_cpu_notifier
would do nothing when !CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU.
But since ring_buffer_alloc() can be called everytime, we don't want it
to be annotated with __cpuinit so we drop the __cpuinit from
rb_cpu_notify.
This is not a waste of memory because it is only defined and used on
CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <1237606416-22268-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: build fix on SH !CONFIG_MMU
Stephen Rothwell reported this linux-next build failure on the SH
architecture:
kernel/built-in.o: In function `disable_all_kprobes':
kernel/kprobes.c:1382: undefined reference to `text_mutex'
[...]
And observed:
| Introduced by commit 4460fdad85becd569f11501ad5b91814814335ff ("tracing,
| Text Edit Lock - kprobes architecture independent support") from the
| tracing tree. text_mutex is defined in mm/memory.c which is only built
| if CONFIG_MMU is defined, which is not true for sh allmodconfig.
Move this lock to kernel/extable.c (which is already home to various
kernel text related routines), which file is always built-in.
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
LKML-Reference: <20090320110602.86351a91.sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: new tracing infrastructure feature
Provide infrastructure to generate software perf counter events
from tracepoints.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090319194233.557364871@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: widen user-space visibe event IDs to all events
Previously only TRACE_EVENT events got ids, because only they
generated raw output which needs to be demuxed from the trace.
In order to provide a unique ID for each event, register everybody,
regardless.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090319194233.464914218@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Since not every event has a format file to read the id from,
expose it explicitly in a separate file.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090319194233.372534033@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
With the added TRACE_EVENT macro, the events no longer appear in
the function graph tracer. This was because the function graph
did not know how to display the entries. The graph tracer was
only aware of its own entries and the printk entries.
By using the event call back feature, the graph tracer can now display
the events.
# echo irq > /debug/tracing/set_event
Which can show:
0) | handle_IRQ_event() {
0) | /* irq_handler_entry: irq=48 handler=eth0 */
0) | e1000_intr() {
0) 0.926 us | __napi_schedule();
0) 3.888 us | }
0) | /* irq_handler_exit: irq=48 return=handled */
0) 0.655 us | runqueue_is_locked();
0) | __wake_up() {
0) 0.831 us | _spin_lock_irqsave();
The irq entry and exit events show up as comments.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
The function depth in trace_printk was to facilitate the function
graph output. Now that the function graph calculates the depth within
the trace output, we no longer need to record the depth when the
trace_printk is called.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Currently, the function graph tracer depends on the trace_printk
to record the depth. All the information is already there in the trace
to calculate function depth, with the exception of having the printk
be the first item. But as soon as a entry or exit is reached, then
we know the depth.
This patch changes the iter->private data from recording a per cpu
last_pid, to a structure that holds both the last_pid and the current
depth. This data is used to determine the function depth for the
printks.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
This patch makes print_printk_msg_only and print_bprintk_msg_only
global for other functions to use. It also renames them by adding
a "trace_" to the beginning to avoid namespace collisions.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Impact: fix warning with irqsoff tracer
The ring buffer allocates its buffers on pre-smp time (early_initcall).
It means that, at first, only the boot cpu buffer is allocated and
the ring-buffer cpumask only has the boot cpu set (cpu_online_mask).
Later, the secondary cpu will show up and the ring-buffer will be notified
about this event: the appropriate buffer will be allocated and the cpumask
will be updated.
Unfortunately, if !CONFIG_CPU_HOTPLUG, the ring-buffer will not be
notified about the secondary cpus, meaning that the cpumask will have
only the cpu boot set, and only one cpu buffer allocated.
We fix that by using cpu_possible_mask if !CONFIG_CPU_HOTPLUG.
This patch fixes the following warning with irqsoff tracer running:
[ 169.317794] WARNING: at kernel/trace/trace.c:466 update_max_tr_single+0xcc/0xf3()
[ 169.318002] Hardware name: AMILO Li 2727
[ 169.318002] Modules linked in:
[ 169.318002] Pid: 5624, comm: bash Not tainted 2.6.29-rc8-tip-02636-g6aafa6c #11
[ 169.318002] Call Trace:
[ 169.318002] [<ffffffff81036182>] warn_slowpath+0xea/0x13d
[ 169.318002] [<ffffffff8100b9d6>] ? ftrace_call+0x5/0x2b
[ 169.318002] [<ffffffff8100b9d6>] ? ftrace_call+0x5/0x2b
[ 169.318002] [<ffffffff8100b9d1>] ? ftrace_call+0x0/0x2b
[ 169.318002] [<ffffffff8101ef10>] ? ftrace_modify_code+0xa9/0x108
[ 169.318002] [<ffffffff8106e27f>] ? trace_hardirqs_off+0x25/0x27
[ 169.318002] [<ffffffff8149afe7>] ? _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x1f/0x2d
[ 169.318002] [<ffffffff81064f52>] ? ring_buffer_reset_cpu+0xf6/0xfb
[ 169.318002] [<ffffffff8106637c>] ? ring_buffer_reset+0x36/0x48
[ 169.318002] [<ffffffff8106aeda>] update_max_tr_single+0xcc/0xf3
[ 169.318002] [<ffffffff8100bc17>] ? sysret_check+0x22/0x5d
[ 169.318002] [<ffffffff8106e3ea>] stop_critical_timing+0x142/0x204
[ 169.318002] [<ffffffff8106e4cf>] trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x23/0x25
[ 169.318002] [<ffffffff8149ac28>] trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0x3a/0x3c
[ 169.318002] [<ffffffff8100bc17>] ? sysret_check+0x22/0x5d
[ 169.318002] ---[ end trace db76cbf775a750cf ]---
Because this tracer may try to swap two cpu ring buffers for an
unregistered cpu on the ring buffer.
This patch might also fix a fair loss of traces due to unallocated buffers
for secondary cpus.
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-b: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <1237470453-5427-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: clean up
The prologue of the function graph entry, return and comments all
start out pretty much the same. Each of these duplicate code and
do so slightly differently.
This patch consolidates the printing of the pid, absolute time,
cpu and proc (and for entry, the interrupt).
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Impact: fix incomplete stacktraces
I noticed such weird stacktrace entries in lockdep dumps:
[ 0.285956] {HARDIRQ-ON-W} state was registered at:
[ 0.285956] [<ffffffff802bce90>] mark_irqflags+0xbe/0x125
[ 0.285956] [<ffffffff802bf2fd>] __lock_acquire+0x674/0x82d
[ 0.285956] [<ffffffff802bf5b2>] lock_acquire+0xfc/0x128
[ 0.285956] [<ffffffff8135b636>] rt_spin_lock+0xc8/0xd0
[ 0.285956] [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff
The stacktrace entry is cut off after rt_spin_lock.
After much debugging i found out that stacktrace entries that
belong to init symbols dont get printed out, due to commit:
a2da405: module: Don't report discarded init pages as kernel text.
The reason is this check added to core_kernel_text():
- if (addr >= (unsigned long)_sinittext &&
+ if (system_state == SYSTEM_BOOTING &&
+ addr >= (unsigned long)_sinittext &&
addr <= (unsigned long)_einittext)
return 1;
This will discard inittext symbols even though their symbol table
is still present and even though stacktraces done while the system
was booting up might still be relevant.
To not reintroduce the (not well-specified) bug addressed in that
commit, first do a module symbols lookup, then a final init-symbols
lookup.
This will work fine on architectures that have separate address
spaces for modules (such as x86) - and should not crash any other
architectures either.
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
LKML-Reference: <new-discussion>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: fix circular locking
Steven reports a circular locking from alloc_cpumask_var doing
a wakeup. We get rid of this using the tried-and-true technique
of using a per-cpu cpumask_var_t rather than doing an alloc
every time.
Simpler and more robust than a rare, implicit allocation within
an atomic codepath.
Reported-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
LKML-Reference: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0903181729360.31583@gandalf.stny.rr.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Zero-sized tracepoint sections can occur if tracing is enabled but
no tracepoint is defined. Do not emit a warning in that case.
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <1237394936.3132.1.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
There is currently no easy way to clear the trace buffer. Currently
the only way is to change the current tracer.
This patch lets the user clear the trace buffer by simply writing
into the trace files.
echo > /debug/tracing/trace
or to clear a single cpu (i.e. for CPU 1):
echo > /debug/tracing/per_cpu/cpu1/trace
Requested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Impact: fix command line to pid mapping
map_cmdline_to_pid[] is checked in trace_save_cmdline(), but never
updated. This results in stale pid to command line mappings and the
tracer output will associate the wrong comm string.
Signed-off-by: Carsten Emde <Carsten.Emde@osadl.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: prevent stale command line output
In case there is no valid command line mapping for a pid
trace_find_cmdline() returns without updating the comm buffer. The
trace dump keeps the previous entry which results in confusing trace
output:
<idle>-0 [000] 280.702056 ....
<idle>-23456 [000] 280.702080 ....
Update the comm buffer with "<...>" when no mapping is found.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup
The command line recorder uses (unsigned) -1 to mark non mapped
entries in the pid to command line maps. The validity check is
completely unintuitive: idx >= SAVED_CMDLINES
There is no need for such casting games. Use a constant to mark
unmapped entries and check for that constant to make the code readable
and understandable.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: prevent overwrite of command line entries
When the tracer is stopped the command line recording continues to
record. The check for tracing_is_on() is not sufficient here as the
ringbuffer status is not affected by setting
debug/tracing/tracing_enabled to 0. On a non idle system this can
result in the loss of the command line information for the stopped
trace, which makes the trace harder to read and analyse.
Check tracer_enabled to allow further recording.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The jiffies value was being printed for each CPU, which does not seem to make
sense. Moved jiffies to system section.
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <henrix@sapo.pt>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090318000425.GA2228@hades.domain.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The start/stop methods of a tracer should be able to be executed
in all contexts. This patch converts the power tracer to do so.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
The stopping and starting of a tracer should be light weight and
be able to be called in all contexts. The sched_switch grabbed
mutexes in the start/stop functions. This patch changes it to a
simple variable, on/off.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Impact: feature to allow better serialized clock
This patch adds an option called "global-clock" that will allow
the tracer to switch to a slower but more accurate (across CPUs)
clock.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
This patch adds a new function called ring_buffer_set_clock that
allows a tracer to assign its own clock source to the buffer.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Impact: fix ref-after-free crash on failed module load
Fix refptr bug: Change refptr allocation and release order not to access a module
data structure pointed by 'mod' after freeing mod->module_core.
This bug will cause kernel panic(e.g. failed to find undefined symbols).
This bug was reported on systemtap bugzilla.
http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9927
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Impact: fix jiffies-comparison sign-wrap behavior
The behavior provided by printk_timed_ratelimit() is, in some
situations, probably not what a caller would reasonably expect:
bool printk_timed_ratelimit(unsigned long *caller_jiffies,
unsigned int interval_msecs)
{
if (*caller_jiffies == 0 || time_after(jiffies, *caller_jiffies)) {
*caller_jiffies = jiffies + msecs_to_jiffies(interval_msecs);
return true;
}
return false;
}
On a 32 bit computer, if printk_timed_ratelimit() is initially called at
time jiffies == Ja, *caller_jiffies is set to
Ja + msecs_to_jiffies(interval_msecs): let's say Ja + 42 for this
example.
If this caller then doesn't call printk_timed_ratelimit() until
jiffies == Ja + (1 << 31) + 42 (which can happen as soon as ~ 25 days
later on a 1000 HZ system), printk_timed_ratelimit() will then always
return false to this caller until jiffies loops completely (1 << 31 more
ticks).
Ths change makes it only return false if jiffies is in the small
time window starting at the previous call when true was returned and
ending interval_msecs later. Note that if jiffies loops completely
between two calls to printk_timed_ratelimit(), it will obviously still
wrongly return false, but this is something with a low probability.
If something completely reliable is needed I guess jiffies_64 must be
used (which this change does not do).
Signed-off-by: Guillaume Knispel <gknispel@proformatique.com>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090317161842.0059096b@xilun.lan.proformatique.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
There were 3 invocations of task_hot() in can_migrate_task().
Replace these 3 invocations by only one invocation, cached in
a local variable.
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <henrix@sapo.pt>
LKML-Reference: <20090316195902.GA6197@hades.domain.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Fixed typos in function documentation.
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <henrix@sapo.pt>
LKML-Reference: <20090316195809.GA6073@hades.domain.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
