Merge branch 'tip/perf/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/ke…

…rnel/git/rostedt/linux-trace into perf/core

Pull tracing updated from Steve Rostedt.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt

@@ -1842,6 +1842,89 @@ an error.
  # cat buffer_size_kb
 85
 
+Snapshot
+--------
+CONFIG_TRACER_SNAPSHOT makes a generic snapshot feature
+available to all non latency tracers. (Latency tracers which
+record max latency, such as "irqsoff" or "wakeup", can't use
+this feature, since those are already using the snapshot
+mechanism internally.)
+
+Snapshot preserves a current trace buffer at a particular point
+in time without stopping tracing. Ftrace swaps the current
+buffer with a spare buffer, and tracing continues in the new
+current (=previous spare) buffer.
+
+The following debugfs files in "tracing" are related to this
+feature:
+
+  snapshot:
+
+	This is used to take a snapshot and to read the output
+	of the snapshot. Echo 1 into this file to allocate a
+	spare buffer and to take a snapshot (swap), then read
+	the snapshot from this file in the same format as
+	"trace" (described above in the section "The File
+	System"). Both reads snapshot and tracing are executable
+	in parallel. When the spare buffer is allocated, echoing
+	0 frees it, and echoing else (positive) values clear the
+	snapshot contents.
+	More details are shown in the table below.
+
+	status\input  |     0      |     1      |    else    |
+	--------------+------------+------------+------------+
+	not allocated |(do nothing)| alloc+swap |   EINVAL   |
+	--------------+------------+------------+------------+
+	allocated     |    free    |    swap    |   clear    |
+	--------------+------------+------------+------------+
+
+Here is an example of using the snapshot feature.
+
+ # echo 1 > events/sched/enable
+ # echo 1 > snapshot
+ # cat snapshot
+# tracer: nop
+#
+# entries-in-buffer/entries-written: 71/71   #P:8
+#
+#                              _-----=> irqs-off
+#                             / _----=> need-resched
+#                            | / _---=> hardirq/softirq
+#                            || / _--=> preempt-depth
+#                            ||| /     delay
+#           TASK-PID   CPU#  ||||    TIMESTAMP  FUNCTION
+#              | |       |   ||||       |         |
+          <idle>-0     [005] d...  2440.603828: sched_switch: prev_comm=swapper/5 prev_pid=0 prev_prio=120 prev_state=R ==> next_comm=snapshot-test-2 next_pid=2242 next_prio=120
+           sleep-2242  [005] d...  2440.603846: sched_switch: prev_comm=snapshot-test-2 prev_pid=2242 prev_prio=120 prev_state=R ==> next_comm=kworker/5:1 next_pid=60 next_prio=120
+[...]
+          <idle>-0     [002] d...  2440.707230: sched_switch: prev_comm=swapper/2 prev_pid=0 prev_prio=120 prev_state=R ==> next_comm=snapshot-test-2 next_pid=2229 next_prio=120
+
+ # cat trace
+# tracer: nop
+#
+# entries-in-buffer/entries-written: 77/77   #P:8
+#
+#                              _-----=> irqs-off
+#                             / _----=> need-resched
+#                            | / _---=> hardirq/softirq
+#                            || / _--=> preempt-depth
+#                            ||| /     delay
+#           TASK-PID   CPU#  ||||    TIMESTAMP  FUNCTION
+#              | |       |   ||||       |         |
+          <idle>-0     [007] d...  2440.707395: sched_switch: prev_comm=swapper/7 prev_pid=0 prev_prio=120 prev_state=R ==> next_comm=snapshot-test-2 next_pid=2243 next_prio=120
+ snapshot-test-2-2229  [002] d...  2440.707438: sched_switch: prev_comm=snapshot-test-2 prev_pid=2229 prev_prio=120 prev_state=S ==> next_comm=swapper/2 next_pid=0 next_prio=120
+[...]
+
+
+If you try to use this snapshot feature when current tracer is
+one of the latency tracers, you will get the following results.
+
+ # echo wakeup > current_tracer
+ # echo 1 > snapshot
+bash: echo: write error: Device or resource busy
+ # cat snapshot
+cat: snapshot: Device or resource busy
+
 -----------
 
 More details can be found in the source code, in the

include/linux/ftrace_event.h

@@ -83,6 +83,9 @@ struct trace_iterator {
 	long			idx;
 
 	cpumask_var_t		started;
+
+	/* it's true when current open file is snapshot */
+	bool			snapshot;
 };
 
 enum trace_iter_flags {

include/linux/ring_buffer.h

@@ -167,6 +167,7 @@ unsigned long ring_buffer_entries_cpu(struct ring_buffer *buffer, int cpu);
 unsigned long ring_buffer_overrun_cpu(struct ring_buffer *buffer, int cpu);
 unsigned long ring_buffer_commit_overrun_cpu(struct ring_buffer *buffer, int cpu);
 unsigned long ring_buffer_dropped_events_cpu(struct ring_buffer *buffer, int cpu);
+unsigned long ring_buffer_read_events_cpu(struct ring_buffer *buffer, int cpu);
 
 u64 ring_buffer_time_stamp(struct ring_buffer *buffer, int cpu);
 void ring_buffer_normalize_time_stamp(struct ring_buffer *buffer,

kernel/trace/Kconfig

@@ -253,6 +253,16 @@ config FTRACE_SYSCALLS
 	help
 	  Basic tracer to catch the syscall entry and exit events.
 
+config TRACER_SNAPSHOT
+	bool "Create a snapshot trace buffer"
+	select TRACER_MAX_TRACE
+	help
+	  Allow tracing users to take snapshot of the current buffer using the
+	  ftrace interface, e.g.:
+
+	      echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/snapshot
+	      cat snapshot
+
 config TRACE_BRANCH_PROFILING
 	bool
 	select GENERIC_TRACER

kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c

@@ -3102,6 +3102,24 @@ ring_buffer_dropped_events_cpu(struct ring_buffer *buffer, int cpu)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ring_buffer_dropped_events_cpu);
 
+/**
+ * ring_buffer_read_events_cpu - get the number of events successfully read
+ * @buffer: The ring buffer
+ * @cpu: The per CPU buffer to get the number of events read
+ */
+unsigned long
+ring_buffer_read_events_cpu(struct ring_buffer *buffer, int cpu)
+{
+	struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer;
+
+	if (!cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, buffer->cpumask))
+		return 0;
+
+	cpu_buffer = buffer->buffers[cpu];
+	return cpu_buffer->read;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ring_buffer_read_events_cpu);
+
 /**
  * ring_buffer_entries - get the number of entries in a buffer
  * @buffer: The ring buffer