tracing: Do no increment trace_clock_global() by one

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
o

tracing: Do no increment trace_clock_global() by one

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 ]

<interrupted by NMI>
trace_clock_global() {
ts = clock() [ 999 ]
if (ts < 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 < 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 -> 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) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

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tracing: Restructure trace_clock_global() to never block

It was reported that a fix to the ring buffer recursion detection would
cause a hung machine when performing suspend / resume testing. The
fo

tracing: Restructure trace_clock_global() to never block

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 <hi-angel@yandex.ru>
Tested-by: Todd Brandt <todd.e.brandt@linux.intel.com>
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) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

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tracing: Do no increment trace_clock_global() by one

commit 89529d8b8f8daf92d9979382b8d2eb39966846ea upstream.

The trace_clock_global() tries to make sure the events between CPUs is
somewhat in ord

tracing: Do no increment trace_clock_global() by one

commit 89529d8b8f8daf92d9979382b8d2eb39966846ea upstream.

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 ]

<interrupted by NMI>
trace_clock_global() {
ts = clock() [ 999 ]
if (ts < 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 < 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 -> 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) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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tracing: Restructure trace_clock_global() to never block

commit aafe104aa9096827a429bc1358f8260ee565b7cc upstream.

It was reported that a fix to the ring buffer recursion detection would
cause a hu

tracing: Restructure trace_clock_global() to never block

commit aafe104aa9096827a429bc1358f8260ee565b7cc upstream.

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 <hi-angel@yandex.ru>
Tested-by: Todd Brandt <todd.e.brandt@linux.intel.com>
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) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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tracing: Add SPDX License format tags to tracing files

Add the SPDX License header to ease license compliance management.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

tracing: Hide global trace clock from lockdep

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, unle

tracing: Hide global trace clock from lockdep

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) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

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sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/clock.h>

We are going to split <linux/sched/clock.h> out of <linux/sched.h>, which
will have to be picked up fro

sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/clock.h>

We are going to split <linux/sched/clock.h> out of <linux/sched.h>, which
will have to be picked up from other headers and .c files.

Create a trivial placeholder <linux/sched/clock.h> file that just
maps to <linux/sched.h> 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 <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

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tracing: Export tracing clock functions

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 t

tracing: Export tracing clock functions

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 <jsnitsel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

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tracing: Fix wraparound problems in "uptime" trace clock

The "uptime" trace clock added in:

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

tracing: Fix wraparound problems in "uptime" trace clock

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 <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

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tracing: Add "uptime" trace clock that uses jiffies

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

tracing: Add "uptime" trace clock that uses jiffies

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 <mchehab@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

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tracing: Use sched_clock_cpu for trace_clock_global

For systems with an unstable sched_clock, all cpu_clock() does is enable/
disable local irq during the call to sched_clock_cpu(). And for stable

tracing: Use sched_clock_cpu for trace_clock_global

For systems with an unstable sched_clock, all cpu_clock() does is enable/
disable local irq during the call to sched_clock_cpu(). And for stable
systems they are same.

trace_clock_global() already disables interrupts, so it can call
sched_clock_cpu() directly.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1356576585-28782-2-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

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tracing: Remove trace.h header from trace_clock.c

As trace_clock is used by other things besides tracing, and it
does not require anything from trace.h, it is best not to include
the header file in

tracing: Remove trace.h header from trace_clock.c

As trace_clock is used by other things besides tracing, and it
does not require anything from trace.h, it is best not to include
the header file in trace_clock.c.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

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tracing: Export trace_clock_local()

The rcutorture tests need to be able to trace the time of the
beginning of an RCU read-side critical section, and thus need access
to trace_clock_local(). This c

tracing: Export trace_clock_local()

The rcutorture tests need to be able to trace the time of the
beginning of an RCU read-side critical section, and thus need access
to trace_clock_local(). This commit therefore adds a the needed
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL().

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>

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tracing: Add a counter clock for those that do not trust clocks

When debugging tight race conditions, it can be helpful to have a
synchronized tracing method. Although in most cases the global clock

tracing: Add a counter clock for those that do not trust clocks

When debugging tight race conditions, it can be helpful to have a
synchronized tracing method. Although in most cases the global clock
provides this functionality, if timings is not the issue, it is more
comforting to know that the order of events really happened in a precise
order.

Instead of using a clock, add a "counter" that is simply an incrementing
atomic 64bit counter that orders the events as they are perceived to
happen.

The trace_clock_counter() is added from the attempt by Peter Zijlstra
trying to convert the trace_clock_global() to it. I took Peter's counter
code and made trace_clock_counter() instead, and added it to the choice
of clocks. Just echo counter > /debug/tracing/trace_clock to activate
it.

Requested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Requested-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Reviewed-By: Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

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Fix common misspellings

Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>

sched_clock: Add local_clock() API and improve documentation

For people who otherwise get to write: cpu_clock(smp_processor_id()),
there is now: local_clock().

Also, as per suggestion from Andrew,

sched_clock: Add local_clock() API and improve documentation

For people who otherwise get to write: cpu_clock(smp_processor_id()),
there is now: local_clock().

Also, as per suggestion from Andrew, provide some documentation on
the various clock interfaces, and minimize the unsigned long long vs
u64 mess.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
LKML-Reference: <1275052414.1645.52.camel@laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

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tracing: Remove ftrace_preempt_disable/enable

The ftrace_preempt_disable/enable functions were to address a
recursive race caused by the function tracer. The function tracer
traces all functions whi

tracing: Remove ftrace_preempt_disable/enable

The ftrace_preempt_disable/enable functions were to address a
recursive race caused by the function tracer. The function tracer
traces all functions which makes it easily susceptible to recursion.
One area was preempt_enable(). This would call the scheduler and
the schedulre would call the function tracer and loop.
(So was it thought).

The ftrace_preempt_disable/enable was made to protect against recursion
inside the scheduler by storing the NEED_RESCHED flag. If it was
set before the ftrace_preempt_disable() it would not call schedule
on ftrace_preempt_enable(), thinking that if it was set before then
it would have already scheduled unless it was already in the scheduler.

This worked fine except in the case of SMP, where another task would set
the NEED_RESCHED flag for a task on another CPU, and then kick off an
IPI to trigger it. This could cause the NEED_RESCHED to be saved at
ftrace_preempt_disable() but the IPI to arrive in the the preempt
disabled section. The ftrace_preempt_enable() would not call the scheduler
because the flag was already set before entring the section.

This bug would cause a missed preemption check and cause lower latencies.

Investigating further, I found that the recusion caused by the function
tracer was not due to schedule(), but due to preempt_schedule(). Now
that preempt_schedule is completely annotated with notrace, the recusion
no longer is an issue.

Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

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tracing: Fix lockdep warning in global_clock()

# echo 1 > events/enable
# echo global > trace_clock

------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: at kernel/lockdep.c:3162 check_flags+0xb2/0x190()

tracing: Fix lockdep warning in global_clock()

# echo 1 > events/enable
# echo global > trace_clock

------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: at kernel/lockdep.c:3162 check_flags+0xb2/0x190()
...
---[ end trace 3f86734a89416623 ]---
possible reason: unannotated irqs-on.
...

There's no reason to use the raw_local_irq_save() in trace_clock_global.
The local_irq_save() version is fine, and does not cause the bug in lockdep.

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4BA97FA1.7030606@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

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tracing: Include irqflags headers from trace clock

trace_clock.c includes spinlock.h, which ends up including
asm/system.h, which in turn includes linux/irqflags.h in x86.

So the definition of raw_

tracing: Include irqflags headers from trace clock

trace_clock.c includes spinlock.h, which ends up including
asm/system.h, which in turn includes linux/irqflags.h in x86.

So the definition of raw_local_irq_save is luckily covered there,
but this is not the case in parisc:

tip/kernel/trace/trace_clock.c:86: error: implicit declaration of function 'raw_local_irq_save'
tip/kernel/trace/trace_clock.c:112: error: implicit declaration of function 'raw_local_irq_restore'

We need to include linux/irqflags.h directly from trace_clock.c
to avoid such build error.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

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locking: Convert __raw_spin* functions to arch_spin*

Name space cleanup. No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Ac

locking: Convert __raw_spin* functions to arch_spin*

Name space cleanup. No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org

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locking: Rename __RAW_SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED to __ARCH_SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED

Further name space cleanup. No functional change

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <

locking: Rename __RAW_SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED to __ARCH_SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED

Further name space cleanup. No functional change

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org

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locking: Convert raw_spinlock to arch_spinlock

The raw_spin* namespace was taken by lockdep for the architecture
specific implementations. raw_spin_* would be the ideal name space for
the spinlocks

locking: Convert raw_spinlock to arch_spinlock

The raw_spin* namespace was taken by lockdep for the architecture
specific implementations. raw_spin_* would be the ideal name space for
the spinlocks which are not converted to sleeping locks in preempt-rt.

Linus suggested to convert the raw_ to arch_ locks and cleanup the
name space instead of using an artifical name like core_spin,
atomic_spin or whatever

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org

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tracing: do not disable interrupts for trace_clock_local

Disabling interrupts in trace_clock_local takes quite a performance
hit to the recording of traces. Using perf top we see:

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tracing: do not disable interrupts for trace_clock_local

Disabling interrupts in trace_clock_local takes quite a performance
hit to the recording of traces. Using perf top we see:

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
PerfTop: 244 irqs/sec kernel:100.0% [1000Hz cpu-clock-msecs], (all, 4 CPUs)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------

samples pcnt kernel function
_______ _____ _______________

2842.00 - 40.4% : trace_clock_local
1043.00 - 14.8% : rb_reserve_next_event
784.00 - 11.1% : ring_buffer_lock_reserve
600.00 - 8.5% : __rb_reserve_next
579.00 - 8.2% : rb_end_commit
440.00 - 6.3% : ring_buffer_unlock_commit
290.00 - 4.1% : ring_buffer_producer_thread [ring_buffer_benchmark]
155.00 - 2.2% : debug_smp_processor_id
117.00 - 1.7% : trace_recursive_unlock
103.00 - 1.5% : ring_buffer_event_data
28.00 - 0.4% : do_gettimeofday
22.00 - 0.3% : _spin_unlock_irq
14.00 - 0.2% : native_read_tsc
11.00 - 0.2% : getnstimeofday

Where trace_clock_local is 40% of the tracing, and the time for recording
a trace according to ring_buffer_benchmark is 210ns. After converting
the interrupts to preemption disabling we have from perf top:

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
PerfTop: 1084 irqs/sec kernel:99.9% [1000Hz cpu-clock-msecs], (all, 4 CPUs)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------

samples pcnt kernel function
_______ _____ _______________

1277.00 - 16.8% : native_read_tsc
1148.00 - 15.1% : rb_reserve_next_event
896.00 - 11.8% : ring_buffer_lock_reserve
688.00 - 9.1% : __rb_reserve_next
664.00 - 8.8% : rb_end_commit
563.00 - 7.4% : ring_buffer_unlock_commit
508.00 - 6.7% : _spin_unlock_irq
365.00 - 4.8% : debug_smp_processor_id
321.00 - 4.2% : trace_clock_local
303.00 - 4.0% : ring_buffer_producer_thread [ring_buffer_benchmark]
273.00 - 3.6% : native_sched_clock
122.00 - 1.6% : trace_recursive_unlock
113.00 - 1.5% : sched_clock
101.00 - 1.3% : ring_buffer_event_data
53.00 - 0.7% : tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick

Where trace_clock_local drops from 40% to only taking 4% of the total time.
The trace time also goes from 210ns down to 179ns (31ns).

I talked with Peter Zijlstra about the impact that sched_clock may have
without having interrupts disabled, and he told me that if a timer interrupt
comes in, sched_clock may report a wrong time.

Balancing a seldom incorrect timestamp with a 15% performance boost, I'll
take the performance boost.

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

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tracing: optimize global_trace_clock cachelines

The prev_trace_clock_time is only read or written to when the
trace_clock_lock is taken. For better perfomance, they
should share the same cache line.

tracing: optimize global_trace_clock cachelines

The prev_trace_clock_time is only read or written to when the
trace_clock_lock is taken. For better perfomance, they
should share the same cache line.

Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

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tracing: fix four sparse warnings

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 b

tracing: fix four sparse warnings

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>

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