[PATCH RT 11/12] sched: Introduce the trace_sched_waking tracepoint

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Fri Feb 26 2016 - 16:43:00 EST


3.18.27-rt26-rc1 stable review patch.
If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Upstream commit fbd705a0c6184580d0e2fbcbd47a37b6e5822511

Mathieu reported that since 317f394160e9 ("sched: Move the second half
of ttwu() to the remote cpu") trace_sched_wakeup() can happen out of
context of the waker.

This is a problem when you want to analyse wakeup paths because it is
now very hard to correlate the wakeup event to whoever issued the
wakeup.

OTOH trace_sched_wakeup() is issued at the point where we set
p->state = TASK_RUNNING, which is right were we hand the task off to
the scheduler, so this is an important point when looking at
scheduling behaviour, up to here its been the wakeup path everything
hereafter is due to scheduler policy.

To bridge this gap, introduce a second tracepoint: trace_sched_waking.
It is guaranteed to be called in the waker context.

[ Ported to linux-4.1.y-rt kernel by Mathieu Desnoyers. Resolved
conflict: try_to_wake_up_local() does not exist in -rt kernel. Removed
its instrumentation hunk. ]

Reported-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Julien Desfossez <jdesfossez@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Francis Giraldeau <francis.giraldeau@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@xxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150609091336.GQ3644@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/trace/events/sched.h | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++---------
kernel/sched/core.c | 8 +++++---
kernel/trace/trace_sched_switch.c | 2 +-
kernel/trace/trace_sched_wakeup.c | 2 +-
4 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/trace/events/sched.h b/include/trace/events/sched.h
index a7d67bc14906..09f27eb85ef8 100644
--- a/include/trace/events/sched.h
+++ b/include/trace/events/sched.h
@@ -55,9 +55,9 @@ TRACE_EVENT(sched_kthread_stop_ret,
*/
DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS(sched_wakeup_template,

- TP_PROTO(struct task_struct *p, int success),
+ TP_PROTO(struct task_struct *p),

- TP_ARGS(__perf_task(p), success),
+ TP_ARGS(__perf_task(p)),

TP_STRUCT__entry(
__array( char, comm, TASK_COMM_LEN )
@@ -71,25 +71,37 @@ DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS(sched_wakeup_template,
memcpy(__entry->comm, p->comm, TASK_COMM_LEN);
__entry->pid = p->pid;
__entry->prio = p->prio;
- __entry->success = success;
+ __entry->success = 1; /* rudiment, kill when possible */
__entry->target_cpu = task_cpu(p);
),

- TP_printk("comm=%s pid=%d prio=%d success=%d target_cpu=%03d",
+ TP_printk("comm=%s pid=%d prio=%d target_cpu=%03d",
__entry->comm, __entry->pid, __entry->prio,
- __entry->success, __entry->target_cpu)
+ __entry->target_cpu)
);

+/*
+ * Tracepoint called when waking a task; this tracepoint is guaranteed to be
+ * called from the waking context.
+ */
+DEFINE_EVENT(sched_wakeup_template, sched_waking,
+ TP_PROTO(struct task_struct *p),
+ TP_ARGS(p));
+
+/*
+ * Tracepoint called when the task is actually woken; p->state == TASK_RUNNNG.
+ * It it not always called from the waking context.
+ */
DEFINE_EVENT(sched_wakeup_template, sched_wakeup,
- TP_PROTO(struct task_struct *p, int success),
- TP_ARGS(p, success));
+ TP_PROTO(struct task_struct *p),
+ TP_ARGS(p));

/*
* Tracepoint for waking up a new task:
*/
DEFINE_EVENT(sched_wakeup_template, sched_wakeup_new,
- TP_PROTO(struct task_struct *p, int success),
- TP_ARGS(p, success));
+ TP_PROTO(struct task_struct *p),
+ TP_ARGS(p));

#ifdef CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
static inline long __trace_sched_switch_state(struct task_struct *p)
diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 7e844b4f1701..9e01a8f358f8 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -1606,9 +1606,9 @@ static void
ttwu_do_wakeup(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int wake_flags)
{
check_preempt_curr(rq, p, wake_flags);
- trace_sched_wakeup(p, true);
-
p->state = TASK_RUNNING;
+ trace_sched_wakeup(p);
+
#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
if (p->sched_class->task_woken)
p->sched_class->task_woken(rq, p);
@@ -1832,6 +1832,8 @@ try_to_wake_up(struct task_struct *p, unsigned int state, int wake_flags)
if (!(wake_flags & WF_LOCK_SLEEPER))
p->saved_state = TASK_RUNNING;

+ trace_sched_waking(p);
+
success = 1; /* we're going to change ->state */
cpu = task_cpu(p);

@@ -2247,7 +2249,7 @@ void wake_up_new_task(struct task_struct *p)
rq = __task_rq_lock(p);
activate_task(rq, p, 0);
p->on_rq = TASK_ON_RQ_QUEUED;
- trace_sched_wakeup_new(p, true);
+ trace_sched_wakeup_new(p);
check_preempt_curr(rq, p, WF_FORK);
#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
if (p->sched_class->task_woken)
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_sched_switch.c b/kernel/trace/trace_sched_switch.c
index 3f34dc9b40f3..9586cde520b0 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_sched_switch.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_sched_switch.c
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ tracing_sched_wakeup_trace(struct trace_array *tr,
}

static void
-probe_sched_wakeup(void *ignore, struct task_struct *wakee, int success)
+probe_sched_wakeup(void *ignore, struct task_struct *wakee)
{
struct trace_array_cpu *data;
unsigned long flags;
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_sched_wakeup.c b/kernel/trace/trace_sched_wakeup.c
index 19bd8928ce94..808258ccf6c5 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_sched_wakeup.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_sched_wakeup.c
@@ -460,7 +460,7 @@ static void wakeup_reset(struct trace_array *tr)
}

static void
-probe_wakeup(void *ignore, struct task_struct *p, int success)
+probe_wakeup(void *ignore, struct task_struct *p)
{
struct trace_array_cpu *data;
int cpu = smp_processor_id();
--
2.7.0