[PATCH v11 0/3] tracing: Centralize preemptirq tracepoints and unify their usage

From: Joel Fernandes
Date: Thu Jul 26 2018 - 19:51:14 EST


From: "Joel Fernandes (Google)" <joel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

This series contains the last 2 patches with minor changes suggested by
Peter and Steven, and an additional clean up patch for get_lock_stats as
suggested by Peter.

The preempt/irq tracepoints exist but not everything in the kernel is using it
whenever they need to be notified that a preempt disable/enable or an irq
disable/enable has occurred. This makes things not work simultaneously (for
example, only either lockdep or irqsoff trace-events can be used at a time).

This is particularly painful to deal with, since turning on lockdep breaks
tracers that install probes on IRQ events, such as the BCC atomic critical
section tracer [1]. This constraint also makes it not possible to use synthetic
events to trace irqsoff sections with lockdep simulataneously turned on.

This series solves that, and also results in a nice clean up of relevant parts
of the kernel. Several ifdefs are simpler, and the design is more unified and
better. Also as a result of this, we also speeded performance all rcuidle
tracepoints since their handling is simpler.

[1] https://github.com/iovisor/bcc/pull/1801/

v10->v11:
- Dropped extra unneeded else statement in tracepoint code since
rcu_read_lock_sched_notrace is same as prempt_disable_notrace (PeterZ)

v9->v10:
- Dropped first 3 and last 2 patches that were applied previously
- Folded SPDK license into the main patch introducing trace_preemptirq.c (Steve)
- Dropped lockdep_recursing & use simplify get_cpu_var instead (PeterZ)
- Simplify __DO_TRACE and use rcu_dereference_raw for both RCU and SRCU (PeterZ)

v8->v9:
- Small style changes to tracepoint code (Mathieu)
- Minor style fix to use PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO (0-day bot)
- Minor fix to test_atomic_sections to use unsigned long.
- Added Namhyung's, Mathieu's Reviewed-by to some patches.

v7->v8:
- Refactored irqsoff tracer probe defines (Namhyung)

v6->v7:
- Added a module to simulate an atomic section, a kselftest to load and
and trigger it which verifies the preempt-tracer and this series.

- Fixed a new warning after I rebased in early boot, this is because
early_boot_irqs_disabled was set too early, I moved it after the lockdep
initialization.

- added back the softirq fix since it appears it wasn't picked up.

- Ran Ingo's locking API selftest suite which are passing with this
series.

- Mathieu suggested ifdef'ing the tracepoint_synchronize_unregister
function incase tracepoints aren't enabled, did that.

Joel Fernandes (Google) (3):
lockdep: use this_cpu_ptr instead of get_cpu_var stats
tracepoint: Make rcuidle tracepoint callers use SRCU
tracing: Centralize preemptirq tracepoints and unify their usage

include/linux/ftrace.h | 11 +-
include/linux/irqflags.h | 11 +-
include/linux/lockdep.h | 8 +-
include/linux/preempt.h | 2 +-
include/linux/tracepoint.h | 41 ++++--
include/trace/events/preemptirq.h | 23 +--
init/main.c | 5 +-
kernel/locking/lockdep.c | 45 ++----
kernel/sched/core.c | 2 +-
kernel/trace/Kconfig | 22 ++-
kernel/trace/Makefile | 2 +-
kernel/trace/trace_irqsoff.c | 231 ++++++++----------------------
kernel/trace/trace_preemptirq.c | 72 ++++++++++
kernel/tracepoint.c | 16 ++-
14 files changed, 244 insertions(+), 247 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 kernel/trace/trace_preemptirq.c

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