Re: [PATCH v9 1/4] ftrace: Implement fs notification for tracing_max_latency

[Viktor Rosendahl (BMW)]

> Something bothers me. If you dropped support for HWLAT_TRACER as you
> mentioned in the cover letter, then why does this #if look for the CONFIG
> option?

You are right. I forgot to change those #if statements; I also overlooked to
give the -i option to grep when I searched for remaining references to hwlat.

>(and similar comment on the rest of the patch..)

Below is a new version of the patch. I will not send out v10 yet, as I expect
that there might be more comments.

I did not define a new macro, since it is now much simpler after removing the
HWLAT_TRACER stuff from those #if statements.

I made the latency_fsnotify() static and removed its declaration from
kernel/trace/trace.h, since it's only used in kernel/trace/trace.c.

best regards,

Viktor

This patch implements the feature that the tracing_max_latency file,
e.g. /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/tracing_max_latency will receive
notifications through the fsnotify framework when a new latency is
available.

One particularly interesting use of this facility is when enabling
threshold tracing, through /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/tracing_thresh,
together with the preempt/irqsoff tracers. This makes it possible to
implement a user space program that can, with equal probability,
obtain traces of latencies that occur immediately after each other in
spite of the fact that the preempt/irqsoff tracers operate in overwrite
mode.

This facility works with the preempt/irqsoff, and wakeup tracers.

The tracers may call the latency_fsnotify() from places such as
__schedule() or do_idle(); this makes it impossible to call
queue_work() directly without risking a deadlock. The same would
happen with a softirq,  kernel thread or tasklet. For this reason we
use the irq_work mechanism to call queue_work().

This patch creates a new workqueue. The reason for doing this is that
I wanted to use the WQ_UNBOUND and WQ_HIGHPRI flags.  My thinking was
that WQ_UNBOUND might help with the latency in some important cases.

If we use:

queue_work(system_highpri_wq, &tr->fsnotify_work);

then the work will (almost) always execute on the same CPU but if we are
unlucky that CPU could be too busy while there could be another CPU in
the system that would be able to process the work soon enough.

queue_work_on() could be used to queue the work on another CPU but it
seems difficult to select the right CPU.

Signed-off-by: Viktor Rosendahl (BMW) <viktor.rosendahl@xxxxxxxxx>
---
 kernel/trace/trace.c | 73 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 kernel/trace/trace.h |  7 +++++
 2 files changed, 78 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index 6a0ee9178365..2124646dfb2a 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -45,6 +45,9 @@
 #include <linux/trace.h>
 #include <linux/sched/clock.h>
 #include <linux/sched/rt.h>
+#include <linux/fsnotify.h>
+#include <linux/irq_work.h>
+#include <linux/workqueue.h>
 
 #include "trace.h"
 #include "trace_output.h"
@@ -1497,6 +1500,70 @@ static ssize_t trace_seq_to_buffer(struct trace_seq *s, void *buf, size_t cnt)
 }
 
 unsigned long __read_mostly	tracing_thresh;
+static const struct file_operations tracing_max_lat_fops;
+
+#if defined(CONFIG_TRACER_MAX_TRACE) && defined(CONFIG_FSNOTIFY)
+
+static struct workqueue_struct *fsnotify_wq;
+
+static void latency_fsnotify_workfn(struct work_struct *work)
+{
+	struct trace_array *tr = container_of(work, struct trace_array,
+					      fsnotify_work);
+	fsnotify(tr->d_max_latency->d_inode, FS_MODIFY,
+		 tr->d_max_latency->d_inode, FSNOTIFY_EVENT_INODE, NULL, 0);
+}
+
+static void latency_fsnotify_workfn_irq(struct irq_work *iwork)
+{
+	struct trace_array *tr = container_of(iwork, struct trace_array,
+					      fsnotify_irqwork);
+	queue_work(fsnotify_wq, &tr->fsnotify_work);
+}
+
+static void trace_create_maxlat_file(struct trace_array *tr,
+				     struct dentry *d_tracer)
+{
+	INIT_WORK(&tr->fsnotify_work, latency_fsnotify_workfn);
+	init_irq_work(&tr->fsnotify_irqwork, latency_fsnotify_workfn_irq);
+	tr->d_max_latency = trace_create_file("tracing_max_latency", 0644,
+					      d_tracer, &tr->max_latency,
+					      &tracing_max_lat_fops);
+}
+
+__init static int latency_fsnotify_init(void)
+{
+	fsnotify_wq = alloc_workqueue("tr_max_lat_wq",
+				      WQ_UNBOUND | WQ_HIGHPRI, 0);
+	if (!fsnotify_wq) {
+		pr_err("Unable to allocate tr_max_lat_wq\n");
+		return -ENOMEM;
+	}
+	return 0;
+}
+
+late_initcall_sync(latency_fsnotify_init);
+
+static void latency_fsnotify(struct trace_array *tr)
+{
+	if (!fsnotify_wq)
+		return;
+	/*
+	 * We cannot call queue_work(&tr->fsnotify_work) from here because it's
+	 * possible that we are called from __schedule() or do_idle(), which
+	 * could cause a deadlock.
+	 */
+	irq_work_queue(&tr->fsnotify_irqwork);
+}
+
+
+#else /* defined(CONFIG_TRACER_MAX_TRACE) && defined(CONFIG_FSNOTIFY) */
+
+#define trace_create_maxlat_file(tr, d_tracer)				\
+	trace_create_file("tracing_max_latency", 0644, d_tracer,	\
+			  &tr->max_latency, &tracing_max_lat_fops)
+
+#endif
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_TRACER_MAX_TRACE
 /*
@@ -1536,6 +1603,9 @@ __update_max_tr(struct trace_array *tr, struct task_struct *tsk, int cpu)
 
 	/* record this tasks comm */
 	tracing_record_cmdline(tsk);
+#ifdef CONFIG_FSNOTIFY
+	latency_fsnotify(tr);
+#endif
 }
 
 /**
@@ -8585,8 +8655,7 @@ init_tracer_tracefs(struct trace_array *tr, struct dentry *d_tracer)
 	create_trace_options_dir(tr);
 
 #if defined(CONFIG_TRACER_MAX_TRACE) || defined(CONFIG_HWLAT_TRACER)
-	trace_create_file("tracing_max_latency", 0644, d_tracer,
-			&tr->max_latency, &tracing_max_lat_fops);
+	trace_create_maxlat_file(tr, d_tracer);
 #endif
 
 	if (ftrace_create_function_files(tr, d_tracer))
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.h b/kernel/trace/trace.h
index d685c61085c0..8564c72ea7b5 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.h
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.h
@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@
 #include <linux/trace_events.h>
 #include <linux/compiler.h>
 #include <linux/glob.h>
+#include <linux/irq_work.h>
+#include <linux/workqueue.h>
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_FTRACE_SYSCALLS
 #include <asm/unistd.h>		/* For NR_SYSCALLS	     */
@@ -264,6 +266,11 @@ struct trace_array {
 #endif
 #if defined(CONFIG_TRACER_MAX_TRACE) || defined(CONFIG_HWLAT_TRACER)
 	unsigned long		max_latency;
+#endif
+#if defined(CONFIG_TRACER_MAX_TRACE) && defined(CONFIG_FSNOTIFY)
+	struct dentry		*d_max_latency;
+	struct work_struct	fsnotify_work;
+	struct irq_work		fsnotify_irqwork;
 #endif
 	struct trace_pid_list	__rcu *filtered_pids;
 	/*
-- 
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