[PATCH][GIT PULL][v3.4] tracing: Fix a regression with enabling allevents

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Thu May 10 2012 - 19:10:45 EST



Ingo,

I found this regression from the adding of function tracing to perf had
a side effect of causing an error message to print, and potentially
worse, the perf ->reg() function being called out of context.

-- Steve

Please pull the latest tip/perf/urgent tree, which can be found at:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace.git
tip/perf/urgent

Head SHA1: 9b63776fa3ca96c4ecda76f6fa947b7b0add66ac


Steven Rostedt (1):
tracing: Do not enable function event with enable

----
include/linux/ftrace_event.h | 2 ++
kernel/trace/trace_events.c | 5 ++++-
kernel/trace/trace_export.c | 1 +
3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
---------------------------
commit 9b63776fa3ca96c4ecda76f6fa947b7b0add66ac
Author: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu May 10 15:55:43 2012 -0400

tracing: Do not enable function event with enable

With the adding of function tracing event to perf, it caused a
side effect that produces the following warning when enabling all
events in ftrace:

# echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/enable

[console]
event trace: Could not enable event function

This is because when enabling all events via the debugfs system
it ignores events that do not have a ->reg() function assigned.
This was to skip over the ftrace internal events (as they are
not TRACE_EVENTs). But as the ftrace function event now has
a ->reg() function attached to it for use with perf, it is no
longer ignored.

Worse yet, this ->reg() function is being called when it should
not be. It returns an error and causes the above warning to
be printed.

By adding a new event_call flag (TRACE_EVENT_FL_IGNORE_ENABLE)
and have all ftrace internel event structures have it set,
setting the events/enable will no longe try to incorrectly enable
the function event and does not warn.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>

diff --git a/include/linux/ftrace_event.h b/include/linux/ftrace_event.h
index 5f3f3be..176a939 100644
--- a/include/linux/ftrace_event.h
+++ b/include/linux/ftrace_event.h
@@ -179,6 +179,7 @@ enum {
TRACE_EVENT_FL_RECORDED_CMD_BIT,
TRACE_EVENT_FL_CAP_ANY_BIT,
TRACE_EVENT_FL_NO_SET_FILTER_BIT,
+ TRACE_EVENT_FL_IGNORE_ENABLE_BIT,
};

enum {
@@ -187,6 +188,7 @@ enum {
TRACE_EVENT_FL_RECORDED_CMD = (1 << TRACE_EVENT_FL_RECORDED_CMD_BIT),
TRACE_EVENT_FL_CAP_ANY = (1 << TRACE_EVENT_FL_CAP_ANY_BIT),
TRACE_EVENT_FL_NO_SET_FILTER = (1 << TRACE_EVENT_FL_NO_SET_FILTER_BIT),
+ TRACE_EVENT_FL_IGNORE_ENABLE = (1 << TRACE_EVENT_FL_IGNORE_ENABLE_BIT),
};

struct ftrace_event_call {
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
index 079a93a..29111da 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
@@ -294,6 +294,9 @@ static int __ftrace_set_clr_event(const char *match, const char *sub,
if (!call->name || !call->class || !call->class->reg)
continue;

+ if (call->flags & TRACE_EVENT_FL_IGNORE_ENABLE)
+ continue;
+
if (match &&
strcmp(match, call->name) != 0 &&
strcmp(match, call->class->system) != 0)
@@ -1164,7 +1167,7 @@ event_create_dir(struct ftrace_event_call *call, struct dentry *d_events,
return -1;
}

- if (call->class->reg)
+ if (call->class->reg && !(call->flags & TRACE_EVENT_FL_IGNORE_ENABLE))
trace_create_file("enable", 0644, call->dir, call,
enable);

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_export.c b/kernel/trace/trace_export.c
index 3dd15e8..e039906 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_export.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_export.c
@@ -180,6 +180,7 @@ struct ftrace_event_call __used event_##call = { \
.event.type = etype, \
.class = &event_class_ftrace_##call, \
.print_fmt = print, \
+ .flags = TRACE_EVENT_FL_IGNORE_ENABLE, \
}; \
struct ftrace_event_call __used \
__attribute__((section("_ftrace_events"))) *__event_##call = &event_##call;


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