Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756565Ab0FKIFX (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jun 2010 04:05:23 -0400 Received: from mailx.hitachi.co.jp ([133.145.228.49]:36768 "EHLO mailx.hitachi.co.jp" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752969Ab0FKIFQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jun 2010 04:05:16 -0400 X-AuditID: b753bd60-a6a3dba000006d9b-7f-4c11edb4fe65 Message-ID: <4C11EDAF.4010600@hitachi.com> Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 17:02:55 +0900 From: Masami Hiramatsu Organization: Systems Development Lab., Hitachi, Ltd., Japan User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (Windows/20100228) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: LKML , Ingo Molnar , Peter Zijlstra , Frederic Weisbecker , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Srikar Dronamraju , 2nddept-manager@sdl.hitachi.co.jp Subject: Re: [PATCH][GIT PULL][v2.6.35] perf/tracing: Fix regression of perf losing kprobe events References: <1276217919.28329.6.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <1276217919.28329.6.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== X-FMFTCR: RANGEC Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2846 Lines: 76 Steven Rostedt wrote: > Ingo, > > Please pull the latest tip/perf/urgent tree, which can be found at: > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace.git > tip/perf/urgent > > > Steven Rostedt (1): > perf/tracing: Fix regression of perf losing kprobe events > > ---- > kernel/trace/trace_event_perf.c | 4 +++- > 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) > --------------------------- > commit a8fb2608053547bc3152ea61a5ec7cdfce5d942c > Author: Steven Rostedt > Date: Thu Jun 10 14:53:16 2010 -0400 > > perf/tracing: Fix regression of perf losing kprobe events > > With the addition of the code to shrink the kernel tracepoint > infrastructure, we lost kprobes being traced by perf. The reason > is that I tested if the "tp_event->class->perf_probe" existed before > enabling it. This prevents "ftrace only" events (like the function > trace events) from being enabled by perf. > > Unfortunately, kprobe events do not use perf_probe. This causes > kprobes to be missed by perf. To fix this, we add the test to > see if "tp_event->class->reg" exists as well as perf_probe. > > Normal trace events have only "perf_probe" but no "reg" function, > and kprobes and syscalls have the "reg" but no "perf_probe". > The ftrace unique events do not have either, so this is a valid > test. If a kprobe or syscall is not to be probed by perf, the > "reg" function is called anyway, and will return a failure and > prevent perf from probing it. > > Reported-by: Srikar Dronamraju > Tested-by: Srikar Dronamraju > Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra > Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt Thank you for fixing, Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu > > diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_event_perf.c b/kernel/trace/trace_event_perf.c > index e6f6588..8a2b73f 100644 > --- a/kernel/trace/trace_event_perf.c > +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_event_perf.c > @@ -96,7 +96,9 @@ int perf_trace_init(struct perf_event *p_event) > mutex_lock(&event_mutex); > list_for_each_entry(tp_event, &ftrace_events, list) { > if (tp_event->event.type == event_id && > - tp_event->class && tp_event->class->perf_probe && > + tp_event->class && > + (tp_event->class->perf_probe || > + tp_event->class->reg) && > try_module_get(tp_event->mod)) { > ret = perf_trace_event_init(tp_event, p_event); > break; > > > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/