| Event Tracing |
| |
| Documentation written by Theodore Ts'o |
| Updated by Li Zefan and Tom Zanussi |
| |
| 1. Introduction |
| =============== |
| |
| Tracepoints (see Documentation/trace/tracepoints.txt) can be used |
| without creating custom kernel modules to register probe functions |
| using the event tracing infrastructure. |
| |
| Not all tracepoints can be traced using the event tracing system; |
| the kernel developer must provide code snippets which define how the |
| tracing information is saved into the tracing buffer, and how the |
| tracing information should be printed. |
| |
| 2. Using Event Tracing |
| ====================== |
| |
| 2.1 Via the 'set_event' interface |
| --------------------------------- |
| |
| The events which are available for tracing can be found in the file |
| /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/available_events. |
| |
| To enable a particular event, such as 'sched_wakeup', simply echo it |
| to /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/set_event. For example: |
| |
| # echo sched_wakeup >> /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/set_event |
| |
| [ Note: '>>' is necessary, otherwise it will firstly disable |
| all the events. ] |
| |
| To disable an event, echo the event name to the set_event file prefixed |
| with an exclamation point: |
| |
| # echo '!sched_wakeup' >> /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/set_event |
| |
| To disable all events, echo an empty line to the set_event file: |
| |
| # echo > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/set_event |
| |
| To enable all events, echo '*:*' or '*:' to the set_event file: |
| |
| # echo *:* > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/set_event |
| |
| The events are organized into subsystems, such as ext4, irq, sched, |
| etc., and a full event name looks like this: <subsystem>:<event>. The |
| subsystem name is optional, but it is displayed in the available_events |
| file. All of the events in a subsystem can be specified via the syntax |
| "<subsystem>:*"; for example, to enable all irq events, you can use the |
| command: |
| |
| # echo 'irq:*' > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/set_event |
| |
| 2.2 Via the 'enable' toggle |
| --------------------------- |
| |
| The events available are also listed in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/ hierarchy |
| of directories. |
| |
| To enable event 'sched_wakeup': |
| |
| # echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/sched/sched_wakeup/enable |
| |
| To disable it: |
| |
| # echo 0 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/sched/sched_wakeup/enable |
| |
| To enable all events in sched subsystem: |
| |
| # echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/sched/enable |
| |
| To enable all events: |
| |
| # echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/enable |
| |
| When reading one of these enable files, there are four results: |
| |
| 0 - all events this file affects are disabled |
| 1 - all events this file affects are enabled |
| X - there is a mixture of events enabled and disabled |
| ? - this file does not affect any event |
| |
| 2.3 Boot option |
| --------------- |
| |
| In order to facilitate early boot debugging, use boot option: |
| |
| trace_event=[event-list] |
| |
| event-list is a comma separated list of events. See section 2.1 for event |
| format. |
| |
| 3. Defining an event-enabled tracepoint |
| ======================================= |
| |
| See The example provided in samples/trace_events |
| |
| 4. Event formats |
| ================ |
| |
| Each trace event has a 'format' file associated with it that contains |
| a description of each field in a logged event. This information can |
| be used to parse the binary trace stream, and is also the place to |
| find the field names that can be used in event filters (see section 5). |
| |
| It also displays the format string that will be used to print the |
| event in text mode, along with the event name and ID used for |
| profiling. |
| |
| Every event has a set of 'common' fields associated with it; these are |
| the fields prefixed with 'common_'. The other fields vary between |
| events and correspond to the fields defined in the TRACE_EVENT |
| definition for that event. |
| |
| Each field in the format has the form: |
| |
| field:field-type field-name; offset:N; size:N; |
| |
| where offset is the offset of the field in the trace record and size |
| is the size of the data item, in bytes. |
| |
| For example, here's the information displayed for the 'sched_wakeup' |
| event: |
| |
| # cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/sched/sched_wakeup/format |
| |
| name: sched_wakeup |
| ID: 60 |
| format: |
| field:unsigned short common_type; offset:0; size:2; |
| field:unsigned char common_flags; offset:2; size:1; |
| field:unsigned char common_preempt_count; offset:3; size:1; |
| field:int common_pid; offset:4; size:4; |
| field:int common_tgid; offset:8; size:4; |
| |
| field:char comm[TASK_COMM_LEN]; offset:12; size:16; |
| field:pid_t pid; offset:28; size:4; |
| field:int prio; offset:32; size:4; |
| field:int success; offset:36; size:4; |
| field:int cpu; offset:40; size:4; |
| |
| print fmt: "task %s:%d [%d] success=%d [%03d]", REC->comm, REC->pid, |
| REC->prio, REC->success, REC->cpu |
| |
| This event contains 10 fields, the first 5 common and the remaining 5 |
| event-specific. All the fields for this event are numeric, except for |
| 'comm' which is a string, a distinction important for event filtering. |
| |
| 5. Event filtering |
| ================== |
| |
| Trace events can be filtered in the kernel by associating boolean |
| 'filter expressions' with them. As soon as an event is logged into |
| the trace buffer, its fields are checked against the filter expression |
| associated with that event type. An event with field values that |
| 'match' the filter will appear in the trace output, and an event whose |
| values don't match will be discarded. An event with no filter |
| associated with it matches everything, and is the default when no |
| filter has been set for an event. |
| |
| 5.1 Expression syntax |
| --------------------- |
| |
| A filter expression consists of one or more 'predicates' that can be |
| combined using the logical operators '&&' and '||'. A predicate is |
| simply a clause that compares the value of a field contained within a |
| logged event with a constant value and returns either 0 or 1 depending |
| on whether the field value matched (1) or didn't match (0): |
| |
| field-name relational-operator value |
| |
| Parentheses can be used to provide arbitrary logical groupings and |
| double-quotes can be used to prevent the shell from interpreting |
| operators as shell metacharacters. |
| |
| The field-names available for use in filters can be found in the |
| 'format' files for trace events (see section 4). |
| |
| The relational-operators depend on the type of the field being tested: |
| |
| The operators available for numeric fields are: |
| |
| ==, !=, <, <=, >, >=, & |
| |
| And for string fields they are: |
| |
| ==, !=, ~ |
| |
| The glob (~) accepts a wild card character (*,?) and character classes |
| ([). For example: |
| |
| prev_comm ~ "*sh" |
| prev_comm ~ "sh*" |
| prev_comm ~ "*sh*" |
| prev_comm ~ "ba*sh" |
| |
| 5.2 Setting filters |
| ------------------- |
| |
| A filter for an individual event is set by writing a filter expression |
| to the 'filter' file for the given event. |
| |
| For example: |
| |
| # cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/sched/sched_wakeup |
| # echo "common_preempt_count > 4" > filter |
| |
| A slightly more involved example: |
| |
| # cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/signal/signal_generate |
| # echo "((sig >= 10 && sig < 15) || sig == 17) && comm != bash" > filter |
| |
| If there is an error in the expression, you'll get an 'Invalid |
| argument' error when setting it, and the erroneous string along with |
| an error message can be seen by looking at the filter e.g.: |
| |
| # cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/signal/signal_generate |
| # echo "((sig >= 10 && sig < 15) || dsig == 17) && comm != bash" > filter |
| -bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument |
| # cat filter |
| ((sig >= 10 && sig < 15) || dsig == 17) && comm != bash |
| ^ |
| parse_error: Field not found |
| |
| Currently the caret ('^') for an error always appears at the beginning of |
| the filter string; the error message should still be useful though |
| even without more accurate position info. |
| |
| 5.3 Clearing filters |
| -------------------- |
| |
| To clear the filter for an event, write a '0' to the event's filter |
| file. |
| |
| To clear the filters for all events in a subsystem, write a '0' to the |
| subsystem's filter file. |
| |
| 5.3 Subsystem filters |
| --------------------- |
| |
| For convenience, filters for every event in a subsystem can be set or |
| cleared as a group by writing a filter expression into the filter file |
| at the root of the subsystem. Note however, that if a filter for any |
| event within the subsystem lacks a field specified in the subsystem |
| filter, or if the filter can't be applied for any other reason, the |
| filter for that event will retain its previous setting. This can |
| result in an unintended mixture of filters which could lead to |
| confusing (to the user who might think different filters are in |
| effect) trace output. Only filters that reference just the common |
| fields can be guaranteed to propagate successfully to all events. |
| |
| Here are a few subsystem filter examples that also illustrate the |
| above points: |
| |
| Clear the filters on all events in the sched subsystem: |
| |
| # cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/sched |
| # echo 0 > filter |
| # cat sched_switch/filter |
| none |
| # cat sched_wakeup/filter |
| none |
| |
| Set a filter using only common fields for all events in the sched |
| subsystem (all events end up with the same filter): |
| |
| # cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/sched |
| # echo common_pid == 0 > filter |
| # cat sched_switch/filter |
| common_pid == 0 |
| # cat sched_wakeup/filter |
| common_pid == 0 |
| |
| Attempt to set a filter using a non-common field for all events in the |
| sched subsystem (all events but those that have a prev_pid field retain |
| their old filters): |
| |
| # cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/sched |
| # echo prev_pid == 0 > filter |
| # cat sched_switch/filter |
| prev_pid == 0 |
| # cat sched_wakeup/filter |
| common_pid == 0 |
| |
| 5.4 PID filtering |
| ----------------- |
| |
| The set_event_pid file in the same directory as the top events directory |
| exists, will filter all events from tracing any task that does not have the |
| PID listed in the set_event_pid file. |
| |
| # cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing |
| # echo $$ > set_event_pid |
| # echo 1 > events/enabled |
| |
| Will only trace events for the current task. |
| |
| To add more PIDs without losing the PIDs already included, use '>>'. |
| |
| # echo 123 244 1 >> set_event_pid |
| |
| |
| 6. Event triggers |
| ================= |
| |
| Trace events can be made to conditionally invoke trigger 'commands' |
| which can take various forms and are described in detail below; |
| examples would be enabling or disabling other trace events or invoking |
| a stack trace whenever the trace event is hit. Whenever a trace event |
| with attached triggers is invoked, the set of trigger commands |
| associated with that event is invoked. Any given trigger can |
| additionally have an event filter of the same form as described in |
| section 5 (Event filtering) associated with it - the command will only |
| be invoked if the event being invoked passes the associated filter. |
| If no filter is associated with the trigger, it always passes. |
| |
| Triggers are added to and removed from a particular event by writing |
| trigger expressions to the 'trigger' file for the given event. |
| |
| A given event can have any number of triggers associated with it, |
| subject to any restrictions that individual commands may have in that |
| regard. |
| |
| Event triggers are implemented on top of "soft" mode, which means that |
| whenever a trace event has one or more triggers associated with it, |
| the event is activated even if it isn't actually enabled, but is |
| disabled in a "soft" mode. That is, the tracepoint will be called, |
| but just will not be traced, unless of course it's actually enabled. |
| This scheme allows triggers to be invoked even for events that aren't |
| enabled, and also allows the current event filter implementation to be |
| used for conditionally invoking triggers. |
| |
| The syntax for event triggers is roughly based on the syntax for |
| set_ftrace_filter 'ftrace filter commands' (see the 'Filter commands' |
| section of Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt), but there are major |
| differences and the implementation isn't currently tied to it in any |
| way, so beware about making generalizations between the two. |
| |
| 6.1 Expression syntax |
| --------------------- |
| |
| Triggers are added by echoing the command to the 'trigger' file: |
| |
| # echo 'command[:count] [if filter]' > trigger |
| |
| Triggers are removed by echoing the same command but starting with '!' |
| to the 'trigger' file: |
| |
| # echo '!command[:count] [if filter]' > trigger |
| |
| The [if filter] part isn't used in matching commands when removing, so |
| leaving that off in a '!' command will accomplish the same thing as |
| having it in. |
| |
| The filter syntax is the same as that described in the 'Event |
| filtering' section above. |
| |
| For ease of use, writing to the trigger file using '>' currently just |
| adds or removes a single trigger and there's no explicit '>>' support |
| ('>' actually behaves like '>>') or truncation support to remove all |
| triggers (you have to use '!' for each one added.) |
| |
| 6.2 Supported trigger commands |
| ------------------------------ |
| |
| The following commands are supported: |
| |
| - enable_event/disable_event |
| |
| These commands can enable or disable another trace event whenever |
| the triggering event is hit. When these commands are registered, |
| the other trace event is activated, but disabled in a "soft" mode. |
| That is, the tracepoint will be called, but just will not be traced. |
| The event tracepoint stays in this mode as long as there's a trigger |
| in effect that can trigger it. |
| |
| For example, the following trigger causes kmalloc events to be |
| traced when a read system call is entered, and the :1 at the end |
| specifies that this enablement happens only once: |
| |
| # echo 'enable_event:kmem:kmalloc:1' > \ |
| /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/syscalls/sys_enter_read/trigger |
| |
| The following trigger causes kmalloc events to stop being traced |
| when a read system call exits. This disablement happens on every |
| read system call exit: |
| |
| # echo 'disable_event:kmem:kmalloc' > \ |
| /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/syscalls/sys_exit_read/trigger |
| |
| The format is: |
| |
| enable_event:<system>:<event>[:count] |
| disable_event:<system>:<event>[:count] |
| |
| To remove the above commands: |
| |
| # echo '!enable_event:kmem:kmalloc:1' > \ |
| /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/syscalls/sys_enter_read/trigger |
| |
| # echo '!disable_event:kmem:kmalloc' > \ |
| /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/syscalls/sys_exit_read/trigger |
| |
| Note that there can be any number of enable/disable_event triggers |
| per triggering event, but there can only be one trigger per |
| triggered event. e.g. sys_enter_read can have triggers enabling both |
| kmem:kmalloc and sched:sched_switch, but can't have two kmem:kmalloc |
| versions such as kmem:kmalloc and kmem:kmalloc:1 or 'kmem:kmalloc if |
| bytes_req == 256' and 'kmem:kmalloc if bytes_alloc == 256' (they |
| could be combined into a single filter on kmem:kmalloc though). |
| |
| - stacktrace |
| |
| This command dumps a stacktrace in the trace buffer whenever the |
| triggering event occurs. |
| |
| For example, the following trigger dumps a stacktrace every time the |
| kmalloc tracepoint is hit: |
| |
| # echo 'stacktrace' > \ |
| /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kmem/kmalloc/trigger |
| |
| The following trigger dumps a stacktrace the first 5 times a kmalloc |
| request happens with a size >= 64K |
| |
| # echo 'stacktrace:5 if bytes_req >= 65536' > \ |
| /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kmem/kmalloc/trigger |
| |
| The format is: |
| |
| stacktrace[:count] |
| |
| To remove the above commands: |
| |
| # echo '!stacktrace' > \ |
| /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kmem/kmalloc/trigger |
| |
| # echo '!stacktrace:5 if bytes_req >= 65536' > \ |
| /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kmem/kmalloc/trigger |
| |
| The latter can also be removed more simply by the following (without |
| the filter): |
| |
| # echo '!stacktrace:5' > \ |
| /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kmem/kmalloc/trigger |
| |
| Note that there can be only one stacktrace trigger per triggering |
| event. |
| |
| - snapshot |
| |
| This command causes a snapshot to be triggered whenever the |
| triggering event occurs. |
| |
| The following command creates a snapshot every time a block request |
| queue is unplugged with a depth > 1. If you were tracing a set of |
| events or functions at the time, the snapshot trace buffer would |
| capture those events when the trigger event occurred: |
| |
| # echo 'snapshot if nr_rq > 1' > \ |
| /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/block/block_unplug/trigger |
| |
| To only snapshot once: |
| |
| # echo 'snapshot:1 if nr_rq > 1' > \ |
| /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/block/block_unplug/trigger |
| |
| To remove the above commands: |
| |
| # echo '!snapshot if nr_rq > 1' > \ |
| /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/block/block_unplug/trigger |
| |
| # echo '!snapshot:1 if nr_rq > 1' > \ |
| /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/block/block_unplug/trigger |
| |
| Note that there can be only one snapshot trigger per triggering |
| event. |
| |
| - traceon/traceoff |
| |
| These commands turn tracing on and off when the specified events are |
| hit. The parameter determines how many times the tracing system is |
| turned on and off. If unspecified, there is no limit. |
| |
| The following command turns tracing off the first time a block |
| request queue is unplugged with a depth > 1. If you were tracing a |
| set of events or functions at the time, you could then examine the |
| trace buffer to see the sequence of events that led up to the |
| trigger event: |
| |
| # echo 'traceoff:1 if nr_rq > 1' > \ |
| /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/block/block_unplug/trigger |
| |
| To always disable tracing when nr_rq > 1 : |
| |
| # echo 'traceoff if nr_rq > 1' > \ |
| /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/block/block_unplug/trigger |
| |
| To remove the above commands: |
| |
| # echo '!traceoff:1 if nr_rq > 1' > \ |
| /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/block/block_unplug/trigger |
| |
| # echo '!traceoff if nr_rq > 1' > \ |
| /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/block/block_unplug/trigger |
| |
| Note that there can be only one traceon or traceoff trigger per |
| triggering event. |
| |
| - hist |
| |
| This command aggregates event hits into a hash table keyed on one or |
| more trace event format fields (or stacktrace) and a set of running |
| totals derived from one or more trace event format fields and/or |
| event counts (hitcount). |
| |
| The format of a hist trigger is as follows: |
| |
| hist:keys=<field1[,field2,...]>[:values=<field1[,field2,...]>] |
| [:sort=<field1[,field2,...]>][:size=#entries][:pause][:continue] |
| [:clear][:name=histname1] [if <filter>] |
| |
| When a matching event is hit, an entry is added to a hash table |
| using the key(s) and value(s) named. Keys and values correspond to |
| fields in the event's format description. Values must correspond to |
| numeric fields - on an event hit, the value(s) will be added to a |
| sum kept for that field. The special string 'hitcount' can be used |
| in place of an explicit value field - this is simply a count of |
| event hits. If 'values' isn't specified, an implicit 'hitcount' |
| value will be automatically created and used as the only value. |
| Keys can be any field, or the special string 'stacktrace', which |
| will use the event's kernel stacktrace as the key. The keywords |
| 'keys' or 'key' can be used to specify keys, and the keywords |
| 'values', 'vals', or 'val' can be used to specify values. Compound |
| keys consisting of up to two fields can be specified by the 'keys' |
| keyword. Hashing a compound key produces a unique entry in the |
| table for each unique combination of component keys, and can be |
| useful for providing more fine-grained summaries of event data. |
| Additionally, sort keys consisting of up to two fields can be |
| specified by the 'sort' keyword. If more than one field is |
| specified, the result will be a 'sort within a sort': the first key |
| is taken to be the primary sort key and the second the secondary |
| key. If a hist trigger is given a name using the 'name' parameter, |
| its histogram data will be shared with other triggers of the same |
| name, and trigger hits will update this common data. Only triggers |
| with 'compatible' fields can be combined in this way; triggers are |
| 'compatible' if the fields named in the trigger share the same |
| number and type of fields and those fields also have the same names. |
| Note that any two events always share the compatible 'hitcount' and |
| 'stacktrace' fields and can therefore be combined using those |
| fields, however pointless that may be. |
| |
| 'hist' triggers add a 'hist' file to each event's subdirectory. |
| Reading the 'hist' file for the event will dump the hash table in |
| its entirety to stdout. If there are multiple hist triggers |
| attached to an event, there will be a table for each trigger in the |
| output. The table displayed for a named trigger will be the same as |
| any other instance having the same name. Each printed hash table |
| entry is a simple list of the keys and values comprising the entry; |
| keys are printed first and are delineated by curly braces, and are |
| followed by the set of value fields for the entry. By default, |
| numeric fields are displayed as base-10 integers. This can be |
| modified by appending any of the following modifiers to the field |
| name: |
| |
| .hex display a number as a hex value |
| .sym display an address as a symbol |
| .sym-offset display an address as a symbol and offset |
| .syscall display a syscall id as a system call name |
| .execname display a common_pid as a program name |
| |
| Note that in general the semantics of a given field aren't |
| interpreted when applying a modifier to it, but there are some |
| restrictions to be aware of in this regard: |
| |
| - only the 'hex' modifier can be used for values (because values |
| are essentially sums, and the other modifiers don't make sense |
| in that context). |
| - the 'execname' modifier can only be used on a 'common_pid'. The |
| reason for this is that the execname is simply the 'comm' value |
| saved for the 'current' process when an event was triggered, |
| which is the same as the common_pid value saved by the event |
| tracing code. Trying to apply that comm value to other pid |
| values wouldn't be correct, and typically events that care save |
| pid-specific comm fields in the event itself. |
| |
| A typical usage scenario would be the following to enable a hist |
| trigger, read its current contents, and then turn it off: |
| |
| # echo 'hist:keys=skbaddr.hex:vals=len' > \ |
| /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/net/netif_rx/trigger |
| |
| # cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/net/netif_rx/hist |
| |
| # echo '!hist:keys=skbaddr.hex:vals=len' > \ |
| /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/net/netif_rx/trigger |
| |
| The trigger file itself can be read to show the details of the |
| currently attached hist trigger. This information is also displayed |
| at the top of the 'hist' file when read. |
| |
| By default, the size of the hash table is 2048 entries. The 'size' |
| parameter can be used to specify more or fewer than that. The units |
| are in terms of hashtable entries - if a run uses more entries than |
| specified, the results will show the number of 'drops', the number |
| of hits that were ignored. The size should be a power of 2 between |
| 128 and 131072 (any non- power-of-2 number specified will be rounded |
| up). |
| |
| The 'sort' parameter can be used to specify a value field to sort |
| on. The default if unspecified is 'hitcount' and the default sort |
| order is 'ascending'. To sort in the opposite direction, append |
| .descending' to the sort key. |
| |
| The 'pause' parameter can be used to pause an existing hist trigger |
| or to start a hist trigger but not log any events until told to do |
| so. 'continue' or 'cont' can be used to start or restart a paused |
| hist trigger. |
| |
| The 'clear' parameter will clear the contents of a running hist |
| trigger and leave its current paused/active state. |
| |
| Note that the 'pause', 'cont', and 'clear' parameters should be |
| applied using 'append' shell operator ('>>') if applied to an |
| existing trigger, rather than via the '>' operator, which will cause |
| the trigger to be removed through truncation. |
| |
| - enable_hist/disable_hist |
| |
| The enable_hist and disable_hist triggers can be used to have one |
| event conditionally start and stop another event's already-attached |
| hist trigger. Any number of enable_hist and disable_hist triggers |
| can be attached to a given event, allowing that event to kick off |
| and stop aggregations on a host of other events. |
| |
| The format is very similar to the enable/disable_event triggers: |
| |
| enable_hist:<system>:<event>[:count] |
| disable_hist:<system>:<event>[:count] |
| |
| Instead of enabling or disabling the tracing of the target event |
| into the trace buffer as the enable/disable_event triggers do, the |
| enable/disable_hist triggers enable or disable the aggregation of |
| the target event into a hash table. |
| |
| A typical usage scenario for the enable_hist/disable_hist triggers |
| would be to first set up a paused hist trigger on some event, |
| followed by an enable_hist/disable_hist pair that turns the hist |
| aggregation on and off when conditions of interest are hit: |
| |
| # echo 'hist:keys=skbaddr.hex:vals=len:pause' > \ |
| /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/net/netif_receive_skb/trigger |
| |
| # echo 'enable_hist:net:netif_receive_skb if filename==/usr/bin/wget' > \ |
| /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/sched/sched_process_exec/trigger |
| |
| # echo 'disable_hist:net:netif_receive_skb if comm==wget' > \ |
| /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/sched/sched_process_exit/trigger |
| |
| The above sets up an initially paused hist trigger which is unpaused |
| and starts aggregating events when a given program is executed, and |
| which stops aggregating when the process exits and the hist trigger |
| is paused again. |
| |
| The examples below provide a more concrete illustration of the |
| concepts and typical usage patterns discussed above. |
| |
| |
| 6.2 'hist' trigger examples |
| --------------------------- |
| |
| The first set of examples creates aggregations using the kmalloc |
| event. The fields that can be used for the hist trigger are listed |
| in the kmalloc event's format file: |
| |
| # cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kmem/kmalloc/format |
| name: kmalloc |
| ID: 374 |
| format: |
| field:unsigned short common_type; offset:0; size:2; signed:0; |
| field:unsigned char common_flags; offset:2; size:1; signed:0; |
| field:unsigned char common_preempt_count; offset:3; size:1; signed:0; |
| field:int common_pid; offset:4; size:4; signed:1; |
| |
| field:unsigned long call_site; offset:8; size:8; signed:0; |
| field:const void * ptr; offset:16; size:8; signed:0; |
| field:size_t bytes_req; offset:24; size:8; signed:0; |
| field:size_t bytes_alloc; offset:32; size:8; signed:0; |
| field:gfp_t gfp_flags; offset:40; size:4; signed:0; |
| |
| We'll start by creating a hist trigger that generates a simple table |
| that lists the total number of bytes requested for each function in |
| the kernel that made one or more calls to kmalloc: |
| |
| # echo 'hist:key=call_site:val=bytes_req' > \ |
| /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kmem/kmalloc/trigger |
| |
| This tells the tracing system to create a 'hist' trigger using the |
| call_site field of the kmalloc event as the key for the table, which |
| just means that each unique call_site address will have an entry |
| created for it in the table. The 'val=bytes_req' parameter tells |
| the hist trigger that for each unique entry (call_site) in the |
| table, it should keep a running total of the number of bytes |
| requested by that call_site. |
| |
| We'll let it run for awhile and then dump the contents of the 'hist' |
| file in the kmalloc event's subdirectory (for readability, a number |
| of entries have been omitted): |
| |
| # cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kmem/kmalloc/hist |
| # trigger info: hist:keys=call_site:vals=bytes_req:sort=hitcount:size=2048 [active] |
| |
| { call_site: 18446744072106379007 } hitcount: 1 bytes_req: 176 |
| { call_site: 18446744071579557049 } hitcount: 1 bytes_req: 1024 |
| { call_site: 18446744071580608289 } hitcount: 1 bytes_req: 16384 |
| { call_site: 18446744071581827654 } hitcount: 1 bytes_req: 24 |
| { call_site: 18446744071580700980 } hitcount: 1 bytes_req: 8 |
| { call_site: 18446744071579359876 } hitcount: 1 bytes_req: 152 |
| { call_site: 18446744071580795365 } hitcount: 3 bytes_req: 144 |
| { call_site: 18446744071581303129 } hitcount: 3 bytes_req: 144 |
| { call_site: 18446744071580713234 } hitcount: 4 bytes_req: 2560 |
| { call_site: 18446744071580933750 } hitcount: 4 bytes_req: 736 |
| . |
| . |
| . |
| { call_site: 18446744072106047046 } hitcount: 69 bytes_req: 5576 |
| { call_site: 18446744071582116407 } hitcount: 73 bytes_req: 2336 |
| { call_site: 18446744072106054684 } hitcount: 136 bytes_req: 140504 |
| { call_site: 18446744072106224230 } hitcount: 136 bytes_req: 19584 |
| { call_site: 18446744072106078074 } hitcount: 153 bytes_req: 2448 |
| { call_site: 18446744072106062406 } hitcount: 153 bytes_req: 36720 |
| { call_site: 18446744071582507929 } hitcount: 153 bytes_req: 37088 |
| { call_site: 18446744072102520590 } hitcount: 273 bytes_req: 10920 |
| { call_site: 18446744071582143559 } hitcount: 358 bytes_req: 716 |
| { call_site: 18446744072106465852 } hitcount: 417 bytes_req: 56712 |
| { call_site: 18446744072102523378 } hitcount: 485 bytes_req: 27160 |
| { call_site: 18446744072099568646 } hitcount: 1676 bytes_req: 33520 |
| |
| Totals: |
| Hits: 4610 |
| Entries: 45 |
| Dropped: 0 |
| |
| The output displays a line for each entry, beginning with the key |
| specified in the trigger, followed by the value(s) also specified in |
| the trigger. At the beginning of the output is a line that displays |
| the trigger info, which can also be displayed by reading the |
| 'trigger' file: |
| |
| # cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kmem/kmalloc/trigger |
| hist:keys=call_site:vals=bytes_req:sort=hitcount:size=2048 [active] |
| |
| At the end of the output are a few lines that display the overall |
| totals for the run. The 'Hits' field shows the total number of |
| times the event trigger was hit, the 'Entries' field shows the total |
| number of used entries in the hash table, and the 'Dropped' field |
| shows the number of hits that were dropped because the number of |
| used entries for the run exceeded the maximum number of entries |
| allowed for the table (normally 0, but if not a hint that you may |
| want to increase the size of the table using the 'size' parameter). |
| |
| Notice in the above output that there's an extra field, 'hitcount', |
| which wasn't specified in the trigger. Also notice that in the |
| trigger info output, there's a parameter, 'sort=hitcount', which |
| wasn't specified in the trigger either. The reason for that is that |
| every trigger implicitly keeps a count of the total number of hits |
| attributed to a given entry, called the 'hitcount'. That hitcount |
| information is explicitly displayed in the output, and in the |
| absence of a user-specified sort parameter, is used as the default |
| sort field. |
| |
| The value 'hitcount' can be used in place of an explicit value in |
| the 'values' parameter if you don't really need to have any |
| particular field summed and are mainly interested in hit |
| frequencies. |
| |
| To turn the hist trigger off, simply call up the trigger in the |
| command history and re-execute it with a '!' prepended: |
| |
| # echo '!hist:key=call_site:val=bytes_req' > \ |
| /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kmem/kmalloc/trigger |
| |
| Finally, notice that the call_site as displayed in the output above |
| isn't really very useful. It's an address, but normally addresses |
| are displayed in hex. To have a numeric field displayed as a hex |
| value, simply append '.hex' to the field name in the trigger: |
| |
| # echo 'hist:key=call_site.hex:val=bytes_req' > \ |
| /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kmem/kmalloc/trigger |
| |
| # cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kmem/kmalloc/hist |
| # trigger info: hist:keys=call_site.hex:vals=bytes_req:sort=hitcount:size=2048 [active] |
| |
| { call_site: ffffffffa026b291 } hitcount: 1 bytes_req: 433 |
| { call_site: ffffffffa07186ff } hitcount: 1 bytes_req: 176 |
| { call_site: ffffffff811ae721 } hitcount: 1 bytes_req: 16384 |
| { call_site: ffffffff811c5134 } hitcount: 1 bytes_req: 8 |
| { call_site: ffffffffa04a9ebb } hitcount: 1 bytes_req: 511 |
| { call_site: ffffffff8122e0a6 } hitcount: 1 bytes_req: 12 |
| { call_site: ffffffff8107da84 } hitcount: 1 bytes_req: 152 |
| { call_site: ffffffff812d8246 } hitcount: 1 bytes_req: 24 |
| { call_site: ffffffff811dc1e5 } hitcount: 3 bytes_req: 144 |
| { call_site: ffffffffa02515e8 } hitcount: 3 bytes_req: 648 |
| { call_site: ffffffff81258159 } hitcount: 3 bytes_req: 144 |
| { call_site: ffffffff811c80f4 } hitcount: 4 bytes_req: 544 |
| . |
| . |
| . |
| { call_site: ffffffffa06c7646 } hitcount: 106 bytes_req: 8024 |
| { call_site: ffffffffa06cb246 } hitcount: 132 bytes_req: 31680 |
| { call_site: ffffffffa06cef7a } hitcount: 132 bytes_req: 2112 |
| { call_site: ffffffff8137e399 } hitcount: 132 bytes_req: 23232 |
| { call_site: ffffffffa06c941c } hitcount: 185 bytes_req: 171360 |
| { call_site: ffffffffa06f2a66 } hitcount: 185 bytes_req: 26640 |
| { call_site: ffffffffa036a70e } hitcount: 265 bytes_req: 10600 |
| { call_site: ffffffff81325447 } hitcount: 292 bytes_req: 584 |
| { call_site: ffffffffa072da3c } hitcount: 446 bytes_req: 60656 |
| { call_site: ffffffffa036b1f2 } hitcount: 526 bytes_req: 29456 |
| { call_site: ffffffffa0099c06 } hitcount: 1780 bytes_req: 35600 |
| |
| Totals: |
| Hits: 4775 |
| Entries: 46 |
| Dropped: 0 |
| |
| Even that's only marginally more useful - while hex values do look |
| more like addresses, what users are typically more interested in |
| when looking at text addresses are the corresponding symbols |
| instead. To have an address displayed as symbolic value instead, |
| simply append '.sym' or '.sym-offset' to the field name in the |
| trigger: |
| |
| # echo 'hist:key=call_site.sym:val=bytes_req' > \ |
| /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kmem/kmalloc/trigger |
| |
| # cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kmem/kmalloc/hist |
| # trigger info: hist:keys=call_site.sym:vals=bytes_req:sort=hitcount:size=2048 [active] |
| |
| { call_site: [ffffffff810adcb9] syslog_print_all } hitcount: 1 bytes_req: 1024 |
| { call_site: [ffffffff8154bc62] usb_control_msg } hitcount: 1 bytes_req: 8 |
| { call_site: [ffffffffa00bf6fe] hidraw_send_report [hid] } hitcount: 1 bytes_req: 7 |
| { call_site: [ffffffff8154acbe] usb_alloc_urb } hitcount: 1 bytes_req: 192 |
| { call_site: [ffffffffa00bf1ca] hidraw_report_event [hid] } hitcount: 1 bytes_req: 7 |
| { call_site: [ffffffff811e3a25] __seq_open_private } hitcount: 1 bytes_req: 40 |
| { call_site: [ffffffff8109524a] alloc_fair_sched_group } hitcount: 2 bytes_req: 128 |
| { call_site: [ffffffff811febd5] fsnotify_alloc_group } hitcount: 2 bytes_req: 528 |
| { call_site: [ffffffff81440f58] __tty_buffer_request_room } hitcount: 2 bytes_req: 2624 |
| { call_site: [ffffffff81200ba6] inotify_new_group } hitcount: 2 bytes_req: 96 |
| { call_site: [ffffffffa05e19af] ieee80211_start_tx_ba_session [mac80211] } hitcount: 2 bytes_req: 464 |
| { call_site: [ffffffff81672406] tcp_get_metrics } hitcount: 2 bytes_req: 304 |
| { call_site: [ffffffff81097ec2] alloc_rt_sched_group } hitcount: 2 bytes_req: 128 |
| { call_site: [ffffffff81089b05] sched_create_group } hitcount: 2 bytes_req: 1424 |
| . |
| . |
| . |
| { call_site: [ffffffffa04a580c] intel_crtc_page_flip [i915] } hitcount: 1185 bytes_req: 123240 |
| { call_site: [ffffffffa0287592] drm_mode_page_flip_ioctl [drm] } hitcount: 1185 bytes_req: 104280 |
| { call_site: [ffffffffa04c4a3c] intel_plane_duplicate_state [i915] } hitcount: 1402 bytes_req: 190672 |
| { call_site: [ffffffff812891ca] ext4_find_extent } hitcount: 1518 bytes_req: 146208 |
| { call_site: [ffffffffa029070e] drm_vma_node_allow [drm] } hitcount: 1746 bytes_req: 69840 |
| { call_site: [ffffffffa045e7c4] i915_gem_do_execbuffer.isra.23 [i915] } hitcount: 2021 bytes_req: 792312 |
| { call_site: [ffffffffa02911f2] drm_modeset_lock_crtc [drm] } hitcount: 2592 bytes_req: 145152 |
| { call_site: [ffffffffa0489a66] intel_ring_begin [i915] } hitcount: 2629 bytes_req: 378576 |
| { call_site: [ffffffffa046041c] i915_gem_execbuffer2 [i915] } hitcount: 2629 bytes_req: 3783248 |
| { call_site: [ffffffff81325607] apparmor_file_alloc_security } hitcount: 5192 bytes_req: 10384 |
| { call_site: [ffffffffa00b7c06] hid_report_raw_event [hid] } hitcount: 5529 bytes_req: 110584 |
| { call_site: [ffffffff8131ebf7] aa_alloc_task_context } hitcount: 21943 bytes_req: 702176 |
| { call_site: [ffffffff8125847d] ext4_htree_store_dirent } hitcount: 55759 bytes_req: 5074265 |
| |
| Totals: |
| Hits: 109928 |
| Entries: 71 |
| Dropped: 0 |
| |
| Because the default sort key above is 'hitcount', the above shows a |
| the list of call_sites by increasing hitcount, so that at the bottom |
| we see the functions that made the most kmalloc calls during the |
| run. If instead we we wanted to see the top kmalloc callers in |
| terms of the number of bytes requested rather than the number of |
| calls, and we wanted the top caller to appear at the top, we can use |
| the 'sort' parameter, along with the 'descending' modifier: |
| |
| # echo 'hist:key=call_site.sym:val=bytes_req:sort=bytes_req.descending' > \ |
| /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kmem/kmalloc/trigger |
| |
| # cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kmem/kmalloc/hist |
| # trigger info: hist:keys=call_site.sym:vals=bytes_req:sort=bytes_req.descending:size=2048 [active] |
| |
| { call_site: [ffffffffa046041c] i915_gem_execbuffer2 [i915] } hitcount: 2186 bytes_req: 3397464 |
| { call_site: [ffffffffa045e7c4] i915_gem_do_execbuffer.isra.23 [i915] } hitcount: 1790 bytes_req: 712176 |
| { call_site: [ffffffff8125847d] ext4_htree_store_dirent } hitcount: 8132 bytes_req: 513135 |
| { call_site: [ffffffff811e2a1b] seq_buf_alloc } hitcount: 106 bytes_req: 440128 |
| { call_site: [ffffffffa0489a66] intel_ring_begin [i915] } hitcount: 2186 bytes_req: 314784 |
| { call_site: [ffffffff812891ca] ext4_find_extent } hitcount: 2174 bytes_req: 208992 |
| { call_site: [ffffffff811ae8e1] __kmalloc } hitcount: 8 bytes_req: 131072 |
| { call_site: [ffffffffa04c4a3c] intel_plane_duplicate_state [i915] } hitcount: 859 bytes_req: 116824 |
| { call_site: [ffffffffa02911f2] drm_modeset_lock_crtc [drm] } hitcount: 1834 bytes_req: 102704 |
| { call_site: [ffffffffa04a580c] intel_crtc_page_flip [i915] } hitcount: 972 bytes_req: 101088 |
| { call_site: [ffffffffa0287592] drm_mode_page_flip_ioctl [drm] } hitcount: 972 bytes_req: 85536 |
| { call_site: [ffffffffa00b7c06] hid_report_raw_event [hid] } hitcount: 3333 bytes_req: 66664 |
| { call_site: [ffffffff8137e559] sg_kmalloc } hitcount: 209 bytes_req: 61632 |
| . |
| . |
| . |
| { call_site: [ffffffff81095225] alloc_fair_sched_group } hitcount: 2 bytes_req: 128 |
| { call_site: [ffffffff81097ec2] alloc_rt_sched_group } hitcount: 2 bytes_req: 128 |
| { call_site: [ffffffff812d8406] copy_semundo } hitcount: 2 bytes_req: 48 |
| { call_site: [ffffffff81200ba6] inotify_new_group } hitcount: 1 bytes_req: 48 |
| { call_site: [ffffffffa027121a] drm_getmagic [drm] } hitcount: 1 bytes_req: 48 |
| { call_site: [ffffffff811e3a25] __seq_open_private } hitcount: 1 bytes_req: 40 |
| { call_site: [ffffffff811c52f4] bprm_change_interp } hitcount: 2 bytes_req: 16 |
| { call_site: [ffffffff8154bc62] usb_control_msg } hitcount: 1 bytes_req: 8 |
| { call_site: [ffffffffa00bf1ca] hidraw_report_event [hid] } hitcount: 1 bytes_req: 7 |
| { call_site: [ffffffffa00bf6fe] hidraw_send_report [hid] } hitcount: 1 bytes_req: 7 |
| |
| Totals: |
| Hits: 32133 |
| Entries: 81 |
| Dropped: 0 |
| |
| To display the offset and size information in addition to the symbol |
| name, just use 'sym-offset' instead: |
| |
| # echo 'hist:key=call_site.sym-offset:val=bytes_req:sort=bytes_req.descending' > \ |
| /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kmem/kmalloc/trigger |
| |
| # cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kmem/kmalloc/hist |
| # trigger info: hist:keys=call_site.sym-offset:vals=bytes_req:sort=bytes_req.descending:size=2048 [active] |
| |
| { call_site: [ffffffffa046041c] i915_gem_execbuffer2+0x6c/0x2c0 [i915] } hitcount: 4569 bytes_req: 3163720 |
| { call_site: [ffffffffa0489a66] intel_ring_begin+0xc6/0x1f0 [i915] } hitcount: 4569 bytes_req: 657936 |
| { call_site: [ffffffffa045e7c4] i915_gem_do_execbuffer.isra.23+0x694/0x1020 [i915] } hitcount: 1519 bytes_req: 472936 |
| { call_site: [ffffffffa045e646] i915_gem_do_execbuffer.isra.23+0x516/0x1020 [i915] } hitcount: 3050 bytes_req: 211832 |
| { call_site: [ffffffff811e2a1b] seq_buf_alloc+0x1b/0x50 } hitcount: 34 bytes_req: 148384 |
| { call_site: [ffffffffa04a580c] intel_crtc_page_flip+0xbc/0x870 [i915] } hitcount: 1385 bytes_req: 144040 |
| { call_site: [ffffffff811ae8e1] __kmalloc+0x191/0x1b0 } hitcount: 8 bytes_req: 131072 |
| { call_site: [ffffffffa0287592] drm_mode_page_flip_ioctl+0x282/0x360 [drm] } hitcount: 1385 bytes_req: 121880 |
| { call_site: [ffffffffa02911f2] drm_modeset_lock_crtc+0x32/0x100 [drm] } hitcount: 1848 bytes_req: 103488 |
| { call_site: [ffffffffa04c4a3c] intel_plane_duplicate_state+0x2c/0xa0 [i915] } hitcount: 461 bytes_req: 62696 |
| { call_site: [ffffffffa029070e] drm_vma_node_allow+0x2e/0xd0 [drm] } hitcount: 1541 bytes_req: 61640 |
| { call_site: [ffffffff815f8d7b] sk_prot_alloc+0xcb/0x1b0 } hitcount: 57 bytes_req: 57456 |
| . |
| . |
| . |
| { call_site: [ffffffff8109524a] alloc_fair_sched_group+0x5a/0x1a0 } hitcount: 2 bytes_req: 128 |
| { call_site: [ffffffffa027b921] drm_vm_open_locked+0x31/0xa0 [drm] } hitcount: 3 bytes_req: 96 |
| { call_site: [ffffffff8122e266] proc_self_follow_link+0x76/0xb0 } hitcount: 8 bytes_req: 96 |
| { call_site: [ffffffff81213e80] load_elf_binary+0x240/0x1650 } hitcount: 3 bytes_req: 84 |
| { call_site: [ffffffff8154bc62] usb_control_msg+0x42/0x110 } hitcount: 1 bytes_req: 8 |
| { call_site: [ffffffffa00bf6fe] hidraw_send_report+0x7e/0x1a0 [hid] } hitcount: 1 bytes_req: 7 |
| { call_site: [ffffffffa00bf1ca] hidraw_report_event+0x8a/0x120 [hid] } hitcount: 1 bytes_req: 7 |
| |
| Totals: |
| Hits: 26098 |
| Entries: 64 |
| Dropped: 0 |
| |
| We can also add multiple fields to the 'values' parameter. For |
| example, we might want to see the total number of bytes allocated |
| alongside bytes requested, and display the result sorted by bytes |
| allocated in a descending order: |
| |
| # echo 'hist:keys=call_site.sym:values=bytes_req,bytes_alloc:sort=bytes_alloc.descending' > \ |
| /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kmem/kmalloc/trigger |
| |
| # cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kmem/kmalloc/hist |
| # trigger info: hist:keys=call_site.sym:vals=bytes_req,bytes_alloc:sort=bytes_alloc.descending:size=2048 [active] |
| |
| { call_site: [ffffffffa046041c] i915_gem_execbuffer2 [i915] } hitcount: 7403 bytes_req: 4084360 bytes_alloc: 5958016 |
| { call_site: [ffffffff811e2a1b] seq_buf_alloc } hitcount: 541 bytes_req: 2213968 bytes_alloc: 2228224 |
| { call_site: [ffffffffa0489a66] intel_ring_begin [i915] } hitcount: 7404 bytes_req: 1066176 bytes_alloc: 1421568 |
| { call_site: [ffffffffa045e7c4] i915_gem_do_execbuffer.isra.23 [i915] } hitcount: 1565 bytes_req: 557368 bytes_alloc: 1037760 |
| { call_site: [ffffffff8125847d] ext4_htree_store_dirent } hitcount: 9557 bytes_req: 595778 bytes_alloc: 695744 |
| { call_site: [ffffffffa045e646] i915_gem_do_execbuffer.isra.23 [i915] } hitcount: 5839 bytes_req: 430680 bytes_alloc: 470400 |
| { call_site: [ffffffffa04c4a3c] intel_plane_duplicate_state [i915] } hitcount: 2388 bytes_req: 324768 bytes_alloc: 458496 |
| { call_site: [ffffffffa02911f2] drm_modeset_lock_crtc [drm] } hitcount: 3911 bytes_req: 219016 bytes_alloc: 250304 |
| { call_site: [ffffffff815f8d7b] sk_prot_alloc } hitcount: 235 bytes_req: 236880 bytes_alloc: 240640 |
| { call_site: [ffffffff8137e559] sg_kmalloc } hitcount: 557 bytes_req: 169024 bytes_alloc: 221760 |
| { call_site: [ffffffffa00b7c06] hid_report_raw_event [hid] } hitcount: 9378 bytes_req: 187548 bytes_alloc: 206312 |
| { call_site: [ffffffffa04a580c] intel_crtc_page_flip [i915] } hitcount: 1519 bytes_req: 157976 bytes_alloc: 194432 |
| . |
| . |
| . |
| { call_site: [ffffffff8109bd3b] sched_autogroup_create_attach } hitcount: 2 bytes_req: 144 bytes_alloc: 192 |
| { call_site: [ffffffff81097ee8] alloc_rt_sched_group } hitcount: 2 bytes_req: 128 bytes_alloc: 128 |
| { call_site: [ffffffff8109524a] alloc_fair_sched_group } hitcount: 2 bytes_req: 128 bytes_alloc: 128 |
| { call_site: [ffffffff81095225] alloc_fair_sched_group } hitcount: 2 bytes_req: 128 bytes_alloc: 128 |
| { call_site: [ffffffff81097ec2] alloc_rt_sched_group } hitcount: 2 bytes_req: 128 bytes_alloc: 128 |
| { call_site: [ffffffff81213e80] load_elf_binary } hitcount: 3 bytes_req: 84 bytes_alloc: 96 |
| { call_site: [ffffffff81079a2e] kthread_create_on_node } hitcount: 1 bytes_req: 56 bytes_alloc: 64 |
| { call_site: [ffffffffa00bf6fe] hidraw_send_report [hid] } hitcount: 1 bytes_req: 7 bytes_alloc: 8 |
| { call_site: [ffffffff8154bc62] usb_control_msg } hitcount: 1 bytes_req: 8 bytes_alloc: 8 |
| { call_site: [ffffffffa00bf1ca] hidraw_report_event [hid] } hitcount: 1 bytes_req: 7 bytes_alloc: 8 |
| |
| Totals: |
| Hits: 66598 |
| Entries: 65 |
| Dropped: 0 |
| |
| Finally, to finish off our kmalloc example, instead of simply having |
| the hist trigger display symbolic call_sites, we can have the hist |
| trigger additionally display the complete set of kernel stack traces |
| that led to each call_site. To do that, we simply use the special |
| value 'stacktrace' for the key parameter: |
| |
| # echo 'hist:keys=stacktrace:values=bytes_req,bytes_alloc:sort=bytes_alloc' > \ |
| /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kmem/kmalloc/trigger |
| |
| The above trigger will use the kernel stack trace in effect when an |
| event is triggered as the key for the hash table. This allows the |
| enumeration of every kernel callpath that led up to a particular |
| event, along with a running total of any of the event fields for |
| that event. Here we tally bytes requested and bytes allocated for |
| every callpath in the system that led up to a kmalloc (in this case |
| every callpath to a kmalloc for a kernel compile): |
| |
| # cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kmem/kmalloc/hist |
| # trigger info: hist:keys=stacktrace:vals=bytes_req,bytes_alloc:sort=bytes_alloc:size=2048 [active] |
| |
| { stacktrace: |
| __kmalloc_track_caller+0x10b/0x1a0 |
| kmemdup+0x20/0x50 |
| hidraw_report_event+0x8a/0x120 [hid] |
| hid_report_raw_event+0x3ea/0x440 [hid] |
| hid_input_report+0x112/0x190 [hid] |
| hid_irq_in+0xc2/0x260 [usbhid] |
| __usb_hcd_giveback_urb+0x72/0x120 |
| usb_giveback_urb_bh+0x9e/0xe0 |
| tasklet_hi_action+0xf8/0x100 |
| __do_softirq+0x114/0x2c0 |
| irq_exit+0xa5/0xb0 |
| do_IRQ+0x5a/0xf0 |
| ret_from_intr+0x0/0x30 |
| cpuidle_enter+0x17/0x20 |
| cpu_startup_entry+0x315/0x3e0 |
| rest_init+0x7c/0x80 |
| } hitcount: 3 bytes_req: 21 bytes_alloc: 24 |
| { stacktrace: |
| __kmalloc_track_caller+0x10b/0x1a0 |
| kmemdup+0x20/0x50 |
| hidraw_report_event+0x8a/0x120 [hid] |
| hid_report_raw_event+0x3ea/0x440 [hid] |
| hid_input_report+0x112/0x190 [hid] |
| hid_irq_in+0xc2/0x260 [usbhid] |
| __usb_hcd_giveback_urb+0x72/0x120 |
| usb_giveback_urb_bh+0x9e/0xe0 |
| tasklet_hi_action+0xf8/0x100 |
| __do_softirq+0x114/0x2c0 |
| irq_exit+0xa5/0xb0 |
| do_IRQ+0x5a/0xf0 |
| ret_from_intr+0x0/0x30 |
| } hitcount: 3 bytes_req: 21 bytes_alloc: 24 |
| { stacktrace: |
| kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0xeb/0x150 |
| aa_alloc_task_context+0x27/0x40 |
| apparmor_cred_prepare+0x1f/0x50 |
| security_prepare_creds+0x16/0x20 |
| prepare_creds+0xdf/0x1a0 |
| SyS_capset+0xb5/0x200 |
| system_call_fastpath+0x12/0x6a |
| } hitcount: 1 bytes_req: 32 bytes_alloc: 32 |
| . |
| . |
| . |
| { stacktrace: |
| __kmalloc+0x11b/0x1b0 |
| i915_gem_execbuffer2+0x6c/0x2c0 [i915] |
| drm_ioctl+0x349/0x670 [drm] |
| do_vfs_ioctl+0x2f0/0x4f0 |
| SyS_ioctl+0x81/0xa0 |
| system_call_fastpath+0x12/0x6a |
| } hitcount: 17726 bytes_req: 13944120 bytes_alloc: 19593808 |
| { stacktrace: |
| __kmalloc+0x11b/0x1b0 |
| load_elf_phdrs+0x76/0xa0 |
| load_elf_binary+0x102/0x1650 |
| search_binary_handler+0x97/0x1d0 |
| do_execveat_common.isra.34+0x551/0x6e0 |
| SyS_execve+0x3a/0x50 |
| return_from_execve+0x0/0x23 |
| } hitcount: 33348 bytes_req: 17152128 bytes_alloc: 20226048 |
| { stacktrace: |
| kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0xeb/0x150 |
| apparmor_file_alloc_security+0x27/0x40 |
| security_file_alloc+0x16/0x20 |
| get_empty_filp+0x93/0x1c0 |
| path_openat+0x31/0x5f0 |
| do_filp_open+0x3a/0x90 |
| do_sys_open+0x128/0x220 |
| SyS_open+0x1e/0x20 |
| system_call_fastpath+0x12/0x6a |
| } hitcount: 4766422 bytes_req: 9532844 bytes_alloc: 38131376 |
| { stacktrace: |
| __kmalloc+0x11b/0x1b0 |
| seq_buf_alloc+0x1b/0x50 |
| seq_read+0x2cc/0x370 |
| proc_reg_read+0x3d/0x80 |
| __vfs_read+0x28/0xe0 |
| vfs_read+0x86/0x140 |
| SyS_read+0x46/0xb0 |
| system_call_fastpath+0x12/0x6a |
| } hitcount: 19133 bytes_req: 78368768 bytes_alloc: 78368768 |
| |
| Totals: |
| Hits: 6085872 |
| Entries: 253 |
| Dropped: 0 |
| |
| If you key a hist trigger on common_pid, in order for example to |
| gather and display sorted totals for each process, you can use the |
| special .execname modifier to display the executable names for the |
| processes in the table rather than raw pids. The example below |
| keeps a per-process sum of total bytes read: |
| |
| # echo 'hist:key=common_pid.execname:val=count:sort=count.descending' > \ |
| /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/syscalls/sys_enter_read/trigger |
| |
| # cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/syscalls/sys_enter_read/hist |
| # trigger info: hist:keys=common_pid.execname:vals=count:sort=count.descending:size=2048 [active] |
| |
| { common_pid: gnome-terminal [ 3196] } hitcount: 280 count: 1093512 |
| { common_pid: Xorg [ 1309] } hitcount: 525 count: 256640 |
| { common_pid: compiz [ 2889] } hitcount: 59 count: 254400 |
| { common_pid: bash [ 8710] } hitcount: 3 count: 66369 |
| { common_pid: dbus-daemon-lau [ 8703] } hitcount: 49 count: 47739 |
| { common_pid: irqbalance [ 1252] } hitcount: 27 count: 27648 |
| { common_pid: 01ifupdown [ 8705] } hitcount: 3 count: 17216 |
| { common_pid: dbus-daemon [ 772] } hitcount: 10 count: 12396 |
| { common_pid: Socket Thread [ 8342] } hitcount: 11 count: 11264 |
| { common_pid: nm-dhcp-client. [ 8701] } hitcount: 6 count: 7424 |
| { common_pid: gmain [ 1315] } hitcount: 18 count: 6336 |
| . |
| . |
| . |
| { common_pid: postgres [ 1892] } hitcount: 2 count: 32 |
| { common_pid: postgres [ 1891] } hitcount: 2 count: 32 |
| { common_pid: gmain [ 8704] } hitcount: 2 count: 32 |
| { common_pid: upstart-dbus-br [ 2740] } hitcount: 21 count: 21 |
| { common_pid: nm-dispatcher.a [ 8696] } hitcount: 1 count: 16 |
| { common_pid: indicator-datet [ 2904] } hitcount: 1 count: 16 |
| { common_pid: gdbus [ 2998] } hitcount: 1 count: 16 |
| { common_pid: rtkit-daemon [ 2052] } hitcount: 1 count: 8 |
| { common_pid: init [ 1] } hitcount: 2 count: 2 |
| |
| Totals: |
| Hits: 2116 |
| Entries: 51 |
| Dropped: 0 |
| |
| Similarly, if you key a hist trigger on syscall id, for example to |
| gather and display a list of systemwide syscall hits, you can use |
| the special .syscall modifier to display the syscall names rather |
| than raw ids. The example below keeps a running total of syscall |
| counts for the system during the run: |
| |
| # echo 'hist:key=id.syscall:val=hitcount' > \ |
| /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/raw_syscalls/sys_enter/trigger |
| |
| # cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/raw_syscalls/sys_enter/hist |
| # trigger info: hist:keys=id.syscall:vals=hitcount:sort=hitcount:size=2048 [active] |
| |
| { id: sys_fsync [ 74] } hitcount: 1 |
| { id: sys_newuname [ 63] } hitcount: 1 |
| { id: sys_prctl [157] } hitcount: 1 |
| { id: sys_statfs [137] } hitcount: 1 |
| { id: sys_symlink [ 88] } hitcount: 1 |
| { id: sys_sendmmsg [307] } hitcount: 1 |
| { id: sys_semctl [ 66] } hitcount: 1 |
| { id: sys_readlink [ 89] } hitcount: 3 |
| { id: sys_bind [ 49] } hitcount: 3 |
| { id: sys_getsockname [ 51] } hitcount: 3 |
| { id: sys_unlink [ 87] } hitcount: 3 |
| { id: sys_rename [ 82] } hitcount: 4 |
| { id: unknown_syscall [ 58] } hitcount: 4 |
| { id: sys_connect [ 42] } hitcount: 4 |
| { id: sys_getpid [ 39] } hitcount: 4 |
| . |
| . |
| . |
| { id: sys_rt_sigprocmask [ 14] } hitcount: 952 |
| { id: sys_futex [202] } hitcount: 1534 |
| { id: sys_write [ 1] } hitcount: 2689 |
| { id: sys_setitimer [ 38] } hitcount: 2797 |
| { id: sys_read [ 0] } hitcount: 3202 |
| { id: sys_select [ 23] } hitcount: 3773 |
| { id: sys_writev [ 20] } hitcount: 4531 |
| { id: sys_poll [ 7] } hitcount: 8314 |
| { id: sys_recvmsg [ 47] } hitcount: 13738 |
| { id: sys_ioctl [ 16] } hitcount: 21843 |
| |
| Totals: |
| Hits: 67612 |
| Entries: 72 |
| Dropped: 0 |
| |
| The syscall counts above provide a rough overall picture of system |
| call activity on the system; we can see for example that the most |
| popular system call on this system was the 'sys_ioctl' system call. |
| |
| We can use 'compound' keys to refine that number and provide some |
| further insight as to which processes exactly contribute to the |
| overall ioctl count. |
| |
| The command below keeps a hitcount for every unique combination of |
| system call id and pid - the end result is essentially a table |
| that keeps a per-pid sum of system call hits. The results are |
| sorted using the system call id as the primary key, and the |
| hitcount sum as the secondary key: |
| |
| # echo 'hist:key=id.syscall,common_pid.execname:val=hitcount:sort=id,hitcount' > \ |
| /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/raw_syscalls/sys_enter/trigger |
| |
| # cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/raw_syscalls/sys_enter/hist |
| # trigger info: hist:keys=id.syscall,common_pid.execname:vals=hitcount:sort=id.syscall,hitcount:size=2048 [active] |
| |
| { id: sys_read [ 0], common_pid: rtkit-daemon [ 1877] } hitcount: 1 |
| { id: sys_read [ 0], common_pid: gdbus [ 2976] } hitcount: 1 |
| { id: sys_read [ 0], common_pid: console-kit-dae [ 3400] } hitcount: 1 |
| { id: sys_read [ 0], common_pid: postgres [ 1865] } hitcount: 1 |
| { id: sys_read [ 0], common_pid: deja-dup-monito [ 3543] } hitcount: 2 |
| { id: sys_read [ 0], common_pid: NetworkManager [ 890] } hitcount: 2 |
| { id: sys_read [ 0], common_pid: evolution-calen [ 3048] } hitcount: 2 |
| { id: sys_read [ 0], common_pid: postgres [ 1864] } hitcount: 2 |
| { id: sys_read [ 0], common_pid: nm-applet [ 3022] } hitcount: 2 |
| { id: sys_read [ 0], common_pid: whoopsie [ 1212] } hitcount: 2 |
| . |
| . |
| . |
| { id: sys_ioctl [ 16], common_pid: bash [ 8479] } hitcount: 1 |
| { id: sys_ioctl [ 16], common_pid: bash [ 3472] } hitcount: 12 |
| { id: sys_ioctl [ 16], common_pid: gnome-terminal [ 3199] } hitcount: 16 |
| { id: sys_ioctl [ 16], common_pid: Xorg [ 1267] } hitcount: 1808 |
| { id: sys_ioctl [ 16], common_pid: compiz [ 2994] } hitcount: 5580 |
| . |
| . |
| . |
| { id: sys_waitid [247], common_pid: upstart-dbus-br [ 2690] } hitcount: 3 |
| { id: sys_waitid [247], common_pid: upstart-dbus-br [ 2688] } hitcount: 16 |
| { id: sys_inotify_add_watch [254], common_pid: gmain [ 975] } hitcount: 2 |
| { id: sys_inotify_add_watch [254], common_pid: gmain [ 3204] } hitcount: 4 |
| { id: sys_inotify_add_watch [254], common_pid: gmain [ 2888] } hitcount: 4 |
| { id: sys_inotify_add_watch [254], common_pid: gmain [ 3003] } hitcount: 4 |
| { id: sys_inotify_add_watch [254], common_pid: gmain [ 2873] } hitcount: 4 |
| { id: sys_inotify_add_watch [254], common_pid: gmain [ 3196] } hitcount: 6 |
| { id: sys_openat [257], common_pid: java [ 2623] } hitcount: 2 |
| { id: sys_eventfd2 [290], common_pid: ibus-ui-gtk3 [ 2760] } hitcount: 4 |
| { id: sys_eventfd2 [290], common_pid: compiz [ 2994] } hitcount: 6 |
| |
| Totals: |
| Hits: 31536 |
| Entries: 323 |
| Dropped: 0 |
| |
| The above list does give us a breakdown of the ioctl syscall by |
| pid, but it also gives us quite a bit more than that, which we |
| don't really care about at the moment. Since we know the syscall |
| id for sys_ioctl (16, displayed next to the sys_ioctl name), we |
| can use that to filter out all the other syscalls: |
| |
| # echo 'hist:key=id.syscall,common_pid.execname:val=hitcount:sort=id,hitcount if id == 16' > \ |
| /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/raw_syscalls/sys_enter/trigger |
| |
| # cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/raw_syscalls/sys_enter/hist |
| # trigger info: hist:keys=id.syscall,common_pid.execname:vals=hitcount:sort=id.syscall,hitcount:size=2048 if id == 16 [active] |
| |
| { id: sys_ioctl [ 16], common_pid: gmain [ 2769] } hitcount: 1 |
| { id: sys_ioctl [ 16], common_pid: evolution-addre [ 8571] } hitcount: 1 |
| { id: sys_ioctl [ 16], common_pid: gmain [ 3003] } hitcount: 1 |
| { id: sys_ioctl [ 16], common_pid: gmain [ 2781] } hitcount: 1 |
| { id: sys_ioctl [ 16], common_pid: gmain [ 2829] } hitcount: 1 |
| { id: sys_ioctl [ 16], common_pid: bash [ 8726] } hitcount: 1 |
| { id: sys_ioctl [ 16], common_pid: bash [ 8508] } hitcount: 1 |
| { id: sys_ioctl [ 16], common_pid: gmain [ 2970] } hitcount: 1 |
| { id: sys_ioctl [ 16], common_pid: gmain [ 2768] } hitcount: 1 |
| . |
| . |
| . |
| { id: sys_ioctl [ 16], common_pid: pool [ 8559] } hitcount: 45 |
| { id: sys_ioctl [ 16], common_pid: pool [ 8555] } hitcount: 48 |
| { id: sys_ioctl [ 16], common_pid: pool [ 8551] } hitcount: 48 |
| { id: sys_ioctl [ 16], common_pid: avahi-daemon [ 896] } hitcount: 66 |
| { id: sys_ioctl [ 16], common_pid: Xorg [ 1267] } hitcount: 26674 |
| { id: sys_ioctl [ 16], common_pid: compiz [ 2994] } hitcount: 73443 |
| |
| Totals: |
| Hits: 101162 |
| Entries: 103 |
| Dropped: 0 |
| |
| The above output shows that 'compiz' and 'Xorg' are far and away |
| the heaviest ioctl callers (which might lead to questions about |
| whether they really need to be making all those calls and to |
| possible avenues for further investigation.) |
| |
| The compound key examples used a key and a sum value (hitcount) to |
| sort the output, but we can just as easily use two keys instead. |
| Here's an example where we use a compound key composed of the the |
| common_pid and size event fields. Sorting with pid as the primary |
| key and 'size' as the secondary key allows us to display an |
| ordered summary of the recvfrom sizes, with counts, received by |
| each process: |
| |
| # echo 'hist:key=common_pid.execname,size:val=hitcount:sort=common_pid,size' > \ |
| /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/syscalls/sys_enter_recvfrom/trigger |
| |
| # cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/syscalls/sys_enter_recvfrom/hist |
| # trigger info: hist:keys=common_pid.execname,size:vals=hitcount:sort=common_pid.execname,size:size=2048 [active] |
| |
| { common_pid: smbd [ 784], size: 4 } hitcount: 1 |
| { common_pid: dnsmasq [ 1412], size: 4096 } hitcount: 672 |
| { common_pid: postgres [ 1796], size: 1000 } hitcount: 6 |
| { common_pid: postgres [ 1867], size: 1000 } hitcount: 10 |
| { common_pid: bamfdaemon [ 2787], size: 28 } hitcount: 2 |
| { common_pid: bamfdaemon [ 2787], size: 14360 } hitcount: 1 |
| { common_pid: compiz [ 2994], size: 8 } hitcount: 1 |
| { common_pid: compiz [ 2994], size: 20 } hitcount: 11 |
| { common_pid: gnome-terminal [ 3199], size: 4 } hitcount: 2 |
| { common_pid: firefox [ 8817], size: 4 } hitcount: 1 |
| { common_pid: firefox [ 8817], size: 8 } hitcount: 5 |
| { common_pid: firefox [ 8817], size: 588 } hitcount: 2 |
| { common_pid: firefox [ 8817], size: 628 } hitcount: 1 |
| { common_pid: firefox [ 8817], size: 6944 } hitcount: 1 |
| { common_pid: firefox [ 8817], size: 408880 } hitcount: 2 |
| { common_pid: firefox [ 8822], size: 8 } hitcount: 2 |
| { common_pid: firefox [ 8822], size: 160 } hitcount: 2 |
| { common_pid: firefox [ 8822], size: 320 } hitcount: 2 |
| { common_pid: firefox [ 8822], size: 352 } hitcount: 1 |
| . |
| . |
| . |
| { common_pid: pool [ 8923], size: 1960 } hitcount: 10 |
| { common_pid: pool [ 8923], size: 2048 } hitcount: 10 |
| { common_pid: pool [ 8924], size: 1960 } hitcount: 10 |
| { common_pid: pool [ 8924], size: 2048 } hitcount: 10 |
| { common_pid: pool [ 8928], size: 1964 } hitcount: 4 |
| { common_pid: pool [ 8928], size: 1965 } hitcount: 2 |
| { common_pid: pool [ 8928], size: 2048 } hitcount: 6 |
| { common_pid: pool [ 8929], size: 1982 } hitcount: 1 |
| { common_pid: pool [ 8929], size: 2048 } hitcount: 1 |
| |
| Totals: |
| Hits: 2016 |
| Entries: 224 |
| Dropped: 0 |
| |
| The above example also illustrates the fact that although a compound |
| key is treated as a single entity for hashing purposes, the sub-keys |
| it's composed of can be accessed independently. |
| |
| The next example uses a string field as the hash key and |
| demonstrates how you can manually pause and continue a hist trigger. |
| In this example, we'll aggregate fork counts and don't expect a |
| large number of entries in the hash table, so we'll drop it to a |
| much smaller number, say 256: |
| |
| # echo 'hist:key=child_comm:val=hitcount:size=256' > \ |
| /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/sched/sched_process_fork/trigger |
| |
| # cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/sched/sched_process_fork/hist |
| # trigger info: hist:keys=child_comm:vals=hitcount:sort=hitcount:size=256 [active] |
| |
| { child_comm: dconf worker } hitcount: 1 |
| { child_comm: ibus-daemon } hitcount: 1 |
| { child_comm: whoopsie } hitcount: 1 |
| { child_comm: smbd } hitcount: 1 |
| { child_comm: gdbus } hitcount: 1 |
| { child_comm: kthreadd } hitcount: 1 |
| { child_comm: dconf worker } hitcount: 1 |
| { child_comm: evolution-alarm } hitcount: 2 |
| { child_comm: Socket Thread } hitcount: 2 |
| { child_comm: postgres } hitcount: 2 |
| { child_comm: bash } hitcount: 3 |
| { child_comm: compiz } hitcount: 3 |
| { child_comm: evolution-sourc } hitcount: 4 |
| { child_comm: dhclient } hitcount: 4 |
| { child_comm: pool } hitcount: 5 |
| { child_comm: nm-dispatcher.a } hitcount: 8 |
| { child_comm: firefox } hitcount: 8 |
| { child_comm: dbus-daemon } hitcount: 8 |
| { child_comm: glib-pacrunner } hitcount: 10 |
| { child_comm: evolution } hitcount: 23 |
| |
| Totals: |
| Hits: 89 |
| Entries: 20 |
| Dropped: 0 |
| |
| If we want to pause the hist trigger, we can simply append :pause to |
| the command that started the trigger. Notice that the trigger info |
| displays as [paused]: |
| |
| # echo 'hist:key=child_comm:val=hitcount:size=256:pause' >> \ |
| /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/sched/sched_process_fork/trigger |
| |
| # cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/sched/sched_process_fork/hist |
| # trigger info: hist:keys=child_comm:vals=hitcount:sort=hitcount:size=256 [paused] |
| |
| { child_comm: dconf worker } hitcount: 1 |
| { child_comm: kthreadd } hitcount: 1 |
| { child_comm: dconf worker } hitcount: 1 |
| { child_comm: gdbus } hitcount: 1 |
| { child_comm: ibus-daemon } hitcount: 1 |
| { child_comm: Socket Thread } hitcount: 2 |
| { child_comm: evolution-alarm } hitcount: 2 |
| { child_comm: smbd } hitcount: 2 |
| { child_comm: bash } hitcount: 3 |
| { child_comm: whoopsie } hitcount: 3 |
| { child_comm: compiz } hitcount: 3 |
| { child_comm: evolution-sourc } hitcount: 4 |
| { child_comm: pool } hitcount: 5 |
| { child_comm: postgres } hitcount: 6 |
| { child_comm: firefox } hitcount: 8 |
| { child_comm: dhclient } hitcount: 10 |
| { child_comm: emacs } hitcount: 12 |
| { child_comm: dbus-daemon } hitcount: 20 |
| { child_comm: nm-dispatcher.a } hitcount: 20 |
| { child_comm: evolution } hitcount: 35 |
| { child_comm: glib-pacrunner } hitcount: 59 |
| |
| Totals: |
| Hits: 199 |
| Entries: 21 |
| Dropped: 0 |
| |
| To manually continue having the trigger aggregate events, append |
| :cont instead. Notice that the trigger info displays as [active] |
| again, and the data has changed: |
| |
| # echo 'hist:key=child_comm:val=hitcount:size=256:cont' >> \ |
| /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/sched/sched_process_fork/trigger |
| |
| # cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/sched/sched_process_fork/hist |
| # trigger info: hist:keys=child_comm:vals=hitcount:sort=hitcount:size=256 [active] |
| |
| { child_comm: dconf worker } hitcount: 1 |
| { child_comm: dconf worker } hitcount: 1 |
| { child_comm: kthreadd } hitcount: 1 |
| { child_comm: gdbus } hitcount: 1 |
| { child_comm: ibus-daemon } hitcount: 1 |
| { child_comm: Socket Thread } hitcount: 2 |
| { child_comm: evolution-alarm } hitcount: 2 |
| { child_comm: smbd } hitcount: 2 |
| { child_comm: whoopsie } hitcount: 3 |
| { child_comm: compiz } hitcount: 3 |
| { child_comm: evolution-sourc } hitcount: 4 |
| { child_comm: bash } hitcount: 5 |
| { child_comm: pool } hitcount: 5 |
| { child_comm: postgres } hitcount: 6 |
| { child_comm: firefox } hitcount: 8 |
| { child_comm: dhclient } hitcount: 11 |
| { child_comm: emacs } hitcount: 12 |
| { child_comm: dbus-daemon } hitcount: 22 |
| { child_comm: nm-dispatcher.a } hitcount: 22 |
| { child_comm: evolution } hitcount: 35 |
| { child_comm: glib-pacrunner } hitcount: 59 |
| |
| Totals: |
| Hits: 206 |
| Entries: 21 |
| Dropped: 0 |
| |
| The previous example showed how to start and stop a hist trigger by |
| appending 'pause' and 'continue' to the hist trigger command. A |
| hist trigger can also be started in a paused state by initially |
| starting the trigger with ':pause' appended. This allows you to |
| start the trigger only when you're ready to start collecting data |
| and not before. For example, you could start the trigger in a |
| paused state, then unpause it and do something you want to measure, |
| then pause the trigger again when done. |
| |
| Of course, doing this manually can be difficult and error-prone, but |
| it is possible to automatically start and stop a hist trigger based |
| on some condition, via the enable_hist and disable_hist triggers. |
| |
| For example, suppose we wanted to take a look at the relative |
| weights in terms of skb length for each callpath that leads to a |
| netif_receieve_skb event when downloading a decent-sized file using |
| wget. |
| |
| First we set up an initially paused stacktrace trigger on the |
| netif_receive_skb event: |
| |
| # echo 'hist:key=stacktrace:vals=len:pause' > \ |
| /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/net/netif_receive_skb/trigger |
| |
| Next, we set up an 'enable_hist' trigger on the sched_process_exec |
| event, with an 'if filename==/usr/bin/wget' filter. The effect of |
| this new trigger is that it will 'unpause' the hist trigger we just |
| set up on netif_receive_skb if and only if it sees a |
| sched_process_exec event with a filename of '/usr/bin/wget'. When |
| that happens, all netif_receive_skb events are aggregated into a |
| hash table keyed on stacktrace: |
| |
| # echo 'enable_hist:net:netif_receive_skb if filename==/usr/bin/wget' > \ |
| /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/sched/sched_process_exec/trigger |
| |
| The aggregation continues until the netif_receive_skb is paused |
| again, which is what the following disable_hist event does by |
| creating a similar setup on the sched_process_exit event, using the |
| filter 'comm==wget': |
| |
| # echo 'disable_hist:net:netif_receive_skb if comm==wget' > \ |
| /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/sched/sched_process_exit/trigger |
| |
| Whenever a process exits and the comm field of the disable_hist |
| trigger filter matches 'comm==wget', the netif_receive_skb hist |
| trigger is disabled. |
| |
| The overall effect is that netif_receive_skb events are aggregated |
| into the hash table for only the duration of the wget. Executing a |
| wget command and then listing the 'hist' file will display the |
| output generated by the wget command: |
| |
| $ wget https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/patch-3.19.xz |
| |
| # cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/net/netif_receive_skb/hist |
| # trigger info: hist:keys=stacktrace:vals=len:sort=hitcount:size=2048 [paused] |
| |
| { stacktrace: |
| __netif_receive_skb_core+0x46d/0x990 |
| __netif_receive_skb+0x18/0x60 |
| netif_receive_skb_internal+0x23/0x90 |
| napi_gro_receive+0xc8/0x100 |
| ieee80211_deliver_skb+0xd6/0x270 [mac80211] |
| ieee80211_rx_handlers+0xccf/0x22f0 [mac80211] |
| ieee80211_prepare_and_rx_handle+0x4e7/0xc40 [mac80211] |
| ieee80211_rx+0x31d/0x900 [mac80211] |
| iwlagn_rx_reply_rx+0x3db/0x6f0 [iwldvm] |
| iwl_rx_dispatch+0x8e/0xf0 [iwldvm] |
| iwl_pcie_irq_handler+0xe3c/0x12f0 [iwlwifi] |
| irq_thread_fn+0x20/0x50 |
| irq_thread+0x11f/0x150 |
| kthread+0xd2/0xf0 |
| ret_from_fork+0x42/0x70 |
| } hitcount: 85 len: 28884 |
| { stacktrace: |
| __netif_receive_skb_core+0x46d/0x990 |
| __netif_receive_skb+0x18/0x60 |
| netif_receive_skb_internal+0x23/0x90 |
| napi_gro_complete+0xa4/0xe0 |
| dev_gro_receive+0x23a/0x360 |
| napi_gro_receive+0x30/0x100 |
| ieee80211_deliver_skb+0xd6/0x270 [mac80211] |
| ieee80211_rx_handlers+0xccf/0x22f0 [mac80211] |
| ieee80211_prepare_and_rx_handle+0x4e7/0xc40 [mac80211] |
| ieee80211_rx+0x31d/0x900 [mac80211] |
| iwlagn_rx_reply_rx+0x3db/0x6f0 [iwldvm] |
| iwl_rx_dispatch+0x8e/0xf0 [iwldvm] |
| iwl_pcie_irq_handler+0xe3c/0x12f0 [iwlwifi] |
| irq_thread_fn+0x20/0x50 |
| irq_thread+0x11f/0x150 |
| kthread+0xd2/0xf0 |
| } hitcount: 98 len: 664329 |
| { stacktrace: |
| __netif_receive_skb_core+0x46d/0x990 |
| __netif_receive_skb+0x18/0x60 |
| process_backlog+0xa8/0x150 |
| net_rx_action+0x15d/0x340 |
| __do_softirq+0x114/0x2c0 |
| do_softirq_own_stack+0x1c/0x30 |
| do_softirq+0x65/0x70 |
| __local_bh_enable_ip+0xb5/0xc0 |
| ip_finish_output+0x1f4/0x840 |
| ip_output+0x6b/0xc0 |
| ip_local_out_sk+0x31/0x40 |
| ip_send_skb+0x1a/0x50 |
| udp_send_skb+0x173/0x2a0 |
| udp_sendmsg+0x2bf/0x9f0 |
| inet_sendmsg+0x64/0xa0 |
| sock_sendmsg+0x3d/0x50 |
| } hitcount: 115 len: 13030 |
| { stacktrace: |
| __netif_receive_skb_core+0x46d/0x990 |
| __netif_receive_skb+0x18/0x60 |
| netif_receive_skb_internal+0x23/0x90 |
| napi_gro_complete+0xa4/0xe0 |
| napi_gro_flush+0x6d/0x90 |
| iwl_pcie_irq_handler+0x92a/0x12f0 [iwlwifi] |
| irq_thread_fn+0x20/0x50 |
| irq_thread+0x11f/0x150 |
| kthread+0xd2/0xf0 |
| ret_from_fork+0x42/0x70 |
| } hitcount: 934 len: 5512212 |
| |
| Totals: |
| Hits: 1232 |
| Entries: 4 |
| Dropped: 0 |
| |
| The above shows all the netif_receive_skb callpaths and their total |
| lengths for the duration of the wget command. |
| |
| The 'clear' hist trigger param can be used to clear the hash table. |
| Suppose we wanted to try another run of the previous example but |
| this time also wanted to see the complete list of events that went |
| into the histogram. In order to avoid having to set everything up |
| again, we can just clear the histogram first: |
| |
| # echo 'hist:key=stacktrace:vals=len:clear' >> \ |
| /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/net/netif_receive_skb/trigger |
| |
| Just to verify that it is in fact cleared, here's what we now see in |
| the hist file: |
| |
| # cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/net/netif_receive_skb/hist |
| # trigger info: hist:keys=stacktrace:vals=len:sort=hitcount:size=2048 [paused] |
| |
| Totals: |
| Hits: 0 |
| Entries: 0 |
| Dropped: 0 |
| |
| Since we want to see the detailed list of every netif_receive_skb |
| event occurring during the new run, which are in fact the same |
| events being aggregated into the hash table, we add some additional |
| 'enable_event' events to the triggering sched_process_exec and |
| sched_process_exit events as such: |
| |
| # echo 'enable_event:net:netif_receive_skb if filename==/usr/bin/wget' > \ |
| /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/sched/sched_process_exec/trigger |
| |
| # echo 'disable_event:net:netif_receive_skb if comm==wget' > \ |
| /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/sched/sched_process_exit/trigger |
| |
| If you read the trigger files for the sched_process_exec and |
| sched_process_exit triggers, you should see two triggers for each: |
| one enabling/disabling the hist aggregation and the other |
| enabling/disabling the logging of events: |
| |
| # cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/sched/sched_process_exec/trigger |
| enable_event:net:netif_receive_skb:unlimited if filename==/usr/bin/wget |
| enable_hist:net:netif_receive_skb:unlimited if filename==/usr/bin/wget |
| |
| # cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/sched/sched_process_exit/trigger |
| enable_event:net:netif_receive_skb:unlimited if comm==wget |
| disable_hist:net:netif_receive_skb:unlimited if comm==wget |
| |
| In other words, whenever either of the sched_process_exec or |
| sched_process_exit events is hit and matches 'wget', it enables or |
| disables both the histogram and the event log, and what you end up |
| with is a hash table and set of events just covering the specified |
| duration. Run the wget command again: |
| |
| $ wget https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/patch-3.19.xz |
| |
| Displaying the 'hist' file should show something similar to what you |
| saw in the last run, but this time you should also see the |
| individual events in the trace file: |
| |
| # cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace |
| |
| # tracer: nop |
| # |
| # entries-in-buffer/entries-written: 183/1426 #P:4 |
| # |
| # _-----=> irqs-off |
| # / _----=> need-resched |
| # | / _---=> hardirq/softirq |
| # || / _--=> preempt-depth |
| # ||| / delay |
| # TASK-PID CPU# |||| TIMESTAMP FUNCTION |
| # | | | |||| | | |
| wget-15108 [000] ..s1 31769.606929: netif_receive_skb: dev=lo skbaddr=ffff88009c353100 len=60 |
| wget-15108 [000] ..s1 31769.606999: netif_receive_skb: dev=lo skbaddr=ffff88009c353200 len=60 |
| dnsmasq-1382 [000] ..s1 31769.677652: netif_receive_skb: dev=lo skbaddr=ffff88009c352b00 len=130 |
| dnsmasq-1382 [000] ..s1 31769.685917: netif_receive_skb: dev=lo skbaddr=ffff88009c352200 len=138 |
| ##### CPU 2 buffer started #### |
| irq/29-iwlwifi-559 [002] ..s. 31772.031529: netif_receive_skb: dev=wlan0 skbaddr=ffff88009d433d00 len=2948 |
| irq/29-iwlwifi-559 [002] ..s. 31772.031572: netif_receive_skb: dev=wlan0 skbaddr=ffff88009d432200 len=1500 |
| irq/29-iwlwifi-559 [002] ..s. 31772.032196: netif_receive_skb: dev=wlan0 skbaddr=ffff88009d433100 len=2948 |
| irq/29-iwlwifi-559 [002] ..s. 31772.032761: netif_receive_skb: dev=wlan0 skbaddr=ffff88009d433000 len=2948 |
| irq/29-iwlwifi-559 [002] ..s. 31772.033220: netif_receive_skb: dev=wlan0 skbaddr=ffff88009d432e00 len=1500 |
| . |
| . |
| . |
| |
| The following example demonstrates how multiple hist triggers can be |
| attached to a given event. This capability can be useful for |
| creating a set of different summaries derived from the same set of |
| events, or for comparing the effects of different filters, among |
| other things. |
| |
| # echo 'hist:keys=skbaddr.hex:vals=len if len < 0' >> \ |
| /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/net/netif_receive_skb/trigger |
| # echo 'hist:keys=skbaddr.hex:vals=len if len > 4096' >> \ |
| /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/net/netif_receive_skb/trigger |
| # echo 'hist:keys=skbaddr.hex:vals=len if len == 256' >> \ |
| /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/net/netif_receive_skb/trigger |
| # echo 'hist:keys=skbaddr.hex:vals=len' >> \ |
| /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/net/netif_receive_skb/trigger |
| # echo 'hist:keys=len:vals=common_preempt_count' >> \ |
| /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/net/netif_receive_skb/trigger |
| |
| The above set of commands create four triggers differing only in |
| their filters, along with a completely different though fairly |
| nonsensical trigger. Note that in order to append multiple hist |
| triggers to the same file, you should use the '>>' operator to |
| append them ('>' will also add the new hist trigger, but will remove |
| any existing hist triggers beforehand). |
| |
| Displaying the contents of the 'hist' file for the event shows the |
| contents of all five histograms: |
| |
| # cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/net/netif_receive_skb/hist |
| |
| # event histogram |
| # |
| # trigger info: hist:keys=len:vals=hitcount,common_preempt_count:sort=hitcount:size=2048 [active] |
| # |
| |
| { len: 176 } hitcount: 1 common_preempt_count: 0 |
| { len: 223 } hitcount: 1 common_preempt_count: 0 |
| { len: 4854 } hitcount: 1 common_preempt_count: 0 |
| { len: 395 } hitcount: 1 common_preempt_count: 0 |
| { len: 177 } hitcount: 1 common_preempt_count: 0 |
| { len: 446 } hitcount: 1 common_preempt_count: 0 |
| { len: 1601 } hitcount: 1 common_preempt_count: 0 |
| . |
| . |
| . |
| { len: 1280 } hitcount: 66 common_preempt_count: 0 |
| { len: 116 } hitcount: 81 common_preempt_count: 40 |
| { len: 708 } hitcount: 112 common_preempt_count: 0 |
| { len: 46 } hitcount: 221 common_preempt_count: 0 |
| { len: 1264 } hitcount: 458 common_preempt_count: 0 |
| |
| Totals: |
| Hits: 1428 |
| Entries: 147 |
| Dropped: 0 |
| |
| |
| # event histogram |
| # |
| # trigger info: hist:keys=skbaddr.hex:vals=hitcount,len:sort=hitcount:size=2048 [active] |
| # |
| |
| { skbaddr: ffff8800baee5e00 } hitcount: 1 len: 130 |
| { skbaddr: ffff88005f3d5600 } hitcount: 1 len: 1280 |
| { skbaddr: ffff88005f3d4900 } hitcount: 1 len: 1280 |
| { skbaddr: ffff88009fed6300 } hitcount: 1 len: 115 |
| { skbaddr: ffff88009fe0ad00 } hitcount: 1 len: 115 |
| { skbaddr: ffff88008cdb1900 } hitcount: 1 len: 46 |
| { skbaddr: ffff880064b5ef00 } hitcount: 1 len: 118 |
| { skbaddr: ffff880044e3c700 } hitcount: 1 len: 60 |
| { skbaddr: ffff880100065900 } hitcount: 1 len: 46 |
| { skbaddr: ffff8800d46bd500 } hitcount: 1 len: 116 |
| { skbaddr: ffff88005f3d5f00 } hitcount: 1 len: 1280 |
| { skbaddr: ffff880100064700 } hitcount: 1 len: 365 |
| { skbaddr: ffff8800badb6f00 } hitcount: 1 len: 60 |
| . |
| . |
| . |
| { skbaddr: ffff88009fe0be00 } hitcount: 27 len: 24677 |
| { skbaddr: ffff88009fe0a400 } hitcount: 27 len: 23052 |
| { skbaddr: ffff88009fe0b700 } hitcount: 31 len: 25589 |
| { skbaddr: ffff88009fe0b600 } hitcount: 32 len: 27326 |
| { skbaddr: ffff88006a462800 } hitcount: 68 len: 71678 |
| { skbaddr: ffff88006a463700 } hitcount: 70 len: 72678 |
| { skbaddr: ffff88006a462b00 } hitcount: 71 len: 77589 |
| { skbaddr: ffff88006a463600 } hitcount: 73 len: 71307 |
| { skbaddr: ffff88006a462200 } hitcount: 81 len: 81032 |
| |
| Totals: |
| Hits: 1451 |
| Entries: 318 |
| Dropped: 0 |
| |
| |
| # event histogram |
| # |
| # trigger info: hist:keys=skbaddr.hex:vals=hitcount,len:sort=hitcount:size=2048 if len == 256 [active] |
| # |
| |
| |
| Totals: |
| Hits: 0 |
| Entries: 0 |
| Dropped: 0 |
| |
| |
| # event histogram |
| # |
| # trigger info: hist:keys=skbaddr.hex:vals=hitcount,len:sort=hitcount:size=2048 if len > 4096 [active] |
| # |
| |
| { skbaddr: ffff88009fd2c300 } hitcount: 1 len: 7212 |
| { skbaddr: ffff8800d2bcce00 } hitcount: 1 len: 7212 |
| { skbaddr: ffff8800d2bcd700 } hitcount: 1 len: 7212 |
| { skbaddr: ffff8800d2bcda00 } hitcount: 1 len: 21492 |
| { skbaddr: ffff8800ae2e2d00 } hitcount: 1 len: 7212 |
| { skbaddr: ffff8800d2bcdb00 } hitcount: 1 len: 7212 |
| { skbaddr: ffff88006a4df500 } hitcount: 1 len: 4854 |
| { skbaddr: ffff88008ce47b00 } hitcount: 1 len: 18636 |
| { skbaddr: ffff8800ae2e2200 } hitcount: 1 len: 12924 |
| { skbaddr: ffff88005f3e1000 } hitcount: 1 len: 4356 |
| { skbaddr: ffff8800d2bcdc00 } hitcount: 2 len: 24420 |
| { skbaddr: ffff8800d2bcc200 } hitcount: 2 len: 12996 |
| |
| Totals: |
| Hits: 14 |
| Entries: 12 |
| Dropped: 0 |
| |
| |
| # event histogram |
| # |
| # trigger info: hist:keys=skbaddr.hex:vals=hitcount,len:sort=hitcount:size=2048 if len < 0 [active] |
| # |
| |
| |
| Totals: |
| Hits: 0 |
| Entries: 0 |
| Dropped: 0 |
| |
| Named triggers can be used to have triggers share a common set of |
| histogram data. This capability is mostly useful for combining the |
| output of events generated by tracepoints contained inside inline |
| functions, but names can be used in a hist trigger on any event. |
| For example, these two triggers when hit will update the same 'len' |
| field in the shared 'foo' histogram data: |
| |
| # echo 'hist:name=foo:keys=skbaddr.hex:vals=len' > \ |
| /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/net/netif_receive_skb/trigger |
| # echo 'hist:name=foo:keys=skbaddr.hex:vals=len' > \ |
| /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/net/netif_rx/trigger |
| |
| You can see that they're updating common histogram data by reading |
| each event's hist files at the same time: |
| |
| # cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/net/netif_receive_skb/hist; |
| cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/net/netif_rx/hist |
| |
| # event histogram |
| # |
| # trigger info: hist:name=foo:keys=skbaddr.hex:vals=hitcount,len:sort=hitcount:size=2048 [active] |
| # |
| |
| { skbaddr: ffff88000ad53500 } hitcount: 1 len: 46 |
| { skbaddr: ffff8800af5a1500 } hitcount: 1 len: 76 |
| { skbaddr: ffff8800d62a1900 } hitcount: 1 len: 46 |
| { skbaddr: ffff8800d2bccb00 } hitcount: 1 len: 468 |
| { skbaddr: ffff8800d3c69900 } hitcount: 1 len: 46 |
| { skbaddr: ffff88009ff09100 } hitcount: 1 len: 52 |
| { skbaddr: ffff88010f13ab00 } hitcount: 1 len: 168 |
| { skbaddr: ffff88006a54f400 } hitcount: 1 len: 46 |
| { skbaddr: ffff8800d2bcc500 } hitcount: 1 len: 260 |
| { skbaddr: ffff880064505000 } hitcount: 1 len: 46 |
| { skbaddr: ffff8800baf24e00 } hitcount: 1 len: 32 |
| { skbaddr: ffff88009fe0ad00 } hitcount: 1 len: 46 |
| { skbaddr: ffff8800d3edff00 } hitcount: 1 len: 44 |
| { skbaddr: ffff88009fe0b400 } hitcount: 1 len: 168 |
| { skbaddr: ffff8800a1c55a00 } hitcount: 1 len: 40 |
| { skbaddr: ffff8800d2bcd100 } hitcount: 1 len: 40 |
| { skbaddr: ffff880064505f00 } hitcount: 1 len: 174 |
| { skbaddr: ffff8800a8bff200 } hitcount: 1 len: 160 |
| { skbaddr: ffff880044e3cc00 } hitcount: 1 len: 76 |
| { skbaddr: ffff8800a8bfe700 } hitcount: 1 len: 46 |
| { skbaddr: ffff8800d2bcdc00 } hitcount: 1 len: 32 |
| { skbaddr: ffff8800a1f64800 } hitcount: 1 len: 46 |
| { skbaddr: ffff8800d2bcde00 } hitcount: 1 len: 988 |
| { skbaddr: ffff88006a5dea00 } hitcount: 1 len: 46 |
| { skbaddr: ffff88002e37a200 } hitcount: 1 len: 44 |
| { skbaddr: ffff8800a1f32c00 } hitcount: 2 len: 676 |
| { skbaddr: ffff88000ad52600 } hitcount: 2 len: 107 |
| { skbaddr: ffff8800a1f91e00 } hitcount: 2 len: 92 |
| { skbaddr: ffff8800af5a0200 } hitcount: 2 len: 142 |
| { skbaddr: ffff8800d2bcc600 } hitcount: 2 len: 220 |
| { skbaddr: ffff8800ba36f500 } hitcount: 2 len: 92 |
| { skbaddr: ffff8800d021f800 } hitcount: 2 len: 92 |
| { skbaddr: ffff8800a1f33600 } hitcount: 2 len: 675 |
| { skbaddr: ffff8800a8bfff00 } hitcount: 3 len: 138 |
| { skbaddr: ffff8800d62a1300 } hitcount: 3 len: 138 |
| { skbaddr: ffff88002e37a100 } hitcount: 4 len: 184 |
| { skbaddr: ffff880064504400 } hitcount: 4 len: 184 |
| { skbaddr: ffff8800a8bfec00 } hitcount: 4 len: 184 |
| { skbaddr: ffff88000ad53700 } hitcount: 5 len: 230 |
| { skbaddr: ffff8800d2bcdb00 } hitcount: 5 len: 196 |
| { skbaddr: ffff8800a1f90000 } hitcount: 6 len: 276 |
| { skbaddr: ffff88006a54f900 } hitcount: 6 len: 276 |
| |
| Totals: |
| Hits: 81 |
| Entries: 42 |
| Dropped: 0 |
| # event histogram |
| # |
| # trigger info: hist:name=foo:keys=skbaddr.hex:vals=hitcount,len:sort=hitcount:size=2048 [active] |
| # |
| |
| { skbaddr: ffff88000ad53500 } hitcount: 1 len: 46 |
| { skbaddr: ffff8800af5a1500 } hitcount: 1 len: 76 |
| { skbaddr: ffff8800d62a1900 } hitcount: 1 len: 46 |
| { skbaddr: ffff8800d2bccb00 } hitcount: 1 len: 468 |
| { skbaddr: ffff8800d3c69900 } hitcount: 1 len: 46 |
| { skbaddr: ffff88009ff09100 } hitcount: 1 len: 52 |
| { skbaddr: ffff88010f13ab00 } hitcount: 1 len: 168 |
| { skbaddr: ffff88006a54f400 } hitcount: 1 len: 46 |
| { skbaddr: ffff8800d2bcc500 } hitcount: 1 len: 260 |
| { skbaddr: ffff880064505000 } hitcount: 1 len: 46 |
| { skbaddr: ffff8800baf24e00 } hitcount: 1 len: 32 |
| { skbaddr: ffff88009fe0ad00 } hitcount: 1 len: 46 |
| { skbaddr: ffff8800d3edff00 } hitcount: 1 len: 44 |
| { skbaddr: ffff88009fe0b400 } hitcount: 1 len: 168 |
| { skbaddr: ffff8800a1c55a00 } hitcount: 1 len: 40 |
| { skbaddr: ffff8800d2bcd100 } hitcount: 1 len: 40 |
| { skbaddr: ffff880064505f00 } hitcount: 1 len: 174 |
| { skbaddr: ffff8800a8bff200 } hitcount: 1 len: 160 |
| { skbaddr: ffff880044e3cc00 } hitcount: 1 len: 76 |
| { skbaddr: ffff8800a8bfe700 } hitcount: 1 len: 46 |
| { skbaddr: ffff8800d2bcdc00 } hitcount: 1 len: 32 |
| { skbaddr: ffff8800a1f64800 } hitcount: 1 len: 46 |
| { skbaddr: ffff8800d2bcde00 } hitcount: 1 len: 988 |
| { skbaddr: ffff88006a5dea00 } hitcount: 1 len: 46 |
| { skbaddr: ffff88002e37a200 } hitcount: 1 len: 44 |
| { skbaddr: ffff8800a1f32c00 } hitcount: 2 len: 676 |
| { skbaddr: ffff88000ad52600 } hitcount: 2 len: 107 |
| { skbaddr: ffff8800a1f91e00 } hitcount: 2 len: 92 |
| { skbaddr: ffff8800af5a0200 } hitcount: 2 len: 142 |
| { skbaddr: ffff8800d2bcc600 } hitcount: 2 len: 220 |
| { skbaddr: ffff8800ba36f500 } hitcount: 2 len: 92 |
| { skbaddr: ffff8800d021f800 } hitcount: 2 len: 92 |
| { skbaddr: ffff8800a1f33600 } hitcount: 2 len: 675 |
| { skbaddr: ffff8800a8bfff00 } hitcount: 3 len: 138 |
| { skbaddr: ffff8800d62a1300 } hitcount: 3 len: 138 |
| { skbaddr: ffff88002e37a100 } hitcount: 4 len: 184 |
| { skbaddr: ffff880064504400 } hitcount: 4 len: 184 |
| { skbaddr: ffff8800a8bfec00 } hitcount: 4 len: 184 |
| { skbaddr: ffff88000ad53700 } hitcount: 5 len: 230 |
| { skbaddr: ffff8800d2bcdb00 } hitcount: 5 len: 196 |
| { skbaddr: ffff8800a1f90000 } hitcount: 6 len: 276 |
| { skbaddr: ffff88006a54f900 } hitcount: 6 len: 276 |
| |
| Totals: |
| Hits: 81 |
| Entries: 42 |
| Dropped: 0 |
| |
| And here's an example that shows how to combine histogram data from |
| any two events even if they don't share any 'compatible' fields |
| other than 'hitcount' and 'stacktrace'. These commands create a |
| couple of triggers named 'bar' using those fields: |
| |
| # echo 'hist:name=bar:key=stacktrace:val=hitcount' > \ |
| /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/sched/sched_process_fork/trigger |
| # echo 'hist:name=bar:key=stacktrace:val=hitcount' > \ |
| /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/net/netif_rx/trigger |
| |
| And displaying the output of either shows some interesting if |
| somewhat confusing output: |
| |
| # cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/sched/sched_process_fork/hist |
| # cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/net/netif_rx/hist |
| |
| # event histogram |
| # |
| # trigger info: hist:name=bar:keys=stacktrace:vals=hitcount:sort=hitcount:size=2048 [active] |
| # |
| |
| { stacktrace: |
| _do_fork+0x18e/0x330 |
| kernel_thread+0x29/0x30 |
| kthreadd+0x154/0x1b0 |
| ret_from_fork+0x3f/0x70 |
| } hitcount: 1 |
| { stacktrace: |
| netif_rx_internal+0xb2/0xd0 |
| netif_rx_ni+0x20/0x70 |
| dev_loopback_xmit+0xaa/0xd0 |
| ip_mc_output+0x126/0x240 |
| ip_local_out_sk+0x31/0x40 |
| igmp_send_report+0x1e9/0x230 |
| igmp_timer_expire+0xe9/0x120 |
| call_timer_fn+0x39/0xf0 |
| run_timer_softirq+0x1e1/0x290 |
| __do_softirq+0xfd/0x290 |
| irq_exit+0x98/0xb0 |
| smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x4a/0x60 |
| apic_timer_interrupt+0x6d/0x80 |
| cpuidle_enter+0x17/0x20 |
| call_cpuidle+0x3b/0x60 |
| cpu_startup_entry+0x22d/0x310 |
| } hitcount: 1 |
| { stacktrace: |
| netif_rx_internal+0xb2/0xd0 |
| netif_rx_ni+0x20/0x70 |
| dev_loopback_xmit+0xaa/0xd0 |
| ip_mc_output+0x17f/0x240 |
| ip_local_out_sk+0x31/0x40 |
| ip_send_skb+0x1a/0x50 |
| udp_send_skb+0x13e/0x270 |
| udp_sendmsg+0x2bf/0x980 |
| inet_sendmsg+0x67/0xa0 |
| sock_sendmsg+0x38/0x50 |
| SYSC_sendto+0xef/0x170 |
| SyS_sendto+0xe/0x10 |
| entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x12/0x6a |
| } hitcount: 2 |
| { stacktrace: |
| netif_rx_internal+0xb2/0xd0 |
| netif_rx+0x1c/0x60 |
| loopback_xmit+0x6c/0xb0 |
| dev_hard_start_xmit+0x219/0x3a0 |
| __dev_queue_xmit+0x415/0x4f0 |
| dev_queue_xmit_sk+0x13/0x20 |
| ip_finish_output2+0x237/0x340 |
| ip_finish_output+0x113/0x1d0 |
| ip_output+0x66/0xc0 |
| ip_local_out_sk+0x31/0x40 |
| ip_send_skb+0x1a/0x50 |
| udp_send_skb+0x16d/0x270 |
| udp_sendmsg+0x2bf/0x980 |
| inet_sendmsg+0x67/0xa0 |
| sock_sendmsg+0x38/0x50 |
| ___sys_sendmsg+0x14e/0x270 |
| } hitcount: 76 |
| { stacktrace: |
| netif_rx_internal+0xb2/0xd0 |
| netif_rx+0x1c/0x60 |
| loopback_xmit+0x6c/0xb0 |
| dev_hard_start_xmit+0x219/0x3a0 |
| __dev_queue_xmit+0x415/0x4f0 |
| dev_queue_xmit_sk+0x13/0x20 |
| ip_finish_output2+0x237/0x340 |
| ip_finish_output+0x113/0x1d0 |
| ip_output+0x66/0xc0 |
| ip_local_out_sk+0x31/0x40 |
| ip_send_skb+0x1a/0x50 |
| udp_send_skb+0x16d/0x270 |
| udp_sendmsg+0x2bf/0x980 |
| inet_sendmsg+0x67/0xa0 |
| sock_sendmsg+0x38/0x50 |
| ___sys_sendmsg+0x269/0x270 |
| } hitcount: 77 |
| { stacktrace: |
| netif_rx_internal+0xb2/0xd0 |
| netif_rx+0x1c/0x60 |
| loopback_xmit+0x6c/0xb0 |
| dev_hard_start_xmit+0x219/0x3a0 |
| __dev_queue_xmit+0x415/0x4f0 |
| dev_queue_xmit_sk+0x13/0x20 |
| ip_finish_output2+0x237/0x340 |
| ip_finish_output+0x113/0x1d0 |
| ip_output+0x66/0xc0 |
| ip_local_out_sk+0x31/0x40 |
| ip_send_skb+0x1a/0x50 |
| udp_send_skb+0x16d/0x270 |
| udp_sendmsg+0x2bf/0x980 |
| inet_sendmsg+0x67/0xa0 |
| sock_sendmsg+0x38/0x50 |
| SYSC_sendto+0xef/0x170 |
| } hitcount: 88 |
| { stacktrace: |
| _do_fork+0x18e/0x330 |
| SyS_clone+0x19/0x20 |
| entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x12/0x6a |
| } hitcount: 244 |
| |
| Totals: |
| Hits: 489 |
| Entries: 7 |
| Dropped: 0 |