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Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) committed f7f7bac9cb1
rcu: Have the RCU tracepoints use the tracepoint_string infrastructure Currently, RCU tracepoints save only a pointer to strings in the ring buffer. When displayed via the /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace file they are referenced like the printf "%s" that looks at the address in the ring buffer and prints out the string it points too. This requires that the strings are constant and persistent in the kernel. The problem with this is for tools like trace-cmd and perf that read the binary data from the buffers but have no access to the kernel memory to find out what string is represented by the address in the buffer. By using the tracepoint_string infrastructure, the RCU tracepoint strings can be exported such that userspace tools can map the addresses to the strings. # cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/printk_formats 0xffffffff81a4a0e8 : "rcu_preempt" 0xffffffff81a4a0f4 : "rcu_bh" 0xffffffff81a4a100 : "rcu_sched" 0xffffffff818437a0 : "cpuqs" 0xffffffff818437a6 : "rcu_sched" 0xffffffff818437a0 : "cpuqs" 0xffffffff818437b0 : "rcu_bh" 0xffffffff818437b7 : "Start context switch" 0xffffffff818437cc : "End context switch" 0xffffffff818437a0 : "cpuqs" [...] Now userspaces tools can display: rcu_utilization: Start context switch rcu_dyntick: Start 1 0 rcu_utilization: End context switch rcu_batch_start: rcu_preempt CBs=0/5 bl=10 rcu_dyntick: End 0 140000000000000 rcu_invoke_callback: rcu_preempt rhp=0xffff880071c0d600 func=proc_i_callback rcu_invoke_callback: rcu_preempt rhp=0xffff880077b5b230 func=__d_free rcu_dyntick: Start 140000000000000 0 rcu_invoke_callback: rcu_preempt rhp=0xffff880077563980 func=file_free_rcu rcu_batch_end: rcu_preempt CBs-invoked=3 idle=>c<>c<>c<>c< rcu_utilization: End RCU core rcu_grace_period: rcu_preempt 9741 start rcu_dyntick: Start 1 0 rcu_dyntick: End 0 140000000000000 rcu_dyntick: Start 140000000000000 0 Instead of: rcu_utilization: ffffffff81843110 rcu_future_grace_period: ffffffff81842f1d 9939 9939 9940 0 0 3 ffffffff81842f32 rcu_batch_start: ffffffff81842f1d CBs=0/4 bl=10 rcu_future_grace_period: ffffffff81842f1d 9939 9939 9940 0 0 3 ffffffff81842f3c rcu_grace_period: ffffffff81842f1d 9939 ffffffff81842f80 rcu_invoke_callback: ffffffff81842f1d rhp=0xffff88007888aac0 func=file_free_rcu rcu_grace_period: ffffffff81842f1d 9939 ffffffff81842f95 rcu_invoke_callback: ffffffff81842f1d rhp=0xffff88006aeb4600 func=proc_i_callback rcu_future_grace_period: ffffffff81842f1d 9939 9939 9940 0 0 3 ffffffff81842f32 rcu_future_grace_period: ffffffff81842f1d 9939 9939 9940 0 0 3 ffffffff81842f3c rcu_invoke_callback: ffffffff81842f1d rhp=0xffff880071cb9fc0 func=__d_free rcu_grace_period: ffffffff81842f1d 9939 ffffffff81842f80 rcu_invoke_callback: ffffffff81842f1d rhp=0xffff88007888ae80 func=file_free_rcu rcu_batch_end: ffffffff81842f1d CBs-invoked=4 idle=>c<>c<>c<>c< rcu_utilization: ffffffff8184311f Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>