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[sfrench/cifs-2.6.git] / Documentation / trace / ftrace.rst

diff --git a/Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst b/Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst
index 0131df7f5968d7b7c155eeb710d91682f39fe4a6..7c5e6d6ab5d17d9843d3ce4b33ee21dce280ed94 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst
+++ b/Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst
@@ -233,6 +233,12 @@ of ftrace. Here is a list of some of the key files:
        This interface also allows for commands to be used. See the
        "Filter commands" section for more details.
 
+       As a speed up, since processing strings can't be quite expensive
+       and requires a check of all functions registered to tracing, instead
+       an index can be written into this file. A number (starting with "1")
+       written will instead select the same corresponding at the line position
+       of the "available_filter_functions" file.
+
   set_ftrace_notrace:
 
        This has an effect opposite to that of
@@ -1396,6 +1402,57 @@ enabling function tracing, we incur an added overhead. This
 overhead may extend the latency times. But nevertheless, this
 trace has provided some very helpful debugging information.
 
+If we prefer function graph output instead of function, we can set
+display-graph option::
+ with echo 1 > options/display-graph
+
+  # tracer: irqsoff
+  #
+  # irqsoff latency trace v1.1.5 on 4.20.0-rc6+
+  # --------------------------------------------------------------------
+  # latency: 3751 us, #274/274, CPU#0 | (M:desktop VP:0, KP:0, SP:0 HP:0 #P:4)
+  #    -----------------
+  #    | task: bash-1507 (uid:0 nice:0 policy:0 rt_prio:0)
+  #    -----------------
+  #  => started at: free_debug_processing
+  #  => ended at:   return_to_handler
+  #
+  #
+  #                                       _-----=> irqs-off
+  #                                      / _----=> need-resched
+  #                                     | / _---=> hardirq/softirq
+  #                                     || / _--=> preempt-depth
+  #                                     ||| /
+  #   REL TIME      CPU  TASK/PID       ||||     DURATION                  FUNCTION CALLS
+  #      |          |     |    |        ||||      |   |                     |   |   |   |
+          0 us |   0)   bash-1507    |  d... |   0.000 us    |  _raw_spin_lock_irqsave();
+          0 us |   0)   bash-1507    |  d..1 |   0.378 us    |    do_raw_spin_trylock();
+          1 us |   0)   bash-1507    |  d..2 |               |    set_track() {
+          2 us |   0)   bash-1507    |  d..2 |               |      save_stack_trace() {
+          2 us |   0)   bash-1507    |  d..2 |               |        __save_stack_trace() {
+          3 us |   0)   bash-1507    |  d..2 |               |          __unwind_start() {
+          3 us |   0)   bash-1507    |  d..2 |               |            get_stack_info() {
+          3 us |   0)   bash-1507    |  d..2 |   0.351 us    |              in_task_stack();
+          4 us |   0)   bash-1507    |  d..2 |   1.107 us    |            }
+  [...]
+       3750 us |   0)   bash-1507    |  d..1 |   0.516 us    |      do_raw_spin_unlock();
+       3750 us |   0)   bash-1507    |  d..1 |   0.000 us    |  _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore();
+       3764 us |   0)   bash-1507    |  d..1 |   0.000 us    |  tracer_hardirqs_on();
+      bash-1507    0d..1 3792us : <stack trace>
+   => free_debug_processing
+   => __slab_free
+   => kmem_cache_free
+   => vm_area_free
+   => remove_vma
+   => exit_mmap
+   => mmput
+   => flush_old_exec
+   => load_elf_binary
+   => search_binary_handler
+   => __do_execve_file.isra.32
+   => __x64_sys_execve
+   => do_syscall_64
+   => entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe
 
 preemptoff
 ----------
@@ -2784,6 +2841,38 @@ Produces::
 
 We can see that there's no more lock or preempt tracing.
 
+Selecting function filters via index
+------------------------------------
+
+Because processing of strings is expensive (the address of the function
+needs to be looked up before comparing to the string being passed in),
+an index can be used as well to enable functions. This is useful in the
+case of setting thousands of specific functions at a time. By passing
+in a list of numbers, no string processing will occur. Instead, the function
+at the specific location in the internal array (which corresponds to the
+functions in the "available_filter_functions" file), is selected.
+
+::
+
+  # echo 1 > set_ftrace_filter
+
+Will select the first function listed in "available_filter_functions"
+
+::
+
+  # head -1 available_filter_functions
+  trace_initcall_finish_cb
+
+  # cat set_ftrace_filter
+  trace_initcall_finish_cb
+
+  # head -50 available_filter_functions | tail -1
+  x86_pmu_commit_txn
+
+  # echo 1 50 > set_ftrace_filter
+  # cat set_ftrace_filter
+  trace_initcall_finish_cb
+  x86_pmu_commit_txn
 
 Dynamic ftrace with the function graph tracer
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