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Commit 9b2ca371 authored by Tom Zanussi's avatar Tom Zanussi Committed by Steven Rostedt (VMware)
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tracing: Add a check_val() check before updating cond_snapshot() track_val

Without this check a snapshot is taken whenever a bucket's max is hit,
rather than only when the global max is hit, as it should be.

Before:

  In this example, we do a first run of the workload (cyclictest),
  examine the output, note the max ('triggering value') (347), then do
  a second run and note the max again.

  In this case, the max in the second run (39) is below the max in the
  first run, but since we haven't cleared the histogram, the first max
  is still in the histogram and is higher than any other max, so it
  should still be the max for the snapshot.  It isn't however - the
  value should still be 347 after the second run.

  # echo 'hist:keys=pid:ts0=common_timestamp.usecs if comm=="cyclictest"' >> /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/sched/sched_waking/trigger
  # echo 'hist:keys=next_pid:wakeup_lat=common_timestamp.usecs-$ts0:onmax($wakeup_lat).save(next_prio,next_comm,prev_pid,prev_prio,prev_comm):onmax($wakeup_lat).snapshot() if next_comm=="cyclictest"' >> /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/sched/sched_switch/trigger

  # cyclictest -p 80 -n -s -t 2 -D 2

  # cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/sched/sched_switch/hist

  { next_pid:       2143 } hitcount:        199
    max:         44  next_prio:        120  next_comm: cyclictest
    prev_pid:          0  prev_prio:        120  prev_comm: swapper/4

  { next_pid:       2145 } hitcount:       1325
    max:         38  next_prio:         19  next_comm: cyclictest
    prev_pid:          0  prev_prio:        120  prev_comm: swapper/2

  { next_pid:       2144 } hitcount:       1982
    max:        347  next_prio:         19  next_comm: cyclictest
    prev_pid:          0  prev_prio:        120  prev_comm: swapper/6

  Snapshot taken (see tracing/snapshot).  Details:
      triggering value { onmax($wakeup_lat) }:        347
      triggered by event with key: { next_pid:       2144 }

  # cyclictest -p 80 -n -s -t 2 -D 2

  # cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/sched/sched_switch/hist

  { next_pid:       2143 } hitcount:        199
    max:         44  next_prio:        120  next_comm: cyclictest
    prev_pid:          0  prev_prio:        120  prev_comm: swapper/4

  { next_pid:       2148 } hitcount:        199
    max:         16  next_prio:        120  next_comm: cyclictest
    prev_pid:          0  prev_prio:        120  prev_comm: swapper/1

  { next_pid:       2145 } hitcount:       1325
    max:         38  next_prio:         19  next_comm: cyclictest
    prev_pid:          0  prev_prio:        120  prev_comm: swapper/2

  { next_pid:       2150 } hitcount:       1326
    max:         39  next_prio:         19  next_comm: cyclictest
    prev_pid:          0  prev_prio:        120  prev_comm: swapper/4

  { next_pid:       2144 } hitcount:       1982
    max:        347  next_prio:         19  next_comm: cyclictest
    prev_pid:          0  prev_prio:        120  prev_comm: swapper/6

  { next_pid:       2149 } hitcount:       1983
    max:        130  next_prio:         19  next_comm: cyclictest
    prev_pid:          0  prev_prio:        120  prev_comm: swapper/0

  Snapshot taken (see tracing/snapshot).  Details:
    triggering value { onmax($wakeup_lat) }:    39
    triggered by event with key: { next_pid:       2150 }

After:

  In this example, we do a first run of the workload (cyclictest),
  examine the output, note the max ('triggering value') (375), then do
  a second run and note the max again.

  In this case, the max in the second run is still 375, the highest in
  any bucket, as it should be.

  # cyclictest -p 80 -n -s -t 2 -D 2

  # cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/sched/sched_switch/hist

  { next_pid:       2072 } hitcount:        200
    max:         28  next_prio:        120  next_comm: cyclictest
    prev_pid:          0  prev_prio:        120  prev_comm: swapper/5

  { next_pid:       2074 } hitcount:       1323
    max:        375  next_prio:         19  next_comm: cyclictest
    prev_pid:          0  prev_prio:        120  prev_comm: swapper/2

  { next_pid:       2073 } hitcount:       1980
    max:        153  next_prio:         19  next_comm: cyclictest
    prev_pid:          0  prev_prio:        120  prev_comm: swapper/6

  Snapshot taken (see tracing/snapshot).  Details:
    triggering value { onmax($wakeup_lat) }:        375
    triggered by event with key: { next_pid:       2074 }

  # cyclictest -p 80 -n -s -t 2 -D 2

  # cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/sched/sched_switch/hist

  { next_pid:       2101 } hitcount:        199
    max:         49  next_prio:        120  next_comm: cyclictest
    prev_pid:          0  prev_prio:        120  prev_comm: swapper/6

  { next_pid:       2072 } hitcount:        200
    max:         28  next_prio:        120  next_comm: cyclictest
    prev_pid:          0  prev_prio:        120  prev_comm: swapper/5

  { next_pid:       2074 } hitcount:       1323
    max:        375  next_prio:         19  next_comm: cyclictest
    prev_pid:          0  prev_prio:        120  prev_comm: swapper/2

  { next_pid:       2103 } hitcount:       1325
    max:         74  next_prio:         19  next_comm: cyclictest
    prev_pid:          0  prev_prio:        120  prev_comm: swapper/4

  { next_pid:       2073 } hitcount:       1980
    max:        153  next_prio:         19  next_comm: cyclictest
    prev_pid:          0  prev_prio:        120  prev_comm: swapper/6

  { next_pid:       2102 } hitcount:       1981
    max:         84  next_prio:         19  next_comm: cyclictest
    prev_pid:         12  prev_prio:        120  prev_comm: kworker/0:1

  Snapshot taken (see tracing/snapshot).  Details:
    triggering value { onmax($wakeup_lat) }:        375
    triggered by event with key: { next_pid:       2074 }

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/95958351329f129c07504b4d1769c47a97b70d65.1555597045.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com



Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: a3785b7e ("tracing: Add hist trigger snapshot() action")
Signed-off-by: default avatarTom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
parent c8d94a18
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