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Date:	Tue, 21 Jul 2015 11:10:35 -0500
From:	Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.com>
Cc:	rostedt@...dmis.org, daniel.wagner@...-carit.de,
	namhyung@...nel.org, josh@...htriplett.org, andi@...stfloor.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 21/22] tracing: Add enable_hist/disable_hist triggers

Hi Masami,

On Mon, 2015-07-20 at 23:57 +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> On 2015/07/17 2:22, Tom Zanussi wrote:
> > Similar to enable_event/disable_event triggers, these triggers enable
> > and disable the aggregation of events into maps rather than enabling
> > and disabling their writing into the trace buffer.
> > 
> > They can be used to automatically start and stop hist triggers based
> > on a matching filter condition.
> > 
> > If there's a paused hist trigger on system:event, the following would
> > start it when the filter condition was hit:
> > 
> >   # echo enable_hist:system:event [ if filter] > event/trigger
> > 
> > And the following would disable a running system:event hist trigger:
> > 
> >   # echo disable_hist:system:event [ if filter] > event/trigger
> > 
> > See Documentation/trace/events.txt for real examples.
> 
> Hmm, do we really need this? Since we've already had multiple instances,
> if someone wants to make histogram separated from event logger, he/she can
> make another instance for that, and disable/enable event itself.
> 
> I'm considering if we accept this methods, we'll need to accept another
> enable/disable triggers for each action too in the future.
> 

OK, I haven't implemented multiple instances yet, but if I understand
you correctly, what you're suggesting is that we can accomplish the same
thing, by setting up a disabled histogram on system:event and then
simply using the existing enable_event:system:event trigger to turn it
on.  Likewise the opposite to disable it.

I guess we need to add the histogram instance name to the syntax of
enable_event:system:event to be able to make the distinction between a
histogram and the current behavior of enabling logging.  

So here's what we currently have.  This sets up a histogram and starts
it running, and the user cats event/hist to get the results:

# echo hist:keys=xxx > event1/trigger
# cat event1/hist

And separately the existing enable_event trigger, which enables event1
(starts it logging to the event logger, and has nothing to do with
histograms) when event2 is hit:

# echo enable_event:system:event1 > event2/trigger

So to extend enable_event to support histograms, we need to be able to
do this, first set up a paused histogram:

# echo hist:keys=xxx:pause > event1/trigger
# cat event1/hist

Which would be enabled via enable_event like this:

# echo enable_event:system:event1:hist > event2/trigger

Of course 'hist' refers to the initial single-instance histogram - if we
had multiple instances, 'hist' would be replaced by the instance name
e.g. to set up two different histograms, each with a different filter:

# echo hist:keys=xxx:pause if filter1 > event1/trigger
# cat event1/hist

# echo hist:keys=xxx:pause if filter2 > event1/trigger
# cat event1/hist2

To enable the first histogram when event2 is hit:

# echo enable_event:system:event1:hist > event2/trigger

And to enable the second histogram when event2 is hit:

# echo enable_event:system:event1:hist2 > event2/trigger

Does that align with what you were thinking regarding both instances and
the enable/disable_event triggers?  If not, some more explanation and
examples would help ;-)

Thanks,

Tom

> Thank you,
> 
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@...ux.intel.com>
> > ---
> >  include/linux/trace_events.h        |   1 +
> >  kernel/trace/trace.c                |  11 ++++
> >  kernel/trace/trace.h                |  32 ++++++++++
> >  kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c    | 115 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  kernel/trace/trace_events_trigger.c |  71 ++++++++++++----------
> >  5 files changed, 199 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/include/linux/trace_events.h b/include/linux/trace_events.h
> > index 0faf48b..0f3ffdd 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/trace_events.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/trace_events.h
> > @@ -411,6 +411,7 @@ enum event_trigger_type {
> >  	ETT_STACKTRACE		= (1 << 2),
> >  	ETT_EVENT_ENABLE	= (1 << 3),
> >  	ETT_EVENT_HIST		= (1 << 4),
> > +	ETT_HIST_ENABLE		= (1 << 5),
> >  };
> >  
> >  extern int filter_match_preds(struct event_filter *filter, void *rec);
> > diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
> > index 16c64a2..c581750 100644
> > --- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
> > +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
> > @@ -3761,6 +3761,10 @@ static const char readme_msg[] =
> >  	"\t   trigger: traceon, traceoff\n"
> >  	"\t            enable_event:<system>:<event>\n"
> >  	"\t            disable_event:<system>:<event>\n"
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_HIST_TRIGGERS
> > +	"\t            enable_hist:<system>:<event>\n"
> > +	"\t            disable_hist:<system>:<event>\n"
> > +#endif
> >  #ifdef CONFIG_STACKTRACE
> >  	"\t\t    stacktrace\n"
> >  #endif
> > @@ -3836,6 +3840,13 @@ static const char readme_msg[] =
> >  	"\t    restart a paused hist trigger.\n\n"
> >  	"\t    The 'clear' param will clear the contents of a running hist\n"
> >  	"\t    trigger and leave its current paused/active state.\n\n"
> > +	"\t    The enable_hist and disable_hist triggers can be used to\n"
> > +	"\t    have one event conditionally start and stop another event's\n"
> > +	"\t    already-attached hist trigger.  Any number of enable_hist\n"
> > +	"\t    and disable_hist triggers can be attached to a given event,\n"
> > +	"\t    allowing that event to kick off and stop aggregations on\n"
> > +	"\t    a host of other events.  See Documentation/trace/events.txt\n"
> > +	"\t    for examples.\n"
> >  #endif
> >  ;
> >  
> > diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.h b/kernel/trace/trace.h
> > index e6cb781..5e2e3b0 100644
> > --- a/kernel/trace/trace.h
> > +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.h
> > @@ -1102,8 +1102,10 @@ extern const struct file_operations event_hist_fops;
> >  
> >  #ifdef CONFIG_HIST_TRIGGERS
> >  extern int register_trigger_hist_cmd(void);
> > +extern int register_trigger_hist_enable_disable_cmds(void);
> >  #else
> >  static inline int register_trigger_hist_cmd(void) { return 0; }
> > +static inline int register_trigger_hist_enable_disable_cmds(void) { return 0; }
> >  #endif
> >  
> >  extern int register_trigger_cmds(void);
> > @@ -1121,6 +1123,34 @@ struct event_trigger_data {
> >  	struct list_head		list;
> >  };
> >  
> > +/* Avoid typos */
> > +#define ENABLE_EVENT_STR	"enable_event"
> > +#define DISABLE_EVENT_STR	"disable_event"
> > +#define ENABLE_HIST_STR		"enable_hist"
> > +#define DISABLE_HIST_STR	"disable_hist"
> > +
> > +struct enable_trigger_data {
> > +	struct trace_event_file		*file;
> > +	bool				enable;
> > +	bool				hist;
> > +};
> > +
> > +extern int event_enable_trigger_print(struct seq_file *m,
> > +				      struct event_trigger_ops *ops,
> > +				      struct event_trigger_data *data);
> > +extern void event_enable_trigger_free(struct event_trigger_ops *ops,
> > +				      struct event_trigger_data *data);
> > +extern int event_enable_trigger_func(struct event_command *cmd_ops,
> > +				     struct trace_event_file *file,
> > +				     char *glob, char *cmd, char *param);
> > +extern int event_enable_register_trigger(char *glob,
> > +					 struct event_trigger_ops *ops,
> > +					 struct event_trigger_data *data,
> > +					 struct trace_event_file *file);
> > +extern void event_enable_unregister_trigger(char *glob,
> > +					    struct event_trigger_ops *ops,
> > +					    struct event_trigger_data *test,
> > +					    struct trace_event_file *file);
> >  extern void trigger_data_free(struct event_trigger_data *data);
> >  extern int event_trigger_init(struct event_trigger_ops *ops,
> >  			      struct event_trigger_data *data);
> > @@ -1134,6 +1164,8 @@ extern int set_trigger_filter(char *filter_str,
> >  			      struct event_trigger_data *trigger_data,
> >  			      struct trace_event_file *file);
> >  extern int register_event_command(struct event_command *cmd);
> > +extern int unregister_event_command(struct event_command *cmd);
> > +extern int register_trigger_hist_enable_disable_cmds(void);
> >  
> >  /**
> >   * struct event_trigger_ops - callbacks for trace event triggers
> > diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
> > index 4ba7645..6a43611 100644
> > --- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
> > +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
> > @@ -1345,3 +1345,118 @@ __init int register_trigger_hist_cmd(void)
> >  
> >  	return ret;
> >  }
> > +
> > +static void
> > +hist_enable_trigger(struct event_trigger_data *data, void *rec)
> > +{
> > +	struct enable_trigger_data *enable_data = data->private_data;
> > +	struct event_trigger_data *test;
> > +
> > +	list_for_each_entry_rcu(test, &enable_data->file->triggers, list) {
> > +		if (test->cmd_ops->trigger_type == ETT_EVENT_HIST) {
> > +			if (enable_data->enable)
> > +				test->paused = false;
> > +			else
> > +				test->paused = true;
> > +			break;
> > +		}
> > +	}
> > +}
> > +
> > +static void
> > +hist_enable_count_trigger(struct event_trigger_data *data, void *rec)
> > +{
> > +	if (!data->count)
> > +		return;
> > +
> > +	if (data->count != -1)
> > +		(data->count)--;
> > +
> > +	hist_enable_trigger(data, rec);
> > +}
> > +
> > +static struct event_trigger_ops hist_enable_trigger_ops = {
> > +	.func			= hist_enable_trigger,
> > +	.print			= event_enable_trigger_print,
> > +	.init			= event_trigger_init,
> > +	.free			= event_enable_trigger_free,
> > +};
> > +
> > +static struct event_trigger_ops hist_enable_count_trigger_ops = {
> > +	.func			= hist_enable_count_trigger,
> > +	.print			= event_enable_trigger_print,
> > +	.init			= event_trigger_init,
> > +	.free			= event_enable_trigger_free,
> > +};
> > +
> > +static struct event_trigger_ops hist_disable_trigger_ops = {
> > +	.func			= hist_enable_trigger,
> > +	.print			= event_enable_trigger_print,
> > +	.init			= event_trigger_init,
> > +	.free			= event_enable_trigger_free,
> > +};
> > +
> > +static struct event_trigger_ops hist_disable_count_trigger_ops = {
> > +	.func			= hist_enable_count_trigger,
> > +	.print			= event_enable_trigger_print,
> > +	.init			= event_trigger_init,
> > +	.free			= event_enable_trigger_free,
> > +};
> > +
> > +static struct event_trigger_ops *
> > +hist_enable_get_trigger_ops(char *cmd, char *param)
> > +{
> > +	struct event_trigger_ops *ops;
> > +	bool enable;
> > +
> > +	enable = (strcmp(cmd, ENABLE_HIST_STR) == 0);
> > +
> > +	if (enable)
> > +		ops = param ? &hist_enable_count_trigger_ops :
> > +			&hist_enable_trigger_ops;
> > +	else
> > +		ops = param ? &hist_disable_count_trigger_ops :
> > +			&hist_disable_trigger_ops;
> > +
> > +	return ops;
> > +}
> > +
> > +static struct event_command trigger_hist_enable_cmd = {
> > +	.name			= ENABLE_HIST_STR,
> > +	.trigger_type		= ETT_HIST_ENABLE,
> > +	.func			= event_enable_trigger_func,
> > +	.reg			= event_enable_register_trigger,
> > +	.unreg			= event_enable_unregister_trigger,
> > +	.get_trigger_ops	= hist_enable_get_trigger_ops,
> > +	.set_filter		= set_trigger_filter,
> > +};
> > +
> > +static struct event_command trigger_hist_disable_cmd = {
> > +	.name			= DISABLE_HIST_STR,
> > +	.trigger_type		= ETT_HIST_ENABLE,
> > +	.func			= event_enable_trigger_func,
> > +	.reg			= event_enable_register_trigger,
> > +	.unreg			= event_enable_unregister_trigger,
> > +	.get_trigger_ops	= hist_enable_get_trigger_ops,
> > +	.set_filter		= set_trigger_filter,
> > +};
> > +
> > +static __init void unregister_trigger_hist_enable_disable_cmds(void)
> > +{
> > +	unregister_event_command(&trigger_hist_enable_cmd);
> > +	unregister_event_command(&trigger_hist_disable_cmd);
> > +}
> > +
> > +__init int register_trigger_hist_enable_disable_cmds(void)
> > +{
> > +	int ret;
> > +
> > +	ret = register_event_command(&trigger_hist_enable_cmd);
> > +	if (WARN_ON(ret < 0))
> > +		return ret;
> > +	ret = register_event_command(&trigger_hist_disable_cmd);
> > +	if (WARN_ON(ret < 0))
> > +		unregister_trigger_hist_enable_disable_cmds();
> > +
> > +	return ret;
> > +}
> > diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_trigger.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_trigger.c
> > index e80f30b..9490d8f 100644
> > --- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_trigger.c
> > +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_trigger.c
> > @@ -338,7 +338,7 @@ __init int register_event_command(struct event_command *cmd)
> >   * Currently we only unregister event commands from __init, so mark
> >   * this __init too.
> >   */
> > -static __init int unregister_event_command(struct event_command *cmd)
> > +__init int unregister_event_command(struct event_command *cmd)
> >  {
> >  	struct event_command *p, *n;
> >  	int ret = -ENODEV;
> > @@ -1052,15 +1052,6 @@ static __init void unregister_trigger_traceon_traceoff_cmds(void)
> >  	unregister_event_command(&trigger_traceoff_cmd);
> >  }
> >  
> > -/* Avoid typos */
> > -#define ENABLE_EVENT_STR	"enable_event"
> > -#define DISABLE_EVENT_STR	"disable_event"
> > -
> > -struct enable_trigger_data {
> > -	struct trace_event_file		*file;
> > -	bool				enable;
> > -};
> > -
> >  static void
> >  event_enable_trigger(struct event_trigger_data *data, void *rec)
> >  {
> > @@ -1090,14 +1081,16 @@ event_enable_count_trigger(struct event_trigger_data *data, void *rec)
> >  	event_enable_trigger(data, rec);
> >  }
> >  
> > -static int
> > -event_enable_trigger_print(struct seq_file *m, struct event_trigger_ops *ops,
> > -			   struct event_trigger_data *data)
> > +int event_enable_trigger_print(struct seq_file *m,
> > +			       struct event_trigger_ops *ops,
> > +			       struct event_trigger_data *data)
> >  {
> >  	struct enable_trigger_data *enable_data = data->private_data;
> >  
> >  	seq_printf(m, "%s:%s:%s",
> > -		   enable_data->enable ? ENABLE_EVENT_STR : DISABLE_EVENT_STR,
> > +		   enable_data->hist ?
> > +		   (enable_data->enable ? ENABLE_HIST_STR : DISABLE_HIST_STR) :
> > +		   (enable_data->enable ? ENABLE_EVENT_STR : DISABLE_EVENT_STR),
> >  		   enable_data->file->event_call->class->system,
> >  		   trace_event_name(enable_data->file->event_call));
> >  
> > @@ -1114,9 +1107,8 @@ event_enable_trigger_print(struct seq_file *m, struct event_trigger_ops *ops,
> >  	return 0;
> >  }
> >  
> > -static void
> > -event_enable_trigger_free(struct event_trigger_ops *ops,
> > -			  struct event_trigger_data *data)
> > +void event_enable_trigger_free(struct event_trigger_ops *ops,
> > +			       struct event_trigger_data *data)
> >  {
> >  	struct enable_trigger_data *enable_data = data->private_data;
> >  
> > @@ -1161,10 +1153,9 @@ static struct event_trigger_ops event_disable_count_trigger_ops = {
> >  	.free			= event_enable_trigger_free,
> >  };
> >  
> > -static int
> > -event_enable_trigger_func(struct event_command *cmd_ops,
> > -			  struct trace_event_file *file,
> > -			  char *glob, char *cmd, char *param)
> > +int event_enable_trigger_func(struct event_command *cmd_ops,
> > +			      struct trace_event_file *file,
> > +			      char *glob, char *cmd, char *param)
> >  {
> >  	struct trace_event_file *event_enable_file;
> >  	struct enable_trigger_data *enable_data;
> > @@ -1173,6 +1164,7 @@ event_enable_trigger_func(struct event_command *cmd_ops,
> >  	struct trace_array *tr = file->tr;
> >  	const char *system;
> >  	const char *event;
> > +	bool hist = false;
> >  	char *trigger;
> >  	char *number;
> >  	bool enable;
> > @@ -1197,8 +1189,15 @@ event_enable_trigger_func(struct event_command *cmd_ops,
> >  	if (!event_enable_file)
> >  		goto out;
> >  
> > -	enable = strcmp(cmd, ENABLE_EVENT_STR) == 0;
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_HIST_TRIGGERS
> > +	hist = ((strcmp(cmd, ENABLE_HIST_STR) == 0) ||
> > +		(strcmp(cmd, DISABLE_HIST_STR) == 0));
> >  
> > +	enable = ((strcmp(cmd, ENABLE_EVENT_STR) == 0) ||
> > +		  (strcmp(cmd, ENABLE_HIST_STR) == 0));
> > +#else
> > +	enable = strcmp(cmd, ENABLE_EVENT_STR) == 0;
> > +#endif
> >  	trigger_ops = cmd_ops->get_trigger_ops(cmd, trigger);
> >  
> >  	ret = -ENOMEM;
> > @@ -1218,6 +1217,7 @@ event_enable_trigger_func(struct event_command *cmd_ops,
> >  	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&trigger_data->list);
> >  	RCU_INIT_POINTER(trigger_data->filter, NULL);
> >  
> > +	enable_data->hist = hist;
> >  	enable_data->enable = enable;
> >  	enable_data->file = event_enable_file;
> >  	trigger_data->private_data = enable_data;
> > @@ -1295,10 +1295,10 @@ event_enable_trigger_func(struct event_command *cmd_ops,
> >  	goto out;
> >  }
> >  
> > -static int event_enable_register_trigger(char *glob,
> > -					 struct event_trigger_ops *ops,
> > -					 struct event_trigger_data *data,
> > -					 struct trace_event_file *file)
> > +int event_enable_register_trigger(char *glob,
> > +				  struct event_trigger_ops *ops,
> > +				  struct event_trigger_data *data,
> > +				  struct trace_event_file *file)
> >  {
> >  	struct enable_trigger_data *enable_data = data->private_data;
> >  	struct enable_trigger_data *test_enable_data;
> > @@ -1308,6 +1308,8 @@ static int event_enable_register_trigger(char *glob,
> >  	list_for_each_entry_rcu(test, &file->triggers, list) {
> >  		test_enable_data = test->private_data;
> >  		if (test_enable_data &&
> > +		    (test->cmd_ops->trigger_type ==
> > +		     data->cmd_ops->trigger_type) &&
> >  		    (test_enable_data->file == enable_data->file)) {
> >  			ret = -EEXIST;
> >  			goto out;
> > @@ -1333,10 +1335,10 @@ out:
> >  	return ret;
> >  }
> >  
> > -static void event_enable_unregister_trigger(char *glob,
> > -					    struct event_trigger_ops *ops,
> > -					    struct event_trigger_data *test,
> > -					    struct trace_event_file *file)
> > +void event_enable_unregister_trigger(char *glob,
> > +				     struct event_trigger_ops *ops,
> > +				     struct event_trigger_data *test,
> > +				     struct trace_event_file *file)
> >  {
> >  	struct enable_trigger_data *test_enable_data = test->private_data;
> >  	struct enable_trigger_data *enable_data;
> > @@ -1346,6 +1348,8 @@ static void event_enable_unregister_trigger(char *glob,
> >  	list_for_each_entry_rcu(data, &file->triggers, list) {
> >  		enable_data = data->private_data;
> >  		if (enable_data &&
> > +		    (data->cmd_ops->trigger_type ==
> > +		     test->cmd_ops->trigger_type) &&
> >  		    (enable_data->file == test_enable_data->file)) {
> >  			unregistered = true;
> >  			list_del_rcu(&data->list);
> > @@ -1365,8 +1369,12 @@ event_enable_get_trigger_ops(char *cmd, char *param)
> >  	struct event_trigger_ops *ops;
> >  	bool enable;
> >  
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_HIST_TRIGGERS
> > +	enable = ((strcmp(cmd, ENABLE_EVENT_STR) == 0) ||
> > +		  (strcmp(cmd, ENABLE_HIST_STR) == 0));
> > +#else
> >  	enable = strcmp(cmd, ENABLE_EVENT_STR) == 0;
> > -
> > +#endif
> >  	if (enable)
> >  		ops = param ? &event_enable_count_trigger_ops :
> >  			&event_enable_trigger_ops;
> > @@ -1437,6 +1445,7 @@ __init int register_trigger_cmds(void)
> >  	register_trigger_snapshot_cmd();
> >  	register_trigger_stacktrace_cmd();
> >  	register_trigger_enable_disable_cmds();
> > +	register_trigger_hist_enable_disable_cmds();
> >  	register_trigger_hist_cmd();
> >  
> >  	return 0;
> > 
> 
> 


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