Background
==
Detecting IPI *reception* is relatively easy, e.g. using
trace_irq_handler_{entry,exit} or even just function-trace
flush_smp_call_function_queue() for SMP calls.
Figuring out their *origin*, is trickier as there is no generic tracepoint tied
to e.g. smp_call_function():
From: "Steven Rostedt (Google)"
The trace events have a __bitmask field that can be used for anything
that requires bitmasks. Although currently it is only used for CPU
masks, it could be used in the future for any type of bitmasks.
There is some user space tooling that wants to know if a field
trace_ipi_raise() is unsuitable for generically tracing IPI sources due to
its "reason" argument being an uninformative string (on arm64 all you get
is "Function call interrupts" for SMP calls).
Add a variant of it that exports a target CPU, a callsite and a callback.
Signed-off-by: Valentin Schn
This simply wraps around the arch function and prepends it with a
tracepoint, similar to send_call_function_single_ipi().
Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google)
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kernel/smp.c | 9 -
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/sm
send_call_function_single_ipi() is the thing that sends IPIs at the bottom
of smp_call_function*() via either generic_exec_single() or
smp_call_function_many_cond(). Give it an IPI-related tracepoint.
Note that this ends up tracing any IPI sent via __smp_call_single_queue(),
which covers __ttwu_qu
IPIs sent to remote CPUs via irq_work_queue_on() are now covered by
trace_ipi_send_cpumask(), add another instance of the tracepoint to cover
self-IPIs.
Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google)
---
kernel/irq_work.c | 14 +-
1 file changed, 13 insertion
To be able to trace invocations of smp_send_reschedule(), rename the
arch-specific definitions of it to arch_smp_send_reschedule() and wrap it
into an smp_send_reschedule() that contains a tracepoint.
Changes to include the declaration of the tracepoint were driven by the
following coccinelle scri
Accessing the call_single_queue hasn't involved a spinlock since 2014:
6897fc22ea01 ("kernel: use lockless list for smp_call_function_single")
The llist operations (namely cmpxchg() and xchg()) provide similar ordering
guarantees, update the comment to lessen confusion.
Signed-off-by: Valentin
Context
===
The newly-introduced ipi_send_cpumask tracepoint has a "callback" parameter
which so far has only been fed with NULL.
While CSD_TYPE_SYNC/ASYNC and CSD_TYPE_IRQ_WORK share a similar backing
struct layout (meaning their callback func can be accessed without caring
about the actual
