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Subject[PATCH] tracing: Fix histogram referencing a variable

From: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

I performed a three way histogram with the following commands:

echo 'irq_lat u64 lat pid_t pid' > synthetic_events
echo 'wake_lat u64 lat u64 irqlat pid_t pid' >> synthetic_events
echo 'hist:keys=common_pid:irqts=common_timestamp.usecs if function == 0xffffffff81200580' > events/timer/hrtimer_start/trigger
echo 'hist:keys=common_pid:lat=common_timestamp.usecs-$irqts:onmatch(timer.hrtimer_start).irq_lat($lat,pid) if common_flags & 1' > events/sched/sched_waking/trigger
echo 'hist:keys=pid:wakets=common_timestamp.usecs,irqlat=lat' > events/synthetic/irq_lat/trigger
echo 'hist:keys=next_pid:lat=common_timestamp.usecs-$wakets,irqlat=$irqlat:onmatch(synthetic.irq_lat).wake_lat($lat,$irqlat,next_pid)' > events/sched/sched_switch/trigger
echo 1 > events/synthetic/wake_lat/enable

Basically I wanted to see:

hrtimer_start (calling function tick_sched_timer)

Note:

# grep tick_sched_timer /proc/kallsyms
ffffffff81200580 t tick_sched_timer

And save the time of that, and then record sched_waking if it is called
in interrupt context and with the same pid as the hrtimer_start, it
will record the latency between that and the waking event.

I then look at when the task that is woken is scheduled in, and record
the latency between the wakeup and the task running.

At the end, the wake_lat synthetic event will show the wakeup to
scheduled latency, as well as the irq latency in from hritmer_start to
the wakeup. The problem is that I found this:

<idle>-0 [007] d... 190.485261: wake_lat: lat=27 irqlat=190485230 pid=698
<idle>-0 [005] d... 190.485283: wake_lat: lat=40 irqlat=190485239 pid=10
<idle>-0 [002] d... 190.488327: wake_lat: lat=56 irqlat=190488266 pid=335
<idle>-0 [005] d... 190.489330: wake_lat: lat=64 irqlat=190489262 pid=10
<idle>-0 [003] d... 190.490312: wake_lat: lat=43 irqlat=190490265 pid=77
<idle>-0 [005] d... 190.493322: wake_lat: lat=54 irqlat=190493262 pid=10
<idle>-0 [005] d... 190.497305: wake_lat: lat=35 irqlat=190497267 pid=10
<idle>-0 [005] d... 190.501319: wake_lat: lat=50 irqlat=190501264 pid=10

The irqlat seemed quite large! Investigating this further, if I had
enabled the irq_lat synthetic event, I noticed this:

<idle>-0 [002] d.s. 249.429308: irq_lat: lat=164968 pid=335
<idle>-0 [002] d... 249.429369: wake_lat: lat=55 irqlat=249429308 pid=335

Notice that the timestamp of the irq_lat "249.429308" is awfully
similar to the reported irqlat variable. In fact, all instances were
like this. It appeared that:

irqlat=$irqlat

Wasn't assigning the old $irqlat to the new irqlat variable, but
instead was assigning the $irqts to it.

The issue is that hist_field_var_ref() is using hist_field->var_ref_idx
(the ref of the var being assigned) and not the ref of the var that is
the value (hist_field->var.idx).

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 067fe038e70f6 ("tracing: Add variable reference handling to hist triggers")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
---
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
index 65e7d071ed28..329488aeb9dd 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c
@@ -1858,7 +1858,7 @@ static u64 hist_field_var_ref(struct hist_field *hist_field,
return var_val;

elt_data = elt->private_data;
- var_val = elt_data->var_ref_vals[hist_field->var_ref_idx];
+ var_val = elt_data->var_ref_vals[hist_field->var.idx];

return var_val;
}
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