linux/kernel/trace/trace_hwlat.c
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   1/*
   2 * trace_hwlatdetect.c - A simple Hardware Latency detector.
   3 *
   4 * Use this tracer to detect large system latencies induced by the behavior of
   5 * certain underlying system hardware or firmware, independent of Linux itself.
   6 * The code was developed originally to detect the presence of SMIs on Intel
   7 * and AMD systems, although there is no dependency upon x86 herein.
   8 *
   9 * The classical example usage of this tracer is in detecting the presence of
  10 * SMIs or System Management Interrupts on Intel and AMD systems. An SMI is a
  11 * somewhat special form of hardware interrupt spawned from earlier CPU debug
  12 * modes in which the (BIOS/EFI/etc.) firmware arranges for the South Bridge
  13 * LPC (or other device) to generate a special interrupt under certain
  14 * circumstances, for example, upon expiration of a special SMI timer device,
  15 * due to certain external thermal readings, on certain I/O address accesses,
  16 * and other situations. An SMI hits a special CPU pin, triggers a special
  17 * SMI mode (complete with special memory map), and the OS is unaware.
  18 *
  19 * Although certain hardware-inducing latencies are necessary (for example,
  20 * a modern system often requires an SMI handler for correct thermal control
  21 * and remote management) they can wreak havoc upon any OS-level performance
  22 * guarantees toward low-latency, especially when the OS is not even made
  23 * aware of the presence of these interrupts. For this reason, we need a
  24 * somewhat brute force mechanism to detect these interrupts. In this case,
  25 * we do it by hogging all of the CPU(s) for configurable timer intervals,
  26 * sampling the built-in CPU timer, looking for discontiguous readings.
  27 *
  28 * WARNING: This implementation necessarily introduces latencies. Therefore,
  29 *          you should NEVER use this tracer while running in a production
  30 *          environment requiring any kind of low-latency performance
  31 *          guarantee(s).
  32 *
  33 * Copyright (C) 2008-2009 Jon Masters, Red Hat, Inc. <jcm@redhat.com>
  34 * Copyright (C) 2013-2016 Steven Rostedt, Red Hat, Inc. <srostedt@redhat.com>
  35 *
  36 * Includes useful feedback from Clark Williams <clark@redhat.com>
  37 *
  38 * This file is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public
  39 * License version 2. This program is licensed "as is" without any
  40 * warranty of any kind, whether express or implied.
  41 */
  42#include <linux/kthread.h>
  43#include <linux/debugfs.h>
  44#include <linux/uaccess.h>
  45#include <linux/cpumask.h>
  46#include <linux/delay.h>
  47#include "trace.h"
  48
  49static struct trace_array       *hwlat_trace;
  50
  51#define U64STR_SIZE             22                      /* 20 digits max */
  52
  53#define BANNER                  "hwlat_detector: "
  54#define DEFAULT_SAMPLE_WINDOW   1000000                 /* 1s */
  55#define DEFAULT_SAMPLE_WIDTH    500000                  /* 0.5s */
  56#define DEFAULT_LAT_THRESHOLD   10                      /* 10us */
  57
  58/* sampling thread*/
  59static struct task_struct *hwlat_kthread;
  60
  61static struct dentry *hwlat_sample_width;       /* sample width us */
  62static struct dentry *hwlat_sample_window;      /* sample window us */
  63
  64/* Save the previous tracing_thresh value */
  65static unsigned long save_tracing_thresh;
  66
  67/* NMI timestamp counters */
  68static u64 nmi_ts_start;
  69static u64 nmi_total_ts;
  70static int nmi_count;
  71static int nmi_cpu;
  72
  73/* Tells NMIs to call back to the hwlat tracer to record timestamps */
  74bool trace_hwlat_callback_enabled;
  75
  76/* If the user changed threshold, remember it */
  77static u64 last_tracing_thresh = DEFAULT_LAT_THRESHOLD * NSEC_PER_USEC;
  78
  79/* Individual latency samples are stored here when detected. */
  80struct hwlat_sample {
  81        u64             seqnum;         /* unique sequence */
  82        u64             duration;       /* delta */
  83        u64             outer_duration; /* delta (outer loop) */
  84        u64             nmi_total_ts;   /* Total time spent in NMIs */
  85        struct timespec timestamp;      /* wall time */
  86        int             nmi_count;      /* # NMIs during this sample */
  87};
  88
  89/* keep the global state somewhere. */
  90static struct hwlat_data {
  91
  92        struct mutex lock;              /* protect changes */
  93
  94        u64     count;                  /* total since reset */
  95
  96        u64     sample_window;          /* total sampling window (on+off) */
  97        u64     sample_width;           /* active sampling portion of window */
  98
  99} hwlat_data = {
 100        .sample_window          = DEFAULT_SAMPLE_WINDOW,
 101        .sample_width           = DEFAULT_SAMPLE_WIDTH,
 102};
 103
 104static void trace_hwlat_sample(struct hwlat_sample *sample)
 105{
 106        struct trace_array *tr = hwlat_trace;
 107        struct ftrace_event_call *call = &event_hwlat;
 108        struct ring_buffer *buffer = tr->trace_buffer.buffer;
 109        struct ring_buffer_event *event;
 110        struct hwlat_entry *entry;
 111        unsigned long flags;
 112        int pc;
 113
 114        pc = preempt_count();
 115        local_save_flags(flags);
 116
 117        event = trace_buffer_lock_reserve(buffer, TRACE_HWLAT, sizeof(*entry),
 118                                          flags, pc);
 119        if (!event)
 120                return;
 121        entry   = ring_buffer_event_data(event);
 122        entry->seqnum                   = sample->seqnum;
 123        entry->duration                 = sample->duration;
 124        entry->outer_duration           = sample->outer_duration;
 125        entry->timestamp                = sample->timestamp;
 126        entry->nmi_total_ts             = sample->nmi_total_ts;
 127        entry->nmi_count                = sample->nmi_count;
 128
 129        if (!filter_check_discard(call, entry, buffer, event))
 130                __buffer_unlock_commit(buffer, event);
 131}
 132
 133/* Macros to encapsulate the time capturing infrastructure */
 134#define time_type       u64
 135#define time_get()      trace_clock_local()
 136#define time_to_us(x)   div_u64(x, 1000)
 137#define time_sub(a, b)  ((a) - (b))
 138#define init_time(a, b) (a = b)
 139#define time_u64(a)     a
 140
 141void trace_hwlat_callback(bool enter)
 142{
 143        if (smp_processor_id() != nmi_cpu)
 144                return;
 145
 146        /*
 147         * Currently trace_clock_local() calls sched_clock() and the
 148         * generic version is not NMI safe.
 149         */
 150        if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK)) {
 151                if (enter)
 152                        nmi_ts_start = time_get();
 153                else
 154                        nmi_total_ts = time_get() - nmi_ts_start;
 155        }
 156
 157        if (enter)
 158                nmi_count++;
 159}
 160
 161/**
 162 * get_sample - sample the CPU TSC and look for likely hardware latencies
 163 *
 164 * Used to repeatedly capture the CPU TSC (or similar), looking for potential
 165 * hardware-induced latency. Called with interrupts disabled and with
 166 * hwlat_data.lock held.
 167 */
 168static int get_sample(void)
 169{
 170        struct trace_array *tr = hwlat_trace;
 171        time_type start, t1, t2, last_t2;
 172        s64 diff, total, last_total = 0;
 173        u64 sample = 0;
 174        u64 thresh = tracing_thresh;
 175        u64 outer_sample = 0;
 176        int ret = -1;
 177
 178        do_div(thresh, NSEC_PER_USEC); /* modifies interval value */
 179
 180        nmi_cpu = smp_processor_id();
 181        nmi_total_ts = 0;
 182        nmi_count = 0;
 183        /* Make sure NMIs see this first */
 184        barrier();
 185
 186        trace_hwlat_callback_enabled = true;
 187
 188        init_time(last_t2, 0);
 189        start = time_get(); /* start timestamp */
 190
 191        do {
 192
 193                t1 = time_get();        /* we'll look for a discontinuity */
 194                t2 = time_get();
 195
 196                if (time_u64(last_t2)) {
 197                        /* Check the delta from outer loop (t2 to next t1) */
 198                        diff = time_to_us(time_sub(t1, last_t2));
 199                        /* This shouldn't happen */
 200                        if (diff < 0) {
 201                                pr_err(BANNER "time running backwards\n");
 202                                goto out;
 203                        }
 204                        if (diff > outer_sample)
 205                                outer_sample = diff;
 206                }
 207                last_t2 = t2;
 208
 209                total = time_to_us(time_sub(t2, start)); /* sample width */
 210
 211                /* Check for possible overflows */
 212                if (total < last_total) {
 213                        pr_err("Time total overflowed\n");
 214                        break;
 215                }
 216                last_total = total;
 217
 218                /* This checks the inner loop (t1 to t2) */
 219                diff = time_to_us(time_sub(t2, t1));     /* current diff */
 220
 221                /* This shouldn't happen */
 222                if (diff < 0) {
 223                        pr_err(BANNER "time running backwards\n");
 224                        goto out;
 225                }
 226
 227                if (diff > sample)
 228                        sample = diff; /* only want highest value */
 229
 230        } while (total <= hwlat_data.sample_width);
 231
 232        barrier(); /* finish the above in the view for NMIs */
 233        trace_hwlat_callback_enabled = false;
 234        barrier(); /* Make sure nmi_total_ts is no longer updated */
 235
 236        ret = 0;
 237
 238        /* If we exceed the threshold value, we have found a hardware latency */
 239        if (sample > thresh || outer_sample > thresh) {
 240                struct hwlat_sample s;
 241
 242                ret = 1;
 243
 244                /* We read in microseconds */
 245                if (nmi_total_ts)
 246                        do_div(nmi_total_ts, NSEC_PER_USEC);
 247
 248                hwlat_data.count++;
 249                s.seqnum = hwlat_data.count;
 250                s.duration = sample;
 251                s.outer_duration = outer_sample;
 252                s.timestamp = CURRENT_TIME;
 253                s.nmi_total_ts = nmi_total_ts;
 254                s.nmi_count = nmi_count;
 255                trace_hwlat_sample(&s);
 256
 257                /* Keep a running maximum ever recorded hardware latency */
 258                if (sample > tr->max_latency)
 259                        tr->max_latency = sample;
 260        }
 261
 262out:
 263        return ret;
 264}
 265
 266static struct cpumask save_cpumask;
 267static bool disable_migrate;
 268
 269static void move_to_next_cpu(bool initmask)
 270{
 271        static struct cpumask *current_mask;
 272        int next_cpu;
 273
 274        if (disable_migrate)
 275                return;
 276
 277        /* Just pick the first CPU on first iteration */
 278        if (initmask) {
 279                current_mask = &save_cpumask;
 280                get_online_cpus();
 281                cpumask_and(current_mask, cpu_online_mask, tracing_buffer_mask);
 282                put_online_cpus();
 283                next_cpu = cpumask_first(current_mask);
 284                goto set_affinity;
 285        }
 286
 287        /*
 288         * If for some reason the user modifies the CPU affinity
 289         * of this thread, than stop migrating for the duration
 290         * of the current test.
 291         */
 292        if (!cpumask_equal(current_mask, &current->cpus_allowed))
 293                goto disable;
 294
 295        get_online_cpus();
 296        cpumask_and(current_mask, cpu_online_mask, tracing_buffer_mask);
 297        next_cpu = cpumask_next(smp_processor_id(), current_mask);
 298        put_online_cpus();
 299
 300        if (next_cpu >= nr_cpu_ids)
 301                next_cpu = cpumask_first(current_mask);
 302
 303 set_affinity:
 304        if (next_cpu >= nr_cpu_ids) /* Shouldn't happen! */
 305                goto disable;
 306
 307        cpumask_clear(current_mask);
 308        cpumask_set_cpu(next_cpu, current_mask);
 309
 310        sched_setaffinity(0, current_mask);
 311        return;
 312
 313 disable:
 314        disable_migrate = true;
 315}
 316
 317/*
 318 * kthread_fn - The CPU time sampling/hardware latency detection kernel thread
 319 *
 320 * Used to periodically sample the CPU TSC via a call to get_sample. We
 321 * disable interrupts, which does (intentionally) introduce latency since we
 322 * need to ensure nothing else might be running (and thus preempting).
 323 * Obviously this should never be used in production environments.
 324 *
 325 * Currently this runs on which ever CPU it was scheduled on, but most
 326 * real-world hardware latency situations occur across several CPUs,
 327 * but we might later generalize this if we find there are any actualy
 328 * systems with alternate SMI delivery or other hardware latencies.
 329 */
 330static int kthread_fn(void *data)
 331{
 332        u64 interval;
 333        bool initmask = true;
 334
 335        while (!kthread_should_stop()) {
 336
 337                move_to_next_cpu(initmask);
 338                initmask = false;
 339
 340                local_irq_disable();
 341                get_sample();
 342                local_irq_enable();
 343
 344                mutex_lock(&hwlat_data.lock);
 345                interval = hwlat_data.sample_window - hwlat_data.sample_width;
 346                mutex_unlock(&hwlat_data.lock);
 347
 348                do_div(interval, USEC_PER_MSEC); /* modifies interval value */
 349
 350                /* Always sleep for at least 1ms */
 351                if (interval < 1)
 352                        interval = 1;
 353
 354                if (msleep_interruptible(interval))
 355                        break;
 356        }
 357
 358        return 0;
 359}
 360
 361/**
 362 * start_kthread - Kick off the hardware latency sampling/detector kthread
 363 *
 364 * This starts the kernel thread that will sit and sample the CPU timestamp
 365 * counter (TSC or similar) and look for potential hardware latencies.
 366 */
 367static int start_kthread(struct trace_array *tr)
 368{
 369        struct task_struct *kthread;
 370
 371        if (WARN_ON(hwlat_kthread))
 372                return 0;
 373
 374        kthread = kthread_create(kthread_fn, NULL, "hwlatd");
 375        if (IS_ERR(kthread)) {
 376                pr_err(BANNER "could not start sampling thread\n");
 377                return -ENOMEM;
 378        }
 379        hwlat_kthread = kthread;
 380        wake_up_process(kthread);
 381
 382        return 0;
 383}
 384
 385/**
 386 * stop_kthread - Inform the hardware latency samping/detector kthread to stop
 387 *
 388 * This kicks the running hardware latency sampling/detector kernel thread and
 389 * tells it to stop sampling now. Use this on unload and at system shutdown.
 390 */
 391static void stop_kthread(void)
 392{
 393        if (!hwlat_kthread)
 394                return;
 395        kthread_stop(hwlat_kthread);
 396        hwlat_kthread = NULL;
 397}
 398
 399/*
 400 * hwlat_read - Wrapper read function for reading both window and width
 401 * @filp: The active open file structure
 402 * @ubuf: The userspace provided buffer to read value into
 403 * @cnt: The maximum number of bytes to read
 404 * @ppos: The current "file" position
 405 *
 406 * This function provides a generic read implementation for the global state
 407 * "hwlat_data" structure filesystem entries.
 408 */
 409static ssize_t hwlat_read(struct file *filp, char __user *ubuf,
 410                          size_t cnt, loff_t *ppos)
 411{
 412        char buf[U64STR_SIZE];
 413        u64 *entry = filp->private_data;
 414        u64 val;
 415        int len;
 416
 417        if (!entry)
 418                return -EFAULT;
 419
 420        if (cnt > sizeof(buf))
 421                cnt = sizeof(buf);
 422
 423        val = *entry;
 424
 425        len = snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "%llu\n", val);
 426
 427        return simple_read_from_buffer(ubuf, cnt, ppos, buf, len);
 428}
 429
 430/**
 431 * hwlat_width_write - Write function for "width" entry
 432 * @filp: The active open file structure
 433 * @ubuf: The user buffer that contains the value to write
 434 * @cnt: The maximum number of bytes to write to "file"
 435 * @ppos: The current position in @file
 436 *
 437 * This function provides a write implementation for the "width" interface
 438 * to the hardware latency detector. It can be used to configure
 439 * for how many us of the total window us we will actively sample for any
 440 * hardware-induced latency periods. Obviously, it is not possible to
 441 * sample constantly and have the system respond to a sample reader, or,
 442 * worse, without having the system appear to have gone out to lunch. It
 443 * is enforced that width is less that the total window size.
 444 */
 445static ssize_t
 446hwlat_width_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *ubuf,
 447                  size_t cnt, loff_t *ppos)
 448{
 449        u64 val;
 450        int err;
 451
 452        err = kstrtoull_from_user(ubuf, cnt, 10, &val);
 453        if (err)
 454                return err;
 455
 456        mutex_lock(&hwlat_data.lock);
 457        if (val < hwlat_data.sample_window)
 458                hwlat_data.sample_width = val;
 459        else
 460                err = -EINVAL;
 461        mutex_unlock(&hwlat_data.lock);
 462
 463        if (err)
 464                return err;
 465
 466        return cnt;
 467}
 468
 469/**
 470 * hwlat_window_write - Write function for "window" entry
 471 * @filp: The active open file structure
 472 * @ubuf: The user buffer that contains the value to write
 473 * @cnt: The maximum number of bytes to write to "file"
 474 * @ppos: The current position in @file
 475 *
 476 * This function provides a write implementation for the "window" interface
 477 * to the hardware latency detetector. The window is the total time
 478 * in us that will be considered one sample period. Conceptually, windows
 479 * occur back-to-back and contain a sample width period during which
 480 * actual sampling occurs. Can be used to write a new total window size. It
 481 * is enfoced that any value written must be greater than the sample width
 482 * size, or an error results.
 483 */
 484static ssize_t
 485hwlat_window_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *ubuf,
 486                   size_t cnt, loff_t *ppos)
 487{
 488        u64 val;
 489        int err;
 490
 491        err = kstrtoull_from_user(ubuf, cnt, 10, &val);
 492        if (err)
 493                return err;
 494
 495        mutex_lock(&hwlat_data.lock);
 496        if (hwlat_data.sample_width < val)
 497                hwlat_data.sample_window = val;
 498        else
 499                err = -EINVAL;
 500        mutex_unlock(&hwlat_data.lock);
 501
 502        if (err)
 503                return err;
 504
 505        return cnt;
 506}
 507
 508static const struct file_operations width_fops = {
 509        .open           = tracing_open_generic,
 510        .read           = hwlat_read,
 511        .write          = hwlat_width_write,
 512};
 513
 514static const struct file_operations window_fops = {
 515        .open           = tracing_open_generic,
 516        .read           = hwlat_read,
 517        .write          = hwlat_window_write,
 518};
 519
 520/**
 521 * init_debugfs - A function to initialize the debugfs interface files
 522 *
 523 * This function creates entries in debugfs for "hwlat_detector".
 524 * It creates the hwlat_detector directory in the tracing directory,
 525 * and within that directory is the count, width and window files to
 526 * change and view those values.
 527 */
 528static int init_debugfs(void)
 529{
 530        struct dentry *d_tracer;
 531        struct dentry *top_dir;
 532
 533        d_tracer = tracing_init_dentry();
 534        if (IS_ERR(d_tracer))
 535                return -ENOMEM;
 536
 537        top_dir = debugfs_create_dir("hwlat_detector", d_tracer);
 538        if (!top_dir)
 539                return -ENOMEM;
 540
 541        hwlat_sample_window = trace_create_file("window", 0640,
 542                                                  top_dir,
 543                                                  &hwlat_data.sample_window,
 544                                                  &window_fops);
 545        if (!hwlat_sample_window)
 546                goto err;
 547
 548        hwlat_sample_width = trace_create_file("width", 0644,
 549                                                 top_dir,
 550                                                 &hwlat_data.sample_width,
 551                                                 &width_fops);
 552        if (!hwlat_sample_width)
 553                goto err;
 554
 555        return 0;
 556
 557 err:
 558        debugfs_remove_recursive(top_dir);
 559        return -ENOMEM;
 560}
 561
 562static void hwlat_tracer_start(struct trace_array *tr)
 563{
 564        int err;
 565
 566        err = start_kthread(tr);
 567        if (err)
 568                pr_err(BANNER "Cannot start hwlat kthread\n");
 569}
 570
 571static void hwlat_tracer_stop(struct trace_array *tr)
 572{
 573        stop_kthread();
 574}
 575
 576static bool hwlat_busy;
 577
 578static int hwlat_tracer_init(struct trace_array *tr)
 579{
 580        /* Only allow one instance to enable this */
 581        if (hwlat_busy)
 582                return -EBUSY;
 583
 584        hwlat_trace = tr;
 585
 586        disable_migrate = false;
 587        hwlat_data.count = 0;
 588        tr->max_latency = 0;
 589        save_tracing_thresh = tracing_thresh;
 590
 591        /* tracing_thresh is in nsecs, we speak in usecs */
 592        if (!tracing_thresh)
 593                tracing_thresh = last_tracing_thresh;
 594
 595        if (tracer_tracing_is_on(tr))
 596                hwlat_tracer_start(tr);
 597
 598        hwlat_busy = true;
 599
 600        return 0;
 601}
 602
 603static void hwlat_tracer_reset(struct trace_array *tr)
 604{
 605        stop_kthread();
 606
 607        /* the tracing threshold is static between runs */
 608        last_tracing_thresh = tracing_thresh;
 609
 610        tracing_thresh = save_tracing_thresh;
 611        hwlat_busy = false;
 612}
 613
 614static struct tracer hwlat_tracer __read_mostly =
 615{
 616        .name           = "hwlat",
 617        .init           = hwlat_tracer_init,
 618        .reset          = hwlat_tracer_reset,
 619        .start          = hwlat_tracer_start,
 620        .stop           = hwlat_tracer_stop,
 621        .allow_instances = true,
 622};
 623
 624__init static int init_hwlat_tracer(void)
 625{
 626        int ret;
 627
 628        mutex_init(&hwlat_data.lock);
 629
 630        ret = register_tracer(&hwlat_tracer);
 631        if (ret)
 632                return ret;
 633
 634        init_debugfs();
 635
 636        return 0;
 637}
 638late_initcall(init_hwlat_tracer);
 639