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/tracefs.h>
  44#include <linux/uaccess.h>
  45#include <linux/cpumask.h>
  46#include <linux/delay.h>
  47#include <linux/sched/clock.h>
  48#include "trace.h"
  49
  50static struct trace_array       *hwlat_trace;
  51
  52#define U64STR_SIZE             22                      /* 20 digits max */
  53
  54#define BANNER                  "hwlat_detector: "
  55#define DEFAULT_SAMPLE_WINDOW   1000000                 /* 1s */
  56#define DEFAULT_SAMPLE_WIDTH    500000                  /* 0.5s */
  57#define DEFAULT_LAT_THRESHOLD   10                      /* 10us */
  58
  59/* sampling thread*/
  60static struct task_struct *hwlat_kthread;
  61
  62static struct dentry *hwlat_sample_width;       /* sample width us */
  63static struct dentry *hwlat_sample_window;      /* sample window us */
  64
  65/* Save the previous tracing_thresh value */
  66static unsigned long save_tracing_thresh;
  67
  68/* NMI timestamp counters */
  69static u64 nmi_ts_start;
  70static u64 nmi_total_ts;
  71static int nmi_count;
  72static int nmi_cpu;
  73
  74/* Tells NMIs to call back to the hwlat tracer to record timestamps */
  75bool trace_hwlat_callback_enabled;
  76
  77/* If the user changed threshold, remember it */
  78static u64 last_tracing_thresh = DEFAULT_LAT_THRESHOLD * NSEC_PER_USEC;
  79
  80/* Individual latency samples are stored here when detected. */
  81struct hwlat_sample {
  82        u64                     seqnum;         /* unique sequence */
  83        u64                     duration;       /* delta */
  84        u64                     outer_duration; /* delta (outer loop) */
  85        u64                     nmi_total_ts;   /* Total time spent in NMIs */
  86        struct timespec64       timestamp;      /* wall time */
  87        int                     nmi_count;      /* # NMIs during this sample */
  88};
  89
  90/* keep the global state somewhere. */
  91static struct hwlat_data {
  92
  93        struct mutex lock;              /* protect changes */
  94
  95        u64     count;                  /* total since reset */
  96
  97        u64     sample_window;          /* total sampling window (on+off) */
  98        u64     sample_width;           /* active sampling portion of window */
  99
 100} hwlat_data = {
 101        .sample_window          = DEFAULT_SAMPLE_WINDOW,
 102        .sample_width           = DEFAULT_SAMPLE_WIDTH,
 103};
 104
 105static void trace_hwlat_sample(struct hwlat_sample *sample)
 106{
 107        struct trace_array *tr = hwlat_trace;
 108        struct trace_event_call *call = &event_hwlat;
 109        struct ring_buffer *buffer = tr->trace_buffer.buffer;
 110        struct ring_buffer_event *event;
 111        struct hwlat_entry *entry;
 112        unsigned long flags;
 113        int pc;
 114
 115        pc = preempt_count();
 116        local_save_flags(flags);
 117
 118        event = trace_buffer_lock_reserve(buffer, TRACE_HWLAT, sizeof(*entry),
 119                                          flags, pc);
 120        if (!event)
 121                return;
 122        entry   = ring_buffer_event_data(event);
 123        entry->seqnum                   = sample->seqnum;
 124        entry->duration                 = sample->duration;
 125        entry->outer_duration           = sample->outer_duration;
 126        entry->timestamp                = sample->timestamp;
 127        entry->nmi_total_ts             = sample->nmi_total_ts;
 128        entry->nmi_count                = sample->nmi_count;
 129
 130        if (!call_filter_check_discard(call, entry, buffer, event))
 131                trace_buffer_unlock_commit_nostack(buffer, event);
 132}
 133
 134/* Macros to encapsulate the time capturing infrastructure */
 135#define time_type       u64
 136#define time_get()      trace_clock_local()
 137#define time_to_us(x)   div_u64(x, 1000)
 138#define time_sub(a, b)  ((a) - (b))
 139#define init_time(a, b) (a = b)
 140#define time_u64(a)     a
 141
 142void trace_hwlat_callback(bool enter)
 143{
 144        if (smp_processor_id() != nmi_cpu)
 145                return;
 146
 147        /*
 148         * Currently trace_clock_local() calls sched_clock() and the
 149         * generic version is not NMI safe.
 150         */
 151        if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_GENERIC_SCHED_CLOCK)) {
 152                if (enter)
 153                        nmi_ts_start = time_get();
 154                else
 155                        nmi_total_ts = time_get() - nmi_ts_start;
 156        }
 157
 158        if (enter)
 159                nmi_count++;
 160}
 161
 162/**
 163 * get_sample - sample the CPU TSC and look for likely hardware latencies
 164 *
 165 * Used to repeatedly capture the CPU TSC (or similar), looking for potential
 166 * hardware-induced latency. Called with interrupts disabled and with
 167 * hwlat_data.lock held.
 168 */
 169static int get_sample(void)
 170{
 171        struct trace_array *tr = hwlat_trace;
 172        time_type start, t1, t2, last_t2;
 173        s64 diff, total, last_total = 0;
 174        u64 sample = 0;
 175        u64 thresh = tracing_thresh;
 176        u64 outer_sample = 0;
 177        int ret = -1;
 178
 179        do_div(thresh, NSEC_PER_USEC); /* modifies interval value */
 180
 181        nmi_cpu = smp_processor_id();
 182        nmi_total_ts = 0;
 183        nmi_count = 0;
 184        /* Make sure NMIs see this first */
 185        barrier();
 186
 187        trace_hwlat_callback_enabled = true;
 188
 189        init_time(last_t2, 0);
 190        start = time_get(); /* start timestamp */
 191
 192        do {
 193
 194                t1 = time_get();        /* we'll look for a discontinuity */
 195                t2 = time_get();
 196
 197                if (time_u64(last_t2)) {
 198                        /* Check the delta from outer loop (t2 to next t1) */
 199                        diff = time_to_us(time_sub(t1, last_t2));
 200                        /* This shouldn't happen */
 201                        if (diff < 0) {
 202                                pr_err(BANNER "time running backwards\n");
 203                                goto out;
 204                        }
 205                        if (diff > outer_sample)
 206                                outer_sample = diff;
 207                }
 208                last_t2 = t2;
 209
 210                total = time_to_us(time_sub(t2, start)); /* sample width */
 211
 212                /* Check for possible overflows */
 213                if (total < last_total) {
 214                        pr_err("Time total overflowed\n");
 215                        break;
 216                }
 217                last_total = total;
 218
 219                /* This checks the inner loop (t1 to t2) */
 220                diff = time_to_us(time_sub(t2, t1));     /* current diff */
 221
 222                /* This shouldn't happen */
 223                if (diff < 0) {
 224                        pr_err(BANNER "time running backwards\n");
 225                        goto out;
 226                }
 227
 228                if (diff > sample)
 229                        sample = diff; /* only want highest value */
 230
 231        } while (total <= hwlat_data.sample_width);
 232
 233        barrier(); /* finish the above in the view for NMIs */
 234        trace_hwlat_callback_enabled = false;
 235        barrier(); /* Make sure nmi_total_ts is no longer updated */
 236
 237        ret = 0;
 238
 239        /* If we exceed the threshold value, we have found a hardware latency */
 240        if (sample > thresh || outer_sample > thresh) {
 241                struct hwlat_sample s;
 242
 243                ret = 1;
 244
 245                /* We read in microseconds */
 246                if (nmi_total_ts)
 247                        do_div(nmi_total_ts, NSEC_PER_USEC);
 248
 249                hwlat_data.count++;
 250                s.seqnum = hwlat_data.count;
 251                s.duration = sample;
 252                s.outer_duration = outer_sample;
 253                ktime_get_real_ts64(&s.timestamp);
 254                s.nmi_total_ts = nmi_total_ts;
 255                s.nmi_count = nmi_count;
 256                trace_hwlat_sample(&s);
 257
 258                /* Keep a running maximum ever recorded hardware latency */
 259                if (sample > tr->max_latency)
 260                        tr->max_latency = sample;
 261        }
 262
 263out:
 264        return ret;
 265}
 266
 267static struct cpumask save_cpumask;
 268static bool disable_migrate;
 269
 270static void move_to_next_cpu(void)
 271{
 272        struct cpumask *current_mask = &save_cpumask;
 273        int next_cpu;
 274
 275        if (disable_migrate)
 276                return;
 277        /*
 278         * If for some reason the user modifies the CPU affinity
 279         * of this thread, than stop migrating for the duration
 280         * of the current test.
 281         */
 282        if (!cpumask_equal(current_mask, &current->cpus_allowed))
 283                goto disable;
 284
 285        get_online_cpus();
 286        cpumask_and(current_mask, cpu_online_mask, tracing_buffer_mask);
 287        next_cpu = cpumask_next(smp_processor_id(), current_mask);
 288        put_online_cpus();
 289
 290        if (next_cpu >= nr_cpu_ids)
 291                next_cpu = cpumask_first(current_mask);
 292
 293        if (next_cpu >= nr_cpu_ids) /* Shouldn't happen! */
 294                goto disable;
 295
 296        cpumask_clear(current_mask);
 297        cpumask_set_cpu(next_cpu, current_mask);
 298
 299        sched_setaffinity(0, current_mask);
 300        return;
 301
 302 disable:
 303        disable_migrate = true;
 304}
 305
 306/*
 307 * kthread_fn - The CPU time sampling/hardware latency detection kernel thread
 308 *
 309 * Used to periodically sample the CPU TSC via a call to get_sample. We
 310 * disable interrupts, which does (intentionally) introduce latency since we
 311 * need to ensure nothing else might be running (and thus preempting).
 312 * Obviously this should never be used in production environments.
 313 *
 314 * Executes one loop interaction on each CPU in tracing_cpumask sysfs file.
 315 */
 316static int kthread_fn(void *data)
 317{
 318        u64 interval;
 319
 320        while (!kthread_should_stop()) {
 321
 322                move_to_next_cpu();
 323
 324                local_irq_disable();
 325                get_sample();
 326                local_irq_enable();
 327
 328                mutex_lock(&hwlat_data.lock);
 329                interval = hwlat_data.sample_window - hwlat_data.sample_width;
 330                mutex_unlock(&hwlat_data.lock);
 331
 332                do_div(interval, USEC_PER_MSEC); /* modifies interval value */
 333
 334                /* Always sleep for at least 1ms */
 335                if (interval < 1)
 336                        interval = 1;
 337
 338                if (msleep_interruptible(interval))
 339                        break;
 340        }
 341
 342        return 0;
 343}
 344
 345/**
 346 * start_kthread - Kick off the hardware latency sampling/detector kthread
 347 *
 348 * This starts the kernel thread that will sit and sample the CPU timestamp
 349 * counter (TSC or similar) and look for potential hardware latencies.
 350 */
 351static int start_kthread(struct trace_array *tr)
 352{
 353        struct cpumask *current_mask = &save_cpumask;
 354        struct task_struct *kthread;
 355        int next_cpu;
 356
 357        /* Just pick the first CPU on first iteration */
 358        current_mask = &save_cpumask;
 359        get_online_cpus();
 360        cpumask_and(current_mask, cpu_online_mask, tracing_buffer_mask);
 361        put_online_cpus();
 362        next_cpu = cpumask_first(current_mask);
 363
 364        kthread = kthread_create(kthread_fn, NULL, "hwlatd");
 365        if (IS_ERR(kthread)) {
 366                pr_err(BANNER "could not start sampling thread\n");
 367                return -ENOMEM;
 368        }
 369
 370        cpumask_clear(current_mask);
 371        cpumask_set_cpu(next_cpu, current_mask);
 372        sched_setaffinity(kthread->pid, current_mask);
 373
 374        hwlat_kthread = kthread;
 375        wake_up_process(kthread);
 376
 377        return 0;
 378}
 379
 380/**
 381 * stop_kthread - Inform the hardware latency samping/detector kthread to stop
 382 *
 383 * This kicks the running hardware latency sampling/detector kernel thread and
 384 * tells it to stop sampling now. Use this on unload and at system shutdown.
 385 */
 386static void stop_kthread(void)
 387{
 388        if (!hwlat_kthread)
 389                return;
 390        kthread_stop(hwlat_kthread);
 391        hwlat_kthread = NULL;
 392}
 393
 394/*
 395 * hwlat_read - Wrapper read function for reading both window and width
 396 * @filp: The active open file structure
 397 * @ubuf: The userspace provided buffer to read value into
 398 * @cnt: The maximum number of bytes to read
 399 * @ppos: The current "file" position
 400 *
 401 * This function provides a generic read implementation for the global state
 402 * "hwlat_data" structure filesystem entries.
 403 */
 404static ssize_t hwlat_read(struct file *filp, char __user *ubuf,
 405                          size_t cnt, loff_t *ppos)
 406{
 407        char buf[U64STR_SIZE];
 408        u64 *entry = filp->private_data;
 409        u64 val;
 410        int len;
 411
 412        if (!entry)
 413                return -EFAULT;
 414
 415        if (cnt > sizeof(buf))
 416                cnt = sizeof(buf);
 417
 418        val = *entry;
 419
 420        len = snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "%llu\n", val);
 421
 422        return simple_read_from_buffer(ubuf, cnt, ppos, buf, len);
 423}
 424
 425/**
 426 * hwlat_width_write - Write function for "width" entry
 427 * @filp: The active open file structure
 428 * @ubuf: The user buffer that contains the value to write
 429 * @cnt: The maximum number of bytes to write to "file"
 430 * @ppos: The current position in @file
 431 *
 432 * This function provides a write implementation for the "width" interface
 433 * to the hardware latency detector. It can be used to configure
 434 * for how many us of the total window us we will actively sample for any
 435 * hardware-induced latency periods. Obviously, it is not possible to
 436 * sample constantly and have the system respond to a sample reader, or,
 437 * worse, without having the system appear to have gone out to lunch. It
 438 * is enforced that width is less that the total window size.
 439 */
 440static ssize_t
 441hwlat_width_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *ubuf,
 442                  size_t cnt, loff_t *ppos)
 443{
 444        u64 val;
 445        int err;
 446
 447        err = kstrtoull_from_user(ubuf, cnt, 10, &val);
 448        if (err)
 449                return err;
 450
 451        mutex_lock(&hwlat_data.lock);
 452        if (val < hwlat_data.sample_window)
 453                hwlat_data.sample_width = val;
 454        else
 455                err = -EINVAL;
 456        mutex_unlock(&hwlat_data.lock);
 457
 458        if (err)
 459                return err;
 460
 461        return cnt;
 462}
 463
 464/**
 465 * hwlat_window_write - Write function for "window" entry
 466 * @filp: The active open file structure
 467 * @ubuf: The user buffer that contains the value to write
 468 * @cnt: The maximum number of bytes to write to "file"
 469 * @ppos: The current position in @file
 470 *
 471 * This function provides a write implementation for the "window" interface
 472 * to the hardware latency detetector. The window is the total time
 473 * in us that will be considered one sample period. Conceptually, windows
 474 * occur back-to-back and contain a sample width period during which
 475 * actual sampling occurs. Can be used to write a new total window size. It
 476 * is enfoced that any value written must be greater than the sample width
 477 * size, or an error results.
 478 */
 479static ssize_t
 480hwlat_window_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *ubuf,
 481                   size_t cnt, loff_t *ppos)
 482{
 483        u64 val;
 484        int err;
 485
 486        err = kstrtoull_from_user(ubuf, cnt, 10, &val);
 487        if (err)
 488                return err;
 489
 490        mutex_lock(&hwlat_data.lock);
 491        if (hwlat_data.sample_width < val)
 492                hwlat_data.sample_window = val;
 493        else
 494                err = -EINVAL;
 495        mutex_unlock(&hwlat_data.lock);
 496
 497        if (err)
 498                return err;
 499
 500        return cnt;
 501}
 502
 503static const struct file_operations width_fops = {
 504        .open           = tracing_open_generic,
 505        .read           = hwlat_read,
 506        .write          = hwlat_width_write,
 507};
 508
 509static const struct file_operations window_fops = {
 510        .open           = tracing_open_generic,
 511        .read           = hwlat_read,
 512        .write          = hwlat_window_write,
 513};
 514
 515/**
 516 * init_tracefs - A function to initialize the tracefs interface files
 517 *
 518 * This function creates entries in tracefs for "hwlat_detector".
 519 * It creates the hwlat_detector directory in the tracing directory,
 520 * and within that directory is the count, width and window files to
 521 * change and view those values.
 522 */
 523static int init_tracefs(void)
 524{
 525        struct dentry *d_tracer;
 526        struct dentry *top_dir;
 527
 528        d_tracer = tracing_init_dentry();
 529        if (IS_ERR(d_tracer))
 530                return -ENOMEM;
 531
 532        top_dir = tracefs_create_dir("hwlat_detector", d_tracer);
 533        if (!top_dir)
 534                return -ENOMEM;
 535
 536        hwlat_sample_window = tracefs_create_file("window", 0640,
 537                                                  top_dir,
 538                                                  &hwlat_data.sample_window,
 539                                                  &window_fops);
 540        if (!hwlat_sample_window)
 541                goto err;
 542
 543        hwlat_sample_width = tracefs_create_file("width", 0644,
 544                                                 top_dir,
 545                                                 &hwlat_data.sample_width,
 546                                                 &width_fops);
 547        if (!hwlat_sample_width)
 548                goto err;
 549
 550        return 0;
 551
 552 err:
 553        tracefs_remove_recursive(top_dir);
 554        return -ENOMEM;
 555}
 556
 557static void hwlat_tracer_start(struct trace_array *tr)
 558{
 559        int err;
 560
 561        err = start_kthread(tr);
 562        if (err)
 563                pr_err(BANNER "Cannot start hwlat kthread\n");
 564}
 565
 566static void hwlat_tracer_stop(struct trace_array *tr)
 567{
 568        stop_kthread();
 569}
 570
 571static bool hwlat_busy;
 572
 573static int hwlat_tracer_init(struct trace_array *tr)
 574{
 575        /* Only allow one instance to enable this */
 576        if (hwlat_busy)
 577                return -EBUSY;
 578
 579        hwlat_trace = tr;
 580
 581        disable_migrate = false;
 582        hwlat_data.count = 0;
 583        tr->max_latency = 0;
 584        save_tracing_thresh = tracing_thresh;
 585
 586        /* tracing_thresh is in nsecs, we speak in usecs */
 587        if (!tracing_thresh)
 588                tracing_thresh = last_tracing_thresh;
 589
 590        if (tracer_tracing_is_on(tr))
 591                hwlat_tracer_start(tr);
 592
 593        hwlat_busy = true;
 594
 595        return 0;
 596}
 597
 598static void hwlat_tracer_reset(struct trace_array *tr)
 599{
 600        stop_kthread();
 601
 602        /* the tracing threshold is static between runs */
 603        last_tracing_thresh = tracing_thresh;
 604
 605        tracing_thresh = save_tracing_thresh;
 606        hwlat_busy = false;
 607}
 608
 609static struct tracer hwlat_tracer __read_mostly =
 610{
 611        .name           = "hwlat",
 612        .init           = hwlat_tracer_init,
 613        .reset          = hwlat_tracer_reset,
 614        .start          = hwlat_tracer_start,
 615        .stop           = hwlat_tracer_stop,
 616        .allow_instances = true,
 617};
 618
 619__init static int init_hwlat_tracer(void)
 620{
 621        int ret;
 622
 623        mutex_init(&hwlat_data.lock);
 624
 625        ret = register_tracer(&hwlat_tracer);
 626        if (ret)
 627                return ret;
 628
 629        init_tracefs();
 630
 631        return 0;
 632}
 633late_initcall(init_hwlat_tracer);
 634