This fixes a long standing bug in the ftrace profiler.
The problem is that the profiler only initializes the online
CPUs, and not possible CPUs. This causes issues if the user takes
CPUs online or offline while the profiler is running.
If we online a CPU after starting the profiler, we lose all the
trace information on the CPU going online.
If we offline a CPU after running a test and start a new test, it
will not clear the old data from that CPU.
This bug causes incorrect data to be reported to the user if they
online or offline CPUs during the profiling.
ftrace: Initialize the ftrace profiler for each possible cpu
Ftrace currently initializes only the online CPUs. This implementation has
two problems:
- If we online a CPU after we enable the function profile, and then run the
test, we will lose the trace information on that CPU.
Steps to reproduce:
# echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online
# cd <debugfs>/tracing/
# echo <some function name> >> set_ftrace_filter
# echo 1 > function_profile_enabled
# echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online
# run test
- If we offline a CPU before we enable the function profile, we will not clear
the trace information when we enable the function profile. It will trouble
the users.
Steps to reproduce:
# cd <debugfs>/tracing/
# echo <some function name> >> set_ftrace_filter
# echo 1 > function_profile_enabled
# run test
# cat trace_stat/function*
# echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online
# echo 0 > function_profile_enabled
# echo 1 > function_profile_enabled
# cat trace_stat/function*
# run test
# cat trace_stat/function*
So it is better that we initialize the ftrace profiler for each possible cpu
every time we enable the function profile instead of just the online ones.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1387178401-10619-1-git-send-email-miaox@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 2.6.31+
Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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