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authorCong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>2019-11-30 07:52:18 +0300
committerSteven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>2019-12-02 19:07:00 +0300
commit6c3edaf9fd6a3be7fb5bc6931897c24cd3848f84 (patch)
treef450c75fabff3fe5bc612e15bcd97c4fbaec00c1 /kernel/trace/trace.h
parent02a65a0bfbef5c644f520885a0a85b45b9703cf3 (diff)
downloadlinux-6c3edaf9fd6a3be7fb5bc6931897c24cd3848f84.tar.xz
tracing: Introduce trace event injection
We have been trying to use rasdaemon to monitor hardware errors like correctable memory errors. rasdaemon uses trace events to monitor various hardware errors. In order to test it, we have to inject some hardware errors, unfortunately not all of them provide error injections. MCE does provide a way to inject MCE errors, but errors like PCI error and devlink error don't, it is not easy to add error injection to each of them. Instead, it is relatively easier to just allow users to inject trace events in a generic way so that all trace events can be injected. This patch introduces trace event injection, where a new 'inject' is added to each tracepoint directory. Users could write into this file with key=value pairs to specify the value of each fields of the trace event, all unspecified fields are set to zero values by default. For example, for the net/net_dev_queue tracepoint, we can inject: INJECT=/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/net/net_dev_queue/inject echo "" > $INJECT echo "name='test'" > $INJECT echo "name='test' len=1024" > $INJECT cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace ... <...>-614 [000] .... 36.571483: net_dev_queue: dev= skbaddr=00000000fbf338c2 len=0 <...>-614 [001] .... 136.588252: net_dev_queue: dev=test skbaddr=00000000fbf338c2 len=0 <...>-614 [001] .N.. 208.431878: net_dev_queue: dev=test skbaddr=00000000fbf338c2 len=1024 Triggers could be triggered as usual too: echo "stacktrace if len == 1025" > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/net/net_dev_queue/trigger echo "len=1025" > $INJECT cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace ... bash-614 [000] .... 36.571483: net_dev_queue: dev= skbaddr=00000000fbf338c2 len=0 bash-614 [001] .... 136.588252: net_dev_queue: dev=test skbaddr=00000000fbf338c2 len=0 bash-614 [001] .N.. 208.431878: net_dev_queue: dev=test skbaddr=00000000fbf338c2 len=1024 bash-614 [001] .N.1 284.236349: <stack trace> => event_inject_write => vfs_write => ksys_write => do_syscall_64 => entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe The only thing that can't be injected is string pointers as they require constant string pointers, this can't be done at run time. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191130045218.18979-1-xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.h b/kernel/trace/trace.h
index ca7fccafbcbb..63bf60f79398 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.h
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.h
@@ -1601,6 +1601,7 @@ extern struct list_head ftrace_events;
extern const struct file_operations event_trigger_fops;
extern const struct file_operations event_hist_fops;
+extern const struct file_operations event_inject_fops;
#ifdef CONFIG_HIST_TRIGGERS
extern int register_trigger_hist_cmd(void);