On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 10:18:32PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
quoted text
> From: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
> 
> As events start to become popular, and the new way to add tracing
> infrastructure into ftrace, it is important to catch any problems
> that might happen with a mistake in the TRACE_EVENT macro.
> 
> This patch introduces a startup self test on the registered trace
> events. Note, it can only do a generic test, any type of testing that
> needs more involement is needed to be implemented by the tracepoint
> creators.
> 
> The test goes down one by one enabling a trace point and running
> some random tasks (random in the sense that I just made them up).
> Those tasks are creating threads, grabbing mutexes and spinlocks
> and using workqueues.
> 
> After testing each event individually, it does the same test after
> enabling each system of trace points. Like sched, irq, lockdep.
> 
> Then finally it enables all tracepoints and performs the tasks again.
> The output to the console on bootup will look like this when everything
> works:
> 
> Running tests on trace events:
> Testing event kfree_skb: OK
> Testing event kmalloc: OK
> Testing event kmem_cache_alloc: OK
> Testing event kmalloc_node: OK
> Testing event kmem_cache_alloc_node: OK
> Testing event kfree: OK
> Testing event kmem_cache_free: OK
> Testing event irq_handler_exit: OK
> Testing event irq_handler_entry: OK
> Testing event softirq_entry: OK
> Testing event softirq_exit: OK
> Testing event lock_acquire: OK
> Testing event lock_release: OK
> Testing event sched_kthread_stop: OK
> Testing event sched_kthread_stop_ret: OK
> Testing event sched_wait_task: OK
> Testing event sched_wakeup: OK
> Testing event sched_wakeup_new: OK
> Testing event sched_switch: OK
> Testing event sched_migrate_task: OK
> Testing event sched_process_free: OK
> Testing event sched_process_exit: OK
> Testing event sched_process_wait: OK
> Testing event sched_process_fork: OK
> Testing event sched_signal_send: OK
> Running tests on trace event systems:
> Testing event system skb: OK
> Testing event system kmem: OK
> Testing event system irq: OK
> Testing event system lockdep: OK
> Testing event system sched: OK
> Running tests on all trace events:
> Testing all events: OK



Wow, that's very nice.
I'm just adding kernel-testers in Cc, they might be
interested.

Frederic.

 
quoted text
> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
> ---
>  kernel/trace/trace_events.c |  176 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 files changed, 176 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
> index 6591d83..6d5b1bd 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
> @@ -8,6 +8,9 @@
>   *
>   */
>  
> +#include <linux/workqueue.h>
> +#include <linux/spinlock.h>
> +#include <linux/kthread.h>
>  #include <linux/debugfs.h>
>  #include <linux/uaccess.h>
>  #include <linux/module.h>
> @@ -920,3 +923,176 @@ static __init int event_trace_init(void)
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  fs_initcall(event_trace_init);
> +
> +#ifdef CONFIG_FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST
> +
> +static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(test_spinlock);
> +static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(test_spinlock_irq);
> +static DEFINE_MUTEX(test_mutex);
> +
> +static __init void test_work(struct work_struct *dummy)
> +{
> +	spin_lock(&test_spinlock);
> +	spin_lock_irq(&test_spinlock_irq);
> +	udelay(1);
> +	spin_unlock_irq(&test_spinlock_irq);
> +	spin_unlock(&test_spinlock);
> +
> +	mutex_lock(&test_mutex);
> +	msleep(1);
> +	mutex_unlock(&test_mutex);
> +}
> +
> +static __init int event_test_thread(void *unused)
> +{
> +	void *test_malloc;
> +
> +	test_malloc = kmalloc(1234, GFP_KERNEL);
> +	if (!test_malloc)
> +		pr_info("failed to kmalloc\n");
> +
> +	schedule_on_each_cpu(test_work);
> +
> +	kfree(test_malloc);
> +
> +	while (!kthread_should_stop())
> +		;
> +
> +	return 0;
> +}
> +
> +/*
> + * Do various things that may trigger events.
> + */
> +static __init void event_test_stuff(void)
> +{
> +	struct task_struct *test_thread;
> +
> +	test_thread = kthread_run(event_test_thread, NULL, "test-events");
> +	msleep(1);
> +	kthread_stop(test_thread);
> +}
> +
> +/*
> + * For every trace event defined, we will test each trace point separately,
> + * and then by groups, and finally all trace points.
> + */
> +static __init int event_trace_self_tests(void)
> +{
> +	struct ftrace_event_call *call;
> +	struct event_subsystem *system;
> +	char *sysname;
> +	int ret;
> +
> +	pr_info("Running tests on trace events:\n");
> +
> +	list_for_each_entry(call, &ftrace_events, list) {
> +
> +		/* Only test those that have a regfunc */
> +		if (!call->regfunc)
> +			continue;
> +
> +		pr_info("Testing event %s: ", call->name);
> +
> +		/*
> +		 * If an event is already enabled, someone is using
> +		 * it and the self test should not be on.
> +		 */
> +		if (call->enabled) {
> +			pr_warning("Enabled event during self test!\n");
> +			WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
> +			continue;
> +		}
> +
> +		call->enabled = 1;
> +		call->regfunc();
> +
> +		event_test_stuff();
> +
> +		call->unregfunc();
> +		call->enabled = 0;
> +
> +		pr_cont("OK\n");
> +	}
> +
> +	/* Now test at the sub system level */
> +
> +	pr_info("Running tests on trace event systems:\n");
> +
> +	list_for_each_entry(system, &event_subsystems, list) {
> +
> +		/* the ftrace system is special, skip it */
> +		if (strcmp(system->name, "ftrace") == 0)
> +			continue;
> +
> +		pr_info("Testing event system %s: ", system->name);
> +
> +		/* ftrace_set_clr_event can modify the name passed in. */
> +		sysname = kstrdup(system->name, GFP_KERNEL);
> +		if (WARN_ON(!sysname)) {
> +			pr_warning("Can't allocate memory, giving up!\n");
> +			return 0;
> +		}
> +		ret = ftrace_set_clr_event(sysname, 1);
> +		kfree(sysname);
> +		if (WARN_ON_ONCE(ret)) {
> +			pr_warning("error enabling system %s\n",
> +				   system->name);
> +			continue;
> +		}
> +
> +		event_test_stuff();
> +
> +		sysname = kstrdup(system->name, GFP_KERNEL);
> +		if (WARN_ON(!sysname)) {
> +			pr_warning("Can't allocate memory, giving up!\n");
> +			return 0;
> +		}
> +		ret = ftrace_set_clr_event(sysname, 0);
> +		kfree(sysname);
> +
> +		if (WARN_ON_ONCE(ret))
> +			pr_warning("error disabling system %s\n",
> +				   system->name);
> +
> +		pr_cont("OK\n");
> +	}
> +
> +	/* Test with all events enabled */
> +
> +	pr_info("Running tests on all trace events:\n");
> +	pr_info("Testing all events: ");
> +
> +	sysname = kmalloc(4, GFP_KERNEL);
> +	if (WARN_ON(!sysname)) {
> +		pr_warning("Can't allocate memory, giving up!\n");
> +		return 0;
> +	}
> +	memcpy(sysname, "*:*", 4);
> +	ret = ftrace_set_clr_event(sysname, 1);
> +	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(ret)) {
> +		kfree(sysname);
> +		pr_warning("error enabling all events\n");
> +		return 0;
> +	}
> +
> +	event_test_stuff();
> +
> +	/* reset sysname */
> +	memcpy(sysname, "*:*", 4);
> +	ret = ftrace_set_clr_event(sysname, 0);
> +	kfree(sysname);
> +
> +	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(ret)) {
> +		pr_warning("error disabling all events\n");
> +		return 0;
> +	}
> +
> +	pr_cont("OK\n");
> +
> +	return 0;
> +}
> +
> +late_initcall(event_trace_self_tests);
> +
> +#endif
> -- 
> 1.6.2.1
> 
> -- 

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