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authorTomas Glozar <tglozar@redhat.com>2025-01-23 15:23:36 +0100
committerSteven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>2025-01-24 13:46:16 -0500
commitd6fcd28ffeaaa6a1733303096637e6bf15704efb (patch)
treeaaa91f5e70192988844df28cee35f33ac612ad6f
parentb91cfd9f75c02e7f4463f8416d99138630c4dfd0 (diff)
rtla: Count missed trace events
Add function collect_missed_events to trace.c to act as a callback for tracefs_follow_missed_events, summing the number of total missed events into a new field missing_events of struct trace_instance. In case record->missed_events is negative, trace->missed_events is set to UINT64_MAX to signify an unknown number of events was missed. The callback is activated on initialization of the trace instance. Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com> Cc: Luis Goncalves <lgoncalv@redhat.com> Cc: Gabriele Monaco <gmonaco@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250123142339.990300-2-tglozar@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Tomas Glozar <tglozar@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
-rw-r--r--tools/tracing/rtla/src/trace.c34
-rw-r--r--tools/tracing/rtla/src/trace.h1
2 files changed, 35 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/tracing/rtla/src/trace.c b/tools/tracing/rtla/src/trace.c
index 80b14b8a3c2e..94e490782f14 100644
--- a/tools/tracing/rtla/src/trace.c
+++ b/tools/tracing/rtla/src/trace.c
@@ -127,6 +127,31 @@ collect_registered_events(struct tep_event *event, struct tep_record *record,
}
/*
+ * collect_missed_events - record number of missed events
+ *
+ * If rtla cannot keep up with events generated by tracer, events are going
+ * to fall out of the ring buffer.
+ * Collect how many events were missed so it can be reported to the user.
+ */
+static int
+collect_missed_events(struct tep_event *event, struct tep_record *record,
+ int cpu, void *context)
+{
+ struct trace_instance *trace = context;
+
+ if (trace->missed_events == UINT64_MAX)
+ return 0;
+
+ if (record->missed_events > 0)
+ trace->missed_events += record->missed_events;
+ else
+ /* Events missed but no data on how many */
+ trace->missed_events = UINT64_MAX;
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
+/*
* trace_instance_destroy - destroy and free a rtla trace instance
*/
void trace_instance_destroy(struct trace_instance *trace)
@@ -181,6 +206,15 @@ int trace_instance_init(struct trace_instance *trace, char *tool_name)
*/
tracefs_trace_off(trace->inst);
+ /*
+ * Collect the number of events missed due to tracefs buffer
+ * overflow.
+ */
+ trace->missed_events = 0;
+ tracefs_follow_missed_events(trace->inst,
+ collect_missed_events,
+ trace);
+
return 0;
out_err:
diff --git a/tools/tracing/rtla/src/trace.h b/tools/tracing/rtla/src/trace.h
index c3e03f7df770..a6e88709604b 100644
--- a/tools/tracing/rtla/src/trace.h
+++ b/tools/tracing/rtla/src/trace.h
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ struct trace_instance {
struct tracefs_instance *inst;
struct tep_handle *tep;
struct trace_seq *seq;
+ unsigned long long missed_events;
};
int trace_instance_init(struct trace_instance *trace, char *tool_name);