[lttng-dev] lttng list missing tracepoints?

Mathieu Desnoyers mathieu.desnoyers at efficios.com
Thu Sep 27 09:47:37 EDT 2012


* Hollis Blanchard (hollis_blanchard at mentor.com) wrote:
> I'm trying to use the net_dev_xmit tracepoint, but it's not showing up  
> in my traces. It's not listed by 'lttng list -k', but it is present in  
> debugfs/tracing/available_events. The reporting problem seems to be on  
> the kernel side, because kernel_list_events() in lttng-sessiond also  
> doesn't see any net events.
>
> I'm suddenly thinking I must have I misunderstood something, because I  
> see lttng-modules 2.0.2 contains its own tracepoint definitions (e.g.  
> instrumentation/events/lttng-module/block.h), and indeed, only those  
> events seem to be known to lttng. How can I get at all the other  
> tracepoints which are already in the kernel? Is this "feature #6" in  
> lttng-modules TODO file?

yes, exactly, patches are welcome!

Thanks!

Mathieu

>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
> lttng list -k says:
>       timer_init (loglevel: TRACE_EMERG (0)) (type: tracepoint)
>       timer_start (loglevel: TRACE_EMERG (0)) (type: tracepoint)
>       timer_expire_entry (loglevel: TRACE_EMERG (0)) (type: tracepoint)
>       timer_expire_exit (loglevel: TRACE_EMERG (0)) (type: tracepoint)
>       timer_cancel (loglevel: TRACE_EMERG (0)) (type: tracepoint)
>       hrtimer_init (loglevel: TRACE_EMERG (0)) (type: tracepoint)
>       hrtimer_start (loglevel: TRACE_EMERG (0)) (type: tracepoint)
>       hrtimer_expire_entry (loglevel: TRACE_EMERG (0)) (type: tracepoint)
>       hrtimer_expire_exit (loglevel: TRACE_EMERG (0)) (type: tracepoint)
>       hrtimer_cancel (loglevel: TRACE_EMERG (0)) (type: tracepoint)
>       itimer_state (loglevel: TRACE_EMERG (0)) (type: tracepoint)
>       itimer_expire (loglevel: TRACE_EMERG (0)) (type: tracepoint)
>       lttng_statedump_start (loglevel: TRACE_EMERG (0)) (type: tracepoint)
>       lttng_statedump_end (loglevel: TRACE_EMERG (0)) (type: tracepoint)
>       lttng_statedump_process_state (loglevel: TRACE_EMERG (0)) (type:  
> tracepoint)
>       lttng_statedump_file_descriptor (loglevel: TRACE_EMERG (0)) (type: 
> tracepoint)
>       lttng_statedump_vm_map (loglevel: TRACE_EMERG (0)) (type: tracepoint)
>       lttng_statedump_network_interface (loglevel: TRACE_EMERG (0))  
> (type: tracepoint)
>       lttng_statedump_interrupt (loglevel: TRACE_EMERG (0)) (type:  
> tracepoint)
>       signal_generate (loglevel: TRACE_EMERG (0)) (type: tracepoint)
>       signal_deliver (loglevel: TRACE_EMERG (0)) (type: tracepoint)
>       signal_overflow_fail (loglevel: TRACE_EMERG (0)) (type: tracepoint)
>       signal_lose_info (loglevel: TRACE_EMERG (0)) (type: tracepoint)
>       sched_kthread_stop (loglevel: TRACE_EMERG (0)) (type: tracepoint)
>       sched_kthread_stop_ret (loglevel: TRACE_EMERG (0)) (type: tracepoint)
>       sched_wakeup (loglevel: TRACE_EMERG (0)) (type: tracepoint)
>       sched_wakeup_new (loglevel: TRACE_EMERG (0)) (type: tracepoint)
>       sched_switch (loglevel: TRACE_EMERG (0)) (type: tracepoint)
>       sched_migrate_task (loglevel: TRACE_EMERG (0)) (type: tracepoint)
>       sched_process_free (loglevel: TRACE_EMERG (0)) (type: tracepoint)
>       sched_process_exit (loglevel: TRACE_EMERG (0)) (type: tracepoint)
>       sched_wait_task (loglevel: TRACE_EMERG (0)) (type: tracepoint)
>       sched_process_wait (loglevel: TRACE_EMERG (0)) (type: tracepoint)
>       sched_process_fork (loglevel: TRACE_EMERG (0)) (type: tracepoint)
>       sched_stat_wait (loglevel: TRACE_EMERG (0)) (type: tracepoint)
>       sched_stat_sleep (loglevel: TRACE_EMERG (0)) (type: tracepoint)
>       sched_stat_iowait (loglevel: TRACE_EMERG (0)) (type: tracepoint)
>       sched_stat_runtime (loglevel: TRACE_EMERG (0)) (type: tracepoint)
>       sched_pi_setprio (loglevel: TRACE_EMERG (0)) (type: tracepoint)
>       irq_handler_entry (loglevel: TRACE_EMERG (0)) (type: tracepoint)
>       irq_handler_exit (loglevel: TRACE_EMERG (0)) (type: tracepoint)
>       softirq_entry (loglevel: TRACE_EMERG (0)) (type: tracepoint)
>       softirq_exit (loglevel: TRACE_EMERG (0)) (type: tracepoint)
>       softirq_raise (loglevel: TRACE_EMERG (0)) (type: tracepoint)
>       block_rq_abort (loglevel: TRACE_EMERG (0)) (type: tracepoint)
>       block_rq_requeue (loglevel: TRACE_EMERG (0)) (type: tracepoint)
>       block_rq_complete (loglevel: TRACE_EMERG (0)) (type: tracepoint)
>       block_rq_insert (loglevel: TRACE_EMERG (0)) (type: tracepoint)
>       block_rq_issue (loglevel: TRACE_EMERG (0)) (type: tracepoint)
>       block_bio_bounce (loglevel: TRACE_EMERG (0)) (type: tracepoint)
>       block_bio_complete (loglevel: TRACE_EMERG (0)) (type: tracepoint)
>       block_bio_backmerge (loglevel: TRACE_EMERG (0)) (type: tracepoint)
>       block_bio_frontmerge (loglevel: TRACE_EMERG (0)) (type: tracepoint)
>       block_bio_queue (loglevel: TRACE_EMERG (0)) (type: tracepoint)
>       block_getrq (loglevel: TRACE_EMERG (0)) (type: tracepoint)
>       block_sleeprq (loglevel: TRACE_EMERG (0)) (type: tracepoint)
>       block_plug (loglevel: TRACE_EMERG (0)) (type: tracepoint)
>       block_unplug (loglevel: TRACE_EMERG (0)) (type: tracepoint)
>       block_split (loglevel: TRACE_EMERG (0)) (type: tracepoint)
>       block_bio_remap (loglevel: TRACE_EMERG (0)) (type: tracepoint)
>       block_rq_remap (loglevel: TRACE_EMERG (0)) (type: tracepoint)
>
> debugfs/tracing/available_events:
>
>    btrfs:btrfs_transaction_commit
>    btrfs:btrfs_inode_new
>    btrfs:btrfs_inode_request
>    btrfs:btrfs_inode_evict
>    btrfs:btrfs_get_extent
>    btrfs:btrfs_ordered_extent_add
>    btrfs:btrfs_ordered_extent_remove
>    btrfs:btrfs_ordered_extent_start
>    btrfs:btrfs_ordered_extent_put
>    btrfs:__extent_writepage
>    btrfs:btrfs_writepage_end_io_hook
>    btrfs:btrfs_sync_file
>    btrfs:btrfs_sync_fs
>    btrfs:btrfs_delayed_tree_ref
>    btrfs:btrfs_delayed_data_ref
>    btrfs:btrfs_delayed_ref_head
>    btrfs:btrfs_chunk_alloc
>    btrfs:btrfs_chunk_free
>    btrfs:btrfs_cow_block
>    btrfs:btrfs_reserved_extent_alloc
>    btrfs:btrfs_reserved_extent_free
>    mac80211:drv_return_void
>    mac80211:drv_return_int
>    mac80211:drv_return_bool
>    mac80211:drv_return_u64
>    mac80211:drv_start
>    mac80211:drv_suspend
>    mac80211:drv_resume
>    mac80211:drv_stop
>    mac80211:drv_add_interface
>    mac80211:drv_change_interface
>    mac80211:drv_remove_interface
>    mac80211:drv_config
>    mac80211:drv_bss_info_changed
>    mac80211:drv_tx_sync
>    mac80211:drv_finish_tx_sync
>    mac80211:drv_prepare_multicast
>    mac80211:drv_configure_filter
>    mac80211:drv_set_tim
>    mac80211:drv_set_key
>    mac80211:drv_update_tkip_key
>    mac80211:drv_hw_scan
>    mac80211:drv_cancel_hw_scan
>    mac80211:drv_sched_scan_start
>    mac80211:drv_sched_scan_stop
>    mac80211:drv_sw_scan_start
>    mac80211:drv_sw_scan_complete
>    mac80211:drv_get_stats
>    mac80211:drv_get_tkip_seq
>    mac80211:drv_set_frag_threshold
>    mac80211:drv_set_rts_threshold
>    mac80211:drv_set_coverage_class
>    mac80211:drv_sta_notify
>    mac80211:drv_sta_add
>    mac80211:drv_sta_remove
>    mac80211:drv_conf_tx
>    mac80211:drv_get_tsf
>    mac80211:drv_set_tsf
>    mac80211:drv_reset_tsf
>    mac80211:drv_tx_last_beacon
>    mac80211:drv_ampdu_action
>    mac80211:drv_get_survey
>    mac80211:drv_flush
>    mac80211:drv_channel_switch
>    mac80211:drv_set_antenna
>    mac80211:drv_get_antenna
>    mac80211:drv_remain_on_channel
>    mac80211:drv_cancel_remain_on_channel
>    mac80211:drv_offchannel_tx
>    mac80211:drv_set_ringparam
>    mac80211:drv_get_ringparam
>    mac80211:drv_tx_frames_pending
>    mac80211:drv_offchannel_tx_cancel_wait
>    mac80211:drv_set_bitrate_mask
>    mac80211:drv_set_rekey_data
>    mac80211:drv_rssi_callback
>    mac80211:api_start_tx_ba_session
>    mac80211:api_start_tx_ba_cb
>    mac80211:api_stop_tx_ba_session
>    mac80211:api_stop_tx_ba_cb
>    mac80211:api_restart_hw
>    mac80211:api_beacon_loss
>    mac80211:api_connection_loss
>    mac80211:api_cqm_rssi_notify
>    mac80211:api_scan_completed
>    mac80211:api_sched_scan_results
>    mac80211:api_sched_scan_stopped
>    mac80211:api_sta_block_awake
>    mac80211:api_chswitch_done
>    mac80211:api_ready_on_channel
>    mac80211:api_remain_on_channel_expired
>    mac80211:api_gtk_rekey_notify
>    mac80211:api_enable_rssi_reports
>    mac80211:wake_queue
>    mac80211:stop_queue
>    skb:kfree_skb
>    skb:consume_skb
>    skb:skb_copy_datagram_iovec
>    net:net_dev_xmit
>    net:net_dev_queue
>    net:netif_receive_skb
>    net:netif_rx
>    napi:napi_poll
>    sock:sock_rcvqueue_full
>    sock:sock_exceed_buf_limit
>    udp:udp_fail_queue_rcv_skb
>    asoc:snd_soc_reg_write
>    asoc:snd_soc_reg_read
>    asoc:snd_soc_preg_write
>    asoc:snd_soc_preg_read
>    asoc:snd_soc_bias_level_start
>    asoc:snd_soc_bias_level_done
>    asoc:snd_soc_dapm_start
>    asoc:snd_soc_dapm_done
>    asoc:snd_soc_dapm_widget_power
>    asoc:snd_soc_dapm_widget_event_start
>    asoc:snd_soc_dapm_widget_event_done
>    asoc:snd_soc_dapm_walk_done
>    asoc:snd_soc_jack_irq
>    asoc:snd_soc_jack_report
>    asoc:snd_soc_jack_notify
>    asoc:snd_soc_cache_sync
>    scsi:scsi_dispatch_cmd_start
>    scsi:scsi_dispatch_cmd_error
>    scsi:scsi_dispatch_cmd_done
>    scsi:scsi_dispatch_cmd_timeout
>    scsi:scsi_eh_wakeup
>    drm:drm_vblank_event
>    drm:drm_vblank_event_queued
>    drm:drm_vblank_event_delivered
>    regulator:regulator_enable
>    regulator:regulator_enable_delay
>    regulator:regulator_enable_complete
>    regulator:regulator_disable
>    regulator:regulator_disable_complete
>    regulator:regulator_set_voltage
>    regulator:regulator_set_voltage_complete
>    gpio:gpio_direction
>    gpio:gpio_value
>    block:block_rq_abort
>    block:block_rq_requeue
>    block:block_rq_complete
>    block:block_rq_insert
>    block:block_rq_issue
>    block:block_bio_bounce
>    block:block_bio_complete
>    block:block_bio_backmerge
>    block:block_bio_frontmerge
>    block:block_bio_queue
>    block:block_getrq
>    block:block_sleeprq
>    block:block_plug
>    block:block_unplug
>    block:block_split
>    block:block_bio_remap
>    block:block_rq_remap
>    jbd2:jbd2_checkpoint
>    jbd2:jbd2_start_commit
>    jbd2:jbd2_commit_locking
>    jbd2:jbd2_commit_flushing
>    jbd2:jbd2_commit_logging
>    jbd2:jbd2_end_commit
>    jbd2:jbd2_submit_inode_data
>    jbd2:jbd2_run_stats
>    jbd2:jbd2_checkpoint_stats
>    jbd2:jbd2_cleanup_journal_tail
>    jbd:jbd_checkpoint
>    jbd:jbd_start_commit
>    jbd:jbd_commit_locking
>    jbd:jbd_commit_flushing
>    jbd:jbd_commit_logging
>    jbd:jbd_drop_transaction
>    jbd:jbd_end_commit
>    jbd:jbd_do_submit_data
>    jbd:jbd_cleanup_journal_tail
>    jbd:jbd_update_superblock_end
>    ext4:ext4_free_inode
>    ext4:ext4_request_inode
>    ext4:ext4_allocate_inode
>    ext4:ext4_evict_inode
>    ext4:ext4_drop_inode
>    ext4:ext4_mark_inode_dirty
>    ext4:ext4_begin_ordered_truncate
>    ext4:ext4_write_begin
>    ext4:ext4_da_write_begin
>    ext4:ext4_ordered_write_end
>    ext4:ext4_writeback_write_end
>    ext4:ext4_journalled_write_end
>    ext4:ext4_da_write_end
>    ext4:ext4_da_writepages
>    ext4:ext4_da_write_pages
>    ext4:ext4_da_writepages_result
>    ext4:ext4_writepage
>    ext4:ext4_readpage
>    ext4:ext4_releasepage
>    ext4:ext4_invalidatepage
>    ext4:ext4_discard_blocks
>    ext4:ext4_mb_new_inode_pa
>    ext4:ext4_mb_new_group_pa
>    ext4:ext4_mb_release_inode_pa
>    ext4:ext4_mb_release_group_pa
>    ext4:ext4_discard_preallocations
>    ext4:ext4_mb_discard_preallocations
>    ext4:ext4_request_blocks
>    ext4:ext4_allocate_blocks
>    ext4:ext4_free_blocks
>    ext4:ext4_sync_file_enter
>    ext4:ext4_sync_file_exit
>    ext4:ext4_sync_fs
>    ext4:ext4_alloc_da_blocks
>    ext4:ext4_mballoc_alloc
>    ext4:ext4_mballoc_prealloc
>    ext4:ext4_mballoc_discard
>    ext4:ext4_mballoc_free
>    ext4:ext4_forget
>    ext4:ext4_da_update_reserve_space
>    ext4:ext4_da_reserve_space
>    ext4:ext4_da_release_space
>    ext4:ext4_mb_bitmap_load
>    ext4:ext4_mb_buddy_bitmap_load
>    ext4:ext4_read_block_bitmap_load
>    ext4:ext4_load_inode_bitmap
>    ext4:ext4_direct_IO_enter
>    ext4:ext4_direct_IO_exit
>    ext4:ext4_fallocate_enter
>    ext4:ext4_fallocate_exit
>    ext4:ext4_unlink_enter
>    ext4:ext4_unlink_exit
>    ext4:ext4_truncate_enter
>    ext4:ext4_truncate_exit
>    ext4:ext4_ext_map_blocks_enter
>    ext4:ext4_ind_map_blocks_enter
>    ext4:ext4_ext_map_blocks_exit
>    ext4:ext4_ind_map_blocks_exit
>    ext4:ext4_ext_load_extent
>    ext4:ext4_load_inode
>    ext4:ext4_journal_start
>    ext4:ext4_trim_extent
>    ext4:ext4_trim_all_free
>    ext3:ext3_free_inode
>    ext3:ext3_request_inode
>    ext3:ext3_allocate_inode
>    ext3:ext3_evict_inode
>    ext3:ext3_drop_inode
>    ext3:ext3_mark_inode_dirty
>    ext3:ext3_write_begin
>    ext3:ext3_ordered_write_end
>    ext3:ext3_writeback_write_end
>    ext3:ext3_journalled_write_end
>    ext3:ext3_ordered_writepage
>    ext3:ext3_writeback_writepage
>    ext3:ext3_journalled_writepage
>    ext3:ext3_readpage
>    ext3:ext3_releasepage
>    ext3:ext3_invalidatepage
>    ext3:ext3_discard_blocks
>    ext3:ext3_request_blocks
>    ext3:ext3_allocate_blocks
>    ext3:ext3_free_blocks
>    ext3:ext3_sync_file_enter
>    ext3:ext3_sync_file_exit
>    ext3:ext3_sync_fs
>    ext3:ext3_rsv_window_add
>    ext3:ext3_discard_reservation
>    ext3:ext3_alloc_new_reservation
>    ext3:ext3_reserved
>    ext3:ext3_forget
>    ext3:ext3_read_block_bitmap
>    ext3:ext3_direct_IO_enter
>    ext3:ext3_direct_IO_exit
>    ext3:ext3_unlink_enter
>    ext3:ext3_unlink_exit
>    ext3:ext3_truncate_enter
>    ext3:ext3_truncate_exit
>    ext3:ext3_get_blocks_enter
>    ext3:ext3_get_blocks_exit
>    ext3:ext3_load_inode
>    writeback:writeback_nothread
>    writeback:writeback_queue
>    writeback:writeback_exec
>    writeback:writeback_start
>    writeback:writeback_written
>    writeback:writeback_wait
>    writeback:writeback_pages_written
>    writeback:writeback_nowork
>    writeback:writeback_wake_background
>    writeback:writeback_wake_thread
>    writeback:writeback_wake_forker_thread
>    writeback:writeback_bdi_register
>    writeback:writeback_bdi_unregister
>    writeback:writeback_thread_start
>    writeback:writeback_thread_stop
>    writeback:balance_dirty_start
>    writeback:balance_dirty_wait
>    writeback:balance_dirty_written
>    writeback:wbc_writepage
>    writeback:writeback_queue_io
>    writeback:global_dirty_state
>    writeback:writeback_congestion_wait
>    writeback:writeback_wait_iff_congested
>    writeback:writeback_single_inode_requeue
>    writeback:writeback_single_inode
>    kmem:kmalloc
>    kmem:kmem_cache_alloc
>    kmem:kmalloc_node
>    kmem:kmem_cache_alloc_node
>    kmem:kfree
>    kmem:kmem_cache_free
>    kmem:mm_page_free_direct
>    kmem:mm_pagevec_free
>    kmem:mm_page_alloc
>    kmem:mm_page_alloc_zone_locked
>    kmem:mm_page_pcpu_drain
>    kmem:mm_page_alloc_extfrag
>    vmscan:mm_vmscan_kswapd_sleep
>    vmscan:mm_vmscan_kswapd_wake
>    vmscan:mm_vmscan_wakeup_kswapd
>    vmscan:mm_vmscan_direct_reclaim_begin
>    vmscan:mm_vmscan_memcg_reclaim_begin
>    vmscan:mm_vmscan_memcg_softlimit_reclaim_begin
>    vmscan:mm_vmscan_direct_reclaim_end
>    vmscan:mm_vmscan_memcg_reclaim_end
>    vmscan:mm_vmscan_memcg_softlimit_reclaim_end
>    vmscan:mm_shrink_slab_start
>    vmscan:mm_shrink_slab_end
>    vmscan:mm_vmscan_lru_isolate
>    vmscan:mm_vmscan_memcg_isolate
>    vmscan:mm_vmscan_writepage
>    vmscan:mm_vmscan_lru_shrink_inactive
>    vmscan:replace_swap_token
>    vmscan:put_swap_token
>    vmscan:disable_swap_token
>    vmscan:update_swap_token_priority
>    power:cpu_idle
>    power:cpu_frequency
>    power:machine_suspend
>    power:power_start
>    power:power_frequency
>    power:power_end
>    power:clock_enable
>    power:clock_disable
>    power:clock_set_rate
>    power:power_domain_target
>    module:module_load
>    module:module_free
>    module:module_get
>    module:module_put
>    module:module_request
>    workqueue:workqueue_queue_work
>    workqueue:workqueue_activate_work
>    workqueue:workqueue_execute_start
>    workqueue:workqueue_execute_end
>    signal:signal_generate
>    signal:signal_deliver
>    signal:signal_overflow_fail
>    signal:signal_lose_info
>    timer:timer_init
>    timer:timer_start
>    timer:timer_expire_entry
>    timer:timer_expire_exit
>    timer:timer_cancel
>    timer:hrtimer_init
>    timer:hrtimer_start
>    timer:hrtimer_expire_entry
>    timer:hrtimer_expire_exit
>    timer:hrtimer_cancel
>    timer:itimer_state
>    timer:itimer_expire
>    irq:irq_handler_entry
>    irq:irq_handler_exit
>    irq:softirq_entry
>    irq:softirq_exit
>    irq:softirq_raise
>    sched:sched_kthread_stop
>    sched:sched_kthread_stop_ret
>    sched:sched_wakeup
>    sched:sched_wakeup_new
>    sched:sched_switch
>    sched:sched_migrate_task
>    sched:sched_process_free
>    sched:sched_process_exit
>    sched:sched_wait_task
>    sched:sched_process_wait
>    sched:sched_process_fork
>    sched:sched_stat_wait
>    sched:sched_stat_sleep
>    sched:sched_stat_iowait
>    sched:sched_stat_runtime
>    sched:sched_pi_setprio
>
>
> -- 
> Hollis Blanchard
> Product Owner, Sourcery Analyzer <http://go.mentor.com/sourceryanalyzer>
> Mentor Graphics, Embedded Systems Division
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