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tracing/histogram: Update the documentation for the buckets modifier

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Update both the tracefs README file as well as the histogram.rst to
include an explanation of what the buckets modifier is and how to use it.
Include an example with the wakeup_latency example for both log2 and the
buckets modifiers as there was no existing log2 example.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210707213922.167218794@goodmis.org

Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Steven Rostedt (VMware) 2021-07-07 17:36:25 -04:00
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Documentation/trace/histogram.rst
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@ -77,6 +77,7 @@ Documentation written by Tom Zanussi
.syscall display a syscall id as a system call name
.execname display a common_pid as a program name
.log2 display log2 value rather than raw number
.buckets=size display grouping of values rather than raw number
.usecs display a common_timestamp in microseconds
=========== ==========================================
@ -228,7 +229,7 @@ Extended error information
that lists the total number of bytes requested for each function in
the kernel that made one or more calls to kmalloc::
# echo 'hist:key=call_site:val=bytes_req' > \
# echo 'hist:key=call_site:val=bytes_req.buckets=32' > \
/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kmem/kmalloc/trigger
This tells the tracing system to create a 'hist' trigger using the
@ -1823,20 +1824,99 @@ and variables defined on other events (see Section 2.2.3 below on
how that is done using hist trigger 'onmatch' action). Once that is
done, the 'wakeup_latency' synthetic event instance is created.
A histogram can now be defined for the new synthetic event::
# echo 'hist:keys=pid,prio,lat.log2:sort=pid,lat' >> \
/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/synthetic/wakeup_latency/trigger
The new event is created under the tracing/events/synthetic/ directory
and looks and behaves just like any other event::
# ls /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/synthetic/wakeup_latency
enable filter format hist id trigger
A histogram can now be defined for the new synthetic event::
# echo 'hist:keys=pid,prio,lat.log2:sort=lat' >> \
/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/synthetic/wakeup_latency/trigger
The above shows the latency "lat" in a power of 2 grouping.
Like any other event, once a histogram is enabled for the event, the
output can be displayed by reading the event's 'hist' file.
# cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/synthetic/wakeup_latency/hist
# event histogram
#
# trigger info: hist:keys=pid,prio,lat.log2:vals=hitcount:sort=lat.log2:size=2048 [active]
#
{ pid: 2035, prio: 9, lat: ~ 2^2 } hitcount: 43
{ pid: 2034, prio: 9, lat: ~ 2^2 } hitcount: 60
{ pid: 2029, prio: 9, lat: ~ 2^2 } hitcount: 965
{ pid: 2034, prio: 120, lat: ~ 2^2 } hitcount: 9
{ pid: 2033, prio: 120, lat: ~ 2^2 } hitcount: 5
{ pid: 2030, prio: 9, lat: ~ 2^2 } hitcount: 335
{ pid: 2030, prio: 120, lat: ~ 2^2 } hitcount: 10
{ pid: 2032, prio: 120, lat: ~ 2^2 } hitcount: 1
{ pid: 2035, prio: 120, lat: ~ 2^2 } hitcount: 2
{ pid: 2031, prio: 9, lat: ~ 2^2 } hitcount: 176
{ pid: 2028, prio: 120, lat: ~ 2^2 } hitcount: 15
{ pid: 2033, prio: 9, lat: ~ 2^2 } hitcount: 91
{ pid: 2032, prio: 9, lat: ~ 2^2 } hitcount: 125
{ pid: 2029, prio: 120, lat: ~ 2^2 } hitcount: 4
{ pid: 2031, prio: 120, lat: ~ 2^2 } hitcount: 3
{ pid: 2029, prio: 120, lat: ~ 2^3 } hitcount: 2
{ pid: 2035, prio: 9, lat: ~ 2^3 } hitcount: 41
{ pid: 2030, prio: 120, lat: ~ 2^3 } hitcount: 1
{ pid: 2032, prio: 9, lat: ~ 2^3 } hitcount: 32
{ pid: 2031, prio: 9, lat: ~ 2^3 } hitcount: 44
{ pid: 2034, prio: 9, lat: ~ 2^3 } hitcount: 40
{ pid: 2030, prio: 9, lat: ~ 2^3 } hitcount: 29
{ pid: 2033, prio: 9, lat: ~ 2^3 } hitcount: 31
{ pid: 2029, prio: 9, lat: ~ 2^3 } hitcount: 31
{ pid: 2028, prio: 120, lat: ~ 2^3 } hitcount: 18
{ pid: 2031, prio: 120, lat: ~ 2^3 } hitcount: 2
{ pid: 2028, prio: 120, lat: ~ 2^4 } hitcount: 1
{ pid: 2029, prio: 9, lat: ~ 2^4 } hitcount: 4
{ pid: 2031, prio: 120, lat: ~ 2^7 } hitcount: 1
{ pid: 2032, prio: 120, lat: ~ 2^7 } hitcount: 1
Totals:
Hits: 2122
Entries: 30
Dropped: 0
The latency values can also be grouped linearly by a given size with
the ".buckets" modifier and specify a size (in this case groups of 10).
# echo 'hist:keys=pid,prio,lat.buckets=10:sort=lat' >> \
/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/synthetic/wakeup_latency/trigger
# event histogram
#
# trigger info: hist:keys=pid,prio,lat.buckets=10:vals=hitcount:sort=lat.buckets=10:size=2048 [active]
#
{ pid: 2067, prio: 9, lat: ~ 0-9 } hitcount: 220
{ pid: 2068, prio: 9, lat: ~ 0-9 } hitcount: 157
{ pid: 2070, prio: 9, lat: ~ 0-9 } hitcount: 100
{ pid: 2067, prio: 120, lat: ~ 0-9 } hitcount: 6
{ pid: 2065, prio: 120, lat: ~ 0-9 } hitcount: 2
{ pid: 2066, prio: 120, lat: ~ 0-9 } hitcount: 2
{ pid: 2069, prio: 9, lat: ~ 0-9 } hitcount: 122
{ pid: 2069, prio: 120, lat: ~ 0-9 } hitcount: 8
{ pid: 2070, prio: 120, lat: ~ 0-9 } hitcount: 1
{ pid: 2068, prio: 120, lat: ~ 0-9 } hitcount: 7
{ pid: 2066, prio: 9, lat: ~ 0-9 } hitcount: 365
{ pid: 2064, prio: 120, lat: ~ 0-9 } hitcount: 35
{ pid: 2065, prio: 9, lat: ~ 0-9 } hitcount: 998
{ pid: 2071, prio: 9, lat: ~ 0-9 } hitcount: 85
{ pid: 2065, prio: 9, lat: ~ 10-19 } hitcount: 2
{ pid: 2064, prio: 120, lat: ~ 10-19 } hitcount: 2
Totals:
Hits: 2112
Entries: 16
Dropped: 0
2.2.3 Hist trigger 'handlers' and 'actions'
-------------------------------------------

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@ -5654,6 +5654,7 @@ static const char readme_msg[] =
"\t .execname display a common_pid as a program name\n"
"\t .syscall display a syscall id as a syscall name\n"
"\t .log2 display log2 value rather than raw number\n"
"\t .buckets=size display values in groups of size rather than raw number\n"
"\t .usecs display a common_timestamp in microseconds\n\n"
"\t The 'pause' parameter can be used to pause an existing hist\n"
"\t trigger or to start a hist trigger but not log any events\n"