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2026-03-11rtla/timerlat: Add bounds check for softirq vectorWander Lairson Costa
Add bounds checking when accessing the softirq_name array using the vector value from kernel trace data. The vector field from the osnoise:softirq_noise event is used directly as an array index without validation, which could cause an out-of-bounds read if the kernel provides an unexpected vector value. The softirq_name array contains 10 elements corresponding to the standard Linux softirq vectors. While the kernel should only provide valid vector values in the range 0-9, defensive programming requires validating untrusted input before using it as an array index. If an out-of-range vector is encountered, display the word UNKNOWN instead of attempting to read beyond the array bounds. Signed-off-by: Wander Lairson Costa <wander@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260309195040.1019085-9-wander@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Tomas Glozar <tglozar@redhat.com>
2026-03-09tools/rtla: Remove unneeded nr_cpus membersCosta Shulyupin
nr_cpus does not change at runtime, so keeping it in struct members is unnecessary. Use the global nr_cpus instead of struct members. Signed-off-by: Costa Shulyupin <costa.shul@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260306194953.2511960-4-costa.shul@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Tomas Glozar <tglozar@redhat.com>
2026-03-09tools/rtla: Consolidate nr_cpus usage across all toolsCosta Shulyupin
sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF) (via get_nprocs_conf) reflects cpu_possible_mask, which is fixed at boot time, so querying it repeatedly is unnecessary. Replace multiple calls to sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF) with a single global nr_cpus variable initialized once at startup. `#pragma once` in timerlat_u.h is needed for pre-C23 compilers to avoid redefinition errors. Signed-off-by: Costa Shulyupin <costa.shul@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260306194953.2511960-2-costa.shul@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Tomas Glozar <tglozar@redhat.com>
2026-03-04rtla/timerlat: Add --stack-format optionTomas Glozar
In the current implementation, the auto-analysis code for printing the stack captured in the tracefs buffer of the aa instance stops at the first encountered address that cannot be resolved into a function symbol. This is not always the desired behavior on all platforms; sometimes, there might be resolvable entries after unresolvable ones, and sometimes, the user might want to inspect the raw pointers for the unresolvable entries. Add a new option, --stack-format, with three values: - truncate: stop at first unresolvable entry. This is the current behavior, and is kept as the default. - skip: skip unresolvable entries, but do not stop on them. - full: print all entries, including unresolvable ones. To make this work, the "size" field of the stack entry is now also read and used as the maximum number of entries to print, capped at 64, since that is the fixed length of the "caller" field. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260119115222.744150-1-tglozar@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Tomas Glozar <tglozar@redhat.com>
2025-03-04rtla/timerlat: Unify params structTomas Glozar
Instead of having separate structs timerlat_top_params and timerlat_hist_params, use one struct timerlat_params for both. This allows code using the structs to be shared between timerlat-top and timerlat-hist. Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com> Cc: Luis Goncalves <lgoncalv@redhat.com> Cc: Gabriele Monaco <gmonaco@redhat.com> Cc: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250218145859.27762-2-tglozar@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Tomas Glozar <tglozar@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2024-05-15rtla/auto-analysis: Replace \t with spacesDaniel Bristot de Oliveira
When copying timerlat auto-analysis from a terminal to some web pages or chats, the \t are being replaced with a single ' ' or ' ', breaking the output. For example: ## CPU 3 hit stop tracing, analyzing it ## IRQ handler delay: 1.30 us (0.11 %) IRQ latency: 1.90 us Timerlat IRQ duration: 3.00 us (0.24 %) Blocking thread: 1223.16 us (99.00 %) insync:4048 1223.16 us IRQ interference 4.93 us (0.40 %) local_timer:236 4.93 us ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thread latency: 1235.47 us (100%) Replace \t with spaces to avoid this problem. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/ec7ed2b2809c22ab0dfc8eb7c805ab9cddc4254a.1713968967.git.bristot@kernel.org Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com> Fixes: 27e348b221f6 ("rtla/timerlat: Add auto-analysis core") Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org>
2023-09-12rtla/timerlat_aa: Fix previous IRQ delay for IRQs that happens after thread ↵Daniel Bristot de Oliveira
sample timerlat auto-analysis takes note of all IRQs, before or after the execution of the timerlat thread. Because we cannot go backward in the trace (we will fix it when moving to trace-cmd lib?), timerlat aa take note of the last IRQ execution in the waiting for the IRQ state, and then print it if it is executed after the expected timer IRQ starting time. After the thread sample, the timerlat starts recording the next IRQs as "previous" irq for the next occurrence. However, if an IRQ happens after the thread measurement but before the tracing stops, it is classified as a previous IRQ. That is not wrong, as it can be "previous" for the subsequent activation. What is wrong is considering it as a potential source for the last activation. Ignore the IRQ interference that happens after the IRQ starting time for now. A future improvement for timerlat can be either keeping a list of previous IRQ execution or using the trace-cmd library. Still, it requires further investigation - it is a new feature. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/a44a3f5c801dcc697bacf7325b65d4a5b0460537.1691162043.git.bristot@kernel.org Fixes: 27e348b221f6 ("rtla/timerlat: Add auto-analysis core") Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org>
2023-09-12rtla/timerlat_aa: Fix negative IRQ delayDaniel Bristot de Oliveira
When estimating the IRQ timer delay, we are dealing with two different clock sources: the external clock source that timerlat uses as a reference and the clock used by the tracer. There are also two moments: the time reading the clock and the timer in which the event is placed in the buffer (the trace event timestamp). If the processor is slow or there is some hardware noise, the difference between the timestamp and the external clock, read can be longer than the IRQ handler delay, resulting in a negative time. If so, set IRQ to start delay as 0. In the end, it is less near-zero and relevant then the noise. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/a066fb667c7136d86dcddb3c7ccd72587db3e7c7.1691162043.git.bristot@kernel.org Fixes: 27e348b221f6 ("rtla/timerlat: Add auto-analysis core") Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org>
2023-09-12rtla/timerlat_aa: Zero thread sum after every sample analysisDaniel Bristot de Oliveira
The thread thread_thread_sum accounts for thread interference during a single activation. It was not being zeroed, so it was accumulating thread interference over all activations. It was not that visible when timerlat was the highest priority. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/97bff55b0141f2d01b47d9450a5672fde147b89a.1691162043.git.bristot@kernel.org Fixes: 27e348b221f6 ("rtla/timerlat: Add auto-analysis core") Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org>
2023-06-13rtla/timerlat: Give timerlat auto analysis its own instanceDaniel Bristot de Oliveira
Currently, the auto-analysis is attached to the timerlat top instance. The idea was to avoid creating another instance just for that, so one instance could be reused. The drawback is that, by doing so, the auto-analysis run for the entire session, consuming CPU time. On my 24 box CPUs for timerlat with a 100 us period consumed 50 % with auto analysis, but only 16 % without. By creating an instance for auto-analysis, we can keep the processing stopped until a stop tracing condition is hit. Once it happens, timerlat auto-analysis can use its own trace instance to parse only the end of the trace. By doing so, auto-analysis stop consuming cpu time when it is not needed. If the --aa-only is passed, the timerlat top instance is reused for auto analysis. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/346b7168c1bae552a415715ec6d23c129a43bdb7.1686066600.git.bristot@kernel.org Cc: William White <chwhite@redhat.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Tested-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2023-04-25rtla/timerlat: Fix "Previous IRQ" auto analysis' lineDaniel Bristot de Oliveira
The "Previous IRQ interference" line is misaligned and without a \n, breaking the tool's output: ## CPU 12 hit stop tracing, analyzing it ## Previous IRQ interference: up to 2.22 us IRQ handler delay: 18.06 us (0.00 %) IRQ latency: 18.52 us Timerlat IRQ duration: 4.41 us (0.00 %) Blocking thread: 216.93 us (0.03 %) Fix the output: ## CPU 7 hit stop tracing, analyzing it ## Previous IRQ interference: up to 8.93 us IRQ handler delay: 0.98 us (0.00 %) IRQ latency: 2.95 us Timerlat IRQ duration: 11.26 us (0.03 %) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-devel/8b5819077f15ccf24745c9bf3205451e16ee32d9.1679685525.git.bristot@kernel.org Fixes: 27e348b221f6 ("rtla/timerlat: Add auto-analysis core") Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2023-02-02rtla/timerlat: Add auto-analysis coreDaniel Bristot de Oliveira
Currently, timerlat displays a summary of the timerlat tracer results saving the trace if the system hits a stop condition. While this represented a huge step forward, the root cause was not that is accessible to non-expert users. The auto-analysis fulfill this gap by parsing the trace timerlat runs, printing an intuitive auto-analysis. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1ee073822f6a2cbb33da0c817331d0d4045e837f.1675179318.git.bristot@kernel.org Cc: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>