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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/developer/conf.py | 225 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/developer/index.rst | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/developer/logging.rst | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/developer/tracing.rst | 314 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/developer/workflow.rst | 23 |
5 files changed, 450 insertions, 115 deletions
diff --git a/doc/developer/conf.py b/doc/developer/conf.py index 9acfab739a..f4bb65ec79 100644 --- a/doc/developer/conf.py +++ b/doc/developer/conf.py @@ -21,48 +21,48 @@ from sphinx.highlighting import lexers # If extensions (or modules to document with autodoc) are in another directory, # add these directories to sys.path here. If the directory is relative to the # documentation root, use os.path.abspath to make it absolute, like shown here. -#sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath('.')) +# sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath('.')) # -- General configuration ------------------------------------------------ # If your documentation needs a minimal Sphinx version, state it here. -needs_sphinx = '1.0' +needs_sphinx = "1.0" # prolog for various variable substitutions -rst_prolog = '' +rst_prolog = "" # Add any Sphinx extension module names here, as strings. They can be # extensions coming with Sphinx (named 'sphinx.ext.*') or your custom # ones. -extensions = ['sphinx.ext.todo', 'sphinx.ext.graphviz'] +extensions = ["sphinx.ext.todo", "sphinx.ext.graphviz"] # Add any paths that contain templates here, relative to this directory. -templates_path = ['_templates'] +templates_path = ["_templates"] # The suffix(es) of source filenames. # You can specify multiple suffix as a list of string: # source_suffix = ['.rst'] -source_suffix = '.rst' +source_suffix = ".rst" # The encoding of source files. -#source_encoding = 'utf-8-sig' +# source_encoding = 'utf-8-sig' # The master toctree document. -master_doc = 'index' +master_doc = "index" # General information about the project. -project = u'FRR' -copyright = u'2017, FRR' -author = u'FRR authors' +project = u"FRR" +copyright = u"2017, FRR" +author = u"FRR authors" # The version info for the project you're documenting, acts as replacement for # |version| and |release|, also used in various other places throughout the # built documents. # The short X.Y version. -version = u'?.?' +version = u"?.?" # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags. -release = u'?.?-?' +release = u"?.?-?" # ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- @@ -72,48 +72,49 @@ release = u'?.?-?' # Various installation prefixes. Values are extracted from config.status. # Reasonable defaults are set in case that file does not exist. replace_vars = { - 'AUTHORS': author, - 'COPYRIGHT_YEAR': '1999-2005', - 'COPYRIGHT_STR': 'Copyright (c) 1999-2005', - 'PACKAGE_NAME': project.lower(), - 'PACKAGE_TARNAME': project.lower(), - 'PACKAGE_STRING': project.lower() + ' latest', - 'PACKAGE_URL': 'https://frrouting.org/', - 'PACKAGE_VERSION': 'latest', - 'INSTALL_PREFIX_ETC': '/etc/frr', - 'INSTALL_PREFIX_SBIN': '/usr/lib/frr', - 'INSTALL_PREFIX_STATE': '/var/run/frr', - 'INSTALL_PREFIX_MODULES': '/usr/lib/frr/modules', - 'INSTALL_USER': 'frr', - 'INSTALL_GROUP': 'frr', - 'INSTALL_VTY_GROUP': 'frrvty', - 'GROUP': 'frr', - 'USER': 'frr', + "AUTHORS": author, + "COPYRIGHT_YEAR": "1999-2005", + "COPYRIGHT_STR": "Copyright (c) 1999-2005", + "PACKAGE_NAME": project.lower(), + "PACKAGE_TARNAME": project.lower(), + "PACKAGE_STRING": project.lower() + " latest", + "PACKAGE_URL": "https://frrouting.org/", + "PACKAGE_VERSION": "latest", + "INSTALL_PREFIX_ETC": "/etc/frr", + "INSTALL_PREFIX_SBIN": "/usr/lib/frr", + "INSTALL_PREFIX_STATE": "/var/run/frr", + "INSTALL_PREFIX_MODULES": "/usr/lib/frr/modules", + "INSTALL_USER": "frr", + "INSTALL_GROUP": "frr", + "INSTALL_VTY_GROUP": "frrvty", + "GROUP": "frr", + "USER": "frr", } # extract version information, installation location, other stuff we need to # use when building final documents val = re.compile('^S\["([^"]+)"\]="(.*)"$') try: - with open('../../config.status', 'r') as cfgstatus: + with open("../../config.status", "r") as cfgstatus: for ln in cfgstatus.readlines(): m = val.match(ln) - if not m or m.group(1) not in replace_vars.keys(): continue + if not m or m.group(1) not in replace_vars.keys(): + continue replace_vars[m.group(1)] = m.group(2) except IOError: # if config.status doesn't exist, just ignore it pass # manually fill out some of these we can't get from config.status -replace_vars['COPYRIGHT_STR'] = "Copyright (c)" -replace_vars['COPYRIGHT_STR'] += ' {0}'.format(replace_vars['COPYRIGHT_YEAR']) -replace_vars['COPYRIGHT_STR'] += ' {0}'.format(replace_vars['AUTHORS']) -release = replace_vars['PACKAGE_VERSION'] -version = release.split('-')[0] +replace_vars["COPYRIGHT_STR"] = "Copyright (c)" +replace_vars["COPYRIGHT_STR"] += " {0}".format(replace_vars["COPYRIGHT_YEAR"]) +replace_vars["COPYRIGHT_STR"] += " {0}".format(replace_vars["AUTHORS"]) +release = replace_vars["PACKAGE_VERSION"] +version = release.split("-")[0] # add substitutions to prolog for key, value in replace_vars.items(): - rst_prolog += '.. |{0}| replace:: {1}\n'.format(key, value) + rst_prolog += ".. |{0}| replace:: {1}\n".format(key, value) # The language for content autogenerated by Sphinx. Refer to documentation @@ -125,37 +126,42 @@ language = None # There are two options for replacing |today|: either, you set today to some # non-false value, then it is used: -#today = '' +# today = '' # Else, today_fmt is used as the format for a strftime call. -#today_fmt = '%B %d, %Y' +# today_fmt = '%B %d, %Y' # List of patterns, relative to source directory, that match files and # directories to ignore when looking for source files. -exclude_patterns = ['_build', 'building-libyang.rst', 'topotests-snippets.rst', 'include-compile.rst'] +exclude_patterns = [ + "_build", + "building-libyang.rst", + "topotests-snippets.rst", + "include-compile.rst", +] # The reST default role (used for this markup: `text`) to use for all # documents. -#default_role = None +# default_role = None # If true, '()' will be appended to :func: etc. cross-reference text. -#add_function_parentheses = True +# add_function_parentheses = True # If true, the current module name will be prepended to all description # unit titles (such as .. function::). -#add_module_names = True +# add_module_names = True # If true, sectionauthor and moduleauthor directives will be shown in the # output. They are ignored by default. -#show_authors = False +# show_authors = False # The name of the Pygments (syntax highlighting) style to use. -pygments_style = 'sphinx' +pygments_style = "sphinx" # A list of ignored prefixes for module index sorting. -#modindex_common_prefix = [] +# modindex_common_prefix = [] # If true, keep warnings as "system message" paragraphs in the built documents. -#keep_warnings = False +# keep_warnings = False # If true, `todo` and `todoList` produce output, else they produce nothing. todo_include_todos = True @@ -165,165 +171,158 @@ todo_include_todos = True # The theme to use for HTML and HTML Help pages. See the documentation for # a list of builtin themes. -html_theme = 'default' +html_theme = "default" try: import sphinx_rtd_theme - html_theme = 'sphinx_rtd_theme' + html_theme = "sphinx_rtd_theme" except ImportError: pass # Theme options are theme-specific and customize the look and feel of a theme # further. For a list of options available for each theme, see the # documentation. -#html_theme_options = { +# html_theme_options = { # 'sidebarbgcolor': '#374249' -#} +# } # Add any paths that contain custom themes here, relative to this directory. -#html_theme_path = [] +# html_theme_path = [] # The name for this set of Sphinx documents. If None, it defaults to # "<project> v<release> documentation". -#html_title = None +# html_title = None # A shorter title for the navigation bar. Default is the same as html_title. -#html_short_title = None +# html_short_title = None # The name of an image file (relative to this directory) to place at the top # of the sidebar. -html_logo = '../figures/frr-icon.svg' +html_logo = "../figures/frr-icon.svg" # The name of an image file (within the static path) to use as favicon of the # docs. This file should be a Windows icon file (.ico) being 16x16 or 32x32 # pixels large. -html_favicon = '../figures/frr-logo-icon.png' +html_favicon = "../figures/frr-logo-icon.png" # Add any paths that contain custom static files (such as style sheets) here, # relative to this directory. They are copied after the builtin static files, # so a file named "default.css" will overwrite the builtin "default.css". -html_static_path = ['_static'] +html_static_path = ["_static"] # Add any extra paths that contain custom files (such as robots.txt or # .htaccess) here, relative to this directory. These files are copied # directly to the root of the documentation. -#html_extra_path = [] +# html_extra_path = [] # If not '', a 'Last updated on:' timestamp is inserted at every page bottom, # using the given strftime format. -#html_last_updated_fmt = '%b %d, %Y' +# html_last_updated_fmt = '%b %d, %Y' # If true, SmartyPants will be used to convert quotes and dashes to # typographically correct entities. -#html_use_smartypants = True +# html_use_smartypants = True # Custom sidebar templates, maps document names to template names. -#html_sidebars = {} +# html_sidebars = {} # Additional templates that should be rendered to pages, maps page names to # template names. -#html_additional_pages = {} +# html_additional_pages = {} # If false, no module index is generated. -#html_domain_indices = True +# html_domain_indices = True # If false, no index is generated. -#html_use_index = True +# html_use_index = True # If true, the index is split into individual pages for each letter. -#html_split_index = False +# html_split_index = False # If true, links to the reST sources are added to the pages. -#html_show_sourcelink = True +# html_show_sourcelink = True # If true, "Created using Sphinx" is shown in the HTML footer. Default is True. -#html_show_sphinx = True +# html_show_sphinx = True # If true, "(C) Copyright ..." is shown in the HTML footer. Default is True. -#html_show_copyright = True +# html_show_copyright = True # If true, an OpenSearch description file will be output, and all pages will # contain a <link> tag referring to it. The value of this option must be the # base URL from which the finished HTML is served. -#html_use_opensearch = '' +# html_use_opensearch = '' # This is the file name suffix for HTML files (e.g. ".xhtml"). -#html_file_suffix = None +# html_file_suffix = None # Language to be used for generating the HTML full-text search index. # Sphinx supports the following languages: # 'da', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fi', 'fr', 'hu', 'it', 'ja' # 'nl', 'no', 'pt', 'ro', 'ru', 'sv', 'tr' -#html_search_language = 'en' +# html_search_language = 'en' # A dictionary with options for the search language support, empty by default. # Now only 'ja' uses this config value -#html_search_options = {'type': 'default'} +# html_search_options = {'type': 'default'} # The name of a javascript file (relative to the configuration directory) that # implements a search results scorer. If empty, the default will be used. -#html_search_scorer = 'scorer.js' +# html_search_scorer = 'scorer.js' # Output file base name for HTML help builder. -htmlhelp_basename = 'FRRdoc' +htmlhelp_basename = "FRRdoc" # -- Options for LaTeX output --------------------------------------------- latex_elements = { -# The paper size ('letterpaper' or 'a4paper'). -#'papersize': 'letterpaper', - -# The font size ('10pt', '11pt' or '12pt'). -#'pointsize': '10pt', - -# Additional stuff for the LaTeX preamble. -#'preamble': '', - -# Latex figure (float) alignment -#'figure_align': 'htbp', + # The paper size ('letterpaper' or 'a4paper'). + #'papersize': 'letterpaper', + # The font size ('10pt', '11pt' or '12pt'). + #'pointsize': '10pt', + # Additional stuff for the LaTeX preamble. + #'preamble': '', + # Latex figure (float) alignment + #'figure_align': 'htbp', } # Grouping the document tree into LaTeX files. List of tuples # (source start file, target name, title, # author, documentclass [howto, manual, or own class]). latex_documents = [ - (master_doc, 'FRR.tex', u"FRR Developer's Manual", - u'FRR', 'manual'), + (master_doc, "FRR.tex", u"FRR Developer's Manual", u"FRR", "manual"), ] # The name of an image file (relative to this directory) to place at the top of # the title page. -latex_logo = '../figures/frr-logo-medium.png' +latex_logo = "../figures/frr-logo-medium.png" # For "manual" documents, if this is true, then toplevel headings are parts, # not chapters. -#latex_use_parts = False +# latex_use_parts = False # If true, show page references after internal links. -#latex_show_pagerefs = False +# latex_show_pagerefs = False # If true, show URL addresses after external links. -#latex_show_urls = False +# latex_show_urls = False # Documents to append as an appendix to all manuals. -#latex_appendices = [] +# latex_appendices = [] # If false, no module index is generated. -#latex_domain_indices = True +# latex_domain_indices = True # -- Options for manual page output --------------------------------------- # One entry per manual page. List of tuples # (source start file, name, description, authors, manual section). -man_pages = [ - (master_doc, 'frr', u"FRR Developer's Manual", - [author], 1) -] +man_pages = [(master_doc, "frr", u"FRR Developer's Manual", [author], 1)] # If true, show URL addresses after external links. -#man_show_urls = False +# man_show_urls = False # -- Options for Texinfo output ------------------------------------------- @@ -332,38 +331,44 @@ man_pages = [ # (source start file, target name, title, author, # dir menu entry, description, category) texinfo_documents = [ - (master_doc, 'frr', u"FRR Developer's Manual", - author, 'FRR', 'One line description of project.', - 'Miscellaneous'), + ( + master_doc, + "frr", + u"FRR Developer's Manual", + author, + "FRR", + "One line description of project.", + "Miscellaneous", + ), ] # Documents to append as an appendix to all manuals. -#texinfo_appendices = [] +# texinfo_appendices = [] # If false, no module index is generated. -#texinfo_domain_indices = True +# texinfo_domain_indices = True # How to display URL addresses: 'footnote', 'no', or 'inline'. -#texinfo_show_urls = 'footnote' +# texinfo_show_urls = 'footnote' # If true, do not generate a @detailmenu in the "Top" node's menu. -#texinfo_no_detailmenu = False +# texinfo_no_detailmenu = False # contents of ../extra/frrlexer.py. # This is read here to support VPATH build. Since this section is execfile()'d # with the file location, we can safely use a relative path here to save the # contents of the lexer file for later use even if our relative path changes # due to VPATH. -with open('../extra/frrlexer.py', 'rb') as lex: +with open("../extra/frrlexer.py", "rb") as lex: frrlexerpy = lex.read() # custom extensions here def setup(app): # object type for FRR CLI commands, can be extended to document parent CLI # node later on - app.add_object_type('clicmd', 'clicmd') + app.add_object_type("clicmd", "clicmd") # css overrides for HTML theme - app.add_stylesheet('overrides.css') + app.add_stylesheet("overrides.css") # load Pygments lexer for FRR config syntax # # NB: in Pygments 2.2+ this can be done with `load_lexer_from_file`, but we @@ -373,4 +378,4 @@ def setup(app): # frrlexer = pygments.lexers.load_lexer_from_file('../extra/frrlexer.py', lexername="FRRLexer") custom_namespace = {} exec(frrlexerpy, custom_namespace) - lexers['frr'] = custom_namespace['FRRLexer']() + lexers["frr"] = custom_namespace["FRRLexer"]() diff --git a/doc/developer/index.rst b/doc/developer/index.rst index 1f803b3772..1ba0f31c8a 100644 --- a/doc/developer/index.rst +++ b/doc/developer/index.rst @@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ FRRouting Developer's Guide packaging process-architecture library + tracing testing bgpd fpm diff --git a/doc/developer/logging.rst b/doc/developer/logging.rst index 0430ad72a3..2f2444373c 100644 --- a/doc/developer/logging.rst +++ b/doc/developer/logging.rst @@ -83,6 +83,8 @@ Extensions +-----------+--------------------------+----------------------------------------------+ | ``%pNHs`` | ``struct nexthop *`` | ``1.2.3.4 if 15`` | +-----------+--------------------------+----------------------------------------------+ +| ``%pFX`` + ``struct bgp_dest *`` | ``fe80::1234/64`` available in BGP only | ++-----------+--------------------------+----------------------------------------------+ Printf features like field lengths can be used normally with these extensions, e.g. ``%-15pI4`` works correctly. diff --git a/doc/developer/tracing.rst b/doc/developer/tracing.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..ee0a6be008 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/developer/tracing.rst @@ -0,0 +1,314 @@ +.. _tracing: + +Tracing +======= + +FRR has a small but growing number of static tracepoints available for use with +various tracing systems. These tracepoints can assist with debugging, +performance analysis and to help understand program flow. They can also be used +for monitoring. + +Developers are encouraged to write new static tracepoints where sensible. They +are not compiled in by default, and even when they are, they have no overhead +unless enabled by a tracer, so it is okay to be liberal with them. + + +Supported tracers +----------------- + +Presently two types of tracepoints are supported: + +- `LTTng tracepoints <https://lttng.org/>`_ +- `USDT probes <http://dtrace.org/guide/chp-usdt.html>`_ + +LTTng is a tracing framework for Linux only. It offers extremely low overhead +and very rich tracing capabilities. FRR supports LTTng-UST, which is the +userspace implementation. LTTng tracepoints are very rich in detail. No kernel +modules are needed. Besides only being available for Linux, the primary +downside of LTTng is the need to link to ``lttng-ust``. + +USDT probes originate from Solaris, where they were invented for use with +dtrace. They are a kernel feature. At least Linux and FreeBSD support them. No +library is needed; support is compiled in via a system header +(``<sys/sdt.h>``). USDT probes are much slower than LTTng tracepoints and offer +less flexibility in what information can be gleaned from them. + +LTTng is capable of tracing USDT probes but has limited support for them. +SystemTap and dtrace both work only with USDT probes. + + +Usage +----- + +To compile with tracepoints, use one of the following configure flags: + +.. program:: configure.ac + +.. option:: --enable-lttng=yes + + Generate LTTng tracepoints + +.. option:: --enable-usdt=yes + + Generate USDT probes + +To trace with LTTng, compile with either one (prefer :option:`--enable-lttng` +run the target in non-forking mode (no ``-d``) and use LTTng as usual (refer to +LTTng user manual). When using USDT probes with LTTng, follow the example in +`this article +<https://lttng.org/blog/2019/10/15/new-dynamic-user-space-tracing-in-lttng/>`_. +To trace with dtrace or SystemTap, compile with :option:`--enable-usdt=yes` and +use your tracer as usual. + +To see available USDT probes:: + + readelf -n /usr/lib/frr/bgpd + +Example:: + + root@host ~> readelf -n /usr/lib/frr/bgpd + + Displaying notes found in: .note.ABI-tag + Owner Data size Description + GNU 0x00000010 NT_GNU_ABI_TAG (ABI version tag) + OS: Linux, ABI: 3.2.0 + + Displaying notes found in: .note.gnu.build-id + Owner Data size Description + GNU 0x00000014 NT_GNU_BUILD_ID (unique build ID bitstring) + Build ID: 4f42933a69dcb42a519bc459b2105177c8adf55d + + Displaying notes found in: .note.stapsdt + Owner Data size Description + stapsdt 0x00000045 NT_STAPSDT (SystemTap probe descriptors) + Provider: frr_bgp + Name: packet_read + Location: 0x000000000045ee48, Base: 0x00000000005a09d2, Semaphore: 0x0000000000000000 + Arguments: 8@-96(%rbp) 8@-104(%rbp) + stapsdt 0x00000047 NT_STAPSDT (SystemTap probe descriptors) + Provider: frr_bgp + Name: open_process + Location: 0x000000000047c43b, Base: 0x00000000005a09d2, Semaphore: 0x0000000000000000 + Arguments: 8@-224(%rbp) 2@-226(%rbp) + stapsdt 0x00000049 NT_STAPSDT (SystemTap probe descriptors) + Provider: frr_bgp + Name: update_process + Location: 0x000000000047c4bf, Base: 0x00000000005a09d2, Semaphore: 0x0000000000000000 + Arguments: 8@-208(%rbp) 2@-210(%rbp) + stapsdt 0x0000004f NT_STAPSDT (SystemTap probe descriptors) + Provider: frr_bgp + Name: notification_process + Location: 0x000000000047c557, Base: 0x00000000005a09d2, Semaphore: 0x0000000000000000 + Arguments: 8@-192(%rbp) 2@-194(%rbp) + stapsdt 0x0000004c NT_STAPSDT (SystemTap probe descriptors) + Provider: frr_bgp + Name: keepalive_process + Location: 0x000000000047c5db, Base: 0x00000000005a09d2, Semaphore: 0x0000000000000000 + Arguments: 8@-176(%rbp) 2@-178(%rbp) + stapsdt 0x0000004a NT_STAPSDT (SystemTap probe descriptors) + Provider: frr_bgp + Name: refresh_process + Location: 0x000000000047c673, Base: 0x00000000005a09d2, Semaphore: 0x0000000000000000 + Arguments: 8@-160(%rbp) 2@-162(%rbp) + stapsdt 0x0000004d NT_STAPSDT (SystemTap probe descriptors) + Provider: frr_bgp + Name: capability_process + Location: 0x000000000047c6f7, Base: 0x00000000005a09d2, Semaphore: 0x0000000000000000 + Arguments: 8@-144(%rbp) 2@-146(%rbp) + stapsdt 0x0000006f NT_STAPSDT (SystemTap probe descriptors) + Provider: frr_bgp + Name: output_filter + Location: 0x000000000048e33a, Base: 0x00000000005a09d2, Semaphore: 0x0000000000000000 + Arguments: 8@-144(%rbp) 8@-152(%rbp) 4@-156(%rbp) 4@-160(%rbp) 8@-168(%rbp) + stapsdt 0x0000007d NT_STAPSDT (SystemTap probe descriptors) + Provider: frr_bgp + Name: process_update + Location: 0x0000000000491f10, Base: 0x00000000005a09d2, Semaphore: 0x0000000000000000 + Arguments: 8@-800(%rbp) 8@-808(%rbp) 4@-812(%rbp) 4@-816(%rbp) 4@-820(%rbp) 8@-832(%rbp) + stapsdt 0x0000006e NT_STAPSDT (SystemTap probe descriptors) + Provider: frr_bgp + Name: input_filter + Location: 0x00000000004940ed, Base: 0x00000000005a09d2, Semaphore: 0x0000000000000000 + Arguments: 8@-144(%rbp) 8@-152(%rbp) 4@-156(%rbp) 4@-160(%rbp) 8@-168(%rbp) + + +To see available LTTng probes, run the target, create a session and then:: + + lttng list --userspace | grep frr + +Example:: + + root@host ~> lttng list --userspace | grep frr + PID: 11157 - Name: /usr/lib/frr/bgpd + frr_libfrr:route_node_get (loglevel: TRACE_DEBUG_LINE (13)) (type: tracepoint) + frr_libfrr:list_sort (loglevel: TRACE_DEBUG_LINE (13)) (type: tracepoint) + frr_libfrr:list_delete_node (loglevel: TRACE_DEBUG_LINE (13)) (type: tracepoint) + frr_libfrr:list_remove (loglevel: TRACE_DEBUG_LINE (13)) (type: tracepoint) + frr_libfrr:list_add (loglevel: TRACE_DEBUG_LINE (13)) (type: tracepoint) + frr_libfrr:memfree (loglevel: TRACE_DEBUG_LINE (13)) (type: tracepoint) + frr_libfrr:memalloc (loglevel: TRACE_DEBUG_LINE (13)) (type: tracepoint) + frr_libfrr:frr_pthread_stop (loglevel: TRACE_DEBUG_LINE (13)) (type: tracepoint) + frr_libfrr:frr_pthread_run (loglevel: TRACE_DEBUG_LINE (13)) (type: tracepoint) + frr_libfrr:thread_call (loglevel: TRACE_INFO (6)) (type: tracepoint) + frr_libfrr:thread_cancel_async (loglevel: TRACE_INFO (6)) (type: tracepoint) + frr_libfrr:thread_cancel (loglevel: TRACE_INFO (6)) (type: tracepoint) + frr_libfrr:schedule_write (loglevel: TRACE_INFO (6)) (type: tracepoint) + frr_libfrr:schedule_read (loglevel: TRACE_INFO (6)) (type: tracepoint) + frr_libfrr:schedule_event (loglevel: TRACE_INFO (6)) (type: tracepoint) + frr_libfrr:schedule_timer (loglevel: TRACE_INFO (6)) (type: tracepoint) + frr_libfrr:hash_release (loglevel: TRACE_INFO (6)) (type: tracepoint) + frr_libfrr:hash_insert (loglevel: TRACE_INFO (6)) (type: tracepoint) + frr_libfrr:hash_get (loglevel: TRACE_INFO (6)) (type: tracepoint) + frr_bgp:output_filter (loglevel: TRACE_INFO (6)) (type: tracepoint) + frr_bgp:input_filter (loglevel: TRACE_INFO (6)) (type: tracepoint) + frr_bgp:process_update (loglevel: TRACE_INFO (6)) (type: tracepoint) + frr_bgp:packet_read (loglevel: TRACE_INFO (6)) (type: tracepoint) + frr_bgp:refresh_process (loglevel: TRACE_INFO (6)) (type: tracepoint) + frr_bgp:capability_process (loglevel: TRACE_INFO (6)) (type: tracepoint) + frr_bgp:notification_process (loglevel: TRACE_INFO (6)) (type: tracepoint) + frr_bgp:update_process (loglevel: TRACE_INFO (6)) (type: tracepoint) + frr_bgp:keepalive_process (loglevel: TRACE_INFO (6)) (type: tracepoint) + frr_bgp:open_process (loglevel: TRACE_INFO (6)) (type: tracepoint) + +When using LTTng, you can also get zlogs as trace events by enabling +the ``lttng_ust_tracelog:*`` event class. + +Concepts +-------- + +Tracepoints are statically defined points in code where a developer has +determined that outside observers might gain something from knowing what is +going on at that point. It's like logging but with the ability to dump large +amounts of internal data with much higher performance. LTTng has a good summary +`here <https://lttng.org/docs/#doc-what-is-tracing>`_. + +Each tracepoint has a "provider" and name. The provider is basically a +namespace; for example, ``bgpd`` uses the provider name ``frr_bgp``. The name +is arbitrary, but because providers share a global namespace on the user's +system, all providers from FRR should be prefixed by ``frr_``. The tracepoint +name is just the name of the event. Events are globally named by their provider +and name. For example, the event when BGP reads a packet from a peer is +``frr_bgp:packet_read``. + +To do tracing, the tracing tool of choice is told which events to listen to. +For example, to listen to all events from FRR's BGP implementation, you would +enable the events ``frr_bgp:*``. In the same tracing session you could also +choose to record all memory allocations by enabling the ``malloc`` tracepoints +in ``libc`` as well as all kernel skb operations using the various in-kernel +tracepoints. This allows you to build as complete a view as desired of what the +system is doing during the tracing window (subject to what tracepoints are +available). + +Of particular use are the tracepoints for FRR's internal event scheduler; +tracing these allows you to see all events executed by all event loops for the +target(s) in question. Here's a couple events selected from a trace of BGP +during startup:: + + ... + + [18:41:35.750131763] (+0.000048901) host frr_libfrr:thread_call: { cpu_id = + 1 }, { threadmaster_name = "default", function_name = "zclient_connect", + scheduled_from = "lib/zclient.c", scheduled_on_line = 3877, thread_addr = + 0x0, file_descriptor = 0, event_value = 0, argument_ptr = 0xA37F70, timer = + 0 } + + [18:41:35.750175124] (+0.000020001) host frr_libfrr:thread_call: { cpu_id = + 1 }, { threadmaster_name = "default", function_name = "frr_config_read_in", + scheduled_from = "lib/libfrr.c", scheduled_on_line = 934, thread_addr = 0x0, + file_descriptor = 0, event_value = 0, argument_ptr = 0x0, timer = 0 } + + [18:41:35.753341264] (+0.000010532) host frr_libfrr:thread_call: { cpu_id = + 1 }, { threadmaster_name = "default", function_name = "bgp_event", + scheduled_from = "bgpd/bgpd.c", scheduled_on_line = 142, thread_addr = 0x0, + file_descriptor = 2, event_value = 2, argument_ptr = 0xE4D780, timer = 2 } + + [18:41:35.753404186] (+0.000004910) host frr_libfrr:thread_call: { cpu_id = + 1 }, { threadmaster_name = "default", function_name = "zclient_read", + scheduled_from = "lib/zclient.c", scheduled_on_line = 3891, thread_addr = + 0x0, file_descriptor = 40, event_value = 40, argument_ptr = 0xA37F70, timer + = 40 } + + ... + + +Very useful for getting a time-ordered look into what the process is doing. + + +Adding Tracepoints +------------------ + +Adding new tracepoints is a two step process: + +1. Define the tracepoint +2. Use the tracepoint + +Tracepoint definitions state the "provider" and name of the tracepoint, along +with any values it will produce, and how to format them. This is done with +macros provided by LTTng. USDT probes do not use definitions and are inserted +at the trace site with a single macro. However, to maintain support for both +platforms, you must define an LTTng tracepoint when adding a new one. +``frrtrace()`` will expand to the appropriate ``DTRACE_PROBEn`` macro when USDT +is in use. + +If you are adding new tracepoints to a daemon that has no tracepoints, that +daemon's ``subdir.am`` must be updated to conditionally link ``lttng-ust``. +Look at ``bgpd/subdir.am`` for an example of how to do this; grep for +``UST_LIBS``. Create new files named ``<daemon>_trace.[ch]``. Use +``bgpd/bgp_trace.[h]`` as boilerplate. If you are adding tracepoints to a +daemon that already has them, look for the ``<daemon>_trace.h`` file; +tracepoints are written here. + +Refer to the `LTTng developer docs +<https://lttng.org/docs/#doc-c-application>`_ for details on how to define +tracepoints. + +To use them, simply add a call to ``frrtrace()`` at the point you'd like the +event to be emitted, like so: + +.. code-block:: c + + ... + + switch (type) { + case BGP_MSG_OPEN: + frrtrace(2, frr_bgp, open_process, peer, size); /* tracepoint */ + atomic_fetch_add_explicit(&peer->open_in, 1, + memory_order_relaxed); + mprc = bgp_open_receive(peer, size); + + ... + +After recompiling this tracepoint will now be available, either as a USDT probe +or LTTng tracepoint, depending on your compilation choice. + + +trace.h +^^^^^^^ + +Because FRR supports multiple types of tracepoints, the code for creating them +abstracts away the underlying system being used. This abstraction code is in +``lib/trace.h``. There are 2 function-like macros that are used for working +with tracepoints. + +- ``frrtrace()`` defines tracepoints +- ``frrtrace_enabled()`` checks whether a tracepoint is enabled + +There is also ``frrtracelog()``, which is used in zlog core code to make zlog +messages available as trace events to LTTng. This should not be used elsewhere. + +There is additional documentation in the header. The key thing to note is that +you should never include ``trace.h`` in source where you plan to put +tracepoints; include the tracepoint definition header instead (e.g. +:file:`bgp_trace.h`). + + +Limitations +----------- + +Tracers do not like ``fork()`` or ``dlopen()``. LTTng has some workarounds for +this involving interceptor libraries using ``LD_PRELOAD``. + +USDT tracepoints are relatively high overhead and probably shouldn't be used +for "flight recorder" functionality, i.e. enabling and passively recording all +events for monitoring purposes. It's generally okay to use LTTng like this, +though. diff --git a/doc/developer/workflow.rst b/doc/developer/workflow.rst index f345464a35..4183ac6480 100644 --- a/doc/developer/workflow.rst +++ b/doc/developer/workflow.rst @@ -779,13 +779,12 @@ necessary replacements. .. _style-exceptions: Exceptions -^^^^^^^^^^ +"""""""""" FRR project code comes from a variety of sources, so there are some stylistic exceptions in place. They are organized here by branch. -For ``master`` -"""""""""""""" +For ``master``: BSD coding style applies to: @@ -797,8 +796,7 @@ BSD coding style applies to: - Indents are 4 spaces - Function return types are on their own line -For ``stable/3.0`` and ``stable/2.0`` -""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" +For ``stable/3.0`` and ``stable/2.0``: GNU coding style apply to the following parts: @@ -816,6 +814,21 @@ BSD coding style applies to: - ``ldpd/`` + +Python Code +^^^^^^^^^^^ + +Format all Python code with `black <https://github.com/psf/black>`_. + +In a line:: + + python3 -m black <file.py> + +Run this on any Python files you modify before committing. + +FRR's Python code has been formatted with black version 19.10b. + + YANG ^^^^ |
