User visible changes:
- Add an entry into MAINTAINERS file for RUST versions of code
There's now RUST code for tracing and static branches. To differentiate
that code from the C code, add entries in for the RUST version (with "[RUST]"
around it) so that the right maintainers get notified on changes.
- New bitmask-list option added to tracefs
When this is set, bitmasks in trace event are not displayed as hex
numbers, but instead as lists: e.g. 0-5,7,9 instead of 0000015f
- New show_event_filters file in tracefs
Instead of having to search all events/*/*/filter for any active filters
enabled in the trace instance, the file show_event_filters will list them
so that there's only one file that needs to be examined to see if any
filters are active.
- New show_event_triggers file in tracefs
Instead of having to search all events/*/*/trigger for any active triggers
enabled in the trace instance, the file show_event_triggers will list them
so that there's only one file that needs to be examined to see if any
triggers are active.
- Have traceoff_on_warning disable trace pintk buffer too
Recently recording of trace_printk() could go to other trace instances
instead of the top level instance. But if traceoff_on_warning triggers, it
doesn't stop the buffer with trace_printk() and that data can easily be
lost by being overwritten. Have traceoff_on_warning also disable the
instance that has trace_printk() being written to it.
- Update the hist_debug file to show what function the field uses
When CONFIG_HIST_TRIGGERS_DEBUG is enabled, a hist_debug file exists for
every event. This displays the internal data of any histogram enabled for
that event. But it is lacking the function that is called to process one
of its fields. This is very useful information that was missing when
debugging histograms.
- Up the histogram stack size from 16 to 31
Stack traces can be used as keys for event histograms. Currently the size
of the stack that is stored is limited to just 16 entries. But the storage
space in the histogram is 256 bytes, meaning that it can store up to 31
entries (plus one for the count of entries). Instead of letting that space
go to waste, up the limit from 16 to 31. This makes the keys much more
useful.
- Fix permissions of per CPU file buffer_size_kb
The per CPU file of buffer_size_kb was incorrectly set to read only in a
previous cleanup. It should be writable.
- Reset "last_boot_info" if the persistent buffer is cleared
The last_boot_info shows address information of a persistent ring buffer
if it contains data from a previous boot. It is cleared when recording
starts again, but it is not cleared when the buffer is reset. The data is
useless after a reset so clear it on reset too.
Internal changes:
- A change was made to allow tracepoint callbacks to have preemption
enabled, and instead be protected by SRCU. This required some updates to
the callbacks for perf and BPF.
perf needed to disable preemption directly in its callback because it
expects preemption disabled in the later code.
BPF needed to disable migration, as its code expects to run completely on
the same CPU.
- Have irq_work wake up other CPU if current CPU is "isolated"
When there's a waiter waiting on ring buffer data and a new event happens,
an irq work is triggered to wake up that waiter. This is noisy on isolated
CPUs (running NO_HZ_FULL). Trigger an IPI to a house keeping CPU instead.
- Use proper free of trigger_data instead of open coding it in.
- Remove redundant call of event_trigger_reset_filter()
It was called immediately in a function that was called right after it.
- Workqueue cleanups
- Report errors if tracing_update_buffers() were to fail.
- Make the enum update workqueue generic for other parts of tracing
On boot up, a work queue is created to convert enum names into their
numbers in the trace event format files. This work queue can also be used
for other aspects of tracing that takes some time and shouldn't be called
by the init call code.
The blk_trace initialization takes a bit of time. Have the initialization
code moved to the new tracing generic work queue function.
- Skip kprobe boot event creation call if there's no kprobes defined on cmdline
The kprobe initialization to set up kprobes if they are defined on the
cmdline requires taking the event_mutex lock. This can be held by other
tracing code doing initialization for a long time. Since kprobes added to
the kernel command line need to be setup immediately, as they may be
tracing early initialization code, they cannot be postponed in a work
queue and must be setup in the initcall code.
If there's no kprobe on the kernel cmdline, there's no reason to take the
mutex and slow down the boot up code waiting to get the lock only to find
out there's nothing to do. Simply exit out early if there's no kprobes on
the kernel cmdline.
If there are kprobes on the cmdline, then someone cares more about tracing
over the speed of boot up.
- Clean up the trigger code a bit
- Move code out of trace.c and into their own files
trace.c is now over 11,000 lines of code and has become more difficult to
maintain. Start splitting it up so that related code is in their own
files.
Move all the trace_printk() related code into trace_printk.c.
Move the __always_inline stack functions into trace.h.
Move the pid filtering code into a new trace_pid.c file.
- Better define the max latency and snapshot code
The latency tracers have a "max latency" buffer that is a copy of the main
buffer and gets swapped with it when a new high latency is detected. This
keeps the trace up to the highest latency around where this max_latency
buffer is never written to. It is only used to save the last max latency
trace.
A while ago a snapshot feature was added to tracefs to allow user space to
perform the same logic. It could also enable events to trigger a
"snapshot" if one of their fields hit a new high. This was built on top of
the latency max_latency buffer logic.
Because snapshots came later, they were dependent on the latency tracers
to be enabled. In reality, the latency tracers depend on the snapshot code
and not the other way around. It was just that they came first.
Restructure the code and the kconfigs to have the latency tracers depend
on snapshot code instead. This actually simplifies the logic a bit and
allows to disable more when the latency tracers are not defined and the
snapshot code is.
- Fix a "false sharing" in the hwlat tracer code
The loop to search for latency in hardware was using a variable that could
be changed by user space for each sample. If the user change this
variable, it could cause a bus contention, and reading that variable can
show up as a large latency in the trace causing a false positive. Read
this variable at the start of the sample with a READ_ONCE() into a local
variable and keep the code from sharing cache lines with readers.
- Fix function graph tracer static branch optimization code
When only one tracer is defined for function graph tracing, it uses a
static branch to call that tracer directly. When another tracer is added,
it goes into loop logic to call all the registered callbacks.
The code was incorrect when going back to one tracer and never re-enabled
the static branch again to do the optimization code.
- And other small fixes and cleanups.
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Merge tag 'trace-v7.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
"User visible changes:
- Add an entry into MAINTAINERS file for RUST versions of code
There's now RUST code for tracing and static branches. To
differentiate that code from the C code, add entries in for the
RUST version (with "[RUST]" around it) so that the right
maintainers get notified on changes.
- New bitmask-list option added to tracefs
When this is set, bitmasks in trace event are not displayed as hex
numbers, but instead as lists: e.g. 0-5,7,9 instead of 0000015f
- New show_event_filters file in tracefs
Instead of having to search all events/*/*/filter for any active
filters enabled in the trace instance, the file show_event_filters
will list them so that there's only one file that needs to be
examined to see if any filters are active.
- New show_event_triggers file in tracefs
Instead of having to search all events/*/*/trigger for any active
triggers enabled in the trace instance, the file
show_event_triggers will list them so that there's only one file
that needs to be examined to see if any triggers are active.
- Have traceoff_on_warning disable trace pintk buffer too
Recently recording of trace_printk() could go to other trace
instances instead of the top level instance. But if
traceoff_on_warning triggers, it doesn't stop the buffer with
trace_printk() and that data can easily be lost by being
overwritten. Have traceoff_on_warning also disable the instance
that has trace_printk() being written to it.
- Update the hist_debug file to show what function the field uses
When CONFIG_HIST_TRIGGERS_DEBUG is enabled, a hist_debug file
exists for every event. This displays the internal data of any
histogram enabled for that event. But it is lacking the function
that is called to process one of its fields. This is very useful
information that was missing when debugging histograms.
- Up the histogram stack size from 16 to 31
Stack traces can be used as keys for event histograms. Currently
the size of the stack that is stored is limited to just 16 entries.
But the storage space in the histogram is 256 bytes, meaning that
it can store up to 31 entries (plus one for the count of entries).
Instead of letting that space go to waste, up the limit from 16 to
31. This makes the keys much more useful.
- Fix permissions of per CPU file buffer_size_kb
The per CPU file of buffer_size_kb was incorrectly set to read only
in a previous cleanup. It should be writable.
- Reset "last_boot_info" if the persistent buffer is cleared
The last_boot_info shows address information of a persistent ring
buffer if it contains data from a previous boot. It is cleared when
recording starts again, but it is not cleared when the buffer is
reset. The data is useless after a reset so clear it on reset too.
Internal changes:
- A change was made to allow tracepoint callbacks to have preemption
enabled, and instead be protected by SRCU. This required some
updates to the callbacks for perf and BPF.
perf needed to disable preemption directly in its callback because
it expects preemption disabled in the later code.
BPF needed to disable migration, as its code expects to run
completely on the same CPU.
- Have irq_work wake up other CPU if current CPU is "isolated"
When there's a waiter waiting on ring buffer data and a new event
happens, an irq work is triggered to wake up that waiter. This is
noisy on isolated CPUs (running NO_HZ_FULL). Trigger an IPI to a
house keeping CPU instead.
- Use proper free of trigger_data instead of open coding it in.
- Remove redundant call of event_trigger_reset_filter()
It was called immediately in a function that was called right after
it.
- Workqueue cleanups
- Report errors if tracing_update_buffers() were to fail.
- Make the enum update workqueue generic for other parts of tracing
On boot up, a work queue is created to convert enum names into
their numbers in the trace event format files. This work queue can
also be used for other aspects of tracing that takes some time and
shouldn't be called by the init call code.
The blk_trace initialization takes a bit of time. Have the
initialization code moved to the new tracing generic work queue
function.
- Skip kprobe boot event creation call if there's no kprobes defined
on cmdline
The kprobe initialization to set up kprobes if they are defined on
the cmdline requires taking the event_mutex lock. This can be held
by other tracing code doing initialization for a long time. Since
kprobes added to the kernel command line need to be setup
immediately, as they may be tracing early initialization code, they
cannot be postponed in a work queue and must be setup in the
initcall code.
If there's no kprobe on the kernel cmdline, there's no reason to
take the mutex and slow down the boot up code waiting to get the
lock only to find out there's nothing to do. Simply exit out early
if there's no kprobes on the kernel cmdline.
If there are kprobes on the cmdline, then someone cares more about
tracing over the speed of boot up.
- Clean up the trigger code a bit
- Move code out of trace.c and into their own files
trace.c is now over 11,000 lines of code and has become more
difficult to maintain. Start splitting it up so that related code
is in their own files.
Move all the trace_printk() related code into trace_printk.c.
Move the __always_inline stack functions into trace.h.
Move the pid filtering code into a new trace_pid.c file.
- Better define the max latency and snapshot code
The latency tracers have a "max latency" buffer that is a copy of
the main buffer and gets swapped with it when a new high latency is
detected. This keeps the trace up to the highest latency around
where this max_latency buffer is never written to. It is only used
to save the last max latency trace.
A while ago a snapshot feature was added to tracefs to allow user
space to perform the same logic. It could also enable events to
trigger a "snapshot" if one of their fields hit a new high. This
was built on top of the latency max_latency buffer logic.
Because snapshots came later, they were dependent on the latency
tracers to be enabled. In reality, the latency tracers depend on
the snapshot code and not the other way around. It was just that
they came first.
Restructure the code and the kconfigs to have the latency tracers
depend on snapshot code instead. This actually simplifies the logic
a bit and allows to disable more when the latency tracers are not
defined and the snapshot code is.
- Fix a "false sharing" in the hwlat tracer code
The loop to search for latency in hardware was using a variable
that could be changed by user space for each sample. If the user
change this variable, it could cause a bus contention, and reading
that variable can show up as a large latency in the trace causing a
false positive. Read this variable at the start of the sample with
a READ_ONCE() into a local variable and keep the code from sharing
cache lines with readers.
- Fix function graph tracer static branch optimization code
When only one tracer is defined for function graph tracing, it uses
a static branch to call that tracer directly. When another tracer
is added, it goes into loop logic to call all the registered
callbacks.
The code was incorrect when going back to one tracer and never
re-enabled the static branch again to do the optimization code.
- And other small fixes and cleanups"
* tag 'trace-v7.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: (46 commits)
function_graph: Restore direct mode when callbacks drop to one
tracing: Fix indentation of return statement in print_trace_fmt()
tracing: Reset last_boot_info if ring buffer is reset
tracing: Fix to set write permission to per-cpu buffer_size_kb
tracing: Fix false sharing in hwlat get_sample()
tracing: Move d_max_latency out of CONFIG_FSNOTIFY protection
tracing: Better separate SNAPSHOT and MAX_TRACE options
tracing: Add tracer_uses_snapshot() helper to remove #ifdefs
tracing: Rename trace_array field max_buffer to snapshot_buffer
tracing: Move pid filtering into trace_pid.c
tracing: Move trace_printk functions out of trace.c and into trace_printk.c
tracing: Use system_state in trace_printk_init_buffers()
tracing: Have trace_printk functions use flags instead of using global_trace
tracing: Make tracing_update_buffers() take NULL for global_trace
tracing: Make printk_trace global for tracing system
tracing: Move ftrace_trace_stack() out of trace.c and into trace.h
tracing: Move __trace_buffer_{un}lock_*() functions to trace.h
tracing: Make tracing_selftest_running global to the tracing subsystem
tracing: Make tracing_disabled global for tracing system
tracing: Clean up use of trace_create_maxlat_file()
...
Total patches: 107
Reviews/patch: 1.07
Reviewed rate: 67%
- The 2 patch series "ocfs2: give ocfs2 the ability to reclaim
suballocator free bg" from Heming Zhao saves disk space by teaching
ocfs2 to reclaim suballocator block group space.
- The 4 patch series "Add ARRAY_END(), and use it to fix off-by-one
bugs" from Alejandro Colomar adds the ARRAY_END() macro and uses it in
various places.
- The 2 patch series "vmcoreinfo: support VMCOREINFO_BYTES larger than
PAGE_SIZE" from Pnina Feder makes the vmcore code future-safe, if
VMCOREINFO_BYTES ever exceeds the page size.
- The 7 patch series "kallsyms: Prevent invalid access when showing
module buildid" from Petr Mladek cleans up kallsyms code related to
module buildid and fixes an invalid access crash when printing
backtraces.
- The 3 patch series "Address page fault in
ima_restore_measurement_list()" from Harshit Mogalapalli fixes a
kexec-related crash that can occur when booting the second-stage kernel
on x86.
- The 6 patch series "kho: ABI headers and Documentation updates" from
Mike Rapoport updates the kexec handover ABI documentation.
- The 4 patch series "Align atomic storage" from Finn Thain adds the
__aligned attribute to atomic_t and atomic64_t definitions to get
natural alignment of both types on csky, m68k, microblaze, nios2,
openrisc and sh.
- The 2 patch series "kho: clean up page initialization logic" from
Pratyush Yadav simplifies the page initialization logic in
kho_restore_page().
- The 6 patch series "Unload linux/kernel.h" from Yury Norov moves
several things out of kernel.h and into more appropriate places.
- The 7 patch series "don't abuse task_struct.group_leader" from Oleg
Nesterov removes the usage of ->group_leader when it is "obviously
unnecessary".
- The 5 patch series "list private v2 & luo flb" from Pasha Tatashin
adds some infrastructure improvements to the live update orchestrator.
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Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2026-02-12-10-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:
- "ocfs2: give ocfs2 the ability to reclaim suballocator free bg" saves
disk space by teaching ocfs2 to reclaim suballocator block group
space (Heming Zhao)
- "Add ARRAY_END(), and use it to fix off-by-one bugs" adds the
ARRAY_END() macro and uses it in various places (Alejandro Colomar)
- "vmcoreinfo: support VMCOREINFO_BYTES larger than PAGE_SIZE" makes
the vmcore code future-safe, if VMCOREINFO_BYTES ever exceeds the
page size (Pnina Feder)
- "kallsyms: Prevent invalid access when showing module buildid" cleans
up kallsyms code related to module buildid and fixes an invalid
access crash when printing backtraces (Petr Mladek)
- "Address page fault in ima_restore_measurement_list()" fixes a
kexec-related crash that can occur when booting the second-stage
kernel on x86 (Harshit Mogalapalli)
- "kho: ABI headers and Documentation updates" updates the kexec
handover ABI documentation (Mike Rapoport)
- "Align atomic storage" adds the __aligned attribute to atomic_t and
atomic64_t definitions to get natural alignment of both types on
csky, m68k, microblaze, nios2, openrisc and sh (Finn Thain)
- "kho: clean up page initialization logic" simplifies the page
initialization logic in kho_restore_page() (Pratyush Yadav)
- "Unload linux/kernel.h" moves several things out of kernel.h and into
more appropriate places (Yury Norov)
- "don't abuse task_struct.group_leader" removes the usage of
->group_leader when it is "obviously unnecessary" (Oleg Nesterov)
- "list private v2 & luo flb" adds some infrastructure improvements to
the live update orchestrator (Pasha Tatashin)
* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2026-02-12-10-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (107 commits)
watchdog/hardlockup: simplify perf event probe and remove per-cpu dependency
procfs: fix missing RCU protection when reading real_parent in do_task_stat()
watchdog/softlockup: fix sample ring index wrap in need_counting_irqs()
kcsan, compiler_types: avoid duplicate type issues in BPF Type Format
kho: fix doc for kho_restore_pages()
tests/liveupdate: add in-kernel liveupdate test
liveupdate: luo_flb: introduce File-Lifecycle-Bound global state
liveupdate: luo_file: Use private list
list: add kunit test for private list primitives
list: add primitives for private list manipulations
delayacct: fix uapi timespec64 definition
panic: add panic_force_cpu= parameter to redirect panic to a specific CPU
netclassid: use thread_group_leader(p) in update_classid_task()
RDMA/umem: don't abuse current->group_leader
drm/pan*: don't abuse current->group_leader
drm/amd: kill the outdated "Only the pthreads threading model is supported" checks
drm/amdgpu: don't abuse current->group_leader
android/binder: use same_thread_group(proc->tsk, current) in binder_mmap()
android/binder: don't abuse current->group_leader
kho: skip memoryless NUMA nodes when reserving scratch areas
...
The tracing_max_latency shouldn't be limited if CONFIG_FSNOTIFY is defined
or not and it was moved out of that protection to be always available with
CONFIG_TRACER_MAX_TRACE. All was moved out except the dentry descriptor
for it (d_max_latency) and it failed to build on some configs.
Move that out of the CONFIG_FSNOTIFY protection too.
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260209194631.788bfc85@fedora
Fixes: ba73713da5 ("tracing: Clean up use of trace_create_maxlat_file()")
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202602092133.fTdojd95-lkp@intel.com/
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The latency tracers (scheduler, irqsoff, etc) were created when tracing
was first added. These tracers required a "snapshot" buffer that was the
same size as the ring buffer being written to. When a new max latency was
hit, the main ring buffer would swap with the snapshot buffer so that the
trace leading up to the latency would be saved in the snapshot buffer (The
snapshot buffer is never written to directly and the data within it can be
viewed without fear of being overwritten).
Later, a new feature was added to allow snapshots to be taken by user
space or even event triggers. This created a "snapshot" file that allowed
users to trigger a snapshot from user space to save the current trace.
The config for this new feature (CONFIG_TRACER_SNAPSHOT) would select the
latency tracer config (CONFIG_TRACER_MAX_LATENCY) as it would need all the
functionality from it as it already existed. But this was incorrect. As
the snapshot feature is really what the latency tracers need and not the
other way around.
Have CONFIG_TRACER_MAX_TRACE select CONFIG_TRACER_SNAPSHOT where the
tracers that needs the max latency buffer selects the TRACE_MAX_TRACE
which will then select TRACER_SNAPSHOT.
Also, go through trace.c and trace.h and make the code that only needs the
TRACER_MAX_TRACE protected by that and the code that always requires the
snapshot to be protected by TRACER_SNAPSHOT.
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260208183856.767870992@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Instead of having #ifdef CONFIG_TRACER_MAX_TRACE around every access to
the struct tracer's use_max_tr field, add a helper function for that
access and if CONFIG_TRACER_MAX_TRACE is not configured it just returns
false.
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260208183856.599390238@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
When tracing was first added, there were latency tracers that would take a
snapshot of the current trace when a new max latency was hit. This
snapshot buffer was called "max_buffer". Since then, a snapshot feature
was added that allowed user space or event triggers to trigger a snapshot
of the current buffer using the same max_buffer of the trace_array.
As this snapshot buffer now has a more generic use case, calling it
"max_buffer" is confusing. Rename it to snapshot_buffer.
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260208183856.428446729@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The file trace.c has become a catchall for most things tracing. Start
making it smaller by breaking out various aspects into their own files.
Move the functions associated to the trace_printk operations out of trace.c and
into trace_printk.c.
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260208032450.828744197@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The printk_trace is used to determine which trace_array trace_printk()
writes to. By making it a global variable among the tracing subsystem it
will allow the trace_printk functions to be moved out of trace.c and still
have direct access to that variable.
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260208032450.144525891@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The file trace.c has become a catchall for most things tracing. Start
making it smaller by breaking out various aspects into their own files.
Make ftrace_trace_stack() into a static inline that tests if stack tracing
is enabled and if so to call __ftrace_trace_stack() to do the stack trace.
This keeps the test inlined in the fast paths and only does the function
call if stack tracing is enabled.
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260208032449.974218132@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The file trace.c has become a catchall for most things tracing. Start
making it smaller by breaking out various aspects into their own files.
Move the __always_inline functions __trace_buffer_lock_reserve(),
__trace_buffer_unlock_commit() and trace_event_setup() into trace.h.
The trace.c file will be split up and these functions will be used in more
than one of these files. As they are already __always_inline they can
easily be moved into the trace.h header file.
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260208032449.813550600@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The file trace.c has become a catchall for most things tracing. Start
making it smaller by breaking out various aspects into their own files.
Make the variable tracing_selftest_running global so that it can be used
by other files in the tracing subsystem and trace.c can be split up.
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260208032449.648932796@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The tracing_disabled variable is set to one on boot up to prevent some
parts of tracing to access the tracing infrastructure before it is set up.
It also can be set after boot if an anomaly is discovered.
It is currently a static variable in trace.c and can be accessed via a
function call trace_is_disabled(). There's really no reason to use a
function call as the tracing subsystem should be able to access it
directly.
By making the variable accessed directly, code can be moved out of trace.c
without adding overhead of a function call to see if tracing is disabled
or not.
Make tracing_disabled global and remove the tracing_is_disabled() helper
function. Also add some "unlikely()"s around tracing_disabled where it's
checked in hot paths.
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260208032449.483690153@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The function tracing_set_filter_buffering() is only used in
trace_events_hist.c. Move it to that file and make it static.
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260206195936.617080218@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The eval_map_work_func() function, though queued in eval_map_wq,
holds the trace_event_sem read-write lock for a long time during
kernel boot. This causes blocking issues for other functions.
Rename eval_map_wq to trace_init_wq and make it global, thereby
allowing other parts of tracing to schedule work on this queue
asynchronously and avoiding blockage of the main boot thread.
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260204015344.162818-1-tianyaxiong@kylinos.cn
Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Yaxiong Tian <tianyaxiong@kylinos.cn>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The fields of ftrace specific events (events used to save ftrace internal
events like function traces and trace_printk) are generated similarly to
how normal trace event fields are generated. That is, the fields are added
to a trace_events_fields array that saves the name, offset, size,
alignment and signness of the field. It is used to produce the output in
the format file in tracefs so that tooling knows how to parse the binary
data of the trace events.
The issue is that some of the ftrace event structures are packed. The
function graph exit event structures are one of them. The 64 bit calltime
and rettime fields end up 4 byte aligned, but the algorithm to show to
userspace shows them as 8 byte aligned.
The macros that create the ftrace events has one for embedded structure
fields. There's two macros for theses fields:
__field_desc() and __field_packed()
The difference of the latter macro is that it treats the field as packed.
Rename that field to __field_desc_packed() and create replace the
__field_packed() to be a normal field that is packed and have the calltime
and rettime use those.
This showed up on 32bit architectures for function graph time fields. It
had:
~# cat /sys/kernel/tracing/events/ftrace/funcgraph_exit/format
[..]
field:unsigned long func; offset:8; size:4; signed:0;
field:unsigned int depth; offset:12; size:4; signed:0;
field:unsigned int overrun; offset:16; size:4; signed:0;
field:unsigned long long calltime; offset:24; size:8; signed:0;
field:unsigned long long rettime; offset:32; size:8; signed:0;
Notice that overrun is at offset 16 with size 4, where in the structure
calltime is at offset 20 (16 + 4), but it shows the offset at 24. That's
because it used the alignment of unsigned long long when used as a
declaration and not as a member of a structure where it would be aligned
by word size (in this case 4).
By using the proper structure alignment, the format has it at the correct
offset:
~# cat /sys/kernel/tracing/events/ftrace/funcgraph_exit/format
[..]
field:unsigned long func; offset:8; size:4; signed:0;
field:unsigned int depth; offset:12; size:4; signed:0;
field:unsigned int overrun; offset:16; size:4; signed:0;
field:unsigned long long calltime; offset:20; size:8; signed:0;
field:unsigned long long rettime; offset:28; size:8; signed:0;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Reported-by: "jempty.liang" <imntjempty@163.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260204113628.53faec78@gandalf.local.home
Fixes: 04ae87a520 ("ftrace: Rework event_create_dir()")
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260130015740.212343-1-imntjempty@163.com/
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260202123342.2544795-1-imntjempty@163.com/
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The __trace_puts() function takes a string pointer and the size of the
string itself. All users currently simply pass in the strlen() of the
string it is also passing in. There's no reason to pass in the size.
Instead have the __trace_puts() function do the strlen() within the
function itself.
This fixes a header recursion issue where using strlen() in the macro
calling __trace_puts() requires adding #include <linux/string.h> in order
to use strlen(). Removing the use of strlen() from the header fixes the
recursion issue.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/aUN8Hm377C5A0ILX@yury/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260116042510.241009-6-ynorov@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Yury Norov <ynorov@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
Cc: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>
Cc: Andi Shyti <andi.shyti@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP) <chleroy@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Cc: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Recording stacktraces is very useful, but the size of 16 deep is very
restrictive. For example, in seeing where tasks schedule out in a non
running state, the following can be used:
~# cd /sys/kernel/tracing
~# echo 'hist:keys=common_stacktrace:vals=hitcount if prev_state & 3' > events/sched/sched_switch/trigger
~# cat events/sched/sched_switch/hist
[..]
{ common_stacktrace:
__schedule+0xdc0/0x1860
schedule+0x27/0xd0
schedule_timeout+0xb5/0x100
wait_for_completion+0x8a/0x140
xfs_buf_iowait+0x20/0xd0 [xfs]
xfs_buf_read_map+0x103/0x250 [xfs]
xfs_trans_read_buf_map+0x161/0x310 [xfs]
xfs_btree_read_buf_block+0xa0/0x120 [xfs]
xfs_btree_lookup_get_block+0xa3/0x1e0 [xfs]
xfs_btree_lookup+0xea/0x530 [xfs]
xfs_alloc_fixup_trees+0x72/0x570 [xfs]
xfs_alloc_ag_vextent_size+0x67f/0x800 [xfs]
xfs_alloc_vextent_iterate_ags.constprop.0+0x52/0x230 [xfs]
xfs_alloc_vextent_start_ag+0x9d/0x1b0 [xfs]
xfs_bmap_btalloc+0x2af/0x680 [xfs]
xfs_bmapi_allocate+0xdb/0x2c0 [xfs]
} hitcount: 1
[..]
The above stops at 16 functions where knowing more would be useful. As the
allocated storage for stacks is the same for strings, and that size is 256
bytes, there is a lot of space not being used for stacktraces.
16 * 8 = 128
Up the size to 31 (it requires the last slot to be zero, so it can't be 32).
Also change the BUILD_BUG_ON() to allow the size of the stacktrace storage
to be equal to the max size. One slot is used to hold the number of
elements in the stack.
BUILD_BUG_ON((HIST_STACKTRACE_DEPTH + 1) * sizeof(long) >= STR_VAR_LEN_MAX);
Change that from ">=" to just ">", as now they are equal.
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260123105415.2be26bf4@gandalf.local.home
Reviewed-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add support for displaying bitmasks in human-readable list format (e.g.,
0,2-5,7) in addition to the default hexadecimal bitmap representation.
This is particularly useful when tracing CPU masks and other large
bitmasks where individual bit positions are more meaningful than their
hexadecimal encoding.
When the "bitmask-list" option is enabled, the printk "%*pbl" format
specifier is used to render bitmasks as comma-separated ranges, making
trace output easier to interpret for complex CPU configurations and
large bitmask values.
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251226160724.2246493-2-atomlin@atomlin.com
Signed-off-by: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
- Fix regression of pid filtering of function graph tracer
When the function graph tracer allowed multiple instances of
graph tracing using subops, the filtering by pid broke.
The ftrace_ops->private that was used for pid filtering wasn't
updated on creation.
The wrong function entry callback was used when pid filtering was
enabled when the function graph tracer started, which meant that
the pid filtering wasn't happening.
- Remove no longer needed ftrace_trace_task()
With PID filtering working via ftrace_pids_enabled() and fgraph_pid_func(),
the coarse-grained ftrace_trace_task() check in graph_entry() is obsolete.
It was only a fallback for uninitialized op->private (now fixed), and its
removal ensures consistent PID filtering with standard function tracing.
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Merge tag 'ftrace-v6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace
Pull ftrace updates from Steven Rostedt:
- Fix regression of pid filtering of function graph tracer
When the function graph tracer allowed multiple instances of graph
tracing using subops, the filtering by pid broke.
The ftrace_ops->private that was used for pid filtering wasn't
updated on creation.
The wrong function entry callback was used when pid filtering was
enabled when the function graph tracer started, which meant that
the pid filtering wasn't happening.
- Remove no longer needed ftrace_trace_task()
With PID filtering working via ftrace_pids_enabled() and
fgraph_pid_func(), the coarse-grained ftrace_trace_task()
check in graph_entry() is obsolete.
It was only a fallback for uninitialized op->private (now fixed),
and its removal ensures consistent PID filtering with standard
function tracing.
* tag 'ftrace-v6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
fgraph: Remove coarse PID filtering from graph_entry()
fgraph: Check ftrace_pids_enabled on registration for early filtering
fgraph: Initialize ftrace_ops->private for function graph ops
With PID filtering working via ftrace_pids_enabled() and fgraph_pid_func,
the coarse-grained ftrace_trace_task() check in graph_entry() is obsolete.
It was only a fallback for uninitialized op->private (now fixed), and its
removal ensures consistent PID filtering with standard function tracing.
Also remove unused ftrace_trace_task() definition from trace.h.
Cc: <wang.yaxin@zte.com.cn>
Cc: <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: <zhang.run@zte.com.cn>
Cc: <yang.yang29@zte.com.cn>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251126173552333XoJZN20143fWbsdTEtWoU@zte.com.cn
Signed-off-by: Shengming Hu <hu.shengming@zte.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Currently, the persistent ring buffer instance needs to be read before
using it. This means we have to wait for boot up user space and dump
the persistent ring buffer. However, in that case we can not start
tracing on it from the kernel cmdline.
To solve this limitation, this adds an option which allows to create
a trace instance as a backup of the persistent ring buffer at boot.
If user specifies trace_instance=<BACKUP>=<PERSIST_RB> then the
<BACKUP> instance is made as a copy of the <PERSIST_RB> instance.
For example, the below kernel cmdline records all syscalls, scheduler
and interrupt events on the persistent ring buffer `boot_map` but
before starting the tracing, it makes a `backup` instance from the
`boot_map`. Thus, the `backup` instance has the previous boot events.
'reserve_mem=12M:4M:trace trace_instance=boot_map@trace,syscalls:*,sched:*,irq:* trace_instance=backup=boot_map'
As you can see, this just make a copy of entire reserved area and
make a backup instance on it. So you can release (or shrink) the
backup instance after use it to save the memory usage.
/sys/kernel/tracing/instances # free
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 1999284 55704 1930520 10132 13060 1914628
Swap: 0 0 0
/sys/kernel/tracing/instances # rmdir backup/
/sys/kernel/tracing/instances # free
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 1999284 40640 1945584 10132 13060 1929692
Swap: 0 0 0
Note: since there is no reason to make a copy of empty buffer, this
backup only accepts a persistent ring buffer as the original instance.
Also, since this backup is based on vmalloc(), it does not support
user-space mmap().
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/176377150002.219692.9425536150438129267.stgit@devnote2
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The event trigger data requires a full tracepoint_synchronize_unregister()
call before freeing. That call can take 100s of milliseconds to complete.
In order to allow for bulk freeing of the trigger data, it can not call
the tracepoint_synchronize_unregister() for every individual trigger data
being free.
Create a kthread that gets created the first time a trigger data is freed,
and have it use the lockless llist to get the list of data to free, run
the tracepoint_synchronize_unregister() then free everything in the list.
By freeing hundreds of event_trigger_data elements together, it only
requires two runs of the synchronization function, and not hundreds of
runs. This speeds up the operation by orders of magnitude (milliseconds
instead of several seconds).
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251125214032.151674992@kernel.org
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Now that there's pretty much a one to one mapping between the struct
event_trigger_ops and struct event_command, there's no reason to have two
different structures. Merge the function pointers of event_trigger_ops
into event_command.
There's one exception in trace_events_hist.c for the
event_hist_trigger_named_ops. This has special logic for the init and free
function pointers for "named histograms". In this case, allocate the
cmd_ops of the event_trigger_data and set it to the proper init and free
functions, which are used to initialize and free the event_trigger_data
respectively. Have the free function and the init function (on failure)
free the cmd_ops of the data element.
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251125200932.446322765@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The struct event_command has a callback function called get_trigger_ops().
This callback returns the "trigger_ops" to use for the trigger. These ops
define the trigger function, how to init the trigger, how to print the
trigger and how to free it.
The only reason there's a callback function to get these ops is because
some triggers have two types of operations. One is an "always on"
operation, and the other is a "count down" operation. If a user passes in
a parameter to say how many times the trigger should execute. For example:
echo stacktrace:5 > events/kmem/kmem_cache_alloc/trigger
It will trigger the stacktrace for the first 5 times the kmem_cache_alloc
event is hit.
Instead of having two different trigger_ops since the only difference
between them is the tigger itself (the print, init and free functions are
all the same), just use a single ops that the event_command points to and
add a function field to the trigger_ops to have a count_func.
When a trigger is added to an event, if there's a count attached to it and
the trigger ops has the count_func field, the data allocated to represent
this trigger will have a new flag set called COUNT.
Then when the trigger executes, it will check if the COUNT data flag is
set, and if so, it will call the ops count_func(). If that returns false,
it returns without executing the trigger.
This removes the need for duplicate event_trigger_ops structures.
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251125200932.274566147@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The variable fgraph_no_sleep_time changed from being a boolean to being a
counter. A check is made to make sure that it never goes below zero. But
the variable being unsigned makes the check always fail even if it does go
below zero.
Make the variable a signed int so that checking it going below zero still
works.
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251125104751.4c9c7f28@gandalf.local.home
Fixes: 5abb6ccb58 ("tracing: Have function graph tracer option sleep-time be per instance")
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/aR1yRQxDmlfLZzoo@stanley.mountain/
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Currently the option to have function graph tracer to ignore time spent
when a task is sleeping is global when the interface is per-instance.
Changing the value in one instance will affect the results of another
instance that is also running the function graph tracer. This can lead to
confusing results.
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251114192318.950255167@kernel.org
Fixes: c132be2c4f ("function_graph: Have the instances use their own ftrace_ops for filtering")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The option "graph-time" affects the function profiler when it is using the
function graph infrastructure. It has nothing to do with the function
graph tracer itself. The option only affects the global function profiler
and does nothing to the function graph tracer.
Move it out of the function graph tracer options and make it a global
option that is only available at the top level instance.
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251114192318.781711154@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Tracers can add specify options to modify them. This logic was added
before instances were created and the tracer flags were global variables.
After instances were created where a tracer may exist in more than one
instance, the flags were not updated from being global into instance
specific. This causes confusion with these options. For example, the
function tracer has an option to enable function arguments:
# cd /sys/kernel/tracing
# mkdir instances/foo
# echo function > instances/foo/current_tracer
# echo 1 > options/func-args
# echo function > current_tracer
# cat trace
[..]
<idle>-0 [005] d..3. 1050.656187: rcu_needs_cpu() <-tick_nohz_next_event
<idle>-0 [005] d..3. 1050.656188: get_next_timer_interrupt(basej=0x10002dbad, basem=0xf45fd7d300) <-tick_nohz_next_event
<idle>-0 [005] d..3. 1050.656189: _raw_spin_lock(lock=0xffff8944bdf5de80) <-__get_next_timer_interrupt
<idle>-0 [005] d..4. 1050.656190: do_raw_spin_lock(lock=0xffff8944bdf5de80) <-__get_next_timer_interrupt
<idle>-0 [005] d..4. 1050.656191: _raw_spin_lock_nested(lock=0xffff8944bdf5f140, subclass=1) <-__get_next_timer_interrupt
# cat instances/foo/options/func-args
1
# cat instances/foo/trace
[..]
kworker/4:1-88 [004] ...1. 298.127735: next_zone <-refresh_cpu_vm_stats
kworker/4:1-88 [004] ...1. 298.127736: first_online_pgdat <-refresh_cpu_vm_stats
kworker/4:1-88 [004] ...1. 298.127738: next_online_pgdat <-refresh_cpu_vm_stats
kworker/4:1-88 [004] ...1. 298.127739: fold_diff <-refresh_cpu_vm_stats
kworker/4:1-88 [004] ...1. 298.127741: round_jiffies_relative <-vmstat_update
[..]
The above shows that setting "func-args" in the top level instance also
set it in the instance "foo", but since the interface of the trace flags
are per instance, the update didn't take affect in the "foo" instance.
Update the infrastructure to allow tracers to add a "default_flags" field
in the tracer structure that can be set instead of "flags" which will make
the flags per instance. If a tracer needs to keep the flags global (like
blktrace), keeping the "flags" field set will keep the old behavior.
This does not update function or the function graph tracers. That will be
handled later.
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251111232429.305317942@kernel.org
Fixes: f20a580627 ("ftrace: Allow instances to use function tracing")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Updates to the function profiler adds new options to tracefs. The options
are currently defined by an enum as flags. The added options brings the
number of options over 32, which means they can no longer be held in a 32
bit enum. The TRACE_ITER_* flags are converted to a macro TRACE_ITER(*) to
allow the creation of options to still be done by macros.
This change is intrusive, as it affects all TRACE_ITER* options throughout
the trace code. Merge the branch that added these options and converted
the TRACE_ITER_* enum into a TRACE_ITER(*) macro, to allow the topic
branches to still be developed without conflict.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Function profiler shows the hit count of each function using its symbol
name. However, there are some same-name local symbols, which we can not
distinguish.
To solve this issue, this introduces an option to show the symbols
in "_text+OFFSET" format. This can avoid exposing the random shift of
KASLR. The functions in modules are shown as "MODNAME+OFFSET" where the
offset is from ".text".
E.g. for the kernel text symbols, specify vmlinux and the output to
addr2line, you can find the actual function and source info;
$ addr2line -fie vmlinux _text+3078208
__balance_callbacks
kernel/sched/core.c:5064
for modules, specify the module file and .text+OFFSET;
$ addr2line -fie samples/trace_events/trace-events-sample.ko .text+8224
do_simple_thread_func
samples/trace_events/trace-events-sample.c:23
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/176187878064.994619.8878296550240416558.stgit@devnote2/
Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Since enum trace_iterator_flags is 32bit, the max number of the
option flags is limited to 32 and it is fully used now. To add
a new option, we need to expand it.
So replace the TRACE_ITER_##flag with TRACE_ITER(flag) macro which
is 64bit bitmask.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/176187877103.994619.166076000668757232.stgit@devnote2/
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
When a system call that can copy user space addresses into the ring
buffer, it can copy up to 511 bytes of data. This can waste precious ring
buffer space if the user isn't interested in the output. Add a new file
"syscall_user_buf_size" that gets initialized to a new config
CONFIG_SYSCALL_BUF_SIZE_DEFAULT that defaults to 63.
The config also is used to limit how much perf can read from user space.
Also lower the max down to 165, as this isn't to record everything that a
system call may be passing through to the kernel. 165 is more than enough.
The reason for 165 is because adding one for the nul terminating byte, as
well as possibly needing to append the "..." string turns it into 170
bytes. As this needs to save up to 3 arguments and 3 * 170 is 510 which
fits nicely in 512 bytes (a power of 2).
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Takaya Saeki <takayas@google.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Douglas Raillard <douglas.raillard@arm.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20251028231148.260068913@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The write to the trace_marker file is a critical section where it cannot
take locks nor allocate memory. To read from user space, it allocates a per
CPU buffer when the trace_marker file is opened, and then when the write
system call is performed, it uses the following method to read from user
space:
preempt_disable();
buffer = per_cpu_ptr(cpu_buffers, cpu);
do {
cnt = nr_context_switches_cpu();
migrate_disable();
preempt_enable();
ret = copy_from_user(buffer, ptr, len);
preempt_disable();
migrate_enable();
} while (!ret && cnt != nr_context_switches_cpu());
if (!ret)
ring_buffer_write(buffer);
preempt_enable();
It records the number of context switches for the current CPU, enables
preemption, copies from user space, disable preemption and then checks if
the number of context switches changed. If it did not, then the buffer is
valid, otherwise the buffer may have been corrupted and the read from user
space must be tried again.
The system call trace events are now faultable and have the same
restrictions as the trace_marker write. For system calls to read the user
space buffer (for example to read the file of the openat system call), it
needs the same logic. Instead of copying the code over to the system call
trace events, make the code generic to allow the system call trace events to
use the same code. The following API is added internally to the tracing sub
system (these are only exposed within the tracing subsystem and not to be
used outside of it):
trace_user_fault_init() - initializes a trace_user_buf_info descriptor
that will allocate the per CPU buffers to copy from user space into.
trace_user_fault_destroy() - used to free the allocations made by
trace_user_fault_init().
trace_user_fault_get() - update the ref count of the info descriptor to
allow more than one user to use the same descriptor.
trace_user_fault_put() - decrement the ref count.
trace_user_fault_read() - performs the above action to read user space
into the per CPU buffer. The preempt_disable() is expected before
calling this function and preemption must remain disabled while the
buffer returned is in use.
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Takaya Saeki <takayas@google.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Douglas Raillard <douglas.raillard@arm.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20251028231147.096570057@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The syscall events are pseudo events that hook to the raw syscalls. The
ftrace_syscall_enter/exit() callback is called by the raw_syscall
enter/exit tracepoints respectively whenever any of the syscall events are
enabled.
The trace_array has an array of syscall "files" that correspond to the
system calls based on their __NR_SYSCALL number. The array is read and if
there's a pointer to a trace_event_file then it is considered enabled and
if it is NULL that syscall event is considered disabled.
Currently it uses an rcu_dereference_sched() to get this pointer and a
rcu_assign_ptr() or RCU_INIT_POINTER() to write to it. This is unnecessary
as the file pointer will not go away outside the synchronization of the
tracepoint logic itself. And this code adds no extra RCU synchronization
that uses this.
Replace these functions with a simple READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE() which
is all they need. This will also allow this code to not depend on
preemption being disabled as system call tracepoints are now allowed to
fault.
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Takaya Saeki <takayas@google.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Douglas Raillard <douglas.raillard@arm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250923130713.594320290@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
- Fix rtla and latency tooling pkg-config errors
If libtraceevent and libtracefs is installed, but their corresponding '.pc'
files are not installed, it reports that the libraries are missing and
confuses the developer. Instead, report that the pkg-config files are
missing and should be installed.
- Fix overflow bug of the parser in trace_get_user()
trace_get_user() uses the parsing functions to parse the user space strings.
If the parser fails due to incorrect processing, it doesn't terminate the
buffer with a nul byte. Add a "failed" flag to the parser that gets set when
parsing fails and is used to know if the buffer is fine to use or not.
- Remove a semicolon that was at an end of a comment line
- Fix register_ftrace_graph() to unregister the pm notifier on error
The register_ftrace_graph() registers a pm notifier but there's an error
path that can exit the function without unregistering it. Since the function
returns an error, it will never be unregistered.
- Allocate and copy ftrace hash for reader of ftrace filter files
When the set_ftrace_filter or set_ftrace_notrace files are open for read,
an iterator is created and sets its hash pointer to the associated hash that
represents filtering or notrace filtering to it. The issue is that the hash
it points to can change while the iteration is happening. All the locking
used to access the tracer's hashes are released which means those hashes can
change or even be freed. Using the hash pointed to by the iterator can cause
UAF bugs or similar.
Have the read of these files allocate and copy the corresponding hashes and
use that as that will keep them the same while the iterator is open. This
also simplifies the code as opening it for write already does an allocate
and copy, and now that the read is doing the same, there's no need to check
which way it was opened on the release of the file, and the iterator hash
can always be freed.
- Fix function graph to copy args into temp storage
The output of the function graph tracer shows both the entry and the exit of
a function. When the exit is right after the entry, it combines the two
events into one with the output of "function();", instead of showing:
function() {
}
In order to do this, the iterator descriptor that reads the events includes
storage that saves the entry event while it peaks at the next event in
the ring buffer. The peek can free the entry event so the iterator must
store the information to use it after the peek.
With the addition of function graph tracer recording the args, where the
args are a dynamic array in the entry event, the temp storage does not save
them. This causes the args to be corrupted or even cause a read of unsafe
memory.
Add space to save the args in the temp storage of the iterator.
- Fix race between ftrace_dump and reading trace_pipe
ftrace_dump() is used when a crash occurs where the ftrace buffer will be
printed to the console. But it can also be triggered by sysrq-z. If a
sysrq-z is triggered while a task is reading trace_pipe it can cause a race
in the ftrace_dump() where it checks if the buffer has content, then it
checks if the next event is available, and then prints the output
(regardless if the next event was available or not). Reading trace_pipe
at the same time can cause it to not be available, and this triggers a
WARN_ON in the print. Move the printing into the check if the next event
exists or not.
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Merge tag 'trace-v6.17-rc2-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace
Pull tracing fixes from Steven Rostedt:
- Fix rtla and latency tooling pkg-config errors
If libtraceevent and libtracefs is installed, but their corresponding
'.pc' files are not installed, it reports that the libraries are
missing and confuses the developer. Instead, report that the
pkg-config files are missing and should be installed.
- Fix overflow bug of the parser in trace_get_user()
trace_get_user() uses the parsing functions to parse the user space
strings. If the parser fails due to incorrect processing, it doesn't
terminate the buffer with a nul byte. Add a "failed" flag to the
parser that gets set when parsing fails and is used to know if the
buffer is fine to use or not.
- Remove a semicolon that was at an end of a comment line
- Fix register_ftrace_graph() to unregister the pm notifier on error
The register_ftrace_graph() registers a pm notifier but there's an
error path that can exit the function without unregistering it. Since
the function returns an error, it will never be unregistered.
- Allocate and copy ftrace hash for reader of ftrace filter files
When the set_ftrace_filter or set_ftrace_notrace files are open for
read, an iterator is created and sets its hash pointer to the
associated hash that represents filtering or notrace filtering to it.
The issue is that the hash it points to can change while the
iteration is happening. All the locking used to access the tracer's
hashes are released which means those hashes can change or even be
freed. Using the hash pointed to by the iterator can cause UAF bugs
or similar.
Have the read of these files allocate and copy the corresponding
hashes and use that as that will keep them the same while the
iterator is open. This also simplifies the code as opening it for
write already does an allocate and copy, and now that the read is
doing the same, there's no need to check which way it was opened on
the release of the file, and the iterator hash can always be freed.
- Fix function graph to copy args into temp storage
The output of the function graph tracer shows both the entry and the
exit of a function. When the exit is right after the entry, it
combines the two events into one with the output of "function();",
instead of showing:
function() {
}
In order to do this, the iterator descriptor that reads the events
includes storage that saves the entry event while it peaks at the
next event in the ring buffer. The peek can free the entry event so
the iterator must store the information to use it after the peek.
With the addition of function graph tracer recording the args, where
the args are a dynamic array in the entry event, the temp storage
does not save them. This causes the args to be corrupted or even
cause a read of unsafe memory.
Add space to save the args in the temp storage of the iterator.
- Fix race between ftrace_dump and reading trace_pipe
ftrace_dump() is used when a crash occurs where the ftrace buffer
will be printed to the console. But it can also be triggered by
sysrq-z. If a sysrq-z is triggered while a task is reading trace_pipe
it can cause a race in the ftrace_dump() where it checks if the
buffer has content, then it checks if the next event is available,
and then prints the output (regardless if the next event was
available or not). Reading trace_pipe at the same time can cause it
to not be available, and this triggers a WARN_ON in the print. Move
the printing into the check if the next event exists or not
* tag 'trace-v6.17-rc2-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
ftrace: Also allocate and copy hash for reading of filter files
ftrace: Fix potential warning in trace_printk_seq during ftrace_dump
fgraph: Copy args in intermediate storage with entry
trace/fgraph: Fix the warning caused by missing unregister notifier
ring-buffer: Remove redundant semicolons
tracing: Limit access to parser->buffer when trace_get_user failed
rtla: Check pkg-config install
tools/latency-collector: Check pkg-config install
Fprobe event accepts wildcards for the target functions, but unless user
specifies its event name, it makes an event with the wildcards.
/sys/kernel/tracing # echo 'f mutex*' >> dynamic_events
/sys/kernel/tracing # cat dynamic_events
f:fprobes/mutex*__entry mutex*
/sys/kernel/tracing # ls events/fprobes/
enable filter mutex*__entry
To fix this, replace the wildcard ('*') with an underscore.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/175535345114.282990.12294108192847938710.stgit@devnote2/
Fixes: 334e5519c3 ("tracing/probes: Add fprobe events for tracing function entry and exit.")
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
When the length of the string written to set_ftrace_filter exceeds
FTRACE_BUFF_MAX, the following KASAN alarm will be triggered:
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in strsep+0x18c/0x1b0
Read of size 1 at addr ffff0000d00bd5ba by task ash/165
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 165 Comm: ash Not tainted 6.16.0-g6bcdbd62bd56-dirty
Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
Call trace:
show_stack+0x34/0x50 (C)
dump_stack_lvl+0xa0/0x158
print_address_description.constprop.0+0x88/0x398
print_report+0xb0/0x280
kasan_report+0xa4/0xf0
__asan_report_load1_noabort+0x20/0x30
strsep+0x18c/0x1b0
ftrace_process_regex.isra.0+0x100/0x2d8
ftrace_regex_release+0x484/0x618
__fput+0x364/0xa58
____fput+0x28/0x40
task_work_run+0x154/0x278
do_notify_resume+0x1f0/0x220
el0_svc+0xec/0xf0
el0t_64_sync_handler+0xa0/0xe8
el0t_64_sync+0x1ac/0x1b0
The reason is that trace_get_user will fail when processing a string
longer than FTRACE_BUFF_MAX, but not set the end of parser->buffer to 0.
Then an OOB access will be triggered in ftrace_regex_release->
ftrace_process_regex->strsep->strpbrk. We can solve this problem by
limiting access to parser->buffer when trace_get_user failed.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250813040232.1344527-1-pulehui@huaweicloud.com
Fixes: 8c9af478c0 ("ftrace: Handle commands when closing set_ftrace_filter file")
Signed-off-by: Pu Lehui <pulehui@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
With CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF=y and PAHOLE_HAS_BTF_TAG=y, `__user` is
converted to `__attribute__((btf_type_tag("user")))`. In this case,
some syscall events have it for __user data, like below;
/sys/kernel/tracing # cat events/syscalls/sys_enter_openat/format
name: sys_enter_openat
ID: 720
format:
field:unsigned short common_type; offset:0; size:2; signed:0;
field:unsigned char common_flags; offset:2; size:1; signed:0;
field:unsigned char common_preempt_count; offset:3; size:1; signed:0;
field:int common_pid; offset:4; size:4; signed:1;
field:int __syscall_nr; offset:8; size:4; signed:1;
field:int dfd; offset:16; size:8; signed:0;
field:const char __attribute__((btf_type_tag("user"))) * filename; offset:24; size:8; signed:0;
field:int flags; offset:32; size:8; signed:0;
field:umode_t mode; offset:40; size:8; signed:0;
Then the trace event filter fails to set the string acceptable flag
(FILTER_PTR_STRING) to the field and rejects setting string filter;
# echo 'filename.ustring ~ "*ftracetest-dir.wbx24v*"' \
>> events/syscalls/sys_enter_openat/filter
sh: write error: Invalid argument
# cat error_log
[ 723.743637] event filter parse error: error: Expecting numeric field
Command: filename.ustring ~ "*ftracetest-dir.wbx24v*"
Since this __attribute__ makes format parsing complicated and not
needed, remove the __attribute__(.*) from the type string.
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/175376583493.1688759.12333973498014733551.stgit@mhiramat.tok.corp.google.com
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
There are applications that have it hard coded to write into the top level
trace_marker instance (/sys/kernel/tracing/trace_marker). This can be
annoying if a profiler is using that instance for other work, or if it
needs all writes to go into a new instance.
A new option is created called "copy_trace_marker". By default, the top
level has this set, as that is the default buffer that writing into the
top level trace_marker file will go to. But now if an instance is created
and sets this option, all writes into the top level trace_marker will also
be written into that instance buffer just as if an application were to
write into the instance's trace_marker file.
If the top level instance disables this option, then writes to its own
trace_marker and trace_marker_raw files will not go into its buffer.
If no instance has this option set, then the write will return an error
and errno will contain ENODEV.
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250508095639.39f84eda@gandalf.local.home
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The function event_trigger_alloc() creates an event_trigger_data
descriptor and states that it needs to be freed via event_trigger_free().
This is incorrect, it needs to be freed by trigger_data_free() as
event_trigger_free() adds ref counting.
Rename event_trigger_alloc() to trigger_data_alloc() and state that it
needs to be freed via trigger_data_free(). This naming convention
was introducing bugs.
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250507145455.776436410@goodmis.org
Fixes: 86599dbe2c ("tracing: Add helper functions to simplify event_command.parse() callback handling")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The trace_array_cpu had a "buffer_page" field that was originally going to
be used as a backup page for the ring buffer. But the ring buffer has its
own way of reusing pages and this field was never used.
Remove it.
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250505212236.738849456@goodmis.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The per CPU "disabled" counter is used for the latency tracers and stack
tracers to make sure that their accounting isn't messed up by an NMI or
interrupt coming in and affecting the same CPU data. But the counter is an
atomic_t type. As it only needs to synchronize against the current CPU,
switch it over to local_t type.
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250505212236.394925376@goodmis.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add the function ring_buffer_record_is_on_cpu() that returns true if the
ring buffer for a give CPU is writable and false otherwise.
Also add tracer_tracing_is_on_cpu() to return if the ring buffer for a
given CPU is writeable for a given trace_array.
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250505212236.059853898@goodmis.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Allow a tracer to disable writing to its buffer for a temporary amount of
time and re-enable it.
The tracer_tracing_disable() will disable writing to the trace array
buffer, and requires a tracer_tracing_enable() to re-enable it.
The difference between tracer_tracing_disable() and tracer_tracing_off()
is that the disable version can nest, and requires as many enable() calls
as disable() calls to re-enable the buffer. Where as the off() function
can be called multiple times and only requires a singe tracer_tracing_on()
to re-enable the buffer.
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Daniel Thompson <danielt@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250505212235.210330010@goodmis.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
It was mistaken that the physical memory returned from "reserve_mem" had to
be vmap()'d to get to it from a virtual address. But reserve_mem already
maps the memory to the virtual address of the kernel so a simple
phys_to_virt() can be used to get to the virtual address from the physical
memory returned by "reserve_mem". With this new found knowledge, the
code can be cleaned up and simplified.
- Enforce that the persistent memory is page aligned
As the buffers using the persistent memory are all going to be
mapped via pages, make sure that the memory given to the tracing
infrastructure is page aligned. If it is not, it will print a warning
and fail to map the buffer.
- Use phys_to_virt() to get the virtual address from reserve_mem
Instead of calling vmap() on the physical memory returned from
"reserve_mem", use phys_to_virt() instead.
As the memory returned by "memmap" or any other means where a physical
address is given to the tracing infrastructure, it still needs to
be vmap(). Since this memory can never be returned back to the buddy
allocator nor should it ever be memmory mapped to user space, flag
this buffer and up the ref count. The ref count will keep it from
ever being freed, and the flag will prevent it from ever being memory
mapped to user space.
- Use vmap_page_range() for memmap virtual address mapping
For the memmap buffer, instead of allocating an array of struct pages,
assigning them to the contiguous phsycial memory and then passing that to
vmap(), use vmap_page_range() instead
- Replace flush_dcache_folio() with flush_kernel_vmap_range()
Instead of calling virt_to_folio() and passing that to
flush_dcache_folio(), just call flush_kernel_vmap_range() directly.
This also fixes a bug where if a subbuffer was bigger than PAGE_SIZE
only the PAGE_SIZE portion would be flushed.
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Merge tag 'trace-ringbuffer-v6.15-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace
Pull ring-buffer updates from Steven Rostedt:
"Persistent buffer cleanups and simplifications.
It was mistaken that the physical memory returned from "reserve_mem"
had to be vmap()'d to get to it from a virtual address. But
reserve_mem already maps the memory to the virtual address of the
kernel so a simple phys_to_virt() can be used to get to the virtual
address from the physical memory returned by "reserve_mem". With this
new found knowledge, the code can be cleaned up and simplified.
- Enforce that the persistent memory is page aligned
As the buffers using the persistent memory are all going to be
mapped via pages, make sure that the memory given to the tracing
infrastructure is page aligned. If it is not, it will print a
warning and fail to map the buffer.
- Use phys_to_virt() to get the virtual address from reserve_mem
Instead of calling vmap() on the physical memory returned from
"reserve_mem", use phys_to_virt() instead.
As the memory returned by "memmap" or any other means where a
physical address is given to the tracing infrastructure, it still
needs to be vmap(). Since this memory can never be returned back to
the buddy allocator nor should it ever be memmory mapped to user
space, flag this buffer and up the ref count. The ref count will
keep it from ever being freed, and the flag will prevent it from
ever being memory mapped to user space.
- Use vmap_page_range() for memmap virtual address mapping
For the memmap buffer, instead of allocating an array of struct
pages, assigning them to the contiguous phsycial memory and then
passing that to vmap(), use vmap_page_range() instead
- Replace flush_dcache_folio() with flush_kernel_vmap_range()
Instead of calling virt_to_folio() and passing that to
flush_dcache_folio(), just call flush_kernel_vmap_range() directly.
This also fixes a bug where if a subbuffer was bigger than
PAGE_SIZE only the PAGE_SIZE portion would be flushed"
* tag 'trace-ringbuffer-v6.15-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
ring-buffer: Use flush_kernel_vmap_range() over flush_dcache_folio()
tracing: Use vmap_page_range() to map memmap ring buffer
tracing: Have reserve_mem use phys_to_virt() and separate from memmap buffer
tracing: Enforce the persistent ring buffer to be page aligned
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Merge tag 'printk-for-6.15-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/printk/linux
Pull more printk updates from Petr Mladek:
- Silence warnings about candidates for ‘gnu_print’ format attribute
* tag 'printk-for-6.15-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/printk/linux:
vsnprintf: Silence false positive GCC warning for va_format()
vsnprintf: Drop unused const char fmt * in va_format()
vsnprintf: Mark binary printing functions with __printf() attribute
tracing: Mark binary printing functions with __printf() attribute
seq_file: Mark binary printing functions with __printf() attribute
seq_buf: Mark binary printing functions with __printf() attribute
The reserve_mem kernel command line option may pass back a physical
address, but the memory is still part of the normal memory just like
using memblock_alloc() would be. This means that the physical memory
returned by the reserve_mem command line option can be converted directly
to virtual memory by simply using phys_to_virt().
When freeing the buffer there's no need to call vunmap() anymore as the
memory allocated by reserve_mem is freed by the call to
reserve_mem_release_by_name().
Because the persistent ring buffer can also be allocated via the memmap
option, which *is* different than normal memory as it cannot be added back
to the buddy system, it must be treated differently. It still needs to be
virtually mapped to have access to it. It also can not be freed nor can it
ever be memory mapped to user space.
Create a new trace_array flag called TRACE_ARRAY_FL_MEMMAP which gets set
if the buffer is created by the memmap option, and this will prevent the
buffer from being memory mapped by user space.
Also increment the ref count for memmap'ed buffers so that they can never
be freed.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/Z-wFszhJ_9o4dc8O@kernel.org/
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250402144953.583750106@goodmis.org
Suggested-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
- Restructure the persistent memory to have a "scratch" area
Instead of hard coding the KASLR offset in the persistent memory
by the ring buffer, push that work up to the callers of the persistent
memory as they are the ones that need this information. The offsets
and such is not important to the ring buffer logic and it should
not be part of that.
A scratch pad is now created when the caller allocates a ring buffer
from persistent memory by stating how much memory it needs to save.
- Allow where modules are loaded to be saved in the new scratch pad
Save the addresses of modules when they are loaded into the persistent
memory scratch pad.
- A new module_for_each_mod() helper function was created
With the acknowledgement of the module maintainers a new module helper
function was created to iterate over all the currently loaded modules.
This has a callback to be called for each module. This is needed for
when tracing is started in the persistent buffer and the currently loaded
modules need to be saved in the scratch area.
- Expose the last boot information where the kernel and modules were loaded
The last_boot_info file is updated to print out the addresses of where
the kernel "_text" location was loaded from a previous boot, as well
as where the modules are loaded. If the buffer is recording the current
boot, it only prints "# Current" so that it does not expose the KASLR
offset of the currently running kernel.
- Allow the persistent ring buffer to be released (freed)
To have this in production environments, where the kernel command line can
not be changed easily, the ring buffer needs to be freed when it is not
going to be used. The memory for the buffer will always be allocated at
boot up, but if the system isn't going to enable tracing, the memory needs
to be freed. Allow it to be freed and added back to the kernel memory
pool.
- Allow stack traces to print the function names in the persistent buffer
Now that the modules are saved in the persistent ring buffer, if the same
modules are loaded, the printing of the function names will examine the
saved modules. If the module is found in the scratch area and is also
loaded, then it will do the offset shift and use kallsyms to display the
function name. If the address is not found, it simply displays the address
from the previous boot in hex.
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Merge tag 'trace-ringbuffer-v6.15-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace
Pull ring-buffer updates from Steven Rostedt:
- Restructure the persistent memory to have a "scratch" area
Instead of hard coding the KASLR offset in the persistent memory by
the ring buffer, push that work up to the callers of the persistent
memory as they are the ones that need this information. The offsets
and such is not important to the ring buffer logic and it should not
be part of that.
A scratch pad is now created when the caller allocates a ring buffer
from persistent memory by stating how much memory it needs to save.
- Allow where modules are loaded to be saved in the new scratch pad
Save the addresses of modules when they are loaded into the
persistent memory scratch pad.
- A new module_for_each_mod() helper function was created
With the acknowledgement of the module maintainers a new module
helper function was created to iterate over all the currently loaded
modules. This has a callback to be called for each module. This is
needed for when tracing is started in the persistent buffer and the
currently loaded modules need to be saved in the scratch area.
- Expose the last boot information where the kernel and modules were
loaded
The last_boot_info file is updated to print out the addresses of
where the kernel "_text" location was loaded from a previous boot, as
well as where the modules are loaded. If the buffer is recording the
current boot, it only prints "# Current" so that it does not expose
the KASLR offset of the currently running kernel.
- Allow the persistent ring buffer to be released (freed)
To have this in production environments, where the kernel command
line can not be changed easily, the ring buffer needs to be freed
when it is not going to be used. The memory for the buffer will
always be allocated at boot up, but if the system isn't going to
enable tracing, the memory needs to be freed. Allow it to be freed
and added back to the kernel memory pool.
- Allow stack traces to print the function names in the persistent
buffer
Now that the modules are saved in the persistent ring buffer, if the
same modules are loaded, the printing of the function names will
examine the saved modules. If the module is found in the scratch area
and is also loaded, then it will do the offset shift and use kallsyms
to display the function name. If the address is not found, it simply
displays the address from the previous boot in hex.
* tag 'trace-ringbuffer-v6.15-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
tracing: Use _text and the kernel offset in last_boot_info
tracing: Show last module text symbols in the stacktrace
ring-buffer: Remove the unused variable bmeta
tracing: Skip update_last_data() if cleared and remove active check for save_mod()
tracing: Initialize scratch_size to zero to prevent UB
tracing: Fix a compilation error without CONFIG_MODULES
tracing: Freeable reserved ring buffer
mm/memblock: Add reserved memory release function
tracing: Update modules to persistent instances when loaded
tracing: Show module names and addresses of last boot
tracing: Have persistent trace instances save module addresses
module: Add module_for_each_mod() function
tracing: Have persistent trace instances save KASLR offset
ring-buffer: Add ring_buffer_meta_scratch()
ring-buffer: Add buffer meta data for persistent ring buffer
ring-buffer: Use kaslr address instead of text delta
ring-buffer: Fix bytes_dropped calculation issue
Since the previous boot trace buffer can include module text address in
the stacktrace. As same as the kernel text address, convert the module
text address using the module address information.
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/174282689201.356346.17647540360450727687.stgit@mhiramat.tok.corp.google.com
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
