Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
"The biggest change here is the updates to kprobes
Back in January I posted patches to create function based events.
These were the events that you suggested I make to allow developers to
easily create events in code where no trace event exists. After
posting those changes for review, it was suggested that we implement
this instead with kprobes.
The problem with kprobes is that the interface is too complex and
needs to be simplified. Masami Hiramatsu posted patches in March and
I've been playing with them a bit. There's been a bit of clean up in
the kprobe code that was inspired by the function based event patches,
and a couple of enhancements to the kprobe event interface.
- If the arch supports it (we added support for x86), you can place a
kprobe event at the start of a function and use $arg1, $arg2, etc
to reference the arguments of a function. (Before you needed to
know what register or where on the stack the argument was).
- The second is a way to see array of events. For example, if you
reference a mac address, you can add:
echo 'p:mac ip_rcv perm_addr=+574($arg2):x8[6]' > kprobe_events
And this will produce:
mac: (ip_rcv+0x0/0x140) perm_addr={0x52,0x54,0x0,0xc0,0x76,0xec}
Other changes include
- Exporting trace_dump_stack to modules
- Have the stack tracer trace the entire stack (stop trying to remove
tracing itself, as we keep removing too much).
- Added support for SDT in uprobes"
[ SDT - "Statically Defined Tracing" are userspace markers for tracing.
Let's not use random TLA's in explanations unless they are fairly
well-established as generic (at least for kernel people) - Linus ]
* tag 'trace-v4.20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (24 commits)
tracing: Have stack tracer trace full stack
tracing: Export trace_dump_stack to modules
tracing: probeevent: Fix uninitialized used of offset in parse args
tracing/kprobes: Allow kprobe-events to record module symbol
tracing/kprobes: Check the probe on unloaded module correctly
tracing/uprobes: Fix to return -EFAULT if copy_from_user failed
tracing: probeevent: Add $argN for accessing function args
x86: ptrace: Add function argument access API
tracing: probeevent: Add array type support
tracing: probeevent: Add symbol type
tracing: probeevent: Unify fetch_insn processing common part
tracing: probeevent: Append traceprobe_ for exported function
tracing: probeevent: Return consumed bytes of dynamic area
tracing: probeevent: Unify fetch type tables
tracing: probeevent: Introduce new argument fetching code
tracing: probeevent: Remove NOKPROBE_SYMBOL from print functions
tracing: probeevent: Cleanup argument field definition
tracing: probeevent: Cleanup print argument functions
trace_uprobe: support reference counter in fd-based uprobe
perf probe: Support SDT markers having reference counter (semaphore)
...
Pull char/misc driver updates from Greg KH:
"Here is the big set of char/misc patches for 4.20-rc1.
Loads of things here, we have new code in all of these driver
subsystems:
- fpga
- stm
- extcon
- nvmem
- eeprom
- hyper-v
- gsmi
- coresight
- thunderbolt
- vmw_balloon
- goldfish
- soundwire
along with lots of fixes and minor changes to other small drivers.
All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
issues"
* tag 'char-misc-4.20-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (245 commits)
Documentation/security-bugs: Clarify treatment of embargoed information
lib: Fix ia64 bootloader linkage
MAINTAINERS: Clarify UIO vs UIOVEC maintainer
docs/uio: fix a grammar nitpick
docs: fpga: document programming fpgas using regions
fpga: add devm_fpga_region_create
fpga: bridge: add devm_fpga_bridge_create
fpga: mgr: add devm_fpga_mgr_create
hv_balloon: Replace spin_is_locked() with lockdep
sgi-xp: Replace spin_is_locked() with lockdep
eeprom: New ee1004 driver for DDR4 memory
eeprom: at25: remove unneeded 'at25_remove'
w1: IAD Register is yet readable trough iad sys file. Fix snprintf (%u for unsigned, count for max size).
misc: mic: scif: remove set but not used variables 'src_dma_addr, dst_dma_addr'
misc: mic: fix a DMA pool free failure
platform: goldfish: pipe: Add a blank line to separate varibles and code
platform: goldfish: pipe: Remove redundant casting
platform: goldfish: pipe: Call misc_deregister if init fails
platform: goldfish: pipe: Move the file-scope goldfish_pipe_dev variable into the driver state
platform: goldfish: pipe: Move the file-scope goldfish_pipe_miscdev variable into the driver state
...
The rules and order of identification of trace sources against the
"stp-policy" have changed; update the documentation to reflect that.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Add $argN special fetch variable for accessing function
arguments. This allows user to trace the Nth argument easily
at the function entry.
Note that this returns most probably assignment of registers
and stacks. In some case, it may not work well. If you need
to access correct registers or stacks you should use perf-probe.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/152465888632.26224.3412465701570253696.stgit@devbox
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add array type support for probe events.
This allows user to get arraied types from memory address.
The array type syntax is
TYPE[N]
Where TYPE is one of types (u8/16/32/64,s8/16/32/64,
x8/16/32/64, symbol, string) and N is a fixed value less
than 64.
The string array type is a bit different from other types. For
other base types, <base-type>[1] is equal to <base-type>
(e.g. +0(%di):x32[1] is same as +0(%di):x32.) But string[1] is not
equal to string. The string type itself represents "char array",
but string array type represents "char * array". So, for example,
+0(%di):string[1] is equal to +0(+0(%di)):string.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/152465891533.26224.6150658225601339931.stgit@devbox
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Pull documentation update from Jonathan Corbet:
"This was a moderately busy cycle for docs, with the usual collection
of small fixes and updates.
We also have new ktime_get_*() docs from Arnd, some kernel-doc fixes,
a new set of Italian translations (non so se vale la pena, ma non fa
male - speriamo bene), and some extensive early memory-management
documentation improvements from Mike Rapoport"
* tag 'docs-4.19' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (52 commits)
Documentation: corrections to console/console.txt
Documentation: add ioctl number entry for v4l2-subdev.h
Remove gendered language from management style documentation
scripts/kernel-doc: Escape all literal braces in regexes
docs/mm: add description of boot time memory management
docs/mm: memblock: add overview documentation
docs/mm: memblock: add kernel-doc description for memblock types
docs/mm: memblock: add kernel-doc comments for memblock_add[_node]
docs/mm: memblock: update kernel-doc comments
mm/memblock: add a name for memblock flags enumeration
docs/mm: bootmem: add overview documentation
docs/mm: bootmem: add kernel-doc description of 'struct bootmem_data'
docs/mm: bootmem: fix kernel-doc warnings
docs/mm: nobootmem: fixup kernel-doc comments
mm/bootmem: drop duplicated kernel-doc comments
Documentation: vm.txt: Adding 'nr_hugepages_mempolicy' parameter description.
doc:it_IT: translation for kernel-hacking
docs: Fix the reference labels in Locking.rst
doc: tracing: Fix a typo of trace_stat
mm: Introduce new type vm_fault_t
...
The name of the directory for per-cpu function statistics
is trace_stat, not trace_stats.
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
systrace used for tracing for Android systems has carried a patch for
many years in the Android tree that traces when the cpufreq limits
change. With the help of this information, systrace can know when the
policy limits change and can visually display the data. Lets add
upstream support for the same.
Signed-off-by: Ruchi Kandoi <kandoiruchi@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
As the other files are documented explicitly, let's add a
short description for 'trigger' as well.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Ziegler <andreas.ziegler@fau.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
The per-event files to enable or disable kprobes and uprobes
are named 'enable', not 'enabled'. Fix the corresponding
documentation.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Ziegler <andreas.ziegler@fau.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Despite being mentioned at Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst as a
rst file, this file was still a text one, with several issues.
Convert it to ReST and add it to the trace index:
- Mark the document title as such;
- Identify and indent the literal blocks;
- Use the proper markups for table.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
The script:
./scripts/documentation-file-ref-check --fix
Gives multiple hints for broken references on some files.
Manually use the one that applies for some files.
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: James Morris <james.morris@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
"One new feature was added to ftrace, which is the trace_marker now
supports triggers. For example:
# cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing
# echo 'snapshot' > events/ftrace/print/trigger
# echo 'cause snapshot' > trace_marker
The rest of the changes are various clean ups and also one stable fix
that was added late in the cycle"
* tag 'trace-v4.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (21 commits)
tracing: Use match_string() instead of open coding it in trace_set_options()
branch-check: fix long->int truncation when profiling branches
ring-buffer: Fix typo in comment
ring-buffer: Fix a bunch of typos in comments
tracing/selftest: Add test to test simple snapshot trigger for trace_marker
tracing/selftest: Add test to test hist trigger between kernel event and trace_marker
tracing/selftest: Add selftests to test trace_marker histogram triggers
ftrace/selftest: Fix reset_trigger() to handle triggers with filters
ftrace/selftest: Have the reset_trigger code be a bit more careful
tracing: Document trace_marker triggers
tracing: Allow histogram triggers to access ftrace internal events
tracing: Prevent further users of zero size static arrays in trace events
tracing: Have zero size length in filter logic be full string
tracing: Add trigger file for trace_markers tracefs/ftrace/print
tracing: Do not show filter file for ftrace internal events
tracing: Add brackets in ftrace event dynamic arrays
tracing: Have event_trace_init() called by trace_init_tracefs()
tracing: Add __find_event_file() to find event files without restrictions
tracing: Do not reference event data in post call triggers
tracepoints: Fix the descriptions of tracepoint_probe_register{_prio}
...
Pull char/misc driver updates from Greg KH:
"Here is the "big" char and misc driver patches for 4.18-rc1.
It's not a lot of stuff here, but there are some highlights:
- coreboot driver updates
- soundwire driver updates
- android binder updates
- fpga big sync, mostly documentation
- lots of minor driver updates
All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
issues"
* tag 'char-misc-4.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (81 commits)
vmw_balloon: fixing double free when batching mode is off
MAINTAINERS: Add driver-api/fpga path
fpga: clarify that unregister functions also free
documentation: fpga: move fpga-region.txt to driver-api
documentation: fpga: add bridge document to driver-api
documentation: fpga: move fpga-mgr.txt to driver-api
Documentation: fpga: move fpga overview to driver-api
fpga: region: kernel-doc fixes
fpga: bridge: kernel-doc fixes
fpga: mgr: kernel-doc fixes
fpga: use SPDX
fpga: region: change api, add fpga_region_create/free
fpga: bridge: change api, don't use drvdata
fpga: manager: change api, don't use drvdata
fpga: region: don't use drvdata in common fpga code
Drivers: hv: vmbus: Removed an unnecessary cast from void *
ver_linux: Drop redundant calls to system() to test if file is readable
ver_linux: Move stderr redirection from function parameter to function body
misc: IBM Virtual Management Channel Driver (VMC)
rpmsg: Correct support for MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE()
...
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"There's been a fair amount of work in the docs tree this time around,
including:
- Extensive RST conversions and organizational work in the
memory-management docs thanks to Mike Rapoport.
- An update of Documentation/features from Andrea Parri and a script
to keep it updated.
- Various LICENSES updates from Thomas, along with a script to check
SPDX tags.
- Work to fix dangling references to documentation files; this
involved a fair number of one-liner comment changes outside of
Documentation/
... and the usual list of documentation improvements, typo fixes, etc"
* tag 'docs-4.18' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (103 commits)
Documentation: document hung_task_panic kernel parameter
docs/admin-guide/mm: add high level concepts overview
docs/vm: move ksm and transhuge from "user" to "internals" section.
docs: Use the kerneldoc comments for memalloc_no*()
doc: document scope NOFS, NOIO APIs
docs: update kernel versions and dates in tables
docs/vm: transhuge: split userspace bits to admin-guide/mm/transhuge
docs/vm: transhuge: minor updates
docs/vm: transhuge: change sections order
Documentation: arm: clean up Marvell Berlin family info
Documentation: gpio: driver: Fix a typo and some odd grammar
docs: ranoops.rst: fix location of ramoops.txt
scripts/documentation-file-ref-check: rewrite it in perl with auto-fix mode
docs: uio-howto.rst: use a code block to solve a warning
mm, THP, doc: Add document for thp_swpout/thp_swpout_fallback
w1: w1_io.c: fix a kernel-doc warning
Documentation/process/posting: wrap text at 80 cols
docs: admin-guide: add cgroup-v2 documentation
Revert "Documentation/features/vm: Remove arch support status file for 'pte_special'"
Documentation: refcount-vs-atomic: Update reference to LKMM doc.
...
The driver prints pcsr twice: the first time it uses specifier %px to
print hexadecimal pcsr value and the second time uses specifier %pS for
output kernel symbols.
As suggested by Kees, using %pS should be sufficient and %px isn't
necessary; the reason is if the pcsr is a kernel space address, we can
easily get to know the code line from %pS format, on the other hand, if
the pcsr value doesn't fall into kernel space range (e.g. if the CPU is
stuck in firmware), %pS also gives out pcsr hexadecimal value.
So this commit removes useless %px and update section "Output format"
in the document for alignment between the code and document.
Suggested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This patch groups together section pertaining to the perf tools. That way
everything is at the same place rather than spread out.
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Linus Torvalds
Masanari Iida
Alexander Shishkin
Masami Hiramatsu
Ruchi Kandoi
Andreas Ziegler
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Joel Fernandes (Google)
Steven Rostedt (VMware)
Leo Yan
Mathieu Poirier