commit 1d02b444b8 upstream.
__setup() handlers should generally return 1 to indicate that the
boot options have been handled.
Using invalid option values causes the entire kernel boot option
string to be reported as Unknown and added to init's environment
strings, polluting it.
Unknown kernel command line parameters "BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/bzImage-517rc6
kprobe_event=p,syscall_any,$arg1 trace_options=quiet
trace_clock=jiffies", will be passed to user space.
Run /sbin/init as init process
with arguments:
/sbin/init
with environment:
HOME=/
TERM=linux
BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/bzImage-517rc6
kprobe_event=p,syscall_any,$arg1
trace_options=quiet
trace_clock=jiffies
Return 1 from the __setup() handlers so that init's environment is not
polluted with kernel boot options.
Link: lore.kernel.org/r/64644a2f-4a20-bab3-1e15-3b2cdd0defe3@omprussia.ru
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220303031744.32356-1-rdunlap@infradead.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 7bcfaf54f5 ("tracing: Add trace_options kernel command line parameter")
Fixes: e1e232ca6b ("tracing: Add trace_clock=<clock> kernel parameter")
Fixes: 970988e19e ("tracing/kprobe: Add kprobe_event= boot parameter")
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Reported-by: Igor Zhbanov <i.zhbanov@omprussia.ru>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
[ Upstream commit 3203ce39ac ]
The kernel parameter "tp_printk_stop_on_boot" starts with "tp_printk" which is
the same as another kernel parameter "tp_printk". If "tp_printk" setup is
called before the "tp_printk_stop_on_boot", it will override the latter
and keep it from being set.
This is similar to other kernel parameter issues, such as:
Commit 745a600cf1 ("um: console: Ignore console= option")
or init/do_mounts.c:45 (setup function of "ro" kernel param)
Fix it by checking for a "_" right after the "tp_printk" and if that
exists do not process the parameter.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220208195421.969326-1-jsyoo5b@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: JaeSang Yoo <jsyoo5b@gmail.com>
[ Fixed up change log and added space after if condition ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
commit 823e670f7e upstream.
With the new osnoise tracer, we are seeing the below splat:
Kernel attempted to read user page (c7d880000) - exploit attempt? (uid: 0)
BUG: Unable to handle kernel data access on read at 0xc7d880000
Faulting instruction address: 0xc0000000002ffa10
Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
LE PAGE_SIZE=64K MMU=Radix SMP NR_CPUS=2048 NUMA pSeries
...
NIP [c0000000002ffa10] __trace_array_vprintk.part.0+0x70/0x2f0
LR [c0000000002ff9fc] __trace_array_vprintk.part.0+0x5c/0x2f0
Call Trace:
[c0000008bdd73b80] [c0000000001c49cc] put_prev_task_fair+0x3c/0x60 (unreliable)
[c0000008bdd73be0] [c000000000301430] trace_array_printk_buf+0x70/0x90
[c0000008bdd73c00] [c0000000003178b0] trace_sched_switch_callback+0x250/0x290
[c0000008bdd73c90] [c000000000e70d60] __schedule+0x410/0x710
[c0000008bdd73d40] [c000000000e710c0] schedule+0x60/0x130
[c0000008bdd73d70] [c000000000030614] interrupt_exit_user_prepare_main+0x264/0x270
[c0000008bdd73de0] [c000000000030a70] syscall_exit_prepare+0x150/0x180
[c0000008bdd73e10] [c00000000000c174] system_call_vectored_common+0xf4/0x278
osnoise tracer on ppc64le is triggering osnoise_taint() for negative
duration in get_int_safe_duration() called from
trace_sched_switch_callback()->thread_exit().
The problem though is that the check for a valid trace_percpu_buffer is
incorrect in get_trace_buf(). The check is being done after calculating
the pointer for the current cpu, rather than on the main percpu pointer.
Fix the check to be against trace_percpu_buffer.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/a920e4272e0b0635cf20c444707cbce1b2c8973d.1640255304.git.naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: e2ace00117 ("tracing: Choose static tp_printk buffer by explicit nesting count")
Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
commit ff41c28c4b upstream.
The event_trace_add_tracer() can fail. In this case, it leads to a crash
in start_creating with below call stack. Handle the error scenario
properly in trace_array_create_dir.
Call trace:
down_write+0x7c/0x204
start_creating.25017+0x6c/0x194
tracefs_create_file+0xc4/0x2b4
init_tracer_tracefs+0x5c/0x940
trace_array_create_dir+0x58/0xb4
trace_array_create+0x1bc/0x2b8
trace_array_get_by_name+0xdc/0x18c
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1627651386-21315-1-git-send-email-kamaagra@codeaurora.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 4114fbfd02 ("tracing: Enable creating new instance early boot")
Signed-off-by: Kamal Agrawal <kamaagra@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
commit 1e3bac71c5 upstream.
Currently the histogram logic allows the user to write "cpu" in as an
event field, and it will record the CPU that the event happened on.
The problem with this is that there's a lot of events that have "cpu"
as a real field, and using "cpu" as the CPU it ran on, makes it
impossible to run histograms on the "cpu" field of events.
For example, if I want to have a histogram on the count of the
workqueue_queue_work event on its cpu field, running:
># echo 'hist:keys=cpu' > events/workqueue/workqueue_queue_work/trigger
Gives a misleading and wrong result.
Change the command to "common_cpu" as no event should have "common_*"
fields as that's a reserved name for fields used by all events. And
this makes sense here as common_cpu would be a field used by all events.
Now we can even do:
># echo 'hist:keys=common_cpu,cpu if cpu < 100' > events/workqueue/workqueue_queue_work/trigger
># cat events/workqueue/workqueue_queue_work/hist
# event histogram
#
# trigger info: hist:keys=common_cpu,cpu:vals=hitcount:sort=hitcount:size=2048 if cpu < 100 [active]
#
{ common_cpu: 0, cpu: 2 } hitcount: 1
{ common_cpu: 0, cpu: 4 } hitcount: 1
{ common_cpu: 7, cpu: 7 } hitcount: 1
{ common_cpu: 0, cpu: 7 } hitcount: 1
{ common_cpu: 0, cpu: 1 } hitcount: 1
{ common_cpu: 0, cpu: 6 } hitcount: 2
{ common_cpu: 0, cpu: 5 } hitcount: 2
{ common_cpu: 1, cpu: 1 } hitcount: 4
{ common_cpu: 6, cpu: 6 } hitcount: 4
{ common_cpu: 5, cpu: 5 } hitcount: 14
{ common_cpu: 4, cpu: 4 } hitcount: 26
{ common_cpu: 0, cpu: 0 } hitcount: 39
{ common_cpu: 2, cpu: 2 } hitcount: 184
Now for backward compatibility, I added a trick. If "cpu" is used, and
the field is not found, it will fall back to "common_cpu" and work as
it did before. This way, it will still work for old programs that use
"cpu" to get the actual CPU, but if the event has a "cpu" as a field, it
will get that event's "cpu" field, which is probably what it wants
anyway.
I updated the tracefs/README to include documentation about both the
common_timestamp and the common_cpu. This way, if that text is present in
the README, then an application can know that common_cpu is supported over
just plain "cpu".
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210721110053.26b4f641@oasis.local.home
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 8b7622bf94 ("tracing: Add cpu field for hist triggers")
Reviewed-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
commit 4030a6e6a6 upstream.
Currently tgid_map is sized at PID_MAX_DEFAULT entries, which means that
on systems where pid_max is configured higher than PID_MAX_DEFAULT the
ftrace record-tgid option doesn't work so well. Any tasks with PIDs
higher than PID_MAX_DEFAULT are simply not recorded in tgid_map, and
don't show up in the saved_tgids file.
In particular since systemd v243 & above configure pid_max to its
highest possible 1<<22 value by default on 64 bit systems this renders
the record-tgids option of little use.
Increase the size of tgid_map to the configured pid_max instead,
allowing it to cover the full range of PIDs up to the maximum value of
PID_MAX_LIMIT if the system is configured that way.
On 64 bit systems with pid_max == PID_MAX_LIMIT this will increase the
size of tgid_map from 256KiB to 16MiB. Whilst this 64x increase in
memory overhead sounds significant 64 bit systems are presumably best
placed to accommodate it, and since tgid_map is only allocated when the
record-tgid option is actually used presumably the user would rather it
spends sufficient memory to actually record the tgids they expect.
The size of tgid_map could also increase for CONFIG_BASE_SMALL=y
configurations, but these seem unlikely to be systems upon which people
are both configuring a large pid_max and running ftrace with record-tgid
anyway.
Of note is that we only allocate tgid_map once, the first time that the
record-tgid option is enabled. Therefore its size is only set once, to
the value of pid_max at the time the record-tgid option is first
enabled. If a user increases pid_max after that point, the saved_tgids
file will not contain entries for any tasks with pids beyond the earlier
value of pid_max.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210701172407.889626-2-paulburton@google.com
Fixes: d914ba37d7 ("tracing: Add support for recording tgid of tasks")
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paulburton@google.com>
[ Fixed comment coding style ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
commit b81b3e959a upstream.
The tgid_map array records a mapping from pid to tgid, where the index
of an entry within the array is the pid & the value stored at that index
is the tgid.
The saved_tgids_next() function iterates over pointers into the tgid_map
array & dereferences the pointers which results in the tgid, but then it
passes that dereferenced value to trace_find_tgid() which treats it as a
pid & does a further lookup within the tgid_map array. It seems likely
that the intent here was to skip over entries in tgid_map for which the
recorded tgid is zero, but instead we end up skipping over entries for
which the thread group leader hasn't yet had its own tgid recorded in
tgid_map.
A minimal fix would be to remove the call to trace_find_tgid, turning:
if (trace_find_tgid(*ptr))
into:
if (*ptr)
..but it seems like this logic can be much simpler if we simply let
seq_read() iterate over the whole tgid_map array & filter out empty
entries by returning SEQ_SKIP from saved_tgids_show(). Here we take that
approach, removing the incorrect logic here entirely.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210630003406.4013668-1-paulburton@google.com
Fixes: d914ba37d7 ("tracing: Add support for recording tgid of tasks")
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paulburton@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
commit 4fdd595e4f upstream.
A while ago, when the "trace" file was opened, tracing was stopped, and
code was added to stop recording the comms to saved_cmdlines, for mapping
of the pids to the task name.
Code has been added that only records the comm if a trace event occurred,
and there's no reason to not trace it if the trace file is opened.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 7ffbd48d5c ("tracing: Cache comms only after an event occurred")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
commit 85550c83da upstream.
The saved_cmdlines is used to map pids to the task name, such that the
output of the tracing does not just show pids, but also gives a human
readable name for the task.
If the name is not mapped, the output looks like this:
<...>-1316 [005] ...2 132.044039: ...
Instead of this:
gnome-shell-1316 [005] ...2 132.044039: ...
The names are updated when tracing is running, but are skipped if tracing
is stopped. Unfortunately, this stops the recording of the names if the
top level tracer is stopped, and not if there's other tracers active.
The recording of a name only happens when a new event is written into a
ring buffer, so there is no need to test if tracing is on or not. If
tracing is off, then no event is written and no need to test if tracing is
off or not.
Remove the check, as it hides the names of tasks for events in the
instance buffers.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 7ffbd48d5c ("tracing: Cache comms only after an event occurred")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
commit 785e3c0a3a upstream.
The default max PID is set by PID_MAX_DEFAULT, and the tracing
infrastructure uses this number to map PIDs to the comm names of the
tasks, such output of the trace can show names from the recorded PIDs in
the ring buffer. This mapping is also exported to user space via the
"saved_cmdlines" file in the tracefs directory.
But currently the mapping expects the PIDs to be less than
PID_MAX_DEFAULT, which is the default maximum and not the real maximum.
Recently, systemd will increases the maximum value of a PID on the system,
and when tasks are traced that have a PID higher than PID_MAX_DEFAULT, its
comm is not recorded. This leads to the entire trace to have "<...>" as
the comm name, which is pretty useless.
Instead, keep the array mapping the size of PID_MAX_DEFAULT, but instead
of just mapping the index to the comm, map a mask of the PID
(PID_MAX_DEFAULT - 1) to the comm, and find the full PID from the
map_cmdline_to_pid array (that already exists).
This bug goes back to the beginning of ftrace, but hasn't been an issue
until user space started increasing the maximum value of PIDs.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210427113207.3c601884@gandalf.local.home
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: bc0c38d139 ("ftrace: latency tracer infrastructure")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
commit 9deb193af6 upstream.
Commit cbc3b92ce0 fixed an issue to modify the macros of the stack trace
event so that user space could parse it properly. Originally the stack
trace format to user space showed that the called stack was a dynamic
array. But it is not actually a dynamic array, in the way that other
dynamic event arrays worked, and this broke user space parsing for it. The
update was to make the array look to have 8 entries in it. Helper
functions were added to make it parse it correctly, as the stack was
dynamic, but was determined by the size of the event stored.
Although this fixed user space on how it read the event, it changed the
internal structure used for the stack trace event. It changed the array
size from [0] to [8] (added 8 entries). This increased the size of the
stack trace event by 8 words. The size reserved on the ring buffer was the
size of the stack trace event plus the number of stack entries found in
the stack trace. That commit caused the amount to be 8 more than what was
needed because it did not expect the caller field to have any size. This
produced 8 entries of garbage (and reading random data) from the stack
trace event:
<idle>-0 [002] d... 1976396.837549: <stack trace>
=> trace_event_raw_event_sched_switch
=> __traceiter_sched_switch
=> __schedule
=> schedule_idle
=> do_idle
=> cpu_startup_entry
=> secondary_startup_64_no_verify
=> 0xc8c5e150ffff93de
=> 0xffff93de
=> 0
=> 0
=> 0xc8c5e17800000000
=> 0x1f30affff93de
=> 0x00000004
=> 0x200000000
Instead, subtract the size of the caller field from the size of the event
to make sure that only the amount needed to store the stack trace is
reserved.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/your-ad-here.call-01617191565-ext-9692@work.hours/
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: cbc3b92ce0 ("tracing: Set kernel_stack's caller size properly")
Reported-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
commit b220c049d5 upstream.
When filters are used by trace events, a page is allocated on each CPU and
used to copy the trace event fields to this page before writing to the ring
buffer. The reason to use the filter and not write directly into the ring
buffer is because a filter may discard the event and there's more overhead
on discarding from the ring buffer than the extra copy.
The problem here is that there is no check against the size being allocated
when using this page. If an event asks for more than a page size while being
filtered, it will get only a page, leading to the caller writing more that
what was allocated.
Check the length of the request, and if it is more than PAGE_SIZE minus the
header default back to allocating from the ring buffer directly. The ring
buffer may reject the event if its too big anyway, but it wont overflow.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/ath10k/1612839593-2308-1-git-send-email-wgong@codeaurora.org/
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 0fc1b09ff1 ("tracing: Use temp buffer when filtering events")
Reported-by: Wen Gong <wgong@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
When the instances were able to use their own options, the userstacktrace
option was left hardcoded for the top level. This made the instance
userstacktrace option bascially into a nop, and will confuse users that set
it, but nothing happens (I was confused when it happened to me!)
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 16270145ce ("tracing: Add trace options for core options to instances")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
With 5.9 kernel on ARM64, I found ftrace_dump output was broken but
it had no problem with normal output "cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace".
With investigation, it seems coping the data into temporal buffer seems to
break the align binary printf expects if the static buffer is not aligned
with 4-byte. IIUC, get_arg in bstr_printf expects that args has already
right align to be decoded and seq_buf_bprintf says ``the arguments are saved
in a 32bit word array that is defined by the format string constraints``.
So if we don't keep the align under copy to temporal buffer, the output
will be broken by shifting some bytes.
This patch fixes it.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201125225654.1618966-1-minchan@kernel.org
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Fixes: 8e99cf91b9 ("tracing: Do not allocate buffer in trace_find_next_entry() in atomic")
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The nesting count of trace_printk allows for 4 levels of nesting. The
nesting counter starts at zero and is incremented before being used to
retrieve the current context's buffer. But the index to the buffer uses the
nesting counter after it was incremented, and not its original number,
which in needs to do.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201029161905.4269-1-hqjagain@gmail.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 3d9622c12c ("tracing: Add barrier to trace_printk() buffer nesting modification")
Signed-off-by: Qiujun Huang <hqjagain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
"Updates for tracing and bootconfig:
- Add support for "bool" type in synthetic events
- Add per instance tracing for bootconfig
- Support perf-style return probe ("SYMBOL%return") in kprobes and
uprobes
- Allow for kprobes to be enabled earlier in boot up
- Added tracepoint helper function to allow testing if tracepoints
are enabled in headers
- Synthetic events can now have dynamic strings (variable length)
- Various fixes and cleanups"
* tag 'trace-v5.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (58 commits)
tracing: support "bool" type in synthetic trace events
selftests/ftrace: Add test case for synthetic event syntax errors
tracing: Handle synthetic event array field type checking correctly
selftests/ftrace: Change synthetic event name for inter-event-combined test
tracing: Add synthetic event error logging
tracing: Check that the synthetic event and field names are legal
tracing: Move is_good_name() from trace_probe.h to trace.h
tracing: Don't show dynamic string internals in synthetic event description
tracing: Fix some typos in comments
tracing/boot: Add ftrace.instance.*.alloc_snapshot option
tracing: Fix race in trace_open and buffer resize call
tracing: Check return value of __create_val_fields() before using its result
tracing: Fix synthetic print fmt check for use of __get_str()
tracing: Remove a pointless assignment
ftrace: ftrace_global_list is renamed to ftrace_ops_list
ftrace: Format variable declarations of ftrace_allocate_records
ftrace: Simplify the calculation of page number for ftrace_page->records
ftrace: Simplify the dyn_ftrace->flags macro
ftrace: Simplify the hash calculation
ftrace: Use fls() to get the bits for dup_hash()
...
Pull char/misc driver updates from Greg KH:
"Here is the big set of char, misc, and other assorted driver subsystem
patches for 5.10-rc1.
There's a lot of different things in here, all over the drivers/
directory. Some summaries:
- soundwire driver updates
- habanalabs driver updates
- extcon driver updates
- nitro_enclaves new driver
- fsl-mc driver and core updates
- mhi core and bus updates
- nvmem driver updates
- eeprom driver updates
- binder driver updates and fixes
- vbox minor bugfixes
- fsi driver updates
- w1 driver updates
- coresight driver updates
- interconnect driver updates
- misc driver updates
- other minor driver updates
All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
issues"
* tag 'char-misc-5.10-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (396 commits)
binder: fix UAF when releasing todo list
docs: w1: w1_therm: Fix broken xref, mistakes, clarify text
misc: Kconfig: fix a HISI_HIKEY_USB dependency
LSM: Fix type of id parameter in kernel_post_load_data prototype
misc: Kconfig: add a new dependency for HISI_HIKEY_USB
firmware_loader: fix a kernel-doc markup
w1: w1_therm: make w1_poll_completion static
binder: simplify the return expression of binder_mmap
test_firmware: Test partial read support
firmware: Add request_partial_firmware_into_buf()
firmware: Store opt_flags in fw_priv
fs/kernel_file_read: Add "offset" arg for partial reads
IMA: Add support for file reads without contents
LSM: Add "contents" flag to kernel_read_file hook
module: Call security_kernel_post_load_data()
firmware_loader: Use security_post_load_data()
LSM: Introduce kernel_post_load_data() hook
fs/kernel_read_file: Add file_size output argument
fs/kernel_read_file: Switch buffer size arg to size_t
fs/kernel_read_file: Remove redundant size argument
...
Pull static call support from Ingo Molnar:
"This introduces static_call(), which is the idea of static_branch()
applied to indirect function calls. Remove a data load (indirection)
by modifying the text.
They give the flexibility of function pointers, but with better
performance. (This is especially important for cases where retpolines
would otherwise be used, as retpolines can be pretty slow.)
API overview:
DECLARE_STATIC_CALL(name, func);
DEFINE_STATIC_CALL(name, func);
DEFINE_STATIC_CALL_NULL(name, typename);
static_call(name)(args...);
static_call_cond(name)(args...);
static_call_update(name, func);
x86 is supported via text patching, otherwise basic indirect calls are
used, with function pointers.
There's a second variant using inline code patching, inspired by
jump-labels, implemented on x86 as well.
The new APIs are utilized in the x86 perf code, a heavy user of
function pointers, where static calls speed up the PMU handler by
4.2% (!).
The generic implementation is not really excercised on other
architectures, outside of the trivial test_static_call_init()
self-test"
* tag 'core-static_call-2020-10-12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (21 commits)
static_call: Fix return type of static_call_init
tracepoint: Fix out of sync data passing by static caller
tracepoint: Fix overly long tracepoint names
x86/perf, static_call: Optimize x86_pmu methods
tracepoint: Optimize using static_call()
static_call: Allow early init
static_call: Add some validation
static_call: Handle tail-calls
static_call: Add static_call_cond()
x86/alternatives: Teach text_poke_bp() to emulate RET
static_call: Add simple self-test for static calls
x86/static_call: Add inline static call implementation for x86-64
x86/static_call: Add out-of-line static call implementation
static_call: Avoid kprobes on inline static_call()s
static_call: Add inline static call infrastructure
static_call: Add basic static call infrastructure
compiler.h: Make __ADDRESSABLE() symbol truly unique
jump_label,module: Fix module lifetime for __jump_label_mod_text_reserved()
module: Properly propagate MODULE_STATE_COMING failure
module: Fix up module_notifier return values
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