There were a few attempts at changing behavior of the match_string()
helpers (i.e. 'match_string()' & 'sysfs_match_string()'), to change &
extend the behavior according to the doc-string.
But the simplest approach is to just fix the doc-strings. The current
behavior is fine as-is, and some bugs were introduced trying to fix it.
As for extending the behavior, new helpers can always be introduced if
needed.
The match_string() helpers behave more like 'strncmp()' in the sense
that they go up to n elements or until the first NULL element in the
array of strings.
This change updates the doc-strings with this info.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200213072722.8249-1-alexandru.ardelean@analog.com
Signed-off-by: Alexandru Ardelean <alexandru.ardelean@analog.com>
Acked-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: "Tobin C . Harding" <tobin@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull tracing fixes from Steven Rostedt:
"Various fixes:
- Fix an uninitialized variable
- Fix compile bug to bootconfig userspace tool (in tools directory)
- Suppress some error messages of bootconfig userspace tool
- Remove unneded CONFIG_LIBXBC from bootconfig
- Allocate bootconfig xbc_nodes dynamically. To ease complaints about
taking up static memory at boot up
- Use of parse_args() to parse bootconfig instead of strstr() usage
Prevents issues of double quotes containing the interested string
- Fix missing ring_buffer_nest_end() on synthetic event error path
- Return zero not -EINVAL on soft disabled synthetic event (soft
disabling must be the same as hard disabling, which returns zero)
- Consolidate synthetic event code (remove duplicate code)"
* tag 'trace-v5.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
tracing: Consolidate trace() functions
tracing: Don't return -EINVAL when tracing soft disabled synth events
tracing: Add missing nest end to synth_event_trace_start() error case
tools/bootconfig: Suppress non-error messages
bootconfig: Allocate xbc_nodes array dynamically
bootconfig: Use parse_args() to find bootconfig and '--'
tracing/kprobe: Fix uninitialized variable bug
bootconfig: Remove unneeded CONFIG_LIBXBC
tools/bootconfig: Fix wrong __VA_ARGS__ usage
Pull more Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:
- fix randconfig to generate a sane .config
- rename hostprogs-y / always to hostprogs / always-y, which are more
natual syntax.
- optimize scripts/kallsyms
- fix yes2modconfig and mod2yesconfig
- make multiple directory targets ('make foo/ bar/') work
* tag 'kbuild-v5.6-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild:
kbuild: make multiple directory targets work
kconfig: Invalidate all symbols after changing to y or m.
kallsyms: fix type of kallsyms_token_table[]
scripts/kallsyms: change table to store (strcut sym_entry *)
scripts/kallsyms: rename local variables in read_symbol()
kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y
kbuild: fix the document to use extra-y for vmlinux.lds
kconfig: fix broken dependency in randconfig-generated .config
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
- Added new "bootconfig".
This looks for a file appended to initrd to add boot config options,
and has been discussed thoroughly at Linux Plumbers.
Very useful for adding kprobes at bootup.
Only enabled if "bootconfig" is on the real kernel command line.
- Created dynamic event creation.
Merges common code between creating synthetic events and kprobe
events.
- Rename perf "ring_buffer" structure to "perf_buffer"
- Rename ftrace "ring_buffer" structure to "trace_buffer"
Had to rename existing "trace_buffer" to "array_buffer"
- Allow trace_printk() to work withing (some) tracing code.
- Sort of tracing configs to be a little better organized
- Fixed bug where ftrace_graph hash was not being protected properly
- Various other small fixes and clean ups
* tag 'trace-v5.6-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (88 commits)
bootconfig: Show the number of nodes on boot message
tools/bootconfig: Show the number of bootconfig nodes
bootconfig: Add more parse error messages
bootconfig: Use bootconfig instead of boot config
ftrace: Protect ftrace_graph_hash with ftrace_sync
ftrace: Add comment to why rcu_dereference_sched() is open coded
tracing: Annotate ftrace_graph_notrace_hash pointer with __rcu
tracing: Annotate ftrace_graph_hash pointer with __rcu
bootconfig: Only load bootconfig if "bootconfig" is on the kernel cmdline
tracing: Use seq_buf for building dynevent_cmd string
tracing: Remove useless code in dynevent_arg_pair_add()
tracing: Remove check_arg() callbacks from dynevent args
tracing: Consolidate some synth_event_trace code
tracing: Fix now invalid var_ref_vals assumption in trace action
tracing: Change trace_boot to use synth_event interface
tracing: Move tracing selftests to bottom of menu
tracing: Move mmio tracer config up with the other tracers
tracing: Move tracing test module configs together
tracing: Move all function tracing configs together
tracing: Documentation for in-kernel synthetic event API
...
Show the number of bootconfig nodes when applying new bootconfig to
initrd.
Since there are limitations of bootconfig not only in its filesize,
but also the number of nodes, the number should be shown when applying
so that user can get the feeling of scale of current bootconfig.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/158091061337.27924.10886706631693823982.stgit@devnote2
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Patch series "lib: rework bitmap_parse", v5.
Similarl to the recently revisited bitmap_parselist(), bitmap_parse() is
ineffective and overcomplicated. This series reworks it, aligns its
interface with bitmap_parselist() and makes it simpler to use.
The series also adds a test for the function and fixes usage of it in
cpumask_parse() according to the new design - drops the calculating of
length of an input string.
bitmap_parse() takes the array of numbers to be put into the map in the BE
order which is reversed to the natural LE order for bitmaps. For example,
to construct bitmap containing a bit on the position 42, we have to put a
line '400,0'. Current implementation reads chunk one by one from the
beginning ('400' before '0') and makes bitmap shift after each successful
parse. It makes the complexity of the whole process as O(n^2). We can do
it in reverse direction ('0' before '400') and avoid shifting, but it
requires reverse parsing helpers.
This patch (of 7):
New function works like strchrnul() with a length limited string.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200102043031.30357-2-yury.norov@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Yury Norov <yury.norov@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Cc: Amritha Nambiar <amritha.nambiar@intel.com>
Cc: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: "Tobin C . Harding" <tobin@kernel.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Cc: Vineet Gupta <vineet.gupta1@synopsys.com>
Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
In old days, the "host-progs" syntax was used for specifying host
programs. It was renamed to the current "hostprogs-y" in 2004.
It is typically useful in scripts/Makefile because it allows Kbuild to
selectively compile host programs based on the kernel configuration.
This commit renames like follows:
always -> always-y
hostprogs-y -> hostprogs
So, scripts/Makefile will look like this:
always-$(CONFIG_BUILD_BIN2C) += ...
always-$(CONFIG_KALLSYMS) += ...
...
hostprogs := $(always-y) $(always-m)
I think this makes more sense because a host program is always a host
program, irrespective of the kernel configuration. We want to specify
which ones to compile by CONFIG options, so always-y will be handier.
The "always", "hostprogs-y", "hostprogs-m" will be kept for backward
compatibility for a while.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Don't instrument 3 more files that contain debugging facilities and
produce large amounts of uninteresting coverage for every syscall.
The following snippets are sprinkled all over the place in kcov traces
in a debugging kernel. We already try to disable instrumentation of
stack unwinding code and of most debug facilities. I guess we did not
use fault-inject.c at the time, and stacktrace.c was somehow missed (or
something has changed in kernel/configs). This change both speeds up
kcov (kernel doesn't need to store these PCs, user-space doesn't need to
process them) and frees trace buffer capacity for more useful coverage.
should_fail
lib/fault-inject.c:149
fail_dump
lib/fault-inject.c:45
stack_trace_save
kernel/stacktrace.c:124
stack_trace_consume_entry
kernel/stacktrace.c:86
stack_trace_consume_entry
kernel/stacktrace.c:89
... a hundred frames skipped ...
stack_trace_consume_entry
kernel/stacktrace.c:93
stack_trace_consume_entry
kernel/stacktrace.c:86
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200116111449.217744-1-dvyukov@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "S390 hardware support for kernel zlib", v3.
With IBM z15 mainframe the new DFLTCC instruction is available. It
implements deflate algorithm in hardware (Nest Acceleration Unit - NXU)
with estimated compression and decompression performance orders of
magnitude faster than the current zlib.
This patchset adds s390 hardware compression support to kernel zlib.
The code is based on the userspace zlib implementation:
https://github.com/madler/zlib/pull/410
The coding style is also preserved for future maintainability. There is
only limited set of userspace zlib functions represented in kernel.
Apart from that, all the memory allocation should be performed in
advance. Thus, the workarea structures are extended with the parameter
lists required for the DEFLATE CONVENTION CALL instruction.
Since kernel zlib itself does not support gzip headers, only Adler-32
checksum is processed (also can be produced by DFLTCC facility). Like
it was implemented for userspace, kernel zlib will compress in hardware
on level 1, and in software on all other levels. Decompression will
always happen in hardware (when enabled).
Two DFLTCC compression calls produce the same results only when they
both are made on machines of the same generation, and when the
respective buffers have the same offset relative to the start of the
page. Therefore care should be taken when using hardware compression
when reproducible results are desired. However it does always produce
the standard conform output which can be inflated anyway.
The new kernel command line parameter 'dfltcc' is introduced to
configure s390 zlib hardware support:
Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always }
on: s390 zlib hardware support for compression on
level 1 and decompression (default)
off: No s390 zlib hardware support
def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate
only (compression on level 1)
inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate
only (decompression)
always: Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression
level always using hardware support (used for debugging)
The main purpose of the integration of the NXU support into the kernel
zlib is the use of hardware deflate in btrfs filesystem with on-the-fly
compression enabled. Apart from that, hardware support can also be used
during boot for decompressing the kernel or the ramdisk image
With the patch for btrfs expanding zlib buffer from 1 to 4 pages (patch
6) the following performance results have been achieved using the
ramdisk with btrfs. These are relative numbers based on throughput rate
and compression ratio for zlib level 1:
Input data Deflate rate Inflate rate Compression ratio
NXU/Software NXU/Software NXU/Software
stream of zeroes 1.46 1.02 1.00
random ASCII data 10.44 3.00 0.96
ASCII text (dickens) 6,21 3.33 0.94
binary data (vmlinux) 8,37 3.90 1.02
This means that s390 hardware deflate can provide up to 10 times faster
compression (on level 1) and up to 4 times faster decompression (refers
to all compression levels) for btrfs zlib.
Disclaimer: Performance results are based on IBM internal tests using DD
command-line utility on btrfs on a Fedora 30 based internal driver in
native LPAR on a z15 system. Results may vary based on individual
workload, configuration and software levels.
This patch (of 9):
Create zlib_dfltcc library with the s390 DEFLATE CONVERSION CALL
implementation and related compression functions. Update zlib_deflate
functions with the hooks for s390 hardware support and adjust workspace
structures with extra parameter lists required for hardware deflate.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200103223334.20669-2-zaslonko@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ilya Leoshkevich <iii@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mikhail Zaslonko <zaslonko@linux.ibm.com>
Co-developed-by: Ilya Leoshkevich <iii@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Cc: Eduard Shishkin <edward6@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
