Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
- Fix printf format warning for bprintf
sunrpc uses a trace_printk() that triggers a printf warning during
the compile. Move the __printf() attribute around for when debugging
is not enabled the warning will go away
- Remove redundant check for EVENT_FILE_FL_FREED in
event_filter_write()
The FREED flag is checked in the call to event_file_file() and then
checked again right afterward, which is unneeded
- Clean up event_file_file() and event_file_data() helpers
These helper functions played a different role in the past, but now
with eventfs, the READ_ONCE() isn't needed. Simplify the code a bit
and also add a warning to event_file_data() if the file or its data
is not present
- Remove updating file->private_data in tracing open
All access to the file private data is handled by the helper
functions, which do not use file->private_data. Stop updating it on
open
- Show ENUM names in function arguments via BTF in function tracing
When showing the function arguments when func-args option is set for
function tracing, if one of the arguments is found to be an enum,
show the name of the enum instead of its number
- Add new trace_call__##name() API for tracepoints
Tracepoints are enabled via static_branch() blocks, where when not
enabled, there's only a nop that is in the code where the execution
will just skip over it. When tracing is enabled, the nop is converted
to a direct jump to the tracepoint code. Sometimes more calculations
are required to be performed to update the parameters of the
tracepoint. In this case, trace_##name##_enabled() is called which is
a static_branch() that gets enabled only when the tracepoint is
enabled. This allows the extra calculations to also be skipped by the
nop:
if (trace_foo_enabled()) {
x = bar();
trace_foo(x);
}
Where the x=bar() is only performed when foo is enabled. The problem
with this approach is that there's now two static_branch() calls. One
for checking if the tracepoint is enabled, and then again to know if
the tracepoint should be called. The second one is redundant
Introduce trace_call__foo() that will call the foo() tracepoint
directly without doing a static_branch():
if (trace_foo_enabled()) {
x = bar();
trace_call__foo();
}
- Update various locations to use the new trace_call__##name() API
- Move snapshot code out of trace.c
Cleaning up trace.c to not be a "dump all", move the snapshot code
out of it and into a new trace_snapshot.c file
- Clean up some "%*.s" to "%*s"
- Allow boot kernel command line options to be called multiple times
Have options like:
ftrace_filter=foo ftrace_filter=bar ftrace_filter=zoo
Equal to:
ftrace_filter=foo,bar,zoo
- Fix ipi_raise event CPU field to be a CPU field
The ipi_raise target_cpus field is defined as a __bitmask(). There is
now a __cpumask() field definition. Update the field to use that
- Have hist_field_name() use a snprintf() and not a series of strcat()
It's safer to use snprintf() that a series of strcat()
- Fix tracepoint regfunc balancing
A tracepoint can define a "reg" and "unreg" function that gets called
before the tracepoint is enabled, and after it is disabled
respectively. But on error, after the "reg" func is called and the
tracepoint is not enabled, the "unreg" function is not called to tear
down what the "reg" function performed
- Fix output that shows what histograms are enabled
Event variables are displayed incorrectly in the histogram output
Instead of "sched.sched_wakeup.$var", it is showing
"$sched.sched_wakeup.var" where the '$' is in the incorrect location
- Some other simple cleanups
* tag 'trace-v7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: (24 commits)
selftests/ftrace: Add test case for fully-qualified variable references
tracing: Fix fully-qualified variable reference printing in histograms
tracepoint: balance regfunc() on func_add() failure in tracepoint_add_func()
tracing: Rebuild full_name on each hist_field_name() call
tracing: Report ipi_raise target CPUs as cpumask
tracing: Remove duplicate latency_fsnotify() stub
tracing: Preserve repeated trace_trigger boot parameters
tracing: Append repeated boot-time tracing parameters
tracing: Remove spurious default precision from show_event_trigger/filter formats
cpufreq: Use trace_call__##name() at guarded tracepoint call sites
tracing: Remove tracing_alloc_snapshot() when snapshot isn't defined
tracing: Move snapshot code out of trace.c and into trace_snapshot.c
mm: damon: Use trace_call__##name() at guarded tracepoint call sites
btrfs: Use trace_call__##name() at guarded tracepoint call sites
spi: Use trace_call__##name() at guarded tracepoint call sites
i2c: Use trace_call__##name() at guarded tracepoint call sites
kernel: Use trace_call__##name() at guarded tracepoint call sites
tracepoint: Add trace_call__##name() API
tracing: trace_mmap.h: fix a kernel-doc warning
tracing: Pretty-print enum parameters in function arguments
...
When the persistent ring buffer was first introduced, it did not make
sense to start tracing for it on the kernel command line. That's because
if there was a crash, the start of events would invalidate the events from
the previous boot that had the crash.
But now that there's a "backup" instance that can take a snapshot of the
persistent ring buffer when boot starts, it is possible to have the
persistent ring buffer start events at boot up and not lose the old events.
Update the code where the boot events start after all boot time instances
are created. This will allow the backup instance to copy the persistent
ring buffer from the previous boot, and allow the persistent ring buffer
to start tracing new events for the current boot.
reserve_mem=100M:12M:trace trace_instance=boot_mapped^@trace,sched trace_instance=backup=boot_mapped
The above will create a boot_mapped persistent ring buffer and enabled the
scheduler events. If there's a crash, a "backup" instance will be created
holding the events of the persistent ring buffer from the previous boot,
while the persistent ring buffer will once again start tracing scheduler
events of the current boot.
Now the user doesn't have to remember to start the persistent ring buffer.
It will always have the events started at each boot.
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260331163924.6ccb3896@gandalf.local.home
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Since there is no reason to reuse the backup instance, make it readonly
(but erasable). Note that only backup instances are readonly, because
other trace instances will be empty unless it is writable. Only backup
instances have copy entries from the original.
With this change, most of the trace control files are removed from the
backup instance, including eventfs enable/filter etc.
# find /sys/kernel/tracing/instances/backup/events/ | wc -l
4093
# find /sys/kernel/tracing/instances/boot_map/events/ | wc -l
9573
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/177502546939.1311542.1826814401724828930.stgit@mhiramat.tok.corp.google.com
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Some tracing boot parameters already accept delimited value lists, but
their __setup() handlers keep only the last instance seen at boot.
Make repeated instances append to the same boot-time buffer in the
format each parser already consumes.
Use a shared trace_append_boot_param() helper for the ftrace filters,
trace_options, and kprobe_event boot parameters.
This also lets Bootconfig array values work naturally when they expand
to repeated param=value entries.
Before this change, only the last instance from each repeated
parameter survived boot.
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260330181103.1851230-1-atwellwea@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Wesley Atwell <atwellwea@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The function tracing_alloc_snapshot() is only used between trace.c and
trace_snapshot.c. When snapshot isn't configured, it's not used at all.
The stub function was defined as a global with no users and no prototype
causing build issues.
Remove the function when snapshot isn't configured as nothing is calling
it.
Also remove the EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() that was associated with it as it's
not used outside of the tracing subsystem which also includes any modules.
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260328101946.2c4ef4a5@robin
Reported-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/acb-IuZ4vDkwwQLW@sirena.co.uk/
Fixes: bade44fe54 (tracing: Move snapshot code out of trace.c and into trace_snapshot.c)
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The commit f35dbac694 ("ring-buffer: Fix to update per-subbuf entries of
persistent ring buffer") was a fix and merged upstream. It is needed for
some other work in the ring buffer. The current branch has the remote
buffer code that is shared with the Arm64 subsystem and can't be rebased.
Merge in the upstream commit to allow continuing of the ring buffer work.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The tracing_open_file_tr() function currently copies the trace_event_file
pointer from inode->i_private to file->private_data when the file is
successfully opened. This duplication is not particularly useful, as all
event code should utilize event_file_file() or event_file_data() to
retrieve a trace_event_file pointer from a file struct and these access
functions read file->f_inode->i_private. Moreover, this setup requires the
code for opening hist files to explicitly clear file->private_data before
calling single_open(), since this function expects the private_data member
to be set to NULL and uses it to store a pointer to a seq_file.
Remove the unnecessary setting of file->private_data in
tracing_open_file_tr() and simplify the hist code.
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260219162737.314231-6-petr.pavlu@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
When the "copy_trace_marker" option is enabled for an instance, anything
written into /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_marker is also copied into that
instances buffer. When the option is set, that instance's trace_array
descriptor is added to the marker_copies link list. This list is protected
by RCU, as all iterations uses an RCU protected list traversal.
When the instance is deleted, all the flags that were enabled are cleared.
This also clears the copy_trace_marker flag and removes the trace_array
descriptor from the list.
The issue is after the flags are called, a direct call to
update_marker_trace() is performed to clear the flag. This function
returns true if the state of the flag changed and false otherwise. If it
returns true here, synchronize_rcu() is called to make sure all readers
see that its removed from the list.
But since the flag was already cleared, the state does not change and the
synchronization is never called, leaving a possible UAF bug.
Move the clearing of all flags below the updating of the copy_trace_marker
option which then makes sure the synchronization is performed.
Also use the flag for checking the state in update_marker_trace() instead
of looking at if the list is empty.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260318185512.1b6c7db4@gandalf.local.home
Fixes: 7b382efd5e ("tracing: Allow the top level trace_marker to write into another instances")
Reported-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260225133122.237275-1-sashal@kernel.org/
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The system call trace events call trace_user_fault_read() to read the user
space part of some system calls. This is done by grabbing a per-cpu
buffer, disabling migration, enabling preemption, calling
copy_from_user(), disabling preemption, enabling migration and checking if
the task was preempted while preemption was enabled. If it was, the buffer
is considered corrupted and it tries again.
There's a safety mechanism that will fail out of this loop if it fails 100
times (with a warning). That warning message was triggered in some
pi_futex stress tests. Enabling the sched_switch trace event and
traceoff_on_warning, showed the problem:
pi_mutex_hammer-1375 [006] d..21 138.981648: sched_switch: prev_comm=pi_mutex_hammer prev_pid=1375 prev_prio=95 prev_state=R+ ==> next_comm=migration/6 next_pid=47 next_prio=0
migration/6-47 [006] d..2. 138.981651: sched_switch: prev_comm=migration/6 prev_pid=47 prev_prio=0 prev_state=S ==> next_comm=pi_mutex_hammer next_pid=1375 next_prio=95
pi_mutex_hammer-1375 [006] d..21 138.981656: sched_switch: prev_comm=pi_mutex_hammer prev_pid=1375 prev_prio=95 prev_state=R+ ==> next_comm=migration/6 next_pid=47 next_prio=0
migration/6-47 [006] d..2. 138.981659: sched_switch: prev_comm=migration/6 prev_pid=47 prev_prio=0 prev_state=S ==> next_comm=pi_mutex_hammer next_pid=1375 next_prio=95
pi_mutex_hammer-1375 [006] d..21 138.981664: sched_switch: prev_comm=pi_mutex_hammer prev_pid=1375 prev_prio=95 prev_state=R+ ==> next_comm=migration/6 next_pid=47 next_prio=0
migration/6-47 [006] d..2. 138.981667: sched_switch: prev_comm=migration/6 prev_pid=47 prev_prio=0 prev_state=S ==> next_comm=pi_mutex_hammer next_pid=1375 next_prio=95
pi_mutex_hammer-1375 [006] d..21 138.981671: sched_switch: prev_comm=pi_mutex_hammer prev_pid=1375 prev_prio=95 prev_state=R+ ==> next_comm=migration/6 next_pid=47 next_prio=0
migration/6-47 [006] d..2. 138.981675: sched_switch: prev_comm=migration/6 prev_pid=47 prev_prio=0 prev_state=S ==> next_comm=pi_mutex_hammer next_pid=1375 next_prio=95
pi_mutex_hammer-1375 [006] d..21 138.981679: sched_switch: prev_comm=pi_mutex_hammer prev_pid=1375 prev_prio=95 prev_state=R+ ==> next_comm=migration/6 next_pid=47 next_prio=0
migration/6-47 [006] d..2. 138.981682: sched_switch: prev_comm=migration/6 prev_pid=47 prev_prio=0 prev_state=S ==> next_comm=pi_mutex_hammer next_pid=1375 next_prio=95
pi_mutex_hammer-1375 [006] d..21 138.981687: sched_switch: prev_comm=pi_mutex_hammer prev_pid=1375 prev_prio=95 prev_state=R+ ==> next_comm=migration/6 next_pid=47 next_prio=0
migration/6-47 [006] d..2. 138.981690: sched_switch: prev_comm=migration/6 prev_pid=47 prev_prio=0 prev_state=S ==> next_comm=pi_mutex_hammer next_pid=1375 next_prio=95
pi_mutex_hammer-1375 [006] d..21 138.981695: sched_switch: prev_comm=pi_mutex_hammer prev_pid=1375 prev_prio=95 prev_state=R+ ==> next_comm=migration/6 next_pid=47 next_prio=0
migration/6-47 [006] d..2. 138.981698: sched_switch: prev_comm=migration/6 prev_pid=47 prev_prio=0 prev_state=S ==> next_comm=pi_mutex_hammer next_pid=1375 next_prio=95
pi_mutex_hammer-1375 [006] d..21 138.981703: sched_switch: prev_comm=pi_mutex_hammer prev_pid=1375 prev_prio=95 prev_state=R+ ==> next_comm=migration/6 next_pid=47 next_prio=0
migration/6-47 [006] d..2. 138.981706: sched_switch: prev_comm=migration/6 prev_pid=47 prev_prio=0 prev_state=S ==> next_comm=pi_mutex_hammer next_pid=1375 next_prio=95
pi_mutex_hammer-1375 [006] d..21 138.981711: sched_switch: prev_comm=pi_mutex_hammer prev_pid=1375 prev_prio=95 prev_state=R+ ==> next_comm=migration/6 next_pid=47 next_prio=0
migration/6-47 [006] d..2. 138.981714: sched_switch: prev_comm=migration/6 prev_pid=47 prev_prio=0 prev_state=S ==> next_comm=pi_mutex_hammer next_pid=1375 next_prio=95
pi_mutex_hammer-1375 [006] d..21 138.981719: sched_switch: prev_comm=pi_mutex_hammer prev_pid=1375 prev_prio=95 prev_state=R+ ==> next_comm=migration/6 next_pid=47 next_prio=0
migration/6-47 [006] d..2. 138.981722: sched_switch: prev_comm=migration/6 prev_pid=47 prev_prio=0 prev_state=S ==> next_comm=pi_mutex_hammer next_pid=1375 next_prio=95
pi_mutex_hammer-1375 [006] d..21 138.981727: sched_switch: prev_comm=pi_mutex_hammer prev_pid=1375 prev_prio=95 prev_state=R+ ==> next_comm=migration/6 next_pid=47 next_prio=0
migration/6-47 [006] d..2. 138.981730: sched_switch: prev_comm=migration/6 prev_pid=47 prev_prio=0 prev_state=S ==> next_comm=pi_mutex_hammer next_pid=1375 next_prio=95
pi_mutex_hammer-1375 [006] d..21 138.981735: sched_switch: prev_comm=pi_mutex_hammer prev_pid=1375 prev_prio=95 prev_state=R+ ==> next_comm=migration/6 next_pid=47 next_prio=0
migration/6-47 [006] d..2. 138.981738: sched_switch: prev_comm=migration/6 prev_pid=47 prev_prio=0 prev_state=S ==> next_comm=pi_mutex_hammer next_pid=1375 next_prio=95
What happened was the task 1375 was flagged to be migrated. When
preemption was enabled, the migration thread woke up to migrate that task,
but failed because migration for that task was disabled. This caused the
loop to fail to exit because the task scheduled out while trying to read
user space.
Every time the task enabled preemption the migration thread would schedule
in, try to migrate the task, fail and let the task continue. But because
the loop would only enable preemption with migration disabled, it would
always fail because each time it enabled preemption to read user space,
the migration thread would try to migrate it.
To solve this, when the loop fails to read user space without being
scheduled out, enabled and disable preemption with migration enabled. This
will allow the migration task to successfully migrate the task and the
next loop should succeed to read user space without being scheduled out.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260316130734.1858a998@gandalf.local.home
Fixes: 64cf7d058a ("tracing: Have trace_marker use per-cpu data to read user space")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
A trace remote relies on ring-buffer remotes to read and control
compatible tracing buffers, written by entity such as firmware or
hypervisor.
Add a Tracefs directory remotes/ that contains all instances of trace
remotes. Each instance follows the same hierarchy as any other to ease
the support by existing user-space tools.
This currently does not provide any event support, which will come
later.
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260309162516.2623589-6-vdonnefort@google.com
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Some of the sizing logic through tracer_alloc_buffers() uses int
internally, causing unexpected behavior if the user passes a value that
does not fit in an int (on my x86 machine, the result is uselessly tiny
buffers).
Fix by plumbing the parameter's real type (unsigned long) through to the
ring buffer allocation functions, which already use unsigned long.
It has always been possible to create larger ring buffers via the sysfs
interface: this only affects the cmdline parameter.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/bff42a4288aada08bdf74da3f5b67a2c28b761f8.1772852067.git.calvin@wbinvd.org
Fixes: 73c5162aa3 ("tracing: keep ring buffer to minimum size till used")
Signed-off-by: Calvin Owens <calvin@wbinvd.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
This converts some of the visually simpler cases that have been split
over multiple lines. I only did the ones that are easy to verify the
resulting diff by having just that final GFP_KERNEL argument on the next
line.
Somebody should probably do a proper coccinelle script for this, but for
me the trivial script actually resulted in an assertion failure in the
middle of the script. I probably had made it a bit _too_ trivial.
So after fighting that far a while I decided to just do some of the
syntactically simpler cases with variations of the previous 'sed'
scripts.
The more syntactically complex multi-line cases would mostly really want
whitespace cleanup anyway.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using
git grep -l '\<k[vmz]*alloc_objs*(.*, GFP_KERNEL)' |
xargs sed -i 's/\(alloc_objs*(.*\), GFP_KERNEL)/\1)/'
to convert the new alloc_obj() users that had a simple GFP_KERNEL
argument to just drop that argument.
Note that due to the extreme simplicity of the scripting, any slightly
more complex cases spread over multiple lines would not be triggered:
they definitely exist, but this covers the vast bulk of the cases, and
the resulting diff is also then easier to check automatically.
For the same reason the 'flex' versions will be done as a separate
conversion.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to
avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and
instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union
object instances:
Single allocations: kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with: kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)
Array allocations: kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with: kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)
Flex array allocations: kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...)
are replaced with: kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)
(where TYPE may also be *VAR)
The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning
"TYPE *".
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.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>
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>
