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2025-12-05Merge tag 'ftrace-v6.19' of ↵Linus Torvalds
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working via ftrace_pids_enabled() and fgraph_pid_func(), the coarse-grained ftrace_trace_task() check in graph_entry() is obsolete.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
2025-11-26fgraph: Remove coarse PID filtering from graph_entry()Shengming Hu
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working via ftrace_pids_enabled() and fgraph_pid_func, the coarse-grained ftrace_trace_task() check in graph_entry() is obsolete.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>
2025-11-26function_graph: Enable funcgraph-args and funcgraph-retaddr to work ↵pengdonglin
simultaneously Currently, the funcgraph-args and funcgraph-retaddr features are mutually exclusive. This patch resolves this limitation by allowing funcgraph-retaddr to have an args array. To verify the change, use perf to trace vfs_write with both options enabled: Before: # perf ftrace -G vfs_write --graph-opts args,retaddr ...... down_read() { /* <-n_tty_write+0xa3/0x540 */ __cond_resched(); /* <-down_read+0x12/0x160 */ preempt_count_add(); /* <-down_read+0x3b/0x160 */ preempt_count_sub(); /* <-down_read+0x8b/0x160 */ } After: # perf ftrace -G vfs_write --graph-opts args,retaddr ...... down_read(sem=0xffff8880100bea78) { /* <-n_tty_write+0xa3/0x540 */ __cond_resched(); /* <-down_read+0x12/0x160 */ preempt_count_add(val=1); /* <-down_read+0x3b/0x160 */ preempt_count_sub(val=1); /* <-down_read+0x8b/0x160 */ } Cc: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Xiaoqin Zhang <zhangxiaoqin@xiaomi.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251125093425.2563849-1-dolinux.peng@gmail.com Signed-off-by: pengdonglin <pengdonglin@xiaomi.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2025-11-26tracing: Add boot-time backup of persistent ring bufferMasami Hiramatsu (Google)
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>
2025-11-26tracing: Add bulk garbage collection of freeing event_trigger_dataSteven Rostedt
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>
2025-11-26tracing: Merge struct event_trigger_ops into struct event_commandSteven Rostedt
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>
2025-11-26tracing: Remove get_trigger_ops() and add count_func() from trigger opsSteven Rostedt
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>
2025-11-26fgraph: Make fgraph_no_sleep_time signedSteven Rostedt
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: 5abb6ccb58f0 ("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>
2025-11-14tracing: Have function graph tracer option sleep-time be per instanceSteven Rostedt
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: c132be2c4fcc1 ("function_graph: Have the instances use their own ftrace_ops for filtering") Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2025-11-14tracing: Move graph-time out of function graph optionsSteven Rostedt
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>
2025-11-12tracing: Have tracer option be instance specificSteven Rostedt
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: f20a580627f43 ("ftrace: Allow instances to use function tracing") Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2025-11-04Merge branch 'topic/func-profiler-offset' of ↵Steven Rostedt
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mhiramat/linux into trace/trace/core 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>
2025-11-04tracing: Add an option to show symbols in _text+offset for function profilerMasami Hiramatsu (Google)
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>
2025-11-04tracing: Allow tracer to add more than 32 optionsMasami Hiramatsu (Google)
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>
2025-10-28tracing: Add a config and syscall_user_buf_size file to limit amount writtenSteven Rostedt
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>
2025-10-28tracing: Make trace_user_fault_read() exposed to rest of tracingSteven Rostedt
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>
2025-09-23tracing: Replace syscall RCU pointer assignment with READ/WRITE_ONCE()Steven Rostedt
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>
2025-08-23Merge tag 'trace-v6.17-rc2-2' of ↵Linus Torvalds
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
2025-08-20tracing: fprobe-event: Sanitize wildcard for fprobe event nameMasami Hiramatsu (Google)
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: 334e5519c375 ("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
2025-08-20tracing: Limit access to parser->buffer when trace_get_user failedPu Lehui
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: 8c9af478c06b ("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>
2025-07-29tracing: Remove "__attribute__()" from the type field of event formatMasami Hiramatsu (Google)
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>
2025-05-09tracing: Allow the top level trace_marker to write into another instancesSteven Rostedt
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>
2025-05-09tracing: Rename event_trigger_alloc() to trigger_data_alloc()Steven Rostedt
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: 86599dbe2c527 ("tracing: Add helper functions to simplify event_command.parse() callback handling") Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2025-05-09tracing: Remove unused buffer_page field from trace_array_cpu structureSteven Rostedt
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>
2025-05-09tracing: Convert the per CPU "disabled" counter to local from atomicSteven Rostedt
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>
2025-05-09ring-buffer: Add ring_buffer_record_is_on_cpu()Steven Rostedt
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>
2025-05-09tracing: Add tracer_tracing_disable/enable() functionsSteven Rostedt
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>
2025-04-03Merge tag 'trace-ringbuffer-v6.15-3' of ↵Linus Torvalds
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
2025-04-02Merge tag 'printk-for-6.15-2' of ↵Linus Torvalds
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
2025-04-02tracing: Have reserve_mem use phys_to_virt() and separate from memmap bufferSteven Rostedt
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>
2025-03-31Merge tag 'trace-ringbuffer-v6.15-2' of ↵Linus Torvalds
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
2025-03-28tracing: Show last module text symbols in the stacktraceMasami Hiramatsu (Google)
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>
2025-03-28tracing: Freeable reserved ring bufferMasami Hiramatsu (Google)
Make the ring buffer on reserved memory to be freeable. This allows us to free the trace instance on the reserved memory without changing cmdline and rebooting. Even if we can not change the kernel cmdline for security reason, we can release the reserved memory for the ring buffer as free (available) memory. For example, boot kernel with reserved memory; "reserve_mem=20M:2M:trace trace_instance=boot_mapped^traceoff@trace" ~ # free total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 1995548 50544 1927568 14964 17436 1911480 Swap: 0 0 0 ~ # rmdir /sys/kernel/tracing/instances/boot_mapped/ [ 23.704023] Freeing reserve_mem:trace memory: 20476K ~ # free total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 2016024 41844 1956740 14968 17440 1940572 Swap: 0 0 0 Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/173989134814.230693.18199312930337815629.stgit@devnote2 Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2025-03-28tracing: Update modules to persistent instances when loadedSteven Rostedt
When a module is loaded and a persistent buffer is actively tracing, add it to the list of modules in the persistent memory. 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/20250305164609.469844721@goodmis.org Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2025-03-28tracing: Have persistent trace instances save KASLR offsetSteven Rostedt
There's no reason to save the KASLR offset for the ring buffer itself. That is used by the tracer. Now that the tracer has a way to save data in the persistent memory of the ring buffer, have the tracing infrastructure take care of the saving of the KASLR offset. 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/20250305164608.792722274@goodmis.org Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2025-03-28ring-buffer: Use kaslr address instead of text deltaSteven Rostedt
Instead of saving off the text and data pointers and using them to compare with the current boot's text and data pointers, just save off the KASLR offset. Then that can be used to figure out how to read the previous boots buffer. The last_boot_info will now show this offset, but only if it is for a previous boot: ~# cat instances/boot_mapped/last_boot_info 39000000 [kernel] ~# echo function > instances/boot_mapped/current_tracer ~# cat instances/boot_mapped/last_boot_info # Current If the KASLR offset saved is for the current boot, the last_boot_info will show the value of "current". 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/20250305164608.274956504@goodmis.org Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2025-03-28tracing: Mark binary printing functions with __printf() attributeAndy Shevchenko
Binary printing functions are using printf() type of format, and compiler is not happy about them as is: kernel/trace/trace.c:3292:9: error: function ‘trace_vbprintk’ might be a candidate for ‘gnu_printf’ format attribute [-Werror=suggest-attribute=format] kernel/trace/trace_seq.c:182:9: error: function ‘trace_seq_bprintf’ might be a candidate for ‘gnu_printf’ format attribute [-Werror=suggest-attribute=format] Fix the compilation errors by adding __printf() attribute. While at it, move existing __printf() attributes from the implementations to the declarations. IT also fixes incorrect attribute parameters that are used for trace_array_printk(). Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250321144822.324050-4-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
2025-03-27Merge tag 'trace-v6.15' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt: - Add option traceoff_after_boot In order to debug kernel boot, it sometimes is helpful to enable tracing via the kernel command line. Unfortunately, by the time the login prompt appears, the trace is overwritten by the init process and other user space start up applications. Adding a "traceoff_after_boot" will disable tracing when the kernel passes control to init which will allow developers to be able to see the traces that occurred during boot. - Clean up the mmflags macros that display the GFP flags in trace events The macros to print the GFP flags for trace events had a bit of duplication. The code was restructured to remove duplication and in the process it also adds some flags that were missed before. - Removed some dead code and scripts/draw_functrace.py draw_functrace.py hasn't worked in years and as nobody complained about it, remove it. - Constify struct event_trigger_ops The event_trigger_ops is just a structure that has function pointers that are assigned when the variables are created. These variables should all be constants. - Other minor clean ups and fixes * tag 'trace-v6.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: tracing: Replace strncpy with memcpy for fixed-length substring copy tracing: Fix synth event printk format for str fields tracing: Do not use PERF enums when perf is not defined tracing: Ensure module defining synth event cannot be unloaded while tracing tracing: fix return value in __ftrace_event_enable_disable for TRACE_REG_UNREGISTER tracing/osnoise: Fix possible recursive locking for cpus_read_lock() tracing: Align synth event print fmt tracing: gfp: vsprintf: Do not print "none" when using %pGg printf format tracepoint: Print the function symbol when tracepoint_debug is set tracing: Constify struct event_trigger_ops scripts/tracing: Remove scripts/tracing/draw_functrace.py tracing: Update MAINTAINERS file to include tracepoint.c tracing/user_events: Slightly simplify user_seq_show() tracing/user_events: Don't use %pK through printk tracing: gfp: Remove duplication of recording GFP flags tracing: Remove orphaned event_trace_printk ring-buffer: Fix typo in comment about header page pointer tracing: Add traceoff_after_boot option
2025-03-20tracing: Constify struct event_trigger_opsChristophe JAILLET
'event_trigger_ops mwifiex_if_ops' are not modified in these drivers. Constifying these structures moves some data to a read-only section, so increase overall security, especially when the structure holds some function pointers. On a x86_64, with allmodconfig, as an example: Before: ====== text data bss dec hex filename 31368 9024 6200 46592 b600 kernel/trace/trace_events_trigger.o After: ===== text data bss dec hex filename 31752 8608 6200 46560 b5e0 kernel/trace/trace_events_trigger.o Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/66e8f990e649678e4be37d4d1a19158ca0dea2f4.1741521295.git.christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2025-03-04ftrace: Add arguments to function tracerSven Schnelle
Wire up the code to print function arguments in the function tracer. This functionality can be enabled/disabled during runtime with options/func-args. ping-689 [004] b.... 77.170220: dummy_xmit(skb = 0x82904800, dev = 0x882d0000) <-dev_hard_start_xmit Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com> Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com> Cc: Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu> Cc: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org> Cc: Donglin Peng <dolinux.peng@gmail.com> Cc: Zheng Yejian <zhengyejian@huaweicloud.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250227185823.154996172@goodmis.org Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org> Co-developed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2025-03-04ftrace: Add support for function argument to graph tracerSven Schnelle
Wire up the code to print function arguments in the function graph tracer. This functionality can be enabled/disabled during runtime with options/funcgraph-args. Example usage: 6) | dummy_xmit [dummy](skb = 0x8887c100, dev = 0x872ca000) { 6) | consume_skb(skb = 0x8887c100) { 6) | skb_release_head_state(skb = 0x8887c100) { 6) 0.178 us | sock_wfree(skb = 0x8887c100) 6) 0.627 us | } Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com> Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com> Cc: Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu> Cc: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org> Cc: Donglin Peng <dolinux.peng@gmail.com> Cc: Zheng Yejian <zhengyejian@huaweicloud.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250227185822.810321199@goodmis.org Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org> Co-developed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2025-01-23Merge tag 'ftrace-v6.14-2' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace Pull fgraph updates from Steven Rostedt: "Remove calltime and rettime from fgraph infrastructure The calltime and rettime were used by the function graph tracer to calculate the timings of functions where it traced their entry and exit. The calltime and rettime were stored in the generic structures that were used for the mechanisms to add an entry and exit callback. Now that function graph infrastructure is used by other subsystems than just the tracer, the calltime and rettime are not needed for them. Remove the calltime and rettime from the generic fgraph infrastructure and have the callers that require them handle them" * tag 'ftrace-v6.14-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: fgraph: Remove calltime and rettime from generic operations
2025-01-23Merge tag 'trace-v6.14-3' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt: - Cleanup with guard() and free() helpers There were several places in the code that had a lot of "goto out" in the error paths to either unlock a lock or free some memory that was allocated. But this is error prone. Convert the code over to use the guard() and free() helpers that let the compiler unlock locks or free memory when the function exits. - Update the Rust tracepoint code to use the C code too There was some duplication of the tracepoint code for Rust that did the same logic as the C code. Add a helper that makes it possible for both algorithms to use the same logic in one place. - Add poll to trace event hist files It is useful to know when an event is triggered, or even with some filtering. Since hist files of events get updated when active and the event is triggered, allow applications to poll the hist file and wake up when an event is triggered. This will let the application know that the event it is waiting for happened. - Add :mod: command to enable events for current or future modules The function tracer already has a way to enable functions to be traced in modules by writing ":mod:<module>" into set_ftrace_filter. That will enable either all the functions for the module if it is loaded, or if it is not, it will cache that command, and when the module is loaded that matches <module>, its functions will be enabled. This also allows init functions to be traced. But currently events do not have that feature. Add the command where if ':mod:<module>' is written into set_event, then either all the modules events are enabled if it is loaded, or cache it so that the module's events are enabled when it is loaded. This also works from the kernel command line, where "trace_event=:mod:<module>", when the module is loaded at boot up, its events will be enabled then. * tag 'trace-v6.14-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: (26 commits) tracing: Fix output of set_event for some cached module events tracing: Fix allocation of printing set_event file content tracing: Rename update_cache() to update_mod_cache() tracing: Fix #if CONFIG_MODULES to #ifdef CONFIG_MODULES selftests/ftrace: Add test that tests event :mod: commands tracing: Cache ":mod:" events for modules not loaded yet tracing: Add :mod: command to enabled module events selftests/tracing: Add hist poll() support test tracing/hist: Support POLLPRI event for poll on histogram tracing/hist: Add poll(POLLIN) support on hist file tracing: Fix using ret variable in tracing_set_tracer() tracepoint: Reduce duplication of __DO_TRACE_CALL tracing/string: Create and use __free(argv_free) in trace_dynevent.c tracing: Switch trace_stat.c code over to use guard() tracing: Switch trace_stack.c code over to use guard() tracing: Switch trace_osnoise.c code over to use guard() and __free() tracing: Switch trace_events_synth.c code over to use guard() tracing: Switch trace_events_filter.c code over to use guard() tracing: Switch trace_events_trigger.c code over to use guard() tracing: Switch trace_events_hist.c code over to use guard() ...
2025-01-21fgraph: Remove calltime and rettime from generic operationsSteven Rostedt
The function graph infrastructure is now generic so that kretprobes, fprobes and BPF can use it. But there is still some leftover logic that only the function graph tracer itself uses. This is the calculation of the calltime and return time of the functions. The calculation of the calltime has been moved into the function graph tracer and those users that need it so that it doesn't cause overhead to the other users. But the return function timestamp was still called. Instead of just moving the taking of the timestamp into the function graph trace remove the calltime and rettime completely from the ftrace_graph_ret structure. Instead, move it into the function graph return entry event structure and this also moves all the calltime and rettime logic out of the generic fgraph.c code and into the tracing code that uses it. This has been reported to decrease the overhead by ~27%. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/Z3aSuql3fnXMVMoM@krava/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/173665959558.1629214.16724136597211810729.stgit@devnote2/ Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250121194436.15bdf71a@gandalf.local.home Reported-by: Jiri Olsa <olsajiri@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2025-01-21Merge tag 'ftrace-v6.14' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace Pull ftrace updates from Steven Rostedt: - Have fprobes built on top of function graph infrastructure The fprobe logic is an optimized kprobe that uses ftrace to attach to functions when a probe is needed at the start or end of the function. The fprobe and kretprobe logic implements a similar method as the function graph tracer to trace the end of the function. That is to hijack the return address and jump to a trampoline to do the trace when the function exits. To do this, a shadow stack needs to be created to store the original return address. Fprobes and function graph do this slightly differently. Fprobes (and kretprobes) has slots per callsite that are reserved to save the return address. This is fine when just a few points are traced. But users of fprobes, such as BPF programs, are starting to add many more locations, and this method does not scale. The function graph tracer was created to trace all functions in the kernel. In order to do this, when function graph tracing is started, every task gets its own shadow stack to hold the return address that is going to be traced. The function graph tracer has been updated to allow multiple users to use its infrastructure. Now have fprobes be one of those users. This will also allow for the fprobe and kretprobe methods to trace the return address to become obsolete. With new technologies like CFI that need to know about these methods of hijacking the return address, going toward a solution that has only one method of doing this will make the kernel less complex. - Cleanup with guard() and free() helpers There were several places in the code that had a lot of "goto out" in the error paths to either unlock a lock or free some memory that was allocated. But this is error prone. Convert the code over to use the guard() and free() helpers that let the compiler unlock locks or free memory when the function exits. - Remove disabling of interrupts in the function graph tracer When function graph tracer was first introduced, it could race with interrupts and NMIs. To prevent that race, it would disable interrupts and not trace NMIs. But the code has changed to allow NMIs and also interrupts. This change was done a long time ago, but the disabling of interrupts was never removed. Remove the disabling of interrupts in the function graph tracer is it is not needed. This greatly improves its performance. - Allow the :mod: command to enable tracing module functions on the kernel command line. The function tracer already has a way to enable functions to be traced in modules by writing ":mod:<module>" into set_ftrace_filter. That will enable either all the functions for the module if it is loaded, or if it is not, it will cache that command, and when the module is loaded that matches <module>, its functions will be enabled. This also allows init functions to be traced. But currently events do not have that feature. Because enabling function tracing can be done very early at boot up (before scheduling is enabled), the commands that can be done when function tracing is started is limited. Having the ":mod:" command to trace module functions as they are loaded is very useful. Update the kernel command line function filtering to allow it. * tag 'ftrace-v6.14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: (26 commits) ftrace: Implement :mod: cache filtering on kernel command line tracing: Adopt __free() and guard() for trace_fprobe.c bpf: Use ftrace_get_symaddr() for kprobe_multi probes ftrace: Add ftrace_get_symaddr to convert fentry_ip to symaddr Documentation: probes: Update fprobe on function-graph tracer selftests/ftrace: Add a test case for repeating register/unregister fprobe selftests: ftrace: Remove obsolate maxactive syntax check tracing/fprobe: Remove nr_maxactive from fprobe fprobe: Add fprobe_header encoding feature fprobe: Rewrite fprobe on function-graph tracer s390/tracing: Enable HAVE_FTRACE_GRAPH_FUNC ftrace: Add CONFIG_HAVE_FTRACE_GRAPH_FUNC bpf: Enable kprobe_multi feature if CONFIG_FPROBE is enabled tracing/fprobe: Enable fprobe events with CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS tracing: Add ftrace_fill_perf_regs() for perf event tracing: Add ftrace_partial_regs() for converting ftrace_regs to pt_regs fprobe: Use ftrace_regs in fprobe exit handler fprobe: Use ftrace_regs in fprobe entry handler fgraph: Pass ftrace_regs to retfunc fgraph: Replace fgraph_ret_regs with ftrace_regs ...
2025-01-20Merge tag 'kernel-6.14-rc1.pid' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs Pull pid_max namespacing update from Christian Brauner: "The pid_max sysctl is a global value. For a long time the default value has been 65535 and during the pidfd dicussions Linus proposed to bump pid_max by default. Based on this discussion systemd started bumping pid_max to 2^22. So all new systems now run with a very high pid_max limit with some distros having also backported that change. The decision to bump pid_max is obviously correct. It just doesn't make a lot of sense nowadays to enforce such a low pid number. There's sufficient tooling to make selecting specific processes without typing really large pid numbers available. In any case, there are workloads that have expections about how large pid numbers they accept. Either for historical reasons or architectural reasons. One concreate example is the 32-bit version of Android's bionic libc which requires pid numbers less than 65536. There are workloads where it is run in a 32-bit container on a 64-bit kernel. If the host has a pid_max value greater than 65535 the libc will abort thread creation because of size assumptions of pthread_mutex_t. That's a fairly specific use-case however, in general specific workloads that are moved into containers running on a host with a new kernel and a new systemd can run into issues with large pid_max values. Obviously making assumptions about the size of the allocated pid is suboptimal but we have userspace that does it. Of course, giving containers the ability to restrict the number of processes in their respective pid namespace indepent of the global limit through pid_max is something desirable in itself and comes in handy in general. Independent of motivating use-cases the existence of pid namespaces makes this also a good semantical extension and there have been prior proposals pushing in a similar direction. The trick here is to minimize the risk of regressions which I think is doable. The fact that pid namespaces are hierarchical will help us here. What we mostly care about is that when the host sets a low pid_max limit, say (crazy number) 100 that no descendant pid namespace can allocate a higher pid number in its namespace. Since pid allocation is hierarchial this can be ensured by checking each pid allocation against the pid namespace's pid_max limit. This means if the allocation in the descendant pid namespace succeeds, the ancestor pid namespace can reject it. If the ancestor pid namespace has a higher limit than the descendant pid namespace the descendant pid namespace will reject the pid allocation. The ancestor pid namespace will obviously not care about this. All in all this means pid_max continues to enforce a system wide limit on the number of processes but allows pid namespaces sufficient leeway in handling workloads with assumptions about pid values and allows containers to restrict the number of processes in a pid namespace through the pid_max interface" * tag 'kernel-6.14-rc1.pid' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: tests/pid_namespace: add pid_max tests pid: allow pid_max to be set per pid namespace
2025-01-16ftrace: Implement :mod: cache filtering on kernel command lineSteven Rostedt
Module functions can be set to set_ftrace_filter before the module is loaded. # echo :mod:snd_hda_intel > set_ftrace_filter This will enable all the functions for the module snd_hda_intel. If that module is not loaded, it is "cached" in the trace array for when the module is loaded, its functions will be traced. But this is not implemented in the kernel command line. That's because the kernel command line filtering is added very early in boot up as it is needed to be done before boot time function tracing can start, which is also available very early in boot up. The code used by the "set_ftrace_filter" file can not be used that early as it depends on some other initialization to occur first. But some of the functions can. Implement the ":mod:" feature of "set_ftrace_filter" in the kernel command line parsing. Now function tracing on just a single module that is loaded at boot up can be done. Adding: ftrace=function ftrace_filter=:mod:sna_hda_intel To the kernel command line will only enable the sna_hda_intel module functions when the module is loaded, and it will start tracing. Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250116175832.34e39779@gandalf.local.home Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2025-01-16tracing: Cache ":mod:" events for modules not loaded yetSteven Rostedt
When the :mod: command is written into /sys/kernel/tracing/set_event (or that file within an instance), if the module specified after the ":mod:" is not yet loaded, it will store that string internally. When the module is loaded, it will enable the events as if the module was loaded when the string was written into the set_event file. This can also be useful to enable events that are in the init section of the module, as the events are enabled before the init section is executed. This also works on the kernel command line: trace_event=:mod:<module> Will enable the events for <module> when it is loaded. 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/20250116143533.514730995@goodmis.org Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2024-12-26fgraph: Pass ftrace_regs to retfuncMasami Hiramatsu (Google)
Pass ftrace_regs to the fgraph_ops::retfunc(). If ftrace_regs is not available, it passes a NULL instead. User callback function can access some registers (including return address) via this ftrace_regs. Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com> Cc: Florent Revest <revest@chromium.org> Cc: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@linux.dev> Cc: bpf <bpf@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@oracle.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/173518992972.391279.14055405490327765506.stgit@devnote2 Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2024-12-26fgraph: Pass ftrace_regs to entryfuncMasami Hiramatsu (Google)
Pass ftrace_regs to the fgraph_ops::entryfunc(). If ftrace_regs is not available, it passes a NULL instead. User callback function can access some registers (including return address) via this ftrace_regs. Note that the ftrace_regs can be NULL when the arch does NOT define: HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS or HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS. More specifically, if HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS is defined but not the HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS, and the ftrace ops used to register the function callback does not set FTRACE_OPS_FL_SAVE_REGS. In this case, ftrace_regs can be NULL in user callback. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com> Cc: Florent Revest <revest@chromium.org> Cc: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@linux.dev> Cc: bpf <bpf@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@oracle.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org> Cc: WANG Xuerui <kernel@xen0n.name> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu> Cc: Naveen N Rao <naveen@kernel.org> Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com> Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com> Cc: Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: x86@kernel.org Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/173518990044.391279.17406984900626078579.stgit@devnote2 Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>