The pg_remaining calculation in ftrace_process_locs() assumes that
ENTRIES_PER_PAGE multiplied by 2^order equals the actual capacity of the
allocated page group. However, ENTRIES_PER_PAGE is PAGE_SIZE / ENTRY_SIZE
(integer division). When PAGE_SIZE is not a multiple of ENTRY_SIZE (e.g.
4096 / 24 = 170 with remainder 16), high-order allocations (like 256 pages)
have significantly more capacity than 256 * 170. This leads to pg_remaining
being underestimated, which in turn makes skip (derived from skipped -
pg_remaining) larger than expected, causing the WARN(skip != remaining)
to trigger.
Extra allocated pages for ftrace: 2 with 654 skipped
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at kernel/trace/ftrace.c:7295 ftrace_process_locs+0x5bf/0x5e0
A similar problem in ftrace_allocate_records() can result in allocating
too many pages. This can trigger the second warning in
ftrace_process_locs().
Extra allocated pages for ftrace
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at kernel/trace/ftrace.c:7276 ftrace_process_locs+0x548/0x580
Use the actual capacity of a page group to determine the number of pages
to allocate. Have ftrace_allocate_pages() return the number of allocated
pages to avoid having to calculate it. Use the actual page group capacity
when validating the number of unused pages due to skipped entries.
Drop the definition of ENTRIES_PER_PAGE since it is no longer used.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 4a3efc6baf ("ftrace: Update the mcount_loc check of skipped entries")
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260113152243.3557219-1-linux@roeck-us.net
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
When user resize all trace ring buffer through file 'buffer_size_kb',
then in ring_buffer_resize(), kernel allocates buffer pages for each
cpu in a loop.
If the kernel preemption model is PREEMPT_NONE and there are many cpus
and there are many buffer pages to be freed, it may not give up cpu
for a long time and finally cause a softlockup.
To avoid it, call cond_resched() after each cpu buffer free as Commit
f6bd2c9248 ("ring-buffer: Avoid softlockup in ring_buffer_resize()")
does.
Detailed call trace as follow:
rcu: INFO: rcu_sched self-detected stall on CPU
rcu: 24-....: (14837 ticks this GP) idle=521c/1/0x4000000000000000 softirq=230597/230597 fqs=5329
rcu: (t=15004 jiffies g=26003221 q=211022 ncpus=96)
CPU: 24 UID: 0 PID: 11253 Comm: bash Kdump: loaded Tainted: G EL 6.18.2+ #278 NONE
pc : arch_local_irq_restore+0x8/0x20
arch_local_irq_restore+0x8/0x20 (P)
free_frozen_page_commit+0x28c/0x3b0
__free_frozen_pages+0x1c0/0x678
___free_pages+0xc0/0xe0
free_pages+0x3c/0x50
ring_buffer_resize.part.0+0x6a8/0x880
ring_buffer_resize+0x3c/0x58
__tracing_resize_ring_buffer.part.0+0x34/0xd8
tracing_resize_ring_buffer+0x8c/0xd0
tracing_entries_write+0x74/0xd8
vfs_write+0xcc/0x288
ksys_write+0x74/0x118
__arm64_sys_write+0x24/0x38
Cc: <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251228065008.2396573-1-mawupeng1@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Wupeng Ma <mawupeng1@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Pull tracing fixes from Steven Rostedt:
- Add Documentation/core-api/tracepoint.rst to TRACING in MAINTAINERS
file
Updates to the tracepoint.rst document should be reviewed by the
tracing maintainers.
- Fix warning triggered by perf attaching to synthetic events
The synthetic events do not add a function to be registered when perf
attaches to them. This causes a warning when perf registers a
synthetic event and passes a NULL pointer to the tracepoint register
function.
Ideally synthetic events should be updated to work with perf, but as
that's a feature and not a bug fix, simply now return -ENODEV when
perf tries to register an event that has a NULL pointer for its
function. This no longer causes a kernel warning and simply causes
the perf code to fail with an error message.
- Fix 32bit overflow in option flag test
The option's flags changed from 32 bits in size to 64 bits in size.
Fix one of the places that shift 1 by the option bit number to to be
1ULL.
- Fix the output of printing the direct jmp functions
The enabled_functions that shows how functions are being attached by
ftrace wasn't updated to accommodate the new direct jmp trampolines
that set the LSB of the pointer, and outputs garbage. Update the
output to handle the direct jmp trampolines.
* tag 'trace-v6.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
ftrace: Fix address for jmp mode in t_show()
tracing: Fix UBSAN warning in __remove_instance()
tracing: Do not register unsupported perf events
MAINTAINERS: add tracepoint core-api doc files to TRACING
Synthetic events currently do not have a function to register perf events.
This leads to calling the tracepoint register functions with a NULL
function pointer which triggers:
------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: kernel/tracepoint.c:175 at tracepoint_add_func+0x357/0x370, CPU#2: perf/2272
Modules linked in: kvm_intel kvm irqbypass
CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 2272 Comm: perf Not tainted 6.18.0-ftest-11964-ge022764176fc-dirty #323 PREEMPTLAZY
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.17.0-debian-1.17.0-1 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:tracepoint_add_func+0x357/0x370
Code: 28 9c e8 4c 0b f5 ff eb 0f 4c 89 f7 48 c7 c6 80 4d 28 9c e8 ab 89 f4 ff 31 c0 5b 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f 5d c3 cc cc cc cc cc <0f> 0b 49 c7 c6 ea ff ff ff e9 ee fe ff ff 0f 0b e9 f9 fe ff ff 0f
RSP: 0018:ffffabc0c44d3c40 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: ffff9380aa9e4060 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 000000000000000a RSI: ffffffff9e1d4a98 RDI: ffff937fcf5fd6c8
RBP: 0000000000000001 R08: 0000000000000007 R09: ffff937fcf5fc780
R10: 0000000000000003 R11: ffffffff9c193910 R12: 000000000000000a
R13: ffffffff9e1e5888 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffffabc0c44d3c78
FS: 00007f6202f5f340(0000) GS:ffff93819f00f000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 000055d3162281a8 CR3: 0000000106a56003 CR4: 0000000000172ef0
Call Trace:
<TASK>
tracepoint_probe_register+0x5d/0x90
synth_event_reg+0x3c/0x60
perf_trace_event_init+0x204/0x340
perf_trace_init+0x85/0xd0
perf_tp_event_init+0x2e/0x50
perf_try_init_event+0x6f/0x230
? perf_event_alloc+0x4bb/0xdc0
perf_event_alloc+0x65a/0xdc0
__se_sys_perf_event_open+0x290/0x9f0
do_syscall_64+0x93/0x7b0
? entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
? trace_hardirqs_off+0x53/0xc0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
Instead, have the code return -ENODEV, which doesn't warn and has perf
error out with:
# perf record -e synthetic:futex_wait
Error:
The sys_perf_event_open() syscall returned with 19 (No such device) for event (synthetic:futex_wait).
"dmesg | grep -i perf" may provide additional information.
Ideally perf should support synthetic events, but for now just fix the
warning. The support can come later.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251216182440.147e4453@gandalf.local.home
Fixes: 4b147936fa ("tracing: Add support for 'synthetic' events")
Reported-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Pull bpf fixes from Alexei Starovoitov:
- Fix BPF builds due to -fms-extensions. selftests (Alexei
Starovoitov), bpftool (Quentin Monnet).
- Fix build of net/smc when CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL=y, but CONFIG_BPF_JIT=n
(Geert Uytterhoeven)
- Fix livepatch/BPF interaction and support reliable unwinding through
BPF stack frames (Josh Poimboeuf)
- Do not audit capability check in arm64 JIT (Ondrej Mosnacek)
- Fix truncated dmabuf BPF iterator reads (T.J. Mercier)
- Fix verifier assumptions of bpf_d_path's output buffer (Shuran Liu)
- Fix warnings in libbpf when built with -Wdiscarded-qualifiers under
C23 (Mikhail Gavrilov)
* tag 'bpf-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf:
selftests/bpf: add regression test for bpf_d_path()
bpf: Fix verifier assumptions of bpf_d_path's output buffer
selftests/bpf: Add test for truncated dmabuf_iter reads
bpf: Fix truncated dmabuf iterator reads
x86/unwind/orc: Support reliable unwinding through BPF stack frames
bpf: Add bpf_has_frame_pointer()
bpf, arm64: Do not audit capability check in do_jit()
libbpf: Fix -Wdiscarded-qualifiers under C23
bpftool: Fix build warnings due to MS extensions
net: smc: SMC_HS_CTRL_BPF should depend on BPF_JIT
selftests/bpf: Add -fms-extensions to bpf build flags
Commit 37cce22dbd ("bpf: verifier: Refactor helper access type
tracking") started distinguishing read vs write accesses performed by
helpers.
The second argument of bpf_d_path() is a pointer to a buffer that the
helper fills with the resulting path. However, its prototype currently
uses ARG_PTR_TO_MEM without MEM_WRITE.
Before 37cce22dbd, helper accesses were conservatively treated as
potential writes, so this mismatch did not cause issues. Since that
commit, the verifier may incorrectly assume that the buffer contents
are unchanged across the helper call and base its optimizations on this
wrong assumption. This can lead to misbehaviour in BPF programs that
read back the buffer, such as prefix comparisons on the returned path.
Fix this by marking the second argument of bpf_d_path() as
ARG_PTR_TO_MEM | MEM_WRITE so that the verifier correctly models the
write to the caller-provided buffer.
Fixes: 37cce22dbd ("bpf: verifier: Refactor helper access type tracking")
Co-developed-by: Zesen Liu <ftyg@live.com>
Signed-off-by: Zesen Liu <ftyg@live.com>
Co-developed-by: Peili Gao <gplhust955@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peili Gao <gplhust955@gmail.com>
Co-developed-by: Haoran Ni <haoran.ni.cs@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Haoran Ni <haoran.ni.cs@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shuran Liu <electronlsr@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Matt Bobrowski <mattbobrowski@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251206141210.3148-2-electronlsr@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Pull tracing fixes from Steven Rostedt:
- Fix accounting of stop_count in file release
On opening the trace file, if "pause-on-trace" option is set, it will
increment the stop_count. On file release, it checks if stop_count is
set, and if so it decrements it. Since this code was originally
written, the stop_count can be incremented by other use cases. This
makes just checking the stop_count not enough to know if it should be
decremented.
Add a new iterator flag called "PAUSE" and have it set if the open
disables tracing and only decrement the stop_count if that flag is
set on close.
- Remove length field in trace_seq_printf() of print_synth_event()
When printing the synthetic event that has a static length array
field, the vsprintf() of the trace_seq_printf() triggered a
"(efault)" in the output. That's because the print_fmt replaced the
"%.*s" with "%s" causing the arguments to be off.
- Fix a bunch of typos
* tag 'trace-v6.19-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
tracing: Fix typo in trace_seq.c
tracing: Fix typo in trace_probe.c
tracing: Fix multiple typos in trace_osnoise.c
tracing: Fix multiple typos in trace_events_user.c
tracing: Fix typo in trace_events_trigger.c
tracing: Fix typo in trace_events_hist.c
tracing: Fix typo in trace_events_filter.c
tracing: Fix multiple typos in trace_events.c
tracing: Fix multiple typos in trace.c
tracing: Fix typo in ring_buffer_benchmark.c
tracing: Fix multiple typos in ring_buffer.c
tracing: Fix typo in fprobe.c
tracing: Fix typo in fpgraph.c
tracing: Fix fixed array of synthetic event
tracing: Fix enabling of tracing on file release
The commit 4d38328eb4 ("tracing: Fix synth event printk format for str
fields") replaced "%.*s" with "%s" but missed removing the number size of
the dynamic and static strings. The commit e1a453a57b ("tracing: Do not
add length to print format in synthetic events") fixed the dynamic part
but did not fix the static part. That is, with the commands:
# echo 's:wake_lat char[] wakee; u64 delta;' >> /sys/kernel/tracing/dynamic_events
# echo 'hist:keys=pid:ts=common_timestamp.usecs if !(common_flags & 0x18)' > /sys/kernel/tracing/events/sched/sched_waking/trigger
# echo 'hist:keys=next_pid:delta=common_timestamp.usecs-$ts:onmatch(sched.sched_waking).trace(wake_lat,next_comm,$delta)' > /sys/kernel/tracing/events/sched/sched_switch/trigger
That caused the output of:
<idle>-0 [001] d..5. 193.428167: wake_lat: wakee=(efault)sshd-sessiondelta=155
sshd-session-879 [001] d..5. 193.811080: wake_lat: wakee=(efault)kworker/u34:5delta=58
<idle>-0 [002] d..5. 193.811198: wake_lat: wakee=(efault)bashdelta=91
The commit e1a453a57b fixed the part where the synthetic event had
"char[] wakee". But if one were to replace that with a static size string:
# echo 's:wake_lat char[16] wakee; u64 delta;' >> /sys/kernel/tracing/dynamic_events
Where "wakee" is defined as "char[16]" and not "char[]" making it a static
size, the code triggered the "(efaul)" again.
Remove the added STR_VAR_LEN_MAX size as the string is still going to be
nul terminated.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Douglas Raillard <douglas.raillard@arm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251204151935.5fa30355@gandalf.local.home
Fixes: e1a453a57b ("tracing: Do not add length to print format in synthetic events")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The trace file will pause tracing if the tracing instance has the
"pause-on-trace" option is set. This happens when the file is opened, and
it is unpaused when the file is closed. When this was first added, there
was only one user that paused tracing. On open, the check to pause was:
if (!iter->snapshot && (tr->trace_flags & TRACE_ITER(PAUSE_ON_TRACE)))
Where if it is not the snapshot tracer and the "pause-on-trace" option is
set, then it increments a "stop_count" of the trace instance.
On close, the check is:
if (!iter->snapshot && tr->stop_count)
That is, if it is not the snapshot buffer and it was stopped, it will
re-enable tracing.
Now there's more places that stop tracing. This means, if something else
stops tracing the tr->stop_count will be non-zero, and that means if the
trace file is closed, it will decrement the stop_count even though it
never incremented it. This causes a warning because when the user that
stopped tracing enables it again, the stop_count goes below zero.
Instead of relying on the stop_count being set to know if the close of
the trace file should enable tracing again, add a new flag to the trace
iterator. The trace iterator is unique per open of the trace file, and if
the open stops tracing set the trace iterator PAUSE flag. On close, if the
PAUSE flag is set, then re-enable it again.
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251202161751.24abaaf1@gandalf.local.home
Fixes: 06e0a548ba ("tracing: Do not disable tracing when reading the trace file")
Reported-by: syzbot+ccdec3bfe0beec58a38d@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/692f44a5.a70a0220.2ea503.00c8.GAE@google.com/
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Pull probes updates from Masami Hiramatsu:
"fprobe performance enhancement using rhltable:
- use rhltable for fprobe_ip_table. The fprobe IP table has been
converted to use an rhltable for improved performance when dealing
with a large number of probed functions
- Fix a suspicious RCU usage warning of the above change in the
fprobe entry handler
- Remove an unused local variable of the above change
- Fix to initialize fprobe_ip_table in core_initcall()
Performance optimization of fprobe by ftrace:
- Use ftrace instead of fgraph for entry only probes. This avoids the
unneeded overhead of fgraph stack setup
- Also update fprobe selftest for entry-only probe
- fprobe: Use ftrace only if CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS or
WITH_REGS is defined
Cleanup probe event subsystems:
- Allocate traceprobe_parse_context per probe instead of each probe
argument parsing. This reduce memory allocation/free of temporary
working memory
- Cleanup code using __free()
- Replace strcpy() with memcpy() in __trace_probe_log_err()"
* tag 'probes-v6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
tracing: fprobe: use ftrace if CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS
lib/test_fprobe: add testcase for mixed fprobe
tracing: fprobe: optimization for entry only case
tracing: fprobe: Fix to init fprobe_ip_table earlier
tracing: fprobe: Remove unused local variable
tracing: probes: Replace strcpy() with memcpy() in __trace_probe_log_err()
tracing: fprobe: fix suspicious rcu usage in fprobe_entry
tracing: uprobe: eprobes: Allocate traceprobe_parse_context per probe
tracing: uprobes: Cleanup __trace_uprobe_create() with __free()
tracing: eprobe: Cleanup eprobe event using __free()
tracing: probes: Use __free() for trace_probe_log
tracing: fprobe: use rhltable for fprobe_ip_table
Pull trace ring-buffer cleanup from Steven Rostedt:
- Add helper functions for allocations
The allocation of the per CPU buffer descriptor, the buffer page
descriptors and the buffer page data itself can be pretty ugly.
Add some helper macros and a function to have the code that allocates
buffer pages and such look a little cleaner.
* tag 'trace-ringbuffer-v6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
ring-buffer: Add helper functions for allocations
Pull runtime verifier updates from Steven Rostedt:
- Adapt the ftracetest script to be run from a different folder
This uses the already existing OPT_TEST_DIR but extends it further to
run independent tests, then add an --rv flag to allow using the
script for testing RV (mostly) independently on ftrace.
- Add basic RV selftests in selftests/verification for more validations
Add more validations for available/enabled monitors and reactors.
This could have caught the bug introducing kernel panic solved above.
Tests use ftracetest.
- Convert react() function in reactor to use va_list directly
Use a central helper to handle the variadic arguments. Clean up
macros and mark functions as static.
- Add lockdep annotations to reactors to have lockdep complain of
errors
If the reactors are called from improper context. Useful to develop
new reactors. This highlights a warning in the panic reactor that is
related to the printk subsystem and not to RV.
- Convert core RV code to use lock guards and __free helpers
This completely removes goto statements.
- Fix compilation if !CONFIG_RV_REACTORS
Fix the warning by keeping LTL monitor variable as always static.
* tag 'trace-rv-6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
rv: Fix compilation if !CONFIG_RV_REACTORS
rv: Convert to use __free
rv: Convert to use lock guard
rv: Add explicit lockdep context for reactors
rv: Make rv_reacting_on() static
rv: Pass va_list to reactors
selftests/verification: Add initial RV tests
selftest/ftrace: Generalise ftracetest to use with RV
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
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
- Extend tracing option mask to 64 bits
The trace options were defined by a 32 bit variable. This limits the
tracing instances to have a total of 32 different options. As that
limit has been hit, and more options are being added, increase the
option mask to a 64 bit number, doubling the number of options
available.
As this is required for the kprobe topic branches as well as the
tracing topic branch, a separate branch was created and merged into
both.
- Make trace_user_fault_read() available for the rest of tracing
The function trace_user_fault_read() is used by trace_marker file
read to allow reading user space to be done fast and without locking
or allocations. Make this available so that the system call trace
events can use it too.
- Have system call trace events read user space values
Now that the system call trace events callbacks are called in a
faultable context, take advantage of this and read the user space
buffers for various system calls. For example, show the path name of
the openat system call instead of just showing the pointer to that
path name in user space. Also show the contents of the buffer of the
write system call. Several system call trace events are updated to
make tracing into a light weight strace tool for all applications in
the system.
- Update perf system call tracing to do the same
- And a config and syscall_user_buf_size file to control the size of
the buffer
Limit the amount of data that can be read from user space. The
default size is 63 bytes but that can be expanded to 165 bytes.
- Allow the persistent ring buffer to print system calls normally
The persistent ring buffer prints trace events by their type and
ignores the print_fmt. This is because the print_fmt may change from
kernel to kernel. As the system call output is fixed by the system
call ABI itself, there's no reason to limit that. This makes reading
the system call events in the persistent ring buffer much nicer and
easier to understand.
- Add options to show text offset to function profiler
The function profiler that counts the number of times a function is
hit currently lists all functions by its name and offset. But this
becomes ambiguous when there are several functions with the same
name.
Add a tracing option that changes the output to be that of
'_text+offset' instead. Now a user space tool can use this
information to map the '_text+offset' to the unique function it is
counting.
- Report bad dynamic event command
If a bad command is passed to the dynamic_events file, report it
properly in the error log.
- Clean up tracer options
Clean up the tracer option code a bit, by removing some useless code
and also using switch statements instead of a series of if
statements.
- Have tracing options be instance specific
Tracers can have their own options (function tracer, irqsoff tracer,
function graph tracer, etc). But now that the same tracer can be
enabled in multiple trace instances, their options are still global.
The API is per instance, thus changing one affects other instances.
This isn't even consistent, as the option take affect differently
depending on when an tracer started in an instance. Make the options
for instances only affect the instance it is changed under.
- Optimize pid_list lock contention
Whenever the pid_list is read, it uses a spin lock. This happens at
every sched switch. Taking the lock at sched switch can be removed by
instead using a seqlock counter.
- Clean up the trace trigger structures
The trigger code uses two different structures to implement a single
tigger. This was due to trying to reuse code for the two different
types of triggers (always on trigger, and count limited trigger). But
by adding a single field to one structure, the other structure could
be absorbed into the first structure making he code easier to
understand.
- Create a bulk garbage collector for trace triggers
If user space has triggers for several hundreds of events and then
removes them, it can take several seconds to complete. This is
because each removal calls tracepoint_synchronize_unregister() that
can take hundreds of milliseconds to complete.
Instead, create a helper thread that will do the clean up. When a
trigger is removed, it will create the kthread if it isn't already
created, and then add the trigger to a llist. The kthread will take
the items off the llist, call tracepoint_synchronize_unregister(),
and then remove the items it took off. It will then check if there's
more items to free before sleeping.
This makes user space removing all these triggers to finish in less
than a second.
- Allow function tracing of some of the tracing infrastructure code
Because the tracing code can cause recursion issues if it is traced
by the function tracer the entire tracing directory disables function
tracing. But not all of tracing causes issues if it is traced.
Namely, the event tracing code. Add a config that enables some of the
tracing code to be traced to help in debugging it. Note, when this is
enabled, it does add noise to general function tracing, especially if
events are enabled as well (which is a common case).
- Add boot-time backup instance for persistent buffer
The persistent ring buffer is used mostly for kernel crash analysis
in the field. One issue is that if there's a crash, the data in the
persistent ring buffer must be read before tracing can begin using
it. This slows down the boot process. Once tracing starts in the
persistent ring buffer, the old data must be freed and the addresses
no longer match and old events can't be in the buffer with new
events.
Create a way to create a backup buffer that copies the persistent
ring buffer at boot up. Then after a crash, the always on tracer can
begin immediately as well as the normal boot process while the crash
analysis tooling uses the backup buffer. After the backup buffer is
finished being read, it can be removed.
- Enable function graph args and return address options at the same
time
Currently the when reading of arguments in the function graph tracer
is enabled, the option to record the parent function in the entry
event can not be enabled. Update the code so that it can.
- Add new struct_offset() helper macro
Add a new macro that takes a pointer to a structure and a name of one
of its members and it will return the offset of that member. This
allows the ring buffer code to simplify the following:
From: size = struct_size(entry, buf, cnt - sizeof(entry->id));
To: size = struct_offset(entry, id) + cnt;
There should be other simplifications that this macro can help out
with as well
* tag 'trace-v6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: (42 commits)
overflow: Introduce struct_offset() to get offset of member
function_graph: Enable funcgraph-args and funcgraph-retaddr to work simultaneously
tracing: Add boot-time backup of persistent ring buffer
ftrace: Allow tracing of some of the tracing code
tracing: Use strim() in trigger_process_regex() instead of skip_spaces()
tracing: Add bulk garbage collection of freeing event_trigger_data
tracing: Remove unneeded event_mutex lock in event_trigger_regex_release()
tracing: Merge struct event_trigger_ops into struct event_command
tracing: Remove get_trigger_ops() and add count_func() from trigger ops
tracing: Show the tracer options in boot-time created instance
ftrace: Avoid redundant initialization in register_ftrace_direct
tracing: Remove unused variable in tracing_trace_options_show()
fgraph: Make fgraph_no_sleep_time signed
tracing: Convert function graph set_flags() to use a switch() statement
tracing: Have function graph tracer option sleep-time be per instance
tracing: Move graph-time out of function graph options
tracing: Have function graph tracer option funcgraph-irqs be per instance
trace/pid_list: optimize pid_list->lock contention
tracing: Have function graph tracer define options per instance
tracing: Have function tracer define options per instance
...
Pull block updates from Jens Axboe:
- Fix head insertion for mq-deadline, a regression from when priority
support was added
- Series simplifying and improving the ublk user copy code
- Various ublk related cleanups
- Fixup REQ_NOWAIT handling in loop/zloop, clearing NOWAIT when the
request is punted to a thread for handling
- Merge and then later revert loop dio nowait support, as it ended up
causing excessive stack usage for when the inline issue code needs to
dip back into the full file system code
- Improve auto integrity code, making it less deadlock prone
- Speedup polled IO handling, but manually managing the hctx lookups
- Fixes for blk-throttle for SSD devices
- Small series with fixes for the S390 dasd driver
- Add support for caching zones, avoiding unnecessary report zone
queries
- MD pull requests via Yu:
- fix null-ptr-dereference regression for dm-raid0
- fix IO hang for raid5 when array is broken with IO inflight
- remove legacy 1s delay to speed up system shutdown
- change maintainer's email address
- data can be lost if array is created with different lbs devices,
fix this problem and record lbs of the array in metadata
- fix rcu protection for md_thread
- fix mddev kobject lifetime regression
- enable atomic writes for md-linear
- some cleanups
- bcache updates via Coly
- remove useless discard and cache device code
- improve usage of per-cpu workqueues
- Reorganize the IO scheduler switching code, fixing some lockdep
reports as well
- Improve the block layer P2P DMA support
- Add support to the block tracing code for zoned devices
- Segment calculation improves, and memory alignment flexibility
improvements
- Set of prep and cleanups patches for ublk batching support. The
actual batching hasn't been added yet, but helps shrink down the
workload of getting that patchset ready for 6.20
- Fix for how the ps3 block driver handles segments offsets
- Improve how block plugging handles batch tag allocations
- nbd fixes for use-after-free of the configuration on device clear/put
- Set of improvements and fixes for zloop
- Add Damien as maintainer of the block zoned device code handling
- Various other fixes and cleanups
* tag 'for-6.19/block-20251201' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux: (162 commits)
block/rnbd: correct all kernel-doc complaints
blk-mq: use queue_hctx in blk_mq_map_queue_type
md: remove legacy 1s delay in md_notify_reboot
md/raid5: fix IO hang when array is broken with IO inflight
md: warn about updating super block failure
md/raid0: fix NULL pointer dereference in create_strip_zones() for dm-raid
sbitmap: fix all kernel-doc warnings
ublk: add helper of __ublk_fetch()
ublk: pass const pointer to ublk_queue_is_zoned()
ublk: refactor auto buffer register in ublk_dispatch_req()
ublk: add `union ublk_io_buf` with improved naming
ublk: add parameter `struct io_uring_cmd *` to ublk_prep_auto_buf_reg()
kfifo: add kfifo_alloc_node() helper for NUMA awareness
blk-mq: fix potential uaf for 'queue_hw_ctx'
blk-mq: use array manage hctx map instead of xarray
ublk: prevent invalid access with DEBUG
s390/dasd: Use scnprintf() instead of sprintf()
s390/dasd: Move device name formatting into separate function
s390/dasd: Remove unnecessary debugfs_create() return checks
s390/dasd: Fix gendisk parent after copy pair swap
...
Pull bpf updates from Alexei Starovoitov:
- Convert selftests/bpf/test_tc_edt and test_tc_tunnel from .sh to
test_progs runner (Alexis Lothoré)
- Convert selftests/bpf/test_xsk to test_progs runner (Bastien
Curutchet)
- Replace bpf memory allocator with kmalloc_nolock() in
bpf_local_storage (Amery Hung), and in bpf streams and range tree
(Puranjay Mohan)
- Introduce support for indirect jumps in BPF verifier and x86 JIT
(Anton Protopopov) and arm64 JIT (Puranjay Mohan)
- Remove runqslower bpf tool (Hoyeon Lee)
- Fix corner cases in the verifier to close several syzbot reports
(Eduard Zingerman, KaFai Wan)
- Several improvements in deadlock detection in rqspinlock (Kumar
Kartikeya Dwivedi)
- Implement "jmp" mode for BPF trampoline and corresponding
DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_JMP. It improves "fexit" program type performance
from 80 M/s to 136 M/s. With Steven's Ack. (Menglong Dong)
- Add ability to test non-linear skbs in BPF_PROG_TEST_RUN (Paul
Chaignon)
- Do not let BPF_PROG_TEST_RUN emit invalid GSO types to stack (Daniel
Borkmann)
- Generalize buildid reader into bpf_dynptr (Mykyta Yatsenko)
- Optimize bpf_map_update_elem() for map-in-map types (Ritesh
Oedayrajsingh Varma)
- Introduce overwrite mode for BPF ring buffer (Xu Kuohai)
* tag 'bpf-next-6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next: (169 commits)
bpf: optimize bpf_map_update_elem() for map-in-map types
bpf: make kprobe_multi_link_prog_run always_inline
selftests/bpf: do not hardcode target rate in test_tc_edt BPF program
selftests/bpf: remove test_tc_edt.sh
selftests/bpf: integrate test_tc_edt into test_progs
selftests/bpf: rename test_tc_edt.bpf.c section to expose program type
selftests/bpf: Add success stats to rqspinlock stress test
rqspinlock: Precede non-head waiter queueing with AA check
rqspinlock: Disable spinning for trylock fallback
rqspinlock: Use trylock fallback when per-CPU rqnode is busy
rqspinlock: Perform AA checks immediately
rqspinlock: Enclose lock/unlock within lock entry acquisitions
bpf: Remove runqslower tool
selftests/bpf: Remove usage of lsm/file_alloc_security in selftest
bpf: Disable file_alloc_security hook
bpf: check for insn arrays in check_ptr_alignment
bpf: force BPF_F_RDONLY_PROG on insn array creation
bpf: Fix exclusive map memory leak
selftests/bpf: Make CS length configurable for rqspinlock stress test
selftests/bpf: Add lock wait time stats to rqspinlock stress test
...
Pull printk updates from Petr Mladek:
- Allow creaing nbcon console drivers with an unsafe write_atomic()
callback that can only be called by the final nbcon_atomic_flush_unsafe().
Otherwise, the driver would rely on the kthread.
It is going to be used as the-best-effort approach for an
experimental nbcon netconsole driver, see
https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251121-nbcon-v1-2-503d17b2b4af@debian.org
Note that a safe .write_atomic() callback is supposed to work in NMI
context. But some networking drivers are not safe even in IRQ
context:
https://lore.kernel.org/r/oc46gdpmmlly5o44obvmoatfqo5bhpgv7pabpvb6sjuqioymcg@gjsma3ghoz35
In an ideal world, all networking drivers would be fixed first and
the atomic flush would be blocked only in NMI context. But it brings
the question how reliable networking drivers are when the system is
in a bad state. They might block flushing more reliable serial
consoles which are more suitable for serious debugging anyway.
- Allow to use the last 4 bytes of the printk ring buffer.
- Prevent queuing IRQ work and block printk kthreads when consoles are
suspended. Otherwise, they create non-necessary churn or even block
the suspend.
- Release console_lock() between each record in the kthread used for
legacy consoles on RT. It might significantly speed up the boot.
- Release nbcon context between each record in the atomic flush. It
prevents stalls of the related printk kthread after it has lost the
ownership in the middle of a record
- Add support for NBCON consoles into KDB
- Add %ptsP modifier for printing struct timespec64 and use it where
possible
- Misc code clean up
* tag 'printk-for-6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/printk/linux: (48 commits)
printk: Use console_is_usable on console_unblank
arch: um: kmsg_dump: Use console_is_usable
drivers: serial: kgdboc: Drop checks for CON_ENABLED and CON_BOOT
lib/vsprintf: Unify FORMAT_STATE_NUM handlers
printk: Avoid irq_work for printk_deferred() on suspend
printk: Avoid scheduling irq_work on suspend
printk: Allow printk_trigger_flush() to flush all types
tracing: Switch to use %ptSp
scsi: snic: Switch to use %ptSp
scsi: fnic: Switch to use %ptSp
s390/dasd: Switch to use %ptSp
ptp: ocp: Switch to use %ptSp
pps: Switch to use %ptSp
PCI: epf-test: Switch to use %ptSp
net: dsa: sja1105: Switch to use %ptSp
mmc: mmc_test: Switch to use %ptSp
media: av7110: Switch to use %ptSp
ipmi: Switch to use %ptSp
igb: Switch to use %ptSp
e1000e: Switch to use %ptSp
...
The allocation of the per CPU buffer descriptor, the buffer page
descriptors and the buffer page data itself can be pretty ugly:
kzalloc_node(ALIGN(sizeof(struct buffer_page), cache_line_size()),
GFP_KERNEL, cpu_to_node(cpu));
And the data pages:
page = alloc_pages_node(cpu_to_node(cpu),
GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL | __GFP_COMP | __GFP_ZERO, order);
if (!page)
return NULL;
bpage->page = page_address(page);
rb_init_page(bpage->page);
Add helper functions to make the code easier to read.
This does make all allocations of the data page (bpage->page) allocated
with the __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL flag (and not just the bulk allocator). Which
is actually better, as allocating the data page for the ring buffer tracing
should try hard but not trigger the OOM killer.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wjMMSAaqTjBSfYenfuzE1bMjLj+2DLtLWJuGt07UGCH_Q@mail.gmail.com/
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251125121153.35c07461@gandalf.local.home
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Pull cred guard updates from Christian Brauner:
"This contains substantial credential infrastructure improvements
adding guard-based credential management that simplifies code and
eliminates manual reference counting in many subsystems.
Features:
- Kernel Credential Guards
Add with_kernel_creds() and scoped_with_kernel_creds() guards that
allow using the kernel credentials without allocating and copying
them. This was requested by Linus after seeing repeated
prepare_kernel_creds() calls that duplicate the kernel credentials
only to drop them again later.
The new guards completely avoid the allocation and never expose the
temporary variable to hold the kernel credentials anywhere in
callers.
- Generic Credential Guards
Add scoped_with_creds() guards for the common override_creds() and
revert_creds() pattern. This builds on earlier work that made
override_creds()/revert_creds() completely reference count free.
- Prepare Credential Guards
Add prepare credential guards for the more complex pattern of
preparing a new set of credentials and overriding the current
credentials with them:
- prepare_creds()
- modify new creds
- override_creds()
- revert_creds()
- put_cred()
Cleanups:
- Make init_cred static since it should not be directly accessed
- Add kernel_cred() helper to properly access the kernel credentials
- Fix scoped_class() macro that was introduced two cycles ago
- coredump: split out do_coredump() from vfs_coredump() for cleaner
credential handling
- coredump: move revert_cred() before coredump_cleanup()
- coredump: mark struct mm_struct as const
- coredump: pass struct linux_binfmt as const
- sev-dev: use guard for path"
* tag 'kernel-6.19-rc1.cred' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (36 commits)
trace: use override credential guard
trace: use prepare credential guard
coredump: use override credential guard
coredump: use prepare credential guard
coredump: split out do_coredump() from vfs_coredump()
coredump: mark struct mm_struct as const
coredump: pass struct linux_binfmt as const
coredump: move revert_cred() before coredump_cleanup()
sev-dev: use override credential guards
sev-dev: use prepare credential guard
sev-dev: use guard for path
cred: add prepare credential guard
net/dns_resolver: use credential guards in dns_query()
cgroup: use credential guards in cgroup_attach_permissions()
act: use credential guards in acct_write_process()
smb: use credential guards in cifs_get_spnego_key()
nfs: use credential guards in nfs_idmap_get_key()
nfs: use credential guards in nfs_local_call_write()
nfs: use credential guards in nfs_local_call_read()
erofs: use credential guards
...
The trace_marker_raw file in tracefs takes a buffer from user space that
contains an id as well as a raw data string which is usually a binary
structure. The structure used has the following:
struct raw_data_entry {
struct trace_entry ent;
unsigned int id;
char buf[];
};
Since the passed in "cnt" variable is both the size of buf as well as the
size of id, the code to allocate the location on the ring buffer had:
size = struct_size(entry, buf, cnt - sizeof(entry->id));
Which is quite ugly and hard to understand. Instead, add a helper macro
called struct_offset() which then changes the above to a simple and easy
to understand:
size = struct_offset(entry, id) + cnt;
This will likely come in handy for other use cases too.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=whYZVoEdfO1PmtbirPdBMTV9Nxt9f09CK0k6S+HJD3Zmg@mail.gmail.com/
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251126145249.05b1770a@gandalf.local.home
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Pull ring-buffer fix from Steven Rostedt:
- Do not allow mmapped ring buffer to be split
When the ring buffer VMA is split by a partial munmap or a MAP_FIXED,
the kernel calls vm_ops->close() on each portion. This causes the
ring_buffer_unmap() to be called multiple times. This causes
subsequent calls to return -ENODEV and triggers a warning.
There's no reason to allow user space to split up memory mapping of
the ring buffer. Have it return -EINVAL when that happens.
* tag 'trace-ringbuffer-v6.18-rc7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
tracing: Fix WARN_ON in tracing_buffers_mmap_close for split VMAs
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>
There is times when tracing the tracing infrastructure can be useful for
debugging the tracing code. Currently all files in the tracing directory
are set to "notrace" the functions.
Add a new config option FUNCTION_SELF_TRACING that will allow some of the
files in the tracing infrastructure to be traced. It requires a config to
enable because it will add noise to the function tracer if events and
other tracing features are enabled. Tracing functions and events together
is quite common, so not tracing the event code should be the default.
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251120181514.736f2d5f@gandalf.local.home
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The function trigger_process_regex() is called by a few functions, where
only one calls strim() on the buffer passed to it. That leaves the other
functions not trimming the end of the buffer passed in and making it a
little inconsistent.
Remove the strim() from event_trigger_regex_write() and have
trigger_process_regex() use strim() instead of skip_spaces(). The buff
variable is not passed in as const, so it can be modified.
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/20251125214032.323747707@kernel.org
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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>
