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<title>linux-stable.git/Documentation/trace, branch v6.4</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>tracing/user_events: Document auto-cleanup and remove dyn_event refs</title>
<updated>2023-06-14T17:43:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Beau Belgrave</name>
<email>beaub@linux.microsoft.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-14T16:33:36+00:00</published>
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Now user_events auto-cleanup upon the last reference by default. This
makes it not possible to use the dynamics event file via tracefs.

Document that auto-cleanup is enabled by default and remove the refernce
to /sys/kernel/tracing/dynamic_events file to make this clear.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230614163336.5797-7-beaub@linux.microsoft.com

Signed-off-by: Beau Belgrave &lt;beaub@linux.microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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Now user_events auto-cleanup upon the last reference by default. This
makes it not possible to use the dynamics event file via tracefs.

Document that auto-cleanup is enabled by default and remove the refernce
to /sys/kernel/tracing/dynamic_events file to make this clear.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230614163336.5797-7-beaub@linux.microsoft.com

Signed-off-by: Beau Belgrave &lt;beaub@linux.microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Rename stacktrace field to common_stacktrace</title>
<updated>2023-05-24T03:38:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Google)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-05-24T03:09:13+00:00</published>
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The histogram and synthetic events can use a pseudo event called
"stacktrace" that will create a stacktrace at the time of the event and
use it just like it was a normal field. We have other pseudo events such
as "common_cpu" and "common_timestamp". To stay consistent with that,
convert "stacktrace" to "common_stacktrace". As this was used in older
kernels, to keep backward compatibility, this will act just like
"common_cpu" did with "cpu". That is, "cpu" will be the same as
"common_cpu" unless the event has a "cpu" field. In which case, the
event's field is used. The same is true with "stacktrace".

Also update the documentation to reflect this change.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230523230913.6860e28d@rorschach.local.home

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Tom Zanussi &lt;zanussi@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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The histogram and synthetic events can use a pseudo event called
"stacktrace" that will create a stacktrace at the time of the event and
use it just like it was a normal field. We have other pseudo events such
as "common_cpu" and "common_timestamp". To stay consistent with that,
convert "stacktrace" to "common_stacktrace". As this was used in older
kernels, to keep backward compatibility, this will act just like
"common_cpu" did with "cpu". That is, "cpu" will be the same as
"common_cpu" unless the event has a "cpu" field. In which case, the
event's field is used. The same is true with "stacktrace".

Also update the documentation to reflect this change.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230523230913.6860e28d@rorschach.local.home

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Tom Zanussi &lt;zanussi@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'trace-v6.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2023-05-05T20:11:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-05-05T20:11:02+00:00</published>
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Pull more tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:

 - Make buffer_percent read/write.

   The buffer_percent file is how users can state how long to block on
   the tracing buffer depending on how much is in the buffer. When it
   hits the "buffer_percent" it will wake the task waiting on the
   buffer. For some reason it was set to read-only.

   This was not noticed because testing was done as root without
   SELinux, but with SELinux it will prevent even root to write to it
   without having CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE.

 - The "touched_functions" was added this merge window, but one of the
   reasons for adding it was not implemented.

   That was to show what functions were not only touched, but had either
   a direct trampoline attached to it, or a kprobe or live kernel
   patching that can "hijack" the function to run a different function.
   The point is to know if there's functions in the kernel that may not
   be behaving as the kernel code shows. This can be used for debugging.

   TODO: Add this information to kernel oops too.

* tag 'trace-v6.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
  ftrace: Add MODIFIED flag to show if IPMODIFY or direct was attached
  tracing: Fix permissions for the buffer_percent file
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<pre>
Pull more tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:

 - Make buffer_percent read/write.

   The buffer_percent file is how users can state how long to block on
   the tracing buffer depending on how much is in the buffer. When it
   hits the "buffer_percent" it will wake the task waiting on the
   buffer. For some reason it was set to read-only.

   This was not noticed because testing was done as root without
   SELinux, but with SELinux it will prevent even root to write to it
   without having CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE.

 - The "touched_functions" was added this merge window, but one of the
   reasons for adding it was not implemented.

   That was to show what functions were not only touched, but had either
   a direct trampoline attached to it, or a kprobe or live kernel
   patching that can "hijack" the function to run a different function.
   The point is to know if there's functions in the kernel that may not
   be behaving as the kernel code shows. This can be used for debugging.

   TODO: Add this information to kernel oops too.

* tag 'trace-v6.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
  ftrace: Add MODIFIED flag to show if IPMODIFY or direct was attached
  tracing: Fix permissions for the buffer_percent file
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ftrace: Add MODIFIED flag to show if IPMODIFY or direct was attached</title>
<updated>2023-05-05T15:09:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Google)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-05-03T01:32:33+00:00</published>
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If a function had ever had IPMODIFY or DIRECT attached to it, where this
is how live kernel patching and BPF overrides work, mark them and display
an "M" in the enabled_functions and touched_functions files. This can be
used for debugging. If a function had been modified and later there's a bug
in the code related to that function, this can be used to know if the cause
is possibly from a live kernel patch or a BPF program that changed the
behavior of the code.

Also update the documentation on the enabled_functions and
touched_functions output, as it was missing direct callers and CALL_OPS.
And include this new modify attribute.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230502213233.004e3ae4@gandalf.local.home

Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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If a function had ever had IPMODIFY or DIRECT attached to it, where this
is how live kernel patching and BPF overrides work, mark them and display
an "M" in the enabled_functions and touched_functions files. This can be
used for debugging. If a function had been modified and later there's a bug
in the code related to that function, this can be used to know if the cause
is possibly from a live kernel patch or a BPF program that changed the
behavior of the code.

Also update the documentation on the enabled_functions and
touched_functions output, as it was missing direct callers and CALL_OPS.
And include this new modify attribute.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230502213233.004e3ae4@gandalf.local.home

Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'trace-v6.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2023-04-28T22:57:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-28T22:57:53+00:00</published>
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Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:

 - User events are finally ready!

   After lots of collaboration between various parties, we finally
   locked down on a stable interface for user events that can also work
   with user space only tracing.

   This is implemented by telling the kernel (or user space library, but
   that part is user space only and not part of this patch set), where
   the variable is that the application uses to know if something is
   listening to the trace.

   There's also an interface to tell the kernel about these events,
   which will show up in the /sys/kernel/tracing/events/user_events/
   directory, where it can be enabled.

   When it's enabled, the kernel will update the variable, to tell the
   application to start writing to the kernel.

   See https://lwn.net/Articles/927595/

 - Cleaned up the direct trampolines code to simplify arm64 addition of
   direct trampolines.

   Direct trampolines use the ftrace interface but instead of jumping to
   the ftrace trampoline, applications (mostly BPF) can register their
   own trampoline for performance reasons.

 - Some updates to the fprobe infrastructure. fprobes are more efficient
   than kprobes, as it does not need to save all the registers that
   kprobes on ftrace do. More work needs to be done before the fprobes
   will be exposed as dynamic events.

 - More updates to references to the obsolete path of
   /sys/kernel/debug/tracing for the new /sys/kernel/tracing path.

 - Add a seq_buf_do_printk() helper to seq_bufs, to print a large buffer
   line by line instead of all at once.

   There are users in production kernels that have a large data dump
   that originally used printk() directly, but the data dump was larger
   than what printk() allowed as a single print.

   Using seq_buf() to do the printing fixes that.

 - Add /sys/kernel/tracing/touched_functions that shows all functions
   that was every traced by ftrace or a direct trampoline. This is used
   for debugging issues where a traced function could have caused a
   crash by a bpf program or live patching.

 - Add a "fields" option that is similar to "raw" but outputs the fields
   of the events. It's easier to read by humans.

 - Some minor fixes and clean ups.

* tag 'trace-v6.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: (41 commits)
  ring-buffer: Sync IRQ works before buffer destruction
  tracing: Add missing spaces in trace_print_hex_seq()
  ring-buffer: Ensure proper resetting of atomic variables in ring_buffer_reset_online_cpus
  recordmcount: Fix memory leaks in the uwrite function
  tracing/user_events: Limit max fault-in attempts
  tracing/user_events: Prevent same address and bit per process
  tracing/user_events: Ensure bit is cleared on unregister
  tracing/user_events: Ensure write index cannot be negative
  seq_buf: Add seq_buf_do_printk() helper
  tracing: Fix print_fields() for __dyn_loc/__rel_loc
  tracing/user_events: Set event filter_type from type
  ring-buffer: Clearly check null ptr returned by rb_set_head_page()
  tracing: Unbreak user events
  tracing/user_events: Use print_format_fields() for trace output
  tracing/user_events: Align structs with tabs for readability
  tracing/user_events: Limit global user_event count
  tracing/user_events: Charge event allocs to cgroups
  tracing/user_events: Update documentation for ABI
  tracing/user_events: Use write ABI in example
  tracing/user_events: Add ABI self-test
  ...
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Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:

 - User events are finally ready!

   After lots of collaboration between various parties, we finally
   locked down on a stable interface for user events that can also work
   with user space only tracing.

   This is implemented by telling the kernel (or user space library, but
   that part is user space only and not part of this patch set), where
   the variable is that the application uses to know if something is
   listening to the trace.

   There's also an interface to tell the kernel about these events,
   which will show up in the /sys/kernel/tracing/events/user_events/
   directory, where it can be enabled.

   When it's enabled, the kernel will update the variable, to tell the
   application to start writing to the kernel.

   See https://lwn.net/Articles/927595/

 - Cleaned up the direct trampolines code to simplify arm64 addition of
   direct trampolines.

   Direct trampolines use the ftrace interface but instead of jumping to
   the ftrace trampoline, applications (mostly BPF) can register their
   own trampoline for performance reasons.

 - Some updates to the fprobe infrastructure. fprobes are more efficient
   than kprobes, as it does not need to save all the registers that
   kprobes on ftrace do. More work needs to be done before the fprobes
   will be exposed as dynamic events.

 - More updates to references to the obsolete path of
   /sys/kernel/debug/tracing for the new /sys/kernel/tracing path.

 - Add a seq_buf_do_printk() helper to seq_bufs, to print a large buffer
   line by line instead of all at once.

   There are users in production kernels that have a large data dump
   that originally used printk() directly, but the data dump was larger
   than what printk() allowed as a single print.

   Using seq_buf() to do the printing fixes that.

 - Add /sys/kernel/tracing/touched_functions that shows all functions
   that was every traced by ftrace or a direct trampoline. This is used
   for debugging issues where a traced function could have caused a
   crash by a bpf program or live patching.

 - Add a "fields" option that is similar to "raw" but outputs the fields
   of the events. It's easier to read by humans.

 - Some minor fixes and clean ups.

* tag 'trace-v6.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: (41 commits)
  ring-buffer: Sync IRQ works before buffer destruction
  tracing: Add missing spaces in trace_print_hex_seq()
  ring-buffer: Ensure proper resetting of atomic variables in ring_buffer_reset_online_cpus
  recordmcount: Fix memory leaks in the uwrite function
  tracing/user_events: Limit max fault-in attempts
  tracing/user_events: Prevent same address and bit per process
  tracing/user_events: Ensure bit is cleared on unregister
  tracing/user_events: Ensure write index cannot be negative
  seq_buf: Add seq_buf_do_printk() helper
  tracing: Fix print_fields() for __dyn_loc/__rel_loc
  tracing/user_events: Set event filter_type from type
  ring-buffer: Clearly check null ptr returned by rb_set_head_page()
  tracing: Unbreak user events
  tracing/user_events: Use print_format_fields() for trace output
  tracing/user_events: Align structs with tabs for readability
  tracing/user_events: Limit global user_event count
  tracing/user_events: Charge event allocs to cgroups
  tracing/user_events: Update documentation for ABI
  tracing/user_events: Use write ABI in example
  tracing/user_events: Add ABI self-test
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>docs: trace: Fix typo in ftrace.rst</title>
<updated>2023-04-20T23:53:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lin Yu Chen</name>
<email>starpt.official@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-12T18:37:39+00:00</published>
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There is a typo in the sentence "A kernel developer must be
conscience ...". The word conscience should be conscious.
This patch fixes it.

Signed-off-by: Lin Yu Chen &lt;starpt.official@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230412183739.89894-1-starpt.official@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
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There is a typo in the sentence "A kernel developer must be
conscience ...". The word conscience should be conscious.
This patch fixes it.

Signed-off-by: Lin Yu Chen &lt;starpt.official@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230412183739.89894-1-starpt.official@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing/user_events: Update documentation for ABI</title>
<updated>2023-03-29T10:52:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Beau Belgrave</name>
<email>beaub@linux.microsoft.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-03-28T23:52:16+00:00</published>
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The ABI for user_events has changed from mmap() based to remote writes.
Update the documentation to reflect these changes, add new section for
unregistering events since lifetime is now tied to tasks instead of
files.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230328235219.203-10-beaub@linux.microsoft.com

Signed-off-by: Beau Belgrave &lt;beaub@linux.microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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The ABI for user_events has changed from mmap() based to remote writes.
Update the documentation to reflect these changes, add new section for
unregistering events since lifetime is now tied to tasks instead of
files.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230328235219.203-10-beaub@linux.microsoft.com

Signed-off-by: Beau Belgrave &lt;beaub@linux.microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Add "fields" option to show raw trace event fields</title>
<updated>2023-03-29T10:52:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Google)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-03-28T18:51:56+00:00</published>
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The hex, raw and bin formats come from the old PREEMPT_RT patch set
latency tracer. That actually gave real alternatives to reading the ascii
buffer. But they have started to bit rot and they do not give a good
representation of the tracing data.

Add "fields" option that will read the trace event fields and parse the
data from how the fields are defined:

With "fields" = 0 (default)

 echo 1 &gt; events/sched/sched_switch/enable
 cat trace
         &lt;idle&gt;-0       [003] d..2.   540.078653: sched_switch: prev_comm=swapper/3 prev_pid=0 prev_prio=120 prev_state=R ==&gt; next_comm=kworker/3:1 next_pid=83 next_prio=120
     kworker/3:1-83      [003] d..2.   540.078860: sched_switch: prev_comm=kworker/3:1 prev_pid=83 prev_prio=120 prev_state=I ==&gt; next_comm=swapper/3 next_pid=0 next_prio=120
          &lt;idle&gt;-0       [003] d..2.   540.206423: sched_switch: prev_comm=swapper/3 prev_pid=0 prev_prio=120 prev_state=R ==&gt; next_comm=sshd next_pid=807 next_prio=120
            sshd-807     [003] d..2.   540.206531: sched_switch: prev_comm=sshd prev_pid=807 prev_prio=120 prev_state=S ==&gt; next_comm=swapper/3 next_pid=0 next_prio=120
          &lt;idle&gt;-0       [001] d..2.   540.206597: sched_switch: prev_comm=swapper/1 prev_pid=0 prev_prio=120 prev_state=R ==&gt; next_comm=kworker/u16:4 next_pid=58 next_prio=120
   kworker/u16:4-58      [001] d..2.   540.206617: sched_switch: prev_comm=kworker/u16:4 prev_pid=58 prev_prio=120 prev_state=I ==&gt; next_comm=bash next_pid=830 next_prio=120
            bash-830     [001] d..2.   540.206678: sched_switch: prev_comm=bash prev_pid=830 prev_prio=120 prev_state=R ==&gt; next_comm=kworker/u16:4 next_pid=58 next_prio=120
   kworker/u16:4-58      [001] d..2.   540.206696: sched_switch: prev_comm=kworker/u16:4 prev_pid=58 prev_prio=120 prev_state=I ==&gt; next_comm=bash next_pid=830 next_prio=120
            bash-830     [001] d..2.   540.206713: sched_switch: prev_comm=bash prev_pid=830 prev_prio=120 prev_state=R ==&gt; next_comm=kworker/u16:4 next_pid=58 next_prio=120

 echo 1 &gt; options/fields
           &lt;...&gt;-998     [002] d..2.   538.643732: sched_switch: next_prio=0x78 (120) next_pid=0x0 (0) next_comm=swapper/2 prev_state=0x20 (32) prev_prio=0x78 (120) prev_pid=0x3e6 (998) prev_comm=trace-cmd
          &lt;idle&gt;-0       [001] d..2.   538.643806: sched_switch: next_prio=0x78 (120) next_pid=0x33e (830) next_comm=bash prev_state=0x0 (0) prev_prio=0x78 (120) prev_pid=0x0 (0) prev_comm=swapper/1
            bash-830     [001] d..2.   538.644106: sched_switch: next_prio=0x78 (120) next_pid=0x3a (58) next_comm=kworker/u16:4 prev_state=0x0 (0) prev_prio=0x78 (120) prev_pid=0x33e (830) prev_comm=bash
   kworker/u16:4-58      [001] d..2.   538.644130: sched_switch: next_prio=0x78 (120) next_pid=0x33e (830) next_comm=bash prev_state=0x80 (128) prev_prio=0x78 (120) prev_pid=0x3a (58) prev_comm=kworker/u16:4
            bash-830     [001] d..2.   538.644180: sched_switch: next_prio=0x78 (120) next_pid=0x3a (58) next_comm=kworker/u16:4 prev_state=0x0 (0) prev_prio=0x78 (120) prev_pid=0x33e (830) prev_comm=bash
   kworker/u16:4-58      [001] d..2.   538.644185: sched_switch: next_prio=0x78 (120) next_pid=0x33e (830) next_comm=bash prev_state=0x80 (128) prev_prio=0x78 (120) prev_pid=0x3a (58) prev_comm=kworker/u16:4
            bash-830     [001] d..2.   538.644204: sched_switch: next_prio=0x78 (120) next_pid=0x0 (0) next_comm=swapper/1 prev_state=0x1 (1) prev_prio=0x78 (120) prev_pid=0x33e (830) prev_comm=bash
          &lt;idle&gt;-0       [003] d..2.   538.644211: sched_switch: next_prio=0x78 (120) next_pid=0x327 (807) next_comm=sshd prev_state=0x0 (0) prev_prio=0x78 (120) prev_pid=0x0 (0) prev_comm=swapper/3
            sshd-807     [003] d..2.   538.644340: sched_switch: next_prio=0x78 (120) next_pid=0x0 (0) next_comm=swapper/3 prev_state=0x1 (1) prev_prio=0x78 (120) prev_pid=0x327 (807) prev_comm=sshd

It traces the data safely without using the trace print formatting.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230328145156.497651be@gandalf.local.home

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Beau Belgrave &lt;beaub@linux.microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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The hex, raw and bin formats come from the old PREEMPT_RT patch set
latency tracer. That actually gave real alternatives to reading the ascii
buffer. But they have started to bit rot and they do not give a good
representation of the tracing data.

Add "fields" option that will read the trace event fields and parse the
data from how the fields are defined:

With "fields" = 0 (default)

 echo 1 &gt; events/sched/sched_switch/enable
 cat trace
         &lt;idle&gt;-0       [003] d..2.   540.078653: sched_switch: prev_comm=swapper/3 prev_pid=0 prev_prio=120 prev_state=R ==&gt; next_comm=kworker/3:1 next_pid=83 next_prio=120
     kworker/3:1-83      [003] d..2.   540.078860: sched_switch: prev_comm=kworker/3:1 prev_pid=83 prev_prio=120 prev_state=I ==&gt; next_comm=swapper/3 next_pid=0 next_prio=120
          &lt;idle&gt;-0       [003] d..2.   540.206423: sched_switch: prev_comm=swapper/3 prev_pid=0 prev_prio=120 prev_state=R ==&gt; next_comm=sshd next_pid=807 next_prio=120
            sshd-807     [003] d..2.   540.206531: sched_switch: prev_comm=sshd prev_pid=807 prev_prio=120 prev_state=S ==&gt; next_comm=swapper/3 next_pid=0 next_prio=120
          &lt;idle&gt;-0       [001] d..2.   540.206597: sched_switch: prev_comm=swapper/1 prev_pid=0 prev_prio=120 prev_state=R ==&gt; next_comm=kworker/u16:4 next_pid=58 next_prio=120
   kworker/u16:4-58      [001] d..2.   540.206617: sched_switch: prev_comm=kworker/u16:4 prev_pid=58 prev_prio=120 prev_state=I ==&gt; next_comm=bash next_pid=830 next_prio=120
            bash-830     [001] d..2.   540.206678: sched_switch: prev_comm=bash prev_pid=830 prev_prio=120 prev_state=R ==&gt; next_comm=kworker/u16:4 next_pid=58 next_prio=120
   kworker/u16:4-58      [001] d..2.   540.206696: sched_switch: prev_comm=kworker/u16:4 prev_pid=58 prev_prio=120 prev_state=I ==&gt; next_comm=bash next_pid=830 next_prio=120
            bash-830     [001] d..2.   540.206713: sched_switch: prev_comm=bash prev_pid=830 prev_prio=120 prev_state=R ==&gt; next_comm=kworker/u16:4 next_pid=58 next_prio=120

 echo 1 &gt; options/fields
           &lt;...&gt;-998     [002] d..2.   538.643732: sched_switch: next_prio=0x78 (120) next_pid=0x0 (0) next_comm=swapper/2 prev_state=0x20 (32) prev_prio=0x78 (120) prev_pid=0x3e6 (998) prev_comm=trace-cmd
          &lt;idle&gt;-0       [001] d..2.   538.643806: sched_switch: next_prio=0x78 (120) next_pid=0x33e (830) next_comm=bash prev_state=0x0 (0) prev_prio=0x78 (120) prev_pid=0x0 (0) prev_comm=swapper/1
            bash-830     [001] d..2.   538.644106: sched_switch: next_prio=0x78 (120) next_pid=0x3a (58) next_comm=kworker/u16:4 prev_state=0x0 (0) prev_prio=0x78 (120) prev_pid=0x33e (830) prev_comm=bash
   kworker/u16:4-58      [001] d..2.   538.644130: sched_switch: next_prio=0x78 (120) next_pid=0x33e (830) next_comm=bash prev_state=0x80 (128) prev_prio=0x78 (120) prev_pid=0x3a (58) prev_comm=kworker/u16:4
            bash-830     [001] d..2.   538.644180: sched_switch: next_prio=0x78 (120) next_pid=0x3a (58) next_comm=kworker/u16:4 prev_state=0x0 (0) prev_prio=0x78 (120) prev_pid=0x33e (830) prev_comm=bash
   kworker/u16:4-58      [001] d..2.   538.644185: sched_switch: next_prio=0x78 (120) next_pid=0x33e (830) next_comm=bash prev_state=0x80 (128) prev_prio=0x78 (120) prev_pid=0x3a (58) prev_comm=kworker/u16:4
            bash-830     [001] d..2.   538.644204: sched_switch: next_prio=0x78 (120) next_pid=0x0 (0) next_comm=swapper/1 prev_state=0x1 (1) prev_prio=0x78 (120) prev_pid=0x33e (830) prev_comm=bash
          &lt;idle&gt;-0       [003] d..2.   538.644211: sched_switch: next_prio=0x78 (120) next_pid=0x327 (807) next_comm=sshd prev_state=0x0 (0) prev_prio=0x78 (120) prev_pid=0x0 (0) prev_comm=swapper/3
            sshd-807     [003] d..2.   538.644340: sched_switch: next_prio=0x78 (120) next_pid=0x0 (0) next_comm=swapper/3 prev_state=0x1 (1) prev_prio=0x78 (120) prev_pid=0x327 (807) prev_comm=sshd

It traces the data safely without using the trace print formatting.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230328145156.497651be@gandalf.local.home

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Beau Belgrave &lt;beaub@linux.microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<title>docs: tracing: Update fprobe documentation</title>
<updated>2023-03-28T22:52:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masami Hiramatsu (Google)</name>
<email>mhiramat@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-02-01T15:56:55+00:00</published>
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Update fprobe.rst for
 - the private entry_data argument
 - the return value of the entry handler
 - the nr_rethook_node field.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/167526701579.433354.3057889264263546659.stgit@mhiramat.roam.corp.google.com

Cc: Florent Revest &lt;revest@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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Update fprobe.rst for
 - the private entry_data argument
 - the return value of the entry handler
 - the nr_rethook_node field.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/167526701579.433354.3057889264263546659.stgit@mhiramat.roam.corp.google.com

Cc: Florent Revest &lt;revest@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'char-misc-6.3-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc</title>
<updated>2023-02-24T20:47:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-02-24T20:47:33+00:00</published>
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Pull char/misc and other driver subsystem updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is the large set of driver changes for char/misc drivers and
  other smaller driver subsystems that flow through this git tree.

  Included in here are:

   - New IIO drivers and features and improvments in that subsystem

   - New hwtracing drivers and additions to that subsystem

   - lots of interconnect changes and new drivers as that subsystem
     seems under very active development recently. This required also
     merging in the icc subsystem changes through this tree.

   - FPGA driver updates

   - counter subsystem and driver updates

   - MHI driver updates

   - nvmem driver updates

   - documentation updates

   - Other smaller driver updates and fixes, full details in the
     shortlog

  All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
  problems"

* tag 'char-misc-6.3-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (223 commits)
  scripts/tags.sh: fix incompatibility with PCRE2
  firmware: coreboot: Remove GOOGLE_COREBOOT_TABLE_ACPI/OF Kconfig entries
  mei: lower the log level for non-fatal failed messages
  mei: bus: disallow driver match while dismantling device
  misc: vmw_balloon: fix memory leak with using debugfs_lookup()
  nvmem: stm32: fix OPTEE dependency
  dt-bindings: nvmem: qfprom: add IPQ8074 compatible
  nvmem: qcom-spmi-sdam: register at device init time
  nvmem: rave-sp-eeprm: fix kernel-doc bad line warning
  nvmem: stm32: detect bsec pta presence for STM32MP15x
  nvmem: stm32: add OP-TEE support for STM32MP13x
  nvmem: core: use nvmem_add_one_cell() in nvmem_add_cells_from_of()
  nvmem: core: add nvmem_add_one_cell()
  nvmem: core: drop the removal of the cells in nvmem_add_cells()
  nvmem: core: move struct nvmem_cell_info to nvmem-provider.h
  nvmem: core: add an index parameter to the cell
  of: property: add #nvmem-cell-cells property
  of: property: make #.*-cells optional for simple props
  of: base: add of_parse_phandle_with_optional_args()
  net: add helper eth_addr_add()
  ...
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Pull char/misc and other driver subsystem updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is the large set of driver changes for char/misc drivers and
  other smaller driver subsystems that flow through this git tree.

  Included in here are:

   - New IIO drivers and features and improvments in that subsystem

   - New hwtracing drivers and additions to that subsystem

   - lots of interconnect changes and new drivers as that subsystem
     seems under very active development recently. This required also
     merging in the icc subsystem changes through this tree.

   - FPGA driver updates

   - counter subsystem and driver updates

   - MHI driver updates

   - nvmem driver updates

   - documentation updates

   - Other smaller driver updates and fixes, full details in the
     shortlog

  All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
  problems"

* tag 'char-misc-6.3-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (223 commits)
  scripts/tags.sh: fix incompatibility with PCRE2
  firmware: coreboot: Remove GOOGLE_COREBOOT_TABLE_ACPI/OF Kconfig entries
  mei: lower the log level for non-fatal failed messages
  mei: bus: disallow driver match while dismantling device
  misc: vmw_balloon: fix memory leak with using debugfs_lookup()
  nvmem: stm32: fix OPTEE dependency
  dt-bindings: nvmem: qfprom: add IPQ8074 compatible
  nvmem: qcom-spmi-sdam: register at device init time
  nvmem: rave-sp-eeprm: fix kernel-doc bad line warning
  nvmem: stm32: detect bsec pta presence for STM32MP15x
  nvmem: stm32: add OP-TEE support for STM32MP13x
  nvmem: core: use nvmem_add_one_cell() in nvmem_add_cells_from_of()
  nvmem: core: add nvmem_add_one_cell()
  nvmem: core: drop the removal of the cells in nvmem_add_cells()
  nvmem: core: move struct nvmem_cell_info to nvmem-provider.h
  nvmem: core: add an index parameter to the cell
  of: property: add #nvmem-cell-cells property
  of: property: make #.*-cells optional for simple props
  of: base: add of_parse_phandle_with_optional_args()
  net: add helper eth_addr_add()
  ...
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