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<title>tracing: kdb: Fix ftdump to not sleep</title>
<updated>2019-04-05T20:32:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Douglas Anderson</name>
<email>dianders@chromium.org</email>
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<published>2019-03-08T19:32:04+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 31b265b3baaf55f209229888b7ffea523ddab366 ]

As reported back in 2016-11 [1], the "ftdump" kdb command triggers a
BUG for "sleeping function called from invalid context".

kdb's "ftdump" command wants to call ring_buffer_read_prepare() in
atomic context.  A very simple solution for this is to add allocation
flags to ring_buffer_read_prepare() so kdb can call it without
triggering the allocation error.  This patch does that.

Note that in the original email thread about this, it was suggested
that perhaps the solution for kdb was to either preallocate the buffer
ahead of time or create our own iterator.  I'm hoping that this
alternative of adding allocation flags to ring_buffer_read_prepare()
can be considered since it means I don't need to duplicate more of the
core trace code into "trace_kdb.c" (for either creating my own
iterator or re-preparing a ring allocator whose memory was already
allocated).

NOTE: another option for kdb is to actually figure out how to make it
reuse the existing ftrace_dump() function and totally eliminate the
duplication.  This sounds very appealing and actually works (the "sr
z" command can be seen to properly dump the ftrace buffer).  The
downside here is that ftrace_dump() fully consumes the trace buffer.
Unless that is changed I'd rather not use it because it means "ftdump
| grep xyz" won't be very useful to search the ftrace buffer since it
will throw away the whole trace on the first grep.  A future patch to
dump only the last few lines of the buffer will also be hard to
implement.

[1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161117191605.GA21459@google.com

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190308193205.213659-1-dianders@chromium.org

Reported-by: Brian Norris &lt;briannorris@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson &lt;dianders@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 31b265b3baaf55f209229888b7ffea523ddab366 ]

As reported back in 2016-11 [1], the "ftdump" kdb command triggers a
BUG for "sleeping function called from invalid context".

kdb's "ftdump" command wants to call ring_buffer_read_prepare() in
atomic context.  A very simple solution for this is to add allocation
flags to ring_buffer_read_prepare() so kdb can call it without
triggering the allocation error.  This patch does that.

Note that in the original email thread about this, it was suggested
that perhaps the solution for kdb was to either preallocate the buffer
ahead of time or create our own iterator.  I'm hoping that this
alternative of adding allocation flags to ring_buffer_read_prepare()
can be considered since it means I don't need to duplicate more of the
core trace code into "trace_kdb.c" (for either creating my own
iterator or re-preparing a ring allocator whose memory was already
allocated).

NOTE: another option for kdb is to actually figure out how to make it
reuse the existing ftrace_dump() function and totally eliminate the
duplication.  This sounds very appealing and actually works (the "sr
z" command can be seen to properly dump the ftrace buffer).  The
downside here is that ftrace_dump() fully consumes the trace buffer.
Unless that is changed I'd rather not use it because it means "ftdump
| grep xyz" won't be very useful to search the ftrace buffer since it
will throw away the whole trace on the first grep.  A future patch to
dump only the last few lines of the buffer will also be hard to
implement.

[1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161117191605.GA21459@google.com

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190308193205.213659-1-dianders@chromium.org

Reported-by: Brian Norris &lt;briannorris@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson &lt;dianders@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tracing: Do not free iter-&gt;trace in fail path of tracing_open_pipe()</title>
<updated>2019-03-23T19:09:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>zhangyi (F)</name>
<email>yi.zhang@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-02-13T12:29:06+00:00</published>
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commit e7f0c424d0806b05d6f47be9f202b037eb701707 upstream.

Commit d716ff71dd12 ("tracing: Remove taking of trace_types_lock in
pipe files") use the current tracer instead of the copy in
tracing_open_pipe(), but it forget to remove the freeing sentence in
the error path.

There's an error path that can call kfree(iter-&gt;trace) after the iter-&gt;trace
was assigned to tr-&gt;current_trace, which would be bad to free.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1550060946-45984-1-git-send-email-yi.zhang@huawei.com

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: d716ff71dd12 ("tracing: Remove taking of trace_types_lock in pipe files")
Signed-off-by: zhangyi (F) &lt;yi.zhang@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit e7f0c424d0806b05d6f47be9f202b037eb701707 upstream.

Commit d716ff71dd12 ("tracing: Remove taking of trace_types_lock in
pipe files") use the current tracer instead of the copy in
tracing_open_pipe(), but it forget to remove the freeing sentence in
the error path.

There's an error path that can call kfree(iter-&gt;trace) after the iter-&gt;trace
was assigned to tr-&gt;current_trace, which would be bad to free.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1550060946-45984-1-git-send-email-yi.zhang@huawei.com

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: d716ff71dd12 ("tracing: Remove taking of trace_types_lock in pipe files")
Signed-off-by: zhangyi (F) &lt;yi.zhang@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>tracing: Fix number of entries in trace header</title>
<updated>2019-02-27T09:08:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Quentin Perret</name>
<email>quentin.perret@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-02-14T15:29:50+00:00</published>
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commit 9e7382153f80ba45a0bbcd540fb77d4b15f6e966 upstream.

The following commit

  441dae8f2f29 ("tracing: Add support for display of tgid in trace output")

removed the call to print_event_info() from print_func_help_header_irq()
which results in the ftrace header not reporting the number of entries
written in the buffer. As this wasn't the original intent of the patch,
re-introduce the call to print_event_info() to restore the orginal
behaviour.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190214152950.4179-1-quentin.perret@arm.com

Acked-by: Joel Fernandes &lt;joelaf@google.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 441dae8f2f29 ("tracing: Add support for display of tgid in trace output")
Signed-off-by: Quentin Perret &lt;quentin.perret@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 9e7382153f80ba45a0bbcd540fb77d4b15f6e966 upstream.

The following commit

  441dae8f2f29 ("tracing: Add support for display of tgid in trace output")

removed the call to print_event_info() from print_func_help_header_irq()
which results in the ftrace header not reporting the number of entries
written in the buffer. As this wasn't the original intent of the patch,
re-introduce the call to print_event_info() to restore the orginal
behaviour.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190214152950.4179-1-quentin.perret@arm.com

Acked-by: Joel Fernandes &lt;joelaf@google.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 441dae8f2f29 ("tracing: Add support for display of tgid in trace output")
Signed-off-by: Quentin Perret &lt;quentin.perret@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'trace-v4.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2018-08-21T01:32:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-21T01:32:00+00:00</published>
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Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:

 - Restructure of lockdep and latency tracers

   This is the biggest change. Joel Fernandes restructured the hooks
   from irqs and preemption disabling and enabling. He got rid of a lot
   of the preprocessor #ifdef mess that they caused.

   He turned both lockdep and the latency tracers to use trace events
   inserted in the preempt/irqs disabling paths. But unfortunately,
   these started to cause issues in corner cases. Thus, parts of the
   code was reverted back to where lockdep and the latency tracers just
   get called directly (without using the trace events). But because the
   original change cleaned up the code very nicely we kept that, as well
   as the trace events for preempt and irqs disabling, but they are
   limited to not being called in NMIs.

 - Have trace events use SRCU for "rcu idle" calls. This was required
   for the preempt/irqs off trace events. But it also had to not allow
   them to be called in NMI context. Waiting till Paul makes an NMI safe
   SRCU API.

 - New notrace SRCU API to allow trace events to use SRCU.

 - Addition of mcount-nop option support

 - SPDX headers replacing GPL templates.

 - Various other fixes and clean ups.

 - Some fixes are marked for stable, but were not fully tested before
   the merge window opened.

* tag 'trace-v4.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (44 commits)
  tracing: Fix SPDX format headers to use C++ style comments
  tracing: Add SPDX License format tags to tracing files
  tracing: Add SPDX License format to bpf_trace.c
  blktrace: Add SPDX License format header
  s390/ftrace: Add -mfentry and -mnop-mcount support
  tracing: Add -mcount-nop option support
  tracing: Avoid calling cc-option -mrecord-mcount for every Makefile
  tracing: Handle CC_FLAGS_FTRACE more accurately
  Uprobe: Additional argument arch_uprobe to uprobe_write_opcode()
  Uprobes: Simplify uprobe_register() body
  tracepoints: Free early tracepoints after RCU is initialized
  uprobes: Use synchronize_rcu() not synchronize_sched()
  tracing: Fix synchronizing to event changes with tracepoint_synchronize_unregister()
  ftrace: Remove unused pointer ftrace_swapper_pid
  tracing: More reverting of "tracing: Centralize preemptirq tracepoints and unify their usage"
  tracing/irqsoff: Handle preempt_count for different configs
  tracing: Partial revert of "tracing: Centralize preemptirq tracepoints and unify their usage"
  tracing: irqsoff: Account for additional preempt_disable
  trace: Use rcu_dereference_raw for hooks from trace-event subsystem
  tracing/kprobes: Fix within_notrace_func() to check only notrace functions
  ...
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Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:

 - Restructure of lockdep and latency tracers

   This is the biggest change. Joel Fernandes restructured the hooks
   from irqs and preemption disabling and enabling. He got rid of a lot
   of the preprocessor #ifdef mess that they caused.

   He turned both lockdep and the latency tracers to use trace events
   inserted in the preempt/irqs disabling paths. But unfortunately,
   these started to cause issues in corner cases. Thus, parts of the
   code was reverted back to where lockdep and the latency tracers just
   get called directly (without using the trace events). But because the
   original change cleaned up the code very nicely we kept that, as well
   as the trace events for preempt and irqs disabling, but they are
   limited to not being called in NMIs.

 - Have trace events use SRCU for "rcu idle" calls. This was required
   for the preempt/irqs off trace events. But it also had to not allow
   them to be called in NMI context. Waiting till Paul makes an NMI safe
   SRCU API.

 - New notrace SRCU API to allow trace events to use SRCU.

 - Addition of mcount-nop option support

 - SPDX headers replacing GPL templates.

 - Various other fixes and clean ups.

 - Some fixes are marked for stable, but were not fully tested before
   the merge window opened.

* tag 'trace-v4.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (44 commits)
  tracing: Fix SPDX format headers to use C++ style comments
  tracing: Add SPDX License format tags to tracing files
  tracing: Add SPDX License format to bpf_trace.c
  blktrace: Add SPDX License format header
  s390/ftrace: Add -mfentry and -mnop-mcount support
  tracing: Add -mcount-nop option support
  tracing: Avoid calling cc-option -mrecord-mcount for every Makefile
  tracing: Handle CC_FLAGS_FTRACE more accurately
  Uprobe: Additional argument arch_uprobe to uprobe_write_opcode()
  Uprobes: Simplify uprobe_register() body
  tracepoints: Free early tracepoints after RCU is initialized
  uprobes: Use synchronize_rcu() not synchronize_sched()
  tracing: Fix synchronizing to event changes with tracepoint_synchronize_unregister()
  ftrace: Remove unused pointer ftrace_swapper_pid
  tracing: More reverting of "tracing: Centralize preemptirq tracepoints and unify their usage"
  tracing/irqsoff: Handle preempt_count for different configs
  tracing: Partial revert of "tracing: Centralize preemptirq tracepoints and unify their usage"
  tracing: irqsoff: Account for additional preempt_disable
  trace: Use rcu_dereference_raw for hooks from trace-event subsystem
  tracing/kprobes: Fix within_notrace_func() to check only notrace functions
  ...
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<entry>
<title>tracing: Add SPDX License format tags to tracing files</title>
<updated>2018-08-16T23:08:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (VMware)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-16T15:23:53+00:00</published>
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Add the SPDX License header to ease license compliance management.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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Add the SPDX License header to ease license compliance management.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'printk-for-4.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pmladek/printk</title>
<updated>2018-08-15T18:18:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-15T18:18:53+00:00</published>
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Pull printk updates from Petr Mladek:

 - Different vendors have a different expectation about a console
   quietness. Make it configurable to reduce bike-shedding about the
   upstream default

 - Decide about the message visibility when the message is stored. It
   avoids races caused by a delayed console handling

 - Always store printk() messages into the per-CPU buffers again in NMI.
   The only exception is when flushing trace log in panic(). There the
   risk of loosing messages is worth an eventual reordering

 - Handle invalid %pO printf modifiers correctly

 - Better handle %p printf modifier tests before crng is initialized

 - Some clean up

* tag 'printk-for-4.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pmladek/printk:
  lib/vsprintf: Do not handle %pO[^F] as %px
  printk: Fix warning about unused suppress_message_printing
  printk/nmi: Prevent deadlock when accessing the main log buffer in NMI
  printk: Create helper function to queue deferred console handling
  printk: Split the code for storing a message into the log buffer
  printk: Clean up syslog_print_all()
  printk: Remove unnecessary kmalloc() from syslog during clear
  printk: Make CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_QUIET configurable
  printk: make sure to print log on console.
  lib/test_printf.c: accept "ptrval" as valid result for plain 'p' tests
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Pull printk updates from Petr Mladek:

 - Different vendors have a different expectation about a console
   quietness. Make it configurable to reduce bike-shedding about the
   upstream default

 - Decide about the message visibility when the message is stored. It
   avoids races caused by a delayed console handling

 - Always store printk() messages into the per-CPU buffers again in NMI.
   The only exception is when flushing trace log in panic(). There the
   risk of loosing messages is worth an eventual reordering

 - Handle invalid %pO printf modifiers correctly

 - Better handle %p printf modifier tests before crng is initialized

 - Some clean up

* tag 'printk-for-4.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pmladek/printk:
  lib/vsprintf: Do not handle %pO[^F] as %px
  printk: Fix warning about unused suppress_message_printing
  printk/nmi: Prevent deadlock when accessing the main log buffer in NMI
  printk: Create helper function to queue deferred console handling
  printk: Split the code for storing a message into the log buffer
  printk: Clean up syslog_print_all()
  printk: Remove unnecessary kmalloc() from syslog during clear
  printk: Make CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL_QUIET configurable
  printk: make sure to print log on console.
  lib/test_printf.c: accept "ptrval" as valid result for plain 'p' tests
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<entry>
<title>tracing: Make tracer_tracing_is_on() return bool</title>
<updated>2018-08-01T20:08:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (VMware)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-01T20:08:57+00:00</published>
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There's code that expects tracer_tracing_is_on() to be either true or false,
not some random number. Currently, it should only return one or zero, but
just in case, change its return value to bool, to enforce it.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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There's code that expects tracer_tracing_is_on() to be either true or false,
not some random number. Currently, it should only return one or zero, but
just in case, change its return value to bool, to enforce it.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Do not call start/stop() functions when tracing_on does not change</title>
<updated>2018-08-01T20:01:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (VMware)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-01T19:40:57+00:00</published>
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Currently, when one echo's in 1 into tracing_on, the current tracer's
"start()" function is executed, even if tracing_on was already one. This can
lead to strange side effects. One being that if the hwlat tracer is enabled,
and someone does "echo 1 &gt; tracing_on" into tracing_on, the hwlat tracer's
start() function is called again which will recreate another kernel thread,
and make it unable to remove the old one.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1533120354-22923-1-git-send-email-erica.bugden@linutronix.de

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 2df8f8a6a897e ("tracing: Fix regression with irqsoff tracer and tracing_on file")
Reported-by: Erica Bugden &lt;erica.bugden@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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Currently, when one echo's in 1 into tracing_on, the current tracer's
"start()" function is executed, even if tracing_on was already one. This can
lead to strange side effects. One being that if the hwlat tracer is enabled,
and someone does "echo 1 &gt; tracing_on" into tracing_on, the hwlat tracer's
start() function is called again which will recreate another kernel thread,
and make it unable to remove the old one.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1533120354-22923-1-git-send-email-erica.bugden@linutronix.de

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 2df8f8a6a897e ("tracing: Fix regression with irqsoff tracer and tracing_on file")
Reported-by: Erica Bugden &lt;erica.bugden@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ring_buffer: tracing: Inherit the tracing setting to next ring buffer</title>
<updated>2018-07-25T14:29:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masami Hiramatsu</name>
<email>mhiramat@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-07-13T16:28:15+00:00</published>
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Maintain the tracing on/off setting of the ring_buffer when switching
to the trace buffer snapshot.

Taking a snapshot is done by swapping the backup ring buffer
(max_tr_buffer). But since the tracing on/off setting is defined
by the ring buffer, when swapping it, the tracing on/off setting
can also be changed. This causes a strange result like below:

  /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # cat tracing_on
  1
  /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # echo 0 &gt; tracing_on
  /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # cat tracing_on
  0
  /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # echo 1 &gt; snapshot
  /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # cat tracing_on
  1
  /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # echo 1 &gt; snapshot
  /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # cat tracing_on
  0

We don't touch tracing_on, but snapshot changes tracing_on
setting each time. This is an anomaly, because user doesn't know
that each "ring_buffer" stores its own tracing-enable state and
the snapshot is done by swapping ring buffers.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/153149929558.11274.11730609978254724394.stgit@devbox

Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Shuah Khan &lt;shuah@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Tom Zanussi &lt;tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Hiraku Toyooka &lt;hiraku.toyooka@cybertrust.co.jp&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: debdd57f5145 ("tracing: Make a snapshot feature available from userspace")
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
[ Updated commit log and comment in the code ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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Maintain the tracing on/off setting of the ring_buffer when switching
to the trace buffer snapshot.

Taking a snapshot is done by swapping the backup ring buffer
(max_tr_buffer). But since the tracing on/off setting is defined
by the ring buffer, when swapping it, the tracing on/off setting
can also be changed. This causes a strange result like below:

  /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # cat tracing_on
  1
  /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # echo 0 &gt; tracing_on
  /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # cat tracing_on
  0
  /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # echo 1 &gt; snapshot
  /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # cat tracing_on
  1
  /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # echo 1 &gt; snapshot
  /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # cat tracing_on
  0

We don't touch tracing_on, but snapshot changes tracing_on
setting each time. This is an anomaly, because user doesn't know
that each "ring_buffer" stores its own tracing-enable state and
the snapshot is done by swapping ring buffers.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/153149929558.11274.11730609978254724394.stgit@devbox

Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Shuah Khan &lt;shuah@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Tom Zanussi &lt;tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Hiraku Toyooka &lt;hiraku.toyooka@cybertrust.co.jp&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: debdd57f5145 ("tracing: Make a snapshot feature available from userspace")
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
[ Updated commit log and comment in the code ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<title>tracing: Reorder display of TGID to be after PID</title>
<updated>2018-07-12T23:56:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joel Fernandes (Google)</name>
<email>joel@joelfernandes.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-06-26T00:08:22+00:00</published>
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Currently ftrace displays data in trace output like so:

                                       _-----=&gt; irqs-off
                                      / _----=&gt; need-resched
                                     | / _---=&gt; hardirq/softirq
                                     || / _--=&gt; preempt-depth
                                     ||| /     delay
            TASK-PID   CPU    TGID   ||||    TIMESTAMP  FUNCTION
               | |       |      |    ||||       |         |
            bash-1091  [000] ( 1091) d..2    28.313544: sched_switch:

However Android's trace visualization tools expect a slightly different
format due to an out-of-tree patch patch that was been carried for a
decade, notice that the TGID and CPU fields are reversed:

                                       _-----=&gt; irqs-off
                                      / _----=&gt; need-resched
                                     | / _---=&gt; hardirq/softirq
                                     || / _--=&gt; preempt-depth
                                     ||| /     delay
            TASK-PID    TGID   CPU   ||||    TIMESTAMP  FUNCTION
               | |        |      |   ||||       |         |
            bash-1091  ( 1091) [002] d..2    64.965177: sched_switch:

From kernel v4.13 onwards, during which TGID was introduced, tracing
with systrace on all Android kernels will break (most Android kernels
have been on 4.9 with Android patches, so this issues hasn't been seen
yet). From v4.13 onwards things will break.

The chrome browser's tracing tools also embed the systrace viewer which
uses the legacy TGID format and updates to that are known to be
difficult to make.

Considering this, I suggest we make this change to the upstream kernel
and backport it to all Android kernels. I believe this feature is merged
recently enough into the upstream kernel that it shouldn't be a problem.
Also logically, IMO it makes more sense to group the TGID with the
TASK-PID and the CPU after these.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180626000822.113931-1-joel@joelfernandes.org

Cc: jreck@google.com
Cc: tkjos@google.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 441dae8f2f29 ("tracing: Add support for display of tgid in trace output")
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) &lt;joel@joelfernandes.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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Currently ftrace displays data in trace output like so:

                                       _-----=&gt; irqs-off
                                      / _----=&gt; need-resched
                                     | / _---=&gt; hardirq/softirq
                                     || / _--=&gt; preempt-depth
                                     ||| /     delay
            TASK-PID   CPU    TGID   ||||    TIMESTAMP  FUNCTION
               | |       |      |    ||||       |         |
            bash-1091  [000] ( 1091) d..2    28.313544: sched_switch:

However Android's trace visualization tools expect a slightly different
format due to an out-of-tree patch patch that was been carried for a
decade, notice that the TGID and CPU fields are reversed:

                                       _-----=&gt; irqs-off
                                      / _----=&gt; need-resched
                                     | / _---=&gt; hardirq/softirq
                                     || / _--=&gt; preempt-depth
                                     ||| /     delay
            TASK-PID    TGID   CPU   ||||    TIMESTAMP  FUNCTION
               | |        |      |   ||||       |         |
            bash-1091  ( 1091) [002] d..2    64.965177: sched_switch:

From kernel v4.13 onwards, during which TGID was introduced, tracing
with systrace on all Android kernels will break (most Android kernels
have been on 4.9 with Android patches, so this issues hasn't been seen
yet). From v4.13 onwards things will break.

The chrome browser's tracing tools also embed the systrace viewer which
uses the legacy TGID format and updates to that are known to be
difficult to make.

Considering this, I suggest we make this change to the upstream kernel
and backport it to all Android kernels. I believe this feature is merged
recently enough into the upstream kernel that it shouldn't be a problem.
Also logically, IMO it makes more sense to group the TGID with the
TASK-PID and the CPU after these.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180626000822.113931-1-joel@joelfernandes.org

Cc: jreck@google.com
Cc: tkjos@google.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 441dae8f2f29 ("tracing: Add support for display of tgid in trace output")
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) &lt;joel@joelfernandes.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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