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<title>linux-stable.git/kernel/trace/trace.c, branch v5.2.1</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<title>tracing/snapshot: Resize spare buffer if size changed</title>
<updated>2019-06-28T18:58:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eiichi Tsukata</name>
<email>devel@etsukata.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-06-25T01:29:10+00:00</published>
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Current snapshot implementation swaps two ring_buffers even though their
sizes are different from each other, that can cause an inconsistency
between the contents of buffer_size_kb file and the current buffer size.

For example:

  # cat buffer_size_kb
  7 (expanded: 1408)
  # echo 1 &gt; events/enable
  # grep bytes per_cpu/cpu0/stats
  bytes: 1441020
  # echo 1 &gt; snapshot             // current:1408, spare:1408
  # echo 123 &gt; buffer_size_kb     // current:123,  spare:1408
  # echo 1 &gt; snapshot             // current:1408, spare:123
  # grep bytes per_cpu/cpu0/stats
  bytes: 1443700
  # cat buffer_size_kb
  123                             // != current:1408

And also, a similar per-cpu case hits the following WARNING:

Reproducer:

  # echo 1 &gt; per_cpu/cpu0/snapshot
  # echo 123 &gt; buffer_size_kb
  # echo 1 &gt; per_cpu/cpu0/snapshot

WARNING:

  WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1946 at kernel/trace/trace.c:1607 update_max_tr_single.part.0+0x2b8/0x380
  Modules linked in:
  CPU: 0 PID: 1946 Comm: bash Not tainted 5.2.0-rc6 #20
  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.12.0-2.fc30 04/01/2014
  RIP: 0010:update_max_tr_single.part.0+0x2b8/0x380
  Code: ff e8 dc da f9 ff 0f 0b e9 88 fe ff ff e8 d0 da f9 ff 44 89 ee bf f5 ff ff ff e8 33 dc f9 ff 41 83 fd f5 74 96 e8 b8 da f9 ff &lt;0f&gt; 0b eb 8d e8 af da f9 ff 0f 0b e9 bf fd ff ff e8 a3 da f9 ff 48
  RSP: 0018:ffff888063e4fca0 EFLAGS: 00010093
  RAX: ffff888066214380 RBX: ffffffff99850fe0 RCX: ffffffff964298a8
  RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00000000fffffff5 RDI: 0000000000000005
  RBP: 1ffff1100c7c9f96 R08: ffff888066214380 R09: ffffed100c7c9f9b
  R10: ffffed100c7c9f9a R11: 0000000000000003 R12: 0000000000000000
  R13: 00000000ffffffea R14: ffff888066214380 R15: ffffffff99851060
  FS:  00007f9f8173c700(0000) GS:ffff88806d000000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
  CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
  CR2: 0000000000714dc0 CR3: 0000000066fa6000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
  Call Trace:
   ? trace_array_printk_buf+0x140/0x140
   ? __mutex_lock_slowpath+0x10/0x10
   tracing_snapshot_write+0x4c8/0x7f0
   ? trace_printk_init_buffers+0x60/0x60
   ? selinux_file_permission+0x3b/0x540
   ? tracer_preempt_off+0x38/0x506
   ? trace_printk_init_buffers+0x60/0x60
   __vfs_write+0x81/0x100
   vfs_write+0x1e1/0x560
   ksys_write+0x126/0x250
   ? __ia32_sys_read+0xb0/0xb0
   ? do_syscall_64+0x1f/0x390
   do_syscall_64+0xc1/0x390
   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe

This patch adds resize_buffer_duplicate_size() to check if there is a
difference between current/spare buffer sizes and resize a spare buffer
if necessary.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190625012910.13109-1-devel@etsukata.com

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: ad909e21bbe69 ("tracing: Add internal tracing_snapshot() functions")
Signed-off-by: Eiichi Tsukata &lt;devel@etsukata.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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Current snapshot implementation swaps two ring_buffers even though their
sizes are different from each other, that can cause an inconsistency
between the contents of buffer_size_kb file and the current buffer size.

For example:

  # cat buffer_size_kb
  7 (expanded: 1408)
  # echo 1 &gt; events/enable
  # grep bytes per_cpu/cpu0/stats
  bytes: 1441020
  # echo 1 &gt; snapshot             // current:1408, spare:1408
  # echo 123 &gt; buffer_size_kb     // current:123,  spare:1408
  # echo 1 &gt; snapshot             // current:1408, spare:123
  # grep bytes per_cpu/cpu0/stats
  bytes: 1443700
  # cat buffer_size_kb
  123                             // != current:1408

And also, a similar per-cpu case hits the following WARNING:

Reproducer:

  # echo 1 &gt; per_cpu/cpu0/snapshot
  # echo 123 &gt; buffer_size_kb
  # echo 1 &gt; per_cpu/cpu0/snapshot

WARNING:

  WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1946 at kernel/trace/trace.c:1607 update_max_tr_single.part.0+0x2b8/0x380
  Modules linked in:
  CPU: 0 PID: 1946 Comm: bash Not tainted 5.2.0-rc6 #20
  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.12.0-2.fc30 04/01/2014
  RIP: 0010:update_max_tr_single.part.0+0x2b8/0x380
  Code: ff e8 dc da f9 ff 0f 0b e9 88 fe ff ff e8 d0 da f9 ff 44 89 ee bf f5 ff ff ff e8 33 dc f9 ff 41 83 fd f5 74 96 e8 b8 da f9 ff &lt;0f&gt; 0b eb 8d e8 af da f9 ff 0f 0b e9 bf fd ff ff e8 a3 da f9 ff 48
  RSP: 0018:ffff888063e4fca0 EFLAGS: 00010093
  RAX: ffff888066214380 RBX: ffffffff99850fe0 RCX: ffffffff964298a8
  RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00000000fffffff5 RDI: 0000000000000005
  RBP: 1ffff1100c7c9f96 R08: ffff888066214380 R09: ffffed100c7c9f9b
  R10: ffffed100c7c9f9a R11: 0000000000000003 R12: 0000000000000000
  R13: 00000000ffffffea R14: ffff888066214380 R15: ffffffff99851060
  FS:  00007f9f8173c700(0000) GS:ffff88806d000000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
  CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
  CR2: 0000000000714dc0 CR3: 0000000066fa6000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
  Call Trace:
   ? trace_array_printk_buf+0x140/0x140
   ? __mutex_lock_slowpath+0x10/0x10
   tracing_snapshot_write+0x4c8/0x7f0
   ? trace_printk_init_buffers+0x60/0x60
   ? selinux_file_permission+0x3b/0x540
   ? tracer_preempt_off+0x38/0x506
   ? trace_printk_init_buffers+0x60/0x60
   __vfs_write+0x81/0x100
   vfs_write+0x1e1/0x560
   ksys_write+0x126/0x250
   ? __ia32_sys_read+0xb0/0xb0
   ? do_syscall_64+0x1f/0x390
   do_syscall_64+0xc1/0x390
   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe

This patch adds resize_buffer_duplicate_size() to check if there is a
difference between current/spare buffer sizes and resize a spare buffer
if necessary.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190625012910.13109-1-devel@etsukata.com

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: ad909e21bbe69 ("tracing: Add internal tracing_snapshot() functions")
Signed-off-by: Eiichi Tsukata &lt;devel@etsukata.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Fix memory leak in tracing_err_log_open()</title>
<updated>2019-06-28T18:57:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Takeshi Misawa</name>
<email>jeliantsurux@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-06-28T10:56:40+00:00</published>
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When tracing_err_log_open() calls seq_open(), allocated memory is not freed.

kmemleak report:

unreferenced object 0xffff92c0781d1100 (size 128):
  comm "tail", pid 15116, jiffies 4295163855 (age 22.704s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    00 f0 08 e5 c0 92 ff ff 00 10 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
  backtrace:
    [&lt;000000000d0687d5&gt;] kmem_cache_alloc+0x11f/0x1e0
    [&lt;000000003e3039a8&gt;] seq_open+0x2f/0x90
    [&lt;000000008dd36b7d&gt;] tracing_err_log_open+0x67/0x140
    [&lt;000000005a431ae2&gt;] do_dentry_open+0x1df/0x3a0
    [&lt;00000000a2910603&gt;] vfs_open+0x2f/0x40
    [&lt;0000000038b0a383&gt;] path_openat+0x2e8/0x1690
    [&lt;00000000fe025bda&gt;] do_filp_open+0x9b/0x110
    [&lt;00000000483a5091&gt;] do_sys_open+0x1ba/0x260
    [&lt;00000000c558b5fd&gt;] __x64_sys_openat+0x20/0x30
    [&lt;000000006881ec07&gt;] do_syscall_64+0x5a/0x130
    [&lt;00000000571c2e94&gt;] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9

Fix this by calling seq_release() in tracing_err_log_fops.release().

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190628105640.GA1863@DESKTOP

Fixes: 8a062902be725 ("tracing: Add tracing error log")
Reviewed-by: Tom Zanussi &lt;zanussi@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Takeshi Misawa &lt;jeliantsurux@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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When tracing_err_log_open() calls seq_open(), allocated memory is not freed.

kmemleak report:

unreferenced object 0xffff92c0781d1100 (size 128):
  comm "tail", pid 15116, jiffies 4295163855 (age 22.704s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    00 f0 08 e5 c0 92 ff ff 00 10 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
  backtrace:
    [&lt;000000000d0687d5&gt;] kmem_cache_alloc+0x11f/0x1e0
    [&lt;000000003e3039a8&gt;] seq_open+0x2f/0x90
    [&lt;000000008dd36b7d&gt;] tracing_err_log_open+0x67/0x140
    [&lt;000000005a431ae2&gt;] do_dentry_open+0x1df/0x3a0
    [&lt;00000000a2910603&gt;] vfs_open+0x2f/0x40
    [&lt;0000000038b0a383&gt;] path_openat+0x2e8/0x1690
    [&lt;00000000fe025bda&gt;] do_filp_open+0x9b/0x110
    [&lt;00000000483a5091&gt;] do_sys_open+0x1ba/0x260
    [&lt;00000000c558b5fd&gt;] __x64_sys_openat+0x20/0x30
    [&lt;000000006881ec07&gt;] do_syscall_64+0x5a/0x130
    [&lt;00000000571c2e94&gt;] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9

Fix this by calling seq_release() in tracing_err_log_fops.release().

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190628105640.GA1863@DESKTOP

Fixes: 8a062902be725 ("tracing: Add tracing error log")
Reviewed-by: Tom Zanussi &lt;zanussi@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Takeshi Misawa &lt;jeliantsurux@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Make two symbols static</title>
<updated>2019-06-14T20:49:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>YueHaibing</name>
<email>yuehaibing@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-06-14T15:32:10+00:00</published>
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Fix sparse warnings:

kernel/trace/trace.c:6927:24: warning:
 symbol 'get_tracing_log_err' was not declared. Should it be static?
kernel/trace/trace.c:8196:15: warning:
 symbol 'trace_instance_dir' was not declared. Should it be static?

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190614153210.24424-1-yuehaibing@huawei.com

Acked-by: Tom Zanussi &lt;tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reported-by: Hulk Robot &lt;hulkci@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: YueHaibing &lt;yuehaibing@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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Fix sparse warnings:

kernel/trace/trace.c:6927:24: warning:
 symbol 'get_tracing_log_err' was not declared. Should it be static?
kernel/trace/trace.c:8196:15: warning:
 symbol 'trace_instance_dir' was not declared. Should it be static?

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190614153210.24424-1-yuehaibing@huawei.com

Acked-by: Tom Zanussi &lt;tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reported-by: Hulk Robot &lt;hulkci@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: YueHaibing &lt;yuehaibing@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Silence GCC 9 array bounds warning</title>
<updated>2019-05-26T03:04:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Miguel Ojeda</name>
<email>miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-23T12:45:35+00:00</published>
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Starting with GCC 9, -Warray-bounds detects cases when memset is called
starting on a member of a struct but the size to be cleared ends up
writing over further members.

Such a call happens in the trace code to clear, at once, all members
after and including `seq` on struct trace_iterator:

    In function 'memset',
        inlined from 'ftrace_dump' at kernel/trace/trace.c:8914:3:
    ./include/linux/string.h:344:9: warning: '__builtin_memset' offset
    [8505, 8560] from the object at 'iter' is out of the bounds of
    referenced subobject 'seq' with type 'struct trace_seq' at offset
    4368 [-Warray-bounds]
      344 |  return __builtin_memset(p, c, size);
          |         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

In order to avoid GCC complaining about it, we compute the address
ourselves by adding the offsetof distance instead of referring
directly to the member.

Since there are two places doing this clear (trace.c and trace_kdb.c),
take the chance to move the workaround into a single place in
the internal header.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190523124535.GA12931@gmail.com

Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com&gt;
[ Removed unnecessary parenthesis around "iter" ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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Starting with GCC 9, -Warray-bounds detects cases when memset is called
starting on a member of a struct but the size to be cleared ends up
writing over further members.

Such a call happens in the trace code to clear, at once, all members
after and including `seq` on struct trace_iterator:

    In function 'memset',
        inlined from 'ftrace_dump' at kernel/trace/trace.c:8914:3:
    ./include/linux/string.h:344:9: warning: '__builtin_memset' offset
    [8505, 8560] from the object at 'iter' is out of the bounds of
    referenced subobject 'seq' with type 'struct trace_seq' at offset
    4368 [-Warray-bounds]
      344 |  return __builtin_memset(p, c, size);
          |         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

In order to avoid GCC complaining about it, we compute the address
ourselves by adding the offsetof distance instead of referring
directly to the member.

Since there are two places doing this clear (trace.c and trace_kdb.c),
take the chance to move the workaround into a single place in
the internal header.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190523124535.GA12931@gmail.com

Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com&gt;
[ Removed unnecessary parenthesis around "iter" ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'trace-v5.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2019-05-15T23:05:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-15T23:05:47+00:00</published>
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Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
 "The major changes in this tracing update includes:

   - Removal of non-DYNAMIC_FTRACE from 32bit x86

   - Removal of mcount support from x86

   - Emulating a call from int3 on x86_64, fixes live kernel patching

   - Consolidated Tracing Error logs file

  Minor updates:

   - Removal of klp_check_compiler_support()

   - kdb ftrace dumping output changes

   - Accessing and creating ftrace instances from inside the kernel

   - Clean up of #define if macro

   - Introduction of TRACE_EVENT_NOP() to disable trace events based on
     config options

  And other minor fixes and clean ups"

* tag 'trace-v5.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (44 commits)
  x86: Hide the int3_emulate_call/jmp functions from UML
  livepatch: Remove klp_check_compiler_support()
  ftrace/x86: Remove mcount support
  ftrace/x86_32: Remove support for non DYNAMIC_FTRACE
  tracing: Simplify "if" macro code
  tracing: Fix documentation about disabling options using trace_options
  tracing: Replace kzalloc with kcalloc
  tracing: Fix partial reading of trace event's id file
  tracing: Allow RCU to run between postponed startup tests
  tracing: Fix white space issues in parse_pred() function
  tracing: Eliminate const char[] auto variables
  ring-buffer: Fix mispelling of Calculate
  tracing: probeevent: Fix to make the type of $comm string
  tracing: probeevent: Do not accumulate on ret variable
  tracing: uprobes: Re-enable $comm support for uprobe events
  ftrace/x86_64: Emulate call function while updating in breakpoint handler
  x86_64: Allow breakpoints to emulate call instructions
  x86_64: Add gap to int3 to allow for call emulation
  tracing: kdb: Allow ftdump to skip all but the last few entries
  tracing: Add trace_total_entries() / trace_total_entries_cpu()
  ...
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<pre>
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
 "The major changes in this tracing update includes:

   - Removal of non-DYNAMIC_FTRACE from 32bit x86

   - Removal of mcount support from x86

   - Emulating a call from int3 on x86_64, fixes live kernel patching

   - Consolidated Tracing Error logs file

  Minor updates:

   - Removal of klp_check_compiler_support()

   - kdb ftrace dumping output changes

   - Accessing and creating ftrace instances from inside the kernel

   - Clean up of #define if macro

   - Introduction of TRACE_EVENT_NOP() to disable trace events based on
     config options

  And other minor fixes and clean ups"

* tag 'trace-v5.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (44 commits)
  x86: Hide the int3_emulate_call/jmp functions from UML
  livepatch: Remove klp_check_compiler_support()
  ftrace/x86: Remove mcount support
  ftrace/x86_32: Remove support for non DYNAMIC_FTRACE
  tracing: Simplify "if" macro code
  tracing: Fix documentation about disabling options using trace_options
  tracing: Replace kzalloc with kcalloc
  tracing: Fix partial reading of trace event's id file
  tracing: Allow RCU to run between postponed startup tests
  tracing: Fix white space issues in parse_pred() function
  tracing: Eliminate const char[] auto variables
  ring-buffer: Fix mispelling of Calculate
  tracing: probeevent: Fix to make the type of $comm string
  tracing: probeevent: Do not accumulate on ret variable
  tracing: uprobes: Re-enable $comm support for uprobe events
  ftrace/x86_64: Emulate call function while updating in breakpoint handler
  x86_64: Allow breakpoints to emulate call instructions
  x86_64: Add gap to int3 to allow for call emulation
  tracing: kdb: Allow ftdump to skip all but the last few entries
  tracing: Add trace_total_entries() / trace_total_entries_cpu()
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Fix documentation about disabling options using trace_options</title>
<updated>2019-05-08T16:15:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Srivatsa S. Bhat (VMware)</name>
<email>srivatsa@csail.mit.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2019-01-29T01:55:53+00:00</published>
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To disable a tracing option using the trace_options file, the option
name needs to be prefixed with 'no', and not suffixed, as the README
states. Fix it.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/154872690031.47356.5739053380942044586.stgit@srivatsa-ubuntu

Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat (VMware) &lt;srivatsa@csail.mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<pre>
To disable a tracing option using the trace_options file, the option
name needs to be prefixed with 'no', and not suffixed, as the README
states. Fix it.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/154872690031.47356.5739053380942044586.stgit@srivatsa-ubuntu

Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat (VMware) &lt;srivatsa@csail.mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Allow RCU to run between postponed startup tests</title>
<updated>2019-05-08T16:15:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anders Roxell</name>
<email>anders.roxell@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-11-30T14:56:22+00:00</published>
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When building a allmodconfig kernel for arm64 and boot that in qemu,
CONFIG_FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST gets enabled and that takes time so the
watchdog expires and prints out a message like this:
'watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 22s! [swapper/0:1]'
Depending on what the what test gets called from init_trace_selftests()
it stays minutes in the loop.
Rework so that function cond_resched() gets called in the
init_trace_selftests loop.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181130145622.26334-1-anders.roxell@linaro.org

Co-developed-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Anders Roxell &lt;anders.roxell@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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When building a allmodconfig kernel for arm64 and boot that in qemu,
CONFIG_FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST gets enabled and that takes time so the
watchdog expires and prints out a message like this:
'watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 22s! [swapper/0:1]'
Depending on what the what test gets called from init_trace_selftests()
it stays minutes in the loop.
Rework so that function cond_resched() gets called in the
init_trace_selftests loop.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181130145622.26334-1-anders.roxell@linaro.org

Co-developed-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Anders Roxell &lt;anders.roxell@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Eliminate const char[] auto variables</title>
<updated>2019-05-08T16:15:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rasmus Villemoes</name>
<email>linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk</email>
</author>
<published>2019-03-20T08:17:57+00:00</published>
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Automatic const char[] variables cause unnecessary code
generation. For example, the this_mod variable leads to

    3f04:       48 b8 5f 5f 74 68 69 73 5f 6d   movabs $0x6d5f736968745f5f,%rax # __this_m
    3f0e:       4c 8d 44 24 02                  lea    0x2(%rsp),%r8
    3f13:       48 8d 7c 24 10                  lea    0x10(%rsp),%rdi
    3f18:       48 89 44 24 02                  mov    %rax,0x2(%rsp)
    3f1d:       4c 89 e9                        mov    %r13,%rcx
    3f20:       b8 65 00 00 00                  mov    $0x65,%eax # e
    3f25:       48 c7 c2 00 00 00 00            mov    $0x0,%rdx
                        3f28: R_X86_64_32S      .rodata.str1.1+0x18d
    3f2c:       be 48 00 00 00                  mov    $0x48,%esi
    3f31:       c7 44 24 0a 6f 64 75 6c         movl   $0x6c75646f,0xa(%rsp) # odul
    3f39:       66 89 44 24 0e                  mov    %ax,0xe(%rsp)

i.e., the string gets built on the stack at runtime. Similar code can be
found for the other instances I'm replacing here. Putting the string
in .rodata reduces the combined .text+.rodata size and saves time and
stack space at runtime.

The simplest fix, and what I've done for the this_mod case, is to just
make the variable static.

However, for the "&lt;faulted&gt;" case where the same string is used twice,
that prevents the linker from merging those two literals, so instead use
a macro - that also keeps the two instances automatically in
sync (instead of only the compile-time strlen expression).

Finally, for the two runs of spaces, it turns out that the "build
these strings on the stack" is not the worst part of what gcc does -
it turns print_func_help_header_irq() into "if (tgid) { /*
print_event_info + five seq_printf calls */ } else { /* print
event_info + another five seq_printf */}". Taking inspiration from a
suggestion from Al Viro, use %.*s to make snprintf either stop after
the first two spaces or print the whole string. As a bonus, the
seq_printfs now fit on single lines (at least, they are not longer
than the existing ones in the function just above), making it easier
to see that the ascii art lines up.

x86-64 defconfig + CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER:

$ scripts/stackdelta /tmp/stackusage.{0,1}
./kernel/trace/ftrace.c ftrace_mod_callback     152     136     -16
./kernel/trace/trace.c  trace_default_header    56      32      -24
./kernel/trace/trace.c  tracing_mark_raw_write  96      72      -24
./kernel/trace/trace.c  tracing_mark_write      104     80      -24

bloat-o-meter

add/remove: 1/0 grow/shrink: 0/4 up/down: 14/-375 (-361)
Function                                     old     new   delta
this_mod                                       -      14     +14
ftrace_mod_callback                          577     542     -35
tracing_mark_raw_write                       444     374     -70
tracing_mark_write                           616     540     -76
trace_default_header                         600     406    -194

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190320081757.6037-1-linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk

Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes &lt;linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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Automatic const char[] variables cause unnecessary code
generation. For example, the this_mod variable leads to

    3f04:       48 b8 5f 5f 74 68 69 73 5f 6d   movabs $0x6d5f736968745f5f,%rax # __this_m
    3f0e:       4c 8d 44 24 02                  lea    0x2(%rsp),%r8
    3f13:       48 8d 7c 24 10                  lea    0x10(%rsp),%rdi
    3f18:       48 89 44 24 02                  mov    %rax,0x2(%rsp)
    3f1d:       4c 89 e9                        mov    %r13,%rcx
    3f20:       b8 65 00 00 00                  mov    $0x65,%eax # e
    3f25:       48 c7 c2 00 00 00 00            mov    $0x0,%rdx
                        3f28: R_X86_64_32S      .rodata.str1.1+0x18d
    3f2c:       be 48 00 00 00                  mov    $0x48,%esi
    3f31:       c7 44 24 0a 6f 64 75 6c         movl   $0x6c75646f,0xa(%rsp) # odul
    3f39:       66 89 44 24 0e                  mov    %ax,0xe(%rsp)

i.e., the string gets built on the stack at runtime. Similar code can be
found for the other instances I'm replacing here. Putting the string
in .rodata reduces the combined .text+.rodata size and saves time and
stack space at runtime.

The simplest fix, and what I've done for the this_mod case, is to just
make the variable static.

However, for the "&lt;faulted&gt;" case where the same string is used twice,
that prevents the linker from merging those two literals, so instead use
a macro - that also keeps the two instances automatically in
sync (instead of only the compile-time strlen expression).

Finally, for the two runs of spaces, it turns out that the "build
these strings on the stack" is not the worst part of what gcc does -
it turns print_func_help_header_irq() into "if (tgid) { /*
print_event_info + five seq_printf calls */ } else { /* print
event_info + another five seq_printf */}". Taking inspiration from a
suggestion from Al Viro, use %.*s to make snprintf either stop after
the first two spaces or print the whole string. As a bonus, the
seq_printfs now fit on single lines (at least, they are not longer
than the existing ones in the function just above), making it easier
to see that the ascii art lines up.

x86-64 defconfig + CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER:

$ scripts/stackdelta /tmp/stackusage.{0,1}
./kernel/trace/ftrace.c ftrace_mod_callback     152     136     -16
./kernel/trace/trace.c  trace_default_header    56      32      -24
./kernel/trace/trace.c  tracing_mark_raw_write  96      72      -24
./kernel/trace/trace.c  tracing_mark_write      104     80      -24

bloat-o-meter

add/remove: 1/0 grow/shrink: 0/4 up/down: 14/-375 (-361)
Function                                     old     new   delta
this_mod                                       -      14     +14
ftrace_mod_callback                          577     542     -35
tracing_mark_raw_write                       444     374     -70
tracing_mark_write                           616     540     -76
trace_default_header                         600     406    -194

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190320081757.6037-1-linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk

Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes &lt;linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'core-stacktrace-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2019-05-06T20:11:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-06T20:11:48+00:00</published>
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Pull stack trace updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "So Thomas looked at the stacktrace code recently and noticed a few
  weirdnesses, and we all know how such stories of crummy kernel code
  meeting German engineering perfection end: a 45-patch series to clean
  it all up! :-)

  Here's the changes in Thomas's words:

   'Struct stack_trace is a sinkhole for input and output parameters
    which is largely pointless for most usage sites. In fact if embedded
    into other data structures it creates indirections and extra storage
    overhead for no benefit.

    Looking at all usage sites makes it clear that they just require an
    interface which is based on a storage array. That array is either on
    stack, global or embedded into some other data structure.

    Some of the stack depot usage sites are outright wrong, but
    fortunately the wrongness just causes more stack being used for
    nothing and does not have functional impact.

    Another oddity is the inconsistent termination of the stack trace
    with ULONG_MAX. It's pointless as the number of entries is what
    determines the length of the stored trace. In fact quite some call
    sites remove the ULONG_MAX marker afterwards with or without nasty
    comments about it. Not all architectures do that and those which do,
    do it inconsistenly either conditional on nr_entries == 0 or
    unconditionally.

    The following series cleans that up by:

      1) Removing the ULONG_MAX termination in the architecture code

      2) Removing the ULONG_MAX fixups at the call sites

      3) Providing plain storage array based interfaces for stacktrace
         and stackdepot.

      4) Cleaning up the mess at the callsites including some related
         cleanups.

      5) Removing the struct stack_trace based interfaces

    This is not changing the struct stack_trace interfaces at the
    architecture level, but it removes the exposure to the generic
    code'"

* 'core-stacktrace-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (45 commits)
  x86/stacktrace: Use common infrastructure
  stacktrace: Provide common infrastructure
  lib/stackdepot: Remove obsolete functions
  stacktrace: Remove obsolete functions
  livepatch: Simplify stack trace retrieval
  tracing: Remove the last struct stack_trace usage
  tracing: Simplify stack trace retrieval
  tracing: Make ftrace_trace_userstack() static and conditional
  tracing: Use percpu stack trace buffer more intelligently
  tracing: Simplify stacktrace retrieval in histograms
  lockdep: Simplify stack trace handling
  lockdep: Remove save argument from check_prev_add()
  lockdep: Remove unused trace argument from print_circular_bug()
  drm: Simplify stacktrace handling
  dm persistent data: Simplify stack trace handling
  dm bufio: Simplify stack trace retrieval
  btrfs: ref-verify: Simplify stack trace retrieval
  dma/debug: Simplify stracktrace retrieval
  fault-inject: Simplify stacktrace retrieval
  mm/page_owner: Simplify stack trace handling
  ...
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Pull stack trace updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "So Thomas looked at the stacktrace code recently and noticed a few
  weirdnesses, and we all know how such stories of crummy kernel code
  meeting German engineering perfection end: a 45-patch series to clean
  it all up! :-)

  Here's the changes in Thomas's words:

   'Struct stack_trace is a sinkhole for input and output parameters
    which is largely pointless for most usage sites. In fact if embedded
    into other data structures it creates indirections and extra storage
    overhead for no benefit.

    Looking at all usage sites makes it clear that they just require an
    interface which is based on a storage array. That array is either on
    stack, global or embedded into some other data structure.

    Some of the stack depot usage sites are outright wrong, but
    fortunately the wrongness just causes more stack being used for
    nothing and does not have functional impact.

    Another oddity is the inconsistent termination of the stack trace
    with ULONG_MAX. It's pointless as the number of entries is what
    determines the length of the stored trace. In fact quite some call
    sites remove the ULONG_MAX marker afterwards with or without nasty
    comments about it. Not all architectures do that and those which do,
    do it inconsistenly either conditional on nr_entries == 0 or
    unconditionally.

    The following series cleans that up by:

      1) Removing the ULONG_MAX termination in the architecture code

      2) Removing the ULONG_MAX fixups at the call sites

      3) Providing plain storage array based interfaces for stacktrace
         and stackdepot.

      4) Cleaning up the mess at the callsites including some related
         cleanups.

      5) Removing the struct stack_trace based interfaces

    This is not changing the struct stack_trace interfaces at the
    architecture level, but it removes the exposure to the generic
    code'"

* 'core-stacktrace-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (45 commits)
  x86/stacktrace: Use common infrastructure
  stacktrace: Provide common infrastructure
  lib/stackdepot: Remove obsolete functions
  stacktrace: Remove obsolete functions
  livepatch: Simplify stack trace retrieval
  tracing: Remove the last struct stack_trace usage
  tracing: Simplify stack trace retrieval
  tracing: Make ftrace_trace_userstack() static and conditional
  tracing: Use percpu stack trace buffer more intelligently
  tracing: Simplify stacktrace retrieval in histograms
  lockdep: Simplify stack trace handling
  lockdep: Remove save argument from check_prev_add()
  lockdep: Remove unused trace argument from print_circular_bug()
  drm: Simplify stacktrace handling
  dm persistent data: Simplify stack trace handling
  dm bufio: Simplify stack trace retrieval
  btrfs: ref-verify: Simplify stack trace retrieval
  dma/debug: Simplify stracktrace retrieval
  fault-inject: Simplify stacktrace retrieval
  mm/page_owner: Simplify stack trace handling
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Add trace_total_entries() / trace_total_entries_cpu()</title>
<updated>2019-05-03T01:32:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Douglas Anderson</name>
<email>dianders@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-03-19T17:12:05+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
These two new exported functions will be used in a future patch by
kdb_ftdump() to quickly skip all but the last few trace entries.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190319171206.97107-2-dianders@chromium.org

Acked-by: Daniel Thompson &lt;daniel.thompson@linaro.org&gt;
Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson &lt;dianders@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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These two new exported functions will be used in a future patch by
kdb_ftdump() to quickly skip all but the last few trace entries.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190319171206.97107-2-dianders@chromium.org

Acked-by: Daniel Thompson &lt;daniel.thompson@linaro.org&gt;
Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson &lt;dianders@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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