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<title>linux-stable.git/kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c, branch v5.16.2</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>tracing/histograms: String compares should not care about signed values</title>
<updated>2021-12-02T02:04:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (VMware)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-30T17:31:23+00:00</published>
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When comparing two strings for the "onmatch" histogram trigger, fields
that are strings use string comparisons, which do not care about being
signed or not.

Do not fail to match two string fields if one is unsigned char array and
the other is a signed char array.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20211129123043.5cfd687a@gandalf.local.home/

Cc: stable@vgerk.kernel.org
Cc: Tom Zanussi &lt;zanussi@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Yafang Shao &lt;laoar.shao@gmail.com&gt;
Fixes: b05e89ae7cf3b ("tracing: Accept different type for synthetic event fields")
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramatsu@kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: Sven Schnelle &lt;svens@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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When comparing two strings for the "onmatch" histogram trigger, fields
that are strings use string comparisons, which do not care about being
signed or not.

Do not fail to match two string fields if one is unsigned char array and
the other is a signed char array.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20211129123043.5cfd687a@gandalf.local.home/

Cc: stable@vgerk.kernel.org
Cc: Tom Zanussi &lt;zanussi@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Yafang Shao &lt;laoar.shao@gmail.com&gt;
Fixes: b05e89ae7cf3b ("tracing: Accept different type for synthetic event fields")
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramatsu@kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: Sven Schnelle &lt;svens@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tracing/histogram: Fix UAF in destroy_hist_field()</title>
<updated>2021-11-18T18:53:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kalesh Singh</name>
<email>kaleshsingh@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-18T01:15:42+00:00</published>
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Calling destroy_hist_field() on an expression will recursively free
any operands associated with the expression. If during expression
parsing the operands of the expression are already set when an error
is encountered, there is no need to explicity free the operands. Doing
so will result in destroy_hist_field() being called twice for the
operands and lead to a use-after-free (UAF) error.

If the operands are associated with the expression, only call
destroy_hist_field() on the expression since the operands will be
recursively freed.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wgcrEbFgkw9720H3tW-AhHOoEKhYwZinYJw4FpzSaJ6_Q@mail.gmail.com/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211118011542.1420131-1-kaleshsingh@google.com

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kalesh Singh &lt;kaleshsingh@google.com&gt;
Fixes: 8b5d46fd7a38 ("tracing/histogram: Optimize division by constants")
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;oliver.sang@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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Calling destroy_hist_field() on an expression will recursively free
any operands associated with the expression. If during expression
parsing the operands of the expression are already set when an error
is encountered, there is no need to explicity free the operands. Doing
so will result in destroy_hist_field() being called twice for the
operands and lead to a use-after-free (UAF) error.

If the operands are associated with the expression, only call
destroy_hist_field() on the expression since the operands will be
recursively freed.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wgcrEbFgkw9720H3tW-AhHOoEKhYwZinYJw4FpzSaJ6_Q@mail.gmail.com/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211118011542.1420131-1-kaleshsingh@google.com

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kalesh Singh &lt;kaleshsingh@google.com&gt;
Fixes: 8b5d46fd7a38 ("tracing/histogram: Optimize division by constants")
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;oliver.sang@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'trace-v5.16-5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2021-11-15T03:07:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-15T03:07:19+00:00</published>
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Pull tracing fix from Steven Rostedt:
 "Update to tracing histogram variable string copy

  A fix to only copy the size of the field to the histogram string did
  not take into account that the size can be larger than the storage"

* tag 'trace-v5.16-5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
  tracing: Add length protection to histogram string copies
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<pre>
Pull tracing fix from Steven Rostedt:
 "Update to tracing histogram variable string copy

  A fix to only copy the size of the field to the histogram string did
  not take into account that the size can be larger than the storage"

* tag 'trace-v5.16-5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
  tracing: Add length protection to histogram string copies
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<entry>
<title>tracing: Add length protection to histogram string copies</title>
<updated>2021-11-15T02:21:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (VMware)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-14T18:28:34+00:00</published>
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The string copies to the histogram storage has a max size of 256 bytes
(defined by MAX_FILTER_STR_VAL). Only the string size of the event field
needs to be copied to the event storage, but no more than what is in the
event storage. Although nothing should be bigger than 256 bytes, there's
no protection against overwriting of the storage if one day there is.

Copy no more than the destination size, and enforce it.

Also had to turn MAX_FILTER_STR_VAL into an unsigned int, to keep the
min() comparison of the string sizes of comparable types.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wjREUihCGrtRBwfX47y_KrLCGjiq3t6QtoNJpmVrAEb1w@mail.gmail.com/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211114132834.183429a4@rorschach.local.home

Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Tom Zanussi &lt;zanussi@kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: 63f84ae6b82b ("tracing/histogram: Do not copy the fixed-size char array field over the field size")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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The string copies to the histogram storage has a max size of 256 bytes
(defined by MAX_FILTER_STR_VAL). Only the string size of the event field
needs to be copied to the event storage, but no more than what is in the
event storage. Although nothing should be bigger than 256 bytes, there's
no protection against overwriting of the storage if one day there is.

Copy no more than the destination size, and enforce it.

Also had to turn MAX_FILTER_STR_VAL into an unsigned int, to keep the
min() comparison of the string sizes of comparable types.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wjREUihCGrtRBwfX47y_KrLCGjiq3t6QtoNJpmVrAEb1w@mail.gmail.com/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211114132834.183429a4@rorschach.local.home

Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Tom Zanussi &lt;zanussi@kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: 63f84ae6b82b ("tracing/histogram: Do not copy the fixed-size char array field over the field size")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'trace-v5.16-4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2021-11-13T18:11:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-13T18:11:51+00:00</published>
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Pull tracing fixes from Steven Rostedt:
 "Three tracing fixes:

   - Make local osnoise_instances static

   - Copy just actual size of histogram strings

   - Properly check missing operands in histogram expressions"

* tag 'trace-v5.16-4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
  tracing/histogram: Fix check for missing operands in an expression
  tracing/histogram: Do not copy the fixed-size char array field over the field size
  tracing/osnoise: Make osnoise_instances static
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<pre>
Pull tracing fixes from Steven Rostedt:
 "Three tracing fixes:

   - Make local osnoise_instances static

   - Copy just actual size of histogram strings

   - Properly check missing operands in histogram expressions"

* tag 'trace-v5.16-4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
  tracing/histogram: Fix check for missing operands in an expression
  tracing/histogram: Do not copy the fixed-size char array field over the field size
  tracing/osnoise: Make osnoise_instances static
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing/histogram: Fix check for missing operands in an expression</title>
<updated>2021-11-12T20:55:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kalesh Singh</name>
<email>kaleshsingh@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-12T19:13:24+00:00</published>
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If a binary operation is detected while parsing an expression string,
the operand strings are deduced by splitting the experssion string at
the position of the detected binary operator. Both operand strings are
sub-strings (can be empty string) of the expression string but will
never be NULL.

Currently a NULL check is used for missing operands, fix this by
checking for empty strings instead.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211112191324.1302505-1-kaleshsingh@google.com

Signed-off-by: Kalesh Singh &lt;kaleshsingh@google.com&gt;
Fixes: 9710b2f341a0 ("tracing: Fix operator precedence for hist triggers expression")
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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If a binary operation is detected while parsing an expression string,
the operand strings are deduced by splitting the experssion string at
the position of the detected binary operator. Both operand strings are
sub-strings (can be empty string) of the expression string but will
never be NULL.

Currently a NULL check is used for missing operands, fix this by
checking for empty strings instead.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211112191324.1302505-1-kaleshsingh@google.com

Signed-off-by: Kalesh Singh &lt;kaleshsingh@google.com&gt;
Fixes: 9710b2f341a0 ("tracing: Fix operator precedence for hist triggers expression")
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing/histogram: Do not copy the fixed-size char array field over the field size</title>
<updated>2021-11-12T20:48:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masami Hiramatsu</name>
<email>mhiramat@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-12T16:02:08+00:00</published>
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Do not copy the fixed-size char array field of the events over
the field size. The histogram treats char array as a string and
there are 2 types of char array in the event, fixed-size and
dynamic string. The dynamic string (__data_loc) field must be
null terminated, but the fixed-size char array field may not
be null terminated (not a string, but just a data).
In that case, histogram can copy the data after the field.
This uses the original field size for fixed-size char array
field to restrict the histogram not to access over the original
field size.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/163673292822.195747.3696966210526410250.stgit@devnote2

Fixes: 02205a6752f2 (tracing: Add support for 'field variables')
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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Do not copy the fixed-size char array field of the events over
the field size. The histogram treats char array as a string and
there are 2 types of char array in the event, fixed-size and
dynamic string. The dynamic string (__data_loc) field must be
null terminated, but the fixed-size char array field may not
be null terminated (not a string, but just a data).
In that case, histogram can copy the data after the field.
This uses the original field size for fixed-size char array
field to restrict the histogram not to access over the original
field size.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/163673292822.195747.3696966210526410250.stgit@devnote2

Fixes: 02205a6752f2 (tracing: Add support for 'field variables')
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'trace-v5.16-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2021-11-03T16:08:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-03T16:08:47+00:00</published>
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Pull more tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:

 - osnoise and timerlat updates that will work with the RTLA tool
   (Real-Time Linux Analysis).

   Specifically it disconnects the work load (threads that look for
   latency) from the tracing instances attached to them, allowing for
   more than one instance to retrieve data from the work load.

 - Optimization on division in the trace histogram trigger code to use
   shift and multiply when possible. Also added documentation.

 - Fix prototype to my_direct_func in direct ftrace trampoline sample
   code.

* tag 'trace-v5.16-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
  ftrace/samples: Add missing prototype for my_direct_func
  tracing/selftests: Add tests for hist trigger expression parsing
  tracing/histogram: Document hist trigger variables
  tracing/histogram: Update division by 0 documentation
  tracing/histogram: Optimize division by constants
  tracing/osnoise: Remove PREEMPT_RT ifdefs from inside functions
  tracing/osnoise: Remove STACKTRACE ifdefs from inside functions
  tracing/osnoise: Allow multiple instances of the same tracer
  tracing/osnoise: Remove TIMERLAT ifdefs from inside functions
  tracing/osnoise: Support a list of trace_array *tr
  tracing/osnoise: Use start/stop_per_cpu_kthreads() on osnoise_cpus_write()
  tracing/osnoise: Split workload start from the tracer start
  tracing/osnoise: Improve comments about barrier need for NMI callbacks
  tracing/osnoise: Do not follow tracing_cpumask
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<pre>
Pull more tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:

 - osnoise and timerlat updates that will work with the RTLA tool
   (Real-Time Linux Analysis).

   Specifically it disconnects the work load (threads that look for
   latency) from the tracing instances attached to them, allowing for
   more than one instance to retrieve data from the work load.

 - Optimization on division in the trace histogram trigger code to use
   shift and multiply when possible. Also added documentation.

 - Fix prototype to my_direct_func in direct ftrace trampoline sample
   code.

* tag 'trace-v5.16-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
  ftrace/samples: Add missing prototype for my_direct_func
  tracing/selftests: Add tests for hist trigger expression parsing
  tracing/histogram: Document hist trigger variables
  tracing/histogram: Update division by 0 documentation
  tracing/histogram: Optimize division by constants
  tracing/osnoise: Remove PREEMPT_RT ifdefs from inside functions
  tracing/osnoise: Remove STACKTRACE ifdefs from inside functions
  tracing/osnoise: Allow multiple instances of the same tracer
  tracing/osnoise: Remove TIMERLAT ifdefs from inside functions
  tracing/osnoise: Support a list of trace_array *tr
  tracing/osnoise: Use start/stop_per_cpu_kthreads() on osnoise_cpus_write()
  tracing/osnoise: Split workload start from the tracer start
  tracing/osnoise: Improve comments about barrier need for NMI callbacks
  tracing/osnoise: Do not follow tracing_cpumask
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'trace-v5.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2021-11-02T03:05:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-02T03:05:19+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:

 - kprobes: Restructured stack unwinder to show properly on x86 when a
   stack dump happens from a kretprobe callback.

 - Fix to bootconfig parsing

 - Have tracefs allow owner and group permissions by default (only
   denying others). There's been pressure to allow non root to tracefs
   in a controlled fashion, and using groups is probably the safest.

 - Bootconfig memory managament updates.

 - Bootconfig clean up to have the tools directory be less dependent on
   changes in the kernel tree.

 - Allow perf to be traced by function tracer.

 - Rewrite of function graph tracer to be a callback from the function
   tracer instead of having its own trampoline (this change will happen
   on an arch by arch basis, and currently only x86_64 implements it).

 - Allow multiple direct trampolines (bpf hooks to functions) be batched
   together in one synchronization.

 - Allow histogram triggers to add variables that can perform
   calculations against the event's fields.

 - Use the linker to determine architecture callbacks from the ftrace
   trampoline to allow for proper parameter prototypes and prevent
   warnings from the compiler.

 - Extend histogram triggers to key off of variables.

 - Have trace recursion use bit magic to determine preempt context over
   if branches.

 - Have trace recursion disable preemption as all use cases do anyway.

 - Added testing for verification of tracing utilities.

 - Various small clean ups and fixes.

* tag 'trace-v5.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (101 commits)
  tracing/histogram: Fix semicolon.cocci warnings
  tracing/histogram: Fix documentation inline emphasis warning
  tracing: Increase PERF_MAX_TRACE_SIZE to handle Sentinel1 and docker together
  tracing: Show size of requested perf buffer
  bootconfig: Initialize ret in xbc_parse_tree()
  ftrace: do CPU checking after preemption disabled
  ftrace: disable preemption when recursion locked
  tracing/histogram: Document expression arithmetic and constants
  tracing/histogram: Optimize division by a power of 2
  tracing/histogram: Covert expr to const if both operands are constants
  tracing/histogram: Simplify handling of .sym-offset in expressions
  tracing: Fix operator precedence for hist triggers expression
  tracing: Add division and multiplication support for hist triggers
  tracing: Add support for creating hist trigger variables from literal
  selftests/ftrace: Stop tracing while reading the trace file by default
  MAINTAINERS: Update KPROBES and TRACING entries
  test_kprobes: Move it from kernel/ to lib/
  docs, kprobes: Remove invalid URL and add new reference
  samples/kretprobes: Fix return value if register_kretprobe() failed
  lib/bootconfig: Fix the xbc_get_info kerneldoc
  ...
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Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:

 - kprobes: Restructured stack unwinder to show properly on x86 when a
   stack dump happens from a kretprobe callback.

 - Fix to bootconfig parsing

 - Have tracefs allow owner and group permissions by default (only
   denying others). There's been pressure to allow non root to tracefs
   in a controlled fashion, and using groups is probably the safest.

 - Bootconfig memory managament updates.

 - Bootconfig clean up to have the tools directory be less dependent on
   changes in the kernel tree.

 - Allow perf to be traced by function tracer.

 - Rewrite of function graph tracer to be a callback from the function
   tracer instead of having its own trampoline (this change will happen
   on an arch by arch basis, and currently only x86_64 implements it).

 - Allow multiple direct trampolines (bpf hooks to functions) be batched
   together in one synchronization.

 - Allow histogram triggers to add variables that can perform
   calculations against the event's fields.

 - Use the linker to determine architecture callbacks from the ftrace
   trampoline to allow for proper parameter prototypes and prevent
   warnings from the compiler.

 - Extend histogram triggers to key off of variables.

 - Have trace recursion use bit magic to determine preempt context over
   if branches.

 - Have trace recursion disable preemption as all use cases do anyway.

 - Added testing for verification of tracing utilities.

 - Various small clean ups and fixes.

* tag 'trace-v5.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (101 commits)
  tracing/histogram: Fix semicolon.cocci warnings
  tracing/histogram: Fix documentation inline emphasis warning
  tracing: Increase PERF_MAX_TRACE_SIZE to handle Sentinel1 and docker together
  tracing: Show size of requested perf buffer
  bootconfig: Initialize ret in xbc_parse_tree()
  ftrace: do CPU checking after preemption disabled
  ftrace: disable preemption when recursion locked
  tracing/histogram: Document expression arithmetic and constants
  tracing/histogram: Optimize division by a power of 2
  tracing/histogram: Covert expr to const if both operands are constants
  tracing/histogram: Simplify handling of .sym-offset in expressions
  tracing: Fix operator precedence for hist triggers expression
  tracing: Add division and multiplication support for hist triggers
  tracing: Add support for creating hist trigger variables from literal
  selftests/ftrace: Stop tracing while reading the trace file by default
  MAINTAINERS: Update KPROBES and TRACING entries
  test_kprobes: Move it from kernel/ to lib/
  docs, kprobes: Remove invalid URL and add new reference
  samples/kretprobes: Fix return value if register_kretprobe() failed
  lib/bootconfig: Fix the xbc_get_info kerneldoc
  ...
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<title>tracing/histogram: Optimize division by constants</title>
<updated>2021-11-02T00:45:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kalesh Singh</name>
<email>kaleshsingh@google.com</email>
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<published>2021-10-29T23:24:10+00:00</published>
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If the divisor is a constant use specific division functions to
avoid extra branches when the trigger is hit.

If the divisor constant but not a power of 2, the division can be
replaced with a multiplication and shift in the following case:

Let X = dividend and Y = divisor.

Choose Z = some power of 2. If Y &lt;= Z, then:
    X / Y = (X * (Z / Y)) / Z

(Z / Y) is a constant (mult) which is calculated at parse time, so:
    X / Y = (X * mult) / Z

The division by Z can be replaced by a shift since Z is a power of 2:
    X / Y = (X * mult) &gt;&gt; shift

As long, as X &lt; Z the results will not be off by more than 1.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211029232410.3494196-1-kaleshsingh@google.com

Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kalesh Singh &lt;kaleshsingh@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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If the divisor is a constant use specific division functions to
avoid extra branches when the trigger is hit.

If the divisor constant but not a power of 2, the division can be
replaced with a multiplication and shift in the following case:

Let X = dividend and Y = divisor.

Choose Z = some power of 2. If Y &lt;= Z, then:
    X / Y = (X * (Z / Y)) / Z

(Z / Y) is a constant (mult) which is calculated at parse time, so:
    X / Y = (X * mult) / Z

The division by Z can be replaced by a shift since Z is a power of 2:
    X / Y = (X * mult) &gt;&gt; shift

As long, as X &lt; Z the results will not be off by more than 1.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211029232410.3494196-1-kaleshsingh@google.com

Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kalesh Singh &lt;kaleshsingh@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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