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<title>linux-stable.git/kernel/trace/trace_hwlat.c, branch v5.2.9</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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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>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Do a WARN_ON() if start_thread() in hwlat is called when thread exists</title>
<updated>2018-08-01T20:06:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (VMware)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-01T20:06:02+00:00</published>
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The start function of the hwlat tracer should never be called when the hwlat
thread already exists. If it is called, do a WARN_ON().

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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The start function of the hwlat tracer should never be called when the hwlat
thread already exists. If it is called, do a WARN_ON().

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ftrace: Add missing check for existing hwlat thread</title>
<updated>2018-08-01T20:04:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Erica Bugden</name>
<email>erica.bugden@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-01T10:45:54+00:00</published>
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The hwlat tracer uses a kernel thread to measure latencies. The function
that creates this kernel thread, start_kthread(), can be called when the
tracer is initialized and when the tracer is explicitly enabled.
start_kthread() does not check if there is an existing hwlat kernel
thread and will create a new one each time it is called.

This causes the reference to the previous thread to be lost. Without the
thread reference, the old kernel thread becomes unstoppable and
continues to use CPU time even after the hwlat tracer has been disabled.
This problem can be observed when a system is booted with tracing
enabled and the hwlat tracer is configured like this:

	echo hwlat &gt; current_tracer; echo 1 &gt; tracing_on

Add the missing check for an existing kernel thread in start_kthread()
to prevent this problem. This function and the rest of the hwlat kernel
thread setup and teardown are already serialized because they are called
through the tracer core code with trace_type_lock held.

[
 Note, this only fixes the symptom. The real fix was not to call
 this function when tracing_on was already one. But this still makes
 the code more robust, so we'll add it.
]

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

Signed-off-by: Erica Bugden &lt;erica.bugden@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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The hwlat tracer uses a kernel thread to measure latencies. The function
that creates this kernel thread, start_kthread(), can be called when the
tracer is initialized and when the tracer is explicitly enabled.
start_kthread() does not check if there is an existing hwlat kernel
thread and will create a new one each time it is called.

This causes the reference to the previous thread to be lost. Without the
thread reference, the old kernel thread becomes unstoppable and
continues to use CPU time even after the hwlat tracer has been disabled.
This problem can be observed when a system is booted with tracing
enabled and the hwlat tracer is configured like this:

	echo hwlat &gt; current_tracer; echo 1 &gt; tracing_on

Add the missing check for an existing kernel thread in start_kthread()
to prevent this problem. This function and the rest of the hwlat kernel
thread setup and teardown are already serialized because they are called
through the tracer core code with trace_type_lock held.

[
 Note, this only fixes the symptom. The real fix was not to call
 this function when tracing_on was already one. But this still makes
 the code more robust, so we'll add it.
]

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

Signed-off-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>
<entry>
<title>trace: make trace_hwlat timestamp y2038 safe</title>
<updated>2017-05-09T00:15:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Deepa Dinamani</name>
<email>deepa.kernel@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-08T22:59:13+00:00</published>
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struct timespec is not y2038 safe on 32 bit machines and needs to be
replaced by struct timespec64 in order to represent times beyond year
2038 on such machines.

Fix all the timestamp representation in struct trace_hwlat and all the
corresponding implementations.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1491613030-11599-3-git-send-email-deepa.kernel@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani &lt;deepa.kernel@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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struct timespec is not y2038 safe on 32 bit machines and needs to be
replaced by struct timespec64 in order to represent times beyond year
2038 on such machines.

Fix all the timestamp representation in struct trace_hwlat and all the
corresponding implementations.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1491613030-11599-3-git-send-email-deepa.kernel@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani &lt;deepa.kernel@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to &lt;linux/sched/clock.h&gt;</title>
<updated>2017-03-02T07:42:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-01T15:36:40+00:00</published>
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We are going to split &lt;linux/sched/clock.h&gt; out of &lt;linux/sched.h&gt;, which
will have to be picked up from other headers and .c files.

Create a trivial placeholder &lt;linux/sched/clock.h&gt; file that just
maps to &lt;linux/sched.h&gt; to make this patch obviously correct and
bisectable.

Include the new header in the files that are going to need it.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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We are going to split &lt;linux/sched/clock.h&gt; out of &lt;linux/sched.h&gt;, which
will have to be picked up from other headers and .c files.

Create a trivial placeholder &lt;linux/sched/clock.h&gt; file that just
maps to &lt;linux/sched.h&gt; to make this patch obviously correct and
bisectable.

Include the new header in the files that are going to need it.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'trace-v4.11-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2017-02-27T21:36:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-27T21:36:19+00:00</published>
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Pull another tracing update from Steven Rostedt:
 "Commit 79c6f448c8b79c ("tracing: Fix hwlat kthread migration") fixed a
  bug that was caused by a race condition in initializing the hwlat
  thread. When fixing this code, I realized that it should have been
  done differently. Instead of doing the rewrite and sending that to
  stable, I just sent the above commit to fix the bug that should be
  back ported.

  This commit is on top of the quick fix commit to rewrite the code the
  way it should have been written in the first place"

* tag 'trace-v4.11-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
  tracing: Clean up the hwlat binding code
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Pull another tracing update from Steven Rostedt:
 "Commit 79c6f448c8b79c ("tracing: Fix hwlat kthread migration") fixed a
  bug that was caused by a race condition in initializing the hwlat
  thread. When fixing this code, I realized that it should have been
  done differently. Instead of doing the rewrite and sending that to
  stable, I just sent the above commit to fix the bug that should be
  back ported.

  This commit is on top of the quick fix commit to rewrite the code the
  way it should have been written in the first place"

* tag 'trace-v4.11-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
  tracing: Clean up the hwlat binding code
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'trace-v4.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2017-02-27T21:26:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-27T21:26:17+00:00</published>
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Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
 "This release has no new tracing features, just clean ups, minor fixes
  and small optimizations"

* tag 'trace-v4.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (25 commits)
  tracing: Remove outdated ring buffer comment
  tracing/probes: Fix a warning message to show correct maximum length
  tracing: Fix return value check in trace_benchmark_reg()
  tracing: Use modern function declaration
  jump_label: Reduce the size of struct static_key
  tracing/probe: Show subsystem name in messages
  tracing/hwlat: Update old comment about migration
  timers: Make flags output in the timer_start tracepoint useful
  tracing: Have traceprobe_probes_write() not access userspace unnecessarily
  tracing: Have COMM event filter key be treated as a string
  ftrace: Have set_graph_function handle multiple functions in one write
  ftrace: Do not hold references of ftrace_graph_{notrace_}hash out of graph_lock
  tracing: Reset parser-&gt;buffer to allow multiple "puts"
  ftrace: Have set_graph_functions handle write with RDWR
  ftrace: Reset fgd-&gt;hash in ftrace_graph_write()
  ftrace: Replace (void *)1 with a meaningful macro name FTRACE_GRAPH_EMPTY
  ftrace: Create a slight optimization on searching the ftrace_hash
  tracing: Add ftrace_hash_key() helper function
  ftrace: Convert graph filter to use hash tables
  ftrace: Expose ftrace_hash_empty and ftrace_lookup_ip
  ...
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Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
 "This release has no new tracing features, just clean ups, minor fixes
  and small optimizations"

* tag 'trace-v4.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (25 commits)
  tracing: Remove outdated ring buffer comment
  tracing/probes: Fix a warning message to show correct maximum length
  tracing: Fix return value check in trace_benchmark_reg()
  tracing: Use modern function declaration
  jump_label: Reduce the size of struct static_key
  tracing/probe: Show subsystem name in messages
  tracing/hwlat: Update old comment about migration
  timers: Make flags output in the timer_start tracepoint useful
  tracing: Have traceprobe_probes_write() not access userspace unnecessarily
  tracing: Have COMM event filter key be treated as a string
  ftrace: Have set_graph_function handle multiple functions in one write
  ftrace: Do not hold references of ftrace_graph_{notrace_}hash out of graph_lock
  tracing: Reset parser-&gt;buffer to allow multiple "puts"
  ftrace: Have set_graph_functions handle write with RDWR
  ftrace: Reset fgd-&gt;hash in ftrace_graph_write()
  ftrace: Replace (void *)1 with a meaningful macro name FTRACE_GRAPH_EMPTY
  ftrace: Create a slight optimization on searching the ftrace_hash
  tracing: Add ftrace_hash_key() helper function
  ftrace: Convert graph filter to use hash tables
  ftrace: Expose ftrace_hash_empty and ftrace_lookup_ip
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing/hwlat: Update old comment about migration</title>
<updated>2017-02-15T14:02:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Luiz Capitulino</name>
<email>lcapitulino@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-13T17:25:17+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
The ftrace hwlat does support a cpumask.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170213122517.6e211955@redhat.com

Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino &lt;lcapitulino@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<pre>
The ftrace hwlat does support a cpumask.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170213122517.6e211955@redhat.com

Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino &lt;lcapitulino@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Clean up the hwlat binding code</title>
<updated>2017-01-31T21:48:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (VMware)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-01-31T21:48:23+00:00</published>
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Instead of initializing the affinity of the hwlat kthread in the thread
itself, simply set up the initial affinity at thread creation. This
simplifies the code.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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Instead of initializing the affinity of the hwlat kthread in the thread
itself, simply set up the initial affinity at thread creation. This
simplifies the code.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Fix hwlat kthread migration</title>
<updated>2017-01-31T14:13:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (VMware)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-01-31T00:27:10+00:00</published>
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The hwlat tracer creates a kernel thread at start of the tracer. It is
pinned to a single CPU and will move to the next CPU after each period of
running. If the user modifies the migration thread's affinity, it will not
change after that happens.

The original code created the thread at the first instance it was called,
but later was changed to destroy the thread after the tracer was finished,
and would not be created until the next instance of the tracer was
established. The code that initialized the affinity was only called on the
initial instantiation of the tracer. After that, it was not initialized, and
the previous affinity did not match the current newly created one, making
it appear that the user modified the thread's affinity when it did not, and
the thread failed to migrate again.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 0330f7aa8ee6 ("tracing: Have hwlat trace migrate across tracing_cpumask CPUs")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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The hwlat tracer creates a kernel thread at start of the tracer. It is
pinned to a single CPU and will move to the next CPU after each period of
running. If the user modifies the migration thread's affinity, it will not
change after that happens.

The original code created the thread at the first instance it was called,
but later was changed to destroy the thread after the tracer was finished,
and would not be created until the next instance of the tracer was
established. The code that initialized the affinity was only called on the
initial instantiation of the tracer. After that, it was not initialized, and
the previous affinity did not match the current newly created one, making
it appear that the user modified the thread's affinity when it did not, and
the thread failed to migrate again.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 0330f7aa8ee6 ("tracing: Have hwlat trace migrate across tracing_cpumask CPUs")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
</pre>
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