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<title>tracing: Quiet gcc warning about maybe unused link variable</title>
<updated>2018-08-09T10:20:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (VMware)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-07-26T02:28:56+00:00</published>
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commit 2519c1bbe38d7acacc9aacba303ca6f97482ed53 upstream.

Commit 57ea2a34adf4 ("tracing/kprobes: Fix trace_probe flags on
enable_trace_kprobe() failure") added an if statement that depends on another
if statement that gcc doesn't see will initialize the "link" variable and
gives the warning:

 "warning: 'link' may be used uninitialized in this function"

It is really a false positive, but to quiet the warning, and also to make
sure that it never actually is used uninitialized, initialize the "link"
variable to NULL and add an if (!WARN_ON_ONCE(!link)) where the compiler
thinks it could be used uninitialized.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 57ea2a34adf4 ("tracing/kprobes: Fix trace_probe flags on enable_trace_kprobe() failure")
Reported-by: kbuild test robot &lt;lkp@intel.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 2519c1bbe38d7acacc9aacba303ca6f97482ed53 upstream.

Commit 57ea2a34adf4 ("tracing/kprobes: Fix trace_probe flags on
enable_trace_kprobe() failure") added an if statement that depends on another
if statement that gcc doesn't see will initialize the "link" variable and
gives the warning:

 "warning: 'link' may be used uninitialized in this function"

It is really a false positive, but to quiet the warning, and also to make
sure that it never actually is used uninitialized, initialize the "link"
variable to NULL and add an if (!WARN_ON_ONCE(!link)) where the compiler
thinks it could be used uninitialized.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 57ea2a34adf4 ("tracing/kprobes: Fix trace_probe flags on enable_trace_kprobe() failure")
Reported-by: kbuild test robot &lt;lkp@intel.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/kprobes: Fix trace_probe flags on enable_trace_kprobe() failure</title>
<updated>2018-08-09T10:20:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Artem Savkov</name>
<email>asavkov@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-07-25T14:20:38+00:00</published>
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commit 57ea2a34adf40f3a6e88409aafcf803b8945619a upstream.

If enable_trace_kprobe fails to enable the probe in enable_k(ret)probe
it returns an error, but does not unset the tp flags it set previously.
This results in a probe being considered enabled and failures like being
unable to remove the probe through kprobe_events file since probes_open()
expects every probe to be disabled.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180725102826.8300-1-asavkov@redhat.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180725142038.4765-1-asavkov@redhat.com

Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 41a7dd420c57 ("tracing/kprobes: Support ftrace_event_file base multibuffer")
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Artem Savkov &lt;asavkov@redhat.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 57ea2a34adf40f3a6e88409aafcf803b8945619a upstream.

If enable_trace_kprobe fails to enable the probe in enable_k(ret)probe
it returns an error, but does not unset the tp flags it set previously.
This results in a probe being considered enabled and failures like being
unable to remove the probe through kprobe_events file since probes_open()
expects every probe to be disabled.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180725102826.8300-1-asavkov@redhat.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180725142038.4765-1-asavkov@redhat.com

Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 41a7dd420c57 ("tracing/kprobes: Support ftrace_event_file base multibuffer")
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Artem Savkov &lt;asavkov@redhat.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: probeevent: Fix to support minus offset from symbol</title>
<updated>2018-04-08T09:49:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masami Hiramatsu</name>
<email>mhiramat@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-17T12:38:10+00:00</published>
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commit c5d343b6b7badd1f5fe0873eff2e8d63a193e732 upstream.

In Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt, it says

 @SYM[+|-offs] : Fetch memory at SYM +|- offs (SYM should be a data symbol)

However, the parser doesn't parse minus offset correctly, since
commit 2fba0c8867af ("tracing/kprobes: Fix probe offset to be
unsigned") drops minus ("-") offset support for kprobe probe
address usage.

This fixes the traceprobe_split_symbol_offset() to parse minus
offset again with checking the offset range, and add a minus
offset check in kprobe probe address usage.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/152129028983.31874.13419301530285775521.stgit@devbox

Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Tom Zanussi &lt;tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ravi Bangoria &lt;ravi.bangoria@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 2fba0c8867af ("tracing/kprobes: Fix probe offset to be unsigned")
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&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 c5d343b6b7badd1f5fe0873eff2e8d63a193e732 upstream.

In Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt, it says

 @SYM[+|-offs] : Fetch memory at SYM +|- offs (SYM should be a data symbol)

However, the parser doesn't parse minus offset correctly, since
commit 2fba0c8867af ("tracing/kprobes: Fix probe offset to be
unsigned") drops minus ("-") offset support for kprobe probe
address usage.

This fixes the traceprobe_split_symbol_offset() to parse minus
offset again with checking the offset range, and add a minus
offset check in kprobe probe address usage.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/152129028983.31874.13419301530285775521.stgit@devbox

Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Tom Zanussi &lt;tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ravi Bangoria &lt;ravi.bangoria@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 2fba0c8867af ("tracing/kprobes: Fix probe offset to be unsigned")
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&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>
<entry>
<title>tracing/kprobes: Allow to create probe with a module name starting with a digit</title>
<updated>2017-07-15T08:14:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sabrina Dubroca</name>
<email>sd@queasysnail.net</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-22T09:24:42+00:00</published>
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commit 9e52b32567126fe146f198971364f68d3bc5233f upstream.

Always try to parse an address, since kstrtoul() will safely fail when
given a symbol as input. If that fails (which will be the case for a
symbol), try to parse a symbol instead.

This allows creating a probe such as:

    p:probe/vlan_gro_receive 8021q:vlan_gro_receive+0

Which is necessary for this command to work:

    perf probe -m 8021q -a vlan_gro_receive

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/fd72d666f45b114e2c5b9cf7e27b91de1ec966f1.1498122881.git.sd@queasysnail.net

Fixes: 413d37d1e ("tracing: Add kprobe-based event tracer")
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sabrina Dubroca &lt;sd@queasysnail.net&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 9e52b32567126fe146f198971364f68d3bc5233f upstream.

Always try to parse an address, since kstrtoul() will safely fail when
given a symbol as input. If that fails (which will be the case for a
symbol), try to parse a symbol instead.

This allows creating a probe such as:

    p:probe/vlan_gro_receive 8021q:vlan_gro_receive+0

Which is necessary for this command to work:

    perf probe -m 8021q -a vlan_gro_receive

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/fd72d666f45b114e2c5b9cf7e27b91de1ec966f1.1498122881.git.sd@queasysnail.net

Fixes: 413d37d1e ("tracing: Add kprobe-based event tracer")
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sabrina Dubroca &lt;sd@queasysnail.net&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/kprobes: Enforce kprobes teardown after testing</title>
<updated>2017-05-25T12:18:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-17T08:19:49+00:00</published>
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commit 30e7d894c1478c88d50ce94ddcdbd7f9763d9cdd upstream.

Enabling the tracer selftest triggers occasionally the warning in
text_poke(), which warns when the to be modified page is not marked
reserved.

The reason is that the tracer selftest installs kprobes on functions marked
__init for testing. These probes are removed after the tests, but that
removal schedules the delayed kprobes_optimizer work, which will do the
actual text poke. If the work is executed after the init text is freed,
then the warning triggers. The bug can be reproduced reliably when the work
delay is increased.

Flush the optimizer work and wait for the optimizing/unoptimizing lists to
become empty before returning from the kprobes tracer selftest. That
ensures that all operations which were queued due to the probes removal
have completed.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170516094802.76a468bb@gandalf.local.home

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: 6274de498 ("kprobes: Support delayed unoptimizing")
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 30e7d894c1478c88d50ce94ddcdbd7f9763d9cdd upstream.

Enabling the tracer selftest triggers occasionally the warning in
text_poke(), which warns when the to be modified page is not marked
reserved.

The reason is that the tracer selftest installs kprobes on functions marked
__init for testing. These probes are removed after the tests, but that
removal schedules the delayed kprobes_optimizer work, which will do the
actual text poke. If the work is executed after the init text is freed,
then the warning triggers. The bug can be reproduced reliably when the work
delay is increased.

Flush the optimizer work and wait for the optimizing/unoptimizing lists to
become empty before returning from the kprobes tracer selftest. That
ensures that all operations which were queued due to the probes removal
have completed.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170516094802.76a468bb@gandalf.local.home

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: 6274de498 ("kprobes: Support delayed unoptimizing")
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>
<entry>
<title>perf: Avoid horrible stack usage</title>
<updated>2017-04-30T03:49:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra (Intel)</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-16T11:47:34+00:00</published>
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commit 86038c5ea81b519a8a1fcfcd5e4599aab0cdd119 upstream.

Both Linus (most recent) and Steve (a while ago) reported that perf
related callbacks have massive stack bloat.

The problem is that software events need a pt_regs in order to
properly report the event location and unwind stack. And because we
could not assume one was present we allocated one on stack and filled
it with minimal bits required for operation.

Now, pt_regs is quite large, so this is undesirable. Furthermore it
turns out that most sites actually have a pt_regs pointer available,
making this even more onerous, as the stack space is pointless waste.

This patch addresses the problem by observing that software events
have well defined nesting semantics, therefore we can use static
per-cpu storage instead of on-stack.

Linus made the further observation that all but the scheduler callers
of perf_sw_event() have a pt_regs available, so we change the regular
perf_sw_event() to require a valid pt_regs (where it used to be
optional) and add perf_sw_event_sched() for the scheduler.

We have a scheduler specific call instead of a more generic _noregs()
like construct because we can assume non-recursion from the scheduler
and thereby simplify the code further (_noregs would have to put the
recursion context call inline in order to assertain which __perf_regs
element to use).

One last note on the implementation of perf_trace_buf_prepare(); we
allow .regs = NULL for those cases where we already have a pt_regs
pointer available and do not need another.

Reported-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Reported-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Javi Merino &lt;javi.merino@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Tom Zanussi &lt;tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Vaibhav Nagarnaik &lt;vnagarnaik@google.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141216115041.GW3337@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 86038c5ea81b519a8a1fcfcd5e4599aab0cdd119 upstream.

Both Linus (most recent) and Steve (a while ago) reported that perf
related callbacks have massive stack bloat.

The problem is that software events need a pt_regs in order to
properly report the event location and unwind stack. And because we
could not assume one was present we allocated one on stack and filled
it with minimal bits required for operation.

Now, pt_regs is quite large, so this is undesirable. Furthermore it
turns out that most sites actually have a pt_regs pointer available,
making this even more onerous, as the stack space is pointless waste.

This patch addresses the problem by observing that software events
have well defined nesting semantics, therefore we can use static
per-cpu storage instead of on-stack.

Linus made the further observation that all but the scheduler callers
of perf_sw_event() have a pt_regs available, so we change the regular
perf_sw_event() to require a valid pt_regs (where it used to be
optional) and add perf_sw_event_sched() for the scheduler.

We have a scheduler specific call instead of a more generic _noregs()
like construct because we can assume non-recursion from the scheduler
and thereby simplify the code further (_noregs would have to put the
recursion context call inline in order to assertain which __perf_regs
element to use).

One last note on the implementation of perf_trace_buf_prepare(); we
allow .regs = NULL for those cases where we already have a pt_regs
pointer available and do not need another.

Reported-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Reported-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Javi Merino &lt;javi.merino@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Tom Zanussi &lt;tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Vaibhav Nagarnaik &lt;vnagarnaik@google.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141216115041.GW3337@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2014-06-13T02:18:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-13T02:18:49+00:00</published>
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Pull more perf updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "A second round of perf updates:

   - wide reaching kprobes sanitization and robustization, with the hope
     of fixing all 'probe this function crashes the kernel' bugs, by
     Masami Hiramatsu.

   - uprobes updates from Oleg Nesterov: tmpfs support, corner case
     fixes and robustization work.

   - perf tooling updates and fixes from Jiri Olsa, Namhyung Ki, Arnaldo
     et al:
        * Add support to accumulate hist periods (Namhyung Kim)
        * various fixes, refactorings and enhancements"

* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (101 commits)
  perf: Differentiate exec() and non-exec() comm events
  perf: Fix perf_event_comm() vs. exec() assumption
  uprobes/x86: Rename arch_uprobe-&gt;def to -&gt;defparam, minor comment updates
  perf/documentation: Add description for conditional branch filter
  perf/x86: Add conditional branch filtering support
  perf/tool: Add conditional branch filter 'cond' to perf record
  perf: Add new conditional branch filter 'PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_COND'
  uprobes: Teach copy_insn() to support tmpfs
  uprobes: Shift -&gt;readpage check from __copy_insn() to uprobe_register()
  perf/x86: Use common PMU interrupt disabled code
  perf/ARM: Use common PMU interrupt disabled code
  perf: Disable sampled events if no PMU interrupt
  perf: Fix use after free in perf_remove_from_context()
  perf tools: Fix 'make help' message error
  perf record: Fix poll return value propagation
  perf tools: Move elide bool into perf_hpp_fmt struct
  perf tools: Remove elide setup for SORT_MODE__MEMORY mode
  perf tools: Fix "==" into "=" in ui_browser__warning assignment
  perf tools: Allow overriding sysfs and proc finding with env var
  perf tools: Consider header files outside perf directory in tags target
  ...
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Pull more perf updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "A second round of perf updates:

   - wide reaching kprobes sanitization and robustization, with the hope
     of fixing all 'probe this function crashes the kernel' bugs, by
     Masami Hiramatsu.

   - uprobes updates from Oleg Nesterov: tmpfs support, corner case
     fixes and robustization work.

   - perf tooling updates and fixes from Jiri Olsa, Namhyung Ki, Arnaldo
     et al:
        * Add support to accumulate hist periods (Namhyung Kim)
        * various fixes, refactorings and enhancements"

* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (101 commits)
  perf: Differentiate exec() and non-exec() comm events
  perf: Fix perf_event_comm() vs. exec() assumption
  uprobes/x86: Rename arch_uprobe-&gt;def to -&gt;defparam, minor comment updates
  perf/documentation: Add description for conditional branch filter
  perf/x86: Add conditional branch filtering support
  perf/tool: Add conditional branch filter 'cond' to perf record
  perf: Add new conditional branch filter 'PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_COND'
  uprobes: Teach copy_insn() to support tmpfs
  uprobes: Shift -&gt;readpage check from __copy_insn() to uprobe_register()
  perf/x86: Use common PMU interrupt disabled code
  perf/ARM: Use common PMU interrupt disabled code
  perf: Disable sampled events if no PMU interrupt
  perf: Fix use after free in perf_remove_from_context()
  perf tools: Fix 'make help' message error
  perf record: Fix poll return value propagation
  perf tools: Move elide bool into perf_hpp_fmt struct
  perf tools: Remove elide setup for SORT_MODE__MEMORY mode
  perf tools: Fix "==" into "=" in ui_browser__warning assignment
  perf tools: Allow overriding sysfs and proc finding with env var
  perf tools: Consider header files outside perf directory in tags target
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing/kprobes: Avoid self tests if tracing is disabled on boot up</title>
<updated>2014-06-06T08:53:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yoshihiro YUNOMAE</name>
<email>yoshihiro.yunomae.ez@hitachi.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-05T22:35:20+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=748ec3a20eb44fce19af3cef04f8db8a8e7aead3'/>
<id>748ec3a20eb44fce19af3cef04f8db8a8e7aead3</id>
<content type='text'>
If tracing is disabled on boot up, the kernel should not execute tracing
self tests. The kernel should check whether tracing is disabled or not
before executing any of the tracing self tests.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/p/20140605223520.32311.56097.stgit@yunodevel

Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yoshihiro YUNOMAE &lt;yoshihiro.yunomae.ez@hitachi.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<pre>
If tracing is disabled on boot up, the kernel should not execute tracing
self tests. The kernel should check whether tracing is disabled or not
before executing any of the tracing self tests.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/p/20140605223520.32311.56097.stgit@yunodevel

Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yoshihiro YUNOMAE &lt;yoshihiro.yunomae.ez@hitachi.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kprobes, ftrace: Use NOKPROBE_SYMBOL macro in ftrace</title>
<updated>2014-04-24T08:26:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masami Hiramatsu</name>
<email>masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-04-17T08:18:28+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=3da0f18007e5b87b573cf6ae8c445d59e757d274'/>
<id>3da0f18007e5b87b573cf6ae8c445d59e757d274</id>
<content type='text'>
Use NOKPROBE_SYMBOL macro to protect functions from
kprobes instead of __kprobes annotation in ftrace.
This applies nokprobe_inline annotation for some cases,
because NOKPROBE_SYMBOL() will inhibit inlining by
referring the symbol address.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140417081828.26341.55152.stgit@ltc230.yrl.intra.hitachi.co.jp
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
Use NOKPROBE_SYMBOL macro to protect functions from
kprobes instead of __kprobes annotation in ftrace.
This applies nokprobe_inline annotation for some cases,
because NOKPROBE_SYMBOL() will inhibit inlining by
referring the symbol address.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140417081828.26341.55152.stgit@ltc230.yrl.intra.hitachi.co.jp
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kprobes, ftrace: Allow probing on some functions</title>
<updated>2014-04-24T08:03:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masami Hiramatsu</name>
<email>masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-04-17T08:18:00+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=fbc1963d2c1c4eb4651132a2c5c9d6111ada17d3'/>
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There is no need to prohibit probing on the functions
used for preparation and uprobe only fetch functions.
Those are safely probed because those are not invoked
from kprobe's breakpoint/fault/debug handlers. So there
is no chance to cause recursive exceptions.

Following functions are now removed from the kprobes blacklist:

	update_bitfield_fetch_param
	free_bitfield_fetch_param
	kprobe_register
	FETCH_FUNC_NAME(stack, type) in trace_uprobe.c
	FETCH_FUNC_NAME(memory, type) in trace_uprobe.c
	FETCH_FUNC_NAME(memory, string) in trace_uprobe.c
	FETCH_FUNC_NAME(memory, string_size) in trace_uprobe.c
	FETCH_FUNC_NAME(file_offset, type) in trace_uprobe.c

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140417081800.26341.56504.stgit@ltc230.yrl.intra.hitachi.co.jp
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
There is no need to prohibit probing on the functions
used for preparation and uprobe only fetch functions.
Those are safely probed because those are not invoked
from kprobe's breakpoint/fault/debug handlers. So there
is no chance to cause recursive exceptions.

Following functions are now removed from the kprobes blacklist:

	update_bitfield_fetch_param
	free_bitfield_fetch_param
	kprobe_register
	FETCH_FUNC_NAME(stack, type) in trace_uprobe.c
	FETCH_FUNC_NAME(memory, type) in trace_uprobe.c
	FETCH_FUNC_NAME(memory, string) in trace_uprobe.c
	FETCH_FUNC_NAME(memory, string_size) in trace_uprobe.c
	FETCH_FUNC_NAME(file_offset, type) in trace_uprobe.c

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140417081800.26341.56504.stgit@ltc230.yrl.intra.hitachi.co.jp
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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