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<title>rtla: Fix double free</title>
<updated>2022-08-17T13:15:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andreas Schwab</name>
<email>schwab@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2022-07-25T15:12:18+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 4f753c3be52c1d930afc0fe3169baa605dbaf611 ]

Avoid double free by making trace_instance_destroy indempotent.  When
trace_instance_init fails, it calls trace_instance_destroy, but its only
caller osnoise_destroy_tool calls it again.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/mvmilnlkyzx.fsf_-_@suse.de

Fixes: 0605bf009f18 ("rtla: Add osnoise tool")
Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab &lt;schwab@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira &lt;bristot@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 4f753c3be52c1d930afc0fe3169baa605dbaf611 ]

Avoid double free by making trace_instance_destroy indempotent.  When
trace_instance_init fails, it calls trace_instance_destroy, but its only
caller osnoise_destroy_tool calls it again.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/mvmilnlkyzx.fsf_-_@suse.de

Fixes: 0605bf009f18 ("rtla: Add osnoise tool")
Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab &lt;schwab@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira &lt;bristot@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>rtla: Fix Makefile when called from -C tools/</title>
<updated>2022-08-17T13:15:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Bristot de Oliveira</name>
<email>bristot@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-07-13T21:32:19+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit c7d8a598c5b1e21a0957f5dec2ef4139d2d1a23a ]

Sedat Dilek reported an error on rtla Makefile when running:

    $ make -C tools/ clean
    [...]
    make[2]: Entering directory
    '/home/dileks/src/linux-kernel/git/tools/tracing/rtla'
    [...]
    '/home/dileks/src/linux-kernel/git/Documentation/tools/rtla'
    /bin/sh: 1: test: rtla-make[2]:: unexpected operator    &lt;------ The problem
    rm: cannot remove '/home/dileks/src/linux-kernel/git': Is a directory
    make[2]: *** [Makefile:120: clean] Error 1
    make[2]: Leaving directory

This occurred because the rtla calls kernel's Makefile to get the
version in silence mode, e.g.,

    $ make -sC ../../.. kernelversion
    5.19.0-rc4

But the -s is being ignored when rtla's makefile is called indirectly,
so the output looks like this:

    $ make -C ../../.. kernelversion
    make: Entering directory '/root/linux'
    5.19.0-rc4
    make: Leaving directory '/root/linux'

Using 'grep -v make' avoids this problem, e.g.,

    $ make -C ../../.. kernelversion | grep -v make
    5.19.0-rc4

Thus, add | grep -v make.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/870c02d4d97a921f02a31fa3b229fc549af61a20.1657747763.git.bristot@kernel.org

Fixes: 8619e32825fd ("rtla: Follow kernel version")
Reported-by: Sedat Dilek &lt;sedat.dilek@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek &lt;sedat.dilek@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira &lt;bristot@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit c7d8a598c5b1e21a0957f5dec2ef4139d2d1a23a ]

Sedat Dilek reported an error on rtla Makefile when running:

    $ make -C tools/ clean
    [...]
    make[2]: Entering directory
    '/home/dileks/src/linux-kernel/git/tools/tracing/rtla'
    [...]
    '/home/dileks/src/linux-kernel/git/Documentation/tools/rtla'
    /bin/sh: 1: test: rtla-make[2]:: unexpected operator    &lt;------ The problem
    rm: cannot remove '/home/dileks/src/linux-kernel/git': Is a directory
    make[2]: *** [Makefile:120: clean] Error 1
    make[2]: Leaving directory

This occurred because the rtla calls kernel's Makefile to get the
version in silence mode, e.g.,

    $ make -sC ../../.. kernelversion
    5.19.0-rc4

But the -s is being ignored when rtla's makefile is called indirectly,
so the output looks like this:

    $ make -C ../../.. kernelversion
    make: Entering directory '/root/linux'
    5.19.0-rc4
    make: Leaving directory '/root/linux'

Using 'grep -v make' avoids this problem, e.g.,

    $ make -C ../../.. kernelversion | grep -v make
    5.19.0-rc4

Thus, add | grep -v make.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/870c02d4d97a921f02a31fa3b229fc549af61a20.1657747763.git.bristot@kernel.org

Fixes: 8619e32825fd ("rtla: Follow kernel version")
Reported-by: Sedat Dilek &lt;sedat.dilek@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek &lt;sedat.dilek@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira &lt;bristot@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>rtla/utils: Use calloc and check the potential memory allocation failure</title>
<updated>2022-08-17T13:15:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>jianchunfu</name>
<email>jianchunfu@cmss.chinamobile.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-06-15T07:33:48+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit b5f37a0b6f667f5c72340ca9dcd7703f261cb981 ]

Replace malloc with calloc and add memory allocating check
of mon_cpus before used.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220615073348.6891-1-jianchunfu@cmss.chinamobile.com

Fixes: 7d0dc9576dc3 ("rtla/timerlat: Add --dma-latency option")
Signed-off-by: jianchunfu &lt;jianchunfu@cmss.chinamobile.com&gt;
Acked-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira &lt;bristot@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit b5f37a0b6f667f5c72340ca9dcd7703f261cb981 ]

Replace malloc with calloc and add memory allocating check
of mon_cpus before used.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220615073348.6891-1-jianchunfu@cmss.chinamobile.com

Fixes: 7d0dc9576dc3 ("rtla/timerlat: Add --dma-latency option")
Signed-off-by: jianchunfu &lt;jianchunfu@cmss.chinamobile.com&gt;
Acked-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira &lt;bristot@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>rtla: Remove procps-ng dependency</title>
<updated>2022-05-26T19:20:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Bristot de Oliveira</name>
<email>bristot@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-05-13T06:45:53+00:00</published>
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Daniel Wagner reported to me that readproc.h got deprecated. Also,
while the procps-ng library was available on Fedora, it was not available
on RHEL, which is a piece of evidence that it was not that used.

rtla uses procps-ng only to find the PID of the tracers' workload.

I used the procps-ng library to avoid reinventing the wheel. But in this
case, reinventing the wheel took me less time than the time we already
took trying to work around problems.

Implement a function that reads /proc/ entries, checking if:
	- the entry is a directory
	- the directory name is composed only of digits (PID)
	- the directory contains the comm file
	- the comm file contains a comm that matches the tracers'
	  workload prefix.
	- then return true; otherwise, return false.

And use it instead of procps-ng.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/e8276e122ee9eb2c5a0ba8e673fb6488b924b825.1652423574.git.bristot@kernel.org

Cc: John Kacur &lt;jkacur@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Tao Zhou &lt;tao.zhou@linux.dev&gt;
Fixes: b1696371d865 ("rtla: Helper functions for rtla")
Reported-by: Daniel Wagner &lt;dwagner@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Daniel Wagner &lt;dwagner@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira &lt;bristot@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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Daniel Wagner reported to me that readproc.h got deprecated. Also,
while the procps-ng library was available on Fedora, it was not available
on RHEL, which is a piece of evidence that it was not that used.

rtla uses procps-ng only to find the PID of the tracers' workload.

I used the procps-ng library to avoid reinventing the wheel. But in this
case, reinventing the wheel took me less time than the time we already
took trying to work around problems.

Implement a function that reads /proc/ entries, checking if:
	- the entry is a directory
	- the directory name is composed only of digits (PID)
	- the directory contains the comm file
	- the comm file contains a comm that matches the tracers'
	  workload prefix.
	- then return true; otherwise, return false.

And use it instead of procps-ng.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/e8276e122ee9eb2c5a0ba8e673fb6488b924b825.1652423574.git.bristot@kernel.org

Cc: John Kacur &lt;jkacur@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Tao Zhou &lt;tao.zhou@linux.dev&gt;
Fixes: b1696371d865 ("rtla: Helper functions for rtla")
Reported-by: Daniel Wagner &lt;dwagner@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Daniel Wagner &lt;dwagner@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira &lt;bristot@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>rtla: Fix __set_sched_attr error message</title>
<updated>2022-05-26T19:18:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Bristot de Oliveira</name>
<email>bristot@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-04-29T16:28:13+00:00</published>
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rtla's function __set_sched_attr() was borrowed from stalld, but I
forgot to update the error message to something meaningful for rtla.

 Update the error message from:
        boost_with_deadline failed to boost pid PID: STRERROR
 to a proper one:
        Failed to set sched attributes to the pid PID: STRERROR

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/a2d19b2c53f6512aefd1ee7f8c1bd19d4fc8b99d.1651247710.git.bristot@kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/eeded730413e7feaa13f946924bcf2cbf7dd9561.1650617571.git.bristot@kernel.org/

Fixes: b1696371d865 ("rtla: Helper functions for rtla")
Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira &lt;bristot@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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rtla's function __set_sched_attr() was borrowed from stalld, but I
forgot to update the error message to something meaningful for rtla.

 Update the error message from:
        boost_with_deadline failed to boost pid PID: STRERROR
 to a proper one:
        Failed to set sched attributes to the pid PID: STRERROR

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/a2d19b2c53f6512aefd1ee7f8c1bd19d4fc8b99d.1651247710.git.bristot@kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/eeded730413e7feaa13f946924bcf2cbf7dd9561.1650617571.git.bristot@kernel.org/

Fixes: b1696371d865 ("rtla: Helper functions for rtla")
Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira &lt;bristot@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>rtla: Minor grammar fix for rtla README</title>
<updated>2022-05-26T19:18:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John Kacur</name>
<email>jkacur@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-04-29T16:28:12+00:00</published>
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- Change to "The rtla meta-tool includes"
- Remove an unnecessary "But, "
- Adjust the formatting of the paragraph resulting from the changes.
- Simplify the wording for the libraries and tools.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/437f0accdde53713ab3cce46f3564be00487e031.1651247710.git.bristot@kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220408161012.10544-1-jkacur@redhat.com/

Cc: Daniel Bristot de Oliveria &lt;bristot@kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: 79ce8f43ac5a ("rtla: Real-Time Linux Analysis tool")
Acked-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira &lt;bristot@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: John Kacur &lt;jkacur@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira &lt;bristot@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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- Change to "The rtla meta-tool includes"
- Remove an unnecessary "But, "
- Adjust the formatting of the paragraph resulting from the changes.
- Simplify the wording for the libraries and tools.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/437f0accdde53713ab3cce46f3564be00487e031.1651247710.git.bristot@kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220408161012.10544-1-jkacur@redhat.com/

Cc: Daniel Bristot de Oliveria &lt;bristot@kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: 79ce8f43ac5a ("rtla: Real-Time Linux Analysis tool")
Acked-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira &lt;bristot@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: John Kacur &lt;jkacur@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira &lt;bristot@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>rtla: Don't overwrite existing directory mode</title>
<updated>2022-05-26T19:18:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John Kacur</name>
<email>jkacur@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-04-29T16:28:11+00:00</published>
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The mode on /usr/bin is often 555 these days,
but make install on rtla overwrites this with 755

Fix this by preserving the current directory if it exists.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/8c294a6961080a1970fd8b73f7bcf1e3984579e2.1651247710.git.bristot@kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220402043939.6962-1-jkacur@redhat.com

Cc: Daniel Bristot de Oliveria &lt;bristot@redhat.com&gt;
Fixes: 79ce8f43ac5a ("rtla: Real-Time Linux Analysis tool")
Acked-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira &lt;bristot@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: John Kacur &lt;jkacur@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira &lt;bristot@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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The mode on /usr/bin is often 555 these days,
but make install on rtla overwrites this with 755

Fix this by preserving the current directory if it exists.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/8c294a6961080a1970fd8b73f7bcf1e3984579e2.1651247710.git.bristot@kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220402043939.6962-1-jkacur@redhat.com

Cc: Daniel Bristot de Oliveria &lt;bristot@redhat.com&gt;
Fixes: 79ce8f43ac5a ("rtla: Real-Time Linux Analysis tool")
Acked-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira &lt;bristot@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: John Kacur &lt;jkacur@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira &lt;bristot@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>rtla: Avoid record NULL pointer dereference</title>
<updated>2022-05-26T19:18:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Wan Jiabing</name>
<email>wanjiabing@vivo.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-04-29T16:28:10+00:00</published>
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Fix the following null/deref_null.cocci errors:
./tools/tracing/rtla/src/osnoise_hist.c:870:31-36: ERROR: record is NULL but dereferenced.
./tools/tracing/rtla/src/osnoise_top.c:650:31-36: ERROR: record is NULL but dereferenced.
./tools/tracing/rtla/src/timerlat_hist.c:905:31-36: ERROR: record is NULL but dereferenced.
./tools/tracing/rtla/src/timerlat_top.c:700:31-36: ERROR: record is NULL but dereferenced.

"record" is NULL before calling osnoise_init_trace_tool.
Add a tag "out_free" to avoid dereferring a NULL pointer.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/ae0e4500d383db0884eb2820286afe34ca303778.1651247710.git.bristot@kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220408151406.34823-1-wanjiabing@vivo.com/

Cc: kael_w@yeah.net
Cc: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira &lt;bristot@kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: 51d64c3a1819 ("rtla: Add -e/--event support")
Acked-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira &lt;bristot@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Wan Jiabing &lt;wanjiabing@vivo.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira &lt;bristot@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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Fix the following null/deref_null.cocci errors:
./tools/tracing/rtla/src/osnoise_hist.c:870:31-36: ERROR: record is NULL but dereferenced.
./tools/tracing/rtla/src/osnoise_top.c:650:31-36: ERROR: record is NULL but dereferenced.
./tools/tracing/rtla/src/timerlat_hist.c:905:31-36: ERROR: record is NULL but dereferenced.
./tools/tracing/rtla/src/timerlat_top.c:700:31-36: ERROR: record is NULL but dereferenced.

"record" is NULL before calling osnoise_init_trace_tool.
Add a tag "out_free" to avoid dereferring a NULL pointer.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/ae0e4500d383db0884eb2820286afe34ca303778.1651247710.git.bristot@kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220408151406.34823-1-wanjiabing@vivo.com/

Cc: kael_w@yeah.net
Cc: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira &lt;bristot@kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: 51d64c3a1819 ("rtla: Add -e/--event support")
Acked-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira &lt;bristot@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Wan Jiabing &lt;wanjiabing@vivo.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira &lt;bristot@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>rtla/Makefile: Properly handle dependencies</title>
<updated>2022-05-26T19:17:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Bristot de Oliveira</name>
<email>bristot@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-04-29T14:54:58+00:00</published>
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Linus had a problem compiling RTLA, saying:

"[...] I wish the tracing tools would do a bit more package
checking and helpful error messages too, rather than just
fail with:

    fatal error: tracefs.h: No such file or directory"

Which is indeed not a helpful message. Update the Makefile, adding
proper checks for the dependencies, with useful information about
how to resolve possible problems.

For example, the previous error is now reported as:

    $ make
    ********************************************
    ** NOTICE: libtracefs version 1.3 or higher not found
    **
    ** Consider installing the latest libtracefs from your
    ** distribution, e.g., 'dnf install libtracefs' on Fedora,
    ** or from source:
    **
    **  https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/libs/libtrace/libtracefs.git/
    **
    ********************************************

These messages are inspired by the ones used on trace-cmd, as suggested
by Stevel Rostedt.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=whxmA86E=csNv76DuxX_wYsg8mW15oUs3XTabu2Yc80yw@mail.gmail.com/

Changes from V1:
 - Moved the rst2man check to the install phase (when it is used).
 - Removed the procps-ng lib check [1] as it is being removed.

[1] a0f9f8c1030c66305c9b921057c3d483064d5529.1651220820.git.bristot@kernel.org

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/3f1fac776c37e4b67c876a94e5a0e45ed022ff3d.1651238057.git.bristot@kernel.org

Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Reported-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira &lt;bristot@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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Linus had a problem compiling RTLA, saying:

"[...] I wish the tracing tools would do a bit more package
checking and helpful error messages too, rather than just
fail with:

    fatal error: tracefs.h: No such file or directory"

Which is indeed not a helpful message. Update the Makefile, adding
proper checks for the dependencies, with useful information about
how to resolve possible problems.

For example, the previous error is now reported as:

    $ make
    ********************************************
    ** NOTICE: libtracefs version 1.3 or higher not found
    **
    ** Consider installing the latest libtracefs from your
    ** distribution, e.g., 'dnf install libtracefs' on Fedora,
    ** or from source:
    **
    **  https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/libs/libtrace/libtracefs.git/
    **
    ********************************************

These messages are inspired by the ones used on trace-cmd, as suggested
by Stevel Rostedt.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=whxmA86E=csNv76DuxX_wYsg8mW15oUs3XTabu2Yc80yw@mail.gmail.com/

Changes from V1:
 - Moved the rst2man check to the install phase (when it is used).
 - Removed the procps-ng lib check [1] as it is being removed.

[1] a0f9f8c1030c66305c9b921057c3d483064d5529.1651220820.git.bristot@kernel.org

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/3f1fac776c37e4b67c876a94e5a0e45ed022ff3d.1651238057.git.bristot@kernel.org

Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Reported-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira &lt;bristot@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<title>Merge tag 'kbuild-v5.18-v2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild</title>
<updated>2022-03-31T18:59:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-03-31T18:59:03+00:00</published>
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Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - Add new environment variables, USERCFLAGS and USERLDFLAGS to allow
   additional flags to be passed to user-space programs.

 - Fix missing fflush() bugs in Kconfig and fixdep

 - Fix a minor bug in the comment format of the .config file

 - Make kallsyms ignore llvm's local labels, .L*

 - Fix UAPI compile-test for cross-compiling with Clang

 - Extend the LLVM= syntax to support LLVM=&lt;suffix&gt; form for using a
   particular version of LLVm, and LLVM=&lt;prefix&gt; form for using custom
   LLVM in a particular directory path.

 - Clean up Makefiles

* tag 'kbuild-v5.18-v2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild:
  kbuild: Make $(LLVM) more flexible
  kbuild: add --target to correctly cross-compile UAPI headers with Clang
  fixdep: use fflush() and ferror() to ensure successful write to files
  arch: syscalls: simplify uapi/kapi directory creation
  usr/include: replace extra-y with always-y
  certs: simplify empty certs creation in certs/Makefile
  certs: include certs/signing_key.x509 unconditionally
  kallsyms: ignore all local labels prefixed by '.L'
  kconfig: fix missing '# end of' for empty menu
  kconfig: add fflush() before ferror() check
  kbuild: replace $(if A,A,B) with $(or A,B)
  kbuild: Add environment variables for userprogs flags
  kbuild: unify cmd_copy and cmd_shipped
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Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - Add new environment variables, USERCFLAGS and USERLDFLAGS to allow
   additional flags to be passed to user-space programs.

 - Fix missing fflush() bugs in Kconfig and fixdep

 - Fix a minor bug in the comment format of the .config file

 - Make kallsyms ignore llvm's local labels, .L*

 - Fix UAPI compile-test for cross-compiling with Clang

 - Extend the LLVM= syntax to support LLVM=&lt;suffix&gt; form for using a
   particular version of LLVm, and LLVM=&lt;prefix&gt; form for using custom
   LLVM in a particular directory path.

 - Clean up Makefiles

* tag 'kbuild-v5.18-v2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild:
  kbuild: Make $(LLVM) more flexible
  kbuild: add --target to correctly cross-compile UAPI headers with Clang
  fixdep: use fflush() and ferror() to ensure successful write to files
  arch: syscalls: simplify uapi/kapi directory creation
  usr/include: replace extra-y with always-y
  certs: simplify empty certs creation in certs/Makefile
  certs: include certs/signing_key.x509 unconditionally
  kallsyms: ignore all local labels prefixed by '.L'
  kconfig: fix missing '# end of' for empty menu
  kconfig: add fflush() before ferror() check
  kbuild: replace $(if A,A,B) with $(or A,B)
  kbuild: Add environment variables for userprogs flags
  kbuild: unify cmd_copy and cmd_shipped
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