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<title>Merge tag 'char-misc-6.16-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc</title>
<updated>2025-06-06T18:50:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-06-06T18:50:47+00:00</published>
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Pull char / misc / iio driver updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is the big char/misc/iio and other small driver subsystem pull
  request for 6.16-rc1.

  Overall, a lot of individual changes, but nothing major, just the
  normal constant forward progress of new device support and cleanups to
  existing subsystems. Highlights in here are:

   - Large IIO driver updates and additions and device tree changes

   - Android binder bugfixes and logfile fixes

   - mhi driver updates

   - comedi driver updates

   - counter driver updates and additions

   - coresight driver updates and additions

   - echo driver removal as there are no in-kernel users of it

   - nvmem driver updates

   - spmi driver updates

   - new amd-sbi driver "subsystem" and drivers added

   - rust miscdriver binding documentation fix

   - other small driver fixes and updates (uio, w1, acrn, hpet,
     xillybus, cardreader drivers, fastrpc and others)

  All of these have been in linux-next for quite a while with no
  reported problems"

* tag 'char-misc-6.16-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (390 commits)
  binder: fix yet another UAF in binder_devices
  counter: microchip-tcb-capture: Add watch validation support
  dt-bindings: iio: adc: Add ROHM BD79100G
  iio: adc: add support for Nuvoton NCT7201
  dt-bindings: iio: adc: add NCT7201 ADCs
  iio: chemical: Add driver for SEN0322
  dt-bindings: trivial-devices: Document SEN0322
  iio: adc: ad7768-1: reorganize driver headers
  iio: bmp280: zero-init buffer
  iio: ssp_sensors: optimalize -&gt; optimize
  HID: sensor-hub: Fix typo and improve documentation
  iio: admv1013: replace redundant ternary operator with just len
  iio: chemical: mhz19b: Fix error code in probe()
  iio: adc: at91-sama5d2: use IIO_DECLARE_BUFFER_WITH_TS
  iio: accel: sca3300: use IIO_DECLARE_BUFFER_WITH_TS
  iio: adc: ad7380: use IIO_DECLARE_DMA_BUFFER_WITH_TS
  iio: adc: ad4695: rename AD4695_MAX_VIN_CHANNELS
  iio: adc: ad4695: use IIO_DECLARE_DMA_BUFFER_WITH_TS
  iio: introduce IIO_DECLARE_BUFFER_WITH_TS macros
  iio: make IIO_DMA_MINALIGN minimum of 8 bytes
  ...
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Pull char / misc / iio driver updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is the big char/misc/iio and other small driver subsystem pull
  request for 6.16-rc1.

  Overall, a lot of individual changes, but nothing major, just the
  normal constant forward progress of new device support and cleanups to
  existing subsystems. Highlights in here are:

   - Large IIO driver updates and additions and device tree changes

   - Android binder bugfixes and logfile fixes

   - mhi driver updates

   - comedi driver updates

   - counter driver updates and additions

   - coresight driver updates and additions

   - echo driver removal as there are no in-kernel users of it

   - nvmem driver updates

   - spmi driver updates

   - new amd-sbi driver "subsystem" and drivers added

   - rust miscdriver binding documentation fix

   - other small driver fixes and updates (uio, w1, acrn, hpet,
     xillybus, cardreader drivers, fastrpc and others)

  All of these have been in linux-next for quite a while with no
  reported problems"

* tag 'char-misc-6.16-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (390 commits)
  binder: fix yet another UAF in binder_devices
  counter: microchip-tcb-capture: Add watch validation support
  dt-bindings: iio: adc: Add ROHM BD79100G
  iio: adc: add support for Nuvoton NCT7201
  dt-bindings: iio: adc: add NCT7201 ADCs
  iio: chemical: Add driver for SEN0322
  dt-bindings: trivial-devices: Document SEN0322
  iio: adc: ad7768-1: reorganize driver headers
  iio: bmp280: zero-init buffer
  iio: ssp_sensors: optimalize -&gt; optimize
  HID: sensor-hub: Fix typo and improve documentation
  iio: admv1013: replace redundant ternary operator with just len
  iio: chemical: mhz19b: Fix error code in probe()
  iio: adc: at91-sama5d2: use IIO_DECLARE_BUFFER_WITH_TS
  iio: accel: sca3300: use IIO_DECLARE_BUFFER_WITH_TS
  iio: adc: ad7380: use IIO_DECLARE_DMA_BUFFER_WITH_TS
  iio: adc: ad4695: rename AD4695_MAX_VIN_CHANNELS
  iio: adc: ad4695: use IIO_DECLARE_DMA_BUFFER_WITH_TS
  iio: introduce IIO_DECLARE_BUFFER_WITH_TS macros
  iio: make IIO_DMA_MINALIGN minimum of 8 bytes
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'trace-v6.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2025-05-30T04:04:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-30T04:04:36+00:00</published>
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Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:

 - Have module addresses get updated in the persistent ring buffer

   The addresses of the modules from the previous boot are saved in the
   persistent ring buffer. If the same modules are loaded and an address
   is in the old buffer points to an address that was both saved in the
   persistent ring buffer and is loaded in memory, shift the address to
   point to the address that is loaded in memory in the trace event.

 - Print function names for irqs off and preempt off callsites

   When ignoring the print fmt of a trace event and just printing the
   fields directly, have the fields for preempt off and irqs off events
   still show the function name (via kallsyms) instead of just showing
   the raw address.

 - Clean ups of the histogram code

   The histogram functions saved over 800 bytes on the stack to process
   events as they come in. Instead, create per-cpu buffers that can hold
   this information and have a separate location for each context level
   (thread, softirq, IRQ and NMI).

   Also add some more comments to the code.

 - Add "common_comm" field for histograms

   Add "common_comm" that uses the current-&gt;comm as a field in an event
   histogram and acts like any of the other fields of the event.

 - Show "subops" in the enabled_functions file

   When the function graph infrastructure is used, a subsystem has a
   "subops" that it attaches its callback function to. Instead of the
   enabled_functions just showing a function calling the function that
   calls the subops functions, also show the subops functions that will
   get called for that function too.

 - Add "copy_trace_marker" option to instances

   There are cases where an instance is created for tooling to write
   into, but the old tooling has the top level instance hardcoded into
   the application. New tools want to consume the data from an instance
   and not the top level buffer. By adding a copy_trace_marker option,
   whenever the top instance trace_marker is written into, a copy of it
   is also written into the instance with this option set. This allows
   new tools to read what old tools are writing into the top buffer.

   If this option is cleared by the top instance, then what is written
   into the trace_marker is not written into the top instance. This is a
   way to redirect the trace_marker writes into another instance.

 - Have tracepoints created by DECLARE_TRACE() use trace_&lt;name&gt;_tp()

   If a tracepoint is created by DECLARE_TRACE() instead of
   TRACE_EVENT(), then it will not be exposed via tracefs. Currently
   there's no way to differentiate in the kernel the tracepoint
   functions between those that are exposed via tracefs or not. A
   calling convention has been made manually to append a "_tp" prefix
   for events created by DECLARE_TRACE(). Instead of doing this
   manually, force it so that all DECLARE_TRACE() events have this
   notation.

 - Use __string() for task-&gt;comm in some sched events

   Instead of hardcoding the comm to be TASK_COMM_LEN in some of the
   scheduler events use __string() which makes it dynamic. Note, if
   these events are parsed by user space it they may break, and the
   event may have to be converted back to the hardcoded size.

 - Have function graph "depth" be unsigned to the user

   Internally to the kernel, the "depth" field of the function graph
   event is signed due to -1 being used for end of boundary. What
   actually gets recorded in the event itself is zero or positive.
   Reflect this to user space by showing "depth" as unsigned int and be
   consistent across all events.

 - Allow an arbitrary long CPU string to osnoise_cpus_write()

   The filtering of which CPUs to write to can exceed 256 bytes. If a
   machine has 256 CPUs, and the filter is to filter every other CPU,
   the write would take a string larger than 256 bytes. Instead of using
   a fixed size buffer on the stack that is 256 bytes, allocate it to
   handle what is passed in.

 - Stop having ftrace check the per-cpu data "disabled" flag

   The "disabled" flag in the data structure passed to most ftrace
   functions is checked to know if tracing has been disabled or not.
   This flag was added back in 2008 before the ring buffer had its own
   way to disable tracing. The "disable" flag is now not always set when
   needed, and the ring buffer flag should be used in all locations
   where the disabled is needed. Since the "disable" flag is redundant
   and incorrect, stop using it. Fix up some locations that use the
   "disable" flag to use the ring buffer info.

 - Use a new tracer_tracing_disable/enable() instead of data-&gt;disable
   flag

   There's a few cases that set the data-&gt;disable flag to stop tracing,
   but this flag is not consistently used. It is also an on/off switch
   where if a function set it and calls another function that sets it,
   the called function may incorrectly enable it.

   Use a new trace_tracing_disable() and tracer_tracing_enable() that
   uses a counter and can be nested. These use the ring buffer flags
   which are always checked making the disabling more consistent.

 - Save the trace clock in the persistent ring buffer

   Save what clock was used for tracing in the persistent ring buffer
   and set it back to that clock after a reboot.

 - Remove unused reference to a per CPU data pointer in mmiotrace
   functions

 - Remove unused buffer_page field from trace_array_cpu structure

 - Remove more strncpy() instances

 - Other minor clean ups and fixes

* tag 'trace-v6.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: (36 commits)
  tracing: Fix compilation warning on arm32
  tracing: Record trace_clock and recover when reboot
  tracing/sched: Use __string() instead of fixed lengths for task-&gt;comm
  tracepoint: Have tracepoints created with DECLARE_TRACE() have _tp suffix
  tracing: Cleanup upper_empty() in pid_list
  tracing: Allow the top level trace_marker to write into another instances
  tracing: Add a helper function to handle the dereference arg in verifier
  tracing: Remove unnecessary "goto out" that simply returns ret is trigger code
  tracing: Fix error handling in event_trigger_parse()
  tracing: Rename event_trigger_alloc() to trigger_data_alloc()
  tracing: Replace deprecated strncpy() with strscpy() for stack_trace_filter_buf
  tracing: Remove unused buffer_page field from trace_array_cpu structure
  tracing: Use atomic_inc_return() for updating "disabled" counter in irqsoff tracer
  tracing: Convert the per CPU "disabled" counter to local from atomic
  tracing: branch: Use trace_tracing_is_on_cpu() instead of "disabled" field
  ring-buffer: Add ring_buffer_record_is_on_cpu()
  tracing: Do not use per CPU array_buffer.data-&gt;disabled for cpumask
  ftrace: Do not disabled function graph based on "disabled" field
  tracing: kdb: Use tracer_tracing_on/off() instead of setting per CPU disabled
  tracing: Use tracer_tracing_disable() instead of "disabled" field for ftrace_dump_one()
  ...
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<pre>
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:

 - Have module addresses get updated in the persistent ring buffer

   The addresses of the modules from the previous boot are saved in the
   persistent ring buffer. If the same modules are loaded and an address
   is in the old buffer points to an address that was both saved in the
   persistent ring buffer and is loaded in memory, shift the address to
   point to the address that is loaded in memory in the trace event.

 - Print function names for irqs off and preempt off callsites

   When ignoring the print fmt of a trace event and just printing the
   fields directly, have the fields for preempt off and irqs off events
   still show the function name (via kallsyms) instead of just showing
   the raw address.

 - Clean ups of the histogram code

   The histogram functions saved over 800 bytes on the stack to process
   events as they come in. Instead, create per-cpu buffers that can hold
   this information and have a separate location for each context level
   (thread, softirq, IRQ and NMI).

   Also add some more comments to the code.

 - Add "common_comm" field for histograms

   Add "common_comm" that uses the current-&gt;comm as a field in an event
   histogram and acts like any of the other fields of the event.

 - Show "subops" in the enabled_functions file

   When the function graph infrastructure is used, a subsystem has a
   "subops" that it attaches its callback function to. Instead of the
   enabled_functions just showing a function calling the function that
   calls the subops functions, also show the subops functions that will
   get called for that function too.

 - Add "copy_trace_marker" option to instances

   There are cases where an instance is created for tooling to write
   into, but the old tooling has the top level instance hardcoded into
   the application. New tools want to consume the data from an instance
   and not the top level buffer. By adding a copy_trace_marker option,
   whenever the top instance trace_marker is written into, a copy of it
   is also written into the instance with this option set. This allows
   new tools to read what old tools are writing into the top buffer.

   If this option is cleared by the top instance, then what is written
   into the trace_marker is not written into the top instance. This is a
   way to redirect the trace_marker writes into another instance.

 - Have tracepoints created by DECLARE_TRACE() use trace_&lt;name&gt;_tp()

   If a tracepoint is created by DECLARE_TRACE() instead of
   TRACE_EVENT(), then it will not be exposed via tracefs. Currently
   there's no way to differentiate in the kernel the tracepoint
   functions between those that are exposed via tracefs or not. A
   calling convention has been made manually to append a "_tp" prefix
   for events created by DECLARE_TRACE(). Instead of doing this
   manually, force it so that all DECLARE_TRACE() events have this
   notation.

 - Use __string() for task-&gt;comm in some sched events

   Instead of hardcoding the comm to be TASK_COMM_LEN in some of the
   scheduler events use __string() which makes it dynamic. Note, if
   these events are parsed by user space it they may break, and the
   event may have to be converted back to the hardcoded size.

 - Have function graph "depth" be unsigned to the user

   Internally to the kernel, the "depth" field of the function graph
   event is signed due to -1 being used for end of boundary. What
   actually gets recorded in the event itself is zero or positive.
   Reflect this to user space by showing "depth" as unsigned int and be
   consistent across all events.

 - Allow an arbitrary long CPU string to osnoise_cpus_write()

   The filtering of which CPUs to write to can exceed 256 bytes. If a
   machine has 256 CPUs, and the filter is to filter every other CPU,
   the write would take a string larger than 256 bytes. Instead of using
   a fixed size buffer on the stack that is 256 bytes, allocate it to
   handle what is passed in.

 - Stop having ftrace check the per-cpu data "disabled" flag

   The "disabled" flag in the data structure passed to most ftrace
   functions is checked to know if tracing has been disabled or not.
   This flag was added back in 2008 before the ring buffer had its own
   way to disable tracing. The "disable" flag is now not always set when
   needed, and the ring buffer flag should be used in all locations
   where the disabled is needed. Since the "disable" flag is redundant
   and incorrect, stop using it. Fix up some locations that use the
   "disable" flag to use the ring buffer info.

 - Use a new tracer_tracing_disable/enable() instead of data-&gt;disable
   flag

   There's a few cases that set the data-&gt;disable flag to stop tracing,
   but this flag is not consistently used. It is also an on/off switch
   where if a function set it and calls another function that sets it,
   the called function may incorrectly enable it.

   Use a new trace_tracing_disable() and tracer_tracing_enable() that
   uses a counter and can be nested. These use the ring buffer flags
   which are always checked making the disabling more consistent.

 - Save the trace clock in the persistent ring buffer

   Save what clock was used for tracing in the persistent ring buffer
   and set it back to that clock after a reboot.

 - Remove unused reference to a per CPU data pointer in mmiotrace
   functions

 - Remove unused buffer_page field from trace_array_cpu structure

 - Remove more strncpy() instances

 - Other minor clean ups and fixes

* tag 'trace-v6.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: (36 commits)
  tracing: Fix compilation warning on arm32
  tracing: Record trace_clock and recover when reboot
  tracing/sched: Use __string() instead of fixed lengths for task-&gt;comm
  tracepoint: Have tracepoints created with DECLARE_TRACE() have _tp suffix
  tracing: Cleanup upper_empty() in pid_list
  tracing: Allow the top level trace_marker to write into another instances
  tracing: Add a helper function to handle the dereference arg in verifier
  tracing: Remove unnecessary "goto out" that simply returns ret is trigger code
  tracing: Fix error handling in event_trigger_parse()
  tracing: Rename event_trigger_alloc() to trigger_data_alloc()
  tracing: Replace deprecated strncpy() with strscpy() for stack_trace_filter_buf
  tracing: Remove unused buffer_page field from trace_array_cpu structure
  tracing: Use atomic_inc_return() for updating "disabled" counter in irqsoff tracer
  tracing: Convert the per CPU "disabled" counter to local from atomic
  tracing: branch: Use trace_tracing_is_on_cpu() instead of "disabled" field
  ring-buffer: Add ring_buffer_record_is_on_cpu()
  tracing: Do not use per CPU array_buffer.data-&gt;disabled for cpumask
  ftrace: Do not disabled function graph based on "disabled" field
  tracing: kdb: Use tracer_tracing_on/off() instead of setting per CPU disabled
  tracing: Use tracer_tracing_disable() instead of "disabled" field for ftrace_dump_one()
  ...
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<entry>
<title>docs: fix "incase" typo in coresight/panic.rst</title>
<updated>2025-05-19T14:02:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hendrik Hamerlinck</name>
<email>hendrik.hamerlinck@hammernet.be</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-13T11:09:31+00:00</published>
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Corrects a spelling mistake in Documentation/trace/coresight/panic.rst
where "incase" was used instead of "in case".

Signed-off-by: Hendrik Hamerlinck &lt;hendrik.hamerlinck@hammernet.be&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Message-ID: &lt;20250513110931.15072-1-hendrik.hamerlinck@hammernet.be&gt;
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Corrects a spelling mistake in Documentation/trace/coresight/panic.rst
where "incase" was used instead of "in case".

Signed-off-by: Hendrik Hamerlinck &lt;hendrik.hamerlinck@hammernet.be&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Message-ID: &lt;20250513110931.15072-1-hendrik.hamerlinck@hammernet.be&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tracepoint: Have tracepoints created with DECLARE_TRACE() have _tp suffix</title>
<updated>2025-05-14T15:19:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-10T20:37:30+00:00</published>
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Most tracepoints in the kernel are created with TRACE_EVENT(). The
TRACE_EVENT() macro (and DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS() and DEFINE_EVENT() where in
reality, TRACE_EVENT() is just a helper macro that calls those other two
macros), will create not only a tracepoint (the function trace_&lt;event&gt;()
used in the kernel), it also exposes the tracepoint to user space along
with defining what fields will be saved by that tracepoint.

There are a few places that tracepoints are created in the kernel that are
not exposed to userspace via tracefs. They can only be accessed from code
within the kernel. These tracepoints are created with DEFINE_TRACE()

Most of these tracepoints end with "_tp". This is useful as when the
developer sees that, they know that the tracepoint is for in-kernel only
(meaning it can only be accessed inside the kernel, either directly by the
kernel or indirectly via modules and BPF programs) and is not exposed to
user space.

Instead of making this only a process to add "_tp", enforce it by making
the DECLARE_TRACE() append the "_tp" suffix to the tracepoint. This
requires adding DECLARE_TRACE_EVENT() macros for the TRACE_EVENT() macro
to use that keeps the original name.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250418083351.20a60e64@gandalf.local.home/

Cc: netdev &lt;netdev@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;olsajiri@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Juri Lelli &lt;juri.lelli@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Breno Leitao &lt;leitao@debian.org&gt;
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii.nakryiko@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Gabriele Monaco &lt;gmonaco@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250510163730.092fad5b@gandalf.local.home
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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Most tracepoints in the kernel are created with TRACE_EVENT(). The
TRACE_EVENT() macro (and DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS() and DEFINE_EVENT() where in
reality, TRACE_EVENT() is just a helper macro that calls those other two
macros), will create not only a tracepoint (the function trace_&lt;event&gt;()
used in the kernel), it also exposes the tracepoint to user space along
with defining what fields will be saved by that tracepoint.

There are a few places that tracepoints are created in the kernel that are
not exposed to userspace via tracefs. They can only be accessed from code
within the kernel. These tracepoints are created with DEFINE_TRACE()

Most of these tracepoints end with "_tp". This is useful as when the
developer sees that, they know that the tracepoint is for in-kernel only
(meaning it can only be accessed inside the kernel, either directly by the
kernel or indirectly via modules and BPF programs) and is not exposed to
user space.

Instead of making this only a process to add "_tp", enforce it by making
the DECLARE_TRACE() append the "_tp" suffix to the tracepoint. This
requires adding DECLARE_TRACE_EVENT() macros for the TRACE_EVENT() macro
to use that keeps the original name.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250418083351.20a60e64@gandalf.local.home/

Cc: netdev &lt;netdev@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;olsajiri@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Juri Lelli &lt;juri.lelli@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Breno Leitao &lt;leitao@debian.org&gt;
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii.nakryiko@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Gabriele Monaco &lt;gmonaco@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250510163730.092fad5b@gandalf.local.home
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Documentation: coresight: Document AUX pause and resume</title>
<updated>2025-05-14T10:56:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Leo Yan</name>
<email>leo.yan@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-01T18:07:08+00:00</published>
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This adds description for AUX pause and resume.  It gives introduction
for what's AUX pause and resume and records usage examples.

Signed-off-by: Leo Yan &lt;leo.yan@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: James Clark &lt;james.clark@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose &lt;suzuki.poulose@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250401180708.385396-8-leo.yan@arm.com
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This adds description for AUX pause and resume.  It gives introduction
for what's AUX pause and resume and records usage examples.

Signed-off-by: Leo Yan &lt;leo.yan@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: James Clark &lt;james.clark@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose &lt;suzuki.poulose@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250401180708.385396-8-leo.yan@arm.com
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<entry>
<title>tracing: Allow the top level trace_marker to write into another instances</title>
<updated>2025-05-09T19:19:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-08T13:56:39+00:00</published>
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There are applications that have it hard coded to write into the top level
trace_marker instance (/sys/kernel/tracing/trace_marker). This can be
annoying if a profiler is using that instance for other work, or if it
needs all writes to go into a new instance.

A new option is created called "copy_trace_marker". By default, the top
level has this set, as that is the default buffer that writing into the
top level trace_marker file will go to. But now if an instance is created
and sets this option, all writes into the top level trace_marker will also
be written into that instance buffer just as if an application were to
write into the instance's trace_marker file.

If the top level instance disables this option, then writes to its own
trace_marker and trace_marker_raw files will not go into its buffer.

If no instance has this option set, then the write will return an error
and errno will contain ENODEV.

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250508095639.39f84eda@gandalf.local.home
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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There are applications that have it hard coded to write into the top level
trace_marker instance (/sys/kernel/tracing/trace_marker). This can be
annoying if a profiler is using that instance for other work, or if it
needs all writes to go into a new instance.

A new option is created called "copy_trace_marker". By default, the top
level has this set, as that is the default buffer that writing into the
top level trace_marker file will go to. But now if an instance is created
and sets this option, all writes into the top level trace_marker will also
be written into that instance buffer just as if an application were to
write into the instance's trace_marker file.

If the top level instance disables this option, then writes to its own
trace_marker and trace_marker_raw files will not go into its buffer.

If no instance has this option set, then the write will return an error
and errno will contain ENODEV.

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250508095639.39f84eda@gandalf.local.home
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Documentation: trace: Refactor toctree</title>
<updated>2025-04-21T16:37:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Purva Yeshi</name>
<email>purvayeshi550@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-16T02:40:50+00:00</published>
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Refactor table of contents of kernel tracing subsystem docs to improve
clarity, structure, and organization:

- Reformat sections and add appropriate headings
- Improve section grouping and refine descriptions for each group
- Add docs intro paragraph

Signed-off-by: Purva Yeshi &lt;purvayeshi550@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250318113230.24950-2-purvayeshi550@gmail.com
[Bagas: massage commit message and address reviews]
Co-developed-by: Bagas Sanjaya &lt;bagasdotme@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya &lt;bagasdotme@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
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Refactor table of contents of kernel tracing subsystem docs to improve
clarity, structure, and organization:

- Reformat sections and add appropriate headings
- Improve section grouping and refine descriptions for each group
- Add docs intro paragraph

Signed-off-by: Purva Yeshi &lt;purvayeshi550@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250318113230.24950-2-purvayeshi550@gmail.com
[Bagas: massage commit message and address reviews]
Co-developed-by: Bagas Sanjaya &lt;bagasdotme@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya &lt;bagasdotme@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Documentation: trace: Reduce toctree depth</title>
<updated>2025-04-21T16:37:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Purva Yeshi</name>
<email>purvayeshi550@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-16T02:40:49+00:00</published>
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Reduce toctree depth from 2 to 1 so that only docs titles are listed
in the toctree.

Signed-off-by: Purva Yeshi &lt;purvayeshi550@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250318113230.24950-1-purvayeshi550@gmail.com
[Bagas: massage commit message]
Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya &lt;bagasdotme@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
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Reduce toctree depth from 2 to 1 so that only docs titles are listed
in the toctree.

Signed-off-by: Purva Yeshi &lt;purvayeshi550@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250318113230.24950-1-purvayeshi550@gmail.com
[Bagas: massage commit message]
Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya &lt;bagasdotme@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing/timers: Rename the hrtimer_init event to hrtimer_setup</title>
<updated>2025-04-05T08:30:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nam Cao</name>
<email>namcao@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-05T10:55:21+00:00</published>
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The function hrtimer_init() doesn't exist anymore. It was replaced by
hrtimer_setup().

Thus, rename the hrtimer_init trace event to hrtimer_setup to keep it
consistent.

Signed-off-by: Nam Cao &lt;namcao@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/cba84c3d853c5258aa3a262363a6eac08e2c7afc.1738746927.git.namcao@linutronix.de
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The function hrtimer_init() doesn't exist anymore. It was replaced by
hrtimer_setup().

Thus, rename the hrtimer_init trace event to hrtimer_setup to keep it
consistent.

Signed-off-by: Nam Cao &lt;namcao@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/cba84c3d853c5258aa3a262363a6eac08e2c7afc.1738746927.git.namcao@linutronix.de
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'trace-ringbuffer-v6.15-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2025-04-03T23:09:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-03T23:09:29+00:00</published>
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Pull ring-buffer updates from Steven Rostedt:
 "Persistent buffer cleanups and simplifications.

  It was mistaken that the physical memory returned from "reserve_mem"
  had to be vmap()'d to get to it from a virtual address. But
  reserve_mem already maps the memory to the virtual address of the
  kernel so a simple phys_to_virt() can be used to get to the virtual
  address from the physical memory returned by "reserve_mem". With this
  new found knowledge, the code can be cleaned up and simplified.

   - Enforce that the persistent memory is page aligned

     As the buffers using the persistent memory are all going to be
     mapped via pages, make sure that the memory given to the tracing
     infrastructure is page aligned. If it is not, it will print a
     warning and fail to map the buffer.

   - Use phys_to_virt() to get the virtual address from reserve_mem

     Instead of calling vmap() on the physical memory returned from
     "reserve_mem", use phys_to_virt() instead.

     As the memory returned by "memmap" or any other means where a
     physical address is given to the tracing infrastructure, it still
     needs to be vmap(). Since this memory can never be returned back to
     the buddy allocator nor should it ever be memmory mapped to user
     space, flag this buffer and up the ref count. The ref count will
     keep it from ever being freed, and the flag will prevent it from
     ever being memory mapped to user space.

   - Use vmap_page_range() for memmap virtual address mapping

     For the memmap buffer, instead of allocating an array of struct
     pages, assigning them to the contiguous phsycial memory and then
     passing that to vmap(), use vmap_page_range() instead

   - Replace flush_dcache_folio() with flush_kernel_vmap_range()

     Instead of calling virt_to_folio() and passing that to
     flush_dcache_folio(), just call flush_kernel_vmap_range() directly.
     This also fixes a bug where if a subbuffer was bigger than
     PAGE_SIZE only the PAGE_SIZE portion would be flushed"

* tag 'trace-ringbuffer-v6.15-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
  ring-buffer: Use flush_kernel_vmap_range() over flush_dcache_folio()
  tracing: Use vmap_page_range() to map memmap ring buffer
  tracing: Have reserve_mem use phys_to_virt() and separate from memmap buffer
  tracing: Enforce the persistent ring buffer to be page aligned
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Pull ring-buffer updates from Steven Rostedt:
 "Persistent buffer cleanups and simplifications.

  It was mistaken that the physical memory returned from "reserve_mem"
  had to be vmap()'d to get to it from a virtual address. But
  reserve_mem already maps the memory to the virtual address of the
  kernel so a simple phys_to_virt() can be used to get to the virtual
  address from the physical memory returned by "reserve_mem". With this
  new found knowledge, the code can be cleaned up and simplified.

   - Enforce that the persistent memory is page aligned

     As the buffers using the persistent memory are all going to be
     mapped via pages, make sure that the memory given to the tracing
     infrastructure is page aligned. If it is not, it will print a
     warning and fail to map the buffer.

   - Use phys_to_virt() to get the virtual address from reserve_mem

     Instead of calling vmap() on the physical memory returned from
     "reserve_mem", use phys_to_virt() instead.

     As the memory returned by "memmap" or any other means where a
     physical address is given to the tracing infrastructure, it still
     needs to be vmap(). Since this memory can never be returned back to
     the buddy allocator nor should it ever be memmory mapped to user
     space, flag this buffer and up the ref count. The ref count will
     keep it from ever being freed, and the flag will prevent it from
     ever being memory mapped to user space.

   - Use vmap_page_range() for memmap virtual address mapping

     For the memmap buffer, instead of allocating an array of struct
     pages, assigning them to the contiguous phsycial memory and then
     passing that to vmap(), use vmap_page_range() instead

   - Replace flush_dcache_folio() with flush_kernel_vmap_range()

     Instead of calling virt_to_folio() and passing that to
     flush_dcache_folio(), just call flush_kernel_vmap_range() directly.
     This also fixes a bug where if a subbuffer was bigger than
     PAGE_SIZE only the PAGE_SIZE portion would be flushed"

* tag 'trace-ringbuffer-v6.15-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
  ring-buffer: Use flush_kernel_vmap_range() over flush_dcache_folio()
  tracing: Use vmap_page_range() to map memmap ring buffer
  tracing: Have reserve_mem use phys_to_virt() and separate from memmap buffer
  tracing: Enforce the persistent ring buffer to be page aligned
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