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<title>linux.git/include/linux/ftrace.h, branch v4.15-rc2</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'trace-v4.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2017-11-17T22:58:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-17T22:58:01+00:00</published>
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Pull tracing updates from

 - allow module init functions to be traced

 - clean up some unused or not used by config events (saves space)

 - clean up of trace histogram code

 - add support for preempt and interrupt enabled/disable events

 - other various clean ups

* tag 'trace-v4.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (30 commits)
  tracing, thermal: Hide cpu cooling trace events when not in use
  tracing, thermal: Hide devfreq trace events when not in use
  ftrace: Kill FTRACE_OPS_FL_PER_CPU
  perf/ftrace: Small cleanup
  perf/ftrace: Fix function trace events
  perf/ftrace: Revert ("perf/ftrace: Fix double traces of perf on ftrace:function")
  tracing, dma-buf: Remove unused trace event dma_fence_annotate_wait_on
  tracing, memcg, vmscan: Hide trace events when not in use
  tracing/xen: Hide events that are not used when X86_PAE is not defined
  tracing: mark trace_test_buffer as __maybe_unused
  printk: Remove superfluous memory barriers from printk_safe
  ftrace: Clear hashes of stale ips of init memory
  tracing: Add support for preempt and irq enable/disable events
  tracing: Prepare to add preempt and irq trace events
  ftrace/kallsyms: Have /proc/kallsyms show saved mod init functions
  ftrace: Add freeing algorithm to free ftrace_mod_maps
  ftrace: Save module init functions kallsyms symbols for tracing
  ftrace: Allow module init functions to be traced
  ftrace: Add a ftrace_free_mem() function for modules to use
  tracing: Reimplement log2
  ...
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Pull tracing updates from

 - allow module init functions to be traced

 - clean up some unused or not used by config events (saves space)

 - clean up of trace histogram code

 - add support for preempt and interrupt enabled/disable events

 - other various clean ups

* tag 'trace-v4.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (30 commits)
  tracing, thermal: Hide cpu cooling trace events when not in use
  tracing, thermal: Hide devfreq trace events when not in use
  ftrace: Kill FTRACE_OPS_FL_PER_CPU
  perf/ftrace: Small cleanup
  perf/ftrace: Fix function trace events
  perf/ftrace: Revert ("perf/ftrace: Fix double traces of perf on ftrace:function")
  tracing, dma-buf: Remove unused trace event dma_fence_annotate_wait_on
  tracing, memcg, vmscan: Hide trace events when not in use
  tracing/xen: Hide events that are not used when X86_PAE is not defined
  tracing: mark trace_test_buffer as __maybe_unused
  printk: Remove superfluous memory barriers from printk_safe
  ftrace: Clear hashes of stale ips of init memory
  tracing: Add support for preempt and irq enable/disable events
  tracing: Prepare to add preempt and irq trace events
  ftrace/kallsyms: Have /proc/kallsyms show saved mod init functions
  ftrace: Add freeing algorithm to free ftrace_mod_maps
  ftrace: Save module init functions kallsyms symbols for tracing
  ftrace: Allow module init functions to be traced
  ftrace: Add a ftrace_free_mem() function for modules to use
  tracing: Reimplement log2
  ...
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<entry>
<title>License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license</title>
<updated>2017-11-02T10:10:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@linuxfoundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-01T14:07:57+00:00</published>
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Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier.  The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
 - file had no licensing information it it.
 - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
 - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode &amp; Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne.  Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed.  Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
 - Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
 - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained &gt;5
   lines of source
 - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if &lt;5
   lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

 - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
   considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
   COPYING file license applied.

   For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0                                              11139

   and resulted in the first patch in this series.

   If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
   Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0".  Results of that was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        930

   and resulted in the second patch in this series.

 - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
   of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
   any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
   it (per prior point).  Results summary:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                       270
   GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      169
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause)    21
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    17
   LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      15
   GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       14
   ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    5
   LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       4
   LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT)              3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT)             1

   and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

 - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
   the concluded license(s).

 - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
   license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
   licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

 - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
   resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
   which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

 - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
   confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

 - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
   the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
   in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights.  The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
 - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
   license ids and scores
 - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
   files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
 - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
   was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
   SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction.  This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg.  Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected.  This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.)  Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart &lt;kstewart@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne &lt;pombredanne@nexb.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier.  The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
 - file had no licensing information it it.
 - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
 - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode &amp; Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne.  Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed.  Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
 - Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
 - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained &gt;5
   lines of source
 - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if &lt;5
   lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

 - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
   considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
   COPYING file license applied.

   For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0                                              11139

   and resulted in the first patch in this series.

   If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
   Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0".  Results of that was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        930

   and resulted in the second patch in this series.

 - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
   of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
   any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
   it (per prior point).  Results summary:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                       270
   GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      169
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause)    21
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    17
   LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      15
   GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       14
   ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    5
   LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       4
   LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT)              3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT)             1

   and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

 - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
   the concluded license(s).

 - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
   license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
   licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

 - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
   resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
   which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

 - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
   confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

 - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
   the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
   in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights.  The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
 - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
   license ids and scores
 - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
   files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
 - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
   was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
   SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction.  This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg.  Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected.  This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.)  Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart &lt;kstewart@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne &lt;pombredanne@nexb.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ftrace: Kill FTRACE_OPS_FL_PER_CPU</title>
<updated>2017-10-16T22:13:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-10-11T07:45:32+00:00</published>
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The one and only user of FTRACE_OPS_FL_PER_CPU is gone, remove the
lot.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171011080224.372422809@infradead.org

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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The one and only user of FTRACE_OPS_FL_PER_CPU is gone, remove the
lot.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171011080224.372422809@infradead.org

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Add support for preempt and irq enable/disable events</title>
<updated>2017-10-10T22:58:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joel Fernandes</name>
<email>joelaf@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-10-10T22:51:37+00:00</published>
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Preempt and irq trace events can be used for tracing the start and
end of an atomic section which can be used by a trace viewer like
systrace to graphically view the start and end of an atomic section and
correlate them with latencies and scheduling issues.

This also serves as a prelude to using synthetic events or probes to
rewrite the preempt and irqsoff tracers, along with numerous benefits of
using trace events features for these events.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171006005432.14244-3-joelaf@google.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171010225137.17370-1-joelaf@google.com

Cc: Peter Zilstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: kernel-team@android.com
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes &lt;joelaf@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<pre>
Preempt and irq trace events can be used for tracing the start and
end of an atomic section which can be used by a trace viewer like
systrace to graphically view the start and end of an atomic section and
correlate them with latencies and scheduling issues.

This also serves as a prelude to using synthetic events or probes to
rewrite the preempt and irqsoff tracers, along with numerous benefits of
using trace events features for these events.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171006005432.14244-3-joelaf@google.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171010225137.17370-1-joelaf@google.com

Cc: Peter Zilstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: kernel-team@android.com
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes &lt;joelaf@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ftrace/kallsyms: Have /proc/kallsyms show saved mod init functions</title>
<updated>2017-10-06T03:10:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (VMware)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-06T12:40:41+00:00</published>
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If a module is loaded while tracing is enabled, then there's a possibility
that the module init functions were traced. These functions have their name
and address stored by ftrace such that it can translate the function address
that is written into the buffer into a human readable function name.

As userspace tools may be doing the same, they need a way to map function
names to their address as well. This is done through reading /proc/kallsyms.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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If a module is loaded while tracing is enabled, then there's a possibility
that the module init functions were traced. These functions have their name
and address stored by ftrace such that it can translate the function address
that is written into the buffer into a human readable function name.

As userspace tools may be doing the same, they need a way to map function
names to their address as well. This is done through reading /proc/kallsyms.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ftrace: Save module init functions kallsyms symbols for tracing</title>
<updated>2017-10-05T21:57:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (VMware)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-01T12:35:38+00:00</published>
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If function tracing is active when the module init functions are freed, then
store them to be referenced by kallsyms. As module init functions can now be
traced on module load, they were useless:

 &gt;# echo ':mod:snd_seq' &gt; set_ftrace_filter
 &gt;# echo function &gt; current_tracer
 &gt;# modprobe snd_seq
 &gt;# cat trace
 # tracer: function
 #
 #                              _-----=&gt; irqs-off
 #                             / _----=&gt; need-resched
 #                            | / _---=&gt; hardirq/softirq
 #                            || / _--=&gt; preempt-depth
 #                            ||| /     delay
 #           TASK-PID   CPU#  ||||    TIMESTAMP  FUNCTION
 #              | |       |   ||||       |         |
         modprobe-2786  [000] ....  3189.037874: 0xffffffffa0860000 &lt;-do_one_initcall
         modprobe-2786  [000] ....  3189.037876: 0xffffffffa086004d &lt;-0xffffffffa086000f
         modprobe-2786  [000] ....  3189.037876: 0xffffffffa086010d &lt;-0xffffffffa0860018
         modprobe-2786  [000] ....  3189.037877: 0xffffffffa086011a &lt;-0xffffffffa0860021
         modprobe-2786  [000] ....  3189.037877: 0xffffffffa0860080 &lt;-0xffffffffa086002a
         modprobe-2786  [000] ....  3189.039523: 0xffffffffa0860400 &lt;-0xffffffffa0860033
         modprobe-2786  [000] ....  3189.039523: 0xffffffffa086038a &lt;-0xffffffffa086041c
         modprobe-2786  [000] ....  3189.039591: 0xffffffffa086038a &lt;-0xffffffffa0860436
         modprobe-2786  [000] ....  3189.039657: 0xffffffffa086038a &lt;-0xffffffffa0860450
         modprobe-2786  [000] ....  3189.039719: 0xffffffffa0860127 &lt;-0xffffffffa086003c
         modprobe-2786  [000] ....  3189.039742: snd_seq_create_kernel_client &lt;-0xffffffffa08601f6

When the output is shown, the kallsyms for the module init functions have
already been freed, and the output of the trace can not convert them to
their function names.

Now this looks like this:

 # tracer: function
 #
 #                              _-----=&gt; irqs-off
 #                             / _----=&gt; need-resched
 #                            | / _---=&gt; hardirq/softirq
 #                            || / _--=&gt; preempt-depth
 #                            ||| /     delay
 #           TASK-PID   CPU#  ||||    TIMESTAMP  FUNCTION
 #              | |       |   ||||       |         |
         modprobe-2463  [002] ....   174.243237: alsa_seq_init &lt;-do_one_initcall
         modprobe-2463  [002] ....   174.243239: client_init_data &lt;-alsa_seq_init
         modprobe-2463  [002] ....   174.243240: snd_sequencer_memory_init &lt;-alsa_seq_init
         modprobe-2463  [002] ....   174.243240: snd_seq_queues_init &lt;-alsa_seq_init
         modprobe-2463  [002] ....   174.243240: snd_sequencer_device_init &lt;-alsa_seq_init
         modprobe-2463  [002] ....   174.244860: snd_seq_info_init &lt;-alsa_seq_init
         modprobe-2463  [002] ....   174.244861: create_info_entry &lt;-snd_seq_info_init
         modprobe-2463  [002] ....   174.244936: create_info_entry &lt;-snd_seq_info_init
         modprobe-2463  [002] ....   174.245003: create_info_entry &lt;-snd_seq_info_init
         modprobe-2463  [002] ....   174.245072: snd_seq_system_client_init &lt;-alsa_seq_init
         modprobe-2463  [002] ....   174.245094: snd_seq_create_kernel_client &lt;-snd_seq_system_client_init

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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If function tracing is active when the module init functions are freed, then
store them to be referenced by kallsyms. As module init functions can now be
traced on module load, they were useless:

 &gt;# echo ':mod:snd_seq' &gt; set_ftrace_filter
 &gt;# echo function &gt; current_tracer
 &gt;# modprobe snd_seq
 &gt;# cat trace
 # tracer: function
 #
 #                              _-----=&gt; irqs-off
 #                             / _----=&gt; need-resched
 #                            | / _---=&gt; hardirq/softirq
 #                            || / _--=&gt; preempt-depth
 #                            ||| /     delay
 #           TASK-PID   CPU#  ||||    TIMESTAMP  FUNCTION
 #              | |       |   ||||       |         |
         modprobe-2786  [000] ....  3189.037874: 0xffffffffa0860000 &lt;-do_one_initcall
         modprobe-2786  [000] ....  3189.037876: 0xffffffffa086004d &lt;-0xffffffffa086000f
         modprobe-2786  [000] ....  3189.037876: 0xffffffffa086010d &lt;-0xffffffffa0860018
         modprobe-2786  [000] ....  3189.037877: 0xffffffffa086011a &lt;-0xffffffffa0860021
         modprobe-2786  [000] ....  3189.037877: 0xffffffffa0860080 &lt;-0xffffffffa086002a
         modprobe-2786  [000] ....  3189.039523: 0xffffffffa0860400 &lt;-0xffffffffa0860033
         modprobe-2786  [000] ....  3189.039523: 0xffffffffa086038a &lt;-0xffffffffa086041c
         modprobe-2786  [000] ....  3189.039591: 0xffffffffa086038a &lt;-0xffffffffa0860436
         modprobe-2786  [000] ....  3189.039657: 0xffffffffa086038a &lt;-0xffffffffa0860450
         modprobe-2786  [000] ....  3189.039719: 0xffffffffa0860127 &lt;-0xffffffffa086003c
         modprobe-2786  [000] ....  3189.039742: snd_seq_create_kernel_client &lt;-0xffffffffa08601f6

When the output is shown, the kallsyms for the module init functions have
already been freed, and the output of the trace can not convert them to
their function names.

Now this looks like this:

 # tracer: function
 #
 #                              _-----=&gt; irqs-off
 #                             / _----=&gt; need-resched
 #                            | / _---=&gt; hardirq/softirq
 #                            || / _--=&gt; preempt-depth
 #                            ||| /     delay
 #           TASK-PID   CPU#  ||||    TIMESTAMP  FUNCTION
 #              | |       |   ||||       |         |
         modprobe-2463  [002] ....   174.243237: alsa_seq_init &lt;-do_one_initcall
         modprobe-2463  [002] ....   174.243239: client_init_data &lt;-alsa_seq_init
         modprobe-2463  [002] ....   174.243240: snd_sequencer_memory_init &lt;-alsa_seq_init
         modprobe-2463  [002] ....   174.243240: snd_seq_queues_init &lt;-alsa_seq_init
         modprobe-2463  [002] ....   174.243240: snd_sequencer_device_init &lt;-alsa_seq_init
         modprobe-2463  [002] ....   174.244860: snd_seq_info_init &lt;-alsa_seq_init
         modprobe-2463  [002] ....   174.244861: create_info_entry &lt;-snd_seq_info_init
         modprobe-2463  [002] ....   174.244936: create_info_entry &lt;-snd_seq_info_init
         modprobe-2463  [002] ....   174.245003: create_info_entry &lt;-snd_seq_info_init
         modprobe-2463  [002] ....   174.245072: snd_seq_system_client_init &lt;-alsa_seq_init
         modprobe-2463  [002] ....   174.245094: snd_seq_create_kernel_client &lt;-snd_seq_system_client_init

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ftrace: Add a ftrace_free_mem() function for modules to use</title>
<updated>2017-10-04T18:20:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (VMware)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-20T14:44:58+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=6cafbe159416822f6d3dfd711bf4c39050c650ba'/>
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In order to be able to trace module init functions, the module code needs to
tell ftrace what is being freed when the init sections are freed. Use the
code that the main init calls to tell ftrace to free the main init sections.
This requires passing in a start and end address to free.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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In order to be able to trace module init functions, the module code needs to
tell ftrace what is being freed when the init sections are freed. Use the
code that the main init calls to tell ftrace to free the main init sections.
This requires passing in a start and end address to free.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ftrace: Fix debug preempt config name in stack_tracer_{en,dis}able</title>
<updated>2017-08-31T19:49:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zev Weiss</name>
<email>zev@bewilderbeest.net</email>
</author>
<published>2017-08-30T10:36:38+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=60361e12d01676e23a8de89a5ef4a349ae97f616'/>
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stack_tracer_disable()/stack_tracer_enable() had been using the wrong
name for the config symbol to enable their preempt-debugging checks --
fix with a word swap.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170831154036.4xldyakmmhuts5x7@hatter.bewilderbeest.net

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 8aaf1ee70e ("tracing: Rename trace_active to disable_stack_tracer and inline its modification")
Signed-off-by: Zev Weiss &lt;zev@bewilderbeest.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<pre>
stack_tracer_disable()/stack_tracer_enable() had been using the wrong
name for the config symbol to enable their preempt-debugging checks --
fix with a word swap.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170831154036.4xldyakmmhuts5x7@hatter.bewilderbeest.net

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 8aaf1ee70e ("tracing: Rename trace_active to disable_stack_tracer and inline its modification")
Signed-off-by: Zev Weiss &lt;zev@bewilderbeest.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>trace: fix the errors caused by incompatible type of RCU variables</title>
<updated>2017-07-20T13:27:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chunyan Zhang</name>
<email>zhang.chunyan@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-07T08:12:51+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=f86f418059b94aa01f9342611a272ca60c583e89'/>
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The variables which are processed by RCU functions should be annotated
as RCU, otherwise sparse will report the errors like below:

"error: incompatible types in comparison expression (different
address spaces)"

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1496823171-7758-1-git-send-email-zhang.chunyan@linaro.org

Signed-off-by: Chunyan Zhang &lt;zhang.chunyan@linaro.org&gt;
[ Updated to not be 100% 80 column strict ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<pre>
The variables which are processed by RCU functions should be annotated
as RCU, otherwise sparse will report the errors like below:

"error: incompatible types in comparison expression (different
address spaces)"

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1496823171-7758-1-git-send-email-zhang.chunyan@linaro.org

Signed-off-by: Chunyan Zhang &lt;zhang.chunyan@linaro.org&gt;
[ Updated to not be 100% 80 column strict ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ftrace: Have cached module filters be an active filter</title>
<updated>2017-06-26T15:53:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (VMware)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-26T15:47:31+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=8c08f0d5c6fb10ff93ffb1cbf416f4f1c3a52a80'/>
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When a module filter is added to set_ftrace_filter, if the module is not
loaded, it is cached. This should be considered an active filter, and
function tracing should be filtered by this. That is, if a cached module
filter is the only filter set, then no function tracing should be happening,
as all the functions available will be filtered out.

This makes sense, as the reason to add a cached module filter, is to trace
the module when you load it. There shouldn't be any other tracing happening
until then.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
When a module filter is added to set_ftrace_filter, if the module is not
loaded, it is cached. This should be considered an active filter, and
function tracing should be filtered by this. That is, if a cached module
filter is the only filter set, then no function tracing should be happening,
as all the functions available will be filtered out.

This makes sense, as the reason to add a cached module filter, is to trace
the module when you load it. There shouldn't be any other tracing happening
until then.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
</pre>
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