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<title>Merge tag 'powerpc-5.14-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux</title>
<updated>2021-07-02T19:54:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-07-02T19:54:34+00:00</published>
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Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:

 - A big series refactoring parts of our KVM code, and converting some
   to C.

 - Support for ARCH_HAS_SET_MEMORY, and ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX on
   some CPUs.

 - Support for the Microwatt soft-core.

 - Optimisations to our interrupt return path on 64-bit.

 - Support for userspace access to the NX GZIP accelerator on PowerVM on
   Power10.

 - Enable KUAP and KUEP by default on 32-bit Book3S CPUs.

 - Other smaller features, fixes &amp; cleanups.

Thanks to: Andy Shevchenko, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Arnd Bergmann, Athira
Rajeev, Baokun Li, Benjamin Herrenschmidt, Bharata B Rao, Christophe
Leroy, Daniel Axtens, Daniel Henrique Barboza, Finn Thain, Geoff Levand,
Haren Myneni, Jason Wang, Jiapeng Chong, Joel Stanley, Jordan Niethe,
Kajol Jain, Nathan Chancellor, Nathan Lynch, Naveen N. Rao, Nicholas
Piggin, Nick Desaulniers, Paul Mackerras, Russell Currey, Sathvika
Vasireddy, Shaokun Zhang, Stephen Rothwell, Sudeep Holla, Suraj Jitindar
Singh, Tom Rix, Vaibhav Jain, YueHaibing, Zhang Jianhua, and Zhen Lei.

* tag 'powerpc-5.14-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (218 commits)
  powerpc: Only build restart_table.c for 64s
  powerpc/64s: move ret_from_fork etc above __end_soft_masked
  powerpc/64s/interrupt: clean up interrupt return labels
  powerpc/64/interrupt: add missing kprobe annotations on interrupt exit symbols
  powerpc/64: enable MSR[EE] in irq replay pt_regs
  powerpc/64s/interrupt: preserve regs-&gt;softe for NMI interrupts
  powerpc/64s: add a table of implicit soft-masked addresses
  powerpc/64e: remove implicit soft-masking and interrupt exit restart logic
  powerpc/64e: fix CONFIG_RELOCATABLE build warnings
  powerpc/64s: fix hash page fault interrupt handler
  powerpc/4xx: Fix setup_kuep() on SMP
  powerpc/32s: Fix setup_{kuap/kuep}() on SMP
  powerpc/interrupt: Use names in check_return_regs_valid()
  powerpc/interrupt: Also use exit_must_hard_disable() on PPC32
  powerpc/sysfs: Replace sizeof(arr)/sizeof(arr[0]) with ARRAY_SIZE
  powerpc/ptrace: Refactor regs_set_return_{msr/ip}
  powerpc/ptrace: Move set_return_regs_changed() before regs_set_return_{msr/ip}
  powerpc/stacktrace: Fix spurious "stale" traces in raise_backtrace_ipi()
  powerpc/pseries/vas: Include irqdomain.h
  powerpc: mark local variables around longjmp as volatile
  ...
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Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:

 - A big series refactoring parts of our KVM code, and converting some
   to C.

 - Support for ARCH_HAS_SET_MEMORY, and ARCH_HAS_STRICT_MODULE_RWX on
   some CPUs.

 - Support for the Microwatt soft-core.

 - Optimisations to our interrupt return path on 64-bit.

 - Support for userspace access to the NX GZIP accelerator on PowerVM on
   Power10.

 - Enable KUAP and KUEP by default on 32-bit Book3S CPUs.

 - Other smaller features, fixes &amp; cleanups.

Thanks to: Andy Shevchenko, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Arnd Bergmann, Athira
Rajeev, Baokun Li, Benjamin Herrenschmidt, Bharata B Rao, Christophe
Leroy, Daniel Axtens, Daniel Henrique Barboza, Finn Thain, Geoff Levand,
Haren Myneni, Jason Wang, Jiapeng Chong, Joel Stanley, Jordan Niethe,
Kajol Jain, Nathan Chancellor, Nathan Lynch, Naveen N. Rao, Nicholas
Piggin, Nick Desaulniers, Paul Mackerras, Russell Currey, Sathvika
Vasireddy, Shaokun Zhang, Stephen Rothwell, Sudeep Holla, Suraj Jitindar
Singh, Tom Rix, Vaibhav Jain, YueHaibing, Zhang Jianhua, and Zhen Lei.

* tag 'powerpc-5.14-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (218 commits)
  powerpc: Only build restart_table.c for 64s
  powerpc/64s: move ret_from_fork etc above __end_soft_masked
  powerpc/64s/interrupt: clean up interrupt return labels
  powerpc/64/interrupt: add missing kprobe annotations on interrupt exit symbols
  powerpc/64: enable MSR[EE] in irq replay pt_regs
  powerpc/64s/interrupt: preserve regs-&gt;softe for NMI interrupts
  powerpc/64s: add a table of implicit soft-masked addresses
  powerpc/64e: remove implicit soft-masking and interrupt exit restart logic
  powerpc/64e: fix CONFIG_RELOCATABLE build warnings
  powerpc/64s: fix hash page fault interrupt handler
  powerpc/4xx: Fix setup_kuep() on SMP
  powerpc/32s: Fix setup_{kuap/kuep}() on SMP
  powerpc/interrupt: Use names in check_return_regs_valid()
  powerpc/interrupt: Also use exit_must_hard_disable() on PPC32
  powerpc/sysfs: Replace sizeof(arr)/sizeof(arr[0]) with ARRAY_SIZE
  powerpc/ptrace: Refactor regs_set_return_{msr/ip}
  powerpc/ptrace: Move set_return_regs_changed() before regs_set_return_{msr/ip}
  powerpc/stacktrace: Fix spurious "stale" traces in raise_backtrace_ipi()
  powerpc/pseries/vas: Include irqdomain.h
  powerpc: mark local variables around longjmp as volatile
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)</title>
<updated>2021-07-02T19:08:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-07-02T19:08:10+00:00</published>
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Merge more updates from Andrew Morton:
 "190 patches.

  Subsystems affected by this patch series: mm (hugetlb, userfaultfd,
  vmscan, kconfig, proc, z3fold, zbud, ras, mempolicy, memblock,
  migration, thp, nommu, kconfig, madvise, memory-hotplug, zswap,
  zsmalloc, zram, cleanups, kfence, and hmm), procfs, sysctl, misc,
  core-kernel, lib, lz4, checkpatch, init, kprobes, nilfs2, hfs,
  signals, exec, kcov, selftests, compress/decompress, and ipc"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (190 commits)
  ipc/util.c: use binary search for max_idx
  ipc/sem.c: use READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() for use_global_lock
  ipc: use kmalloc for msg_queue and shmid_kernel
  ipc sem: use kvmalloc for sem_undo allocation
  lib/decompressors: remove set but not used variabled 'level'
  selftests/vm/pkeys: exercise x86 XSAVE init state
  selftests/vm/pkeys: refill shadow register after implicit kernel write
  selftests/vm/pkeys: handle negative sys_pkey_alloc() return code
  selftests/vm/pkeys: fix alloc_random_pkey() to make it really, really random
  kcov: add __no_sanitize_coverage to fix noinstr for all architectures
  exec: remove checks in __register_bimfmt()
  x86: signal: don't do sas_ss_reset() until we are certain that sigframe won't be abandoned
  hfsplus: report create_date to kstat.btime
  hfsplus: remove unnecessary oom message
  nilfs2: remove redundant continue statement in a while-loop
  kprobes: remove duplicated strong free_insn_page in x86 and s390
  init: print out unknown kernel parameters
  checkpatch: do not complain about positive return values starting with EPOLL
  checkpatch: improve the indented label test
  checkpatch: scripts/spdxcheck.py now requires python3
  ...
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Merge more updates from Andrew Morton:
 "190 patches.

  Subsystems affected by this patch series: mm (hugetlb, userfaultfd,
  vmscan, kconfig, proc, z3fold, zbud, ras, mempolicy, memblock,
  migration, thp, nommu, kconfig, madvise, memory-hotplug, zswap,
  zsmalloc, zram, cleanups, kfence, and hmm), procfs, sysctl, misc,
  core-kernel, lib, lz4, checkpatch, init, kprobes, nilfs2, hfs,
  signals, exec, kcov, selftests, compress/decompress, and ipc"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (190 commits)
  ipc/util.c: use binary search for max_idx
  ipc/sem.c: use READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() for use_global_lock
  ipc: use kmalloc for msg_queue and shmid_kernel
  ipc sem: use kvmalloc for sem_undo allocation
  lib/decompressors: remove set but not used variabled 'level'
  selftests/vm/pkeys: exercise x86 XSAVE init state
  selftests/vm/pkeys: refill shadow register after implicit kernel write
  selftests/vm/pkeys: handle negative sys_pkey_alloc() return code
  selftests/vm/pkeys: fix alloc_random_pkey() to make it really, really random
  kcov: add __no_sanitize_coverage to fix noinstr for all architectures
  exec: remove checks in __register_bimfmt()
  x86: signal: don't do sas_ss_reset() until we are certain that sigframe won't be abandoned
  hfsplus: report create_date to kstat.btime
  hfsplus: remove unnecessary oom message
  nilfs2: remove redundant continue statement in a while-loop
  kprobes: remove duplicated strong free_insn_page in x86 and s390
  init: print out unknown kernel parameters
  checkpatch: do not complain about positive return values starting with EPOLL
  checkpatch: improve the indented label test
  checkpatch: scripts/spdxcheck.py now requires python3
  ...
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<entry>
<title>kprobes: remove duplicated strong free_insn_page in x86 and s390</title>
<updated>2021-07-01T18:06:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Barry Song</name>
<email>song.bao.hua@hisilicon.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-07-01T01:56:31+00:00</published>
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free_insn_page() in x86 and s390 is same with the common weak function in
kernel/kprobes.c.  Plus, the comment "Recover page to RW mode before
releasing it" in x86 seems insensible to be there since resetting mapping
is done by common code in vfree() of module_memfree().  So drop these two
duplicated strong functions and related comment, then mark the common one
in kernel/kprobes.c strong.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210608065736.32656-1-song.bao.hua@hisilicon.com
Signed-off-by: Barry Song &lt;song.bao.hua@hisilicon.com&gt;
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: "Naveen N. Rao" &lt;naveen.n.rao@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy &lt;anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Qi Liu &lt;liuqi115@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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free_insn_page() in x86 and s390 is same with the common weak function in
kernel/kprobes.c.  Plus, the comment "Recover page to RW mode before
releasing it" in x86 seems insensible to be there since resetting mapping
is done by common code in vfree() of module_memfree().  So drop these two
duplicated strong functions and related comment, then mark the common one
in kernel/kprobes.c strong.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210608065736.32656-1-song.bao.hua@hisilicon.com
Signed-off-by: Barry Song &lt;song.bao.hua@hisilicon.com&gt;
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: "Naveen N. Rao" &lt;naveen.n.rao@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy &lt;anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Qi Liu &lt;liuqi115@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>kprobes: Remove kprobe::fault_handler</title>
<updated>2021-06-01T14:00:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-05-25T07:25:19+00:00</published>
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The reason for kprobe::fault_handler(), as given by their comment:

 * We come here because instructions in the pre/post
 * handler caused the page_fault, this could happen
 * if handler tries to access user space by
 * copy_from_user(), get_user() etc. Let the
 * user-specified handler try to fix it first.

Is just plain bad. Those other handlers are ran from non-preemptible
context and had better use _nofault() functions. Also, there is no
upstream usage of this.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210525073213.561116662@infradead.org
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The reason for kprobe::fault_handler(), as given by their comment:

 * We come here because instructions in the pre/post
 * handler caused the page_fault, this could happen
 * if handler tries to access user space by
 * copy_from_user(), get_user() etc. Let the
 * user-specified handler try to fix it first.

Is just plain bad. Those other handlers are ran from non-preemptible
context and had better use _nofault() functions. Also, there is no
upstream usage of this.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210525073213.561116662@infradead.org
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<entry>
<title>kprobes: Allow architectures to override optinsn page allocation</title>
<updated>2021-05-23T10:51:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christophe Leroy</name>
<email>christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu</email>
</author>
<published>2021-05-13T09:07:51+00:00</published>
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Some architectures like powerpc require a non standard
allocation of optinsn page, because module pages are
too far from the kernel for direct branches.

Define weak alloc_optinsn_page() and free_optinsn_page(), that
fall back on alloc_insn_page() and free_insn_page() when not
overridden by the architecture.

Suggested-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Reviewed-by: Naveen N. Rao &lt;naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/40a43d6df1fdf41ade36e9a46e60a4df774ca9f6.1620896780.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu

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Some architectures like powerpc require a non standard
allocation of optinsn page, because module pages are
too far from the kernel for direct branches.

Define weak alloc_optinsn_page() and free_optinsn_page(), that
fall back on alloc_insn_page() and free_insn_page() when not
overridden by the architecture.

Suggested-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu&gt;
Reviewed-by: Naveen N. Rao &lt;naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/40a43d6df1fdf41ade36e9a46e60a4df774ca9f6.1620896780.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu

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<entry>
<title>tracing/kprobe: Fix to support kretprobe events on unloaded modules</title>
<updated>2021-01-29T20:39:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masami Hiramatsu</name>
<email>mhiramat@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-01-27T15:37:51+00:00</published>
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Fix kprobe_on_func_entry() returns error code instead of false so that
register_kretprobe() can return an appropriate error code.

append_trace_kprobe() expects the kprobe registration returns -ENOENT
when the target symbol is not found, and it checks whether the target
module is unloaded or not. If the target module doesn't exist, it
defers to probe the target symbol until the module is loaded.

However, since register_kretprobe() returns -EINVAL instead of -ENOENT
in that case, it always fail on putting the kretprobe event on unloaded
modules. e.g.

Kprobe event:
/sys/kernel/debug/tracing # echo p xfs:xfs_end_io &gt;&gt; kprobe_events
[   16.515574] trace_kprobe: This probe might be able to register after target module is loaded. Continue.

Kretprobe event: (p -&gt; r)
/sys/kernel/debug/tracing # echo r xfs:xfs_end_io &gt;&gt; kprobe_events
sh: write error: Invalid argument
/sys/kernel/debug/tracing # cat error_log
[   41.122514] trace_kprobe: error: Failed to register probe event
  Command: r xfs:xfs_end_io
             ^

To fix this bug, change kprobe_on_func_entry() to detect symbol lookup
failure and return -ENOENT in that case. Otherwise it returns -EINVAL
or 0 (succeeded, given address is on the entry).

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/161176187132.1067016.8118042342894378981.stgit@devnote2

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 59158ec4aef7 ("tracing/kprobes: Check the probe on unloaded module correctly")
Reported-by: Jianlin Lv &lt;Jianlin.Lv@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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Fix kprobe_on_func_entry() returns error code instead of false so that
register_kretprobe() can return an appropriate error code.

append_trace_kprobe() expects the kprobe registration returns -ENOENT
when the target symbol is not found, and it checks whether the target
module is unloaded or not. If the target module doesn't exist, it
defers to probe the target symbol until the module is loaded.

However, since register_kretprobe() returns -EINVAL instead of -ENOENT
in that case, it always fail on putting the kretprobe event on unloaded
modules. e.g.

Kprobe event:
/sys/kernel/debug/tracing # echo p xfs:xfs_end_io &gt;&gt; kprobe_events
[   16.515574] trace_kprobe: This probe might be able to register after target module is loaded. Continue.

Kretprobe event: (p -&gt; r)
/sys/kernel/debug/tracing # echo r xfs:xfs_end_io &gt;&gt; kprobe_events
sh: write error: Invalid argument
/sys/kernel/debug/tracing # cat error_log
[   41.122514] trace_kprobe: error: Failed to register probe event
  Command: r xfs:xfs_end_io
             ^

To fix this bug, change kprobe_on_func_entry() to detect symbol lookup
failure and return -ENOENT in that case. Otherwise it returns -EINVAL
or 0 (succeeded, given address is on the entry).

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/161176187132.1067016.8118042342894378981.stgit@devnote2

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 59158ec4aef7 ("tracing/kprobes: Check the probe on unloaded module correctly")
Reported-by: Jianlin Lv &lt;Jianlin.Lv@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'trace-v5.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2020-12-17T21:22:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-12-17T21:22:17+00:00</published>
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Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
 "The major update to this release is that there's a new arch config
  option called CONFIG_HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS.

  Currently, only x86_64 enables it. All the ftrace callbacks now take a
  struct ftrace_regs instead of a struct pt_regs. If the architecture
  has HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS enabled, then the ftrace_regs will
  have enough information to read the arguments of the function being
  traced, as well as access to the stack pointer.

  This way, if a user (like live kernel patching) only cares about the
  arguments, then it can avoid using the heavier weight "regs" callback,
  that puts in enough information in the struct ftrace_regs to simulate
  a breakpoint exception (needed for kprobes).

  A new config option that audits the timestamps of the ftrace ring
  buffer at most every event recorded.

  Ftrace recursion protection has been cleaned up to move the protection
  to the callback itself (this saves on an extra function call for those
  callbacks).

  Perf now handles its own RCU protection and does not depend on ftrace
  to do it for it (saving on that extra function call).

  New debug option to add "recursed_functions" file to tracefs that
  lists all the places that triggered the recursion protection of the
  function tracer. This will show where things need to be fixed as
  recursion slows down the function tracer.

  The eval enum mapping updates done at boot up are now offloaded to a
  work queue, as it caused a noticeable pause on slow embedded boards.

  Various clean ups and last minute fixes"

* tag 'trace-v5.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (33 commits)
  tracing: Offload eval map updates to a work queue
  Revert: "ring-buffer: Remove HAVE_64BIT_ALIGNED_ACCESS"
  ring-buffer: Add rb_check_bpage in __rb_allocate_pages
  ring-buffer: Fix two typos in comments
  tracing: Drop unneeded assignment in ring_buffer_resize()
  tracing: Disable ftrace selftests when any tracer is running
  seq_buf: Avoid type mismatch for seq_buf_init
  ring-buffer: Fix a typo in function description
  ring-buffer: Remove obsolete rb_event_is_commit()
  ring-buffer: Add test to validate the time stamp deltas
  ftrace/documentation: Fix RST C code blocks
  tracing: Clean up after filter logic rewriting
  tracing: Remove the useless value assignment in test_create_synth_event()
  livepatch: Use the default ftrace_ops instead of REGS when ARGS is available
  ftrace/x86: Allow for arguments to be passed in to ftrace_regs by default
  ftrace: Have the callbacks receive a struct ftrace_regs instead of pt_regs
  MAINTAINERS: assign ./fs/tracefs to TRACING
  tracing: Fix some typos in comments
  ftrace: Remove unused varible 'ret'
  ring-buffer: Add recording of ring buffer recursion into recursed_functions
  ...
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Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
 "The major update to this release is that there's a new arch config
  option called CONFIG_HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS.

  Currently, only x86_64 enables it. All the ftrace callbacks now take a
  struct ftrace_regs instead of a struct pt_regs. If the architecture
  has HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS enabled, then the ftrace_regs will
  have enough information to read the arguments of the function being
  traced, as well as access to the stack pointer.

  This way, if a user (like live kernel patching) only cares about the
  arguments, then it can avoid using the heavier weight "regs" callback,
  that puts in enough information in the struct ftrace_regs to simulate
  a breakpoint exception (needed for kprobes).

  A new config option that audits the timestamps of the ftrace ring
  buffer at most every event recorded.

  Ftrace recursion protection has been cleaned up to move the protection
  to the callback itself (this saves on an extra function call for those
  callbacks).

  Perf now handles its own RCU protection and does not depend on ftrace
  to do it for it (saving on that extra function call).

  New debug option to add "recursed_functions" file to tracefs that
  lists all the places that triggered the recursion protection of the
  function tracer. This will show where things need to be fixed as
  recursion slows down the function tracer.

  The eval enum mapping updates done at boot up are now offloaded to a
  work queue, as it caused a noticeable pause on slow embedded boards.

  Various clean ups and last minute fixes"

* tag 'trace-v5.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (33 commits)
  tracing: Offload eval map updates to a work queue
  Revert: "ring-buffer: Remove HAVE_64BIT_ALIGNED_ACCESS"
  ring-buffer: Add rb_check_bpage in __rb_allocate_pages
  ring-buffer: Fix two typos in comments
  tracing: Drop unneeded assignment in ring_buffer_resize()
  tracing: Disable ftrace selftests when any tracer is running
  seq_buf: Avoid type mismatch for seq_buf_init
  ring-buffer: Fix a typo in function description
  ring-buffer: Remove obsolete rb_event_is_commit()
  ring-buffer: Add test to validate the time stamp deltas
  ftrace/documentation: Fix RST C code blocks
  tracing: Clean up after filter logic rewriting
  tracing: Remove the useless value assignment in test_create_synth_event()
  livepatch: Use the default ftrace_ops instead of REGS when ARGS is available
  ftrace/x86: Allow for arguments to be passed in to ftrace_regs by default
  ftrace: Have the callbacks receive a struct ftrace_regs instead of pt_regs
  MAINTAINERS: assign ./fs/tracefs to TRACING
  tracing: Fix some typos in comments
  ftrace: Remove unused varible 'ret'
  ring-buffer: Add recording of ring buffer recursion into recursed_functions
  ...
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<entry>
<title>ftrace: Have the callbacks receive a struct ftrace_regs instead of pt_regs</title>
<updated>2020-11-13T17:14:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (VMware)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-10-28T21:42:17+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=d19ad0775dcd64b49eecf4fa79c17959ebfbd26b'/>
<id>d19ad0775dcd64b49eecf4fa79c17959ebfbd26b</id>
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In preparation to have arguments of a function passed to callbacks attached
to functions as default, change the default callback prototype to receive a
struct ftrace_regs as the forth parameter instead of a pt_regs.

For callbacks that set the FL_SAVE_REGS flag in their ftrace_ops flags, they
will now need to get the pt_regs via a ftrace_get_regs() helper call. If
this is called by a callback that their ftrace_ops did not have a
FL_SAVE_REGS flag set, it that helper function will return NULL.

This will allow the ftrace_regs to hold enough just to get the parameters
and stack pointer, but without the worry that callbacks may have a pt_regs
that is not completely filled.

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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In preparation to have arguments of a function passed to callbacks attached
to functions as default, change the default callback prototype to receive a
struct ftrace_regs as the forth parameter instead of a pt_regs.

For callbacks that set the FL_SAVE_REGS flag in their ftrace_ops flags, they
will now need to get the pt_regs via a ftrace_get_regs() helper call. If
this is called by a callback that their ftrace_ops did not have a
FL_SAVE_REGS flag set, it that helper function will return NULL.

This will allow the ftrace_regs to hold enough just to get the parameters
and stack pointer, but without the worry that callbacks may have a pt_regs
that is not completely filled.

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'linus' into perf/kprobes</title>
<updated>2020-11-07T12:18:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-11-07T12:18:49+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=0a986ea81e1aa8ac17e82cda53cc95158217956e'/>
<id>0a986ea81e1aa8ac17e82cda53cc95158217956e</id>
<content type='text'>
Merge recent kprobes updates into perf/kprobes that came from -mm.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Merge recent kprobes updates into perf/kprobes that came from -mm.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'perf-kprobes-2020-10-12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2020-10-12T21:21:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-10-12T21:21:15+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=1c6890707eb1438b0fb4e0a10d4afe48a217628b'/>
<id>1c6890707eb1438b0fb4e0a10d4afe48a217628b</id>
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Pull perf/kprobes updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "This prepares to unify the kretprobe trampoline handler and make
  kretprobe lockless (those patches are still work in progress)"

* tag 'perf-kprobes-2020-10-12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  kprobes: Fix to check probe enabled before disarm_kprobe_ftrace()
  kprobes: Make local functions static
  kprobes: Free kretprobe_instance with RCU callback
  kprobes: Remove NMI context check
  sparc: kprobes: Use generic kretprobe trampoline handler
  sh: kprobes: Use generic kretprobe trampoline handler
  s390: kprobes: Use generic kretprobe trampoline handler
  powerpc: kprobes: Use generic kretprobe trampoline handler
  parisc: kprobes: Use generic kretprobe trampoline handler
  mips: kprobes: Use generic kretprobe trampoline handler
  ia64: kprobes: Use generic kretprobe trampoline handler
  csky: kprobes: Use generic kretprobe trampoline handler
  arc: kprobes: Use generic kretprobe trampoline handler
  arm64: kprobes: Use generic kretprobe trampoline handler
  arm: kprobes: Use generic kretprobe trampoline handler
  x86/kprobes: Use generic kretprobe trampoline handler
  kprobes: Add generic kretprobe trampoline handler
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<pre>
Pull perf/kprobes updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "This prepares to unify the kretprobe trampoline handler and make
  kretprobe lockless (those patches are still work in progress)"

* tag 'perf-kprobes-2020-10-12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  kprobes: Fix to check probe enabled before disarm_kprobe_ftrace()
  kprobes: Make local functions static
  kprobes: Free kretprobe_instance with RCU callback
  kprobes: Remove NMI context check
  sparc: kprobes: Use generic kretprobe trampoline handler
  sh: kprobes: Use generic kretprobe trampoline handler
  s390: kprobes: Use generic kretprobe trampoline handler
  powerpc: kprobes: Use generic kretprobe trampoline handler
  parisc: kprobes: Use generic kretprobe trampoline handler
  mips: kprobes: Use generic kretprobe trampoline handler
  ia64: kprobes: Use generic kretprobe trampoline handler
  csky: kprobes: Use generic kretprobe trampoline handler
  arc: kprobes: Use generic kretprobe trampoline handler
  arm64: kprobes: Use generic kretprobe trampoline handler
  arm: kprobes: Use generic kretprobe trampoline handler
  x86/kprobes: Use generic kretprobe trampoline handler
  kprobes: Add generic kretprobe trampoline handler
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