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<title>linux.git/kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c, branch v7.2-rc2</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<title>tracing/osnoise: Array printk init and cleanup</title>
<updated>2026-05-29T14:40:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Crystal Wood</name>
<email>crwood@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-05-11T22:30:35+00:00</published>
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None of the calls to trace_array_printk_buf() will do anything
if we don't initialize the buffer on instance creation (unless
some other tracer called it), so do that.

Add an osnoise_print() function to facilitate adding debug prints
(without tainting).

Use trace_array_printk() instead of trace_array_printk_buf(), as we're
only writing to the main buffer (of a non-main instance) anyway -- and
trace_array_printk_buf() skips the check to make sure we're not printing
to the global instance.

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260511223035.1475676-1-crwood@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Crystal Wood &lt;crwood@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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None of the calls to trace_array_printk_buf() will do anything
if we don't initialize the buffer on instance creation (unless
some other tracer called it), so do that.

Add an osnoise_print() function to facilitate adding debug prints
(without tainting).

Use trace_array_printk() instead of trace_array_printk_buf(), as we're
only writing to the main buffer (of a non-main instance) anyway -- and
trace_array_printk_buf() skips the check to make sure we're not printing
to the global instance.

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260511223035.1475676-1-crwood@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Crystal Wood &lt;crwood@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing/osnoise: Dump stack on timerlat uret threshold event</title>
<updated>2026-05-20T20:29:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Crystal Wood</name>
<email>crwood@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-05-11T22:31:43+00:00</published>
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Dump the saved IRQ stack trace regardless of whether the event was
THREAD_CONTEXT or THREAD_URET.

In the uret case, the latency presumably had not yet crossed the
threshold at IRQ time (or else it would have dumped the stack at thread
wakeup time, unless we're racing with a change to the threshold), but it
may have at least contributed -- and this is possible with THREAD_CONTEXT
as well.

In any case, it helps with writing reliable rtla tests if we always get
a stack trace on a threshold event.

Cc: John Kacur &lt;jkacur@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Tomas Glozar &lt;tglozar@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Costa Shulyupin &lt;costa.shul@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Wander Lairson Costa &lt;wander@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260511223143.1477332-1-crwood@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Crystal Wood &lt;crwood@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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Dump the saved IRQ stack trace regardless of whether the event was
THREAD_CONTEXT or THREAD_URET.

In the uret case, the latency presumably had not yet crossed the
threshold at IRQ time (or else it would have dumped the stack at thread
wakeup time, unless we're racing with a change to the threshold), but it
may have at least contributed -- and this is possible with THREAD_CONTEXT
as well.

In any case, it helps with writing reliable rtla tests if we always get
a stack trace on a threshold event.

Cc: John Kacur &lt;jkacur@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Tomas Glozar &lt;tglozar@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Costa Shulyupin &lt;costa.shul@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Wander Lairson Costa &lt;wander@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260511223143.1477332-1-crwood@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Crystal Wood &lt;crwood@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'trace-latency-v7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2026-04-17T17:12:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-17T17:12:11+00:00</published>
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Pull tracing latency update from Steven Rostedt:

 - Add TIMERLAT_ALIGN osnoise option

   Add a timer alignment option for timerlat that makes it work like the
   cyclictest -A option. timelat creates threads to test the latency of
   the kernel. The alignment option will have these threads trigger at
   the alignment offsets from each other. Instead of having each thread
   wake up at the exact same time, if the alignment is set to "20" each
   thread will wake up at 20 microseconds from the previous one.

* tag 'trace-latency-v7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
  tracing/osnoise: Add option to align tlat threads
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Pull tracing latency update from Steven Rostedt:

 - Add TIMERLAT_ALIGN osnoise option

   Add a timer alignment option for timerlat that makes it work like the
   cyclictest -A option. timelat creates threads to test the latency of
   the kernel. The alignment option will have these threads trigger at
   the alignment offsets from each other. Instead of having each thread
   wake up at the exact same time, if the alignment is set to "20" each
   thread will wake up at 20 microseconds from the previous one.

* tag 'trace-latency-v7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
  tracing/osnoise: Add option to align tlat threads
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<entry>
<title>tracing/osnoise: Add option to align tlat threads</title>
<updated>2026-04-16T14:42:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tomas Glozar</name>
<email>tglozar@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-16T11:59:42+00:00</published>
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Add an option called TIMERLAT_ALIGN to osnoise/options, together with a
corresponding setting osnoise/timerlat_align_us.

This option sets the alignment of wakeup times between different
timerlat threads, similarly to cyclictest's -A/--aligned option. If
TIMERLAT_ALIGN is set, the first thread that reaches the first cycle
records its first wake-up time. Each following thread sets its first
wake-up time to a fixed offset from the recorded time, and increments
it by the same offset.

Example:

osnoise/timerlat_period is set to 1000, osnoise/timerlat_align_us is
set to 20. There are four threads, on CPUs 1 to 4.

- CPU 4 enters first cycle first. The current time is 20000us, so
the wake-up of the first cycle is set to 21000us. This time is recorded.
- CPU 2 enter first cycle next. It reads the recorded time, increments
it to 21020us, and uses this value as its own wake-up time for the first
cycle.
- CPU 3 enters first cycle next. It reads the recorded time, increments
it to 21040 us, and uses the value as its own wake-up time.
- CPU 1 proceeds analogically.

In each next cycle, the wake-up time (called "absolute period" in
timerlat code) is incremented by the (relative) period of 1000us. Thus,
the wake-ups in the following cycles (provided the times are reached and
not in the past) will be as follows:

CPU 1		CPU 2		CPU 3	 	CPU 4
21080us		21020us		21040us		21000us
22080us		22020us		22040us		22000us
...		...		...		...

Even if any cycle is skipped due to e.g. the first cycle calculation
happening later, the alignment stays in place.

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: John Kacur &lt;jkacur@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Luis Goncalves &lt;lgoncalv@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Costa Shulyupin &lt;costa.shul@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260416115942.544032-1-tglozar@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Tomas Glozar &lt;tglozar@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Wander Lairson Costa &lt;wander@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Crystal Wood &lt;crwood@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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Add an option called TIMERLAT_ALIGN to osnoise/options, together with a
corresponding setting osnoise/timerlat_align_us.

This option sets the alignment of wakeup times between different
timerlat threads, similarly to cyclictest's -A/--aligned option. If
TIMERLAT_ALIGN is set, the first thread that reaches the first cycle
records its first wake-up time. Each following thread sets its first
wake-up time to a fixed offset from the recorded time, and increments
it by the same offset.

Example:

osnoise/timerlat_period is set to 1000, osnoise/timerlat_align_us is
set to 20. There are four threads, on CPUs 1 to 4.

- CPU 4 enters first cycle first. The current time is 20000us, so
the wake-up of the first cycle is set to 21000us. This time is recorded.
- CPU 2 enter first cycle next. It reads the recorded time, increments
it to 21020us, and uses this value as its own wake-up time for the first
cycle.
- CPU 3 enters first cycle next. It reads the recorded time, increments
it to 21040 us, and uses the value as its own wake-up time.
- CPU 1 proceeds analogically.

In each next cycle, the wake-up time (called "absolute period" in
timerlat code) is incremented by the (relative) period of 1000us. Thus,
the wake-ups in the following cycles (provided the times are reached and
not in the past) will be as follows:

CPU 1		CPU 2		CPU 3	 	CPU 4
21080us		21020us		21040us		21000us
22080us		22020us		22040us		22000us
...		...		...		...

Even if any cycle is skipped due to e.g. the first cycle calculation
happening later, the alignment stays in place.

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: John Kacur &lt;jkacur@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Luis Goncalves &lt;lgoncalv@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Costa Shulyupin &lt;costa.shul@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260416115942.544032-1-tglozar@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Tomas Glozar &lt;tglozar@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Wander Lairson Costa &lt;wander@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Crystal Wood &lt;crwood@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Fix potential deadlock in cpu hotplug with osnoise</title>
<updated>2026-03-27T19:18:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Luo Haiyang</name>
<email>luo.haiyang@zte.com.cn</email>
</author>
<published>2026-03-26T06:19:53+00:00</published>
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The following sequence may leads deadlock in cpu hotplug:

    task1        task2        task3
    -----        -----        -----

 mutex_lock(&amp;interface_lock)

            [CPU GOING OFFLINE]

            cpus_write_lock();
            osnoise_cpu_die();
              kthread_stop(task3);
                wait_for_completion();

                      osnoise_sleep();
                        mutex_lock(&amp;interface_lock);

 cpus_read_lock();

 [DEAD LOCK]

Fix by swap the order of cpus_read_lock() and mutex_lock(&amp;interface_lock).

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;zhang.run@zte.com.cn&gt;
Cc: &lt;yang.tao172@zte.com.cn&gt;
Cc: &lt;ran.xiaokai@zte.com.cn&gt;
Fixes: bce29ac9ce0bb ("trace: Add osnoise tracer")
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260326141953414bVSj33dAYktqp9Oiyizq8@zte.com.cn
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luo Haiyang &lt;luo.haiyang@zte.com.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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The following sequence may leads deadlock in cpu hotplug:

    task1        task2        task3
    -----        -----        -----

 mutex_lock(&amp;interface_lock)

            [CPU GOING OFFLINE]

            cpus_write_lock();
            osnoise_cpu_die();
              kthread_stop(task3);
                wait_for_completion();

                      osnoise_sleep();
                        mutex_lock(&amp;interface_lock);

 cpus_read_lock();

 [DEAD LOCK]

Fix by swap the order of cpus_read_lock() and mutex_lock(&amp;interface_lock).

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;zhang.run@zte.com.cn&gt;
Cc: &lt;yang.tao172@zte.com.cn&gt;
Cc: &lt;ran.xiaokai@zte.com.cn&gt;
Fixes: bce29ac9ce0bb ("trace: Add osnoise tracer")
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260326141953414bVSj33dAYktqp9Oiyizq8@zte.com.cn
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luo Haiyang &lt;luo.haiyang@zte.com.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument</title>
<updated>2026-02-22T01:09:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-22T00:37:42+00:00</published>
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This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using

    git grep -l '\&lt;k[vmz]*alloc_objs*(.*, GFP_KERNEL)' |
        xargs sed -i 's/\(alloc_objs*(.*\), GFP_KERNEL)/\1)/'

to convert the new alloc_obj() users that had a simple GFP_KERNEL
argument to just drop that argument.

Note that due to the extreme simplicity of the scripting, any slightly
more complex cases spread over multiple lines would not be triggered:
they definitely exist, but this covers the vast bulk of the cases, and
the resulting diff is also then easier to check automatically.

For the same reason the 'flex' versions will be done as a separate
conversion.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using

    git grep -l '\&lt;k[vmz]*alloc_objs*(.*, GFP_KERNEL)' |
        xargs sed -i 's/\(alloc_objs*(.*\), GFP_KERNEL)/\1)/'

to convert the new alloc_obj() users that had a simple GFP_KERNEL
argument to just drop that argument.

Note that due to the extreme simplicity of the scripting, any slightly
more complex cases spread over multiple lines would not be triggered:
they definitely exist, but this covers the vast bulk of the cases, and
the resulting diff is also then easier to check automatically.

For the same reason the 'flex' versions will be done as a separate
conversion.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types</title>
<updated>2026-02-21T09:02:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>kees@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-21T07:49:23+00:00</published>
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This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to
avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and
instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union
object instances:

Single allocations:	kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)

Array allocations:	kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)

Flex array allocations:	kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)

(where TYPE may also be *VAR)

The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning
"TYPE *".

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
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This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to
avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and
instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union
object instances:

Single allocations:	kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)

Array allocations:	kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)

Flex array allocations:	kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)

(where TYPE may also be *VAR)

The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning
"TYPE *".

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Fix multiple typos in trace_osnoise.c</title>
<updated>2025-12-05T20:43:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Maurice Hieronymus</name>
<email>mhi@mailbox.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-11-21T22:18:33+00:00</published>
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Fix multiple typos in comments:
"Anotate" -&gt; "Annotate"
"infor" -&gt; "info"
"timestemp" -&gt; "timestamp"
"tread" -&gt; "thread"
"varaibles" -&gt; "variables"
"wast" -&gt; "waste"

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251121221835.28032-13-mhi@mailbox.org
Signed-off-by: Maurice Hieronymus &lt;mhi@mailbox.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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Fix multiple typos in comments:
"Anotate" -&gt; "Annotate"
"infor" -&gt; "info"
"timestemp" -&gt; "timestamp"
"tread" -&gt; "thread"
"varaibles" -&gt; "variables"
"wast" -&gt; "waste"

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251121221835.28032-13-mhi@mailbox.org
Signed-off-by: Maurice Hieronymus &lt;mhi@mailbox.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'trace-v6.18-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2025-10-09T19:18:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-09T19:18:22+00:00</published>
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Pull tracing clean up and fixes from Steven Rostedt:

 - Have osnoise tracer use memdup_user_nul()

   The function osnoise_cpus_write() open codes a kmalloc() and then a
   copy_from_user() and then adds a nul byte at the end which is the
   same as simply using memdup_user_nul().

 - Fix wakeup and irq tracers when failing to acquire calltime

   When the wakeup and irq tracers use the function graph tracer for
   tracing function times, it saves a timestamp into the fgraph shadow
   stack. It is possible that this could fail to be stored. If that
   happens, it exits the routine early. These functions also disable
   nesting of the operations by incremeting the data "disable" counter.
   But if the calltime exits out early, it never increments the counter
   back to what it needs to be.

   Since there's only a couple of lines of code that does work after
   acquiring the calltime, instead of exiting out early, reverse the if
   statement to be true if calltime is acquired, and place the code that
   is to be done within that if block. The clean up will always be done
   after that.

 - Fix ring_buffer_map() return value on failure of __rb_map_vma()

   If __rb_map_vma() fails in ring_buffer_map(), it does not return an
   error. This means the caller will be working against a bad vma
   mapping. Have ring_buffer_map() return an error when __rb_map_vma()
   fails.

 - Fix regression of writing to the trace_marker file

   A bug fix was made to change __copy_from_user_inatomic() to
   copy_from_user_nofault() in the trace_marker write function. The
   trace_marker file is used by applications to write into it (usually
   with a file descriptor opened at the start of the program) to record
   into the tracing system. It's usually used in critical sections so
   the write to trace_marker is highly optimized.

   The reason for copying in an atomic section is that the write
   reserves space on the ring buffer and then writes directly into it.
   After it writes, it commits the event. The time between reserve and
   commit must have preemption disabled.

   The trace marker write does not have any locking nor can it allocate
   due to the nature of it being a critical path.

   Unfortunately, converting __copy_from_user_inatomic() to
   copy_from_user_nofault() caused a regression in Android. Now all the
   writes from its applications trigger the fault that is rejected by
   the _nofault() version that wasn't rejected by the _inatomic()
   version. Instead of getting data, it now just gets a trace buffer
   filled with:

     tracing_mark_write: &lt;faulted&gt;

   To fix this, on opening of the trace_marker file, allocate per CPU
   buffers that can be used by the write call. Then when entering the
   write call, do the following:

     preempt_disable();
     cpu = smp_processor_id();
     buffer = per_cpu_ptr(cpu_buffers, cpu);
     do {
 	cnt = nr_context_switches_cpu(cpu);
 	migrate_disable();
 	preempt_enable();
 	ret = copy_from_user(buffer, ptr, size);
 	preempt_disable();
 	migrate_enable();
     } while (!ret &amp;&amp; cnt != nr_context_switches_cpu(cpu));
     if (!ret)
 	ring_buffer_write(buffer);
     preempt_enable();

   This works similarly to seqcount. As it must enabled preemption to do
   a copy_from_user() into a per CPU buffer, if it gets preempted, the
   buffer could be corrupted by another task.

   To handle this, read the number of context switches of the current
   CPU, disable migration, enable preemption, copy the data from user
   space, then immediately disable preemption again. If the number of
   context switches is the same, the buffer is still valid. Otherwise it
   must be assumed that the buffer may have been corrupted and it needs
   to try again.

   Now the trace_marker write can get the user data even if it has to
   fault it in, and still not grab any locks of its own.

* tag 'trace-v6.18-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
  tracing: Have trace_marker use per-cpu data to read user space
  ring buffer: Propagate __rb_map_vma return value to caller
  tracing: Fix irqoff tracers on failure of acquiring calltime
  tracing: Fix wakeup tracers on failure of acquiring calltime
  tracing/osnoise: Replace kmalloc + copy_from_user with memdup_user_nul
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Pull tracing clean up and fixes from Steven Rostedt:

 - Have osnoise tracer use memdup_user_nul()

   The function osnoise_cpus_write() open codes a kmalloc() and then a
   copy_from_user() and then adds a nul byte at the end which is the
   same as simply using memdup_user_nul().

 - Fix wakeup and irq tracers when failing to acquire calltime

   When the wakeup and irq tracers use the function graph tracer for
   tracing function times, it saves a timestamp into the fgraph shadow
   stack. It is possible that this could fail to be stored. If that
   happens, it exits the routine early. These functions also disable
   nesting of the operations by incremeting the data "disable" counter.
   But if the calltime exits out early, it never increments the counter
   back to what it needs to be.

   Since there's only a couple of lines of code that does work after
   acquiring the calltime, instead of exiting out early, reverse the if
   statement to be true if calltime is acquired, and place the code that
   is to be done within that if block. The clean up will always be done
   after that.

 - Fix ring_buffer_map() return value on failure of __rb_map_vma()

   If __rb_map_vma() fails in ring_buffer_map(), it does not return an
   error. This means the caller will be working against a bad vma
   mapping. Have ring_buffer_map() return an error when __rb_map_vma()
   fails.

 - Fix regression of writing to the trace_marker file

   A bug fix was made to change __copy_from_user_inatomic() to
   copy_from_user_nofault() in the trace_marker write function. The
   trace_marker file is used by applications to write into it (usually
   with a file descriptor opened at the start of the program) to record
   into the tracing system. It's usually used in critical sections so
   the write to trace_marker is highly optimized.

   The reason for copying in an atomic section is that the write
   reserves space on the ring buffer and then writes directly into it.
   After it writes, it commits the event. The time between reserve and
   commit must have preemption disabled.

   The trace marker write does not have any locking nor can it allocate
   due to the nature of it being a critical path.

   Unfortunately, converting __copy_from_user_inatomic() to
   copy_from_user_nofault() caused a regression in Android. Now all the
   writes from its applications trigger the fault that is rejected by
   the _nofault() version that wasn't rejected by the _inatomic()
   version. Instead of getting data, it now just gets a trace buffer
   filled with:

     tracing_mark_write: &lt;faulted&gt;

   To fix this, on opening of the trace_marker file, allocate per CPU
   buffers that can be used by the write call. Then when entering the
   write call, do the following:

     preempt_disable();
     cpu = smp_processor_id();
     buffer = per_cpu_ptr(cpu_buffers, cpu);
     do {
 	cnt = nr_context_switches_cpu(cpu);
 	migrate_disable();
 	preempt_enable();
 	ret = copy_from_user(buffer, ptr, size);
 	preempt_disable();
 	migrate_enable();
     } while (!ret &amp;&amp; cnt != nr_context_switches_cpu(cpu));
     if (!ret)
 	ring_buffer_write(buffer);
     preempt_enable();

   This works similarly to seqcount. As it must enabled preemption to do
   a copy_from_user() into a per CPU buffer, if it gets preempted, the
   buffer could be corrupted by another task.

   To handle this, read the number of context switches of the current
   CPU, disable migration, enable preemption, copy the data from user
   space, then immediately disable preemption again. If the number of
   context switches is the same, the buffer is still valid. Otherwise it
   must be assumed that the buffer may have been corrupted and it needs
   to try again.

   Now the trace_marker write can get the user data even if it has to
   fault it in, and still not grab any locks of its own.

* tag 'trace-v6.18-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
  tracing: Have trace_marker use per-cpu data to read user space
  ring buffer: Propagate __rb_map_vma return value to caller
  tracing: Fix irqoff tracers on failure of acquiring calltime
  tracing: Fix wakeup tracers on failure of acquiring calltime
  tracing/osnoise: Replace kmalloc + copy_from_user with memdup_user_nul
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<title>tracing/osnoise: Replace kmalloc + copy_from_user with memdup_user_nul</title>
<updated>2025-10-08T16:05:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thorsten Blum</name>
<email>thorsten.blum@linux.dev</email>
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<published>2025-10-01T13:09:07+00:00</published>
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Replace kmalloc() followed by copy_from_user() with memdup_user_nul() to
simplify and improve osnoise_cpus_write(). Remove the manual
NUL-termination.

No functional changes intended.

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20251001130907.364673-2-thorsten.blum@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum &lt;thorsten.blum@linux.dev&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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Replace kmalloc() followed by copy_from_user() with memdup_user_nul() to
simplify and improve osnoise_cpus_write(). Remove the manual
NUL-termination.

No functional changes intended.

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20251001130907.364673-2-thorsten.blum@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum &lt;thorsten.blum@linux.dev&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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