linux.git/kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c, branch v7.1-rc3

tracing: Use explicit array size instead of sentinel elements in symbol printing

2026-03-12T11:15:53+00:00

The sentinel value added by the wrapper macros __print_symbolic() et al
prevents the callers from adding their own trailing comma. This makes
constructing symbol list dynamically based on kconfig values tedious.

Drop the sentinel elements, so callers can either specify the trailing
comma or not, just like in regular array initializers.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh (Schneider Electric) 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260311-hrtimer-cleanups-v1-2-095357392669@linutronix.de

Convert remaining multi-line kmalloc_obj/flex GFP_KERNEL uses

2026-02-22T16:26:33+00:00

Conversion performed via this Coccinelle script:

  // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
  // Options: --include-headers-for-types --all-includes --include-headers --keep-comments
  virtual patch

  @gfp depends on patch && !(file in "tools") && !(file in "samples")@
  identifier ALLOC = {kmalloc_obj,kmalloc_objs,kmalloc_flex,
 		    kzalloc_obj,kzalloc_objs,kzalloc_flex,
		    kvmalloc_obj,kvmalloc_objs,kvmalloc_flex,
		    kvzalloc_obj,kvzalloc_objs,kvzalloc_flex};
  @@

  	ALLOC(...
  -		, GFP_KERNEL
  	)

  $ make coccicheck MODE=patch COCCI=gfp.cocci

Build and boot tested x86_64 with Fedora 42's GCC and Clang:

Linux version 6.19.0+ (user@host) (gcc (GCC) 15.2.1 20260123 (Red Hat 15.2.1-7), GNU ld version 2.44-12.fc42) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 1970-01-01
Linux version 6.19.0+ (user@host) (clang version 20.1.8 (Fedora 20.1.8-4.fc42), LLD 20.1.8) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 1970-01-01

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument

2026-02-22T01:09:51+00:00

This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using

    git grep -l '\

treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types

2026-02-21T09:02:28+00:00

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

tracing: Hide __NR_utimensat and _NR_mq_timedsend when not defined

2025-11-10T19:23:53+00:00

Some architectures (riscv-32) do not define __NR_utimensat and
_NR_mq_timedsend, and fails to build when they are used.

Hide them in "ifdef"s.

Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251104205310.00a1db9a@batman.local.home
Reported-by: kernel test robot 
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202511031239.ZigDcWzY-lkp@intel.com/
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google)

Merge branch 'topic/func-profiler-offset' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mhiramat/linux into trace/trace/core

2025-11-04T15:12:32+00:00

Updates to the function profiler adds new options to tracefs. The options
are currently defined by an enum as flags. The added options brings the
number of options over 32, which means they can no longer be held in a 32
bit enum. The TRACE_ITER_* flags are converted to a macro TRACE_ITER(*) to
allow the creation of options to still be done by macros.

This change is intrusive, as it affects all TRACE_ITER* options throughout
the trace code. Merge the branch that added these options and converted
the TRACE_ITER_* enum into a TRACE_ITER(*) macro, to allow the topic
branches to still be developed without conflict.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google)

tracing: Allow tracer to add more than 32 options

2025-11-04T12:44:00+00:00

Since enum trace_iterator_flags is 32bit, the max number of the
option flags is limited to 32 and it is fully used now. To add
a new option, we need to expand it.

So replace the TRACE_ITER_##flag with TRACE_ITER(flag) macro which
is 64bit bitmask.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/176187877103.994619.166076000668757232.stgit@devnote2/

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google)

tracing: Add parsing of flags to the sys_enter_openat trace event

2025-10-29T00:10:59+00:00

Add some logic to give the openat system call trace event a bit more human
readable information:

   syscalls:sys_enter_openat: dfd: 0xffffff9c, filename: 0x7f0053dc121c "/etc/ld.so.cache", flags: O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC, mode: 0000

The above is output from "perf script" and now shows the flags used by the
openat system call.

Since the output from tracing is in the kernel, it can also remove the
mode field when not used (when flags does not contain O_CREATE|O_TMPFILE)

   touch-1185    [002] ...1.  1291.690154: sys_openat(dfd: 4294967196, filename: 139785545139344 "/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive", flags: O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC)
   touch-1185    [002] ...1.  1291.690504: sys_openat(dfd: 18446744073709551516, filename: 140733603151330 "/tmp/x", flags: O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_NOCTTY|O_NONBLOCK, mode: 0666)

As system calls have a fixed ABI, their trace events can be extended. This
currently only updates the openat system call, but others may be extended
in the future.

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu 
Cc: Mark Rutland 
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Takaya Saeki 
Cc: Tom Zanussi 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Ian Rogers 
Cc: Douglas Raillard 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20251028231148.763161484@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google)

tracing: Show printable characters in syscall arrays

2025-10-29T00:10:59+00:00

When displaying the contents of the user space data passed to the kernel,
instead of just showing the array values, also print any printable
content.

Instead of just:

  bash-1113    [003] .....  3433.290654: sys_write(fd: 2, buf: 0x555a8deeddb0 (72:6f:6f:74:40:64:65:62:69:61:6e:2d:78:38:36:2d:36:34:3a:7e:23:20), count: 0x16)

Display:

  bash-1113    [003] .....  3433.290654: sys_write(fd: 2, buf: 0x555a8deeddb0 (72:6f:6f:74:40:64:65:62:69:61:6e:2d:78:38:36:2d:36:34:3a:7e:23:20) "root@debian-x86-64:~# ", count: 0x16)

This only affects tracing and does not affect perf, as this only updates
the output from the kernel. The output from perf is via user space. This
may change by an update to libtraceevent that will then update perf to
have this as well.

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu 
Cc: Mark Rutland 
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Takaya Saeki 
Cc: Tom Zanussi 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Ian Rogers 
Cc: Douglas Raillard 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20251028231148.429422865@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google)

tracing: Add a config and syscall_user_buf_size file to limit amount written

2025-10-29T00:10:59+00:00

When a system call that can copy user space addresses into the ring
buffer, it can copy up to 511 bytes of data. This can waste precious ring
buffer space if the user isn't interested in the output. Add a new file
"syscall_user_buf_size" that gets initialized to a new config
CONFIG_SYSCALL_BUF_SIZE_DEFAULT that defaults to 63.

The config also is used to limit how much perf can read from user space.

Also lower the max down to 165, as this isn't to record everything that a
system call may be passing through to the kernel. 165 is more than enough.

The reason for 165 is because adding one for the nul terminating byte, as
well as possibly needing to append the "..." string turns it into 170
bytes. As this needs to save up to 3 arguments and 3 * 170 is 510 which
fits nicely in 512 bytes (a power of 2).

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu 
Cc: Mark Rutland 
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Takaya Saeki 
Cc: Tom Zanussi 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Ian Rogers 
Cc: Douglas Raillard 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20251028231148.260068913@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google)