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<title>selftests/ftrace: adjust offset for kprobe syntax error test</title>
<updated>2024-12-11T17:08:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hari Bathini</name>
<email>hbathini@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-29T20:26:21+00:00</published>
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In 'NOFENTRY_ARGS' test case for syntax check, any offset X of
`vfs_read+X` except function entry offset (0) fits the criterion,
even if that offset is not at instruction boundary, as the parser
comes before probing. But with "ENDBR64" instruction on x86, offset
4 is treated as function entry. So, X can't be 4 as well. Thus, 8
was used as offset for the test case. On 64-bit powerpc though, any
offset &lt;= 16 can be considered function entry depending on build
configuration (see arch_kprobe_on_func_entry() for implementation
details). So, use `vfs_read+20` to accommodate that scenario too.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241129202621.721159-1-hbathini@linux.ibm.com
Fixes: 4231f30fcc34a ("selftests/ftrace: Add BTF arguments test cases")
Suggested-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini &lt;hbathini@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan &lt;skhan@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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In 'NOFENTRY_ARGS' test case for syntax check, any offset X of
`vfs_read+X` except function entry offset (0) fits the criterion,
even if that offset is not at instruction boundary, as the parser
comes before probing. But with "ENDBR64" instruction on x86, offset
4 is treated as function entry. So, X can't be 4 as well. Thus, 8
was used as offset for the test case. On 64-bit powerpc though, any
offset &lt;= 16 can be considered function entry depending on build
configuration (see arch_kprobe_on_func_entry() for implementation
details). So, use `vfs_read+20` to accommodate that scenario too.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241129202621.721159-1-hbathini@linux.ibm.com
Fixes: 4231f30fcc34a ("selftests/ftrace: Add BTF arguments test cases")
Suggested-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini &lt;hbathini@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan &lt;skhan@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>selftests/ftrace: Add required dependency for kprobe tests</title>
<updated>2024-08-14T11:41:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masami Hiramatsu (Google)</name>
<email>mhiramat@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-06-12T22:12:10+00:00</published>
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kprobe_args_{char,string}.tc are using available_filter_functions file
which is provided by function tracer. Thus if function tracer is disabled,
these tests are failed on recent kernels because tracefs_create_dir is
not raised events by adding a dynamic event.
Add available_filter_functions to requires line.

Fixes: 7c1130ea5cae ("test: ftrace: Fix kprobe test for eventfs")
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan &lt;skhan@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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kprobe_args_{char,string}.tc are using available_filter_functions file
which is provided by function tracer. Thus if function tracer is disabled,
these tests are failed on recent kernels because tracefs_create_dir is
not raised events by adding a dynamic event.
Add available_filter_functions to requires line.

Fixes: 7c1130ea5cae ("test: ftrace: Fix kprobe test for eventfs")
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan &lt;skhan@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tracing/selftests: Fix kprobe event name test for .isra. functions</title>
<updated>2024-05-29T18:24:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Google)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-05-21T00:57:37+00:00</published>
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The kprobe_eventname.tc test checks if a function with .isra. can have a
kprobe attached to it. It loops through the kallsyms file for all the
functions that have the .isra. name, and checks if it exists in the
available_filter_functions file, and if it does, it uses it to attach a
kprobe to it.

The issue is that kprobes can not attach to functions that are listed more
than once in available_filter_functions. With the latest kernel, the
function that is found is: rapl_event_update.isra.0

  # grep rapl_event_update.isra.0 /sys/kernel/tracing/available_filter_functions
  rapl_event_update.isra.0
  rapl_event_update.isra.0

It is listed twice. This causes the attached kprobe to it to fail which in
turn fails the test. Instead of just picking the function function that is
found in available_filter_functions, pick the first one that is listed
only once in available_filter_functions.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 604e3548236d ("selftests/ftrace: Select an existing function in kprobe_eventname test")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan &lt;skhan@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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The kprobe_eventname.tc test checks if a function with .isra. can have a
kprobe attached to it. It loops through the kallsyms file for all the
functions that have the .isra. name, and checks if it exists in the
available_filter_functions file, and if it does, it uses it to attach a
kprobe to it.

The issue is that kprobes can not attach to functions that are listed more
than once in available_filter_functions. With the latest kernel, the
function that is found is: rapl_event_update.isra.0

  # grep rapl_event_update.isra.0 /sys/kernel/tracing/available_filter_functions
  rapl_event_update.isra.0
  rapl_event_update.isra.0

It is listed twice. This causes the attached kprobe to it to fail which in
turn fails the test. Instead of just picking the function function that is
found in available_filter_functions, pick the first one that is listed
only once in available_filter_functions.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 604e3548236d ("selftests/ftrace: Select an existing function in kprobe_eventname test")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan &lt;skhan@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'probes-v6.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2024-05-18T01:29:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-05-18T01:29:30+00:00</published>
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Pull probes updates from Masami Hiramatsu:

 - tracing/probes: Add new pseudo-types %pd and %pD support for dumping
   dentry name from 'struct dentry *' and file name from 'struct file *'

 - uprobes performance optimizations:
    - Speed up the BPF uprobe event by delaying the fetching of the
      uprobe event arguments that are not used in BPF
    - Avoid locking by speculatively checking whether uprobe event is
      valid
    - Reduce lock contention by using read/write_lock instead of
      spinlock for uprobe list operation. This improved BPF uprobe
      benchmark result 43% on average

 - rethook: Remove non-fatal warning messages when tracing stack from
   BPF and skip rcu_is_watching() validation in rethook if possible

 - objpool: Optimize objpool (which is used by kretprobes and fprobe as
   rethook backend storage) by inlining functions and avoid caching
   nr_cpu_ids because it is a const value

 - fprobe: Add entry/exit callbacks types (code cleanup)

 - kprobes: Check ftrace was killed in kprobes if it uses ftrace

* tag 'probes-v6.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
  kprobe/ftrace: bail out if ftrace was killed
  selftests/ftrace: Fix required features for VFS type test case
  objpool: cache nr_possible_cpus() and avoid caching nr_cpu_ids
  objpool: enable inlining objpool_push() and objpool_pop() operations
  rethook: honor CONFIG_FTRACE_VALIDATE_RCU_IS_WATCHING in rethook_try_get()
  ftrace: make extra rcu_is_watching() validation check optional
  uprobes: reduce contention on uprobes_tree access
  rethook: Remove warning messages printed for finding return address of a frame.
  fprobe: Add entry/exit callbacks types
  selftests/ftrace: add fprobe test cases for VFS type "%pd" and "%pD"
  selftests/ftrace: add kprobe test cases for VFS type "%pd" and "%pD"
  Documentation: tracing: add new type '%pd' and '%pD' for kprobe
  tracing/probes: support '%pD' type for print struct file's name
  tracing/probes: support '%pd' type for print struct dentry's name
  uprobes: add speculative lockless system-wide uprobe filter check
  uprobes: prepare uprobe args buffer lazily
  uprobes: encapsulate preparation of uprobe args buffer
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Pull probes updates from Masami Hiramatsu:

 - tracing/probes: Add new pseudo-types %pd and %pD support for dumping
   dentry name from 'struct dentry *' and file name from 'struct file *'

 - uprobes performance optimizations:
    - Speed up the BPF uprobe event by delaying the fetching of the
      uprobe event arguments that are not used in BPF
    - Avoid locking by speculatively checking whether uprobe event is
      valid
    - Reduce lock contention by using read/write_lock instead of
      spinlock for uprobe list operation. This improved BPF uprobe
      benchmark result 43% on average

 - rethook: Remove non-fatal warning messages when tracing stack from
   BPF and skip rcu_is_watching() validation in rethook if possible

 - objpool: Optimize objpool (which is used by kretprobes and fprobe as
   rethook backend storage) by inlining functions and avoid caching
   nr_cpu_ids because it is a const value

 - fprobe: Add entry/exit callbacks types (code cleanup)

 - kprobes: Check ftrace was killed in kprobes if it uses ftrace

* tag 'probes-v6.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
  kprobe/ftrace: bail out if ftrace was killed
  selftests/ftrace: Fix required features for VFS type test case
  objpool: cache nr_possible_cpus() and avoid caching nr_cpu_ids
  objpool: enable inlining objpool_push() and objpool_pop() operations
  rethook: honor CONFIG_FTRACE_VALIDATE_RCU_IS_WATCHING in rethook_try_get()
  ftrace: make extra rcu_is_watching() validation check optional
  uprobes: reduce contention on uprobes_tree access
  rethook: Remove warning messages printed for finding return address of a frame.
  fprobe: Add entry/exit callbacks types
  selftests/ftrace: add fprobe test cases for VFS type "%pd" and "%pD"
  selftests/ftrace: add kprobe test cases for VFS type "%pd" and "%pD"
  Documentation: tracing: add new type '%pd' and '%pD' for kprobe
  tracing/probes: support '%pD' type for print struct file's name
  tracing/probes: support '%pd' type for print struct dentry's name
  uprobes: add speculative lockless system-wide uprobe filter check
  uprobes: prepare uprobe args buffer lazily
  uprobes: encapsulate preparation of uprobe args buffer
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<entry>
<title>selftests/ftrace: Fix checkbashisms errors</title>
<updated>2024-05-08T22:49:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masami Hiramatsu (Google)</name>
<email>mhiramat@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-05-04T00:33:19+00:00</published>
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Fix the below checkbashisms errors. Because of these errors, these tests
will fail on dash shell.

possible bashism in test.d/kprobe/kretprobe_entry_arg.tc line 14 ('function' is useless):
function streq() {
possible bashism in test.d/dynevent/fprobe_entry_arg.tc line 14 ('function' is useless):
function streq() {

Fixes: f6e2253a617c ("selftests/ftrace: Add test cases for entry args at function exit")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan &lt;skhan@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Fix the below checkbashisms errors. Because of these errors, these tests
will fail on dash shell.

possible bashism in test.d/kprobe/kretprobe_entry_arg.tc line 14 ('function' is useless):
function streq() {
possible bashism in test.d/dynevent/fprobe_entry_arg.tc line 14 ('function' is useless):
function streq() {

Fixes: f6e2253a617c ("selftests/ftrace: Add test cases for entry args at function exit")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan &lt;skhan@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>selftests/ftrace: add kprobe test cases for VFS type "%pd" and "%pD"</title>
<updated>2024-05-01T14:18:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ye Bin</name>
<email>yebin10@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-22T06:43:07+00:00</published>
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This patch adds test cases for new print format type "%pd/%pD".The test cases
test the following items:
1. Test README if add "%pd/%pD" type;
2. Test "%pd" type for dput();
3. Test "%pD" type for vfs_read();

This test case require enable CONFIG_HAVE_FUNCTION_ARG_ACCESS_API configuration.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240322064308.284457-5-yebin10@huawei.com/

Signed-off-by: Ye Bin &lt;yebin10@huawei.com&gt;
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
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This patch adds test cases for new print format type "%pd/%pD".The test cases
test the following items:
1. Test README if add "%pd/%pD" type;
2. Test "%pd" type for dput();
3. Test "%pD" type for vfs_read();

This test case require enable CONFIG_HAVE_FUNCTION_ARG_ACCESS_API configuration.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240322064308.284457-5-yebin10@huawei.com/

Signed-off-by: Ye Bin &lt;yebin10@huawei.com&gt;
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>selftests/ftrace: Add test cases for entry args at function exit</title>
<updated>2024-03-06T15:27:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masami Hiramatsu (Google)</name>
<email>mhiramat@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-04T03:41:05+00:00</published>
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Add kretprobe and function exit probe test cases for checking whether
those can access entry arguments at function exit correctly.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/170952366504.229804.11605173085475141091.stgit@devnote2/

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;</content>
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Add kretprobe and function exit probe test cases for checking whether
those can access entry arguments at function exit correctly.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/170952366504.229804.11605173085475141091.stgit@devnote2/

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;</pre>
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<entry>
<title>tracing/probes: Support $argN in return probe (kprobe and fprobe)</title>
<updated>2024-03-06T15:27:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masami Hiramatsu (Google)</name>
<email>mhiramat@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-04T03:40:55+00:00</published>
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Support accessing $argN in the return probe events. This will help users to
record entry data in function return (exit) event for simplfing the function
entry/exit information in one event, and record the result values (e.g.
allocated object/initialized object) at function exit.

For example, if we have a function `int init_foo(struct foo *obj, int param)`
sometimes we want to check how `obj` is initialized. In such case, we can
define a new return event like below;

 # echo 'r init_foo retval=$retval param=$arg2 field1=+0($arg1)' &gt;&gt; kprobe_events

Thus it records the function parameter `param` and its result `obj-&gt;field1`
(the dereference will be done in the function exit timing) value at once.

This also support fprobe, BTF args and'$arg*'. So if CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF
is enabled, we can trace both function parameters and the return value
by following command.

 # echo 'f target_function%return $arg* $retval' &gt;&gt; dynamic_events

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/170952365552.229804.224112990211602895.stgit@devnote2/

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;</content>
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Support accessing $argN in the return probe events. This will help users to
record entry data in function return (exit) event for simplfing the function
entry/exit information in one event, and record the result values (e.g.
allocated object/initialized object) at function exit.

For example, if we have a function `int init_foo(struct foo *obj, int param)`
sometimes we want to check how `obj` is initialized. In such case, we can
define a new return event like below;

 # echo 'r init_foo retval=$retval param=$arg2 field1=+0($arg1)' &gt;&gt; kprobe_events

Thus it records the function parameter `param` and its result `obj-&gt;field1`
(the dereference will be done in the function exit timing) value at once.

This also support fprobe, BTF args and'$arg*'. So if CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF
is enabled, we can trace both function parameters and the return value
by following command.

 # echo 'f target_function%return $arg* $retval' &gt;&gt; dynamic_events

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/170952365552.229804.224112990211602895.stgit@devnote2/

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'trace-v6.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2023-11-03T17:41:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-11-03T17:41:18+00:00</published>
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Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:

 - Remove eventfs_file descriptor

   This is the biggest change, and the second part of making eventfs
   create its files dynamically.

   In 6.6 the first part was added, and that maintained a one to one
   mapping between eventfs meta descriptors and the directories and file
   inodes and dentries that were dynamically created. The directories
   were represented by a eventfs_inode and the files were represented by
   a eventfs_file.

   In v6.7 the eventfs_file is removed. As all events have the same
   directory make up (sched_switch has an "enable", "id", "format", etc
   files), the handing of what files are underneath each leaf eventfs
   directory is moved back to the tracing subsystem via a callback.

   When an event is added to the eventfs, it registers an array of
   evenfs_entry's. These hold the names of the files and the callbacks
   to call when the file is referenced. The callback gets the name so
   that the same callback may be used by multiple files. The callback
   then supplies the filesystem_operations structure needed to create
   this file.

   This has brought the memory footprint of creating multiple eventfs
   instances down by 2 megs each!

 - User events now has persistent events that are not associated to a
   single processes. These are privileged events that hang around even
   if no process is attached to them

 - Clean up of seq_buf

   There's talk about using seq_buf more to replace strscpy() and
   friends. But this also requires some minor modifications of seq_buf
   to be able to do this

 - Expand instance ring buffers individually

   Currently if boot up creates an instance, and a trace event is
   enabled on that instance, the ring buffer for that instance and the
   top level ring buffer are expanded (1.4 MB per CPU). This wastes
   memory as this happens when nothing is using the top level instance

 - Other minor clean ups and fixes

* tag 'trace-v6.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: (34 commits)
  seq_buf: Export seq_buf_puts()
  seq_buf: Export seq_buf_putc()
  eventfs: Use simple_recursive_removal() to clean up dentries
  eventfs: Remove special processing of dput() of events directory
  eventfs: Delete eventfs_inode when the last dentry is freed
  eventfs: Hold eventfs_mutex when calling callback functions
  eventfs: Save ownership and mode
  eventfs: Test for ei-&gt;is_freed when accessing ei-&gt;dentry
  eventfs: Have a free_ei() that just frees the eventfs_inode
  eventfs: Remove "is_freed" union with rcu head
  eventfs: Fix kerneldoc of eventfs_remove_rec()
  tracing: Have the user copy of synthetic event address use correct context
  eventfs: Remove extra dget() in eventfs_create_events_dir()
  tracing: Have trace_event_file have ref counters
  seq_buf: Introduce DECLARE_SEQ_BUF and seq_buf_str()
  eventfs: Fix typo in eventfs_inode union comment
  eventfs: Fix WARN_ON() in create_file_dentry()
  powerpc: Remove initialisation of readpos
  tracing/histograms: Simplify last_cmd_set()
  seq_buf: fix a misleading comment
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Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:

 - Remove eventfs_file descriptor

   This is the biggest change, and the second part of making eventfs
   create its files dynamically.

   In 6.6 the first part was added, and that maintained a one to one
   mapping between eventfs meta descriptors and the directories and file
   inodes and dentries that were dynamically created. The directories
   were represented by a eventfs_inode and the files were represented by
   a eventfs_file.

   In v6.7 the eventfs_file is removed. As all events have the same
   directory make up (sched_switch has an "enable", "id", "format", etc
   files), the handing of what files are underneath each leaf eventfs
   directory is moved back to the tracing subsystem via a callback.

   When an event is added to the eventfs, it registers an array of
   evenfs_entry's. These hold the names of the files and the callbacks
   to call when the file is referenced. The callback gets the name so
   that the same callback may be used by multiple files. The callback
   then supplies the filesystem_operations structure needed to create
   this file.

   This has brought the memory footprint of creating multiple eventfs
   instances down by 2 megs each!

 - User events now has persistent events that are not associated to a
   single processes. These are privileged events that hang around even
   if no process is attached to them

 - Clean up of seq_buf

   There's talk about using seq_buf more to replace strscpy() and
   friends. But this also requires some minor modifications of seq_buf
   to be able to do this

 - Expand instance ring buffers individually

   Currently if boot up creates an instance, and a trace event is
   enabled on that instance, the ring buffer for that instance and the
   top level ring buffer are expanded (1.4 MB per CPU). This wastes
   memory as this happens when nothing is using the top level instance

 - Other minor clean ups and fixes

* tag 'trace-v6.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: (34 commits)
  seq_buf: Export seq_buf_puts()
  seq_buf: Export seq_buf_putc()
  eventfs: Use simple_recursive_removal() to clean up dentries
  eventfs: Remove special processing of dput() of events directory
  eventfs: Delete eventfs_inode when the last dentry is freed
  eventfs: Hold eventfs_mutex when calling callback functions
  eventfs: Save ownership and mode
  eventfs: Test for ei-&gt;is_freed when accessing ei-&gt;dentry
  eventfs: Have a free_ei() that just frees the eventfs_inode
  eventfs: Remove "is_freed" union with rcu head
  eventfs: Fix kerneldoc of eventfs_remove_rec()
  tracing: Have the user copy of synthetic event address use correct context
  eventfs: Remove extra dget() in eventfs_create_events_dir()
  tracing: Have trace_event_file have ref counters
  seq_buf: Introduce DECLARE_SEQ_BUF and seq_buf_str()
  eventfs: Fix typo in eventfs_inode union comment
  eventfs: Fix WARN_ON() in create_file_dentry()
  powerpc: Remove initialisation of readpos
  tracing/histograms: Simplify last_cmd_set()
  seq_buf: fix a misleading comment
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<title>Merge tag 'linux_kselftest-next-6.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shuah/linux-kselftest</title>
<updated>2023-11-02T03:08:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2023-11-02T03:08:10+00:00</published>
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Pull kselftest updates from Shuah Khan:

 - kbuild kselftest-merge target fixes

 - fixes to several tests

 - resctrl test fixes and enhancements

 - ksft_perror() helper and reporting improvements

 - printf attribute to kselftest prints to improve reporting

 - documentation and clang build warning fixes

The bulk of the patches are for resctrl fixes and enhancements.

* tag 'linux_kselftest-next-6.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shuah/linux-kselftest: (51 commits)
  selftests/resctrl: Fix MBM test failure when MBA unavailable
  selftests/clone3: Report descriptive test names
  selftests:modify the incorrect print format
  selftests/efivarfs: create-read: fix a resource leak
  selftests/ftrace: Add riscv support for kprobe arg tests
  selftests/ftrace: add loongarch support for kprobe args char tests
  selftests/amd-pstate: Added option to provide perf binary path
  selftests/amd-pstate: Fix broken paths to run workloads in amd-pstate-ut
  selftests/resctrl: Move run_benchmark() to a more fitting file
  selftests/resctrl: Fix schemata write error check
  selftests/resctrl: Reduce failures due to outliers in MBA/MBM tests
  selftests/resctrl: Fix feature checks
  selftests/resctrl: Refactor feature check to use resource and feature name
  selftests/resctrl: Move _GNU_SOURCE define into Makefile
  selftests/resctrl: Remove duplicate feature check from CMT test
  selftests/resctrl: Extend signal handler coverage to unmount on receiving signal
  selftests/resctrl: Fix uninitialized .sa_flags
  selftests/resctrl: Cleanup benchmark argument parsing
  selftests/resctrl: Remove ben_count variable
  selftests/resctrl: Make benchmark command const and build it with pointers
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Pull kselftest updates from Shuah Khan:

 - kbuild kselftest-merge target fixes

 - fixes to several tests

 - resctrl test fixes and enhancements

 - ksft_perror() helper and reporting improvements

 - printf attribute to kselftest prints to improve reporting

 - documentation and clang build warning fixes

The bulk of the patches are for resctrl fixes and enhancements.

* tag 'linux_kselftest-next-6.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shuah/linux-kselftest: (51 commits)
  selftests/resctrl: Fix MBM test failure when MBA unavailable
  selftests/clone3: Report descriptive test names
  selftests:modify the incorrect print format
  selftests/efivarfs: create-read: fix a resource leak
  selftests/ftrace: Add riscv support for kprobe arg tests
  selftests/ftrace: add loongarch support for kprobe args char tests
  selftests/amd-pstate: Added option to provide perf binary path
  selftests/amd-pstate: Fix broken paths to run workloads in amd-pstate-ut
  selftests/resctrl: Move run_benchmark() to a more fitting file
  selftests/resctrl: Fix schemata write error check
  selftests/resctrl: Reduce failures due to outliers in MBA/MBM tests
  selftests/resctrl: Fix feature checks
  selftests/resctrl: Refactor feature check to use resource and feature name
  selftests/resctrl: Move _GNU_SOURCE define into Makefile
  selftests/resctrl: Remove duplicate feature check from CMT test
  selftests/resctrl: Extend signal handler coverage to unmount on receiving signal
  selftests/resctrl: Fix uninitialized .sa_flags
  selftests/resctrl: Cleanup benchmark argument parsing
  selftests/resctrl: Remove ben_count variable
  selftests/resctrl: Make benchmark command const and build it with pointers
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