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<title>selftests/ftrace: Limit length in subsystem-enable tests</title>
<updated>2024-04-04T16:29:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yuanhe Shu</name>
<email>xiangzao@linux.alibaba.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-02-26T03:18:16+00:00</published>
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While sched* events being traced and sched* events continuously happen,
"[xx] event tracing - enable/disable with subsystem level files" would
not stop as on some slower systems it seems to take forever.
Select the first 100 lines of output would be enough to judge whether
there are more than 3 types of sched events.

Fixes: 815b18ea66d6 ("ftracetest: Add basic event tracing test cases")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Yuanhe Shu &lt;xiangzao@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&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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While sched* events being traced and sched* events continuously happen,
"[xx] event tracing - enable/disable with subsystem level files" would
not stop as on some slower systems it seems to take forever.
Select the first 100 lines of output would be enough to judge whether
there are more than 3 types of sched events.

Fixes: 815b18ea66d6 ("ftracetest: Add basic event tracing test cases")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Yuanhe Shu &lt;xiangzao@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&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: Fix event filter target_func selection</title>
<updated>2024-03-29T19:57:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Rutland</name>
<email>mark.rutland@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-20T14:18:44+00:00</published>
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The event filter function test has been failing in our internal test
farm:

| # not ok 33 event filter function - test event filtering on functions

Running the test in verbose mode indicates that this is because the test
erroneously determines that kmem_cache_free() is the most common caller
of kmem_cache_free():

  # # + cut -d: -f3 trace
  # # + sed s/call_site=([^+]*)+0x.*/1/
  # # + sort
  # # + uniq -c
  # # + sort
  # # + tail -n 1
  # # + sed s/^[ 0-9]*//
  # # + target_func=kmem_cache_free

... and as kmem_cache_free() doesn't call itself, setting this as the
filter function for kmem_cache_free() results in no hits, and
consequently the test fails:

  # # + grep kmem_cache_free trace
  # # + grep kmem_cache_free
  # # + wc -l
  # # + hitcnt=0
  # # + grep kmem_cache_free trace
  # # + grep -v kmem_cache_free
  # # + wc -l
  # # + misscnt=0
  # # + [ 0 -eq 0 ]
  # # + exit_fail

This seems to be because the system in question has tasks with ':' in
their name (which a number of kernel worker threads have). These show up
in the trace, e.g.

  test:.sh-1299    [004] .....  2886.040608: kmem_cache_free: call_site=putname+0xa4/0xc8 ptr=000000000f4d22f4 name=names_cache

... and so when we try to extact the call_site with:

  cut -d: -f3 trace | sed 's/call_site=\([^+]*\)+0x.*/\1/'

... the 'cut' command will extrace the column containing
'kmem_cache_free' rather than the column containing 'call_site=...', and
the 'sed' command will leave this unchanged. Consequently, the test will
decide to use 'kmem_cache_free' as the filter function, resulting in the
failure seen above.

Fix this by matching the 'call_site=&lt;func&gt;' part specifically to extract
the function name.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Reported-by: Aishwarya TCV &lt;aishwarya.tcv@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Shuah Khan &lt;shuah@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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 event filter function test has been failing in our internal test
farm:

| # not ok 33 event filter function - test event filtering on functions

Running the test in verbose mode indicates that this is because the test
erroneously determines that kmem_cache_free() is the most common caller
of kmem_cache_free():

  # # + cut -d: -f3 trace
  # # + sed s/call_site=([^+]*)+0x.*/1/
  # # + sort
  # # + uniq -c
  # # + sort
  # # + tail -n 1
  # # + sed s/^[ 0-9]*//
  # # + target_func=kmem_cache_free

... and as kmem_cache_free() doesn't call itself, setting this as the
filter function for kmem_cache_free() results in no hits, and
consequently the test fails:

  # # + grep kmem_cache_free trace
  # # + grep kmem_cache_free
  # # + wc -l
  # # + hitcnt=0
  # # + grep kmem_cache_free trace
  # # + grep -v kmem_cache_free
  # # + wc -l
  # # + misscnt=0
  # # + [ 0 -eq 0 ]
  # # + exit_fail

This seems to be because the system in question has tasks with ':' in
their name (which a number of kernel worker threads have). These show up
in the trace, e.g.

  test:.sh-1299    [004] .....  2886.040608: kmem_cache_free: call_site=putname+0xa4/0xc8 ptr=000000000f4d22f4 name=names_cache

... and so when we try to extact the call_site with:

  cut -d: -f3 trace | sed 's/call_site=\([^+]*\)+0x.*/\1/'

... the 'cut' command will extrace the column containing
'kmem_cache_free' rather than the column containing 'call_site=...', and
the 'sed' command will leave this unchanged. Consequently, the test will
decide to use 'kmem_cache_free' as the filter function, resulting in the
failure seen above.

Fix this by matching the 'call_site=&lt;func&gt;' part specifically to extract
the function name.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Reported-by: Aishwarya TCV &lt;aishwarya.tcv@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Shuah Khan &lt;shuah@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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-v6.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2024-03-14T23:16:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-14T23:16:33+00:00</published>
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Pull probes updates from Masami Hiramatsu:
 "x86 kprobes:

   - Use boolean for some function return instead of 0 and 1

   - Prohibit probing on INT/UD. This prevents user to put kprobe on
     INTn/INT1/INT3/INTO and UD0/UD1/UD2 because these are used for a
     special purpose in the kernel

   - Boost Grp instructions. Because a few percent of kernel
     instructions are Grp 2/3/4/5 and those are safe to be executed
     without ip register fixup, allow those to be boosted (direct
     execution on the trampoline buffer with a JMP)

  tracing:

   - Add function argument access from return events (kretprobe and
     fprobe). This allows user to compare how a data structure field is
     changed after executing a function. With BTF, return event also
     accepts function argument access by name.

   - Fix a wrong comment (using "Kretprobe" in fprobe)

   - Cleanup a big probe argument parser function into three parts, type
     parser, post-processing function, and main parser

   - Cleanup to set nr_args field when initializing trace_probe instead
     of counting up it while parsing

   - Cleanup a redundant #else block from tracefs/README source code

   - Update selftests to check entry argument access from return probes

   - Documentation update about entry argument access from return
     probes"

* tag 'probes-v6.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
  Documentation: tracing: Add entry argument access at function exit
  selftests/ftrace: Add test cases for entry args at function exit
  tracing/probes: Support $argN in return probe (kprobe and fprobe)
  tracing: Remove redundant #else block for BTF args from README
  tracing/probes: cleanup: Set trace_probe::nr_args at trace_probe_init
  tracing/probes: Cleanup probe argument parser
  tracing/fprobe-event: cleanup: Fix a wrong comment in fprobe event
  x86/kprobes: Boost more instructions from grp2/3/4/5
  x86/kprobes: Prohibit kprobing on INT and UD
  x86/kprobes: Refactor can_{probe,boost} return type to bool
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Pull probes updates from Masami Hiramatsu:
 "x86 kprobes:

   - Use boolean for some function return instead of 0 and 1

   - Prohibit probing on INT/UD. This prevents user to put kprobe on
     INTn/INT1/INT3/INTO and UD0/UD1/UD2 because these are used for a
     special purpose in the kernel

   - Boost Grp instructions. Because a few percent of kernel
     instructions are Grp 2/3/4/5 and those are safe to be executed
     without ip register fixup, allow those to be boosted (direct
     execution on the trampoline buffer with a JMP)

  tracing:

   - Add function argument access from return events (kretprobe and
     fprobe). This allows user to compare how a data structure field is
     changed after executing a function. With BTF, return event also
     accepts function argument access by name.

   - Fix a wrong comment (using "Kretprobe" in fprobe)

   - Cleanup a big probe argument parser function into three parts, type
     parser, post-processing function, and main parser

   - Cleanup to set nr_args field when initializing trace_probe instead
     of counting up it while parsing

   - Cleanup a redundant #else block from tracefs/README source code

   - Update selftests to check entry argument access from return probes

   - Documentation update about entry argument access from return
     probes"

* tag 'probes-v6.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
  Documentation: tracing: Add entry argument access at function exit
  selftests/ftrace: Add test cases for entry args at function exit
  tracing/probes: Support $argN in return probe (kprobe and fprobe)
  tracing: Remove redundant #else block for BTF args from README
  tracing/probes: cleanup: Set trace_probe::nr_args at trace_probe_init
  tracing/probes: Cleanup probe argument parser
  tracing/fprobe-event: cleanup: Fix a wrong comment in fprobe event
  x86/kprobes: Boost more instructions from grp2/3/4/5
  x86/kprobes: Prohibit kprobing on INT and UD
  x86/kprobes: Refactor can_{probe,boost} return type to bool
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<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>
<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>selftests/ftrace: Add test to exercize function tracer across cpu hotplug</title>
<updated>2024-02-21T00:28:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Naveen N Rao</name>
<email>naveen@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-02-16T09:56:26+00:00</published>
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Add a test to exercize cpu hotplug with the function tracer active to
ensure that sensitive functions in idle path are excluded from being
traced. This helps catch issues such as the one fixed by commit
4b3338aaa74d ("powerpc/ftrace: Fix stack teardown in ftrace_no_trace").

Signed-off-by: Naveen N Rao &lt;naveen@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&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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Add a test to exercize cpu hotplug with the function tracer active to
ensure that sensitive functions in idle path are excluded from being
traced. This helps catch issues such as the one fixed by commit
4b3338aaa74d ("powerpc/ftrace: Fix stack teardown in ftrace_no_trace").

Signed-off-by: Naveen N Rao &lt;naveen@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan &lt;skhan@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>selftest: ftrace: fix minor typo in log</title>
<updated>2024-02-21T00:27:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vincenzo Mezzela</name>
<email>vincenzo.mezzela@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-02-11T11:18:18+00:00</published>
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Resolves a spelling error in the test log, preventing potential
confusion.

Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Mezzela &lt;vincenzo.mezzela@gmail.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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Resolves a spelling error in the test log, preventing potential
confusion.

Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Mezzela &lt;vincenzo.mezzela@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan &lt;skhan@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>selftests: ftrace: fix typo in test description</title>
<updated>2024-02-20T21:48:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ali Zahraee</name>
<email>ahzahraee@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-01-31T13:33:06+00:00</published>
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The typo in the description shows up in test logs and output.
This patch submission is part of my application to the Linux Foundation
mentorship program: Linux kernel Bug Fixing Spring Unpaid 2024.

Signed-off-by: Ali Zahraee &lt;ahzahraee@gmail.com&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 typo in the description shows up in test logs and output.
This patch submission is part of my application to the Linux Foundation
mentorship program: Linux kernel Bug Fixing Spring Unpaid 2024.

Signed-off-by: Ali Zahraee &lt;ahzahraee@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan &lt;skhan@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'trace-v6.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2024-01-18T22:35:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-01-18T22:35:29+00:00</published>
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Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:

 - Allow kernel trace instance creation to specify what events are
   created

   Inside the kernel, a subsystem may create a tracing instance that it
   can use to send events to user space. This sub-system may not care
   about the thousands of events that exist in eventfs. Allow the
   sub-system to specify what sub-systems of events it cares about, and
   only those events are exposed to this instance.

 - Allow the ring buffer to be broken up into bigger sub-buffers than
   just the architecture page size.

   A new tracefs file called "buffer_subbuf_size_kb" is created. The
   user can now specify a minimum size the sub-buffer may be in
   kilobytes. Note, that the implementation currently make the
   sub-buffer size a power of 2 pages (1, 2, 4, 8, 16, ...) but the user
   only writes in kilobyte size, and the sub-buffer will be updated to
   the next size that it will can accommodate it. If the user writes in
   10, it will change the size to be 4 pages on x86 (16K), as that is
   the next available size that can hold 10K pages.

 - Update the debug output when a corrupt time is detected in the ring
   buffer. If the ring buffer detects inconsistent timestamps, there's a
   debug config options that will dump the contents of the meta data of
   the sub-buffer that is used for debugging. Add some more information
   to this dump that helps with debugging.

 - Add more timestamp debugging checks (only triggers when the config is
   enabled)

 - Increase the trace_seq iterator to 2 page sizes.

 - Allow strings written into tracefs_marker to be larger. Up to just
   under 2 page sizes (based on what trace_seq can hold).

 - Increase the trace_maker_raw write to be as big as a sub-buffer can
   hold.

 - Remove 32 bit time stamp logic, now that the rb_time_cmpxchg() has
   been removed.

 - More selftests were added.

 - Some code clean ups as well.

* tag 'trace-v6.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: (29 commits)
  ring-buffer: Remove stale comment from ring_buffer_size()
  tracing histograms: Simplify parse_actions() function
  tracing/selftests: Remove exec permissions from trace_marker.tc test
  ring-buffer: Use subbuf_order for buffer page masking
  tracing: Update subbuffer with kilobytes not page order
  ringbuffer/selftest: Add basic selftest to test changing subbuf order
  ring-buffer: Add documentation on the buffer_subbuf_order file
  ring-buffer: Just update the subbuffers when changing their allocation order
  ring-buffer: Keep the same size when updating the order
  tracing: Stop the tracing while changing the ring buffer subbuf size
  tracing: Update snapshot order along with main buffer order
  ring-buffer: Make sure the spare sub buffer used for reads has same size
  ring-buffer: Do no swap cpu buffers if order is different
  ring-buffer: Clear pages on error in ring_buffer_subbuf_order_set() failure
  ring-buffer: Read and write to ring buffers with custom sub buffer size
  ring-buffer: Set new size of the ring buffer sub page
  ring-buffer: Add interface for configuring trace sub buffer size
  ring-buffer: Page size per ring buffer
  ring-buffer: Have ring_buffer_print_page_header() be able to access ring_buffer_iter
  ring-buffer: Check if absolute timestamp goes backwards
  ...
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Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:

 - Allow kernel trace instance creation to specify what events are
   created

   Inside the kernel, a subsystem may create a tracing instance that it
   can use to send events to user space. This sub-system may not care
   about the thousands of events that exist in eventfs. Allow the
   sub-system to specify what sub-systems of events it cares about, and
   only those events are exposed to this instance.

 - Allow the ring buffer to be broken up into bigger sub-buffers than
   just the architecture page size.

   A new tracefs file called "buffer_subbuf_size_kb" is created. The
   user can now specify a minimum size the sub-buffer may be in
   kilobytes. Note, that the implementation currently make the
   sub-buffer size a power of 2 pages (1, 2, 4, 8, 16, ...) but the user
   only writes in kilobyte size, and the sub-buffer will be updated to
   the next size that it will can accommodate it. If the user writes in
   10, it will change the size to be 4 pages on x86 (16K), as that is
   the next available size that can hold 10K pages.

 - Update the debug output when a corrupt time is detected in the ring
   buffer. If the ring buffer detects inconsistent timestamps, there's a
   debug config options that will dump the contents of the meta data of
   the sub-buffer that is used for debugging. Add some more information
   to this dump that helps with debugging.

 - Add more timestamp debugging checks (only triggers when the config is
   enabled)

 - Increase the trace_seq iterator to 2 page sizes.

 - Allow strings written into tracefs_marker to be larger. Up to just
   under 2 page sizes (based on what trace_seq can hold).

 - Increase the trace_maker_raw write to be as big as a sub-buffer can
   hold.

 - Remove 32 bit time stamp logic, now that the rb_time_cmpxchg() has
   been removed.

 - More selftests were added.

 - Some code clean ups as well.

* tag 'trace-v6.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: (29 commits)
  ring-buffer: Remove stale comment from ring_buffer_size()
  tracing histograms: Simplify parse_actions() function
  tracing/selftests: Remove exec permissions from trace_marker.tc test
  ring-buffer: Use subbuf_order for buffer page masking
  tracing: Update subbuffer with kilobytes not page order
  ringbuffer/selftest: Add basic selftest to test changing subbuf order
  ring-buffer: Add documentation on the buffer_subbuf_order file
  ring-buffer: Just update the subbuffers when changing their allocation order
  ring-buffer: Keep the same size when updating the order
  tracing: Stop the tracing while changing the ring buffer subbuf size
  tracing: Update snapshot order along with main buffer order
  ring-buffer: Make sure the spare sub buffer used for reads has same size
  ring-buffer: Do no swap cpu buffers if order is different
  ring-buffer: Clear pages on error in ring_buffer_subbuf_order_set() failure
  ring-buffer: Read and write to ring buffers with custom sub buffer size
  ring-buffer: Set new size of the ring buffer sub page
  ring-buffer: Add interface for configuring trace sub buffer size
  ring-buffer: Page size per ring buffer
  ring-buffer: Have ring_buffer_print_page_header() be able to access ring_buffer_iter
  ring-buffer: Check if absolute timestamp goes backwards
  ...
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<title>tracing/selftests: Add ownership modification tests for eventfs</title>
<updated>2023-12-22T17:01:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Google)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-12-22T16:34:59+00:00</published>
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As there were bugs found with the ownership of eventfs dynamic file
creation. Add a test to test it.

It will remount tracefs with a different gid and check the ownership of
the eventfs directory, as well as the system and event directories. It
will also check the event file directories.

It then does a chgrp on each of these as well to see if they all get
updated as expected.

Then it remounts the tracefs file system back to the original group and
makes sure that all the updated files and directories were reset back to
the original ownership.

It does the same for instances that change the ownership of he instance
directory.

Note, because the uid is not reset by a remount, it is tested for every
file by switching it to a new owner and then back again.

Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan &lt;skhan@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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As there were bugs found with the ownership of eventfs dynamic file
creation. Add a test to test it.

It will remount tracefs with a different gid and check the ownership of
the eventfs directory, as well as the system and event directories. It
will also check the event file directories.

It then does a chgrp on each of these as well to see if they all get
updated as expected.

Then it remounts the tracefs file system back to the original group and
makes sure that all the updated files and directories were reset back to
the original ownership.

It does the same for instances that change the ownership of he instance
directory.

Note, because the uid is not reset by a remount, it is tested for every
file by switching it to a new owner and then back again.

Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan &lt;skhan@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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