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# ebeed8d4 22-Aug-2023 Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <[email protected]>

tracing/probes: Move finding func-proto API and getting func-param API to trace_btf

Move generic function-proto find API and getting function parameter API
to BTF library code from trace_probe.c. Th

tracing/probes: Move finding func-proto API and getting func-param API to trace_btf

Move generic function-proto find API and getting function parameter API
to BTF library code from trace_probe.c. This will avoid redundant efforts
on different feature.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/169272155255.160970.719426926348706349.stgit@devnote2/

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <[email protected]>

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Revision tags: v6.5-rc7, v6.5-rc6, v6.5-rc5, v6.5-rc4, v6.5-rc3, v6.5-rc2, v6.5-rc1, v6.4, v6.4-rc7, v6.4-rc6
# 334e5519 06-Jun-2023 Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <[email protected]>

tracing/probes: Add fprobe events for tracing function entry and exit.

Add fprobe events for tracing function entry and exit instead of kprobe
events. With this change, we can continue to trace func

tracing/probes: Add fprobe events for tracing function entry and exit.

Add fprobe events for tracing function entry and exit instead of kprobe
events. With this change, we can continue to trace function entry/exit
even if the CONFIG_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE is not available. Since
CONFIG_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE requires the CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS,
it is not available if the architecture only supports
CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS. And that means kprobe events can not
probe function entry/exit effectively on such architecture.
But this can be solved if the dynamic events supports fprobe events.

The fprobe event is a new dynamic events which is only for the function
(symbol) entry and exit. This event accepts non register fetch arguments
so that user can trace the function arguments and return values.

The fprobe events syntax is here;

f[:[GRP/][EVENT]] FUNCTION [FETCHARGS]
f[MAXACTIVE][:[GRP/][EVENT]] FUNCTION%return [FETCHARGS]

E.g.

# echo 'f vfs_read $arg1' >> dynamic_events
# echo 'f vfs_read%return $retval' >> dynamic_events
# cat dynamic_events
f:fprobes/vfs_read__entry vfs_read arg1=$arg1
f:fprobes/vfs_read__exit vfs_read%return arg1=$retval
# echo 1 > events/fprobes/enable
# head -n 20 trace | tail
# TASK-PID CPU# ||||| TIMESTAMP FUNCTION
# | | | ||||| | |
sh-142 [005] ...1. 448.386420: vfs_read__entry: (vfs_read+0x4/0x340) arg1=0xffff888007f7c540
sh-142 [005] ..... 448.386436: vfs_read__exit: (ksys_read+0x75/0x100 <- vfs_read) arg1=0x1
sh-142 [005] ...1. 448.386451: vfs_read__entry: (vfs_read+0x4/0x340) arg1=0xffff888007f7c540
sh-142 [005] ..... 448.386458: vfs_read__exit: (ksys_read+0x75/0x100 <- vfs_read) arg1=0x1
sh-142 [005] ...1. 448.386469: vfs_read__entry: (vfs_read+0x4/0x340) arg1=0xffff888007f7c540
sh-142 [005] ..... 448.386476: vfs_read__exit: (ksys_read+0x75/0x100 <- vfs_read) arg1=0x1
sh-142 [005] ...1. 448.602073: vfs_read__entry: (vfs_read+0x4/0x340) arg1=0xffff888007f7c540
sh-142 [005] ..... 448.602089: vfs_read__exit: (ksys_read+0x75/0x100 <- vfs_read) arg1=0x1

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/168507469754.913472.6112857614708350210.stgit@mhiramat.roam.corp.google.com/

Reported-by: kernel test robot <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <[email protected]>

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# 102227b9 29-Jul-2022 Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <[email protected]>

rv: Add Runtime Verification (RV) interface

RV is a lightweight (yet rigorous) method that complements classical
exhaustive verification techniques (such as model checking and
theorem proving) with

rv: Add Runtime Verification (RV) interface

RV is a lightweight (yet rigorous) method that complements classical
exhaustive verification techniques (such as model checking and
theorem proving) with a more practical approach to complex systems.

RV works by analyzing the trace of the system's actual execution,
comparing it against a formal specification of the system behavior.
RV can give precise information on the runtime behavior of the
monitored system while enabling the reaction for unexpected
events, avoiding, for example, the propagation of a failure on
safety-critical systems.

The development of this interface roots in the development of the
paper:

De Oliveira, Daniel Bristot; Cucinotta, Tommaso; De Oliveira, Romulo
Silva. Efficient formal verification for the Linux kernel. In:
International Conference on Software Engineering and Formal Methods.
Springer, Cham, 2019. p. 315-332.

And:

De Oliveira, Daniel Bristot. Automata-based formal analysis
and verification of the real-time Linux kernel. PhD Thesis, 2020.

The RV interface resembles the tracing/ interface on purpose. The current
path for the RV interface is /sys/kernel/tracing/rv/.

It presents these files:

"available_monitors"
- List the available monitors, one per line.

For example:
# cat available_monitors
wip
wwnr

"enabled_monitors"
- Lists the enabled monitors, one per line;
- Writing to it enables a given monitor;
- Writing a monitor name with a '!' prefix disables it;
- Truncating the file disables all enabled monitors.

For example:
# cat enabled_monitors
# echo wip > enabled_monitors
# echo wwnr >> enabled_monitors
# cat enabled_monitors
wip
wwnr
# echo '!wip' >> enabled_monitors
# cat enabled_monitors
wwnr
# echo > enabled_monitors
# cat enabled_monitors
#

Note that more than one monitor can be enabled concurrently.

"monitoring_on"
- It is an on/off general switcher for monitoring. Note
that it does not disable enabled monitors or detach events,
but stop the per-entity monitors of monitoring the events
received from the system. It resembles the "tracing_on" switcher.

"monitors/"
Each monitor will have its one directory inside "monitors/". There
the monitor specific files will be presented.
The "monitors/" directory resembles the "events" directory on
tracefs.

For example:
# cd monitors/wip/
# ls
desc enable
# cat desc
wakeup in preemptive per-cpu testing monitor.
# cat enable
0

For further information, see the comments in the header of
kernel/trace/rv/rv.c from this patch.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/a4bfe038f50cb047bfb343ad0e12b0e646ab308b.1659052063.git.bristot@kernel.org

Cc: Wim Van Sebroeck <[email protected]>
Cc: Guenter Roeck <[email protected]>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <[email protected]>
Cc: Marco Elver <[email protected]>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <[email protected]>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <[email protected]>
Cc: Shuah Khan <[email protected]>
Cc: Gabriele Paoloni <[email protected]>
Cc: Juri Lelli <[email protected]>
Cc: Clark Williams <[email protected]>
Cc: Tao Zhou <[email protected]>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <[email protected]>

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Revision tags: v5.19-rc8, v5.19-rc7, v5.19-rc6, v5.19-rc5, v5.19-rc4, v5.19-rc3, v5.19-rc2, v5.19-rc1
# bb5eb8f3 23-May-2022 Congyu Liu <[email protected]>

tracing: Disable kcov on trace_preemptirq.c

Functions in trace_preemptirq.c could be invoked from early interrupt
code that bypasses kcov trace function's in_task() check. Disable kcov
on this file

tracing: Disable kcov on trace_preemptirq.c

Functions in trace_preemptirq.c could be invoked from early interrupt
code that bypasses kcov trace function's in_task() check. Disable kcov
on this file to reduce random code coverage.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]

Acked-by: Dmitry Vyukov <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Congyu Liu <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <[email protected]>

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Revision tags: v5.18, v5.18-rc7, v5.18-rc6, v5.18-rc5, v5.18-rc4, v5.18-rc3, v5.18-rc2, v5.18-rc1, v5.17
# 54ecbe6f 15-Mar-2022 Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]>

rethook: Add a generic return hook

Add a return hook framework which hooks the function return. Most of the
logic came from the kretprobe, but this is independent from kretprobe.

Note that this is

rethook: Add a generic return hook

Add a return hook framework which hooks the function return. Most of the
logic came from the kretprobe, but this is independent from kretprobe.

Note that this is expected to be used with other function entry hooking
feature, like ftrace, fprobe, adn kprobes. Eventually this will replace
the kretprobe (e.g. kprobe + rethook = kretprobe), but at this moment,
this is just an additional hook.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/164735285066.1084943.9259661137330166643.stgit@devnote2

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# cad9931f 15-Mar-2022 Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]>

fprobe: Add ftrace based probe APIs

The fprobe is a wrapper API for ftrace function tracer.
Unlike kprobes, this probes only supports the function entry, but this
can probe multiple functions by one

fprobe: Add ftrace based probe APIs

The fprobe is a wrapper API for ftrace function tracer.
Unlike kprobes, this probes only supports the function entry, but this
can probe multiple functions by one fprobe. The usage is similar, user
will set their callback to fprobe::entry_handler and call
register_fprobe*() with probed functions.
There are 3 registration interfaces,

- register_fprobe() takes filtering patterns of the functin names.
- register_fprobe_ips() takes an array of ftrace-location addresses.
- register_fprobe_syms() takes an array of function names.

The registered fprobes can be unregistered with unregister_fprobe().
e.g.

struct fprobe fp = { .entry_handler = user_handler };
const char *targets[] = { "func1", "func2", "func3"};
...

ret = register_fprobe_syms(&fp, targets, ARRAY_SIZE(targets));

...

unregister_fprobe(&fp);

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/164735283857.1084943.1154436951479395551.stgit@devnote2

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Revision tags: v5.17-rc8, v5.17-rc7, v5.17-rc6, v5.17-rc5, v5.17-rc4, v5.17-rc3, v5.17-rc2, v5.17-rc1
# 7f5a08c7 18-Jan-2022 Beau Belgrave <[email protected]>

user_events: Add minimal support for trace_event into ftrace

Minimal support for interacting with dynamic events, trace_event and
ftrace. Core outline of flow between user process, ioctl and trace_e

user_events: Add minimal support for trace_event into ftrace

Minimal support for interacting with dynamic events, trace_event and
ftrace. Core outline of flow between user process, ioctl and trace_event
APIs.

User mode processes that wish to use trace events to get data into
ftrace, perf, eBPF, etc are limited to uprobes today. The user events
features enables an ABI for user mode processes to create and write to
trace events that are isolated from kernel level trace events. This
enables a faster path for tracing from user mode data as well as opens
managed code to participate in trace events, where stub locations are
dynamic.

User processes often want to trace only when it's useful. To enable this
a set of pages are mapped into the user process space that indicate the
current state of the user events that have been registered. User
processes can check if their event is hooked to a trace/probe, and if it
is, emit the event data out via the write() syscall.

Two new files are introduced into tracefs to accomplish this:
user_events_status - This file is mmap'd into participating user mode
processes to indicate event status.

user_events_data - This file is opened and register/delete ioctl's are
issued to create/open/delete trace events that can be used for tracing.

The typical scenario is on process start to mmap user_events_status. Processes
then register the events they plan to use via the REG ioctl. The ioctl reads
and updates the passed in user_reg struct. The status_index of the struct is
used to know the byte in the status page to check for that event. The
write_index of the struct is used to describe that event when writing out to
the fd that was used for the ioctl call. The data must always include this
index first when writing out data for an event. Data can be written either by
write() or by writev().

For example, in memory:
int index;
char data[];

Psuedo code example of typical usage:
struct user_reg reg;

int page_fd = open("user_events_status", O_RDWR);
char *page_data = mmap(NULL, PAGE_SIZE, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, page_fd, 0);
close(page_fd);

int data_fd = open("user_events_data", O_RDWR);

reg.size = sizeof(reg);
reg.name_args = (__u64)"test";

ioctl(data_fd, DIAG_IOCSREG, &reg);
int status_id = reg.status_index;
int write_id = reg.write_index;

struct iovec io[2];
io[0].iov_base = &write_id;
io[0].iov_len = sizeof(write_id);
io[1].iov_base = payload;
io[1].iov_len = sizeof(payload);

if (page_data[status_id])
writev(data_fd, io, 2);

User events are also exposed via the dynamic_events tracefs file for
both create and delete. Current status is exposed via the user_events_status
tracefs file.

Simple example to register a user event via dynamic_events:
echo u:test >> dynamic_events
cat dynamic_events
u:test

If an event is hooked to a probe, the probe hooked shows up:
echo 1 > events/user_events/test/enable
cat user_events_status
1:test # Used by ftrace

Active: 1
Busy: 1
Max: 4096

If an event is not hooked to a probe, no probe status shows up:
echo 0 > events/user_events/test/enable
cat user_events_status
1:test

Active: 1
Busy: 0
Max: 4096

Users can describe the trace event format via the following format:
name[:FLAG1[,FLAG2...] [field1[;field2...]]

Each field has the following format:
type name

Example for char array with a size of 20 named msg:
echo 'u:detailed char[20] msg' >> dynamic_events
cat dynamic_events
u:detailed char[20] msg

Data offsets are based on the data written out via write() and will be
updated to reflect the correct offset in the trace_event fields. For dynamic
data it is recommended to use the new __rel_loc data type. This type will be
the same as __data_loc, but the offset is relative to this entry. This allows
user_events to not worry about what common fields are being inserted before
the data.

The above format is valid for both the ioctl and the dynamic_events file.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]

Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Beau Belgrave <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <[email protected]>

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Revision tags: v5.16, v5.16-rc8, v5.16-rc7, v5.16-rc6, v5.16-rc5, v5.16-rc4, v5.16-rc3, v5.16-rc2, v5.16-rc1, v5.15, v5.15-rc7, v5.15-rc6, v5.15-rc5, v5.15-rc4, v5.15-rc3
# 6954e415 24-Sep-2021 Steven Rostedt (VMware) <[email protected]>

tracing: Place trace_pid_list logic into abstract functions

Instead of having the logic that does trace_pid_list open coded, wrap it in
abstract functions. This will allow a rewrite of the logic tha

tracing: Place trace_pid_list logic into abstract functions

Instead of having the logic that does trace_pid_list open coded, wrap it in
abstract functions. This will allow a rewrite of the logic that implements
the trace_pid_list without affecting the users.

Note, this causes a change in behavior. Every time a pid is written into
the set_*_pid file, it creates a new list and uses RCU to update it. If
pid_max is lowered, but there was a pid currently in the list that was
higher than pid_max, those pids will now be removed on updating the list.
The old behavior kept that from happening.

The rewrite of the pid_list logic will no longer depend on pid_max,
and will return the old behavior.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <[email protected]>

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Revision tags: v5.15-rc2, v5.15-rc1, v5.14, v5.14-rc7
# 7491e2c4 19-Aug-2021 Tzvetomir Stoyanov (VMware) <[email protected]>

tracing: Add a probe that attaches to trace events

A new dynamic event is introduced: event probe. The event is attached
to an existing tracepoint and uses its fields as arguments. The user
can spec

tracing: Add a probe that attaches to trace events

A new dynamic event is introduced: event probe. The event is attached
to an existing tracepoint and uses its fields as arguments. The user
can specify custom format string of the new event, select what tracepoint
arguments will be printed and how to print them.
An event probe is created by writing configuration string in
'dynamic_events' ftrace file:
e[:[SNAME/]ENAME] SYSTEM/EVENT [FETCHARGS] - Set an event probe
-:SNAME/ENAME - Delete an event probe

Where:
SNAME - System name, if omitted 'eprobes' is used.
ENAME - Name of the new event in SNAME, if omitted the SYSTEM_EVENT is used.
SYSTEM - Name of the system, where the tracepoint is defined, mandatory.
EVENT - Name of the tracepoint event in SYSTEM, mandatory.
FETCHARGS - Arguments:
<name>=$<field>[:TYPE] - Fetch given filed of the tracepoint and print
it as given TYPE with given name. Supported
types are:
(u8/u16/u32/u64/s8/s16/s32/s64), basic type
(x8/x16/x32/x64), hexadecimal types
"string", "ustring" and bitfield.

Example, attach an event probe on openat system call and print name of the
file that will be opened:
echo "e:esys/eopen syscalls/sys_enter_openat file=\$filename:string" >> dynamic_events
A new dynamic event is created in events/esys/eopen/ directory. It
can be deleted with:
echo "-:esys/eopen" >> dynamic_events

Filters, triggers and histograms can be attached to the new event, it can
be matched in synthetic events. There is one limitation - an event probe
can not be attached to kprobe, uprobe or another event probe.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]

Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]>
Co-developed-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Tzvetomir Stoyanov (VMware) <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <[email protected]>

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Revision tags: v5.14-rc6, v5.14-rc5, v5.14-rc4, v5.14-rc3, v5.14-rc2, v5.14-rc1, v5.13
# bce29ac9 22-Jun-2021 Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <[email protected]>

trace: Add osnoise tracer

In the context of high-performance computing (HPC), the Operating System
Noise (*osnoise*) refers to the interference experienced by an application
due to activities inside

trace: Add osnoise tracer

In the context of high-performance computing (HPC), the Operating System
Noise (*osnoise*) refers to the interference experienced by an application
due to activities inside the operating system. In the context of Linux,
NMIs, IRQs, SoftIRQs, and any other system thread can cause noise to the
system. Moreover, hardware-related jobs can also cause noise, for example,
via SMIs.

The osnoise tracer leverages the hwlat_detector by running a similar
loop with preemption, SoftIRQs and IRQs enabled, thus allowing all
the sources of *osnoise* during its execution. Using the same approach
of hwlat, osnoise takes note of the entry and exit point of any
source of interferences, increasing a per-cpu interference counter. The
osnoise tracer also saves an interference counter for each source of
interference. The interference counter for NMI, IRQs, SoftIRQs, and
threads is increased anytime the tool observes these interferences' entry
events. When a noise happens without any interference from the operating
system level, the hardware noise counter increases, pointing to a
hardware-related noise. In this way, osnoise can account for any
source of interference. At the end of the period, the osnoise tracer
prints the sum of all noise, the max single noise, the percentage of CPU
available for the thread, and the counters for the noise sources.

Usage

Write the ASCII text "osnoise" into the current_tracer file of the
tracing system (generally mounted at /sys/kernel/tracing).

For example::

[root@f32 ~]# cd /sys/kernel/tracing/
[root@f32 tracing]# echo osnoise > current_tracer

It is possible to follow the trace by reading the trace trace file::

[root@f32 tracing]# cat trace
# tracer: osnoise
#
# _-----=> irqs-off
# / _----=> need-resched
# | / _---=> hardirq/softirq
# || / _--=> preempt-depth MAX
# || / SINGLE Interference counters:
# |||| RUNTIME NOISE % OF CPU NOISE +-----------------------------+
# TASK-PID CPU# |||| TIMESTAMP IN US IN US AVAILABLE IN US HW NMI IRQ SIRQ THREAD
# | | | |||| | | | | | | | | | |
<...>-859 [000] .... 81.637220: 1000000 190 99.98100 9 18 0 1007 18 1
<...>-860 [001] .... 81.638154: 1000000 656 99.93440 74 23 0 1006 16 3
<...>-861 [002] .... 81.638193: 1000000 5675 99.43250 202 6 0 1013 25 21
<...>-862 [003] .... 81.638242: 1000000 125 99.98750 45 1 0 1011 23 0
<...>-863 [004] .... 81.638260: 1000000 1721 99.82790 168 7 0 1002 49 41
<...>-864 [005] .... 81.638286: 1000000 263 99.97370 57 6 0 1006 26 2
<...>-865 [006] .... 81.638302: 1000000 109 99.98910 21 3 0 1006 18 1
<...>-866 [007] .... 81.638326: 1000000 7816 99.21840 107 8 0 1016 39 19

In addition to the regular trace fields (from TASK-PID to TIMESTAMP), the
tracer prints a message at the end of each period for each CPU that is
running an osnoise/CPU thread. The osnoise specific fields report:

- The RUNTIME IN USE reports the amount of time in microseconds that
the osnoise thread kept looping reading the time.
- The NOISE IN US reports the sum of noise in microseconds observed
by the osnoise tracer during the associated runtime.
- The % OF CPU AVAILABLE reports the percentage of CPU available for
the osnoise thread during the runtime window.
- The MAX SINGLE NOISE IN US reports the maximum single noise observed
during the runtime window.
- The Interference counters display how many each of the respective
interference happened during the runtime window.

Note that the example above shows a high number of HW noise samples.
The reason being is that this sample was taken on a virtual machine,
and the host interference is detected as a hardware interference.

Tracer options

The tracer has a set of options inside the osnoise directory, they are:

- osnoise/cpus: CPUs at which a osnoise thread will execute.
- osnoise/period_us: the period of the osnoise thread.
- osnoise/runtime_us: how long an osnoise thread will look for noise.
- osnoise/stop_tracing_us: stop the system tracing if a single noise
higher than the configured value happens. Writing 0 disables this
option.
- osnoise/stop_tracing_total_us: stop the system tracing if total noise
higher than the configured value happens. Writing 0 disables this
option.
- tracing_threshold: the minimum delta between two time() reads to be
considered as noise, in us. When set to 0, the default value will
be used, which is currently 5 us.

Additional Tracing

In addition to the tracer, a set of tracepoints were added to
facilitate the identification of the osnoise source.

- osnoise:sample_threshold: printed anytime a noise is higher than
the configurable tolerance_ns.
- osnoise:nmi_noise: noise from NMI, including the duration.
- osnoise:irq_noise: noise from an IRQ, including the duration.
- osnoise:softirq_noise: noise from a SoftIRQ, including the
duration.
- osnoise:thread_noise: noise from a thread, including the duration.

Note that all the values are *net values*. For example, if while osnoise
is running, another thread preempts the osnoise thread, it will start a
thread_noise duration at the start. Then, an IRQ takes place, preempting
the thread_noise, starting a irq_noise. When the IRQ ends its execution,
it will compute its duration, and this duration will be subtracted from
the thread_noise, in such a way as to avoid the double accounting of the
IRQ execution. This logic is valid for all sources of noise.

Here is one example of the usage of these tracepoints::

osnoise/8-961 [008] d.h. 5789.857532: irq_noise: local_timer:236 start 5789.857529929 duration 1845 ns
osnoise/8-961 [008] dNh. 5789.858408: irq_noise: local_timer:236 start 5789.858404871 duration 2848 ns
migration/8-54 [008] d... 5789.858413: thread_noise: migration/8:54 start 5789.858409300 duration 3068 ns
osnoise/8-961 [008] .... 5789.858413: sample_threshold: start 5789.858404555 duration 8723 ns interferences 2

In this example, a noise sample of 8 microseconds was reported in the last
line, pointing to two interferences. Looking backward in the trace, the
two previous entries were about the migration thread running after a
timer IRQ execution. The first event is not part of the noise because
it took place one millisecond before.

It is worth noticing that the sum of the duration reported in the
tracepoints is smaller than eight us reported in the sample_threshold.
The reason roots in the overhead of the entry and exit code that happens
before and after any interference execution. This justifies the dual
approach: measuring thread and tracing.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/e649467042d60e7b62714c9c6751a56299d15119.1624372313.git.bristot@redhat.com

Cc: Phil Auld <[email protected]>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <[email protected]>
Cc: Kate Carcia <[email protected]>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexandre Chartre <[email protected]>
Cc: Clark Willaims <[email protected]>
Cc: John Kacur <[email protected]>
Cc: Juri Lelli <[email protected]>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <[email protected]>
[
Made the following functions static:
trace_irqentry_callback()
trace_irqexit_callback()
trace_intel_irqentry_callback()
trace_intel_irqexit_callback()

Added to include/trace.h:
osnoise_arch_register()
osnoise_arch_unregister()

Fixed define logic for LATENCY_FS_NOTIFY

Reported-by: kernel test robot <[email protected]>
]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <[email protected]>

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# 9c0dee54 26-Feb-2021 Alexander Potapenko <[email protected]>

tracing: add error_report_end trace point

Patch series "Add error_report_end tracepoint to KFENCE and KASAN", v3.

This patchset adds a tracepoint, error_repor_end, that is to be used by
KFENCE, KAS

tracing: add error_report_end trace point

Patch series "Add error_report_end tracepoint to KFENCE and KASAN", v3.

This patchset adds a tracepoint, error_repor_end, that is to be used by
KFENCE, KASAN, and potentially other bug detection tools, when they print
an error report. One of the possible use cases is userspace collection of
kernel error reports: interested parties can subscribe to the tracing
event via tracefs, and get notified when an error report occurs.

This patch (of 3):

Introduce error_report_end tracepoint. It can be used in debugging tools
like KASAN, KFENCE, etc. to provide extensions to the error reporting
mechanisms (e.g. allow tests hook into error reporting, ease error report
collection from production kernels). Another benefit would be making use
of ftrace for debugging or benchmarking the tools themselves.

Should we need it, the tracepoint name leaves us with the possibility to
introduce a complementary error_report_start tracepoint in the future.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko <[email protected]>
Suggested-by: Marco Elver <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrey Konovalov <[email protected]>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Petr Mladek <[email protected]>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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Revision tags: v5.11, v5.11-rc7, v5.11-rc6, v5.11-rc5, v5.11-rc4, v5.11-rc3, v5.11-rc2, v5.11-rc1, v5.10, v5.10-rc7, v5.10-rc6, v5.10-rc5, v5.10-rc4, v5.10-rc3
# 773c1670 06-Nov-2020 Steven Rostedt (VMware) <[email protected]>

ftrace: Add recording of functions that caused recursion

This adds CONFIG_FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION that will record to a file
"recursed_functions" all the functions that caused recursion while a
call

ftrace: Add recording of functions that caused recursion

This adds CONFIG_FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION that will record to a file
"recursed_functions" all the functions that caused recursion while a
callback to the function tracer was running.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]>
Cc: Guo Ren <[email protected]>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <[email protected]>
Cc: Helge Deller <[email protected]>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <[email protected]>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <[email protected]>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <[email protected]>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]>
Cc: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Cc: Anton Vorontsov <[email protected]>
Cc: Colin Cross <[email protected]>
Cc: Tony Luck <[email protected]>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <[email protected]>
Cc: Miroslav Benes <[email protected]>
Cc: Petr Mladek <[email protected]>
Cc: Joe Lawrence <[email protected]>
Cc: Kamalesh Babulal <[email protected]>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <[email protected]>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <[email protected]>

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Revision tags: v5.10-rc2, v5.10-rc1, v5.9, v5.9-rc8, v5.9-rc7, v5.9-rc6, v5.9-rc5, v5.9-rc4, v5.9-rc3, v5.9-rc2, v5.9-rc1, v5.8, v5.8-rc7, v5.8-rc6, v5.8-rc5
# 15d5761a 07-Jul-2020 Masahiro Yamada <[email protected]>

kbuild: introduce ccflags-remove-y and asflags-remove-y

CFLAGS_REMOVE_<file>.o filters out flags when compiling a particular
object, but there is no convenient way to do that for every object in
a d

kbuild: introduce ccflags-remove-y and asflags-remove-y

CFLAGS_REMOVE_<file>.o filters out flags when compiling a particular
object, but there is no convenient way to do that for every object in
a directory.

Add ccflags-remove-y and asflags-remove-y to make it easily.

Use ccflags-remove-y to clean up some Makefiles.

The add/remove order works as follows:

[1] KBUILD_CFLAGS specifies compiler flags used globally

[2] ccflags-y adds compiler flags for all objects in the
current Makefile

[3] ccflags-remove-y removes compiler flags for all objects in the
current Makefile (New feature)

[4] CFLAGS_<file> adds compiler flags per file.

[5] CFLAGS_REMOVE_<file> removes compiler flags per file.

Having [3] before [4] allows us to remove flags from most (but not all)
objects in the current Makefile.

For example, kernel/trace/Makefile removes $(CC_FLAGS_FTRACE)
from all objects in the directory, then adds it back to
trace_selftest_dynamic.o and CFLAGS_trace_kprobe_selftest.o

The same applies to lib/livepatch/Makefile.

Please note ccflags-remove-y has no effect to the sub-directories.
In contrast, the previous notation got rid of compiler flags also from
all the sub-directories.

The following are not affected because they have no sub-directories:

arch/arm/boot/compressed/
arch/powerpc/xmon/
arch/sh/
kernel/trace/

However, lib/ has several sub-directories.

To keep the behavior, I added ccflags-remove-y to all Makefiles
in subdirectories of lib/, except the following:

lib/vdso/Makefile - Kbuild does not descend into this Makefile
lib/raid/test/Makefile - This is not used for the kernel build

I think commit 2464a609ded0 ("ftrace: do not trace library functions")
excluded too much. In the next commit, I will remove ccflags-remove-y
from the sub-directories of lib/.

Suggested-by: Sami Tolvanen <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <[email protected]> (powerpc)
Acked-by: Brendan Higgins <[email protected]> (KUnit)
Tested-by: Anders Roxell <[email protected]>

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# ac5a72ea 13-Jul-2020 Alan Maguire <[email protected]>

bpf: Use dedicated bpf_trace_printk event instead of trace_printk()

The bpf helper bpf_trace_printk() uses trace_printk() under the hood.
This leads to an alarming warning message originating from t

bpf: Use dedicated bpf_trace_printk event instead of trace_printk()

The bpf helper bpf_trace_printk() uses trace_printk() under the hood.
This leads to an alarming warning message originating from trace
buffer allocation which occurs the first time a program using
bpf_trace_printk() is loaded.

We can instead create a trace event for bpf_trace_printk() and enable
it in-kernel when/if we encounter a program using the
bpf_trace_printk() helper. With this approach, trace_printk()
is not used directly and no warning message appears.

This work was started by Steven (see Link) and finished by Alan; added
Steven's Signed-off-by with his permission.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Alan Maguire <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/[email protected]

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Revision tags: v5.8-rc4, v5.8-rc3, v5.8-rc2, v5.8-rc1, v5.7
# 726721a5 28-May-2020 Tom Zanussi <[email protected]>

tracing: Move synthetic events to a separate file

With the addition of the in-kernel synthetic event API, synthetic
events are no longer specifically tied to the histogram triggers.

The synthetic e

tracing: Move synthetic events to a separate file

With the addition of the in-kernel synthetic event API, synthetic
events are no longer specifically tied to the histogram triggers.

The synthetic event code is also making trace_event_hist.c very
bloated, so for those reasons, move it to a separate file,
trace_events_synth.c, along with a new trace_synth.h header file.

Because synthetic events are now independent from hist triggers, add a
new CONFIG_SYNTH_EVENTS config option, and have CONFIG_HIST_TRIGGERS
select it, and have CONFIG_SYNTH_EVENT_GEN_TEST depend on it.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4d1fa1f85ed5982706ac44844ac92451dcb04715.1590693308.git.zanussi@kernel.org

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <[email protected]>

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Revision tags: v5.7-rc7, v5.7-rc6, v5.7-rc5, v5.7-rc4, v5.7-rc3, v5.7-rc2, v5.7-rc1, v5.6, v5.6-rc7, v5.6-rc6, v5.6-rc5, v5.6-rc4, v5.6-rc3, v5.6-rc2
# f5d2313b 14-Feb-2020 Marco Elver <[email protected]>

kcsan, trace: Make KCSAN compatible with tracing

Previously the system would lock up if ftrace was enabled together with
KCSAN. This is due to recursion on reporting if the tracer code is
instrument

kcsan, trace: Make KCSAN compatible with tracing

Previously the system would lock up if ftrace was enabled together with
KCSAN. This is due to recursion on reporting if the tracer code is
instrumented with KCSAN.

To avoid this for all types of tracing, disable KCSAN instrumentation
for all of kernel/trace.

Furthermore, since KCSAN relies on udelay() to introduce delay, we have
to disable ftrace for udelay() (currently done for x86) in case KCSAN is
used together with lockdep and ftrace. The reason is that it may corrupt
lockdep IRQ flags tracing state due to a peculiar case of recursion
(details in Makefile comment).

Reported-by: Qian Cai <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Qian Cai <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>

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Revision tags: v5.6-rc1
# 64836248 29-Jan-2020 Tom Zanussi <[email protected]>

tracing: Add kprobe event command generation test module

Add a test module that checks the basic functionality of the in-kernel
kprobe event command generation API by creating kprobe events from a
m

tracing: Add kprobe event command generation test module

Add a test module that checks the basic functionality of the in-kernel
kprobe event command generation API by creating kprobe events from a
module.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/97e502b204f9dba948e3fa3a4315448298218787.1580323897.git.zanussi@kernel.org

Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <[email protected]>

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# 9fe41efa 29-Jan-2020 Tom Zanussi <[email protected]>

tracing: Add synth event generation test module

Add a test module that checks the basic functionality of the in-kernel
synthetic event generation API by generating and tracing synthetic
events from

tracing: Add synth event generation test module

Add a test module that checks the basic functionality of the in-kernel
synthetic event generation API by generating and tracing synthetic
events from a module.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/fcb4dd9eb9eefb70ab20538d3529d51642389664.1580323897.git.zanussi@kernel.org

Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <[email protected]>

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Revision tags: v5.5, v5.5-rc7, v5.5-rc6
# 9c5b9d3d 10-Jan-2020 Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]>

tracing/boot: Add boot-time tracing

Setup tracing options via extra boot config in addition to kernel
command line.

This adds following commands support. These are applied to
the global trace insta

tracing/boot: Add boot-time tracing

Setup tracing options via extra boot config in addition to kernel
command line.

This adds following commands support. These are applied to
the global trace instance.

- ftrace.options = OPT1[,OPT2...]
Enable given ftrace options.

- ftrace.trace_clock = CLOCK
Set given CLOCK to ftrace's trace_clock.

- ftrace.buffer_size = SIZE
Configure ftrace buffer size to SIZE. You can use "KB" or "MB"
for that SIZE.

- ftrace.events = EVENT[, EVENT2...]
Enable given events on boot. You can use a wild card in EVENT.

- ftrace.tracer = TRACER
Set TRACER to current tracer on boot. (e.g. function)

Note that this is NOT replacing the kernel parameters, because
this boot config based setting is later than that. If you want to
trace earlier boot events, you still need kernel parameters.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/157867237723.17873.17494943526320587488.stgit@devnote2

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <[email protected]>

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Revision tags: v5.5-rc5, v5.5-rc4, v5.5-rc3, v5.5-rc2, v5.5-rc1
# 6c3edaf9 30-Nov-2019 Cong Wang <[email protected]>

tracing: Introduce trace event injection

We have been trying to use rasdaemon to monitor hardware errors like
correctable memory errors. rasdaemon uses trace events to monitor
various hardware error

tracing: Introduce trace event injection

We have been trying to use rasdaemon to monitor hardware errors like
correctable memory errors. rasdaemon uses trace events to monitor
various hardware errors. In order to test it, we have to inject some
hardware errors, unfortunately not all of them provide error
injections. MCE does provide a way to inject MCE errors, but errors
like PCI error and devlink error don't, it is not easy to add error
injection to each of them. Instead, it is relatively easier to just
allow users to inject trace events in a generic way so that all trace
events can be injected.

This patch introduces trace event injection, where a new 'inject' is
added to each tracepoint directory. Users could write into this file
with key=value pairs to specify the value of each fields of the trace
event, all unspecified fields are set to zero values by default.

For example, for the net/net_dev_queue tracepoint, we can inject:

INJECT=/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/net/net_dev_queue/inject
echo "" > $INJECT
echo "name='test'" > $INJECT
echo "name='test' len=1024" > $INJECT
cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace
...
<...>-614 [000] .... 36.571483: net_dev_queue: dev= skbaddr=00000000fbf338c2 len=0
<...>-614 [001] .... 136.588252: net_dev_queue: dev=test skbaddr=00000000fbf338c2 len=0
<...>-614 [001] .N.. 208.431878: net_dev_queue: dev=test skbaddr=00000000fbf338c2 len=1024

Triggers could be triggered as usual too:

echo "stacktrace if len == 1025" > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/net/net_dev_queue/trigger
echo "len=1025" > $INJECT
cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace
...
bash-614 [000] .... 36.571483: net_dev_queue: dev= skbaddr=00000000fbf338c2 len=0
bash-614 [001] .... 136.588252: net_dev_queue: dev=test skbaddr=00000000fbf338c2 len=0
bash-614 [001] .N.. 208.431878: net_dev_queue: dev=test skbaddr=00000000fbf338c2 len=1024
bash-614 [001] .N.1 284.236349: <stack trace>
=> event_inject_write
=> vfs_write
=> ksys_write
=> do_syscall_64
=> entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe

The only thing that can't be injected is string pointers as they
require constant string pointers, this can't be done at run time.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]

Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <[email protected]>

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Revision tags: v5.4, v5.4-rc8, v5.4-rc7, v5.4-rc6, v5.4-rc5, v5.4-rc4, v5.4-rc3, v5.4-rc2, v5.4-rc1, v5.3, v5.3-rc8, v5.3-rc7, v5.3-rc6, v5.3-rc5, v5.3-rc4, v5.3-rc3, v5.3-rc2, v5.3-rc1, v5.2, v5.2-rc7, v5.2-rc6, v5.2-rc5, v5.2-rc4, v5.2-rc3, v5.2-rc2, v5.2-rc1, v5.1, v5.1-rc7, v5.1-rc6, v5.1-rc5, v5.1-rc4, v5.1-rc3, v5.1-rc2, v5.1-rc1, v5.0, v5.0-rc8, v5.0-rc7, v5.0-rc6, v5.0-rc5, v5.0-rc4, v5.0-rc3, v5.0-rc2, v5.0-rc1, v4.20, v4.20-rc7, v4.20-rc6, v4.20-rc5, v4.20-rc4, v4.20-rc3, v4.20-rc2
# 5448d44c 05-Nov-2018 Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]>

tracing: Add unified dynamic event framework

Add unified dynamic event framework for ftrace kprobes, uprobes
and synthetic events. Those dynamic events can be co-exist on
same file because those syn

tracing: Add unified dynamic event framework

Add unified dynamic event framework for ftrace kprobes, uprobes
and synthetic events. Those dynamic events can be co-exist on
same file because those syntax doesn't overlap.

This introduces a framework part which provides a unified tracefs
interface and operations.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/154140852824.17322.12250362185969352095.stgit@devbox

Reviewed-by: Tom Zanussi <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Tom Zanussi <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <[email protected]>

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# d864a3ca 12-Nov-2018 Steven Rostedt (VMware) <[email protected]>

fgraph: Create a fgraph.c file to store function graph infrastructure

As the function graph infrastructure can be used by thing other than
tracing, moving the code to its own file out of the trace_f

fgraph: Create a fgraph.c file to store function graph infrastructure

As the function graph infrastructure can be used by thing other than
tracing, moving the code to its own file out of the trace_functions_graph.c
code makes more sense.

The fgraph.c file will only contain the infrastructure required to hook into
functions and their return code.

Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <[email protected]>

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Revision tags: v4.20-rc1, v4.19, v4.19-rc8, v4.19-rc7, v4.19-rc6, v4.19-rc5, v4.19-rc4, v4.19-rc3, v4.19-rc2, v4.19-rc1
# 6b7dca40 21-Aug-2018 Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]>

tracing: Allow gcov profiling on only ftrace subsystem

Add GCOV_PROFILE_FTRACE to allow gcov profiling on only files in ftrace
subsystem. This config option will be used for checking kselftest/ftrac

tracing: Allow gcov profiling on only ftrace subsystem

Add GCOV_PROFILE_FTRACE to allow gcov profiling on only files in ftrace
subsystem. This config option will be used for checking kselftest/ftrace
coverage.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/153483647755.32472.4746349899604275441.stgit@devbox

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <[email protected]>

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Revision tags: v4.18, v4.18-rc8
# c3bc8fd6 30-Jul-2018 Joel Fernandes (Google) <[email protected]>

tracing: Centralize preemptirq tracepoints and unify their usage

This patch detaches the preemptirq tracepoints from the tracers and
keeps it separate.

Advantages:
* Lockdep and irqsoff event can n

tracing: Centralize preemptirq tracepoints and unify their usage

This patch detaches the preemptirq tracepoints from the tracers and
keeps it separate.

Advantages:
* Lockdep and irqsoff event can now run in parallel since they no longer
have their own calls.

* This unifies the usecase of adding hooks to an irqsoff and irqson
event, and a preemptoff and preempton event.
3 users of the events exist:
- Lockdep
- irqsoff and preemptoff tracers
- irqs and preempt trace events

The unification cleans up several ifdefs and makes the code in preempt
tracer and irqsoff tracers simpler. It gets rid of all the horrific
ifdeferry around PROVE_LOCKING and makes configuration of the different
users of the tracepoints more easy and understandable. It also gets rid
of the time_* function calls from the lockdep hooks used to call into
the preemptirq tracer which is not needed anymore. The negative delta in
lines of code in this patch is quite large too.

In the patch we introduce a new CONFIG option PREEMPTIRQ_TRACEPOINTS
as a single point for registering probes onto the tracepoints. With
this,
the web of config options for preempt/irq toggle tracepoints and its
users becomes:

PREEMPT_TRACER PREEMPTIRQ_EVENTS IRQSOFF_TRACER PROVE_LOCKING
| | \ | |
\ (selects) / \ \ (selects) /
TRACE_PREEMPT_TOGGLE ----> TRACE_IRQFLAGS
\ /
\ (depends on) /
PREEMPTIRQ_TRACEPOINTS

Other than the performance tests mentioned in the previous patch, I also
ran the locking API test suite. I verified that all tests cases are
passing.

I also injected issues by not registering lockdep probes onto the
tracepoints and I see failures to confirm that the probes are indeed
working.

This series + lockdep probes not registered (just to inject errors):
[ 0.000000] hard-irqs-on + irq-safe-A/21: ok | ok | ok |
[ 0.000000] soft-irqs-on + irq-safe-A/21: ok | ok | ok |
[ 0.000000] sirq-safe-A => hirqs-on/12:FAILED|FAILED| ok |
[ 0.000000] sirq-safe-A => hirqs-on/21:FAILED|FAILED| ok |
[ 0.000000] hard-safe-A + irqs-on/12:FAILED|FAILED| ok |
[ 0.000000] soft-safe-A + irqs-on/12:FAILED|FAILED| ok |
[ 0.000000] hard-safe-A + irqs-on/21:FAILED|FAILED| ok |
[ 0.000000] soft-safe-A + irqs-on/21:FAILED|FAILED| ok |
[ 0.000000] hard-safe-A + unsafe-B #1/123: ok | ok | ok |
[ 0.000000] soft-safe-A + unsafe-B #1/123: ok | ok | ok |

With this series + lockdep probes registered, all locking tests pass:

[ 0.000000] hard-irqs-on + irq-safe-A/21: ok | ok | ok |
[ 0.000000] soft-irqs-on + irq-safe-A/21: ok | ok | ok |
[ 0.000000] sirq-safe-A => hirqs-on/12: ok | ok | ok |
[ 0.000000] sirq-safe-A => hirqs-on/21: ok | ok | ok |
[ 0.000000] hard-safe-A + irqs-on/12: ok | ok | ok |
[ 0.000000] soft-safe-A + irqs-on/12: ok | ok | ok |
[ 0.000000] hard-safe-A + irqs-on/21: ok | ok | ok |
[ 0.000000] soft-safe-A + irqs-on/21: ok | ok | ok |
[ 0.000000] hard-safe-A + unsafe-B #1/123: ok | ok | ok |
[ 0.000000] soft-safe-A + unsafe-B #1/123: ok | ok | ok |

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <[email protected]>

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# d899926f 30-Jul-2018 Francis Deslauriers <[email protected]>

selftest/ftrace: Move kprobe selftest function to separate compile unit

Move selftest function to its own compile unit so it can be compiled
with the ftrace cflags (CC_FLAGS_FTRACE) allowing it to b

selftest/ftrace: Move kprobe selftest function to separate compile unit

Move selftest function to its own compile unit so it can be compiled
with the ftrace cflags (CC_FLAGS_FTRACE) allowing it to be probed
during the ftrace startup tests.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/153294604271.32740.16490677128630177030.stgit@devbox

Signed-off-by: Francis Deslauriers <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <[email protected]>

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