pid: allow pid_max to be set per pid namespace

The pid_max sysctl is a global value. For a long time the default value
has been 65535 and during the pidfd dicussions Linus proposed to bump
pid_max b

pid: allow pid_max to be set per pid namespace

The pid_max sysctl is a global value. For a long time the default value
has been 65535 and during the pidfd dicussions Linus proposed to bump
pid_max by default (cf. [1]). Based on this discussion systemd started
bumping pid_max to 2^22. So all new systems now run with a very high
pid_max limit with some distros having also backported that change.
The decision to bump pid_max is obviously correct. It just doesn't make
a lot of sense nowadays to enforce such a low pid number. There's
sufficient tooling to make selecting specific processes without typing
really large pid numbers available.

In any case, there are workloads that have expections about how large
pid numbers they accept. Either for historical reasons or architectural
reasons. One concreate example is the 32-bit version of Android's bionic
libc which requires pid numbers less than 65536. There are workloads
where it is run in a 32-bit container on a 64-bit kernel. If the host
has a pid_max value greater than 65535 the libc will abort thread
creation because of size assumptions of pthread_mutex_t.

That's a fairly specific use-case however, in general specific workloads
that are moved into containers running on a host with a new kernel and a
new systemd can run into issues with large pid_max values. Obviously
making assumptions about the size of the allocated pid is suboptimal but
we have userspace that does it.

Of course, giving containers the ability to restrict the number of
processes in their respective pid namespace indepent of the global limit
through pid_max is something desirable in itself and comes in handy in
general.

Independent of motivating use-cases the existence of pid namespaces
makes this also a good semantical extension and there have been prior
proposals pushing in a similar direction.
The trick here is to minimize the risk of regressions which I think is
doable. The fact that pid namespaces are hierarchical will help us here.

What we mostly care about is that when the host sets a low pid_max
limit, say (crazy number) 100 that no descendant pid namespace can
allocate a higher pid number in its namespace. Since pid allocation is
hierarchial this can be ensured by checking each pid allocation against
the pid namespace's pid_max limit. This means if the allocation in the
descendant pid namespace succeeds, the ancestor pid namespace can reject
it. If the ancestor pid namespace has a higher limit than the descendant
pid namespace the descendant pid namespace will reject the pid
allocation. The ancestor pid namespace will obviously not care about
this.
All in all this means pid_max continues to enforce a system wide limit
on the number of processes but allows pid namespaces sufficient leeway
in handling workloads with assumptions about pid values and allows
containers to restrict the number of processes in a pid namespace
through the pid_max interface.

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-api/CAHk-=wiZ40LVjnXSi9iHLE_-ZBsWFGCgdmNiYZUXn1-V5YBg2g@mail.gmail.com
- rebased from 5.14-rc1
- a few fixes (missing ns_free_inum on error path, missing initialization, etc)
- permission check changes in pid_table_root_permissions
- unsigned int pid_max -> int pid_max (keep pid_max type as it was)
- add READ_ONCE in alloc_pid() as suggested by Christian
- rebased from 6.7 and take into account:
* sysctl: treewide: drop unused argument ctl_table_root::set_ownership(table)
* sysctl: treewide: constify ctl_table_header::ctl_table_arg
* pidfd: add pidfs
* tracing: Move saved_cmdline code into trace_sched_switch.c

Signed-off-by: Alexander Mikhalitsyn <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <[email protected]>

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tracing: Replace strncpy() with strscpy() when copying comm

Replace the depreciated[1] strncpy() calls with strscpy()
when copying comm.

Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90 [1]

Cc: <mhir

tracing: Replace strncpy() with strscpy() when copying comm

Replace the depreciated[1] strncpy() calls with strscpy()
when copying comm.

Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90 [1]

Cc: <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Jinjie Ruan <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <[email protected]>

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tracing: Move saved_cmdline code into trace_sched_switch.c

The code that handles saved_cmdlines is split between the trace.c file and
the trace_sched_switch.c. There's some history to this. The
trac

tracing: Move saved_cmdline code into trace_sched_switch.c

The code that handles saved_cmdlines is split between the trace.c file and
the trace_sched_switch.c. There's some history to this. The
trace_sched_switch.c was originally created to handle the sched_switch
tracer that was deprecated due to sched_switch trace event making it
obsolete. But that file did not get deleted as it had some code to help
with saved_cmdlines. But trace.c has grown tremendously since then. Just
move all the saved_cmdlines code into trace_sched_switch.c as that's the
only reason that file still exists, and trace.c has gotten too big.

No functional changes.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/[email protected]

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]>
Cc: Mark Rutland <[email protected]>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Tim Chen <[email protected]>
Cc: Vincent Donnefort <[email protected]>
Cc: Sven Schnelle <[email protected]>
Cc: Mete Durlu <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <[email protected]>

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sched/tracing: Append prev_state to tp args instead

Commit fa2c3254d7cf (sched/tracing: Don't re-read p->state when emitting
sched_switch event, 2022-01-20) added a new prev_state argument to the
sc

sched/tracing: Append prev_state to tp args instead

Commit fa2c3254d7cf (sched/tracing: Don't re-read p->state when emitting
sched_switch event, 2022-01-20) added a new prev_state argument to the
sched_switch tracepoint, before the prev task_struct pointer.

This reordering of arguments broke BPF programs that use the raw
tracepoint (e.g. tp_btf programs). The type of the second argument has
changed and existing programs that assume a task_struct* argument
(e.g. for bpf_task_storage access) will now fail to verify.

If we instead append the new argument to the end, all existing programs
would continue to work and can conditionally extract the prev_state
argument on supported kernel versions.

Fixes: fa2c3254d7cf (sched/tracing: Don't re-read p->state when emitting sched_switch event, 2022-01-20)
Signed-off-by: Delyan Kratunov <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <[email protected]>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]

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sched/tracing: Don't re-read p->state when emitting sched_switch event

As of commit

c6e7bd7afaeb ("sched/core: Optimize ttwu() spinning on p->on_cpu")

the following sequence becomes possible:

sched/tracing: Don't re-read p->state when emitting sched_switch event

As of commit

c6e7bd7afaeb ("sched/core: Optimize ttwu() spinning on p->on_cpu")

the following sequence becomes possible:

p->__state = TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE;
__schedule()
deactivate_task(p);
ttwu()
READ !p->on_rq
p->__state=TASK_WAKING
trace_sched_switch()
__trace_sched_switch_state()
task_state_index()
return 0;

TASK_WAKING isn't in TASK_REPORT, so the task appears as TASK_RUNNING in
the trace event.

Prevent this by pushing the value read from __schedule() down the trace
event.

Reported-by: Abhijeet Dharmapurikar <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]

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tracing: Save both wakee and current on wakeup events

Use the sched_switch function to save both the wakee and the waker comms
in the saved cmdlines list when sched_wakeup is done.

Signed-off-by: S

tracing: Save both wakee and current on wakeup events

Use the sched_switch function to save both the wakee and the waker comms
in the saved cmdlines list when sched_wakeup is done.

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

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tracing: Fix sched switch start/stop refcount racy updates

Reading the sched_cmdline_ref and sched_tgid_ref initial state within
tracing_start_sched_switch without holding the sched_register_mutex i

tracing: Fix sched switch start/stop refcount racy updates

Reading the sched_cmdline_ref and sched_tgid_ref initial state within
tracing_start_sched_switch without holding the sched_register_mutex is
racy against concurrent updates, which can lead to tracepoint probes
being registered more than once (and thus trigger warnings within
tracepoint.c).

[ May be the fix for this bug ]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]

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

Cc: [email protected]
CC: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <[email protected]>
CC: Joel Fernandes (Google) <[email protected]>
CC: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
CC: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
CC: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>
Reported-by: [email protected]
Fixes: d914ba37d7145 ("tracing: Add support for recording tgid of tasks")
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <[email protected]>

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License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine

License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
- file had no licensing information it it.
- file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
- file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
- Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
- Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5
lines of source
- File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5
lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

- when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
COPYING file license applied.

For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 11139

and resulted in the first patch in this series.

If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930

and resulted in the second patch in this series.

- if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
it (per prior point). Results summary:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270
GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17
LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15
GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14
((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5
LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4
LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1

and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

- when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
the concluded license(s).

- when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

- In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

- When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

- If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
- a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
license ids and scores
- reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
- reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

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tracing: Add support for recording tgid of tasks

Inorder to support recording of tgid, the following changes are made:

* Introduce a new API (tracing_record_taskinfo) to additionally record the tgi

tracing: Add support for recording tgid of tasks

Inorder to support recording of tgid, the following changes are made:

* Introduce a new API (tracing_record_taskinfo) to additionally record the tgid
along with the task's comm at the same time. This has has the benefit of not
setting trace_cmdline_save before all the information for a task is saved.
* Add a new API tracing_record_taskinfo_sched_switch to record task information
for 2 tasks at a time (previous and next) and use it from sched_switch probe.
* Preserve the old API (tracing_record_cmdline) and create it as a wrapper
around the new one so that existing callers aren't affected.
* Reuse the existing sched_switch and sched_wakeup probes to record tgid
information and add a new option 'record-tgid' to enable recording of tgid

When record-tgid option isn't enabled to being with, we take care to make sure
that there's isn't memory or runtime overhead.

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

Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Michael Sartain <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <[email protected]>

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sched/core: Fix trace_sched_switch()

__trace_sched_switch_state() is the last remaining PREEMPT_ACTIVE
user, move trace_sched_switch() from prepare_task_switch() to
__schedule() and propagate the @p

sched/core: Fix trace_sched_switch()

__trace_sched_switch_state() is the last remaining PREEMPT_ACTIVE
user, move trace_sched_switch() from prepare_task_switch() to
__schedule() and propagate the @preempt argument.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>

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sched: Introduce the 'trace_sched_waking' tracepoint

Mathieu reported that since 317f394160e9 ("sched: Move the second half
of ttwu() to the remote cpu") trace_sched_wakeup() can happen out of
conte

sched: Introduce the 'trace_sched_waking' tracepoint

Mathieu reported that since 317f394160e9 ("sched: Move the second half
of ttwu() to the remote cpu") trace_sched_wakeup() can happen out of
context of the waker.

This is a problem when you want to analyse wakeup paths because it is
now very hard to correlate the wakeup event to whoever issued the
wakeup.

OTOH trace_sched_wakeup() is issued at the point where we set
p->state = TASK_RUNNING, which is right were we hand the task off to
the scheduler, so this is an important point when looking at
scheduling behaviour, up to here its been the wakeup path everything
hereafter is due to scheduler policy.

To bridge this gap, introduce a second tracepoint: trace_sched_waking.
It is guaranteed to be called in the waker context.

Reported-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Cc: Francis Giraldeau <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>

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tracing: Remove unneeded includes of debugfs.h and fs.h

The creation of tracing files and directories is for the most part
encapsulated in helper functions in trace.c. Other files do not need to
inc

tracing: Remove unneeded includes of debugfs.h and fs.h

The creation of tracing files and directories is for the most part
encapsulated in helper functions in trace.c. Other files do not need to
include debugfs.h or fs.h, as they may have needed to in the past.

Remove them from the files that do not need them.

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

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tracing: Move tracing_sched_{switch,wakeup}() into wakeup tracer

The only code that references tracing_sched_switch_trace() and
tracing_sched_wakeup_trace() is the wakeup latency tracer. Those
two f

tracing: Move tracing_sched_{switch,wakeup}() into wakeup tracer

The only code that references tracing_sched_switch_trace() and
tracing_sched_wakeup_trace() is the wakeup latency tracer. Those
two functions use to belong to the sched_switch tracer which has
long been removed. These functions were left behind because the
wakeup latency tracer used them. But since the wakeup latency tracer
is the only one to use them, they should be static functions inside
that code.

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

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tracing: Kill the dead code in probe_sched_switch() and probe_sched_wakeup()

After the previous patch it is clear that "tracer_enabled" can never be
true, we can remove the "if (tracer_enabled)" cod

tracing: Kill the dead code in probe_sched_switch() and probe_sched_wakeup()

After the previous patch it is clear that "tracer_enabled" can never be
true, we can remove the "if (tracer_enabled)" code in probe_sched_switch()
and probe_sched_wakeup(). Plus we can obviously remove tracer_enabled,
ctx_trace, and sched_stopped as well.

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

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>

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tracing: Kill tracing_{start,stop}_sched_switch_record() and tracing_sched_switch_assign_trace()

tracing_{start,stop}_sched_switch_record() have no callers since
87d80de2800d "tracing: Remove obsole

tracing: Kill tracing_{start,stop}_sched_switch_record() and tracing_sched_switch_assign_trace()

tracing_{start,stop}_sched_switch_record() have no callers since
87d80de2800d "tracing: Remove obsolete sched_switch tracer".

The last caller of tracing_sched_switch_assign_trace() was removed
by 30dbb20e68e6 "tracing: Remove boot tracer".

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

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>

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tracing: Update event filters for multibuffer

The trace event filters are still tied to event calls rather than
event files, which means you don't get what you'd expect when using
filters in the mul

tracing: Update event filters for multibuffer

The trace event filters are still tied to event calls rather than
event files, which means you don't get what you'd expect when using
filters in the multibuffer case:

Before:

# echo 'bytes_alloc > 8192' > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kmem/kmalloc/filter
# cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kmem/kmalloc/filter
bytes_alloc > 8192
# mkdir /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/instances/test1
# echo 'bytes_alloc > 2048' > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/instances/test1/events/kmem/kmalloc/filter
# cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kmem/kmalloc/filter
bytes_alloc > 2048
# cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/instances/test1/events/kmem/kmalloc/filter
bytes_alloc > 2048

Setting the filter in tracing/instances/test1/events shouldn't affect
the same event in tracing/events as it does above.

After:

# echo 'bytes_alloc > 8192' > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kmem/kmalloc/filter
# cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kmem/kmalloc/filter
bytes_alloc > 8192
# mkdir /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/instances/test1
# echo 'bytes_alloc > 2048' > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/instances/test1/events/kmem/kmalloc/filter
# cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kmem/kmalloc/filter
bytes_alloc > 8192
# cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/instances/test1/events/kmem/kmalloc/filter
bytes_alloc > 2048

We'd like to just move the filter directly from ftrace_event_call to
ftrace_event_file, but there are a couple cases that don't yet have
multibuffer support and therefore have to continue using the current
event_call-based filters. For those cases, a new USE_CALL_FILTER bit
is added to the event_call flags, whose main purpose is to keep the
old behavior for those cases until they can be updated with
multibuffer support; at that point, the USE_CALL_FILTER flag (and the
new associated call_filter_check_discard() function) can go away.

The multibuffer support also made filter_current_check_discard()
redundant, so this change removes that function as well and replaces
it with filter_check_discard() (or call_filter_check_discard() as
appropriate).

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/f16e9ce4270c62f46b2e966119225e1c3cca7e60.1382620672.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com

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

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tracing: Consolidate max_tr into main trace_array structure

Currently, the way the latency tracers and snapshot feature works
is to have a separate trace_array called "max_tr" that holds the
snapsho

tracing: Consolidate max_tr into main trace_array structure

Currently, the way the latency tracers and snapshot feature works
is to have a separate trace_array called "max_tr" that holds the
snapshot buffer. For latency tracers, this snapshot buffer is used
to swap the running buffer with this buffer to save the current max
latency.

The only items needed for the max_tr is really just a copy of the buffer
itself, the per_cpu data pointers, the time_start timestamp that states
when the max latency was triggered, and the cpu that the max latency
was triggered on. All other fields in trace_array are unused by the
max_tr, making the max_tr mostly bloat.

This change removes the max_tr completely, and adds a new structure
called trace_buffer, that holds the buffer pointer, the per_cpu data
pointers, the time_start timestamp, and the cpu where the latency occurred.

The trace_array, now has two trace_buffers, one for the normal trace and
one for the max trace or snapshot. By doing this, not only do we remove
the bloat from the max_trace but the instances of traces can now use
their own snapshot feature and not have just the top level global_trace have
the snapshot feature and latency tracers for itself.

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

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tracing: Replace the static global per_cpu arrays with allocated per_cpu

The global and max-tr currently use static per_cpu arrays for the CPU data
descriptors. But in order to get new allocated tra

tracing: Replace the static global per_cpu arrays with allocated per_cpu

The global and max-tr currently use static per_cpu arrays for the CPU data
descriptors. But in order to get new allocated trace_arrays, they need to
be allocated per_cpu arrays. Instead of using the static arrays, switch
the global and max-tr to use allocated data.

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

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tracing: Use irq_work for wake ups and remove *_nowake_*() functions

Have the ring buffer commit function use the irq_work infrastructure to
wake up any waiters waiting on the ring buffer for new da

tracing: Use irq_work for wake ups and remove *_nowake_*() functions

Have the ring buffer commit function use the irq_work infrastructure to
wake up any waiters waiting on the ring buffer for new data. The irq_work
was created for such a purpose, where doing the actual wake up at the
time of adding data is too dangerous, as an event or function trace may
be in the midst of the work queue locks and cause deadlocks. The irq_work
will either delay the action to the next timer interrupt, or trigger an IPI
to itself forcing an interrupt to do the work (in a safe location).

With irq_work, all ring buffer commits can safely do wakeups, removing
the need for the ring buffer commit "nowake" variants, which were used
by events and function tracing. All commits can now safely use the
normal commit, and the "nowake" variants can be removed.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>

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tracing: Have tracing_sched_wakeup_trace() use standard unlock_commit

The functon tracing_sched_wakeup_trace() does an open coded unlock
commit and save stack. This is what the trace_nowake_buffer_u

tracing: Have tracing_sched_wakeup_trace() use standard unlock_commit

The functon tracing_sched_wakeup_trace() does an open coded unlock
commit and save stack. This is what the trace_nowake_buffer_unlock_commit()
is for.

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

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tracing: Remove obsolete sched_switch tracer

The trace events sched_switch and sched_wakeup do the same thing
as the stand alone sched_switch tracer does. It is no longer needed.

Signed-off-by: Ste

tracing: Remove obsolete sched_switch tracer

The trace events sched_switch and sched_wakeup do the same thing
as the stand alone sched_switch tracer does. It is no longer needed.

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

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tracing: Let tracepoints have data passed to tracepoint callbacks

This patch adds data to be passed to tracepoint callbacks.

The created functions from DECLARE_TRACE() now need a mandatory data
par

tracing: Let tracepoints have data passed to tracepoint callbacks

This patch adds data to be passed to tracepoint callbacks.

The created functions from DECLARE_TRACE() now need a mandatory data
parameter. For example:

DECLARE_TRACE(mytracepoint, int value, value)

Will create the register function:

int register_trace_mytracepoint((void(*)(void *data, int value))probe,
void *data);

As the first argument, all callbacks (probes) must take a (void *data)
parameter. So a callback for the above tracepoint will look like:

void myprobe(void *data, int value)
{
}

The callback may choose to ignore the data parameter.

This change allows callbacks to register a private data pointer along
with the function probe.

void mycallback(void *data, int value);

register_trace_mytracepoint(mycallback, mydata);

Then the mycallback() will receive the "mydata" as the first parameter
before the args.

A more detailed example:

DECLARE_TRACE(mytracepoint, TP_PROTO(int status), TP_ARGS(status));

/* In the C file */

DEFINE_TRACE(mytracepoint, TP_PROTO(int status), TP_ARGS(status));

[...]

trace_mytracepoint(status);

/* In a file registering this tracepoint */

int my_callback(void *data, int status)
{
struct my_struct my_data = data;
[...]
}

[...]
my_data = kmalloc(sizeof(*my_data), GFP_KERNEL);
init_my_data(my_data);
register_trace_mytracepoint(my_callback, my_data);

The same callback can also be registered to the same tracepoint as long
as the data registered is different. Note, the data must also be used
to unregister the callback:

unregister_trace_mytracepoint(my_callback, my_data);

Because of the data parameter, tracepoints declared this way can not have
no args. That is:

DECLARE_TRACE(mytracepoint, TP_PROTO(void), TP_ARGS());

will cause an error.

If no arguments are needed, a new macro can be used instead:

DECLARE_TRACE_NOARGS(mytracepoint);

Since there are no arguments, the proto and args fields are left out.

This is part of a series to make the tracepoint footprint smaller:

text data bss dec hex filename
4913961 1088356 861512 6863829 68bbd5 vmlinux.orig
4914025 1088868 861512 6864405 68be15 vmlinux.class
4918492 1084612 861512 6864616 68bee8 vmlinux.tracepoint

Again, this patch also increases the size of the kernel, but
lays the ground work for decreasing it.

v5: Fixed net/core/drop_monitor.c to handle these updates.

v4: Moved the DECLARE_TRACE() DECLARE_TRACE_NOARGS out of the
#ifdef CONFIG_TRACE_POINTS, since the two are the same in both
cases. The __DECLARE_TRACE() is what changes.
Thanks to Frederic Weisbecker for pointing this out.

v3: Made all register_* functions require data to be passed and
all callbacks to take a void * parameter as its first argument.
This makes the calling functions comply with C standards.

Also added more comments to the modifications of DECLARE_TRACE().

v2: Made the DECLARE_TRACE() have the ability to pass arguments
and added a new DECLARE_TRACE_NOARGS() for tracepoints that
do not need any arguments.

Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: Neil Horman <[email protected]>
Cc: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>

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sched: Remove rq argument to the tracepoints

struct rq isn't visible outside of sched.o so its near useless to
expose the pointer, also there are no users of it, so remove it.

Acked-by: Steven Rost

sched: Remove rq argument to the tracepoints

struct rq isn't visible outside of sched.o so its near useless to
expose the pointer, also there are no users of it, so remove it.

Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
LKML-Reference: <1272997616.1642.207.camel@laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>

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tracing: pass around ring buffer instead of tracer

The latency tracers (irqsoff and wakeup) can swap trace buffers
on the fly. If an event is happening and has reserved data on one of
the buffers, a

tracing: pass around ring buffer instead of tracer

The latency tracers (irqsoff and wakeup) can swap trace buffers
on the fly. If an event is happening and has reserved data on one of
the buffers, and the latency tracer swaps the global buffer with the
max buffer, the result is that the event may commit the data to the
wrong buffer.

This patch changes the API to the trace recording to be recieve the
buffer that was used to reserve a commit. Then this buffer can be passed
in to the commit.

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

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tracing: Move sched event insertion helpers in the sched switch tracer file

The sched events helpers which insert the sched switch and wakeup
events into the ring buffer currently reside in trace.c

tracing: Move sched event insertion helpers in the sched switch tracer file

The sched events helpers which insert the sched switch and wakeup
events into the ring buffer currently reside in trace.c
But this file is quite overloaded and the right place for these helpers
is in the sched switch tracer file.

Then move them to trace_functions.c

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>

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