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The tracepoint documentation claims that denial and lifecycle events
expose every input needed to reproduce a verdict. Instead document how
denial, ruleset, and domain events identify the denying policy, checked
operation and object, and reason for denial. Direct consumers to generic
tracepoints for additional operational context.
State the reconstruction limits: IDs are boot-local, rule checks have no
request ID, and exported records may be lost or cross-CPU reordered.
Also replace the incorrect BPF_RAW_TRACEPOINT guidance with libbpf
SEC("tp_btf/...") attachment and refer consumers to the event prototypes
for callback argument layouts.
Cc: Günther Noack <gnoack@google.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260918185036.608651-10-mic@digikod.net
Signed-off-by: Mickaël Salaün <mic@digikod.net>
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Name each event after the identity it reports. Add-rule events describe
UAPI rule insertion, so rename them after LANDLOCK_RULE_PATH_BENEATH and
LANDLOCK_RULE_NET_PORT. Check-rule events describe matches in internal
rule trees, so rename them after LANDLOCK_KEY_INODE and
LANDLOCK_KEY_NET_PORT. This remains accurate if multiple UAPI rule types
share one lookup and stored rule. Keep denial event names based on
filesystem and network families because they describe final access
decisions.
Use u64 for growable access masks passed by value to add-rule and
check-rule typed BTF callbacks. CO-RE can relocate pointer-reached
fields, but it cannot widen a scalar callback slot declared by a BPF
program. Keep native access_mask_t for internal state and trace records.
For add-rule callbacks, report the normalized per-call contribution
passed to landlock_insert_rule() and expose the complete validated flags
value. Put the ruleset and flags first as a common invocation prefix.
This distinguishes duplicate and effective-zero additions without
recovering arguments from saved syscall registers.
Cc: Günther Noack <gnoack@google.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Fixes: 63747c94774d ("landlock: Add landlock_add_rule_fs and landlock_add_rule_net tracepoints")
Fixes: 3f1f106e4c14 ("landlock: Add tracepoints for rule checking")
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260918185036.608651-4-mic@digikod.net
Signed-off-by: Mickaël Salaün <mic@digikod.net>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools
Pull perf tools updates from Namhyung Kim:
"perf c2c:
- Add 'function view' in perf c2c report TUI (switched by pressing
'TAB' in the cacheline view) to organize samples around functions
rather than cachelines in 3-level hierarchy:
Level 1: Read-side function (sorted by estimated Cycles %)
Level 2: Contending writer functions (sorted by Store count)
Level 3: Shared cacheline addresses
Users can navigate the entries and fold/unfold using 'e' key. An
example output would look like below:
Shared Data Functions Table (19 entries, sorted on Cycles %)
Cycles Store
% count Function / Contending function / Cacheline
----------------------------------------------------------------------
+ 35.67% 876 + [k] cpupri_set
+ 24.31% 424 + [k] pull_rt_task
- 16.53% 555 - [k] dequeue_pushable_task
145 - [k] pull_rt_task
145 0xff2d0082809da080
139 - [k] enqueue_pushable_task
70 0xff2d00a2071f9640
69 0xff2d0082809da000
python module support:
- Extend "perf" python module so that it can be fully functional. The
goal is to run scripts directly, not by 'perf script' command. This
would give better performance as well as more control to build
standalone programs with UI.
- Add LiveSession helper (perf_live.py) to enable live event
collection directly from Python using perf.evlist and
perf.parse_events.
perf stat:
- Add --hide-zero-events option to suppress zero-count events
- Reject conflicting --field-separator and --json-output options
- Fix duplicate event output with --for-each-cgroup
perf sched latency:
- Add -H/--histogram and --hist-mode (log|linear) options to show
scheduler wait latency histograms
- Add --time option to filter analysis by time span in 'perf sched
latency'
ARM CoreSight:
- Synthesize callchains for instruction samples from CoreSight trace
using thread stack ('--itrace=g...')
- Support call indentation ('perf script -F +callindent') to display
call depth hierarchy on branch samples
- Decode ETE (Embedded Trace Extension) exception packets
Build system:
- Add 'make install-build-deps' target to install required packages
- Parallelize JSON and metric pre-computation in jevents.py for
faster builds
Vendor event/metric updates:
- Add Intel Nova Lake events and update tables for existing models
- Update AMD Zen 5 and Zen 6 core events
- Update Arm64 Tegra410 metrics and PowerPC hcalls
Internal changes and fixes:
- Harden trace-event and synthetic event parsing against corrupted
data
- Fix unwinding of multi-threaded processes in libdw unwinder
- Fix memory leaks in various commands and python bindings
- Speed up 'perf test' shell tests"
* tag 'perf-tools-for-v7.3-2026-08-21' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools: (232 commits)
perf vendor events arm64: Fix Tegra410 Olympus event 0x0197
perf vendor events arm64: fix swapped MetricGroup for Tegra410 L1 prefetcher metrics
perf evlist: Warn when 'sleep' workload is used without system-wide (-a) option
perf c2c: document function view in perf-c2c man page
perf c2c: add function view browser UI and cacheline detail
perf c2c: build and finalize the function view hierarchy
perf c2c: add function view hierarchy entry creation
perf c2c: add function view stats merge and memory management
perf c2c: add HPP list parsing for function view columns
perf c2c: add column rendering for function view
perf c2c: add function view model skeleton
perf c2c: extract shared data structures into util/c2c.h
perf test sample-parsing: Validate PERF_FORMAT_GROUP values without LOST
perf dso: Replace assert with runtime check in dso__read_symbol()
perf dso: Guard against cache underflow on short reads in dso_cache__memcpy()
perf dso: Use stored fd error instead of stale errno in file_read() and file_size()
perf dso: Guard close() against invalid fd in dso__decompress_kmodule_path()
perf dso: Guard against errno==0 when dso__get_filename() returns NULL
perf build: install-build-deps: add RHEL family devel package mapping
perf build: Remove leftover feature tests for removed cxx and clang support
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mic/linux
Pull Landlock update from Mickaël Salaün:
"This improves observability with Landlock tracepoints support, which
required some refactoring for dedicated domain types and common
helpers shared with audit code.
A LANDLOCK_RESTRICT_SELF_NO_NEW_PRIVS flag is also added to improve
process-wide domain enforcement consistency.
Whiteout files are now correctly handled and tested, and a few other
fixes"
* tag 'landlock-7.3-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mic/linux: (34 commits)
landlock: Document tracepoints
selftests/landlock: Add landlock_enforce_domain trace tests
selftests/landlock: Add scope and ptrace tracepoint tests
selftests/landlock: Add network tracepoint tests
selftests/landlock: Add filesystem tracepoint tests
selftests/landlock: Add trace event test infrastructure and tests
landlock: Add tracepoints for ptrace and scope denials
landlock: Add landlock_deny_access_fs and landlock_deny_access_net
landlock: Add tracepoints for rule checking
landlock: Add landlock_enforce_domain tracepoint
landlock: Add create_domain and free_domain tracepoints
landlock: Add landlock_add_rule_fs and landlock_add_rule_net tracepoints
landlock: Add create_ruleset and free_ruleset tracepoints
landlock: Consolidate access-right and scope names in a shared header
landlock: Decouple the per-denial logging decision from CONFIG_AUDIT
landlock: Split denial logging from audit into common framework
landlock: Split struct landlock_domain from struct landlock_ruleset
landlock: Move domain query functions to domain.c
landlock: Prepare ruleset and domain type split
samples/landlock: Add LANDLOCK_RESTRICT_SELF_NO_NEW_PRIVS to sampler
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace
Pull probes updates from Masami Hiramatsu:
"BTF typecasting and variable fetch enhancements:
- Typecast support across probe events: Extended BTF typecasting
syntax (e.g., (STRUCT)PARAM->MEMBER) to kprobes, uprobes, and
fprobes on function entry and return
- Nested typecasts: Added support for chaining and nesting typecasts
up to 3 levels, including casting registers and stack variables
- Field specifier option: Added (STRUCT,FIELD) syntax to emulate
container_of(), allowing retrieval of parent structures from member
pointers
- $current variable support: Introduced $current special variable to
access the running task_struct via BTF dereferencing
- Per-CPU variable access: Added this_cpu_read() and this_cpu_ptr()
fetcharg methods to trace CPU-local data safely
- Fetcharg bytecode dumper: Added CONFIG_PROBE_EVENTS_DUMP_FETCHARG
to dump the compiled fetcharg bytecode instructions as comments in
dynamic_events
- Extended symbol name handling: Removed the MAX_COMMON_HEAD_LEN
limit and extended MAX_ARGSTR_LEN to 256 bytes, enabling probing of
long symbols, mangled Rust symbols and complex BTF expressions
- eprobe variable syntax: Allowed eprobes to reference event fields
directly without requiring a '$' prefix
- Cleanup unused parameters, redundant codes, duplicate macros and
pointer arithmetic
- Use a ternary operator for simplifying fetch_type_from_btf_type()
Expanded boot time dynamic probe support:
- Add boot-time tracing configuration support for event probes
(eprobes), function probes (fprobes), and tracepoint probes
(tprobes)
- Allow comment lines ('#') in dynamic_events file
Optimization, robustness, and cleanups:
- Simplify fprobe_remove_ips() by reusing graph and ftrace helpers
- Remove __packed attribute from struct __fprobe_header to avoid
unaligned memory access penalties on RISC architectures
- Remove redundant memset() calls in perf event probe handlers
- Replace legacy __ASSEMBLY__ with __ASSEMBLER__ in header files
Selftests & refactoring:
- Refactor parse_probe_arg() and parse_probe_vars(), and eliminate
recursion in probe argument parsing to protect kernel stack depth
- Add selftests for BTF typecasts and module probing without module
prefixes
- Force LC_ALL=C in ftracetest to prevent test failures on localized
systems
- Refactor btf_type_skip_modifiers() to remove ignored id parameter
- Sort ERRORS list in trace_probe.h alphabetically
- Fix typo in fprobe docs, and trace_fprobe function name
- Rename FETCH_OP_DATA to FETCH_OP_IMMSTR
- Make file offset error message probe-agnostic"
* tag 'probes-v7.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: (37 commits)
fprobe: Simplify fprobe_remove_ips() by reusing existing helpers
tracing/boot: Add support for eprobe, fprobe, and tprobe events
selftests/ftrace: Force C locale in ftracetest
tracing/probes: Treating longer symbol name on event comparation
docs: trace: fprobe: fix 'thos' spelling
tracing/probes: Fix extra whitespace in trace_probe_kernel.h
tracing/kprobe: Remove redundant memset in kprobe_perf_func()
tracing/fprobe: Remove redundant memset in fentry_perf_func()
tracing/fprobe: Remove redundant snprintf in trace_fprobe_match_command_head()
tracing/probes: Simplify BTF_KIND_PTR case in fetch_type_from_btf_type()
tracing/probes: Cleanup pointer arithmetic in store_trace_entry_data()
tracing/probes: Remove unused parameter from parse_probe_var_retval()
tracing/probes: Remove redundant bounds check in trace_probe_compare_arg_type()
tracing/probes: Remove redundant boolean conversion in trace_probe_has_single_file()
tracing/probes: Remove duplicate MAX_ARRAY_LEN macro definition
selftests/ftrace: Add test case for a symbol in a module without module name
tracing/probes: Eliminate recursion in parse_probe_arg()
tracing/probes: Extend max length of argument string
tracing/probes: Sort ERRORS list in trace_probe.h alphabetically
tracing/probes: Refactor parse_probe_arg()
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace
Pull ftrace updates from Steven Rostedt:
- Deprecrate ftrace_enabled in disabling ftrace
The file /proc/sys/kernel/ftrace_enabled was created when ftrace was
first introduced back in 2008. It was to be a "kill switch" if
something was to go wrong. It was also used as a way to turn off
function tracing for the latency tracers that would have it on by
default. But in 2013 (Linux 3.10) the option "function-trace" was
introduced to disable function tracing for the latency tracers as the
"ftrace_enabled" file was considered too big of a hammer and caused
too many side effects.
When live kernel patching came along, disabling ftrace via the
ftrace_enabled file would put the system into an unstable state if a
live kernel patch was installed. This created the need to mark some
function hooks as "PERMANENT".
Now there's a need for BPF usage marked as PERMANENT for the same
reasons.
The file "ftrace_enabled" usage is no longer viable. It doesn't do
what it says it does and there is no reason to use it.
Make writing '0' to it a nop and print a message saying its usage is
deprecated. The return value of writing '0' is -EOPNOTSUPP so that
user space will error on that write (hopefully to inform any
developer that it no longer works).
Eventually the file should be removed completely, but for now just
making it not do anything is the path forward to that.
- Update the livepatch tests to handle ftrace_enabled being disabled
Because in the past, livepatch was broken by ftrace_enabled being
turned off, there's a test case that checks to make sure it still
doesn't break. But having the write of '0' return an error caused
that test to break. Updated the test to handle the new change.
* tag 'ftrace-v7.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
selftests/livepatch: update test-ftrace.sh for deprecated ftrace_enabled
ftrace: deprecate disabling via ftrace_enabled sysctl
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Until now, Landlock observability documentation covered only audit
records. The tracepoints added by the previous commits introduce a
second channel with different semantics (firing regardless of audit
configuration and domain log flags, exposing the full ruleset and domain
state to eBPF via BTF), which kernel developers, administrators, and
userspace tool authors need to discover and compare against audit.
Add a dedicated "Landlock Trace Events" reference covering the event
categories, enabling events via tracefs, ruleset versioning, eBPF access
through BPF_RAW_TRACEPOINT, and the same_exec and logged denial fields
(logged being the kernel's audit-logging decision, so a stateless ftrace
filter can select the denials audit would record with logged==1).
Cross-reference it from the administrator, kernel-internals, and
userspace API documents, contrasting tracepoints with audit: when each
channel is preferred, what each guarantees, and how NOAUDIT hooks and
audit rate limiting affect them.
Also document the relational other-party domain fields the scope and
ptrace denial tracepoints expose (tracee_domain, target_domain,
peer_domain; 0 when the other party is unsandboxed), so a consumer can
resolve them against the lifecycle events and reproduce the two-domain
verdict.
Cc: Günther Noack <gnoack@google.com>
Cc: Tingmao Wang <m@maowtm.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260811094338.288094-20-mic@digikod.net
[mic: Update dates]
Signed-off-by: Mickaël Salaün <mic@digikod.net>
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Writing 0 to kernel.ftrace_enabled has not reliably disabled ftrace
for years (FTRACE_OPS_FL_PERMANENT users already block it, and more
callers rely on ftrace always being on). Refuse the write instead of
leaving it in an inconsistent "disables some, not all" state: return
-EOPNOTSUPP and log a message. Reads and enabling (writing 1) are
unaffected.
Update the docs to note the deprecation up front.
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260806153000.4184871-2-andrey.grodzovsky@crowdstrike.com
Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrey Grodzovsky <andrey.grodzovsky@crowdstrike.com>
Acked-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Boot-time tracing currently supports kprobe-events and synthetic-events
under per-event configuration options.
Extend boot-time tracing to support newly added dynamic probe types:
- event probes (eprobe) under the "eprobes" event group
- function probes (fprobe) under the "fprobes" event group
- tracepoint probes (tprobe) under the "tracepoints" or "tprobes"
event group
To support this cleanly, update dyn_event_create() in trace_dynevent.c
so that passing NULL as the type parameter delegates to
create_dyn_event(), allowing generic creation of any registered
dynamic event type from a raw command string.
Update Documentation/trace/boottime-trace.rst accordingly to describe
the new per-event bootconfig options.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/178613905149.259829.18185480460810689421.stgit@devnote2/
Assisted-by: Antigravity:gemini-3.6-flash
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Changes in v3:
- Check return values of strscpy() and snprintf() in trace_boot_add_probe_event()
to prevent silent buffer truncation when constructing probe event strings.
Changes in v2:
- Fix raw command detection logic for eprobes, fprobes, and tprobes
by requiring ':' or isspace() after type prefix.
- Consolidate duplicate loop logic into trace_boot_add_probe_event()
helper function.
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epoll_wait() is a valid sleeping reason for real-time tasks because it
uses PI-aware locking, but the rtapp sleep monitor documentation only
discusses clock_nanosleep() and futexes. Document it.
ABORT_SLEEP represents a task restoring TASK_RUNNING before entering
the scheduler. Since the task does not actually block, it becomes
runnable again without a wakeup sequence unsafe for real-time. Document
this behavior.
Signed-off-by: Chao Liu <chao.liu@processmission.com>
Reviewed-by: Gabriele Monaco <gmonaco@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Nam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260729081102.73138-1-chao.liu@processmission.com
Signed-off-by: Gabriele Monaco <gmonaco@redhat.com>
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TLP Headers traced by HiSilicon PCIe tune and trace device (PTT) in
4DW format are shown in the document as below:
bits [31:30] [ 29:25 ][24][23][22][21][ 20:11 ][ 10:0 ]
|-----|---------|---|---|---|---|-------------|-------------|
DW0 [ Fmt ][ Type ][T9][T8][TH][SO][ Length ][ Time ]
DW1 [ Header DW1 ]
DW2 [ Header DW2 ]
DW3 [ Header DW3 ]
Problem:
The DW0 bit field layout of the hisi_ptt_4dw union does not match the
actual bit ordering in little-endian memory, causing incorrect field
decoding.
Test on Kunpeng 930 SOC, generating data flow with `iperf` commands:
- server side:
iperf -s
- client side:
iperf -c $ip_addr -t 30
Trace the TLP headers with hisi_ptt on server side at the same time:
perf record -e hisi_ptt12_0/type=4,filter=0x05101,direction=2,format=0/ \
--max-size 50M -o perf.data &
The trace aims to capture completion TLPs, learn more in the document:
https://docs.kernel.org/trace/hisi-ptt.html
Decode perf.data with hisi_ptt decoder:
perf report -D
The hisi_ptt decoder produces the following result:
[...perf headers and other information]
. ... HISI PTT data: size 8388608 bytes
. 00000000: 68 87 20 94 Format 3 Type 1a T9 0 T8 1 TH 1 SO 1 Length 10 Time 4a1
. 00000004: 40 00 00 00 Header DW1
. 00000008: 40 00 01 51 Header DW2
. 0000000c: 00 00 00 00 Header DW3
[...other hisi_ptt TLP headers]
According to PCIe r5.0 sec 2.2.1, the Fmt & Type of Cpl/CplD is supposed
to be 8b'00001010' / 8b'01001010'
However, the Format & Type decoder analyzing result is 8b'01111010'.
It does not match field encodings of any TLP.
Correct decoder result should be:
[...perf headers and other information]
. ... HISI PTT data: size 8388608 bytes
. 00000000: 94 20 87 68 Format 2 Type a T9 0 T8 0 TH 0 SO 1 Length 10 Time 768
. 00000004: 00 00 00 40 Header DW1
. 00000008: 51 01 00 40 Header DW2
. 0000000c: 00 00 00 00 Header DW3
[...other hisi_ptt TLP headers]
To solve the problem:
1. Drop the union and C bitfield struct, store the raw DW value in
a plain uint32_t, and extract the fields with FIELD_GET() against
GENMASK/BIT masks declared in the header so they can be reused by
other translation units. The masks are portable across endianness and
compilers.
2. Print all DW hex values in big-endian byte order for readability,
matching the bit field layout shown in the 4DW format diagram.
3. Read the DW value with get_unaligned_le32() instead of an unaligned
pointer cast, avoiding both strict-aliasing violations and
alignment hazards on hosts that do not support unaligned access.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 5e91e57e6809 ("perf auxtrace arm64: Add support for parsing HiSilicon PCIe Trace packet")
Reviewed-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Sizhe Liu <liusizhe5@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
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Fix spelling error reported by codespell: thos -> those.
No functional change.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260726065633.20897-1-shaikhkamal2012@gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: shaikh.kamal <shaikhkamal2012@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
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Add a wakeup monitor to detect a lower-priority task waking up a
higher-priority task.
The rtapp/sleep monitor already detects this. However, that monitor
triggers an error in the context of the wakee task and user only gets
the stacktrace of that task. It is also extremely useful to get the
stacktrace of the waker task, which this monitor offers. In other
words, this monitor complements the rtapp/sleep monitor.
Signed-off-by: Nam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Gabriele Monaco <gmonaco@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/ba5658fa13e49ada466b84a2c211f233037180b5.1781852967.git.namcao@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Gabriele Monaco <gmonaco@redhat.com>
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The rtapp/sleep monitor's primary purpose is detecting common mistakes
with user-space real-time design. Monitoring real-time issues with
kernel threads is a bonus.
However, accomodating kernel threads complicates the monitor due to
the edge cases which is seen by the monitor as lower-priority task
waking higher-priority task:
- kthread_stop() wakes up the task in order to stop it.
- The rcu thread and migration thread can be woken by any task.
- The ktimerd thread is woken near the end of irq_exit_rcu(), where
the preempt counter is "broken" and falsely says this is task
context. This requires the monitor to use the hardirq_context flag
instead of the preempt counter.
Beside complicating the monitor, the final case also requires enabling
CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS (so that "hardirq_context" can be used). This
adds overhead to the kernel even when the monitor is not active. This
may be an obstacle to enabling this monitor in distros' kernels.
Furthermore, kernel threads usually are started before the monitor is
enabled. Consequently, the threads' states (i.o.w. the monitor's
atomic propositions for the threads) are not fully known to the
monitor. As a result, the kernel threads mostly cannot be monitored.
Overall, the downsides of accomodating kernel threads outweights the
benefits. Thus, exclude kernel threads to simplify the monitor.
Signed-off-by: Nam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Gabriele Monaco <gmonaco@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/eec2ca5224bcdacc45b8e1eb2f0e68109e1cae7a.1781852967.git.namcao@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Gabriele Monaco <gmonaco@redhat.com>
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CLOCK_REALTIME is the only clock that often is misused in real-time
applications. The other clocks either are safe for real-time uses
(CLOCK_TAI, CLOCK_MONOTONIC, CLOCK_BOOTTIME) or are unlikely to be misused
(CLOCK_AUX, CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID).
Update the monitor to only warn about CLOCK_REALTIME.
While at it, update the out-of-sync documentation.
Signed-off-by: Nam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Gabriele Monaco <gmonaco@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/c7ceb5c6263ee8f43a2676acae669cf486b0d903.1781852967.git.namcao@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Gabriele Monaco <gmonaco@redhat.com>
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The rtapp/sleep monitor detects real-time tasks which go to sleep in an
real-time-unsafe manner. If this happen, the monitor triggers a trace event
in the sched_wakeup tracepoint's handler.
However, the invoking context of that trace event is not the most
informative, because of the stack trace of that event is the wakeup's code
path which is not very helpful:
74.669317: rv:error_sleep: condvar[254]: violation detected
ltl_validate+0x345 ([kernel.kallsyms])
handle_sched_wakeup+0x34 ([kernel.kallsyms])
ttwu_do_activate+0xff ([kernel.kallsyms])
sched_ttwu_pending+0x104 ([kernel.kallsyms])
__flush_smp_call_function_queue+0x15b ([kernel.kallsyms])
__sysvec_call_function_single+0x18 ([kernel.kallsyms])
sysvec_call_function_single+0x66 ([kernel.kallsyms])
asm_sysvec_call_function_single+0x1a ([kernel.kallsyms])
pv_native_safe_halt+0xf ([kernel.kallsyms])
default_idle+0x9 ([kernel.kallsyms])
default_idle_call+0x33 ([kernel.kallsyms])
do_idle+0x234 ([kernel.kallsyms])
cpu_startup_entry+0x24 ([kernel.kallsyms])
start_secondary+0xf8 ([kernel.kallsyms])
common_startup_64+0x13e ([kernel.kallsyms])
What would be much more valuable is the stack trace of the task itself.
Instead of using the sched_wakeup tracepoint, use the sched_exit
tracepoint. This makes the event happen in the task's context, making
the stack trace far more informative for user:
rv:error_sleep: condvar[254]: violation detected
ltl_validate+0x345 ([kernel.kallsyms])
handle_sched_exit+0x39 ([kernel.kallsyms])
__schedule+0x80f ([kernel.kallsyms])
schedule+0x22 ([kernel.kallsyms])
futex_do_wait+0x33 ([kernel.kallsyms])
__futex_wait+0x8c ([kernel.kallsyms])
futex_wait+0x73 ([kernel.kallsyms])
do_futex+0xc6 ([kernel.kallsyms])
__x64_sys_futex+0x121 ([kernel.kallsyms])
do_syscall_64+0xf3 ([kernel.kallsyms])
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77 ([kernel.kallsyms])
__futex_abstimed_wait_common64+0xc6 (inlined)
__futex_abstimed_wait_common+0xc6 (/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6)
Signed-off-by: Nam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Gabriele Monaco <gmonaco@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/d97b4b5c476e5792b6875ec9bbf8dc214f999516.1781852967.git.namcao@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Gabriele Monaco <gmonaco@redhat.com>
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fetcharg
When tracing the kernel local variables, sometimes we need to get the
CPU local variables. To access it, current simple dereference is not
enough.
Thus, introduce a special this_cpu_read() dereference to access per-cpu
variable for the current CPU (accessing other CPU variable may race with
updates on other CPUs). Also this_cpu_ptr() is for accessing per-cpu
pointer.
Those are working as same as the kernel percpu macro.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/178271367680.1176915.4711734074448973989.stgit@devnote2/
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
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Since we can use the BTF to cast value to a structure pointer type,
it is useful to introduce "$current" special variable support to
fetcharg.
User can define a fetcharg to access current task_struct properties
using BTF info. e.g.
$current->cpus_ptr
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/178271366709.1176915.15320906169981578568.stgit@devnote2/
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
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Add a field specifier option for the typecast. This works like
container_of() macro.
(STRUCT[,FIELD[.FIELD2...]])VAR
This is equivalent to :
container_of(VAR, struct STRUCT, FIELD[.FIELD2...])
For example:
echo "f tick_nohz_handler next_tick=(tick_sched,sched_timer)timer->next_tick" >> dynamic_events
This will trace tick_nohz_handler() with its tick_sched::next_tick which
is converted from @timer by contianer_of(tick, struct tick_sched, sched_timer).
So, if you enabkle both fprobes:tick_nohz_handler__entry and
timer:hrtimer_expire_entry events, we will see something like:
<idle>-0 [002] d.h1. 3778.087272: hrtimer_expire_entry: hrtimer=00000000d63db328 f
unction=tick_nohz_handler now=3777450051040
<idle>-0 [002] d.h1. 3778.087281: tick_nohz_handler__entry: (tick_nohz_handler+0x4
/0x140) next_tick=3777450000000
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/178271365745.1176915.725923927180862257.stgit@devnote2/
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
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When we hit an open parenthesis right after typecast closing
parenthesis, it means we have nested typecast. This allows us to
typecast a generic data member in a structure to a pointer to
another structure.
For example, to cast a DATA_MEMBER of VAR structure to STRUCT pointer
and get MEMBER value.
(STRUCT)(VAR->DATA_MEMBER)->MEMBER
Also, we can nest typecast.
(STRUCT1)((STRUCT2)$ARG->FIELD2)->FIELD1
Currently the max nest level is limited to 3.
This also allows user to use typecasting for registers or stacks on
kprobe events. e.g.
(STRUCT)(%ax)->MEMBER
(STRUCT)($stack0)->MEMBER
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/178271363855.1176915.16793301788257446529.stgit@devnote2/
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
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Support BTF typecast feature on other probe events, but only if it is
kernel function entry or return, and must use function parameter name
or $retval. This means you can do:
(STRUCT)PARAM->MEMBER
Note: you can not use other variables like $stackN, %reg etc. That
needs nesting support.
To support other probe events, we just need to use last_struct type
when we find a function parameter in parse_btf_arg().
This also updates <tracefs>/README file to show struct typecast.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/178271362928.1176915.12235759508786922490.stgit@devnote2/
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/docs/linux
Pull more documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"A handful of late-arriving docs fixes, along with one document update
that fell through the cracks before"
* tag 'docs-7.2-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/docs/linux:
docs: tools: Fix typo 'ackward' to 'awkward' in unittest.rst
kdoc: xforms: ignore special static/inline macros
kdoc: xforms_lists: handle DECLARE_PER_CPU() in kernel-doc
MAINTAINERS: Fix regex for kdoc
docs: kgdb: Fix path of driver options
Documentation: tracing: fix typo in events documentation
Docs/driver-api/uio-howto: document mmap_prepare callback
docs/mm: clarify that we are not looking for LLM generated content
kernel-doc: xforms: support __SYSFS_FUNCTION_ALTERNATIVE()
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Fix a typo in the tracing events documentation: "can by built up"
should be "can be built up".
Signed-off-by: Yudistira Putra <pyudistira519@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20260622143735.71778-1-pyudistira519@gmail.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools
Pull perf tools updates from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:
- Introduce 'perf inject --aslr' to remap ASLR-randomized addresses in
perf.data files, enabling reproducible analysis across runs with
different address space layouts
- Refactor evsel out of sample processing paths: store evsel in struct
perf_sample and remove the redundant evsel parameter from tool APIs,
tracepoint handlers, hist entry iterators, and db-export, simplifying
the entire tool callback chain
- Switch architecture detection from string-based perf_env__arch()
comparisons to the numeric ELF e_machine field across the codebase
(capstone, print_insn, c2c, lock-contention, sort, sample-raw,
machine, header), making cross-analysis more robust
- Overhaul ARM CoreSight ETM tests: add deterministic and named_threads
workloads, speed up basic and disassembly tests, add process
attribution and concurrent threads tests, remove unused workloads and
duplicate tests, queue context packets for the frontend decoder
- Add ARM SPE IMPDEF event decoding for Arm Neoverse N1, store MIDR in
arm_spe_pkt for per-CPU event mapping, handle missing CPU IDs
gracefully
- Refactor libunwind support: remove the libunwind-local backend, make
register reading cross-platform, add RISC-V libunwind support, allow
dynamic selection between libdw and libunwind unwinding at runtime
- Extensive hardening of perf.data parsing against crafted files: add
bounds checks and byte-swap validation for session records, feature
sections, header attributes, BPF metadata, auxtrace errors,
compressed events, CPU maps, build ID notes, and ELF program headers.
Add minimum event size validation and file offset diagnostics
- Fix libdw API contract violations across dwarf-aux, libdw,
probe-finder, annotate-data, and debuginfo subsystems. Fix callchain
parent update in ORDER_CALLER mode, support DWARF line 0 in inline
lists, handle multiple address spaces in callchains
- Fix numerous 'perf sched' bugs: thread reference leaks, memory leaks,
heap overflows with cross-machine recordings, NULL dereferences,
replace BUG_ON assertions with graceful error handling, bounds-check
CPU indices, fix SIGCHLD vs pause() races in sched stats
- Overhaul the build system: move BPF skeleton generation out of
Makefile.perf into bpf_skel.mak, decouple pmu-events from the prepare
target, make beauty generated C code standalone .o files, compile BPF
skeletons with -mcpu=v3, fix continuous rebuilds, various cleanups
- Add 'perf test' JUnit XML reporting with -j/--junit option, split
monolithic test suites into sub-tests, add summary reporting,
refactor parallel poll loop, fix test failures on musl-based systems
- Fix 'perf c2c' memory leaks in hist entry and format list handling,
use-after-free in error paths, bounds-check CPU and node IDs
- Fix 'perf bpf' metadata leaks on duplicate insert and alloc failure,
bounds-check array offsets, validate event sizes and func_info
fields, add NULL checks
- Fix hwmon PMU: off-by-one null termination on sysfs reads, strlcpy
buffer overflow in parse_hwmon_filename(), fd 0 check, empty label
reads, scnprintf usage
- Fix symbols subsystem: bounds-check ELF and sysfs build ID note
iteration, validate p_filesz, fix 32-bit ELF bswap error, fix signed
overflow in size checks, bounds-check .gnu_debuglink section
- Fix tools lib api: null termination in filename__read_int/ull(),
uninitialized stack data in filename__write_int(), snprintf
truncation in mount_overload()
- Replace libbabeltrace with babeltrace2-ctf-writer for CTF conversion
in 'perf data'
- Add RISC-V SDT argument parsing for static tracepoints
- Add 'perf trace --show-cpu' option to display CPU id
- Add 'perf bench sched pipe --write-size' option
- Add a perf-specific .clang-format that overrides some kernel style
behaviors
- Update Intel vendor events for Alder Lake, Arrow Lake, Clearwater
Forest, Emerald Rapids, Granite Rapids, Grand Ridge, Lunar Lake,
Meteor Lake, Panther Lake, Sapphire Rapids, Sierra Forest
- Add IOMMU metrics for AMD and Intel
- Fix AMD event: switch l2_itlb_misses to
bp_l1_tlb_miss_l2_tlb_miss.all
- Add AMD IBS improvements: decode Streaming-store and Remote-Socket
flags, suppress bogus fields on Zen4+, skip privilege test on Zen6+
- Fix 'perf lock contention' SIGCHLD vs pause() race, allow 'mmap_lock'
in -L filter, enable end-timestamp for cgroup aggregation, fix
non-atomic data updates
- Fix 'perf stat' false NMI watchdog warning in aggregation modes,
bounds-check CPU index in topology callbacks, add aggr_nr metric
parser support for uncore scaling
- Fix 'perf timechart' memory leaks, CPU bounds checking,
use-after-free on corrupted callchains
- Fix 'perf inject' itrace branch stack synthesis, fix synthesized
sample size with branch stacks
- Fix DSO heap overflow on decompressed paths, uninitialized pathname
on fallback, set proper error codes
- Fix various snprintf/scnprintf usages to prevent buffer overflows and
truncation across the codebase
- Fix off-by-one stack buffer overflow in kallsyms__parse()
- Fix 'perf kwork' memory management, address sanitizer issues, bounds
check work->cpu
- Fix 'perf tpebs' concurrent stop races and PID reuse hazards
- Add O_CLOEXEC to open() calls and use mkostemp() for temporary files
to prevent file descriptor leaks to child processes
- Fix s390 Python extension TEXTREL by compiling as PIC
- Fix build with ASAN for jitdump
- Fix build failure due to btf_vlen() return type change
* tag 'perf-tools-for-v7.2-1-2026-06-22' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools: (343 commits)
perf bpf: Fix up build failure due to change of btf_vlen() return type
perf dso: Set standard errno on decompression failure
perf bpf: Validate array presence before casting BPF prog info pointers
perf c2c: Fix hist entry and format list leaks in c2c_he_free()
perf c2c: Free format list entries when c2c_hists__init() fails
perf cs-etm: Bounds-check CPU in cs_etm__get_queue()
perf cs-etm: Require full global header in auxtrace_info size check
perf cs-etm: Validate num_cpu before metadata allocation
perf machine: Use snprintf() for guestmount path construction
perf machine: Propagate machine__init() error to callers
perf trace: Guard __probe_ip suppression with evsel__is_probe()
perf evsel: Add lazy-initialized probe type detection helpers
perf evsel: Add no-libtraceevent stubs for evsel__field() and evsel__common_field()
perf cs-etm: Reject CPU IDs that would overflow signed comparison
perf c2c: Free format list entries when releasing c2c hist entries
perf bpf: Bounds-check array offsets in bpil_offs_to_addr()
perf bpf: Reject oversized BPF metadata events that truncate header.size
perf bpf: Validate func_info_rec_size and sub_id in synthesize_bpf_prog_name()
perf sched: Replace (void*)1 sentinel with proper runtime allocation
perf hwmon: Fix fd check to accept fd 0 in hwmon_pmu__describe_items()
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace
Pull probes updates from Masami Hiramatsu:
- BTF support for dereferencing pointers
Add syntax to the parsing of eprobes to typecast structure pointer
trace event fields, enabling BTF-based dereferencing instead of
relying on manual offsets.
- Improvements and robustness enhancements
- Use flexible array for entry fetch code.
Store probe entry fetch instructions in the probe_entry_arg
allocation via a flexible array member to simplify memory
allocation and lifetime management.
- Replace BUG_ON with lockdep_assert_held in uprobe_buffer functions
Replace BUG_ON() calls with lockdep_assert_held() in uprobe buffer
enable/disable paths to prevent kernel crashes and better verify
lock ownership.
- Ensure the uprobe buffer size is bigger than event size.
Add a BUILD_BUG_ON() assertion to guarantee that the per-CPU
uprobe working buffer size is always larger than the maximum probe
event size.
* tag 'probes-v7.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
tracing/eprobes: Allow use of BTF names to dereference pointers
tracing: Replace BUG_ON with lockdep_assert_held in uprobe_buffer functions
tracing: Use flexible array for entry fetch code
tracing/probes: Ensure the uprobe buffer size is bigger than event size
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Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"Things have calmed down a bit on the docs front, with no earthshaking
changes this time around:
- Ongoing work on the Japanese and Portuguese translations
- Better integration of the MAINTAINERS file into the rendered
documents, including a search interface
- A seemingly infinite supply of fixes for typos, minor grammatical
issues, and related problems that LLMs find with abandon"
* tag 'docs-7.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/docs/linux: (93 commits)
docs: pt_BR: Translate 3.Early-stage.rst into Portuguese
docs: pt_BR: update "Purpose of Defconfigs" section in maintainer-soc.rst
Documentation: bug-hunting.rst: fix grammar
docs/ja_JP: translate submitting-patches.rst (interleaved-replies)
docs: Fix minor grammatical error
docs/{it_it,sp_SP,zh_CN,zh_TW}: update references to removed CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB
Documentation: process: fix brackets
Documentation: arch: fix brackets
docs/dyndbg: explain flags parse 1st
docs/dyndbg: update examples \012 to \n
docs: kernel-parameters: Fix stale sticore file paths
docs: real-time: Fix duplicated sched(7) text
docs: kgdb: Fix stale source file paths
docs: sonypi: Fix stale header file path
docs: kernel-parameters: Remove sa1100ir IrDA parameter
iommu: Documentation: rearrange, update kernel-parameters
docs: md: fix grammar in speed_limit description
docs: changes.rst: restore pahole 1.26 minimum (regressed by sort)
Documentation: Fix syntax of kmalloc_objs example in coding style doc
docs: pt_BR: update maintainer-handbooks
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gitolite.kernel.org:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux
Pull s390 updates from Alexander Gordeev:
- Use CIO device online variable instead of the internal FSM state to
determine device availability during purge operations
- Remove extra check of task_stack_page() because try_get_task_stack()
already takes care of that when reading /proc/<pid>/wchan
- Allow user-space to use the new SCLP action qualifier 4 for to
provide NVMe SMART log data to the platform.
- Send AP CHANGE uevents on successful bind and successful association
to notify user-space about SE operations on AP queue devices
- Add an s390dbf kernel parameter to configure debug log levels and
area sizes during early boot
- On arm64 the empty zero page is going to be mapped read-only. Do the
same for s390 with an explicit set_memory_ro() call
- Improve s390-specific bcr_serialize() and cpu_relax() implementations
- Remove all unused variables to avoid allmodconfig W=1 build fails
with latest clang-23
- Cleanup default Kconfig values for s390 selftests
- Add a s390-tod trace clock to allow comparing trace timestamps
between different systems or virtual machines on s390
- Remove the s390 implementation of strlcat() in favor of the generic
variant
- Make consistent the calling order between
page_table_check_pte_clear() and secure page conversion across all
code paths
- Rearrange some fields within AP and zcrypt structs to reduce memory
consumption and unused holes
- Shorten GR_NUM and VX_NUM macros and move them to a separate header
- Replace __get_free_page() with kmalloc() in few sources
- Introduce an infrastructure for more efficient this_cpu operations.
Eliminate conditional branches when PREEMPT_NONE is removed
- Enable Rust support
- Use z10 as minimum architecture level, similar to the boot code, to
enforce a defined architecture level set
- Improve and convert various mem*() helper functions to C. For that
add .noinstr.text section to avoid orphaned warnings from the linker
- Fix the function pointer type in __ret_from_fork() to correct the
indirect call to match kernel thread return type of int
- Revert support for DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS to avoid an endless exception
loop on read from donated Ultravisor pages at unaligned addresses
* tag 's390-7.2-1' of gitolite.kernel.org:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux: (52 commits)
s390: Revert support for DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS
s390/process: Fix kernel thread function pointer type
s390/tishift: Convert __ashlti3(), __ashrti3(), __lshrti3() to C
s390/memmove: Optimize backward copy case
s390/string: Convert memset(16|32|64)() to C
s390/string: Convert memcpy() to C
s390/string: Convert memset() to C
s390/string: Convert memmove() to C
s390/string: Add -ffreestanding compile option to string.o
s390: Add .noinstr.text to boot and purgatory linker scripts
s390/purgatory: Enforce z10 minimum architecture level
s390: Enable Rust support
s390/cmpxchg: Fix KASAN stack-out-of-bounds in atomic helpers
rust: helpers: Add memchr wrapper for string operations
rust/bindgen_parameters: Mark s390 types as opaque to prevent repr conflicts
s390/jump_label: Implement ARCH_STATIC_BRANCH_JUMP_ASM and ARCH_STATIC_BRANCH_ASM macros
s390/bug: Provide ARCH_WARN_ASM for Rust WARN/BUG support
s390/ap: Fix locking issue in SE bind and associate sysfs functions
s390/percpu: Provide arch_this_cpu_write() implementation
s390/percpu: Provide arch_this_cpu_read() implementation
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These are now unused and had various issues like not working with out of
source builds and being slow to compile. Delete them.
Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@arm.com>
Cc: Amir Ayupov <aaupov@meta.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Mike Leach <mike.leach@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paschalis Mpeis <Paschalis.Mpeis@arm.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Suzuki Poulouse <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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No users are left; remove this API. Also remove/fix comments mentioning
it, and end_bio_bh_io_sync() as it's now unused.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260528173150.1093780-32-willy@infradead.org
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
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Add syntax to the parsing of eprobes to be able to typecast a trace event
field that is a pointer to a structure.
Currently, a dereference must be a nu |
