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2026-06-18Merge tag 'trace-ring-buffer-v7.2' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-180/+377
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace Pull ring-buffer updates from Steven Rostedt - Do not invalidate entire buffer for invalid sub-buffers For the persistent ring buffer, if one sub-buffer is found to be invalid, it invalidates the entire per CPU ring buffer. This can lose a lot of valuable data if there's some corruption with the writes to the buffer not syncing properly on a hard crash. Instead, if a sub-buffer is found to be invalid, simply zero it out and mark it for "missed events". When the persistent ring buffer is read and a sub-buffer that was cleared due to being invalid on boot up is discovered, the output will show "[LOST EVENTS]" to let the user know that events were missing at that location. Displaying the events from valid buffers can still be useful. - Add a test to be able to test corrupted sub-buffers If a persistent ring buffer is created as "ptraingtest" and the new config that adds the test is enabled, when a panic happens, the kernel will randomly corrupt one of the per CPU ring buffers. On boot up, the sub-buffers with the corruption should be cleared and flagged. When reading this buffer, the missed events should should [LOST EVENTS]. - Add commit number in the sub-buffer meta debug info The commit is used to know the content of a meta page. Add it to the buffer_meta file that is shown for each per CPU buffer. - Clean up the persistent ring buffer validation code Add some helper functions and make variable names more consistent. * tag 'trace-ring-buffer-v7.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: ring-buffer: Better comment the use of RB_MISSED_EVENTS ring-buffer: Show persistent buffer dropped events in trace_pipe file ring-buffer: Show persistent buffer dropped events in trace file ring-buffer: Have dropped subbuffers be persistent across reboots ring-buffer: Cleanup buffer_data_page related code ring-buffer: Cleanup persistent ring buffer validation ring-buffer: Show commit numbers in buffer_meta file ring-buffer: Add persistent ring buffer invalid-page inject test ring-buffer: Skip invalid sub-buffers when rewinding persistent ring buffer ring-buffer: Skip invalid sub-buffers when validating persistent ring buffer
2026-06-15Merge tag 'sched-core-2026-06-14' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-7/+0
gitolite.kernel.org:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar: "SMP load-balancing updates: - A large series to introduce infrastructure for cache-aware load balancing, with the goal of co-locating tasks that share data within the same Last Level Cache (LLC) domain. By improving cache locality, the scheduler can reduce cache bouncing and cache misses, ultimately improving data access efficiency. Implemented by Chen Yu and Tim Chen, based on early prototype work by Peter Zijlstra, with fixes by Jianyong Wu, Peter Zijlstra and Shrikanth Hegde. - A series to simplify CONFIG_SCHED_SMT ifdef usage (Shrikanth Hegde) Fair scheduler updates: - A series to improve SD_ASYM_CPUCAPACITY scheduling by introducing SMT awareness (Andrea Righi, K Prateek Nayak) - A series to optimize cfs_rq and sched_entity allocation for better data locality (Zecheng Li) - A preparatory series to change fair/cgroup scheduling to a single runqueue, without the final change (Peter Zijlstra) - Auto-manage ext/fair dl_server bandwidth (Andrea Righi) - Fix cpu_util runnable_avg arithmetic (Hongyan Xia) - Optimize update_tg_load_avg()'s rate-limiting code (Rik van Riel) - Allow account_cfs_rq_runtime() to throttle current hierarchy (K Prateek Nayak) - Update util_est after updating util_avg during dequeue, to fix the util signal update logic, which reduces signal noise (Vincent Guittot) Scheduler topology updates: - Allow multiple domains to claim sched_domain_shared (K Prateek Nayak) - Add parameter to split LLC (Peter Zijlstra) Core scheduler updates: - Use trace_call__<tp>() to save a static branch (Gabriele Monaco) Scheduler statistics updates: - Drop now-stale mul_u64_u64_div_u64() cputime over-approximation guard (Nicolas Pitre) Deadline scheduler updates: - Reject debugfs dl_server writes for offline CPUs (Andrea Righi) - Fix replenishment logic for non-deferred servers (Yuri Andriaccio) RT scheduling updates: - Turn RT_PUSH_IPI default off for non PREEMPT_RT (Steven Rostedt) - Update default bandwidth for real-time tasks to 1.0 (Yuri Andriaccio) Proxy scheduling updates: - A series to implement Optimized Donor Migration for Proxy Execution (John Stultz, Peter Zijlstra) - Various proxy scheduling cleanups and fixes (Peter Zijlstra, K Prateek Nayak) Misc fixes, improvements and cleanups by Aaron Lu, Andrea Righi, Zenghui Yu, Chen Yu, Guanyou.Chen, John Stultz, Shrikanth Hegde, Peter Zijlstra, Liang Luo and Yiyang Chen" * tag 'sched-core-2026-06-14' of gitolite.kernel.org:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (91 commits) sched/fair: Fix newidle vs core-sched sched/deadline: Use task_on_rq_migrating() helper sched/core: Combine separate 'else' and 'if' statements sched/fair: Fix cpu_util runnable_avg arithmetic sched/fair: Unify cfs_rq throttling via account_cfs_rq_runtime() sched/fair: Move the throttled tasks to a local list in tg_unthrottle_up() sched/fair: Call update_curr() before unthrottling the hierarchy sched/fair: Use throttled_csd_list for local unthrottle sched/fair: Convert cfs bandwidth throttling to use guards sched/fair: Allocate cfs_tg_state with percpu allocator sched/fair: Remove task_group->se pointer array sched/fair: Co-locate cfs_rq and sched_entity in cfs_tg_state sched: restore timer_slack_ns when resetting RT policy on fork MAINTAINERS: Fix spelling mistake in Peter's name sched: Simplify ttwu_runnable() sched/proxy: Remove superfluous clear_task_blocked_in() sched/proxy: Remove PROXY_WAKING sched/proxy: Switch proxy to use p->is_blocked sched/proxy: Only return migrate when needed sched: Be more strict about p->is_blocked ...
2026-05-31ring-buffer: Better comment the use of RB_MISSED_EVENTSSteven Rostedt1-0/+14
If the persistent ring buffer is detected on boot up to have a corrupted sub-buffer, that sub-buffer is cleared to zero and its commit value has the RB_MISSED_EVENTS bit set. That bit is to allow the "trace", "trace_pipe" and "trace_pipe_raw" files know that events were dropped by outputting "[LOST EVENTS]". Only in this case does that bit get set in the writeable portion of the ring buffer. When events are dropped in the normal ring buffer, that information is stored in the cpu_buffer descriptor and the RB_MISSED_EVENTS is set in the buffer page at the time the page is consumed. It is never set in the writeable portion of the buffer. Add comments to describe this better as it can be confusing to know when the RB_MISSED_EVENTS are set in the commit portion of the buffer page. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260529001500.14178455a046a5cbc6180861@kernel.org/ Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260528223738.41276c0e@fedora Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-05-28ring-buffer: Show persistent buffer dropped events in trace_pipe fileSteven Rostedt1-22/+34
When the persistent ring buffer is validated on boot up, if a subbuffer is deemed invalid, it resets the buffer and continues. Have the code preserve the RB_MISSED_EVENTS flag in the commit portion of the subbuffer header and pass that back so that the trace_pipe file can show the missed events like the trace file does. For example: <...>-1242 [005] d.... 4429.120116: page_fault_user: address=0x7ffaebb6e728 ip=0x7ffaeb9d4960 error_code=0x7 <...>-1242 [005] ..... 4429.120124: mm_page_alloc: page=00000000055254f3 pfn=0x1373bd order=0 migratetype=1 gfp_flags=GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE|__GFP_COMP <...>-1242 [005] d..2. 4429.120132: tlb_flush: pages:1 reason:local MM shootdown (3) CPU:5 [LOST EVENTS] <...>-1242 [005] d.... 4429.120661: page_fault_user: address=0x55ba7c2d0944 ip=0x55ba7c20cd02 error_code=0x7 <...>-1242 [005] ..... 4429.120669: mm_page_alloc: page=0000000005a02500 pfn=0x12b6e4 order=0 migratetype=1 gfp_flags=GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE|__GFP_COMP <...>-1242 [005] d..2. 4429.120680: tlb_flush: pages:1 reason:local MM shootdown (3) Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260522171052.156419479@kernel.org Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-05-28ring-buffer: Show persistent buffer dropped events in trace fileSteven Rostedt1-3/+10
When the persistent ring buffer is validated on boot up, if a subbuffer is deemed invalid, it resets the buffer and continues. Currently, these lost events are not shown in the trace file output. Have the trace iterator look for subbuffers that have the RB_MISSED_EVENTS set and set the iter->missed_events flag when it is detected. This will then have the trace file shows "LOST EVENTS" when it reads across a subbuffer that was corrupted and invalidated. For example: <...>-1016 [005] ...1. 6230.660403: preempt_disable: caller=__mod_memcg_state+0x1c8/0x200 parent=__mod_memcg_state+0x1c8/0x200 CPU:5 [LOST EVENTS] <...>-1016 [005] ..... 6230.660673: kmem_cache_alloc: call_site=__anon_vma_prepare+0x1ad/0x1e0 ptr=000000006e40294c name=anon_vma bytes_req=200 bytes_alloc=208 gfp_flags=GFP_KERNEL node=-1 accounted=true Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260522171052.006276604@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-05-28ring-buffer: Have dropped subbuffers be persistent across rebootsSteven Rostedt1-5/+6
When the persistent ring buffer detects a corrupted subbuffer, it will zero its size and report dropped pages in the dmesg, then it continues normally. But if a reboot happens without clearing or restarting tracing on the persistent ring buffer, the next boot will show no pages are dropped. If the persistent ring buffer is still the same, then it should still report dropped pages so the user knows that the buffer has missing events. Add the RB_MISSED_EVENTS flag to the commit value of the subbuffer so that the next boot will still show that pages were dropped. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260522171051.860780286@kernel.org Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-05-28ring-buffer: Cleanup buffer_data_page related codeMasami Hiramatsu (Google)1-52/+60
Code cleanup related to buffer_data_page for readability, which includes: - Introduce rb_data_page_commit() and rb_data_page_size() - Use 'dpage' for buffer_data_page, instead of 'bpage' because 'bpage' is used for buffer_page. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260522171051.722645963@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-05-28ring-buffer: Cleanup persistent ring buffer validationMasami Hiramatsu (Google)1-92/+108
Cleanup rb_meta_validate_events() function to make it easier to read. This includes the following cleanups: - Introduce rb_validatation_state to hold working variables in validation. - Move repleated validation state updates into rb_validate_buffer(). - Move reader_page injection code outside of rb_meta_validate_events(). Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260522171051.577231395@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-05-28ring-buffer: Show commit numbers in buffer_meta fileMasami Hiramatsu (Google)1-1/+4
In addition to the index number, show the commit numbers of each data page in the per_cpu buffer_meta file. This is useful for understanding the current status of the persistent ring buffer. (Note that this file is shown only for persistent ring buffer and its backup instance) Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260522171051.424411323@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-05-28ring-buffer: Add persistent ring buffer invalid-page inject testMasami Hiramatsu (Google)1-0/+79
Add a self-corrupting test for the persistent ring buffer. This will inject an erroneous value to some sub-buffer pages (where the index is even or multiples of 5) in the persistent ring buffer when the kernel panics, and checks whether the number of detected invalid pages and the total entry_bytes are the same as the recorded values after reboot. This ensures that the kernel can correctly recover a partially corrupted persistent ring buffer after a reboot or panic. The test only runs on the persistent ring buffer whose name is "ptracingtest". The user has to fill it with events before a kernel panic. To run the test, enable CONFIG_RING_BUFFER_PERSISTENT_INJECT and add the following kernel cmdline: reserve_mem=20M:2M:trace trace_instance=ptracingtest^traceoff@trace panic=1 Run the following commands after the 1st boot: cd /sys/kernel/tracing/instances/ptracingtest echo 1 > tracing_on echo 1 > events/enable sleep 3 echo c > /proc/sysrq-trigger After panic message, the kernel will reboot and run the verification on the persistent ring buffer, e.g. Ring buffer meta [2] invalid buffer page detected Ring buffer meta [2] is from previous boot! (318 pages discarded) Ring buffer testing [2] invalid pages: PASSED (318/318) Ring buffer testing [2] entry_bytes: PASSED (1300476/1300476) Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260522171051.260140328@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-05-28ring-buffer: Skip invalid sub-buffers when rewinding persistent ring bufferMasami Hiramatsu (Google)1-38/+69
Skip invalid sub-buffers when rewinding the persistent ring buffer instead of stopping the rewinding the ring buffer. The skipped buffers are cleared. To ensure the rewinding stops at the unused page, this also clears buffer_data_page::time_stamp when tracing resets the buffer. This allows us to identify unused pages and empty pages. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260522171051.091265852@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org> [ SDR: Have reader_page still get evaluated if header_page fails ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-05-28ring-buffer: Skip invalid sub-buffers when validating persistent ring bufferMasami Hiramatsu (Google)1-47/+73
Skip invalid sub-buffers when validating the persistent ring buffer instead of discarding the entire ring buffer. Only skipped buffers are invalidated (cleared). If the cache data in memory fails to be synchronized during a reboot, the persistent ring buffer may become partially corrupted, but other sub-buffers may still contain readable event data. Only discard the subbuffers that are found to be corrupted. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260520185018.051228084@kernel.org/ Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260522171050.914418536@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org> [SDR: Fixed max_loops in rb_iter_peek() as well ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-05-21ring-buffer: Flush and stop persistent ring buffer on panicMasami Hiramatsu (Google)1-0/+22
On real hardware, panic and machine reboot may not flush hardware cache to memory. This means the persistent ring buffer, which relies on a coherent state of memory, may not have its events written to the buffer and they may be lost. Moreover, there may be inconsistency with the counters which are used for validation of the integrity of the persistent ring buffer which may cause all data to be discarded. To avoid this issue, stop recording of the ring buffer on panic and flush the cache of the ring buffer's memory. Fixes: e645535a954a ("tracing: Add option to use memmapped memory for trace boot instance") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/177751969602.2136606.12031934362587643488.stgit@mhiramat.tok.corp.google.com Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-05-21ring-buffer: Fix reporting of missed events in iteratorSteven Rostedt1-5/+3
When tracing is active while reading the trace file, if the iterator reading the buffer detects that the writer has passed the iterator head, it will reset and set a "missed events" flag. This flag is passed to the output processing to show the user that events were missed: CPU:4 [LOST EVENTS] The problem is that the flag is reset after it is checked in ring_buffer_iter_dropped(). But the "trace" file iterates over all the CPU ring buffers and it will check if they are dropped when figuring out which buffer to print next. This prematurely clears the missed_events flag if the CPU buffer with the missed events is not the one that is printed next. On the iteration where the CPU buffer with the missed events is printed, the check if it had missed events would return false and the output does not show that events were missed. Do not reset the missed_events flag when checking if there were missed events, but instead clear it when moving the iterator head to the next event. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260520220801.4fd09d13@fedora Fixes: c9b7a4a72ff64 ("ring-buffer/tracing: Have iterator acknowledge dropped events") Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-05-19sched/clock: Provide !HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK stub for sched_clock_stable()Yiyang Chen1-7/+0
When CONFIG_HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK is disabled, sched_clock() is already assumed to provide stable semantics, but the public header doesn't provide a sched_clock_stable() stub for that case. Add a header stub that always returns true and clean up the duplicate local stub in ring_buffer.c, so callers can use sched_clock_stable() unconditionally. Signed-off-by: Yiyang Chen <cyyzero16@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/56e45338858946cd9581b75c8bd45dd37dba52c5.1778773587.git.cyyzero16@gmail.com
2026-04-24ring-buffer: Do not double count the reader_pageMasami Hiramatsu (Google)1-6/+7
Since the cpu_buffer->reader_page is updated if there are unwound pages. After that update, we should skip the page if it is the original reader_page, because the original reader_page is already checked. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/177701353063.2223789.1471163147644103306.stgit@mhiramat.tok.corp.google.com Fixes: ca296d32ece3 ("tracing: ring_buffer: Rewind persistent ring buffer on reboot") Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-04-14ring-buffer: Prevent off-by-one array access in ring_buffer_desc_page()Vincent Donnefort1-2/+2
As pointed out by Smatch, the ring-buffer descriptor array page_va is counted by nr_page_va, but the accessor ring_buffer_desc_page() allows access off by one. Currently, this does not cause problems, as the page ID always comes from a trusted source. Nonetheless, ensure robustness and fix the accessor. While at it, make the page_id unsigned. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260410124527.3563970-1-vdonnefort@google.com Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-04-14ring-buffer: Report header_page overwrite as charCao Ruichuang1-2/+2
The header_page tracefs metadata currently reports overwrite as an int field with size 1. That makes parsers warn about a type and size mismatch even though the field is only used as a one-byte flag within commit. Keep the shared offset with commit as-is, but report overwrite as char so the declared type matches the hardcoded size. The signedness is already carried separately by the emitted signed field. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260406165333.46052-1-create0818@163.com Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216999 Signed-off-by: Cao Ruichuang <create0818@163.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-04-02ring-buffer: Enforce read ordering of trace_buffer cpumask and buffersVincent Donnefort1-1/+18
On CPU hotplug, if it is the first time a trace_buffer sees a CPU, a ring_buffer_per_cpu will be allocated and its corresponding bit toggled in the cpumask. Many readers check this cpumask to know if they can safely read the ring_buffer_per_cpu but they are doing so without memory ordering and may observe the cpumask bit set while having NULL buffer pointer. Enforce the memory read ordering by sending an IPI to all online CPUs. The hotplug path is a slow-path anyway and it saves us from adding read barriers in numerous call sites. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260401053659.3458961-1-vdonnefort@google.com Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com> Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-03-24ring-buffer: Show what clock function is used on timestamp errorsSteven Rostedt1-4/+6
The testing for tracing was triggering a timestamp count issue that was always off by one. This has been happening for some time but has never been reported by anyone else. It was finally discovered to be an issue with the "uptime" (jiffies) clock that happened to be traced and the internal recursion caused the discrepancy. This would have been much easier to solve if the clock function being used was displayed when the error was detected. Add the clock function to the error output. Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260323202212.479bb288@gandalf.local.home Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-03-24Merge commit 'f35dbac6942171dc4ce9398d1d216a59224590a9' into ↵Steven Rostedt1-1/+1
trace/ring-buffer/core The commit f35dbac69421 ("ring-buffer: Fix to update per-subbuf entries of persistent ring buffer") was a fix and merged upstream. It is needed for some other work in the ring buffer. The current branch has the remote buffer code that is shared with the Arm64 subsystem and can't be rebased. Merge in the upstream commit to allow continuing of the ring buffer work. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-03-21ring-buffer: Fix to update per-subbuf entries of persistent ring bufferMasami Hiramatsu (Google)1-1/+1
Since the validation loop in rb_meta_validate_events() updates the same cpu_buffer->head_page->entries, the other subbuf entries are not updated. Fix to use head_page to update the entries field, since it is the cursor in this loop. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Fixes: 5f3b6e839f3c ("ring-buffer: Validate boot range memory events") Link: https://patch.msgid.link/177391153882.193994.17158784065013676533.stgit@mhiramat.tok.corp.google.com Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-03-09ring-buffer: Export buffer_data_page and macrosVincent Donnefort1-35/+1
In preparation for allowing the writing of ring-buffer compliant pages outside of ring_buffer.c, move buffer_data_page and timestamps encoding macros into the publicly available ring_buffer_types.h. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260309162516.2623589-13-vdonnefort@google.com Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-03-09tracing: Add events/ root files to trace remotesVincent Donnefort1-1/+2
Just like for the kernel events directory, add 'enable', 'header_page' and 'header_event' at the root of the trace remote events/ directory. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260309162516.2623589-11-vdonnefort@google.com Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-03-09ring-buffer: Add non-consuming read for ring-buffer remotesVincent Donnefort1-6/+69
Hopefully, the remote will only swap pages on the kernel instruction (via the swap_reader_page() callback). This means we know at what point the ring-buffer geometry has changed. It is therefore possible to rearrange the kernel view of that ring-buffer to allow non-consuming read. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260309162516.2623589-5-vdonnefort@google.com Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-03-09ring-buffer: Introduce ring-buffer remotesVincent Donnefort1-8/+225
Add ring-buffer remotes to support entities outside of the kernel (such as firmware or a hypervisor) that writes events into a ring-buffer using the tracefs format Require a description of the ring-buffer pages (struct trace_buffer_desc) and callbacks (swap_reader_page and reset) to set up the ring-buffer on the kernel side. Expect the remote entity to maintain and update the meta-page. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260309162516.2623589-4-vdonnefort@google.com Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-03-09ring-buffer: Store bpage pointers into subbuf_idsVincent Donnefort1-8/+11
The subbuf_ids field allows to point to a specific page from the ring-buffer based on its ID. As a preparation or the upcoming ring-buffer remote support, point this array to the buffer_page instead of the buffer_data_page. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260309162516.2623589-3-vdonnefort@google.com Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-03-09ring-buffer: Add page statistics to the meta-pageVincent Donnefort1-0/+2
Add two fields pages_touched and pages_lost to the ring-buffer meta-page. Those fields are useful to get the number of used pages in the ring-buffer. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260309162516.2623589-2-vdonnefort@google.com Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-03-03tracing: Fix WARN_ON in tracing_buffers_mmap_closeQing Wang1-0/+21
When a process forks, the child process copies the parent's VMAs but the user_mapped reference count is not incremented. As a result, when both the parent and child processes exit, tracing_buffers_mmap_close() is called twice. On the second call, user_mapped is already 0, causing the function to return -ENODEV and triggering a WARN_ON. Normally, this isn't an issue as the memory is mapped with VM_DONTCOPY set. But this is only a hint, and the application can call madvise(MADVISE_DOFORK) which resets the VM_DONTCOPY flag. When the application does that, it can trigger this issue on fork. Fix it by incrementing the user_mapped reference count without re-mapping the pages in the VMA's open callback. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260227025842.1085206-1-wangqing7171@gmail.com Fixes: cf9f0f7c4c5bb ("tracing: Allow user-space mapping of the ring-buffer") Reported-by: syzbot+3b5dd2030fe08afdf65d@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=3b5dd2030fe08afdf65d Tested-by: syzbot+3b5dd2030fe08afdf65d@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Signed-off-by: Qing Wang <wangqing7171@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-02-21Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argumentLinus Torvalds1-2/+2
This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using git grep -l '\<k[vmz]*alloc_objs*(.*, GFP_KERNEL)' | xargs sed -i 's/\(alloc_objs*(.*\), GFP_KERNEL)/\1)/' to convert the new alloc_obj() users that had a simple GFP_KERNEL argument to just drop that argument. Note that due to the extreme simplicity of the scripting, any slightly more complex cases spread over multiple lines would not be triggered: they definitely exist, but this covers the vast bulk of the cases, and the resulting diff is also then easier to check automatically. For the same reason the 'flex' versions will be done as a separate conversion. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2026-02-21treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar typesKees Cook1-3/+3
This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union object instances: Single allocations: kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...) Array allocations: kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...) Flex array allocations: kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...) (where TYPE may also be *VAR) The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning "TYPE *". Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
2026-02-19tracing: ring-buffer: Fix to check event length before usingMasami Hiramatsu (Google)1-1/+5
Check the event length before adding it for accessing next index in rb_read_data_buffer(). Since this function is used for validating possibly broken ring buffers, the length of the event could be broken. In that case, the new event (e + len) can point a wrong address. To avoid invalid memory access at boot, check whether the length of each event is in the possible range before using it. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Fixes: 5f3b6e839f3c ("ring-buffer: Validate boot range memory events") Link: https://patch.msgid.link/177123421541.142205.9414352170164678966.stgit@devnote2 Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-02-19ring-buffer: Fix possible dereference of uninitialized pointerDaniil Dulov1-1/+2
There is a pointer head_page in rb_meta_validate_events() which is not initialized at the beginning of a function. This pointer can be dereferenced if there is a failure during reader page validation. In this case the control is passed to "invalid" label where the pointer is dereferenced in a loop. To fix the issue initialize orig_head and head_page before calling rb_validate_buffer. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260213100130.2013839-1-d.dulov@aladdin.ru Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/202406130130.JtTGRf7W-lkp@intel.com/ Fixes: 5f3b6e839f3c ("ring-buffer: Validate boot range memory events") Signed-off-by: Daniil Dulov <d.dulov@aladdin.ru> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-01-26ring-buffer: Use a housekeeping CPU to wake up waitersPetr Tesarik1-3/+21
Avoid running the wakeup irq_work on an isolated CPU. Since the wakeup can run on any CPU, let's pick a housekeeping CPU to do the job. This change reduces additional noise when tracing isolated CPUs. For example, the following ipi_send_cpu stack trace was captured with nohz_full=2 on the isolated CPU: <idle>-0 [002] d.h4. 1255.379293: ipi_send_cpu: cpu=2 callsite=irq_work_queue+0x2d/0x50 callback=rb_wake_up_waiters+0x0/0x80 <idle>-0 [002] d.h4. 1255.379329: <stack trace> => trace_event_raw_event_ipi_send_cpu => __irq_work_queue_local => irq_work_queue => ring_buffer_unlock_commit => trace_buffer_unlock_commit_regs => trace_event_buffer_commit => trace_event_raw_event_x86_irq_vector => __sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt => sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt => asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt => pv_native_safe_halt => default_idle => default_idle_call => do_idle => cpu_startup_entry => start_secondary => common_startup_64 The IRQ work interrupt alone adds considerable noise, but the impact can get even worse with PREEMPT_RT, because the IRQ work interrupt is then handled by a separate kernel thread. This requires a task switch and makes tracing useless for analyzing latency on an isolated CPU. After applying the patch, the trace is similar, but ipi_send_cpu always targets a non-isolated CPU. Unfortunately, irq_work_queue_on() is not NMI-safe. When running in NMI context, fall back to queuing the irq work on the local CPU. Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Cc: Clark Williams <clrkwllms@kernel.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260108132132.2473515-1-ptesarik@suse.com Signed-off-by: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-01-07ring-buffer: Avoid softlockup in ring_buffer_resize() during memory freeWupeng Ma1-0/+2
When user resize all trace ring buffer through file 'buffer_size_kb', then in ring_buffer_resize(), kernel allocates buffer pages for each cpu in a loop. If the kernel preemption model is PREEMPT_NONE and there are many cpus and there are many buffer pages to be freed, it may not give up cpu for a long time and finally cause a softlockup. To avoid it, call cond_resched() after each cpu buffer free as Commit f6bd2c92488c ("ring-buffer: Avoid softlockup in ring_buffer_resize()") does. Detailed call trace as follow: rcu: INFO: rcu_sched self-detected stall on CPU rcu: 24-....: (14837 ticks this GP) idle=521c/1/0x4000000000000000 softirq=230597/230597 fqs=5329 rcu: (t=15004 jiffies g=26003221 q=211022 ncpus=96) CPU: 24 UID: 0 PID: 11253 Comm: bash Kdump: loaded Tainted: G EL 6.18.2+ #278 NONE pc : arch_local_irq_restore+0x8/0x20 arch_local_irq_restore+0x8/0x20 (P) free_frozen_page_commit+0x28c/0x3b0 __free_frozen_pages+0x1c0/0x678 ___free_pages+0xc0/0xe0 free_pages+0x3c/0x50 ring_buffer_resize.part.0+0x6a8/0x880 ring_buffer_resize+0x3c/0x58 __tracing_resize_ring_buffer.part.0+0x34/0xd8 tracing_resize_ring_buffer+0x8c/0xd0 tracing_entries_write+0x74/0xd8 vfs_write+0xcc/0x288 ksys_write+0x74/0x118 __arm64_sys_write+0x24/0x38 Cc: <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251228065008.2396573-1-mawupeng1@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Wupeng Ma <mawupeng1@huawei.com> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2025-12-05tracing: Fix multiple typos in ring_buffer.cMaurice Hieronymus1-3/+3
Fix multiple typos in comments: "ording" -> "ordering" "scatch" -> "scratch" "wont" -> "won't" Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251121221835.28032-5-mhi@mailbox.org Signed-off-by: Maurice Hieronymus <mhi@mailbox.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2025-12-05Merge tag 'trace-ringbuffer-v6.19' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-44/+53
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace Pull trace ring-buffer cleanup from Steven Rostedt: - Add helper functions for allocations The allocation of the per CPU buffer descriptor, the buffer page descriptors and the buffer page data itself can be pretty ugly. Add some helper macros and a function to have the code that allocates buffer pages and such look a little cleaner. * tag 'trace-ringbuffer-v6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: ring-buffer: Add helper functions for allocations
2025-12-02ring-buffer: Add helper functions for allocationsSteven Rostedt1-44/+53
The allocation of the per CPU buffer descriptor, the buffer page descriptors and the buffer page data itself can be pretty ugly: kzalloc_node(ALIGN(sizeof(struct buffer_page), cache_line_size()), GFP_KERNEL, cpu_to_node(cpu)); And the data pages: page = alloc_pages_node(cpu_to_node(cpu), GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL | __GFP_COMP | __GFP_ZERO, order); if (!page) return NULL; bpage->page = page_address(page); rb_init_page(bpage->page); Add helper functions to make the code easier to read. This does make all allocations of the data page (bpage->page) allocated with the __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL flag (and not just the bulk allocator). Which is actually better, as allocating the data page for the ring buffer tracing should try hard but not trigger the OOM killer. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wjMMSAaqTjBSfYenfuzE1bMjLj+2DLtLWJuGt07UGCH_Q@mail.gmail.com/ Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251125121153.35c07461@gandalf.local.home Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2025-11-06ring-buffer: Do not warn in ring_buffer_map_get_reader() when reader catches upSteven Rostedt1-0/+4
The function ring_buffer_map_get_reader() is a bit more strict than the other get reader functions, and except for certain situations the rb_get_reader_page() should not return NULL. If it does, it triggers a warning. This warning was triggering but after looking at why, it was because another acceptable situation was happening and it wasn't checked for. If the reader catches up to the writer and there's still data to be read on the reader page, then the rb_get_reader_page() will return NULL as there's no new page to get. In this situation, the reader page should not be updated and no warning should trigger. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com> Reported-by: syzbot+92a3745cea5ec6360309@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/690babec.050a0220.baf87.0064.GAE@google.com/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20251016132848.1b11bb37@gandalf.local.home Fixes: 117c39200d9d7 ("ring-buffer: Introducing ring-buffer mapping functions") Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2025-10-08ring buffer: Propagate __rb_map_vma return value to callerAnkit Khushwaha1-1/+1
The return value from `__rb_map_vma()`, which rejects writable or executable mappings (VM_WRITE, VM_EXEC, or !VM_MAYSHARE), was being ignored. As a result the caller of `__rb_map_vma` always returned 0 even when the mapping had actually failed, allowing it to proceed with an invalid VMA. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20251008172516.20697-1-ankitkhushwaha.linux@gmail.com Fixes: 117c39200d9d7 ("ring-buffer: Introducing ring-buffer mapping functions") Reported-by: syzbot+ddc001b92c083dbf2b97@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=194151be8eaebd826005329b2e123aecae714bdb Signed-off-by: Ankit Khushwaha <ankitkhushwaha.linux@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2025-08-20ring-buffer: Remove redundant semicolonsLiao Yuanhong1-1/+1
Remove unnecessary semicolons. Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250813095114.559530-1-liaoyuanhong@vivo.com Signed-off-by: Liao Yuanhong <liaoyuanhong@vivo.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2025-08-03Merge tag 'trace-v6.17-2' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-10/+6
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace Pull more tracing updates from Steven Rostedt: - Remove unneeded goto out statements Over time, the logic was restructured but left a "goto out" where the out label simply did a "return ret;". Instead of jumping to this out label, simply return immediately and remove the out label. - Add guard(ring_buffer_nest) Some calls to the tracing ring buffer can happen when the ring buffer is already being written to at the same context (for example, a trace_printk() in between a ring_buffer_lock_reserve() and a ring_buffer_unlock_commit()). In order to not trigger the recursion detection, these functions use ring_buffer_nest_start() and ring_buffer_nest_end(). Create a guard() for these functions so that their use cases can be simplified and not need to use goto for the release. - Clean up the tracing code with guard() and __free() logic There were several locations that were prime candidates for using guard() and __free() helpers. Switch them over to use them. - Fix output of function argument traces for unsigned int values The function tracer with "func-args" option set will record up to 6 argument registers and then use BTF to format them for human consumption when the trace file is read. There are several arguments that are "unsigned long" and even "unsigned int" that are either and address or a mask. It is easier to understand if they were printed using hexadecimal instead of decimal. The old method just printed all non-pointer values as signed integers, which made it even worse for unsigned integers. For instance, instead of: __local_bh_disable_ip(ip=-2127311112, cnt=256) <-handle_softirqs show: __local_bh_disable_ip(ip=0xffffffff8133cef8, cnt=0x100) <-handle_softirqs" * tag 'trace-v6.17-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: tracing: Have unsigned int function args displayed as hexadecimal ring-buffer: Convert ring_buffer_write() to use guard(preempt_notrace) tracing: Use __free(kfree) in trace.c to remove gotos