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2026-04-17Merge tag 'trace-v7.1' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-16/+111
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt: - Fix printf format warning for bprintf sunrpc uses a trace_printk() that triggers a printf warning during the compile. Move the __printf() attribute around for when debugging is not enabled the warning will go away - Remove redundant check for EVENT_FILE_FL_FREED in event_filter_write() The FREED flag is checked in the call to event_file_file() and then checked again right afterward, which is unneeded - Clean up event_file_file() and event_file_data() helpers These helper functions played a different role in the past, but now with eventfs, the READ_ONCE() isn't needed. Simplify the code a bit and also add a warning to event_file_data() if the file or its data is not present - Remove updating file->private_data in tracing open All access to the file private data is handled by the helper functions, which do not use file->private_data. Stop updating it on open - Show ENUM names in function arguments via BTF in function tracing When showing the function arguments when func-args option is set for function tracing, if one of the arguments is found to be an enum, show the name of the enum instead of its number - Add new trace_call__##name() API for tracepoints Tracepoints are enabled via static_branch() blocks, where when not enabled, there's only a nop that is in the code where the execution will just skip over it. When tracing is enabled, the nop is converted to a direct jump to the tracepoint code. Sometimes more calculations are required to be performed to update the parameters of the tracepoint. In this case, trace_##name##_enabled() is called which is a static_branch() that gets enabled only when the tracepoint is enabled. This allows the extra calculations to also be skipped by the nop: if (trace_foo_enabled()) { x = bar(); trace_foo(x); } Where the x=bar() is only performed when foo is enabled. The problem with this approach is that there's now two static_branch() calls. One for checking if the tracepoint is enabled, and then again to know if the tracepoint should be called. The second one is redundant Introduce trace_call__foo() that will call the foo() tracepoint directly without doing a static_branch(): if (trace_foo_enabled()) { x = bar(); trace_call__foo(); } - Update various locations to use the new trace_call__##name() API - Move snapshot code out of trace.c Cleaning up trace.c to not be a "dump all", move the snapshot code out of it and into a new trace_snapshot.c file - Clean up some "%*.s" to "%*s" - Allow boot kernel command line options to be called multiple times Have options like: ftrace_filter=foo ftrace_filter=bar ftrace_filter=zoo Equal to: ftrace_filter=foo,bar,zoo - Fix ipi_raise event CPU field to be a CPU field The ipi_raise target_cpus field is defined as a __bitmask(). There is now a __cpumask() field definition. Update the field to use that - Have hist_field_name() use a snprintf() and not a series of strcat() It's safer to use snprintf() that a series of strcat() - Fix tracepoint regfunc balancing A tracepoint can define a "reg" and "unreg" function that gets called before the tracepoint is enabled, and after it is disabled respectively. But on error, after the "reg" func is called and the tracepoint is not enabled, the "unreg" function is not called to tear down what the "reg" function performed - Fix output that shows what histograms are enabled Event variables are displayed incorrectly in the histogram output Instead of "sched.sched_wakeup.$var", it is showing "$sched.sched_wakeup.var" where the '$' is in the incorrect location - Some other simple cleanups * tag 'trace-v7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: (24 commits) selftests/ftrace: Add test case for fully-qualified variable references tracing: Fix fully-qualified variable reference printing in histograms tracepoint: balance regfunc() on func_add() failure in tracepoint_add_func() tracing: Rebuild full_name on each hist_field_name() call tracing: Report ipi_raise target CPUs as cpumask tracing: Remove duplicate latency_fsnotify() stub tracing: Preserve repeated trace_trigger boot parameters tracing: Append repeated boot-time tracing parameters tracing: Remove spurious default precision from show_event_trigger/filter formats cpufreq: Use trace_call__##name() at guarded tracepoint call sites tracing: Remove tracing_alloc_snapshot() when snapshot isn't defined tracing: Move snapshot code out of trace.c and into trace_snapshot.c mm: damon: Use trace_call__##name() at guarded tracepoint call sites btrfs: Use trace_call__##name() at guarded tracepoint call sites spi: Use trace_call__##name() at guarded tracepoint call sites i2c: Use trace_call__##name() at guarded tracepoint call sites kernel: Use trace_call__##name() at guarded tracepoint call sites tracepoint: Add trace_call__##name() API tracing: trace_mmap.h: fix a kernel-doc warning tracing: Pretty-print enum parameters in function arguments ...
2026-04-02tracing: Allow backup to save persistent ring buffer before it startsSteven Rostedt1-1/+4
When the persistent ring buffer was first introduced, it did not make sense to start tracing for it on the kernel command line. That's because if there was a crash, the start of events would invalidate the events from the previous boot that had the crash. But now that there's a "backup" instance that can take a snapshot of the persistent ring buffer when boot starts, it is possible to have the persistent ring buffer start events at boot up and not lose the old events. Update the code where the boot events start after all boot time instances are created. This will allow the backup instance to copy the persistent ring buffer from the previous boot, and allow the persistent ring buffer to start tracing new events for the current boot. reserve_mem=100M:12M:trace trace_instance=boot_mapped^@trace,sched trace_instance=backup=boot_mapped The above will create a boot_mapped persistent ring buffer and enabled the scheduler events. If there's a crash, a "backup" instance will be created holding the events of the persistent ring buffer from the previous boot, while the persistent ring buffer will once again start tracing scheduler events of the current boot. Now the user doesn't have to remember to start the persistent ring buffer. It will always have the events started at each boot. Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260331163924.6ccb3896@gandalf.local.home Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-04-02tracing: Remove the backup instance automatically after readMasami Hiramatsu (Google)1-0/+6
Since the backup instance is readonly, after reading all data via pipe, no data is left on the instance. Thus it can be removed safely after closing all files. This also removes it if user resets the ring buffer manually via 'trace' file. Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/177502547711.1311542.12572973358010839400.stgit@mhiramat.tok.corp.google.com Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-04-02tracing: Make the backup instance non-reusableMasami Hiramatsu (Google)1-0/+7
Since there is no reason to reuse the backup instance, make it readonly (but erasable). Note that only backup instances are readonly, because other trace instances will be empty unless it is writable. Only backup instances have copy entries from the original. With this change, most of the trace control files are removed from the backup instance, including eventfs enable/filter etc. # find /sys/kernel/tracing/instances/backup/events/ | wc -l 4093 # find /sys/kernel/tracing/instances/boot_map/events/ | wc -l 9573 Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/177502546939.1311542.1826814401724828930.stgit@mhiramat.tok.corp.google.com Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-03-31tracing: Remove duplicate latency_fsnotify() stubSteven Rostedt1-1/+1
When the SNAPSHOT is defined but FSNOTIFY is not the latency_fsnotify() function is turned into a static inline stub. But this stub was defined in both trace.h and trace_snapshot.c causing a error in build when CONFIG_SNAPSHOT is defined but FSNOTIFY is not. The stub is not needed in trace_snapshot.c as it will be defined in trace.h, remove it from the C file. Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260330205859.24c0aae3@gandalf.local.home Fixes: bade44fe5462 ("tracing: Move snapshot code out of trace.c and into trace_snapshot.c") Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202603310604.lGE9LDBK-lkp@intel.com/ Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-03-31tracing: Append repeated boot-time tracing parametersWesley Atwell1-0/+2
Some tracing boot parameters already accept delimited value lists, but their __setup() handlers keep only the last instance seen at boot. Make repeated instances append to the same boot-time buffer in the format each parser already consumes. Use a shared trace_append_boot_param() helper for the ftrace filters, trace_options, and kprobe_event boot parameters. This also lets Bootconfig array values work naturally when they expand to repeated param=value entries. Before this change, only the last instance from each repeated parameter survived boot. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260330181103.1851230-1-atwellwea@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Wesley Atwell <atwellwea@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-03-26tracing: Move snapshot code out of trace.c and into trace_snapshot.cSteven Rostedt1-8/+97
The trace.c file was a dumping ground for most tracing code. Start organizing it better by moving various functions out into their own files. Move all the snapshot code, including the max trace code into its own trace_snapshot.c file. Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260324140145.36352d6a@gandalf.local.home Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-03-23tracing: Clean up access to trace_event_file from a file pointerPetr Pavlu1-6/+11
The tracing code provides two functions event_file_file() and event_file_data() to obtain a trace_event_file pointer from a file struct. The primary method to use is event_file_file(), as it checks for the EVENT_FILE_FL_FREED flag to determine whether the event is being removed. The second function event_file_data() is an optimization for retrieving the same data when the event_mutex is still held. In the past, when removing an event directory in remove_event_file_dir(), the code set i_private to NULL for all event files and readers were expected to check for this state to recognize that the event is being removed. In the case of event_id_read(), the value was read using event_file_data() without acquiring the event_mutex. This required event_file_data() to use READ_ONCE() when retrieving the i_private data. With the introduction of eventfs, i_private is assigned when an eventfs inode is allocated and remains set throughout its lifetime. Remove the now unnecessary READ_ONCE() access to i_private in both event_file_file() and event_file_data(). Inline the access to i_private in remove_event_file_dir(), which allows event_file_data() to handle i_private solely as a trace_event_file pointer. Add a check in event_file_data() to ensure that the event_mutex is held and that file->flags doesn't have the EVENT_FILE_FL_FREED flag set. Finally, move event_file_data() immediately after event_file_code() since the latter provides a comment explaining how both functions should be used together. Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260219162737.314231-5-petr.pavlu@suse.com Signed-off-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-03-09tracing: Add non-consuming read to trace remotesVincent Donnefort1-0/+1
Allow reading the trace file for trace remotes. This performs a non-consuming read of the trace buffer. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260309162516.2623589-8-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: Introduce trace remotesVincent Donnefort1-0/+6
A trace remote relies on ring-buffer remotes to read and control compatible tracing buffers, written by entity such as firmware or hypervisor. Add a Tracefs directory remotes/ that contains all instances of trace remotes. Each instance follows the same hierarchy as any other to ease the support by existing user-space tools. This currently does not provide any event support, which will come later. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260309162516.2623589-6-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>
2026-02-13Merge tag 'trace-v7.0' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-18/+113
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt: "User visible changes: - Add an entry into MAINTAINERS file for RUST versions of code There's now RUST code for tracing and static branches. To differentiate that code from the C code, add entries in for the RUST version (with "[RUST]" around it) so that the right maintainers get notified on changes. - New bitmask-list option added to tracefs When this is set, bitmasks in trace event are not displayed as hex numbers, but instead as lists: e.g. 0-5,7,9 instead of 0000015f - New show_event_filters file in tracefs Instead of having to search all events/*/*/filter for any active filters enabled in the trace instance, the file show_event_filters will list them so that there's only one file that needs to be examined to see if any filters are active. - New show_event_triggers file in tracefs Instead of having to search all events/*/*/trigger for any active triggers enabled in the trace instance, the file show_event_triggers will list them so that there's only one file that needs to be examined to see if any triggers are active. - Have traceoff_on_warning disable trace pintk buffer too Recently recording of trace_printk() could go to other trace instances instead of the top level instance. But if traceoff_on_warning triggers, it doesn't stop the buffer with trace_printk() and that data can easily be lost by being overwritten. Have traceoff_on_warning also disable the instance that has trace_printk() being written to it. - Update the hist_debug file to show what function the field uses When CONFIG_HIST_TRIGGERS_DEBUG is enabled, a hist_debug file exists for every event. This displays the internal data of any histogram enabled for that event. But it is lacking the function that is called to process one of its fields. This is very useful information that was missing when debugging histograms. - Up the histogram stack size from 16 to 31 Stack traces can be used as keys for event histograms. Currently the size of the stack that is stored is limited to just 16 entries. But the storage space in the histogram is 256 bytes, meaning that it can store up to 31 entries (plus one for the count of entries). Instead of letting that space go to waste, up the limit from 16 to 31. This makes the keys much more useful. - Fix permissions of per CPU file buffer_size_kb The per CPU file of buffer_size_kb was incorrectly set to read only in a previous cleanup. It should be writable. - Reset "last_boot_info" if the persistent buffer is cleared The last_boot_info shows address information of a persistent ring buffer if it contains data from a previous boot. It is cleared when recording starts again, but it is not cleared when the buffer is reset. The data is useless after a reset so clear it on reset too. Internal changes: - A change was made to allow tracepoint callbacks to have preemption enabled, and instead be protected by SRCU. This required some updates to the callbacks for perf and BPF. perf needed to disable preemption directly in its callback because it expects preemption disabled in the later code. BPF needed to disable migration, as its code expects to run completely on the same CPU. - Have irq_work wake up other CPU if current CPU is "isolated" When there's a waiter waiting on ring buffer data and a new event happens, an irq work is triggered to wake up that waiter. This is noisy on isolated CPUs (running NO_HZ_FULL). Trigger an IPI to a house keeping CPU instead. - Use proper free of trigger_data instead of open coding it in. - Remove redundant call of event_trigger_reset_filter() It was called immediately in a function that was called right after it. - Workqueue cleanups - Report errors if tracing_update_buffers() were to fail. - Make the enum update workqueue generic for other parts of tracing On boot up, a work queue is created to convert enum names into their numbers in the trace event format files. This work queue can also be used for other aspects of tracing that takes some time and shouldn't be called by the init call code. The blk_trace initialization takes a bit of time. Have the initialization code moved to the new tracing generic work queue function. - Skip kprobe boot event creation call if there's no kprobes defined on cmdline The kprobe initialization to set up kprobes if they are defined on the cmdline requires taking the event_mutex lock. This can be held by other tracing code doing initialization for a long time. Since kprobes added to the kernel command line need to be setup immediately, as they may be tracing early initialization code, they cannot be postponed in a work queue and must be setup in the initcall code. If there's no kprobe on the kernel cmdline, there's no reason to take the mutex and slow down the boot up code waiting to get the lock only to find out there's nothing to do. Simply exit out early if there's no kprobes on the kernel cmdline. If there are kprobes on the cmdline, then someone cares more about tracing over the speed of boot up. - Clean up the trigger code a bit - Move code out of trace.c and into their own files trace.c is now over 11,000 lines of code and has become more difficult to maintain. Start splitting it up so that related code is in their own files. Move all the trace_printk() related code into trace_printk.c. Move the __always_inline stack functions into trace.h. Move the pid filtering code into a new trace_pid.c file. - Better define the max latency and snapshot code The latency tracers have a "max latency" buffer that is a copy of the main buffer and gets swapped with it when a new high latency is detected. This keeps the trace up to the highest latency around where this max_latency buffer is never written to. It is only used to save the last max latency trace. A while ago a snapshot feature was added to tracefs to allow user space to perform the same logic. It could also enable events to trigger a "snapshot" if one of their fields hit a new high. This was built on top of the latency max_latency buffer logic. Because snapshots came later, they were dependent on the latency tracers to be enabled. In reality, the latency tracers depend on the snapshot code and not the other way around. It was just that they came first. Restructure the code and the kconfigs to have the latency tracers depend on snapshot code instead. This actually simplifies the logic a bit and allows to disable more when the latency tracers are not defined and the snapshot code is. - Fix a "false sharing" in the hwlat tracer code The loop to search for latency in hardware was using a variable that could be changed by user space for each sample. If the user change this variable, it could cause a bus contention, and reading that variable can show up as a large latency in the trace causing a false positive. Read this variable at the start of the sample with a READ_ONCE() into a local variable and keep the code from sharing cache lines with readers. - Fix function graph tracer static branch optimization code When only one tracer is defined for function graph tracing, it uses a static branch to call that tracer directly. When another tracer is added, it goes into loop logic to call all the registered callbacks. The code was incorrect when going back to one tracer and never re-enabled the static branch again to do the optimization code. - And other small fixes and cleanups" * tag 'trace-v7.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: (46 commits) function_graph: Restore direct mode when callbacks drop to one tracing: Fix indentation of return statement in print_trace_fmt() tracing: Reset last_boot_info if ring buffer is reset tracing: Fix to set write permission to per-cpu buffer_size_kb tracing: Fix false sharing in hwlat get_sample() tracing: Move d_max_latency out of CONFIG_FSNOTIFY protection tracing: Better separate SNAPSHOT and MAX_TRACE options tracing: Add tracer_uses_snapshot() helper to remove #ifdefs tracing: Rename trace_array field max_buffer to snapshot_buffer tracing: Move pid filtering into trace_pid.c tracing: Move trace_printk functions out of trace.c and into trace_printk.c tracing: Use system_state in trace_printk_init_buffers() tracing: Have trace_printk functions use flags instead of using global_trace tracing: Make tracing_update_buffers() take NULL for global_trace tracing: Make printk_trace global for tracing system tracing: Move ftrace_trace_stack() out of trace.c and into trace.h tracing: Move __trace_buffer_{un}lock_*() functions to trace.h tracing: Make tracing_selftest_running global to the tracing subsystem tracing: Make tracing_disabled global for tracing system tracing: Clean up use of trace_create_maxlat_file() ...
2026-02-12Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2026-02-12-10-48' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-1/+1
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton: - "ocfs2: give ocfs2 the ability to reclaim suballocator free bg" saves disk space by teaching ocfs2 to reclaim suballocator block group space (Heming Zhao) - "Add ARRAY_END(), and use it to fix off-by-one bugs" adds the ARRAY_END() macro and uses it in various places (Alejandro Colomar) - "vmcoreinfo: support VMCOREINFO_BYTES larger than PAGE_SIZE" makes the vmcore code future-safe, if VMCOREINFO_BYTES ever exceeds the page size (Pnina Feder) - "kallsyms: Prevent invalid access when showing module buildid" cleans up kallsyms code related to module buildid and fixes an invalid access crash when printing backtraces (Petr Mladek) - "Address page fault in ima_restore_measurement_list()" fixes a kexec-related crash that can occur when booting the second-stage kernel on x86 (Harshit Mogalapalli) - "kho: ABI headers and Documentation updates" updates the kexec handover ABI documentation (Mike Rapoport) - "Align atomic storage" adds the __aligned attribute to atomic_t and atomic64_t definitions to get natural alignment of both types on csky, m68k, microblaze, nios2, openrisc and sh (Finn Thain) - "kho: clean up page initialization logic" simplifies the page initialization logic in kho_restore_page() (Pratyush Yadav) - "Unload linux/kernel.h" moves several things out of kernel.h and into more appropriate places (Yury Norov) - "don't abuse task_struct.group_leader" removes the usage of ->group_leader when it is "obviously unnecessary" (Oleg Nesterov) - "list private v2 & luo flb" adds some infrastructure improvements to the live update orchestrator (Pasha Tatashin) * tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2026-02-12-10-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (107 commits) watchdog/hardlockup: simplify perf event probe and remove per-cpu dependency procfs: fix missing RCU protection when reading real_parent in do_task_stat() watchdog/softlockup: fix sample ring index wrap in need_counting_irqs() kcsan, compiler_types: avoid duplicate type issues in BPF Type Format kho: fix doc for kho_restore_pages() tests/liveupdate: add in-kernel liveupdate test liveupdate: luo_flb: introduce File-Lifecycle-Bound global state liveupdate: luo_file: Use private list list: add kunit test for private list primitives list: add primitives for private list manipulations delayacct: fix uapi timespec64 definition panic: add panic_force_cpu= parameter to redirect panic to a specific CPU netclassid: use thread_group_leader(p) in update_classid_task() RDMA/umem: don't abuse current->group_leader drm/pan*: don't abuse current->group_leader drm/amd: kill the outdated "Only the pthreads threading model is supported" checks drm/amdgpu: don't abuse current->group_leader android/binder: use same_thread_group(proc->tsk, current) in binder_mmap() android/binder: don't abuse current->group_leader kho: skip memoryless NUMA nodes when reserving scratch areas ...
2026-02-09tracing: Move d_max_latency out of CONFIG_FSNOTIFY protectionSteven Rostedt1-1/+1
The tracing_max_latency shouldn't be limited if CONFIG_FSNOTIFY is defined or not and it was moved out of that protection to be always available with CONFIG_TRACER_MAX_TRACE. All was moved out except the dentry descriptor for it (d_max_latency) and it failed to build on some configs. Move that out of the CONFIG_FSNOTIFY protection too. Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260209194631.788bfc85@fedora Fixes: ba73713da50e ("tracing: Clean up use of trace_create_maxlat_file()") Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202602092133.fTdojd95-lkp@intel.com/ Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-02-08tracing: Better separate SNAPSHOT and MAX_TRACE optionsSteven Rostedt1-8/+11
The latency tracers (scheduler, irqsoff, etc) were created when tracing was first added. These tracers required a "snapshot" buffer that was the same size as the ring buffer being written to. When a new max latency was hit, the main ring buffer would swap with the snapshot buffer so that the trace leading up to the latency would be saved in the snapshot buffer (The snapshot buffer is never written to directly and the data within it can be viewed without fear of being overwritten). Later, a new feature was added to allow snapshots to be taken by user space or even event triggers. This created a "snapshot" file that allowed users to trigger a snapshot from user space to save the current trace. The config for this new feature (CONFIG_TRACER_SNAPSHOT) would select the latency tracer config (CONFIG_TRACER_MAX_LATENCY) as it would need all the functionality from it as it already existed. But this was incorrect. As the snapshot feature is really what the latency tracers need and not the other way around. Have CONFIG_TRACER_MAX_TRACE select CONFIG_TRACER_SNAPSHOT where the tracers that needs the max latency buffer selects the TRACE_MAX_TRACE which will then select TRACER_SNAPSHOT. Also, go through trace.c and trace.h and make the code that only needs the TRACER_MAX_TRACE protected by that and the code that always requires the snapshot to be protected by TRACER_SNAPSHOT. Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260208183856.767870992@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-02-08tracing: Add tracer_uses_snapshot() helper to remove #ifdefsSteven Rostedt1-0/+12
Instead of having #ifdef CONFIG_TRACER_MAX_TRACE around every access to the struct tracer's use_max_tr field, add a helper function for that access and if CONFIG_TRACER_MAX_TRACE is not configured it just returns false. Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260208183856.599390238@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-02-08tracing: Rename trace_array field max_buffer to snapshot_bufferSteven Rostedt1-6/+7
When tracing was first added, there were latency tracers that would take a snapshot of the current trace when a new max latency was hit. This snapshot buffer was called "max_buffer". Since then, a snapshot feature was added that allowed user space or event triggers to trigger a snapshot of the current buffer using the same max_buffer of the trace_array. As this snapshot buffer now has a more generic use case, calling it "max_buffer" is confusing. Rename it to snapshot_buffer. Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260208183856.428446729@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-02-08tracing: Move trace_printk functions out of trace.c and into trace_printk.cSteven Rostedt1-0/+1
The file trace.c has become a catchall for most things tracing. Start making it smaller by breaking out various aspects into their own files. Move the functions associated to the trace_printk operations out of trace.c and into trace_printk.c. Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260208032450.828744197@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-02-08tracing: Make printk_trace global for tracing systemSteven Rostedt1-0/+2
The printk_trace is used to determine which trace_array trace_printk() writes to. By making it a global variable among the tracing subsystem it will allow the trace_printk functions to be moved out of trace.c and still have direct access to that variable. Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260208032450.144525891@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-02-08tracing: Move ftrace_trace_stack() out of trace.c and into trace.hSteven Rostedt1-0/+31
The file trace.c has become a catchall for most things tracing. Start making it smaller by breaking out various aspects into their own files. Make ftrace_trace_stack() into a static inline that tests if stack tracing is enabled and if so to call __ftrace_trace_stack() to do the stack trace. This keeps the test inlined in the fast paths and only does the function call if stack tracing is enabled. Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260208032449.974218132@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-02-08tracing: Move __trace_buffer_{un}lock_*() functions to trace.hSteven Rostedt1-0/+41
The file trace.c has become a catchall for most things tracing. Start making it smaller by breaking out various aspects into their own files. Move the __always_inline functions __trace_buffer_lock_reserve(), __trace_buffer_unlock_commit() and trace_event_setup() into trace.h. The trace.c file will be split up and these functions will be used in more than one of these files. As they are already __always_inline they can easily be moved into the trace.h header file. Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260208032449.813550600@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-02-08tracing: Make tracing_selftest_running global to the tracing subsystemSteven Rostedt1-0/+2
The file trace.c has become a catchall for most things tracing. Start making it smaller by breaking out various aspects into their own files. Make the variable tracing_selftest_running global so that it can be used by other files in the tracing subsystem and trace.c can be split up. Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260208032449.648932796@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-02-08tracing: Make tracing_disabled global for tracing systemSteven Rostedt1-1/+2
The tracing_disabled variable is set to one on boot up to prevent some parts of tracing to access the tracing infrastructure before it is set up. It also can be set after boot if an anomaly is discovered. It is currently a static variable in trace.c and can be accessed via a function call trace_is_disabled(). There's really no reason to use a function call as the tracing subsystem should be able to access it directly. By making the variable accessed directly, code can be moved out of trace.c without adding overhead of a function call to see if tracing is disabled or not. Make tracing_disabled global and remove the tracing_is_disabled() helper function. Also add some "unlikely()"s around tracing_disabled where it's checked in hot paths. Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260208032449.483690153@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-02-08tracing: Move tracing_set_filter_buffering() into trace_events_hist.cSteven Rostedt1-1/+0
The function tracing_set_filter_buffering() is only used in trace_events_hist.c. Move it to that file and make it static. Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260206195936.617080218@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-02-06tracing: Rename `eval_map_wq` and allow other parts of tracing use itYaxiong Tian1-0/+1
The eval_map_work_func() function, though queued in eval_map_wq, holds the trace_event_sem read-write lock for a long time during kernel boot. This causes blocking issues for other functions. Rename eval_map_wq to trace_init_wq and make it global, thereby allowing other parts of tracing to schedule work on this queue asynchronously and avoiding blockage of the main boot thread. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260204015344.162818-1-tianyaxiong@kylinos.cn Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Yaxiong Tian <tianyaxiong@kylinos.cn> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-02-05tracing: Fix ftrace event field alignmentsSteven Rostedt1-2/+5
The fields of ftrace specific events (events used to save ftrace internal events like function traces and trace_printk) are generated similarly to how normal trace event fields are generated. That is, the fields are added to a trace_events_fields array that saves the name, offset, size, alignment and signness of the field. It is used to produce the output in the format file in tracefs so that tooling knows how to parse the binary data of the trace events. The issue is that some of the ftrace event structures are packed. The function graph exit event structures are one of them. The 64 bit calltime and rettime fields end up 4 byte aligned, but the algorithm to show to userspace shows them as 8 byte aligned. The macros that create the ftrace events has one for embedded structure fields. There's two macros for theses fields: __field_desc() and __field_packed() The difference of the latter macro is that it treats the field as packed. Rename that field to __field_desc_packed() and create replace the __field_packed() to be a normal field that is packed and have the calltime and rettime use those. This showed up on 32bit architectures for function graph time fields. It had: ~# cat /sys/kernel/tracing/events/ftrace/funcgraph_exit/format [..] field:unsigned long func; offset:8; size:4; signed:0; field:unsigned int depth; offset:12; size:4; signed:0; field:unsigned int overrun; offset:16; size:4; signed:0; field:unsigned long long calltime; offset:24; size:8; signed:0; field:unsigned long long rettime; offset:32; size:8; signed:0; Notice that overrun is at offset 16 with size 4, where in the structure calltime is at offset 20 (16 + 4), but it shows the offset at 24. That's because it used the alignment of unsigned long long when used as a declaration and not as a member of a structure where it would be aligned by word size (in this case 4). By using the proper structure alignment, the format has it at the correct offset: ~# cat /sys/kernel/tracing/events/ftrace/funcgraph_exit/format [..] field:unsigned long func; offset:8; size:4; signed:0; field:unsigned int depth; offset:12; size:4; signed:0; field:unsigned int overrun; offset:16; size:4; signed:0; field:unsigned long long calltime; offset:20; size:8; signed:0; field:unsigned long long rettime; offset:28; size:8; signed:0; Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org> Reported-by: "jempty.liang" <imntjempty@163.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260204113628.53faec78@gandalf.local.home Fixes: 04ae87a52074e ("ftrace: Rework event_create_dir()") Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260130015740.212343-1-imntjempty@163.com/ Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260202123342.2544795-1-imntjempty@163.com/ Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-01-31tracing: remove size parameter in __trace_puts()Steven Rostedt1-1/+1
The __trace_puts() function takes a string pointer and the size of the string itself. All users currently simply pass in the strlen() of the string it is also passing in. There's no reason to pass in the size. Instead have the __trace_puts() function do the strlen() within the function itself. This fixes a header recursion issue where using strlen() in the macro calling __trace_puts() requires adding #include <linux/string.h> in order to use strlen(). Removing the use of strlen() from the header fixes the recursion issue. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/aUN8Hm377C5A0ILX@yury/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260116042510.241009-6-ynorov@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Yury Norov <ynorov@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com> Cc: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com> Cc: Andi Shyti <andi.shyti@linux.intel.com> Cc: Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP) <chleroy@kernel.org> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com> Cc: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-01-28tracing: Up the hist stacktrace size from 16 to 31Steven Rostedt1-1/+1
Recording stacktraces is very useful, but the size of 16 deep is very restrictive. For example, in seeing where tasks schedule out in a non running state, the following can be used: ~# cd /sys/kernel/tracing ~# echo 'hist:keys=common_stacktrace:vals=hitcount if prev_state & 3' > events/sched/sched_switch/trigger ~# cat events/sched/sched_switch/hist [..] { common_stacktrace: __schedule+0xdc0/0x1860 schedule+0x27/0xd0 schedule_timeout+0xb5/0x100 wait_for_completion+0x8a/0x140 xfs_buf_iowait+0x20/0xd0 [xfs] xfs_buf_read_map+0x103/0x250 [xfs] xfs_trans_read_buf_map+0x161/0x310 [xfs] xfs_btree_read_buf_block+0xa0/0x120 [xfs] xfs_btree_lookup_get_block+0xa3/0x1e0 [xfs] xfs_btree_lookup+0xea/0x530 [xfs] xfs_alloc_fixup_trees+0x72/0x570 [xfs] xfs_alloc_ag_vextent_size+0x67f/0x800 [xfs] xfs_alloc_vextent_iterate_ags.constprop.0+0x52/0x230 [xfs] xfs_alloc_vextent_start_ag+0x9d/0x1b0 [xfs] xfs_bmap_btalloc+0x2af/0x680 [xfs] xfs_bmapi_allocate+0xdb/0x2c0 [xfs] } hitcount: 1 [..] The above stops at 16 functions where knowing more would be useful. As the allocated storage for stacks is the same for strings, and that size is 256 bytes, there is a lot of space not being used for stacktraces. 16 * 8 = 128 Up the size to 31 (it requires the last slot to be zero, so it can't be 32). Also change the BUILD_BUG_ON() to allow the size of the stacktrace storage to be equal to the max size. One slot is used to hold the number of elements in the stack. BUILD_BUG_ON((HIST_STACKTRACE_DEPTH + 1) * sizeof(long) >= STR_VAR_LEN_MAX); Change that from ">=" to just ">", as now they are equal. Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260123105415.2be26bf4@gandalf.local.home Reviewed-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-01-26tracing: Add bitmask-list option for human-readable bitmask displayAaron Tomlin1-0/+1
Add support for displaying bitmasks in human-readable list format (e.g., 0,2-5,7) in addition to the default hexadecimal bitmap representation. This is particularly useful when tracing CPU masks and other large bitmasks where individual bit positions are more meaningful than their hexadecimal encoding. When the "bitmask-list" option is enabled, the printk "%*pbl" format specifier is used to render bitmasks as comma-separated ranges, making trace output easier to interpret for complex CPU configurations and large bitmask values. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251226160724.2246493-2-atomlin@atomlin.com Signed-off-by: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2025-12-05Merge tag 'ftrace-v6.19' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-9/+0
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace Pull ftrace updates from Steven Rostedt: - Fix regression of pid filtering of function graph tracer When the function graph tracer allowed multiple instances of graph tracing using subops, the filtering by pid broke. The ftrace_ops->private that was used for pid filtering wasn't updated on creation. The wrong function entry callback was used when pid filtering was enabled when the function graph tracer started, which meant that the pid filtering wasn't happening. - Remove no longer needed ftrace_trace_task() With PID filtering working via ftrace_pids_enabled() and fgraph_pid_func(), the coarse-grained ftrace_trace_task() check in graph_entry() is obsolete. It was only a fallback for uninitialized op->private (now fixed), and its removal ensures consistent PID filtering with standard function tracing. * tag 'ftrace-v6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: fgraph: Remove coarse PID filtering from graph_entry() fgraph: Check ftrace_pids_enabled on registration for early filtering fgraph: Initialize ftrace_ops->private for function graph ops
2025-11-26fgraph: Remove coarse PID filtering from graph_entry()Shengming Hu1-9/+0
With PID filtering working via ftrace_pids_enabled() and fgraph_pid_func, the coarse-grained ftrace_trace_task() check in graph_entry() is obsolete. It was only a fallback for uninitialized op->private (now fixed), and its removal ensures consistent PID filtering with standard function tracing. Also remove unused ftrace_trace_task() definition from trace.h. Cc: <wang.yaxin@zte.com.cn> Cc: <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: <zhang.run@zte.com.cn> Cc: <yang.yang29@zte.com.cn> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251126173552333XoJZN20143fWbsdTEtWoU@zte.com.cn Signed-off-by: Shengming Hu <hu.shengming@zte.com.cn> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2025-11-26function_graph: Enable funcgraph-args and funcgraph-retaddr to work ↵pengdonglin1-1/+23
simultaneously Currently, the funcgraph-args and funcgraph-retaddr features are mutually exclusive. This patch resolves this limitation by allowing funcgraph-retaddr to have an args array. To verify the change, use perf to trace vfs_write with both options enabled: Before: # perf ftrace -G vfs_write --graph-opts args,retaddr ...... down_read() { /* <-n_tty_write+0xa3/0x540 */ __cond_resched(); /* <-down_read+0x12/0x160 */ preempt_count_add(); /* <-down_read+0x3b/0x160 */ preempt_count_sub(); /* <-down_read+0x8b/0x160 */ } After: # perf ftrace -G vfs_write --graph-opts args,retaddr ...... down_read(sem=0xffff8880100bea78) { /* <-n_tty_write+0xa3/0x540 */ __cond_resched(); /* <-down_read+0x12/0x160 */ preempt_count_add(val=1); /* <-down_read+0x3b/0x160 */ preempt_count_sub(val=1); /* <-down_read+0x8b/0x160 */ } Cc: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Xiaoqin Zhang <zhangxiaoqin@xiaomi.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251125093425.2563849-1-dolinux.peng@gmail.com Signed-off-by: pengdonglin <pengdonglin@xiaomi.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2025-11-26tracing: Add boot-time backup of persistent ring bufferMasami Hiramatsu (Google)1-0/+1
Currently, the persistent ring buffer instance needs to be