linux.git/kernel/trace/trace_events_user.c, branch v6.19.12

tracing: Fix multiple typos in trace_events_user.c

2025-12-05T20:43:41+00:00

Fix multiple typos in comments:
"ambigious" -> "ambiguous"
"explictly" -> "explicitly"
"Uknown" -> "Unknown"

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251121221835.28032-12-mhi@mailbox.org
Signed-off-by: Maurice Hieronymus 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google)

trace: use override credential guard

2025-11-05T22:11:52+00:00

Use override credential guards for scoped credential override with
automatic restoration on scope exit.

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251103-work-creds-guards-prepare_creds-v1-12-b447b82f2c9b@kernel.org
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) 
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

trace: use prepare credential guard

2025-11-05T22:11:52+00:00

Use the prepare credential guard for allocating a new set of
credentials.

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251103-work-creds-guards-prepare_creds-v1-11-b447b82f2c9b@kernel.org
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) 
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

Merge tag 'trace-v6.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace

2025-10-05T16:43:36+00:00

Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:

 - Use READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE() instead of RCU for syscall
   tracepoints

   Individual system call trace events are pseudo events attached to the
   raw_syscall trace events that just trace the entry and exit of all
   system calls. When any of these individual system call trace events
   get enabled, an element in an array indexed by the system call number
   is assigned to the trace file that defines how to trace it. When the
   trace event triggers, it reads this array and if the array has an
   element, it uses that trace file to know what to write it (the trace
   file defines the output format of the corresponding system call).

   The issue is that it uses rcu_dereference_ptr() and marks the
   elements of the array as using RCU. This is incorrect. There is no
   RCU synchronization here. The event file that is pointed to has a
   completely different way to make sure its freed properly. The reading
   of the array during the system call trace event is only to know if
   there is a value or not. If not, it does nothing (it means this
   system call isn't being traced). If it does, it uses the information
   to store the system call data.

   The RCU usage here can simply be replaced by READ_ONCE() and
   WRITE_ONCE() macros.

 - Have the system call trace events use "0x" for hex values

   Some system call trace events display hex values but do not have "0x"
   in front of it. Seeing "count: 44" can be assumed that it is 44
   decimal when in actuality it is 44 hex (68 decimal). Display "0x44"
   instead.

 - Use vmalloc_array() in tracing_map_sort_entries()

   The function tracing_map_sort_entries() used array_size() and
   vmalloc() when it could have simply used vmalloc_array().

 - Use for_each_online_cpu() in trace_osnoise.c()

   Instead of open coding for_each_cpu(cpu, cpu_online_mask), use
   for_each_online_cpu().

 - Move the buffer field in struct trace_seq to the end

   The buffer field in struct trace_seq is architecture dependent in
   size, and caused padding for the fields after it. By moving the
   buffer to the end of the structure, it compacts the trace_seq
   structure better.

 - Remove redundant zeroing of cmdline_idx field in
   saved_cmdlines_buffer()

   The structure that contains cmdline_idx is zeroed by memset(), no
   need to explicitly zero any of its fields after that.

 - Use system_percpu_wq instead of system_wq in user_event_mm_remove()

   As system_wq is being deprecated, use the new wq.

 - Add cond_resched() is ftrace_module_enable()

   Some modules have a lot of functions (thousands of them), and the
   enabling of those functions can take some time. On non preemtable
   kernels, it was triggering a watchdog timeout. Add a cond_resched()
   to prevent that.

 - Add a BUILD_BUG_ON() to make sure PID_MAX_DEFAULT is always a power
   of 2

   There's code that depends on PID_MAX_DEFAULT being a power of 2 or it
   will break. If in the future that changes, make sure the build fails
   to ensure that the code is fixed that depends on this.

 - Grab mutex_lock() before ever exiting s_start()

   The s_start() function is a seq_file start routine. As s_stop() is
   always called even if s_start() fails, and s_stop() expects the
   event_mutex to be held as it will always release it. That mutex must
   always be taken in s_start() even if that function fails.

* tag 'trace-v6.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
  tracing: Fix lock imbalance in s_start() memory allocation failure path
  tracing: Ensure optimized hashing works
  ftrace: Fix softlockup in ftrace_module_enable
  tracing: replace use of system_wq with system_percpu_wq
  tracing: Remove redundant 0 value initialization
  tracing: Move buffer in trace_seq to end of struct
  tracing/osnoise: Use for_each_online_cpu() instead of for_each_cpu()
  tracing: Use vmalloc_array() to improve code
  tracing: Have syscall trace events show "0x" for values greater than 10
  tracing: Replace syscall RCU pointer assignment with READ/WRITE_ONCE()

tracing: replace use of system_wq with system_percpu_wq

2025-09-23T14:44:54+00:00

Currently if a user enqueue a work item using schedule_delayed_work() the
used wq is "system_wq" (per-cpu wq) while queue_delayed_work() use
WORK_CPU_UNBOUND (used when a cpu is not specified). The same applies to
schedule_work() that is using system_wq and queue_work(), that makes use
again of WORK_CPU_UNBOUND.

This lack of consistentcy cannot be addressed without refactoring the API.

system_wq is a per-CPU worqueue, yet nothing in its name tells about that
CPU affinity constraint, which is very often not required by users. Make
it clear by adding a system_percpu_wq.

queue_work() / queue_delayed_work() mod_delayed_work() will now use the
new per-cpu wq: whether the user still stick on the old name a warn will
be printed along a wq redirect to the new one.

This patch add the new system_percpu_wq except for mm, fs and net
subsystem, whom are handled in separated patches.

The old wq will be kept for a few release cylces.

Cc: Lai Jiangshan 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250905091040.109772-2-marco.crivellari@suse.com
Suggested-by: Tejun Heo 
Signed-off-by: Marco Crivellari 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google)

trace: Remove redundant __GFP_NOWARN

2025-09-02T15:48:16+00:00

Commit 16f5dfbc851b ("gfp: include __GFP_NOWARN in GFP_NOWAIT")
made GFP_NOWAIT implicitly include __GFP_NOWARN.

Therefore, explicit __GFP_NOWARN combined with GFP_NOWAIT
(e.g., `GFP_NOWAIT | __GFP_NOWARN`) is now redundant. Let's clean
up these redundant flags across subsystems.

No functional changes.

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu 
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250805023630.335719-1-rongqianfeng@vivo.com
Signed-off-by: Qianfeng Rong 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google)

tracing/user_events: Slightly simplify user_seq_show()

2025-03-06T18:35:27+00:00

2 seq_puts() calls can be merged.

It saves a few lines of code and a few cycles, should it matter.

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu 
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/845caa94b74cea8d72c158bf1994fe250beee28c.1739979791.git.christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr
Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google)

tracing/user_events: Don't use %pK through printk

2025-03-06T18:35:26+00:00

Restricted pointers ("%pK") are not meant to be used through printk().
It can unintentionally expose security sensitive, raw pointer values.

Use regular pointer formatting instead.

Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250217-restricted-pointers-trace-v1-1-bbe9ea279848@linutronix.de
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250113171731-dc10e3c1-da64-4af0-b767-7c7070468023@linutronix.de/
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh 
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google)

treewide: const qualify ctl_tables where applicable

2025-01-28T12:48:37+00:00

Add the const qualifier to all the ctl_tables in the tree except for
watchdog_hardlockup_sysctl, memory_allocation_profiling_sysctls,
loadpin_sysctl_table and the ones calling register_net_sysctl (./net,
drivers/inifiniband dirs). These are special cases as they use a
registration function with a non-const qualified ctl_table argument or
modify the arrays before passing them on to the registration function.

Constifying ctl_table structs will prevent the modification of
proc_handler function pointers as the arrays would reside in .rodata.
This is made possible after commit 78eb4ea25cd5 ("sysctl: treewide:
constify the ctl_table argument of proc_handlers") constified all the
proc_handlers.

Created this by running an spatch followed by a sed command:
Spatch:
    virtual patch

    @
    depends on !(file in "net")
    disable optional_qualifier
    @

    identifier table_name != {
      watchdog_hardlockup_sysctl,
      iwcm_ctl_table,
      ucma_ctl_table,
      memory_allocation_profiling_sysctls,
      loadpin_sysctl_table
    };
    @@

    + const
    struct ctl_table table_name [] = { ... };

sed:
    sed --in-place \
      -e "s/struct ctl_table .table = &uts_kern/const struct ctl_table *table = \&uts_kern/" \
      kernel/utsname_sysctl.c

Reviewed-by: Song Liu 
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (Google)  # for kernel/trace/
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen  # SCSI
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong  # xfs
Acked-by: Jani Nikula 
Acked-by: Corey Minyard 
Acked-by: Wei Liu 
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Reviewed-by: Bill O'Donnell 
Acked-by: Baoquan He 
Acked-by: Ashutosh Dixit 
Acked-by: Anna Schumaker 
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados

tracepoints: Use new static branch API

2024-10-09T01:17:39+00:00

The old static key API is deprecated.  Switch to the new one.

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu 
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers 
Cc: Alice Ryhl 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/7a08dae3c5eddb14b13864923c1b58ac1f4af83c.1728414936.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google)