linux/kernel/trace/ftrace.c, branch v5.15

ftrace: Fix kernel-doc formatting issues

2021-10-29T13:52:23Z

Some functions had kernel-doc that used a comma instead of a hash to separate the function name from the one line description. Also, the "ftrace_is_dead()" had an incomplete description. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

tracing: Have all levels of checks prevent recursion

2021-10-18T22:12:09Z

While writing an email explaining the "bit = 0" logic for a discussion on making ftrace_test_recursion_trylock() disable preemption, I discovered a path that makes the "not do the logic if bit is zero" unsafe. The recursion logic is done in hot paths like the function tracer. Thus, any code executed causes noticeable overhead. Thus, tricks are done to try to limit the amount of code executed. This included the recursion testing logic. Having recursion testing is important, as there are many paths that can end up in an infinite recursion cycle when tracing every function in the kernel. Thus protection is needed to prevent that from happening. Because it is OK to recurse due to different running context levels (e.g. an interrupt preempts a trace, and then a trace occurs in the interrupt handler), a set of bits are used to know which context one is in (normal, softirq, irq and NMI). If a recursion occurs in the same level, it is prevented*. Then there are infrastructure levels of recursion as well. When more than one callback is attached to the same function to trace, it calls a loop function to iterate over all the callbacks. Both the callbacks and the loop function have recursion protection. The callbacks use the "ftrace_test_recursion_trylock()" which has a "function" set of context bits to test, and the loop function calls the internal trace_test_and_set_recursion() directly, with an "internal" set of bits. If an architecture does not implement all the features supported by ftrace then the callbacks are never called directly, and the loop function is called instead, which will implement the features of ftrace. Since both the loop function and the callbacks do recursion protection, it was seemed unnecessary to do it in both locations. Thus, a trick was made to have the internal set of recursion bits at a more significant bit location than the function bits. Then, if any of the higher bits were set, the logic of the function bits could be skipped, as any new recursion would first have to go through the loop function. This is true for architectures that do not support all the ftrace features, because all functions being traced must first go through the loop function before going to the callbacks. But this is not true for architectures that support all the ftrace features. That's because the loop function could be called due to two callbacks attached to the same function, but then a recursion function inside the callback could be called that does not share any other callback, and it will be called directly. i.e. traced_function_1: [ more than one callback tracing it ] call loop_func loop_func: trace_recursion set internal bit call callback callback: trace_recursion [ skipped because internal bit is set, return 0 ] call traced_function_2 traced_function_2: [ only traced by above callback ] call callback callback: trace_recursion [ skipped because internal bit is set, return 0 ] call traced_function_2 [ wash, rinse, repeat, BOOM! out of shampoo! ] Thus, the "bit == 0 skip" trick is not safe, unless the loop function is call for all functions. Since we want to encourage architectures to implement all ftrace features, having them slow down due to this extra logic may encourage the maintainers to update to the latest ftrace features. And because this logic is only safe for them, remove it completely. [*] There is on layer of recursion that is allowed, and that is to allow for the transition between interrupt context (normal -> softirq -> irq -> NMI), because a trace may occur before the context update is visible to the trace recursion logic. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/609b565a-ed6e-a1da-f025-166691b5d994@linux.alibaba.com/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211018154412.09fcad3c@gandalf.local.home Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Petr Mladek Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" Cc: Helge Deller Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Paul Walmsley Cc: Palmer Dabbelt Cc: Albert Ou Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Josh Poimboeuf Cc: Jiri Kosina Cc: Miroslav Benes Cc: Joe Lawrence Cc: Colin Ian King Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" Cc: Nicholas Piggin Cc: Jisheng Zhang Cc: =?utf-8?b?546L6LSH?= Cc: Guo Ren Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: edc15cafcbfa3 ("tracing: Avoid unnecessary multiple recursion checks") Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

ftrace: Introduce ftrace_need_init_nop()

2021-08-03T12:31:40Z

Implementing live patching on s390 requires each function's prologue to contain a very special kind of nop, which gcc and clang don't generate. However, the current code assumes that if CC_USING_NOP_MCOUNT is defined, then whatever the compiler generates is good enough. Move the CC_USING_NOP_MCOUNT check into the new ftrace_need_init_nop() macro, that the architectures can override. An alternative solution is to disable using -mnop-mcount in the Makefile, however, this makes the build logic (even) more complicated and forces the arch-specific code to deal with the useless __fentry__ symbol. Signed-off-by: Ilya Leoshkevich Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210728212546.128248-2-iii@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens

ftrace: Remove redundant initialization of variable ret

2021-07-23T12:46:02Z

The variable ret is being initialized with a value that is never read, it is being updated later on. The assignment is redundant and can be removed. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210721120915.122278-1-colin.king@canonical.com Addresses-Coverity: ("Unused value") Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

ftrace: Avoid synchronize_rcu_tasks_rude() call when not necessary

2021-07-23T12:45:53Z

synchronize_rcu_tasks_rude() triggers IPIs and forces rescheduling on all CPUs. It is a costly operation and, when targeting nohz_full CPUs, very disrupting (hence the name). So avoid calling it when 'old_hash' doesn't need to be freed. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210721114726.1545103-1-nsaenzju@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

ftrace: Use list_move instead of list_del/list_add

2021-07-08T17:02:58Z

Using list_move() instead of list_del() + list_add(). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210608031108.2820996-1-libaokun1@huawei.com Reported-by: Hulk Robot Signed-off-by: Baokun Li Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

ftrace: Do not blindly read the ip address in ftrace_bug()

2021-06-08T20:44:00Z

It was reported that a bug on arm64 caused a bad ip address to be used for updating into a nop in ftrace_init(), but the error path (rightfully) returned -EINVAL and not -EFAULT, as the bug caused more than one error to occur. But because -EINVAL was returned, the ftrace_bug() tried to report what was at the location of the ip address, and read it directly. This caused the machine to panic, as the ip was not pointing to a valid memory address. Instead, read the ip address with copy_from_kernel_nofault() to safely access the memory, and if it faults, report that the address faulted, otherwise report what was in that location. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210607032329.28671-1-mark-pk.tsai@mediatek.com/ Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 05736a427f7e1 ("ftrace: warn on failure to disable mcount callers") Reported-by: Mark-PK Tsai Tested-by: Mark-PK Tsai Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

Merge tag 'trace-v5.13-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace

2021-05-06T17:03:38Z

Pull tracing fix from Steven Rostedt: "Fix probes written to the set_ftrace_filter file Now that there's a library that accesses the tracefs file system (libtracefs), the way the files are interacted with is slightly different than the command line. For instance, the write() system call is used directly instead of an echo. This exposes some old bugs. If a probe is written to "set_ftrace_filter" without any white space after it, it will be ignored. This is because the write expects that a string written to it that does not end with white spaces thinks there is more to come. But if the file is closed, the release function needs to finish it. The "set_ftrace_filter" release function handles the filter part of the "set_ftrace_filter" file, but did not handle the probe part" * tag 'trace-v5.13-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: ftrace: Handle commands when closing set_ftrace_filter file

ftrace: Handle commands when closing set_ftrace_filter file

2021-05-05T14:38:24Z

# echo switch_mm:traceoff > /sys/kernel/tracing/set_ftrace_filter will cause switch_mm to stop tracing by the traceoff command. # echo -n switch_mm:traceoff > /sys/kernel/tracing/set_ftrace_filter does nothing. The reason is that the parsing in the write function only processes commands if it finished parsing (there is white space written after the command). That's to handle: write(fd, "switch_mm:", 10); write(fd, "traceoff", 8); cases, where the command is broken over multiple writes. The problem is if the file descriptor is closed, then the write call is not processed, and the command needs to be processed in the release code. The release code can handle matching of functions, but does not handle commands. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: eda1e32855656 ("tracing: handle broken names in ftrace filter") Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

Merge tag 'trace-v5.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace

2021-05-03T18:19:54Z

Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt: "New feature: - A new "func-no-repeats" option in tracefs/options directory. When set the function tracer will detect if the current function being traced is the same as the previous one, and instead of recording it, it will keep track of the number of times that the function is repeated in a row. And when another function is recorded, it will write a new event that shows the function that repeated, the number of times it repeated and the time stamp of when the last repeated function occurred. Enhancements: - In order to implement the above "func-no-repeats" option, the ring buffer timestamp can now give the accurate timestamp of the event as it is being recorded, instead of having to record an absolute timestamp for all events. This helps the histogram code which no longer needs to waste ring buffer space. - New validation logic to make sure all trace events that access dereferenced pointers do so in a safe way, and will warn otherwise. Fixes: - No longer limit the PIDs of tasks that are recorded for "saved_cmdlines" to PID_MAX_DEFAULT (32768), as systemd now allows for a much larger range. This caused the mapping of PIDs to the task names to be dropped for all tasks with a PID greater than 32768. - Change trace_clock_global() to never block. This caused a deadlock. Clean ups: - Typos, prototype fixes, and removing of duplicate or unused code. - Better management of ftrace_page allocations" * tag 'trace-v5.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (32 commits) tracing: Restructure trace_clock_global() to never block tracing: Map all PIDs to command lines ftrace: Reuse the output of the function tracer for func_repeats tracing: Add "func_no_repeats" option for function tracing tracing: Unify the logic for function tracing options tracing: Add method for recording "func_repeats" events tracing: Add "last_func_repeats" to struct trace_array tracing: Define new ftrace event "func_repeats" tracing: Define static void trace_print_time() ftrace: Simplify the calculation of page number for ftrace_page->records some more ftrace: Store the order of pages allocated in ftrace_page tracing: Remove unused argument from "ring_buffer_time_stamp() tracing: Remove duplicate struct declaration in trace_events.h tracing: Update create_system_filter() kernel-doc comment tracing: A minor cleanup for create_system_filter() kernel: trace: Mundane typo fixes in the file trace_events_filter.c tracing: Fix various typos in comments scripts/recordmcount.pl: Make vim and emacs indent the same scripts/recordmcount.pl: Make indent spacing consistent tracing: Add a verifier to check string pointers for trace events ...