linux/kernel/trace/trace.c, branch v6.4

tracing: Only make selftest conditionals affect the global_trace

2023-05-29T01:15:33Z

The tracing_selftest_running and tracing_selftest_disabled variables were to keep trace_printk() and other writes from affecting the tracing selftests, as the tracing selftests would examine the ring buffer to see if it contained what it expected or not. trace_printk() and friends could add to the ring buffer and cause the selftests to fail (and then disable the tracer that was being tested). To keep that from happening, these variables were added and would keep trace_printk() and friends from writing to the ring buffer while the tests were going on. But this was only the top level ring buffer (owned by the global_trace instance). There is no reason to prevent writing into ring buffers of other instances via the trace_array_printk() and friends. For the functions that could be used by other instances, check if the global_trace is the tracer instance that is being written to before deciding to not allow the write. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230528051742.1325503-5-rostedt@goodmis.org Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google)

tracing: Make tracing_selftest_running/delete nops when not used

2023-05-29T01:15:26Z

There's no reason to test the condition variables tracing_selftest_running or tracing_selftest_delete when tracing selftests are not enabled. Make them define 0s when not the selftests are not configured in. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230528051742.1325503-4-rostedt@goodmis.org Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google)

tracing: Have tracer selftests call cond_resched() before running

2023-05-29T01:15:17Z

As there are more and more internal selftests being added to the Linux kernel (KSAN, lockdep, etc) the selftests are taking longer to run when these are enabled. Add a cond_resched() to the calling of do_run_tracer_selftest() to force a schedule if NEED_RESCHED is set, otherwise the soft lockup watchdog may trigger on boot up. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230528051742.1325503-3-rostedt@goodmis.org Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google)

tracing: Move setting of tracing_selftest_running out of register_tracer()

2023-05-29T01:15:04Z

The variables tracing_selftest_running and tracing_selftest_disabled are only used for when CONFIG_FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST is enabled. Make them only visible within the selftest code. The setting of those variables are in the register_tracer() call, and set in a location where they do not need to be. Create a wrapper around run_tracer_selftest() called do_run_tracer_selftest() which sets those variables, and have register_tracer() call that instead. Having those variables only set within the CONFIG_FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST scope gets rid of them (and also the ability to remove testing against them) when the startup tests are not enabled (most cases). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230528051742.1325503-2-rostedt@goodmis.org Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google)

tracing: Rename stacktrace field to common_stacktrace

2023-05-24T03:38:23Z

The histogram and synthetic events can use a pseudo event called "stacktrace" that will create a stacktrace at the time of the event and use it just like it was a normal field. We have other pseudo events such as "common_cpu" and "common_timestamp". To stay consistent with that, convert "stacktrace" to "common_stacktrace". As this was used in older kernels, to keep backward compatibility, this will act just like "common_cpu" did with "cpu". That is, "cpu" will be the same as "common_cpu" unless the event has a "cpu" field. In which case, the event's field is used. The same is true with "stacktrace". Also update the documentation to reflect this change. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230523230913.6860e28d@rorschach.local.home Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Tom Zanussi Cc: Mark Rutland Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google)

Merge tag 'trace-v6.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace

2023-05-05T20:11:02Z

Pull more tracing updates from Steven Rostedt: - Make buffer_percent read/write. The buffer_percent file is how users can state how long to block on the tracing buffer depending on how much is in the buffer. When it hits the "buffer_percent" it will wake the task waiting on the buffer. For some reason it was set to read-only. This was not noticed because testing was done as root without SELinux, but with SELinux it will prevent even root to write to it without having CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE. - The "touched_functions" was added this merge window, but one of the reasons for adding it was not implemented. That was to show what functions were not only touched, but had either a direct trampoline attached to it, or a kprobe or live kernel patching that can "hijack" the function to run a different function. The point is to know if there's functions in the kernel that may not be behaving as the kernel code shows. This can be used for debugging. TODO: Add this information to kernel oops too. * tag 'trace-v6.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: ftrace: Add MODIFIED flag to show if IPMODIFY or direct was attached tracing: Fix permissions for the buffer_percent file

tracing: Fix permissions for the buffer_percent file

2023-05-03T16:45:00Z

This file defines both read and write operations, yet it is being created as read-only. This means that it can't be written to without the CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE capability. Fix the permissions to allow root to write to it without the need to override DAC perms. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230503140114.3280002-1-omosnace@redhat.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Fixes: 03329f993978 ("tracing: Add tracefs file buffer_percentage") Signed-off-by: Ondrej Mosnacek Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google)

Merge tag 'trace-v6.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace

2023-04-28T22:57:53Z

Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt: - User events are finally ready! After lots of collaboration between various parties, we finally locked down on a stable interface for user events that can also work with user space only tracing. This is implemented by telling the kernel (or user space library, but that part is user space only and not part of this patch set), where the variable is that the application uses to know if something is listening to the trace. There's also an interface to tell the kernel about these events, which will show up in the /sys/kernel/tracing/events/user_events/ directory, where it can be enabled. When it's enabled, the kernel will update the variable, to tell the application to start writing to the kernel. See https://lwn.net/Articles/927595/ - Cleaned up the direct trampolines code to simplify arm64 addition of direct trampolines. Direct trampolines use the ftrace interface but instead of jumping to the ftrace trampoline, applications (mostly BPF) can register their own trampoline for performance reasons. - Some updates to the fprobe infrastructure. fprobes are more efficient than kprobes, as it does not need to save all the registers that kprobes on ftrace do. More work needs to be done before the fprobes will be exposed as dynamic events. - More updates to references to the obsolete path of /sys/kernel/debug/tracing for the new /sys/kernel/tracing path. - Add a seq_buf_do_printk() helper to seq_bufs, to print a large buffer line by line instead of all at once. There are users in production kernels that have a large data dump that originally used printk() directly, but the data dump was larger than what printk() allowed as a single print. Using seq_buf() to do the printing fixes that. - Add /sys/kernel/tracing/touched_functions that shows all functions that was every traced by ftrace or a direct trampoline. This is used for debugging issues where a traced function could have caused a crash by a bpf program or live patching. - Add a "fields" option that is similar to "raw" but outputs the fields of the events. It's easier to read by humans. - Some minor fixes and clean ups. * tag 'trace-v6.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: (41 commits) ring-buffer: Sync IRQ works before buffer destruction tracing: Add missing spaces in trace_print_hex_seq() ring-buffer: Ensure proper resetting of atomic variables in ring_buffer_reset_online_cpus recordmcount: Fix memory leaks in the uwrite function tracing/user_events: Limit max fault-in attempts tracing/user_events: Prevent same address and bit per process tracing/user_events: Ensure bit is cleared on unregister tracing/user_events: Ensure write index cannot be negative seq_buf: Add seq_buf_do_printk() helper tracing: Fix print_fields() for __dyn_loc/__rel_loc tracing/user_events: Set event filter_type from type ring-buffer: Clearly check null ptr returned by rb_set_head_page() tracing: Unbreak user events tracing/user_events: Use print_format_fields() for trace output tracing/user_events: Align structs with tabs for readability tracing/user_events: Limit global user_event count tracing/user_events: Charge event allocs to cgroups tracing/user_events: Update documentation for ABI tracing/user_events: Use write ABI in example tracing/user_events: Add ABI self-test ...

tracing: Free error logs of tracing instances

2023-04-05T13:54:37Z

When a tracing instance is removed, the error messages that hold errors that occurred in the instance needs to be freed. The following reports a memory leak: # cd /sys/kernel/tracing # mkdir instances/foo # echo 'hist:keys=x' > instances/foo/events/sched/sched_switch/trigger # cat instances/foo/error_log [ 117.404795] hist:sched:sched_switch: error: Couldn't find field Command: hist:keys=x ^ # rmdir instances/foo Then check for memory leaks: # echo scan > /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak # cat /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak unreferenced object 0xffff88810d8ec700 (size 192): comm "bash", pid 869, jiffies 4294950577 (age 215.752s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 60 dd 68 61 81 88 ff ff 60 dd 68 61 81 88 ff ff `.ha....`.ha.... a0 30 8c 83 ff ff ff ff 26 00 0a 00 00 00 00 00 .0......&....... backtrace: [<00000000dae26536>] kmalloc_trace+0x2a/0xa0 [<00000000b2938940>] tracing_log_err+0x277/0x2e0 [<000000004a0e1b07>] parse_atom+0x966/0xb40 [<0000000023b24337>] parse_expr+0x5f3/0xdb0 [<00000000594ad074>] event_hist_trigger_parse+0x27f8/0x3560 [<00000000293a9645>] trigger_process_regex+0x135/0x1a0 [<000000005c22b4f2>] event_trigger_write+0x87/0xf0 [<000000002cadc509>] vfs_write+0x162/0x670 [<0000000059c3b9be>] ksys_write+0xca/0x170 [<00000000f1cddc00>] do_syscall_64+0x3e/0xc0 [<00000000868ac68c>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc unreferenced object 0xffff888170c35a00 (size 32): comm "bash", pid 869, jiffies 4294950577 (age 215.752s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 0a 20 20 43 6f 6d 6d 61 6e 64 3a 20 68 69 73 74 . Command: hist 3a 6b 65 79 73 3d 78 0a 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 :keys=x......... backtrace: [<000000006a747de5>] __kmalloc+0x4d/0x160 [<000000000039df5f>] tracing_log_err+0x29b/0x2e0 [<000000004a0e1b07>] parse_atom+0x966/0xb40 [<0000000023b24337>] parse_expr+0x5f3/0xdb0 [<00000000594ad074>] event_hist_trigger_parse+0x27f8/0x3560 [<00000000293a9645>] trigger_process_regex+0x135/0x1a0 [<000000005c22b4f2>] event_trigger_write+0x87/0xf0 [<000000002cadc509>] vfs_write+0x162/0x670 [<0000000059c3b9be>] ksys_write+0xca/0x170 [<00000000f1cddc00>] do_syscall_64+0x3e/0xc0 [<00000000868ac68c>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc The problem is that the error log needs to be freed when the instance is removed. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/76134d9f-a5ba-6a0d-37b3-28310b4a1e91@alu.unizg.hr/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230404194504.5790b95f@gandalf.local.home Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Thorsten Leemhuis Cc: Ulf Hansson Cc: Eric Biggers Fixes: 2f754e771b1a6 ("tracing: Have the error logs show up in the proper instances") Reported-by: Mirsad Goran Todorovac Tested-by: Mirsad Todorovac Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google)

tracing: Fix ftrace_boot_snapshot command line logic

2023-04-05T02:29:53Z

The kernel command line ftrace_boot_snapshot by itself is supposed to trigger a snapshot at the end of boot up of the main top level trace buffer. A ftrace_boot_snapshot=foo will do the same for an instance called foo that was created by trace_instance=foo,... The logic was broken where if ftrace_boot_snapshot was by itself, it would trigger a snapshot for all instances that had tracing enabled, regardless if it asked for a snapshot or not. When a snapshot is requested for a buffer, the buffer's tr->allocated_snapshot is set to true. Use that to know if a trace buffer wants a snapshot at boot up or not. Since the top level buffer is part of the ftrace_trace_arrays list, there's no reason to treat it differently than the other buffers. Just iterate the list if ftrace_boot_snapshot was specified. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230405022341.895334039@goodmis.org Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Ross Zwisler Fixes: 9c1c251d670bc ("tracing: Allow boot instances to have snapshot buffers") Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google)