linux/kernel/trace/trace_events.c, branch v5.8

tracing: Add hist_debug trace event files for histogram debugging

2020-06-01T12:22:30Z

Add a new "hist_debug" file for each trace event, which when read will dump out a bunch of internal details about the hist triggers defined on that event. This is normally off but can be enabled by saying 'y' to the new CONFIG_HIST_TRIGGERS_DEBUG config option. This is in support of the new Documentation file describing histogram internals, Documentation/trace/histogram-design.rst, which was requested by developers trying to understand the internals when extending or making use of the hist triggers for higher-level tools. The histogram-design.rst documentation refers to the hist_debug files and demonstrates their use with output in the test examples. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/77914c22b0ba493d9783c53bbfbc6087d6a7e1b1.1585941485.git.zanussi@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

tracing: Create set_event_notrace_pid to not trace tasks

2020-03-27T20:39:02Z

There's currently a way to select a task that should only have its events traced, but there's no way to select a task not to have itsevents traced. Add a set_event_notrace_pid file that acts the same as set_event_pid (and is also affected by event-fork), but the task pids in this file will not be traced even if they are listed in the set_event_pid file. This makes it easy for tools like trace-cmd to "hide" itself from beint traced by events when it is recording other tasks. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

ftrace: Create set_ftrace_notrace_pid to not trace tasks

2020-03-27T20:39:02Z

There's currently a way to select a task that should only be traced by functions, but there's no way to select a task not to be traced by the function tracer. Add a set_ftrace_notrace_pid file that acts the same as set_ftrace_pid (and is also affected by function-fork), but the task pids in this file will not be traced even if they are listed in the set_ftrace_pid file. This makes it easy for tools like trace-cmd to "hide" itself from the function tracer when it is recording other tasks. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

Merge tag 'trace-v5.6-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace

2020-02-06T07:12:11Z

Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt: - Added new "bootconfig". This looks for a file appended to initrd to add boot config options, and has been discussed thoroughly at Linux Plumbers. Very useful for adding kprobes at bootup. Only enabled if "bootconfig" is on the real kernel command line. - Created dynamic event creation. Merges common code between creating synthetic events and kprobe events. - Rename perf "ring_buffer" structure to "perf_buffer" - Rename ftrace "ring_buffer" structure to "trace_buffer" Had to rename existing "trace_buffer" to "array_buffer" - Allow trace_printk() to work withing (some) tracing code. - Sort of tracing configs to be a little better organized - Fixed bug where ftrace_graph hash was not being protected properly - Various other small fixes and clean ups * tag 'trace-v5.6-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (88 commits) bootconfig: Show the number of nodes on boot message tools/bootconfig: Show the number of bootconfig nodes bootconfig: Add more parse error messages bootconfig: Use bootconfig instead of boot config ftrace: Protect ftrace_graph_hash with ftrace_sync ftrace: Add comment to why rcu_dereference_sched() is open coded tracing: Annotate ftrace_graph_notrace_hash pointer with __rcu tracing: Annotate ftrace_graph_hash pointer with __rcu bootconfig: Only load bootconfig if "bootconfig" is on the kernel cmdline tracing: Use seq_buf for building dynevent_cmd string tracing: Remove useless code in dynevent_arg_pair_add() tracing: Remove check_arg() callbacks from dynevent args tracing: Consolidate some synth_event_trace code tracing: Fix now invalid var_ref_vals assumption in trace action tracing: Change trace_boot to use synth_event interface tracing: Move tracing selftests to bottom of menu tracing: Move mmio tracer config up with the other tracers tracing: Move tracing test module configs together tracing: Move all function tracing configs together tracing: Documentation for in-kernel synthetic event API ...

Merge branch 'work.recursive_removal' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs

2020-02-05T05:09:46Z

Pull vfs recursive removal updates from Al Viro: "We have quite a few places where synthetic filesystems do an equivalent of 'rm -rf', with varying amounts of code duplication, wrong locking, etc. That really ought to be a library helper. Only debugfs (and very similar tracefs) are converted here - I have more conversions, but they'd never been in -next, so they'll have to wait" * 'work.recursive_removal' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: simple_recursive_removal(): kernel-side rm -rf for ramfs-style filesystems

tracing: Add trace_get/put_event_file()

2020-01-30T14:46:28Z

Add a function to get an event file and prevent it from going away on module or instance removal. trace_get_event_file() will find an event file in a given instance (if instance is NULL, it assumes the top trace array) and return it, pinning the instance's trace array as well as the event's module, if applicable, so they won't go away while in use. trace_put_event_file() does the matching release. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/bb31ac4bdda168d5ed3c4b5f5a4c8f633e8d9118.1580323897.git.zanussi@kernel.org Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi [ Moved trace_array_put() to end of trace_put_event_file() ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

tracing: kprobes: Output kprobe event to printk buffer

2020-01-13T18:19:40Z

Since kprobe-events use event_trigger_unlock_commit_regs() directly, that events doesn't show up in printk buffer if "tp_printk" is set. Use trace_event_buffer_commit() in kprobe events so that it can invoke output_printk() as same as other trace events. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/157867233085.17873.5210928676787339604.stgit@devnote2 Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu [ Adjusted data var declaration placement in __kretprobe_trace_func() ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

tracing: Make struct ring_buffer less ambiguous

2020-01-13T18:19:38Z

As there's two struct ring_buffers in the kernel, it causes some confusion. The other one being the perf ring buffer. It was agreed upon that as neither of the ring buffers are generic enough to be used globally, they should be renamed as: perf's ring_buffer -> perf_buffer ftrace's ring_buffer -> trace_buffer This implements the changes to the ring buffer that ftrace uses. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191213140531.116b3200@gandalf.local.home Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

tracing: Rename trace_buffer to array_buffer

2020-01-13T18:19:38Z

As we are working to remove the generic "ring_buffer" name that is used by both tracing and perf, the ring_buffer name for tracing will be renamed to trace_buffer, and perf's ring buffer will be renamed to perf_buffer. As there already exists a trace_buffer that is used by the trace_arrays, it needs to be first renamed to array_buffer. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191213153553.GE20583@krava Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

Merge branch 'core/kprobes' into perf/core, to pick up a completed branch

2019-12-25T09:43:08Z

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar