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<title>linux/kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c, branch v3.19</title>
<subtitle>Mirror of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'trace-3.19-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2014-12-16T20:53:59Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-16T20:53:59Z</published>
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Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
 "As the merge window is still open, and this code was not as complex as
  I thought it might be.  I'm pushing this in now.

  This will allow Thomas to debug his irq work for 3.20.

  This adds two new features:

  1) Allow traceopoints to be enabled right after mm_init().

     By passing in the trace_event= kernel command line parameter,
     tracepoints can be enabled at boot up.  For debugging things like
     the initialization of interrupts, it is needed to have tracepoints
     enabled very early.  People have asked about this before and this
     has been on my todo list.  As it can be helpful for Thomas to debug
     his upcoming 3.20 IRQ work, I'm pushing this now.  This way he can
     add tracepoints into the IRQ set up and have users enable them when
     things go wrong.

  2) Have the tracepoints printed via printk() (the console) when they
     are triggered.

     If the irq code locks up or reboots the box, having the tracepoint
     output go into the kernel ring buffer is useless for debugging.
     But being able to add the tp_printk kernel command line option
     along with the trace_event= option will have these tracepoints
     printed as they occur, and that can be really useful for debugging
     early lock up or reboot problems.

  This code is not that intrusive and it passed all my tests.  Thomas
  tried them out too and it works for his needs.

   Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141214201609.126831471@goodmis.org"

* tag 'trace-3.19-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
  tracing: Add tp_printk cmdline to have tracepoints go to printk()
  tracing: Move enabling tracepoints to just after rcu_init()
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<entry>
<title>tracing: Move enabling tracepoints to just after rcu_init()</title>
<updated>2014-12-15T15:16:50Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-13T01:05:10Z</published>
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Enabling tracepoints at boot up can be very useful. The tracepoint
can be initialized right after RCU has been. There's no need to
wait for the early_initcall() to be called. That's too late for some
things that can use tracepoints for debugging. Move the logic to
enable tracepoints out of the initcalls and into init/main.c to
right after rcu_init().

This also allows trace_printk() to be used early too.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.11.1412121539300.16494@nanos
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141214164104.307127356@goodmis.org

Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Tested-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'trace-3.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2014-12-11T03:58:13Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-11T03:58:13Z</published>
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Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
 "There was a lot of clean ups and minor fixes.  One of those clean ups
  was to the trace_seq code.  It also removed the return values to the
  trace_seq_*() functions and use trace_seq_has_overflowed() to see if
  the buffer filled up or not.  This is similar to work being done to
  the seq_file code as well in another tree.

  Some of the other goodies include:

   - Added some "!" (NOT) logic to the tracing filter.

   - Fixed the frame pointer logic to the x86_64 mcount trampolines

   - Added the logic for dynamic trampolines on !CONFIG_PREEMPT systems.
     That is, the ftrace trampoline can be dynamically allocated and be
     called directly by functions that only have a single hook to them"

* tag 'trace-3.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (55 commits)
  tracing: Truncated output is better than nothing
  tracing: Add additional marks to signal very large time deltas
  Documentation: describe trace_buf_size parameter more accurately
  tracing: Allow NOT to filter AND and OR clauses
  tracing: Add NOT to filtering logic
  ftrace/fgraph/x86: Have prepare_ftrace_return() take ip as first parameter
  ftrace/x86: Get rid of ftrace_caller_setup
  ftrace/x86: Have save_mcount_regs macro also save stack frames if needed
  ftrace/x86: Add macro MCOUNT_REG_SIZE for amount of stack used to save mcount regs
  ftrace/x86: Simplify save_mcount_regs on getting RIP
  ftrace/x86: Have save_mcount_regs store RIP in %rdi for first parameter
  ftrace/x86: Rename MCOUNT_SAVE_FRAME and add more detailed comments
  ftrace/x86: Move MCOUNT_SAVE_FRAME out of header file
  ftrace/x86: Have static tracing also use ftrace_caller_setup
  ftrace/x86: Have static function tracing always test for function graph
  kprobes: Add IPMODIFY flag to kprobe_ftrace_ops
  ftrace, kprobes: Support IPMODIFY flag to find IP modify conflict
  kprobes/ftrace: Recover original IP if pre_handler doesn't change it
  tracing/trivial: Fix typos and make an int into a bool
  tracing: Deletion of an unnecessary check before iput()
  ...
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<entry>
<title>tracing: Do not use return values of trace_seq_printf() in syscall tracing</title>
<updated>2014-11-19T20:25:46Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-11-12T22:41:33Z</published>
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The functions trace_seq_printf() and friends will not be returning values
soon and will be void functions. To know if they succeeded or not, the
functions trace_seq_has_overflowed() and trace_handle_return() should be
used instead.

Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing/syscalls: Ignore numbers outside NR_syscalls' range</title>
<updated>2014-10-31T00:58:38Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Rabin Vincent</name>
<email>rabin@rab.in</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-29T22:06:58Z</published>
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ARM has some private syscalls (for example, set_tls(2)) which lie
outside the range of NR_syscalls.  If any of these are called while
syscall tracing is being performed, out-of-bounds array access will
occur in the ftrace and perf sys_{enter,exit} handlers.

 # trace-cmd record -e raw_syscalls:* true &amp;&amp; trace-cmd report
 ...
 true-653   [000]   384.675777: sys_enter:            NR 192 (0, 1000, 3, 4000022, ffffffff, 0)
 true-653   [000]   384.675812: sys_exit:             NR 192 = 1995915264
 true-653   [000]   384.675971: sys_enter:            NR 983045 (76f74480, 76f74000, 76f74b28, 76f74480, 76f76f74, 1)
 true-653   [000]   384.675988: sys_exit:             NR 983045 = 0
 ...

 # trace-cmd record -e syscalls:* true
 [   17.289329] Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address aaaaaace
 [   17.289590] pgd = 9e71c000
 [   17.289696] [aaaaaace] *pgd=00000000
 [   17.289985] Internal error: Oops: 5 [#1] PREEMPT SMP ARM
 [   17.290169] Modules linked in:
 [   17.290391] CPU: 0 PID: 704 Comm: true Not tainted 3.18.0-rc2+ #21
 [   17.290585] task: 9f4dab00 ti: 9e710000 task.ti: 9e710000
 [   17.290747] PC is at ftrace_syscall_enter+0x48/0x1f8
 [   17.290866] LR is at syscall_trace_enter+0x124/0x184

Fix this by ignoring out-of-NR_syscalls-bounds syscall numbers.

Commit cd0980fc8add "tracing: Check invalid syscall nr while tracing syscalls"
added the check for less than zero, but it should have also checked
for greater than NR_syscalls.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/p/1414620418-29472-1-git-send-email-rabin@rab.in

Fixes: cd0980fc8add "tracing: Check invalid syscall nr while tracing syscalls"
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 2.6.33+
Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent &lt;rabin@rab.in&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>kernel: trace_syscalls: Replace rcu_assign_pointer() with RCU_INIT_POINTER()</title>
<updated>2014-09-10T14:48:47Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Andreea-Cristina Bernat</name>
<email>bernat.ada@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-08-22T14:28:22Z</published>
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The uses of "rcu_assign_pointer()" are NULLing out the pointers.
According to RCU_INIT_POINTER()'s block comment:
"1.   This use of RCU_INIT_POINTER() is NULLing out the pointer"
it is better to use it instead of rcu_assign_pointer() because it has a
smaller overhead.

The following Coccinelle semantic patch was used:
@@
@@

- rcu_assign_pointer
+ RCU_INIT_POINTER
  (..., NULL)

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/p/20140822142822.GA32391@ada

Signed-off-by: Andreea-Cristina Bernat &lt;bernat.ada@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Consolidate event trigger code</title>
<updated>2014-01-10T02:20:07Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-07T02:32:10Z</published>
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The event trigger code that checks for callback triggers before and
after recording of an event has lots of flags checks. This code is
duplicated throughout the ftrace events, kprobes and system calls.
They all do the exact same checks against the event flags.

Added helper functions ftrace_trigger_soft_disabled(),
event_trigger_unlock_commit() and event_trigger_unlock_commit_regs()
that consolidated the code and these are used instead.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140106222703.5e7dbba2@gandalf.local.home

Acked-by: Tom Zanussi &lt;tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: Tom Zanussi &lt;tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Remove double-underscore naming in syscall trigger invocations</title>
<updated>2014-01-06T20:22:07Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Tom Zanussi</name>
<email>tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-06T19:44:20Z</published>
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There's no reason to use double-underscores for any variable name in
ftrace_syscall_enter()/exit(), since those functions aren't generated
and there's no need to avoid namespace collisions as with the event
macros, which is where the original invocation code came from.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/0b489c9d1f7ee315cff60fa0e4c2b433ade8ae0d.1389036657.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi &lt;tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
</content>
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<entry>
<title>tracing: Add and use generic set_trigger_filter() implementation</title>
<updated>2013-12-22T03:02:17Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Tom Zanussi</name>
<email>tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-10-24T13:59:29Z</published>
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Add a generic event_command.set_trigger_filter() op implementation and
have the current set of trigger commands use it - this essentially
gives them all support for filters.

Syntactically, filters are supported by adding 'if &lt;filter&gt;' just
after the command, in which case only events matching the filter will
invoke the trigger.  For example, to add a filter to an
enable/disable_event command:

    echo 'enable_event:system:event if common_pid == 999' &gt; \
              .../othersys/otherevent/trigger

The above command will only enable the system:event event if the
common_pid field in the othersys:otherevent event is 999.

As another example, to add a filter to a stacktrace command:

    echo 'stacktrace if common_pid == 999' &gt; \
                   .../somesys/someevent/trigger

The above command will only trigger a stacktrace if the common_pid
field in the event is 999.

The filter syntax is the same as that described in the 'Event
filtering' section of Documentation/trace/events.txt.

Because triggers can now use filters, the trigger-invoking logic needs
to be moved in those cases - e.g. for ftrace_raw_event_calls, if a
trigger has a filter associated with it, the trigger invocation now
needs to happen after the { assign; } part of the call, in order for
the trigger condition to be tested.

There's still a SOFT_DISABLED-only check at the top of e.g. the
ftrace_raw_events function, so when an event is soft disabled but not
because of the presence of a trigger, the original SOFT_DISABLED
behavior remains unchanged.

There's also a bit of trickiness in that some triggers need to avoid
being invoked while an event is currently in the process of being
logged, since the trigger may itself log data into the trace buffer.
Thus we make sure the current event is committed before invoking those
triggers.  To do that, we split the trigger invocation in two - the
first part (event_triggers_call()) checks the filter using the current
trace record; if a command has the post_trigger flag set, it sets a
bit for itself in the return value, otherwise it directly invoks the
trigger.  Once all commands have been either invoked or set their
return flag, event_triggers_call() returns.  The current record is
then either committed or discarded; if any commands have deferred
their triggers, those commands are finally invoked following the close
of the current event by event_triggers_post_call().

To simplify the above and make it more efficient, the TRIGGER_COND bit
is introduced, which is set only if a soft-disabled trigger needs to
use the log record for filter testing or needs to wait until the
current log record is closed.

The syscall event invocation code is also changed in analogous ways.

Because event triggers need to be able to create and free filters,
this also adds a couple external wrappers for the existing
create_filter and free_filter functions, which are too generic to be
made extern functions themselves.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/7164930759d8719ef460357f143d995406e4eead.1382622043.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi &lt;tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Add basic event trigger framework</title>
<updated>2013-12-20T23:40:22Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Tom Zanussi</name>
<email>tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-10-24T13:59:24Z</published>
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Add a 'trigger' file for each trace event, enabling 'trace event
triggers' to be set for trace events.

'trace event triggers' are patterned after the existing 'ftrace
function triggers' implementation except that triggers are written to
per-event 'trigger' files instead of to a single file such as the
'set_ftrace_filter' used for ftrace function triggers.

The implementation is meant to be entirely separate from ftrace
function triggers, in order to keep the respective implementations
relatively simple and to allow them to diverge.

The event trigger functionality is built on top of SOFT_DISABLE
functionality.  It adds a TRIGGER_MODE bit to the ftrace_event_file
flags which is checked when any trace event fires.  Triggers set for a
particular event need to be checked regardless of whether that event
is actually enabled or not - getting an event to fire even if it's not
enabled is what's already implemented by SOFT_DISABLE mode, so trigger
mode directly reuses that.  Event trigger essentially inherit the soft
disable logic in __ftrace_event_enable_disable() while adding a bit of
logic and trigger reference counting via tm_ref on top of that in a
new trace_event_trigger_enable_disable() function.  Because the base
__ftrace_event_enable_disable() code now needs to be invoked from
outside trace_events.c, a wrapper is also added for those usages.

The triggers for an event are actually invoked via a new function,
event_triggers_call(), and code is also added to invoke them for
ftrace_raw_event calls as well as syscall events.

The main part of the patch creates a new trace_events_trigger.c file
to contain the trace event triggers implementation.

The standard open, read, and release file operations are implemented
here.

The open() implementation sets up for the various open modes of the
'trigger' file.  It creates and attaches the trigger iterator and sets
up the command parser.  If opened for reading set up the trigger
seq_ops.

The read() implementation parses the event trigger written to the
'trigger' file, looks up the trigger command, and passes it along to
that event_command's func() implementation for command-specific
processing.

The release() implementation does whatever cleanup is needed to
release the 'trigger' file, like releasing the parser and trigger
iterator, etc.

A couple of functions for event command registration and
unregistration are added, along with a list to add them to and a mutex
to protect them, as well as an (initially empty) registration function
to add the set of commands that will be added by future commits, and
call to it from the trace event initialization code.

also added are a couple trigger-specific data structures needed for
these implementations such as a trigger iterator and a struct for
trigger-specific data.

A couple structs consisting mostly of function meant to be implemented
in command-specific ways, event_command and event_trigger_ops, are
used by the generic event trigger command implementations.  They're
being put into trace.h alongside the other trace_event data structures
and functions, in the expectation that they'll be needed in several
trace_event-related files such as trace_events_trigger.c and
trace_events.c.

The event_command.func() function is meant to be called by the trigger
parsing code in order to add a trigger instance to the corresponding
event.  It essentially coordinates adding a live trigger instance to
the event, and arming the triggering the event.

Every event_command func() implementation essentially does the
same thing for any command:

   - choose ops - use the value of param to choose either a number or
     count version of event_trigger_ops specific to the command
   - do the register or unregister of those ops
   - associate a filter, if specified, with the triggering event

The reg() and unreg() ops allow command-specific implementations for
event_trigger_op registration and unregistration, and the
get_trigger_ops() op allows command-specific event_trigger_ops
selection to be parameterized.  When a trigger instance is added, the
reg() op essentially adds that trigger to the triggering event and
arms it, while unreg() does the opposite.  The set_filter() function
is used to associate a filter with the trigger - if the command
doesn't specify a set_filter() implementation, the command will ignore
filters.

Each command has an associated trigger_type, which serves double duty,
both as a unique identifier for the command as well as a value that
can be used for setting a trigger mode bit during trigger invocation.

The signature of func() adds a pointer to the event_command struct,
used to invoke those functions, along with a command_data param that
can be passed to the reg/unreg functions.  This allows func()
implementations to use command-specific blobs and supports code
re-use.

The event_trigger_ops.func() command corrsponds to the trigger 'probe'
function that gets called when the triggering event is actually
invoked.  The other functions are used to list the trigger when
needed, along with a couple mundane book-keeping functions.

This also moves event_file_data() into trace.h so it can be used
outside of trace_events.c.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/316d95061accdee070aac8e5750afba0192fa5b9.1382622043.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi &lt;tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com&gt;
Idea-by: Steve Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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