Make the ring buffer on reserved memory to be freeable. This allows us
to free the trace instance on the reserved memory without changing
cmdline and rebooting. Even if we can not change the kernel cmdline
for security reason, we can release the reserved memory for the ring
buffer as free (available) memory.
For example, boot kernel with reserved memory;
"reserve_mem=20M:2M:trace trace_instance=boot_mapped^traceoff@trace"
~ # free
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 1995548 50544 1927568 14964 17436 1911480
Swap: 0 0 0
~ # rmdir /sys/kernel/tracing/instances/boot_mapped/
[ 23.704023] Freeing reserve_mem:trace memory: 20476K
~ # free
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 2016024 41844 1956740 14968 17440 1940572
Swap: 0 0 0
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/173989134814.230693.18199312930337815629.stgit@devnote2
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add the last boot module's names and addresses to the last_boot_info file.
This only shows the module information from a previous boot. If the buffer
is started and is recording the current boot, this file still will only
show "current".
~# cat instances/boot_mapped/last_boot_info
10c00000 [kernel]
ffffffffc00ca000 usb_serial_simple
ffffffffc00ae000 usbserial
ffffffffc008b000 bfq
~# echo function > instances/boot_mapped/current_tracer
~# cat instances/boot_mapped/last_boot_info
# Current
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250305164609.299186021@goodmis.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Instead of saving off the text and data pointers and using them to compare
with the current boot's text and data pointers, just save off the KASLR
offset. Then that can be used to figure out how to read the previous boots
buffer.
The last_boot_info will now show this offset, but only if it is for a
previous boot:
~# cat instances/boot_mapped/last_boot_info
39000000 [kernel]
~# echo function > instances/boot_mapped/current_tracer
~# cat instances/boot_mapped/last_boot_info
# Current
If the KASLR offset saved is for the current boot, the last_boot_info will
show the value of "current".
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250305164608.274956504@goodmis.org
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Binary printing functions are using printf() type of format, and compiler
is not happy about them as is:
kernel/trace/trace.c:3292:9: error: function ‘trace_vbprintk’ might be a candidate for ‘gnu_printf’ format attribute [-Werror=suggest-attribute=format]
kernel/trace/trace_seq.c:182:9: error: function ‘trace_seq_bprintf’ might be a candidate for ‘gnu_printf’ format attribute [-Werror=suggest-attribute=format]
Fix the compilation errors by adding __printf() attribute.
While at it, move existing __printf() attributes from the implementations
to the declarations. IT also fixes incorrect attribute parameters that are
used for trace_array_printk().
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250321144822.324050-4-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
- Add option traceoff_after_boot
In order to debug kernel boot, it sometimes is helpful to enable
tracing via the kernel command line. Unfortunately, by the time the
login prompt appears, the trace is overwritten by the init process
and other user space start up applications.
Adding a "traceoff_after_boot" will disable tracing when the kernel
passes control to init which will allow developers to be able to see
the traces that occurred during boot.
- Clean up the mmflags macros that display the GFP flags in trace
events
The macros to print the GFP flags for trace events had a bit of
duplication. The code was restructured to remove duplication and in
the process it also adds some flags that were missed before.
- Removed some dead code and scripts/draw_functrace.py
draw_functrace.py hasn't worked in years and as nobody complained
about it, remove it.
- Constify struct event_trigger_ops
The event_trigger_ops is just a structure that has function pointers
that are assigned when the variables are created. These variables
should all be constants.
- Other minor clean ups and fixes
* tag 'trace-v6.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
tracing: Replace strncpy with memcpy for fixed-length substring copy
tracing: Fix synth event printk format for str fields
tracing: Do not use PERF enums when perf is not defined
tracing: Ensure module defining synth event cannot be unloaded while tracing
tracing: fix return value in __ftrace_event_enable_disable for TRACE_REG_UNREGISTER
tracing/osnoise: Fix possible recursive locking for cpus_read_lock()
tracing: Align synth event print fmt
tracing: gfp: vsprintf: Do not print "none" when using %pGg printf format
tracepoint: Print the function symbol when tracepoint_debug is set
tracing: Constify struct event_trigger_ops
scripts/tracing: Remove scripts/tracing/draw_functrace.py
tracing: Update MAINTAINERS file to include tracepoint.c
tracing/user_events: Slightly simplify user_seq_show()
tracing/user_events: Don't use %pK through printk
tracing: gfp: Remove duplication of recording GFP flags
tracing: Remove orphaned event_trace_printk
ring-buffer: Fix typo in comment about header page pointer
tracing: Add traceoff_after_boot option
Pull ftrace updates from Steven Rostedt:
- Record function parameters for function and function graph tracers
An option has been added to function tracer (func-args) and the
function graph tracer (funcgraph-args) that when set, the tracers
will record the registers that hold the arguments into each function
event. On reading of the trace, it will use BTF to print those
arguments. Most archs support up to 6 arguments (depending on the
complexity of the arguments) and those are printed.
If a function has more arguments then what was recorded, the output
will end with " ... )".
Example of function graph tracer:
6) | dummy_xmit [dummy](skb = 0x8887c100, dev = 0x872ca000) {
6) | consume_skb(skb = 0x8887c100) {
6) | skb_release_head_state(skb = 0x8887c100) {
6) 0.178 us | sock_wfree(skb = 0x8887c100)
6) 0.627 us | }
- The rest of the changes are minor clean ups and fixes
* tag 'ftrace-v6.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
tracing: Use hashtable.h for event_hash
tracing: Fix use-after-free in print_graph_function_flags during tracer switching
function_graph: Remove the unused variable func
ftrace: Add arguments to function tracer
ftrace: Have funcgraph-args take affect during tracing
ftrace: Add support for function argument to graph tracer
ftrace: Add print_function_args()
ftrace: Have ftrace_free_filter() WARN and exit if ops is active
fgraph: Correct typo in ftrace_return_to_handler comment
Sometimes tracing is used to debug issues during the boot process. Since
the trace buffer has a limited amount of storage, it may be prudent to
disable tracing after the boot is finished, otherwise the critical
information may be overwritten. With this option, the main tracing buffer
will be turned off at the end of the boot process.
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250208103017.48a7ec83@batman.local.home
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
When trying to mmap a trace instance buffer that is attached to
reserve_mem, it would crash:
BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffe97bd00025c8
#PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
#PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
PGD 2862f3067 P4D 2862f3067 PUD 0
Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT_RT SMP PTI
CPU: 4 UID: 0 PID: 981 Comm: mmap-rb Not tainted 6.14.0-rc2-test-00003-g7f1a5e3fbf9e-dirty #233
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:validate_page_before_insert+0x5/0xb0
Code: e2 01 89 d0 c3 cc cc cc cc 66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 0f 1f 44 00 00 <48> 8b 46 08 a8 01 75 67 66 90 48 89 f0 8b 50 34 85 d2 74 76 48 89
RSP: 0018:ffffb148c2f3f968 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: ffff9fa5d3322000 RBX: ffff9fa5ccff9c08 RCX: 00000000b879ed29
RDX: ffffe97bd00025c0 RSI: ffffe97bd00025c0 RDI: ffff9fa5ccff9c08
RBP: ffffb148c2f3f9f0 R08: 0000000000000004 R09: 0000000000000004
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000200 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f16a18d5000 R14: ffff9fa5c48db6a8 R15: 0000000000000000
FS: 00007f16a1b54740(0000) GS:ffff9fa73df00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: ffffe97bd00025c8 CR3: 00000001048c6006 CR4: 0000000000172ef0
Call Trace:
<TASK>
? __die_body.cold+0x19/0x1f
? __die+0x2e/0x40
? page_fault_oops+0x157/0x2b0
? search_module_extables+0x53/0x80
? validate_page_before_insert+0x5/0xb0
? kernelmode_fixup_or_oops.isra.0+0x5f/0x70
? __bad_area_nosemaphore+0x16e/0x1b0
? bad_area_nosemaphore+0x16/0x20
? do_kern_addr_fault+0x77/0x90
? exc_page_fault+0x22b/0x230
? asm_exc_page_fault+0x2b/0x30
? validate_page_before_insert+0x5/0xb0
? vm_insert_pages+0x151/0x400
__rb_map_vma+0x21f/0x3f0
ring_buffer_map+0x21b/0x2f0
tracing_buffers_mmap+0x70/0xd0
__mmap_region+0x6f0/0xbd0
mmap_region+0x7f/0x130
do_mmap+0x475/0x610
vm_mmap_pgoff+0xf2/0x1d0
ksys_mmap_pgoff+0x166/0x200
__x64_sys_mmap+0x37/0x50
x64_sys_call+0x1670/0x1d70
do_syscall_64+0xbb/0x1d0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
The reason was that the code that maps the ring buffer pages to user space
has:
page = virt_to_page((void *)cpu_buffer->subbuf_ids[s]);
And uses that in:
vm_insert_pages(vma, vma->vm_start, pages, &nr_pages);
But virt_to_page() does not work with vmap()'d memory which is what the
persistent ring buffer has. It is rather trivial to allow this, but for
now just disable mmap() of instances that have their ring buffer from the
reserve_mem option.
If an mmap() is performed on a persistent buffer it will return -ENODEV
just like it would if the .mmap field wasn't defined in the
file_operations structure.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250214115547.0d7287d3@gandalf.local.home
Fixes: 9b7bdf6f6e ("tracing: Have trace_printk not use binary prints if boot buffer")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Currently if __tracing_resize_ring_buffer() returns an error, the
tracing_resize_ringbuffer() returns -ENOMEM. But it may not be a memory
issue that caused the function to fail. If the ring buffer is memory
mapped, then the resizing of the ring buffer will be disabled. But if the
user tries to resize the buffer, it will get an -ENOMEM returned, which is
confusing because there is plenty of memory. The actual error returned was
-EBUSY, which would make much more sense to the user.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250213134132.7e4505d7@gandalf.local.home
Fixes: 117c39200d ("ring-buffer: Introducing ring-buffer mapping functions")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
- Cleanup with guard() and free() helpers
There were several places in the code that had a lot of "goto out" in
the error paths to either unlock a lock or free some memory that was
allocated. But this is error prone. Convert the code over to use the
guard() and free() helpers that let the compiler unlock locks or free
memory when the function exits.
- Update the Rust tracepoint code to use the C code too
There was some duplication of the tracepoint code for Rust that did
the same logic as the C code. Add a helper that makes it possible for
both algorithms to use the same logic in one place.
- Add poll to trace event hist files
It is useful to know when an event is triggered, or even with some
filtering. Since hist files of events get updated when active and the
event is triggered, allow applications to poll the hist file and wake
up when an event is triggered. This will let the application know
that the event it is waiting for happened.
- Add :mod: command to enable events for current or future modules
The function tracer already has a way to enable functions to be
traced in modules by writing ":mod:<module>" into set_ftrace_filter.
That will enable either all the functions for the module if it is
loaded, or if it is not, it will cache that command, and when the
module is loaded that matches <module>, its functions will be
enabled. This also allows init functions to be traced. But currently
events do not have that feature.
Add the command where if ':mod:<module>' is written into set_event,
then either all the modules events are enabled if it is loaded, or
cache it so that the module's events are enabled when it is loaded.
This also works from the kernel command line, where
"trace_event=:mod:<module>", when the module is loaded at boot up,
its events will be enabled then.
* tag 'trace-v6.14-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: (26 commits)
tracing: Fix output of set_event for some cached module events
tracing: Fix allocation of printing set_event file content
tracing: Rename update_cache() to update_mod_cache()
tracing: Fix #if CONFIG_MODULES to #ifdef CONFIG_MODULES
selftests/ftrace: Add test that tests event :mod: commands
tracing: Cache ":mod:" events for modules not loaded yet
tracing: Add :mod: command to enabled module events
selftests/tracing: Add hist poll() support test
tracing/hist: Support POLLPRI event for poll on histogram
tracing/hist: Add poll(POLLIN) support on hist file
tracing: Fix using ret variable in tracing_set_tracer()
tracepoint: Reduce duplication of __DO_TRACE_CALL
tracing/string: Create and use __free(argv_free) in trace_dynevent.c
tracing: Switch trace_stat.c code over to use guard()
tracing: Switch trace_stack.c code over to use guard()
tracing: Switch trace_osnoise.c code over to use guard() and __free()
tracing: Switch trace_events_synth.c code over to use guard()
tracing: Switch trace_events_filter.c code over to use guard()
tracing: Switch trace_events_trigger.c code over to use guard()
tracing: Switch trace_events_hist.c code over to use guard()
...
Pull ftrace updates from Steven Rostedt:
- Have fprobes built on top of function graph infrastructure
The fprobe logic is an optimized kprobe that uses ftrace to attach to
functions when a probe is needed at the start or end of the function.
The fprobe and kretprobe logic implements a similar method as the
function graph tracer to trace the end of the function. That is to
hijack the return address and jump to a trampoline to do the trace
when the function exits. To do this, a shadow stack needs to be
created to store the original return address. Fprobes and function
graph do this slightly differently. Fprobes (and kretprobes) has
slots per callsite that are reserved to save the return address. This
is fine when just a few points are traced. But users of fprobes, such
as BPF programs, are starting to add many more locations, and this
method does not scale.
The function graph tracer was created to trace all functions in the
kernel. In order to do this, when function graph tracing is started,
every task gets its own shadow stack to hold the return address that
is going to be traced. The function graph tracer has been updated to
allow multiple users to use its infrastructure. Now have fprobes be
one of those users. This will also allow for the fprobe and kretprobe
methods to trace the return address to become obsolete. With new
technologies like CFI that need to know about these methods of
hijacking the return address, going toward a solution that has only
one method of doing this will make the kernel less complex.
- Cleanup with guard() and free() helpers
There were several places in the code that had a lot of "goto out" in
the error paths to either unlock a lock or free some memory that was
allocated. But this is error prone. Convert the code over to use the
guard() and free() helpers that let the compiler unlock locks or free
memory when the function exits.
- Remove disabling of interrupts in the function graph tracer
When function graph tracer was first introduced, it could race with
interrupts and NMIs. To prevent that race, it would disable
interrupts and not trace NMIs. But the code has changed to allow NMIs
and also interrupts. This change was done a long time ago, but the
disabling of interrupts was never removed. Remove the disabling of
interrupts in the function graph tracer is it is not needed. This
greatly improves its performance.
- Allow the :mod: command to enable tracing module functions on the
kernel command line.
The function tracer already has a way to enable functions to be
traced in modules by writing ":mod:<module>" into set_ftrace_filter.
That will enable either all the functions for the module if it is
loaded, or if it is not, it will cache that command, and when the
module is loaded that matches <module>, its functions will be
enabled. This also allows init functions to be traced. But currently
events do not have that feature.
Because enabling function tracing can be done very early at boot up
(before scheduling is enabled), the commands that can be done when
function tracing is started is limited. Having the ":mod:" command to
trace module functions as they are loaded is very useful. Update the
kernel command line function filtering to allow it.
* tag 'ftrace-v6.14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: (26 commits)
ftrace: Implement :mod: cache filtering on kernel command line
tracing: Adopt __free() and guard() for trace_fprobe.c
bpf: Use ftrace_get_symaddr() for kprobe_multi probes
ftrace: Add ftrace_get_symaddr to convert fentry_ip to symaddr
Documentation: probes: Update fprobe on function-graph tracer
selftests/ftrace: Add a test case for repeating register/unregister fprobe
selftests: ftrace: Remove obsolate maxactive syntax check
tracing/fprobe: Remove nr_maxactive from fprobe
fprobe: Add fprobe_header encoding feature
fprobe: Rewrite fprobe on function-graph tracer
s390/tracing: Enable HAVE_FTRACE_GRAPH_FUNC
ftrace: Add CONFIG_HAVE_FTRACE_GRAPH_FUNC
bpf: Enable kprobe_multi feature if CONFIG_FPROBE is enabled
tracing/fprobe: Enable fprobe events with CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS
tracing: Add ftrace_fill_perf_regs() for perf event
tracing: Add ftrace_partial_regs() for converting ftrace_regs to pt_regs
fprobe: Use ftrace_regs in fprobe exit handler
fprobe: Use ftrace_regs in fprobe entry handler
fgraph: Pass ftrace_regs to retfunc
fgraph: Replace fgraph_ret_regs with ftrace_regs
...
Module functions can be set to set_ftrace_filter before the module is
loaded.
# echo :mod:snd_hda_intel > set_ftrace_filter
This will enable all the functions for the module snd_hda_intel. If that
module is not loaded, it is "cached" in the trace array for when the
module is loaded, its functions will be traced.
But this is not implemented in the kernel command line. That's because the
kernel command line filtering is added very early in boot up as it is
needed to be done before boot time function tracing can start, which is
also available very early in boot up. The code used by the
"set_ftrace_filter" file can not be used that early as it depends on some
other initialization to occur first. But some of the functions can.
Implement the ":mod:" feature of "set_ftrace_filter" in the kernel command
line parsing. Now function tracing on just a single module that is loaded
at boot up can be done.
Adding:
ftrace=function ftrace_filter=:mod:sna_hda_intel
To the kernel command line will only enable the sna_hda_intel module
functions when the module is loaded, and it will start tracing.
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250116175832.34e39779@gandalf.local.home
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
When the :mod: command is written into /sys/kernel/tracing/set_event (or
that file within an instance), if the module specified after the ":mod:"
is not yet loaded, it will store that string internally. When the module
is loaded, it will enable the events as if the module was loaded when the
string was written into the set_event file.
This can also be useful to enable events that are in the init section of
the module, as the events are enabled before the init section is executed.
This also works on the kernel command line:
trace_event=:mod:<module>
Will enable the events for <module> when it is loaded.
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250116143533.514730995@goodmis.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add a :mod: command to enable only events from a given module from the
set_events file.
echo '*:mod:<module>' > set_events
Or
echo ':mod:<module>' > set_events
Will enable all events for that module. Specific events can also be
enabled via:
echo '<event>:mod:<module>' > set_events
Or
echo '<system>:<event>:mod:<module>' > set_events
Or
echo '*:<event>:mod:<module>' > set_events
The ":mod:" keyword is consistent with the function tracing filter to
enable functions from a given module.
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250116143533.214496360@goodmis.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
When the function tracing_set_tracer() switched over to using the guard()
infrastructure, it did not need to save the 'ret' variable and would just
return the value when an error arised, instead of setting ret and jumping
to an out label.
When CONFIG_TRACER_SNAPSHOT is enabled, it had code that expected the
"ret" variable to be initialized to zero and had set 'ret' while holding
an arch_spin_lock() (not used by guard), and then upon releasing the lock
it would check 'ret' and exit if set. But because ret was only set when an
error occurred while holding the locks, 'ret' would be used uninitialized
if there was no error. The code in the CONFIG_TRACER_SNAPSHOT block should
be self contain. Make sure 'ret' is also set when no error occurred.
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250106111143.2f90ff65@gandalf.local.home
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/202412271654.nJVBuwmF-lkp@intel.com/
Fixes: d33b10c0c7 ("tracing: Switch trace.c code over to use guard()")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
There are several functions in trace.c that have "goto out;" or
equivalent on error in order to release locks or free values that were
allocated. This can be error prone or just simply make the code more
complex.
Switch every location that ends with unlocking a mutex or freeing on error
over to using the guard(mutex)() and __free() infrastructure to let the
compiler worry about releasing locks. This makes the code easier to read
and understand.
There's one place that should probably return an error but instead return
0. This does not change the return as the only changes are to do the
conversion without changing the logic. Fixing that location will have to
come later.
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20241224221413.7b8c68c3@batman.local.home
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Pull ring-buffer fixes from Steven Rostedt:
- Fix possible overflow of mmapped ring buffer with bad offset
If the mmap() to the ring buffer passes in a start address that is
passed the end of the mmapped file, it is not caught and a
slab-out-of-bounds is triggered.
Add a check to make sure the start address is within the bounds
- Do not use TP_printk() to boot mapped ring buffers
As a boot mapped ring buffer's data may have pointers that map to the
previous boot's memory map, it is unsafe to allow the TP_printk() to
be used to read the boot mapped buffer's events. If a TP_printk()
points to a static string from within the kernel it will not match
the current kernel mapping if KASLR is active, and it can fault.
Have it simply print out the raw fields.
* tag 'trace-ringbuffer-v6.13-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
trace/ring-buffer: Do not use TP_printk() formatting for boot mapped buffers
ring-buffer: Fix overflow in __rb_map_vma
The TP_printk() of a TRACE_EVENT() is a generic printf format that any
developer can create for their event. It may include pointers to strings
and such. A boot mapped buffer may contain data from a previous kernel
where the strings addresses are different.
One solution is to copy the event content and update the pointers by the
recorded delta, but a simpler solution (for now) is to just use the
print_fields() function to print these events. The print_fields() function
just iterates the fields and prints them according to what type they are,
and ignores the TP_printk() format from the event itself.
To understand the difference, when printing via TP_printk() the output
looks like this:
4582.696626: kmem_cache_alloc: call_site=getname_flags+0x47/0x1f0 ptr=00000000e70e10e0 bytes_req=4096 bytes_alloc=4096 gfp_flags=GFP_KERNEL node=-1 accounted=false
4582.696629: kmem_cache_alloc: call_site=alloc_empty_file+0x6b/0x110 ptr=0000000095808002 bytes_req=360 bytes_alloc=384 gfp_flags=GFP_KERNEL node=-1 accounted=false
4582.696630: kmem_cache_alloc: call_site=security_file_alloc+0x24/0x100 ptr=00000000576339c3 bytes_req=16 bytes_alloc=16 gfp_flags=GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_ZERO node=-1 accounted=false
4582.696653: kmem_cache_free: call_site=do_sys_openat2+0xa7/0xd0 ptr=00000000e70e10e0 name=names_cache
But when printing via print_fields() (echo 1 > /sys/kernel/tracing/options/fields)
the same event output looks like this:
4582.696626: kmem_cache_alloc: call_site=0xffffffff92d10d97 (-1831793257) ptr=0xffff9e0e8571e000 (-107689771147264) bytes_req=0x1000 (4096) bytes_alloc=0x1000 (4096) gfp_flags=0xcc0 (3264) node=0xffffffff (-1) accounted=(0)
4582.696629: kmem_cache_alloc: call_site=0xffffffff92d0250b (-1831852789) ptr=0xffff9e0e8577f800 (-107689770747904) bytes_req=0x168 (360) bytes_alloc=0x180 (384) gfp_flags=0xcc0 (3264) node=0xffffffff (-1) accounted=(0)
4582.696630: kmem_cache_alloc: call_site=0xffffffff92efca74 (-1829778828) ptr=0xffff9e0e8d35d3b0 (-107689640864848) bytes_req=0x10 (16) bytes_alloc=0x10 (16) gfp_flags=0xdc0 (3520) node=0xffffffff (-1) accounted=(0)
4582.696653: kmem_cache_free: call_site=0xffffffff92cfbea7 (-1831879001) ptr=0xffff9e0e8571e000 (-107689771147264) name=names_cache
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20241218141507.28389a1d@gandalf.local.home
Fixes: 07714b4bb3 ("tracing: Handle old buffer mappings for event strings and functions")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The TP_printk() portion of a trace event is executed at the time a event
is read from the trace. This can happen seconds, minutes, hours, days,
months, years possibly later since the event was recorded. If the print
format contains a dereference to a string via "%s", and that string was
allocated, there's a chance that string could be freed before it is read
by the trace file.
To protect against such bugs, there are two functions that verify the
event. The first one is test_event_printk(), which is called when the
event is created. It reads the TP_printk() format as well as its arguments
to make sure nothing may be dereferencing a pointer that was not copied
into the ring buffer along with the event. If it is, it will trigger a
WARN_ON().
For strings that use "%s", it is not so easy. The string may not reside in
the ring buffer but may still be valid. Strings that are static and part
of the kernel proper which will not be freed for the life of the running
system, are safe to dereference. But to know if it is a pointer to a
static string or to something on the heap can not be determined until the
event is triggered.
This brings us to the second function that tests for the bad dereferencing
of strings, trace_check_vprintf(). It would walk through the printf format
looking for "%s", and when it finds it, it would validate that the pointer
is safe to read. If not, it would produces a WARN_ON() as well and write
into the ring buffer "[UNSAFE-MEMORY]".
The problem with this is how it used va_list to have vsnprintf() handle
all the cases that it didn't need to check. Instead of re-implementing
vsnprintf(), it would make a copy of the format up to the %s part, and
call vsnprintf() with the current va_list ap variable, where the ap would
then be ready to point at the string in question.
For architectures that passed va_list by reference this was possible. For
architectures that passed it by copy it was not. A test_can_verify()
function was used to differentiate between the two, and if it wasn't
possible, it would disable it.
Even for architectures where this was feasible, it was a stretch to rely
on such a method that is undocumented, and could cause issues later on
with new optimizations of the compiler.
Instead, the first function test_event_printk() was updated to look at
"%s" as well. If the "%s" argument is a pointer outside the event in the
ring buffer, it would find the field type of the event that is the problem
and mark the structure with a new flag called "needs_test". The event
itself will be marked by TRACE_EVENT_FL_TEST_STR to let it be known that
this event has a field that needs to be verified before the event can be
printed using the printf format.
When the event fields are created from the field type structure, the
fields would copy the field type's "needs_test" value.
Finally, before being printed, a new function ignore_event() is called
which will check if the event has the TEST_STR flag set (if not, it
returns false). If the flag is set, it then iterates through the events
fields looking for the ones that have the "needs_test" flag set.
Then it uses the offset field from the field structure to find the pointer
in the ring buffer event. It runs the tests to make sure that pointer is
safe to print and if not, it triggers the WARN_ON() and also adds to the
trace output that the event in question has an unsafe memory access.
The ignore_event() makes the trace_check_vprintf() obsolete so it is
removed.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wh3uOnqnZPpR0PeLZZtyWbZLboZ7cHLCKRWsocvs9Y7hQ@mail.gmail.com/
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20241217024720.848621576@goodmis.org
Fixes: 5013f454a3 ("tracing: Add check of trace event print fmts for dereferencing pointers")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
- Addition of faultable tracepoints
There's a tracepoint attached to both a system call entry and exit.
This location is known to allow page faults. The tracepoints are
called under an rcu_read_lock() which does not allow faults that can
sleep. This limits the ability of tracepoint handlers to page fault
in user space system call parameters. Now these tracepoints have been
made "faultable", allowing the callbacks to fault in user space
parameters and record them.
Note, only the infrastructure has been implemented. The consumers
(perf, ftrace, BPF) now need to have their code modified to allow
faults.
- Fix up of BPF code for the tracepoint faultable logic
- Update tracepoints to use the new static branch API
- Remove trace_*_rcuidle() variants and the SRCU protection they used
- Remove unused TRACE_EVENT_FL_FILTERED logic
- Replace strncpy() with strscpy() and memcpy()
- Use replace per_cpu_ptr(smp_processor_id()) with this_cpu_ptr()
- Fix perf events to not duplicate samples when tracing is enabled
- Replace atomic64_add_return(1, counter) with
atomic64_inc_return(counter)
- Make stack trace buffer 4K instead of PAGE_SIZE
- Remove TRACE_FLAG_IRQS_NOSUPPORT flag as it was never used
- Get the true return address for function tracer when function graph
tracer is also running.
When function_graph trace is running along with function tracer, the
parent function of the function tracer sometimes is
"return_to_handler", which is the function graph trampoline to record
the exit of the function. Use existing logic that calls into the
fgraph infrastructure to find the real return address.
- Remove (un)regfunc pointers out of tracepoint structure
- Added last minute bug fix for setting pending modules in stack
function filter.
echo "write*:mod:ext3" > /sys/kernel/tracing/stack_trace_filter
Would cause a kernel NULL dereference.
- Minor clean ups
* tag 'trace-v6.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: (31 commits)
ftrace: Fix regression with module command in stack_trace_filter
tracing: Fix function name for trampoline
ftrace: Get the true parent ip for function tracer
tracing: Remove redundant check on field->field in histograms
bpf: ensure RCU Tasks Trace GP for sleepable raw tracepoint BPF links
bpf: decouple BPF link/attach hook and BPF program sleepable semantics
bpf: put bpf_link's program when link is safe to be deallocated
tracing: Replace strncpy() with strscpy() when copying comm
tracing: Add might_fault() check in __DECLARE_TRACE_SYSCALL
tracing: Fix syscall tracepoint use-after-free
tracing: Introduce tracepoint_is_faultable()
tracing: Introduce tracepoint extended structure
tracing: Remove TRACE_FLAG_IRQS_NOSUPPORT
tracing: Replace multiple deprecated strncpy with memcpy
tracing: Make percpu stack trace buffer invariant to PAGE_SIZE
tracing: Use atomic64_inc_return() in trace_clock_counter()
trace/trace_event_perf: remove duplicate samples on the first tracepoint event
tracing/bpf: Add might_fault check to syscall probes
tracing/perf: Add might_fault check to syscall probes
tracing/ftrace: Add might_fault check to syscall probes
...
Pull ftrace updates from Steven Rostedt:
- Restructure the function graph shadow stack to prepare it for use
with kretprobes
With the goal of merging the shadow stack logic of function graph and
kretprobes, some more restructuring of the function shadow stack is
required.
Move out function graph specific fields from the fgraph
infrastructure and store it on the new stack variables that can pass
data from the entry callback to the exit callback.
Hopefully, with this change, the merge of kretprobes to use fgraph
shadow stacks will be ready by the next merge window.
- Make shadow stack 4k instead of using PAGE_SIZE.
Some architectures have very large PAGE_SIZE values which make its
use for shadow stacks waste a lot of memory.
- Give shadow stacks its own kmem cache.
When function graph is started, every task on the system gets a
shadow stack. In the future, shadow stacks may not be 4K in size.
Have it have its own kmem cache so that whatever size it becomes will
still be efficient in allocations.
- Initialize profiler graph ops as it will be needed for new updates to
fgraph
- Convert to use guard(mutex) for several ftrace and fgraph functions
- Add more comments and documentation
- Show function return address in function graph tracer
Add an option to show the caller of a function at each entry of the
function graph tracer, similar to what the function tracer does.
- Abstract out ftrace_regs from being used directly like pt_regs
ftrace_regs was created to store a partial pt_regs. It holds only the
registers and stack information to get to the function arguments and
return values. On several archs, it is simply a wrapper around
pt_regs. But some users would access ftrace_regs directly to get the
pt_regs which will not work on all archs. Make ftrace_regs an
abstract structure that requires all access to its fields be through
accessor functions.
- Show how long it takes to do function code modifications
When code modification for function hooks happen, it always had the
time recorded in how long it took to do the conversion. But this
value was never exported. Recently the code was touched due to new
ROX modification handling that caused a large slow down in doing the
modifications and had a significant impact on boot times.
Expose the timings in the dyn_ftrace_total_info file. This file was
created a while ago to show information about memory usage and such
to implement dynamic function tracing. It's also an appropriate file
to store the timings of this modification as well. This will make it
easier to see the impact of changes to code modification on boot up
timings.
- Other clean ups and small fixes
* tag 'ftrace-v6.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: (22 commits)
ftrace: Show timings of how long nop patching took
ftrace: Use guard to take ftrace_lock in ftrace_graph_set_hash()
ftrace: Use guard to take the ftrace_lock in release_probe()
ftrace: Use guard to lock ftrace_lock in cache_mod()
ftrace: Use guard for match_records()
fgraph: Use guard(mutex)(&ftrace_lock) for unregister_ftrace_graph()
fgraph: Give ret_stack its own kmem cache
fgraph: Separate size of ret_stack from PAGE_SIZE
ftrace: Rename ftrace_regs_return_value to ftrace_regs_get_return_value
selftests/ftrace: Fix check of return value in fgraph-retval.tc test
ftrace: Use arch_ftrace_regs() for ftrace_regs_*() macros
ftrace: Consolidate ftrace_regs accessor functions for archs using pt_regs
ftrace: Make ftrace_regs abstract from direct use
fgragh: No need to invoke the function call_filter_check_discard()
fgraph: Simplify return address printing in function graph tracer
function_graph: Remove unnecessary initialization in ftrace_graph_ret_addr()
function_graph: Support recording and printing the function return address
ftrace: Have calltime be saved in the fgraph storage
ftrace: Use a running sleeptime instead of saving on shadow stack
fgraph: Use fgraph data to store subtime for profiler
...
The issue that unrelated function name is shown on stack trace like
following even though it should be trampoline code address is caused by
the creation of trampoline code in the area where .init.text section
of module was freed after module is loaded.
bash-1344 [002] ..... 43.644608: <stack trace>
=> (MODULE INIT FUNCTION)
=> vfs_write
=> ksys_write
=> do_syscall_64
=> entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe
To resolve this, when function address of stack trace entry is in
trampoline, output without looking up symbol name.
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20241021071454.34610-2-tatsuya.s2862@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Tatsuya S <tatsuya.s2862@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Pull ring buffer fixes from Steven Rostedt:
- Revert: "ring-buffer: Do not have boot mapped buffers hook to CPU
hotplug"
A crash that happened on cpu hotplug was actually caused by the
incorrect ref counting that was fixed by commit 2cf9733891
("ring-buffer: Fix refcount setting of boot mapped buffers"). The
removal of calling cpu hotplug callbacks on memory mapped buffers was
not an issue even though the tests at the time pointed toward it. But
in fact, there's a check in that code that tests to see if the
buffers are already allocated or not, and will not allocate them
again if they are. Not calling the cpu hotplug callbacks ended up not
initializing the non boot CPU buffers.
Simply remove that change.
- Clear all CPU buffers when starting tracing in a boot mapped buffer
To properly process events from a previous boot, the address space
needs to be accounted for due to KASLR and the events in the buffer
are updated accordingly when read. This also requires that when the
buffer has tracing enabled again in the current boot that the buffers
are reset so that events from the previous boot do not interact with
the events of the current boot and cause confusing due to not having
the proper meta data.
It was found that if a CPU is taken offline, that its per CPU buffer
is not reset when tracing starts. This allows for events to be from
both the previous boot and the current boot to be in the buffer at
the same time. Clear all CPU buffers when tracing is started in a
boot mapped buffer.
* tag 'trace-ringbuffer-v6.12-rc7-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
tracing/ring-buffer: Clear all memory mapped CPU ring buffers on first recording
Revert: "ring-buffer: Do not have boot mapped buffers hook to CPU hotplug"
The events of a memory mapped ring buffer from the previous boot should
not be mixed in with events from the current boot. There's meta data that
is used to handle KASLR so that function names can be shown properly.
Also, since the timestamps of the previous boot have no meaning to the
timestamps of the current boot, having them intermingled in a buffer can
also cause confusion because there could possibly be events in the future.
When a trace is activated the meta data is reset so that the pointers of
are now processed for the new address space. The trace buffers are reset
when tracing starts for the first time. The problem here is that the reset
only happens on online CPUs. If a CPU is offline, it does not get reset.
To demonstrate the issue, a previous boot had tracing enabled in the boot
mapped ring buffer on reboot. On the following boot, tracing has not been
started yet so the function trace from the previous boot is still visible.
# trace-cmd show -B boot_mapped -c 3 | tail
<idle>-0 [003] d.h2. 156.462395: __rcu_read_lock <-cpu_emergency_disable_virtualization
<idle>-0 [003] d.h2. 156.462396: vmx_emergency_disable_virtualization_cpu <-cpu_emergency_disable_virtualization
<idle>-0 [003] d.h2. 156.462396: __rcu_read_unlock <-__sysvec_reboot
<idle>-0 [003] d.h2. 156.462397: stop_this_cpu <-__sysvec_reboot
<idle>-0 [003] d.h2. 156.462397: set_cpu_online <-stop_this_cpu
<idle>-0 [003] d.h2. 156.462397: disable_local_APIC <-stop_this_cpu
<idle>-0 [003] d.h2. 156.462398: clear_local_APIC <-disable_local_APIC
<idle>-0 [003] d.h2. 156.462574: mcheck_cpu_clear <-stop_this_cpu
<idle>-0 [003] d.h2. 156.462575: mce_intel_feature_clear <-stop_this_cpu
<idle>-0 [003] d.h2. 156.462575: lmce_supported <-mce_intel_feature_clear
Now, if CPU 3 is taken offline, and tracing is started on the memory
mapped ring buffer, the events from the previous boot in the CPU 3 ring
buffer is not reset. Now those events are using the meta data from the
current boot and produces just hex values.
# echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu3/online
# trace-cmd start -B boot_mapped -p function
# trace-cmd show -B boot_mapped -c 3 | tail
<idle>-0 [003] d.h2. 156.462395: 0xffffffff9a1e3194 <-0xffffffff9a0f655e
<idle>-0 [003] d.h2. 156.462396: 0xffffffff9a0a1d24 <-0xffffffff9a0f656f
<idle>-0 [003] d.h2. 156.462396: 0xffffffff9a1e6bc4 <-0xffffffff9a0f7323
<idle>-0 [003] d.h2. 156.462397: 0xffffffff9a0d12b4 <-0xffffffff9a0f732a
<idle>-0 [003] d.h2. 156.462397: 0xffffffff9a1458d4 <-0xffffffff9a0d12e2
<idle>-0 [003] d.h2. 156.462397: 0xffffffff9a0faed4 <-0xffffffff9a0d12e7
<idle>-0 [003] d.h2. 156.462398: 0xffffffff9a0faaf4 <-0xffffffff9a0faef2
<idle>-0 [003] d.h2. 156.462574: 0xffffffff9a0e3444 <-0xffffffff9a0d12ef
<idle>-0 [003] d.h2. 156.462575: 0xffffffff9a0e4964 <-0xffffffff9a0d12ef
<idle>-0 [003] d.h2. 156.462575: 0xffffffff9a0e3fb0 <-0xffffffff9a0e496f
Reset all CPUs when starting a boot mapped ring buffer for the first time,
and not just the online CPUs.
Fixes: 7a1d1e4b96 ("tracing/ring-buffer: Add last_boot_info file to boot instance")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Previously the size of "struct ftrace_stacks" depended upon PAGE_SIZE.
For the common 4K page size, on a 64-bit system, sizeof(struct
ftrace_stacks) was 32K. But for a 64K page size, sizeof(struct
ftrace_stacks) was 512K.
But ftrace stack usage requirements should be invariant to page size. So
let's redefine FTRACE_KSTACK_ENTRIES so that "struct ftrace_stacks" is
always sized at 32K for 64-bit and 16K for 32-bit.
As a side effect, it removes the PAGE_SIZE compile-time constant
assumption from this code, which is required to reach the goal of
boot-time page size selection.
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20241021141832.3668264-1-ryan.roberts@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Since the beginning of ftrace, the code that did the patching had its
timings saved on how long it took to complete. But this information was
never exposed. It was used for debugging and exposing it was always
something that was on the TODO list. Now it's time to expose it. There's
even a file that is where it should go!
Also include how long patching modules took as a separate value.
# cat /sys/kernel/tracing/dyn_ftrace_total_info
57680 pages:231 groups: 9
ftrace boot update time = 14024666 (ns)
ftrace module total update time = 126070 (ns)
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20241017113105.1edfa943@gandalf.local.home
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
A ring buffer which has its buffered mapped at boot up to fixed memory
should not be freed. Other buffers can be. The ref counting setup was
wrong for both. It made the not mapped buffers ref count have zero, and the
boot mapped buffer a ref count of 1. But an normally allocated buffer
should be 1, where it can be removed.
Keep the ref count of a normal boot buffer with its setup ref count (do
not decrement it), and increment the fixed memory boot mapped buffer's ref
count.
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20241011165224.33dd2624@gandalf.local.home
Fixes: e645535a95 ("tracing: Add option to use memmapped memory for trace boot instance")
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
When the tp_printk kernel command line is used, the trace events go
directly to printk(). It is still checked via the trace_check_vprintf()
function to make sure the pointers of the trace event are legit.
The addition of reading buffers from previous boots required adding a
delta between the addresses of the previous boot and the current boot so
that the pointers in the old buffer can still be used. But this required
adding a trace_array pointer to acquire the delta offsets.
The tp_printk code does not provide a trace_array (tr) pointer, so when
the offsets were examined, a NULL pointer dereference happened and the
kernel crashed.
If the trace_array does not exist, just default the delta offsets to zero,
as that also means the trace event is not being read from a previous boot.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/Zv3z5UsG_jsO9_Tb@aschofie-mobl2.lan/
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20241003104925.4e1b1fd9@gandalf.local.home
Fixes: 07714b4bb3 ("tracing: Handle old buffer mappings for event strings and functions")
Reported-by: Alison Schofield <alison.schofield@intel.com>
Tested-by: Alison Schofield <alison.schofield@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
no_llseek had been defined to NULL two years ago, in commit 868941b144
("fs: remove no_llseek")
To quote that commit,
At -rc1 we'll need do a mechanical removal of no_llseek -
git grep -l -w no_llseek | grep -v porting.rst | while read i; do
sed -i '/\<no_llseek\>/d' $i
done
would do it.
Unfortunately, that hadn't been done. Linus, could you do that now, so
that we could finally put that thing to rest? All instances are of the
form
.llseek = no_llseek,
so it's obviously safe.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull ring-buffer updates from Steven Rostedt:
- tracing/ring-buffer: persistent buffer across reboots
This allows for the tracing instance ring buffer to stay persistent
across reboots. The way this is done is by adding to the kernel
command line:
trace_instance=boot_map@0x285400000:12M
This will reserve 12 megabytes at the address 0x285400000, and then
map the tracing instance "boot_map" ring buffer to that memory. This
will appear as a normal instance in the tracefs system:
/sys/kernel/tracing/instances/boot_map
A user could enable tracing in that instance, and on reboot or kernel
crash, if the memory is not wiped by the firmware, it will recreate
the trace in that instance. For example, if one was debugging a
shutdown of a kernel reboot:
# cd /sys/kernel/tracing
# echo function > instances/boot_map/current_tracer
# reboot
[..]
# cd /sys/kernel/tracing
# tail instances/boot_map/trace
swapper/0-1 [000] d..1. 164.549800: restore_boot_irq_mode <-native_machine_shutdown
swapper/0-1 [000] d..1. 164.549801: native_restore_boot_irq_mode <-native_machine_shutdown
swapper/0-1 [000] d..1. 164.549802: disconnect_bsp_APIC <-native_machine_shutdown
swapper/0-1 [000] d..1. 164.549811: hpet_disable <-native_machine_shutdown
swapper/0-1 [000] d..1. 164.549812: iommu_shutdown_noop <-native_machine_restart
swapper/0-1 [000] d..1. 164.549813: native_machine_emergency_restart <-__do_sys_reboot
swapper/0-1 [000] d..1. 164.549813: tboot_shutdown <-native_machine_emergency_restart
swapper/0-1 [000] d..1. 164.549820: acpi_reboot <-native_machine_emergency_restart
swapper/0-1 [000] d..1. 164.549821: acpi_reset <-acpi_reboot
swapper/0-1 [000] d..1. 164.549822: acpi_os_write_port <-acpi_reboot
On reboot, the buffer is examined to make sure it is valid. The
validation check even steps through every event to make sure the meta
data of the event is correct. If any test fails, it will simply reset
the buffer, and the buffer will be empty on boot.
- Allow the tracing persistent boot buffer to use the "reserve_mem"
option
Instead of having the admin find a physical address to store the
persistent buffer, which can be very tedious if they have to
administrate several different machines, allow them to use the
"reserve_mem" option that will find a location for them. It is not as
reliable because of KASLR, as the loading of the kernel in different
locations can cause the memory allocated to be inconsistent. Booting
with "nokaslr" can make reserve_mem more reliable.
- Have function graph tracer handle offsets from a previous boot.
The ring buffer output from a previous boot may have different
addresses due to kaslr. Have the function graph tracer handle these
by using the delta from the previous boot to the new boot address
space.
- Only reset the saved meta offset when the buffer is started or reset
In the persistent memory meta data, it holds the previous address
space information, so that it can calculate the delta to have
function tracing work. But this gets updated after being read to hold
the new address space. But if the buffer isn't used for that boot, on
reboot, the delta is now calculated from the previous boot and not
the boot that holds the data in the ring buffer. This causes the
functions not to be shown. Do not save the address space information
of the current kernel until it is being recorded.
- Add a magic variable to test the valid meta data
Add a magic variable in the meta data that can also be used for
validation. The validator of the previous buffer doesn't need this
magic data, but it can be used if the meta data is changed by a new
kernel, which may have the same format that passes the validator but
is used differently. This magic number can also be used as a
"versioning" of the meta data.
- Align user space mapped ring buffer sub buffers to improve TLB
entries
Linus mentioned that the mapped ring buffer sub buffers were
misaligned between the meta page and the sub-buffers, so that if the
sub-buffers were bigger than PAGE_SIZE, it wouldn't allow the TLB to
use bigger entries.
- Add new kernel command line "traceoff" to disable tracing on boot for
instances
If tracing is enabled for a boot instance, there needs a way to be
able to disable it on boot so that new events do not get entered into
the ring buffer and be mixed with events from a previous boot, as
that can be confusing.
- Allow trace_printk() to go to other instances
Currently, trace_printk() can only go to the top level instance. When
debugging with a persistent buffer, it is really useful to be able to
add trace_printk() to go to that buffer, so that you have access to
them after a crash.
- Do not use "bin_printk()" for traces to a boot instance
The bin_printk() saves only a pointer to the printk format in the
ring buffer, as the reader of the buffer can still have access to it.
But this is not the case if the buffer is from a previous boot. If
the trace_printk() is going to a "persistent" buffer, it will use the
slower version that writes the printk format into the buffer.
- Add command line option to allow trace_printk() to go to an instance
Allow the kernel command line to define which instance the
trace_printk() goes to, instead of forcing the admin to set it for
every boot via the tracefs options.
- Start a document that explains how to use tracefs to debug the kernel
- Add some more kernel selftests to test user mapped ring buffer
* tag 'trace-ring-buffer-v6.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: (28 commits)
selftests/ring-buffer: Handle meta-page bigger than the system
selftests/ring-buffer: Verify the entire meta-page padding
tracing/Documentation: Start a document on how to debug with tracing
tracing: Add option to set an instance to be the trace_printk destination
tracing: Have trace_printk not use binary prints if boot buffer
tracing: Allow trace_printk() to go to other instance buffers
tracing: Add "traceoff" flag to boot time tracing instances
ring-buffer: Align meta-page to sub-buffers for improved TLB usage
ring-buffer: Add magic and struct size to boot up meta data
ring-buffer: Don't reset persistent ring-buffer meta saved addresses
tracing/fgraph: Have fgraph handle previous boot function addresses
tracing: Allow boot instances to use reserve_mem boot memory
tracing: Fix ifdef of snapshots to not prevent last_boot_info file
ring-buffer: Use vma_pages() helper function
tracing: Fix NULL vs IS_ERR() check in enable_instances()
tracing: Add last boot delta offset for stack traces
tracing: Update function tracing output for previous boot buffer
tracing: Handle old buffer mappings for event strings and functions
tracing/ring-buffer: Add last_boot_info file to boot instance
ring-buffer: Save text and data locations in mapped meta data
...
In __tracing_open(), when max latency tracers took place on the cpu,
the time start of its buffer would be updated, then event entries with
timestamps being earlier than start of the buffer would be skipped
(see tracing_iter_reset()).
Softlockup will occur if the kernel is non-preemptible and too many
entries were skipped in the loop that reset every cpu buffer, so add
cond_resched() to avoid it.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 2f26ebd549 ("tracing: use timestamp to determine start of latency traces")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20240827124654.3817443-1-zhengyejian@huaweicloud.com
Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Zheng Yejian <zhengyejian@huaweicloud.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
