After following the document step by step, the `cat trace` can't be
worked without enabling tracing_on and might mislead newbies about
the functionality.
Signed-off-by: Lecopzer Chen <lecopzer.chen@mediatek.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
This patch fixes some spelling typos in histogram.rst
Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
- Removing of non-DYNAMIC_FTRACE from 32bit x86
- Removing of mcount support from x86
- Emulating a call from int3 on x86_64, fixes live kernel patching
- Consolidated Tracing Error logs file
Minor updates:
- Removal of klp_check_compiler_support()
- kdb ftrace dumping output changes
- Accessing and creating ftrace instances from inside the kernel
- Clean up of #define if macro
- Introduction of TRACE_EVENT_NOP() to disable trace events based on config
options
And other minor fixes and clean ups
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Merge tag 'trace-v5.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
"The major changes in this tracing update includes:
- Removal of non-DYNAMIC_FTRACE from 32bit x86
- Removal of mcount support from x86
- Emulating a call from int3 on x86_64, fixes live kernel patching
- Consolidated Tracing Error logs file
Minor updates:
- Removal of klp_check_compiler_support()
- kdb ftrace dumping output changes
- Accessing and creating ftrace instances from inside the kernel
- Clean up of #define if macro
- Introduction of TRACE_EVENT_NOP() to disable trace events based on
config options
And other minor fixes and clean ups"
* tag 'trace-v5.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (44 commits)
x86: Hide the int3_emulate_call/jmp functions from UML
livepatch: Remove klp_check_compiler_support()
ftrace/x86: Remove mcount support
ftrace/x86_32: Remove support for non DYNAMIC_FTRACE
tracing: Simplify "if" macro code
tracing: Fix documentation about disabling options using trace_options
tracing: Replace kzalloc with kcalloc
tracing: Fix partial reading of trace event's id file
tracing: Allow RCU to run between postponed startup tests
tracing: Fix white space issues in parse_pred() function
tracing: Eliminate const char[] auto variables
ring-buffer: Fix mispelling of Calculate
tracing: probeevent: Fix to make the type of $comm string
tracing: probeevent: Do not accumulate on ret variable
tracing: uprobes: Re-enable $comm support for uprobe events
ftrace/x86_64: Emulate call function while updating in breakpoint handler
x86_64: Allow breakpoints to emulate call instructions
x86_64: Add gap to int3 to allow for call emulation
tracing: kdb: Allow ftdump to skip all but the last few entries
tracing: Add trace_total_entries() / trace_total_entries_cpu()
...
Patch series "mm: Generalize putback functions"]
putback_inactive_pages() and move_active_pages_to_lru() are almost
similar, so this patchset merges them ina single function.
This patch (of 4):
The patch moves the calculation from putback_inactive_pages() to
shrink_inactive_list(). This makes putback_inactive_pages() looking more
similar to move_active_pages_to_lru().
To do that, we account activated pages in reclaim_stat::nr_activate.
Since a page may change its LRU type from anon to file cache inside
shrink_page_list() (see ClearPageSwapBacked()), we have to account pages
for the both types. So, nr_activate becomes an array.
Previously we used nr_activate to account PGACTIVATE events, but now we
account them into pgactivate variable (since they are about number of
pages in general, not about sum of hpage_nr_pages).
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/155290127956.31489.3393586616054413298.stgit@localhost.localdomain
Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
conversion of the x86 docs to RST, which has been in the works for some
time but needed a couple of final tweaks.
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Merge tag 'docs-5.2a' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull more documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"Some late arriving documentation changes. In particular, this contains
the conversion of the x86 docs to RST, which has been in the works for
some time but needed a couple of final tweaks"
* tag 'docs-5.2a' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (29 commits)
Documentation: x86: convert x86_64/machinecheck to reST
Documentation: x86: convert x86_64/cpu-hotplug-spec to reST
Documentation: x86: convert x86_64/fake-numa-for-cpusets to reST
Documentation: x86: convert x86_64/5level-paging.txt to reST
Documentation: x86: convert x86_64/mm.txt to reST
Documentation: x86: convert x86_64/uefi.txt to reST
Documentation: x86: convert x86_64/boot-options.txt to reST
Documentation: x86: convert i386/IO-APIC.txt to reST
Documentation: x86: convert usb-legacy-support.txt to reST
Documentation: x86: convert orc-unwinder.txt to reST
Documentation: x86: convert resctrl_ui.txt to reST
Documentation: x86: convert microcode.txt to reST
Documentation: x86: convert pti.txt to reST
Documentation: x86: convert amd-memory-encryption.txt to reST
Documentation: x86: convert intel_mpx.txt to reST
Documentation: x86: convert protection-keys.txt to reST
Documentation: x86: convert pat.txt to reST
Documentation: x86: convert mtrr.txt to reST
Documentation: x86: convert tlb.txt to reST
Documentation: x86: convert zero-page.txt to reST
...
The current trace documentation, the section describing histogram's "onmatch"
is not straightforward enough about how this action is applied. It is not
clear what criteria are used to "match" both events. A short note is added,
describing what exactly is compared in order to match the events.
Signed-off-by: Tzvetomir Stoyanov <tstoyanov@vmware.com>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Reviewed-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
[jc: fixed trivial conflict with docs-next]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
- Lots of work on the Chinese and Italian translations
- Some license-rules clarifications from Christoph
- Various build-script fixes
- A new document on memory models
- RST conversion of the live-patching docs
- The usual collection of typo fixes and corrections.
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Merge tag 'docs-5.2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"A reasonably busy cycle for docs, including:
- Lots of work on the Chinese and Italian translations
- Some license-rules clarifications from Christoph
- Various build-script fixes
- A new document on memory models
- RST conversion of the live-patching docs
- The usual collection of typo fixes and corrections"
* tag 'docs-5.2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (140 commits)
docs/livepatch: Unify style of livepatch documentation in the ReST format
docs: livepatch: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst
scripts/documentation-file-ref-check: detect broken :doc:`foo`
scripts/documentation-file-ref-check: don't parse Next/ dir
LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated
LICENSES: Clearly mark dual license only licenses
docs: Don't reference the ZLib license in license-rules.rst
docs/vm: Minor editorial changes in the THP and hugetlbfs
docs/vm: add documentation of memory models
doc:it_IT: translation alignment
doc: fix typo in PGP guide
dontdiff: update with Kconfig build artifacts
docs/zh_CN: fix typos in 1.Intro.rst file
docs/zh_CN: redirect CoC docs to Chinese version
doc: mm: migration doesn't use FOLL_SPLIT anymore
docs: doc-guide: remove the extension from .rst files
doc: kselftest: Fix KBUILD_OUTPUT usage instructions
docs: trace: fix some Sphinx warnings
docs: speculation.txt: mark example blocks as such
docs: ntb.txt: add blank lines to clean up some Sphinx warnings
...
There are some warnings produced when building trace. Fix them.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Move most of the hist trigger extended error documentation to
ftrace.rst and expand on it to fully document tracing/error_log.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/c5d53c8f643ef6844d6ad8d0200c116936730b01.1554072478.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
uprobe_profile has filename and number of probe hits information for
each uprobe event. The documentation erroneously talks about probe
mis-hits. Update the documentation to the correct information.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1550557168-12345-1-git-send-email-srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Reported-by: KAUSTUBH RAJENDRA WELANKAR <f20160095@hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in>
Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add a 'trace(synthetic_event_name, params)' alternative to
synthetic_event_name(params).
Currently, the syntax used for generating synthetic events is to
invoke synthetic_event_name(params) i.e. use the synthetic event name
as a function call.
Users requested a new form that more explicitly shows that the
synthetic event is in effect being traced. In this version, a new
'trace()' keyword is used, and the synthetic event name is passed in
as the first argument.
In addition, for the sake of consistency with other actions, change
the documention to emphasize the trace() form over the function-call
form, which remains documented as equivalent.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/d082773e50232a001480cf837679a1e01c1a2eb7.1550100284.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Enabling of large number of functions by echoing in a large subset of the
functions in available_filter_functions can take a very long time. The
process requires testing all functions registered by the function tracer
(which is in the 10s of thousands), and doing a kallsyms lookup to convert
the ip address into a name, then comparing that name with the string passed
in.
When a function causes the function tracer to crash the system, a binary
bisect of the available_filter_functions can be done to find the culprit.
But this requires passing in half of the functions in
available_filter_functions over and over again, which makes it basically a
O(n^2) operation. With 40,000 functions, that ends up bing 1,600,000,000
opertions! And enabling this can take over 20 minutes.
As a quick speed up, if a number is passed into one of the filter files,
instead of doing a search, it just enables the function at the corresponding
line of the available_filter_functions file. That is:
# echo 50 > set_ftrace_filter
# cat set_ftrace_filter
x86_pmu_commit_txn
# head -50 available_filter_functions | tail -1
x86_pmu_commit_txn
This allows setting of half the available_filter_functions to take place in
less than a second!
# time seq 20000 > set_ftrace_filter
real 0m0.042s
user 0m0.005s
sys 0m0.015s
# wc -l set_ftrace_filter
20000 set_ftrace_filter
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Old cpuidle/sysfs.txt file was replaced in aa5eee355b. So, refer to
an updated file.
Fixes: aa5eee355b (Documentation: admin-guide: PM: Add cpuidle document)
Signed-off-by: Otto Sabart <ottosabart@seberm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
- Rework of the kprobe/uprobe and synthetic events to consolidate all
the dynamic event code. This will make changes in the future easier.
- Partial rewrite of the function graph tracing infrastructure.
This will allow for multiple users of hooking onto functions
to get the callback (return) of the function. This is the ground
work for having kprobes and function graph tracer using one code base.
- Clean up of the histogram code that will facilitate adding more
features to the histograms in the future.
- Addition of str_has_prefix() and a few use cases. There currently
is a similar function strstart() that is used in a few places, but
only returns a bool and not a length. These instances will be
removed in the future to use str_has_prefix() instead.
- A few other various clean ups as well.
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Merge tag 'trace-v4.21' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
- Rework of the kprobe/uprobe and synthetic events to consolidate all
the dynamic event code. This will make changes in the future easier.
- Partial rewrite of the function graph tracing infrastructure. This
will allow for multiple users of hooking onto functions to get the
callback (return) of the function. This is the ground work for having
kprobes and function graph tracer using one code base.
- Clean up of the histogram code that will facilitate adding more
features to the histograms in the future.
- Addition of str_has_prefix() and a few use cases. There currently is
a similar function strstart() that is used in a few places, but only
returns a bool and not a length. These instances will be removed in
the future to use str_has_prefix() instead.
- A few other various clean ups as well.
* tag 'trace-v4.21' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (57 commits)
tracing: Use the return of str_has_prefix() to remove open coded numbers
tracing: Have the historgram use the result of str_has_prefix() for len of prefix
tracing: Use str_has_prefix() instead of using fixed sizes
tracing: Use str_has_prefix() helper for histogram code
string.h: Add str_has_prefix() helper function
tracing: Make function ‘ftrace_exports’ static
tracing: Simplify printf'ing in seq_print_sym
tracing: Avoid -Wformat-nonliteral warning
tracing: Merge seq_print_sym_short() and seq_print_sym_offset()
tracing: Add hist trigger comments for variable-related fields
tracing: Remove hist trigger synth_var_refs
tracing: Use hist trigger's var_ref array to destroy var_refs
tracing: Remove open-coding of hist trigger var_ref management
tracing: Use var_refs[] for hist trigger reference checking
tracing: Change strlen to sizeof for hist trigger static strings
tracing: Remove unnecessary hist trigger struct field
tracing: Fix ftrace_graph_get_ret_stack() to use task and not current
seq_buf: Use size_t for len in seq_buf_puts()
seq_buf: Make seq_buf_puts() null-terminate the buffer
arm64: Use ftrace_graph_get_ret_stack() instead of curr_ret_stack
...
document on perf security, more Italian translations, more
improvements to the memory-management docs, improvements to the
pathname lookup documentation, and the usual array of smaller
fixes.
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Merge tag 'docs-5.0' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull documentation update from Jonathan Corbet:
"A fairly normal cycle for documentation stuff. We have a new document
on perf security, more Italian translations, more improvements to the
memory-management docs, improvements to the pathname lookup
documentation, and the usual array of smaller fixes.
As is often the case, there are a few reaches outside of
Documentation/ to adjust kerneldoc comments"
* tag 'docs-5.0' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (38 commits)
docs: improve pathname-lookup document structure
configfs: fix wrong name of struct in documentation
docs/mm-api: link slab_common.c to "The Slab Cache" section
slab: make kmem_cache_create{_usercopy} description proper kernel-doc
doc:process: add links where missing
docs/core-api: make mm-api.rst more structured
x86, boot: documentation whitespace fixup
Documentation: devres: note checking needs when converting
doc🇮🇹 add some process/* translations
doc🇮🇹 fixes in process/1.Intro
Documentation: convert path-lookup from markdown to resturctured text
Documentation/admin-guide: update admin-guide index.rst
Documentation/admin-guide: introduce perf-security.rst file
scripts/kernel-doc: Fix struct and struct field attribute processing
Documentation: dev-tools: Fix typos in index.rst
Correct gen_init_cpio tool's documentation
Document /proc/pid PID reuse behavior
Documentation: update path-lookup.md for parallel lookups
Documentation: Use "while" instead of "whilst"
dmaengine: Add mailing list address to the documentation
...
Commit 4cb3653df0 ("stm class: Document the MIPI SyS-T protocol usage")
added a document describing the SyS-T protocol usage, but forgot to add
it to the directory index. Fix that.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Fixes: 4cb3653df0 ("stm class: Document the MIPI SyS-T protocol usage")
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Use dyn_event framework for uprobe events. This shows
uprobe events on "dynamic_events" file.
User can also define new uprobe events via dynamic_events.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/154140858481.17322.9091293846515154065.stgit@devbox
Reviewed-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Use dyn_event framework for kprobe events. This shows
kprobe events on "tracing/dynamic_events" file.
User can also define new events via tracing/dynamic_events.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/154140855646.17322.6619219995865980392.stgit@devbox
Reviewed-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Trivial fixes to spelling mistakes in ftrace.rst
v2: tripple -> triple
Signed-off-by: Amir Livneh <alivneh@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Back in January I posted patches to create function based events. These were
the events that you suggested I make to allow developers to easily create
events in code where no trace event exists. After posting those changes for
review, it was suggested that we implement this instead with kprobes.
The problem with kprobes is that the interface is too complex and needs to
be simplified. Masami Hiramatsu posted patches in March and I've been
playing with them a bit. There's been a bit of clean up in the kprobe code
that was inspired by the function based event patches, and a couple of
enhancements to the kprobe event interface.
- If the arch supports it (we added support for x86), you can place a
kprobe event at the start of a function and use $arg1, $arg2, etc
to reference the arguments of a function. (Before you needed to know
what register or where on the stack the argument was).
- The second is a way to see array of events. For example, if you reference
a mac address, you can add:
echo 'p:mac ip_rcv perm_addr=+574($arg2):x8[6]' > kprobe_events
And this will produce:
mac: (ip_rcv+0x0/0x140) perm_addr={0x52,0x54,0x0,0xc0,0x76,0xec}
Other changes include
- Exporting trace_dump_stack to modules
- Have the stack tracer trace the entire stack (stop trying to remove
tracing itself, as we keep removing too much).
- Added support for SDT in uprobes
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Merge tag 'trace-v4.20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
"The biggest change here is the updates to kprobes
Back in January I posted patches to create function based events.
These were the events that you suggested I make to allow developers to
easily create events in code where no trace event exists. After
posting those changes for review, it was suggested that we implement
this instead with kprobes.
The problem with kprobes is that the interface is too complex and
needs to be simplified. Masami Hiramatsu posted patches in March and
I've been playing with them a bit. There's been a bit of clean up in
the kprobe code that was inspired by the function based event patches,
and a couple of enhancements to the kprobe event interface.
- If the arch supports it (we added support for x86), you can place a
kprobe event at the start of a function and use $arg1, $arg2, etc
to reference the arguments of a function. (Before you needed to
know what register or where on the stack the argument was).
- The second is a way to see array of events. For example, if you
reference a mac address, you can add:
echo 'p:mac ip_rcv perm_addr=+574($arg2):x8[6]' > kprobe_events
And this will produce:
mac: (ip_rcv+0x0/0x140) perm_addr={0x52,0x54,0x0,0xc0,0x76,0xec}
Other changes include
- Exporting trace_dump_stack to modules
- Have the stack tracer trace the entire stack (stop trying to remove
tracing itself, as we keep removing too much).
- Added support for SDT in uprobes"
[ SDT - "Statically Defined Tracing" are userspace markers for tracing.
Let's not use random TLA's in explanations unless they are fairly
well-established as generic (at least for kernel people) - Linus ]
* tag 'trace-v4.20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (24 commits)
tracing: Have stack tracer trace full stack
tracing: Export trace_dump_stack to modules
tracing: probeevent: Fix uninitialized used of offset in parse args
tracing/kprobes: Allow kprobe-events to record module symbol
tracing/kprobes: Check the probe on unloaded module correctly
tracing/uprobes: Fix to return -EFAULT if copy_from_user failed
tracing: probeevent: Add $argN for accessing function args
x86: ptrace: Add function argument access API
tracing: probeevent: Add array type support
tracing: probeevent: Add symbol type
tracing: probeevent: Unify fetch_insn processing common part
tracing: probeevent: Append traceprobe_ for exported function
tracing: probeevent: Return consumed bytes of dynamic area
tracing: probeevent: Unify fetch type tables
tracing: probeevent: Introduce new argument fetching code
tracing: probeevent: Remove NOKPROBE_SYMBOL from print functions
tracing: probeevent: Cleanup argument field definition
tracing: probeevent: Cleanup print argument functions
trace_uprobe: support reference counter in fd-based uprobe
perf probe: Support SDT markers having reference counter (semaphore)
...
Here is the big set of char/misc patches for 4.20-rc1.
Loads of things here, we have new code in all of these driver
subsystems:
fpga
stm
extcon
nvmem
eeprom
hyper-v
gsmi
coresight
thunderbolt
vmw_balloon
goldfish
soundwire
along with lots of fixes and minor changes to other small drivers.
All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
issues.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Merge tag 'char-misc-4.20-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc
Pull char/misc driver updates from Greg KH:
"Here is the big set of char/misc patches for 4.20-rc1.
Loads of things here, we have new code in all of these driver
subsystems:
- fpga
- stm
- extcon
- nvmem
- eeprom
- hyper-v
- gsmi
- coresight
- thunderbolt
- vmw_balloon
- goldfish
- soundwire
along with lots of fixes and minor changes to other small drivers.
All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
issues"
* tag 'char-misc-4.20-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (245 commits)
Documentation/security-bugs: Clarify treatment of embargoed information
lib: Fix ia64 bootloader linkage
MAINTAINERS: Clarify UIO vs UIOVEC maintainer
docs/uio: fix a grammar nitpick
docs: fpga: document programming fpgas using regions
fpga: add devm_fpga_region_create
fpga: bridge: add devm_fpga_bridge_create
fpga: mgr: add devm_fpga_mgr_create
hv_balloon: Replace spin_is_locked() with lockdep
sgi-xp: Replace spin_is_locked() with lockdep
eeprom: New ee1004 driver for DDR4 memory
eeprom: at25: remove unneeded 'at25_remove'
w1: IAD Register is yet readable trough iad sys file. Fix snprintf (%u for unsigned, count for max size).
misc: mic: scif: remove set but not used variables 'src_dma_addr, dst_dma_addr'
misc: mic: fix a DMA pool free failure
platform: goldfish: pipe: Add a blank line to separate varibles and code
platform: goldfish: pipe: Remove redundant casting
platform: goldfish: pipe: Call misc_deregister if init fails
platform: goldfish: pipe: Move the file-scope goldfish_pipe_dev variable into the driver state
platform: goldfish: pipe: Move the file-scope goldfish_pipe_miscdev variable into the driver state
...
This patch fixes some spelling typos.
Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Add the SPDX header to the STM class documentation.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The rules and order of identification of trace sources against the
"stp-policy" have changed; update the documentation to reflect that.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Add $argN special fetch variable for accessing function
arguments. This allows user to trace the Nth argument easily
at the function entry.
Note that this returns most probably assignment of registers
and stacks. In some case, it may not work well. If you need
to access correct registers or stacks you should use perf-probe.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/152465888632.26224.3412465701570253696.stgit@devbox
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add array type support for probe events.
This allows user to get arraied types from memory address.
The array type syntax is
TYPE[N]
Where TYPE is one of types (u8/16/32/64,s8/16/32/64,
x8/16/32/64, symbol, string) and N is a fixed value less
than 64.
The string array type is a bit different from other types. For
other base types, <base-type>[1] is equal to <base-type>
(e.g. +0(%di):x32[1] is same as +0(%di):x32.) But string[1] is not
equal to string. The string type itself represents "char array",
but string array type represents "char * array". So, for example,
+0(%di):string[1] is equal to +0(+0(%di)):string.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/152465891533.26224.6150658225601339931.stgit@devbox
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add "symbol" type to probeevent, which is an alias of u32 or u64
(depends on BITS_PER_LONG). This shows the result value in
symbol+offset style. This type is only available with kprobe
events.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/152465882860.26224.14779072294412467338.stgit@devbox
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add a description of stacktrace filter command.
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
small fixes and updates. We also have new ktime_get_*() docs from Arnd,
some kernel-doc fixes, a new set of Italian translations (non so se vale la
pena, ma non fa male - speriamo bene), and some extensive early
memory-management documentation improvements from Mike Rapoport.
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Merge tag 'docs-4.19' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull documentation update from Jonathan Corbet:
"This was a moderately busy cycle for docs, with the usual collection
of small fixes and updates.
We also have new ktime_get_*() docs from Arnd, some kernel-doc fixes,
a new set of Italian translations (non so se vale la pena, ma non fa
male - speriamo bene), and some extensive early memory-management
documentation improvements from Mike Rapoport"
* tag 'docs-4.19' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (52 commits)
Documentation: corrections to console/console.txt
Documentation: add ioctl number entry for v4l2-subdev.h
Remove gendered language from management style documentation
scripts/kernel-doc: Escape all literal braces in regexes
docs/mm: add description of boot time memory management
docs/mm: memblock: add overview documentation
docs/mm: memblock: add kernel-doc description for memblock types
docs/mm: memblock: add kernel-doc comments for memblock_add[_node]
docs/mm: memblock: update kernel-doc comments
mm/memblock: add a name for memblock flags enumeration
docs/mm: bootmem: add overview documentation
docs/mm: bootmem: add kernel-doc description of 'struct bootmem_data'
docs/mm: bootmem: fix kernel-doc warnings
docs/mm: nobootmem: fixup kernel-doc comments
mm/bootmem: drop duplicated kernel-doc comments
Documentation: vm.txt: Adding 'nr_hugepages_mempolicy' parameter description.
doc:it_IT: translation for kernel-hacking
docs: Fix the reference labels in Locking.rst
doc: tracing: Fix a typo of trace_stat
mm: Introduce new type vm_fault_t
...
The name of the directory for per-cpu function statistics
is trace_stat, not trace_stats.
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
systrace used for tracing for Android systems has carried a patch for
many years in the Android tree that traces when the cpufreq limits
change. With the help of this information, systrace can know when the
policy limits change and can visually display the data. Lets add
upstream support for the same.
Signed-off-by: Ruchi Kandoi <kandoiruchi@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
As the other files are documented explicitly, let's add a
short description for 'trigger' as well.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Ziegler <andreas.ziegler@fau.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
The per-event files to enable or disable kprobes and uprobes
are named 'enable', not 'enabled'. Fix the corresponding
documentation.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Ziegler <andreas.ziegler@fau.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Despite being mentioned at Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst as a
rst file, this file was still a text one, with several issues.
Convert it to ReST and add it to the trace index:
- Mark the document title as such;
- Identify and indent the literal blocks;
- Use the proper markups for table.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Fix typos, inconsistencies in using quotes, incorrect section number,
etc. in the trace histogram documentation.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180614224859.55864-1-joel@joelfernandes.org
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
As we move stuff around, some doc references are broken. Fix some of
them via this script:
./scripts/documentation-file-ref-check --fix
Manually checked if the produced result is valid, removing a few
false-positives.
Acked-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Charles Keepax <ckeepax@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Acked-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
The script:
./scripts/documentation-file-ref-check --fix
Gives multiple hints for broken references on some files.
Manually use the one that applies for some files.
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: James Morris <james.morris@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
triggers. For example:
# cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing
# echo 'snapshot' > events/ftrace/print/trigger
# echo 'cause snapshot' > trace_marker
The rest of the changes are various clean ups and also one stable fix that
was added late in the cycle.
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Merge tag 'trace-v4.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
"One new feature was added to ftrace, which is the trace_marker now
supports triggers. For example:
# cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing
# echo 'snapshot' > events/ftrace/print/trigger
# echo 'cause snapshot' > trace_marker
The rest of the changes are various clean ups and also one stable fix
that was added late in the cycle"
* tag 'trace-v4.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (21 commits)
tracing: Use match_string() instead of open coding it in trace_set_options()
branch-check: fix long->int truncation when profiling branches
ring-buffer: Fix typo in comment
ring-buffer: Fix a bunch of typos in comments
tracing/selftest: Add test to test simple snapshot trigger for trace_marker
tracing/selftest: Add test to test hist trigger between kernel event and trace_marker
tracing/selftest: Add selftests to test trace_marker histogram triggers
ftrace/selftest: Fix reset_trigger() to handle triggers with filters
ftrace/selftest: Have the reset_trigger code be a bit more careful
tracing: Document trace_marker triggers
tracing: Allow histogram triggers to access ftrace internal events
tracing: Prevent further users of zero size static arrays in trace events
tracing: Have zero size length in filter logic be full string
tracing: Add trigger file for trace_markers tracefs/ftrace/print
tracing: Do not show filter file for ftrace internal events
tracing: Add brackets in ftrace event dynamic arrays
tracing: Have event_trace_init() called by trace_init_tracefs()
tracing: Add __find_event_file() to find event files without restrictions
tracing: Do not reference event data in post call triggers
tracepoints: Fix the descriptions of tracepoint_probe_register{_prio}
...
Here is the "big" char and misc driver patches for 4.18-rc1.
It's not a lot of stuff here, but there are some highlights:
- coreboot driver updates
- soundwire driver updates
- android binder updates
- fpga big sync, mostly documentation
- lots of minor driver updates
All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
issues.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Merge tag 'char-misc-4.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc
Pull char/misc driver updates from Greg KH:
"Here is the "big" char and misc driver patches for 4.18-rc1.
It's not a lot of stuff here, but there are some highlights:
- coreboot driver updates
- soundwire driver updates
- android binder updates
- fpga big sync, mostly documentation
- lots of minor driver updates
All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
issues"
* tag 'char-misc-4.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (81 commits)
vmw_balloon: fixing double free when batching mode is off
MAINTAINERS: Add driver-api/fpga path
fpga: clarify that unregister functions also free
documentation: fpga: move fpga-region.txt to driver-api
documentation: fpga: add bridge document to driver-api
documentation: fpga: move fpga-mgr.txt to driver-api
Documentation: fpga: move fpga overview to driver-api
fpga: region: kernel-doc fixes
fpga: bridge: kernel-doc fixes
fpga: mgr: kernel-doc fixes
fpga: use SPDX
fpga: region: change api, add fpga_region_create/free
fpga: bridge: change api, don't use drvdata
fpga: manager: change api, don't use drvdata
fpga: region: don't use drvdata in common fpga code
Drivers: hv: vmbus: Removed an unnecessary cast from void *
ver_linux: Drop redundant calls to system() to test if file is readable
ver_linux: Move stderr redirection from function parameter to function body
misc: IBM Virtual Management Channel Driver (VMC)
rpmsg: Correct support for MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE()
...
including:
- Extensive RST conversions and organizational work in the
memory-management docs thanks to Mike Rapoport.
- An update of Documentation/features from Andrea Parri and a script to
keep it updated.
- Various LICENSES updates from Thomas, along with a script to check SPDX
tags.
- Work to fix dangling references to documentation files; this involved a
fair number of one-liner comment changes outside of Documentation/
...and the usual list of documentation improvements, typo fixes, etc.
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Merge tag 'docs-4.18' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"There's been a fair amount of work in the docs tree this time around,
including:
- Extensive RST conversions and organizational work in the
memory-management docs thanks to Mike Rapoport.
- An update of Documentation/features from Andrea Parri and a script
to keep it updated.
- Various LICENSES updates from Thomas, along with a script to check
SPDX tags.
- Work to fix dangling references to documentation files; this
involved a fair number of one-liner comment changes outside of
Documentation/
... and the usual list of documentation improvements, typo fixes, etc"
* tag 'docs-4.18' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (103 commits)
Documentation: document hung_task_panic kernel parameter
docs/admin-guide/mm: add high level concepts overview
docs/vm: move ksm and transhuge from "user" to "internals" section.
docs: Use the kerneldoc comments for memalloc_no*()
doc: document scope NOFS, NOIO APIs
docs: update kernel versions and dates in tables
docs/vm: transhuge: split userspace bits to admin-guide/mm/transhuge
docs/vm: transhuge: minor updates
docs/vm: transhuge: change sections order
Documentation: arm: clean up Marvell Berlin family info
Documentation: gpio: driver: Fix a typo and some odd grammar
docs: ranoops.rst: fix location of ramoops.txt
scripts/documentation-file-ref-check: rewrite it in perl with auto-fix mode
docs: uio-howto.rst: use a code block to solve a warning
mm, THP, doc: Add document for thp_swpout/thp_swpout_fallback
w1: w1_io.c: fix a kernel-doc warning
Documentation/process/posting: wrap text at 80 cols
docs: admin-guide: add cgroup-v2 documentation
Revert "Documentation/features/vm: Remove arch support status file for 'pte_special'"
Documentation: refcount-vs-atomic: Update reference to LKMM doc.
...
Add documentation and an example on how to use trace_marker triggers.
Reviewed-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The driver prints pcsr twice: the first time it uses specifier %px to
print hexadecimal pcsr value and the second time uses specifier %pS for
output kernel symbols.
As suggested by Kees, using %pS should be sufficient and %px isn't
necessary; the reason is if the pcsr is a kernel space address, we can
easily get to know the code line from %pS format, on the other hand, if
the pcsr value doesn't fall into kernel space range (e.g. if the CPU is
stuck in firmware), %pS also gives out pcsr hexadecimal value.
So this commit removes useless %px and update section "Output format"
in the document for alignment between the code and document.
Suggested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This patch groups together section pertaining to the perf tools. That way
everything is at the same place rather than spread out.
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Lecopzer Chen