The only purpose of klp_check_compiler_support() is to make sure that we
are not using ftrace on x86 via mcount (because that's executed only after
prologue has already happened, and that's too late for livepatching
purposes).
Now that mcount is not supported by ftrace any more, there is no need for
klp_check_compiler_support() either.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/nycvar.YFH.7.76.1905102346100.17054@cbobk.fhfr.pm
Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
There's two methods of enabling function tracing in Linux on x86. One is
with just "gcc -pg" and the other is "gcc -pg -mfentry". The former will use
calls to a special function "mcount" after the frame is set up in all C
functions. The latter will add calls to a special function called "fentry"
as the very first instruction of all C functions.
At compile time, there is a check to see if gcc supports, -mfentry, and if
it does, it will use that, because it is more versatile and less error prone
for function tracing.
Starting with v4.19, the minimum gcc supported to build the Linux kernel,
was raised to version 4.6. That also happens to be the first gcc version to
support -mfentry. Since on x86, using gcc versions from 4.6 and beyond will
unconditionally enable the -mfentry, it will no longer use mcount as the
method for inserting calls into the C functions of the kernel. This means
that there is no point in continuing to maintain mcount in x86.
Remove support for using mcount. This makes the code less complex, and will
also allow it to be simplified in the future.
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
When DYNAMIC_FTRACE is enabled in the kernel, all the functions that can be
traced by the function tracer have a "nop" placeholder at the start of the
function. When function tracing is enabled, the nop is converted into a call
to the tracing infrastructure where the functions get traced. This also
allows for specifying specific functions to trace, and a lot of
infrastructure is built on top of this.
When DYNAMIC_FTRACE is not enabled, all the functions have a call to the
ftrace trampoline. A check is made to see if a function pointer is the
ftrace_stub or not, and if it is not, it calls the function pointer to trace
the code. This adds over 10% overhead to the kernel even when tracing is
disabled.
When an architecture supports DYNAMIC_FTRACE there really is no reason to
use the static tracing. I have kept non DYNAMIC_FTRACE available in x86 so
that the generic code for non DYNAMIC_FTRACE can be tested. There is no
reason to support non DYNAMIC_FTRACE for both x86_64 and x86_32. As the non
DYNAMIC_FTRACE for x86_32 does not even support fentry, and we want to
remove mcount completely, there's no reason to keep non DYNAMIC_FTRACE
around for x86_32.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Peter Zijlstra noticed that with CONFIG_PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES, the "if"
macro converts the conditional to an array index. This can cause GCC
to create horrible code. When there are nested ifs, the generated code
uses register values to encode branching decisions.
Josh Poimboeuf found that replacing the define "if" macro from using
the condition as an array index and incrementing the branch statics
with an if statement itself, reduced the asm complexity and shrinks the
generated code quite a bit.
But this can be simplified even further by replacing the internal if
statement with a ternary operator.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190307174802.46fmpysxyo35hh43@treble
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wiALN3jRuzARpwThN62iKd476Xj-uom+YnLZ4=eqcz7xQ@mail.gmail.com
Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reported-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
When reading only part of the id file, the ppos isn't tracked correctly.
This is taken care by simple_read_from_buffer.
Reading a single byte, and then the next byte would result EOF.
While this seems like not a big deal, this breaks abstractions that
reads information from files unbuffered. See for example
https://github.com/golang/go/issues/29399
This code was mentioned as problematic in
commit cd458ba9d5
("tracing: Do not (ab)use trace_seq in event_id_read()")
An example C code that show this bug is:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdint.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <unistd.h>
int main(int argc, char **argv) {
if (argc < 2)
return 1;
int fd = open(argv[1], O_RDONLY);
char c;
read(fd, &c, 1);
printf("First %c\n", c);
read(fd, &c, 1);
printf("Second %c\n", c);
}
Then run with, e.g.
sudo ./a.out /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/tcp/tcp_set_state/id
You'll notice you're getting the first character twice, instead of the
first two characters in the id file.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181231115837.4932-1-elazar@lightbitslabs.com
Cc: Orit Wasserman <orit.was@gmail.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 23725aeeab ("ftrace: provide an id file for each event")
Signed-off-by: Elazar Leibovich <elazar@lightbitslabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
When building a allmodconfig kernel for arm64 and boot that in qemu,
CONFIG_FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST gets enabled and that takes time so the
watchdog expires and prints out a message like this:
'watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 22s! [swapper/0:1]'
Depending on what the what test gets called from init_trace_selftests()
it stays minutes in the loop.
Rework so that function cond_resched() gets called in the
init_trace_selftests loop.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181130145622.26334-1-anders.roxell@linaro.org
Co-developed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Automatic const char[] variables cause unnecessary code
generation. For example, the this_mod variable leads to
3f04: 48 b8 5f 5f 74 68 69 73 5f 6d movabs $0x6d5f736968745f5f,%rax # __this_m
3f0e: 4c 8d 44 24 02 lea 0x2(%rsp),%r8
3f13: 48 8d 7c 24 10 lea 0x10(%rsp),%rdi
3f18: 48 89 44 24 02 mov %rax,0x2(%rsp)
3f1d: 4c 89 e9 mov %r13,%rcx
3f20: b8 65 00 00 00 mov $0x65,%eax # e
3f25: 48 c7 c2 00 00 00 00 mov $0x0,%rdx
3f28: R_X86_64_32S .rodata.str1.1+0x18d
3f2c: be 48 00 00 00 mov $0x48,%esi
3f31: c7 44 24 0a 6f 64 75 6c movl $0x6c75646f,0xa(%rsp) # odul
3f39: 66 89 44 24 0e mov %ax,0xe(%rsp)
i.e., the string gets built on the stack at runtime. Similar code can be
found for the other instances I'm replacing here. Putting the string
in .rodata reduces the combined .text+.rodata size and saves time and
stack space at runtime.
The simplest fix, and what I've done for the this_mod case, is to just
make the variable static.
However, for the "<faulted>" case where the same string is used twice,
that prevents the linker from merging those two literals, so instead use
a macro - that also keeps the two instances automatically in
sync (instead of only the compile-time strlen expression).
Finally, for the two runs of spaces, it turns out that the "build
these strings on the stack" is not the worst part of what gcc does -
it turns print_func_help_header_irq() into "if (tgid) { /*
print_event_info + five seq_printf calls */ } else { /* print
event_info + another five seq_printf */}". Taking inspiration from a
suggestion from Al Viro, use %.*s to make snprintf either stop after
the first two spaces or print the whole string. As a bonus, the
seq_printfs now fit on single lines (at least, they are not longer
than the existing ones in the function just above), making it easier
to see that the ascii art lines up.
x86-64 defconfig + CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER:
$ scripts/stackdelta /tmp/stackusage.{0,1}
./kernel/trace/ftrace.c ftrace_mod_callback 152 136 -16
./kernel/trace/trace.c trace_default_header 56 32 -24
./kernel/trace/trace.c tracing_mark_raw_write 96 72 -24
./kernel/trace/trace.c tracing_mark_write 104 80 -24
bloat-o-meter
add/remove: 1/0 grow/shrink: 0/4 up/down: 14/-375 (-361)
Function old new delta
this_mod - 14 +14
ftrace_mod_callback 577 542 -35
tracing_mark_raw_write 444 374 -70
tracing_mark_write 616 540 -76
trace_default_header 600 406 -194
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190320081757.6037-1-linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk
Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Since commit 533059281e ("tracing: probeevent: Introduce new
argument fetching code") dropped the $comm support from uprobe
events, this re-enables it.
For $comm support, uses strlcpy() instead of strncpy_from_user()
to copy current task's comm. Because it is in the kernel space,
strncpy_from_user() always fails to copy the comm.
This also uses strlen() instead of strnlen_user() to measure the
length of the comm.
Note that this uses -ECOMM as a token value to fetch the comm
string. If the user-space pointer points -ECOMM, it will be
translated to task->comm.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/155723734162.9149.4042756162201097965.stgit@devnote2
Fixes: 533059281e ("tracing: probeevent: Introduce new argument fetching code")
Reported-by: Andreas Ziegler <andreas.ziegler@fau.de>
Acked-by: Andreas Ziegler <andreas.ziegler@fau.de>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The 'ftdump' command in kdb is currently a bit of a last resort, at
least if you have lots of traces turned on. It's going to print a
whole boatload of data out your serial port which is probably running
at 115200. This could easily take many, many minutes.
Usually you're most interested in what's at the _end_ of the ftrace
buffer, AKA what happened most recently. That means you've got to
wait the full time for the dump. The 'ftdump' command does attempt to
help you a little bit by allowing you to skip a fixed number of
entries. Unfortunately it provides no way for you to know how many
entries you should skip.
Let's do similar to python and allow you to use a negative number to
indicate that you want to skip all entries except the last few. This
allows you to quickly see what you want.
Note that we also change the printout in ftdump to print the
(positive) number of entries actually skipped since that could be
helpful to know when you've specified a negative skip count.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190319171206.97107-3-dianders@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The things skipped by kdb's "ftdump" command when you pass it a
parameter has always been entries, not lines. The difference usually
doesn't matter but when the trace buffer has multi-line entries (like
a stack dump) it can matter.
Let's fix this both in the help text for ftdump and also in the local
variable names.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190319171206.97107-1-dianders@chromium.org
Acked-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The function_graph boot up self test emulates the tr->init() function in
order to add a wrapper around the function graph tracer entry code to test
for lock ups and such. But it does not emulate the tr->reset(), and just
calls the function_graph tracer tr->reset() function which will use its own
fgraph_ops to unregister function tracing with. As the fgraph_ops is
becoming more meaningful with the register_ftrace_graph() and
unregister_ftrace_graph() functions, the two need to be the same. The
emulated tr->init() uses its own fgraph_ops descriptor, which means the
unregister_ftrace_graph() must use the same ftrace_ops, which the selftest
currently does not do. By emulating the tr->reset() as the selftest does
with the tr->init() it will be able to pass the same fgraph_ops descriptor
to the unregister_ftrace_graph() as it did with the register_ftrace_graph().
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The function_graph tracer has a stub function and its ops flag has the
FTRACE_OPS_FL_STUB set. As the function graph does not use the
ftrace_ops->func pointer but instead is called by a separate part of the
ftrace trampoline. The function_graph tracer still requires to pass in a
ftrace_ops that may also hold the hash of the functions to call. But there's
no reason to test that hash in the function tracing portion. Instead of
testing to see if we should call the stub function, just test if the ops has
FTRACE_OPS_FL_STUB set, and just skip it.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The ASSIGN_OPS_HASH() macro was moved to fgraph.c where it was used, but for
some reason it wasn't removed from ftrace.c, as it is no longer referenced
there.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
As each instance has their own error_log file, it makes more sense that the
instances show the errors of their own instead of all error_logs having the
same data. Make it that the errors show up in the instance error_log file
that the error happens in. If no instance trace_array is available, then
NULL can be passed in which will create the error in the top level instance
(the one at the top of the tracefs directory).
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Have the trace_array that associates the trace instance of the histogram
passed around to functions so that error handling can display the error
message in the proper instance.
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Pass in the trace_array that represents the instance the filter being
changed is in to create_event_filter(). This will allow for error messages
that happen when writing to the filter can be displayed in the proper
instance "error_log" file.
Note, for calls to create_filter() (that was also modified to support
create_event_filter()), that changes filters that do not exist in a instance
(for perf for example), NULL may be passed in, which means that there will
not be any message to log for that filter.
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Introduce a new ftrace file, tracing/error_log, for ftrace commands to
log errors. This is useful for allowing more complex commands such as
hist trigger and kprobe_event commands to point out specifically where
something may have gone wrong without forcing them to resort to more
ad hoc methods such as tacking error messages onto existing output
files.
To log a tracing error, call the event_log_err() function, passing it
a location string describing where it came from e.g. kprobe_events or
system:event, the command that caused the error, an array of static
error strings describing errors and an index within that array which
describes the specific error, along with the position to place the
error caret.
Reading the log displays the last (currently) 8 errors logged in the
following format:
[timestamp] <loc>: error: <static error text>
Command: <command that caused the error>
^
Memory for the error log isn't allocated unless there has been a trace
event error, and the error log can be cleared and have its memory
freed by writing the empty string in truncation mode to it:
# echo > tracing/error_log.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/0c2c82571fd38c5f3a88ca823627edff250e9416.1554072478.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Suggested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Improvements-suggested-by: Steve Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.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>
Ftrace provides the feature “instances” that provides the capability to
create multiple Ftrace ring buffers. However, currently these buffers
are created/accessed via userspace only. The kernel APIs providing these
features are not exported, hence cannot be used by other kernel
components.
This patch aims to extend this infrastructure to provide the
flexibility to create/log/remove/ enable-disable existing trace events
to these buffers from within the kernel.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1553106531-3281-2-git-send-email-divya.indi@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Divya Indi <divya.indi@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Joe Jin <joe.jin@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Pull KVM fixes from Paolo Bonzini:
"A collection of x86 and ARM bugfixes, and some improvements to
documentation.
On top of this, a cleanup of kvm_para.h headers, which were exported
by some architectures even though they not support KVM at all. This is
responsible for all the Kbuild changes in the diffstat"
* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (28 commits)
Documentation: kvm: clarify KVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION
KVM: doc: Document the life cycle of a VM and its resources
KVM: selftests: complete IO before migrating guest state
KVM: selftests: disable stack protector for all KVM tests
KVM: selftests: explicitly disable PIE for tests
KVM: selftests: assert on exit reason in CR4/cpuid sync test
KVM: x86: update %rip after emulating IO
x86/kvm/hyper-v: avoid spurious pending stimer on vCPU init
kvm/x86: Move MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES to array emulated_msrs
KVM: x86: Emulate MSR_IA32_ARCH_CAPABILITIES on AMD hosts
kvm: don't redefine flags as something else
kvm: mmu: Used range based flushing in slot_handle_level_range
KVM: export <linux/kvm_para.h> and <asm/kvm_para.h> iif KVM is supported
KVM: x86: remove check on nr_mmu_pages in kvm_arch_commit_memory_region()
kvm: nVMX: Add a vmentry check for HOST_SYSENTER_ESP and HOST_SYSENTER_EIP fields
KVM: SVM: Workaround errata#1096 (insn_len maybe zero on SMAP violation)
KVM: Reject device ioctls from processes other than the VM's creator
KVM: doc: Fix incorrect word ordering regarding supported use of APIs
KVM: x86: fix handling of role.cr4_pae and rename it to 'gpte_size'
KVM: nVMX: Do not inherit quadrant and invalid for the root shadow EPT
...
Pull x86 fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
"A pile of x86 updates:
- Prevent exceeding he valid physical address space in the /dev/mem
limit checks.
- Move all header content inside the header guard to prevent compile
failures.
- Fix the bogus __percpu annotation in this_cpu_has() which makes
sparse very noisy.
- Disable switch jump tables completely when retpolines are enabled.
- Prevent leaking the trampoline address"
* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/realmode: Make set_real_mode_mem() static inline
x86/cpufeature: Fix __percpu annotation in this_cpu_has()
x86/mm: Don't exceed the valid physical address space
x86/retpolines: Disable switch jump tables when retpolines are enabled
x86/realmode: Don't leak the trampoline kernel address
x86/boot: Fix incorrect ifdeffery scope
x86/resctrl: Remove unused variable
Pull perf tooling fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
"Core libraries:
- Fix max perf_event_attr.precise_ip detection.
- Fix parser error for uncore event alias
- Fixup ordering of kernel maps after obtaining the main kernel map
address.
Intel PT:
- Fix TSC slip where A TSC packet can slip past MTC packets so that
the timestamp appears to go backwards.
- Fixes for exported-sql-viewer GUI conversion to python3.
ARM coresight:
- Fix the build by adding a missing case value for enumeration value
introduced in newer library, that now is the required one.
tool headers:
- Syncronize kernel headers with the kernel, getting new io_uring and
pidfd_send_signal syscalls so that 'perf trace' can handle them"
* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
perf pmu: Fix parser error for uncore event alias
perf scripts python: exported-sql-viewer.py: Fix python3 support
perf scripts python: exported-sql-viewer.py: Fix never-ending loop
perf machine: Update kernel map address and re-order properly
tools headers uapi: Sync powerpc's asm/kvm.h copy with the kernel sources
tools headers: Update x86's syscall_64.tbl and uapi/asm-generic/unistd
tools headers uapi: Update drm/i915_drm.h
tools arch x86: Sync asm/cpufeatures.h with the kernel sources
tools headers uapi: Sync linux/fcntl.h to get the F_SEAL_FUTURE_WRITE addition
tools headers uapi: Sync asm-generic/mman-common.h and linux/mman.h
perf evsel: Fix max perf_event_attr.precise_ip detection
perf intel-pt: Fix TSC slip
perf cs-etm: Add missing case value
Pull CPU hotplug fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
"Two SMT/hotplug related fixes:
- Prevent crash when HOTPLUG_CPU is disabled and the CPU bringup
aborts. This is triggered with the 'nosmt' command line option, but
can happen by any abort condition. As the real unplug code is not
compiled in, prevent the fail by keeping the CPU in zombie state.
- Enforce HOTPLUG_CPU for SMP on x86 to avoid the above situation
completely. With 'nosmt' being a popular option it's required to
unplug the half brought up sibling CPUs (due to the MCE wreckage)
completely"
* 'smp-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/smp: Enforce CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU when SMP=y
cpu/hotplug: Prevent crash when CPU bringup fails on CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU=n
Pull locking fixlet from Thomas Gleixner:
"Trivial update to the maintainers file"
* 'locking-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
MAINTAINERS: Remove deleted file from futex file pattern
Pull core fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
"A small set of core updates:
- Make the watchdog respect the selected CPU mask again. That was
broken by the rework of the watchdog thread management and caused
inconsistent state and NMI watchdog being unstoppable.
- Ensure that the objtool build can find the libelf location.
- Remove dead kcore stub code"
* 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
watchdog: Respect watchdog cpumask on CPU hotplug
objtool: Query pkg-config for libelf location
proc/kcore: Remove unused kclist_add_remap()
