There is currently no way to inspect or log what's happening at EL2
when the nVHE or pKVM hypervisor is used. With the growing set of
features for pKVM, the need for tooling is more pressing. And tracefs,
by its reliability, versatility and support for user-space is fit for
purpose.
Add support to write into a tracefs compatible ring-buffer. There's no
way the hypervisor could log events directly into the host tracefs
ring-buffers. So instead let's use our own, where the hypervisor is the
writer and the host the reader.
Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260309162516.2623589-24-vdonnefort@google.com
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Knowing the number of CPUs is necessary for determining the boundaries
of per-cpu variables, which will be used for upcoming hypervisor
tracing. hyp_nr_cpus which stores this value, is only initialised for
the pKVM hypervisor. Make it accessible for the nVHE hypervisor as well.
With the kernel now responsible for initialising hyp_nr_cpus, the
nr_cpus parameter is no longer needed in __pkvm_init.
Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260309162516.2623589-22-vdonnefort@google.com
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
In preparation for supporting tracing from the nVHE hyp, add support to
generate timestamps with a clock fed by the CNTCVT counter. The clock
can be kept in sync with the kernel's by updating the slope values. This
will be done later.
As current we do only create a trace clock, make the whole support
dependent on the upcoming CONFIG_NVHE_EL2_TRACING.
Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260309162516.2623589-21-vdonnefort@google.com
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
On NVHE_EL2_DEBUG, when using pKVM, the host stage-2 is relaxed to grant
the kernel access to the stacktrace, hypervisor bug table and text to
symbolize addresses. This is unsafe for production. In preparation for
adding more debug options to NVHE_EL2_DEBUG, decouple the stage-2
relaxation into a separate option.
While at it, rename PROTECTED_NVHE_STACKTRACE into PKVM_STACKTRACE,
following the same naming scheme as PKVM_DISABLE_STAGE2_ON_PANIC.
Reviewed-by: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260309162516.2623589-20-vdonnefort@google.com
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Add a module to help testing the tracefs support for trace remotes. This
module:
* Use simple_ring_buffer to write into a ring-buffer.
* Declare a single "selftest" event that can be triggered from
user-space.
* Register a "test" trace remote.
This is intended to be used by trace remote selftests.
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260309162516.2623589-15-vdonnefort@google.com
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
An event is predefined point in the writer code that allows to log
data. Following the same scheme as kernel events, add remote events,
described to user-space within the events/ tracefs directory found in
the corresponding trace remote.
Remote events are expected to be described during the trace remote
registration.
Add also a .enable_event callback for trace_remote to toggle the event
logging, if supported.
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260309162516.2623589-10-vdonnefort@google.com
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
A trace remote relies on ring-buffer remotes to read and control
compatible tracing buffers, written by entity such as firmware or
hypervisor.
Add a Tracefs directory remotes/ that contains all instances of trace
remotes. Each instance follows the same hierarchy as any other to ease
the support by existing user-space tools.
This currently does not provide any event support, which will come
later.
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260309162516.2623589-6-vdonnefort@google.com
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Hopefully, the remote will only swap pages on the kernel instruction (via
the swap_reader_page() callback). This means we know at what point the
ring-buffer geometry has changed. It is therefore possible to rearrange
the kernel view of that ring-buffer to allow non-consuming read.
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260309162516.2623589-5-vdonnefort@google.com
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add ring-buffer remotes to support entities outside of the kernel (such
as firmware or a hypervisor) that writes events into a ring-buffer using
the tracefs format
Require a description of the ring-buffer pages (struct
trace_buffer_desc) and callbacks (swap_reader_page and reset) to set up
the ring-buffer on the kernel side.
Expect the remote entity to maintain and update the meta-page.
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260309162516.2623589-4-vdonnefort@google.com
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Pull EFI fix from Ard Biesheuvel:
"Fix for the x86 EFI workaround keeping boot services code and data
regions reserved until after SetVirtualAddressMap() completes:
deferred struct page initialization may result in some of this memory
being lost permanently"
* tag 'efi-fixes-for-v7.0-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/efi/efi:
x86/efi: defer freeing of boot services memory
Pull i2c fix from Wolfram Sang:
"A revert for the i801 driver restoring old locking behaviour"
* tag 'i2c-for-7.0-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wsa/linux:
i2c: i801: Revert "i2c: i801: replace acpi_lock with I2C bus lock"
Pull x86 fixes from Ingo Molnar:
- Fix SEV guest boot failures in certain circumstances, due to
very early code relying on a BSS-zeroed variable that isn't
actually zeroed yet an may contain non-zero bootup values
Move the variable into the .data section go gain even earlier
zeroing
- Expose & allow the IBPB-on-Entry feature on SNP guests, which
was not properly exposed to guests due to initial implementational
caution
- Fix O= build failure when CONFIG_EFI_SBAT_FILE is using relative
file paths
- Fix the various SNC (Sub-NUMA Clustering) topology enumeration
bugs/artifacts (sched-domain build errors mostly).
SNC enumeration data got more complicated with Granite Rapids X
(GNR) and Clearwater Forest X (CWF), which exposed these bugs
and made their effects more serious
- Also use the now sane(r) SNC code to fix resctrl SNC detection bugs
- Work around a historic libgcc unwinder bug in the vdso32 sigreturn
code (again), which regressed during an overly aggressive recent
cleanup of DWARF annotations
* tag 'x86-urgent-2026-03-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/entry/vdso32: Work around libgcc unwinder bug
x86/resctrl: Fix SNC detection
x86/topo: Fix SNC topology mess
x86/topo: Replace x86_has_numa_in_package
x86/topo: Add topology_num_nodes_per_package()
x86/numa: Store extra copy of numa_nodes_parsed
x86/boot: Handle relative CONFIG_EFI_SBAT_FILE file paths
x86/sev: Allow IBPB-on-Entry feature for SNP guests
x86/boot/sev: Move SEV decompressor variables into the .data section
Pull timer fix from Ingo Molnar:
"Make clock_adjtime() syscall timex validation slightly more permissive
for auxiliary clocks, to not reject syscalls based on the status field
that do not try to modify the status field.
This makes the ABI behavior in clock_adjtime() consistent with
CLOCK_REALTIME"
* tag 'timers-urgent-2026-03-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
timekeeping: Fix timex status validation for auxiliary clocks
Pull scheduler fix from Ingo Molnar:
"Fix a DL scheduler bug that may corrupt internal metrics during PI and
setscheduler() syscalls, resulting in kernel warnings and misbehavior.
Found during stress-testing"
* tag 'sched-urgent-2026-03-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
sched/deadline: Fix missing ENQUEUE_REPLENISH during PI de-boosting
Pull SCSI fixes from James Bottomley:
"Two core changes and the rest in drivers, one core change to quirk the
behaviour of the Iomega Zip drive and one to fix a hang caused by tag
reallocation problems, which has mostly been seen by the iscsi client.
Note the latter fixes the problem but still has a slight sysfs memory
leak, so will be amended in the next pull request (once we've run the
fix for the fix through our testing)"
* tag 'scsi-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi:
scsi: target: Fix recursive locking in __configfs_open_file()
scsi: devinfo: Add BLIST_SKIP_IO_HINTS for Iomega ZIP
scsi: mpi3mr: Clear reset history on ready and recheck state after timeout
scsi: core: Fix refcount leak for tagset_refcnt
Pull fbdev fix from Helge Deller:
"Silence build error in au1100fb driver found by kernel test robot"
* tag 'fbdev-for-7.0-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/linux-fbdev:
fbdev: au1100fb: Fix build on MIPS64
Pull parisc fixes from Helge Deller:
"While testing Sasha Levin's 'kallsyms: embed source file:line info in
kernel stack traces' patch series, which increases the typical kernel
image size, I found some issues with the parisc initial kernel mapping
which may prevent the kernel to boot.
The three small patches here fix this"
* tag 'parisc-for-7.0-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux:
parisc: Fix initial page table creation for boot
parisc: Check kernel mapping earlier at bootup
parisc: Increase initial mapping to 64 MB with KALLSYMS
Pull RCU selftest fixes from Boqun Feng:
"Fix a regression in RCU torture test pre-defined scenarios caused by
commit 7dadeaa6e8 ("sched: Further restrict the preemption modes")
which limits PREEMPT_NONE to architectures that do not support
preemption at all and PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY to those architectures that do
not yet have PREEMPT_LAZY support.
Since major architectures (e.g. x86 and arm64) no longer support
CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE and CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY, using them in
rcutorture, rcuscale, refscale, and scftorture pre-defined scenarios
causes config checking errors.
Switch these kconfigs to PREEMPT_LAZY"
* tag 'rcu-fixes.v7.0-20260307a' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rcu/linux:
scftorture: Update due to x86 not supporting none/voluntary preemption
refscale: Update due to x86 not supporting none/voluntary preemption
rcuscale: Update due to x86 not supporting none/voluntary preemption
rcutorture: Update due to x86 not supporting none/voluntary preemption
Pull tracing fixes from Steven Rostedt:
- Fix possible NULL pointer dereference in trace_data_alloc()
On the trace_data_alloc() error path, it can call trigger_data_free()
with a NULL pointer. This used to be a kfree() but was changed to
trigger_data_free() to clean up any partial initialization. The issue
is that trigger_data_free() does not expect a NULL pointer. Have
trigger_data_free() return safely on NULL pointer.
- Fix multiple events on the command line and bootconfig
If multiple events are enabled on the command line separately and not
grouped, only the last event gets enabled. That is:
trace_event=sched_switch trace_event=sched_waking
will only enable sched_waking whereas:
trace_event=sched_switch,sched_waking
will enable both.
The bootconfig makes it even worse as the second way is the more
common method.
The issue is that a temporary buffer is used to store the events to
enable later in boot. Each time the cmdline callback is called, it
overwrites what was previously there.
Have the callback append the next value (delimited by a comma) if the
temporary buffer already has content.
- Fix command line trace_buffer_size if >= 2G
The logic to allocate the trace buffer uses "int" for the size
parameter in the command line code causing overflow issues if more
that 2G is specified.
* tag 'trace-v7.0-rc2-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
tracing: Fix trace_buf_size= cmdline parameter with sizes >= 2G
tracing: Fix enabling multiple events on the kernel command line and bootconfig
tracing: Add NULL pointer check to trigger_data_free()
Pull hwmon fixes from Guenter Roeck:
- Fix initialization commands for AHT20
- Correct a malformed email address (emc1403)
- Check the it87_lock() return value
- Fix inverted polarity (max6639)
- Fix overflows, underflows, sign extension, and other problems in
macsmc
- Fix stack overflow in debugfs read (pmbus/q54sj108a2)
- Drop support for SMARC-sAM67 (discontinued and never released to
market)
* tag 'hwmon-for-v7.0-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/groeck/linux-staging:
hwmon: (pmbus/q54sj108a2) fix stack overflow in debugfs read
hwmon: (max6639) fix inverted polarity
dt-bindings: hwmon: sl28cpld: Drop sa67mcu compatible
hwmon: (it87) Check the it87_lock() return value
Revert "hwmon: add SMARC-sAM67 support"
hwmon: (aht10) Fix initialization commands for AHT20
hwmon: (emc1403) correct a malformed email address
hwmon: (macsmc) Fix overflows, underflows, and sign extension
hwmon: (macsmc) Fix regressions in Apple Silicon SMC hwmon driver
Pull driver core fix from Danilo Krummrich:
- Revert "driver core: enforce device_lock for driver_match_device()":
When a device is already present in the system and a driver is
registered on the same bus, we iterate over all devices registered on
this bus to see if one of them matches. If we come across an already
bound one where the corresponding driver crashed while holding the
device lock (e.g. in probe()) we can't make any progress anymore.
Thus, revert and clarify that an implementer of struct bus_type must
not expect match() to be called with the device lock held.
* tag 'driver-core-7.0-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/driver-core/driver-core:
Revert "driver core: enforce device_lock for driver_match_device()"
Pull xen fixes from Juergen Gross:
- a cleanup of arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S removing the pre-built page
tables for Xen guests
- a small comment update
- another cleanup for Xen PVH guests mode
- fix an issue with Xen PV-devices backed by driver domains
* tag 'for-linus-7.0-rc3-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip:
xen/xenbus: better handle backend crash
xenbus: add xenbus_device parameter to xenbus_read_driver_state()
x86/PVH: Use boot params to pass RSDP address in start_info page
x86/xen: update outdated comment
xen/acpi-processor: fix _CST detection using undersized evaluation buffer
x86/xen: Build identity mapping page tables dynamically for XENPV
Eduard Zingerman says:
====================
bpf: Fix precision backtracking bug with linked registers
Emil Tsalapatis reported a verifier bug hit by the scx_lavd sched_ext
scheduler. The essential part of the verifier log looks as follows:
436: ...
// checkpoint hit for 438: (1d) if r7 == r8 goto ...
frame 3: propagating r2,r7,r8
frame 2: propagating r6
mark_precise: frame3: last_idx ...
mark_precise: frame3: regs=r2,r7,r8 stack= before 436: ...
mark_precise: frame3: regs=r2,r7 stack= before 435: ...
mark_precise: frame3: regs=r2,r7 stack= before 434: (85) call bpf_trace_vprintk#177
verifier bug: backtracking call unexpected regs 84
The log complains that registers r2 and r7 are tracked as precise
while processing the bpf_trace_vprintk() call in precision backtracking.
This can't be right, as r2 is reset by the call and there is nothing
to backtrack it to. The precision propagation is triggered when
a checkpoint is hit at instruction 438, r2 is dead at that instruction.
This happens because of the following sequence of events:
- Instruction 438 is first reached with registers r2 and r7 having
the same id via a path that does not call bpf_trace_vprintk():
- Checkpoint is created at 438.
- The jump at 438 is predicted, hence r7 and registers linked to it
(r2) are propagated as precise, marking r2 and r7 precise in the
checkpoint.
- Instruction 438 is reached a second time with r2 undefined and via
a path that calls bpf_trace_vprintk():
- Checkpoint is hit.
- propagate_precision() picks registers r2 and r7 and propagates
precision marks for those up to the helper call.
The root cause is the fact that states_equal() and
propagate_precision() assume that the precision flag can't be set for a
dead register (as computed by compute_live_registers()).
However, this is not the case when linked registers are at play.
Fix this by accounting for live register flags in
collect_linked_regs().
---
====================
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260306-linked-regs-and-propagate-precision-v1-0-18e859be570d@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Add a test for the scenario described in the previous commit:
an iterator loop with two paths where one ties r2/r7 via
shared scalar id and skips a call, while the other goes
through the call. Precision marks from the linked registers
get spuriously propagated to the call path via
propagate_precision(), hitting "backtracking call unexpected
regs" in backtrack_insn().
Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260306-linked-regs-and-propagate-precision-v1-2-18e859be570d@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Fix an inconsistency between func_states_equal() and
collect_linked_regs():
- regsafe() uses check_ids() to verify that cached and current states
have identical register id mapping.
- func_states_equal() calls regsafe() only for registers computed as
live by compute_live_registers().
- clean_live_states() is supposed to remove dead registers from cached
states, but it can skip states belonging to an iterator-based loop.
- collect_linked_regs() collects all registers sharing the same id,
ignoring the marks computed by compute_live_registers().
Linked registers are stored in the state's jump history.
- backtrack_insn() marks all linked registers for an instruction
as precise whenever one of the linked registers is precise.
The above might lead to a scenario:
- There is an instruction I with register rY known to be dead at I.
- Instruction I is reached via two paths: first A, then B.
- On path A:
- There is an id link between registers rX and rY.
- Checkpoint C is created at I.
- Linked register set {rX, rY} is saved to the jump history.
- rX is marked as precise at I, causing both rX and rY
to be marked precise at C.
- On path B:
- There is no id link between registers rX and rY,
otherwise register states are sub-states of those in C.
- Because rY is dead at I, check_ids() returns true.
- Current state is considered equal to checkpoint C,
propagate_precision() propagates spurious precision
mark for register rY along the path B.
- Depending on a program, this might hit verifier_bug()
in the backtrack_insn(), e.g. if rY ∈ [r1..r5]
and backtrack_insn() spots a function call.
The reproducer program is in the next patch.
This was hit by sched_ext scx_lavd scheduler code.
Changes in tests:
- verifier_scalar_ids.c selftests need modification to preserve
some registers as live for __msg() checks.
- exceptions_assert.c adjusted to match changes in the verifier log,
R0 is dead after conditional instruction and thus does not get
range.
- precise.c adjusted to match changes in the verifier log, register r9
is dead after comparison and it's range is not important for test.
Reported-by: Emil Tsalapatis <emil@etsalapatis.com>
Fixes: 0fb3cf6110 ("bpf: use register liveness information for func_states_equal")
Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260306-linked-regs-and-propagate-precision-v1-1-18e859be570d@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Pull Kbuild fixes from Nathan Chancellor:
- Split out .modinfo section from ELF_DETAILS macro, as that macro may
be used in other areas that expect to discard .modinfo, breaking
certain image layouts
- Adjust genksyms parser to handle optional attributes in certain
declarations, necessary after commit 07919126ec ("netfilter:
annotate NAT helper hook pointers with __rcu")
- Include resolve_btfids in external module build created by
scripts/package/install-extmod-build when it may be run on external
modules
- Avoid removing objtool binary with 'make clean', as it is required
for external module builds
* tag 'kbuild-fixes-7.0-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kbuild/linux:
kbuild: Leave objtool binary around with 'make clean'
kbuild: install-extmod-build: Package resolve_btfids if necessary
genksyms: Fix parsing a declarator with a preceding attribute
kbuild: Split .modinfo out from ELF_DETAILS
Pull arm64 fixes from Will Deacon:
"The main changes are a fix to the way in which we manage the access
flag setting for mappings using the contiguous bit and a fix for a
hang on the kexec/hibernation path.
Summary:
- Fix kexec/hibernation hang due to bogus read-only mappings
- Fix sparse warnings in our cmpxchg() implementation
- Prevent runtime-const being used in modules, just like x86
- Fix broken elision of access flag modifications for contiguous
entries on systems without support for hardware updates
- Fix a broken SVE selftest that was testing the wrong instruction"
* tag 'arm64-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux:
selftest/arm64: Fix sve2p1_sigill() to hwcap test
arm64: contpte: fix set_access_flags() no-op check for SMMU/ATS faults
arm64: make runtime const not usable by modules
arm64: mm: Add PTE_DIRTY back to PAGE_KERNEL* to fix kexec/hibernation
arm64: Silence sparse warnings caused by the type casting in (cmp)xchg
Some of the sizing logic through tracer_alloc_buffers() uses int
internally, causing unexpected behavior if the user passes a value that
does not fit in an int (on my x86 machine, the result is uselessly tiny
buffers).
Fix by plumbing the parameter's real type (unsigned long) through to the
ring buffer allocation functions, which already use unsigned long.
It has always been possible to create larger ring buffers via the sysfs
interface: this only affects the cmdline parameter.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/bff42a4288aada08bdf74da3f5b67a2c28b761f8.1772852067.git.calvin@wbinvd.org
Fixes: 73c5162aa3 ("tracing: keep ring buffer to minimum size till used")
Signed-off-by: Calvin Owens <calvin@wbinvd.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
