linux/tools
Linus Torvalds 70045bfc4c ftrace: Rewrite of function graph tracer
Up until now, the function graph tracer could only have a single user
 attached to it. If another user tried to attach to the function graph
 tracer while one was already attached, it would fail. Allowing function
 graph tracer to have more than one user has been asked for since 2009, but
 it required a rewrite to the logic to pull it off so it never happened.
 Until now!
 
 There's three systems that trace the return of a function. That is
 kretprobes, function graph tracer, and BPF. kretprobes and function graph
 tracing both do it similarly. The difference is that kretprobes uses a
 shadow stack per callback and function graph tracer creates a shadow stack
 for all tasks. The function graph tracer method makes it possible to trace
 the return of all functions. As kretprobes now needs that feature too,
 allowing it to use function graph tracer was needed. BPF also wants to
 trace the return of many probes and its method doesn't scale either.
 Having it use function graph tracer would improve that.
 
 By allowing function graph tracer to have multiple users allows both
 kretprobes and BPF to use function graph tracer in these cases. This will
 allow kretprobes code to be removed in the future as it's version will no
 longer be needed. Note, function graph tracer is only limited to 16
 simultaneous users, due to shadow stack size and allocated slots.
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Merge tag 'ftrace-v6.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace

Pull ftrace updates from Steven Rostedt:
 "Rewrite of function graph tracer to allow multiple users

  Up until now, the function graph tracer could only have a single user
  attached to it. If another user tried to attach to the function graph
  tracer while one was already attached, it would fail. Allowing
  function graph tracer to have more than one user has been asked for
  since 2009, but it required a rewrite to the logic to pull it off so
  it never happened. Until now!

  There's three systems that trace the return of a function. That is
  kretprobes, function graph tracer, and BPF. kretprobes and function
  graph tracing both do it similarly. The difference is that kretprobes
  uses a shadow stack per callback and function graph tracer creates a
  shadow stack for all tasks. The function graph tracer method makes it
  possible to trace the return of all functions. As kretprobes now needs
  that feature too, allowing it to use function graph tracer was needed.
  BPF also wants to trace the return of many probes and its method
  doesn't scale either. Having it use function graph tracer would
  improve that.

  By allowing function graph tracer to have multiple users allows both
  kretprobes and BPF to use function graph tracer in these cases. This
  will allow kretprobes code to be removed in the future as it's version
  will no longer be needed.

  Note, function graph tracer is only limited to 16 simultaneous users,
  due to shadow stack size and allocated slots"

* tag 'ftrace-v6.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: (49 commits)
  fgraph: Use str_plural() in test_graph_storage_single()
  function_graph: Add READ_ONCE() when accessing fgraph_array[]
  ftrace: Add missing kerneldoc parameters to unregister_ftrace_direct()
  function_graph: Everyone uses HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_RET_ADDR_PTR, remove it
  function_graph: Fix up ftrace_graph_ret_addr()
  function_graph: Make fgraph_update_pid_func() a stub for !DYNAMIC_FTRACE
  function_graph: Rename BYTE_NUMBER to CHAR_NUMBER in selftests
  fgraph: Remove some unused functions
  ftrace: Hide one more entry in stack trace when ftrace_pid is enabled
  function_graph: Do not update pid func if CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE not enabled
  function_graph: Make fgraph_do_direct static key static
  ftrace: Fix prototypes for ftrace_startup/shutdown_subops()
  ftrace: Assign RCU list variable with rcu_assign_ptr()
  ftrace: Assign ftrace_list_end to ftrace_ops_list type cast to RCU
  ftrace: Declare function_trace_op in header to quiet sparse warning
  ftrace: Add comments to ftrace_hash_move() and friends
  ftrace: Convert "inc" parameter to bool in ftrace_hash_rec_update_modify()
  ftrace: Add comments to ftrace_hash_rec_disable/enable()
  ftrace: Remove "filter_hash" parameter from __ftrace_hash_rec_update()
  ftrace: Rename dup_hash() and comment it
  ...
2024-07-18 13:36:33 -07:00
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accounting
arch asm-generic updates for 6.11 2024-07-16 12:09:03 -07:00
bootconfig
bpf bpftool: improve skeleton backwards compat with old buggy libbpfs 2024-07-09 19:03:05 -07:00
build
certs
cgroup proc: rewrite stable_page_flags() 2024-04-25 20:56:15 -07:00
counter
crypto
debugging
firewire
firmware
gpio gpio: add sloppy logic analyzer using polling 2024-07-01 10:54:11 +02:00
hv tools: hv: suppress the invalid warning for packed member alignment 2024-05-28 05:27:35 +00:00
iio
include Probes updates for v6.11: 2024-07-18 12:19:20 -07:00
kvm/kvm_stat
laptop
leds
lib libbpf: improve old BPF skeleton handling for map auto-attach 2024-07-09 19:03:36 -07:00
memory-model kcsan: Add __data_racy documentation and module description 2024-07-15 15:44:40 -07:00
mm
net/ynl tools: ynl: use ident name for Family, too. 2024-07-03 19:13:20 -07:00
objtool Objtool changes for v6.11: 2024-07-16 16:55:33 -07:00
pci
pcmcia
perf perf dsos: When adding a dso into sorted dsos maintain the sort order 2024-07-07 22:26:29 -07:00
power platform-drivers-x86 for v6.11-1 2024-07-17 17:05:21 -07:00
rcu tools/rcu: Add rcu-updaters.sh script 2024-06-06 11:44:42 -07:00
scripts
sound ASoC: dapm-graph: new tool to visualize DAPM state 2024-04-21 09:58:17 +09:00
spi
testing ftrace: Rewrite of function graph tracer 2024-07-18 13:36:33 -07:00
thermal
time
tracing tools/latency-collector: Fix -Wformat-security compile warns 2024-05-23 10:46:01 -04:00
usb
verification
virtio
wmi
workqueue
writeback writeback: add wb_monitor.py script to monitor writeback info on bdi 2024-05-05 17:53:51 -07:00
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