- kprobes: Restructured stack unwinder to show properly on x86 when a stack
dump happens from a kretprobe callback.
- Fix to bootconfig parsing
- Have tracefs allow owner and group permissions by default (only denying
others). There's been pressure to allow non root to tracefs in a
controlled fashion, and using groups is probably the safest.
- Bootconfig memory managament updates.
- Bootconfig clean up to have the tools directory be less dependent on
changes in the kernel tree.
- Allow perf to be traced by function tracer.
- Rewrite of function graph tracer to be a callback from the function tracer
instead of having its own trampoline (this change will happen on an arch
by arch basis, and currently only x86_64 implements it).
- Allow multiple direct trampolines (bpf hooks to functions) be batched
together in one synchronization.
- Allow histogram triggers to add variables that can perform calculations
against the event's fields.
- Use the linker to determine architecture callbacks from the ftrace
trampoline to allow for proper parameter prototypes and prevent warnings
from the compiler.
- Extend histogram triggers to key off of variables.
- Have trace recursion use bit magic to determine preempt context over if
branches.
- Have trace recursion disable preemption as all use cases do anyway.
- Added testing for verification of tracing utilities.
- Various small clean ups and fixes.
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Merge tag 'trace-v5.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
- kprobes: Restructured stack unwinder to show properly on x86 when a
stack dump happens from a kretprobe callback.
- Fix to bootconfig parsing
- Have tracefs allow owner and group permissions by default (only
denying others). There's been pressure to allow non root to tracefs
in a controlled fashion, and using groups is probably the safest.
- Bootconfig memory managament updates.
- Bootconfig clean up to have the tools directory be less dependent on
changes in the kernel tree.
- Allow perf to be traced by function tracer.
- Rewrite of function graph tracer to be a callback from the function
tracer instead of having its own trampoline (this change will happen
on an arch by arch basis, and currently only x86_64 implements it).
- Allow multiple direct trampolines (bpf hooks to functions) be batched
together in one synchronization.
- Allow histogram triggers to add variables that can perform
calculations against the event's fields.
- Use the linker to determine architecture callbacks from the ftrace
trampoline to allow for proper parameter prototypes and prevent
warnings from the compiler.
- Extend histogram triggers to key off of variables.
- Have trace recursion use bit magic to determine preempt context over
if branches.
- Have trace recursion disable preemption as all use cases do anyway.
- Added testing for verification of tracing utilities.
- Various small clean ups and fixes.
* tag 'trace-v5.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (101 commits)
tracing/histogram: Fix semicolon.cocci warnings
tracing/histogram: Fix documentation inline emphasis warning
tracing: Increase PERF_MAX_TRACE_SIZE to handle Sentinel1 and docker together
tracing: Show size of requested perf buffer
bootconfig: Initialize ret in xbc_parse_tree()
ftrace: do CPU checking after preemption disabled
ftrace: disable preemption when recursion locked
tracing/histogram: Document expression arithmetic and constants
tracing/histogram: Optimize division by a power of 2
tracing/histogram: Covert expr to const if both operands are constants
tracing/histogram: Simplify handling of .sym-offset in expressions
tracing: Fix operator precedence for hist triggers expression
tracing: Add division and multiplication support for hist triggers
tracing: Add support for creating hist trigger variables from literal
selftests/ftrace: Stop tracing while reading the trace file by default
MAINTAINERS: Update KPROBES and TRACING entries
test_kprobes: Move it from kernel/ to lib/
docs, kprobes: Remove invalid URL and add new reference
samples/kretprobes: Fix return value if register_kretprobe() failed
lib/bootconfig: Fix the xbc_get_info kerneldoc
...
As the documentation explained, ftrace_test_recursion_trylock()
and ftrace_test_recursion_unlock() were supposed to disable and
enable preemption properly, however currently this work is done
outside of the function, which could be missing by mistake.
And since the internal using of trace_test_and_set_recursion()
and trace_clear_recursion() also require preemption disabled, we
can just merge the logical.
This patch will make sure the preemption has been disabled when
trace_test_and_set_recursion() return bit >= 0, and
trace_clear_recursion() will enable the preemption if previously
enabled.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/13bde807-779c-aa4c-0672-20515ae365ea@linux.alibaba.com
CC: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
Cc: Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>
Cc: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@kernel.org>
CC: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
CC: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Reported-by: Abaci <abaci@linux.alibaba.com>
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Wang <yun.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
[ Removed extra line in comment - SDR ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The current text of the explanation of the transition bit in the trace
recursion protection is not very clear. Improve the text, so that when all
the archs no longer have the issue of tracing between a start of a new
(interrupt) context and updating the preempt_count to reflect the new
context, that it may be removed.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20211018220203.064a42ed@gandalf.local.home/
Suggested-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Now that there are three different instances of doing the addition trick
to the preempt_count() and NMI_MASK, HARDIRQ_MASK and SOFTIRQ_OFFSET
macros, it deserves a helper function defined in the preempt.h header.
Add the interrupt_context_level() helper and replace the three instances
that do that logic with it.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20211015142541.4badd8a9@gandalf.local.home/
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Instead of having branches that adds noise to the branch prediction, use
the addition logic to set the bit for the level of interrupt context that
the state is currently in. This copies the logic from perf's
get_recursion_context() function.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20211015161702.GF174703@worktop.programming.kicks-ass.net/
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
While writing an email explaining the "bit = 0" logic for a discussion on
making ftrace_test_recursion_trylock() disable preemption, I discovered a
path that makes the "not do the logic if bit is zero" unsafe.
The recursion logic is done in hot paths like the function tracer. Thus,
any code executed causes noticeable overhead. Thus, tricks are done to try
to limit the amount of code executed. This included the recursion testing
logic.
Having recursion testing is important, as there are many paths that can
end up in an infinite recursion cycle when tracing every function in the
kernel. Thus protection is needed to prevent that from happening.
Because it is OK to recurse due to different running context levels (e.g.
an interrupt preempts a trace, and then a trace occurs in the interrupt
handler), a set of bits are used to know which context one is in (normal,
softirq, irq and NMI). If a recursion occurs in the same level, it is
prevented*.
Then there are infrastructure levels of recursion as well. When more than
one callback is attached to the same function to trace, it calls a loop
function to iterate over all the callbacks. Both the callbacks and the
loop function have recursion protection. The callbacks use the
"ftrace_test_recursion_trylock()" which has a "function" set of context
bits to test, and the loop function calls the internal
trace_test_and_set_recursion() directly, with an "internal" set of bits.
If an architecture does not implement all the features supported by ftrace
then the callbacks are never called directly, and the loop function is
called instead, which will implement the features of ftrace.
Since both the loop function and the callbacks do recursion protection, it
was seemed unnecessary to do it in both locations. Thus, a trick was made
to have the internal set of recursion bits at a more significant bit
location than the function bits. Then, if any of the higher bits were set,
the logic of the function bits could be skipped, as any new recursion
would first have to go through the loop function.
This is true for architectures that do not support all the ftrace
features, because all functions being traced must first go through the
loop function before going to the callbacks. But this is not true for
architectures that support all the ftrace features. That's because the
loop function could be called due to two callbacks attached to the same
function, but then a recursion function inside the callback could be
called that does not share any other callback, and it will be called
directly.
i.e.
traced_function_1: [ more than one callback tracing it ]
call loop_func
loop_func:
trace_recursion set internal bit
call callback
callback:
trace_recursion [ skipped because internal bit is set, return 0 ]
call traced_function_2
traced_function_2: [ only traced by above callback ]
call callback
callback:
trace_recursion [ skipped because internal bit is set, return 0 ]
call traced_function_2
[ wash, rinse, repeat, BOOM! out of shampoo! ]
Thus, the "bit == 0 skip" trick is not safe, unless the loop function is
call for all functions.
Since we want to encourage architectures to implement all ftrace features,
having them slow down due to this extra logic may encourage the
maintainers to update to the latest ftrace features. And because this
logic is only safe for them, remove it completely.
[*] There is on layer of recursion that is allowed, and that is to allow
for the transition between interrupt context (normal -> softirq ->
irq -> NMI), because a trace may occur before the context update is
visible to the trace recursion logic.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/609b565a-ed6e-a1da-f025-166691b5d994@linux.alibaba.com/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211018154412.09fcad3c@gandalf.local.home
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
Cc: Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>
Cc: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Cc: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Cc: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@kernel.org>
Cc: =?utf-8?b?546L6LSH?= <yun.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: edc15cafcb ("tracing: Avoid unnecessary multiple recursion checks")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
In trace_test_and_set_recursion(), current->trace_recursion is placed into a
variable, and that variable should be used for the processing, as there's no
reason to dereference current multiple times.
On trace_clear_recursion(), current->trace_recursion is modified and there's
no reason to copy it over to a variable.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
This adds CONFIG_FTRACE_RECORD_RECURSION that will record to a file
"recursed_functions" all the functions that caused recursion while a
callback to the function tracer was running.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201106023548.102375687@goodmis.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Anton Vorontsov <anton@enomsg.org>
Cc: Colin Cross <ccross@android.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>
Cc: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Cc: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-csky@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: live-patching@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The preempt_count() is not a simple location in memory, it could be part of
per_cpu code or more. Each access to preempt_count(), or one of its accessor
functions (like in_interrupt()) takes several cycles. By reading
preempt_count() once, and then doing tests to find the context against the
value return is slightly faster than using in_nmi() and in_interrupt().
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201028115612.780796355@goodmis.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201106023546.558881845@goodmis.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Currently, if a callback is registered to a ftrace function and its
ftrace_ops does not have the RECURSION flag set, it is encapsulated in a
helper function that does the recursion for it.
Really, all the callbacks should have their own recursion protection for
performance reasons. But they should not all implement their own. Move the
recursion helpers to global headers, so that all callbacks can use them.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201028115612.460535535@goodmis.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201106023546.166456258@goodmis.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Linus Torvalds