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Steven Rostedt (VMware) 37db96bb49 tools lib traceevent: Handle new pointer processing of bprint strings
The Linux kernel printf() has some extended use cases that dereference
the pointer. This is dangerouse for tracing because the pointer that is
dereferenced can change or even be unmapped. It also causes issues when
the trace data is extracted, because user space does not have access to
the contents of the pointer even if it still exists.

To handle this, the kernel was updated to process these dereferenced
pointers at the time they are recorded, and not post processed. Now they
exist in the tracing buffer, and no dereference is needed at the time of
reading the trace.

The event parsing library needs to handle this new case.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180112004822.403349289@goodmis.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2018-01-17 10:22:08 -03:00
Documentation Merge branch 'linus' into perf/core, to pick up fixes 2018-01-06 12:07:10 +01:00
arch perf/x86/msr: Clean up the code 2018-01-06 12:18:40 +01:00
block block-throttle: avoid double charge 2017-12-20 11:10:17 -07:00
certs License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2018-01-05 12:10:06 -08:00
drivers - Late bugfix to plug a leak in rtsx_pcr 2018-01-05 12:56:20 -08:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
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include perf: Update PERF_RECORD_MISC_* comment for perf_event_header::misc bit 13 2018-01-08 12:37:54 -03:00
init Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-12-31 12:27:19 -08:00
ipc Rename superblock flags (MS_xyz -> SB_xyz) 2017-11-27 13:05:09 -08:00
kernel perf: Return empty callchain instead of NULL 2018-01-08 12:35:01 -03:00
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net strparser: Call sock_owned_by_user_nocheck 2017-12-28 14:28:22 -05:00
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security Merge branch 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-01-03 16:41:07 -08:00
sound ALSA: hda - Fix missing COEF init for ALC225/295/299 2017-12-27 08:53:59 +01:00
tools tools lib traceevent: Handle new pointer processing of bprint strings 2018-01-17 10:22:08 -03:00
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README

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.