function_graph: Support recording and printing the return value of function

Analyzing system call failures with the function_graph tracer can be a
time-consuming process, particularly when locating

function_graph: Support recording and printing the return value of function

Analyzing system call failures with the function_graph tracer can be a
time-consuming process, particularly when locating the kernel function
that first returns an error in the trace logs. This change aims to
simplify the process by recording the function return value to the
'retval' member of 'ftrace_graph_ret' and printing it when outputting
the trace log.

We have introduced new trace options: funcgraph-retval and
funcgraph-retval-hex. The former controls whether to display the return
value, while the latter controls the display format.

Please note that even if a function's return type is void, a return
value will still be printed. You can simply ignore it.

This patch only establishes the fundamental infrastructure. Subsequent
patches will make this feature available on some commonly used processor
architectures.

Here is an example:

I attempted to attach the demo process to a cpu cgroup, but it failed:

echo `pidof demo` > /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu/test/tasks
-bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument

The strace logs indicate that the write system call returned -EINVAL(-22):
...
write(1, "273\n", 4) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument)
...

To capture trace logs during a write system call, use the following
commands:

cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
echo 0 > tracing_on
echo > trace
echo *sys_write > set_graph_function
echo *spin* > set_graph_notrace
echo *rcu* >> set_graph_notrace
echo *alloc* >> set_graph_notrace
echo preempt* >> set_graph_notrace
echo kfree* >> set_graph_notrace
echo $$ > set_ftrace_pid
echo function_graph > current_tracer
echo 1 > options/funcgraph-retval
echo 0 > options/funcgraph-retval-hex
echo 1 > tracing_on
echo `pidof demo` > /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu/test/tasks
echo 0 > tracing_on
cat trace > ~/trace.log

To locate the root cause, search for error code -22 directly in the file
trace.log and identify the first function that returned -22. Once you
have identified this function, examine its code to determine the root
cause.

For example, in the trace log below, cpu_cgroup_can_attach
returned -22 first, so we can focus our analysis on this function to
identify the root cause.

...

1) | cgroup_migrate() {
1) 0.651 us | cgroup_migrate_add_task(); /* = 0xffff93fcfd346c00 */
1) | cgroup_migrate_execute() {
1) | cpu_cgroup_can_attach() {
1) | cgroup_taskset_first() {
1) 0.732 us | cgroup_taskset_next(); /* = 0xffff93fc8fb20000 */
1) 1.232 us | } /* cgroup_taskset_first = 0xffff93fc8fb20000 */
1) 0.380 us | sched_rt_can_attach(); /* = 0x0 */
1) 2.335 us | } /* cpu_cgroup_can_attach = -22 */
1) 4.369 us | } /* cgroup_migrate_execute = -22 */
1) 7.143 us | } /* cgroup_migrate = -22 */

...

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1fc502712c981e0e6742185ba242992170ac9da8.1680954589.git.pengdonglin@sangfor.com.cn

Tested-by: Florian Kauer <florian.kauer@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Donglin Peng <pengdonglin@sangfor.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

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tracing/probes: Support function parameters if BTF is available

Support function or tracepoint parameters by name if BTF support is enabled
and the event is for function entry (this feature can be u

tracing/probes: Support function parameters if BTF is available

Support function or tracepoint parameters by name if BTF support is enabled
and the event is for function entry (this feature can be used with kprobe-
events, fprobe-events and tracepoint probe events.)

Note that the BTF variable syntax does not require a prefix. If it starts
with an alphabetic character or an underscore ('_') without a prefix like
'$' and '%', it is considered as a BTF variable.
If you specify only the BTF variable name, the argument name will also
be the same name instead of 'arg*'.

# echo 'p vfs_read count pos' >> dynamic_events
# echo 'f vfs_write count pos' >> dynamic_events
# echo 't sched_overutilized_tp rd overutilized' >> dynamic_events
# cat dynamic_events
p:kprobes/p_vfs_read_0 vfs_read count=count pos=pos
f:fprobes/vfs_write__entry vfs_write count=count pos=pos
t:tracepoints/sched_overutilized_tp sched_overutilized_tp rd=rd overutilized=overutilized

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/168507474014.913472.16963996883278039183.stgit@mhiramat.roam.corp.google.com/

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@oracle.com>
Tested-by: Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@oracle.com>

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tracing/probes: Add fprobe events for tracing function entry and exit.

Add fprobe events for tracing function entry and exit instead of kprobe
events. With this change, we can continue to trace func

tracing/probes: Add fprobe events for tracing function entry and exit.

Add fprobe events for tracing function entry and exit instead of kprobe
events. With this change, we can continue to trace function entry/exit
even if the CONFIG_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE is not available. Since
CONFIG_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE requires the CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS,
it is not available if the architecture only supports
CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS. And that means kprobe events can not
probe function entry/exit effectively on such architecture.
But this can be solved if the dynamic events supports fprobe events.

The fprobe event is a new dynamic events which is only for the function
(symbol) entry and exit. This event accepts non register fetch arguments
so that user can trace the function arguments and return values.

The fprobe events syntax is here;

f[:[GRP/][EVENT]] FUNCTION [FETCHARGS]
f[MAXACTIVE][:[GRP/][EVENT]] FUNCTION%return [FETCHARGS]

E.g.

# echo 'f vfs_read $arg1' >> dynamic_events
# echo 'f vfs_read%return $retval' >> dynamic_events
# cat dynamic_events
f:fprobes/vfs_read__entry vfs_read arg1=$arg1
f:fprobes/vfs_read__exit vfs_read%return arg1=$retval
# echo 1 > events/fprobes/enable
# head -n 20 trace | tail
# TASK-PID CPU# ||||| TIMESTAMP FUNCTION
# | | | ||||| | |
sh-142 [005] ...1. 448.386420: vfs_read__entry: (vfs_read+0x4/0x340) arg1=0xffff888007f7c540
sh-142 [005] ..... 448.386436: vfs_read__exit: (ksys_read+0x75/0x100 <- vfs_read) arg1=0x1
sh-142 [005] ...1. 448.386451: vfs_read__entry: (vfs_read+0x4/0x340) arg1=0xffff888007f7c540
sh-142 [005] ..... 448.386458: vfs_read__exit: (ksys_read+0x75/0x100 <- vfs_read) arg1=0x1
sh-142 [005] ...1. 448.386469: vfs_read__entry: (vfs_read+0x4/0x340) arg1=0xffff888007f7c540
sh-142 [005] ..... 448.386476: vfs_read__exit: (ksys_read+0x75/0x100 <- vfs_read) arg1=0x1
sh-142 [005] ...1. 448.602073: vfs_read__entry: (vfs_read+0x4/0x340) arg1=0xffff888007f7c540
sh-142 [005] ..... 448.602089: vfs_read__exit: (ksys_read+0x75/0x100 <- vfs_read) arg1=0x1

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/168507469754.913472.6112857614708350210.stgit@mhiramat.roam.corp.google.com/

Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/202302011530.7vm4O8Ro-lkp@intel.com/
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>

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tracing: Unbreak user events

The user events was added a bit prematurely, and there were a few kernel
developers that had issues with it. The API also needed a bit of work to
make sure it would be s

tracing: Unbreak user events

The user events was added a bit prematurely, and there were a few kernel
developers that had issues with it. The API also needed a bit of work to
make sure it would be stable. It was decided to make user events "broken"
until this was settled. Now it has a new API that appears to be as stable
as it will be without the use of a crystal ball. It's being used within
Microsoft as is, which means the API has had some testing in real world
use cases. It went through many discussions in the bi-weekly tracing
meetings, and there's been no more comments about updates.

I feel this is good to go.

Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

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tracing/user_events: Use remote writes for event enablement

As part of the discussions for user_events aligned with user space
tracers, it was determined that user programs should register a aligned

tracing/user_events: Use remote writes for event enablement

As part of the discussions for user_events aligned with user space
tracers, it was determined that user programs should register a aligned
value to set or clear a bit when an event becomes enabled. Currently a
shared page is being used that requires mmap(). Remove the shared page
implementation and move to a user registered address implementation.

In this new model during the event registration from user programs 3 new
values are specified. The first is the address to update when the event
is either enabled or disabled. The second is the bit to set/clear to
reflect the event being enabled. The third is the size of the value at
the specified address.

This allows for a local 32/64-bit value in user programs to support
both kernel and user tracers. As an example, setting bit 31 for kernel
tracers when the event becomes enabled allows for user tracers to use
the other bits for ref counts or other flags. The kernel side updates
the bit atomically, user programs need to also update these values
atomically.

User provided addresses must be aligned on a natural boundary, this
allows for single page checking and prevents odd behaviors such as a
enable value straddling 2 pages instead of a single page. Currently
page faults are only logged, future patches will handle these.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230328235219.203-4-beaub@linux.microsoft.com

Suggested-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Beau Belgrave <beaub@linux.microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

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ftrace: Make DIRECT_CALLS work WITH_ARGS and !WITH_REGS

Direct called trampolines can be called in two ways:
- either from the ftrace callsite. In this case, they do not access any
struct ftrace_r

ftrace: Make DIRECT_CALLS work WITH_ARGS and !WITH_REGS

Direct called trampolines can be called in two ways:
- either from the ftrace callsite. In this case, they do not access any
struct ftrace_regs nor pt_regs
- Or, if a ftrace ops is also attached, from the end of a ftrace
trampoline. In this case, the call_direct_funcs ops is in charge of
setting the direct call trampoline's address in a struct ftrace_regs

Since:

commit 9705bc709604 ("ftrace: pass fregs to arch_ftrace_set_direct_caller()")

The later case no longer requires a full pt_regs. It only needs a struct
ftrace_regs so DIRECT_CALLS can work with both WITH_ARGS or WITH_REGS.
With architectures like arm64 already abandoning WITH_REGS in favor of
WITH_ARGS, it's important to have DIRECT_CALLS work WITH_ARGS only.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230321140424.345218-7-revest@chromium.org

Signed-off-by: Florent Revest <revest@chromium.org>
Co-developed-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

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tracing: Always use canonical ftrace path

The canonical location for the tracefs filesystem is at /sys/kernel/tracing.

But, from Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst:

Before 4.1, all ftrace tracing co

tracing: Always use canonical ftrace path

The canonical location for the tracefs filesystem is at /sys/kernel/tracing.

But, from Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst:

Before 4.1, all ftrace tracing control files were within the debugfs
file system, which is typically located at /sys/kernel/debug/tracing.
For backward compatibility, when mounting the debugfs file system,
the tracefs file system will be automatically mounted at:

/sys/kernel/debug/tracing

Many comments and Kconfig help messages in the tracing code still refer
to this older debugfs path, so let's update them to avoid confusion.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230215223350.2658616-2-zwisler@google.com

Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Mukesh Ojha <quic_mojha@quicinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <zwisler@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

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tracing: Kconfig: Fix spelling/grammar/punctuation

Fix some editorial nits in trace Kconfig.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230124181647.15902-1-rdunlap@infradead.org

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunla

tracing: Kconfig: Fix spelling/grammar/punctuation

Fix some editorial nits in trace Kconfig.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230124181647.15902-1-rdunlap@infradead.org

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

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ftrace: Add DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_CALL_OPS

Architectures without dynamic ftrace trampolines incur an overhead when
multiple ftrace_ops are enabled with distinct filters. in these cases,
each call site

ftrace: Add DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_CALL_OPS

Architectures without dynamic ftrace trampolines incur an overhead when
multiple ftrace_ops are enabled with distinct filters. in these cases,
each call site calls a common trampoline which uses
ftrace_ops_list_func() to iterate over all enabled ftrace functions, and
so incurs an overhead relative to the size of this list (including RCU
protection overhead).

Architectures with dynamic ftrace trampolines avoid this overhead for
call sites which have a single associated ftrace_ops. In these cases,
the dynamic trampoline is customized to branch directly to the relevant
ftrace function, avoiding the list overhead.

On some architectures it's impractical and/or undesirable to implement
dynamic ftrace trampolines. For example, arm64 has limited branch ranges
and cannot always directly branch from a call site to an arbitrary
address (e.g. from a kernel text address to an arbitrary module
address). Calls from modules to core kernel text can be indirected via
PLTs (allocated at module load time) to address this, but the same is
not possible from calls from core kernel text.

Using an indirect branch from a call site to an arbitrary trampoline is
possible, but requires several more instructions in the function
prologue (or immediately before it), and/or comes with far more complex
requirements for patching.

Instead, this patch adds a new option, where an architecture can
associate each call site with a pointer to an ftrace_ops, placed at a
fixed offset from the call site. A shared trampoline can recover this
pointer and call ftrace_ops::func() without needing to go via
ftrace_ops_list_func(), avoiding the associated overhead.

This avoids issues with branch range limitations, and avoids the need to
allocate and manipulate dynamic trampolines, making it far simpler to
implement and maintain, while having similar performance
characteristics.

Note that this allows for dynamic ftrace_ops to be invoked directly from
an architecture's ftrace_caller trampoline, whereas existing code forces
the use of ftrace_ops_get_list_func(), which is in part necessary to
permit the ftrace_ops to be freed once unregistered *and* to avoid
branch/address-generation range limitation on some architectures (e.g.
where ops->func is a module address, and may be outside of the direct
branch range for callsites within the main kernel image).

The CALL_OPS approach avoids this problems and is safe as:

* The existing synchronization in ftrace_shutdown() using
ftrace_shutdown() using synchronize_rcu_tasks_rude() (and
synchronize_rcu_tasks()) ensures that no tasks hold a stale reference
to an ftrace_ops (e.g. in the middle of the ftrace_caller trampoline,
or while invoking ftrace_ops::func), when that ftrace_ops is
unregistered.

Arguably this could also be relied upon for the existing scheme,
permitting dynamic ftrace_ops to be invoked directly when ops->func is
in range, but this will require additional logic to handle branch
range limitations, and is not handled by this patch.

* Each callsite's ftrace_ops pointer literal can hold any valid kernel
address, and is updated atomically. As an architecture's ftrace_caller
trampoline will atomically load the ops pointer then dereference
ops->func, there is no risk of invoking ops->func with a mismatches
ops pointer, and updates to the ops pointer do not require special
care.

A subsequent patch will implement architectures support for arm64. There
should be no functional change as a result of this patch alone.

Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Florent Revest <revest@chromium.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230123134603.1064407-2-mark.rutland@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>

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tracing: Fix complicated dependency of CONFIG_TRACER_MAX_TRACE

Both CONFIG_OSNOISE_TRACER and CONFIG_HWLAT_TRACER partially enables the
CONFIG_TRACER_MAX_TRACE code, but that is complicated and has

tracing: Fix complicated dependency of CONFIG_TRACER_MAX_TRACE

Both CONFIG_OSNOISE_TRACER and CONFIG_HWLAT_TRACER partially enables the
CONFIG_TRACER_MAX_TRACE code, but that is complicated and has
introduced a bug; It declares tracing_max_lat_fops data structure outside
of #ifdefs, but since it is defined only when CONFIG_TRACER_MAX_TRACE=y
or CONFIG_HWLAT_TRACER=y, if only CONFIG_OSNOISE_TRACER=y, that
declaration comes to a definition(!).

To fix this issue, and do not repeat the similar problem, makes
CONFIG_OSNOISE_TRACER and CONFIG_HWLAT_TRACER enables the
CONFIG_TRACER_MAX_TRACE always. It has there benefits;
- Fix the tracing_max_lat_fops bug
- Simplify the #ifdefs
- CONFIG_TRACER_MAX_TRACE code is fully enabled, or not.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/167033628155.4111793.12185405690820208159.stgit@devnote3

Fixes: 424b650f35c7 ("tracing: Fix missing osnoise tracer on max_latency")
Cc: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/166992525941.1716618.13740663757583361463.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ (original thread and v1)
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/202212052253.VuhZ2ulJ-lkp@intel.com/T/#u (v1 error report)
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

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ftrace: abstract DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS accesses

In subsequent patches we'll arrange for architectures to have an
ftrace_regs which is entirely distinct from pt_regs. In preparation for
this, we n

ftrace: abstract DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS accesses

In subsequent patches we'll arrange for architectures to have an
ftrace_regs which is entirely distinct from pt_regs. In preparation for
this, we need to minimize the use of pt_regs to where strictly necessary
in the core ftrace code.

This patch adds new ftrace_regs_{get,set}_*() helpers which can be used
to manipulate ftrace_regs. When CONFIG_HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS=y,
these can always be used on any ftrace_regs, and when
CONFIG_HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS=n these can be used when regs are
available. A new ftrace_regs_has_args(fregs) helper is added which code
can use to check when these are usable.

Co-developed-by: Florent Revest <revest@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Florent Revest <revest@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221103170520.931305-4-mark.rutland@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>

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objtool: Add --mnop as an option to --mcount

Some architectures (powerpc) may not support ftrace locations being nop'ed
out at build time. Introduce CONFIG_HAVE_OBJTOOL_NOP_MCOUNT for objtool, as
a

objtool: Add --mnop as an option to --mcount

Some architectures (powerpc) may not support ftrace locations being nop'ed
out at build time. Introduce CONFIG_HAVE_OBJTOOL_NOP_MCOUNT for objtool, as
a means for architectures to enable nop'ing of ftrace locations. Add --mnop
as an option to objtool --mcount, to indicate support for the same.

Also, make sure that --mnop can be passed as an option to objtool only when
--mcount is passed.

Tested-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Signed-off-by: Sathvika Vasireddy <sv@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221114175754.1131267-12-sv@linux.ibm.com

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ftrace: Add HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_NO_PATCHABLE

x86 will shortly start using -fpatchable-function-entry for purposes
other than ftrace, make sure the __patchable_function_entry section
isn't merged in

ftrace: Add HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_NO_PATCHABLE

x86 will shortly start using -fpatchable-function-entry for purposes
other than ftrace, make sure the __patchable_function_entry section
isn't merged in the mcount_loc section.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20220903131154.420467-2-jolsa@kernel.org

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rv: Add Runtime Verification (RV) interface

RV is a lightweight (yet rigorous) method that complements classical
exhaustive verification techniques (such as model checking and
theorem proving) with

rv: Add Runtime Verification (RV) interface

RV is a lightweight (yet rigorous) method that complements classical
exhaustive verification techniques (such as model checking and
theorem proving) with a more practical approach to complex systems.

RV works by analyzing the trace of the system's actual execution,
comparing it against a formal specification of the system behavior.
RV can give precise information on the runtime behavior of the
monitored system while enabling the reaction for unexpected
events, avoiding, for example, the propagation of a failure on
safety-critical systems.

The development of this interface roots in the development of the
paper:

De Oliveira, Daniel Bristot; Cucinotta, Tommaso; De Oliveira, Romulo
Silva. Efficient formal verification for the Linux kernel. In:
International Conference on Software Engineering and Formal Methods.
Springer, Cham, 2019. p. 315-332.

And:

De Oliveira, Daniel Bristot. Automata-based formal analysis
and verification of the real-time Linux kernel. PhD Thesis, 2020.

The RV interface resembles the tracing/ interface on purpose. The current
path for the RV interface is /sys/kernel/tracing/rv/.

It presents these files:

"available_monitors"
- List the available monitors, one per line.

For example:
# cat available_monitors
wip
wwnr

"enabled_monitors"
- Lists the enabled monitors, one per line;
- Writing to it enables a given monitor;
- Writing a monitor name with a '!' prefix disables it;
- Truncating the file disables all enabled monitors.

For example:
# cat enabled_monitors
# echo wip > enabled_monitors
# echo wwnr >> enabled_monitors
# cat enabled_monitors
wip
wwnr
# echo '!wip' >> enabled_monitors
# cat enabled_monitors
wwnr
# echo > enabled_monitors
# cat enabled_monitors
#

Note that more than one monitor can be enabled concurrently.

"monitoring_on"
- It is an on/off general switcher for monitoring. Note
that it does not disable enabled monitors or detach events,
but stop the per-entity monitors of monitoring the events
received from the system. It resembles the "tracing_on" switcher.

"monitors/"
Each monitor will have its one directory inside "monitors/". There
the monitor specific files will be presented.
The "monitors/" directory resembles the "events" directory on
tracefs.

For example:
# cd monitors/wip/
# ls
desc enable
# cat desc
wakeup in preemptive per-cpu testing monitor.
# cat enable
0

For further information, see the comments in the header of
kernel/trace/rv/rv.c from this patch.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/a4bfe038f50cb047bfb343ad0e12b0e646ab308b.1659052063.git.bristot@kernel.org

Cc: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@linux-watchdog.org>
Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Gabriele Paoloni <gpaoloni@redhat.com>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Cc: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>
Cc: Tao Zhou <tao.zhou@linux.dev>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-trace-devel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

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ftrace: Be more specific about arch impact when function tracer is enabled

It was brought up that on ARMv7, that because the FUNCTION_TRACER does not
use nops to keep function tracing disabled becau

ftrace: Be more specific about arch impact when function tracer is enabled

It was brought up that on ARMv7, that because the FUNCTION_TRACER does not
use nops to keep function tracing disabled because of the use of a link
register, it does have some performance impact.

The start of functions when -pg is used to compile the kernel is:

push {lr}
bl 8010e7c0 <__gnu_mcount_nc>

When function tracing is tuned off, it becomes:

push {lr}
add sp, sp, #4

Which just puts the stack back to its normal location. But these two
instructions at the start of every function does incur some overhead.

Be more honest in the Kconfig FUNCTION_TRACER description and specify that
the overhead being in the noise was x86 specific, but other architectures
may vary.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220705105416.GE5208@pengutronix.de/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220706161231.085a83da@gandalf.local.home

Reported-by: Sascha Hauer <sha@pengutronix.de>
Acked-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

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objtool: Add CONFIG_OBJTOOL

Now that stack validation is an optional feature of objtool, add
CONFIG_OBJTOOL and replace most usages of CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION with
it.

CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION can n

objtool: Add CONFIG_OBJTOOL

Now that stack validation is an optional feature of objtool, add
CONFIG_OBJTOOL and replace most usages of CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION with
it.

CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION can now be considered to be frame-pointer
specific. CONFIG_UNWINDER_ORC is already inherently valid for live
patching, so no need to "validate" it.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/939bf3d85604b2a126412bf11af6e3bd3b872bcb.1650300597.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com

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rcu: Make the TASKS_RCU Kconfig option be selected

Currently, any kernel built with CONFIG_PREEMPTION=y also gets
CONFIG_TASKS_RCU=y, which is not helpful to people trying to build
preemptible kerne

rcu: Make the TASKS_RCU Kconfig option be selected

Currently, any kernel built with CONFIG_PREEMPTION=y also gets
CONFIG_TASKS_RCU=y, which is not helpful to people trying to build
preemptible kernels of minimal size.

Because CONFIG_TASKS_RCU=y is needed only in kernels doing tracing of
one form or another, this commit moves from TASKS_RCU deciding when it
should be enabled to the tracing Kconfig options explicitly selecting it.
This allows building preemptible kernels without TASKS_RCU, if desired.

This commit also updates the SRCU-N and TREE09 rcutorture scenarios
in order to avoid Kconfig errors that would otherwise result from
CONFIG_TASKS_RCU being selected without its CONFIG_RCU_EXPERT dependency
being met.

[ paulmck: Apply BPF_SYSCALL feedback from Andrii Nakryiko. ]

Reported-by: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Zhouyi Zhou <zhouzhouyi@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>

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tracing: mark user_events as BROKEN

After being merged, user_events become more visible to a wider audience
that have concerns with the current API.

It is too late to fix this for this release, but

tracing: mark user_events as BROKEN

After being merged, user_events become more visible to a wider audience
that have concerns with the current API.

It is too late to fix this for this release, but instead of a full
revert, just mark it as BROKEN (which prevents it from being selected in
make config). Then we can work finding a better API. If that fails,
then it will need to be completely reverted.

To not have the code silently bitrot, still allow building it with
COMPILE_TEST.

And to prevent the uapi header from being installed, then later changed,
and then have an old distro user space see the old version, move the
header file out of the uapi directory.

Surround the include with CONFIG_COMPILE_TEST to the current location,
but when the BROKEN tag is taken off, it will use the uapi directory,
and fail to compile. This is a good way to remind us to move the header
back.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220330155835.5e1f6669@gandalf.local.home
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220330201755.29319-1-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com
Suggested-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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tracing: Set user_events to BROKEN

After being merged, user_events become more visible to a wider audience
that have concerns with the current API. It is too late to fix this for
this release, but i

tracing: Set user_events to BROKEN

After being merged, user_events become more visible to a wider audience
that have concerns with the current API. It is too late to fix this for
this release, but instead of a full revert, just mark it as BROKEN (which
prevents it from being selected in make config). Then we can work finding
a better API. If that fails, then it will need to be completely reverted.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/2059213643.196683.1648499088753.JavaMail.zimbra@efficios.com/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220330155835.5e1f6669@gandalf.local.home

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

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fprobe: Add exit_handler support

Add exit_handler to fprobe. fprobe + rethook allows us to hook the kernel
function return. The rethook will be enabled only if the
fprobe::exit_handler is set.

Sign

fprobe: Add exit_handler support

Add exit_handler to fprobe. fprobe + rethook allows us to hook the kernel
function return. The rethook will be enabled only if the
fprobe::exit_handler is set.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Tested-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/164735290790.1084943.10601965782208052202.stgit@devnote2

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rethook: Add a generic return hook

Add a return hook framework which hooks the function return. Most of the
logic came from the kretprobe, but this is independent from kretprobe.

Note that this is

rethook: Add a generic return hook

Add a return hook framework which hooks the function return. Most of the
logic came from the kretprobe, but this is independent from kretprobe.

Note that this is expected to be used with other function entry hooking
feature, like ftrace, fprobe, adn kprobes. Eventually this will replace
the kretprobe (e.g. kprobe + rethook = kretprobe), but at this moment,
this is just an additional hook.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Tested-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/164735285066.1084943.9259661137330166643.stgit@devnote2

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fprobe: Add ftrace based probe APIs

The fprobe is a wrapper API for ftrace function tracer.
Unlike kprobes, this probes only supports the function entry, but this
can probe multiple functions by one

fprobe: Add ftrace based probe APIs

The fprobe is a wrapper API for ftrace function tracer.
Unlike kprobes, this probes only supports the function entry, but this
can probe multiple functions by one fprobe. The usage is similar, user
will set their callback to fprobe::entry_handler and call
register_fprobe*() with probed functions.
There are 3 registration interfaces,

- register_fprobe() takes filtering patterns of the functin names.
- register_fprobe_ips() takes an array of ftrace-location addresses.
- register_fprobe_syms() takes an array of function names.

The registered fprobes can be unregistered with unregister_fprobe().
e.g.

struct fprobe fp = { .entry_handler = user_handler };
const char *targets[] = { "func1", "func2", "func3"};
...

ret = register_fprobe_syms(&fp, targets, ARRAY_SIZE(targets));

...

unregister_fprobe(&fp);

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Tested-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/164735283857.1084943.1154436951479395551.stgit@devnote2

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user_events: Add minimal support for trace_event into ftrace

Minimal support for interacting with dynamic events, trace_event and
ftrace. Core outline of flow between user process, ioctl and trace_e

user_events: Add minimal support for trace_event into ftrace

Minimal support for interacting with dynamic events, trace_event and
ftrace. Core outline of flow between user process, ioctl and trace_event
APIs.

User mode processes that wish to use trace events to get data into
ftrace, perf, eBPF, etc are limited to uprobes today. The user events
features enables an ABI for user mode processes to create and write to
trace events that are isolated from kernel level trace events. This
enables a faster path for tracing from user mode data as well as opens
managed code to participate in trace events, where stub locations are
dynamic.

User processes often want to trace only when it's useful. To enable this
a set of pages are mapped into the user process space that indicate the
current state of the user events that have been registered. User
processes can check if their event is hooked to a trace/probe, and if it
is, emit the event data out via the write() syscall.

Two new files are introduced into tracefs to accomplish this:
user_events_status - This file is mmap'd into participating user mode
processes to indicate event status.

user_events_data - This file is opened and register/delete ioctl's are
issued to create/open/delete trace events that can be used for tracing.

The typical scenario is on process start to mmap user_events_status. Processes
then register the events they plan to use via the REG ioctl. The ioctl reads
and updates the passed in user_reg struct. The status_index of the struct is
used to know the byte in the status page to check for that event. The
write_index of the struct is used to describe that event when writing out to
the fd that was used for the ioctl call. The data must always include this
index first when writing out data for an event. Data can be written either by
write() or by writev().

For example, in memory:
int index;
char data[];

Psuedo code example of typical usage:
struct user_reg reg;

int page_fd = open("user_events_status", O_RDWR);
char *page_data = mmap(NULL, PAGE_SIZE, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, page_fd, 0);
close(page_fd);

int data_fd = open("user_events_data", O_RDWR);

reg.size = sizeof(reg);
reg.name_args = (__u64)"test";

ioctl(data_fd, DIAG_IOCSREG, &reg);
int status_id = reg.status_index;
int write_id = reg.write_index;

struct iovec io[2];
io[0].iov_base = &write_id;
io[0].iov_len = sizeof(write_id);
io[1].iov_base = payload;
io[1].iov_len = sizeof(payload);

if (page_data[status_id])
writev(data_fd, io, 2);

User events are also exposed via the dynamic_events tracefs file for
both create and delete. Current status is exposed via the user_events_status
tracefs file.

Simple example to register a user event via dynamic_events:
echo u:test >> dynamic_events
cat dynamic_events
u:test

If an event is hooked to a probe, the probe hooked shows up:
echo 1 > events/user_events/test/enable
cat user_events_status
1:test # Used by ftrace

Active: 1
Busy: 1
Max: 4096

If an event is not hooked to a probe, no probe status shows up:
echo 0 > events/user_events/test/enable
cat user_events_status
1:test

Active: 1
Busy: 0
Max: 4096

Users can describe the trace event format via the following format:
name[:FLAG1[,FLAG2...] [field1[;field2...]]

Each field has the following format:
type name

Example for char array with a size of 20 named msg:
echo 'u:detailed char[20] msg' >> dynamic_events
cat dynamic_events
u:detailed char[20] msg

Data offsets are based on the data written out via write() and will be
updated to reflect the correct offset in the trace_event fields. For dynamic
data it is recommended to use the new __rel_loc data type. This type will be
the same as __data_loc, but the offset is relative to this entry. This allows
user_events to not worry about what common fields are being inserted before
the data.

The above format is valid for both the ioctl and the dynamic_events file.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220118204326.2169-2-beaub@linux.microsoft.com

Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Beau Belgrave <beaub@linux.microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

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ftrace: Have architectures opt-in for mcount build time sorting

First S390 complained that the sorting of the mcount sections at build
time caused the kernel to crash on their architecture. Now Powe

ftrace: Have architectures opt-in for mcount build time sorting

First S390 complained that the sorting of the mcount sections at build
time caused the kernel to crash on their architecture. Now PowerPC is
complaining about it too. And also ARM64 appears to be having issues.

It may be necessary to also update the relocation table for the values
in the mcount table. Not only do we have to sort the table, but also
update the relocations that may be applied to the items in the table.

If the system is not relocatable, then it is fine to sort, but if it is,
some architectures may have issues (although x86 does not as it shifts all
addresses the same).

Add a HAVE_BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT that an architecture can set to say it is
safe to do the sorting at build time.

Also update the config to compile in build time sorting in the sorttable
code in scripts/ to depend on CONFIG_BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/944D10DA-8200-4BA9-8D0A-3BED9AA99F82@linux.ibm.com/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220127153821.3bc1ac6e@gandalf.local.home

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Yinan Liu <yinan@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reported-by: Sachin Sant <sachinp@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Tested-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> [arm64]
Tested-by: Sachin Sant <sachinp@linux.ibm.com>
Fixes: 72b3942a173c ("scripts: ftrace - move the sort-processing in ftrace_init")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

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ftrace: Fix assuming build time sort works for s390

To speed up the boot process, as mcount_loc needs to be sorted for ftrace
to work properly, sorting it at build time is more efficient than boot u

ftrace: Fix assuming build time sort works for s390

To speed up the boot process, as mcount_loc needs to be sorted for ftrace
to work properly, sorting it at build time is more efficient than boot up
and can save milliseconds of time. Unfortunately, this change broke s390
as it will modify the mcount_loc location after the sorting takes place
and will put back the unsorted locations. Since the sorting is skipped at
boot up if it is believed that it was sorted at run time, ftrace can crash
as its algorithms are dependent on the list being sorted.

Add a new config BUILDTIME_MCOUNT_SORT that is set when
BUILDTIME_TABLE_SORT but not if S390 is set. Use this config to determine
if sorting should take place at boot up.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/yt9dee51ctfn.fsf@linux.ibm.com/

Fixes: 72b3942a173c ("scripts: ftrace - move the sort-processing in ftrace_init")
Reported-by: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

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