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<title>Merge tag 'trace-v7.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2026-02-14T03:25:16Z</updated>
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<published>2026-02-14T03:25:16Z</published>
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Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
 "User visible changes:

   - Add an entry into MAINTAINERS file for RUST versions of code

     There's now RUST code for tracing and static branches. To
     differentiate that code from the C code, add entries in for the
     RUST version (with "[RUST]" around it) so that the right
     maintainers get notified on changes.

   - New bitmask-list option added to tracefs

     When this is set, bitmasks in trace event are not displayed as hex
     numbers, but instead as lists: e.g. 0-5,7,9 instead of 0000015f

   - New show_event_filters file in tracefs

     Instead of having to search all events/*/*/filter for any active
     filters enabled in the trace instance, the file show_event_filters
     will list them so that there's only one file that needs to be
     examined to see if any filters are active.

   - New show_event_triggers file in tracefs

     Instead of having to search all events/*/*/trigger for any active
     triggers enabled in the trace instance, the file
     show_event_triggers will list them so that there's only one file
     that needs to be examined to see if any triggers are active.

   - Have traceoff_on_warning disable trace pintk buffer too

     Recently recording of trace_printk() could go to other trace
     instances instead of the top level instance. But if
     traceoff_on_warning triggers, it doesn't stop the buffer with
     trace_printk() and that data can easily be lost by being
     overwritten. Have traceoff_on_warning also disable the instance
     that has trace_printk() being written to it.

   - Update the hist_debug file to show what function the field uses

     When CONFIG_HIST_TRIGGERS_DEBUG is enabled, a hist_debug file
     exists for every event. This displays the internal data of any
     histogram enabled for that event. But it is lacking the function
     that is called to process one of its fields. This is very useful
     information that was missing when debugging histograms.

   - Up the histogram stack size from 16 to 31

     Stack traces can be used as keys for event histograms. Currently
     the size of the stack that is stored is limited to just 16 entries.
     But the storage space in the histogram is 256 bytes, meaning that
     it can store up to 31 entries (plus one for the count of entries).
     Instead of letting that space go to waste, up the limit from 16 to
     31. This makes the keys much more useful.

   - Fix permissions of per CPU file buffer_size_kb

     The per CPU file of buffer_size_kb was incorrectly set to read only
     in a previous cleanup. It should be writable.

   - Reset "last_boot_info" if the persistent buffer is cleared

     The last_boot_info shows address information of a persistent ring
     buffer if it contains data from a previous boot. It is cleared when
     recording starts again, but it is not cleared when the buffer is
     reset. The data is useless after a reset so clear it on reset too.

  Internal changes:

   - A change was made to allow tracepoint callbacks to have preemption
     enabled, and instead be protected by SRCU. This required some
     updates to the callbacks for perf and BPF.

     perf needed to disable preemption directly in its callback because
     it expects preemption disabled in the later code.

     BPF needed to disable migration, as its code expects to run
     completely on the same CPU.

   - Have irq_work wake up other CPU if current CPU is "isolated"

     When there's a waiter waiting on ring buffer data and a new event
     happens, an irq work is triggered to wake up that waiter. This is
     noisy on isolated CPUs (running NO_HZ_FULL). Trigger an IPI to a
     house keeping CPU instead.

   - Use proper free of trigger_data instead of open coding it in.

   - Remove redundant call of event_trigger_reset_filter()

     It was called immediately in a function that was called right after
     it.

   - Workqueue cleanups

   - Report errors if tracing_update_buffers() were to fail.

   - Make the enum update workqueue generic for other parts of tracing

     On boot up, a work queue is created to convert enum names into
     their numbers in the trace event format files. This work queue can
     also be used for other aspects of tracing that takes some time and
     shouldn't be called by the init call code.

     The blk_trace initialization takes a bit of time. Have the
     initialization code moved to the new tracing generic work queue
     function.

   - Skip kprobe boot event creation call if there's no kprobes defined
     on cmdline

     The kprobe initialization to set up kprobes if they are defined on
     the cmdline requires taking the event_mutex lock. This can be held
     by other tracing code doing initialization for a long time. Since
     kprobes added to the kernel command line need to be setup
     immediately, as they may be tracing early initialization code, they
     cannot be postponed in a work queue and must be setup in the
     initcall code.

     If there's no kprobe on the kernel cmdline, there's no reason to
     take the mutex and slow down the boot up code waiting to get the
     lock only to find out there's nothing to do. Simply exit out early
     if there's no kprobes on the kernel cmdline.

     If there are kprobes on the cmdline, then someone cares more about
     tracing over the speed of boot up.

   - Clean up the trigger code a bit

   - Move code out of trace.c and into their own files

     trace.c is now over 11,000 lines of code and has become more
     difficult to maintain. Start splitting it up so that related code
     is in their own files.

     Move all the trace_printk() related code into trace_printk.c.

     Move the __always_inline stack functions into trace.h.

     Move the pid filtering code into a new trace_pid.c file.

   - Better define the max latency and snapshot code

     The latency tracers have a "max latency" buffer that is a copy of
     the main buffer and gets swapped with it when a new high latency is
     detected. This keeps the trace up to the highest latency around
     where this max_latency buffer is never written to. It is only used
     to save the last max latency trace.

     A while ago a snapshot feature was added to tracefs to allow user
     space to perform the same logic. It could also enable events to
     trigger a "snapshot" if one of their fields hit a new high. This
     was built on top of the latency max_latency buffer logic.

     Because snapshots came later, they were dependent on the latency
     tracers to be enabled. In reality, the latency tracers depend on
     the snapshot code and not the other way around. It was just that
     they came first.

     Restructure the code and the kconfigs to have the latency tracers
     depend on snapshot code instead. This actually simplifies the logic
     a bit and allows to disable more when the latency tracers are not
     defined and the snapshot code is.

   - Fix a "false sharing" in the hwlat tracer code

     The loop to search for latency in hardware was using a variable
     that could be changed by user space for each sample. If the user
     change this variable, it could cause a bus contention, and reading
     that variable can show up as a large latency in the trace causing a
     false positive. Read this variable at the start of the sample with
     a READ_ONCE() into a local variable and keep the code from sharing
     cache lines with readers.

   - Fix function graph tracer static branch optimization code

     When only one tracer is defined for function graph tracing, it uses
     a static branch to call that tracer directly. When another tracer
     is added, it goes into loop logic to call all the registered
     callbacks.

     The code was incorrect when going back to one tracer and never
     re-enabled the static branch again to do the optimization code.

   - And other small fixes and cleanups"

* tag 'trace-v7.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: (46 commits)
  function_graph: Restore direct mode when callbacks drop to one
  tracing: Fix indentation of return statement in print_trace_fmt()
  tracing: Reset last_boot_info if ring buffer is reset
  tracing: Fix to set write permission to per-cpu buffer_size_kb
  tracing: Fix false sharing in hwlat get_sample()
  tracing: Move d_max_latency out of CONFIG_FSNOTIFY protection
  tracing: Better separate SNAPSHOT and MAX_TRACE options
  tracing: Add tracer_uses_snapshot() helper to remove #ifdefs
  tracing: Rename trace_array field max_buffer to snapshot_buffer
  tracing: Move pid filtering into trace_pid.c
  tracing: Move trace_printk functions out of trace.c and into trace_printk.c
  tracing: Use system_state in trace_printk_init_buffers()
  tracing: Have trace_printk functions use flags instead of using global_trace
  tracing: Make tracing_update_buffers() take NULL for global_trace
  tracing: Make printk_trace global for tracing system
  tracing: Move ftrace_trace_stack() out of trace.c and into trace.h
  tracing: Move __trace_buffer_{un}lock_*() functions to trace.h
  tracing: Make tracing_selftest_running global to the tracing subsystem
  tracing: Make tracing_disabled global for tracing system
  tracing: Clean up use of trace_create_maxlat_file()
  ...
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<title>tracing: Better separate SNAPSHOT and MAX_TRACE options</title>
<updated>2026-02-09T02:01:13Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
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<published>2026-02-08T18:38:35Z</published>
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The latency tracers (scheduler, irqsoff, etc) were created when tracing
was first added. These tracers required a "snapshot" buffer that was the
same size as the ring buffer being written to. When a new max latency was
hit, the main ring buffer would swap with the snapshot buffer so that the
trace leading up to the latency would be saved in the snapshot buffer (The
snapshot buffer is never written to directly and the data within it can be
viewed without fear of being overwritten).

Later, a new feature was added to allow snapshots to be taken by user
space or even event triggers. This created a "snapshot" file that allowed
users to trigger a snapshot from user space to save the current trace.

The config for this new feature (CONFIG_TRACER_SNAPSHOT) would select the
latency tracer config (CONFIG_TRACER_MAX_LATENCY) as it would need all the
functionality from it as it already existed. But this was incorrect. As
the snapshot feature is really what the latency tracers need and not the
other way around.

Have CONFIG_TRACER_MAX_TRACE select CONFIG_TRACER_SNAPSHOT where the
tracers that needs the max latency buffer selects the TRACE_MAX_TRACE
which will then select TRACER_SNAPSHOT.

Also, go through trace.c and trace.h and make the code that only needs the
TRACER_MAX_TRACE protected by that and the code that always requires the
snapshot to be protected by TRACER_SNAPSHOT.

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260208183856.767870992@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<title>bpf,x86: Use single ftrace_ops for direct calls</title>
<updated>2026-01-28T19:44:59Z</updated>
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<name>Jiri Olsa</name>
<email>jolsa@kernel.org</email>
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<published>2025-12-30T14:50:10Z</published>
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Using single ftrace_ops for direct calls update instead of allocating
ftrace_ops object for each trampoline.

With single ftrace_ops object we can use update_ftrace_direct_* api
that allows multiple ip sites updates on single ftrace_ops object.

Adding HAVE_SINGLE_FTRACE_DIRECT_OPS config option to be enabled on
each arch that supports this.

At the moment we can enable this only on x86 arch, because arm relies
on ftrace_ops object representing just single trampoline image (stored
in ftrace_ops::direct_call). Archs that do not support this will continue
to use *_ftrace_direct api.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20251230145010.103439-10-jolsa@kernel.org
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<title>Merge tag 'trace-v6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2025-12-05T17:51:37Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-12-05T17:51:37Z</published>
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Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:

 - Extend tracing option mask to 64 bits

   The trace options were defined by a 32 bit variable. This limits the
   tracing instances to have a total of 32 different options. As that
   limit has been hit, and more options are being added, increase the
   option mask to a 64 bit number, doubling the number of options
   available.

   As this is required for the kprobe topic branches as well as the
   tracing topic branch, a separate branch was created and merged into
   both.

 - Make trace_user_fault_read() available for the rest of tracing

   The function trace_user_fault_read() is used by trace_marker file
   read to allow reading user space to be done fast and without locking
   or allocations. Make this available so that the system call trace
   events can use it too.

 - Have system call trace events read user space values

   Now that the system call trace events callbacks are called in a
   faultable context, take advantage of this and read the user space
   buffers for various system calls. For example, show the path name of
   the openat system call instead of just showing the pointer to that
   path name in user space. Also show the contents of the buffer of the
   write system call. Several system call trace events are updated to
   make tracing into a light weight strace tool for all applications in
   the system.

 - Update perf system call tracing to do the same

 - And a config and syscall_user_buf_size file to control the size of
   the buffer

   Limit the amount of data that can be read from user space. The
   default size is 63 bytes but that can be expanded to 165 bytes.

 - Allow the persistent ring buffer to print system calls normally

   The persistent ring buffer prints trace events by their type and
   ignores the print_fmt. This is because the print_fmt may change from
   kernel to kernel. As the system call output is fixed by the system
   call ABI itself, there's no reason to limit that. This makes reading
   the system call events in the persistent ring buffer much nicer and
   easier to understand.

 - Add options to show text offset to function profiler

   The function profiler that counts the number of times a function is
   hit currently lists all functions by its name and offset. But this
   becomes ambiguous when there are several functions with the same
   name.

   Add a tracing option that changes the output to be that of
   '_text+offset' instead. Now a user space tool can use this
   information to map the '_text+offset' to the unique function it is
   counting.

 - Report bad dynamic event command

   If a bad command is passed to the dynamic_events file, report it
   properly in the error log.

 - Clean up tracer options

   Clean up the tracer option code a bit, by removing some useless code
   and also using switch statements instead of a series of if
   statements.

 - Have tracing options be instance specific

   Tracers can have their own options (function tracer, irqsoff tracer,
   function graph tracer, etc). But now that the same tracer can be
   enabled in multiple trace instances, their options are still global.
   The API is per instance, thus changing one affects other instances.
   This isn't even consistent, as the option take affect differently
   depending on when an tracer started in an instance. Make the options
   for instances only affect the instance it is changed under.

 - Optimize pid_list lock contention

   Whenever the pid_list is read, it uses a spin lock. This happens at
   every sched switch. Taking the lock at sched switch can be removed by
   instead using a seqlock counter.

 - Clean up the trace trigger structures

   The trigger code uses two different structures to implement a single
   tigger. This was due to trying to reuse code for the two different
   types of triggers (always on trigger, and count limited trigger). But
   by adding a single field to one structure, the other structure could
   be absorbed into the first structure making he code easier to
   understand.

 - Create a bulk garbage collector for trace triggers

   If user space has triggers for several hundreds of events and then
   removes them, it can take several seconds to complete. This is
   because each removal calls tracepoint_synchronize_unregister() that
   can take hundreds of milliseconds to complete.

   Instead, create a helper thread that will do the clean up. When a
   trigger is removed, it will create the kthread if it isn't already
   created, and then add the trigger to a llist. The kthread will take
   the items off the llist, call tracepoint_synchronize_unregister(),
   and then remove the items it took off. It will then check if there's
   more items to free before sleeping.

   This makes user space removing all these triggers to finish in less
   than a second.

 - Allow function tracing of some of the tracing infrastructure code

   Because the tracing code can cause recursion issues if it is traced
   by the function tracer the entire tracing directory disables function
   tracing. But not all of tracing causes issues if it is traced.
   Namely, the event tracing code. Add a config that enables some of the
   tracing code to be traced to help in debugging it. Note, when this is
   enabled, it does add noise to general function tracing, especially if
   events are enabled as well (which is a common case).

 - Add boot-time backup instance for persistent buffer

   The persistent ring buffer is used mostly for kernel crash analysis
   in the field. One issue is that if there's a crash, the data in the
   persistent ring buffer must be read before tracing can begin using
   it. This slows down the boot process. Once tracing starts in the
   persistent ring buffer, the old data must be freed and the addresses
   no longer match and old events can't be in the buffer with new
   events.

   Create a way to create a backup buffer that copies the persistent
   ring buffer at boot up. Then after a crash, the always on tracer can
   begin immediately as well as the normal boot process while the crash
   analysis tooling uses the backup buffer. After the backup buffer is
   finished being read, it can be removed.

 - Enable function graph args and return address options at the same
   time

   Currently the when reading of arguments in the function graph tracer
   is enabled, the option to record the parent function in the entry
   event can not be enabled. Update the code so that it can.

 - Add new struct_offset() helper macro

   Add a new macro that takes a pointer to a structure and a name of one
   of its members and it will return the offset of that member. This
   allows the ring buffer code to simplify the following:

   From:  size = struct_size(entry, buf, cnt - sizeof(entry-&gt;id));
     To:  size = struct_offset(entry, id) + cnt;

   There should be other simplifications that this macro can help out
   with as well

* tag 'trace-v6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: (42 commits)
  overflow: Introduce struct_offset() to get offset of member
  function_graph: Enable funcgraph-args and funcgraph-retaddr to work simultaneously
  tracing: Add boot-time backup of persistent ring buffer
  ftrace: Allow tracing of some of the tracing code
  tracing: Use strim() in trigger_process_regex() instead of skip_spaces()
  tracing: Add bulk garbage collection of freeing event_trigger_data
  tracing: Remove unneeded event_mutex lock in event_trigger_regex_release()
  tracing: Merge struct event_trigger_ops into struct event_command
  tracing: Remove get_trigger_ops() and add count_func() from trigger ops
  tracing: Show the tracer options in boot-time created instance
  ftrace: Avoid redundant initialization in register_ftrace_direct
  tracing: Remove unused variable in tracing_trace_options_show()
  fgraph: Make fgraph_no_sleep_time signed
  tracing: Convert function graph set_flags() to use a switch() statement
  tracing: Have function graph tracer option sleep-time be per instance
  tracing: Move graph-time out of function graph options
  tracing: Have function graph tracer option funcgraph-irqs be per instance
  trace/pid_list: optimize pid_list-&gt;lock contention
  tracing: Have function graph tracer define options per instance
  tracing: Have function tracer define options per instance
  ...
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<title>ftrace: Allow tracing of some of the tracing code</title>
<updated>2025-11-26T20:13:30Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-11-20T23:15:14Z</published>
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There is times when tracing the tracing infrastructure can be useful for
debugging the tracing code. Currently all files in the tracing directory
are set to "notrace" the functions.

Add a new config option FUNCTION_SELF_TRACING that will allow some of the
files in the tracing infrastructure to be traced. It requires a config to
enable because it will add noise to the function tracer if events and
other tracing features are enabled. Tracing functions and events together
is quite common, so not tracing the event code should be the default.

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Tom Zanussi &lt;zanussi@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251120181514.736f2d5f@gandalf.local.home
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ftrace: Introduce FTRACE_OPS_FL_JMP</title>
<updated>2025-11-24T17:46:24Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Menglong Dong</name>
<email>menglong8.dong@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-11-18T12:36:29Z</published>
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For now, the "nop" will be replaced with a "call" instruction when a
function is hooked by the ftrace. However, sometimes the "call" can break
the RSB and introduce extra overhead. Therefore, introduce the flag
FTRACE_OPS_FL_JMP, which indicate that the ftrace_ops should be called
with a "jmp" instead of "call". For now, it is only used by the direct
call case.

When a direct ftrace_ops is marked with FTRACE_OPS_FL_JMP, the last bit of
the ops-&gt;direct_call will be set to 1. Therefore, we can tell if we should
use "jmp" for the callback in ftrace_call_replace().

Signed-off-by: Menglong Dong &lt;dongml2@chinatelecom.cn&gt;
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251118123639.688444-2-dongml2@chinatelecom.cn
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>tracing: Add a config and syscall_user_buf_size file to limit amount written</title>
<updated>2025-10-29T00:10:59Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-28T23:11:22Z</published>
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When a system call that can copy user space addresses into the ring
buffer, it can copy up to 511 bytes of data. This can waste precious ring
buffer space if the user isn't interested in the output. Add a new file
"syscall_user_buf_size" that gets initialized to a new config
CONFIG_SYSCALL_BUF_SIZE_DEFAULT that defaults to 63.

The config also is used to limit how much perf can read from user space.

Also lower the max down to 165, as this isn't to record everything that a
system call may be passing through to the kernel. 165 is more than enough.

The reason for 165 is because adding one for the nul terminating byte, as
well as possibly needing to append the "..." string turns it into 170
bytes. As this needs to save up to 3 arguments and 3 * 170 is 510 which
fits nicely in 512 bytes (a power of 2).

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Takaya Saeki &lt;takayas@google.com&gt;
Cc: Tom Zanussi &lt;zanussi@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ian Rogers &lt;irogers@google.com&gt;
Cc: Douglas Raillard &lt;douglas.raillard@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20251028231148.260068913@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'trace-v6.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2025-08-01T17:29:36Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-08-01T17:29:36Z</published>
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Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:

 - Deprecate auto-mounting tracefs to /sys/kernel/debug/tracing

   When tracefs was first introduced back in 2014, the directory
   /sys/kernel/tracing was added and is the designated location to mount
   tracefs. To keep backward compatibility, tracefs was auto-mounted in
   /sys/kernel/debug/tracing as well.

   All distros now mount tracefs on /sys/kernel/tracing. Having it seen
   in two different locations has lead to various issues and
   inconsistencies.

   The VFS folks have to also maintain debugfs_create_automount() for
   this single user.

   It's been over 10 years. Tooling and scripts should start replacing
   the debugfs location with the tracefs one. The reason tracefs was
   created in the first place was to allow access to the tracing
   facilities without the need to configure debugfs into the kernel.
   Using tracefs should now be more robust.

   A new config is created: CONFIG_TRACEFS_AUTOMOUNT_DEPRECATED which is
   default y, so that the kernel is still built with the automount. This
   config allows those that want to remove the automount from debugfs to
   do so.

   When tracefs is accessed from /sys/kernel/debug/tracing, the
   following printk is triggerd:

     pr_warn("NOTICE: Automounting of tracing to debugfs is deprecated and will be removed in 2030\n");

   This gives users another 5 years to fix their scripts.

 - Use queue_rcu_work() instead of call_rcu() for freeing event filters

   The number of filters to be free can be many depending on the number
   of events within an event system. Freeing them from softirq context
   can potentially cause undesired latency. Use the RCU workqueue to
   free them instead.

 - Remove pointless memory barriers in latency code

   Memory barriers were added to some of the latency code a long time
   ago with the idea of "making them visible", but that's not what
   memory barriers are for. They are to synchronize access between
   different variables. There was no synchronization here making them
   pointless.

 - Remove "__attribute__()" from the type field of event format

   When LLVM is used to compile the kernel with CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF=y
   and PAHOLE_HAS_BTF_TAG=y, some of the format fields get expanded with
   the following:

     field:const char * filename;      offset:24;      size:8; signed:0;

   Turns into:

     field:const char __attribute__((btf_type_tag("user"))) * filename;      offset:24;      size:8; signed:0;

   This confuses parsers. Add code to strip these tags from the strings.

 - Add eprobe config option CONFIG_EPROBE_EVENTS

   Eprobes were added back in 5.15 but were only enabled when another
   probe was enabled (kprobe, fprobe, uprobe, etc). The eprobes had no
   config option of their own. Add one as they should be a separate
   entity.

   It's default y to keep with the old kernels but still has
   dependencies on TRACING and HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API.

 - Add eprobe documentation

   When eprobes were added back in 5.15 no documentation was added to
   describe them. This needs to be rectified.

 - Replace open coded cpumask_next_wrap() in move_to_next_cpu()

 - Have preemptirq_delay_run() use off-stack CPU mask

 - Remove obsolete comment about pelt_cfs event

   DECLARE_TRACE() appends "_tp" to trace events now, but the comment
   above pelt_cfs still mentioned appending it manually.

 - Remove EVENT_FILE_FL_SOFT_MODE flag

   The SOFT_MODE flag was required when the soft enabling and disabling
   of trace events was first introduced. But there was a bug with this
   approach as it only worked for a single instance. When multiple users
   required soft disabling and disabling the code was changed to have a
   ref count. The SOFT_MODE flag is now set iff the ref count is non
   zero. This is redundant and just reading the ref count is good
   enough.

 - Fix typo in comment

* tag 'trace-v6.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
  Documentation: tracing: Add documentation about eprobes
  tracing: Have eprobes have their own config option
  tracing: Remove "__attribute__()" from the type field of event format
  tracing: Deprecate auto-mounting tracefs in debugfs
  tracing: Fix comment in trace_module_remove_events()
  tracing: Remove EVENT_FILE_FL_SOFT_MODE flag
  tracing: Remove pointless memory barriers
  tracing/sched: Remove obsolete comment on suffixes
  kernel: trace: preemptirq_delay_test: use offstack cpu mask
  tracing: Use queue_rcu_work() to free filters
  tracing: Replace opencoded cpumask_next_wrap() in move_to_next_cpu()
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'trace-unused-v6.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2025-07-30T23:41:58Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-30T23:41:58Z</published>
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Pull tracepoint cleanup from Steven Rostedt:
 "Remove or hide unused tracepoints

  Tracepoints take up memory (around 5K per tracepoint) even when they
  are unused. Changes are being made to detect when a tracepoint is
  defined but unused and a warning is shown at build. But those changes
  are not yet ready for inclusion.

   - Fix some of the unused tracepoints that it detected

     Some tracepoints were removed and others were hidden by config
     settings to match the config settings of where they are
     instantiated. Some tracepoints were moved into architecture
     specific code as only one architecture used them.

   - Call the ftrace_test_filter tracepoint in an unreachable if
     statement

     The ftrace_test_filter tracepoint which is defined when ftrace
     selftests are configured and is used to test the filter logic, but
     the tracepoint is not actually called. It is put into an if
     statement to not have it get compiled out, but also not warn for
     not being used"

* tag 'trace-unused-v6.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
  tracing: sched: Hide numa events under CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING
  powerpc/thp: tracing: Hide hugepage events under CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S_64
  tracing: Call trace_ftrace_test_filter() for the event
  tracing: arm: arm64: Hide trace events ipi_raise, ipi_entry and ipi_exit
  binder: Remove unused binder lock events
  PM: tracing: Hide power_domain_target event under ARCH_OMAP2PLUS
  PM: tracing: Hide device_pm_callback events under PM_SLEEP
  PM: tracing: Hide psci_domain_idle events under ARM_PSCI_CPUIDLE
  PM: cpufreq: powernv/tracing: Move powernv_throttle trace event
  alarmtimer: Hide alarmtimer_suspend event when RTC_CLASS is not configured
  tracing, AER: Hide PCIe AER event when PCIEAER is not configured
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Have eprobes have their own config option</title>
<updated>2025-07-30T14:38:43Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-30T14:07:54Z</published>
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Eprobes were added in 5.15 and were selected whenever any of the other
probe events were selected. If kprobe events were enabled (which it is by
default if kprobes are enabled) it would enable eprobe events as well. The
same for uprobes and fprobes.

Have eprobes have its own config and it gets enabled by default if tracing
is enabled.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250729102636.b7cce553e7cc263722b12365@kernel.org/

Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250730140945.360286733@kernel.org
Suggested-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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