user/sven/linux.git/kernel/trace/ftrace.c, branch next/HEAD

Merge trace/for-next

2026-04-04T16:38:07Z

ftrace: Use kallsyms binary search for single-symbol lookup

2026-04-01T20:58:36Z

When ftrace_lookup_symbols() is called with a single symbol (cnt == 1), use kallsyms_lookup_name() for O(log N) binary search instead of the full linear scan via kallsyms_on_each_symbol(). ftrace_lookup_symbols() was designed for batch resolution of many symbols in a single pass. For large cnt this is efficient: a single O(N) walk over all symbols with O(log cnt) binary search into the sorted input array. But for cnt == 1 it still decompresses all ~200K kernel symbols only to match one. kallsyms_lookup_name() uses the sorted kallsyms index and needs only ~17 decompressions for a single lookup. This is the common path for kprobe.session with exact function names, where libbpf sends one symbol per BPF_LINK_CREATE syscall. If binary lookup fails (duplicate symbol names where the first match is not ftrace-instrumented), the function falls through to the existing linear scan path. Before (cnt=1, 50 kprobe.session programs): Attach: 858 ms (kallsyms_expand_symbol 25% of CPU) After: Attach: 52 ms (16x faster) Cc: Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260302200837.317907-3-andrey.grodzovsky@crowdstrike.com Signed-off-by: Andrey Grodzovsky Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google)

tracing: Append repeated boot-time tracing parameters

2026-03-31T18:52:56Z

Some tracing boot parameters already accept delimited value lists, but their __setup() handlers keep only the last instance seen at boot. Make repeated instances append to the same boot-time buffer in the format each parser already consumes. Use a shared trace_append_boot_param() helper for the ftrace filters, trace_options, and kprobe_event boot parameters. This also lets Bootconfig array values work naturally when they expand to repeated param=value entries. Before this change, only the last instance from each repeated parameter survived boot. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260330181103.1851230-1-atwellwea@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Wesley Atwell Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google)

ftrace: Use hash argument for tmp_ops in update_ftrace_direct_mod

2026-03-21T20:51:04Z

The modify logic registers temporary ftrace_ops object (tmp_ops) to trigger the slow path for all direct callers to be able to safely modify attached addresses. At the moment we use ops->func_hash for tmp_ops filter, which represents all the systems attachments. It's faster to use just the passed hash filter, which contains only the modified sites and is always a subset of the ops->func_hash. Cc: Alexei Starovoitov Cc: Daniel Borkmann Cc: Andrii Nakryiko Cc: Menglong Dong Cc: Song Liu Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260312123738.129926-1-jolsa@kernel.org Fixes: e93672f770d7 ("ftrace: Add update_ftrace_direct_mod function") Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google)

Merge tag 'bpf-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf

2026-03-07T20:20:37Z

Pull bpf fixes from Alexei Starovoitov: - Fix u32/s32 bounds when ranges cross min/max boundary (Eduard Zingerman) - Fix precision backtracking with linked registers (Eduard Zingerman) - Fix linker flags detection for resolve_btfids (Ihor Solodrai) - Fix race in update_ftrace_direct_add/del (Jiri Olsa) - Fix UAF in bpf_trampoline_link_cgroup_shim (Lang Xu) * tag 'bpf-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf: resolve_btfids: Fix linker flags detection selftests/bpf: add reproducer for spurious precision propagation through calls bpf: collect only live registers in linked regs Revert "selftests/bpf: Update reg_bound range refinement logic" selftests/bpf: test refining u32/s32 bounds when ranges cross min/max boundary bpf: Fix u32/s32 bounds when ranges cross min/max boundary bpf: Fix a UAF issue in bpf_trampoline_link_cgroup_shim ftrace: Add missing ftrace_lock to update_ftrace_direct_add/del

ftrace: Disable preemption in the tracepoint callbacks handling filtered pids

2026-03-04T03:25:31Z

When function trace PID filtering is enabled, the function tracer will attach a callback to the fork tracepoint as well as the exit tracepoint that will add the forked child PID to the PID filtering list as well as remove the PID that is exiting. Commit a46023d5616e ("tracing: Guard __DECLARE_TRACE() use of __DO_TRACE_CALL() with SRCU-fast") removed the disabling of preemption when calling tracepoint callbacks. The callbacks used for the PID filtering accounting depended on preemption being disabled, and now the trigger a "suspicious RCU usage" warning message. Make them explicitly disable preemption. Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260302213546.156e3e4f@gandalf.local.home Fixes: a46023d5616e ("tracing: Guard __DECLARE_TRACE() use of __DO_TRACE_CALL() with SRCU-fast") Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google)

ftrace: Add missing ftrace_lock to update_ftrace_direct_add/del

2026-03-02T17:51:07Z

Ihor and Kumar reported splat from ftrace_get_addr_curr [1], which happened because of the missing ftrace_lock in update_ftrace_direct_add/del functions allowing concurrent access to ftrace internals. The ftrace_update_ops function must be guarded by ftrace_lock, adding that. Fixes: 05dc5e9c1fe1 ("ftrace: Add update_ftrace_direct_add function") Fixes: 8d2c1233f371 ("ftrace: Add update_ftrace_direct_del function") Reported-by: Ihor Solodrai Reported-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/1b58ffb2-92ae-433a-ba46-95294d6edea2@linux.dev/ Tested-by: Ihor Solodrai Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260302081622.165713-1-jolsa@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov

Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument

2026-02-22T01:09:51Z

This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using git grep -l '\

treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types

2026-02-21T09:02:28Z

This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union object instances: Single allocations: kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...) Array allocations: kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...) Flex array allocations: kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...) (where TYPE may also be *VAR) The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning "TYPE *". Signed-off-by: Kees Cook

Merge tag 'trace-v7.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace

2026-02-14T03:25:16Z

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() ...