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<title>linux-toradex.git/kernel/trace/trace.c, branch v4.12-rc1</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>tracing: Use cpumask_available() to check if cpumask variable may be used</title>
<updated>2017-05-09T01:22:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthias Kaehlcke</name>
<email>mka@chromium.org</email>
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<published>2017-04-21T23:41:10+00:00</published>
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This fixes the following clang warning:

kernel/trace/trace.c:3231:12: warning: address of array 'iter-&gt;started'
  will always evaluate to 'true' [-Wpointer-bool-conversion]
        if (iter-&gt;started)

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170421234110.117075-1-mka@chromium.org

Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke &lt;mka@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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This fixes the following clang warning:

kernel/trace/trace.c:3231:12: warning: address of array 'iter-&gt;started'
  will always evaluate to 'true' [-Wpointer-bool-conversion]
        if (iter-&gt;started)

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170421234110.117075-1-mka@chromium.org

Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke &lt;mka@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tracing: Use strlcpy() instead of strcpy() in __trace_find_cmdline()</title>
<updated>2017-05-04T02:15:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Amey Telawane</name>
<email>ameyt@codeaurora.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-03T10:11:14+00:00</published>
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Strcpy is inherently not safe, and strlcpy() should be used instead.
__trace_find_cmdline() uses strcpy() because the comms saved must have a
terminating nul character, but it doesn't hurt to add the extra protection
of using strlcpy() instead of strcpy().

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1493806274-13936-1-git-send-email-amit.pundir@linaro.org

Signed-off-by: Amey Telawane &lt;ameyt@codeaurora.org&gt;
[AmitP: Cherry-picked this commit from CodeAurora kernel/msm-3.10
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.10/commit/?id=2161ae9a70b12cf18ac8e5952a20161ffbccb477]
Signed-off-by: Amit Pundir &lt;amit.pundir@linaro.org&gt;
[ Updated change log and removed the "- 1" from len parameter ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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Strcpy is inherently not safe, and strlcpy() should be used instead.
__trace_find_cmdline() uses strcpy() because the comms saved must have a
terminating nul character, but it doesn't hurt to add the extra protection
of using strlcpy() instead of strcpy().

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1493806274-13936-1-git-send-email-amit.pundir@linaro.org

Signed-off-by: Amey Telawane &lt;ameyt@codeaurora.org&gt;
[AmitP: Cherry-picked this commit from CodeAurora kernel/msm-3.10
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.10/commit/?id=2161ae9a70b12cf18ac8e5952a20161ffbccb477]
Signed-off-by: Amit Pundir &lt;amit.pundir@linaro.org&gt;
[ Updated change log and removed the "- 1" from len parameter ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'trace-v4.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2017-05-04T01:41:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-04T01:41:21+00:00</published>
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Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
 "New features for this release:

   - Pretty much a full rewrite of the processing of function plugins.
     i.e. echo do_IRQ:stacktrace &gt; set_ftrace_filter

   - The rewrite was needed to add plugins to be unique to tracing
     instances. i.e. mkdir instance/foo; cd instances/foo; echo
     do_IRQ:stacktrace &gt; set_ftrace_filter The old way was written very
     hacky. This removes a lot of those hacks.

   - New "function-fork" tracing option. When set, pids in the
     set_ftrace_pid will have their children added when the processes
     with their pids listed in the set_ftrace_pid file forks.

   - Exposure of "maxactive" for kretprobe in kprobe_events

   - Allow for builtin init functions to be traced by the function
     tracer (via the kernel command line). Module init function tracing
     will come in the next release.

   - Added more selftests, and have selftests also test in an instance"

* tag 'trace-v4.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (60 commits)
  ring-buffer: Return reader page back into existing ring buffer
  selftests: ftrace: Allow some event trigger tests to run in an instance
  selftests: ftrace: Have some basic tests run in a tracing instance too
  selftests: ftrace: Have event tests also run in an tracing instance
  selftests: ftrace: Make func_event_triggers and func_traceonoff_triggers tests do instances
  selftests: ftrace: Allow some tests to be run in a tracing instance
  tracing/ftrace: Allow for instances to trigger their own stacktrace probes
  tracing/ftrace: Allow for the traceonoff probe be unique to instances
  tracing/ftrace: Enable snapshot function trigger to work with instances
  tracing/ftrace: Allow instances to have their own function probes
  tracing/ftrace: Add a better way to pass data via the probe functions
  ftrace: Dynamically create the probe ftrace_ops for the trace_array
  tracing: Pass the trace_array into ftrace_probe_ops functions
  tracing: Have the trace_array hold the list of registered func probes
  ftrace: If the hash for a probe fails to update then free what was initialized
  ftrace: Have the function probes call their own function
  ftrace: Have each function probe use its own ftrace_ops
  ftrace: Have unregister_ftrace_function_probe_func() return a value
  ftrace: Add helper function ftrace_hash_move_and_update_ops()
  ftrace: Remove data field from ftrace_func_probe structure
  ...
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Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
 "New features for this release:

   - Pretty much a full rewrite of the processing of function plugins.
     i.e. echo do_IRQ:stacktrace &gt; set_ftrace_filter

   - The rewrite was needed to add plugins to be unique to tracing
     instances. i.e. mkdir instance/foo; cd instances/foo; echo
     do_IRQ:stacktrace &gt; set_ftrace_filter The old way was written very
     hacky. This removes a lot of those hacks.

   - New "function-fork" tracing option. When set, pids in the
     set_ftrace_pid will have their children added when the processes
     with their pids listed in the set_ftrace_pid file forks.

   - Exposure of "maxactive" for kretprobe in kprobe_events

   - Allow for builtin init functions to be traced by the function
     tracer (via the kernel command line). Module init function tracing
     will come in the next release.

   - Added more selftests, and have selftests also test in an instance"

* tag 'trace-v4.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (60 commits)
  ring-buffer: Return reader page back into existing ring buffer
  selftests: ftrace: Allow some event trigger tests to run in an instance
  selftests: ftrace: Have some basic tests run in a tracing instance too
  selftests: ftrace: Have event tests also run in an tracing instance
  selftests: ftrace: Make func_event_triggers and func_traceonoff_triggers tests do instances
  selftests: ftrace: Allow some tests to be run in a tracing instance
  tracing/ftrace: Allow for instances to trigger their own stacktrace probes
  tracing/ftrace: Allow for the traceonoff probe be unique to instances
  tracing/ftrace: Enable snapshot function trigger to work with instances
  tracing/ftrace: Allow instances to have their own function probes
  tracing/ftrace: Add a better way to pass data via the probe functions
  ftrace: Dynamically create the probe ftrace_ops for the trace_array
  tracing: Pass the trace_array into ftrace_probe_ops functions
  tracing: Have the trace_array hold the list of registered func probes
  ftrace: If the hash for a probe fails to update then free what was initialized
  ftrace: Have the function probes call their own function
  ftrace: Have each function probe use its own ftrace_ops
  ftrace: Have unregister_ftrace_function_probe_func() return a value
  ftrace: Add helper function ftrace_hash_move_and_update_ops()
  ftrace: Remove data field from ftrace_func_probe structure
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'work.splice' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2017-05-02T18:38:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-02T18:38:06+00:00</published>
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Pull splice updates from Al Viro:
 "These actually missed the last cycle; the branch itself is from last
  December"

* 'work.splice' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  make nr_pages calculation in default_file_splice_read() a bit less ugly
  splice/tee/vmsplice: validate flags
  splice_pipe_desc: kill -&gt;flags
  remove spd_release_page()
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Pull splice updates from Al Viro:
 "These actually missed the last cycle; the branch itself is from last
  December"

* 'work.splice' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  make nr_pages calculation in default_file_splice_read() a bit less ugly
  splice/tee/vmsplice: validate flags
  splice_pipe_desc: kill -&gt;flags
  remove spd_release_page()
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2017-05-02T03:23:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-02T03:23:17+00:00</published>
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Pull perf updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle were:

  Kernel side changes:

   - Kprobes and uprobes changes:
      - Make their trampolines read-only while they are used
      - Make UPROBES_EVENTS default-y which is the distro practice
      - Apply misc fixes and robustization to probe point insertion.

   - add support for AMD IOMMU events

   - extend hw events on Intel Goldmont CPUs

   - ... plus misc fixes and updates.

  Tooling side changes:

   - support s390 jump instructions in perf annotate (Christian
     Borntraeger)

   - vendor hardware events updates (Andi Kleen)

   - add argument support for SDT events in powerpc (Ravi Bangoria)

   - beautify the statx syscall arguments in 'perf trace' (Arnaldo
     Carvalho de Melo)

   - handle inline functions in callchains (Jin Yao)

   - enable sorting by srcline as key (Milian Wolff)

   - add 'brstackinsn' field in 'perf script' to reuse the x86
     instruction decoder used in the Intel PT code to study hot paths to
     samples (Andi Kleen)

   - add PERF_RECORD_NAMESPACES so that the kernel can record
     information required to associate samples to namespaces, helping in
     container problem characterization. (Hari Bathini)

   - allow sorting by symbol_size in 'perf report' and 'perf top'
     (Charles Baylis)

   - in perf stat, make system wide (-a) the default option if no target
     was specified and one of following conditions is met:
      - no workload specified (current behaviour)
      - a workload is specified but all requested events are system wide
        ones, like uncore ones. (Jiri Olsa)

   - ... plus lots of other updates, enhancements, cleanups and fixes"

* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (235 commits)
  perf tools: Fix the code to strip command name
  tools arch x86: Sync cpufeatures.h
  tools arch: Sync arch/x86/lib/memcpy_64.S with the kernel
  tools: Update asm-generic/mman-common.h copy from the kernel
  perf tools: Use just forward declarations for struct thread where possible
  perf tools: Add the right header to obtain PERF_ALIGN()
  perf tools: Remove poll.h and wait.h from util.h
  perf tools: Remove string.h, unistd.h and sys/stat.h from util.h
  perf tools: Remove stale prototypes from builtin.h
  perf tools: Remove string.h from util.h
  perf tools: Remove sys/ioctl.h from util.h
  perf tools: Remove a few more needless includes from util.h
  perf tools: Include sys/param.h where needed
  perf callchain: Move callchain specific routines from util.[ch]
  perf tools: Add compress.h for the *_decompress_to_file() headers
  perf mem: Fix display of data source snoop indication
  perf debug: Move dump_stack() and sighandler_dump_stack() to debug.h
  perf kvm: Make function only used by 'perf kvm' static
  perf tools: Move timestamp routines from util.h to time-utils.h
  perf tools: Move units conversion/formatting routines to separate object
  ...
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Pull perf updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle were:

  Kernel side changes:

   - Kprobes and uprobes changes:
      - Make their trampolines read-only while they are used
      - Make UPROBES_EVENTS default-y which is the distro practice
      - Apply misc fixes and robustization to probe point insertion.

   - add support for AMD IOMMU events

   - extend hw events on Intel Goldmont CPUs

   - ... plus misc fixes and updates.

  Tooling side changes:

   - support s390 jump instructions in perf annotate (Christian
     Borntraeger)

   - vendor hardware events updates (Andi Kleen)

   - add argument support for SDT events in powerpc (Ravi Bangoria)

   - beautify the statx syscall arguments in 'perf trace' (Arnaldo
     Carvalho de Melo)

   - handle inline functions in callchains (Jin Yao)

   - enable sorting by srcline as key (Milian Wolff)

   - add 'brstackinsn' field in 'perf script' to reuse the x86
     instruction decoder used in the Intel PT code to study hot paths to
     samples (Andi Kleen)

   - add PERF_RECORD_NAMESPACES so that the kernel can record
     information required to associate samples to namespaces, helping in
     container problem characterization. (Hari Bathini)

   - allow sorting by symbol_size in 'perf report' and 'perf top'
     (Charles Baylis)

   - in perf stat, make system wide (-a) the default option if no target
     was specified and one of following conditions is met:
      - no workload specified (current behaviour)
      - a workload is specified but all requested events are system wide
        ones, like uncore ones. (Jiri Olsa)

   - ... plus lots of other updates, enhancements, cleanups and fixes"

* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (235 commits)
  perf tools: Fix the code to strip command name
  tools arch x86: Sync cpufeatures.h
  tools arch: Sync arch/x86/lib/memcpy_64.S with the kernel
  tools: Update asm-generic/mman-common.h copy from the kernel
  perf tools: Use just forward declarations for struct thread where possible
  perf tools: Add the right header to obtain PERF_ALIGN()
  perf tools: Remove poll.h and wait.h from util.h
  perf tools: Remove string.h, unistd.h and sys/stat.h from util.h
  perf tools: Remove stale prototypes from builtin.h
  perf tools: Remove string.h from util.h
  perf tools: Remove sys/ioctl.h from util.h
  perf tools: Remove a few more needless includes from util.h
  perf tools: Include sys/param.h where needed
  perf callchain: Move callchain specific routines from util.[ch]
  perf tools: Add compress.h for the *_decompress_to_file() headers
  perf mem: Fix display of data source snoop indication
  perf debug: Move dump_stack() and sighandler_dump_stack() to debug.h
  perf kvm: Make function only used by 'perf kvm' static
  perf tools: Move timestamp routines from util.h to time-utils.h
  perf tools: Move units conversion/formatting routines to separate object
  ...
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<title>ring-buffer: Return reader page back into existing ring buffer</title>
<updated>2017-05-01T14:26:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (VMware)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-01T13:35:09+00:00</published>
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When reading the ring buffer for consuming, it is optimized for splice,
where a page is taken out of the ring buffer (zero copy) and sent to the
reading consumer. When the read is finished with the page, it calls
ring_buffer_free_read_page(), which simply frees the page. The next time the
reader needs to get a page from the ring buffer, it must call
ring_buffer_alloc_read_page() which allocates and initializes a reader page
for the ring buffer to be swapped into the ring buffer for a new filled page
for the reader.

The problem is that there's no reason to actually free the page when it is
passed back to the ring buffer. It can hold it off and reuse it for the next
iteration. This completely removes the interaction with the page_alloc
mechanism.

Using the trace-cmd utility to record all events (causing trace-cmd to
require reading lots of pages from the ring buffer, and calling
ring_buffer_alloc/free_read_page() several times), and also assigning a
stack trace trigger to the mm_page_alloc event, we can see how many times
the ring_buffer_alloc_read_page() needed to allocate a page for the ring
buffer.

Before this change:

  # trace-cmd record -e all -e mem_page_alloc -R stacktrace sleep 1
  # trace-cmd report |grep ring_buffer_alloc_read_page | wc -l
  9968

After this change:

  # trace-cmd record -e all -e mem_page_alloc -R stacktrace sleep 1
  # trace-cmd report |grep ring_buffer_alloc_read_page | wc -l
  4

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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When reading the ring buffer for consuming, it is optimized for splice,
where a page is taken out of the ring buffer (zero copy) and sent to the
reading consumer. When the read is finished with the page, it calls
ring_buffer_free_read_page(), which simply frees the page. The next time the
reader needs to get a page from the ring buffer, it must call
ring_buffer_alloc_read_page() which allocates and initializes a reader page
for the ring buffer to be swapped into the ring buffer for a new filled page
for the reader.

The problem is that there's no reason to actually free the page when it is
passed back to the ring buffer. It can hold it off and reuse it for the next
iteration. This completely removes the interaction with the page_alloc
mechanism.

Using the trace-cmd utility to record all events (causing trace-cmd to
require reading lots of pages from the ring buffer, and calling
ring_buffer_alloc/free_read_page() several times), and also assigning a
stack trace trigger to the mm_page_alloc event, we can see how many times
the ring_buffer_alloc_read_page() needed to allocate a page for the ring
buffer.

Before this change:

  # trace-cmd record -e all -e mem_page_alloc -R stacktrace sleep 1
  # trace-cmd report |grep ring_buffer_alloc_read_page | wc -l
  9968

After this change:

  # trace-cmd record -e all -e mem_page_alloc -R stacktrace sleep 1
  # trace-cmd report |grep ring_buffer_alloc_read_page | wc -l
  4

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing/ftrace: Allow for the traceonoff probe be unique to instances</title>
<updated>2017-04-21T02:06:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (VMware)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-04-20T15:46:03+00:00</published>
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Have the traceon/off function probe triggers affect only the instance they
are set in. This required making the trace_on/off accessible for other files
in the tracing directory.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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Have the traceon/off function probe triggers affect only the instance they
are set in. This required making the trace_on/off accessible for other files
in the tracing directory.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing/ftrace: Enable snapshot function trigger to work with instances</title>
<updated>2017-04-21T02:06:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (VMware)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-04-20T15:34:06+00:00</published>
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Modify the snapshot probe trigger to work with instances. This way the
snapshot function trigger will only affect the instance that it is added to
in the set_ftrace_filter file.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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Modify the snapshot probe trigger to work with instances. This way the
snapshot function trigger will only affect the instance that it is added to
in the set_ftrace_filter file.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing/ftrace: Add a better way to pass data via the probe functions</title>
<updated>2017-04-21T02:06:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (VMware)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-04-20T02:39:44+00:00</published>
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With the redesign of the registration and execution of the function probes
(triggers), data can now be passed from the setup of the probe to the probe
callers that are specific to the trace_array it is on. Although, all probes
still only affect the toplevel trace array, this change will allow for
instances to have their own probes separated from other instances and the
top array.

That is, something like the stacktrace probe can be set to trace only in an
instance and not the toplevel trace array. This isn't implement yet, but
this change sets the ground work for the change.

When a probe callback is triggered (someone writes the probe format into
set_ftrace_filter), it calls register_ftrace_function_probe() passing in
init_data that will be used to initialize the probe. Then for every matching
function, register_ftrace_function_probe() will call the probe_ops-&gt;init()
function with the init data that was passed to it, as well as an address to
a place holder that is associated with the probe and the instance. The first
occurrence will have a NULL in the pointer. The init() function will then
initialize it. If other probes are added, or more functions are part of the
probe, the place holder will be passed to the init() function with the place
holder data that it was initialized to the last time.

Then this place_holder is passed to each of the other probe_ops functions,
where it can be used in the function callback. When the probe_ops free()
function is called, it can be called either with the rip of the function
that is being removed from the probe, or zero, indicating that there are no
more functions attached to the probe, and the place holder is about to be
freed. This gives the probe_ops a way to free the data it assigned to the
place holder if it was allocade during the first init call.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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With the redesign of the registration and execution of the function probes
(triggers), data can now be passed from the setup of the probe to the probe
callers that are specific to the trace_array it is on. Although, all probes
still only affect the toplevel trace array, this change will allow for
instances to have their own probes separated from other instances and the
top array.

That is, something like the stacktrace probe can be set to trace only in an
instance and not the toplevel trace array. This isn't implement yet, but
this change sets the ground work for the change.

When a probe callback is triggered (someone writes the probe format into
set_ftrace_filter), it calls register_ftrace_function_probe() passing in
init_data that will be used to initialize the probe. Then for every matching
function, register_ftrace_function_probe() will call the probe_ops-&gt;init()
function with the init data that was passed to it, as well as an address to
a place holder that is associated with the probe and the instance. The first
occurrence will have a NULL in the pointer. The init() function will then
initialize it. If other probes are added, or more functions are part of the
probe, the place holder will be passed to the init() function with the place
holder data that it was initialized to the last time.

Then this place_holder is passed to each of the other probe_ops functions,
where it can be used in the function callback. When the probe_ops free()
function is called, it can be called either with the rip of the function
that is being removed from the probe, or zero, indicating that there are no
more functions attached to the probe, and the place holder is about to be
freed. This gives the probe_ops a way to free the data it assigned to the
place holder if it was allocade during the first init call.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<title>ftrace: Dynamically create the probe ftrace_ops for the trace_array</title>
<updated>2017-04-21T02:06:46+00:00</updated>
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<name>Steven Rostedt (VMware)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
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<published>2017-04-18T18:50:39+00:00</published>
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In order to eventually have each trace_array instance have its own unique
set of function probes (triggers), the trace array needs to hold the ops and
the filters for the probes.

This is the first step to accomplish this. Instead of having the private
data of the probe ops point to the trace_array, create a separate list that
the trace_array holds. There's only one private_data for a probe, we need
one per trace_array. The probe ftrace_ops will be dynamically created for
each instance, instead of being static.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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In order to eventually have each trace_array instance have its own unique
set of function probes (triggers), the trace array needs to hold the ops and
the filters for the probes.

This is the first step to accomplish this. Instead of having the private
data of the probe ops point to the trace_array, create a separate list that
the trace_array holds. There's only one private_data for a probe, we need
one per trace_array. The probe ftrace_ops will be dynamically created for
each instance, instead of being static.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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