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<title>linux-toradex.git/kernel/trace, branch v3.14-rc2</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-3.14/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block</title>
<updated>2014-01-30T19:19:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-30T19:19:05+00:00</published>
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Pull core block IO changes from Jens Axboe:
 "The major piece in here is the immutable bio_ve series from Kent, the
  rest is fairly minor.  It was supposed to go in last round, but
  various issues pushed it to this release instead.  The pull request
  contains:

   - Various smaller blk-mq fixes from different folks.  Nothing major
     here, just minor fixes and cleanups.

   - Fix for a memory leak in the error path in the block ioctl code
     from Christian Engelmayer.

   - Header export fix from CaiZhiyong.

   - Finally the immutable biovec changes from Kent Overstreet.  This
     enables some nice future work on making arbitrarily sized bios
     possible, and splitting more efficient.  Related fixes to immutable
     bio_vecs:

        - dm-cache immutable fixup from Mike Snitzer.
        - btrfs immutable fixup from Muthu Kumar.

  - bio-integrity fix from Nic Bellinger, which is also going to stable"

* 'for-3.14/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (44 commits)
  xtensa: fixup simdisk driver to work with immutable bio_vecs
  block/blk-mq-cpu.c: use hotcpu_notifier()
  blk-mq: for_each_* macro correctness
  block: Fix memory leak in rw_copy_check_uvector() handling
  bio-integrity: Fix bio_integrity_verify segment start bug
  block: remove unrelated header files and export symbol
  blk-mq: uses page-&gt;list incorrectly
  blk-mq: use __smp_call_function_single directly
  btrfs: fix missing increment of bi_remaining
  Revert "block: Warn and free bio if bi_end_io is not set"
  block: Warn and free bio if bi_end_io is not set
  blk-mq: fix initializing request's start time
  block: blk-mq: don't export blk_mq_free_queue()
  block: blk-mq: make blk_sync_queue support mq
  block: blk-mq: support draining mq queue
  dm cache: increment bi_remaining when bi_end_io is restored
  block: fixup for generic bio chaining
  block: Really silence spurious compiler warnings
  block: Silence spurious compiler warnings
  block: Kill bio_pair_split()
  ...
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Pull core block IO changes from Jens Axboe:
 "The major piece in here is the immutable bio_ve series from Kent, the
  rest is fairly minor.  It was supposed to go in last round, but
  various issues pushed it to this release instead.  The pull request
  contains:

   - Various smaller blk-mq fixes from different folks.  Nothing major
     here, just minor fixes and cleanups.

   - Fix for a memory leak in the error path in the block ioctl code
     from Christian Engelmayer.

   - Header export fix from CaiZhiyong.

   - Finally the immutable biovec changes from Kent Overstreet.  This
     enables some nice future work on making arbitrarily sized bios
     possible, and splitting more efficient.  Related fixes to immutable
     bio_vecs:

        - dm-cache immutable fixup from Mike Snitzer.
        - btrfs immutable fixup from Muthu Kumar.

  - bio-integrity fix from Nic Bellinger, which is also going to stable"

* 'for-3.14/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (44 commits)
  xtensa: fixup simdisk driver to work with immutable bio_vecs
  block/blk-mq-cpu.c: use hotcpu_notifier()
  blk-mq: for_each_* macro correctness
  block: Fix memory leak in rw_copy_check_uvector() handling
  bio-integrity: Fix bio_integrity_verify segment start bug
  block: remove unrelated header files and export symbol
  blk-mq: uses page-&gt;list incorrectly
  blk-mq: use __smp_call_function_single directly
  btrfs: fix missing increment of bi_remaining
  Revert "block: Warn and free bio if bi_end_io is not set"
  block: Warn and free bio if bi_end_io is not set
  blk-mq: fix initializing request's start time
  block: blk-mq: don't export blk_mq_free_queue()
  block: blk-mq: make blk_sync_queue support mq
  block: blk-mq: support draining mq queue
  dm cache: increment bi_remaining when bi_end_io is restored
  block: fixup for generic bio chaining
  block: Really silence spurious compiler warnings
  block: Silence spurious compiler warnings
  block: Kill bio_pair_split()
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'trace-fixes-3.14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2014-01-27T16:22:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-27T16:22:30+00:00</published>
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Pull tracing fixes from Steven Rostedt:
 "The first two patches fix the debugfs README file to reflect better
  the new features added to 3.14.

  The third patch is a minor bugfix to the trace_puts() functions that
  will crash the system if a developer adds one before the tracing
  system is setup.  It also affects trace_printk() if it has no
  arguments, as the code will convert it to a trace_puts() as well.

  Note, this bug will not affect unmodified kernels, as trace_printk()
  and trace_puts() should only be used by developers for testing"

* tag 'trace-fixes-3.14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
  tracing: Check if tracing is enabled in trace_puts()
  tracing: Fix formatting of trace README file
  tracing/README: Add event file usage to tracing mini-HOWTO
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Pull tracing fixes from Steven Rostedt:
 "The first two patches fix the debugfs README file to reflect better
  the new features added to 3.14.

  The third patch is a minor bugfix to the trace_puts() functions that
  will crash the system if a developer adds one before the tracing
  system is setup.  It also affects trace_printk() if it has no
  arguments, as the code will convert it to a trace_puts() as well.

  Note, this bug will not affect unmodified kernels, as trace_printk()
  and trace_puts() should only be used by developers for testing"

* tag 'trace-fixes-3.14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
  tracing: Check if tracing is enabled in trace_puts()
  tracing: Fix formatting of trace README file
  tracing/README: Add event file usage to tracing mini-HOWTO
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Check if tracing is enabled in trace_puts()</title>
<updated>2014-01-23T17:27:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-23T17:27:59+00:00</published>
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If trace_puts() is used very early in boot up, it can crash the machine
if it is called before the ring buffer is allocated. If a trace_printk()
is used with no arguments, then it will be converted into a trace_puts()
and suffer the same fate.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.10+
Fixes: 09ae72348ecc "tracing: Add trace_puts() for even faster trace_printk() tracing"
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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If trace_puts() is used very early in boot up, it can crash the machine
if it is called before the ring buffer is allocated. If a trace_printk()
is used with no arguments, then it will be converted into a trace_puts()
and suffer the same fate.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.10+
Fixes: 09ae72348ecc "tracing: Add trace_puts() for even faster trace_printk() tracing"
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Fix formatting of trace README file</title>
<updated>2014-01-23T05:10:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-23T05:10:04+00:00</published>
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Fix the formatting of the README file in the trace debugfs to fit in
an 80 character window.

Also add a comment about the event trigger counter with regards to
traceon and traceoff.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<pre>
Fix the formatting of the README file in the trace debugfs to fit in
an 80 character window.

Also add a comment about the event trigger counter with regards to
traceon and traceoff.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing/README: Add event file usage to tracing mini-HOWTO</title>
<updated>2014-01-23T04:06:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tom Zanussi</name>
<email>tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-17T21:11:44+00:00</published>
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It would be useful to have a cheat-sheet for everything under
tracing/events/ alongside the existing text describing the other files
in the tracing/ dir.

Add short descriptions of the directories and files under events/
along with examples, similar to the existing text for the other files
in tracing/.

Also clean up a few minor alignment problems noticed when adding the
new text.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1389993104.3040.445.camel@empanada

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi &lt;tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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It would be useful to have a cheat-sheet for everything under
tracing/events/ alongside the existing text describing the other files
in the tracing/ dir.

Add short descriptions of the directories and files under events/
along with examples, similar to the existing text for the other files
in tracing/.

Also clean up a few minor alignment problems noticed when adding the
new text.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1389993104.3040.445.camel@empanada

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi &lt;tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'trace-3.14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2014-01-23T00:35:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-23T00:35:21+00:00</published>
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Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
 "This pull request has a new feature to ftrace, namely the trace event
  triggers by Tom Zanussi.  A trigger is a way to enable an action when
  an event is hit.  The actions are:

   o  trace on/off - enable or disable tracing
   o  snapshot     - save the current trace buffer in the snapshot
   o  stacktrace   - dump the current stack trace to the ringbuffer
   o  enable/disable events - enable or disable another event

  Namhyung Kim added updates to the tracing uprobes code.  Having the
  uprobes add support for fetch methods.

  The rest are various bug fixes with the new code, and minor ones for
  the old code"

* tag 'trace-3.14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (38 commits)
  tracing: Fix buggered tee(2) on tracing_pipe
  tracing: Have trace buffer point back to trace_array
  ftrace: Fix synchronization location disabling and freeing ftrace_ops
  ftrace: Have function graph only trace based on global_ops filters
  ftrace: Synchronize setting function_trace_op with ftrace_trace_function
  tracing: Show available event triggers when no trigger is set
  tracing: Consolidate event trigger code
  tracing: Fix counter for traceon/off event triggers
  tracing: Remove double-underscore naming in syscall trigger invocations
  tracing/kprobes: Add trace event trigger invocations
  tracing/probes: Fix build break on !CONFIG_KPROBE_EVENT
  tracing/uprobes: Add @+file_offset fetch method
  uprobes: Allocate -&gt;utask before handler_chain() for tracing handlers
  tracing/uprobes: Add support for full argument access methods
  tracing/uprobes: Fetch args before reserving a ring buffer
  tracing/uprobes: Pass 'is_return' to traceprobe_parse_probe_arg()
  tracing/probes: Implement 'memory' fetch method for uprobes
  tracing/probes: Add fetch{,_size} member into deref fetch method
  tracing/probes: Move 'symbol' fetch method to kprobes
  tracing/probes: Implement 'stack' fetch method for uprobes
  ...
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<pre>
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
 "This pull request has a new feature to ftrace, namely the trace event
  triggers by Tom Zanussi.  A trigger is a way to enable an action when
  an event is hit.  The actions are:

   o  trace on/off - enable or disable tracing
   o  snapshot     - save the current trace buffer in the snapshot
   o  stacktrace   - dump the current stack trace to the ringbuffer
   o  enable/disable events - enable or disable another event

  Namhyung Kim added updates to the tracing uprobes code.  Having the
  uprobes add support for fetch methods.

  The rest are various bug fixes with the new code, and minor ones for
  the old code"

* tag 'trace-3.14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (38 commits)
  tracing: Fix buggered tee(2) on tracing_pipe
  tracing: Have trace buffer point back to trace_array
  ftrace: Fix synchronization location disabling and freeing ftrace_ops
  ftrace: Have function graph only trace based on global_ops filters
  ftrace: Synchronize setting function_trace_op with ftrace_trace_function
  tracing: Show available event triggers when no trigger is set
  tracing: Consolidate event trigger code
  tracing: Fix counter for traceon/off event triggers
  tracing: Remove double-underscore naming in syscall trigger invocations
  tracing/kprobes: Add trace event trigger invocations
  tracing/probes: Fix build break on !CONFIG_KPROBE_EVENT
  tracing/uprobes: Add @+file_offset fetch method
  uprobes: Allocate -&gt;utask before handler_chain() for tracing handlers
  tracing/uprobes: Add support for full argument access methods
  tracing/uprobes: Fetch args before reserving a ring buffer
  tracing/uprobes: Pass 'is_return' to traceprobe_parse_probe_arg()
  tracing/probes: Implement 'memory' fetch method for uprobes
  tracing/probes: Add fetch{,_size} member into deref fetch method
  tracing/probes: Move 'symbol' fetch method to kprobes
  tracing/probes: Implement 'stack' fetch method for uprobes
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Fix buggered tee(2) on tracing_pipe</title>
<updated>2014-01-19T21:53:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-17T12:53:39+00:00</published>
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In kernel/trace/trace.c we have this:
static void tracing_pipe_buf_release(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe,
                                     struct pipe_buffer *buf)
{
        __free_page(buf-&gt;page);
}
static const struct pipe_buf_operations tracing_pipe_buf_ops = {
        .can_merge              = 0,
        .map                    = generic_pipe_buf_map,
        .unmap                  = generic_pipe_buf_unmap,
        .confirm                = generic_pipe_buf_confirm,
        .release                = tracing_pipe_buf_release,
        .steal                  = generic_pipe_buf_steal,
        .get                    = generic_pipe_buf_get,
};
with
void generic_pipe_buf_get(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe, struct pipe_buffer *buf)
{
        page_cache_get(buf-&gt;page);
}

and I don't see anything that would've prevented tee(2) called on the pipe
that got stuff spliced into it from that sucker.  -&gt;ops-&gt;get() will be
called, then buf gets copied into target pipe's -&gt;bufs[] and eventually
readers get to both copies of the buffer.  With
	get_page(page)
	look at that page
	__free_page(page)
	look at that page
	__free_page(page)
which is not a good thing, to put it mildly.  AFAICS, that ought to use
the normal generic_pipe_buf_release() (aka page_cache_release(buf-&gt;page)),
shouldn't it?

[
 SDR - As trace_pipe just allocates the page with alloc_page(GFP_KERNEL),
  and doesn't do anything special with it (no LRU logic). The __free_page()
  should be fine, as it wont actually free a page with reference count.
  Maybe there's a chance to leak memory? Anyway, This change is at a minimum
  good for being symmetric with generic_pipe_buf_get, it is fine to add.
]

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
[ SDR - Removed no longer used tracing_pipe_buf_release ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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In kernel/trace/trace.c we have this:
static void tracing_pipe_buf_release(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe,
                                     struct pipe_buffer *buf)
{
        __free_page(buf-&gt;page);
}
static const struct pipe_buf_operations tracing_pipe_buf_ops = {
        .can_merge              = 0,
        .map                    = generic_pipe_buf_map,
        .unmap                  = generic_pipe_buf_unmap,
        .confirm                = generic_pipe_buf_confirm,
        .release                = tracing_pipe_buf_release,
        .steal                  = generic_pipe_buf_steal,
        .get                    = generic_pipe_buf_get,
};
with
void generic_pipe_buf_get(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe, struct pipe_buffer *buf)
{
        page_cache_get(buf-&gt;page);
}

and I don't see anything that would've prevented tee(2) called on the pipe
that got stuff spliced into it from that sucker.  -&gt;ops-&gt;get() will be
called, then buf gets copied into target pipe's -&gt;bufs[] and eventually
readers get to both copies of the buffer.  With
	get_page(page)
	look at that page
	__free_page(page)
	look at that page
	__free_page(page)
which is not a good thing, to put it mildly.  AFAICS, that ought to use
the normal generic_pipe_buf_release() (aka page_cache_release(buf-&gt;page)),
shouldn't it?

[
 SDR - As trace_pipe just allocates the page with alloc_page(GFP_KERNEL),
  and doesn't do anything special with it (no LRU logic). The __free_page()
  should be fine, as it wont actually free a page with reference count.
  Maybe there's a chance to leak memory? Anyway, This change is at a minimum
  good for being symmetric with generic_pipe_buf_get, it is fine to add.
]

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
[ SDR - Removed no longer used tracing_pipe_buf_release ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Have trace buffer point back to trace_array</title>
<updated>2014-01-14T15:19:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-14T15:19:46+00:00</published>
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The trace buffer has a descriptor pointer that goes back to the trace
array. But it was never assigned. Luckily, nothing uses it (yet), but
it will in the future.

Although nothing currently uses this, if any of the new features get
backported to older kernels, and because this is such a simple change,
I'm marking it for stable too.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.10+
Fixes: 12883efb670c "tracing: Consolidate max_tr into main trace_array structure"
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<pre>
The trace buffer has a descriptor pointer that goes back to the trace
array. But it was never assigned. Luckily, nothing uses it (yet), but
it will in the future.

Although nothing currently uses this, if any of the new features get
backported to older kernels, and because this is such a simple change,
I'm marking it for stable too.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.10+
Fixes: 12883efb670c "tracing: Consolidate max_tr into main trace_array structure"
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ftrace: Fix synchronization location disabling and freeing ftrace_ops</title>
<updated>2014-01-13T17:56:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-13T17:56:21+00:00</published>
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The synchronization needed after ftrace_ops are unregistered must happen
after the callback is disabled from becing called by functions.

The current location happens after the function is being removed from the
internal lists, but not after the function callbacks were disabled, leaving
the functions susceptible of being called after their callbacks are freed.

This affects perf and any externel users of function tracing (LTTng and
SystemTap).

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.0+
Fixes: cdbe61bfe704 "ftrace: Allow dynamically allocated function tracers"
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
The synchronization needed after ftrace_ops are unregistered must happen
after the callback is disabled from becing called by functions.

The current location happens after the function is being removed from the
internal lists, but not after the function callbacks were disabled, leaving
the functions susceptible of being called after their callbacks are freed.

This affects perf and any externel users of function tracing (LTTng and
SystemTap).

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.0+
Fixes: cdbe61bfe704 "ftrace: Allow dynamically allocated function tracers"
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<title>ftrace: Have function graph only trace based on global_ops filters</title>
<updated>2014-01-13T15:52:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
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<published>2014-01-13T15:30:23+00:00</published>
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Doing some different tests, I discovered that function graph tracing, when
filtered via the set_ftrace_filter and set_ftrace_notrace files, does
not always keep with them if another function ftrace_ops is registered
to trace functions.

The reason is that function graph just happens to trace all functions
that the function tracer enables. When there was only one user of
function tracing, the function graph tracer did not need to worry about
being called by functions that it did not want to trace. But now that there
are other users, this becomes a problem.

For example, one just needs to do the following:

 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing
 # echo schedule &gt; set_ftrace_filter
 # echo function_graph &gt; current_tracer
 # cat trace
[..]
 0)               |  schedule() {
 ------------------------------------------
 0)    &lt;idle&gt;-0    =&gt;   rcu_pre-7
 ------------------------------------------

 0) ! 2980.314 us |  }
 0)               |  schedule() {
 ------------------------------------------
 0)   rcu_pre-7    =&gt;    &lt;idle&gt;-0
 ------------------------------------------

 0) + 20.701 us   |  }

 # echo 1 &gt; /proc/sys/kernel/stack_tracer_enabled
 # cat trace
[..]
 1) + 20.825 us   |      }
 1) + 21.651 us   |    }
 1) + 30.924 us   |  } /* SyS_ioctl */
 1)               |  do_page_fault() {
 1)               |    __do_page_fault() {
 1)   0.274 us    |      down_read_trylock();
 1)   0.098 us    |      find_vma();
 1)               |      handle_mm_fault() {
 1)               |        _raw_spin_lock() {
 1)   0.102 us    |          preempt_count_add();
 1)   0.097 us    |          do_raw_spin_lock();
 1)   2.173 us    |        }
 1)               |        do_wp_page() {
 1)   0.079 us    |          vm_normal_page();
 1)   0.086 us    |          reuse_swap_page();
 1)   0.076 us    |          page_move_anon_rmap();
 1)               |          unlock_page() {
 1)   0.082 us    |            page_waitqueue();
 1)   0.086 us    |            __wake_up_bit();
 1)   1.801 us    |          }
 1)   0.075 us    |          ptep_set_access_flags();
 1)               |          _raw_spin_unlock() {
 1)   0.098 us    |            do_raw_spin_unlock();
 1)   0.105 us    |            preempt_count_sub();
 1)   1.884 us    |          }
 1)   9.149 us    |        }
 1) + 13.083 us   |      }
 1)   0.146 us    |      up_read();

When the stack tracer was enabled, it enabled all functions to be traced, which
now the function graph tracer also traces. This is a side effect that should
not occur.

To fix this a test is added when the function tracing is changed, as well as when
the graph tracer is enabled, to see if anything other than the ftrace global_ops
function tracer is enabled. If so, then the graph tracer calls a test trampoline
that will look at the function that is being traced and compare it with the
filters defined by the global_ops.

As an optimization, if there's no other function tracers registered, or if
the only registered function tracers also use the global ops, the function
graph infrastructure will call the registered function graph callback directly
and not go through the test trampoline.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.3+
Fixes: d2d45c7a03a2 "tracing: Have stack_tracer use a separate list of functions"
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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Doing some different tests, I discovered that function graph tracing, when
filtered via the set_ftrace_filter and set_ftrace_notrace files, does
not always keep with them if another function ftrace_ops is registered
to trace functions.

The reason is that function graph just happens to trace all functions
that the function tracer enables. When there was only one user of
function tracing, the function graph tracer did not need to worry about
being called by functions that it did not want to trace. But now that there
are other users, this becomes a problem.

For example, one just needs to do the following:

 # cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing
 # echo schedule &gt; set_ftrace_filter
 # echo function_graph &gt; current_tracer
 # cat trace
[..]
 0)               |  schedule() {
 ------------------------------------------
 0)    &lt;idle&gt;-0    =&gt;   rcu_pre-7
 ------------------------------------------

 0) ! 2980.314 us |  }
 0)               |  schedule() {
 ------------------------------------------
 0)   rcu_pre-7    =&gt;    &lt;idle&gt;-0
 ------------------------------------------

 0) + 20.701 us   |  }

 # echo 1 &gt; /proc/sys/kernel/stack_tracer_enabled
 # cat trace
[..]
 1) + 20.825 us   |      }
 1) + 21.651 us   |    }
 1) + 30.924 us   |  } /* SyS_ioctl */
 1)               |  do_page_fault() {
 1)               |    __do_page_fault() {
 1)   0.274 us    |      down_read_trylock();
 1)   0.098 us    |      find_vma();
 1)               |      handle_mm_fault() {
 1)               |        _raw_spin_lock() {
 1)   0.102 us    |          preempt_count_add();
 1)   0.097 us    |          do_raw_spin_lock();
 1)   2.173 us    |        }
 1)               |        do_wp_page() {
 1)   0.079 us    |          vm_normal_page();
 1)   0.086 us    |          reuse_swap_page();
 1)   0.076 us    |          page_move_anon_rmap();
 1)               |          unlock_page() {
 1)   0.082 us    |            page_waitqueue();
 1)   0.086 us    |            __wake_up_bit();
 1)   1.801 us    |          }
 1)   0.075 us    |          ptep_set_access_flags();
 1)               |          _raw_spin_unlock() {
 1)   0.098 us    |            do_raw_spin_unlock();
 1)   0.105 us    |            preempt_count_sub();
 1)   1.884 us    |          }
 1)   9.149 us    |        }
 1) + 13.083 us   |      }
 1)   0.146 us    |      up_read();

When the stack tracer was enabled, it enabled all functions to be traced, which
now the function graph tracer also traces. This is a side effect that should
not occur.

To fix this a test is added when the function tracing is changed, as well as when
the graph tracer is enabled, to see if anything other than the ftrace global_ops
function tracer is enabled. If so, then the graph tracer calls a test trampoline
that will look at the function that is being traced and compare it with the
filters defined by the global_ops.

As an optimization, if there's no other function tracers registered, or if
the only registered function tracers also use the global ops, the function
graph infrastructure will call the registered function graph callback directly
and not go through the test trampoline.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.3+
Fixes: d2d45c7a03a2 "tracing: Have stack_tracer use a separate list of functions"
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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