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Linus Torvalds 95f1fa9e34 New tracing features:
- PERAMAENT flag to ftrace_ops when attaching a callback to a function
    As /proc/sys/kernel/ftrace_enabled when set to zero will disable all
    attached callbacks in ftrace, this has a detrimental impact on live
    kernel tracing, as it disables all that it patched. If a ftrace_ops
    is registered to ftrace with the PERMANENT flag set, it will prevent
    ftrace_enabled from being disabled, and if ftrace_enabled is already
    disabled, it will prevent a ftrace_ops with PREMANENT flag set from
    being registered.
 
  - New register_ftrace_direct(). As eBPF would like to register its own
    trampolines to be called by the ftrace nop locations directly,
    without going through the ftrace trampoline, this function has been
    added. This allows for eBPF trampolines to live along side of
    ftrace, perf, kprobe and live patching. It also utilizes the ftrace
    enabled_functions file that keeps track of functions that have been
    modified in the kernel, to allow for security auditing.
 
  - Allow for kernel internal use of ftrace instances. Subsystems in
    the kernel can now create and destroy their own tracing instances
    which allows them to have their own tracing buffer, and be able
    to record events without worrying about other users from writing over
    their data.
 
  - New seq_buf_hex_dump() that lets users use the hex_dump() in their
    seq_buf usage.
 
  - Notifications now added to tracing_max_latency to allow user space
    to know when a new max latency is hit by one of the latency tracers.
 
  - Wider spread use of generic compare operations for use of bsearch and
    friends.
 
  - More synthetic event fields may be defined (32 up from 16)
 
  - Use of xarray for architectures with sparse system calls, for the
    system call trace events.
 
 This along with small clean ups and fixes.
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Merge tag 'trace-v5.5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace

Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
 "New tracing features:

   - New PERMANENT flag to ftrace_ops when attaching a callback to a
     function.

     As /proc/sys/kernel/ftrace_enabled when set to zero will disable
     all attached callbacks in ftrace, this has a detrimental impact on
     live kernel tracing, as it disables all that it patched. If a
     ftrace_ops is registered to ftrace with the PERMANENT flag set, it
     will prevent ftrace_enabled from being disabled, and if
     ftrace_enabled is already disabled, it will prevent a ftrace_ops
     with PREMANENT flag set from being registered.

   - New register_ftrace_direct().

     As eBPF would like to register its own trampolines to be called by
     the ftrace nop locations directly, without going through the ftrace
     trampoline, this function has been added. This allows for eBPF
     trampolines to live along side of ftrace, perf, kprobe and live
     patching. It also utilizes the ftrace enabled_functions file that
     keeps track of functions that have been modified in the kernel, to
     allow for security auditing.

   - Allow for kernel internal use of ftrace instances.

     Subsystems in the kernel can now create and destroy their own
     tracing instances which allows them to have their own tracing
     buffer, and be able to record events without worrying about other
     users from writing over their data.

   - New seq_buf_hex_dump() that lets users use the hex_dump() in their
     seq_buf usage.

   - Notifications now added to tracing_max_latency to allow user space
     to know when a new max latency is hit by one of the latency
     tracers.

   - Wider spread use of generic compare operations for use of bsearch
     and friends.

   - More synthetic event fields may be defined (32 up from 16)

   - Use of xarray for architectures with sparse system calls, for the
     system call trace events.

  This along with small clean ups and fixes"

* tag 'trace-v5.5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (51 commits)
  tracing: Enable syscall optimization for MIPS
  tracing: Use xarray for syscall trace events
  tracing: Sample module to demonstrate kernel access to Ftrace instances.
  tracing: Adding new functions for kernel access to Ftrace instances
  tracing: Fix Kconfig indentation
  ring-buffer: Fix typos in function ring_buffer_producer
  ftrace: Use BIT() macro
  ftrace: Return ENOTSUPP when DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_DIRECT_CALLS is not configured
  ftrace: Rename ftrace_graph_stub to ftrace_stub_graph
  ftrace: Add a helper function to modify_ftrace_direct() to allow arch optimization
  ftrace: Add helper find_direct_entry() to consolidate code
  ftrace: Add another check for match in register_ftrace_direct()
  ftrace: Fix accounting bug with direct->count in register_ftrace_direct()
  ftrace/selftests: Fix spelling mistake "wakeing" -> "waking"
  tracing: Increase SYNTH_FIELDS_MAX for synthetic_events
  ftrace/samples: Add a sample module that implements modify_ftrace_direct()
  ftrace: Add modify_ftrace_direct()
  tracing: Add missing "inline" in stub function of latency_fsnotify()
  tracing: Remove stray tab in TRACE_EVAL_MAP_FILE's help text
  tracing: Use seq_buf_hex_dump() to dump buffers
  ...
2019-11-27 11:42:01 -08:00
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ABI Staging / IIO patches for 5.5-rc1 2019-11-27 10:57:52 -08:00
accounting docs: add some documentation dirs to the driver-api book 2019-07-15 11:03:02 -03:00
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arm Documentation/arm/samsung-s3c24xx: Remove stray U+FEFF character to fix title 2019-08-12 15:25:32 -06:00
arm64 arm64 updates for 5.5: 2019-11-25 15:39:19 -08:00
block block: add iostat counters for flush requests 2019-11-21 09:06:47 -07:00
bpf bpf: Add s390 testing documentation 2019-10-30 16:25:31 +01:00
cdrom docs: add some directories to the main documentation index 2019-07-15 11:03:03 -03:00
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cpu-freq Documentation: cpufreq: Update policy notifier documentation 2019-09-02 22:44:05 +02:00
crypto crypto: ablkcipher - remove deprecated and unused ablkcipher support 2019-11-17 09:02:49 +08:00
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leds leds: core: Add support for composing LED class device names 2019-07-25 20:07:52 +02:00
livepatch livepatch: Documentation of the new API for tracking system state changes 2019-11-01 13:08:24 +01:00
locking doc🔒 remove reference to clever use of read-write lock 2019-09-14 01:53:27 -06:00
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maintainer docs: Fix typo on pull requests guide 2019-08-12 15:14:14 -06:00
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netlabel docs: add some directories to the main documentation index 2019-07-15 11:03:03 -03:00
networking Merge branch 'ib-guids' into rdma.git for-next 2019-11-25 10:31:47 -04:00
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power PM: Wrap documentation to fit in 80 columns 2019-11-20 12:16:37 +01:00
powerpc docs: powerpc: Add missing documentation reference 2019-09-17 23:59:34 +10:00
process Documentation/process: Add fallthrough pseudo-keyword 2019-10-11 09:26:05 -07:00
RCU Documentation: Rename rcu_node_context_switch() to rcu_note_context_switch() 2019-10-29 02:48:29 -07:00
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s390 Documentation/s390: remove outdated debugging390 documentation 2019-08-21 12:41:43 +02:00
scheduler sched/fair: Fix low cpu usage with high throttling by removing expiration of cpu-local slices 2019-08-08 09:09:30 +02:00
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sh docs: remove extra conf.py files 2019-07-17 06:57:52 -03:00
sound ALSA: docs: Update about the new PCM sync_stop ops 2019-11-20 19:39:54 +01:00
sparc docs: add arch doc directories to the index 2019-07-15 11:03:01 -03:00
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timers docs: add some directories to the main documentation index 2019-07-15 11:03:03 -03:00
trace New tracing features: 2019-11-27 11:42:01 -08:00
translations doc: arm64: fix grammar dtb placed in no attributes region 2019-09-06 08:44:34 -06:00
usb USB: rio500: Remove Rio 500 kernel driver 2019-10-04 10:53:36 +02:00
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virtual cpuidle: add haltpoll governor 2019-07-30 17:27:37 +02:00
vm mm: treewide: clarify pgtable_page_{ctor,dtor}() naming 2019-09-26 10:10:44 -07:00
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