08 Feb, 2020
1 commit
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Pull Documentation fixes from Jonathan Corbet:
"A handful of small documentation fixes that wandered in"* tag 'docs-5.6-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux:
Allow git builds of Sphinx
Documentation: changes.rst: update several outdated project URLs
Documentation: build warnings related to missing blank lines after explicit markups has been fixed
mailmap: add entry for Tiezhu Yang
Documentation/ko_KR/howto: Update a broken link
Documentation/ko_KR/howto: Update broken web addresses
docs/locking: Fix outdated section names
06 Feb, 2020
2 commits
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Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
- Added new "bootconfig".
This looks for a file appended to initrd to add boot config options,
and has been discussed thoroughly at Linux Plumbers.Very useful for adding kprobes at bootup.
Only enabled if "bootconfig" is on the real kernel command line.
- Created dynamic event creation.
Merges common code between creating synthetic events and kprobe
events.- Rename perf "ring_buffer" structure to "perf_buffer"
- Rename ftrace "ring_buffer" structure to "trace_buffer"
Had to rename existing "trace_buffer" to "array_buffer"
- Allow trace_printk() to work withing (some) tracing code.
- Sort of tracing configs to be a little better organized
- Fixed bug where ftrace_graph hash was not being protected properly
- Various other small fixes and clean ups
* tag 'trace-v5.6-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (88 commits)
bootconfig: Show the number of nodes on boot message
tools/bootconfig: Show the number of bootconfig nodes
bootconfig: Add more parse error messages
bootconfig: Use bootconfig instead of boot config
ftrace: Protect ftrace_graph_hash with ftrace_sync
ftrace: Add comment to why rcu_dereference_sched() is open coded
tracing: Annotate ftrace_graph_notrace_hash pointer with __rcu
tracing: Annotate ftrace_graph_hash pointer with __rcu
bootconfig: Only load bootconfig if "bootconfig" is on the kernel cmdline
tracing: Use seq_buf for building dynevent_cmd string
tracing: Remove useless code in dynevent_arg_pair_add()
tracing: Remove check_arg() callbacks from dynevent args
tracing: Consolidate some synth_event_trace code
tracing: Fix now invalid var_ref_vals assumption in trace action
tracing: Change trace_boot to use synth_event interface
tracing: Move tracing selftests to bottom of menu
tracing: Move mmio tracer config up with the other tracers
tracing: Move tracing test module configs together
tracing: Move all function tracing configs together
tracing: Documentation for in-kernel synthetic event API
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Fix for several documentation build warnings related to missing blank lines
after explicit mark up.Exact warning message:
WARNING: Explicit markup ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent.Signed-off-by: Sameer Rahmani
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200203201543.24834-1-lxsameer@gnu.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet
30 Jan, 2020
1 commit
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Add Documentation for creating and generating synthetic events from
modules.Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/734bf8789ff8700000c9acde61a553427910ddb5.1580323897.git.zanussi@kernel.org
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)
29 Jan, 2020
1 commit
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Sphinx warnings about his:
Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst:68: WARNING: undefined label: user_mem_access (if the link has no caption the label must precede a section header)
The problem is quite simple: Sphinx wants a blank line after
references.Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/a83ea390bc28784518fce772b4c961ea1c976f14.1560883872.git.mchehab+samsung@kernel.org
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)
22 Jan, 2020
1 commit
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Fix typos in boottime-trace.rst according to Randy's suggestions.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/157949060335.25888.13153184562531693684.stgit@devnote2
Suggested-by: Randy Dunlap
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)
14 Jan, 2020
1 commit
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Add a documentation about boot-time tracing options in
boot config.Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/157867246028.17873.8047384554383977870.stgit@devnote2
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)
11 Jan, 2020
3 commits
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The use of iff ("if and only if") notation is not accurate in this case.
Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)
Signed-off-by: Frank A. Cancio Bello
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google)
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/22f9a98a972c3155c7b478247a087a5efafde774.1577231751.git.frank@generalsoftwareinc.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet -
Fix minor typos in the doc.
Suggested-by: Randy Dunlap
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google)
Signed-off-by: Frank A. Cancio Bello
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/9ef705d0208a4ca0852fed69bc0838a589a4df85.1577231751.git.frank@generalsoftwareinc.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet -
The current text could mislead the user into believing that the number
of pages allocated by each CPU ring buffer is calculated by the round
up of the division: buffer_size_kb / PAGE_SIZE.Clarifies that a few extra pages may be allocated to accommodate buffer
management meta-data.Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)
Suggested-by: Joel Fernandes (Google)
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google)
Signed-off-by: Frank A. Cancio Bello
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/6f33be5f3d60e5ffc061d8d2b329d3d3ccf22a8c.1577231751.git.frank@generalsoftwareinc.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet
20 Dec, 2019
1 commit
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Clarify a few places where the ring buffer and the "snapshot" buffer
are cleared as a side effect of an operation.This will avoid users lost of tracing data because of these so far
undocumented behavior.Signed-off-by: Frank A. Cancio Bello
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191218191553.q4lwyxmquvtjzjfz@frank-laptop
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet
03 Dec, 2019
1 commit
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Pull Documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"Here are the main documentation changes for 5.5:- Various kerneldoc script enhancements.
- More RST conversions; those are slowing down as we run out of
things to convert, but we're a ways from done still.- Dan's "maintainer profile entry" work landed at last. Now we just
need to get maintainers to fill in the profiles...- A reworking of the parallel build setup to work better with a
variety of systems (and to not take over huge systems entirely in
particular).- The MAINTAINERS file is now converted to RST during the build.
Hopefully nobody ever tries to print this thing, or they will need
to load a lot of paper.- A script and documentation making it easy for maintainers to add
Link: tags at commit time.Also included is the removal of a bunch of spurious CR characters"
* tag 'docs-5.5a' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (91 commits)
docs: remove a bunch of stray CRs
docs: fix up the maintainer profile document
libnvdimm, MAINTAINERS: Maintainer Entry Profile
Maintainer Handbook: Maintainer Entry Profile
MAINTAINERS: Reclaim the P: tag for Maintainer Entry Profile
docs, parallelism: Rearrange how jobserver reservations are made
docs, parallelism: Do not leak blocking mode to other readers
docs, parallelism: Fix failure path and add comment
Documentation: Remove bootmem_debug from kernel-parameters.txt
Documentation: security: core.rst: fix warnings
Documentation/process/howto/kokr: Update for 4.x -> 5.x versioning
Documentation/translation: Use Korean for Korean translation title
docs/memory-barriers.txt: Remove remaining references to mmiowb()
docs/memory-barriers.txt/kokr: Update I/O section to be clearer about CPU vs thread
docs/memory-barriers.txt/kokr: Fix style, spacing and grammar in I/O section
Documentation/kokr: Kill all references to mmiowb()
docs/memory-barriers.txt/kokr: Rewrite "KERNEL I/O BARRIER EFFECTS" section
docs: Add initial documentation for devfreq
Documentation: Document how to get links with git am
docs: Add request_irq() documentation
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28 Nov, 2019
1 commit
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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
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14 Nov, 2019
1 commit
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Add documentation for the software sinks API of the MSU driver and the
msu-sink module in particular.Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191114064201.43089-3-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
13 Nov, 2019
1 commit
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CONFIG_PREEMPTION is selected by CONFIG_PREEMPT and by CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT.
Both PREEMPT and PREEMPT_RT require the same functionality which today
depends on CONFIG_PREEMPT.Add additional header output for PREEMPT_RT.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191015191821.11479-34-bigeasy@linutronix.deCc: Ingo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)
08 Nov, 2019
2 commits
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Add in detailed programmers reference for users wanting to program the
CoreSight ETM 4.x driver using sysfs.Signed-off-by: Mike Leach
Reviewed-by: Mathieu Poirier
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet -
There are two files in the Documentation/trace directory relating to
coresight, with more to follow, so create a Documentation/trace/coresight
directory and move existing files there. Fixup index to reference
new location.Update MAINTAINERS to reference this sub-directory rather than the
individual files.Signed-off-by: Mike Leach
Reviewed-by: Mathieu Poirier
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet
04 Nov, 2019
1 commit
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Livepatch uses ftrace for redirection to new patched functions. It means
that if ftrace is disabled, all live patched functions are disabled as
well. Toggling global 'ftrace_enabled' sysctl thus affect it directly.
It is not a problem per se, because only administrator can set sysctl
values, but it still may be surprising.Introduce PERMANENT ftrace_ops flag to amend this. If the
FTRACE_OPS_FL_PERMANENT is set on any ftrace ops, the tracing cannot be
disabled by disabling ftrace_enabled. Equally, a callback with the flag
set cannot be registered if ftrace_enabled is disabled.Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191016113316.13415-2-mbenes@suse.cz
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek
Reviewed-by: Kamalesh Babulal
Signed-off-by: Miroslav Benes
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)
21 Sep, 2019
1 commit
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Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
- Addition of multiprobes to kprobe and uprobe events (allows for more
than one probe attached to the same location)- Addition of adding immediates to probe parameters
- Clean up of the recordmcount.c code. This brings us closer to merging
recordmcount into objtool, and reuse code.- Other small clean ups
* tag 'trace-v5.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (33 commits)
selftests/ftrace: Update kprobe event error testcase
tracing/probe: Reject exactly same probe event
tracing/probe: Fix to allow user to enable events on unloaded modules
selftests/ftrace: Select an existing function in kprobe_eventname test
tracing/kprobe: Fix NULL pointer access in trace_porbe_unlink()
tracing: Make sure variable reference alias has correct var_ref_idx
tracing: Be more clever when dumping hex in __print_hex()
ftrace: Simplify ftrace hash lookup code in clear_func_from_hash()
tracing: Add "gfp_t" support in synthetic_events
tracing: Rename tracing_reset() to tracing_reset_cpu()
tracing: Document the stack trace algorithm in the comments
tracing/arm64: Have max stack tracer handle the case of return address after data
recordmcount: Clarify what cleanup() does
recordmcount: Remove redundant cleanup() calls
recordmcount: Kernel style formatting
recordmcount: Kernel style function signature formatting
recordmcount: Rewrite error/success handling
selftests/ftrace: Add syntax error test for multiprobe
selftests/ftrace: Add syntax error test for immediates
selftests/ftrace: Add a testcase for kprobe multiprobe event
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02 Sep, 2019
1 commit
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The current text could mislead the user into believing that only read()
disables tracing. Clarify that any open() call that requests read access
disables tracing.Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAADnVQ+hU6QOC_dPmpjnuv=9g4SQEeaMEMqXOS2WpMj=q=LdiQ@mail.gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Peter Wu
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet
01 Sep, 2019
1 commit
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Add immediate value parameter (\1234) support to
probe events. This allows you to specify an immediate
(or dummy) parameter instead of fetching from memory
or register.This feature looks odd, but imagine when you put a probe
on a code to trace some data. If the code is compiled into
2 instructions and 1 instruction has a value but other has
nothing since it is optimized out.
In that case, you can not fold those into one event, even
if ftrace supported multiple probes on one event.
With this feature, you can set a dummy value like
foo=\deadbeef instead of something like foo=%di.Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/156095690733.28024.13258186548822649469.stgit@devnote2
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)
01 Aug, 2019
1 commit
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This changes from plain text to reStructuredText as suggestion
in doc-guide [1][1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/doc-guide/sphinx.html
Some adaptations such as: literal block, ``inline literal`` and
alignment text,...Signed-off-by: Phong Tran
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Acked-by: Mathieu Poirier
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet
19 Jul, 2019
1 commit
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Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
"The main changes in this release include:- Add user space specific memory reading for kprobes
- Allow kprobes to be executed earlier in boot
The rest are mostly just various clean ups and small fixes"
* tag 'trace-v5.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (33 commits)
tracing: Make trace_get_fields() global
tracing: Let filter_assign_type() detect FILTER_PTR_STRING
tracing: Pass type into tracing_generic_entry_update()
ftrace/selftest: Test if set_event/ftrace_pid exists before writing
ftrace/selftests: Return the skip code when tracing directory not configured in kernel
tracing/kprobe: Check registered state using kprobe
tracing/probe: Add trace_event_call accesses APIs
tracing/probe: Add probe event name and group name accesses APIs
tracing/probe: Add trace flag access APIs for trace_probe
tracing/probe: Add trace_event_file access APIs for trace_probe
tracing/probe: Add trace_event_call register API for trace_probe
tracing/probe: Add trace_probe init and free functions
tracing/uprobe: Set print format when parsing command
tracing/kprobe: Set print format right after parsed command
kprobes: Fix to init kprobes in subsys_initcall
tracepoint: Use struct_size() in kmalloc()
ring-buffer: Remove HAVE_64BIT_ALIGNED_ACCESS
ftrace: Enable trampoline when rec count returns back to one
tracing/kprobe: Do not run kprobe boot tests if kprobe_event is on cmdline
tracing: Make a separate config for trace event self tests
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16 Jul, 2019
1 commit
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Pull PCI updates from Bjorn Helgaas:
"Enumeration changes:- Evaluate PCI Boot Configuration _DSM to learn if firmware wants us
to preserve its resource assignments (Benjamin Herrenschmidt)- Simplify resource distribution (Nicholas Johnson)
- Decode 32 GT/s link speed (Gustavo Pimentel)
Virtualization:
- Fix incorrect caching of VF config space size (Alex Williamson)
- Fix VF driver probing sysfs knobs (Alex Williamson)
Peer-to-peer DMA:
- Fix dma_virt_ops check (Logan Gunthorpe)
Altera host bridge driver:
- Allow building as module (Ley Foon Tan)
Armada 8K host bridge driver:
- add PHYs support (Miquel Raynal)
DesignWare host bridge driver:
- Export APIs to support removable loadable module (Vidya Sagar)
- Enable Relaxed Ordering erratum workaround only on Tegra20 &
Tegra30 (Vidya Sagar)Hyper-V host bridge driver:
- Fix use-after-free in eject (Dexuan Cui)
Mobiveil host bridge driver:
- Clean up and fix many issues, including non-identify mapped
windows, 64-bit windows, multi-MSI, class code, INTx clearing (Hou
Zhiqiang)Qualcomm host bridge driver:
- Use clk bulk API for 2.4.0 controllers (Bjorn Andersson)
- Add QCS404 support (Bjorn Andersson)
- Assert PERST for at least 100ms (Niklas Cassel)
R-Car host bridge driver:
- Add r8a774a1 DT support (Biju Das)
Tegra host bridge driver:
- Add support for Gen2, opportunistic UpdateFC and ACK (PCIe protocol
details) AER, GPIO-based PERST# (Manikanta Maddireddy)- Fix many issues, including power-on failure cases, interrupt
masking in suspend, UPHY settings, AFI dynamic clock gating,
pending DLL transactions (Manikanta Maddireddy)Xilinx host bridge driver:
- Fix NWL Multi-MSI programming (Bharat Kumar Gogada)
Endpoint support:
- Fix 64bit BAR support (Alan Mikhak)
- Fix pcitest build issues (Alan Mikhak, Andy Shevchenko)
Bug fixes:
- Fix NVIDIA GPU multi-function power dependencies (Abhishek Sahu)
- Fix NVIDIA GPU HDA enablement issue (Lukas Wunner)
- Ignore lockdep for sysfs "remove" (Marek Vasut)
Misc:
- Convert docs to reST (Changbin Du, Mauro Carvalho Chehab)"
* tag 'pci-v5.3-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/helgaas/pci: (107 commits)
PCI: Enable NVIDIA HDA controllers
tools: PCI: Fix installation when `make tools/pci_install`
PCI: dwc: pci-dra7xx: Fix compilation when !CONFIG_GPIOLIB
PCI: Fix typos and whitespace errors
PCI: mobiveil: Fix INTx interrupt clearing in mobiveil_pcie_isr()
PCI: mobiveil: Fix infinite-loop in the INTx handling function
PCI: mobiveil: Move PCIe PIO enablement out of inbound window routine
PCI: mobiveil: Add upper 32-bit PCI base address setup in inbound window
PCI: mobiveil: Add upper 32-bit CPU base address setup in outbound window
PCI: mobiveil: Mask out hardcoded bits in inbound/outbound windows setup
PCI: mobiveil: Clear the control fields before updating it
PCI: mobiveil: Add configured inbound windows counter
PCI: mobiveil: Fix the valid check for inbound and outbound windows
PCI: mobiveil: Clean-up program_{ib/ob}_windows()
PCI: mobiveil: Remove an unnecessary return value check
PCI: mobiveil: Fix error return values
PCI: mobiveil: Refactor the MEM/IO outbound window initialization
PCI: mobiveil: Make some register updates more readable
PCI: mobiveil: Reformat the code for readability
dt-bindings: PCI: mobiveil: Change gpio_slave and apb_csr to optional
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21 Jun, 2019
1 commit
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Sphinx expects a blank line after a literal block markup.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet
15 Jun, 2019
2 commits
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Convert the PM documents to ReST, in order to allow them to
build with Sphinx.The conversion is actually:
- add blank lines and indentation in order to identify paragraphs;
- fix tables markups;
- add some lists markups;
- mark literal blocks;
- adjust title markups.At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to
the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings.Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas
Acked-by: Mark Brown
Acked-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat (VMware) -
Update the documentation to reflect the new naming scheme with
latest changes.Reported-by: Leo Yan
Reviewed-by: Mathieu Poirier
Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet
08 Jun, 2019
1 commit
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After following the document step by step, the `cat trace` can't be
worked without enabling tracing_on and might mislead newbies about
the functionality.Signed-off-by: Lecopzer Chen
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet
30 May, 2019
1 commit
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This patch fixes some spelling typos in histogram.rst
Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet
26 May, 2019
3 commits
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Add kprobe_event= boot parameter to define kprobe events
at boot time.
The definition syntax is similar to tracefs/kprobe_events
interface, but use ',' and ';' instead of ' ' and '\n'
respectively. e.g.kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2
This puts a probe on vfs_read with argument1 and 2, and
enable the new event.Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/155851395498.15728.830529496248543583.stgit@devnote2
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) -
Support user-space dereference syntax for probe event arguments
to dereference the data-structure or array in user-space.The syntax is just adding 'u' before an offset value.
+|-u()
e.g. +u8(%ax), +u0(+0(%si))
For example, if you probe do_sched_setscheduler(pid, policy,
param) and record param->sched_priority, you can add new
probe as below;p do_sched_setscheduler priority=+u0($arg3)
Note that kprobe event provides this and it doesn't change the
dereference method automatically because we do not know whether
the given address is in userspace or kernel on some archs.So as same as "ustring", this is an option for user, who has to
carefully choose the dereference method.Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/155789872187.26965.4468456816590888687.stgit@devnote2
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) -
Add "ustring" type for fetching user-space string from kprobe event.
User can specify ustring type at uprobe event, and it is same as
"string" for uprobe.Note that probe-event provides this option but it doesn't choose the
correct type automatically since we have not way to decide the address
is in user-space or not on some arch (and on some other arch, you can
fetch the string by "string" type). So user must carefully check the
target code (e.g. if you see __user on the target variable) and
use this new type.Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/155789871009.26965.14167558859557329331.stgit@devnote2
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)
16 May, 2019
1 commit
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Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
"The major changes in this tracing update includes:- Removal of non-DYNAMIC_FTRACE from 32bit x86
- Removal of mcount support from x86
- Emulating a call from int3 on x86_64, fixes live kernel patching
- Consolidated Tracing Error logs file
Minor updates:
- Removal of klp_check_compiler_support()
- kdb ftrace dumping output changes
- Accessing and creating ftrace instances from inside the kernel
- Clean up of #define if macro
- Introduction of TRACE_EVENT_NOP() to disable trace events based on
config optionsAnd other minor fixes and clean ups"
* tag 'trace-v5.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (44 commits)
x86: Hide the int3_emulate_call/jmp functions from UML
livepatch: Remove klp_check_compiler_support()
ftrace/x86: Remove mcount support
ftrace/x86_32: Remove support for non DYNAMIC_FTRACE
tracing: Simplify "if" macro code
tracing: Fix documentation about disabling options using trace_options
tracing: Replace kzalloc with kcalloc
tracing: Fix partial reading of trace event's id file
tracing: Allow RCU to run between postponed startup tests
tracing: Fix white space issues in parse_pred() function
tracing: Eliminate const char[] auto variables
ring-buffer: Fix mispelling of Calculate
tracing: probeevent: Fix to make the type of $comm string
tracing: probeevent: Do not accumulate on ret variable
tracing: uprobes: Re-enable $comm support for uprobe events
ftrace/x86_64: Emulate call function while updating in breakpoint handler
x86_64: Allow breakpoints to emulate call instructions
x86_64: Add gap to int3 to allow for call emulation
tracing: kdb: Allow ftdump to skip all but the last few entries
tracing: Add trace_total_entries() / trace_total_entries_cpu()
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15 May, 2019
1 commit
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Patch series "mm: Generalize putback functions"]
putback_inactive_pages() and move_active_pages_to_lru() are almost
similar, so this patchset merges them ina single function.This patch (of 4):
The patch moves the calculation from putback_inactive_pages() to
shrink_inactive_list(). This makes putback_inactive_pages() looking more
similar to move_active_pages_to_lru().To do that, we account activated pages in reclaim_stat::nr_activate.
Since a page may change its LRU type from anon to file cache inside
shrink_page_list() (see ClearPageSwapBacked()), we have to account pages
for the both types. So, nr_activate becomes an array.Previously we used nr_activate to account PGACTIVATE events, but now we
account them into pgactivate variable (since they are about number of
pages in general, not about sum of hpage_nr_pages).Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/155290127956.31489.3393586616054413298.stgit@localhost.localdomain
Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai
Reviewed-by: Daniel Jordan
Cc: Michal Hocko
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
11 May, 2019
1 commit
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Pull more documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"Some late arriving documentation changes. In particular, this contains
the conversion of the x86 docs to RST, which has been in the works for
some time but needed a couple of final tweaks"* tag 'docs-5.2a' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (29 commits)
Documentation: x86: convert x86_64/machinecheck to reST
Documentation: x86: convert x86_64/cpu-hotplug-spec to reST
Documentation: x86: convert x86_64/fake-numa-for-cpusets to reST
Documentation: x86: convert x86_64/5level-paging.txt to reST
Documentation: x86: convert x86_64/mm.txt to reST
Documentation: x86: convert x86_64/uefi.txt to reST
Documentation: x86: convert x86_64/boot-options.txt to reST
Documentation: x86: convert i386/IO-APIC.txt to reST
Documentation: x86: convert usb-legacy-support.txt to reST
Documentation: x86: convert orc-unwinder.txt to reST
Documentation: x86: convert resctrl_ui.txt to reST
Documentation: x86: convert microcode.txt to reST
Documentation: x86: convert pti.txt to reST
Documentation: x86: convert amd-memory-encryption.txt to reST
Documentation: x86: convert intel_mpx.txt to reST
Documentation: x86: convert protection-keys.txt to reST
Documentation: x86: convert pat.txt to reST
Documentation: x86: convert mtrr.txt to reST
Documentation: x86: convert tlb.txt to reST
Documentation: x86: convert zero-page.txt to reST
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09 May, 2019
2 commits
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The current trace documentation, the section describing histogram's "onmatch"
is not straightforward enough about how this action is applied. It is not
clear what criteria are used to "match" both events. A short note is added,
describing what exactly is compared in order to match the events.Signed-off-by: Tzvetomir Stoyanov
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)
Reviewed-by: Tom Zanussi
[jc: fixed trivial conflict with docs-next]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet -
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"A reasonably busy cycle for docs, including:- Lots of work on the Chinese and Italian translations
- Some license-rules clarifications from Christoph
- Various build-script fixes
- A new document on memory models
- RST conversion of the live-patching docs
- The usual collection of typo fixes and corrections"
* tag 'docs-5.2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (140 commits)
docs/livepatch: Unify style of livepatch documentation in the ReST format
docs: livepatch: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst
scripts/documentation-file-ref-check: detect broken :doc:`foo`
scripts/documentation-file-ref-check: don't parse Next/ dir
LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated
LICENSES: Clearly mark dual license only licenses
docs: Don't reference the ZLib license in license-rules.rst
docs/vm: Minor editorial changes in the THP and hugetlbfs
docs/vm: add documentation of memory models
doc:it_IT: translation alignment
doc: fix typo in PGP guide
dontdiff: update with Kconfig build artifacts
docs/zh_CN: fix typos in 1.Intro.rst file
docs/zh_CN: redirect CoC docs to Chinese version
doc: mm: migration doesn't use FOLL_SPLIT anymore
docs: doc-guide: remove the extension from .rst files
doc: kselftest: Fix KBUILD_OUTPUT usage instructions
docs: trace: fix some Sphinx warnings
docs: speculation.txt: mark example blocks as such
docs: ntb.txt: add blank lines to clean up some Sphinx warnings
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04 May, 2019
1 commit
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Add the SPDX header to the Intel TH documentation.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin
Tested-by: Mathieu Poirier
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
16 Apr, 2019
1 commit
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There are some warnings produced when building trace. Fix them.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet
08 Apr, 2019
1 commit
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Move most of the hist trigger extended error documentation to
ftrace.rst and expand on it to fully document tracing/error_log.Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/c5d53c8f643ef6844d6ad8d0200c116936730b01.1554072478.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)
