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2017-11-16Merge tag 'char-misc-4.15-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
ssh://gitolite.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc Pull char/misc updates from Greg KH: "Here is the big set of char/misc and other driver subsystem patches for 4.15-rc1. There are small changes all over here, hyperv driver updates, pcmcia driver updates, w1 driver updats, vme driver updates, nvmem driver updates, and lots of other little one-off driver updates as well. The shortlog has the full details. All of these have been in linux-next for quite a while with no reported issues" * tag 'char-misc-4.15-rc1' of ssh://gitolite.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (90 commits) VME: Return -EBUSY when DMA list in use w1: keep balance of mutex locks and refcnts MAINTAINERS: Update VME subsystem tree. nvmem: sunxi-sid: add support for A64/H5's SID controller nvmem: imx-ocotp: Update module description nvmem: imx-ocotp: Enable i.MX7D OTP write support nvmem: imx-ocotp: Add i.MX7D timing write clock setup support nvmem: imx-ocotp: Move i.MX6 write clock setup to dedicated function nvmem: imx-ocotp: Add support for banked OTP addressing nvmem: imx-ocotp: Pass parameters via a struct nvmem: imx-ocotp: Restrict OTP write to IMX6 processors nvmem: uniphier: add UniPhier eFuse driver dt-bindings: nvmem: add description for UniPhier eFuse nvmem: set nvmem->owner to nvmem->dev->driver->owner if unset nvmem: qfprom: fix different address space warnings of sparse nvmem: mtk-efuse: fix different address space warnings of sparse nvmem: mtk-efuse: use stack for nvmem_config instead of malloc'ing it nvmem: imx-iim: use stack for nvmem_config instead of malloc'ing it thunderbolt: tb: fix use after free in tb_activate_pcie_devices MAINTAINERS: Add git tree for Thunderbolt development ...
2017-11-05ftrace/docs: Add documentation on how to use ftrace from within the kernelSteven Rostedt
With the coming removal of jprobes, using ftrace callbacks is one of the utilities that replace the jprobes functionality. Having a document that explains how to use ftrace as such will help in the transition from jprobes to ftrace. This document is for kernel developers that require attaching a callback to a function within the kernel. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/150724519527.5014.10207042218696587159.stgit@devbox Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> [jc: fixed one formatting issue that broke the docs build] Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-10-20doc: coresight: correct usage for disabling idle statesLeo Yan
In the coresight CPU debug document it suggests to use 'echo' command to set latency request to /dev/cpu_dma_latency so can disable all CPU idle states, but in fact this doesn't work. This is because when the command 'echo' exits, it releases the device node's file descriptor and the kernel release function removes the QoS constraint; finally when the command 'echo' finished there have no constraint imposed on cpu_dma_latency. This patch changes to use 'exec' to access '/dev/cpu_dma_latency', the command 'exec' can avoid the file descriptor to be closed so we can keep the constraint on cpu_dma_latency. This patch also adds the info for reference docs for PM QoS and cpuidle sysfs. Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com> Reported-by: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@arm.com> Suggested-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-10-19Documentation: fix ref to trace stm contentTom Saeger
Signed-off-by: Tom Saeger <tom.saeger@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-08-25stm class: Document the stm_ftraceChunyan Zhang
This patch adds a description to the stm_ftrace device source, an interface for collecting Ftrace's function trace information via STM devices. Signed-off-by: Chunyan Zhang <chunyan.zhang@spreadtrum.com> Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
2017-07-13Merge tag 'trace-v4.13-2' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace Pull more tracing updates from Steven Rostedt: "A few more minor updates: - Show the tgid mappings for user space trace tools to use - Fix and optimize the comm and tgid cache recording - Sanitize derived kprobe names - Ftrace selftest updates - trace file header fix - Update of Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt - Compiler warning fixes - Fix possible uninitialized variable" * tag 'trace-v4.13-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: ftrace: Fix uninitialized variable in match_records() ftrace: Remove an unneeded NULL check ftrace: Hide cached module code for !CONFIG_MODULES tracing: Do note expose stack_trace_filter without DYNAMIC_FTRACE tracing: Update Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt tracing: Fixup trace file header alignment selftests/ftrace: Add a testcase for kprobe event naming selftests/ftrace: Add a test to probe module functions selftests/ftrace: Update multiple kprobes test for powerpc trace/kprobes: Sanitize derived event names tracing: Attempt to record other information even if some fail tracing: Treat recording tgid for idle task as a success tracing: Treat recording comm for idle task as a success tracing: Add saved_tgids file to show cached pid to tgid mappings
2017-07-11tracing: Update Documentation/trace/ftrace.txtSteven Rostedt (VMware)
The documentation of ftrace.txt has become rather outdated. Bring it closer to reality of todays kernel. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2017-07-03Merge tag 'char-misc-4.13-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc Pull char/misc updates from Greg KH: "Here is the "big" char/misc driver patchset for 4.13-rc1. Lots of stuff in here, a large thunderbolt update, w1 driver header reorg, the new mux driver subsystem, google firmware driver updates, and a raft of other smaller things. Full details in the shortlog. All of these have been in linux-next for a while with the only reported issue being a merge problem with this tree and the jc-docs tree in the w1 documentation area" * tag 'char-misc-4.13-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (147 commits) misc: apds990x: Use sysfs_match_string() helper mei: drop unreachable code in mei_start mei: validate the message header only in first fragment. DocBook: w1: Update W1 file locations and names in DocBook mux: adg792a: always require I2C support nvmem: rockchip-efuse: add support for rk322x-efuse nvmem: core: add locking to nvmem_find_cell nvmem: core: Call put_device() in nvmem_unregister() nvmem: core: fix leaks on registration errors nvmem: correct Broadcom OTP controller driver writes w1: Add subsystem kernel public interface drivers/fsi: Add module license to core driver drivers/fsi: Use asynchronous slave mode drivers/fsi: Add hub master support drivers/fsi: Add SCOM FSI client device driver drivers/fsi/gpio: Add tracepoints for GPIO master drivers/fsi: Add GPIO based FSI master drivers/fsi: Document FSI master sysfs files in ABI drivers/fsi: Add error handling for slave drivers/fsi: Add tracepoints for low-level operations ...
2017-06-22sched/loadavg: Generalize "_idle" naming to "_nohz"Frederic Weisbecker
The loadavg naming code still assumes that nohz == idle whereas its code is actually handling well both nohz idle and nohz full. So lets fix the naming according to what the code actually does, to unconfuse the reader. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1497838322-10913-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-06-09doc: Add documentation for Coresight CPU debugLeo Yan
Add detailed documentation for Coresight CPU debug driver, which contains the info for driver implementation, Mike Leach excellent summary for "clock and power domain". At the end some examples on how to enable the debugging functionality are provided. Suggested-by: Mike Leach <mike.leach@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-05-03Merge tag 'trace-v4.12' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace 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 > 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 > 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 ...
2017-05-02Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial Pull trivial tree updates from Jiri Kosina. * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: tty: fix comment for __tty_alloc_driver() init/main: properly align the multi-line comment init/main: Fix double "the" in comment Fix dead URLs to ftp.kernel.org drivers: Clean up duplicated email address treewide: Fix typo in xml/driver-api/basics.xml tools/testing/selftests/powerpc: remove redundant CFLAGS in Makefile: "-Wall -O2 -Wall" -> "-O2 -Wall" selftests/timers: Spelling s/privledges/privileges/ HID: picoLCD: Spelling s/REPORT_WRTIE_MEMORY/REPORT_WRITE_MEMORY/ net: phy: dp83848: Fix Typo UBI: Fix typos Documentation: ftrace.txt: Correct nice value of 120 priority net: fec: Fix typo in error msg and comment treewide: Fix typos in printk
2017-04-04tracing/kprobes: expose maxactive for kretprobe in kprobe_eventsAlban Crequy
When a kretprobe is installed on a kernel function, there is a maximum limit of how many calls in parallel it can catch (aka "maxactive"). A kernel module could call register_kretprobe() and initialize maxactive (see example in samples/kprobes/kretprobe_example.c). But that is not exposed to userspace and it is currently not possible to choose maxactive when writing to /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/kprobe_events The default maxactive can be as low as 1 on single-core with a non-preemptive kernel. This is too low and we need to increase it not only for recursive functions, but for functions that sleep or resched. This patch updates the format of the command that can be written to kprobe_events so that maxactive can be optionally specified. I need this for a bpf program attached to the kretprobe of inet_csk_accept, which can sleep for a long time. This patch includes a basic selftest: > # ./ftracetest -v test.d/kprobe/ > === Ftrace unit tests === > [1] Kprobe dynamic event - adding and removing [PASS] > [2] Kprobe dynamic event - busy event check [PASS] > [3] Kprobe dynamic event with arguments [PASS] > [4] Kprobes event arguments with types [PASS] > [5] Kprobe dynamic event with function tracer [PASS] > [6] Kretprobe dynamic event with arguments [PASS] > [7] Kretprobe dynamic event with maxactive [PASS] > > # of passed: 7 > # of failed: 0 > # of unresolved: 0 > # of untested: 0 > # of unsupported: 0 > # of xfailed: 0 > # of undefined(test bug): 0 BugLink: https://github.com/iovisor/bcc/issues/1072 Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1491215782-15490-1-git-send-email-alban@kinvolk.io Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Alban Crequy <alban@kinvolk.io> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2017-03-24Documentation: ftrace.txt: Correct nice value of 120 priorityLiu, Changcheng
The nice value of 120 priority is 0. Signed-off-by: Liu Changcheng <changcheng.liu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2017-03-14doc: trace/kprobes: add information about NOKPROBE_SYMBOLNaveen N. Rao
Update kprobe tracer documentation to also mention that NOKPROBE_SYMBOL() and nokprobe_inline add symbols to the kprobes blacklist. Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/d924e20de099579ace4286e610304f054cd798db.1488991670.git.naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2017-03-01perf/core: Rename CONFIG_[UK]PROBE_EVENT to CONFIG_[UK]PROBE_EVENTSAnton Blanchard
We have uses of CONFIG_UPROBE_EVENT and CONFIG_KPROBE_EVENT as well as CONFIG_UPROBE_EVENTS and CONFIG_KPROBE_EVENTS. Consistently use the plurals. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: acme@kernel.org Cc: alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com Cc: davem@davemloft.net Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170216060050.20866-1-anton@ozlabs.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-02-22trace-vmscan-postprocess: sync with tracepoints updatesMichal Hocko
Both mm_vmscan_lru_shrink_active and mm_vmscan_lru_isolate have changed so the script needs to be update to reflect those changes Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170105151737.GU21618@dhcp22.suse.cz Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-12-15Merge tag 'trace-v4.10' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt: "This release has a few updates: - STM can hook into the function tracer - Function filtering now supports more advance glob matching - Ftrace selftests updates and added tests - Softirq tag in traces now show only softirqs - ARM nop added to non traced locations at compile time - New trace_marker_raw file that allows for binary input - Optimizations to the ring buffer - Removal of kmap in trace_marker - Wakeup and irqsoff tracers now adhere to the set_graph_notrace file - Other various fixes and clean ups" * tag 'trace-v4.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (42 commits) selftests: ftrace: Shift down default message verbosity kprobes/trace: Fix kprobe selftest for newer gcc tracing/kprobes: Add a helper method to return number of probe hits tracing/rb: Init the CPU mask on allocation tracing: Use SOFTIRQ_OFFSET for softirq dectection for more accurate results tracing/fgraph: Have wakeup and irqsoff tracers ignore graph functions too fgraph: Handle a case where a tracer ignores set_graph_notrace tracing: Replace kmap with copy_from_user() in trace_marker writing ftrace/x86_32: Set ftrace_stub to weak to prevent gcc from using short jumps to it tracing: Allow benchmark to be enabled at early_initcall() tracing: Have system enable return error if one of the events fail tracing: Do not start benchmark on boot up tracing: Have the reg function allow to fail ring-buffer: Force rb_end_commit() and rb_set_commit_to_write() inline ring-buffer: Froce rb_update_write_stamp() to be inlined ring-buffer: Force inline of hotpath helper functions tracing: Make __buffer_unlock_commit() always_inline tracing: Make tracepoint_printk a static_key ring-buffer: Always inline rb_event_data() ring-buffer: Make rb_reserve_next_event() always inlined ...
2016-12-13Merge tag 'char-misc-4.10-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc Pull char/misc driver updates from Greg KH: "Here's the big char/misc driver patches for 4.10-rc1. Lots of tiny changes over lots of "minor" driver subsystems, the largest being some new FPGA drivers. Other than that, a few other new drivers, but no new driver subsystems added for this kernel cycle, a nice change. All of these have been in linux-next with no reported issues" * tag 'char-misc-4.10-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (107 commits) uio-hv-generic: store physical addresses instead of virtual Tools: hv: kvp: configurable external scripts path uio-hv-generic: new userspace i/o driver for VMBus vmbus: add support for dynamic device id's hv: change clockevents unbind tactics hv: acquire vmbus_connection.channel_mutex in vmbus_free_channels() hyperv: Fix spelling of HV_UNKOWN mei: bus: enable non-blocking RX mei: fix the back to back interrupt handling mei: synchronize irq before initiating a reset. VME: Remove shutdown entry from vme_driver auxdisplay: ht16k33: select framebuffer helper modules MAINTAINERS: add git url for fpga fpga: Clarify how write_init works streaming modes fpga zynq: Fix incorrect ISR state on bootup fpga zynq: Remove priv->dev fpga zynq: Add missing \n to messages fpga: Add COMPILE_TEST to all drivers uio: pruss: add clk_disable() char/pcmcia: add some error checking in scr24x_read() ...
2016-12-12Merge tag 'docs-4.10' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds
Pull documentation update from Jonathan Corbet: "These are the documentation changes for 4.10. It's another busy cycle for the docs tree, as the sphinx conversion continues. Highlights include: - Further work on PDF output, which remains a bit of a pain but should be more solid now. - Five more DocBook template files converted to Sphinx. Only 27 to go... Lots of plain-text files have also been converted and integrated. - Images in binary formats have been replaced with more source-friendly versions. - Various bits of organizational work, including the renaming of various files discussed at the kernel summit. - New documentation for the device_link mechanism. ... and, of course, lots of typo fixes and small updates" * tag 'docs-4.10' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (193 commits) dma-buf: Extract dma-buf.rst Update Documentation/00-INDEX docs: 00-INDEX: document directories/files with no docs docs: 00-INDEX: remove non-existing entries docs: 00-INDEX: add missing entries for documentation files/dirs docs: 00-INDEX: consolidate process/ and admin-guide/ description scripts: add a script to check if Documentation/00-INDEX is sane Docs: change sh -> awk in REPORTING-BUGS Documentation/core-api/device_link: Add initial documentation core-api: remove an unexpected unident ppc/idle: Add documentation for powersave=off Doc: Correct typo, "Introdution" => "Introduction" Documentation/atomic_ops.txt: convert to ReST markup Documentation/local_ops.txt: convert to ReST markup Documentation/assoc_array.txt: convert to ReST markup docs-rst: parse-headers.pl: cleanup the documentation docs-rst: fix media cleandocs target docs-rst: media/Makefile: reorganize the rules docs-rst: media: build SVG from graphviz files docs-rst: replace bayer.png by a SVG image ...
2016-11-29trace: Update documentation for mono, mono_raw and boot clockJoel Fernandes
Documentation was missing for mono and mono_raw, add them and also for the boot clock introduced in this series. Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1480372524-15181-8-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2016-11-18intel_th: Document debug host modeAlexander Shishkin
Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
2016-11-18stm class: Document stm_source channel assignmentAlexander Shishkin
This patch adds an explanation of how and when stm_source devices are assigned STP masters and channels. Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
2016-11-18stm class: Document the stm_source interfaceAlexander Shishkin
This patch adds a description of the stm_source device class, an interface for the kernel code to send traces over STM devices. Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org Cc: Chunyan Zhang <zhang.chunyan@linaro.org> Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
2016-11-15tracing: Add new trace_marker_rawSteven Rostedt
A new file is created: /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_marker_raw This allows for appications to create data structures and write the binary data directly into it, and then read the trace data out from trace_pipe_raw into the same type of data structure. This saves on converting numbers into ASCII that would be required by trace_marker. Suggested-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-11-14ftrace: Support full glob matchingMasami Hiramatsu
Use glob_match() to support flexible glob wildcards (*,?) and character classes ([) for ftrace. Since the full glob matching is slower than the current partial matching routines(*pat, pat*, *pat*), this leaves those routines and just add MATCH_GLOB for complex glob expression. e.g. ---- [root@localhost tracing]# echo 'sched*group' > set_ftrace_filter [root@localhost tracing]# cat set_ftrace_filter sched_free_group sched_change_group sched_create_group sched_online_group sched_destroy_group sched_offline_group [root@localhost tracing]# echo '[Ss]y[Ss]_*' > set_ftrace_filter [root@localhost tracing]# head set_ftrace_filter sys_arch_prctl sys_rt_sigreturn sys_ioperm SyS_iopl sys_modify_ldt SyS_mmap SyS_set_thread_area SyS_get_thread_area SyS_set_tid_address sys_fork ---- Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/147566869501.29136.6462645009894738056.stgit@devbox Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-10-21Documentation/trace/uprobetracer.txt: fix incorrect examplesMarcin Nowakowski
Current uprobetracer examples don't work as they use an incorrect syntax - if no event name is specified then 'p/r' must not be followed by a colon - if no event name is specified then the default event name will have a 'p_' prefix, so use that in the '-' example as well Signed-off-by: Marcin Nowakowski <marcin.nowakowski@imgtec.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-10-06Merge tag 'trace-v4.9' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt: "This release cycle is rather small. Just a few fixes to tracing. The big change is the addition of the hwlat tracer. It not only detects SMIs, but also other latency that's caused by the hardware. I have detected some latency from large boxes having bus contention" * tag 'trace-v4.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: tracing: Call traceoff trigger after event is recorded ftrace/scripts: Add helper script to bisect function tracing problem functions tracing: Have max_latency be defined for HWLAT_TRACER as well tracing: Add NMI tracing in hwlat detector tracing: Have hwlat trace migrate across tracing_cpumask CPUs tracing: Add documentation for hwlat_detector tracer tracing: Added hardware latency tracer ftrace: Access ret_stack->subtime only in the function profiler function_graph: Handle TRACE_BPUTS in print_graph_comment tracing/uprobe: Drop isdigit() check in create_trace_uprobe
2016-10-03Merge branch 'x86-asm-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull low-level x86 updates from Ingo Molnar: "In this cycle this topic tree has become one of those 'super topics' that accumulated a lot of changes: - Add CONFIG_VMAP_STACK=y support to the core kernel and enable it on x86 - preceded by an array of changes. v4.8 saw preparatory changes in this area already - this is the rest of the work. Includes the thread stack caching performance optimization. (Andy Lutomirski) - switch_to() cleanups and all around enhancements. (Brian Gerst) - A large number of dumpstack infrastructure enhancements and an unwinder abstraction. The secret long term plan is safe(r) live patching plus maybe another attempt at debuginfo based unwinding - but all these current bits are standalone enhancements in a frame pointer based debug environment as well. (Josh Poimboeuf) - More __ro_after_init and const annotations. (Kees Cook) - Enable KASLR for the vmemmap memory region. (Thomas Garnier)" [ The virtually mapped stack changes are pretty fundamental, and not x86-specific per se, even if they are only used on x86 right now. ] * 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (70 commits) x86/asm: Get rid of __read_cr4_safe() thread_info: Use unsigned long for flags x86/alternatives: Add stack frame dependency to alternative_call_2() x86/dumpstack: Fix show_stack() task pointer regression x86/dumpstack: Remove dump_trace() and related callbacks x86/dumpstack: Convert show_trace_log_lvl() to use the new unwinder oprofile/x86: Convert x86_backtrace() to use the new unwinder x86/stacktrace: Convert save_stack_trace_*() to use the new unwinder perf/x86: Convert perf_callchain_kernel() to use the new unwinder x86/unwind: Add new unwind interface and implementations x86/dumpstack: Remove NULL task pointer convention fork: Optimize task creation by caching two thread stacks per CPU if CONFIG_VMAP_STACK=y sched/core: Free the stack early if CONFIG_THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK lib/syscall: Pin the task stack in collect_syscall() x86/process: Pin the target stack in get_wchan() x86/dumpstack: Pin the target stack when dumping it kthread: Pin the stack via try_get_task_stack()/put_task_stack() in to_live_kthread() function sched/core: Add try_get_task_stack() and put_task_stack() x86/entry/64: Fix a minor comment rebase error iommu/amd: Don't put completion-wait semaphore on stack ...
2016-09-02tracing: Have hwlat trace migrate across tracing_cpumask CPUsSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
Instead of having the hwlat detector thread stay on one CPU, have it migrate across all the CPUs specified by tracing_cpumask. If the user modifies the thread's CPU affinity, the migration will stop until the next instance that the tracer is instantiated. The migration happens at the end of each window (period). Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-09-02tracing: Add documentation for hwlat_detector tracerJon Masters
Added the documentation on how to use th hwlat_detector. Signed-off-by: Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com> [ Various updates and modified to show hwlat as a tracer ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-09-01ftrace: Access ret_stack->subtime only in the function profilerNamhyung Kim
The subtime is used only for function profiler with function graph tracer enabled. Move the definition of subtime under CONFIG_FUNCTION_PROFILER to reduce the memory usage. Also move the initialization of subtime into the graph entry callback. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160831025529.24018-1-namhyung@kernel.org Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-08-24ftrace: Add return address pointer to ftrace_ret_stackJosh Poimboeuf
Storing this value will help prevent unwinders from getting out of sync with the function graph tracer ret_stack. Now instead of needing a stateful iterator, they can compare the return address pointer to find the right ret_stack entry. Note that an array of 50 ftrace_ret_stack structs is allocated for every task. So when an arch implements this, it will add either 200 or 400 bytes of memory usage per task (depending on whether it's a 32-bit or 64-bit platform). Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Nilay Vaish <nilayvaish@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/a95cfcc39e8f26b89a430c56926af0bb217bc0a1.1471607358.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-08-23ftrace: kprobe: uprobe: Show u8/u16/u32/u64 types in decimalMasami Hiramatsu
Change kprobe/uprobe-tracer to show the arguments type-casted with u8/u16/u32/u64 in decimal digits instead of hexadecimal. To minimize compatibility issue, the arguments without type casting are typed by x64 (or x32 for 32bit arch) by default. Note: all arguments set by old perf probe without types are shown in decimal by default. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Hemant Kumar <hemant@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Naohiro Aota <naohiro.aota@hgst.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/147151076135.12957.14684546093034343894.stgit@devbox Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-08-23ftrace: kprobe: uprobe: Add x8/x16/x32/x64 for hexadecimal typesMasami Hiramatsu
Add x8/x16/x32/x64 for hexadecimal type casting to kprobe/uprobe event tracer. These type casts can be used for integer arguments for explicitly showing them in hexadecimal digits in formatted text. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Hemant Kumar <hemant@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Naohiro Aota <naohiro.aota@hgst.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/147151067029.12957.11591314629326414783.stgit@devbox Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-06-20tracing: expose current->comm to [ku]probe eventsOmar Sandoval
ftrace is very quick to give up on saving the task command line (see `trace_save_cmdline()`). The workaround for events which really care about the command line is to explicitly assign it as part of the entry. However, this doesn't work for kprobe events, as there's no straightforward way to get access to current->comm. Add a kprobe/uprobe event variable $comm which provides exactly that. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/f59b472033b943a370f5f48d0af37698f409108f.1465435894.git.osandov@fb.com Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-05-20Merge tag 'char-misc-4.7-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc Pull char / misc driver updates from Greg KH: "Here's the big char and misc driver update for 4.7-rc1. Lots of different tiny driver subsystems have updates here with new drivers and functionality. Details in the shortlog. All have been in linux-next with no reported issues for a while" * tag 'char-misc-4.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (125 commits) mcb: Delete num_cells variable which is not required mcb: Fixed bar number assignment for the gdd mcb: Replace ioremap and request_region with the devm version mcb: Implement bus->dev.release callback mcb: export bus information via sysfs mcb: Correctly initialize the bus's device mei: bus: call mei_cl_read_start under device lock coresight: etb10: adjust read pointer only when needed coresight: configuring ETF in FIFO mode when acting as link coresight: tmc: implementing TMC-ETF AUX space API coresight: moving struct cs_buffers to header file coresight: tmc: keep track of memory width coresight: tmc: make sysFS and Perf mode mutually exclusive coresight: tmc: dump system memory content only when needed coresight: tmc: adding mode of operation for link/sinks coresight: tmc: getting rid of multiple read access coresight: tmc: allocating memory when needed coresight: tmc: making prepare/unprepare functions generic coresight: tmc: splitting driver in ETB/ETF and ETR components coresight: tmc: cleaning up header file ...
2016-05-18Merge tag 'trace-v4.7' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt: "This includes two new updates for the ftrace infrastructure. - With the changing of the code for filtering events by pid, from a list of pids to a bitmask, we can now easily implement following forks. With a new tracing option "event-fork" which, when set, will have tasks with pids in set_event_pid, when they fork, to have their child pids added to set_event_pid and the child will be traced as well. Note, if "event-fork" is set and a task with its pid in set_event_pid exits, its pid will be removed from set_event_pid - The addition of Tom Zanussi's hist triggers. This includes a very thorough documentatino on how to use the hist triggers with events. This introduces a quick and easy way to get histogram data from events and their fields. Some other cleanups and updates were added as well. Like Masami Hiramatsu added test cases for the event trigger and hist triggers. Also I added a speed up of filtering by using a temp buffer when filters are set" * tag 'trace-v4.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (45 commits) tracing: Use temp buffer when filtering events tracing: Remove TRACE_EVENT_FL_USE_CALL_FILTER logic tracing: Remove unused function trace_current_buffer_lock_reserve() tracing: Remove one use of trace_current_buffer_lock_reserve() tracing: Have trace_buffer_unlock_commit() call the _regs version with NULL tracing: Remove unused function trace_current_buffer_discard_commit() tracing: Move trace_buffer_unlock_commit{_regs}() to local header tracing: Fold filter_check_discard() into its only user tracing: Make filter_check_discard() local tracing: Move event_trigger_unlock_commit{_regs}() to local header tracing: Don't use the address of the buffer array name in copy_from_user tracing: Handle tracing_map_alloc_elts() error path correctly tracing: Add check for NULL event field when creating hist field tracing: checking for NULL instead of IS_ERR() tracing: Do not inherit event-fork option for instances tracing: Fix unsigned comparison to zero in hist trigger code kselftests/ftrace: Add a test for log2 modifier of hist trigger tracing: Add hist trigger 'log2' modifier kselftests/ftrace: Add hist trigger testcases kselftests/ftrace : Add event trigger testcases ...
2016-05-03coresight: stm: adding driver for CoreSight STM componentPratik Patel
This driver adds support for the STM CoreSight IP block, allowing any system compoment (HW or SW) to log and aggregate messages via a single entity. The CoreSight STM exposes an application defined number of channels called stimulus port. Configuration is done using entries in sysfs and channels made available to userspace via configfs. Signed-off-by: Pratik Patel <pratikp@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Michael Williams <michael.williams@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Chunyan Zhang <zhang.chunyan@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2016-04-23sched/fair: Gather CPU load functions under a more conventional namespaceFrederic Weisbecker
The CPU load update related functions have a weak naming convention currently, starting with update_cpu_load_*() which isn't ideal as "update" is a very generic concept. Since two of these functions are public already (and a third is to come) that's enough to introduce a more conventional naming scheme. So let's do the following rename instead: update_cpu_load_*() -> cpu_load_update_*() Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul E . McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1460555812-25375-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-04-19tracing: Add support for named hist triggersTom Zanussi
Allow users to define 'named' hist triggers. All triggers created with the same 'name=xxx' option will update the same shared histogram data. This expands the hist trigger syntax from this: # echo hist:keys=xxx ... [ if filter] > event/trigger to this: # echo hist:name=xxx:keys=xxx ... [ if filter] > event/trigger Named histograms must use a 'compatible' set of keys and values, which means each event added to a set of named triggers must have the same names and types. Reading the 'hist' file of any of the participating events will produce the same output as any other participating event, which is to be expected since they share the same data. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1dbc84ee3322a75daaf5b3ef1d0cc0a2fb682fc7.1457029949.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com> Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-04-19tracing: Add support for multiple hist triggers per eventTom Zanussi
Allow users to define any number of hist triggers per trace event. Any number of hist triggers may be added for a given event, which may differ by key, value, or filter. Reading the event's 'hist' file will display the output of all the hist triggers defined on an event concatenated in the order they were defined. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/48a0c8dd34c344571de880fb35e211c6d9a28961.1457029949.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com> Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-04-19tracing: Add 'hist' trigger DocumentationTom Zanussi
Add documentation and usage examples for 'hist' triggers. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/2e13f35f47fea6d647f0efefccfc9673ea84b29f.1457029949.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com> Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-04-19tracing: Update the documentation to describe "event-fork" optionSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
Add documentation to the ftrace.txt file in Documentation to describe the event-fork option. Also add the missing "display-graph" option now that it shows up in the trace_options file (from a previous commit). Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-12-06x86, tracing, perf: Add trace point for MSR accessesAndi Kleen
For debugging low level code interacting with the CPU it is often useful to trace the MSR read/writes. This gives a concise summary of PMU and other operations. perf has an ad-hoc way to do this using trace_printk, but it's somewhat limited (and also now spews ugly boot messages when enabled) Instead define real trace points for all MSR accesses. This adds three new trace points: read_msr and write_msr and rdpmc. They also report if the access faulted (if *_safe is used) This allows filtering and triggering on specific MSR values, which allows various more advanced debugging techniques. All the values are well defined in the CPU documentation. The trace can be post processed with Documentation/trace/postprocess/decode_msr.py to add symbolic MSR names to the trace. I only added it to native MSR accesses in C, not paravirtualized or in entry*.S (which is not too interesting) Originally the patch kit moved the MSRs out of line. This uses an alternative approach recommended by Steven Rostedt of only moving the trace calls out of line, but open coding the access to the jump label. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1449018060-1742-3-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-11-06Merge tag 'trace-v4.4' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace Pull tracking updates from Steven Rostedt: "Most of the changes are clean ups and small fixes. Some of them have stable tags to them. I searched through my INBOX just as the merge window opened and found lots of patches to pull. I ran them through all my tests and they were in linux-next for a few days. Features added this release: ---------------------------- - Module globbing. You can now filter function tracing to several modules. # echo '*:mod:*snd*' > set_ftrace_filter (Dmitry Safonov) - Tracer specific options are now visible even when the tracer is not active. It was rather annoying that you can only see and modify tracer options after enabling the tracer. Now they are in the options/ directory even when the tracer is not active. Although they are still only visible when the tracer is active in the trace_options file. - Trace options are now per instance (although some of the tracer specific options are global) - New tracefs file: set_event_pid. If any pid is added to this file, then all events in the instance will filter out events that are not part of this pid. sched_switch and sched_wakeup events handle next and the wakee pids" * tag 'trace-v4.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (68 commits) tracefs: Fix refcount imbalance in start_creating() tracing: Put back comma for empty fields in boot string parsing tracing: Apply tracer specific options from kernel command line. tracing: Add some documentation about set_event_pid ring_buffer: Remove unneeded smp_wmb() before wakeup of reader benchmark tracing: Allow dumping traces without tracking trace started cpus ring_buffer: Fix more races when terminating the producer in the benchmark ring_buffer: Do no not complete benchmark reader too early tracing: Remove redundant TP_ARGS redefining tracing: Rename max_stack_lock to stack_trace_max_lock tracing: Allow arch-specific stack tracer recordmcount: arm64: Replace the ignored mcount call into nop recordmcount: Fix endianness handling bug for nop_mcount tracepoints: Fix documentation of RCU lockdep checks tracing: ftrace_event_is_function() can return boolean tracing: is_legal_op() can return boolean ring-buffer: rb_event_is_commit() can return boolean ring-buffer: rb_per_cpu_empty() can return boolean ring_buffer: ring_buffer_empty{cpu}() can return boolean ring-buffer: rb_is_reader_page() can return boolean ...
2015-11-03tracing: Add some documentation about set_event_pidSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
Update Documentation to include some comments about how to use set_event_pid. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-10-20Documentation: ftrace: Module globbing usageDmitry Safonov
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1443545176-3215-5-git-send-email-0x7f454c46@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-10-04intel_th: Add driver infrastructure for Intel(R) Trace Hub devicesAlexander Shishkin
Intel(R) Trace Hub (TH) is a set of hardware blocks (subdevices) that produce, switch and output trace data from multiple hardware and software sources over several types of trace output ports encoded in System Trace Protocol (MIPI STPv2) and is intended to perform full system debugging. For these subdevices, we create a bus, where they can be discovered and configured by userspace software. This patch creates this bus infrastructure, three types of devices (source, output, switch), resource allocation, some callback mechanisms to facilitate communication between the subdevices' drivers and some common sysfs attributes. Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-10-04stm class: Introduce an abstraction for System Trace Module devicesAlexander Shishkin
A System Trace Module (STM) is a device exporting data in System Trace Protocol (STP) format as defined by MIPI STP standards. Examples of such devices are Intel(R) Trace Hub and Coresight STM. This abstraction provides a unified interface for software trace sources to send their data over an STM device to a debug host. In order to do that, such a trace source needs to be assigned a pair of master/channel identifiers that all the data from this source will be tagged with. The STP decoder on the debug host side will use these master/channel tags to distinguish different trace streams from one another inside one STP stream. This abstraction provides a configfs-based policy management mechanism for dynamic allocation of these master/channel pairs based on trace source-supplied string identifier. It has the flexibility of being defined at runtime and at the same time (provided that the policy definition is aligned with the decoding end) consistency. For userspace trace sources, this abstraction provides write()-based and mmap()-based (if the underlying stm device allows this) output mechanism. For kernel-side trace sources, we provide "stm_source" device class that can be connected to an stm device at run time. Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>