kernel/linux.git/drivers/android/binder_trace.h, branch v6.19.11

binder: add tracepoint for netlink reports

2025-08-19T10:53:02+00:00

Add a tracepoint to capture the same details that are being sent through the generic netlink interface during transaction failures. This provides a useful debugging tool to observe the events independently from the netlink listeners. Signed-off-by: Carlos Llamas Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250727182932.2499194-6-cmllamas@google.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

binder: Remove unused binder lock events

2025-06-24T16:23:59+00:00

Trace events can take up to 5K each when they are defined, regardless if they are used or not. The binder lock events: binder_lock, binder_locked and binder_unlock are no longer used. Remove them. Fixes: a60b890f607d ("binder: remove global binder lock") Signed-off-by: "Steven Rostedt (Google)" Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl Acked-by: Carlos Llamas Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250612093408.3b7320fa@batman.local.home Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

binder: rename alloc->buffer to vm_start

2024-12-24T08:35:23+00:00

The alloc->buffer field in struct binder_alloc stores the starting address of the mapped vma, rename this field to alloc->vm_start to better reflect its purpose. It also avoids confusion with the binder buffer concept, e.g. transaction->buffer. No functional changes in this patch. Reviewed-by: Suren Baghdasaryan Signed-off-by: Carlos Llamas Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241210143114.661252-7-cmllamas@google.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

binder: keep vma addresses type as unsigned long

2023-12-05T00:23:38+00:00

The vma addresses in binder are currently stored as void __user *. This requires casting back and forth between the mm/ api which uses unsigned long. Since we also do internal arithmetic on these addresses we end up having to cast them _again_ to an integer type. Lets stop all the unnecessary casting which kills code readability and store the virtual addresses as the native unsigned long from mm/. Note that this approach is preferred over uintptr_t as Linus explains in [1]. Opportunistically add a few cosmetic touchups. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wj2OHy-5e+srG1fy+ZU00TmZ1NFp6kFLbVLMXHe7A1d-g@mail.gmail.com/ [1] Signed-off-by: Carlos Llamas Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231201172212.1813387-10-cmllamas@google.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Binder: add TF_UPDATE_TXN to replace outdated txn

2022-06-27T14:16:30+00:00

When the target process is busy, incoming oneway transactions are queued in the async_todo list. If the clients continue sending extra oneway transactions while the target process is frozen, this queue can become too large to accommodate new transactions. That's why binder driver introduced ONEWAY_SPAM_DETECTION to detect this situation. It's helpful to debug the async binder buffer exhausting issue, but the issue itself isn't solved directly. In real cases applications are designed to send oneway transactions repeatedly, delivering updated inforamtion to the target process. Typical examples are Wi-Fi signal strength and some real time sensor data. Even if the apps might only care about the lastet information, all outdated oneway transactions are still accumulated there until the frozen process is thawed later. For this kind of situations, there's no existing method to skip those outdated transactions and deliver the latest one only. This patch introduces a new transaction flag TF_UPDATE_TXN. To use it, use apps can set this new flag along with TF_ONE_WAY. When such an oneway transaction is to be queued into the async_todo list of a frozen process, binder driver will check if any previous pending transactions can be superseded by comparing their code, flags and target node. If such an outdated pending transaction is found, the latest transaction will supersede that outdated one. This effectively prevents the async binder buffer running out and saves unnecessary binder read workloads. Acked-by: Todd Kjos Signed-off-by: Li Li Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220526220018.3334775-2-dualli@chromium.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

binder: add trace at free transaction.

2020-11-11T07:20:44+00:00

Since the original trace_binder_transaction_received cannot precisely present the real finished time of transaction, adding a trace_binder_txn_latency_free at the point of free transaction may be more close to it. Signed-off-by: Frankie.Chang Acked-by: Todd Kjos Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1605063764-12930-3-git-send-email-Frankie.Chang@mediatek.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 282

2019-06-05T15:36:37+00:00

Based on 1 normalized pattern(s): this software is licensed under the terms of the gnu general public license version 2 as published by the free software foundation and may be copied distributed and modified under those terms this program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful but without any warranty without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose see the gnu general public license for more details extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier GPL-2.0-only has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 285 file(s). Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Reviewed-by: Alexios Zavras Reviewed-by: Allison Randal Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190529141900.642774971@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

binder: use userspace pointer as base of buffer space

2019-02-12T09:43:57+00:00

Now that alloc->buffer points to the userspace vm_area rename buffer->data to buffer->user_data and rename local pointers that hold user addresses. Also use the "__user" tag to annotate all user pointers so sparse can flag cases where user pointer vaues are copied to kernel pointers. Refactor code to use offsets instead of user pointers. Signed-off-by: Todd Kjos Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

binder: use standard functions to allocate fds

2018-09-14T13:22:36+00:00

Binder uses internal fs interfaces to allocate and install fds: __alloc_fd __fd_install __close_fd get_files_struct put_files_struct These were used to support the passing of fds between processes as part of a transaction. The actual allocation and installation of the fds in the target process was handled by the sending process so the standard functions, alloc_fd() and fd_install() which assume task==current couldn't be used. This patch refactors this mechanism so that the fds are allocated and installed by the target process allowing the standard functions to be used. The sender now creates a list of fd fixups that contains the struct *file and the address to fixup with the new fd once it is allocated. This list is processed by the target process when the transaction is dequeued. A new error case is introduced by this change. If an async transaction with file descriptors cannot allocate new fds in the target (probably due to out of file descriptors), the transaction is discarded with a log message. In the old implementation this would have been detected in the sender context and failed prior to sending. Signed-off-by: Todd Kjos Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

android: binder: Show extra_buffers_size in trace

2018-08-02T08:34:12+00:00

Add extra_buffers_size to the binder_transaction_alloc_buf tracepoint. Acked-by: Arve Hjønnevåg Signed-off-by: Sherry Yang Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman