kernel/linux.git/include/linux/kernel.h, branch v6.12.80

tracing: Support to dump instance traces by ftrace_dump_on_oops

2024-03-18T14:33:06+00:00

Currently ftrace only dumps the global trace buffer on an OOPs. For debugging a production usecase, instance trace will be helpful to check specific problems since global trace buffer may be used for other purposes. This patch extend the ftrace_dump_on_oops parameter to dump a specific or multiple trace instances: - ftrace_dump_on_oops=0: as before -- don't dump - ftrace_dump_on_oops[=1]: as before -- dump the global trace buffer on all CPUs - ftrace_dump_on_oops=2 or =orig_cpu: as before -- dump the global trace buffer on CPU that triggered the oops - ftrace_dump_on_oops=: new behavior -- dump the tracing instance matching - ftrace_dump_on_oops[=2/orig_cpu],[=2/orig_cpu], [=2/orig_cpu]: new behavior -- dump the global trace buffer and multiple instance buffer on all CPUs, or only dump on CPU that triggered the oops if =2 or =orig_cpu is given Also, the sysctl node can handle the input accordingly. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240223083126.1817731-1-quic_hyiwei@quicinc.com Cc: Ross Zwisler Cc: Cc: Cc: Cc: Cc: Cc: Cc: Signed-off-by: Huang Yiwei Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google)

kernel.h: Move lib/cmdline.c prototypes to string.h

2024-02-29T21:38:03+00:00

The lib/cmdline.c is basically a set of some small string parsers which are wide used in the kernel. Their prototypes belong to the string.h rather then kernel.h. Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231003130142.2936503-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Kees Cook

kernel.h: Move upper__bits() and lower__bits() to wordpart.h

2024-02-29T21:38:01+00:00

The wordpart.h header is collecting APIs related to the handling parts of the word (usually in byte granularity). The upper_*_bits() and lower_*_bits() are good candidates to be moved to there. This helps to clean up header dependency hell with regard to kernel.h as the latter gathers completely unrelated stuff together and slows down compilation (especially when it's included into other header). Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240214172752.3605073-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Kees Cook

kernel.h: removed REPEAT_BYTE from kernel.h

2024-02-01T17:47:59+00:00

This patch creates wordpart.h and includes it in asm/word-at-a-time.h for all architectures. WORD_AT_A_TIME_CONSTANTS depends on kernel.h because of REPEAT_BYTE. Moving this to another header and including it where necessary allows us to not include the bloated kernel.h. Making this implicit dependency on REPEAT_BYTE explicit allows for later improvements in the lib/string.c inclusion list. Suggested-by: Al Viro Suggested-by: Andy Shevchenko Signed-off-by: Tanzir Hasan Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231226-libstringheader-v6-1-80aa08c7652c@google.com Signed-off-by: Kees Cook

kernel.h: Move ARRAY_SIZE() to a separate header

2023-10-03T13:28:40+00:00

Touching files so used for the kernel, forces 'make' to recompile most of the kernel. Having those definitions in more granular files helps avoid recompiling so much of the kernel. Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar Reviewed-by: Giovanni Cabiddu Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230817143352.132583-2-lucas.segarra.fernandez@intel.com [andy: reduced to cover only string.h for now] Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko

lib/vsprintf: split out sprintf() and friends

2023-08-21T20:46:24+00:00

Patch series "lib/vsprintf: Rework header inclusions", v3. Some patches that reduce the mess with the header inclusions related to vsprintf.c module. Each patch has its own description, and has no dependencies to each other, except the collisions over modifications of the same places. Hence the series. This patch (of 2): kernel.h is being used as a dump for all kinds of stuff for a long time. sprintf() and friends are used in many drivers without need of the full kernel.h dependency train with it. Here is the attempt on cleaning it up by splitting out sprintf() and friends. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230814163344.17429-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230814163344.17429-2-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek Cc: Alexander Potapenko Cc: Dmitry Vyukov Cc: Marco Elver Cc: Rasmus Villemoes Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky Cc: Steven Rostedt (Google) Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

kernel.h: split out COUNT_ARGS() and CONCATENATE() to args.h

2023-08-18T17:18:56+00:00

Patch series "kernel.h: Split out a couple of macros to args.h", v4. There are macros in kernel.h that can be used outside of that header. Split them to args.h and replace open coded variants. This patch (of 4): kernel.h is being used as a dump for all kinds of stuff for a long time. The COUNT_ARGS() and CONCATENATE() macros may be used in some places without need of the full kernel.h dependency train with it. Here is the attempt on cleaning it up by splitting out these macros(). While at it, include new header where it's being used. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230718211147.18647-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230718211147.18647-2-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) Cc: Bjorn Helgaas Acked-by: Bjorn Helgaas [PCI] Cc: Brendan Higgins Cc: Daniel Latypov Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: David Gow Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Lorenzo Pieralisi Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) Cc: Shuah Khan Cc: Sudeep Holla Cc: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

kernel.h: split the hexadecimal related helpers to hex.h

2023-04-08T20:45:38+00:00

For the sake of cleaning up the kernel.h split the hexadecimal related helpers to own header called 'hex.h'. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230323155029.40000-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko Cc: Rasmus Villemoes Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

tracing: Always use canonical ftrace path

2023-02-18T19:34:09+00:00

The canonical location for the tracefs filesystem is at /sys/kernel/tracing. But, from Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst: Before 4.1, all ftrace tracing control files were within the debugfs file system, which is typically located at /sys/kernel/debug/tracing. For backward compatibility, when mounting the debugfs file system, the tracefs file system will be automatically mounted at: /sys/kernel/debug/tracing Many comments and Kconfig help messages in the tracing code still refer to this older debugfs path, so let's update them to avoid confusion. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230215223350.2658616-2-zwisler@google.com Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) Reviewed-by: Mukesh Ojha Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google)

hex2bin: make the function hex_to_bin constant-time

2022-04-27T17:57:33+00:00

The function hex2bin is used to load cryptographic keys into device mapper targets dm-crypt and dm-integrity. It should take constant time independent on the processed data, so that concurrently running unprivileged code can't infer any information about the keys via microarchitectural convert channels. This patch changes the function hex_to_bin so that it contains no branches and no memory accesses. Note that this shouldn't cause performance degradation because the size of the new function is the same as the size of the old function (on x86-64) - and the new function causes no branch misprediction penalties. I compile-tested this function with gcc on aarch64 alpha arm hppa hppa64 i386 ia64 m68k mips32 mips64 powerpc powerpc64 riscv sh4 s390x sparc32 sparc64 x86_64 and with clang on aarch64 arm hexagon i386 mips32 mips64 powerpc powerpc64 s390x sparc32 sparc64 x86_64 to verify that there are no branches in the generated code. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds