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<title>Merge tag 'trace-v6.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2025-08-01T17:29:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2025-08-01T17:29:36+00:00</published>
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Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:

 - Deprecate auto-mounting tracefs to /sys/kernel/debug/tracing

   When tracefs was first introduced back in 2014, the directory
   /sys/kernel/tracing was added and is the designated location to mount
   tracefs. To keep backward compatibility, tracefs was auto-mounted in
   /sys/kernel/debug/tracing as well.

   All distros now mount tracefs on /sys/kernel/tracing. Having it seen
   in two different locations has lead to various issues and
   inconsistencies.

   The VFS folks have to also maintain debugfs_create_automount() for
   this single user.

   It's been over 10 years. Tooling and scripts should start replacing
   the debugfs location with the tracefs one. The reason tracefs was
   created in the first place was to allow access to the tracing
   facilities without the need to configure debugfs into the kernel.
   Using tracefs should now be more robust.

   A new config is created: CONFIG_TRACEFS_AUTOMOUNT_DEPRECATED which is
   default y, so that the kernel is still built with the automount. This
   config allows those that want to remove the automount from debugfs to
   do so.

   When tracefs is accessed from /sys/kernel/debug/tracing, the
   following printk is triggerd:

     pr_warn("NOTICE: Automounting of tracing to debugfs is deprecated and will be removed in 2030\n");

   This gives users another 5 years to fix their scripts.

 - Use queue_rcu_work() instead of call_rcu() for freeing event filters

   The number of filters to be free can be many depending on the number
   of events within an event system. Freeing them from softirq context
   can potentially cause undesired latency. Use the RCU workqueue to
   free them instead.

 - Remove pointless memory barriers in latency code

   Memory barriers were added to some of the latency code a long time
   ago with the idea of "making them visible", but that's not what
   memory barriers are for. They are to synchronize access between
   different variables. There was no synchronization here making them
   pointless.

 - Remove "__attribute__()" from the type field of event format

   When LLVM is used to compile the kernel with CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF=y
   and PAHOLE_HAS_BTF_TAG=y, some of the format fields get expanded with
   the following:

     field:const char * filename;      offset:24;      size:8; signed:0;

   Turns into:

     field:const char __attribute__((btf_type_tag("user"))) * filename;      offset:24;      size:8; signed:0;

   This confuses parsers. Add code to strip these tags from the strings.

 - Add eprobe config option CONFIG_EPROBE_EVENTS

   Eprobes were added back in 5.15 but were only enabled when another
   probe was enabled (kprobe, fprobe, uprobe, etc). The eprobes had no
   config option of their own. Add one as they should be a separate
   entity.

   It's default y to keep with the old kernels but still has
   dependencies on TRACING and HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API.

 - Add eprobe documentation

   When eprobes were added back in 5.15 no documentation was added to
   describe them. This needs to be rectified.

 - Replace open coded cpumask_next_wrap() in move_to_next_cpu()

 - Have preemptirq_delay_run() use off-stack CPU mask

 - Remove obsolete comment about pelt_cfs event

   DECLARE_TRACE() appends "_tp" to trace events now, but the comment
   above pelt_cfs still mentioned appending it manually.

 - Remove EVENT_FILE_FL_SOFT_MODE flag

   The SOFT_MODE flag was required when the soft enabling and disabling
   of trace events was first introduced. But there was a bug with this
   approach as it only worked for a single instance. When multiple users
   required soft disabling and disabling the code was changed to have a
   ref count. The SOFT_MODE flag is now set iff the ref count is non
   zero. This is redundant and just reading the ref count is good
   enough.

 - Fix typo in comment

* tag 'trace-v6.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
  Documentation: tracing: Add documentation about eprobes
  tracing: Have eprobes have their own config option
  tracing: Remove "__attribute__()" from the type field of event format
  tracing: Deprecate auto-mounting tracefs in debugfs
  tracing: Fix comment in trace_module_remove_events()
  tracing: Remove EVENT_FILE_FL_SOFT_MODE flag
  tracing: Remove pointless memory barriers
  tracing/sched: Remove obsolete comment on suffixes
  kernel: trace: preemptirq_delay_test: use offstack cpu mask
  tracing: Use queue_rcu_work() to free filters
  tracing: Replace opencoded cpumask_next_wrap() in move_to_next_cpu()
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<title>Merge tag 'trace-unused-v6.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2025-07-30T23:41:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-30T23:41:58+00:00</published>
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Pull tracepoint cleanup from Steven Rostedt:
 "Remove or hide unused tracepoints

  Tracepoints take up memory (around 5K per tracepoint) even when they
  are unused. Changes are being made to detect when a tracepoint is
  defined but unused and a warning is shown at build. But those changes
  are not yet ready for inclusion.

   - Fix some of the unused tracepoints that it detected

     Some tracepoints were removed and others were hidden by config
     settings to match the config settings of where they are
     instantiated. Some tracepoints were moved into architecture
     specific code as only one architecture used them.

   - Call the ftrace_test_filter tracepoint in an unreachable if
     statement

     The ftrace_test_filter tracepoint which is defined when ftrace
     selftests are configured and is used to test the filter logic, but
     the tracepoint is not actually called. It is put into an if
     statement to not have it get compiled out, but also not warn for
     not being used"

* tag 'trace-unused-v6.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
  tracing: sched: Hide numa events under CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING
  powerpc/thp: tracing: Hide hugepage events under CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S_64
  tracing: Call trace_ftrace_test_filter() for the event
  tracing: arm: arm64: Hide trace events ipi_raise, ipi_entry and ipi_exit
  binder: Remove unused binder lock events
  PM: tracing: Hide power_domain_target event under ARCH_OMAP2PLUS
  PM: tracing: Hide device_pm_callback events under PM_SLEEP
  PM: tracing: Hide psci_domain_idle events under ARM_PSCI_CPUIDLE
  PM: cpufreq: powernv/tracing: Move powernv_throttle trace event
  alarmtimer: Hide alarmtimer_suspend event when RTC_CLASS is not configured
  tracing, AER: Hide PCIe AER event when PCIEAER is not configured
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<title>sched: Adapt sched tracepoints for RV task model</title>
<updated>2025-07-28T20:47:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gabriele Monaco</name>
<email>gmonaco@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-28T13:50:18+00:00</published>
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Add the following tracepoint:
* sched_set_need_resched(tsk, cpu, tif)
    Called when a task is set the need resched [lazy] flag

Remove the unused ip parameter from sched_entry and sched_exit and alter
sched_entry to have a value of preempt consistent with the one used in
sched_switch.

Also adapt all monitors using sched_{entry,exit} to avoid breaking build.

These tracepoints are useful to describe the Linux task model and are
adapted from the patches by Daniel Bristot de Oliveira
(https://bristot.me/linux-task-model/).

Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Nam Cao &lt;namcao@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Tomas Glozar &lt;tglozar@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Juri Lelli &lt;jlelli@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Clark Williams &lt;williams@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: John Kacur &lt;jkacur@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250728135022.255578-7-gmonaco@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Gabriele Monaco &lt;gmonaco@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<title>tracing: sched: Hide numa events under CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING</title>
<updated>2025-07-25T21:48:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-06-12T14:05:52+00:00</published>
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The events sched_move_numa, sched_stick_numa and sched_swap_numa are only
called when CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING is configured. As each event can take up
to 5K of memory in text and meta data regardless if they are used or not,
they should not be defined when unused.

Move the #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING to hide these events as well.

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250612100552.39672cf9@batman.local.home
Reviewed-by: Shrikanth Hegde &lt;sshegde@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<title>tracing/sched: Remove obsolete comment on suffixes</title>
<updated>2025-07-09T19:31:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ricardo Neri</name>
<email>ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-06-21T00:30:20+00:00</published>
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Commit ac01fa73f530 ("tracepoint: Have tracepoints created with DECLARE_
TRACE() have _tp suffix") makes it unnecessary to manually add a suffix.

Remove a now obsolete comment.

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Ricardo Neri &lt;ricardo.neri@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250620-rneri-tp-comment-fix-v1-1-e0f6495ac33c@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Neri &lt;ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<title>Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-05-31-14-50' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2025-05-31T22:44:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-31T22:44:16+00:00</published>
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - "Add folio_mk_pte()" from Matthew Wilcox simplifies the act of
   creating a pte which addresses the first page in a folio and reduces
   the amount of plumbing which architecture must implement to provide
   this.

 - "Misc folio patches for 6.16" from Matthew Wilcox is a shower of
   largely unrelated folio infrastructure changes which clean things up
   and better prepare us for future work.

 - "memory,x86,acpi: hotplug memory alignment advisement" from Gregory
   Price adds early-init code to prevent x86 from leaving physical
   memory unused when physical address regions are not aligned to memory
   block size.

 - "mm/compaction: allow more aggressive proactive compaction" from
   Michal Clapinski provides some tuning of the (sadly, hard-coded (more
   sadly, not auto-tuned)) thresholds for our invokation of proactive
   compaction. In a simple test case, the reduction of a guest VM's
   memory consumption was dramatic.

 - "Minor cleanups and improvements to swap freeing code" from Kemeng
   Shi provides some code cleaups and a small efficiency improvement to
   this part of our swap handling code.

 - "ptrace: introduce PTRACE_SET_SYSCALL_INFO API" from Dmitry Levin
   adds the ability for a ptracer to modify syscalls arguments. At this
   time we can alter only "system call information that are used by
   strace system call tampering, namely, syscall number, syscall
   arguments, and syscall return value.

   This series should have been incorporated into mm.git's "non-MM"
   branch, but I goofed.

 - "fs/proc: extend the PAGEMAP_SCAN ioctl to report guard regions" from
   Andrei Vagin extends the info returned by the PAGEMAP_SCAN ioctl
   against /proc/pid/pagemap. This permits CRIU to more efficiently get
   at the info about guard regions.

 - "Fix parameter passed to page_mapcount_is_type()" from Gavin Shan
   implements that fix. No runtime effect is expected because
   validate_page_before_insert() happens to fix up this error.

 - "kernel/events/uprobes: uprobe_write_opcode() rewrite" from David
   Hildenbrand basically brings uprobe text poking into the current
   decade. Remove a bunch of hand-rolled implementation in favor of
   using more current facilities.

 - "mm/ptdump: Drop assumption that pxd_val() is u64" from Anshuman
   Khandual provides enhancements and generalizations to the pte dumping
   code. This might be needed when 128-bit Page Table Descriptors are
   enabled for ARM.

 - "Always call constructor for kernel page tables" from Kevin Brodsky
   ensures that the ctor/dtor is always called for kernel pgtables, as
   it already is for user pgtables.

   This permits the addition of more functionality such as "insert hooks
   to protect page tables". This change does result in various
   architectures performing unnecesary work, but this is fixed up where
   it is anticipated to occur.

 - "Rust support for mm_struct, vm_area_struct, and mmap" from Alice
   Ryhl adds plumbing to permit Rust access to core MM structures.

 - "fix incorrectly disallowed anonymous VMA merges" from Lorenzo
   Stoakes takes advantage of some VMA merging opportunities which we've
   been missing for 15 years.

 - "mm/madvise: batch tlb flushes for MADV_DONTNEED and MADV_FREE" from
   SeongJae Park optimizes process_madvise()'s TLB flushing.

   Instead of flushing each address range in the provided iovec, we
   batch the flushing across all the iovec entries. The syscall's cost
   was approximately halved with a microbenchmark which was designed to
   load this particular operation.

 - "Track node vacancy to reduce worst case allocation counts" from
   Sidhartha Kumar makes the maple tree smarter about its node
   preallocation.

   stress-ng mmap performance increased by single-digit percentages and
   the amount of unnecessarily preallocated memory was dramaticelly
   reduced.

 - "mm/gup: Minor fix, cleanup and improvements" from Baoquan He removes
   a few unnecessary things which Baoquan noted when reading the code.

 - ""Enhance sysfs handling for memory hotplug in weighted interleave"
   from Rakie Kim "enhances the weighted interleave policy in the memory
   management subsystem by improving sysfs handling, fixing memory
   leaks, and introducing dynamic sysfs updates for memory hotplug
   support". Fixes things on error paths which we are unlikely to hit.

 - "mm/damon: auto-tune DAMOS for NUMA setups including tiered memory"
   from SeongJae Park introduces new DAMOS quota goal metrics which
   eliminate the manual tuning which is required when utilizing DAMON
   for memory tiering.

 - "mm/vmalloc.c: code cleanup and improvements" from Baoquan He
   provides cleanups and small efficiency improvements which Baoquan
   found via code inspection.

 - "vmscan: enforce mems_effective during demotion" from Gregory Price
   changes reclaim to respect cpuset.mems_effective during demotion when
   possible. because presently, reclaim explicitly ignores
   cpuset.mems_effective when demoting, which may cause the cpuset
   settings to violated.

   This is useful for isolating workloads on a multi-tenant system from
   certain classes of memory more consistently.

 - "Clean up split_huge_pmd_locked() and remove unnecessary folio
   pointers" from Gavin Guo provides minor cleanups and efficiency gains
   in in the huge page splitting and migrating code.

 - "Use kmem_cache for memcg alloc" from Huan Yang creates a slab cache
   for `struct mem_cgroup', yielding improved memory utilization.

 - "add max arg to swappiness in memory.reclaim and lru_gen" from
   Zhongkun He adds a new "max" argument to the "swappiness=" argument
   for memory.reclaim MGLRU's lru_gen.

   This directs proactive reclaim to reclaim from only anon folios
   rather than file-backed folios.

 - "kexec: introduce Kexec HandOver (KHO)" from Mike Rapoport is the
   first step on the path to permitting the kernel to maintain existing
   VMs while replacing the host kernel via file-based kexec. At this
   time only memblock's reserve_mem is preserved.

 - "mm: Introduce for_each_valid_pfn()" from David Woodhouse provides
   and uses a smarter way of looping over a pfn range. By skipping
   ranges of invalid pfns.

 - "sched/numa: Skip VMA scanning on memory pinned to one NUMA node via
   cpuset.mems" from Libo Chen removes a lot of pointless VMA scanning
   when a task is pinned a single NUMA mode.

   Dramatic performance benefits were seen in some real world cases.

 - "JFS: Implement migrate_folio for jfs_metapage_aops" from Shivank
   Garg addresses a warning which occurs during memory compaction when
   using JFS.

 - "move all VMA allocation, freeing and duplication logic to mm" from
   Lorenzo Stoakes moves some VMA code from kernel/fork.c into the more
   appropriate mm/vma.c.

 - "mm, swap: clean up swap cache mapping helper" from Kairui Song
   provides code consolidation and cleanups related to the folio_index()
   function.

 - "mm/gup: Cleanup memfd_pin_folios()" from Vishal Moola does that.

 - "memcg: Fix test_memcg_min/low test failures" from Waiman Long
   addresses some bogus failures which are being reported by the
   test_memcontrol selftest.

 - "eliminate mmap() retry merge, add .mmap_prepare hook" from Lorenzo
   Stoakes commences the deprecation of file_operations.mmap() in favor
   of the new file_operations.mmap_prepare().

   The latter is more restrictive and prevents drivers from messing with
   things in ways which, amongst other problems, may defeat VMA merging.

 - "memcg: decouple memcg and objcg stocks"" from Shakeel Butt decouples
   the per-cpu memcg charge cache from the objcg's one.

   This is a step along the way to making memcg and objcg charging
   NMI-safe, which is a BPF requirement.

 - "mm/damon: minor fixups and improvements for code, tests, and
   documents" from SeongJae Park is yet another batch of miscellaneous
   DAMON changes. Fix and improve minor problems in code, tests and
   documents.

 - "memcg: make memcg stats irq safe" from Shakeel Butt converts memcg
   stats to be irq safe. Another step along the way to making memcg
   charging and stats updates NMI-safe, a BPF requirement.

 - "Let unmap_hugepage_range() and several related functions take folio
   instead of page" from Fan Ni provides folio conversions in the
   hugetlb code.

* tag 'mm-stable-2025-05-31-14-50' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (285 commits)
  mm: pcp: increase pcp-&gt;free_count threshold to trigger free_high
  mm/hugetlb: convert use of struct page to folio in __unmap_hugepage_range()
  mm/hugetlb: refactor __unmap_hugepage_range() to take folio instead of page
  mm/hugetlb: refactor unmap_hugepage_range() to take folio instead of page
  mm/hugetlb: pass folio instead of page to unmap_ref_private()
  memcg: objcg stock trylock without irq disabling
  memcg: no stock lock for cpu hot-unplug
  memcg: make __mod_memcg_lruvec_state re-entrant safe against irqs
  memcg: make count_memcg_events re-entrant safe against irqs
  memcg: make mod_memcg_state re-entrant safe against irqs
  memcg: move preempt disable to callers of memcg_rstat_updated
  memcg: memcg_rstat_updated re-entrant safe against irqs
  mm: khugepaged: decouple SHMEM and file folios' collapse
  selftests/eventfd: correct test name and improve messages
  alloc_tag: check mem_profiling_support in alloc_tag_init
  Docs/damon: update titles and brief introductions to explain DAMOS
  selftests/damon/_damon_sysfs: read tried regions directories in order
  mm/damon/tests/core-kunit: add a test for damos_set_filters_default_reject()
  mm/damon/paddr: remove unused variable, folio_list, in damon_pa_stat()
  mm/damon/sysfs-schemes: fix wrong comment on damons_sysfs_quota_goal_metric_strs
  ...
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<title>Merge tag 'trace-v6.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2025-05-30T04:04:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-30T04:04:36+00:00</published>
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Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:

 - Have module addresses get updated in the persistent ring buffer

   The addresses of the modules from the previous boot are saved in the
   persistent ring buffer. If the same modules are loaded and an address
   is in the old buffer points to an address that was both saved in the
   persistent ring buffer and is loaded in memory, shift the address to
   point to the address that is loaded in memory in the trace event.

 - Print function names for irqs off and preempt off callsites

   When ignoring the print fmt of a trace event and just printing the
   fields directly, have the fields for preempt off and irqs off events
   still show the function name (via kallsyms) instead of just showing
   the raw address.

 - Clean ups of the histogram code

   The histogram functions saved over 800 bytes on the stack to process
   events as they come in. Instead, create per-cpu buffers that can hold
   this information and have a separate location for each context level
   (thread, softirq, IRQ and NMI).

   Also add some more comments to the code.

 - Add "common_comm" field for histograms

   Add "common_comm" that uses the current-&gt;comm as a field in an event
   histogram and acts like any of the other fields of the event.

 - Show "subops" in the enabled_functions file

   When the function graph infrastructure is used, a subsystem has a
   "subops" that it attaches its callback function to. Instead of the
   enabled_functions just showing a function calling the function that
   calls the subops functions, also show the subops functions that will
   get called for that function too.

 - Add "copy_trace_marker" option to instances

   There are cases where an instance is created for tooling to write
   into, but the old tooling has the top level instance hardcoded into
   the application. New tools want to consume the data from an instance
   and not the top level buffer. By adding a copy_trace_marker option,
   whenever the top instance trace_marker is written into, a copy of it
   is also written into the instance with this option set. This allows
   new tools to read what old tools are writing into the top buffer.

   If this option is cleared by the top instance, then what is written
   into the trace_marker is not written into the top instance. This is a
   way to redirect the trace_marker writes into another instance.

 - Have tracepoints created by DECLARE_TRACE() use trace_&lt;name&gt;_tp()

   If a tracepoint is created by DECLARE_TRACE() instead of
   TRACE_EVENT(), then it will not be exposed via tracefs. Currently
   there's no way to differentiate in the kernel the tracepoint
   functions between those that are exposed via tracefs or not. A
   calling convention has been made manually to append a "_tp" prefix
   for events created by DECLARE_TRACE(). Instead of doing this
   manually, force it so that all DECLARE_TRACE() events have this
   notation.

 - Use __string() for task-&gt;comm in some sched events

   Instead of hardcoding the comm to be TASK_COMM_LEN in some of the
   scheduler events use __string() which makes it dynamic. Note, if
   these events are parsed by user space it they may break, and the
   event may have to be converted back to the hardcoded size.

 - Have function graph "depth" be unsigned to the user

   Internally to the kernel, the "depth" field of the function graph
   event is signed due to -1 being used for end of boundary. What
   actually gets recorded in the event itself is zero or positive.
   Reflect this to user space by showing "depth" as unsigned int and be
   consistent across all events.

 - Allow an arbitrary long CPU string to osnoise_cpus_write()

   The filtering of which CPUs to write to can exceed 256 bytes. If a
   machine has 256 CPUs, and the filter is to filter every other CPU,
   the write would take a string larger than 256 bytes. Instead of using
   a fixed size buffer on the stack that is 256 bytes, allocate it to
   handle what is passed in.

 - Stop having ftrace check the per-cpu data "disabled" flag

   The "disabled" flag in the data structure passed to most ftrace
   functions is checked to know if tracing has been disabled or not.
   This flag was added back in 2008 before the ring buffer had its own
   way to disable tracing. The "disable" flag is now not always set when
   needed, and the ring buffer flag should be used in all locations
   where the disabled is needed. Since the "disable" flag is redundant
   and incorrect, stop using it. Fix up some locations that use the
   "disable" flag to use the ring buffer info.

 - Use a new tracer_tracing_disable/enable() instead of data-&gt;disable
   flag

   There's a few cases that set the data-&gt;disable flag to stop tracing,
   but this flag is not consistently used. It is also an on/off switch
   where if a function set it and calls another function that sets it,
   the called function may incorrectly enable it.

   Use a new trace_tracing_disable() and tracer_tracing_enable() that
   uses a counter and can be nested. These use the ring buffer flags
   which are always checked making the disabling more consistent.

 - Save the trace clock in the persistent ring buffer

   Save what clock was used for tracing in the persistent ring buffer
   and set it back to that clock after a reboot.

 - Remove unused reference to a per CPU data pointer in mmiotrace
   functions

 - Remove unused buffer_page field from trace_array_cpu structure

 - Remove more strncpy() instances

 - Other minor clean ups and fixes

* tag 'trace-v6.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: (36 commits)
  tracing: Fix compilation warning on arm32
  tracing: Record trace_clock and recover when reboot
  tracing/sched: Use __string() instead of fixed lengths for task-&gt;comm
  tracepoint: Have tracepoints created with DECLARE_TRACE() have _tp suffix
  tracing: Cleanup upper_empty() in pid_list
  tracing: Allow the top level trace_marker to write into another instances
  tracing: Add a helper function to handle the dereference arg in verifier
  tracing: Remove unnecessary "goto out" that simply returns ret is trigger code
  tracing: Fix error handling in event_trigger_parse()
  tracing: Rename event_trigger_alloc() to trigger_data_alloc()
  tracing: Replace deprecated strncpy() with strscpy() for stack_trace_filter_buf
  tracing: Remove unused buffer_page field from trace_array_cpu structure
  tracing: Use atomic_inc_return() for updating "disabled" counter in irqsoff tracer
  tracing: Convert the per CPU "disabled" counter to local from atomic
  tracing: branch: Use trace_tracing_is_on_cpu() instead of "disabled" field
  ring-buffer: Add ring_buffer_record_is_on_cpu()
  tracing: Do not use per CPU array_buffer.data-&gt;disabled for cpumask
  ftrace: Do not disabled function graph based on "disabled" field
  tracing: kdb: Use tracer_tracing_on/off() instead of setting per CPU disabled
  tracing: Use tracer_tracing_disable() instead of "disabled" field for ftrace_dump_one()
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing/sched: Use __string() instead of fixed lengths for task-&gt;comm</title>
<updated>2025-05-14T15:20:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-07T17:34:58+00:00</published>
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The sched_switch and sched_waking events hardcoded the length of the comm
it recorded because these events were created before the dynamic strings
were implemented. Unfortunately, several other events copied this method.

As the size of the comm may change in the future, make the string dynamic.
The dynamic string requires a 4 byte meta data to hold the size and offset
of the string. The amount stored in the ring buffer will then be the
strlen(comm) + 5 (for the \n), and aligned to 4 bytes if there's no other
strings. This means that a task comm can have up to 10 characters before it
requires another 4 bytes in the ring buffer. Most tasks are usually less
than that, so this should not be a problem, and it also allows the name to
be extended over the TASK_COMM_LEN [1]

Note, sched_switch and the sched_waking trace events still hardcode the
length, as there is tooling that still requires that. An effort to update
the tooling will be made to allow this to change in the future.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250507110444.963779-1-bhupesh@igalia.com/

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Bhupesh &lt;bhupesh@igalia.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Juri Lelli &lt;juri.lelli@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250507133458.51bafd95@gandalf.local.home
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracepoint: Have tracepoints created with DECLARE_TRACE() have _tp suffix</title>
<updated>2025-05-14T15:19:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-10T20:37:30+00:00</published>
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Most tracepoints in the kernel are created with TRACE_EVENT(). The
TRACE_EVENT() macro (and DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS() and DEFINE_EVENT() where in
reality, TRACE_EVENT() is just a helper macro that calls those other two
macros), will create not only a tracepoint (the function trace_&lt;event&gt;()
used in the kernel), it also exposes the tracepoint to user space along
with defining what fields will be saved by that tracepoint.

There are a few places that tracepoints are created in the kernel that are
not exposed to userspace via tracefs. They can only be accessed from code
within the kernel. These tracepoints are created with DEFINE_TRACE()

Most of these tracepoints end with "_tp". This is useful as when the
developer sees that, they know that the tracepoint is for in-kernel only
(meaning it can only be accessed inside the kernel, either directly by the
kernel or indirectly via modules and BPF programs) and is not exposed to
user space.

Instead of making this only a process to add "_tp", enforce it by making
the DECLARE_TRACE() append the "_tp" suffix to the tracepoint. This
requires adding DECLARE_TRACE_EVENT() macros for the TRACE_EVENT() macro
to use that keeps the original name.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250418083351.20a60e64@gandalf.local.home/

Cc: netdev &lt;netdev@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;olsajiri@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Juri Lelli &lt;juri.lelli@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Breno Leitao &lt;leitao@debian.org&gt;
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii.nakryiko@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Gabriele Monaco &lt;gmonaco@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250510163730.092fad5b@gandalf.local.home
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched/numa: add tracepoint that tracks the skipping of numa balancing due to cpuset memory pinning</title>
<updated>2025-05-13T06:50:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Libo Chen</name>
<email>libo.chen@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-24T02:45:23+00:00</published>
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Unlike sched_skip_vma_numa tracepoint which tracks skipped VMAs, this
tracks the task subjected to cpuset.mems pinning and prints out its
allowed memory node mask.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250424024523.2298272-3-libo.chen@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Libo Chen &lt;libo.chen@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: "Chen, Tim C" &lt;tim.c.chen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Chen Yu &lt;yu.c.chen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Hyser &lt;chris.hyser@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Daniel Jordan &lt;daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Juri Lelli &lt;juri.lelli@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: K Prateek Nayak &lt;kprateek.nayak@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Madadi Vineeth Reddy &lt;vineethr@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Michal Koutný &lt;mkoutny@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Raghavendra K T &lt;raghavendra.kt@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Srikanth Aithal &lt;sraithal@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Venkat Rao Bagalkote &lt;venkat88@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Vincent Guittot &lt;vincent.guittot@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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