Merge tag 'trace-v6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace

Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:

 - Add options to the osnoise tracer:
      - 'panic_on_stop' option that panics the kernel if osnoise is
        greater than some user defined threshold.
      - 'preempt' option, to test noise while preemption is disabled
      - 'irq' option, to test noise when interrupts are disabled

 - Add .percent and .graph suffix to histograms to give different
   outputs

 - Add nohitcount to disable showing hitcount in histogram output

 - Add new __cpumask() to trace event fields to annotate that a unsigned
   long array is a cpumask to user space and should be treated as one.

 - Add trace_trigger kernel command line parameter to enable trace event
   triggers at boot up. Useful to trace stack traces, disable tracing
   and take snapshots.

 - Fix x86/kmmio mmio tracer to work with the updates to lockdep

 - Unify the panic and die notifiers

 - Add back ftrace_expect reference that is used to extract more
   information in the ftrace_bug() code.

 - Have trigger filter parsing errors show up in the tracing error log.

 - Updated MAINTAINERS file to add kernel tracing mailing list and
   patchwork info

 - Use IDA to keep track of event type numbers.

 - And minor fixes and clean ups

* tag 'trace-v6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: (44 commits)
  tracing: Fix cpumask() example typo
  tracing: Improve panic/die notifiers
  ftrace: Prevent RCU stall on PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY kernels
  tracing: Do not synchronize freeing of trigger filter on boot up
  tracing: Remove pointer (asterisk) and brackets from cpumask_t field
  tracing: Have trigger filter parsing errors show up in error_log
  x86/mm/kmmio: Remove redundant preempt_disable()
  tracing: Fix infinite loop in tracing_read_pipe on overflowed print_trace_line
  Documentation/osnoise: Add osnoise/options documentation
  tracing/osnoise: Add preempt and/or irq disabled options
  tracing/osnoise: Add PANIC_ON_STOP option
  Documentation/osnoise: Escape underscore of NO_ prefix
  tracing: Fix some checker warnings
  tracing/osnoise: Make osnoise_options static
  tracing: remove unnecessary trace_trigger ifdef
  ring-buffer: Handle resize in early boot up
  tracing/hist: Fix issue of losting command info in error_log
  tracing: Fix issue of missing one synthetic field
  tracing/hist: Fix out-of-bound write on 'action_data.var_ref_idx'
  tracing/hist: Fix wrong return value in parse_action_params()
  ...

1 files changed, 30 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/trace/osnoise-tracer.rst b/Documentation/trace/osnoise-tracer.rst
index 963def9f97c6..140ef2533d26 100644
--- a/Documentation/trace/osnoise-tracer.rst
+++ b/Documentation/trace/osnoise-tracer.rst
@@ -92,8 +92,8 @@ Note that the example above shows a high number of HW noise samples.
 The reason being is that this sample was taken on a virtual machine,
 and the host interference is detected as a hardware interference.
 
-Tracer options
----------------------
+Tracer Configuration
+--------------------
 
 The tracer has a set of options inside the osnoise directory, they are:
 
@@ -109,6 +109,27 @@ The tracer has a set of options inside the osnoise directory, they are:
  - tracing_threshold: the minimum delta between two time() reads to be
    considered as noise, in us. When set to 0, the default value will
    be used, which is currently 5 us.
+ - osnoise/options: a set of on/off options that can be enabled by
+   writing the option name to the file or disabled by writing the option
+   name preceded with the 'NO\_' prefix. For example, writing
+   NO_OSNOISE_WORKLOAD disables the OSNOISE_WORKLOAD option. The
+   special DEAFAULTS option resets all options to the default value.
+
+Tracer Options
+--------------
+
+The osnoise/options file exposes a set of on/off configuration options for
+the osnoise tracer. These options are:
+
+ - DEFAULTS: reset the options to the default value.
+ - OSNOISE_WORKLOAD: do not dispatch osnoise workload (see dedicated
+   section below).
+ - PANIC_ON_STOP: call panic() if the tracer stops. This option serves to
+   capture a vmcore.
+ - OSNOISE_PREEMPT_DISABLE: disable preemption while running the osnoise
+   workload, allowing only IRQ and hardware-related noise.
+ - OSNOISE_IRQ_DISABLE: disable IRQs while running the osnoise workload,
+   allowing only NMIs and hardware-related noise, like hwlat tracer.
 
 Additional Tracing
 ------------------
@@ -150,3 +171,10 @@ tracepoints is smaller than eight us reported in the sample_threshold.
 The reason roots in the overhead of the entry and exit code that happens
 before and after any interference execution. This justifies the dual
 approach: measuring thread and tracing.
+
+Running osnoise tracer without workload
+---------------------------------------
+
+By enabling the osnoise tracer with the NO_OSNOISE_WORKLOAD option set,
+the osnoise: tracepoints serve to measure the execution time of
+any type of Linux task, free from the interference of other tasks.