This commit adds a new MPSC ring buffer implementation into BPF ecosystem,
which allows multiple CPUs to submit data to a single shared ring buffer. On
the consumption side, only single consumer is assumed.
Motivation
----------
There are two distinctive motivators for this work, which are not satisfied by
existing perf buffer, which prompted creation of a new ring buffer
implementation.
- more efficient memory utilization by sharing ring buffer across CPUs;
- preserving ordering of events that happen sequentially in time, even
across multiple CPUs (e.g., fork/exec/exit events for a task).
These two problems are independent, but perf buffer fails to satisfy both.
Both are a result of a choice to have per-CPU perf ring buffer. Both can be
also solved by having an MPSC implementation of ring buffer. The ordering
problem could technically be solved for perf buffer with some in-kernel
counting, but given the first one requires an MPSC buffer, the same solution
would solve the second problem automatically.
Semantics and APIs
------------------
Single ring buffer is presented to BPF programs as an instance of BPF map of
type BPF_MAP_TYPE_RINGBUF. Two other alternatives considered, but ultimately
rejected.
One way would be to, similar to BPF_MAP_TYPE_PERF_EVENT_ARRAY, make
BPF_MAP_TYPE_RINGBUF could represent an array of ring buffers, but not enforce
"same CPU only" rule. This would be more familiar interface compatible with
existing perf buffer use in BPF, but would fail if application needed more
advanced logic to lookup ring buffer by arbitrary key. HASH_OF_MAPS addresses
this with current approach. Additionally, given the performance of BPF
ringbuf, many use cases would just opt into a simple single ring buffer shared
among all CPUs, for which current approach would be an overkill.
Another approach could introduce a new concept, alongside BPF map, to
represent generic "container" object, which doesn't necessarily have key/value
interface with lookup/update/delete operations. This approach would add a lot
of extra infrastructure that has to be built for observability and verifier
support. It would also add another concept that BPF developers would have to
familiarize themselves with, new syntax in libbpf, etc. But then would really
provide no additional benefits over the approach of using a map.
BPF_MAP_TYPE_RINGBUF doesn't support lookup/update/delete operations, but so
doesn't few other map types (e.g., queue and stack; array doesn't support
delete, etc).
The approach chosen has an advantage of re-using existing BPF map
infrastructure (introspection APIs in kernel, libbpf support, etc), being
familiar concept (no need to teach users a new type of object in BPF program),
and utilizing existing tooling (bpftool). For common scenario of using
a single ring buffer for all CPUs, it's as simple and straightforward, as
would be with a dedicated "container" object. On the other hand, by being
a map, it can be combined with ARRAY_OF_MAPS and HASH_OF_MAPS map-in-maps to
implement a wide variety of topologies, from one ring buffer for each CPU
(e.g., as a replacement for perf buffer use cases), to a complicated
application hashing/sharding of ring buffers (e.g., having a small pool of
ring buffers with hashed task's tgid being a look up key to preserve order,
but reduce contention).
Key and value sizes are enforced to be zero. max_entries is used to specify
the size of ring buffer and has to be a power of 2 value.
There are a bunch of similarities between perf buffer
(BPF_MAP_TYPE_PERF_EVENT_ARRAY) and new BPF ring buffer semantics:
- variable-length records;
- if there is no more space left in ring buffer, reservation fails, no
blocking;
- memory-mappable data area for user-space applications for ease of
consumption and high performance;
- epoll notifications for new incoming data;
- but still the ability to do busy polling for new data to achieve the
lowest latency, if necessary.
BPF ringbuf provides two sets of APIs to BPF programs:
- bpf_ringbuf_output() allows to *copy* data from one place to a ring
buffer, similarly to bpf_perf_event_output();
- bpf_ringbuf_reserve()/bpf_ringbuf_commit()/bpf_ringbuf_discard() APIs
split the whole process into two steps. First, a fixed amount of space is
reserved. If successful, a pointer to a data inside ring buffer data area
is returned, which BPF programs can use similarly to a data inside
array/hash maps. Once ready, this piece of memory is either committed or
discarded. Discard is similar to commit, but makes consumer ignore the
record.
bpf_ringbuf_output() has disadvantage of incurring extra memory copy, because
record has to be prepared in some other place first. But it allows to submit
records of the length that's not known to verifier beforehand. It also closely
matches bpf_perf_event_output(), so will simplify migration significantly.
bpf_ringbuf_reserve() avoids the extra copy of memory by providing a memory
pointer directly to ring buffer memory. In a lot of cases records are larger
than BPF stack space allows, so many programs have use extra per-CPU array as
a temporary heap for preparing sample. bpf_ringbuf_reserve() avoid this needs
completely. But in exchange, it only allows a known constant size of memory to
be reserved, such that verifier can verify that BPF program can't access
memory outside its reserved record space. bpf_ringbuf_output(), while slightly
slower due to extra memory copy, covers some use cases that are not suitable
for bpf_ringbuf_reserve().
The difference between commit and discard is very small. Discard just marks
a record as discarded, and such records are supposed to be ignored by consumer
code. Discard is useful for some advanced use-cases, such as ensuring
all-or-nothing multi-record submission, or emulating temporary malloc()/free()
within single BPF program invocation.
Each reserved record is tracked by verifier through existing
reference-tracking logic, similar to socket ref-tracking. It is thus
impossible to reserve a record, but forget to submit (or discard) it.
bpf_ringbuf_query() helper allows to query various properties of ring buffer.
Currently 4 are supported:
- BPF_RB_AVAIL_DATA returns amount of unconsumed data in ring buffer;
- BPF_RB_RING_SIZE returns the size of ring buffer;
- BPF_RB_CONS_POS/BPF_RB_PROD_POS returns current logical possition of
consumer/producer, respectively.
Returned values are momentarily snapshots of ring buffer state and could be
off by the time helper returns, so this should be used only for
debugging/reporting reasons or for implementing various heuristics, that take
into account highly-changeable nature of some of those characteristics.
One such heuristic might involve more fine-grained control over poll/epoll
notifications about new data availability in ring buffer. Together with
BPF_RB_NO_WAKEUP/BPF_RB_FORCE_WAKEUP flags for output/commit/discard helpers,
it allows BPF program a high degree of control and, e.g., more efficient
batched notifications. Default self-balancing strategy, though, should be
adequate for most applications and will work reliable and efficiently already.
Design and implementation
-------------------------
This reserve/commit schema allows a natural way for multiple producers, either
on different CPUs or even on the same CPU/in the same BPF program, to reserve
independent records and work with them without blocking other producers. This
means that if BPF program was interruped by another BPF program sharing the
same ring buffer, they will both get a record reserved (provided there is
enough space left) and can work with it and submit it independently. This
applies to NMI context as well, except that due to using a spinlock during
reservation, in NMI context, bpf_ringbuf_reserve() might fail to get a lock,
in which case reservation will fail even if ring buffer is not full.
The ring buffer itself internally is implemented as a power-of-2 sized
circular buffer, with two logical and ever-increasing counters (which might
wrap around on 32-bit architectures, that's not a problem):
- consumer counter shows up to which logical position consumer consumed the
data;
- producer counter denotes amount of data reserved by all producers.
Each time a record is reserved, producer that "owns" the record will
successfully advance producer counter. At that point, data is still not yet
ready to be consumed, though. Each record has 8 byte header, which contains
the length of reserved record, as well as two extra bits: busy bit to denote
that record is still being worked on, and discard bit, which might be set at
commit time if record is discarded. In the latter case, consumer is supposed
to skip the record and move on to the next one. Record header also encodes
record's relative offset from the beginning of ring buffer data area (in
pages). This allows bpf_ringbuf_commit()/bpf_ringbuf_discard() to accept only
the pointer to the record itself, without requiring also the pointer to ring
buffer itself. Ring buffer memory location will be restored from record
metadata header. This significantly simplifies verifier, as well as improving
API usability.
Producer counter increments are serialized under spinlock, so there is
a strict ordering between reservations. Commits, on the other hand, are
completely lockless and independent. All records become available to consumer
in the order of reservations, but only after all previous records where
already committed. It is thus possible for slow producers to temporarily hold
off submitted records, that were reserved later.
Reservation/commit/consumer protocol is verified by litmus tests in
Documentation/litmus-test/bpf-rb.
One interesting implementation bit, that significantly simplifies (and thus
speeds up as well) implementation of both producers and consumers is how data
area is mapped twice contiguously back-to-back in the virtual memory. This
allows to not take any special measures for samples that have to wrap around
at the end of the circular buffer data area, because the next page after the
last data page would be first data page again, and thus the sample will still
appear completely contiguous in virtual memory. See comment and a simple ASCII
diagram showing this visually in bpf_ringbuf_area_alloc().
Another feature that distinguishes BPF ringbuf from perf ring buffer is
a self-pacing notifications of new data being availability.
bpf_ringbuf_commit() implementation will send a notification of new record
being available after commit only if consumer has already caught up right up
to the record being committed. If not, consumer still has to catch up and thus
will see new data anyways without needing an extra poll notification.
Benchmarks (see tools/testing/selftests/bpf/benchs/bench_ringbuf.c) show that
this allows to achieve a very high throughput without having to resort to
tricks like "notify only every Nth sample", which are necessary with perf
buffer. For extreme cases, when BPF program wants more manual control of
notifications, commit/discard/output helpers accept BPF_RB_NO_WAKEUP and
BPF_RB_FORCE_WAKEUP flags, which give full control over notifications of data
availability, but require extra caution and diligence in using this API.
Comparison to alternatives
--------------------------
Before considering implementing BPF ring buffer from scratch existing
alternatives in kernel were evaluated, but didn't seem to meet the needs. They
largely fell into few categores:
- per-CPU buffers (perf, ftrace, etc), which don't satisfy two motivations
outlined above (ordering and memory consumption);
- linked list-based implementations; while some were multi-producer designs,
consuming these from user-space would be very complicated and most
probably not performant; memory-mapping contiguous piece of memory is
simpler and more performant for user-space consumers;
- io_uring is SPSC, but also requires fixed-sized elements. Naively turning
SPSC queue into MPSC w/ lock would have subpar performance compared to
locked reserve + lockless commit, as with BPF ring buffer. Fixed sized
elements would be too limiting for BPF programs, given existing BPF
programs heavily rely on variable-sized perf buffer already;
- specialized implementations (like a new printk ring buffer, [0]) with lots
of printk-specific limitations and implications, that didn't seem to fit
well for intended use with BPF programs.
[0] https://lwn.net/Articles/779550/
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200529075424.3139988-2-andriin@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Often it is useful when applying policy to know something about the
task. If the administrator has CAP_SYS_ADMIN rights then they can
use kprobe + networking hook and link the two programs together to
accomplish this. However, this is a bit clunky and also means we have
to call both the network program and kprobe program when we could just
use a single program and avoid passing metadata through sk_msg/skb->cb,
socket, maps, etc.
To accomplish this add probe_* helpers to bpf_base_func_proto programs
guarded by a perfmon_capable() check. New supported helpers are the
following,
BPF_FUNC_get_current_task
BPF_FUNC_probe_read_user
BPF_FUNC_probe_read_kernel
BPF_FUNC_probe_read_user_str
BPF_FUNC_probe_read_kernel_str
Signed-off-by: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/159033905529.12355.4368381069655254932.stgit@john-Precision-5820-Tower
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Move the bpf verifier trace check into the new switch statement in
HEAD.
Resolve the overlapping changes in hinic, where bug fixes overlap
the addition of VF support.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Pull networking fixes from David Miller:
1) Fix sk_psock reference count leak on receive, from Xiyu Yang.
2) CONFIG_HNS should be invisible, from Geert Uytterhoeven.
3) Don't allow locking route MTUs in ipv6, RFCs actually forbid this,
from Maciej Żenczykowski.
4) ipv4 route redirect backoff wasn't actually enforced, from Paolo
Abeni.
5) Fix netprio cgroup v2 leak, from Zefan Li.
6) Fix infinite loop on rmmod in conntrack, from Florian Westphal.
7) Fix tcp SO_RCVLOWAT hangs, from Eric Dumazet.
8) Various bpf probe handling fixes, from Daniel Borkmann.
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net: (68 commits)
selftests: mptcp: pm: rm the right tmp file
dpaa2-eth: properly handle buffer size restrictions
bpf: Restrict bpf_trace_printk()'s %s usage and add %pks, %pus specifier
bpf: Add bpf_probe_read_{user, kernel}_str() to do_refine_retval_range
bpf: Restrict bpf_probe_read{, str}() only to archs where they work
MAINTAINERS: Mark networking drivers as Maintained.
ipmr: Add lockdep expression to ipmr_for_each_table macro
ipmr: Fix RCU list debugging warning
drivers: net: hamradio: Fix suspicious RCU usage warning in bpqether.c
net: phy: broadcom: fix BCM54XX_SHD_SCR3_TRDDAPD value for BCM54810
tcp: fix error recovery in tcp_zerocopy_receive()
MAINTAINERS: Add Jakub to networking drivers.
MAINTAINERS: another add of Karsten Graul for S390 networking
drivers: ipa: fix typos for ipa_smp2p structure doc
pppoe: only process PADT targeted at local interfaces
selftests/bpf: Enforce returning 0 for fentry/fexit programs
bpf: Enforce returning 0 for fentry/fexit progs
net: stmmac: fix num_por initialization
security: Fix the default value of secid_to_secctx hook
libbpf: Fix register naming in PT_REGS s390 macros
...
Implement permissions as stated in uapi/linux/capability.h
In order to do that the verifier allow_ptr_leaks flag is split
into four flags and they are set as:
env->allow_ptr_leaks = bpf_allow_ptr_leaks();
env->bypass_spec_v1 = bpf_bypass_spec_v1();
env->bypass_spec_v4 = bpf_bypass_spec_v4();
env->bpf_capable = bpf_capable();
The first three currently equivalent to perfmon_capable(), since leaking kernel
pointers and reading kernel memory via side channel attacks is roughly
equivalent to reading kernel memory with cap_perfmon.
'bpf_capable' enables bounded loops, precision tracking, bpf to bpf calls and
other verifier features. 'allow_ptr_leaks' enable ptr leaks, ptr conversions,
subtraction of pointers. 'bypass_spec_v1' disables speculative analysis in the
verifier, run time mitigations in bpf array, and enables indirect variable
access in bpf programs. 'bypass_spec_v4' disables emission of sanitation code
by the verifier.
That means that the networking BPF program loaded with CAP_BPF + CAP_NET_ADMIN
will have speculative checks done by the verifier and other spectre mitigation
applied. Such networking BPF program will not be able to leak kernel pointers
and will not be able to access arbitrary kernel memory.
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200513230355.7858-3-alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com
Usage of plain %s conversion specifier in bpf_trace_printk() suffers from the
very same issue as bpf_probe_read{,str}() helpers, that is, it is broken on
archs with overlapping address ranges.
While the helpers have been addressed through work in 6ae08ae3de ("bpf: Add
probe_read_{user, kernel} and probe_read_{user, kernel}_str helpers"), we need
an option for bpf_trace_printk() as well to fix it.
Similarly as with the helpers, force users to make an explicit choice by adding
%pks and %pus specifier to bpf_trace_printk() which will then pick the corresponding
strncpy_from_unsafe*() variant to perform the access under KERNEL_DS or USER_DS.
The %pk* (kernel specifier) and %pu* (user specifier) can later also be extended
for other objects aside strings that are probed and printed under tracing, and
reused out of other facilities like bpf_seq_printf() or BTF based type printing.
Existing behavior of %s for current users is still kept working for archs where it
is not broken and therefore gated through CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_NON_OVERLAPPING_ADDRESS_SPACE.
For archs not having this property we fall-back to pick probing under KERNEL_DS as
a sensible default.
Fixes: 8d3b7dce86 ("bpf: add support for %s specifier to bpf_trace_printk()")
Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200515101118.6508-4-daniel@iogearbox.net
Given the legacy bpf_probe_read{,str}() BPF helpers are broken on archs
with overlapping address ranges, we should really take the next step to
disable them from BPF use there.
To generally fix the situation, we've recently added new helper variants
bpf_probe_read_{user,kernel}() and bpf_probe_read_{user,kernel}_str().
For details on them, see 6ae08ae3de ("bpf: Add probe_read_{user, kernel}
and probe_read_{user,kernel}_str helpers").
Given bpf_probe_read{,str}() have been around for ~5 years by now, there
are plenty of users at least on x86 still relying on them today, so we
cannot remove them entirely w/o breaking the BPF tracing ecosystem.
However, their use should be restricted to archs with non-overlapping
address ranges where they are working in their current form. Therefore,
move this behind a CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_NON_OVERLAPPING_ADDRESS_SPACE and
have x86, arm64, arm select it (other archs supporting it can follow-up
on it as well).
For the remaining archs, they can workaround easily by relying on the
feature probe from bpftool which spills out defines that can be used out
of BPF C code to implement the drop-in replacement for old/new kernels
via: bpftool feature probe macro
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200515101118.6508-2-daniel@iogearbox.net
- Fix a crash when having function tracing and function stack tracing on
the command line. The ftrace trampolines are created as executable and
read only. But the stack tracer tries to modify them with text_poke()
which expects all kernel text to still be writable at boot.
Keep the trampolines writable at boot, and convert them to read-only
with the rest of the kernel.
- A selftest was triggering in the ring buffer iterator code, that
is no longer valid with the update of keeping the ring buffer
writable while a iterator is reading. Just bail after three failed
attempts to get an event and remove the warning and disabling of the
ring buffer.
- While modifying the ring buffer code, decided to remove all the
unnecessary BUG() calls.
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Merge tag 'trace-v5.7-rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull more tracing fixes from Steven Rostedt:
"Various tracing fixes:
- Fix a crash when having function tracing and function stack tracing
on the command line.
The ftrace trampolines are created as executable and read only. But
the stack tracer tries to modify them with text_poke() which
expects all kernel text to still be writable at boot. Keep the
trampolines writable at boot, and convert them to read-only with
the rest of the kernel.
- A selftest was triggering in the ring buffer iterator code, that is
no longer valid with the update of keeping the ring buffer writable
while a iterator is reading.
Just bail after three failed attempts to get an event and remove
the warning and disabling of the ring buffer.
- While modifying the ring buffer code, decided to remove all the
unnecessary BUG() calls"
* tag 'trace-v5.7-rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
ring-buffer: Remove all BUG() calls
ring-buffer: Don't deactivate the ring buffer on failed iterator reads
x86/ftrace: Have ftrace trampolines turn read-only at the end of system boot up
There's a lot of checks to make sure the ring buffer is working, and if an
anomaly is detected, it safely shuts itself down. But there's a few cases
that it will call BUG(), which defeats the point of being safe (it crashes
the kernel when an anomaly is found!). There's no reason for them. Switch
them all to either WARN_ON_ONCE() (when no ring buffer descriptor is present),
or to RB_WARN_ON() (when a ring buffer descriptor is present).
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
If the function tracer is running and the trace file is read (which uses the
ring buffer iterator), the iterator can get in sync with the writes, and
caues it to fail to find a page with content it can read three times. This
causes a warning and deactivation of the ring buffer code.
Looking at the other cases of failure to get an event, it appears that
there's a chance that the writer could cause them too. Since the iterator is
a "best effort" to read the ring buffer if there's an active writer (the
consumer reader is made for this case "see trace_pipe"), if it fails to get
an event after three tries, simply give up and return NULL. Don't warn, nor
disable the ring buffer on this failure.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200429090508.GG5770@shao2-debian
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Fixes: ff84c50cfb ("ring-buffer: Do not die if rb_iter_peek() fails more than thrice")
Tested-by: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Booting one of my machines, it triggered the following crash:
Kernel/User page tables isolation: enabled
ftrace: allocating 36577 entries in 143 pages
Starting tracer 'function'
BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffffffa000005c
#PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode
#PF: error_code(0x0003) - permissions violation
PGD 2014067 P4D 2014067 PUD 2015063 PMD 7b253067 PTE 7b252061
Oops: 0003 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 5.4.0-test+ #24
Hardware name: To Be Filled By O.E.M. To Be Filled By O.E.M./To be filled by O.E.M., BIOS SDBLI944.86P 05/08/2007
RIP: 0010:text_poke_early+0x4a/0x58
Code: 34 24 48 89 54 24 08 e8 bf 72 0b 00 48 8b 34 24 48 8b 4c 24 08 84 c0 74 0b 48 89 df f3 a4 48 83 c4 10 5b c3 9c 58 fa 48 89 df <f3> a4 50 9d 48 83 c4 10 5b e9 d6 f9 ff ff
0 41 57 49
RSP: 0000:ffffffff82003d38 EFLAGS: 00010046
RAX: 0000000000000046 RBX: ffffffffa000005c RCX: 0000000000000005
RDX: 0000000000000005 RSI: ffffffff825b9a90 RDI: ffffffffa000005c
RBP: ffffffffa000005c R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffffffff8206e6e0
R10: ffff88807b01f4c0 R11: ffffffff8176c106 R12: ffffffff8206e6e0
R13: ffffffff824f2440 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffffffff8206eac0
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88807d400000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: ffffffffa000005c CR3: 0000000002012000 CR4: 00000000000006b0
Call Trace:
text_poke_bp+0x27/0x64
? mutex_lock+0x36/0x5d
arch_ftrace_update_trampoline+0x287/0x2d5
? ftrace_replace_code+0x14b/0x160
? ftrace_update_ftrace_func+0x65/0x6c
__register_ftrace_function+0x6d/0x81
ftrace_startup+0x23/0xc1
register_ftrace_function+0x20/0x37
func_set_flag+0x59/0x77
__set_tracer_option.isra.19+0x20/0x3e
trace_set_options+0xd6/0x13e
apply_trace_boot_options+0x44/0x6d
register_tracer+0x19e/0x1ac
early_trace_init+0x21b/0x2c9
start_kernel+0x241/0x518
? load_ucode_intel_bsp+0x21/0x52
secondary_startup_64+0xa4/0xb0
I was able to trigger it on other machines, when I added to the kernel
command line of both "ftrace=function" and "trace_options=func_stack_trace".
The cause is the "ftrace=function" would register the function tracer
and create a trampoline, and it will set it as executable and
read-only. Then the "trace_options=func_stack_trace" would then update
the same trampoline to include the stack tracer version of the function
tracer. But since the trampoline already exists, it updates it with
text_poke_bp(). The problem is that text_poke_bp() called while
system_state == SYSTEM_BOOTING, it will simply do a memcpy() and not
the page mapping, as it would think that the text is still read-write.
But in this case it is not, and we take a fault and crash.
Instead, lets keep the ftrace trampolines read-write during boot up,
and then when the kernel executable text is set to read-only, the
ftrace trampolines get set to read-only as well.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200430202147.4dc6e2de@oasis.local.home
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 768ae4406a ("x86/ftrace: Use text_poke()")
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Unfortunately, the last set of fixes introduced some minor bugs:
- The bootconfig apply_xbc() leak fix caused the application to return
a positive number on success, when it should have returned zero.
- The preempt_irq_delay_thread fix to make the creation code
wait for the kthread to finish to prevent it from executing after
module unload, can now cause the kthread to exit before it even
executes (preventing it to run its tests).
- The fix to the bootconfig that fixed the initrd to remove the
bootconfig from causing the kernel to panic, now prints a warning
that the bootconfig is not found, even when bootconfig is not
on the command line.
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Merge tag 'trace-v5.7-rc4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull tracing fixes from Steven Rostedt:
"Fixes to previous fixes.
Unfortunately, the last set of fixes introduced some minor bugs:
- The bootconfig apply_xbc() leak fix caused the application to
return a positive number on success, when it should have returned
zero.
- The preempt_irq_delay_thread fix to make the creation code wait for
the kthread to finish to prevent it from executing after module
unload, can now cause the kthread to exit before it even executes
(preventing it to run its tests).
- The fix to the bootconfig that fixed the initrd to remove the
bootconfig from causing the kernel to panic, now prints a warning
that the bootconfig is not found, even when bootconfig is not on
the command line"
* tag 'trace-v5.7-rc4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
bootconfig: Fix to prevent warning message if no bootconfig option
tracing: Wait for preempt irq delay thread to execute
tools/bootconfig: Fix apply_xbc() to return zero on success
A bug report was posted that running the preempt irq delay module on a slow
machine, and removing it quickly could lead to the thread created by the
modlue to execute after the module is removed, and this could cause the
kernel to crash. The fix for this was to call kthread_stop() after creating
the thread to make sure it finishes before allowing the module to be
removed.
Now this caused the opposite problem on fast machines. What now happens is
the kthread_stop() can cause the kthread never to execute and the test never
to run. To fix this, add a completion and wait for the kthread to execute,
then wait for it to end.
This issue caused the ftracetest selftests to fail on the preemptirq tests.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200510114210.15d9e4af@oasis.local.home
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: d16a8c3107 ("tracing: Wait for preempt irq delay thread to finish")
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Two helpers bpf_seq_printf and bpf_seq_write, are added for
writing data to the seq_file buffer.
bpf_seq_printf supports common format string flag/width/type
fields so at least I can get identical results for
netlink and ipv6_route targets.
For bpf_seq_printf and bpf_seq_write, return value -EOVERFLOW
specifically indicates a write failure due to overflow, which
means the object will be repeated in the next bpf invocation
if object collection stays the same. Note that if the object
collection is changed, depending how collection traversal is
done, even if the object still in the collection, it may not
be visited.
For bpf_seq_printf, format %s, %p{i,I}{4,6} needs to
read kernel memory. Reading kernel memory may fail in
the following two cases:
- invalid kernel address, or
- valid kernel address but requiring a major fault
If reading kernel memory failed, the %s string will be
an empty string and %p{i,I}{4,6} will be all 0.
Not returning error to bpf program is consistent with
what bpf_trace_printk() does for now.
bpf_seq_printf may return -EBUSY meaning that internal percpu
buffer for memory copy of strings or other pointees is
not available. Bpf program can return 1 to indicate it
wants the same object to be repeated. Right now, this should not
happen on no-RT kernels since migrate_disable(), which guards
bpf prog call, calls preempt_disable().
Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200509175914.2476661-1-yhs@fb.com
We have some rather random rules about when we accept the
"maybe-initialized" warnings, and when we don't.
For example, we consider it unreliable for gcc versions < 4.9, but also
if -O3 is enabled, or if optimizing for size. And then various kernel
config options disabled it, because they know that they trigger that
warning by confusing gcc sufficiently (ie PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES).
And now gcc-10 seems to be introducing a lot of those warnings too, so
it falls under the same heading as 4.9 did.
At the same time, we have a very straightforward way to _enable_ that
warning when wanted: use "W=2" to enable more warnings.
So stop playing these ad-hoc games, and just disable that warning by
default, with the known and straight-forward "if you want to work on the
extra compiler warnings, use W=123".
Would it be great to have code that is always so obvious that it never
confuses the compiler whether a variable is used initialized or not?
Yes, it would. In a perfect world, the compilers would be smarter, and
our source code would be simpler.
That's currently not the world we live in, though.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fix the following sparse warning:
kernel/trace/trace.c:950:6: warning: symbol 'tracing_snapshot_instance_cond'
was not declared. Should it be static?
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1587614905-48692-1-git-send-email-zou_wei@huawei.com
Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Zou Wei <zou_wei@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
x86_64 lazily maps in the vmalloc pages, and the way this works with per_cpu
areas can be complex, to say the least. Mappings may happen at boot up, and
if nothing synchronizes the page tables, those page mappings may not be
synced till they are used. This causes issues for anything that might touch
one of those mappings in the path of the page fault handler. When one of
those unmapped mappings is touched in the page fault handler, it will cause
another page fault, which in turn will cause a page fault, and leave us in
a loop of page faults.
Commit 763802b53a ("x86/mm: split vmalloc_sync_all()") split
vmalloc_sync_all() into vmalloc_sync_unmappings() and
vmalloc_sync_mappings(), as on system exit, it did not need to do a full
sync on x86_64 (although it still needed to be done on x86_32). By chance,
the vmalloc_sync_all() would synchronize the page mappings done at boot up
and prevent the per cpu area from being a problem for tracing in the page
fault handler. But when that synchronization in the exit of a task became a
nop, it caused the problem to appear.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200429054857.66e8e333@oasis.local.home
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 737223fbca ("tracing: Consolidate buffer allocation code")
Reported-by: "Tzvetomir Stoyanov (VMware)" <tz.stoyanov@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Running on a slower machine, it is possible that the preempt delay kernel
thread may still be executing if the module was immediately removed after
added, and this can cause the kernel to crash as the kernel thread might be
executing after its code has been removed.
There's no reason that the caller of the code shouldn't just wait for the
delay thread to finish, as the thread can also be created by a trigger in
the sysfs code, which also has the same issues.
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/r/5EA2B0C8.2080706@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 793937236d ("lib: Add module for testing preemptoff/irqsoff latency tracers")
Reported-by: Xiao Yang <yangx.jy@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Xiao Yang <yangx.jy@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Reject the new event which has NULL location for kprobes.
For kprobes, user must specify at least the location.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/158779376597.6082.1411212055469099461.stgit@devnote2
Cc: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 2a588dd1d5 ("tracing: Add kprobe event command generation functions")
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Fix boottime kprobe events to use API correctly for
multiple events.
For example, when we set a multiprobe kprobe events in
bootconfig like below,
ftrace.event.kprobes.myevent {
probes = "vfs_read $arg1 $arg2", "vfs_write $arg1 $arg2"
}
This cause an error;
trace_boot: Failed to add probe: p:kprobes/myevent (null) vfs_read $arg1 $arg2 vfs_write $arg1 $arg2
This shows the 1st argument becomes NULL and multiprobes
are merged to 1 probe.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/158779375766.6082.201939936008972838.stgit@devnote2
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 29a1548105 ("tracing: Change trace_boot to use kprobe_event interface")
Reviewed-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Fix a typo that resulted in an unnecessary double
initialization to addr.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/158779374968.6082.2337484008464939919.stgit@devnote2
Cc: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: c7411a1a12 ("tracing/kprobe: Check whether the non-suffixed symbol is notrace")
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Pull in Christoph Hellwig's series that changes the sysctl's ->proc_handler
methods to take kernel pointers instead. It gets rid of the set_fs address
space overrides used by BPF. As per discussion, pull in the feature branch
into bpf-next as it relates to BPF sysctl progs.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200427071508.GV23230@ZenIV.linux.org.uk/T/
Instead of having all the sysctl handlers deal with user pointers, which
is rather hairy in terms of the BPF interaction, copy the input to and
from userspace in common code. This also means that the strings are
always NUL-terminated by the common code, making the API a little bit
safer.
As most handler just pass through the data to one of the common handlers
a lot of the changes are mechnical.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Andrey Ignatov <rdna@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
On a device like a cellphone which is constantly suspending
and resuming CLOCK_MONOTONIC is not particularly useful for
keeping track of or reacting to external network events.
Instead you want to use CLOCK_BOOTTIME.
Hence add bpf_ktime_get_boot_ns() as a mirror of bpf_ktime_get_ns()
based around CLOCK_BOOTTIME instead of CLOCK_MONOTONIC.
Signed-off-by: Maciej Żenczykowski <maze@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Fix the following sparse warning:
kernel/trace/tracing_map.c:286:6: warning: symbol
'tracing_map_array_clear' was not declared. Should it be static?
kernel/trace/tracing_map.c:297:6: warning: symbol
'tracing_map_array_free' was not declared. Should it be static?
kernel/trace/tracing_map.c:319:26: warning: symbol
'tracing_map_array_alloc' was not declared. Should it be static?
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200410073312.38855-1-yanaijie@huawei.com
Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Yan <yanaijie@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
- The ring buffer is no longer disabled when reading the trace file.
The trace_pipe file was made to be used for live tracing and reading
as it acted like the normal producer/consumer. As the trace file
would not consume the data, the easy way of handling it was to just
disable writes to the ring buffer. This came to a surprise to the
BPF folks who complained about lost events due to reading.
This is no longer an issue. If someone wants to keep the old disabling
there's a new option "pause-on-trace" that can be set.
- New set_ftrace_notrace_pid file. PIDs in this file will not be traced
by the function tracer. Similar to set_ftrace_pid, which makes the
function tracer only trace those tasks with PIDs in the file, the
set_ftrace_notrace_pid does the reverse.
- New set_event_notrace_pid file. PIDs in this file will cause events
not to be traced if triggered by a task with a matching PID.
Similar to the set_event_pid file but will not be traced.
Note, sched_waking and sched_switch events may still be trace if
one of the tasks referenced by those events contains a PID that
is allowed to be traced.
Tracing related features:
- New bootconfig option, that is attached to the initrd file.
If bootconfig is on the command line, then the initrd file
is searched looking for a bootconfig appended at the end.
- New GPU tracepoint infrastructure to help the gfx drivers to get
off debugfs (acked by Greg Kroah-Hartman)
Other minor updates and fixes.
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Merge tag 'trace-v5.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
"New tracing features:
- The ring buffer is no longer disabled when reading the trace file.
The trace_pipe file was made to be used for live tracing and
reading as it acted like the normal producer/consumer. As the trace
file would not consume the data, the easy way of handling it was to
just disable writes to the ring buffer.
This came to a surprise to the BPF folks who complained about lost
events due to reading. This is no longer an issue. If someone wants
to keep the old disabling there's a new option "pause-on-trace"
that can be set.
- New set_ftrace_notrace_pid file. PIDs in this file will not be
traced by the function tracer.
Similar to set_ftrace_pid, which makes the function tracer only
trace those tasks with PIDs in the file, the set_ftrace_notrace_pid
does the reverse.
- New set_event_notrace_pid file. PIDs in this file will cause events
not to be traced if triggered by a task with a matching PID.
Similar to the set_event_pid file but will not be traced. Note,
sched_waking and sched_switch events may still be traced if one of
the tasks referenced by those events contains a PID that is allowed
to be traced.
Tracing related features:
- New bootconfig option, that is attached to the initrd file.
If bootconfig is on the command line, then the initrd file is
searched looking for a bootconfig appended at the end.
- New GPU tracepoint infrastructure to help the gfx drivers to get
off debugfs (acked by Greg Kroah-Hartman)
And other minor updates and fixes"
* tag 'trace-v5.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (27 commits)
tracing: Do not allocate buffer in trace_find_next_entry() in atomic
tracing: Add documentation on set_ftrace_notrace_pid and set_event_notrace_pid
selftests/ftrace: Add test to test new set_event_notrace_pid file
selftests/ftrace: Add test to test new set_ftrace_notrace_pid file
tracing: Create set_event_notrace_pid to not trace tasks
ftrace: Create set_ftrace_notrace_pid to not trace tasks
ftrace: Make function trace pid filtering a bit more exact
ftrace/kprobe: Show the maxactive number on kprobe_events
tracing: Have the document reflect that the trace file keeps tracing enabled
ring-buffer/tracing: Have iterator acknowledge dropped events
tracing: Do not disable tracing when reading the trace file
ring-buffer: Do not disable recording when there is an iterator
ring-buffer: Make resize disable per cpu buffer instead of total buffer
ring-buffer: Optimize rb_iter_head_event()
ring-buffer: Do not die if rb_iter_peek() fails more than thrice
ring-buffer: Have rb_iter_head_event() handle concurrent writer
ring-buffer: Add page_stamp to iterator for synchronization
ring-buffer: Rename ring_buffer_read() to read_buffer_iter_advance()
ring-buffer: Have ring_buffer_empty() not depend on tracing stopped
tracing: Save off entry when peeking at next entry
...
When dumping out the trace data in latency format, a check is made to peek
at the next event to compare its timestamp to the current one, and if the
delta is of a greater size, it will add a marker showing so. But to do this,
it needs to save the current event otherwise peeking at the next event will
remove the current event. To save the event, a temp buffer is used, and if
the event is bigger than the temp buffer, the temp buffer is freed and a
bigger buffer is allocated.
This allocation is a problem when called in atomic context. The only way
this gets called via atomic context is via ftrace_dump(). Thus, use a static
buffer of 128 bytes (which covers most events), and if the event is bigger
than that, simply return NULL. The callers of trace_find_next_entry() need
to handle a NULL case, as that's what would happen if the allocation failed.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200326091256.GR11705@shao2-debian
Fixes: ff895103a8 ("tracing: Save off entry when peeking at next entry")
Reported-by: kernel test robot <rong.a.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Introduce types and configs for bpf programs that can be attached to
LSM hooks. The programs can be enabled by the config option
CONFIG_BPF_LSM.
Signed-off-by: KP Singh <kpsingh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Reviewed-by: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Florent Revest <revest@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@google.com>
Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Acked-by: James Morris <jamorris@linux.microsoft.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200329004356.27286-2-kpsingh@chromium.org
There's currently a way to select a task that should only have its events
traced, but there's no way to select a task not to have itsevents traced.
Add a set_event_notrace_pid file that acts the same as set_event_pid (and is
also affected by event-fork), but the task pids in this file will not be
traced even if they are listed in the set_event_pid file. This makes it easy
for tools like trace-cmd to "hide" itself from beint traced by events when
it is recording other tasks.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
There's currently a way to select a task that should only be traced by
functions, but there's no way to select a task not to be traced by the
function tracer. Add a set_ftrace_notrace_pid file that acts the same as
set_ftrace_pid (and is also affected by function-fork), but the task pids in
this file will not be traced even if they are listed in the set_ftrace_pid
file. This makes it easy for tools like trace-cmd to "hide" itself from the
function tracer when it is recording other tasks.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The set_ftrace_pid file is used to filter function tracing to only trace
tasks that are listed in that file. Instead of testing the pids listed in
that file (it's a bitmask) at each function trace event, the logic is done
via a sched_switch hook. A flag is set when the next task to run is in the
list of pids in the set_ftrace_pid file. But the sched_switch hook is not at
the exact location of when the task switches, and the flag gets set before
the task to be traced actually runs. This leaves a residue of traced
functions that do not belong to the pid that should be filtered on.
By changing the logic slightly, where instead of having a boolean flag to
test, record the pid that should be traced, with special values for not to
trace and always trace. Then at each function call, a check will be made to
see if the function should be ignored, or if the current pid matches the
function that should be traced, and only trace if it matches (or if it has
the special value to always trace).
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Have the ring_buffer_iterator set a flag if events were dropped as it were
to go and peek at the next event. Have the trace file display this fact if
it happened with a "LOST EVENTS" message.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200317213417.045858900@goodmis.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
When opening the "trace" file, it is no longer necessary to disable tracing.
Note, a new option is created called "pause-on-trace", when set, will cause
the trace file to emulate its original behavior.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200317213416.903351225@goodmis.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Now that the iterator can handle a concurrent writer, do not disable writing
to the ring buffer when there is an iterator present.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200317213416.759770696@goodmis.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
When the ring buffer becomes writable for even when the trace file is read,
it must still not be resized. But since tracers can be activated while the
trace file is being read, the irqsoff tracer can modify the per CPU buffers,
and this can cause the reader of the trace file to update the wrong buffer's
resize disable bit, as the irqsoff tracer swaps out cpu buffers.
By making the resize disable per cpu_buffer, it makes the update follow the
per cpu_buffer even if it's swapped out with the snapshot buffer and keeps
the release of the trace file modifying the same data as the open did.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Overlapping header include additions in macsec.c
A bug fix in 'net' overlapping with the removal of 'version'
string in ena_netdev.c
Overlapping test additions in selftests Makefile
Overlapping PCI ID table adjustments in iwlwifi driver.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
As it is fine to perform several "peeks" of event data in the ring buffer
via the iterator before moving it forward, do not re-read the event, just
return what was read before. Otherwise, it can cause inconsistent results,
especially when testing multiple CPU buffers to interleave them.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200317213416.592032170@goodmis.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
As the iterator will be reading a live buffer, and if the event being read
is on a page that a writer crosses, it will fail and try again, the
condition in rb_iter_peek() that only allows a retry to happen three times
is no longer valid. Allow rb_iter_peek() to retry more than three times
without killing the ring buffer, but only if rb_iter_head_event() had failed
at least once.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200317213416.452888193@goodmis.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Have the ring_buffer_iter structure have a place to store an event, such
that it can not be overwritten by a writer, and load it in such a way via
rb_iter_head_event() that it will return NULL and reset the iter to the
start of the current page if a writer updated the page.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200317213416.306959216@goodmis.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Have the ring_buffer_iter structure contain a page_stamp, such that it can
be used to see if the writer entered the page the iterator is on. When going
to a new page, the iterator will record the time stamp of that page. When
reading events, it can copy the event to an internal buffer on the iterator
(to be implemented later), then check the page's time stamp with its own to
see if the writer entered the page. If so, it will need to try to read the
event again.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200317213416.163549674@goodmis.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
When the ring buffer was first created, the iterator followed the normal
producer/consumer operations where it had both a peek() operation, that just
returned the event at the current location, and a read(), that would return
the event at the current location and also increment the iterator such that
the next peek() or read() will return the next event.
The only use of the ring_buffer_read() is currently to move the iterator to
the next location and nothing now actually reads the event it returns.
Rename this function to its actual use case to ring_buffer_iter_advance(),
which also adds the "iter" part to the name, which is more meaningful. As
the timestamp returned by ring_buffer_read() was never used, there's no
reason that this new version should bother having returning it. It will also
become a void function.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200317213416.018928618@goodmis.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
It was complained about that when the trace file is read, that the tracing
is disabled, as the iterator expects writing to the buffer it reads is not
updated. Several steps are needed to make the iterator handle a writer,
by testing if things have changed as it reads.
This step is to make ring_buffer_empty() expect the buffer to be changing.
Note if the current location of the iterator is overwritten, then it will
return false as new data is being added. Note, that this means that data
will be skipped.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200317213415.870741809@goodmis.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
In order to have the iterator read the buffer even when it's still updating,
it requires that the ring buffer iterator saves each event in a separate
location outside the ring buffer such that its use is immutable.
There's one use case that saves off the event returned from the ring buffer
interator and calls it again to look at the next event, before going back to
use the first event. As the ring buffer iterator will only have a single
copy, this use case will no longer be supported.
Instead, have the one use case create its own buffer to store the first
event when looking at the next event. This way, when looking at the first
event again, it wont be corrupted by the second read.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200317213415.722539921@goodmis.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Clang warns:
../kernel/trace/trace.c:9335:33: warning: array comparison always
evaluates to true [-Wtautological-compare]
if (__stop___trace_bprintk_fmt != __start___trace_bprintk_fmt)
^
1 warning generated.
These are not true arrays, they are linker defined symbols, which are
just addresses. Using the address of operator silences the warning and
does not change the runtime result of the check (tested with some print
statements compiled in with clang + ld.lld and gcc + ld.bfd in QEMU).
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200220051011.26113-1-natechancellor@gmail.com
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/893
Suggested-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Daniel Borkmann says:
====================
pull-request: bpf-next 2020-03-13
The following pull-request contains BPF updates for your *net-next* tree.
We've added 86 non-merge commits during the last 12 day(s) which contain
a total of 107 files changed, 5771 insertions(+), 1700 deletions(-).
The main changes are:
1) Add modify_return attach type which allows to attach to a function via
BPF trampoline and is run after the fentry and before the fexit programs
and can pass a return code to the original caller, from KP Singh.
2) Generalize BPF's kallsyms handling and add BPF trampoline and dispatcher
objects to be visible in /proc/kallsyms so they can be annotated in
stack traces, from Jiri Olsa.
3) Extend BPF sockmap to allow for UDP next to existing TCP support in order
in order to enable this for BPF based socket dispatch, from Lorenz Bauer.
4) Introduce a new bpftool 'prog profile' command which attaches to existing
BPF programs via fentry and fexit hooks and reads out hardware counters
during that period, from Song Liu. Example usage:
bpftool prog profile id 337 duration 3 cycles instructions llc_misses
4228 run_cnt
3403698 cycles (84.08%)
3525294 instructions # 1.04 insn per cycle (84.05%)
13 llc_misses # 3.69 LLC misses per million isns (83.50%)
5) Batch of improvements to libbpf, bpftool and BPF selftests. Also addition
of a new bpf_link abstraction to keep in particular BPF tracing programs
attached even when the applicaion owning them exits, from Andrii Nakryiko.
6) New bpf_get_current_pid_tgid() helper for tracing to perform PID filtering
and which returns the PID as seen by the init namespace, from Carlos Neira.
7) Refactor of RISC-V JIT code to move out common pieces and addition of a
new RV32G BPF JIT compiler, from Luke Nelson.
8) Add gso_size context member to __sk_buff in order to be able to know whether
a given skb is GSO or not, from Willem de Bruijn.
9) Add a new bpf_xdp_output() helper which reuses XDP's existing perf RB output
implementation but can be called from tracepoint programs, from Eelco Chaudron.
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
