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Linus Torvalds 1bc191051d Tracing updates for 5.18:
- New user_events interface. User space can register an event with the kernel
   describing the format of the event. Then it will receive a byte in a page
   mapping that it can check against. A privileged task can then enable that
   event like any other event, which will change the mapped byte to true,
   telling the user space application to start writing the event to the
   tracing buffer.
 
 - Add new "ftrace_boot_snapshot" kernel command line parameter. When set,
   the tracing buffer will be saved in the snapshot buffer at boot up when
   the kernel hands things over to user space. This will keep the traces that
   happened at boot up available even if user space boot up has tracing as
   well.
 
 - Have TRACE_EVENT_ENUM() also update trace event field type descriptions.
   Thus if a static array defines its size with an enum, the user space trace
   event parsers can still know how to parse that array.
 
 - Add new TRACE_CUSTOM_EVENT() macro. This acts the same as the
   TRACE_EVENT() macro, but will attach to an existing tracepoint. This will
   make one tracepoint be able to trace different content and not be stuck at
   only what the original TRACE_EVENT() macro exports.
 
 - Fixes to tracing error logging.
 
 - Better saving of cmdlines to PIDs when tracing (use the wakeup events for
   mapping).
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Merge tag 'trace-v5.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace

Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:

 - New user_events interface. User space can register an event with the
   kernel describing the format of the event. Then it will receive a
   byte in a page mapping that it can check against. A privileged task
   can then enable that event like any other event, which will change
   the mapped byte to true, telling the user space application to start
   writing the event to the tracing buffer.

 - Add new "ftrace_boot_snapshot" kernel command line parameter. When
   set, the tracing buffer will be saved in the snapshot buffer at boot
   up when the kernel hands things over to user space. This will keep
   the traces that happened at boot up available even if user space boot
   up has tracing as well.

 - Have TRACE_EVENT_ENUM() also update trace event field type
   descriptions. Thus if a static array defines its size with an enum,
   the user space trace event parsers can still know how to parse that
   array.

 - Add new TRACE_CUSTOM_EVENT() macro. This acts the same as the
   TRACE_EVENT() macro, but will attach to an existing tracepoint. This
   will make one tracepoint be able to trace different content and not
   be stuck at only what the original TRACE_EVENT() macro exports.

 - Fixes to tracing error logging.

 - Better saving of cmdlines to PIDs when tracing (use the wakeup events
   for mapping).

* tag 'trace-v5.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (30 commits)
  tracing: Have type enum modifications copy the strings
  user_events: Add trace event call as root for low permission cases
  tracing/user_events: Use alloc_pages instead of kzalloc() for register pages
  tracing: Add snapshot at end of kernel boot up
  tracing: Have TRACE_DEFINE_ENUM affect trace event types as well
  tracing: Fix strncpy warning in trace_events_synth.c
  user_events: Prevent dyn_event delete racing with ioctl add/delete
  tracing: Add TRACE_CUSTOM_EVENT() macro
  tracing: Move the defines to create TRACE_EVENTS into their own files
  tracing: Add sample code for custom trace events
  tracing: Allow custom events to be added to the tracefs directory
  tracing: Fix last_cmd_set() string management in histogram code
  user_events: Fix potential uninitialized pointer while parsing field
  tracing: Fix allocation of last_cmd in last_cmd_set()
  user_events: Add documentation file
  user_events: Add sample code for typical usage
  user_events: Add self-test for validator boundaries
  user_events: Add self-test for perf_event integration
  user_events: Add self-test for dynamic_events integration
  user_events: Add self-test for ftrace integration
  ...
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ABI Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2022-03-22 16:11:53 -07:00
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arc docs: ARC: Improve readability 2021-12-10 14:28:01 -07:00
arm Documentation: arm: marvell: Extend Avanta list 2022-01-27 11:22:34 -07:00
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