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Linus Torvalds 0f1f692375 While rewriting the function graph tracer, I discovered a design flaw that
was introduced by a patch that tried to fix one bug, but by doing so created
 another bug. As both bugs corrupt the output (but they do not crash the
 kernel), I decided to fix the design such that it could have both bugs
 fixed. The original fix, fixed time reporting of the function graph tracer
 when doing a max_depth of one. This was code that can test how much the
 kernel interferes with userspace. But in doing so, it could corrupt the time
 keeping of the function profiler.
 
 The issue is that the curr_ret_stack variable was being used for two
 different meanings. One was to keep track of the stack pointer on the
 ret_stack (shadow stack used by the function graph tracer), and the other
 use case was the graph call depth.  Although, the two may be closely
 related, where they got updated was the issue that lead to the two different
 bugs that required the two use cases to be updated differently.
 
 The big issue with this fix is that it requires changing each architecture.
 The good news is, I was able to remove a lot of code that was duplicated
 within the architectures and place it into a single location. Then I could
 make the fix in one place.
 
 I pushed this code into linux-next to let it settle over a week, and before
 doing so, I cross compiled all the affected architectures to make sure that
 they built fine.
 
 In the mean time, I also pulled in a patch that fixes the sched_switch
 previous tasks state output, that was not actually correct.
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Merge tag 'trace-v4.20-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace

Pull tracing fixes from Steven Rostedt:
 "While rewriting the function graph tracer, I discovered a design flaw
  that was introduced by a patch that tried to fix one bug, but by doing
  so created another bug.

  As both bugs corrupt the output (but they do not crash the kernel), I
  decided to fix the design such that it could have both bugs fixed. The
  original fix, fixed time reporting of the function graph tracer when
  doing a max_depth of one. This was code that can test how much the
  kernel interferes with userspace. But in doing so, it could corrupt
  the time keeping of the function profiler.

  The issue is that the curr_ret_stack variable was being used for two
  different meanings. One was to keep track of the stack pointer on the
  ret_stack (shadow stack used by the function graph tracer), and the
  other use case was the graph call depth. Although, the two may be
  closely related, where they got updated was the issue that lead to the
  two different bugs that required the two use cases to be updated
  differently.

  The big issue with this fix is that it requires changing each
  architecture. The good news is, I was able to remove a lot of code
  that was duplicated within the architectures and place it into a
  single location. Then I could make the fix in one place.

  I pushed this code into linux-next to let it settle over a week, and
  before doing so, I cross compiled all the affected architectures to
  make sure that they built fine.

  In the mean time, I also pulled in a patch that fixes the sched_switch
  previous tasks state output, that was not actually correct"

* tag 'trace-v4.20-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
  sched, trace: Fix prev_state output in sched_switch tracepoint
  function_graph: Have profiler use curr_ret_stack and not depth
  function_graph: Reverse the order of pushing the ret_stack and the callback
  function_graph: Move return callback before update of curr_ret_stack
  function_graph: Use new curr_ret_depth to manage depth instead of curr_ret_stack
  function_graph: Make ftrace_push_return_trace() static
  sparc/function_graph: Simplify with function_graph_enter()
  sh/function_graph: Simplify with function_graph_enter()
  s390/function_graph: Simplify with function_graph_enter()
  riscv/function_graph: Simplify with function_graph_enter()
  powerpc/function_graph: Simplify with function_graph_enter()
  parisc: function_graph: Simplify with function_graph_enter()
  nds32: function_graph: Simplify with function_graph_enter()
  MIPS: function_graph: Simplify with function_graph_enter()
  microblaze: function_graph: Simplify with function_graph_enter()
  arm64: function_graph: Simplify with function_graph_enter()
  ARM: function_graph: Simplify with function_graph_enter()
  x86/function_graph: Simplify with function_graph_enter()
  function_graph: Create function_graph_enter() to consolidate architecture code
2018-11-30 09:32:34 -08:00
arch While rewriting the function graph tracer, I discovered a design flaw that 2018-11-30 09:32:34 -08:00
block SCSI: fix queue cleanup race before queue initialization is done 2018-11-14 08:19:10 -07:00
certs export.h: remove VMLINUX_SYMBOL() and VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR() 2018-08-22 23:21:44 +09:00
crypto crypto: user - Zeroize whole structure given to user space 2018-11-09 17:35:43 +08:00
Documentation spi: Fixes for v4.20 2018-11-28 08:33:55 -08:00
drivers drm: i915 gvt, amdgpu, ast, rcar-du, meson + core fixes. 2018-11-30 09:10:29 -08:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs pstore fix: 2018-11-30 09:03:15 -08:00
include While rewriting the function graph tracer, I discovered a design flaw that 2018-11-30 09:32:34 -08:00
init memblock: stop using implicit alignment to SMP_CACHE_BYTES 2018-10-31 08:54:16 -07:00
ipc ipc: IPCMNI limit check for semmni 2018-10-31 08:54:14 -07:00
kernel While rewriting the function graph tracer, I discovered a design flaw that 2018-11-30 09:32:34 -08:00
lib XArray updates for 4.20-rc4 2018-11-24 18:44:01 -08:00
LICENSES This is a fairly typical cycle for documentation. There's some welcome 2018-10-24 18:01:11 +01:00
mm mm/memblock.c: fix a typo in __next_mem_pfn_range() comments 2018-11-18 10:15:10 -08:00
net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pablo/nf 2018-11-28 11:02:45 -08:00
samples VFIO updates for v4.20 2018-10-31 11:01:38 -07:00
scripts scripts/spdxcheck.py: make python3 compliant 2018-11-18 10:15:10 -08:00
security selinux/stable-4.20 PR 20181129 2018-11-29 10:15:06 -08:00
sound ALSA: usb-audio: Add vendor and product name for Dell WD19 Dock 2018-11-28 10:59:49 +01:00
tools Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pablo/nf 2018-11-28 11:02:45 -08:00
usr initramfs: move gen_initramfs_list.sh from scripts/ to usr/ 2018-08-22 23:21:44 +09:00
virt Revert "mm, mmu_notifier: annotate mmu notifiers with blockable invalidate callbacks" 2018-10-26 16:25:19 -07:00
.clang-format page cache: Convert find_get_pages_contig to XArray 2018-10-21 10:46:34 -04:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Add hch to .get_maintainer.ignore 2015-08-21 14:30:10 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore Kbuild updates for v4.17 (2nd) 2018-04-15 17:21:30 -07:00
.mailmap mailmap: Update email for Punit Agrawal 2018-11-05 10:02:11 +00:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: change Sparse's maintainer 2018-11-25 09:17:43 -08:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
Kconfig kconfig: move the "Executable file formats" menu to fs/Kconfig.binfmt 2018-08-02 08:06:55 +09:00
MAINTAINERS sound fixes for 4.20-rc5 2018-11-29 10:03:42 -08:00
Makefile Linux 4.20-rc4 2018-11-25 14:19:31 -08:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.