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    Merge tag 'probes-v6.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace · 01732755
    Linus Torvalds authored
    Pull probes updates from Masami Hiramatsu:
     "x86 kprobes:
    
       - Use boolean for some function return instead of 0 and 1
    
       - Prohibit probing on INT/UD. This prevents user to put kprobe on
         INTn/INT1/INT3/INTO and UD0/UD1/UD2 because these are used for a
         special purpose in the kernel
    
       - Boost Grp instructions. Because a few percent of kernel
         instructions are Grp 2/3/4/5 and those are safe to be executed
         without ip register fixup, allow those to be boosted (direct
         execution on the trampoline buffer with a JMP)
    
      tracing:
    
       - Add function argument access from return events (kretprobe and
         fprobe). This allows user to compare how a data structure field is
         changed after executing a function. With BTF, return event also
         accepts function argument access by name.
    
       - Fix a wrong comment (using "Kretprobe" in fprobe)
    
       - Cleanup a big probe argument parser function into three parts, type
         parser, post-processing function, and main parser
    
       - Cleanup to set nr_args field when initializing trace_probe instead
         of counting up it while parsing
    
       - Cleanup a redundant #else block from tracefs/README source code
    
       - Update selftests to check entry argument access from return probes
    
       - Documentation update about entry argument access from return
         probes"
    
    * tag 'probes-v6.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
      Documentation: tracing: Add entry argument access at function exit
      selftests/ftrace: Add test cases for entry args at function exit
      tracing/probes: Support $argN in return probe (kprobe and fprobe)
      tracing: Remove redundant #else block for BTF args from README
      tracing/probes: cleanup: Set trace_probe::nr_args at trace_probe_init
      tracing/probes: Cleanup probe argument parser
      tracing/fprobe-event: cleanup: Fix a wrong comment in fprobe event
      x86/kprobes: Boost more instructions from grp2/3/4/5
      x86/kprobes: Prohibit kprobing on INT and UD
      x86/kprobes: Refactor can_{probe,boost} return type to bool
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