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    tracing: add error_report_end trace point · 9c0dee54
    Alexander Potapenko authored
    Patch series "Add error_report_end tracepoint to KFENCE and KASAN", v3.
    
    This patchset adds a tracepoint, error_repor_end, that is to be used by
    KFENCE, KASAN, and potentially other bug detection tools, when they print
    an error report.  One of the possible use cases is userspace collection of
    kernel error reports: interested parties can subscribe to the tracing
    event via tracefs, and get notified when an error report occurs.
    
    This patch (of 3):
    
    Introduce error_report_end tracepoint.  It can be used in debugging tools
    like KASAN, KFENCE, etc.  to provide extensions to the error reporting
    mechanisms (e.g.  allow tests hook into error reporting, ease error report
    collection from production kernels).  Another benefit would be making use
    of ftrace for debugging or benchmarking the tools themselves.
    
    Should we need it, the tracepoint name leaves us with the possibility to
    introduce a complementary error_report_start tracepoint in the future.
    
    Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210121131915.1331302-1-glider@google.com
    Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210121131915.1331302-2-glider@google.comSigned-off-by: default avatarAlexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
    Suggested-by: default avatarMarco Elver <elver@google.com>
    Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
    Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
    Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
    Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
    Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
    Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
    Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
    Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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