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    Merge tag 'trace-v6.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace · a2ded784
    Linus Torvalds authored
    Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
    
     - Allow kernel trace instance creation to specify what events are
       created
    
       Inside the kernel, a subsystem may create a tracing instance that it
       can use to send events to user space. This sub-system may not care
       about the thousands of events that exist in eventfs. Allow the
       sub-system to specify what sub-systems of events it cares about, and
       only those events are exposed to this instance.
    
     - Allow the ring buffer to be broken up into bigger sub-buffers than
       just the architecture page size.
    
       A new tracefs file called "buffer_subbuf_size_kb" is created. The
       user can now specify a minimum size the sub-buffer may be in
       kilobytes. Note, that the implementation currently make the
       sub-buffer size a power of 2 pages (1, 2, 4, 8, 16, ...) but the user
       only writes in kilobyte size, and the sub-buffer will be updated to
       the next size that it will can accommodate it. If the user writes in
       10, it will change the size to be 4 pages on x86 (16K), as that is
       the next available size that can hold 10K pages.
    
     - Update the debug output when a corrupt time is detected in the ring
       buffer. If the ring buffer detects inconsistent timestamps, there's a
       debug config options that will dump the contents of the meta data of
       the sub-buffer that is used for debugging. Add some more information
       to this dump that helps with debugging.
    
     - Add more timestamp debugging checks (only triggers when the config is
       enabled)
    
     - Increase the trace_seq iterator to 2 page sizes.
    
     - Allow strings written into tracefs_marker to be larger. Up to just
       under 2 page sizes (based on what trace_seq can hold).
    
     - Increase the trace_maker_raw write to be as big as a sub-buffer can
       hold.
    
     - Remove 32 bit time stamp logic, now that the rb_time_cmpxchg() has
       been removed.
    
     - More selftests were added.
    
     - Some code clean ups as well.
    
    * tag 'trace-v6.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: (29 commits)
      ring-buffer: Remove stale comment from ring_buffer_size()
      tracing histograms: Simplify parse_actions() function
      tracing/selftests: Remove exec permissions from trace_marker.tc test
      ring-buffer: Use subbuf_order for buffer page masking
      tracing: Update subbuffer with kilobytes not page order
      ringbuffer/selftest: Add basic selftest to test changing subbuf order
      ring-buffer: Add documentation on the buffer_subbuf_order file
      ring-buffer: Just update the subbuffers when changing their allocation order
      ring-buffer: Keep the same size when updating the order
      tracing: Stop the tracing while changing the ring buffer subbuf size
      tracing: Update snapshot order along with main buffer order
      ring-buffer: Make sure the spare sub buffer used for reads has same size
      ring-buffer: Do no swap cpu buffers if order is different
      ring-buffer: Clear pages on error in ring_buffer_subbuf_order_set() failure
      ring-buffer: Read and write to ring buffers with custom sub buffer size
      ring-buffer: Set new size of the ring buffer sub page
      ring-buffer: Add interface for configuring trace sub buffer size
      ring-buffer: Page size per ring buffer
      ring-buffer: Have ring_buffer_print_page_header() be able to access ring_buffer_iter
      ring-buffer: Check if absolute timestamp goes backwards
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