tracing: add error_report_end trace point
authorAlexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Fri, 26 Feb 2021 01:19:44 +0000 (17:19 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 26 Feb 2021 17:41:02 +0000 (09:41 -0800)
commit9c0dee54eb91d48cca048bd7bd2c1f4a166e0252
tree2c63daa8afad778915515fffa4366f4946c7e98e
parent35beccf0926d42ee0d56e41979ec8cdf814c4769
tracing: add error_report_end trace point

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.com
Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Suggested-by: Marco 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: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
include/trace/events/error_report.h [new file with mode: 0644]
kernel/trace/Makefile
kernel/trace/error_report-traces.c [new file with mode: 0644]