race condition that happens between enabling/disabling syscall tracepoints
and new process creations (the check to go into the ptrace path for a process
can be set when it shouldn't, or not set when it should). Not a major bug
but one that should be fixed and even applied to stable.
The other two patches are cleanup/fixes that are not that critical, but
for an -rc1 release would be nice to have. They both deal with syscall
tracepoints.
It also includes a patch to introduce a new macro for the TRACE_EVENT()
format called __field_struct(). Originally, __field() was used to record
any variable into a trace event, but with the addition of setting the
"is signed" attribute, the check causes anything but a primitive variable
to fail to compile. That is, structs and unions can't be used as they
once were. When the "is signed" check was introduce there were only
primitive variables being recorded. But that will change soon and it
was reported that __field() causes build failures.
To solve the __field() issue, __field_struct() is introduced to allow
trace_events to be able to record complex types too.
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Merge tag 'trace-fixes-v3.16-rc1-v2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull tracing cleanups and fixes from Steven Rostedt:
"This includes three patches from Oleg Nesterov. The first is a fix to
a race condition that happens between enabling/disabling syscall
tracepoints and new process creations (the check to go into the ptrace
path for a process can be set when it shouldn't, or not set when it
should). Not a major bug but one that should be fixed and even
applied to stable.
The other two patches are cleanup/fixes that are not that critical,
but for an -rc1 release would be nice to have. They both deal with
syscall tracepoints.
It also includes a patch to introduce a new macro for the
TRACE_EVENT() format called __field_struct(). Originally, __field()
was used to record any variable into a trace event, but with the
addition of setting the "is signed" attribute, the check causes
anything but a primitive variable to fail to compile. That is,
structs and unions can't be used as they once were. When the "is
signed" check was introduce there were only primitive variables being
recorded. But that will change soon and it was reported that
__field() causes build failures.
To solve the __field() issue, __field_struct() is introduced to allow
trace_events to be able to record complex types too"
* tag 'trace-fixes-v3.16-rc1-v2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
tracing: Add __field_struct macro for TRACE_EVENT()
tracing: syscall_regfunc() should not skip kernel threads
tracing: Change syscall_*regfunc() to check PF_KTHREAD and use for_each_process_thread()
tracing: Fix syscall_*regfunc() vs copy_process() race
Linus Torvalds