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[108.212.132.20]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 006d021491bc7-67bb666de5bsm2600618eaf.7.2026.03.09.23.47.41 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Mon, 09 Mar 2026 23:47:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Wesley Atwell To: rostedt@goodmis.org, mhiramat@kernel.org Cc: mark.rutland@arm.com, mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com, corbet@lwn.net, skhan@linuxfoundation.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Wesley Atwell Subject: [PATCH v3 1/2] tracing: preserve repeated boot-time tracing parameters Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:47:14 -0600 Message-Id: <20260310064715.527906-2-atwellwea@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.34.1 In-Reply-To: <20260310064715.527906-1-atwellwea@gmail.com> References: <20260310064715.527906-1-atwellwea@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Some tracing boot parameters already accept delimited value lists, but their __setup() handlers keep only the last instance seen at boot. Make repeated instances append to the same boot-time buffer in the format each parser already consumes, and document that behavior in admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt. Use a shared trace_append_boot_param() helper for the ftrace filters, trace_options, and kprobe_event boot parameters. trace_trigger= tokenizes its backing storage in place, so keep a running offset and only parse the newly appended chunk into bootup_triggers[]. This also lets Bootconfig array values work naturally when they expand to repeated param=value entries. Signed-off-by: Wesley Atwell --- .../admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 18 ++++++++++-- kernel/trace/ftrace.c | 12 +++++--- kernel/trace/trace.c | 3 +- kernel/trace/trace.h | 29 +++++++++++++++++++ kernel/trace/trace_events.c | 26 +++++++++++++++-- kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c | 3 +- 6 files changed, 79 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index 55ffc0f8858a..203863c1839b 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -1803,13 +1803,15 @@ Kernel parameters tracer at boot up. function-list is a comma-separated list of functions. This list can be changed at run time by the set_ftrace_filter file in the debugfs - tracing directory. + tracing directory. Repeated instances append more + functions to the same list. ftrace_notrace=[function-list] [FTRACE] Do not trace the functions specified in function-list. This list can be changed at run time by the set_ftrace_notrace file in the debugfs - tracing directory. + tracing directory. Repeated instances append more + functions to the same list. ftrace_graph_filter=[function-list] [FTRACE] Limit the top level callers functions traced @@ -1817,12 +1819,16 @@ Kernel parameters function-list is a comma-separated list of functions that can be changed at run time by the set_graph_function file in the debugfs tracing directory. + Repeated instances append more functions to the same + list. ftrace_graph_notrace=[function-list] [FTRACE] Do not trace from the functions specified in function-list. This list is a comma-separated list of functions that can be changed at run time by the set_graph_notrace file in the debugfs tracing directory. + Repeated instances append more functions to the same + list. ftrace_graph_max_depth= [FTRACE] Used with the function graph tracer. This is @@ -3053,6 +3059,8 @@ Kernel parameters The probe-list is a semicolon delimited list of probe definitions. Each definition is same as kprobe_events interface, but the parameters are comma delimited. + Repeated instances append more probe definitions to + the same boot-time list. For example, to add a kprobe event on vfs_read with arg1 and arg2, add to the command line; @@ -7820,6 +7828,9 @@ Kernel parameters /sys/kernel/tracing/trace_options + Repeated instances append more options to the same + boot-time list. + For example, to enable stacktrace option (to dump the stack trace of each event), add to the command line: @@ -7831,7 +7842,8 @@ Kernel parameters trace_trigger=[trigger-list] [FTRACE] Add an event trigger on specific events. Set a trigger on top of a specific event, with an optional - filter. + filter. Repeated instances append more triggers to + the same boot-time list. The format is "trace_trigger=.[ if ],..." Where more than one trigger may be specified that are comma delimited. diff --git a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c index 8df69e702706..d0a486b63ed6 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c +++ b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c @@ -6841,7 +6841,8 @@ bool ftrace_filter_param __initdata; static int __init set_ftrace_notrace(char *str) { ftrace_filter_param = true; - strscpy(ftrace_notrace_buf, str, FTRACE_FILTER_SIZE); + trace_append_boot_param(ftrace_notrace_buf, str, ',', + FTRACE_FILTER_SIZE); return 1; } __setup("ftrace_notrace=", set_ftrace_notrace); @@ -6849,7 +6850,8 @@ __setup("ftrace_notrace=", set_ftrace_notrace); static int __init set_ftrace_filter(char *str) { ftrace_filter_param = true; - strscpy(ftrace_filter_buf, str, FTRACE_FILTER_SIZE); + trace_append_boot_param(ftrace_filter_buf, str, ',', + FTRACE_FILTER_SIZE); return 1; } __setup("ftrace_filter=", set_ftrace_filter); @@ -6861,14 +6863,16 @@ static int ftrace_graph_set_hash(struct ftrace_hash *hash, char *buffer); static int __init set_graph_function(char *str) { - strscpy(ftrace_graph_buf, str, FTRACE_FILTER_SIZE); + trace_append_boot_param(ftrace_graph_buf, str, ',', + FTRACE_FILTER_SIZE); return 1; } __setup("ftrace_graph_filter=", set_graph_function); static int __init set_graph_notrace_function(char *str) { - strscpy(ftrace_graph_notrace_buf, str, FTRACE_FILTER_SIZE); + trace_append_boot_param(ftrace_graph_notrace_buf, str, ',', + FTRACE_FILTER_SIZE); return 1; } __setup("ftrace_graph_notrace=", set_graph_notrace_function); diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c index ebd996f8710e..5086239a75dc 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c @@ -329,7 +329,8 @@ static char trace_boot_options_buf[MAX_TRACER_SIZE] __initdata; static int __init set_trace_boot_options(char *str) { - strscpy(trace_boot_options_buf, str, MAX_TRACER_SIZE); + trace_append_boot_param(trace_boot_options_buf, str, ',', + MAX_TRACER_SIZE); return 1; } __setup("trace_options=", set_trace_boot_options); diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.h b/kernel/trace/trace.h index b8f3804586a0..4f5abac4bd19 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace.h +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.h @@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include #include "pid_list.h" @@ -262,6 +263,34 @@ static inline bool still_need_pid_events(int type, struct trace_pid_list *pid_li (!(type & TRACE_NO_PIDS) && no_pid_list); } +/* + * Repeated boot parameters, including Bootconfig array expansions, need + * to stay in the delimiter form that the existing parser consumes. + */ +static inline void __init trace_append_boot_param(char *buf, const char *str, + char sep, size_t size) +{ + size_t len, str_len; + + if (buf[0] == '\0') { + strscpy(buf, str, size); + return; + } + + str_len = strlen(str); + if (!str_len) + return; + + len = strlen(buf); + if (len >= size - 1) + return; + if (str_len >= size - len - 1) + return; + + buf[len] = sep; + strscpy(buf + len + 1, str, size - len - 1); +} + typedef bool (*cond_update_fn_t)(struct trace_array *tr, void *cond_data); /** diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events.c index 249d1cba72c0..5f72be33f2d1 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace_events.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events.c @@ -3679,20 +3679,40 @@ static struct boot_triggers { } bootup_triggers[MAX_BOOT_TRIGGERS]; static char bootup_trigger_buf[COMMAND_LINE_SIZE]; +static size_t bootup_trigger_buf_len; static int nr_boot_triggers; static __init int setup_trace_triggers(char *str) { char *trigger; char *buf; + size_t start, str_len; int i; - strscpy(bootup_trigger_buf, str, COMMAND_LINE_SIZE); + if (bootup_trigger_buf_len >= COMMAND_LINE_SIZE) + return 1; + + start = bootup_trigger_buf_len; + if (start && !*str) + return 1; + + str_len = strlen(str); + if (start && str_len >= COMMAND_LINE_SIZE - start) + return 1; + + /* + * trace_trigger= parsing tokenizes the backing storage in place. + * Copy each repeated parameter into fresh space and only parse that + * newly copied chunk here. + */ + trace_append_boot_param(bootup_trigger_buf + start, str, '\0', + COMMAND_LINE_SIZE - start); + bootup_trigger_buf_len += strlen(bootup_trigger_buf + start) + 1; trace_set_ring_buffer_expanded(NULL); disable_tracing_selftest("running event triggers"); - buf = bootup_trigger_buf; - for (i = 0; i < MAX_BOOT_TRIGGERS; i++) { + buf = bootup_trigger_buf + start; + for (i = nr_boot_triggers; i < MAX_BOOT_TRIGGERS; i++) { trigger = strsep(&buf, ","); if (!trigger) break; diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c b/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c index a5dbb72528e0..e9f1c55aea64 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c @@ -31,7 +31,8 @@ static char kprobe_boot_events_buf[COMMAND_LINE_SIZE] __initdata; static int __init set_kprobe_boot_events(char *str) { - strscpy(kprobe_boot_events_buf, str, COMMAND_LINE_SIZE); + trace_append_boot_param(kprobe_boot_events_buf, str, ';', + COMMAND_LINE_SIZE); disable_tracing_selftest("running kprobe events"); return 1; -- 2.34.1