From: Wesley Atwell <atwellwea@gmail.com>
To: linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rostedt@goodmis.org,
mhiramat@kernel.org, mark.rutland@arm.com,
mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com, tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com,
Wesley Atwell <atwellwea@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v4 1/2] tracing: Preserve repeated boot-time tracing parameters
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:13:25 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260324221326.1395799-2-atwellwea@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260324221326.1395799-1-atwellwea@gmail.com>
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.
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 <atwellwea@gmail.com>
---
kernel/trace/ftrace.c | 12 ++++++++----
kernel/trace/trace.c | 31 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
kernel/trace/trace.h | 2 ++
kernel/trace/trace_events.c | 26 +++++++++++++++++++++++---
kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c | 3 ++-
5 files changed, 65 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
index 413310912609..8bd3dd1d549c 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 a626211ceb9a..1b1f6f9035c6 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -228,6 +228,34 @@ static int boot_instance_index;
static char boot_snapshot_info[COMMAND_LINE_SIZE] __initdata;
static int boot_snapshot_index;
+/*
+ * Repeated boot parameters, including Bootconfig array expansions, need
+ * to stay in the delimiter form that the existing parser consumes.
+ */
+void __init trace_append_boot_param(char *buf, const char *str, char sep,
+ size_t size)
+{
+ size_t len, str_len;
+
+ if (!buf[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);
+}
+
static int __init set_cmdline_ftrace(char *str)
{
strscpy(bootup_tracer_buf, str, MAX_TRACER_SIZE);
@@ -329,7 +357,8 @@ 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..64ce179d12dd 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.h
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.h
@@ -863,6 +863,8 @@ extern int DYN_FTRACE_TEST_NAME(void);
extern int DYN_FTRACE_TEST_NAME2(void);
extern void trace_set_ring_buffer_expanded(struct trace_array *tr);
+void __init trace_append_boot_param(char *buf, const char *str,
+ char sep, size_t size);
extern bool tracing_selftest_disabled;
#ifdef CONFIG_FTRACE_STARTUP_TEST
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;
--
2.43.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-24 22:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-24 22:13 [PATCH v4 0/2] tracing: Preserve repeated boot-time parameters and drain deferred trigger frees Wesley Atwell
2026-03-24 22:13 ` Wesley Atwell [this message]
2026-03-28 17:53 ` [PATCH v4 1/2] tracing: Preserve repeated boot-time tracing parameters Steven Rostedt
2026-03-28 20:18 ` [PATCH v5] " Wesley Atwell
2026-03-24 22:13 ` [PATCH v4 2/2] tracing: Drain deferred trigger frees if kthread creation fails Wesley Atwell
2026-03-27 19:06 ` Steven Rostedt
2026-03-27 22:41 ` Wesley Atwell
2026-03-28 2:30 ` Steven Rostedt
2026-03-28 4:56 ` Wesley Atwell
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