[GIT PULL] RTLA: Updates for v7.1

[GIT PULL] RTLA: Updates for v7.1

[Steven Rostedt]

Linus,

RTLA patches for v7.1:

- Simplify option parsing

  Auto-generate getopt_long() optstring for short options from long options
  array, avoiding the need to specify it manually and reducing the surface for
  mistakes.

- Add unit tests

  Implement unit tests (make unit-tests) using libcheck, next to existing
  runtime tests (make check). Currently, three functions from utils.c are
  tested.

- Add --stack-format option

  In addition to stopping stack pointer decoding (with -s/--stack option)
  on first unresolvable pointer, allow also skipping unresolvable pointers
  and displaying everything, configurable with a new option.

- Unify number of CPUs into one global variable

  Use one global variable, nr_cpus, to store the number of CPUs instead of
  retrieving it and passing it at multiple places.

- Fix behavior in various corner cases

  Make RTLA behave correctly in several corner cases: memory allocation
  failure, invalid value read from kernel side, thread creation failure,
  malformed time value input, and read/write failure or interruption by
  signal.

- Improve string handling

  Simplify several places in the code that handle strings, including
  parsing of action arguments. A few new helper functions and variables
  are added for that purpose.

- Get rid of magic numbers

  Few places handling paths use a magic number of 1024. Replace it with
  MAX_PATH and ARRAY_SIZE() macro.

- Unify threshold handling

  Code that handles response to latency threshold is duplicated between
  tools, which has led to bugs in the past. Unify it into a new helper
  as much as possible.

- Fix segfault on SIGINT during cleanup

  The SIGINT handler touches dynamically allocated memory. Detach it
  before freeing it during cleanup to prevent segmentation fault and
  discarding of output buffers. Also, properly document SIGINT handling
  while at it.


Please pull the latest trace-rtla-v7.1 tree, which can be found at:


  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace.git
trace-rtla-v7.1

Tag SHA1: 343e92fa8fbda2301fa960efa535267358acc650
Head SHA1: 82374995b63d2de21414163828a32d52610dcaf2


Costa Shulyupin (7):
      tools/rtla: Generate optstring from long options
      tools/build: Add feature test for libcheck
      tools/rtla: Add unit tests for utils.c
      tools/rtla: Consolidate nr_cpus usage across all tools
      tools/rtla: Remove unneeded nr_cpus arguments
      tools/rtla: Remove unneeded nr_cpus members
      tools/rtla: Remove unneeded nr_cpus from for_each_monitored_cpu

Tomas Glozar (4):
      rtla/timerlat: Add --stack-format option
      Documentation/rtla: Document --stack-format option
      rtla: Fix segfault on multiple SIGINTs
      Documentation/rtla: Document SIGINT behavior

Wander Lairson Costa (17):
      rtla: Exit on memory allocation failures during initialization
      rtla: Use strdup() to simplify code
      rtla/actions: Simplify argument parsing
      rtla: Introduce common_threshold_handler() helper
      rtla: Replace magic number with MAX_PATH
      rtla: Simplify code by caching string lengths
      rtla/timerlat: Add bounds check for softirq vector
      rtla: Handle pthread_create() failure properly
      rtla: Add str_has_prefix() helper function
      rtla: Use str_has_prefix() for prefix checks
      rtla: Enforce exact match for time unit suffixes
      rtla: Use str_has_prefix() for option prefix check
      rtla/timerlat: Simplify RTLA_NO_BPF environment variable check
      rtla/trace: Fix write loop in trace_event_save_hist()
      rtla/trace: Fix I/O handling in save_trace_to_file()
      rtla/utils: Fix resource leak in set_comm_sched_attr()
      rtla/utils: Fix loop condition in PID validation

----
 Documentation/tools/rtla/common_appendix.txt       |  21 ++++
 .../tools/rtla/common_timerlat_options.txt         |  12 +++
 tools/build/Makefile.feature                       |   3 +
 tools/build/feature/Makefile                       |   4 +
 tools/build/feature/test-libcheck.c                |   8 ++
 tools/tracing/rtla/Build                           |   1 +
 tools/tracing/rtla/Makefile                        |   5 +
 tools/tracing/rtla/Makefile.config                 |   8 ++
 tools/tracing/rtla/README.txt                      |   1 +
 tools/tracing/rtla/src/actions.c                   | 103 +++++++++++-------
 tools/tracing/rtla/src/actions.h                   |   8 +-
 tools/tracing/rtla/src/common.c                    | 120 +++++++++++++++++----
 tools/tracing/rtla/src/common.h                    |  24 ++++-
 tools/tracing/rtla/src/osnoise.c                   |  26 ++---
 tools/tracing/rtla/src/osnoise_hist.c              |  51 ++++-----
 tools/tracing/rtla/src/osnoise_top.c               |  41 ++-----
 tools/tracing/rtla/src/timerlat.c                  |  16 ++-
 tools/tracing/rtla/src/timerlat.h                  |   1 +
 tools/tracing/rtla/src/timerlat_aa.c               |  51 ++++++---
 tools/tracing/rtla/src/timerlat_aa.h               |   2 +-
 tools/tracing/rtla/src/timerlat_bpf.c              |  19 ++--
 tools/tracing/rtla/src/timerlat_bpf.h              |  12 +--
 tools/tracing/rtla/src/timerlat_hist.c             | 116 +++++++++-----------
 tools/tracing/rtla/src/timerlat_top.c              | 114 +++++++++-----------
 tools/tracing/rtla/src/timerlat_u.c                |  13 ++-
 tools/tracing/rtla/src/timerlat_u.h                |   1 +
 tools/tracing/rtla/src/trace.c                     | 102 ++++++++++--------
 tools/tracing/rtla/src/trace.h                     |   4 +-
 tools/tracing/rtla/src/utils.c                     | 113 ++++++++++++++-----
 tools/tracing/rtla/src/utils.h                     |  33 ++++++
 tools/tracing/rtla/tests/unit/Build                |   2 +
 tools/tracing/rtla/tests/unit/Makefile.unit        |  17 +++
 tools/tracing/rtla/tests/unit/unit_tests.c         | 119 ++++++++++++++++++++
 33 files changed, 769 insertions(+), 402 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 tools/build/feature/test-libcheck.c
 create mode 100644 tools/tracing/rtla/tests/unit/Build
 create mode 100644 tools/tracing/rtla/tests/unit/Makefile.unit
 create mode 100644 tools/tracing/rtla/tests/unit/unit_tests.c
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Re: [GIT PULL] RTLA: Updates for v7.1

[pr-tracker-bot]

The pull request you sent on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 07:43:31 -0400:

> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace.git trace-rtla-v7.1

has been merged into torvalds/linux.git:
https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/9e1e9d660255d7216067193d774f338d08d8528d

Thank you!

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