Commit 6439079365dc for kernel
commit 6439079365dcb33c6701f5f0e480ac2c17312b6b
Merge: 920f27122cba 29a86c5e6361
Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Thu Aug 20 15:11:52 2026 -0700
Merge tag 'probes-v7.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace
Pull probes updates from Masami Hiramatsu:
"BTF typecasting and variable fetch enhancements:
- Typecast support across probe events: Extended BTF typecasting
syntax (e.g., (STRUCT)PARAM->MEMBER) to kprobes, uprobes, and
fprobes on function entry and return
- Nested typecasts: Added support for chaining and nesting typecasts
up to 3 levels, including casting registers and stack variables
- Field specifier option: Added (STRUCT,FIELD) syntax to emulate
container_of(), allowing retrieval of parent structures from member
pointers
- $current variable support: Introduced $current special variable to
access the running task_struct via BTF dereferencing
- Per-CPU variable access: Added this_cpu_read() and this_cpu_ptr()
fetcharg methods to trace CPU-local data safely
- Fetcharg bytecode dumper: Added CONFIG_PROBE_EVENTS_DUMP_FETCHARG
to dump the compiled fetcharg bytecode instructions as comments in
dynamic_events
- Extended symbol name handling: Removed the MAX_COMMON_HEAD_LEN
limit and extended MAX_ARGSTR_LEN to 256 bytes, enabling probing of
long symbols, mangled Rust symbols and complex BTF expressions
- eprobe variable syntax: Allowed eprobes to reference event fields
directly without requiring a '$' prefix
- Cleanup unused parameters, redundant codes, duplicate macros and
pointer arithmetic
- Use a ternary operator for simplifying fetch_type_from_btf_type()
Expanded boot time dynamic probe support:
- Add boot-time tracing configuration support for event probes
(eprobes), function probes (fprobes), and tracepoint probes
(tprobes)
- Allow comment lines ('#') in dynamic_events file
Optimization, robustness, and cleanups:
- Simplify fprobe_remove_ips() by reusing graph and ftrace helpers
- Remove __packed attribute from struct __fprobe_header to avoid
unaligned memory access penalties on RISC architectures
- Remove redundant memset() calls in perf event probe handlers
- Replace legacy __ASSEMBLY__ with __ASSEMBLER__ in header files
Selftests & refactoring:
- Refactor parse_probe_arg() and parse_probe_vars(), and eliminate
recursion in probe argument parsing to protect kernel stack depth
- Add selftests for BTF typecasts and module probing without module
prefixes
- Force LC_ALL=C in ftracetest to prevent test failures on localized
systems
- Refactor btf_type_skip_modifiers() to remove ignored id parameter
- Sort ERRORS list in trace_probe.h alphabetically
- Fix typo in fprobe docs, and trace_fprobe function name
- Rename FETCH_OP_DATA to FETCH_OP_IMMSTR
- Make file offset error message probe-agnostic"
* tag 'probes-v7.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: (37 commits)
fprobe: Simplify fprobe_remove_ips() by reusing existing helpers
tracing/boot: Add support for eprobe, fprobe, and tprobe events
selftests/ftrace: Force C locale in ftracetest
tracing/probes: Treating longer symbol name on event comparation
docs: trace: fprobe: fix 'thos' spelling
tracing/probes: Fix extra whitespace in trace_probe_kernel.h
tracing/kprobe: Remove redundant memset in kprobe_perf_func()
tracing/fprobe: Remove redundant memset in fentry_perf_func()
tracing/fprobe: Remove redundant snprintf in trace_fprobe_match_command_head()
tracing/probes: Simplify BTF_KIND_PTR case in fetch_type_from_btf_type()
tracing/probes: Cleanup pointer arithmetic in store_trace_entry_data()
tracing/probes: Remove unused parameter from parse_probe_var_retval()
tracing/probes: Remove redundant bounds check in trace_probe_compare_arg_type()
tracing/probes: Remove redundant boolean conversion in trace_probe_has_single_file()
tracing/probes: Remove duplicate MAX_ARRAY_LEN macro definition
selftests/ftrace: Add test case for a symbol in a module without module name
tracing/probes: Eliminate recursion in parse_probe_arg()
tracing/probes: Extend max length of argument string
tracing/probes: Sort ERRORS list in trace_probe.h alphabetically
tracing/probes: Refactor parse_probe_arg()
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