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Linus Torvalds 4ff261e725 Runtime verification changes for 6.17
- Added Linear temporal logic monitors for RT application
 
   Real-time applications may have design flaws causing them to have
   unexpected latency. For example, the applications may raise page faults, or
   may be blocked trying to take a mutex without priority inheritance.
 
   However, while attempting to implement DA monitors for these real-time
   rules, deterministic automaton is found to be inappropriate as the
   specification language. The automaton is complicated, hard to understand,
   and error-prone.
 
   For these cases, linear temporal logic is found to be more suitable. The
   LTL is more concise and intuitive.
 
 - Make printk_deferred() public
 
   The new monitors needed access to printk_deferred(). Make them visible for
   the entire kernel.
 
 - Add a vpanic() to allow for va_list to be passed to panic.
 
 - Add rtapp container monitor.
 
   A collection of monitors that check for common problems with real-time
   applications that cause unexpected latency.
 
 - Add page fault tracepoints to risc-v
 
   These tracepoints are necessary to for the RV monitor to run on risc-v.
 
 - Fix the behaviour of the rv tool with -s and idle tasks.
 
 - Allow the rv tool to gracefully terminate with SIGTERM
 
 - Adjusts dot2c not to create lines over 100 columns
 
 - Properly order nested monitors in the RV Kconfig file
 
 - Return the registration error in all DA monitor instead of 0
 
 - Update and add new sched collection monitors
 
   Replace tss and sncid monitors with more complete sts:
   Not only prove that switches occur in scheduling context and scheduling
   needs interrupt disabled but also that each call to the scheduler
   disables interrupts to (optionally) switch.
 
   New monitor: nrp
    Preemption requires need resched which is cleared by any switch
    (includes a non optimal workaround for /nested/ preemptions)
 
   New monitor: sssw
    suspension requires setting the task to sleepable and, after the
    switch occurs, the task requires a wakeup to come back to runnable
 
   New monitor: opid
    waking and need-resched operations occur with interrupts and
    preemption disabled or in IRQ without explicitly disabling preemption
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Merge tag 'trace-rv-6.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace

Pull runtime verification updates from Steven Rostedt:

 - Added Linear temporal logic monitors for RT application

   Real-time applications may have design flaws causing them to have
   unexpected latency. For example, the applications may raise page
   faults, or may be blocked trying to take a mutex without priority
   inheritance.

   However, while attempting to implement DA monitors for these
   real-time rules, deterministic automaton is found to be inappropriate
   as the specification language. The automaton is complicated, hard to
   understand, and error-prone.

   For these cases, linear temporal logic is found to be more suitable.
   The LTL is more concise and intuitive.

 - Make printk_deferred() public

   The new monitors needed access to printk_deferred(). Make them
   visible for the entire kernel.

 - Add a vpanic() to allow for va_list to be passed to panic.

 - Add rtapp container monitor.

   A collection of monitors that check for common problems with
   real-time applications that cause unexpected latency.

 - Add page fault tracepoints to risc-v

   These tracepoints are necessary to for the RV monitor to run on
   risc-v.

 - Fix the behaviour of the rv tool with -s and idle tasks.

 - Allow the rv tool to gracefully terminate with SIGTERM

 - Adjusts dot2c not to create lines over 100 columns

 - Properly order nested monitors in the RV Kconfig file

 - Return the registration error in all DA monitor instead of 0

 - Update and add new sched collection monitors

   Replace tss and sncid monitors with more complete sts:

   Not only prove that switches occur in scheduling context and scheduling
   needs interrupt disabled but also that each call to the scheduler
   disables interrupts to (optionally) switch.

   New monitor: nrp
     Preemption requires need resched which is cleared by any switch
     (includes a non optimal workaround for /nested/ preemptions)

   New monitor: sssw
     suspension requires setting the task to sleepable and, after the
     switch occurs, the task requires a wakeup to come back to runnable

   New monitor: opid
      waking and need-resched operations occur with interrupts and
      preemption disabled or in IRQ without explicitly disabling
      preemption"

* tag 'trace-rv-6.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: (48 commits)
  rv: Add opid per-cpu monitor
  rv: Add nrp and sssw per-task monitors
  rv: Replace tss and sncid monitors with more complete sts
  sched: Adapt sched tracepoints for RV task model
  rv: Retry when da monitor detects race conditions
  rv: Adjust monitor dependencies
  rv: Use strings in da monitors tracepoints
  rv: Remove trailing whitespace from tracepoint string
  rv: Add da_handle_start_run_event_ to per-task monitors
  rv: Fix wrong type cast in reactors_show() and monitor_reactor_show()
  rv: Fix wrong type cast in monitors_show()
  rv: Remove struct rv_monitor::reacting
  rv: Remove rv_reactor's reference counter
  rv: Merge struct rv_reactor_def into struct rv_reactor
  rv: Merge struct rv_monitor_def into struct rv_monitor
  rv: Remove unused field in struct rv_monitor_def
  rv: Return init error when registering monitors
  verification/rvgen: Organise Kconfig entries for nested monitors
  tools/dot2c: Fix generated files going over 100 column limit
  tools/rv: Stop gracefully also on SIGTERM
  ...
2025-07-30 16:23:12 -07:00
Documentation Runtime verification changes for 6.17 2025-07-30 16:23:12 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Replace the obsolete address of the FSF in the GFDL-1.2 2025-07-24 11:15:39 +02:00
arch Runtime verification changes for 6.17 2025-07-30 16:23:12 -07:00
block Driver core changes for 6.17-rc1 2025-07-29 12:15:39 -07:00
certs
crypto Crypto library updates for 6.17 2025-07-28 17:58:52 -07:00
drivers IOMMU Updates for Linux v6.17: 2025-07-30 10:42:00 -07:00
fs bpf-next-6.17 2025-07-30 09:58:50 -07:00
include Runtime verification changes for 6.17 2025-07-30 16:23:12 -07:00
init x86/boot changes for v6.17: 2025-07-29 18:58:22 -07:00
io_uring for-6.17/io_uring-20250728 2025-07-28 16:30:12 -07:00
ipc vfs-6.17-rc1.mmap_prepare 2025-07-28 13:43:25 -07:00
kernel Runtime verification changes for 6.17 2025-07-30 16:23:12 -07:00
lib Networking changes for 6.17. 2025-07-30 08:58:55 -07:00
mm slab updates for 6.17 2025-07-30 11:32:38 -07:00
net bpf-next-6.17 2025-07-30 09:58:50 -07:00
rust Networking changes for 6.17. 2025-07-30 08:58:55 -07:00
samples Driver core changes for 6.17-rc1 2025-07-29 12:15:39 -07:00
scripts ftrace changes for v6.17: 2025-07-30 16:04:10 -07:00
security powerpc updates for 6.17 2025-07-29 20:28:38 -07:00
sound A treewide cleanup of struct cycle_counter const annotations: 2025-07-29 14:02:53 -07:00
tools Runtime verification changes for 6.17 2025-07-30 16:23:12 -07:00
usr usr/include: openrisc: don't HDRTEST bpf_perf_event.h 2025-05-12 15:03:17 +09:00
virt KVM: Allow CPU to reschedule while setting per-page memory attributes 2025-06-24 12:20:17 -07:00
.clang-format Linux 6.15-rc5 2025-05-06 16:39:25 +10:00
.clippy.toml rust: clean Rust 1.88.0's warning about `clippy::disallowed_macros` configuration 2025-05-07 00:11:47 +02:00
.cocciconfig
.editorconfig
.get_maintainer.ignore MAINTAINERS: Retire Ralf Baechle 2024-11-12 15:48:59 +01:00
.gitattributes
.gitignore .gitignore: ignore Python compiled bytecode 2025-04-24 10:12:46 -06:00
.mailmap 11 hotfixes. 9 are cc:stable and the remainder address post-6.15 issues 2025-07-24 19:13:30 -07:00
.pylintrc docs: add a .pylintrc file with sys path for docs scripts 2025-04-09 12:10:33 -06:00
.rustfmt.toml
COPYING
CREDITS mm: update MAINTAINERS entry for HMM 2025-07-19 19:26:16 -07:00
Kbuild drm: ensure drm headers are self-contained and pass kernel-doc 2025-02-12 10:44:43 +02:00
Kconfig io_uring: Rename KConfig to Kconfig 2025-02-19 14:53:27 -07:00
MAINTAINERS slab updates for 6.17 2025-07-30 11:32:38 -07:00
Makefile hardening updates for v6.17-rc1 2025-07-28 17:16:12 -07:00
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