linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] kasan: switch kunit tests to console tracepoints

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Date:   Mon, 1 May 2023 15:02:37 -0700
From:   Peter Collingbourne <pcc@...gle.com>
To:     Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:     Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>, andrey.konovalov@...ux.dev,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...il.com>,
        Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>,
        Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@...il.com>,
        kasan-dev@...glegroups.com, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>,
        Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
        linux-trace-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] kasan: switch kunit tests to console tracepoints

On Thu, Feb 23, 2023 at 10:45 PM Peter Collingbourne <pcc@...gle.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 11:33 AM Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 15 Feb 2023 09:57:40 +0100
> > Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Yes, you are right, and it's something I've wondered how to do better
> > > as well. Let's try to consult tracing maintainers on what the right
> > > approach is.
> >
> > I have to go and revisit the config options for CONFIG_FTRACE and
> > CONFIG_TRACING, as they were added when this all started (back in
> > 2008), and the naming was rather all misnomers back then.
> >
> > "ftrace" is really for just the function tracing, but CONFIG_FTRACE
> > really should just be for the function tracing infrastructure, and
> > perhaps not even include trace events :-/ But at the time it was
> > created, it was for all the "tracers" (this was added before trace
> > events).
>
> It would be great to see this cleaned up. I found this aspect of how
> tracing works rather confusing.
>
> So do you think it makes sense for the KASAN tests to "select TRACING"
> for now if the code depends on the trace event infrastructure?

Any thoughts? It looks like someone else got tripped up by this:
https://reviews.llvm.org/D144057

Peter