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Tom Zanussi 8b5ab6bd0b tracing: Add a backward-compatibility check for synthetic event creation
The synthetic event parsing rework now requires semicolons between
synthetic event fields.  That requirement breaks existing users who
might already have used the old synthetic event command format, so
this adds an inner loop that can parse more than one field, if
present, between semicolons.  For each field, parse_synth_field()
checks in which version that field was introduced, using
check_field_version().  The caller, __create_synth_event() can then use
that version information to determine whether or not to enforce the
requirement on the command as a whole.

In the future, if/when new features are added, the requirement will be
that any field/string containing the new feature must use semicolons,
and the check_field_version() check can then check for those and
enforce it.  Using a version number allows this scheme to be extended
if necessary.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/74fcc500d561b40ce91c5ee94818c70c6b0c9330.1612208610.git.zanussi@kernel.org

[ zanussi: added check_field_version() comment from rostedt@goodmis.org ]
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2021-02-09 12:52:15 -05:00
arch Cleanup and warning fixes. 2021-01-24 13:52:02 -08:00
block block-5.11-2021-01-10 2021-01-10 12:53:08 -08:00
certs .gitignore: add SPDX License Identifier 2020-03-25 11:50:48 +01:00
crypto X.509: Fix crash caused by NULL pointer 2021-01-20 11:33:51 -08:00
Documentation Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2021-01-24 12:16:34 -08:00
drivers Cleanup and warning fixes. 2021-01-24 13:52:02 -08:00
fs io_uring-5.11-2021-01-24 2021-01-24 12:30:14 -08:00
include ftrace: Remove unused ftrace_force_update() 2021-02-09 12:43:42 -05:00
init fgraph: Initialize tracing_graph_pause at task creation 2021-01-29 15:07:32 -05:00
ipc Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2020-12-15 12:53:37 -08:00
kernel tracing: Add a backward-compatibility check for synthetic event creation 2021-02-09 12:52:15 -05:00
lib ubsan: disable unsigned-overflow check for i386 2021-01-24 10:34:52 -08:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add the CC-BY-4.0 license 2020-12-08 10:33:27 -07:00
mm mm/highmem: prepare for overriding set_pte_at() 2021-01-24 10:34:52 -08:00
net A patch to zero out sensitive cryptographic data and two minor cleanups 2021-01-22 13:47:25 -08:00
samples ARM: SoC drivers for v5.11 2020-12-16 16:38:41 -08:00
scripts Kbuild fixes for v5.11 2021-01-10 13:24:55 -08:00
security dump_common_audit_data(): fix racy accesses to ->d_name 2021-01-16 15:11:35 -05:00
sound ALSA: usb-audio: Fix hw constraints dependencies 2021-01-20 21:46:45 +01:00
tools - Adjust objtool to handle a recent binutils change to not generate unused 2021-01-24 10:17:03 -08:00
usr Merge branch 'work.fdpic' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2020-08-07 13:29:39 -07:00
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CREDITS MAINTAINERS: dccp: move Gerrit Renker to CREDITS 2021-01-14 10:53:49 -08:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2021-01-24 12:16:34 -08:00
Makefile Linux 5.11-rc5 2021-01-24 16:47:14 -08:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.