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# 01f492e1 17-Apr-2026 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm

Pull kvm updates from Paolo Bonzini:
"Arm:

- Add support for tracing in the standalone EL2 hypervisor code,
which should

Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm

Pull kvm updates from Paolo Bonzini:
"Arm:

- Add support for tracing in the standalone EL2 hypervisor code,
which should help both debugging and performance analysis. This
uses the new infrastructure for 'remote' trace buffers that can be
exposed by non-kernel entities such as firmware, and which came
through the tracing tree

- Add support for GICv5 Per Processor Interrupts (PPIs), as the
starting point for supporting the new GIC architecture in KVM

- Finally add support for pKVM protected guests, where pages are
unmapped from the host as they are faulted into the guest and can
be shared back from the guest using pKVM hypercalls. Protected
guests are created using a new machine type identifier. As the
elusive guestmem has not yet delivered on its promises, anonymous
memory is also supported

This is only a first step towards full isolation from the host; for
example, the CPU register state and DMA accesses are not yet
isolated. Because this does not really yet bring fully what it
promises, it is hidden behind CONFIG_ARM_PKVM_GUEST +
'kvm-arm.mode=protected', and also triggers TAINT_USER when a VM is
created. Caveat emptor

- Rework the dreaded user_mem_abort() function to make it more
maintainable, reducing the amount of state being exposed to the
various helpers and rendering a substantial amount of state
immutable

- Expand the Stage-2 page table dumper to support NV shadow page
tables on a per-VM basis

- Tidy up the pKVM PSCI proxy code to be slightly less hard to
follow

- Fix both SPE and TRBE in non-VHE configurations so that they do not
generate spurious, out of context table walks that ultimately lead
to very bad HW lockups

- A small set of patches fixing the Stage-2 MMU freeing in error
cases

- Tighten-up accepted SMC immediate value to be only #0 for host
SMCCC calls

- The usual cleanups and other selftest churn

LoongArch:

- Use CSR_CRMD_PLV for kvm_arch_vcpu_in_kernel()

- Add DMSINTC irqchip in kernel support

RISC-V:

- Fix steal time shared memory alignment checks

- Fix vector context allocation leak

- Fix array out-of-bounds in pmu_ctr_read() and pmu_fw_ctr_read_hi()

- Fix double-free of sdata in kvm_pmu_clear_snapshot_area()

- Fix integer overflow in kvm_pmu_validate_counter_mask()

- Fix shift-out-of-bounds in make_xfence_request()

- Fix lost write protection on huge pages during dirty logging

- Split huge pages during fault handling for dirty logging

- Skip CSR restore if VCPU is reloaded on the same core

- Implement kvm_arch_has_default_irqchip() for KVM selftests

- Factored-out ISA checks into separate sources

- Added hideleg to struct kvm_vcpu_config

- Factored-out VCPU config into separate sources

- Support configuration of per-VM HGATP mode from KVM user space

s390:

- Support for ESA (31-bit) guests inside nested hypervisors

- Remove restriction on memslot alignment, which is not needed
anymore with the new gmap code

- Fix LPSW/E to update the bear (which of course is the breaking
event address register)

x86:

- Shut up various UBSAN warnings on reading module parameter before
they were initialized

- Don't zero-allocate page tables that are used for splitting
hugepages in the TDP MMU, as KVM is guaranteed to set all SPTEs in
the page table and thus write all bytes

- As an optimization, bail early when trying to unsync 4KiB mappings
if the target gfn can just be mapped with a 2MiB hugepage

x86 generic:

- Copy single-chunk MMIO write values into struct kvm_vcpu (more
precisely struct kvm_mmio_fragment) to fix use-after-free stack
bugs where KVM would dereference stack pointer after an exit to
userspace

- Clean up and comment the emulated MMIO code to try to make it
easier to maintain (not necessarily "easy", but "easier")

- Move VMXON+VMXOFF and EFER.SVME toggling out of KVM (not *all* of
VMX and SVM enabling) as it is needed for trusted I/O

- Advertise support for AVX512 Bit Matrix Multiply (BMM) instructions

- Immediately fail the build if a required #define is missing in one
of KVM's headers that is included multiple times

- Reject SET_GUEST_DEBUG with -EBUSY if there's an already injected
exception, mostly to prevent syzkaller from abusing the uAPI to
trigger WARNs, but also because it can help prevent userspace from
unintentionally crashing the VM

- Exempt SMM from CPUID faulting on Intel, as per the spec

- Misc hardening and cleanup changes

x86 (AMD):

- Fix and optimize IRQ window inhibit handling for AVIC; make it
per-vCPU so that KVM doesn't prematurely re-enable AVIC if multiple
vCPUs have to-be-injected IRQs

- Clean up and optimize the OSVW handling, avoiding a bug in which
KVM would overwrite state when enabling virtualization on multiple
CPUs in parallel. This should not be a problem because OSVW should
usually be the same for all CPUs

- Drop a WARN in KVM_MEMORY_ENCRYPT_REG_REGION where KVM complains
about a "too large" size based purely on user input

- Clean up and harden the pinning code for KVM_MEMORY_ENCRYPT_REG_REGION

- Disallow synchronizing a VMSA of an already-launched/encrypted
vCPU, as doing so for an SNP guest will crash the host due to an
RMP violation page fault

- Overhaul KVM's APIs for detecting SEV+ guests so that VM-scoped
queries are required to hold kvm->lock, and enforce it by lockdep.
Fix various bugs where sev_guest() was not ensured to be stable for
the whole duration of a function or ioctl

- Convert a pile of kvm->lock SEV code to guard()

- Play nicer with userspace that does not enable
KVM_CAP_EXCEPTION_PAYLOAD, for which KVM needs to set CR2 and DR6
as a response to ioctls such as KVM_GET_VCPU_EVENTS (even if the
payload would end up in EXITINFO2 rather than CR2, for example).
Only set CR2 and DR6 when consumption of the payload is imminent,
but on the other hand force delivery of the payload in all paths
where userspace retrieves CR2 or DR6

- Use vcpu->arch.cr2 when updating vmcb12's CR2 on nested #VMEXIT
instead of vmcb02->save.cr2. The value is out of sync after a
save/restore or after a #PF is injected into L2

- Fix a class of nSVM bugs where some fields written by the CPU are
not synchronized from vmcb02 to cached vmcb12 after VMRUN, and so
are not up-to-date when saved by KVM_GET_NESTED_STATE

- Fix a class of bugs where the ordering between KVM_SET_NESTED_STATE
and KVM_SET_{S}REGS could cause vmcb02 to be incorrectly
initialized after save+restore

- Add a variety of missing nSVM consistency checks

- Fix several bugs where KVM failed to correctly update VMCB fields
on nested #VMEXIT

- Fix several bugs where KVM failed to correctly synthesize #UD or
#GP for SVM-related instructions

- Add support for save+restore of virtualized LBRs (on SVM)

- Refactor various helpers and macros to improve clarity and
(hopefully) make the code easier to maintain

- Aggressively sanitize fields when copying from vmcb12, to guard
against unintentionally allowing L1 to utilize yet-to-be-defined
features

- Fix several bugs where KVM botched rAX legality checks when
emulating SVM instructions. There are remaining issues in that KVM
doesn't handle size prefix overrides for 64-bit guests

- Fail emulation of VMRUN/VMLOAD/VMSAVE if mapping vmcb12 fails
instead of somewhat arbitrarily synthesizing #GP (i.e. don't double
down on AMD's architectural but sketchy behavior of generating #GP
for "unsupported" addresses)

- Cache all used vmcb12 fields to further harden against TOCTOU bugs

x86 (Intel):

- Drop obsolete branch hint prefixes from the VMX instruction macros

- Use ASM_INPUT_RM() in __vmcs_writel() to coerce clang into using a
register input when appropriate

- Code cleanups

guest_memfd:

- Don't mark guest_memfd folios as accessed, as guest_memfd doesn't
support reclaim, the memory is unevictable, and there is no storage
to write back to

LoongArch selftests:

- Add KVM PMU test cases

s390 selftests:

- Enable more memory selftests

x86 selftests:

- Add support for Hygon CPUs in KVM selftests

- Fix a bug in the MSR test where it would get false failures on
AMD/Hygon CPUs with exactly one of RDPID or RDTSCP

- Add an MADV_COLLAPSE testcase for guest_memfd as a regression test
for a bug where the kernel would attempt to collapse guest_memfd
folios against KVM's will"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (373 commits)
KVM: x86: use inlines instead of macros for is_sev_*guest
x86/virt: Treat SVM as unsupported when running as an SEV+ guest
KVM: SEV: Goto an existing error label if charging misc_cg for an ASID fails
KVM: SVM: Move lock-protected allocation of SEV ASID into a separate helper
KVM: SEV: use mutex guard in snp_handle_guest_req()
KVM: SEV: use mutex guard in sev_mem_enc_unregister_region()
KVM: SEV: use mutex guard in sev_mem_enc_ioctl()
KVM: SEV: use mutex guard in snp_launch_update()
KVM: SEV: Assert that kvm->lock is held when querying SEV+ support
KVM: SEV: Document that checking for SEV+ guests when reclaiming memory is "safe"
KVM: SEV: Hide "struct kvm_sev_info" behind CONFIG_KVM_AMD_SEV=y
KVM: SEV: WARN on unhandled VM type when initializing VM
KVM: LoongArch: selftests: Add PMU overflow interrupt test
KVM: LoongArch: selftests: Add basic PMU event counting test
KVM: LoongArch: selftests: Add cpucfg read/write helpers
LoongArch: KVM: Add DMSINTC inject msi to vCPU
LoongArch: KVM: Add DMSINTC device support
LoongArch: KVM: Make vcpu_is_preempted() as a macro rather than function
LoongArch: KVM: Move host CSR_GSTAT save and restore in context switch
LoongArch: KVM: Move host CSR_EENTRY save and restore in context switch
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# e4bf304f 16-Apr-2026 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Merge tag 'trace-ringbuffer-v7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace

Pull ring-buffer updates from Steven Rostedt:

- Add remote buffers for pKVM

pKVM has a hype

Merge tag 'trace-ringbuffer-v7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace

Pull ring-buffer updates from Steven Rostedt:

- Add remote buffers for pKVM

pKVM has a hypervisor component that is used to protect the guest
from the host kernel. This hypervisor is a black box to the kernel as
the kernel is to user space. The remote buffers are used to have a
memory mapping between the hypervisor and the kernel where kernel may
send commands to enable tracing within the hypervisor. Then the
kernel will read this memory mapping just like user space can read
the memory mapped ring buffer of the kernel tracing system.

Since the hypervisor only has a single context, it doesn't need to
worry about races between normal context, interrupt context and NMIs
like the kernel does. The ring buffer it uses doesn't need to be as
complex. The remote buffers are a simple version of the ring buffer
that works in a single context. They are still per-CPU and use sub
buffers. The data layout is the same as the kernel's ring buffer to
share the same parsing.

Currently, only ARM64 implements pKVM, but there's work to implement
it also in x86. The remote buffer code is separated out from the ARM
implementation so that it can be used in the future by x86.

The ARM64 updates for pKVM is in the ARM/KVM tree and it merged in
the remote buffers of this tree.

- Make the backup instance non reusable

The backup instance is a copy of the persistent ring buffer so that
the persistent ring buffer could start recording again without using
the data from the previous boot. The backup isn't for normal tracing.
It is made read-only, and after it is consumed, it is automatically
removed.

- Have backup copy persistent instance before it starts recording

To allow the persistent ring buffer to start recording from the
kernel command line commands, move the copy of the backup instance to
before the the command line options start recording.

- Report header_page overwrite field as "char" and not "int'

The rust parser of the header_page file was triggering a warning when
it defined the overwrite variable as "int" but it was only a single
byte in size.

- Fix memory barriers for the trace_buffer CPU mask

When a CPU comes online, the bit is set to allow readers to know that
the CPU buffer is allocated. The bit is set after the allocation is
done, and a smp_wmb() is performed after the allocation and before
the setting of the bit. But instead of adding a smp_rmb() to all
readers, since once a buffer is created for a CPU it is not deleted
if that CPU goes offline, so this allocation is almost always done at
boot up before any readers exist.

If for the unlikely case where a CPU comes online for the first time
after the system boot has finished, send an IPI to all CPUs to force
the smp_rmb() for each CPU.

- Show clock function being used in debugging ring buffer data

When the ring buffer checks are enabled and the ring buffer detects
an inconsistency in the times of the invents, print out the clock
being used when the error occurred. There was a very hard to hit bug
that would happen every so often and it ended up being only triggered
when the jiffies clock was being used. If the bug showed the clock
being used, it would have been much easier to find the problem (which
was an internal function was being traced which caused the clock
accounting to go off).

* tag 'trace-ringbuffer-v7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: (26 commits)
ring-buffer: Prevent off-by-one array access in ring_buffer_desc_page()
ring-buffer: Report header_page overwrite as char
tracing: Allow backup to save persistent ring buffer before it starts
tracing/Documentation: Add a section about backup instance
tracing: Remove the backup instance automatically after read
tracing: Make the backup instance non-reusable
ring-buffer: Enforce read ordering of trace_buffer cpumask and buffers
ring-buffer: Show what clock function is used on timestamp errors
tracing: Check for undefined symbols in simple_ring_buffer
tracing: load/unload page callbacks for simple_ring_buffer
Documentation: tracing: Add tracing remotes
tracing: selftests: Add trace remote tests
tracing: Add a trace remote module for testing
tracing: Introduce simple_ring_buffer
ring-buffer: Export buffer_data_page and macros
tracing: Add helpers to create trace remote events
tracing: Add events/ root files to trace remotes
tracing: Add events to trace remotes
tracing: Add init callback to trace remotes
tracing: Add non-consuming read to trace remotes
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# e74c3a88 13-Apr-2026 Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

Merge tag 'kvmarm-7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvmarm/kvmarm into HEAD

KVM/arm64 updates for 7.1

* New features:

- Add support for tracing in the standalone EL2 hypervisor

Merge tag 'kvmarm-7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvmarm/kvmarm into HEAD

KVM/arm64 updates for 7.1

* New features:

- Add support for tracing in the standalone EL2 hypervisor code,
which should help both debugging and performance analysis.
This comes with a full infrastructure for 'remote' trace buffers
that can be exposed by non-kernel entities such as firmware.

- Add support for GICv5 Per Processor Interrupts (PPIs), as the
starting point for supporting the new GIC architecture in KVM.

- Finally add support for pKVM protected guests, with anonymous
memory being used as a backing store. About time!

* Improvements and bug fixes:

- Rework the dreaded user_mem_abort() function to make it more
maintainable, reducing the amount of state being exposed to
the various helpers and rendering a substantial amount of
state immutable.

- Expand the Stage-2 page table dumper to support NV shadow
page tables on a per-VM basis.

- Tidy up the pKVM PSCI proxy code to be slightly less hard
to follow.

- Fix both SPE and TRBE in non-VHE configurations so that they
do not generate spurious, out of context table walks that
ultimately lead to very bad HW lockups.

- A small set of patches fixing the Stage-2 MMU freeing in error
cases.

- Tighten-up accepted SMC immediate value to be only #0 for host
SMCCC calls.

- The usual cleanups and other selftest churn.

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Revision tags: v7.0
# 2de32a25 08-Apr-2026 Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>

Merge branch kvm-arm64/hyp-tracing into kvmarm-master/next

* kvm-arm64/hyp-tracing: (40 commits)
: .
: EL2 tracing support, adding both 'remote' ring-buffer
: infrastructure and the tracing it

Merge branch kvm-arm64/hyp-tracing into kvmarm-master/next

* kvm-arm64/hyp-tracing: (40 commits)
: .
: EL2 tracing support, adding both 'remote' ring-buffer
: infrastructure and the tracing itself, courtesy of
: Vincent Donnefort. From the cover letter:
:
: "The growing set of features supported by the hypervisor in protected
: mode necessitates debugging and profiling tools. Tracefs is the
: ideal candidate for this task:
:
: * It is simple to use and to script.
:
: * It is supported by various tools, from the trace-cmd CLI to the
: Android web-based perfetto.
:
: * The ring-buffer, where are stored trace events consists of linked
: pages, making it an ideal structure for sharing between kernel and
: hypervisor.
:
: This series first introduces a new generic way of creating remote events and
: remote buffers. Then it adds support to the pKVM hypervisor."
: .
tracing: selftests: Extend hotplug testing for trace remotes
tracing: Non-consuming read for trace remotes with an offline CPU
tracing: Adjust cmd_check_undefined to show unexpected undefined symbols
tracing: Restore accidentally removed SPDX tag
KVM: arm64: avoid unused-variable warning
tracing: Generate undef symbols allowlist for simple_ring_buffer
KVM: arm64: tracing: add ftrace dependency
tracing: add more symbols to whitelist
tracing: Update undefined symbols allow list for simple_ring_buffer
KVM: arm64: Fix out-of-tree build for nVHE/pKVM tracing
tracing: selftests: Add hypervisor trace remote tests
KVM: arm64: Add selftest event support to nVHE/pKVM hyp
KVM: arm64: Add hyp_enter/hyp_exit events to nVHE/pKVM hyp
KVM: arm64: Add event support to the nVHE/pKVM hyp and trace remote
KVM: arm64: Add trace reset to the nVHE/pKVM hyp
KVM: arm64: Sync boot clock with the nVHE/pKVM hyp
KVM: arm64: Add trace remote for the nVHE/pKVM hyp
KVM: arm64: Add tracing capability for the nVHE/pKVM hyp
KVM: arm64: Support unaligned fixmap in the pKVM hyp
KVM: arm64: Initialise hyp_nr_cpus for nVHE hyp
...

Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>

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Revision tags: v7.0-rc7
# ce47b798 01-Apr-2026 Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com>

tracing: Non-consuming read for trace remotes with an offline CPU

When a trace_buffer is created while a CPU is offline, this CPU is
cleared from the trace_buffer CPU mask, preventing the creation o

tracing: Non-consuming read for trace remotes with an offline CPU

When a trace_buffer is created while a CPU is offline, this CPU is
cleared from the trace_buffer CPU mask, preventing the creation of a
non-consuming iterator (ring_buffer_iter). For trace remotes, it means
the iterator fails to be allocated (-ENOMEM) even though there are
available ring buffers in the trace_buffer.

For non-consuming reads of trace remotes, skip missing ring_buffer_iter
to allow reading the available ring buffers.

Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260401045100.3394299-2-vdonnefort@google.com
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>

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Revision tags: v7.0-rc6, v7.0-rc5, v7.0-rc4
# 775cb093 09-Mar-2026 Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com>

tracing: Add events/ root files to trace remotes

Just like for the kernel events directory, add 'enable', 'header_page'
and 'header_event' at the root of the trace remote events/ directory.

Link: h

tracing: Add events/ root files to trace remotes

Just like for the kernel events directory, add 'enable', 'header_page'
and 'header_event' at the root of the trace remote events/ directory.

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260309162516.2623589-11-vdonnefort@google.com
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

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# 07252915 09-Mar-2026 Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com>

tracing: Add events to trace remotes

An event is predefined point in the writer code that allows to log
data. Following the same scheme as kernel events, add remote events,
described to user-space w

tracing: Add events to trace remotes

An event is predefined point in the writer code that allows to log
data. Following the same scheme as kernel events, add remote events,
described to user-space within the events/ tracefs directory found in
the corresponding trace remote.

Remote events are expected to be described during the trace remote
registration.

Add also a .enable_event callback for trace_remote to toggle the event
logging, if supported.

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260309162516.2623589-10-vdonnefort@google.com
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

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# bf2ba0f8 09-Mar-2026 Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com>

tracing: Add init callback to trace remotes

Add a .init call back so the trace remote callers can add entries to the
tracefs directory.

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260309162516.2623589-9-vdonn

tracing: Add init callback to trace remotes

Add a .init call back so the trace remote callers can add entries to the
tracefs directory.

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260309162516.2623589-9-vdonnefort@google.com
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

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# 330b0cce 09-Mar-2026 Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com>

tracing: Add non-consuming read to trace remotes

Allow reading the trace file for trace remotes. This performs a
non-consuming read of the trace buffer.

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/2026030916251

tracing: Add non-consuming read to trace remotes

Allow reading the trace file for trace remotes. This performs a
non-consuming read of the trace buffer.

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260309162516.2623589-8-vdonnefort@google.com
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

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# 9af4ab0e 09-Mar-2026 Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com>

tracing: Add reset to trace remotes

Allow to reset the trace remote buffer by writing to the Tracefs "trace"
file. This is similar to the regular Tracefs interface.

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/2

tracing: Add reset to trace remotes

Allow to reset the trace remote buffer by writing to the Tracefs "trace"
file. This is similar to the regular Tracefs interface.

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260309162516.2623589-7-vdonnefort@google.com
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

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# 96e43537 09-Mar-2026 Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com>

tracing: Introduce trace remotes

A trace remote relies on ring-buffer remotes to read and control
compatible tracing buffers, written by entity such as firmware or
hypervisor.

Add a Tracefs directo

tracing: Introduce trace remotes

A trace remote relies on ring-buffer remotes to read and control
compatible tracing buffers, written by entity such as firmware or
hypervisor.

Add a Tracefs directory remotes/ that contains all instances of trace
remotes. Each instance follows the same hierarchy as any other to ease
the support by existing user-space tools.

This currently does not provide any event support, which will come
later.

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260309162516.2623589-6-vdonnefort@google.com
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

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