Merge tag 'tracepoints-v6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace

Pull unused tracepoints update from Steven Rostedt:
"Detect unused tracepoints.

If a tracepoint i

Merge tag 'tracepoints-v6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace

Pull unused tracepoints update from Steven Rostedt:
"Detect unused tracepoints.

If a tracepoint is defined but never used (TRACE_EVENT() created but
no trace_<tracepoint>() called), it can take up to or more than 5K of
memory each. This can add up as there are around a hundred unused
tracepoints with various configs. That is 500K of wasted memory.

Add a make build parameter of "UT=1" to have the build warn if an
unused tracepoint is detected in the build. This allows detection of
unused tracepoints to be upstream so that outreachy and the mentoring
project can have new developers look for fixing them, without having
these warnings suddenly show up when someone upgrades their kernel.

When all known unused tracepoints are removed, then the "UT=1" build
parameter can be removed and unused tracepoints will always warn. This
will catch new unused tracepoints after the current ones have been
removed.

Summary:

- Separate out elf functions from sorttable.c

Move out the ELF parsing functions from sorttable.c so that the
tracing tooling can use it.

- Add a tracepoint verifier tool to the build process

If "UT=1" is added to the kernel command line, any unused
tracepoints will trigger a warning at build time.

- Do not warn about unused tracepoints for tracepoints that are
exported

There are sever cases where a tracepoint is created by the kernel
and used by modules. Since there's no easy way to detect if these
are truly unused since the users are in modules, if a tracepoint is
exported, assume it will eventually be used by a module. Note,
there's not many exported tracepoints so this should not be a
problem to ignore them.

- Have building of modules also detect unused tracepoints

Do not only check the main vmlinux for unused tracepoints, also
check modules. If a module is defining a tracepoint it should be
using it.

- Add the tracepoint-update program to the ignore file

The new tracepoint-update program needs to be ignored by git"

* tag 'tracepoints-v6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
scripts: add tracepoint-update to the list of ignores files
tracing: Add warnings for unused tracepoints for modules
tracing: Allow tracepoint-update.c to work with modules
tracepoint: Do not warn for unused event that is exported
tracing: Add a tracepoint verification check at build time
sorttable: Move ELF parsing into scripts/elf-parse.[ch]

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sorttable: Move ELF parsing into scripts/elf-parse.[ch]

In order to share the elf parsing that is in sorttable.c so that other
programs could use the same code, move it into elf-parse.c and
elf-pars

sorttable: Move ELF parsing into scripts/elf-parse.[ch]

In order to share the elf parsing that is in sorttable.c so that other
programs could use the same code, move it into elf-parse.c and
elf-parse.h.

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Cc: Nicolas Schier <nicolas.schier@linux.dev>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <nick.desaulniers+lkml@gmail.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20251022004452.752298788@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

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