Merge tag 'trace-v5.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace

Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
 "The majority of the changes are for fixes and clean ups.

  Notable changes:

   - Rework trace event triggers code to be easier to interact with.

   - Support for embedding bootconfig with the kernel (as suppose to
     having it embedded in initram). This is useful for embedded boards
     without initram disks.

   - Speed up boot by parallelizing the creation of tracefs files.

   - Allow absolute ring buffer timestamps handle timestamps that use
     more than 59 bits.

   - Added new tracing clock "TAI" (International Atomic Time)

   - Have weak functions show up in available_filter_function list as:
     __ftrace_invalid_address___<invalid-offset> instead of using the
     name of the function before it"

* tag 'trace-v5.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (52 commits)
  ftrace: Add FTRACE_MCOUNT_MAX_OFFSET to avoid adding weak function
  tracing: Fix comments for event_trigger_separate_filter()
  x86/traceponit: Fix comment about irq vector tracepoints
  x86,tracing: Remove unused headers
  ftrace: Clean up hash direct_functions on register failures
  tracing: Fix comments of create_filter()
  tracing: Disable kcov on trace_preemptirq.c
  tracing: Initialize integer variable to prevent garbage return value
  ftrace: Fix typo in comment
  ftrace: Remove return value of ftrace_arch_modify_*()
  tracing: Cleanup code by removing init "char *name"
  tracing: Change "char *" string form to "char []"
  tracing/timerlat: Do not wakeup the thread if the trace stops at the IRQ
  tracing/timerlat: Print stacktrace in the IRQ handler if needed
  tracing/timerlat: Notify IRQ new max latency only if stop tracing is set
  kprobes: Fix build errors with CONFIG_KRETPROBES=n
  tracing: Fix return value of trace_pid_write()
  tracing: Fix potential double free in create_var_ref()
  tracing: Use strim() to remove whitespace instead of doing it manually
  ftrace: Deal with error return code of the ftrace_process_locs() function
  ...

1 files changed, 28 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst
index a1860fc0ca88..d99994345d41 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst
@@ -158,9 +158,15 @@ Each key-value pair is shown in each line with following style::
 Boot Kernel With a Boot Config
 ==============================
 
-Since the boot configuration file is loaded with initrd, it will be added
-to the end of the initrd (initramfs) image file with padding, size,
-checksum and 12-byte magic word as below.
+There are two options to boot the kernel with bootconfig: attaching the
+bootconfig to the initrd image or embedding it in the kernel itself.
+
+Attaching a Boot Config to Initrd
+---------------------------------
+
+Since the boot configuration file is loaded with initrd by default,
+it will be added to the end of the initrd (initramfs) image file with
+padding, size, checksum and 12-byte magic word as below.
 
 [initrd][bootconfig][padding][size(le32)][checksum(le32)][#BOOTCONFIG\n]
 
@@ -196,6 +202,25 @@ To remove the config from the image, you can use -d option as below::
 Then add "bootconfig" on the normal kernel command line to tell the
 kernel to look for the bootconfig at the end of the initrd file.
 
+Embedding a Boot Config into Kernel
+-----------------------------------
+
+If you can not use initrd, you can also embed the bootconfig file in the
+kernel by Kconfig options. In this case, you need to recompile the kernel
+with the following configs::
+
+ CONFIG_BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED=y
+ CONFIG_BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED_FILE="/PATH/TO/BOOTCONFIG/FILE"
+
+``CONFIG_BOOT_CONFIG_EMBED_FILE`` requires an absolute path or a relative
+path to the bootconfig file from source tree or object tree.
+The kernel will embed it as the default bootconfig.
+
+Just as when attaching the bootconfig to the initrd, you need ``bootconfig``
+option on the kernel command line to enable the embedded bootconfig.
+
+Note that even if you set this option, you can override the embedded
+bootconfig by another bootconfig which attached to the initrd.
 
 Kernel parameters via Boot Config
 =================================