From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>,
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Subject: [for-next][PATCH 3/3] tracing: Freeable reserved ring buffer
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2025 19:12:38 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250227001254.624778797@goodmis.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20250227001235.355892523@goodmis.org
From: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Make the ring buffer on reserved memory to be freeable. This allows us
to free the trace instance on the reserved memory without changing
cmdline and rebooting. Even if we can not change the kernel cmdline
for security reason, we can release the reserved memory for the ring
buffer as free (available) memory.
For example, boot kernel with reserved memory;
"reserve_mem=20M:2M:trace trace_instance=boot_mapped^traceoff@trace"
~ # free
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 1995548 50544 1927568 14964 17436 1911480
Swap: 0 0 0
~ # rmdir /sys/kernel/tracing/instances/boot_mapped/
[ 23.704023] Freeing reserve_mem:trace memory: 20476K
~ # free
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 2016024 41844 1956740 14968 17440 1940572
Swap: 0 0 0
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/173989134814.230693.18199312930337815629.stgit@devnote2
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
---
kernel/trace/trace.c | 13 ++++++++++++-
kernel/trace/trace.h | 1 +
2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index 61458d8c3a61..b4bcb85094d9 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -9292,6 +9292,9 @@ static void free_trace_buffers(struct trace_array *tr)
#ifdef CONFIG_TRACER_MAX_TRACE
free_trace_buffer(&tr->max_buffer);
#endif
+
+ if (tr->range_addr_start)
+ vunmap((void *)tr->range_addr_start);
}
static void init_trace_flags_index(struct trace_array *tr)
@@ -9453,6 +9456,7 @@ trace_array_create_systems(const char *name, const char *systems,
free_cpumask_var(tr->pipe_cpumask);
free_cpumask_var(tr->tracing_cpumask);
kfree_const(tr->system_names);
+ kfree(tr->range_name);
kfree(tr->name);
kfree(tr);
@@ -9579,6 +9583,11 @@ static int __remove_instance(struct trace_array *tr)
free_trace_buffers(tr);
clear_tracing_err_log(tr);
+ if (tr->range_name) {
+ reserve_mem_release_by_name(tr->range_name);
+ kfree(tr->range_name);
+ }
+
for (i = 0; i < tr->nr_topts; i++) {
kfree(tr->topts[i].topts);
}
@@ -10376,6 +10385,7 @@ __init static void enable_instances(void)
bool traceoff = false;
char *flag_delim;
char *addr_delim;
+ char *rname __free(kfree) = NULL;
tok = strsep(&curr_str, ",");
@@ -10432,6 +10442,7 @@ __init static void enable_instances(void)
pr_warn("Failed to map boot instance %s to %s\n", name, tok);
continue;
}
+ rname = kstrdup(tok, GFP_KERNEL);
}
if (start) {
@@ -10468,7 +10479,7 @@ __init static void enable_instances(void)
*/
if (start) {
tr->flags |= TRACE_ARRAY_FL_BOOT;
- tr->ref++;
+ tr->range_name = no_free_ptr(rname);
}
while ((tok = strsep(&curr_str, ","))) {
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.h b/kernel/trace/trace.h
index 9c21ba45b7af..93b6279d3da4 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.h
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.h
@@ -348,6 +348,7 @@ struct trace_array {
unsigned int mapped;
unsigned long range_addr_start;
unsigned long range_addr_size;
+ char *range_name;
long text_delta;
long data_delta;
--
2.47.2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-02-27 0:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-02-27 0:12 [for-next][PATCH 0/3] tracing: Updates for v6.15 Steven Rostedt
2025-02-27 0:12 ` [for-next][PATCH 1/3] tracing: Add traceoff_after_boot option Steven Rostedt
2025-02-27 0:12 ` [for-next][PATCH 2/3] mm/memblock: Add reserved memory release function Steven Rostedt
2025-02-27 0:12 ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
2025-03-06 18:26 ` [for-next][PATCH 0/3] tracing: Updates for v6.15 Steven Rostedt
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