From: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-trace-kernel@vger.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>,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: [PATCH v4 2/2] tracing: Freeable reserved ring buffer
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:09:08 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <173989134814.230693.18199312930337815629.stgit@devnote2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <173989132750.230693.15749600013776132201.stgit@devnote2>
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
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
---
Changes in v4:
- Update the result example in the description.
Changes in v3:
- Remove debug printk.
---
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 0e6d517e74e0..cf57c7ac2c55 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -9284,6 +9284,9 @@ 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)
@@ -9445,6 +9448,7 @@ 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);
@@ -9571,6 +9575,11 @@ 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);
}
@@ -10368,6 +10377,7 @@ __init static void enable_instances(void)
bool traceoff = false;
char *flag_delim;
char *addr_delim;
+ char *rname __free(kfree) = NULL;
tok = strsep(&curr_str, ",");
@@ -10424,6 +10434,7 @@ __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) {
@@ -10460,7 +10471,7 @@ __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;
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-02-18 15:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-02-18 15:08 [PATCH v4 0/2] tracing: Make persistent ring buffer freeable Masami Hiramatsu (Google)
2025-02-18 15:08 ` [PATCH v4 1/2] mm/memblock: Add reserved memory release function Masami Hiramatsu (Google)
2025-04-05 2:30 ` Wei Yang
2025-04-07 0:33 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2025-04-07 1:40 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2025-02-18 15:09 ` Masami Hiramatsu (Google) [this message]
2025-02-25 20:55 ` [PATCH v4 0/2] tracing: Make persistent ring buffer freeable Steven Rostedt
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