Re: [PATCH v12 2/6] ring-buffer: Introducing ring-buffer mapping functions

[Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>]

On Tue, 23 Jan 2024 11:07:53 +0000
Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com> wrote:

> index 000000000000..5468afc94be7
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/trace_mmap.h
> @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
> +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note */
> +#ifndef _TRACE_MMAP_H_
> +#define _TRACE_MMAP_H_
> +
> +#include <linux/types.h>
> +
> +/**
> + * struct trace_buffer_meta - Ring-buffer Meta-page description
> + * @meta_page_size:	Size of this meta-page.
> + * @meta_struct_len:	Size of this structure.
> + * @subbuf_size:	Size of each subbuf, including the header.
> + * @nr_subbufs:		Number of subbfs in the ring-buffer.
> + * @reader.lost_events:	Number of events lost at the time of the reader swap.
> + * @reader.id:		subbuf ID of the current reader. From 0 to @nr_subbufs - 1
> + * @reader.read:	Number of bytes read on the reader subbuf.
> + * @entries:		Number of entries in the ring-buffer.
> + * @overrun:		Number of entries lost in the ring-buffer.
> + * @read:		Number of entries that have been read.


> + * @subbufs_touched:	Number of subbufs that have been filled.
> + * @subbufs_lost:	Number of subbufs lost to overrun.
> + * @subbufs_read:	Number of subbufs that have been read.

Do we actually need the above 3 fields?

What's the use case for them? I don't want to expose internals in the API
unless they are needed.

-- Steve