Re: [GIT PULL] ring-buffer: Updates for 6.11

[Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>]

On 2024-07-16 16:11, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Jul 2024 16:05:26 -0400
> Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 2024-07-16 15:51, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Linus,
>>>
>>> tracing/ring-buffer: Have persistent buffer across reboots
>>
>> Hi Steven,
>>
>> Perhaps I'm missing something here, but we discussed previously that
>> you would document the fact that users of this feature are expected
>> to run the same kernel before/after reboot.
>>
>> Looking at this PR, I fail to find that documentation, or in fact
>> any documentation at all. Is this something that was overlooked ?
> 
> Hmm, was that for this code, or the one that used the reserved_mem
> change, which isn't in this pull request, as it depends on the code
> that is going through the mm tree.
> 
> Technically it can work with different kernels (I have even done that).
> But yeah, it isn't guaranteed to work in such cases. But that is just a
> documentation update.

If the documentation just ends up being in a different PR, I have no
objection.

Thanks,

Mathieu


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