- Allow kernel trace instance creation to specify what events are created
Inside the kernel, a subsystem may create a tracing instance that it can
use to send events to user space. This sub-system may not care about the
thousands of events that exist in eventfs. Allow the sub-system to specify
what sub-systems of events it cares about, and only those events are exposed
to this instance.
- Allow the ring buffer to be broken up into bigger sub-buffers than just the
architecture page size. A new tracefs file called "buffer_subbuf_size_kb"
is created. The user can now specify a minimum size the sub-buffer may be
in kilobytes. Note, that the implementation currently make the sub-buffer
size a power of 2 pages (1, 2, 4, 8, 16, ...) but the user only writes in
kilobyte size, and the sub-buffer will be updated to the next size that
it will can accommodate it. If the user writes in 10, it will change the
size to be 4 pages on x86 (16K), as that is the next available size that
can hold 10K pages.
- Update the debug output when a corrupt time is detected in the ring buffer.
If the ring buffer detects inconsistent timestamps, there's a debug config
options that will dump the contents of the meta data of the sub-buffer that
is used for debugging. Add some more information to this dump that helps
with debugging.
- Add more timestamp debugging checks (only triggers when the config is enabled)
- Increase the trace_seq iterator to 2 page sizes.
- Allow strings written into tracefs_marker to be larger. Up to just under
2 page sizes (based on what trace_seq can hold).
- Increase the trace_maker_raw write to be as big as a sub-buffer can hold.
- Remove 32 bit time stamp logic, now that the rb_time_cmpxchg() has been
removed.
- More selftests were added.
- Some code clean ups as well.
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Merge tag 'trace-v6.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
- Allow kernel trace instance creation to specify what events are
created
Inside the kernel, a subsystem may create a tracing instance that it
can use to send events to user space. This sub-system may not care
about the thousands of events that exist in eventfs. Allow the
sub-system to specify what sub-systems of events it cares about, and
only those events are exposed to this instance.
- Allow the ring buffer to be broken up into bigger sub-buffers than
just the architecture page size.
A new tracefs file called "buffer_subbuf_size_kb" is created. The
user can now specify a minimum size the sub-buffer may be in
kilobytes. Note, that the implementation currently make the
sub-buffer size a power of 2 pages (1, 2, 4, 8, 16, ...) but the user
only writes in kilobyte size, and the sub-buffer will be updated to
the next size that it will can accommodate it. If the user writes in
10, it will change the size to be 4 pages on x86 (16K), as that is
the next available size that can hold 10K pages.
- Update the debug output when a corrupt time is detected in the ring
buffer. If the ring buffer detects inconsistent timestamps, there's a
debug config options that will dump the contents of the meta data of
the sub-buffer that is used for debugging. Add some more information
to this dump that helps with debugging.
- Add more timestamp debugging checks (only triggers when the config is
enabled)
- Increase the trace_seq iterator to 2 page sizes.
- Allow strings written into tracefs_marker to be larger. Up to just
under 2 page sizes (based on what trace_seq can hold).
- Increase the trace_maker_raw write to be as big as a sub-buffer can
hold.
- Remove 32 bit time stamp logic, now that the rb_time_cmpxchg() has
been removed.
- More selftests were added.
- Some code clean ups as well.
* tag 'trace-v6.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: (29 commits)
ring-buffer: Remove stale comment from ring_buffer_size()
tracing histograms: Simplify parse_actions() function
tracing/selftests: Remove exec permissions from trace_marker.tc test
ring-buffer: Use subbuf_order for buffer page masking
tracing: Update subbuffer with kilobytes not page order
ringbuffer/selftest: Add basic selftest to test changing subbuf order
ring-buffer: Add documentation on the buffer_subbuf_order file
ring-buffer: Just update the subbuffers when changing their allocation order
ring-buffer: Keep the same size when updating the order
tracing: Stop the tracing while changing the ring buffer subbuf size
tracing: Update snapshot order along with main buffer order
ring-buffer: Make sure the spare sub buffer used for reads has same size
ring-buffer: Do no swap cpu buffers if order is different
ring-buffer: Clear pages on error in ring_buffer_subbuf_order_set() failure
ring-buffer: Read and write to ring buffers with custom sub buffer size
ring-buffer: Set new size of the ring buffer sub page
ring-buffer: Add interface for configuring trace sub buffer size
ring-buffer: Page size per ring buffer
ring-buffer: Have ring_buffer_print_page_header() be able to access ring_buffer_iter
ring-buffer: Check if absolute timestamp goes backwards
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