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tracing: Freeable reserved ring buffer
authorMasami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Tue, 18 Feb 2025 15:09:08 +0000 (00:09 +0900)
committerSteven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Fri, 28 Mar 2025 12:39:28 +0000 (08:39 -0400)
commitfb6d03238e35f96cc1d6a5411ee1d684221d1c39
treeb338b7283d9bbd5a3f8122b4f7af3fe73637c1c3
parent74e2498ccf7b303e7fdd881f58a849e884afb486
tracing: Freeable reserved ring buffer

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
kernel/trace/trace.h