Hi,
Here is the 15th version of improvement patches for making persistent
ring buffers robust to failures.
The previous version is here:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/177487498530.3463592.12715592581212799257.stgit@mhiramat.tok.corp.google.com/
This version fixes warning if reader see contiguous multiple
empty (invalidated) pages on the recovered persistent ring buffer
[2/5], do not show discarded pages if it is 0 [2/5], use pr_warn()
for showing test result [4/5], and inject errors to the pages which
is multiples of 5 too[4/5].
This also drops "Reset RB_MISSED_* flags" patch, and add a patch
to show commit number on each data page [5/5] for debugging.
In this version, I added arm64 maitainers to request their
review for [1/5], which introduces asm/ring_buffer.h for flushing
the cache before reboot.
Thank you,
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Masami Hiramatsu (Google) (5):
ring-buffer: Flush and stop persistent ring buffer on panic
ring-buffer: Skip invalid sub-buffers when validating persistent ring buffer
ring-buffer: Skip invalid sub-buffers when rewinding persistent ring buffer
ring-buffer: Add persistent ring buffer invalid-page inject test
ring-buffer: Show commit numbers in buffer_meta file
arch/alpha/include/asm/Kbuild | 1
arch/arc/include/asm/Kbuild | 1
arch/arm/include/asm/Kbuild | 1
arch/arm64/include/asm/ring_buffer.h | 10 +
arch/csky/include/asm/Kbuild | 1
arch/hexagon/include/asm/Kbuild | 1
arch/loongarch/include/asm/Kbuild | 1
arch/m68k/include/asm/Kbuild | 1
arch/microblaze/include/asm/Kbuild | 1
arch/mips/include/asm/Kbuild | 1
arch/nios2/include/asm/Kbuild | 1
arch/openrisc/include/asm/Kbuild | 1
arch/parisc/include/asm/Kbuild | 1
arch/powerpc/include/asm/Kbuild | 1
arch/riscv/include/asm/Kbuild | 1
arch/s390/include/asm/Kbuild | 1
arch/sh/include/asm/Kbuild | 1
arch/sparc/include/asm/Kbuild | 1
arch/um/include/asm/Kbuild | 1
arch/x86/include/asm/Kbuild | 1
arch/xtensa/include/asm/Kbuild | 1
include/asm-generic/ring_buffer.h | 13 ++
include/linux/ring_buffer.h | 1
kernel/trace/Kconfig | 31 ++++
kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 258 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
kernel/trace/trace.c | 4 +
26 files changed, 273 insertions(+), 64 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 arch/arm64/include/asm/ring_buffer.h
create mode 100644 include/asm-generic/ring_buffer.h
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Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>