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Add some documentation and a code example. Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort diff --git a/Documentation/trace/index.rst b/Documentation/trace/index.rst index 5092d6c13af5..0b300901fd75 100644 --- a/Documentation/trace/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/trace/index.rst @@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ Linux Tracing Technologies timerlat-tracer intel_th ring-buffer-design + ring-buffer-map stm sys-t coresight/index diff --git a/Documentation/trace/ring-buffer-map.rst b/Documentation/trace/= ring-buffer-map.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..8e296bcc0d7f --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/trace/ring-buffer-map.rst @@ -0,0 +1,106 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D +Tracefs ring-buffer memory mapping +=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D + +:Author: Vincent Donnefort + +Overview +=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D +Tracefs ring-buffer memory map provides an efficient method to stream data +as no memory copy is necessary. The application mapping the ring-buffer be= comes +then a consumer for that ring-buffer, in a similar fashion to trace_pipe. + +Memory mapping setup +=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D +The mapping works with a mmap() of the trace_pipe_raw interface. + +The first system page of the mapping contains ring-buffer statistics and +description. It is referred to as the meta-page. One of the most important +fields of the meta-page is the reader. It contains the sub-buffer ID which= can +be safely read by the mapper (see ring-buffer-design.rst). + +The meta-page is followed by all the sub-buffers, ordered by ascending ID.= It is +therefore effortless to know where the reader starts in the mapping: + +.. code-block:: c + + reader_id =3D meta->reader->id; + reader_offset =3D meta->meta_page_size + reader_id * meta->subbuf_= size; + +When the application is done with the current reader, it can get a new one= using +the trace_pipe_raw ioctl() TRACE_MMAP_IOCTL_GET_READER. This ioctl also up= dates +the meta-page fields. + +Limitations +=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D +When a mapping is in place on a Tracefs ring-buffer, it is not possible to +either resize it (either by increasing the entire size of the ring-buffer = or +each subbuf). It is also not possible to use snapshot and causes splice to= copy +the ring buffer data instead of using the copyless swap from the ring buff= er. + +Concurrent readers (either another application mapping that ring-buffer or= the +kernel with trace_pipe) are allowed but not recommended. They will compete= for +the ring-buffer and the output is unpredictable, just like concurrent read= ers on +trace_pipe would be. + +Example +=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D + +.. code-block:: c + + #include + #include + #include + #include + + #include + + #include + #include + + #define TRACE_PIPE_RAW "/sys/kernel/tracing/per_cpu/cpu0/trace_pip= e_raw" + + int main(void) + { + int page_size =3D getpagesize(), fd, reader_id; + unsigned long meta_len, data_len; + struct trace_buffer_meta *meta; + void *map, *reader, *data; + + fd =3D open(TRACE_PIPE_RAW, O_RDONLY | O_NONBLOCK); + if (fd < 0) + exit(EXIT_FAILURE); + + map =3D mmap(NULL, page_size, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, fd, 0= ); + if (map =3D=3D MAP_FAILED) + exit(EXIT_FAILURE); + + meta =3D (struct trace_buffer_meta *)map; + meta_len =3D meta->meta_page_size; + + printf("entries: %llu\n", meta->entries); + printf("overrun: %llu\n", meta->overrun); + printf("read: %llu\n", meta->read); + printf("nr_subbufs: %u\n", meta->nr_subbufs); + + data_len =3D meta->subbuf_size * meta->nr_subbufs; + data =3D mmap(NULL, data_len, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, fd, m= eta_len); + if (data =3D=3D MAP_FAILED) + exit(EXIT_FAILURE); + + if (ioctl(fd, TRACE_MMAP_IOCTL_GET_READER) < 0) + exit(EXIT_FAILURE); + + reader_id =3D meta->reader.id; + reader =3D data + meta->subbuf_size * reader_id; + + printf("Current reader address: %p\n", reader); + + munmap(data, data_len); + munmap(meta, meta_len); + close (fd); + + return 0; + } --=20 2.44.0.478.gd926399ef9-goog