This series extends the recently introduced trace remotes
infrastructure, bringing useful features for developers:
* dump_on_panic: Dump the trace remote buffer on system panic.
* dmesg: Redirect remote events to dmesg.
* trace_remote=: Configure a trace_remote from the commandline.
* poll_ms: Modify the polling period.
It also brings a couple of optimisations:
* In-header compressed length support for small events.
* Single work thread for remote polling.
And some misc improvements:
* Use kstrtobool where possible
* Free resources on remote registration failure
v2:
Sashiko had a few spot-on comments on the v1 which forced me to heavily
re-arrange the series, so I thought it'd be alright to send a v2
already including those changes.
* dump_on_oops -> dump_on_panic
* printk -> dmesg
* Allow to configure poll_ms
* Make the ring_buffer_iter functions panic-friendly
* Gate tracefs .open on remote registration (Sashiko)
* Use irqsave for reader lock (Sashiko)
* Fix iter locking for TRI_DMESG (Sashiko)
* Yield in the dmesg work (Sashiko)
v1 (https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260602171146.2238998-1-vdonnefort@google.com/)
Vincent Donnefort (18):
tracing/remotes: Gate tracefs files opening on trace remote
registration
tracing/remotes: Release tracefs,eventfs on registration failure
tracing/remotes: Use kstrtobool for boolean tracefs files
tracing/remotes: Use a single per-remote polling work
tracing/simple_ring_buffer: Add support for compressed length
tracing/remotes: Add dmesg tracefs file
tracing/remotes: selftests: Add a test for the dmesg tracefs file
tracing/remotes: selftests: Prefix hypervisor folder
ring-buffer: Use irqsave for the reader lock in
ring_buffer_poll_remote
ring-buffer: Use panic-friendly locking in ring_buffer_iter interface
ring-buffer: Add ring_buffer_read_remote_meta_page()
ring-buffer: Add kerneldoc for ring_buffer_poll_remote
tracing/remotes: Add dump_on_panic tracefs file
tracing/remotes: selftests: Add a test for the dump_on_panic tracefs
file
tracing/remotes: Add poll_ms tracefs file
tracing/remotes: Add trace_remote cmdline options
Documentation: tracing/remotes: Add detailed tracefs layout
Documentation/kernel-parameters: Add trace_remote
.../admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 19 +
Documentation/trace/remotes.rst | 66 +-
include/linux/ring_buffer.h | 1 +
kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 86 +-
kernel/trace/simple_ring_buffer.c | 25 +-
kernel/trace/trace_remote.c | 823 +++++++++++++++---
.../buffer_size.tc | 0
.../test.d/remotes/00hypervisor/dmesg.tc | 11 +
.../remotes/00hypervisor/dump_on_panic.tc | 11 +
.../{hypervisor => 00hypervisor}/hotplug.tc | 0
.../{hypervisor => 00hypervisor}/reset.tc | 0
.../{hypervisor => 00hypervisor}/trace.tc | 0
.../trace_pipe.tc | 0
.../{hypervisor => 00hypervisor}/unloading.tc | 0
.../selftests/ftrace/test.d/remotes/dmesg.tc | 72 ++
.../ftrace/test.d/remotes/dump_on_panic.tc | 51 ++
.../selftests/ftrace/test.d/remotes/functions | 2 +
17 files changed, 1028 insertions(+), 139 deletions(-)
rename tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/remotes/{hypervisor => 00hypervisor}/buffer_size.tc (100%)
create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/remotes/00hypervisor/dmesg.tc
create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/remotes/00hypervisor/dump_on_panic.tc
rename tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/remotes/{hypervisor => 00hypervisor}/hotplug.tc (100%)
rename tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/remotes/{hypervisor => 00hypervisor}/reset.tc (100%)
rename tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/remotes/{hypervisor => 00hypervisor}/trace.tc (100%)
rename tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/remotes/{hypervisor => 00hypervisor}/trace_pipe.tc (100%)
rename tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/remotes/{hypervisor => 00hypervisor}/unloading.tc (100%)
create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/remotes/dmesg.tc
create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/remotes/dump_on_panic.tc
base-commit: e43ffb69e0438cddd72aaa30898b4dc446f664f8
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