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| author | Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> | 2025-04-02 10:49:04 -0400 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2025-05-02 08:02:04 +0200 |
| commit | a9f9f26858c8edc81b46deb8747ba3d6d417d84e (patch) | |
| tree | 1d079a4a648c7e96cd4245ee0c3f075b806a507a /Documentation | |
| parent | b1354a138f798c80c1a2a114743e9c2899e65c15 (diff) | |
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tracing: Enforce the persistent ring buffer to be page aligned
[ Upstream commit c44a14f216f45d8bf1634b52854a699d7090f1e8 ]
Enforce that the address and the size of the memory used by the persistent
ring buffer is page aligned. Also update the documentation to reflect this
requirement.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=whUOfVucfJRt7E0AH+GV41ELmS4wJqxHDnui6Giddfkzw@mail.gmail.com/
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250402144953.412882844@goodmis.org
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/trace/debugging.rst | 2 |
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index aa7447f8837c..56be1fc99bdd 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -7243,6 +7243,8 @@ This is just one of many ways that can clear memory. Make sure your system keeps the content of memory across reboots before relying on this option. + NB: Both the mapped address and size must be page aligned for the architecture. + See also Documentation/trace/debugging.rst diff --git a/Documentation/trace/debugging.rst b/Documentation/trace/debugging.rst index 54fb16239d70..d54bc500af80 100644 --- a/Documentation/trace/debugging.rst +++ b/Documentation/trace/debugging.rst @@ -136,6 +136,8 @@ kernel, so only the same kernel is guaranteed to work if the mapping is preserved. Switching to a different kernel version may find a different layout and mark the buffer as invalid. +NB: Both the mapped address and size must be page aligned for the architecture. + Using trace_printk() in the boot instance ----------------------------------------- By default, the content of trace_printk() goes into the top level tracing |