From cf9f0f7c4c5bb45e7bb270e48bab6f7837825a64 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vincent Donnefort Date: Fri, 10 May 2024 15:04:32 +0100 Subject: tracing: Allow user-space mapping of the ring-buffer Currently, user-space extracts data from the ring-buffer via splice, which is handy for storage or network sharing. However, due to splice limitations, it is imposible to do real-time analysis without a copy. A solution for that problem is to let the user-space map the ring-buffer directly. The mapping is exposed via the per-CPU file trace_pipe_raw. The first element of the mapping is the meta-page. It is followed by each subbuffer constituting the ring-buffer, ordered by their unique page ID: * Meta-page -- include/uapi/linux/trace_mmap.h for a description * Subbuf ID 0 * Subbuf ID 1 ... It is therefore easy to translate a subbuf ID into an offset in the mapping: reader_id = meta->reader->id; reader_offset = meta->meta_page_size + reader_id * meta->subbuf_size; When new data is available, the mapper must call a newly introduced ioctl: TRACE_MMAP_IOCTL_GET_READER. This will update the Meta-page reader ID to point to the next reader containing unread data. Mapping will prevent snapshot and buffer size modifications. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240510140435.3550353-4-vdonnefort@google.com CC: Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) --- include/uapi/linux/trace_mmap.h | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/trace_mmap.h b/include/uapi/linux/trace_mmap.h index b682e9925539..bd1066754220 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/trace_mmap.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/trace_mmap.h @@ -43,4 +43,6 @@ struct trace_buffer_meta { __u64 Reserved2; }; +#define TRACE_MMAP_IOCTL_GET_READER _IO('T', 0x1) + #endif /* _TRACE_MMAP_H_ */ -- cgit v1.2.3