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Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2019 19:06:05 -0500 From: "Frank A. Cancio Bello" <frank@...eralsoftwareinc.com> To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Cc: joel@...lfernandes.org, saiprakash.ranjan@...eaurora.org, nachukannan@...il.com, rdunlap@...radead.org Subject: [PATCH v3 1/3] docs: ftrace: Clarify the RAM impact of buffer_size_kb The current text could mislead the user into believing that the number of pages allocated by each CPU ring buffer is calculated by the round up of the division: buffer_size_kb / PAGE_SIZE. Clarifies that a few extra pages may be allocated to accommodate buffer management meta-data. Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@...dmis.org> Suggested-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@...lfernandes.org> Signed-off-by: Frank A. Cancio Bello <frank@...eralsoftwareinc.com> --- Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst b/Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst index d2b5657ed33e..5a037bedbf6a 100644 --- a/Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst +++ b/Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst @@ -185,7 +185,8 @@ of ftrace. Here is a list of some of the key files: CPU buffer and not total size of all buffers. The trace buffers are allocated in pages (blocks of memory that the kernel uses for allocation, usually 4 KB in size). - If the last page allocated has room for more bytes + A few extra pages may be allocated to accommodate buffer management + meta-data. If the last page allocated has room for more bytes than requested, the rest of the page will be used, making the actual allocation bigger than requested or shown. ( Note, the size may not be a multiple of the page size -- 2.17.1
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