linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ring-buffer: Include dropped pages in counting dirty patches

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Date:   Mon, 24 Oct 2022 10:58:12 -0400
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:     "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@...nel.org>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Trace Kernel <linux-trace-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ring-buffer: Include dropped pages in counting dirty
 patches

On Mon, 24 Oct 2022 22:13:28 +0900
Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@...nel.org> wrote:

> > @@ -2020,6 +2029,7 @@ rb_remove_pages(struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer, unsigned long nr_pages)
> >  			 */
> >  			local_add(page_entries, &cpu_buffer->overrun);
> >  			local_sub(BUF_PAGE_SIZE, &cpu_buffer->entries_bytes);
> > +			local_inc(&cpu_buffer->pages_lost);  
> 
> Maybe we can make this part a static helper function so that we don't
> repeat it below?

Makes sense. I'll send a v2.

-- Steve

> 
> >  		}
> >  
> >  		/*
> > @@ -2504,6 +2514,7 @@ rb_handle_head_page(struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer,
> >  		 */
> >  		local_add(entries, &cpu_buffer->overrun);
> >  		local_sub(BUF_PAGE_SIZE, &cpu_buffer->entries_bytes);
> > +		local_inc(&cpu_buffer->pages_lost);