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Message-ID: <3c16bee0-70b7-420f-a085-c9e09e293fe2@efficios.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2024 11:55:08 -0500
From: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>
To: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@...gle.com>, rostedt@...dmis.org,
mhiramat@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
linux-trace-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: kernel-team@...roid.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v14 4/6] tracing: Allow user-space mapping of the
ring-buffer
On 2024-02-05 11:34, Vincent Donnefort wrote:
> 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.
How are the kernel linear mapping and the userspace mapping made coherent
on architectures with virtually aliasing data caches ?
Ref. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240202210019.88022-1-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com/T/#t
Thanks,
Mathieu
>
> Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@...gle.com>
>
> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/trace_mmap.h b/include/uapi/linux/trace_mmap.h
> index 182e05a3004a..7330249257e7 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_ */
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
> index 4ebf4d0bd14c..36b62cf2fb3f 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
> @@ -1175,6 +1175,12 @@ static void tracing_snapshot_instance_cond(struct trace_array *tr,
> return;
> }
>
> + if (tr->mapped) {
> + trace_array_puts(tr, "*** BUFFER MEMORY MAPPED ***\n");
> + trace_array_puts(tr, "*** Can not use snapshot (sorry) ***\n");
> + return;
> + }
> +
> local_irq_save(flags);
> update_max_tr(tr, current, smp_processor_id(), cond_data);
> local_irq_restore(flags);
> @@ -1307,7 +1313,7 @@ static int tracing_arm_snapshot_locked(struct trace_array *tr)
> lockdep_assert_held(&trace_types_lock);
>
> spin_lock(&tr->snapshot_trigger_lock);
> - if (tr->snapshot == UINT_MAX) {
> + if (tr->snapshot == UINT_MAX || tr->mapped) {
> spin_unlock(&tr->snapshot_trigger_lock);
> return -EBUSY;
> }
> @@ -6533,7 +6539,7 @@ static void tracing_set_nop(struct trace_array *tr)
> {
> if (tr->current_trace == &nop_trace)
> return;
> -
> +
> tr->current_trace->enabled--;
>
> if (tr->current_trace->reset)
> @@ -8652,15 +8658,31 @@ tracing_buffers_splice_read(struct file *file, loff_t *ppos,
> return ret;
> }
>
> -/* An ioctl call with cmd 0 to the ring buffer file will wake up all waiters */
> static long tracing_buffers_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
> {
> struct ftrace_buffer_info *info = file->private_data;
> struct trace_iterator *iter = &info->iter;
> + int err;
> +
> + if (cmd == TRACE_MMAP_IOCTL_GET_READER) {
> + if (!(file->f_flags & O_NONBLOCK)) {
> + err = ring_buffer_wait(iter->array_buffer->buffer,
> + iter->cpu_file,
> + iter->tr->buffer_percent);
> + if (err)
> + return err;
> + }
>
> - if (cmd)
> - return -ENOIOCTLCMD;
> + return ring_buffer_map_get_reader(iter->array_buffer->buffer,
> + iter->cpu_file);
> + } else if (cmd) {
> + return -ENOTTY;
> + }
>
> + /*
> + * An ioctl call with cmd 0 to the ring buffer file will wake up all
> + * waiters
> + */
> mutex_lock(&trace_types_lock);
>
> iter->wait_index++;
> @@ -8673,6 +8695,97 @@ static long tracing_buffers_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned
> return 0;
> }
>
> +static vm_fault_t tracing_buffers_mmap_fault(struct vm_fault *vmf)
> +{
> + struct ftrace_buffer_info *info = vmf->vma->vm_file->private_data;
> + struct trace_iterator *iter = &info->iter;
> + vm_fault_t ret = VM_FAULT_SIGBUS;
> + struct page *page;
> +
> + page = ring_buffer_map_fault(iter->array_buffer->buffer, iter->cpu_file,
> + vmf->pgoff);
> + if (!page)
> + return ret;
> +
> + get_page(page);
> + vmf->page = page;
> + vmf->page->mapping = vmf->vma->vm_file->f_mapping;
> + vmf->page->index = vmf->pgoff;
> +
> + return 0;
> +}
> +
> +static void tracing_buffers_mmap_close(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
> +{
> + struct ftrace_buffer_info *info = vma->vm_file->private_data;
> + struct trace_iterator *iter = &info->iter;
> + struct trace_array *tr = iter->tr;
> +
> + ring_buffer_unmap(iter->array_buffer->buffer, iter->cpu_file);
> +
> +#ifdef CONFIG_TRACER_MAX_TRACE
> + spin_lock(&tr->snapshot_trigger_lock);
> + if (!WARN_ON(!tr->mapped))
> + tr->mapped--;
> + spin_unlock(&tr->snapshot_trigger_lock);
> +#endif
> +}
> +
> +static void tracing_buffers_mmap_open(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
> +{
> + struct ftrace_buffer_info *info = vma->vm_file->private_data;
> + struct trace_iterator *iter = &info->iter;
> +
> + WARN_ON(ring_buffer_map(iter->array_buffer->buffer, iter->cpu_file));
> +}
> +
> +static const struct vm_operations_struct tracing_buffers_vmops = {
> + .open = tracing_buffers_mmap_open,
> + .close = tracing_buffers_mmap_close,
> + .fault = tracing_buffers_mmap_fault,
> +};
> +
> +static int tracing_buffers_mmap(struct file *filp, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
> +{
> + struct ftrace_buffer_info *info = filp->private_data;
> + struct trace_iterator *iter = &info->iter;
> + struct trace_array *tr = iter->tr;
> + int ret = 0;
> +
> + if (vma->vm_flags & VM_WRITE)
> + return -EPERM;
> +
> + vm_flags_mod(vma, VM_DONTCOPY | VM_DONTDUMP, VM_MAYWRITE);
> + vma->vm_ops = &tracing_buffers_vmops;
> +
> +#ifdef CONFIG_TRACER_MAX_TRACE
> + /*
> + * We hold mmap_lock here. lockdep would be unhappy if we would now take
> + * trace_types_lock. Instead use the specific snapshot_trigger_lock.
> + */
> + spin_lock(&tr->snapshot_trigger_lock);
> + if (tr->snapshot || tr->mapped == UINT_MAX) {
> + spin_unlock(&tr->snapshot_trigger_lock);
> + return -EBUSY;
> + }
> + tr->mapped++;
> + spin_unlock(&tr->snapshot_trigger_lock);
> +
> + /* Wait for update_max_tr() to observe iter->tr->mapped */
> + if (tr->mapped == 1)
> + synchronize_rcu();
> +#endif
> + ret = ring_buffer_map(iter->array_buffer->buffer, iter->cpu_file);
> +#ifdef CONFIG_TRACER_MAX_TRACE
> + if (ret) {
> + spin_lock(&tr->snapshot_trigger_lock);
> + iter->tr->mapped--;
> + spin_unlock(&tr->snapshot_trigger_lock);
> + }
> +#endif
> + return ret;
> +}
> +
> static const struct file_operations tracing_buffers_fops = {
> .open = tracing_buffers_open,
> .read = tracing_buffers_read,
> @@ -8681,6 +8794,7 @@ static const struct file_operations tracing_buffers_fops = {
> .splice_read = tracing_buffers_splice_read,
> .unlocked_ioctl = tracing_buffers_ioctl,
> .llseek = no_llseek,
> + .mmap = tracing_buffers_mmap,
> };
>
> static ssize_t
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.h b/kernel/trace/trace.h
> index bd312e9afe25..8a96e7a89e6b 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/trace.h
> +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.h
> @@ -336,6 +336,7 @@ struct trace_array {
> bool allocated_snapshot;
> spinlock_t snapshot_trigger_lock;
> unsigned int snapshot;
> + unsigned int mapped;
> unsigned long max_latency;
> #ifdef CONFIG_FSNOTIFY
> struct dentry *d_max_latency;
--
Mathieu Desnoyers
EfficiOS Inc.
https://www.efficios.com
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