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Message-Id: <20250216002150.ef7dfcbc0b875dfebde31a5b@kernel.org>
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2025 00:21:50 +0900
From: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@...nel.org>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Linux Trace Kernel
 <linux-trace-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Masami Hiramatsu
 <mhiramat@...nel.org>, Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
 Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ring-buffer: Allow persistent ring buffers to be
 mmapped

On Fri, 14 Feb 2025 13:04:42 -0500
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> wrote:

> From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
> 
> The persistent ring buffer uses vmap()'d memory to map the reserved memory
> from boot. But the user space mmap() to the ring buffer requires
> virt_to_page() to return a valid page. But that only works for core kernel
> addresses and not for vmap() addresses.
> 
> If virt_addr_valid() fails on the page to be mapped, use vmalloc_to_page()
> instead.
> 
> Also, the persistent memory uses the page->id for its own purpose where as
> the user mmap buffer currently uses that for the subbuf array mapped to
> user space. If the buffer is a persistent buffer, use the page index into
> that buffer as the identifier instead of the page->id.
> 
> That is, the page->id for a persistent buffer, represents the order of the
> buffer is in the link list. ->id == 0 means it is the reader page.
> When a reader page is swapped, the new reader page's ->id gets zero, and
> the old reader page gets the ->id of the page that it swapped with.
> 
> The user space mapping has the ->id is the index of where it was mapped in
> user space and does not change while it is mapped.
> 
> Since the persistent buffer is fixed in its location, the index of where
> a page is in the memory range can be used as the "id" to put in the meta
> page array, and it can be mapped in the same order to user space as it is
> in the persistent memory.

Looks good and works for me.

Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@...nel.org>
Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@...nel.org>

Thank you,

> 
> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@...dmis.org>
> ---
>  kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 49 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
>  kernel/trace/trace.c       |  4 ----
>  2 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
> index bb6089c2951e..87caf9d48edb 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
> @@ -5950,12 +5950,18 @@ static void rb_clear_buffer_page(struct buffer_page *page)
>  static void rb_update_meta_page(struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer)
>  {
>  	struct trace_buffer_meta *meta = cpu_buffer->meta_page;
> +	struct page *page;
>  
>  	if (!meta)
>  		return;
>  
>  	meta->reader.read = cpu_buffer->reader_page->read;
> -	meta->reader.id = cpu_buffer->reader_page->id;
> +	/* For boot buffers, the id is the index */
> +	if (cpu_buffer->ring_meta)
> +		meta->reader.id = rb_meta_subbuf_idx(cpu_buffer->ring_meta,
> +						     cpu_buffer->reader_page->page);
> +	else
> +		meta->reader.id = cpu_buffer->reader_page->id;
>  	meta->reader.lost_events = cpu_buffer->lost_events;
>  
>  	meta->entries = local_read(&cpu_buffer->entries);
> @@ -5963,7 +5969,12 @@ static void rb_update_meta_page(struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer)
>  	meta->read = cpu_buffer->read;
>  
>  	/* Some archs do not have data cache coherency between kernel and user-space */
> -	flush_dcache_folio(virt_to_folio(cpu_buffer->meta_page));
> +	if (virt_addr_valid(cpu_buffer->meta_page))
> +		page = virt_to_page(cpu_buffer->meta_page);
> +	else
> +		page = vmalloc_to_page(cpu_buffer->meta_page);
> +
> +	flush_dcache_folio(page_folio(page));
>  }
>  
>  static void
> @@ -6883,23 +6894,38 @@ static void rb_setup_ids_meta_page(struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer,
>  	struct trace_buffer_meta *meta = cpu_buffer->meta_page;
>  	unsigned int nr_subbufs = cpu_buffer->nr_pages + 1;
>  	struct buffer_page *first_subbuf, *subbuf;
> +	int cnt = 0;
>  	int id = 0;
>  
> -	subbuf_ids[id] = (unsigned long)cpu_buffer->reader_page->page;
> -	cpu_buffer->reader_page->id = id++;
> +	if (cpu_buffer->ring_meta)
> +		id = rb_meta_subbuf_idx(cpu_buffer->ring_meta,
> +					cpu_buffer->reader_page->page);
> +	else
> +		cpu_buffer->reader_page->id = id;
> +
> +	subbuf_ids[id++] = (unsigned long)cpu_buffer->reader_page->page;
> +	cnt++;
>  
>  	first_subbuf = subbuf = rb_set_head_page(cpu_buffer);
>  	do {
> +		if (cpu_buffer->ring_meta)
> +			id = rb_meta_subbuf_idx(cpu_buffer->ring_meta,
> +						subbuf->page);
> +		else
> +			subbuf->id = id;
> +
>  		if (WARN_ON(id >= nr_subbufs))
>  			break;
>  
>  		subbuf_ids[id] = (unsigned long)subbuf->page;
> -		subbuf->id = id;
>  
>  		rb_inc_page(&subbuf);
>  		id++;
> +		cnt++;
>  	} while (subbuf != first_subbuf);
>  
> +	WARN_ON(cnt != nr_subbufs);
> +
>  	/* install subbuf ID to kern VA translation */
>  	cpu_buffer->subbuf_ids = subbuf_ids;
>  
> @@ -7064,7 +7090,10 @@ static int __rb_map_vma(struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer,
>  			goto out;
>  		}
>  
> -		page = virt_to_page((void *)cpu_buffer->subbuf_ids[s]);
> +		if (virt_addr_valid(cpu_buffer->subbuf_ids[s]))
> +			page = virt_to_page((void *)cpu_buffer->subbuf_ids[s]);
> +		else
> +			page = vmalloc_to_page((void *)cpu_buffer->subbuf_ids[s]);
>  
>  		for (; off < (1 << (subbuf_order)); off++, page++) {
>  			if (p >= nr_pages)
> @@ -7210,6 +7239,7 @@ int ring_buffer_map_get_reader(struct trace_buffer *buffer, int cpu)
>  	unsigned long missed_events;
>  	unsigned long reader_size;
>  	unsigned long flags;
> +	struct page *page;
>  
>  	cpu_buffer = rb_get_mapped_buffer(buffer, cpu);
>  	if (IS_ERR(cpu_buffer))
> @@ -7278,7 +7308,12 @@ int ring_buffer_map_get_reader(struct trace_buffer *buffer, int cpu)
>  
>  out:
>  	/* Some archs do not have data cache coherency between kernel and user-space */
> -	flush_dcache_folio(virt_to_folio(cpu_buffer->reader_page->page));
> +	if (virt_addr_valid(cpu_buffer->meta_page))
> +		page = virt_to_page(cpu_buffer->meta_page);
> +	else
> +		page = vmalloc_to_page(cpu_buffer->meta_page);
> +
> +	flush_dcache_folio(page_folio(page));
>  
>  	rb_update_meta_page(cpu_buffer);
>  
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
> index 0e6d517e74e0..25ff37aab00f 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
> @@ -8279,10 +8279,6 @@ static int tracing_buffers_mmap(struct file *filp, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
>  	struct trace_iterator *iter = &info->iter;
>  	int ret = 0;
>  
> -	/* Currently the boot mapped buffer is not supported for mmap */
> -	if (iter->tr->flags & TRACE_ARRAY_FL_BOOT)
> -		return -ENODEV;
> -
>  	ret = get_snapshot_map(iter->tr);
>  	if (ret)
>  		return ret;
> -- 
> 2.47.2
> 


-- 
Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@...nel.org>

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