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| author | Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> | 2025-04-02 10:49:04 -0400 |
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| committer | Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> | 2025-04-02 11:02:26 -0400 |
| commit | c44a14f216f45d8bf1634b52854a699d7090f1e8 (patch) | |
| tree | 0665d4830496b4476a8c97b0407b4d5c03a34737 /Documentation | |
| parent | 028a58ec154257e618c27fb0eba8d9e30379bc3d (diff) | |
tracing: Enforce the persistent ring buffer to be page aligned
Enforce that the address and the size of the memory used by the persistent
ring buffer is page aligned. Also update the documentation to reflect this
requirement.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=whUOfVucfJRt7E0AH+GV41ELmS4wJqxHDnui6Giddfkzw@mail.gmail.com/
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250402144953.412882844@goodmis.org
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/trace/debugging.rst | 2 |
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index fb8752b42ec8..71861643ef14 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -7241,6 +7241,8 @@ This is just one of many ways that can clear memory. Make sure your system keeps the content of memory across reboots before relying on this option. + NB: Both the mapped address and size must be page aligned for the architecture. + See also Documentation/trace/debugging.rst diff --git a/Documentation/trace/debugging.rst b/Documentation/trace/debugging.rst index 54fb16239d70..d54bc500af80 100644 --- a/Documentation/trace/debugging.rst +++ b/Documentation/trace/debugging.rst @@ -136,6 +136,8 @@ kernel, so only the same kernel is guaranteed to work if the mapping is preserved. Switching to a different kernel version may find a different layout and mark the buffer as invalid. +NB: Both the mapped address and size must be page aligned for the architecture. + Using trace_printk() in the boot instance ----------------------------------------- By default, the content of trace_printk() goes into the top level tracing |