Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Sun, 12 Feb 2023 15:32:50 +0000 | Subject | [RFC PATCH 2/2] tracing: Allow user-space mapping of the ring-buffer | From | Vincent Donnefort <> |
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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 not possible 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 exposed via the per-CPU file trace_pipe_raw. The first page is the meta-page and is followed by each page of the ring-buffer, ordered by their unique page ID. It is therefore easy to translate a page-ID to an offset into the mapping.
* Meta-page -- include/uapi/linux/trace_mmap.h for a description * Page ID 0 * Page ID 1 ...
The mapper must then do what use to be the kernel jobs: swap the reader with the head. This is done with a newly introduced ioctl: TRACE_MMAP_IOCTL_GET_READER_PAGE.
To avoid putting to much work on the writer, the meta-page is not automatically updated. User-space must query an update before reading with another ioctl: TRACE_MMAP_IOCTL_UPDATE_META_PAGE.
Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com>
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/trace_mmap.h b/include/uapi/linux/trace_mmap.h index 0f3282fa1a94..fe3bbe02e571 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/trace_mmap.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/trace_mmap.h @@ -11,4 +11,7 @@ struct ring_buffer_meta_page { __u32 data_pages[]; }; +#define TRACE_MMAP_IOCTL_GET_READER_PAGE _IO('T', 0x1) +#define TRACE_MMAP_IOCTL_UPDATE_META_PAGE _IO('T', 0x2) + #endif /* _UAPI_TRACE_MMAP_H_ */ diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c index 78ed5f1baa8c..e7d999499dde 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c @@ -6351,7 +6351,7 @@ 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) @@ -8384,15 +8384,27 @@ 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; + switch (cmd) { + case TRACE_MMAP_IOCTL_GET_READER_PAGE: + return ring_buffer_get_reader_page(iter->array_buffer->buffer, + iter->cpu_file); + case TRACE_MMAP_IOCTL_UPDATE_META_PAGE: + return ring_buffer_update_meta_page(iter->array_buffer->buffer, + iter->cpu_file); + } + if (cmd) - return -ENOIOCTLCMD; + 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++; @@ -8405,6 +8417,61 @@ 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; + + 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; + + ring_buffer_unmap(iter->array_buffer->buffer, iter->cpu_file); +} + +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; + + if (vma->vm_flags & VM_WRITE) + return -EPERM; + + vma->vm_flags |= VM_DONTCOPY | VM_DONTDUMP; + vma->vm_flags &= ~VM_MAYWRITE; + vma->vm_ops = &tracing_buffers_vmops; + + return ring_buffer_map(iter->array_buffer->buffer, iter->cpu_file); +} + static const struct file_operations tracing_buffers_fops = { .open = tracing_buffers_open, .read = tracing_buffers_read, @@ -8413,6 +8480,7 @@ 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 -- 2.39.1.581.gbfd45094c4-goog
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