From 7a1d1e4b9639ff08b2f42605c2950ae1ba4a43bf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Steven Rostedt (Google)" Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2024 19:19:44 -0400 Subject: tracing/ring-buffer: Add last_boot_info file to boot instance If an instance is mapped to memory on boot up, create a new file called "last_boot_info" that will hold information that can be used to properly parse the raw data in the ring buffer. It will export the delta of the addresses for text and data from what it was from the last boot. It does not expose actually addresses (unless you knew what the actual address was from the last boot). The output will look like: # cat last_boot_info text delta: -268435456 data delta: -268435456 The text and data are kept separate in case they are ever made different. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240612232026.658680738@goodmis.org Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Vincent Donnefort Cc: Joel Fernandes Cc: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Vineeth Pillai Cc: Youssef Esmat Cc: Beau Belgrave Cc: Alexander Graf Cc: Baoquan He Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" Cc: David Howells Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Tony Luck Cc: Guenter Roeck Cc: Ross Zwisler Cc: Kees Cook Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) --- kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+) (limited to 'kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c') diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c index 8c287430411d..f3d772461a60 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c +++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c @@ -2396,6 +2396,29 @@ struct trace_buffer *__ring_buffer_alloc_range(unsigned long size, unsigned flag return alloc_buffer(size, flags, order, start, start + range_size, key); } +/** + * ring_buffer_last_boot_delta - return the delta offset from last boot + * @buffer: The buffer to return the delta from + * @text: Return text delta + * @data: Return data delta + * + * Returns: The true if the delta is non zero + */ +bool ring_buffer_last_boot_delta(struct trace_buffer *buffer, long *text, + long *data) +{ + if (!buffer) + return false; + + if (!buffer->last_text_delta) + return false; + + *text = buffer->last_text_delta; + *data = buffer->last_data_delta; + + return true; +} + /** * ring_buffer_free - free a ring buffer. * @buffer: the buffer to free. -- cgit v1.2.3