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Steven Rostedt
c44a14f216 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>
2025-04-02 11:02:26 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
2fcd5aff92 tracing/Documentation: Start a document on how to debug with tracing
Add a new document Documentation/trace/debugging.rst that will hold
various ways to debug tracing.

This initial version mentions trace_printk and how to create persistent
buffers that can last across bootups.

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: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vineeth Pillai <vineeth@bitbyteword.org>
Cc: Beau Belgrave <beaub@linux.microsoft.com>
Cc: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Cc: Ross Zwisler <zwisler@google.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Alexander Aring <aahringo@redhat.com>
Cc: "Luis Claudio R. Goncalves" <lgoncalv@redhat.com>
Cc: Tomas Glozar <tglozar@redhat.com>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Cc: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Jonathan Corbet" <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20240823014019.702433486@goodmis.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2024-08-26 13:54:08 -04:00