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 imposible 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 is exposed via the per-CPU file trace_pipe_raw. The first element of the mapping is the meta-page. It is followed by each subbuffer constituting the ring-buffer, ordered by their unique page ID: * Meta-page -- include/uapi/linux/trace_mmap.h for a description * Subbuf ID 0 * Subbuf ID 1 ... It is therefore easy to translate a subbuf ID into an offset in the mapping: reader_id = meta->reader->id; reader_offset = meta->meta_page_size + reader_id * meta->subbuf_size; When new data is available, the mapper must call a newly introduced ioctl: TRACE_MMAP_IOCTL_GET_READER. This will update the Meta-page reader ID to point to the next reader containing unread data. Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnef...@google.com> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/trace_mmap.h b/include/uapi/linux/trace_mmap.h index f950648b0ba9..8c49489c5867 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/trace_mmap.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/trace_mmap.h @@ -26,4 +26,6 @@ struct trace_buffer_meta { __u32 meta_struct_len; /* Len of this struct */ }; +#define TRACE_MMAP_IOCTL_GET_READER _IO('T', 0x1) + #endif /* _UAPI_TRACE_MMAP_H_ */ diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c index 46dbe22121e9..cfeaf2cd204e 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c @@ -8583,15 +8583,31 @@ 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; + int err; - if (cmd) - return -ENOIOCTLCMD; + if (cmd == TRACE_MMAP_IOCTL_GET_READER) { + if (!(file->f_flags & O_NONBLOCK)) { + err = ring_buffer_wait(iter->array_buffer->buffer, + iter->cpu_file, + iter->tr->buffer_percent); + if (err) + return err; + } + return ring_buffer_map_get_reader(iter->array_buffer->buffer, + iter->cpu_file); + } else if (cmd) { + 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++; @@ -8604,6 +8620,62 @@ 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; + vmf->page->mapping = vmf->vma->vm_file->f_mapping; + vmf->page->index = vmf->pgoff; + + 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; + + vm_flags_mod(vma, VM_DONTCOPY | VM_DONTDUMP, 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, @@ -8612,6 +8684,7 @@ 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 -- 2.43.0.472.g3155946c3a-goog