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authorMasami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>2025-02-18 18:09:08 +0300
committerSteven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>2025-03-28 15:39:28 +0300
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tracing: Freeable reserved ring buffer
Make the ring buffer on reserved memory to be freeable. This allows us to free the trace instance on the reserved memory without changing cmdline and rebooting. Even if we can not change the kernel cmdline for security reason, we can release the reserved memory for the ring buffer as free (available) memory. For example, boot kernel with reserved memory; "reserve_mem=20M:2M:trace trace_instance=boot_mapped^traceoff@trace" ~ # free total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 1995548 50544 1927568 14964 17436 1911480 Swap: 0 0 0 ~ # rmdir /sys/kernel/tracing/instances/boot_mapped/ [ 23.704023] Freeing reserve_mem:trace memory: 20476K ~ # free total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 2016024 41844 1956740 14968 17440 1940572 Swap: 0 0 0 Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/173989134814.230693.18199312930337815629.stgit@devnote2 Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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