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Commit fb6d0323 authored by Masami Hiramatsu (Google)'s avatar Masami Hiramatsu (Google) Committed by Steven Rostedt (Google)
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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: default avatarMasami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
parent 74e2498c
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