Merge tag 'trace-ringbuffer-v6.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace

Pull tracing ring buffer updates from Steven Rostedt:
 "Add ring_buffer memory mappings.

  The tracing ring buffer was created based on being mostly used with
  the splice system call. It is broken up into page ordered sub-buffers
  and the reader swaps a new sub-buffer with an existing sub-buffer
  that's part of the write buffer. It then has total access to the
  swapped out sub-buffer and can do copyless movements of the memory
  into other mediums (file system, network, etc).

  The buffer is great for passing around the ring buffer contents in the
  kernel, but is not so good for when the consumer is the user space
  task itself.

  A new interface is added that allows user space to memory map the ring
  buffer. It will get all the write sub-buffers as well as reader
  sub-buffer (that is not written to). It can send an ioctl to change
  which sub-buffer is the new reader sub-buffer.

  The ring buffer is read only to user space. It only needs to call the
  ioctl when it is finished with a sub-buffer and needs a new sub-buffer
  that the writer will not write over.

  A self test program was also created for testing and can be used as an
  example for the interface to user space. The libtracefs (external to
  the kernel) also has code that interacts with this, although it is
  disabled until the interface is in a official release. It can be
  enabled by compiling the library with a special flag. This was used
  for testing applications that perform better with the buffer being
  mapped.

  Memory mapped buffers have limitations. The main one is that it can
  not be used with the snapshot logic. If the buffer is mapped,
  snapshots will be disabled. If any logic is set to trigger snapshots
  on a buffer, that buffer will not be allowed to be mapped"

* tag 'trace-ringbuffer-v6.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
  ring-buffer: Add cast to unsigned long addr passed to virt_to_page()
  ring-buffer: Have mmapped ring buffer keep track of missed events
  ring-buffer/selftest: Add ring-buffer mapping test
  Documentation: tracing: Add ring-buffer mapping
  tracing: Allow user-space mapping of the ring-buffer
  ring-buffer: Introducing ring-buffer mapping functions
  ring-buffer: Allocate sub-buffers with __GFP_COMP
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Linus Torvalds
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/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note */
#ifndef _TRACE_MMAP_H_
#define _TRACE_MMAP_H_
#include <linux/types.h>
/**
* struct trace_buffer_meta - Ring-buffer Meta-page description
* @meta_page_size: Size of this meta-page.
* @meta_struct_len: Size of this structure.
* @subbuf_size: Size of each sub-buffer.
* @nr_subbufs: Number of subbfs in the ring-buffer, including the reader.
* @reader.lost_events: Number of events lost at the time of the reader swap.
* @reader.id: subbuf ID of the current reader. ID range [0 : @nr_subbufs - 1]
* @reader.read: Number of bytes read on the reader subbuf.
* @flags: Placeholder for now, 0 until new features are supported.
* @entries: Number of entries in the ring-buffer.
* @overrun: Number of entries lost in the ring-buffer.
* @read: Number of entries that have been read.
* @Reserved1: Internal use only.
* @Reserved2: Internal use only.
*/
struct trace_buffer_meta {
__u32 meta_page_size;
__u32 meta_struct_len;
__u32 subbuf_size;
__u32 nr_subbufs;
struct {
__u64 lost_events;
__u32 id;
__u32 read;
} reader;
__u64 flags;
__u64 entries;
__u64 overrun;
__u64 read;
__u64 Reserved1;
__u64 Reserved2;
};
#define TRACE_MMAP_IOCTL_GET_READER _IO('T', 0x1)
#endif /* _TRACE_MMAP_H_ */