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authorSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>2025-04-02 10:49:04 -0400
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2025-05-02 08:02:04 +0200
commita9f9f26858c8edc81b46deb8747ba3d6d417d84e (patch)
tree1d079a4a648c7e96cd4245ee0c3f075b806a507a
parentb1354a138f798c80c1a2a114743e9c2899e65c15 (diff)
tracing: Enforce the persistent ring buffer to be page aligned
[ Upstream commit c44a14f216f45d8bf1634b52854a699d7090f1e8 ] 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> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/trace/debugging.rst2
-rw-r--r--kernel/trace/trace.c10
3 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index aa7447f8837c..56be1fc99bdd 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -7243,6 +7243,8 @@
This is just one of many ways that can clear memory. Make sure your system
keeps the content of memory across reboots before relying on this option.
+ NB: Both the mapped address and size must be page aligned for the architecture.
+
See also Documentation/trace/debugging.rst
diff --git a/Documentation/trace/debugging.rst b/Documentation/trace/debugging.rst
index 54fb16239d70..d54bc500af80 100644
--- a/Documentation/trace/debugging.rst
+++ b/Documentation/trace/debugging.rst
@@ -136,6 +136,8 @@ kernel, so only the same kernel is guaranteed to work if the mapping is
preserved. Switching to a different kernel version may find a different
layout and mark the buffer as invalid.
+NB: Both the mapped address and size must be page aligned for the architecture.
+
Using trace_printk() in the boot instance
-----------------------------------------
By default, the content of trace_printk() goes into the top level tracing
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index 0e6d517e74e0..50aa6d590832 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -10427,6 +10427,16 @@ __init static void enable_instances(void)
}
if (start) {
+ /* Start and size must be page aligned */
+ if (start & ~PAGE_MASK) {
+ pr_warn("Tracing: mapping start addr %pa is not page aligned\n", &start);
+ continue;
+ }
+ if (size & ~PAGE_MASK) {
+ pr_warn("Tracing: mapping size %pa is not page aligned\n", &size);
+ continue;
+ }
+
addr = map_pages(start, size);
if (addr) {
pr_info("Tracing: mapped boot instance %s at physical memory %pa of size 0x%lx\n",