ring-buffer: Flush and stop persistent ring buffer on panic

On real hardware, panic and machine reboot may not flush hardware cache
to memory. This means the persistent ring buffer, which relies on a
coherent state of memory, may not have its events written to the buffer
and they may be lost. Moreover, there may be inconsistency with the
counters which are used for validation of the integrity of the
persistent ring buffer which may cause all data to be discarded.

To avoid this issue, stop recording of the ring buffer on panic and
flush the cache of the ring buffer's memory.

Fixes: e645535a95 ("tracing: Add option to use memmapped memory for trace boot instance")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/177751969602.2136606.12031934362587643488.stgit@mhiramat.tok.corp.google.com
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
This commit is contained in:
Masami Hiramatsu (Google)
2026-05-21 08:20:58 -04:00
committed by Steven Rostedt
parent a254b6d13b
commit a494d3c8d5
23 changed files with 65 additions and 0 deletions
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@@ -5,4 +5,5 @@ generic-y += agp.h
generic-y += asm-offsets.h
generic-y += kvm_para.h
generic-y += mcs_spinlock.h
generic-y += ring_buffer.h
generic-y += text-patching.h
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@@ -5,5 +5,6 @@ generic-y += extable.h
generic-y += kvm_para.h
generic-y += mcs_spinlock.h
generic-y += parport.h
generic-y += ring_buffer.h
generic-y += user.h
generic-y += text-patching.h
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@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ generic-y += early_ioremap.h
generic-y += extable.h
generic-y += flat.h
generic-y += parport.h
generic-y += ring_buffer.h
generated-y += mach-types.h
generated-y += unistd-nr.h
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@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only */
#ifndef _ASM_ARM64_RING_BUFFER_H
#define _ASM_ARM64_RING_BUFFER_H
#include <asm/cacheflush.h>
/* Flush D-cache on persistent ring buffer */
#define arch_ring_buffer_flush_range(start, end) dcache_clean_pop(start, end)
#endif /* _ASM_ARM64_RING_BUFFER_H */
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@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ generic-y += qrwlock.h
generic-y += qrwlock_types.h
generic-y += qspinlock.h
generic-y += parport.h
generic-y += ring_buffer.h
generic-y += user.h
generic-y += vmlinux.lds.h
generic-y += text-patching.h
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@@ -5,4 +5,5 @@ generic-y += extable.h
generic-y += iomap.h
generic-y += kvm_para.h
generic-y += mcs_spinlock.h
generic-y += ring_buffer.h
generic-y += text-patching.h
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@@ -10,5 +10,6 @@ generic-y += qrwlock.h
generic-y += user.h
generic-y += ioctl.h
generic-y += mmzone.h
generic-y += ring_buffer.h
generic-y += statfs.h
generic-y += text-patching.h
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@@ -3,5 +3,6 @@ generated-y += syscall_table.h
generic-y += extable.h
generic-y += kvm_para.h
generic-y += mcs_spinlock.h
generic-y += ring_buffer.h
generic-y += spinlock.h
generic-y += text-patching.h
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@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ generic-y += extable.h
generic-y += kvm_para.h
generic-y += mcs_spinlock.h
generic-y += parport.h
generic-y += ring_buffer.h
generic-y += syscalls.h
generic-y += tlb.h
generic-y += user.h
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@@ -12,5 +12,6 @@ generic-y += mcs_spinlock.h
generic-y += parport.h
generic-y += qrwlock.h
generic-y += qspinlock.h
generic-y += ring_buffer.h
generic-y += user.h
generic-y += text-patching.h
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@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ generic-y += cmpxchg.h
generic-y += extable.h
generic-y += kvm_para.h
generic-y += mcs_spinlock.h
generic-y += ring_buffer.h
generic-y += spinlock.h
generic-y += user.h
generic-y += text-patching.h
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@@ -8,4 +8,5 @@ generic-y += spinlock_types.h
generic-y += spinlock.h
generic-y += qrwlock_types.h
generic-y += qrwlock.h
generic-y += ring_buffer.h
generic-y += user.h
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@@ -4,4 +4,5 @@ generated-y += syscall_table_64.h
generic-y += agp.h
generic-y += kvm_para.h
generic-y += mcs_spinlock.h
generic-y += ring_buffer.h
generic-y += user.h
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@@ -5,4 +5,5 @@ generated-y += syscall_table_spu.h
generic-y += agp.h
generic-y += mcs_spinlock.h
generic-y += qrwlock.h
generic-y += ring_buffer.h
generic-y += early_ioremap.h
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@@ -14,5 +14,6 @@ generic-y += ticket_spinlock.h
generic-y += qrwlock.h
generic-y += qrwlock_types.h
generic-y += qspinlock.h
generic-y += ring_buffer.h
generic-y += user.h
generic-y += vmlinux.lds.h
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@@ -7,3 +7,4 @@ generated-y += unistd_nr.h
generic-y += asm-offsets.h
generic-y += mcs_spinlock.h
generic-y += mmzone.h
generic-y += ring_buffer.h
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@@ -3,4 +3,5 @@ generated-y += syscall_table.h
generic-y += kvm_para.h
generic-y += mcs_spinlock.h
generic-y += parport.h
generic-y += ring_buffer.h
generic-y += text-patching.h
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@@ -4,4 +4,5 @@ generated-y += syscall_table_64.h
generic-y += agp.h
generic-y += kvm_para.h
generic-y += mcs_spinlock.h
generic-y += ring_buffer.h
generic-y += text-patching.h
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@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ generic-y += module.lds.h
generic-y += parport.h
generic-y += percpu.h
generic-y += preempt.h
generic-y += ring_buffer.h
generic-y += runtime-const.h
generic-y += softirq_stack.h
generic-y += switch_to.h
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@@ -14,3 +14,4 @@ generic-y += early_ioremap.h
generic-y += fprobe.h
generic-y += mcs_spinlock.h
generic-y += mmzone.h
generic-y += ring_buffer.h

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