[RFC,2/2] tracing: Allow user-space mapping of the ring-buffer

Commit Message

Steven Rostedt Dec. 29, 2023, 6:40 p.m. UTC

From: Vincent Donnefort <[e-mail]>

Currently, user-space extracts data from the ring-buffer via splice,
which is handy for storage or network sharing. However, due to splice
limitations, it is imposible to do real-time analysis without a copy.

A solution for that problem is to let the user-space map the ring-buffer
directly.

The mapping is exposed via the per-CPU file trace_pipe_raw. The first
element of the mapping is the meta-page. It is followed by each
subbuffer constituting the ring-buffer, ordered by their unique page ID:

  * Meta-page -- include/uapi/linux/trace_mmap.h for a description
  * Subbuf ID 0
  * Subbuf ID 1
     ...

It is therefore easy to translate a subbuf ID into an offset in the
mapping:

  reader_id = meta->reader->id;
  reader_offset = meta->meta_page_size + reader_id * meta->subbuf_size;

When new data is available, the mapper must call a newly introduced ioctl:
TRACE_MMAP_IOCTL_GET_READER. This will update the Meta-page reader ID to
point to the next reader containing unread data.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/[e-mail]

Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <[e-mail]>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <[e-mail]>
---
 include/uapi/linux/trace_mmap.h |  2 +
 kernel/trace/trace.c            | 79 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 2 files changed, 78 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Patch

diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/trace_mmap.h b/include/uapi/linux/trace_mmap.h
index f950648b0ba9..8c49489c5867 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/trace_mmap.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/trace_mmap.h
@@ -26,4 +26,6 @@  struct trace_buffer_meta {
 	__u32		meta_struct_len;	/* Len of this struct */
 };
 
+#define TRACE_MMAP_IOCTL_GET_READER		_IO('T', 0x1)
+
 #endif /* _UAPI_TRACE_MMAP_H_ */
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index 46dbe22121e9..cfeaf2cd204e 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -8583,15 +8583,31 @@  tracing_buffers_splice_read(struct file *file, loff_t *ppos,
 	return ret;
 }
 
-/* An ioctl call with cmd 0 to the ring buffer file will wake up all waiters */
 static long tracing_buffers_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
 {
 	struct ftrace_buffer_info *info = file->private_data;
 	struct trace_iterator *iter = &info->iter;
+	int err;
 
-	if (cmd)
-		return -ENOIOCTLCMD;
+	if (cmd == TRACE_MMAP_IOCTL_GET_READER) {
+		if (!(file->f_flags & O_NONBLOCK)) {
+			err = ring_buffer_wait(iter->array_buffer->buffer,
+					       iter->cpu_file,
+					       iter->tr->buffer_percent);
+			if (err)
+				return err;
+		}
 
+		return ring_buffer_map_get_reader(iter->array_buffer->buffer,
+						  iter->cpu_file);
+	} else if (cmd) {
+		return -ENOTTY;
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * An ioctl call with cmd 0 to the ring buffer file will wake up all
+	 * waiters
+	 */
 	mutex_lock(&trace_types_lock);
 
 	iter->wait_index++;
@@ -8604,6 +8620,62 @@  static long tracing_buffers_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned
 	return 0;
 }
 
+static vm_fault_t tracing_buffers_mmap_fault(struct vm_fault *vmf)
+{
+	struct ftrace_buffer_info *info = vmf->vma->vm_file->private_data;
+	struct trace_iterator *iter = &info->iter;
+	vm_fault_t ret = VM_FAULT_SIGBUS;
+	struct page *page;
+
+	page = ring_buffer_map_fault(iter->array_buffer->buffer, iter->cpu_file,
+				     vmf->pgoff);
+	if (!page)
+		return ret;
+
+	get_page(page);
+	vmf->page = page;
+	vmf->page->mapping = vmf->vma->vm_file->f_mapping;
+	vmf->page->index = vmf->pgoff;
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static void tracing_buffers_mmap_close(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
+{
+	struct ftrace_buffer_info *info = vma->vm_file->private_data;
+	struct trace_iterator *iter = &info->iter;
+
+	ring_buffer_unmap(iter->array_buffer->buffer, iter->cpu_file);
+}
+
+static void tracing_buffers_mmap_open(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
+{
+	struct ftrace_buffer_info *info = vma->vm_file->private_data;
+	struct trace_iterator *iter = &info->iter;
+
+	WARN_ON(ring_buffer_map(iter->array_buffer->buffer, iter->cpu_file));
+}
+
+static const struct vm_operations_struct tracing_buffers_vmops = {
+	.open		= tracing_buffers_mmap_open,
+	.close		= tracing_buffers_mmap_close,
+	.fault		= tracing_buffers_mmap_fault,
+};
+
+static int tracing_buffers_mmap(struct file *filp, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
+{
+	struct ftrace_buffer_info *info = filp->private_data;
+	struct trace_iterator *iter = &info->iter;
+
+	if (vma->vm_flags & VM_WRITE)
+		return -EPERM;
+
+	vm_flags_mod(vma, VM_DONTCOPY | VM_DONTDUMP, VM_MAYWRITE);
+	vma->vm_ops = &tracing_buffers_vmops;
+
+	return ring_buffer_map(iter->array_buffer->buffer, iter->cpu_file);
+}
+
 static const struct file_operations tracing_buffers_fops = {
 	.open		= tracing_buffers_open,
 	.read		= tracing_buffers_read,
@@ -8612,6 +8684,7 @@  static const struct file_operations tracing_buffers_fops = {
 	.splice_read	= tracing_buffers_splice_read,
 	.unlocked_ioctl = tracing_buffers_ioctl,
 	.llseek		= no_llseek,
+	.mmap		= tracing_buffers_mmap,
 };
 
 static ssize_t