From c44a14f216f45d8bf1634b52854a699d7090f1e8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Steven Rostedt Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2025 10:49:04 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] tracing: Enforce the persistent ring buffer to be page aligned 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 Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Vincent Donnefort Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Jann Horn Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250402144953.412882844@goodmis.org Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) --- Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 2 ++ Documentation/trace/debugging.rst | 2 ++ kernel/trace/trace.c | 10 ++++++++++ 3 files changed, 14 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index fb8752b42ec8..71861643ef14 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -7241,6 +7241,8 @@ 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 14c38fcd6f9e..96129985e81c 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c @@ -10774,6 +10774,16 @@ __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",