[PATCH v8 0/2] ring-buffer: Making persistent ring buffers robust

From: Masami Hiramatsu (Google)

Date: Mon Mar 09 2026 - 01:04:12 EST


Hi,

Here is the 8th version of improvement patches for making persistent
ring buffers robust to failures.
The previous version is here:

https://lore.kernel.org/all/177289358078.248514.14947007976699929481.stgit@devnote2/

In this version, I cleaned up and add comments, remove unused var,
and clear RB_MISSED_* flags when reading recovered subbufs.[1/2]

Thank you,

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Masami Hiramatsu (Google) (2):
ring-buffer: Flush and stop persistent ring buffer on panic
ring-buffer: Skip invalid sub-buffers when validating persistent ring buffer


arch/alpha/include/asm/Kbuild | 1
arch/arc/include/asm/Kbuild | 1
arch/arm/include/asm/Kbuild | 1
arch/arm64/include/asm/ring_buffer.h | 10 +++
arch/csky/include/asm/Kbuild | 1
arch/hexagon/include/asm/Kbuild | 1
arch/loongarch/include/asm/Kbuild | 1
arch/m68k/include/asm/Kbuild | 1
arch/microblaze/include/asm/Kbuild | 1
arch/mips/include/asm/Kbuild | 1
arch/nios2/include/asm/Kbuild | 1
arch/openrisc/include/asm/Kbuild | 1
arch/parisc/include/asm/Kbuild | 1
arch/powerpc/include/asm/Kbuild | 1
arch/riscv/include/asm/Kbuild | 1
arch/s390/include/asm/Kbuild | 1
arch/sh/include/asm/Kbuild | 1
arch/sparc/include/asm/Kbuild | 1
arch/um/include/asm/Kbuild | 1
arch/x86/include/asm/Kbuild | 1
arch/xtensa/include/asm/Kbuild | 1
include/asm-generic/ring_buffer.h | 13 ++++
kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 102 ++++++++++++++++++++++------------
23 files changed, 109 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 arch/arm64/include/asm/ring_buffer.h
create mode 100644 include/asm-generic/ring_buffer.h

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Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>