[PATCH v4 9/9] ring-buffer: Make nr_pages unsigned int

From: Vincent Donnefort

Date: Wed Aug 12 2026 - 11:36:44 EST


nr_pages is an int or unsigned int almost everywhere already. Also, all
the meta-data ring_buffer_desc, ring_buffer_cpu_meta and
trace_buffer_meta allowing to share information about the ring buffer
are already capping this value to 32-bits.

Make ring_buffer_per_cpu::nr_pages unsigned and align all the users to
it. As a side effect, this makes ring_buffer_per_cpu slightly smaller.

Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@xxxxxxxxxx>

diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
index 990a904cefe8..2fccb950e593 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
@@ -519,7 +519,7 @@ struct ring_buffer_per_cpu {
arch_spinlock_t lock;
struct lock_class_key lock_key;
struct buffer_data_page *free_page;
- unsigned long nr_pages;
+ unsigned int nr_pages;
unsigned int current_context;
struct list_head *pages;
/* pages generation counter, incremented when the list changes */
@@ -561,7 +561,7 @@ struct ring_buffer_per_cpu {
struct ring_buffer_remote *remote;

/* ring buffer pages to update, > 0 to add, < 0 to remove */
- long nr_pages_to_update;
+ int nr_pages_to_update;
struct list_head new_pages; /* new pages to add */
struct work_struct update_pages_work;
struct completion update_done;
@@ -1669,7 +1669,7 @@ static void rb_check_pages(struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer)
* This is used to help find the next per cpu subbuffer within a mapped range.
*/
static unsigned long
-rb_range_align_subbuf(unsigned long addr, int subbuf_size, int nr_subbufs)
+rb_range_align_subbuf(unsigned long addr, int subbuf_size, unsigned int nr_subbufs)
{
addr += sizeof(struct ring_buffer_cpu_meta) +
sizeof(int) * nr_subbufs;
@@ -1679,13 +1679,13 @@ rb_range_align_subbuf(unsigned long addr, int subbuf_size, int nr_subbufs)
/*
* Return the ring_buffer_meta for a given @cpu.
*/
-static void *rb_range_meta(struct trace_buffer *buffer, int nr_pages, int cpu)
+static void *rb_range_meta(struct trace_buffer *buffer, unsigned int nr_pages, int cpu)
{
int subbuf_size = rb_subbuf_size(buffer);
struct ring_buffer_cpu_meta *meta;
struct ring_buffer_meta *bmeta;
+ unsigned int nr_subbufs;
unsigned long ptr;
- int nr_subbufs;

bmeta = buffer->meta;
if (!bmeta)
@@ -1840,7 +1840,7 @@ static bool rb_meta_init(struct trace_buffer *buffer, int scratch_size)
* must be the same.
*/
static bool rb_cpu_meta_valid(struct ring_buffer_cpu_meta *meta, int cpu,
- struct trace_buffer *buffer, int nr_pages,
+ struct trace_buffer *buffer, unsigned int nr_pages,
unsigned long *subbuf_mask)
{
int subbuf_size = PAGE_SIZE;
@@ -2231,7 +2231,7 @@ static void rb_meta_validate_events(struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer)
}
}

-static void rb_range_meta_init(struct trace_buffer *buffer, int nr_pages, int scratch_size)
+static void rb_range_meta_init(struct trace_buffer *buffer, unsigned int nr_pages, int scratch_size)
{
struct ring_buffer_cpu_meta *meta;
unsigned long *subbuf_mask;
@@ -2331,8 +2331,8 @@ static int rbm_show(struct seq_file *m, void *v)
rb_meta_subbuf_idx(meta, (void *)meta->head_buffer));
seq_printf(m, "commit_buffer: %d\n",
rb_meta_subbuf_idx(meta, (void *)meta->commit_buffer));
- seq_printf(m, "subbuf_size: %d\n", meta->subbuf_size);
- seq_printf(m, "nr_subbufs: %d\n", meta->nr_subbufs);
+ seq_printf(m, "subbuf_size: %u\n", meta->subbuf_size);
+ seq_printf(m, "nr_subbufs: %u\n", meta->nr_subbufs);
return 0;
}

@@ -2417,7 +2417,7 @@ static void *ring_buffer_desc_page(struct ring_buffer_desc *desc, unsigned int p
}

static int __rb_allocate_pages(struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer,
- long nr_pages, struct list_head *pages)
+ unsigned int nr_pages, struct list_head *pages)
{
struct trace_buffer *buffer = cpu_buffer->buffer;
struct ring_buffer_cpu_meta *meta = NULL;
@@ -2520,7 +2520,7 @@ static int __rb_allocate_pages(struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer,
}

static int rb_allocate_pages(struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer,
- unsigned long nr_pages)
+ unsigned int nr_pages)
{
LIST_HEAD(pages);

@@ -2545,7 +2545,7 @@ static int rb_allocate_pages(struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer,
}

static struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *
-rb_allocate_cpu_buffer(struct trace_buffer *buffer, long nr_pages, int cpu)
+rb_allocate_cpu_buffer(struct trace_buffer *buffer, unsigned int nr_pages, int cpu)
{
struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer __free(kfree) =
alloc_cpu_buffer(cpu);
@@ -2773,7 +2773,7 @@ static struct trace_buffer *alloc_buffer(unsigned long size, unsigned flags,
struct ring_buffer_remote *remote)
{
struct trace_buffer *buffer __free(kfree) = NULL;
- long nr_pages;
+ unsigned int nr_pages;
int subbuf_size;
int bsize;
int cpu;
@@ -3037,12 +3037,12 @@ static inline unsigned long rb_page_write(struct buffer_page *bpage)
}

static bool
-rb_remove_pages(struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer, unsigned long nr_pages)
+rb_remove_pages(struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer, unsigned int nr_pages)
{
struct list_head *tail_page, *to_remove, *next_page;
struct buffer_page *to_remove_page, *tmp_iter_page;
struct buffer_page *last_page, *first_page;
- unsigned long nr_removed;
+ unsigned int nr_removed;
unsigned long head_bit;
int page_entries;

@@ -3264,7 +3264,7 @@ int ring_buffer_resize(struct trace_buffer *buffer, unsigned long size,
int cpu_id)
{
struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer;
- unsigned long nr_pages;
+ unsigned int nr_pages;
int cpu, err;

/*
@@ -6522,7 +6522,7 @@ unsigned long ring_buffer_size(struct trace_buffer *buffer, int cpu)
if (!cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, buffer->cpumask))
return 0;

- return rb_subbuf_capacity(buffer) * buffer->buffers[cpu]->nr_pages;
+ return (unsigned long)rb_subbuf_capacity(buffer) * buffer->buffers[cpu]->nr_pages;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ring_buffer_size);

@@ -7412,8 +7412,8 @@ int ring_buffer_subbuf_order_set(struct trace_buffer *buffer, int order)
struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer;
struct buffer_page *bpage, *tmp;
unsigned int old_capacity;
+ unsigned int nr_pages;
int old_order;
- int nr_pages;
int psize;
int err;
int cpu;
@@ -7459,8 +7459,9 @@ int ring_buffer_subbuf_order_set(struct trace_buffer *buffer, int order)
}

/* Update the number of pages to match the new size */
- nr_pages = old_capacity * buffer->buffers[cpu]->nr_pages;
- nr_pages = DIV_ROUND_UP(nr_pages, rb_subbuf_capacity(buffer));
+ nr_pages = DIV_ROUND_UP(
+ (unsigned long)old_capacity * buffer->buffers[cpu]->nr_pages,
+ rb_subbuf_capacity(buffer));

/* we need a minimum of two pages */
if (nr_pages < 2)
@@ -7702,8 +7703,8 @@ static int __rb_inc_dec_mapped(struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer,
static int __rb_map_vma(struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer,
struct vm_area_struct *vma)
{
- unsigned long nr_subbufs, nr_pages, nr_vma_pages, pgoff = vma->vm_pgoff;
- unsigned int subbuf_pages, subbuf_order;
+ unsigned long nr_pages, nr_vma_pages, pgoff = vma->vm_pgoff;
+ unsigned int nr_subbufs, subbuf_pages, subbuf_order;
struct page **pages __free(kfree) = NULL;
int p = 0, s = 0;
int err;
@@ -8033,9 +8034,9 @@ static void rb_cpu_sync(void *data)
int trace_rb_cpu_prepare(unsigned int cpu, struct hlist_node *node)
{
struct trace_buffer *buffer;
- long nr_pages_same;
+ unsigned int nr_pages;
+ int nr_pages_same;
int cpu_i;
- unsigned long nr_pages;

buffer = container_of(node, struct trace_buffer, node);
if (cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, buffer->cpumask))
--
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