Re: [PATCH v2] tracing: Make percpu stack trace buffer invariant to PAGE_SIZE

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Wed Oct 30 2024 - 17:15:55 EST


On Wed, 30 Oct 2024 08:50:16 +0000
Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 21/10/2024 15:18, Ryan Roberts wrote:
> > Previously the size of "struct ftrace_stacks" depended upon PAGE_SIZE.
> > For the common 4K page size, on a 64-bit system, sizeof(struct
> > ftrace_stacks) was 32K. But for a 64K page size, sizeof(struct
> > ftrace_stacks) was 512K.
> >
> > But ftrace stack usage requirements should be invariant to page size. So
> > let's redefine FTRACE_KSTACK_ENTRIES so that "struct ftrace_stacks" is
> > always sized at 32K for 64-bit and 16K for 32-bit.
> >
> > As a side effect, it removes the PAGE_SIZE compile-time constant
> > assumption from this code, which is required to reach the goal of
> > boot-time page size selection.
>
> Just a polite bump on this... Does anyone have any comments?

No, it's in my queue. I've just been traveling.

-- Steve