[PATCH v6 0/3] ring-buffer: Making persistent ring buffers robust

From: Masami Hiramatsu (Google)

Date: Fri Feb 27 2026 - 04:20:26 EST


Hi,

Here is the 6th version of improvement patches for making persistent
ring buffers robust to failures.
The previous version is here:

https://lore.kernel.org/all/177211310553.419230.7846100548994399256.stgit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

In this version, I introduced asm/ring_buffer.h file for wrapping
flush ring buffer function and use dcache_clean_pop() for arm64[1/3]
also, showing invalid page detection (first time for each cpu)
message when validating the persistent ring buffer[3/3].

Thank you,

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Masami Hiramatsu (Google) (3):
ring-buffer: Flush and stop persistent ring buffer on panic
ring-buffer: Handle RB_MISSED_* flags on commit field correctly
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 | 78 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
23 files changed, 97 insertions(+), 24 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>