[PATCH v11 0/5] ring-buffer: Making persistent ring buffers robust
From: Masami Hiramatsu (Google)
Date: Thu Mar 19 2026 - 05:24:31 EST
Hi,
Here is the 11th version of improvement patches for making persistent
ring buffers robust to failures.
The previous version is here:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/177374017536.2358053.12341235939816794384.stgit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
In this version, I updated [2/5] to do nothing by default since
flush_cache_vmap() does nothing on x86 but it can cause deadlock on
some architectures via on_each_cpu(), because other CPUs will be
stoppped when panic notifier is called.
Also update typo in [3/5], and fix to reset timestamp when invalid
whole ring buffer and skip pages which has invalid "timestamp"
instead of invalidating all ring buffers.
Thank you,
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Masami Hiramatsu (Google) (5):
ring-buffer: Fix to update per-subbuf entries of persistent ring buffer
ring-buffer: Flush and stop persistent ring buffer on panic
ring-buffer: Skip invalid sub-buffers when validating persistent ring buffer
ring-buffer: Skip invalid sub-buffers when rewinding persistent ring buffer
ring-buffer: Add persistent ring buffer selftest
0 files changed
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Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>