- Fix accounting of persistent ring buffer rewind
On boot up, the head page is moved back to the earliest point of
the saved ring buffer. This is because the ring buffer being read by
user space on a crash may not save the part it read. Rewinding the head
page back to the earliest saved position helps keep those events from
being lost.
The number of events is also read during boot up and displayed in the
stats file in the tracefs directory. It's also used for other accounting
as well. On boot up, the "reader page" is accounted for but a rewind may
put it back into the buffer and then the reader page may be accounted
for again.
Save off the original reader page and skip accounting it when scanning
the pages in the ring buffer.
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Merge tag 'trace-ring-buffer-v7.1-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace
Pull ring-buffer fix from Steven Rostedt:
- Fix accounting of persistent ring buffer rewind
On boot up, the head page is moved back to the earliest point of the
saved ring buffer. This is because the ring buffer being read by user
space on a crash may not save the part it read. Rewinding the head
page back to the earliest saved position helps keep those events from
being lost.
The number of events is also read during boot up and displayed in the
stats file in the tracefs directory. It's also used for other
accounting as well. On boot up, the "reader page" is accounted for
but a rewind may put it back into the buffer and then the reader page
may be accounted for again.
Save off the original reader page and skip accounting it when
scanning the pages in the ring buffer.
* tag 'trace-ring-buffer-v7.1-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
ring-buffer: Do not double count the reader_page
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