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Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2023 09:19:47 -0500
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 02/15] ring-buffer: Page size per ring buffer
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On Thu, 21 Dec 2023 09:17:55 +0000
David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM> wrote:

> > Unfortunately, it has to be PAGE_SIZE (and for now it's a power of 2 to
> > make masking easy). It's used for splice and will also be used for memory
> > mapping with user space.  
> 
> Perhaps then the sysctl to set the size should be powers of 4k

It's not a sysctl but a file in tracefs

> with a minimum size of PAGE_SIZE.
> Then you don't have to know the page size when setting things up.

The user shouldn't need to know either. But the size of the sub-buffer
limits the biggest size of an event, so the user only needs to make sure
the sub-buffer is bigger than their biggest event.

> 
> I'm also guessing that no Linux kernels have a PAGE_SIZE of 2k?
> IIRC some old mmu (maybe 68020 era) used 2k pages.

I think 1kb units is perfectly fine (patch 15 changes to kb units). The
interface says its to define the minimal size of the sub-buffer, not the
actual size.

-- Steve