* [PATCH] tracing: Fix file mode of free_buffer
@ 2013-05-26 8:52 Wang YanQing
2013-05-28 19:31 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-05-28 19:34 ` Vaibhav Nagarnaik
0 siblings, 2 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Wang YanQing @ 2013-05-26 8:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: rostedt; +Cc: fweisbec, mingo, linux-kernel, vnagarnaik
Commit 4f271a2a60c748599b30bb4dafff30d770439b96
(tracing: Add a proc file to stop tracing and free buffer)
implement a method to free up ring buffer in kernel memory
in the release code path of free_buffer's fd.
Then we don't need read/write support for free_buffer,
indeed we just have a dummy write fop, and don't implement read fop.
So the 0200 is more reasonable file mode for free_buffer than
the current file mode 0644.
Signed-off-by: Wang YanQing <udknight@gmail.com>
---
kernel/trace/trace.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index ae6fa2d..02d9875 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -5927,7 +5927,7 @@ init_tracer_debugfs(struct trace_array *tr, struct dentry *d_tracer)
trace_create_file("buffer_total_size_kb", 0444, d_tracer,
tr, &tracing_total_entries_fops);
- trace_create_file("free_buffer", 0644, d_tracer,
+ trace_create_file("free_buffer", 0200, d_tracer,
tr, &tracing_free_buffer_fops);
trace_create_file("trace_marker", 0220, d_tracer,
--
1.7.12.4.dirty
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* Re: [PATCH] tracing: Fix file mode of free_buffer
2013-05-26 8:52 [PATCH] tracing: Fix file mode of free_buffer Wang YanQing
@ 2013-05-28 19:31 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-05-28 19:34 ` Vaibhav Nagarnaik
1 sibling, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Steven Rostedt @ 2013-05-28 19:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Wang YanQing; +Cc: fweisbec, mingo, linux-kernel, vnagarnaik, David Sharp
David, Vaibhav,
Any comments on this patch?
-- Steve
On Sun, 2013-05-26 at 16:52 +0800, Wang YanQing wrote:
> Commit 4f271a2a60c748599b30bb4dafff30d770439b96
> (tracing: Add a proc file to stop tracing and free buffer)
> implement a method to free up ring buffer in kernel memory
> in the release code path of free_buffer's fd.
>
> Then we don't need read/write support for free_buffer,
> indeed we just have a dummy write fop, and don't implement read fop.
>
> So the 0200 is more reasonable file mode for free_buffer than
> the current file mode 0644.
>
> Signed-off-by: Wang YanQing <udknight@gmail.com>
> ---
> kernel/trace/trace.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
> index ae6fa2d..02d9875 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
> @@ -5927,7 +5927,7 @@ init_tracer_debugfs(struct trace_array *tr, struct dentry *d_tracer)
> trace_create_file("buffer_total_size_kb", 0444, d_tracer,
> tr, &tracing_total_entries_fops);
>
> - trace_create_file("free_buffer", 0644, d_tracer,
> + trace_create_file("free_buffer", 0200, d_tracer,
> tr, &tracing_free_buffer_fops);
>
> trace_create_file("trace_marker", 0220, d_tracer,
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* Re: [PATCH] tracing: Fix file mode of free_buffer
2013-05-26 8:52 [PATCH] tracing: Fix file mode of free_buffer Wang YanQing
2013-05-28 19:31 ` Steven Rostedt
@ 2013-05-28 19:34 ` Vaibhav Nagarnaik
2013-05-28 20:14 ` David Sharp
1 sibling, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Vaibhav Nagarnaik @ 2013-05-28 19:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Wang YanQing, Steven Rostedt, Frédéric Weisbecker,
Ingo Molnar, linux-kernel, Vaibhav Nagarnaik
On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 1:52 AM, Wang YanQing <udknight@gmail.com> wrote:
> Commit 4f271a2a60c748599b30bb4dafff30d770439b96
> (tracing: Add a proc file to stop tracing and free buffer)
> implement a method to free up ring buffer in kernel memory
> in the release code path of free_buffer's fd.
>
> Then we don't need read/write support for free_buffer,
> indeed we just have a dummy write fop, and don't implement read fop.
>
> So the 0200 is more reasonable file mode for free_buffer than
> the current file mode 0644.
>
> Signed-off-by: Wang YanQing <udknight@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Vaibhav Nagarnaik <vnagarnaik@google.com>
Vaibhav Nagarnaik
> ---
> kernel/trace/trace.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
> index ae6fa2d..02d9875 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
> @@ -5927,7 +5927,7 @@ init_tracer_debugfs(struct trace_array *tr, struct dentry *d_tracer)
> trace_create_file("buffer_total_size_kb", 0444, d_tracer,
> tr, &tracing_total_entries_fops);
>
> - trace_create_file("free_buffer", 0644, d_tracer,
> + trace_create_file("free_buffer", 0200, d_tracer,
> tr, &tracing_free_buffer_fops);
>
> trace_create_file("trace_marker", 0220, d_tracer,
> --
> 1.7.12.4.dirty
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* Re: [PATCH] tracing: Fix file mode of free_buffer
2013-05-28 19:34 ` Vaibhav Nagarnaik
@ 2013-05-28 20:14 ` David Sharp
2013-05-29 0:04 ` Steven Rostedt
0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: David Sharp @ 2013-05-28 20:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Vaibhav Nagarnaik
Cc: Wang YanQing, Steven Rostedt, Frédéric Weisbecker,
Ingo Molnar, linux-kernel
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Vaibhav Nagarnaik
<vnagarnaik@google.com> wrote:
> On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 1:52 AM, Wang YanQing <udknight@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Commit 4f271a2a60c748599b30bb4dafff30d770439b96
>> (tracing: Add a proc file to stop tracing and free buffer)
>> implement a method to free up ring buffer in kernel memory
>> in the release code path of free_buffer's fd.
>>
>> Then we don't need read/write support for free_buffer,
>> indeed we just have a dummy write fop, and don't implement read fop.
>>
>> So the 0200 is more reasonable file mode for free_buffer than
>> the current file mode 0644.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Wang YanQing <udknight@gmail.com>
>
> Acked-by: Vaibhav Nagarnaik <vnagarnaik@google.com>
Acked-by: David Sharp <dhsharp@google.com>
>
> Vaibhav Nagarnaik
>
>
>> ---
>> kernel/trace/trace.c | 2 +-
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
>> index ae6fa2d..02d9875 100644
>> --- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
>> +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
>> @@ -5927,7 +5927,7 @@ init_tracer_debugfs(struct trace_array *tr, struct dentry *d_tracer)
>> trace_create_file("buffer_total_size_kb", 0444, d_tracer,
>> tr, &tracing_total_entries_fops);
>>
>> - trace_create_file("free_buffer", 0644, d_tracer,
>> + trace_create_file("free_buffer", 0200, d_tracer,
>> tr, &tracing_free_buffer_fops);
>>
>> trace_create_file("trace_marker", 0220, d_tracer,
>> --
>> 1.7.12.4.dirty
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* Re: [PATCH] tracing: Fix file mode of free_buffer
2013-05-28 20:14 ` David Sharp
@ 2013-05-29 0:04 ` Steven Rostedt
0 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Steven Rostedt @ 2013-05-29 0:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: David Sharp
Cc: Vaibhav Nagarnaik, Wang YanQing, Frédéric Weisbecker,
Ingo Molnar, linux-kernel
On Tue, 2013-05-28 at 13:14 -0700, David Sharp wrote:
> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Vaibhav Nagarnaik
> <vnagarnaik@google.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 1:52 AM, Wang YanQing <udknight@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Commit 4f271a2a60c748599b30bb4dafff30d770439b96
> >> (tracing: Add a proc file to stop tracing and free buffer)
> >> implement a method to free up ring buffer in kernel memory
> >> in the release code path of free_buffer's fd.
> >>
> >> Then we don't need read/write support for free_buffer,
> >> indeed we just have a dummy write fop, and don't implement read fop.
> >>
> >> So the 0200 is more reasonable file mode for free_buffer than
> >> the current file mode 0644.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Wang YanQing <udknight@gmail.com>
> >
> > Acked-by: Vaibhav Nagarnaik <vnagarnaik@google.com>
>
> Acked-by: David Sharp <dhsharp@google.com>
>
> >
Thanks guys,
As this isn't that big of a deal, I'm going to just queue this for 3.11.
-- Steve
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