ring-buffer: Introducing ring-buffer mapping functions

In preparation for allowing the user-space to map a ring-buffer, add
a set of mapping functions:

  ring_buffer_{map,unmap}()

And controls on the ring-buffer:

  ring_buffer_map_get_reader()  /* swap reader and head */

Mapping the ring-buffer also involves:

  A unique ID for each subbuf of the ring-buffer, currently they are
  only identified through their in-kernel VA.

  A meta-page, where are stored ring-buffer statistics and a
  description for the current reader

The linear mapping exposes the meta-page, and each subbuf of the
ring-buffer, ordered following their unique ID, assigned during the
first mapping.

Once mapped, no subbuf can get in or out of the ring-buffer: the buffer
size will remain unmodified and the splice enabling functions will in
reality simply memcpy the data instead of swapping subbufs.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240510140435.3550353-3-vdonnefort@google.com

CC: <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

1 files changed, 46 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/trace_mmap.h b/include/uapi/linux/trace_mmap.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..b682e9925539
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/trace_mmap.h
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note */
+#ifndef _TRACE_MMAP_H_
+#define _TRACE_MMAP_H_
+
+#include <linux/types.h>
+
+/**
+ * struct trace_buffer_meta - Ring-buffer Meta-page description
+ * @meta_page_size:	Size of this meta-page.
+ * @meta_struct_len:	Size of this structure.
+ * @subbuf_size:	Size of each sub-buffer.
+ * @nr_subbufs:		Number of subbfs in the ring-buffer, including the reader.
+ * @reader.lost_events:	Number of events lost at the time of the reader swap.
+ * @reader.id:		subbuf ID of the current reader. ID range [0 : @nr_subbufs - 1]
+ * @reader.read:	Number of bytes read on the reader subbuf.
+ * @flags:		Placeholder for now, 0 until new features are supported.
+ * @entries:		Number of entries in the ring-buffer.
+ * @overrun:		Number of entries lost in the ring-buffer.
+ * @read:		Number of entries that have been read.
+ * @Reserved1:		Internal use only.
+ * @Reserved2:		Internal use only.
+ */
+struct trace_buffer_meta {
+	__u32		meta_page_size;
+	__u32		meta_struct_len;
+
+	__u32		subbuf_size;
+	__u32		nr_subbufs;
+
+	struct {
+		__u64	lost_events;
+		__u32	id;
+		__u32	read;
+	} reader;
+
+	__u64	flags;
+
+	__u64	entries;
+	__u64	overrun;
+	__u64	read;
+
+	__u64	Reserved1;
+	__u64	Reserved2;
+};
+
+#endif /* _TRACE_MMAP_H_ */