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When a ring-buffer is memory mapped by user-space, no trace or ring-buffer swap is possible. This means the snapshot feature is mutually exclusive with the memory mapping. Having a refcount on snapshot users will help to know if a mapping is possible or not. Instead of relying on the global trace_types_lock, a new spinlock is introduced to serialize accesses to trace_array->snapshot. This intends to allow access to that variable in a context where the mmap lock is already held. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240220202310.2489614-4-vdonnefort@google.com Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the ReStructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.