f9b94daa54
There are two approaches when changing the size of the ring buffer
sub page:
1. Destroying all pages and allocating new pages with the new size.
2. Allocating new pages, copying the content of the old pages before
destroying them.
The first approach is easier, it is selected in the proposed
implementation. Changing the ring buffer sub page size is supposed to
not happen frequently. Usually, that size should be set only once,
when the buffer is not in use yet and is supposed to be empty.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-devel/20211213094825.61876-5-tz.stoyanov@gmail.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20231219185628.588995543@goodmis.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tzvetomir Stoyanov (VMware) <tz.stoyanov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Linux kernel
============
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.