From: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com>
To: rostedt@goodmis.org, mhiramat@kernel.org,
linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com, kernel-team@android.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/4] ring-buffer: Use kvzalloc_objs for remote buffer subbuf_ids
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2026 08:29:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260922072944.1281427-3-vdonnefort@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260922072944.1281427-1-vdonnefort@google.com>
Creating a remote ring buffer requires allocating an array of bpage. For
large ring buffers, this contiguous allocation is likely to fail with
memory fragmentation.
Switch it to kvzalloc_objs() to use the vmalloc fallback under memory
pressure.
Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com>
---
kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 10 +++++-----
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
index f9be87c2cc3d..1a158a24b3c8 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
@@ -2620,8 +2620,8 @@ rb_allocate_cpu_buffer(struct trace_buffer *buffer, unsigned long nr_pages, int
cpu_buffer->remote = buffer->remote;
cpu_buffer->meta_page = (struct trace_buffer_meta *)(void *)desc->meta_va;
cpu_buffer->nr_pages = nr_pages;
- cpu_buffer->subbuf_ids = kzalloc_objs(*cpu_buffer->subbuf_ids,
- cpu_buffer->nr_pages + 1);
+ cpu_buffer->subbuf_ids = kvzalloc_objs(*cpu_buffer->subbuf_ids,
+ cpu_buffer->nr_pages + 1);
if (!cpu_buffer->subbuf_ids)
goto fail_free_reader;
@@ -2681,7 +2681,7 @@ rb_allocate_cpu_buffer(struct trace_buffer *buffer, unsigned long nr_pages, int
return_ptr(cpu_buffer);
fail_free_reader:
- kfree(cpu_buffer->subbuf_ids);
+ kvfree(cpu_buffer->subbuf_ids);
free_buffer_page(cpu_buffer->reader_page);
return NULL;
@@ -2694,8 +2694,8 @@ static void rb_free_cpu_buffer(struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer)
irq_work_sync(&cpu_buffer->irq_work.work);
- if (cpu_buffer->remote)
- kfree(cpu_buffer->subbuf_ids);
+ kvfree(cpu_buffer->subbuf_ids);
+ cpu_buffer->subbuf_ids = NULL;
free_buffer_page(cpu_buffer->reader_page);
--
2.55.0.1082.g2b9226bbc0-goog
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-22 7:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-22 7:29 [PATCH 0/4] ring-buffer: Use kvmalloc variants for big allocations Vincent Donnefort
2026-09-22 7:29 ` [PATCH 1/4] ring-buffer: Use kvzalloc_objs for user mapping arrays Vincent Donnefort
2026-09-22 7:29 ` Vincent Donnefort [this message]
2026-09-22 7:29 ` [PATCH 3/4] ring-buffer: Drop redundant ring_buffer_iter::event_size Vincent Donnefort
2026-09-22 7:29 ` [PATCH 4/4] ring-buffer: Use kvmalloc for ring_buffer_iter::event Vincent Donnefort
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