ramoops: Split ftrace buffer space into per-CPU zones
authorJoel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com>
Thu, 20 Oct 2016 07:34:04 +0000 (00:34 -0700)
committerKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Wed, 16 Nov 2016 00:34:26 +0000 (16:34 -0800)
commita1cf53ac6d156721afa86453d5e8423461881231
tree9d3c608d505dbebbf58157177467d7d105a195fc
parentde83209249d64bad993f25d3ea4bba57683e2e2e
ramoops: Split ftrace buffer space into per-CPU zones

If the RAMOOPS_FLAG_FTRACE_PER_CPU flag is passed to ramoops pdata, split
the ftrace space into multiple zones depending on the number of CPUs.

This speeds up the performance of function tracing by about 280% in my
tests as we avoid the locking. The trade off being lesser space available
per CPU. Let the ramoops user decide which option they want based on pdata
flag.

Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com>
[kees: added max_ftrace_cnt to track size, added DT logic and docs]
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/reserved-memory/ramoops.txt
fs/pstore/ram.c
include/linux/pstore_ram.h