Pull ring-buffer updates from Steven Rostedt:
- Rewind persistent ring buffer on boot
When the persistent ring buffer is being used for live kernel tracing
and the system crashes, the tool that is reading the trace may not
have recorded the data when the system crashed.
Although the persistent ring buffer still has that data, when reading
it after a reboot, it will start where it left off. That is, what was
read will not be accessible.
Instead, on reboot, have the persistent ring buffer restart where the
data starts and this will allow the tooling to recover what was lost
when the crash occurred.
- Remove the ring_buffer_read_prepare_sync() logic
Reading the trace file required stopping writing to the ring buffer
as the trace file is only an iterator and does not consume what it
read. It was originally not safe to read the ring buffer in this mode
and required disabling writing. The ring_buffer_read_prepare_sync()
logic was used to stop each per_cpu ring buffer, call
synchronize_rcu() and then start the iterator. This was used instead
of calling synchronize_rcu() for each per_cpu buffer.
Today, the iterator has been updated where it is safe to read the
trace file while writing to the ring buffer is still occurring. There
is no more need to do this synchronization and it is causing large
delays on machines with many CPUs. Remove this unneeded
synchronization.
- Make static string array a constant in show_irq_str()
Making the string array into a constant has shown to decrease code
text/data size.
* tag 'trace-ringbuffer-v6.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
ring-buffer: Make the const read-only 'type' static
ring-buffer: Remove ring_buffer_read_prepare_sync()
tracing: ring_buffer: Rewind persistent ring buffer on reboot