Thread (17 messages) 17 messages, 6 authors, 2024-07-03

Re: [PATCH v23 3/5] tracing: Allow user-space mapping of the ring-buffer

From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Date: 2024-07-02 15:18:11
Also in: linux-api, linux-mm, lkml
Subsystem: documentation, the rest · Maintainers: Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds

On Tue, 2 Jul 2024 10:36:03 -0400
Mathieu Desnoyers [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted
I can send a patch this week to update it. Or feel free to send a patch
yourself.  
You need to reserve an unused ioctl Code and Seq# range within:

Documentation/userspace-api/ioctl/ioctl-number.rst
Ug, it's been so long, I completely forgot about that file.

Thanks for catching this.
Otherwise this duplicate will confuse all system call instrumentation
tooling.
Agreed, what if we did this then:

-- Steve
diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/ioctl/ioctl-number.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/ioctl/ioctl-number.rst
index a141e8e65c5d..9a97030c6c8d 100644
--- a/Documentation/userspace-api/ioctl/ioctl-number.rst
+++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/ioctl/ioctl-number.rst
@@ -186,6 +186,7 @@ Code  Seq#    Include File                                           Comments
 'Q'   all    linux/soundcard.h
 'R'   00-1F  linux/random.h                                          conflict!
 'R'   01     linux/rfkill.h                                          conflict!
+'R'   20-2F  linux/trace_mmap.h
 'R'   C0-DF  net/bluetooth/rfcomm.h
 'R'   E0     uapi/linux/fsl_mc.h
 'S'   all    linux/cdrom.h                                           conflict!
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/trace_mmap.h b/include/uapi/linux/trace_mmap.h
index bd1066754220..c102ef35d11e 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/trace_mmap.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/trace_mmap.h
@@ -43,6 +43,6 @@ struct trace_buffer_meta {
 	__u64	Reserved2;
 };
 
-#define TRACE_MMAP_IOCTL_GET_READER		_IO('T', 0x1)
+#define TRACE_MMAP_IOCTL_GET_READER		_IO('R', 0x20)
 
 #endif /* _TRACE_MMAP_H_ */
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