[v6,4/4] ring-buffer: Use flush_kernel_vmap_range() over flush_dcache_folio()

Commit Message

Steven Rostedt April 2, 2025, 2:49 p.m. UTC

From: Steven Rostedt <[e-mail]>

Some architectures do not have data cache coherency between user and
kernel space. For these architectures, the cache needs to be flushed on
both the kernel and user addresses so that user space can see the updates
the kernel has made.

Instead of using flush_dcache_folio() and playing with virt_to_folio()
within the call to that function, use flush_kernel_vmap_range() which
takes the virtual address and does the work for those architectures that
need it.

This also fixes a bug where the flush of the reader page only flushed one
page. If the sub-buffer order is 1 or more, where the sub-buffer size
would be greater than a page, it would miss the rest of the sub-buffer
content, as the "reader page" is not just a page, but the size of a
sub-buffer.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/[e-mail]/

Cc: [e-mail]
Fixes: 117c39200d9d7 ("ring-buffer: Introducing ring-buffer mapping functions");
Suggested-by: Jann Horn <[e-mail]>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <[e-mail]>
---
 kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Patch

diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
index f25966b3a1fc..d4b0f7b55cce 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
@@ -6016,7 +6016,7 @@  static void rb_update_meta_page(struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer)
 	meta->read = cpu_buffer->read;
 
 	/* Some archs do not have data cache coherency between kernel and user-space */
-	flush_dcache_folio(virt_to_folio(cpu_buffer->meta_page));
+	flush_kernel_vmap_range(cpu_buffer->meta_page, PAGE_SIZE);
 }
 
 static void
@@ -7319,7 +7319,8 @@  int ring_buffer_map_get_reader(struct trace_buffer *buffer, int cpu)
 
 out:
 	/* Some archs do not have data cache coherency between kernel and user-space */
-	flush_dcache_folio(virt_to_folio(cpu_buffer->reader_page->page));
+	flush_kernel_vmap_range(cpu_buffer->reader_page->page,
+				buffer->subbuf_size + BUF_PAGE_HDR_SIZE);
 
 	rb_update_meta_page(cpu_buffer);