linux

ring-buffer: Flush and stop persistent ring buffer on panic On real hardware, panic and machine reboot may not flush hardware cache to memory. This means the persistent ring buffer, which relies on a coherent state of memory, may not have its events written to the buffer and they may be lost. Moreover, there may be inconsistency with the counters which are used for validation of the integrity of the persistent ring buffer which may cause all data to be discarded. To avoid this issue, stop recording of the ring buffer on panic and flush the cache of the ring buffer's memory. Fixes: e645535a954a ("tracing: Add option to use memmapped memory for trace boot instance") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/177751969602.2136606.12031934362587643488.stgit@mhiramat.tok.corp.google.com Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> 2026-04-30 12:28:16 +09:00