There are two checks, one is for size when running without admin, but
this one is covered by the driver and reported on in more detail here
(builtin-record.c):
pr_err("Permission error mapping pages.\n"
"Consider increasing "
"/proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_mlock_kb,\n"
"or try again with a smaller value of -m/--mmap_pages.\n"
"(current value: %u,%u)\n",
This had the effect of artificially limiting the aux buffer size to a
value smaller than what was allowed because perf_event_mlock_kb wasn't
taken into account.
The second is to check for a power of two, but this is covered here
(evlist.c):
pr_info("rounding mmap pages size to %s (%lu pages)\n",
buf, pages);
Reviewed-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: John Garry <john.garry@huawei.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
Cc: Mike Leach <mike.leach@linaro.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Suzuki Poulouse <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: coresight@lists.linaro.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211208115435.610101-1-james.clark@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
}
- /* Validate auxtrace_mmap_pages provided by user */
- if (opts->auxtrace_mmap_pages) {
- unsigned int max_page = (KiB(128) / page_size);
- size_t sz = opts->auxtrace_mmap_pages * (size_t)page_size;
-
- if (!privileged &&
- opts->auxtrace_mmap_pages > max_page) {
- opts->auxtrace_mmap_pages = max_page;
- pr_err("auxtrace too big, truncating to %d\n",
- max_page);
- }
-
- if (!is_power_of_2(sz)) {
- pr_err("Invalid mmap size for %s: must be a power of 2\n",
- CORESIGHT_ETM_PMU_NAME);
- return -EINVAL;
- }
- }
-
if (opts->auxtrace_snapshot_mode)
pr_debug2("%s snapshot size: %zu\n", CORESIGHT_ETM_PMU_NAME,
opts->auxtrace_snapshot_size);