FROMLIST: ring-buffer: Introducing ring-buffer writer
A ring-buffer writer is an entity outside of the kernel (most likely a firmware or a hypervisor) capable of writing events in a ring-buffer following the same format as the tracefs ring-buffer. To setup the ring-buffer on the kernel side, a description of the pages (struct trace_page_desc) is necessary. A callback (get_reader_page) must also be provided. It is called whenever it is done reading the previous reader page. It is expected from the writer to keep the meta-page updated. Bug: 357781595 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240911093029.3279154-3-vdonnefort@google.com/ Change-Id: Ib006ff19d79a5b2559b09661fba7bcd426ef8cba Signed-off-by:Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com>
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