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Commit a65442ed authored by Beau Belgrave's avatar Beau Belgrave Committed by Steven Rostedt (Google)
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tracing/user_events: Add auto cleanup and future persist flag

Currently user events need to be manually deleted via the delete IOCTL
call or via the dynamic_events file. Most operators and processes wish
to have these events auto cleanup when they are no longer used by
anything to prevent them piling without manual maintenance. However,
some operators may not want this, such as pre-registering events via the
dynamic_events tracefs file.

Update user_event_put() to attempt an auto delete of the event if it's
the last reference. The auto delete must run in a work queue to ensure
proper behavior of class->reg() invocations that don't expect the call
to go away from underneath them during the unregister. Add work_struct
to user_event struct to ensure we can do this reliably.

Add a persist flag, that is not yet exposed, to ensure we can toggle
between auto-cleanup and leaving the events existing in the future. When
a non-zero flag is seen during register, return -EINVAL to ensure ABI
is clear for the user processes while we work out the best approach for
persistent events.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230614163336.5797-4-beaub@linux.microsoft.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230518093600.3f119d68@rorschach.local.home/



Suggested-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBeau Belgrave <beaub@linux.microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
parent f0dbf6fd
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