ring_buffer: implement new locking

The old "lock always" scheme had issues with lockdep, and was not very
efficient anyways.

This patch does a new design to be partially lockless on writes.
Writes will add new entries to the per cpu pages by simply disabling
interrupts. When a write needs to go to another page than it will
grab the lock.

A new "read page" has been added so that the reader can pull out a page
from the ring buffer to read without worrying about the writer writing over
it. This allows us to not take the lock for all reads. The lock is
now only taken when a read needs to go to a new page.

This is far from lockless, and interrupts still need to be disabled,
but it is a step towards a more lockless solution, and it also
solves a lot of the issues that were noticed by the first conversion
of ftrace to the ring buffers.

Note: the ring_buffer_{un}lock API has been removed.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/ring_buffer.h b/include/linux/ring_buffer.h
index c52375b..536b0ca 100644
--- a/include/linux/ring_buffer.h
+++ b/include/linux/ring_buffer.h
@@ -63,9 +63,6 @@ ring_buffer_event_time_delta(struct ring_buffer_event *event)
 	return event->time_delta;
 }
 
-void ring_buffer_lock(struct ring_buffer *buffer, unsigned long *flags);
-void ring_buffer_unlock(struct ring_buffer *buffer, unsigned long flags);
-
 /*
  * size is in bytes for each per CPU buffer.
  */