On Tue, 23 Jan 2024 11:07:53 +0000
Vincent Donnefort <vdonnef...@google.com> wrote:

> index 000000000000..5468afc94be7
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/trace_mmap.h
> @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
> +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note */
> +#ifndef _TRACE_MMAP_H_
> +#define _TRACE_MMAP_H_
> +
> +#include <linux/types.h>
> +
> +/**
> + * struct trace_buffer_meta - Ring-buffer Meta-page description
> + * @meta_page_size:  Size of this meta-page.
> + * @meta_struct_len: Size of this structure.
> + * @subbuf_size:     Size of each subbuf, including the header.
> + * @nr_subbufs:              Number of subbfs in the ring-buffer.
> + * @reader.lost_events:      Number of events lost at the time of the reader 
> swap.
> + * @reader.id:               subbuf ID of the current reader. From 0 to 
> @nr_subbufs - 1
> + * @reader.read:     Number of bytes read on the reader subbuf.
> + * @entries:         Number of entries in the ring-buffer.
> + * @overrun:         Number of entries lost in the ring-buffer.
> + * @read:            Number of entries that have been read.


> + * @subbufs_touched: Number of subbufs that have been filled.
> + * @subbufs_lost:    Number of subbufs lost to overrun.
> + * @subbufs_read:    Number of subbufs that have been read.

Do we actually need the above 3 fields?

What's the use case for them? I don't want to expose internals in the API
unless they are needed.

-- Steve

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