linux/Documentation
Steven Rostedt 299ea67e6a tracing: Add a config and syscall_user_buf_size file to limit amount written
When a system call that can copy user space addresses into the ring
buffer, it can copy up to 511 bytes of data. This can waste precious ring
buffer space if the user isn't interested in the output. Add a new file
"syscall_user_buf_size" that gets initialized to a new config
CONFIG_SYSCALL_BUF_SIZE_DEFAULT that defaults to 63.

The config also is used to limit how much perf can read from user space.

Also lower the max down to 165, as this isn't to record everything that a
system call may be passing through to the kernel. 165 is more than enough.

The reason for 165 is because adding one for the nul terminating byte, as
well as possibly needing to append the "..." string turns it into 170
bytes. As this needs to save up to 3 arguments and 3 * 170 is 510 which
fits nicely in 512 bytes (a power of 2).

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Takaya Saeki <takayas@google.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Douglas Raillard <douglas.raillard@arm.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20251028231148.260068913@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2025-10-28 20:10:59 -04:00
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ABI VFIO updates for v6.18-rc1 part 2 2025-10-08 11:22:27 -07:00
accel Documentation: accel: amdxdna: Update compiler information 2025-08-21 08:25:31 -07:00
accounting docs: update delaytop documentation for new interactive features 2025-09-13 17:32:56 -07:00
admin-guide - Remove a bunch of asm implementing condition flags testing in KVM's 2025-10-11 11:19:16 -07:00
arch - Make TDX and kexec work together 2025-10-04 10:01:30 -07:00
block
bpf bpf: disable and remove registers chain based liveness 2025-09-19 09:27:23 -07:00
cdrom cdrom: Call cdrom_mrw_exit from cdrom_release function 2025-07-22 19:10:17 -06:00
core-api dma-mapping updates for Linux 6.18: 2025-10-03 17:41:12 -07:00
cpu-freq cpufreq: Drop unused symbol CPUFREQ_ETERNAL 2025-10-01 13:57:22 +02:00
crypto crypto: doc - Add explicit title heading to API docs 2025-09-28 11:54:48 +08:00
dev-tools It has been a relatively busy cycle in docsland, with changes all over: 2025-10-03 17:16:13 -07:00
devicetree tty/serial driver bugfixes for 6.18-rc3 2025-10-26 10:24:39 -07:00
doc-guide
driver-api pci-v6.18-changes 2025-10-06 10:41:03 -07:00
edac
fault-injection docs: fault-injection: drop reference to md-faulty 2025-07-24 08:31:46 -06:00
fb fbdev fixes & enhancements for 6.18-rc1: 2025-10-10 09:36:23 -07:00
features OpenRISC updates for 6.18 2025-10-05 10:02:54 -07:00
filesystems Ext4 bug fixes for 6.18-rc2, including 2025-10-15 07:51:57 -07:00
firmware_class
firmware-guide Merge branch 'acpi-misc' 2025-07-22 17:12:57 +02:00
fpga
gpu drm next for 6.18-rc1 2025-10-02 12:47:25 -07:00
hid
hwmon hwmon: (cros_ec) register fans into thermal framework cooling devices 2025-09-25 08:08:14 -07:00
i2c i2c: i801: Add support for Intel Wildcat Lake-U 2025-09-28 00:45:53 +02:00
iio docs: iio: add documentation for ade9000 driver 2025-09-13 14:20:44 +01:00
images
infiniband
input Input: add INPUT_PROP_HAPTIC_TOUCHPAD 2025-09-15 14:32:54 +02:00
isdn
kbuild Kbuild updates for 6.18 2025-10-01 20:58:51 -07:00
kernel-hacking
leds
litmus-tests
livepatch
locking Documentation: locking: Add local_lock_nested_bh() to locktypes 2025-08-21 12:52:20 -06:00
maintainer docs: maintainer: Fix ambiguous subheading formatting 2025-09-18 10:26:45 -06:00
mhi
misc-devices
mm Only two patch series in this pull request: 2025-10-05 12:11:07 -07:00
netlabel
netlink Char/Misc/IIO/Binder changes for 6.18-rc1 2025-10-04 16:26:32 -07:00
networking Documentation: networking: ax25: update the mailing list info. 2025-10-21 17:41:57 -07:00
nvdimm
nvme
PCI pci-v6.18-changes 2025-10-06 10:41:03 -07:00
pcmcia
peci
power It has been a relatively busy cycle in docsland, with changes all over: 2025-10-03 17:16:13 -07:00
process It has been a relatively busy cycle in docsland, with changes all over: 2025-10-03 17:16:13 -07:00
RCU RCU pull request for v6.18 2025-10-04 11:28:45 -07:00
rust docs: rust: add section on imports formatting 2025-10-17 00:56:20 +02:00
scheduler sched_ext: Changes for v6.17 2025-07-31 16:29:46 -07:00
scsi scsi: switch ->bios_param() to passing gendisk 2025-08-13 02:59:28 -04:00
security hardening updates for v6.17-rc1 2025-07-28 17:16:12 -07:00
sound ALSA: emu10k1: Fix typo in docs 2025-10-04 15:47:24 +02:00
sphinx docs: remove cdomain.py 2025-09-21 16:35:57 -06:00
sphinx-static
spi
staging It has been a relatively busy cycle in docsland, with changes all over: 2025-10-03 17:16:13 -07:00
sunrpc/xdr
target
tee Documentation: tee: Add Qualcomm TEE driver 2025-09-15 17:34:06 +02:00
timers
tools tools/rtla: Add remaining support for osnoise actions 2025-09-27 04:53:48 -04:00
trace tracing: Add a config and syscall_user_buf_size file to limit amount written 2025-10-28 20:10:59 -04:00
translations More power management updates for 6.18-rc1 2025-10-07 09:39:51 -07:00
usb It has been a relatively busy cycle for docs, especially the build system: 2025-07-31 08:36:51 -07:00
userspace-api It has been a relatively busy cycle in docsland, with changes all over: 2025-10-03 17:16:13 -07:00
virt KVM x86 fixes for 6.18: 2025-10-18 10:25:43 +02:00
w1 docs: w1: ds2482: fix typo in buses 2025-09-16 10:00:57 -06:00
watchdog
wmi
.gitignore
.renames.txt docs: add Documentation/.renames.txt 2025-09-09 13:37:16 -06:00
atomic_bitops.txt
atomic_t.txt
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conf.py docs: conf.py: drop xindy rule 2025-08-29 16:45:09 -06:00
docutils.conf
index.rst
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Makefile docs: add tools/docs/gen-redirects.py 2025-09-09 13:37:16 -06:00
memory-barriers.txt
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