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Steven Rostedt authored
Impact: less memory impact on systems not using tracer When the kernel boots up that has tracing configured, it allocates the default size of the ring buffer. This currently happens to be 1.4Megs per possible CPU. This is quite a bit of wasted memory if the system is never using the tracer. The current solution is to keep the ring buffers to a minimum size until the user uses them. Once a tracer is piped into the current_tracer the ring buffer will be expanded to the default size. If the user changes the size of the ring buffer, it will take the size given by the user immediately. If the user adds a "ftrace=" to the kernel command line, then the ring buffers will be set to the default size on initialization. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
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