tracing: Enforce the persistent ring buffer to be page aligned

Enforce that the address and the size of the memory used by the persistent
ring buffer is page aligned. Also update the documentation to reflect this
requirement.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=whUOfVucfJRt7E0AH+GV41ELmS4wJqxHDnui6Giddfkzw@mail.gmail.com/

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]>
Cc: Mark Rutland <[email protected]>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Vincent Donnefort <[email protected]>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <[email protected]>
Cc: Jann Horn <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/[email protected]
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <[email protected]>

Author: rostedt

Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt

@@ -7241,6 +7241,8 @@
 			This is just one of many ways that can clear memory. Make sure your system
 			keeps the content of memory across reboots before relying on this option.
 
+			NB: Both the mapped address and size must be page aligned for the architecture.
+
 			See also Documentation/trace/debugging.rst
 
 

Documentation/trace/debugging.rst

@@ -136,6 +136,8 @@ kernel, so only the same kernel is guaranteed to work if the mapping is
 preserved. Switching to a different kernel version may find a different
 layout and mark the buffer as invalid.
 
+NB: Both the mapped address and size must be page aligned for the architecture.
+
 Using trace_printk() in the boot instance
 -----------------------------------------
 By default, the content of trace_printk() goes into the top level tracing

kernel/trace/trace.c

@@ -10774,6 +10774,16 @@ __init static void enable_instances(void)
 		}
 
 		if (start) {
+			/* Start and size must be page aligned */
+			if (start & ~PAGE_MASK) {
+				pr_warn("Tracing: mapping start addr %pa is not page aligned\n", &start);
+				continue;
+			}
+			if (size & ~PAGE_MASK) {
+				pr_warn("Tracing: mapping size %pa is not page aligned\n", &size);
+				continue;
+			}
+
 			addr = map_pages(start, size);
 			if (addr) {
 				pr_info("Tracing: mapped boot instance %s at physical memory %pa of size 0x%lx\n",