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    ring-buffer: only allocate buffers for online cpus · 554f786e
    Steven Rostedt authored
    
    
    Impact: save on memory
    
    Currently, a ring buffer was allocated for each "possible_cpus". On
    some systems, this is the same as NR_CPUS. Thus, if a system defined
    NR_CPUS = 64 but it only had 1 CPU, we could have possibly 63 useless
    ring buffers taking up space. With a default buffer of 3 megs, this
    could be quite drastic.
    
    This patch changes the ring buffer code to only allocate ring buffers
    for online CPUs.  If a CPU goes off line, we do not free the buffer.
    This is because the user may still have trace data in that buffer
    that they would like to look at.
    
    Perhaps in the future we could add code to delete a ring buffer if
    the CPU is offline and the ring buffer becomes empty.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
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