sessiond: enforce mmap output type for kernel metadata channel

[lttng-tools.git] / src / bin / lttng-sessiond / trace-kernel.c

diff --git a/src/bin/lttng-sessiond/trace-kernel.c b/src/bin/lttng-sessiond/trace-kernel.c
index d1f826883538fe7c5cfeab19eefad1f5990cd400..d1c74a1ad370c5ddde8568d01b28579d13945cd0 100644 (file)
--- a/src/bin/lttng-sessiond/trace-kernel.c
+++ b/src/bin/lttng-sessiond/trace-kernel.c
@@ -385,6 +385,7 @@ error:
  */
 struct ltt_kernel_metadata *trace_kernel_create_metadata(void)
 {
+       int ret;
        struct ltt_kernel_metadata *lkm;
        struct lttng_channel *chan;
 
@@ -395,13 +396,38 @@ struct ltt_kernel_metadata *trace_kernel_create_metadata(void)
                goto error;
        }
 
+       ret = lttng_strncpy(
+                       chan->name, DEFAULT_METADATA_NAME, sizeof(chan->name));
+       if (ret) {
+               ERR("Failed to initialize metadata channel name to `%s`",
+                               DEFAULT_METADATA_NAME);
+               goto error;
+       }
+
        /* Set default attributes */
-       chan->attr.overwrite = DEFAULT_CHANNEL_OVERWRITE;
+       chan->attr.overwrite = DEFAULT_METADATA_OVERWRITE;
        chan->attr.subbuf_size = default_get_metadata_subbuf_size();
        chan->attr.num_subbuf = DEFAULT_METADATA_SUBBUF_NUM;
-       chan->attr.switch_timer_interval = DEFAULT_KERNEL_CHANNEL_SWITCH_TIMER;
-       chan->attr.read_timer_interval = DEFAULT_KERNEL_CHANNEL_READ_TIMER;
-       chan->attr.output = DEFAULT_KERNEL_CHANNEL_OUTPUT;
+       chan->attr.switch_timer_interval = DEFAULT_METADATA_SWITCH_TIMER;
+       chan->attr.read_timer_interval = DEFAULT_METADATA_READ_TIMER;;
+
+
+       /*
+        * The metadata channel of kernel sessions must use the "mmap"
+        * back-end since the consumer daemon accumulates complete
+        * metadata units before sending them to the relay daemon in
+        * live mode. The consumer daemon also needs to extract the contents
+        * of the metadata cache when computing a rotation position.
+        *
+        * In both cases, it is not possible to rely on the splice
+        * back-end as the consumer daemon may need to accumulate more
+        * content than can be backed by the ring buffer's underlying
+        * pages.
+        */
+       chan->attr.output = LTTNG_EVENT_MMAP;
+       chan->attr.tracefile_size = 0;
+       chan->attr.tracefile_count = 0;
+       chan->attr.live_timer_interval = 0;
 
        /* Init metadata */
        lkm->fd = -1;