From: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 16:06:28 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: Merge LTTng commit 5c0552665e4d152e97edc995650711d4f6ac418d
X-Git-Tag: v1.9.1~330
X-Git-Url: https://git.lttng.org./?a=commitdiff_plain;h=529b552a3dfa44c5ca717add7919c33d00a3f3db;p=lttng-ust.git

Merge LTTng commit 5c0552665e4d152e97edc995650711d4f6ac418d

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
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diff --git a/libringbuffer/ring_buffer_vfs.c b/libringbuffer/ring_buffer_vfs.c
index 3aa3acaa..c105fe00 100644
--- a/libringbuffer/ring_buffer_vfs.c
+++ b/libringbuffer/ring_buffer_vfs.c
@@ -240,6 +240,9 @@ long lib_ring_buffer_ioctl(struct file *filp, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long ar
 		return put_ulong(buf->backend.array[sb_bindex]->mmap_offset,
 				 arg);
 	}
+	case RING_BUFFER_FLUSH:
+		lib_ring_buffer_switch_slow(buf, SWITCH_ACTIVE);
+		return 0;
 	default:
 		return -ENOIOCTLCMD;
 	}
@@ -350,6 +353,9 @@ long lib_ring_buffer_compat_ioctl(struct file *filp, unsigned int cmd,
 			return -EINVAL;
 		return put_ulong(read_offset, arg);
 	}
+	case RING_BUFFER_FLUSH:
+		lib_ring_buffer_switch_slow(buf, SWITCH_ACTIVE);
+		return 0;
 	default:
 		return -ENOIOCTLCMD;
 	}
diff --git a/libringbuffer/vfs.h b/libringbuffer/vfs.h
index a27f8c50..00404a31 100644
--- a/libringbuffer/vfs.h
+++ b/libringbuffer/vfs.h
@@ -80,5 +80,7 @@ long lib_ring_buffer_compat_ioctl(struct file *filp, unsigned int cmd,
 #define RING_BUFFER_GET_MMAP_LEN		_IOR(0xF6, 0x0A, unsigned long)
 /* returns the offset of the subbuffer belonging to the mmap reader. */
 #define RING_BUFFER_GET_MMAP_READ_OFFSET	_IOR(0xF6, 0x0B, unsigned long)
+/* flush the current sub-buffer */
+#define RING_BUFFER_FLUSH			_IO(0xF6, 0x0C)
 
 #endif /* _LINUX_RING_BUFFER_VFS_H */