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2022-11-25ring_buffer: Do not deactivate non-existant pagesDaniil Tatianin
commit 56f4ca0a79a9f1af98f26c54b9b89ba1f9bcc6bd upstream. rb_head_page_deactivate() expects cpu_buffer to contain a valid list of ->pages, so verify that the list is actually present before calling it. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with the SVACE static analysis tool. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221114143129.3534443-1-d-tatianin@yandex-team.ru Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 77ae365eca895 ("ring-buffer: make lockless") Signed-off-by: Daniil Tatianin <d-tatianin@yandex-team.ru> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2022-10-26ring-buffer: Fix race between reset page and reading pageSteven Rostedt (Google)
commit a0fcaaed0c46cf9399d3a2d6e0c87ddb3df0e044 upstream. The ring buffer is broken up into sub buffers (currently of page size). Each sub buffer has a pointer to its "tail" (the last event written to the sub buffer). When a new event is requested, the tail is locally incremented to cover the size of the new event. This is done in a way that there is no need for locking. If the tail goes past the end of the sub buffer, the process of moving to the next sub buffer takes place. After setting the current sub buffer to the next one, the previous one that had the tail go passed the end of the sub buffer needs to be reset back to the original tail location (before the new event was requested) and the rest of the sub buffer needs to be "padded". The race happens when a reader takes control of the sub buffer. As readers do a "swap" of sub buffers from the ring buffer to get exclusive access to the sub buffer, it replaces the "head" sub buffer with an empty sub buffer that goes back into the writable portion of the ring buffer. This swap can happen as soon as the writer moves to the next sub buffer and before it updates the last sub buffer with padding. Because the sub buffer can be released to the reader while the writer is still updating the padding, it is possible for the reader to see the event that goes past the end of the sub buffer. This can cause obvious issues. To fix this, add a few memory barriers so that the reader definitely sees the updates to the sub buffer, and also waits until the writer has put back the "tail" of the sub buffer back to the last event that was written on it. To be paranoid, it will only spin for 1 second, otherwise it will warn and shutdown the ring buffer code. 1 second should be enough as the writer does have preemption disabled. If the writer doesn't move within 1 second (with preemption disabled) something is horribly wrong. No interrupt should last 1 second! Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220830120854.7545-1-jiazi.li@transsion.com/ Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216369 Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220929104909.0650a36c@gandalf.local.home Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: c7b0930857e22 ("ring-buffer: prevent adding write in discarded area") Reported-by: Jiazi.Li <jiazi.li@transsion.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2022-10-26ring-buffer: Check pending waiters when doing wake ups as wellSteven Rostedt (Google)
commit ec0bbc5ec5664dcee344f79373852117dc672c86 upstream. The wake up waiters only checks the "wakeup_full" variable and not the "full_waiters_pending". The full_waiters_pending is set when a waiter is added to the wait queue. The wakeup_full is only set when an event is triggered, and it clears the full_waiters_pending to avoid multiple calls to irq_work_queue(). The irq_work callback really needs to check both wakeup_full as well as full_waiters_pending such that this code can be used to wake up waiters when a file is closed that represents the ring buffer and the waiters need to be woken up. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220927231824.209460321@goodmis.org Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Fixes: 15693458c4bc0 ("tracing/ring-buffer: Move poll wake ups into ring buffer code") Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2022-10-26ring-buffer: Allow splice to read previous partially read pagesSteven Rostedt (Google)
commit fa8f4a89736b654125fb254b0db753ac68a5fced upstream. If a page is partially read, and then the splice system call is run against the ring buffer, it will always fail to read, no matter how much is in the ring buffer. That's because the code path for a partial read of the page does will fail if the "full" flag is set. The splice system call wants full pages, so if the read of the ring buffer is not yet full, it should return zero, and the splice will block. But if a previous read was done, where the beginning has been consumed, it should still be given to the splice caller if the rest of the page has been written to. This caused the splice command to never consume data in this scenario, and let the ring buffer just fill up and lose events. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220927144317.46be6b80@gandalf.local.home Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 8789a9e7df6bf ("ring-buffer: read page interface") Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2021-07-28tracing: Fix bug in rb_per_cpu_empty() that might cause deadloop.Haoran Luo
commit 67f0d6d9883c13174669f88adac4f0ee656cc16a upstream. The "rb_per_cpu_empty()" misinterpret the condition (as not-empty) when "head_page" and "commit_page" of "struct ring_buffer_per_cpu" points to the same buffer page, whose "buffer_data_page" is empty and "read" field is non-zero. An error scenario could be constructed as followed (kernel perspective): 1. All pages in the buffer has been accessed by reader(s) so that all of them will have non-zero "read" field. 2. Read and clear all buffer pages so that "rb_num_of_entries()" will return 0 rendering there's no more data to read. It is also required that the "read_page", "commit_page" and "tail_page" points to the same page, while "head_page" is the next page of them. 3. Invoke "ring_buffer_lock_reserve()" with large enough "length" so that it shot pass the end of current tail buffer page. Now the "head_page", "commit_page" and "tail_page" points to the same page. 4. Discard current event with "ring_buffer_discard_commit()", so that "head_page", "commit_page" and "tail_page" points to a page whose buffer data page is now empty. When the error scenario has been constructed, "tracing_read_pipe" will be trapped inside a deadloop: "trace_empty()" returns 0 since "rb_per_cpu_empty()" returns 0 when it hits the CPU containing such constructed ring buffer. Then "trace_find_next_entry_inc()" always return NULL since "rb_num_of_entries()" reports there's no more entry to read. Finally "trace_seq_to_user()" returns "-EBUSY" spanking "tracing_read_pipe" back to the start of the "waitagain" loop. I've also written a proof-of-concept script to construct the scenario and trigger the bug automatically, you can use it to trace and validate my reasoning above: https://github.com/aegistudio/RingBufferDetonator.git Tests has been carried out on linux kernel 5.14-rc2 (2734d6c1b1a089fb593ef6a23d4b70903526fe0c), my fixed version of kernel (for testing whether my update fixes the bug) and some older kernels (for range of affected kernels). Test result is also attached to the proof-of-concept repository. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-devel/YPaNxsIlb2yjSi5Y@aegistudio/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-devel/YPgrN85WL9VyrZ55@aegistudio Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: bf41a158cacba ("ring-buffer: make reentrant") Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Haoran Luo <www@aegistudio.net> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2021-01-30tracing: Fix race in trace_open and buffer resize callGaurav Kohli
commit bbeb97464eefc65f506084fd9f18f21653e01137 upstream. Below race can come, if trace_open and resize of cpu buffer is running parallely on different cpus CPUX CPUY ring_buffer_resize atomic_read(&buffer->resize_disabled) tracing_open tracing_reset_online_cpus ring_buffer_reset_cpu rb_reset_cpu rb_update_pages remove/insert pages resetting pointer This race can cause data abort or some times infinte loop in rb_remove_pages and rb_insert_pages while checking pages for sanity. Take buffer lock to fix this. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1601976833-24377-1-git-send-email-gkohli@codeaurora.org Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 83f40318dab00 ("ring-buffer: Make removal of ring buffer pages atomic") Reported-by: Denis Efremov <efremov@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Gaurav Kohli <gkohli@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2020-11-18ring-buffer: Fix recursion protection transitions between interrupt contextSteven Rostedt (VMware)
[ Upstream commit b02414c8f045ab3b9afc816c3735bc98c5c3d262 ] The recursion protection of the ring buffer depends on preempt_count() to be correct. But it is possible that the ring buffer gets called after an interrupt comes in but before it updates the preempt_count(). This will trigger a false positive in the recursion code. Use the same trick from the ftrace function callback recursion code which uses a "transition" bit that gets set, to allow for a single recursion for to handle transitions between contexts. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 567cd4da54ff4 ("ring-buffer: User context bit recursion checking") Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2020-11-05ring-buffer: Return 0 on success from ring_buffer_resize()Qiujun Huang
commit 0a1754b2a97efa644aa6e84d1db5b17c42251483 upstream. We don't need to check the new buffer size, and the return value had confused resize_buffer_duplicate_size(). ... ret = ring_buffer_resize(trace_buf->buffer, per_cpu_ptr(size_buf->data,cpu_id)->entries, cpu_id); if (ret == 0) per_cpu_ptr(trace_buf->data, cpu_id)->entries = per_cpu_ptr(size_buf->data, cpu_id)->entries; ... Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201019142242.11560-1-hqjagain@gmail.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: d60da506cbeb3 ("tracing: Add a resize function to make one buffer equivalent to another buffer") Signed-off-by: Qiujun Huang <hqjagain@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-05-02trace: Fix preempt_enable_no_resched() abusePeter Zijlstra
commit d6097c9e4454adf1f8f2c9547c2fa6060d55d952 upstream. Unless the very next line is schedule(), or implies it, one must not use preempt_enable_no_resched(). It can cause a preemption to go missing and thereby cause arbitrary delays, breaking the PREEMPT=y invariant. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190423200318.GY14281@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> Cc: huang ying <huang.ying.caritas@gmail.com> Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 2c2d7329d8af ("tracing/ftrace: use preempt_enable_no_resched_notrace in ring_buffer_time_stamp()") Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-04-05tracing: kdb: Fix ftdump to not sleepDouglas Anderson
[ Upstream commit 31b265b3baaf55f209229888b7ffea523ddab366 ] As reported back in 2016-11 [1], the "ftdump" kdb command triggers a BUG for "sleeping function called from invalid context". kdb's "ftdump" command wants to call ring_buffer_read_prepare() in atomic context. A very simple solution for this is to add allocation flags to ring_buffer_read_prepare() so kdb can call it without triggering the allocation error. This patch does that. Note that in the original email thread about this, it was suggested that perhaps the solution for kdb was to either preallocate the buffer ahead of time or create our own iterator. I'm hoping that this alternative of adding allocation flags to ring_buffer_read_prepare() can be considered since it means I don't need to duplicate more of the core trace code into "trace_kdb.c" (for either creating my own iterator or re-preparing a ring allocator whose memory was already allocated). NOTE: another option for kdb is to actually figure out how to make it reuse the existing ftrace_dump() function and totally eliminate the duplication. This sounds very appealing and actually works (the "sr z" command can be seen to properly dump the ftrace buffer). The downside here is that ftrace_dump() fully consumes the trace buffer. Unless that is changed I'd rather not use it because it means "ftdump | grep xyz" won't be very useful to search the ftrace buffer since it will throw away the whole trace on the first grep. A future patch to dump only the last few lines of the buffer will also be hard to implement. [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161117191605.GA21459@google.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190308193205.213659-1-dianders@chromium.org Reported-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2018-09-29ring-buffer: Allow for rescheduling when removing pagesVaibhav Nagarnaik
commit 83f365554e47997ec68dc4eca3f5dce525cd15c3 upstream. When reducing ring buffer size, pages are removed by scheduling a work item on each CPU for the corresponding CPU ring buffer. After the pages are removed from ring buffer linked list, the pages are free()d in a tight loop. The loop does not give up CPU until all pages are removed. In a worst case behavior, when lot of pages are to be freed, it can cause system stall. After the pages are removed from the list, the free() can happen while the work is rescheduled. Call cond_resched() in the loop to prevent the system hangup. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180907223129.71994-1-vnagarnaik@google.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 83f40318dab00 ("ring-buffer: Make removal of ring buffer pages atomic") Reported-by: Jason Behmer <jbehmer@google.com> Signed-off-by: Vaibhav Nagarnaik <vnagarnaik@google.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-08-09ring_buffer: tracing: Inherit the tracing setting to next ring bufferMasami Hiramatsu
commit 73c8d8945505acdcbae137c2e00a1232e0be709f upstream. Maintain the tracing on/off setting of the ring_buffer when switching to the trace buffer snapshot. Taking a snapshot is done by swapping the backup ring buffer (max_tr_buffer). But since the tracing on/off setting is defined by the ring buffer, when swapping it, the tracing on/off setting can also be changed. This causes a strange result like below: /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # cat tracing_on 1 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # echo 0 > tracing_on /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # cat tracing_on 0 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # echo 1 > snapshot /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # cat tracing_on 1 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # echo 1 > snapshot /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # cat tracing_on 0 We don't touch tracing_on, but snapshot changes tracing_on setting each time. This is an anomaly, because user doesn't know that each "ring_buffer" stores its own tracing-enable state and the snapshot is done by swapping ring buffers. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/153149929558.11274.11730609978254724394.stgit@devbox Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com> Cc: Hiraku Toyooka <hiraku.toyooka@cybertrust.co.jp> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: debdd57f5145 ("tracing: Make a snapshot feature available from userspace") Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> [ Updated commit log and comment in the code ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-04-24ring-buffer: Check if memory is available before allocationSteven Rostedt (VMware)
commit 2a872fa4e9c8adc79c830e4009e1cc0c013a9d8a upstream. The ring buffer is made up of a link list of pages. When making the ring buffer bigger, it will allocate all the pages it needs before adding to the ring buffer, and if it fails, it frees them and returns an error. This makes increasing the ring buffer size an all or nothing action. When this was first created, the pages were allocated with "NORETRY". This was to not cause any Out-Of-Memory (OOM) actions from allocating the ring buffer. But NORETRY was too strict, as the ring buffer would fail to expand even when there's memory available, but was taken up in the page cache. Commit 848618857d253 ("tracing/ring_buffer: Try harder to allocate") changed the allocating from NORETRY to RETRY_MAYFAIL. The RETRY_MAYFAIL would allocate from the page cache, but if there was no memory available, it would simple fail the allocation and not trigger an OOM. This worked fine, but had one problem. As the ring buffer would allocate one page at a time, it could take up all memory in the system before it failed to allocate and free that memory. If the allocation is happening and the ring buffer allocates all memory and then tries to take more than available, its allocation will not trigger an OOM, but if there's any allocation that happens someplace else, that could trigger an OOM, even though once the ring buffer's allocation fails, it would free up all the previous memory it tried to allocate, and allow other memory allocations to succeed. Commit d02bd27bd33dd ("mm/page_alloc.c: calculate 'available' memory in a separate function") separated out si_mem_availble() as a separate function that could be used to see how much memory is available in the system. Using this function to make sure that the ring buffer could be allocated before it tries to allocate pages we can avoid allocating all memory in the system and making it vulnerable to OOMs if other allocations are taking place. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1522320104-6573-1-git-send-email-zhaoyang.huang@spreadtrum.com CC: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Fixes: 848618857d253 ("tracing/ring_buffer: Try harder to allocate") Requires: d02bd27bd33dd ("mm/page_alloc.c: calculate 'available' memory in a separate function") Reported-by: Zhaoyang Huang <huangzhaoyang@gmail.com> Tested-by: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-02-22kmemcheck: remove annotationsLevin, Alexander (Sasha Levin)
commit 4950276672fce5c241857540f8561c440663673d upstream. Patch series "kmemcheck: kill kmemcheck", v2. As discussed at LSF/MM, kill kmemcheck. KASan is a replacement that is able to work without the limitation of kmemcheck (single CPU, slow). KASan is already upstream. We are also not aware of any users of kmemcheck (or users who don't consider KASan as a suitable replacement). The only objection was that since KASAN wasn't supported by all GCC versions provided by distros at that time we should hold off for 2 years, and try again. Now that 2 years have passed, and all distros provide gcc that supports KASAN, kill kmemcheck again for the very same reasons. This patch (of 4): Remove kmemcheck annotations, and calls to kmemcheck from the kernel. [alexander.levin@verizon.com: correctly remove kmemcheck call from dma_map_sg_attrs] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171012192151.26531-1-alexander.levin@verizon.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171007030159.22241-2-alexander.levin@verizon.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Tim Hansen <devtimhansen@gmail.com> Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegardno@ifi.uio.no> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-01-02ring-buffer: Do no reuse reader page if still in useSteven Rostedt (VMware)
commit ae415fa4c5248a8cf4faabd5a3c20576cb1ad607 upstream. To free the reader page that is allocated with ring_buffer_alloc_read_page(), ring_buffer_free_read_page() must be called. For faster performance, this page can be reused by the ring buffer to avoid having to free and allocate new pages. The issue arises when the page is used with a splice pipe into the networking code. The networking code may up the page counter for the page, and keep it active while sending it is queued to go to the network. The incrementing of the page ref does not prevent it from being reused in the ring buffer, and this can cause the page that is being sent out to the network to be modified before it is sent by reading new data. Add a check to the page ref counter, and only reuse the page if it is not being used anywhere else. Fixes: 73a757e63114d ("ring-buffer: Return reader page back into existing ring buffer") Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-01-02ring-buffer: Mask out the info bits when returning buffer page lengthSteven Rostedt (VMware)
commit 45d8b80c2ac5d21cd1e2954431fb676bc2b1e099 upstream. Two info bits were added to the "commit" part of the ring buffer data page when returned to be consumed. This was to inform the user space readers that events have been missed, and that the count may be stored at the end of the page. What wasn't handled, was the splice code that actually called a function to return the length of the data in order to zero out the rest of the page before sending it up to user space. These data bits were returned with the length making the value negative, and that negative value was not checked. It was compared to PAGE_SIZE, and only used if the size was less than PAGE_SIZE. Luckily PAGE_SIZE is unsigned long which made the compare an unsigned compare, meaning the negative size value did not end up causing a large portion of memory to be randomly zeroed out. Fixes: 66a8cb95ed040 ("ring-buffer: Add place holder recording of dropped events") Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-08-02ring-buffer: Have ring_buffer_alloc_read_page() return error on offline CPUSteven Rostedt (VMware)
Chunyu Hu reported: "per_cpu trace directories and files are created for all possible cpus, but only the cpus which have ever been on-lined have their own per cpu ring buffer (allocated by cpuhp threads). While trace_buffers_open, the open handler for trace file 'trace_pipe_raw' is always trying to access field of ring_buffer_per_cpu, and would panic with the NULL pointer. Align the behavior of trace_pipe_raw with trace_pipe, that returns -NODEV when openning it if that cpu does not have trace ring buffer. Reproduce: cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/per_cpu/cpu31/trace_pipe_raw (cpu31 is never on-lined, this is a 16 cores x86_64 box) Tested with: 1) boot with maxcpus=14, read trace_pipe_raw of cpu15. Got -NODEV. 2) oneline cpu15, read trace_pipe_raw of cpu15. Get the raw trace data. Call trace: [ 5760.950995] RIP: 0010:ring_buffer_alloc_read_page+0x32/0xe0 [ 5760.961678] tracing_buffers_read+0x1f6/0x230 [ 5760.962695] __vfs_read+0x37/0x160 [ 5760.963498] ? __vfs_read+0x5/0x160 [ 5760.964339] ? security_file_permission+0x9d/0xc0 [ 5760.965451] ? __vfs_read+0x5/0x160 [ 5760.966280] vfs_read+0x8c/0x130 [ 5760.967070] SyS_read+0x55/0xc0 [ 5760.967779] do_syscall_64+0x67/0x150 [ 5760.968687] entry_SYSCALL64_slow_path+0x25/0x25" This was introduced by the addition of the feature to reuse reader pages instead of re-allocating them. The problem is that the allocation of a reader page (which is per cpu) does not check if the cpu is online and set up for the ring buffer. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1500880866-1177-1-git-send-email-chuhu@redhat.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 73a757e63114 ("ring-buffer: Return reader page back into existing ring buffer") Reported-by: Chunyu Hu <chuhu@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2017-07-19tracing/ring_buffer: Try harder to allocateJoel Fernandes
ftrace can fail to allocate per-CPU ring buffer on systems with a large number of CPUs coupled while large amounts of cache happening in the page cache. Currently the ring buffer allocation doesn't retry in the VM implementation even if direct-reclaim made some progress but still wasn't able to find a free page. On retrying I see that the allocations almost always succeed. The retry doesn't happen because __GFP_NORETRY is used in the tracer to prevent the case where we might OOM, however if we drop __GFP_NORETRY, we risk destabilizing the system if OOM killer is triggered. To prevent this situation, use the __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL flag introduced recently [1]. Tested the following still succeeds without destabilizing a system with 1GB memory. echo 300000 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/buffer_size_kb [1] https://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=149820805124906&w=2 Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170713021416.8897-1-joelaf@google.com Cc: Tim Murray <timmurray@google.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2017-05-03Merge tag 'trace-v4.12' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt: "New features for this release: - Pretty much a full rewrite of the processing of function plugins. i.e. echo do_IRQ:stacktrace > set_ftrace_filter - The rewrite was needed to add plugins to be unique to tracing instances. i.e. mkdir instance/foo; cd instances/foo; echo do_IRQ:stacktrace > set_ftrace_filter The old way was written very hacky. This removes a lot of those hacks. - New "function-fork" tracing option. When set, pids in the set_ftrace_pid will have their children added when the processes with their pids listed in the set_ftrace_pid file forks. - Exposure of "maxactive" for kretprobe in kprobe_events - Allow for builtin init functions to be traced by the function tracer (via the kernel command line). Module init function tracing will come in the next release. - Added more selftests, and have selftests also test in an instance" * tag 'trace-v4.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (60 commits) ring-buffer: Return reader page back into existing ring buffer selftests: ftrace: Allow some event trigger tests to run in an instance selftests: ftrace: Have some basic tests run in a tracing instance too selftests: ftrace: Have event tests also run in an tracing instance selftests: ftrace: Make func_event_triggers and func_traceonoff_triggers tests do instances selftests: ftrace: Allow some tests to be run in a tracing instance tracing/ftrace: Allow for instances to trigger their own stacktrace probes tracing/ftrace: Allow for the traceonoff probe be unique to instances tracing/ftrace: Enable snapshot function trigger to work with instances tracing/ftrace: Allow instances to have their own function probes tracing/ftrace: Add a better way to pass data via the probe functions ftrace: Dynamically create the probe ftrace_ops for the trace_array tracing: Pass the trace_array into ftrace_probe_ops functions tracing: Have the trace_array hold the list of registered func probes ftrace: If the hash for a probe fails to update then free what was initialized ftrace: Have the function probes call their own function ftrace: Have each function probe use its own ftrace_ops ftrace: Have unregister_ftrace_function_probe_func() return a value ftrace: Add helper function ftrace_hash_move_and_update_ops() ftrace: Remove data field from ftrace_func_probe structure ...
2017-05-01ring-buffer: Return reader page back into existing ring bufferSteven Rostedt (VMware)
When reading the ring buffer for consuming, it is optimized for splice, where a page is taken out of the ring buffer (zero copy) and sent to the reading consumer. When the read is finished with the page, it calls ring_buffer_free_read_page(), which simply frees the page. The next time the reader needs to get a page from the ring buffer, it must call ring_buffer_alloc_read_page() which allocates and initializes a reader page for the ring buffer to be swapped into the ring buffer for a new filled page for the reader. The problem is that there's no reason to actually free the page when it is passed back to the ring buffer. It can hold it off and reuse it for the next iteration. This completely removes the interaction with the page_alloc mechanism. Using the trace-cmd utility to record all events (causing trace-cmd to require reading lots of pages from the ring buffer, and calling ring_buffer_alloc/free_read_page() several times), and also assigning a stack trace trigger to the mm_page_alloc event, we can see how many times the ring_buffer_alloc_read_page() needed to allocate a page for the ring buffer. Before this change: # trace-cmd record -e all -e mem_page_alloc -R stacktrace sleep 1 # trace-cmd report |grep ring_buffer_alloc_read_page | wc -l 9968 After this change: # trace-cmd record -e all -e mem_page_alloc -R stacktrace sleep 1 # trace-cmd report |grep ring_buffer_alloc_read_page | wc -l 4 Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2017-04-19ring-buffer: Have ring_buffer_iter_empty() return true when emptySteven Rostedt (VMware)
I noticed that reading the snapshot file when it is empty no longer gives a status. It suppose to show the status of the snapshot buffer as well as how to allocate and use it. For example: ># cat snapshot # tracer: nop # # # * Snapshot is allocated * # # Snapshot commands: # echo 0 > snapshot : Clears and frees snapshot buffer # echo 1 > snapshot : Allocates snapshot buffer, if not already allocated. # Takes a snapshot of the main buffer. # echo 2 > snapshot : Clears snapshot buffer (but does not allocate or free) # (Doesn't have to be '2' works with any number that # is not a '0' or '1') But instead it just showed an empty buffer: ># cat snapshot # tracer: nop # # entries-in-buffer/entries-written: 0/0 #P:4 # # _-----=> irqs-off # / _----=> need-resched # | / _---=> hardirq/softirq # || / _--=> preempt-depth # ||| / delay # TASK-PID CPU# |||| TIMESTAMP FUNCTION # | | | |||| | | What happened was that it was using the ring_buffer_iter_empty() function to see if it was empty, and if it was, it showed the status. But that function was returning false when it was empty. The reason was that the iter header page was on the reader page, and the reader page was empty, but so was the buffer itself. The check only tested to see if the iter was on the commit page, but the commit page was no longer pointing to the reader page, but as all pages were empty, the buffer is also. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 651e22f2701b ("ring-buffer: Always reset iterator to reader page") Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2017-04-05ring-buffer: Fix return value check in test_ringbuffer()Wei Yongjun
In case of error, the function kthread_run() returns ERR_PTR() and never returns NULL. The NULL test in the return value check should be replaced with IS_ERR(). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1466184839-14927-1-git-send-email-weiyj_lk@163.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 6c43e554a ("ring-buffer: Add ring buffer startup selftest") Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2017-03-02sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to ↵Ingo Molnar
<linux/sched/clock.h> We are going to split <linux/sched/clock.h> out of <linux/sched.h>, which will have to be picked up from other headers and .c files. Create a trivial placeholder <linux/sched/clock.h> file that just maps to <linux/sched.h> to make this patch obviously correct and bisectable. Include the new header in the files that are going to need it. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-12-15Merge tag 'trace-v4.10' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt: "This release has a few updates: - STM can hook into the function tracer - Function filtering now supports more advance glob matching - Ftrace selftests updates and added tests - Softirq tag in traces now show only softirqs - ARM nop added to non traced locations at compile time - New trace_marker_raw file that allows for binary input - Optimizations to the ring buffer - Removal of kmap in trace_marker - Wakeup and irqsoff tracers now adhere to the set_graph_notrace file - Other various fixes and clean ups" * tag 'trace-v4.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (42 commits) selftests: ftrace: Shift down default message verbosity kprobes/trace: Fix kprobe selftest for newer gcc tracing/kprobes: Add a helper method to return number of probe hits tracing/rb: Init the CPU mask on allocation tracing: Use SOFTIRQ_OFFSET for softirq dectection for more accurate results tracing/fgraph: Have wakeup and irqsoff tracers ignore graph functions too fgraph: Handle a case where a tracer ignores set_graph_notrace tracing: Replace kmap with copy_from_user() in trace_marker writing ftrace/x86_32: Set ftrace_stub to weak to prevent gcc from using short jumps to it tracing: Allow benchmark to be enabled at early_initcall() tracing: Have system enable return error if one of the events fail tracing: Do not start benchmark on boot up tracing: Have the reg function allow to fail ring-buffer: Force rb_end_commit() and rb_set_commit_to_write() inline ring-buffer: Froce rb_update_write_stamp() to be inlined ring-buffer: Force inline of hotpath helper functions tracing: Make __buffer_unlock_commit() always_inline tracing: Make tracepoint_printk a static_key ring-buffer: Always inline rb_event_data() ring-buffer: Make rb_reserve_next_event() always inlined ...
2016-12-12tracing/rb: Init the CPU mask on allocationSebastian Andrzej Siewior
Before commit b32614c03413 ("tracing/rb: Convert to hotplug state machine") the allocated cpumask was initialized to the mask of ONLINE or POSSIBLE CPUs. After the CPU hotplug changes the buffer initialisation moved to trace_rb_cpu_prepare() but I forgot to initially set the cpumask to zero. This is done now. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161207133133.hzkcqfllxcdi3joz@linutronix.de Fixes: b32614c03413 ("tracing/rb: Convert to hotplug state machine") Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Tested-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-12-07tracing/rb: Init the CPU mask on allocationSebastian Andrzej Siewior
Before commit b32614c03413 ("tracing/rb: Convert to hotplug state machine") the allocated cpumask was initialized to the mask of online or possible CPUs. After the CPU hotplug changes the buffer initialization moved to trace_rb_cpu_prepare() but the cpumask is allocated with alloc_cpumask() and therefor has random content. As a consequence the cpu buffers are not initialized and a later access dereferences a NULL pointer. Use zalloc_cpumask() instead so trace_rb_cpu_prepare() initializes the buffers properly. Fixes: b32614c03413 ("tracing/rb: Convert to hotplug state machine") Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161207133133.hzkcqfllxcdi3joz@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2016-12-02tracing/rb: Convert to hotplug state machineSebastian Andrzej Siewior
Install the callbacks via the state machine. The notifier in struct ring_buffer is replaced by the multi instance interface. Upon __ring_buffer_alloc() invocation, cpuhp_state_add_instance() will invoke the trace_rb_cpu_prepare() on each CPU. This callback may now fail. This means __ring_buffer_alloc() will fail and cleanup (like previously) and during a CPU up event this failure will not allow the CPU to come up. Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: rt@linutronix.de Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161126231350.10321-7-bigeasy@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2016-11-23ring-buffer: Force rb_end_commit() and rb_set_commit_to_write() inlineSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
Both rb_end_commit() and rb_set_commit_to_write() are in the fast path of the ring buffer recording. Make sure they are always inlined. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161121183700.GW26852@two.firstfloor.org Reported-by: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-11-23ring-buffer: Froce rb_update_write_stamp() to be inlinedSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
The function rb_update_write_stamp() is in the hotpath of the ring buffer recording. Make sure that it is inlined as well. There's not many places that call it. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161121183700.GW26852@two.firstfloor.org Reported-by: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-11-23ring-buffer: Force inline of hotpath helper functionsSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
There's several small helper functions in ring_buffer.c that are used in the hot path. For some reason, even though they are marked inline, gcc tends not to enforce it. Make sure these functions are always inlined. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161121183700.GW26852@two.firstfloor.org Reported-by: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-11-23ring-buffer: Always inline rb_event_data()Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
The rb_event_data() is the fast path of getting the ring buffer data from an event. Externally, ring_buffer_event_data() is used to access this function. But unfortunately, rb_event_data() is not inlined, and calling ring_buffer_event_data() causes that function to be called again. Force rb_event_data() to be inlined to lower the number of operations needed when calling ring_buffer_event_data(). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161121183700.GW26852@two.firstfloor.org Reported-by: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-11-23ring-buffer: Make rb_reserve_next_event() always inlinedSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
The function rb_reserved_next_event() is called by two functions: ring_buffer_lock_reserve() and ring_buffer_write(). This is in a very hot path of the tracing code, and it is best that they are not functions. The two callers are basically wrapers for rb_reserver_next_event(). Removing the function calls can save execution time in the hotpath of tracing. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161121183700.GW26852@two.firstfloor.org Reported-by: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-05-13ring-buffer: Prevent overflow of size in ring_buffer_resize()Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
If the size passed to ring_buffer_resize() is greater than MAX_LONG - BUF_PAGE_SIZE then the DIV_ROUND_UP() will return zero. Here's the details: # echo 18014398509481980 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/buffer_size_kb tracing_entries_write() processes this and converts kb to bytes. 18014398509481980 << 10 = 18446744073709547520 and this is passed to ring_buffer_resize() as unsigned long size. size = DIV_ROUND_UP(size, BUF_PAGE_SIZE); Where DIV_ROUND_UP(a, b) is (a + b - 1)/b BUF_PAGE_SIZE is 4080 and here 18446744073709547520 + 4080 - 1 = 18446744073709551599 where 18446744073709551599 is still smaller than 2^64 2^64 - 18446744073709551599 = 17 But now 18446744073709551599 / 4080 = 4521260802379792 and size = size * 4080 = 18446744073709551360 This is checked to make sure its still greater than 2 * 4080, which it is. Then we convert to the number of buffer pages needed. nr_page = DIV_ROUND_UP(size, BUF_PAGE_SIZE) but this time size is 18446744073709551360 and 2^64 - (18446744073709551360 + 4080 - 1) = -3823 Thus it overflows and the resulting number is less than 4080, which makes 3823 / 4080 = 0 an nr_pages is set to this. As we already checked against the minimum that nr_pages may be, this causes the logic to fail as well, and we crash the kernel. There's no reason to have the two DIV_ROUND_UP() (that's just result of historical code changes), clean up the code and fix this bug. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.5+ Fixes: 83f40318dab00 ("ring-buffer: Make removal of ring buffer pages atomic") Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2016-05-13ring-buffer: Use long for nr_pages to avoid overflow failuresSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
The size variable to change the ring buffer in ftrace is a long. The nr_pages used to update the ring buffer based on the size is int. On 64 bit machines this can cause an overflow problem. For example, the following will cause the ring buffer to crash: # cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # echo 10 > buffer_size_kb # echo 8556384240 > buffer_size_kb Then you get the warning of: WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 318 at kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:1527 rb_update_pages+0x22f/0x260 Which is: RB_WARN_ON(cpu_buffer, nr_removed); Note each ring buffer page holds 4080 bytes. This is because: 1) 10 causes the ring buffer to have 3 pages. (10kb requires 3 * 4080 pages to hold) 2) (2^31 / 2^10 + 1) * 4080 = 8556384240 The value written into buffer_size_kb is shifted by 10 and then passed to ring_buffer_resize(). 8556384240 * 2^10 = 8761737461760 3) The size passed to ring_buffer_resize() is then divided by BUF_PAGE_SIZE which is 4080. 8761737461760 / 4080 = 2147484672 4) nr_pages is subtracted from the current nr_pages (3) and we get: 2147484669. This value is saved in a signed integer nr_pages_to_update 5) 2147484669 is greater than 2^31 but smaller than 2^32, a signed int turns into the value of -2147482627 6) As the value is a negative number, in update_pages_handler() it is negated and passed to rb_remove_pages() and 2147482627 pages will be removed, which is much larger than 3 and it causes the warning because not all the pages asked to be removed were removed. Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118001 Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 2.6.28+ Fixes: 7a8e76a3829f1 ("tracing: unified trace buffer") Reported-by: Hao Qin <QEver.cn@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-11-25ring-buffer: Process commits whenever moving to a new page.Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
When crossing over to a new page, commit the current work. This will allow readers to get data with less latency, and also simplifies the work to get timestamps working for interrupted events. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-11-24ring-buffer: Remove redundant update of page timestampSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
The first commit of a buffer page updates the timestamp of that page. No need to have the update to the next page add the timestamp too. It will only be replaced by the first commit on that page anyway. Only update to a page if it contains an event. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-11-24ring-buffer: Use READ_ONCE() for most tail_page accessSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
As cpu_buffer->tail_page may be modified by interrupts at almost any time, the flow of logic is very important. Do not let gcc get smart with re-reading cpu_buffer->tail_page by adding READ_ONCE() around most of its accesses. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-11-24ring-buffer: Put back the length if crossed page with add_timestampSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
Commit fcc742eaad7c "ring-buffer: Add event descriptor to simplify passing data" added a descriptor that holds various data instead of passing around several variables through parameters. The problem was that one of the parameters was modified in a function and the code was designed not to have an effect on that modified parameter. Now that the parameter is a descriptor and any modifications to it are non-volatile, the size of the data could be unnecessarily expanded. Remove the extra space added if a timestamp was added and the event went across the page. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.3+ Fixes: fcc742eaad7c "ring-buffer: Add event descriptor to simplify passing data" Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-11-24ring-buffer: Update read stamp with first real commit on pageSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
Do not update the read stamp after swapping out the reader page from the write buffer. If the reader page is swapped out of the buffer before an event is written to it, then the read_stamp may get an out of date timestamp, as the page timestamp is updated on the first commit to that page. rb_get_reader_page() only returns a page if it has an event on it, otherwise it will return NULL. At that point, check if the page being returned has events and has not been read yet. Then at that point update the read_stamp to match the time stamp of the reader page. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 2.6.30+ Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-11-02ring-buffer: rb_event_is_commit() can return booleanYaowei Bai
Make rb_event_is_commit() return bool to improve readability due to this particular function only using either one or zero as its return value. No functional change. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1443537816-5788-7-git-send-email-bywxiaobai@163.com Signed-off-by: Yaowei Bai <bywxiaobai@163.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-11-02ring-buffer: rb_per_cpu_empty() can return booleanYaowei Bai
Makes rb_per_cpu_empty() return bool to improve readability. No functional change. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1443537816-5788-6-git-send-email-bywxiaobai@163.com Signed-off-by: Yaowei Bai <bywxiaobai@163.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-11-02ring_buffer: ring_buffer_empty{cpu}() can return booleanYaowei Bai
Make ring_buffer_empty() and ring_buffer_empty_cpu() return bool. No functional change. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1443537816-5788-5-git-send-email-bywxiaobai@163.com Signed-off-by: Yaowei Bai <bywxiaobai@163.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-11-02ring-buffer: rb_is_reader_page() can return booleanYaowei Bai
Make rb_is_reader_page() return bool to improve readability due to this particular function only using either true or false as its return value. No functional change. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1443537816-5788-4-git-send-email-bywxiaobai@163.com Signed-off-by: Yaowei Bai <bywxiaobai@163.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-09-03ring-buffer: Revert "ring-buffer: Get timestamp after event is allocated"Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
The commit a4543a2fa9ef31 "ring-buffer: Get timestamp after event is allocated" is needed for some future work. But after adding it, there is a race somewhere that causes the saved timestamp to have a slight shift, and get ahead of the actual timestamp and make it look like time goes backwards. I'm still looking into why this happens, but in the mean time, this is holding up other work to get in. I'm reverting the change for now (which makes the problem go away), and will add it back after I know what is wrong and fix it. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-07-20ring-buffer: Reorganize function locationsSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
Functions in ring-buffer.c have gotten interleaved between different use cases. Move the functions around to get like functions closer together. This may or may not help gcc keep cache locality, but it makes it a little easier to work with the code. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-07-20ring-buffer: Make sure event has enough room for extend and paddingSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
Now that events only add time extends after it is committed, in case an event comes in before it can discard the allocated event, the time extend needs to be stored within the event. If the event is bigger than then size needed for the time extend, padding must be added. The minimum padding size is 8 bytes. Thus if the event is 12 bytes (size of time extend + 4), there will not be enough room to add both the time extend and padding. Make sure all events are either 8 bytes or 16 or more bytes. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-07-20ring-buffer: Get timestamp after event is allocatedSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
Move the capturing of the timestamp to after an event is allocated. If the event is not a commit (where it is an event that preempted another event), then no timestamp is needed, because the delta of nested events is always zero. If the event starts on a new page, no delta needs to be calculated as the full timestamp will be added to the page header, and the event will have a delta of zero. Now if the event requires a time extend (the delta does not fit in the 27 bit delta slot in the header), then the event is discarded, the length is extended to hold the TIME_EXTEND event that allows for a 59 bit delta, and the commit is tried again. If the event can't be discarded (another event came in after it), then the TIME_EXTEND is added directly to the allocated event and the rest of the event is given padding. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-07-20ring-buffer: Move the adding of the extended timestamp out of lineSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
Requiring a extended time stamp is an uncommon occurrence, and it is best to do it out of line when needed. Add a noinline function that handles the extended timestamp and have it called with an unlikely to completely move it out of the fast path. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-07-20ring-buffer: Add event descriptor to simplify passing dataSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
Add rb_event_info descriptor to pass event info to functions a bit easier than using a bunch of parameters. This will also allow for changing the code around a bit to find better fast paths. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-05-29ring-buffer: Add enum names for the context levelsSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
Instead of having hard coded numbers for the context levels, use enums to describe them more. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>