linux_dsm_epyc7002/kernel/trace
Tim Bird a202355640 ring-buffer: fix bug in ring_buffer_discard_commit
There's a bug in ring_buffer_discard_commit.  The wrong
pointer is being compared in order to check if the event
can be freed from the buffer rather than discarded
(i.e. marked as PAD).

I noticed this when I was working on duration filtering.
The bug is not deadly - it just results in lots of wasted
space in the buffer.  All filtered events are left in
the buffer and marked as discarded, rather than being
removed from the buffer to make space for other events.

Unfortunately, when I fixed this bug, I got errors doing a
filtered function trace.  Multiple TIME_EXTEND
events pile up in the buffer, and trigger the
following loop overage warning in rb_iter_peek():

again:
	...
	if (RB_WARN_ON(cpu_buffer, ++nr_loops > 10))
		return NULL;

I'm not sure what the best way is to fix this. I don't
know if I should extend the loop threshhold, or if I should
make the test more complex (ignore TIME_EXTEND
events), or just get rid of this loop check completely.

Note that if I implement a workaround for this, then I
see another problem from rb_advance_iter().  I haven't
tracked that one down yet.

In general, it seems like the case of removing filtered
events has not been working properly, and so some assumptions
about buffer invariant conditions need to be revisited.

Here's the patch for the simple fix:

Compare correct pointer for checking if an event can be
freed rather than left as discarded in the buffer.

Signed-off-by: Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A25BE9E.5090909@am.sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2009-06-03 10:15:06 -04:00
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blktrace.c blktrace: remove debugfs entries on bad path 2009-05-19 10:29:21 +02:00
ftrace.c ftrace: do not profile functions when disabled 2009-06-01 23:26:23 -04:00
Kconfig tracing: combine the default tracers into one config 2009-06-01 23:23:55 -04:00
kmemtrace.c tracing/filters: use ring_buffer_discard_commit() in filter_check_discard() 2009-04-14 00:00:56 +02:00
Makefile Merge branch 'tracing/hw-branch-tracing' into tracing/core 2009-05-07 13:36:22 +02:00
ring_buffer_benchmark.c ring-buffer: check for divide by zero in ring-buffer-benchmark 2009-05-11 13:22:26 -04:00
ring_buffer.c ring-buffer: fix bug in ring_buffer_discard_commit 2009-06-03 10:15:06 -04:00
trace_boot.c tracing: use macros to denote usec and nsec per second 2009-04-07 14:43:06 +02:00
trace_branch.c Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/core 2009-05-07 11:17:34 +02:00
trace_clock.c tracing: fix four sparse warnings 2009-03-22 18:16:54 +01:00
trace_event_profile.c tracing/events: fix concurrent access to ftrace_events list 2009-05-06 10:38:19 +02:00
trace_event_types.h tracing/filters: distinguish between signed and unsigned fields 2009-04-29 14:06:03 +02:00
trace_events_filter.c tracing/events: introduce __dynamic_array() 2009-06-01 23:25:15 -04:00
trace_events.c ftrace: clean up of using ftrace_event_enable_disable() 2009-05-26 03:30:31 +02:00
trace_export.c tracing/filters: distinguish between signed and unsigned fields 2009-04-29 14:06:03 +02:00
trace_functions_graph.c function-graph: add option to calculate graph time or not 2009-03-24 23:41:11 -04:00
trace_functions.c tracing/core: use appropriate waiting on trace_pipe 2009-02-18 01:40:20 +01:00
trace_hw_branches.c Merge branch 'tracing/hw-branch-tracing' into tracing/core 2009-05-07 13:36:22 +02:00
trace_irqsoff.c tracing: have latency tracers set the latency format 2009-03-04 22:15:30 -05:00
trace_mmiotrace.c tracing: use macros to denote usec and nsec per second 2009-04-07 14:43:06 +02:00
trace_nop.c tracing/ftrace: make nop-tracer use polling wait for events on pipe 2009-03-23 09:22:15 +01:00
trace_output.c tracing: add exports to use __print_symbolic and __print_flags from a module 2009-06-01 23:25:29 -04:00
trace_output.h tracing: add trace_event_read_lock() 2009-05-25 23:53:41 +02:00
trace_power.c Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/core 2009-05-07 11:17:34 +02:00
trace_printk.c tracing/ftrace: factorize the tracing files creation 2009-04-07 14:43:07 +02:00
trace_sched_switch.c tracing/events: move trace point headers into include/trace/events 2009-04-14 22:05:43 -04:00
trace_sched_wakeup.c tracing/wakeup: move access to wakeup_cpu into spinlock 2009-04-23 23:01:36 -04:00
trace_selftest_dynamic.c ftrace: fix dynamic ftrace selftest 2008-05-23 21:13:23 +02:00
trace_selftest.c x86, hw-branch-tracer: allocate selftest iterator on heap 2009-04-07 13:36:21 +02:00
trace_stack.c tracing/ftrace: factorize the tracing files creation 2009-04-07 14:43:07 +02:00
trace_stat.c Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/core 2009-04-07 13:47:45 +02:00
trace_stat.h tracing: add handler to trace_stat 2009-03-24 23:22:58 -04:00
trace_syscalls.c tracing/syscalls: use a dedicated file header 2009-04-09 05:43:32 +02:00
trace_sysprof.c tracing/ftrace: factorize the tracing files creation 2009-04-07 14:43:07 +02:00
trace_workqueue.c Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/core 2009-04-07 13:47:45 +02:00
trace.c tracing: make trace pipe recognize latency format flag 2009-06-01 23:26:02 -04:00
trace.h Merge branch 'tracing/hw-branch-tracing' into tracing/core 2009-05-07 13:36:22 +02:00