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authorRabin Vincent <rabin@rab.in>2014-11-10 19:46:34 +0100
committerSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>2014-11-10 16:45:43 -0500
commite30f53aad2202b5526c40c36d8eeac8bf290bde5 (patch)
treef9b21ea9ccbe93b781d8426af09cbd472cbdfef8 /include
parent206c5f60a3d902bc4b56dab2de3e88de5eb06108 (diff)
tracing: Do not busy wait in buffer splice
On a !PREEMPT kernel, attempting to use trace-cmd results in a soft lockup: # trace-cmd record -e raw_syscalls:* -F false NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 22s! [trace-cmd:61] ... Call Trace: [<ffffffff8105b580>] ? __wake_up_common+0x90/0x90 [<ffffffff81092e25>] wait_on_pipe+0x35/0x40 [<ffffffff810936e3>] tracing_buffers_splice_read+0x2e3/0x3c0 [<ffffffff81093300>] ? tracing_stats_read+0x2a0/0x2a0 [<ffffffff812d10ab>] ? _raw_spin_unlock+0x2b/0x40 [<ffffffff810dc87b>] ? do_read_fault+0x21b/0x290 [<ffffffff810de56a>] ? handle_mm_fault+0x2ba/0xbd0 [<ffffffff81095c80>] ? trace_event_buffer_lock_reserve+0x40/0x80 [<ffffffff810951e2>] ? trace_buffer_lock_reserve+0x22/0x60 [<ffffffff81095c80>] ? trace_event_buffer_lock_reserve+0x40/0x80 [<ffffffff8112415d>] do_splice_to+0x6d/0x90 [<ffffffff81126971>] SyS_splice+0x7c1/0x800 [<ffffffff812d1edd>] tracesys_phase2+0xd3/0xd8 The problem is this: tracing_buffers_splice_read() calls ring_buffer_wait() to wait for data in the ring buffers. The buffers are not empty so ring_buffer_wait() returns immediately. But tracing_buffers_splice_read() calls ring_buffer_read_page() with full=1, meaning it only wants to read a full page. When the full page is not available, tracing_buffers_splice_read() tries to wait again with ring_buffer_wait(), which again returns immediately, and so on. Fix this by adding a "full" argument to ring_buffer_wait() which will make ring_buffer_wait() wait until the writer has left the reader's page, i.e. until full-page reads will succeed. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1415645194-25379-1-git-send-email-rabin@rab.in Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.16+ Fixes: b1169cc69ba9 ("tracing: Remove mock up poll wait function") Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent <rabin@rab.in> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/ring_buffer.h2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/ring_buffer.h b/include/linux/ring_buffer.h
index 49a4d6f59108..e2c13cd863bd 100644
--- a/include/linux/ring_buffer.h
+++ b/include/linux/ring_buffer.h
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ __ring_buffer_alloc(unsigned long size, unsigned flags, struct lock_class_key *k
__ring_buffer_alloc((size), (flags), &__key); \
})
-int ring_buffer_wait(struct ring_buffer *buffer, int cpu);
+int ring_buffer_wait(struct ring_buffer *buffer, int cpu, bool full);
int ring_buffer_poll_wait(struct ring_buffer *buffer, int cpu,
struct file *filp, poll_table *poll_table);