This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
tracing: Always update snapshot buffer size
to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
tracing-always-update-snapshot-buffer-size.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 7be76461f302ec05cbd62b90b2a05c64299ca01f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Steven Rostedt (Google)" <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2023 16:52:09 -0500
Subject: tracing: Always update snapshot buffer size
From: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 7be76461f302ec05cbd62b90b2a05c64299ca01f upstream.
It use to be that only the top level instance had a snapshot buffer (for
latency tracers like wakeup and irqsoff). The update of the ring buffer
size would check if the instance was the top level and if so, it would
also update the snapshot buffer as it needs to be the same as the main
buffer.
Now that lower level instances also has a snapshot buffer, they too need
to update their snapshot buffer sizes when the main buffer is changed,
otherwise the following can be triggered:
# cd /sys/kernel/tracing
# echo 1500 > buffer_size_kb
# mkdir instances/foo
# echo irqsoff > instances/foo/current_tracer
# echo 1000 > instances/foo/buffer_size_kb
Produces:
WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 856 at kernel/trace/trace.c:1938 update_max_tr_single.part.0+0x27d/0x320
Which is:
ret = ring_buffer_swap_cpu(tr->max_buffer.buffer, tr->array_buffer.buffer, cpu);
if (ret == -EBUSY) {
[..]
}
WARN_ON_ONCE(ret && ret != -EAGAIN && ret != -EBUSY); <== here
That's because ring_buffer_swap_cpu() has:
int ret = -EINVAL;
[..]
/* At least make sure the two buffers are somewhat the same */
if (cpu_buffer_a->nr_pages != cpu_buffer_b->nr_pages)
goto out;
[..]
out:
return ret;
}
Instead, update all instances' snapshot buffer sizes when their main
buffer size is updated.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231205220010.454662151@xxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 6d9b3fa5e7f6 ("tracing: Move tracing_max_latency into trace_array")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/trace/trace.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -5253,8 +5253,7 @@ static int __tracing_resize_ring_buffer(
return ret;
#ifdef CONFIG_TRACER_MAX_TRACE
- if (!(tr->flags & TRACE_ARRAY_FL_GLOBAL) ||
- !tr->current_trace->use_max_tr)
+ if (!tr->current_trace->use_max_tr)
goto out;
ret = ring_buffer_resize(tr->max_buffer.buffer, size, cpu);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.14/tracing-fix-a-possible-race-when-disabling-buffered-events.patch
queue-4.14/tracing-fix-incomplete-locking-when-disabling-buffered-events.patch
queue-4.14/tracing-fix-a-warning-when-allocating-buffered-event.patch
queue-4.14/tracing-always-update-snapshot-buffer-size.patch
