This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
tracing: Have large events show up as '[LINE TOO BIG]' instead of nothing
to the 5.15-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-have-large-events-show-up-as-line-too-big-in.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 0394678ba2f763c8a01e810c1729e1d437a23a10
Author: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat Dec 9 17:10:58 2023 -0500
tracing: Have large events show up as '[LINE TOO BIG]' instead of nothing
[ Upstream commit b55b0a0d7c4aa2dac3579aa7e6802d1f57445096 ]
If a large event was added to the ring buffer that is larger than what the
trace_seq can handle, it just drops the output:
~# cat /sys/kernel/tracing/trace
# tracer: nop
#
# entries-in-buffer/entries-written: 2/2 #P:8
#
# _-----=> irqs-off/BH-disabled
# / _----=> need-resched
# | / _---=> hardirq/softirq
# || / _--=> preempt-depth
# ||| / _-=> migrate-disable
# |||| / delay
# TASK-PID CPU# ||||| TIMESTAMP FUNCTION
# | | | ||||| | |
<...>-859 [001] ..... 141.118951: tracing_mark_write <...>-859 [001] ..... 141.148201: tracing_mark_write: 78901234
Instead, catch this case and add some context:
~# cat /sys/kernel/tracing/trace
# tracer: nop
#
# entries-in-buffer/entries-written: 2/2 #P:8
#
# _-----=> irqs-off/BH-disabled
# / _----=> need-resched
# | / _---=> hardirq/softirq
# || / _--=> preempt-depth
# ||| / _-=> migrate-disable
# |||| / delay
# TASK-PID CPU# ||||| TIMESTAMP FUNCTION
# | | | ||||| | |
<...>-852 [001] ..... 121.550551: tracing_mark_write[LINE TOO BIG]
<...>-852 [001] ..... 121.550581: tracing_mark_write: 78901234
This now emulates the same output as trace_pipe.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20231209171058.78c1a026@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index 91ff118138c8..66322196b256 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -4667,7 +4667,11 @@ static int s_show(struct seq_file *m, void *v)
iter->leftover = ret;
} else {
- print_trace_line(iter);
+ ret = print_trace_line(iter);
+ if (ret == TRACE_TYPE_PARTIAL_LINE) {
+ iter->seq.full = 0;
+ trace_seq_puts(&iter->seq, "[LINE TOO BIG]\n");
+ }
ret = trace_print_seq(m, &iter->seq);
/*
* If we overflow the seq_file buffer, then it will
