From: Tomas Glozar <tglozar@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 217f0b1e990e30a1f06f6d531fdb4530f4788d48 upstream. When using rtla timerlat with userspace threads (-u or -U), rtla disables the OSNOISE_WORKLOAD option in /sys/kernel/tracing/osnoise/options. This option is not re-enabled in a subsequent run with kernel-space threads, leading to rtla collecting no results if the previous run exited abnormally: $ rtla timerlat top -u ^\Quit (core dumped) $ rtla timerlat top -k -d 1s Timer Latency 0 00:00:01 | IRQ Timer Latency (us) | Thread Timer Latency (us) CPU COUNT | cur min avg max | cur min avg max The issue persists until OSNOISE_WORKLOAD is set manually by running: $ echo OSNOISE_WORKLOAD > /sys/kernel/tracing/osnoise/options Set OSNOISE_WORKLOAD when running rtla with kernel-space threads if available to fix the issue. Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Luis Goncalves <lgoncalv@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250107144823.239782-4-tglozar@xxxxxxxxxx Fixes: cdca4f4e5e8e ("rtla/timerlat_top: Add timerlat user-space support") Signed-off-by: Tomas Glozar <tglozar@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- tools/tracing/rtla/src/timerlat_top.c | 15 +++++++++------ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) --- a/tools/tracing/rtla/src/timerlat_top.c +++ b/tools/tracing/rtla/src/timerlat_top.c @@ -851,12 +851,15 @@ timerlat_top_apply_config(struct osnoise } } - if (params->user_top) { - retval = osnoise_set_workload(top->context, 0); - if (retval) { - err_msg("Failed to set OSNOISE_WORKLOAD option\n"); - goto out_err; - } + /* + * Set workload according to type of thread if the kernel supports it. + * On kernels without support, user threads will have already failed + * on missing timerlat_fd, and kernel threads do not need it. + */ + retval = osnoise_set_workload(top->context, params->kernel_workload); + if (retval < -1) { + err_msg("Failed to set OSNOISE_WORKLOAD option\n"); + goto out_err; } if (isatty(STDOUT_FILENO) && !params->quiet) Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tglozar@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-6.13/tracing-osnoise-fix-resetting-of-tracepoints.patch queue-6.13/rtla-timerlat_top-set-osnoise_workload-for-kernel-threads.patch queue-6.13/rtla-osnoise-distinguish-missing-workload-option.patch queue-6.13/rtla-timerlat_hist-set-osnoise_workload-for-kernel-threads.patch queue-6.13/rtla-timerlat_top-stop-timerlat-tracer-on-signal.patch queue-6.13/rtla-timerlat_hist-stop-timerlat-tracer-on-signal.patch queue-6.13/rtla-add-trace_instance_stop.patch