This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled tracing: Apply trace_clock changes to instance max buffer to the 3.18-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-apply-trace_clock-changes-to-instance-max-buffer.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 170b3b1050e28d1ba0700e262f0899ffa4fccc52 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Baohong Liu <baohong.liu@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2017 16:57:19 -0500 Subject: tracing: Apply trace_clock changes to instance max buffer From: Baohong Liu <baohong.liu@xxxxxxxxx> commit 170b3b1050e28d1ba0700e262f0899ffa4fccc52 upstream. Currently trace_clock timestamps are applied to both regular and max buffers only for global trace. For instance trace, trace_clock timestamps are applied only to regular buffer. But, regular and max buffers can be swapped, for example, following a snapshot. So, for instance trace, bad timestamps can be seen following a snapshot. Let's apply trace_clock timestamps to instance max buffer as well. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ebdb168d0be042dcdf51f81e696b17fabe3609c1.1504642143.git.tom.zanussi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fixes: 277ba0446 ("tracing: Add interface to allow multiple trace buffers") Signed-off-by: Baohong Liu <baohong.liu@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/trace/trace.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/kernel/trace/trace.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c @@ -4966,7 +4966,7 @@ static int tracing_set_clock(struct trac tracing_reset_online_cpus(&tr->trace_buffer); #ifdef CONFIG_TRACER_MAX_TRACE - if (tr->flags & TRACE_ARRAY_FL_GLOBAL && tr->max_buffer.buffer) + if (tr->max_buffer.buffer) ring_buffer_set_clock(tr->max_buffer.buffer, trace_clocks[i].func); tracing_reset_online_cpus(&tr->max_buffer); #endif Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from baohong.liu@xxxxxxxxx are queue-3.18/tracing-apply-trace_clock-changes-to-instance-max-buffer.patch