This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
tracing: Allocate mask_str buffer dynamically
to the 4.9-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-allocate-mask_str-buffer-dynamically.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 90e406f96f630c07d631a021fd4af10aac913e77 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Changbin Du <changbin.du@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2017 11:39:43 +0800
Subject: tracing: Allocate mask_str buffer dynamically
From: Changbin Du <changbin.du@xxxxxxxxx>
commit 90e406f96f630c07d631a021fd4af10aac913e77 upstream.
The default NR_CPUS can be very large, but actual possible nr_cpu_ids
usually is very small. For my x86 distribution, the NR_CPUS is 8192 and
nr_cpu_ids is 4. About 2 pages are wasted.
Most machines don't have so many CPUs, so define a array with NR_CPUS
just wastes memory. So let's allocate the buffer dynamically when need.
With this change, the mutext tracing_cpumask_update_lock also can be
removed now, which was used to protect mask_str.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1512013183-19107-1-git-send-email-changbin.du@xxxxxxxxx
Fixes: 36dfe9252bd4c ("ftrace: make use of tracing_cpumask")
Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/trace/trace.c | 29 +++++++++--------------------
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -3727,37 +3727,30 @@ static const struct file_operations show
.llseek = seq_lseek,
};
-/*
- * The tracer itself will not take this lock, but still we want
- * to provide a consistent cpumask to user-space:
- */
-static DEFINE_MUTEX(tracing_cpumask_update_lock);
-
-/*
- * Temporary storage for the character representation of the
- * CPU bitmask (and one more byte for the newline):
- */
-static char mask_str[NR_CPUS + 1];
-
static ssize_t
tracing_cpumask_read(struct file *filp, char __user *ubuf,
size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
{
struct trace_array *tr = file_inode(filp)->i_private;
+ char *mask_str;
int len;
- mutex_lock(&tracing_cpumask_update_lock);
+ len = snprintf(NULL, 0, "%*pb\n",
+ cpumask_pr_args(tr->tracing_cpumask)) + 1;
+ mask_str = kmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!mask_str)
+ return -ENOMEM;
- len = snprintf(mask_str, count, "%*pb\n",
+ len = snprintf(mask_str, len, "%*pb\n",
cpumask_pr_args(tr->tracing_cpumask));
if (len >= count) {
count = -EINVAL;
goto out_err;
}
- count = simple_read_from_buffer(ubuf, count, ppos, mask_str, NR_CPUS+1);
+ count = simple_read_from_buffer(ubuf, count, ppos, mask_str, len);
out_err:
- mutex_unlock(&tracing_cpumask_update_lock);
+ kfree(mask_str);
return count;
}
@@ -3777,8 +3770,6 @@ tracing_cpumask_write(struct file *filp,
if (err)
goto err_unlock;
- mutex_lock(&tracing_cpumask_update_lock);
-
local_irq_disable();
arch_spin_lock(&tr->max_lock);
for_each_tracing_cpu(cpu) {
@@ -3801,8 +3792,6 @@ tracing_cpumask_write(struct file *filp,
local_irq_enable();
cpumask_copy(tr->tracing_cpumask, tracing_cpumask_new);
-
- mutex_unlock(&tracing_cpumask_update_lock);
free_cpumask_var(tracing_cpumask_new);
return count;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from changbin.du@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.9/tracing-allocate-mask_str-buffer-dynamically.patch