- Revert "tracing: Remove pid in task_rename tracing output"
A change was made to remove the pid field from the task_rename event
because it was thought that it was always done for the current task and
recording the pid would be redundant. This turned out to be incorrect and
there are a few corner case where this is not true and caused some
regressions in tooling.
- Fix the reading from user space for migration
The reading of user space uses a seq lock type of logic where it uses a
per-cpu temporary buffer and disables migration, then enables preemption,
does the copy from user space, disables preemption, enables migration and
checks if there was any schedule switches while preemption was enabled. If
there was a context switch, then it is considered that the per-cpu buffer
could be corrupted and it tries again. There's a protection check that
tests if it takes a hundred tries, it issues a warning and exits out to
prevent a live lock.
This was triggered because the task was selected by the load balancer to
be migrated to another CPU, every time preemption is enabled the migration
task would schedule in try to migrate the task but can't because migration
is disabled and let it run again. This caused the scheduler to schedule out
the task every time it enabled preemption and made the loop never exit
(until the 100 iteration test triggered).
Fix this by enabling and disabling preemption and keeping migration
enabled if the reading from user space needs to be done again. This will
let the migration thread migrate the task and the copy from user space
will likely pass on the next iteration.
- Fix trace_marker copy option freeing
The "copy_trace_marker" option allows a tracing instance to get a copy of
a write to the trace_marker file of the top level instance. This is
managed by a link list protected by RCU. When an instance is removed, a
check is made if the option is set, and if so synchronized_rcu() is
called. The problem is that an iteration is made to reset all the flags to
what they were when the instance was created (to perform clean ups) was
done before the check of the copy_trace_marker option and that option was
cleared, so the synchronize_rcu() was never called.
Move the clearing of all the flags after the check of copy_trace_marker to
do synchronize_rcu() so that the option is still set if it was before and
the synchronization is performed.
- Fix entries setting when validating the persistent ring buffer
When validating the persistent ring buffer on boot up, the number of
events per sub-buffer is added to the sub-buffer meta page. The validator
was updating cpu_buffer->head_page (the first sub-buffer of the per-cpu
buffer) and not the "head_page" variable that was iterating the
sub-buffers. This was causing the first sub-buffer to be assigned the
entries for each sub-buffer and not the sub-buffer that was supposed to be
updated.
- Use "hash" value to update the direct callers
When updating the ftrace direct callers, it assigned a temporary callback
to all the callback functions of the ftrace ops and not just the
functions represented by the passed in hash. This causes an unnecessary
slow down of the functions of the ftrace_ops that is not being modified.
Only update the functions that are going to be modified to call the
ftrace loop function so that the update can be made on those functions.
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Merge tag 'trace-v7.0-rc4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace
Pull tracing fixes from Steven Rostedt:
- Revert "tracing: Remove pid in task_rename tracing output"
A change was made to remove the pid field from the task_rename event
because it was thought that it was always done for the current task
and recording the pid would be redundant. This turned out to be
incorrect and there are a few corner case where this is not true and
caused some regressions in tooling.
- Fix the reading from user space for migration
The reading of user space uses a seq lock type of logic where it uses
a per-cpu temporary buffer and disables migration, then enables
preemption, does the copy from user space, disables preemption,
enables migration and checks if there was any schedule switches while
preemption was enabled. If there was a context switch, then it is
considered that the per-cpu buffer could be corrupted and it tries
again. There's a protection check that tests if it takes a hundred
tries, it issues a warning and exits out to prevent a live lock.
This was triggered because the task was selected by the load balancer
to be migrated to another CPU, every time preemption is enabled the
migration task would schedule in try to migrate the task but can't
because migration is disabled and let it run again. This caused the
scheduler to schedule out the task every time it enabled preemption
and made the loop never exit (until the 100 iteration test
triggered).
Fix this by enabling and disabling preemption and keeping migration
enabled if the reading from user space needs to be done again. This
will let the migration thread migrate the task and the copy from user
space will likely pass on the next iteration.
- Fix trace_marker copy option freeing
The "copy_trace_marker" option allows a tracing instance to get a
copy of a write to the trace_marker file of the top level instance.
This is managed by a link list protected by RCU. When an instance is
removed, a check is made if the option is set, and if so
synchronized_rcu() is called.
The problem is that an iteration is made to reset all the flags to
what they were when the instance was created (to perform clean ups)
was done before the check of the copy_trace_marker option and that
option was cleared, so the synchronize_rcu() was never called.
Move the clearing of all the flags after the check of
copy_trace_marker to do synchronize_rcu() so that the option is still
set if it was before and the synchronization is performed.
- Fix entries setting when validating the persistent ring buffer
When validating the persistent ring buffer on boot up, the number of
events per sub-buffer is added to the sub-buffer meta page. The
validator was updating cpu_buffer->head_page (the first sub-buffer of
the per-cpu buffer) and not the "head_page" variable that was
iterating the sub-buffers. This was causing the first sub-buffer to
be assigned the entries for each sub-buffer and not the sub-buffer
that was supposed to be updated.
- Use "hash" value to update the direct callers
When updating the ftrace direct callers, it assigned a temporary
callback to all the callback functions of the ftrace ops and not just
the functions represented by the passed in hash. This causes an
unnecessary slow down of the functions of the ftrace_ops that is not
being modified. Only update the functions that are going to be
modified to call the ftrace loop function so that the update can be
made on those functions.
* tag 'trace-v7.0-rc4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
ftrace: Use hash argument for tmp_ops in update_ftrace_direct_mod
ring-buffer: Fix to update per-subbuf entries of persistent ring buffer
tracing: Fix trace_marker copy link list updates
tracing: Fix failure to read user space from system call trace events
tracing: Revert "tracing: Remove pid in task_rename tracing output"
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