linux/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c, branch v4.15

ring-buffer: Fix duplicate results in mapping context to bits in recursive lock

2018-01-18T20:45:48Z

In bringing back the context checks, the code checks first if its normal (non-interrupt) context, and then for NMI then IRQ then softirq. The final check is redundant. Since the if branch is only hit if the context is one of NMI, IRQ, or SOFTIRQ, if it's not NMI or IRQ there's no reason to check if it is SOFTIRQ. The current code returns the same result even if its not a SOFTIRQ. Which is confusing. pc & SOFTIRQ_OFFSET ? 2 : RB_CTX_SOFTIRQ Is redundant as RB_CTX_SOFTIRQ *is* 2! Fixes: a0e3a18f4baf ("ring-buffer: Bring back context level recursive checks") Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

ring-buffer: Bring back context level recursive checks

2018-01-15T17:28:06Z

Commit 1a149d7d3f45 ("ring-buffer: Rewrite trace_recursive_(un)lock() to be simpler") replaced the context level recursion checks with a simple counter. This would prevent the ring buffer code from recursively calling itself more than the max number of contexts that exist (Normal, softirq, irq, nmi). But this change caused a lockup in a specific case, which was during suspend and resume using a global clock. Adding a stack dump to see where this occurred, the issue was in the trace global clock itself: trace_buffer_lock_reserve+0x1c/0x50 __trace_graph_entry+0x2d/0x90 trace_graph_entry+0xe8/0x200 prepare_ftrace_return+0x69/0xc0 ftrace_graph_caller+0x78/0xa8 queued_spin_lock_slowpath+0x5/0x1d0 trace_clock_global+0xb0/0xc0 ring_buffer_lock_reserve+0xf9/0x390 The function graph tracer traced queued_spin_lock_slowpath that was called by trace_clock_global. This pointed out that the trace_clock_global() is not reentrant, as it takes a spin lock. It depended on the ring buffer recursive lock from letting that happen. By removing the context detection and adding just a max number of allowable recursions, it allowed the trace_clock_global() to be entered again and try to retake the spinlock it already held, causing a deadlock. Fixes: 1a149d7d3f45 ("ring-buffer: Rewrite trace_recursive_(un)lock() to be simpler") Reported-by: David Weinehall Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

ring-buffer: Do no reuse reader page if still in use

2017-12-27T19:21:09Z

To free the reader page that is allocated with ring_buffer_alloc_read_page(), ring_buffer_free_read_page() must be called. For faster performance, this page can be reused by the ring buffer to avoid having to free and allocate new pages. The issue arises when the page is used with a splice pipe into the networking code. The networking code may up the page counter for the page, and keep it active while sending it is queued to go to the network. The incrementing of the page ref does not prevent it from being reused in the ring buffer, and this can cause the page that is being sent out to the network to be modified before it is sent by reading new data. Add a check to the page ref counter, and only reuse the page if it is not being used anywhere else. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 73a757e63114d ("ring-buffer: Return reader page back into existing ring buffer") Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

ring-buffer: Mask out the info bits when returning buffer page length

2017-12-27T19:18:10Z

Two info bits were added to the "commit" part of the ring buffer data page when returned to be consumed. This was to inform the user space readers that events have been missed, and that the count may be stored at the end of the page. What wasn't handled, was the splice code that actually called a function to return the length of the data in order to zero out the rest of the page before sending it up to user space. These data bits were returned with the length making the value negative, and that negative value was not checked. It was compared to PAGE_SIZE, and only used if the size was less than PAGE_SIZE. Luckily PAGE_SIZE is unsigned long which made the compare an unsigned compare, meaning the negative size value did not end up causing a large portion of memory to be randomly zeroed out. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 66a8cb95ed040 ("ring-buffer: Add place holder recording of dropped events") Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

ring-buffer: Remove unused function __rb_data_page_index()

2017-12-04T12:04:01Z

This fixes the following warning when building with clang: kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:1842:1: error: unused function '__rb_data_page_index' [-Werror,-Wunused-function] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170518001415.5223-1-mka@chromium.org Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

Merge tag 'trace-v4.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace

2017-11-17T22:58:01Z

Pull tracing updates from - allow module init functions to be traced - clean up some unused or not used by config events (saves space) - clean up of trace histogram code - add support for preempt and interrupt enabled/disable events - other various clean ups * tag 'trace-v4.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (30 commits) tracing, thermal: Hide cpu cooling trace events when not in use tracing, thermal: Hide devfreq trace events when not in use ftrace: Kill FTRACE_OPS_FL_PER_CPU perf/ftrace: Small cleanup perf/ftrace: Fix function trace events perf/ftrace: Revert ("perf/ftrace: Fix double traces of perf on ftrace:function") tracing, dma-buf: Remove unused trace event dma_fence_annotate_wait_on tracing, memcg, vmscan: Hide trace events when not in use tracing/xen: Hide events that are not used when X86_PAE is not defined tracing: mark trace_test_buffer as __maybe_unused printk: Remove superfluous memory barriers from printk_safe ftrace: Clear hashes of stale ips of init memory tracing: Add support for preempt and irq enable/disable events tracing: Prepare to add preempt and irq trace events ftrace/kallsyms: Have /proc/kallsyms show saved mod init functions ftrace: Add freeing algorithm to free ftrace_mod_maps ftrace: Save module init functions kallsyms symbols for tracing ftrace: Allow module init functions to be traced ftrace: Add a ftrace_free_mem() function for modules to use tracing: Reimplement log2 ...

kmemcheck: remove annotations

2017-11-16T02:21:04Z

Patch series "kmemcheck: kill kmemcheck", v2. As discussed at LSF/MM, kill kmemcheck. KASan is a replacement that is able to work without the limitation of kmemcheck (single CPU, slow). KASan is already upstream. We are also not aware of any users of kmemcheck (or users who don't consider KASan as a suitable replacement). The only objection was that since KASAN wasn't supported by all GCC versions provided by distros at that time we should hold off for 2 years, and try again. Now that 2 years have passed, and all distros provide gcc that supports KASAN, kill kmemcheck again for the very same reasons. This patch (of 4): Remove kmemcheck annotations, and calls to kmemcheck from the kernel. [alexander.levin@verizon.com: correctly remove kmemcheck call from dma_map_sg_attrs] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171012192151.26531-1-alexander.levin@verizon.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171007030159.22241-2-alexander.levin@verizon.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Cc: Alexander Potapenko Cc: Eric W. Biederman Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Pekka Enberg Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Tim Hansen Cc: Vegard Nossum Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

locking/atomics: COCCINELLE/treewide: Convert trivial ACCESS_ONCE() patterns to READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE()

2017-10-25T09:01:08Z

Please do not apply this to mainline directly, instead please re-run the coccinelle script shown below and apply its output. For several reasons, it is desirable to use {READ,WRITE}_ONCE() in preference to ACCESS_ONCE(), and new code is expected to use one of the former. So far, there's been no reason to change most existing uses of ACCESS_ONCE(), as these aren't harmful, and changing them results in churn. However, for some features, the read/write distinction is critical to correct operation. To distinguish these cases, separate read/write accessors must be used. This patch migrates (most) remaining ACCESS_ONCE() instances to {READ,WRITE}_ONCE(), using the following coccinelle script: ---- // Convert trivial ACCESS_ONCE() uses to equivalent READ_ONCE() and // WRITE_ONCE() // $ make coccicheck COCCI=/home/mark/once.cocci SPFLAGS="--include-headers" MODE=patch virtual patch @ depends on patch @ expression E1, E2; @@ - ACCESS_ONCE(E1) = E2 + WRITE_ONCE(E1, E2) @ depends on patch @ expression E; @@ - ACCESS_ONCE(E) + READ_ONCE(E) ---- Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: davem@davemloft.net Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Cc: mpe@ellerman.id.au Cc: shuah@kernel.org Cc: snitzer@redhat.com Cc: thor.thayer@linux.intel.com Cc: tj@kernel.org Cc: viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk Cc: will.deacon@arm.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1508792849-3115-19-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

ring-buffer: Rewrite trace_recursive_(un)lock() to be simpler

2017-10-04T15:36:58Z

The current method to prevent the ring buffer from entering into a recursize loop is to use a bitmask and set the bit that maps to the current context (normal, softirq, irq or NMI), and if that bit was already set, it is considered a recursive loop. New code is being added that may require the ring buffer to be entered a second time in the current context. The recursive locking prevents that from happening. Instead of mapping a bitmask to the current context, just allow 4 levels of nesting in the ring buffer. This matches the 4 context levels that it can already nest. It is highly unlikely to have more than two levels, thus it should be fine when we add the second entry into the ring buffer. If that proves to be a problem, we can always up the number to 8. An added benefit is that reading preempt_count() to get the current level adds a very slight but noticeable overhead. This removes that need. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

ring-buffer: Have ring_buffer_alloc_read_page() return error on offline CPU

2017-08-02T18:23:02Z

Chunyu Hu reported: "per_cpu trace directories and files are created for all possible cpus, but only the cpus which have ever been on-lined have their own per cpu ring buffer (allocated by cpuhp threads). While trace_buffers_open, the open handler for trace file 'trace_pipe_raw' is always trying to access field of ring_buffer_per_cpu, and would panic with the NULL pointer. Align the behavior of trace_pipe_raw with trace_pipe, that returns -NODEV when openning it if that cpu does not have trace ring buffer. Reproduce: cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/per_cpu/cpu31/trace_pipe_raw (cpu31 is never on-lined, this is a 16 cores x86_64 box) Tested with: 1) boot with maxcpus=14, read trace_pipe_raw of cpu15. Got -NODEV. 2) oneline cpu15, read trace_pipe_raw of cpu15. Get the raw trace data. Call trace: [ 5760.950995] RIP: 0010:ring_buffer_alloc_read_page+0x32/0xe0 [ 5760.961678] tracing_buffers_read+0x1f6/0x230 [ 5760.962695] __vfs_read+0x37/0x160 [ 5760.963498] ? __vfs_read+0x5/0x160 [ 5760.964339] ? security_file_permission+0x9d/0xc0 [ 5760.965451] ? __vfs_read+0x5/0x160 [ 5760.966280] vfs_read+0x8c/0x130 [ 5760.967070] SyS_read+0x55/0xc0 [ 5760.967779] do_syscall_64+0x67/0x150 [ 5760.968687] entry_SYSCALL64_slow_path+0x25/0x25" This was introduced by the addition of the feature to reuse reader pages instead of re-allocating them. The problem is that the allocation of a reader page (which is per cpu) does not check if the cpu is online and set up for the ring buffer. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1500880866-1177-1-git-send-email-chuhu@redhat.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 73a757e63114 ("ring-buffer: Return reader page back into existing ring buffer") Reported-by: Chunyu Hu Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)