From 73c8d8945505acdcbae137c2e00a1232e0be709f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Masami Hiramatsu Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2018 01:28:15 +0900 Subject: ring_buffer: tracing: Inherit the tracing setting to next ring buffer Maintain the tracing on/off setting of the ring_buffer when switching to the trace buffer snapshot. Taking a snapshot is done by swapping the backup ring buffer (max_tr_buffer). But since the tracing on/off setting is defined by the ring buffer, when swapping it, the tracing on/off setting can also be changed. This causes a strange result like below: /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # cat tracing_on 1 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # echo 0 > tracing_on /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # cat tracing_on 0 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # echo 1 > snapshot /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # cat tracing_on 1 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # echo 1 > snapshot /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # cat tracing_on 0 We don't touch tracing_on, but snapshot changes tracing_on setting each time. This is an anomaly, because user doesn't know that each "ring_buffer" stores its own tracing-enable state and the snapshot is done by swapping ring buffers. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/153149929558.11274.11730609978254724394.stgit@devbox Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Shuah Khan Cc: Tom Zanussi Cc: Hiraku Toyooka Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: debdd57f5145 ("tracing: Make a snapshot feature available from userspace") Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu [ Updated commit log and comment in the code ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) --- kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) (limited to 'kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c') diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c index 6a46af21765c..0b0b688ea166 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c +++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c @@ -3226,6 +3226,22 @@ int ring_buffer_record_is_on(struct ring_buffer *buffer) return !atomic_read(&buffer->record_disabled); } +/** + * ring_buffer_record_is_set_on - return true if the ring buffer is set writable + * @buffer: The ring buffer to see if write is set enabled + * + * Returns true if the ring buffer is set writable by ring_buffer_record_on(). + * Note that this does NOT mean it is in a writable state. + * + * It may return true when the ring buffer has been disabled by + * ring_buffer_record_disable(), as that is a temporary disabling of + * the ring buffer. + */ +int ring_buffer_record_is_set_on(struct ring_buffer *buffer) +{ + return !(atomic_read(&buffer->record_disabled) & RB_BUFFER_OFF); +} + /** * ring_buffer_record_disable_cpu - stop all writes into the cpu_buffer * @buffer: The ring buffer to stop writes to. -- cgit