2023-08-05 04:40:20

by Zheng Yejian

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Subject: [PATCH v2 1/2] tracing: Fix cpu buffers unavailable due to 'record_disabled' messed

Trace ring buffer can no longer record anything after executing
following commands at the shell prompt:

# cd /sys/kernel/tracing
# cat tracing_cpumask
fff
# echo 0 > tracing_cpumask
# echo 1 > snapshot
# echo fff > tracing_cpumask
# echo 1 > tracing_on
# echo "hello world" > trace_marker
-bash: echo: write error: Bad file descriptor

The root cause is that:
1. After `echo 0 > tracing_cpumask`, 'record_disabled' of cpu buffers
in 'tr->array_buffer.buffer' became 1 (see tracing_set_cpumask());
2. After `echo 1 > snapshot`, 'tr->array_buffer.buffer' is swapped
with 'tr->max_buffer.buffer', then the 'record_disabled' became 0
(see update_max_tr());
3. After `echo fff > tracing_cpumask`, the 'record_disabled' become -1;
Then array_buffer and max_buffer are both unavailable due to value of
'record_disabled' is not 0.

To fix it, enable or disable both array_buffer and max_buffer at the same
time in tracing_set_cpumask().

Fixes: 71babb2705e2 ("tracing: change CPU ring buffer state from tracing_cpumask")
Signed-off-by: Zheng Yejian <[email protected]>
---
kernel/trace/trace.c | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index b8870078ef58..b0e8eb6ea8ac 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -5277,11 +5277,17 @@ int tracing_set_cpumask(struct trace_array *tr,
!cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, tracing_cpumask_new)) {
atomic_inc(&per_cpu_ptr(tr->array_buffer.data, cpu)->disabled);
ring_buffer_record_disable_cpu(tr->array_buffer.buffer, cpu);
+#ifdef CONFIG_TRACER_MAX_TRACE
+ ring_buffer_record_disable_cpu(tr->max_buffer.buffer, cpu);
+#endif
}
if (!cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, tr->tracing_cpumask) &&
cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, tracing_cpumask_new)) {
atomic_dec(&per_cpu_ptr(tr->array_buffer.data, cpu)->disabled);
ring_buffer_record_enable_cpu(tr->array_buffer.buffer, cpu);
+#ifdef CONFIG_TRACER_MAX_TRACE
+ ring_buffer_record_enable_cpu(tr->max_buffer.buffer, cpu);
+#endif
}
}
arch_spin_unlock(&tr->max_lock);
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