From: Steven Rostedt Reseting the trace buffer without first disabling the buffer and waiting for any writers to complete, can corrupt the ring buffer. This patch makes the external version of tracing_reset safe from corruption by disabling the ring buffer and calling synchronize_sched. This version can no longer be called from interrupt context. But all those callers have been removed. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt --- kernel/trace/trace.c | 17 +++++++++++++++-- 1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c index 7daf372..0418e26 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c @@ -641,13 +641,26 @@ void unregister_tracer(struct tracer *type) mutex_unlock(&trace_types_lock); } -void tracing_reset(struct trace_array *tr, int cpu) +static void __tracing_reset(struct trace_array *tr, int cpu) { ftrace_disable_cpu(); ring_buffer_reset_cpu(tr->buffer, cpu); ftrace_enable_cpu(); } +void tracing_reset(struct trace_array *tr, int cpu) +{ + struct ring_buffer *buffer = tr->buffer; + + ring_buffer_record_disable(buffer); + + /* Make sure all commits have finished */ + synchronize_sched(); + __tracing_reset(tr, cpu); + + ring_buffer_record_enable(buffer); +} + void tracing_reset_online_cpus(struct trace_array *tr) { struct ring_buffer *buffer = tr->buffer; @@ -661,7 +674,7 @@ void tracing_reset_online_cpus(struct trace_array *tr) tr->time_start = ftrace_now(tr->cpu); for_each_online_cpu(cpu) - tracing_reset(tr, cpu); + __tracing_reset(tr, cpu); ring_buffer_record_enable(buffer); } -- 1.6.3.3 -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/