From: Steven Rostedt There's a condition to check if we should add a time extend or not in the fast path. But this condition is racey (in the sense that we can add a unnecessary time extend, but nothing that can break anything). We later check if the time or event time delta should be zero or have real data in it (not racey), making this first check redundant. This check may help save space once in a while, but really is not worth the hassle to try to save some space that happens at most 134 ms at a time. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt --- kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 28 ++++++---------------------- 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c index 4fc1577..9f55330 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c +++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c @@ -2126,6 +2126,7 @@ rb_reserve_next_event(struct ring_buffer *buffer, u64 ts, delta; int nr_loops = 0; int add_timestamp; + u64 diff; rb_start_commit(cpu_buffer); @@ -2162,29 +2163,13 @@ rb_reserve_next_event(struct ring_buffer *buffer, goto out_fail; ts = rb_time_stamp(cpu_buffer->buffer); + diff = ts - cpu_buffer->write_stamp; - /* - * Only the first commit can update the timestamp. - * Yes there is a race here. If an interrupt comes in - * just after the conditional and it traces too, then it - * will also check the deltas. More than one timestamp may - * also be made. But only the entry that did the actual - * commit will be something other than zero. - */ - if (likely(cpu_buffer->tail_page == cpu_buffer->commit_page && - rb_page_write(cpu_buffer->tail_page) == - rb_commit_index(cpu_buffer))) { - u64 diff; - - diff = ts - cpu_buffer->write_stamp; - - /* make sure this diff is calculated here */ - barrier(); - - /* Did the write stamp get updated already? */ - if (unlikely(ts < cpu_buffer->write_stamp)) - goto get_event; + /* make sure this diff is calculated here */ + barrier(); + /* Did the write stamp get updated already? */ + if (likely(ts >= cpu_buffer->write_stamp)) { delta = diff; if (unlikely(test_time_stamp(delta))) { WARN_ONCE(delta > (1ULL << 59), @@ -2196,7 +2181,6 @@ rb_reserve_next_event(struct ring_buffer *buffer, } } - get_event: event = __rb_reserve_next(cpu_buffer, length, ts, delta, add_timestamp); if (unlikely(PTR_ERR(event) == -EAGAIN)) -- 1.7.1 -- 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/