From: "Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)" The move of blocked readers to the ring buffer left out the init of the wait queue that is used. Tests missed this due to running stress tests against the buffers, which didn't allow for any readers to end up waiting. Running a simple read and wait triggered a bug. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt --- kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c index 56b6ea3..65fe2a4 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c +++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c @@ -1185,6 +1185,7 @@ rb_allocate_cpu_buffer(struct ring_buffer *buffer, int nr_pages, int cpu) INIT_WORK(&cpu_buffer->update_pages_work, update_pages_handler); init_completion(&cpu_buffer->update_done); init_irq_work(&cpu_buffer->irq_work.work, rb_wake_up_waiters); + init_waitqueue_head(&cpu_buffer->irq_work.waiters); bpage = kzalloc_node(ALIGN(sizeof(*bpage), cache_line_size()), GFP_KERNEL, cpu_to_node(cpu)); @@ -1281,6 +1282,7 @@ struct ring_buffer *__ring_buffer_alloc(unsigned long size, unsigned flags, buffer->reader_lock_key = key; init_irq_work(&buffer->irq_work.work, rb_wake_up_waiters); + init_waitqueue_head(&buffer->irq_work.waiters); /* need at least two pages */ if (nr_pages < 2) -- 1.7.10.4 -- 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/