linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.10 44/46] tracing: Try again for saved cmdline if failed due to locking

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Message-Id: <20140704221604.296250547@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:	Fri,  4 Jul 2014 15:19:48 -0700
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Subject: [PATCH 3.10 44/46] tracing: Try again for saved cmdline if failed due to locking

3.10-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: "Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)" <rostedt@...dmis.org>

commit 379cfdac37923653c9d4242d10052378b7563005 upstream.

In order to prevent the saved cmdline cache from being filled when
tracing is not active, the comms are only recorded after a trace event
is recorded.

The problem is, a comm can fail to be recorded if the trace_cmdline_lock
is held. That lock is taken via a trylock to allow it to happen from
any context (including NMI). If the lock fails to be taken, the comm
is skipped. No big deal, as we will try again later.

But! Because of the code that was added to only record after an event,
we may not try again later as the recording is made as a oneshot per
event per CPU.

Only disable the recording of the comm if the comm is actually recorded.

Fixes: 7ffbd48d5cab "tracing: Cache comms only after an event occurred"
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 kernel/trace/trace.c |   13 +++++++------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -1400,12 +1400,12 @@ static void tracing_stop_tr(struct trace
 
 void trace_stop_cmdline_recording(void);
 
-static void trace_save_cmdline(struct task_struct *tsk)
+static int trace_save_cmdline(struct task_struct *tsk)
 {
 	unsigned pid, idx;
 
 	if (!tsk->pid || unlikely(tsk->pid > PID_MAX_DEFAULT))
-		return;
+		return 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * It's not the end of the world if we don't get
@@ -1414,7 +1414,7 @@ static void trace_save_cmdline(struct ta
 	 * so if we miss here, then better luck next time.
 	 */
 	if (!arch_spin_trylock(&trace_cmdline_lock))
-		return;
+		return 0;
 
 	idx = map_pid_to_cmdline[tsk->pid];
 	if (idx == NO_CMDLINE_MAP) {
@@ -1439,6 +1439,8 @@ static void trace_save_cmdline(struct ta
 	memcpy(&saved_cmdlines[idx], tsk->comm, TASK_COMM_LEN);
 
 	arch_spin_unlock(&trace_cmdline_lock);
+
+	return 1;
 }
 
 void trace_find_cmdline(int pid, char comm[])
@@ -1480,9 +1482,8 @@ void tracing_record_cmdline(struct task_
 	if (!__this_cpu_read(trace_cmdline_save))
 		return;
 
-	__this_cpu_write(trace_cmdline_save, false);
-
-	trace_save_cmdline(tsk);
+	if (trace_save_cmdline(tsk))
+		__this_cpu_write(trace_cmdline_save, false);
 }
 
 void


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