linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] tracing: kdb: Fix ftdump to not sleep

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Message-ID: <20190305184734.113a0fdc@gandalf.local.home>
Date:   Tue, 5 Mar 2019 18:47:34 -0500
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:     Douglas Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>
Cc:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@...driver.com>,
        Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@...aro.org>,
        kgdb-bugreport@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        Brian Norris <briannorris@...omium.org>,
        Vasyl Gomonovych <gomonovych@...il.com>,
        Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@...ux.intel.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Baohong Liu <baohong.liu@...el.com>,
        Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] tracing: kdb: Fix ftdump to not sleep

On Tue,  5 Mar 2019 15:31:49 -0800
Douglas Anderson <dianders@...omium.org> wrote:

> diff --git a/include/linux/ring_buffer.h b/include/linux/ring_buffer.h
> index 5b9ae62272bb..0c8ab8bf4cfb 100644
> --- a/include/linux/ring_buffer.h
> +++ b/include/linux/ring_buffer.h
> @@ -127,6 +127,8 @@ struct ring_buffer_event *
>  ring_buffer_consume(struct ring_buffer *buffer, int cpu, u64 *ts,
>  		    unsigned long *lost_events);
>  
> +struct ring_buffer_iter *
> +_ring_buffer_read_prepare(struct ring_buffer *buffer, int cpu, gfp_t flags);
>  struct ring_buffer_iter *
>  ring_buffer_read_prepare(struct ring_buffer *buffer, int cpu);
>  void ring_buffer_read_prepare_sync(void);
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
> index 06e864a334bb..fd60007aa7a1 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
> @@ -4201,6 +4201,29 @@ ring_buffer_consume(struct ring_buffer *buffer, int cpu, u64 *ts,
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ring_buffer_consume);
>  
> +struct ring_buffer_iter *
> +_ring_buffer_read_prepare(struct ring_buffer *buffer, int cpu, gfp_t flags)
> +{
> +	struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer;

I don't care for this duplicate function. ring_buffer_read_prepare() is
only used in a few places, just add flags to it and to its users.

-- Steve