linux-kernel - [tip:perf/core] perf/ring_buffer: Fix AUX record suppression

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Date:   Tue, 16 Apr 2019 04:31:42 -0700
From:   tip-bot for Alexander Shishkin <tipbot@...or.com>
To:     linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com, mingo@...nel.org,
        hpa@...or.com, vincent.weaver@...ne.edu, tglx@...utronix.de,
        torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, acme@...hat.com,
        peterz@...radead.org, jolsa@...hat.com, Ben.Gainey@....com,
        eranian@...gle.com
Subject: [tip:perf/core] perf/ring_buffer: Fix AUX record suppression

Commit-ID:  339bc4183596e1f68c2c98a03b87aa124107c317
Gitweb:     https://git.kernel.org/tip/339bc4183596e1f68c2c98a03b87aa124107c317
Author:     Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>
AuthorDate: Fri, 29 Mar 2019 11:13:38 +0200
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
CommitDate: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 12:13:57 +0200

perf/ring_buffer: Fix AUX record suppression

The following commit:

  1627314fb54a33e ("perf: Suppress AUX/OVERWRITE records")

has an unintended side-effect of also suppressing all AUX records with no flags
and non-zero size, so all the regular records in the full trace mode.
This breaks some use cases for people.

Fix this by restoring "regular" AUX records.

Reported-by: Ben Gainey <Ben.Gainey@....com>
Tested-by: Ben Gainey <Ben.Gainey@....com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@...ne.edu>
Fixes: 1627314fb54a33e ("perf: Suppress AUX/OVERWRITE records")
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190329091338.29999-1-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
---
 kernel/events/ring_buffer.c | 33 +++++++++++++++------------------
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c
index 2545ac08cc77..5eedb49a65ea 100644
--- a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c
+++ b/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c
@@ -455,24 +455,21 @@ void perf_aux_output_end(struct perf_output_handle *handle, unsigned long size)
 		rb->aux_head += size;
 	}
 
-	if (size || handle->aux_flags) {
-		/*
-		 * Only send RECORD_AUX if we have something useful to communicate
-		 *
-		 * Note: the OVERWRITE records by themselves are not considered
-		 * useful, as they don't communicate any *new* information,
-		 * aside from the short-lived offset, that becomes history at
-		 * the next event sched-in and therefore isn't useful.
-		 * The userspace that needs to copy out AUX data in overwrite
-		 * mode should know to use user_page::aux_head for the actual
-		 * offset. So, from now on we don't output AUX records that
-		 * have *only* OVERWRITE flag set.
-		 */
-
-		if (handle->aux_flags & ~(u64)PERF_AUX_FLAG_OVERWRITE)
-			perf_event_aux_event(handle->event, aux_head, size,
-			                     handle->aux_flags);
-	}
+	/*
+	 * Only send RECORD_AUX if we have something useful to communicate
+	 *
+	 * Note: the OVERWRITE records by themselves are not considered
+	 * useful, as they don't communicate any *new* information,
+	 * aside from the short-lived offset, that becomes history at
+	 * the next event sched-in and therefore isn't useful.
+	 * The userspace that needs to copy out AUX data in overwrite
+	 * mode should know to use user_page::aux_head for the actual
+	 * offset. So, from now on we don't output AUX records that
+	 * have *only* OVERWRITE flag set.
+	 */
+	if (size || (handle->aux_flags & ~(u64)PERF_AUX_FLAG_OVERWRITE))
+		perf_event_aux_event(handle->event, aux_head, size,
+				     handle->aux_flags);
 
 	rb->user_page->aux_head = rb->aux_head;
 	if (rb_need_aux_wakeup(rb))