linux-kernel - [PATCH 5.0 111/115] perf/ring_buffer: Fix AUX record suppression

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Message-Id: <20190424170931.165049663@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Wed, 24 Apr 2019 19:10:47 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Ben Gainey <Ben.Gainey@....com>,
        Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
        "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@...ne.edu>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 5.0 111/115] perf/ring_buffer: Fix AUX record suppression

From: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>

commit 339bc4183596e1f68c2c98a03b87aa124107c317 upstream.

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>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 kernel/events/ring_buffer.c |   33 +++++++++++++++------------------
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c
+++ b/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c
@@ -456,24 +456,21 @@ void perf_aux_output_end(struct perf_out
 		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))