linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/2 v2] tracing: Simplify the max length test when using the filtering temp buffer

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Message-ID: <20210609224349.059202857@goodmis.org>
Date:   Wed, 09 Jun 2021 18:43:10 -0400
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH 1/2 v2] tracing: Simplify the max length test when using the filtering temp
 buffer

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

When filtering trace events, a temp buffer is used because the extra copy
from the temp buffer into the ring buffer is still faster than the direct
write into the ring buffer followed by a discard if the filter does not
match.

But the data that can be stored in the temp buffer is a PAGE_SIZE minus the
ring buffer event header. The calculation of that header size is complex,
but using the helper macro "struct_size()" can simplify it.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/stable/CAHk-=whKbJkuVmzb0hD3N6q7veprUrSpiBHRxVY=AffWZPtxmg@mail.gmail.com/

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@...dmis.org>
---
Changes since v1:
  Switch "unlikely" to "likely"
  Test max_len <= instead of just <

 kernel/trace/trace.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index f6c4d9cf0377..3366922076e6 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -2737,8 +2737,10 @@ trace_event_buffer_lock_reserve(struct trace_buffer **current_rb,
 	    (trace_file->flags & (EVENT_FILE_FL_SOFT_DISABLED | EVENT_FILE_FL_FILTERED)) &&
 	    (entry = this_cpu_read(trace_buffered_event))) {
 		/* Try to use the per cpu buffer first */
+		int max_len = PAGE_SIZE - struct_size(entry, array, 1);
+
 		val = this_cpu_inc_return(trace_buffered_event_cnt);
-		if ((len < (PAGE_SIZE - sizeof(*entry) - sizeof(entry->array[0]))) && val == 1) {
+		if (val == 1 && likely(len <= max_len)) {
 			trace_event_setup(entry, type, trace_ctx);
 			entry->array[0] = len;
 			return entry;
-- 
2.30.2