linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/5] ring-buffer: Have the shortest_full queue be the shortest not longest

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Date:   Tue, 27 Sep 2022 19:15:24 -0400
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/5] ring-buffer: Have the shortest_full queue be the shortest not longest

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

The logic to know when the shortest waiters on the ring buffer should be
woken up or not has uses a less than instead of a greater than compare,
which causes the shortest_full to actually be the longest.

Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
Fixes: 2c2b0a78b3739 ("ring-buffer: Add percentage of ring buffer full to wake up reader")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@...dmis.org>
---
 kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
index 6b145d48dfd1..02db92c9eb1b 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
@@ -1011,7 +1011,7 @@ int ring_buffer_wait(struct trace_buffer *buffer, int cpu, int full)
 			nr_pages = cpu_buffer->nr_pages;
 			dirty = ring_buffer_nr_dirty_pages(buffer, cpu);
 			if (!cpu_buffer->shortest_full ||
-			    cpu_buffer->shortest_full < full)
+			    cpu_buffer->shortest_full > full)
 				cpu_buffer->shortest_full = full;
 			raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&cpu_buffer->reader_lock, flags);
 			if (!pagebusy &&
-- 
2.35.1