linux-kernel - [PATCH 0/5] tracing: Handle ring buffer waiters

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Date:   Tue, 27 Sep 2022 19:15:23 -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>
Subject: [PATCH 0/5] tracing: Handle ring buffer waiters

While working on libtracefs functions that allow for reading the
raw trace files, I found that my test programs would get stuck
waiting on the buffer when they should stop. Signals work fine, but
closing the file would not break them out of the wait.

I found this confusing and the reading functions would lose a lot
of data. This fixes the wake up issue, which should have always been
the case. I also added an ioctl() to the trace_pipe_raw that will
wake up all waiters on any ioctl.

Steven Rostedt (Google) (5):
      ring-buffer: Have the shortest_full queue be the shortest not longest
      ring-buffer: Check pending waiters when doing wake ups as well
      ring-buffer: Add ring_buffer_wake_waiters()
      tracing: Wake up ring buffer waiters on closing of the file
      tracing: Add ioctl() to force ring buffer waiters to wake up

----
 include/linux/ring_buffer.h  |  2 +-
 include/linux/trace_events.h |  1 +
 kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c   | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 kernel/trace/trace.c         | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 4 files changed, 72 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)