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    • Robert Richter's avatar
      ring-buffer: Fix advance of reader in rb_buffer_peek() · 469535a5
      Robert Richter authored 
      When calling rb_buffer_peek() from ring_buffer_consume() and a
padding event is returned, the function rb_advance_reader() is
called twice. This may lead to missing samples or under high
workloads to the warning below. This patch fixes this. If a padding
event is returned by rb_buffer_peek() it will be consumed by the
calling function now.

Also, I simplified some code in ring_buffer_consume().

------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: at /dev/shm/.source/linux/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:2289 rb_advance_reader+0x2e/0xc5()
Hardware name: Anaheim
Modules linked in:
Pid: 29, comm: events/2 Tainted: G        W  2.6.31-rc3-oprofile-x86_64-standard-00059-g5050dc2 #1
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff8106776f>] ? rb_advance_reader+0x2e/0xc5
[<ffffffff81039ffe>] warn_slowpath_common+0x77/0x8f
[<ffffffff8103a025>] warn_slowpath_null+0xf/0x11
[<ffffffff8106776f>] rb_advance_reader+0x2e/0xc5
[<ffffffff81068bda>] ring_buffer_consume+0xa0/0xd2
[<ffffffff81326933>] op_cpu_buffer_read_entry+0x21/0x9e
[<ffffffff810be3af>] ? __find_get_block+0x4b/0x165
[<ffffffff8132749b>] sync_buffer+0xa5/0x401
[<ffffffff810be3af>] ? __find_get_block+0x4b/0x165
[<ffffffff81326c1b>] ? wq_sync_buffer+0x0/0x78
[<ffffffff81326c76>] wq_sync_buffer+0x5b/0x78
[<ffffffff8104aa30>] worker_thread+0x113/0x1ac
[<ffffffff8104dd95>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x38
[<ffffffff8104a91d>] ? worker_thread+0x0/0x1ac
[<ffffffff8104dc9a>] kthread+0x88/0x92
[<ffffffff8100bdba>] child_rip+0xa/0x20
[<ffffffff8104dc12>] ? kthread+0x0/0x92
[<ffffffff8100bdb0>] ? child_rip+0x0/0x20
---[ end trace f561c0a58fcc89bd ]---

Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarRobert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      469535a5
    • Steven Rostedt's avatar
      tracing: do not use functions starting with .L in recordmcount.pl · 3f6e968e
      Steven Rostedt authored 
      On Wed, 5 Aug 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hey,
> >
> > So I spent 3-4 hrs today (I'm stupid yes) tracking down a .o
> > breakage by blaming rawhide gcc/binutils as I was using make
> > V=1and seeing only the compiler chain running,
>
> Hm, is this that powerpc related build bug you just reported?

Well we tracked it down and it is powerpc64 specific.

Seems that in drivers/hwmon/lm93.c there's a function called:

   LM93_IN_FROM_REG()

But PPC64 has function descriptors and the real function names (the ones
you see in objdump) start with a '.'. Thus this in objdump you have:

 Disassembly of section .text:

 0000000000000000 <.LM93_IN_FROM_REG>:
       0:       7c 08 02 a6     mflr    r0
       4:       fb 81 ff e0     std     r28,-32(r1)

The function name used is .LM93_IN_FROM_REG. But gcc considers symbols
that start with ".L" as a special symbol that is used inside the assembly
stage.

The nm passed into recordmcount uses the --synthetic option which shows
the ".L" symbols (my runs outside of the build did not include the
--synthetic option, so my older patch worked). We see the function as a
local.

Now to capture all the locations that use "mcount" we need to have a
reference to link into the object file a list of mcount callers. We need a
reference that will not disappear. We try to use a global function and if
that does not work, we use a local function as a reference. But to relink
the section back into the object, we need to make it global. In this case,
we run objcopy using --globalize-symbol and --localize-symbol to convert
the symbol into a global symbol, link the mcount list, then convert it
back to a local symbol.

This works great except for this case. .L* symbols can not be converted
into a global symbol, and the mcount section referencing it will remain
unresolved.
Reported-by: default avatarDave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0908052011590.5010@gandalf.stny.rr.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      3f6e968e
    • Steven Rostedt's avatar
      ring-buffer: do not disable ring buffer on oops_in_progress · 464e85eb
      Steven Rostedt authored 
      The commit:

  commit e0fdace1
  Author: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
  Date:   Fri Aug 1 01:11:22 2008 -0700

    debug_locks: set oops_in_progress if we will log messages.

    Otherwise lock debugging messages on runqueue locks can deadlock the
    system due to the wakeups performed by printk().
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Will permanently set oops_in_progress on any lockdep failure.
When this triggers it will cause any read from the ring buffer to
permanently disable the ring buffer (not to mention no locking of
printk).

This patch removes the check. It keeps the print in NMI which makes
sense. This is probably OK, since the ring buffer should not cause
something to set oops_in_progress anyway.
Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      464e85eb
    • Steven Rostedt's avatar
      ring-buffer: fix check of try_to_discard result · 0f2541d2
      Steven Rostedt authored 
      The function ring_buffer_discard_commit inversed the code path
of the result of try_to_discard. It should skip incrementing the
entry counter if try_to_discard succeeded. But instead, it increments
the entry conder if it succeeded to discard, and does not increment
it if it fails.

The result of this bug is that filtering will make the stat counters
incorrect.
Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
      0f2541d2
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