linux/kernel/trace
Steven Rostedt (Google) 083e9f65bd ring-buffer: Remove useless update to write_stamp in rb_try_to_discard()
When filtering is enabled, a temporary buffer is created to place the
content of the trace event output so that the filter logic can decide
from the trace event output if the trace event should be filtered out or
not. If it is to be filtered out, the content in the temporary buffer is
simply discarded, otherwise it is written into the trace buffer.

But if an interrupt were to come in while a previous event was using that
temporary buffer, the event written by the interrupt would actually go
into the ring buffer itself to prevent corrupting the data on the
temporary buffer. If the event is to be filtered out, the event in the
ring buffer is discarded, or if it fails to discard because another event
were to have already come in, it is turned into padding.

The update to the write_stamp in the rb_try_to_discard() happens after a
fix was made to force the next event after the discard to use an absolute
timestamp by setting the before_stamp to zero so it does not match the
write_stamp (which causes an event to use the absolute timestamp).

But there's an effort in rb_try_to_discard() to put back the write_stamp
to what it was before the event was added. But this is useless and
wasteful because nothing is going to be using that write_stamp for
calculations as it still will not match the before_stamp.

Remove this useless update, and in doing so, we remove another
cmpxchg64()!

Also update the comments to reflect this change as well as remove some
extra white space in another comment.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20231215081810.1f4f38fe@rorschach.local.home

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Cc: Vincent Donnefort   <vdonnefort@google.com>
Fixes: b2dd797543 ("ring-buffer: Force absolute timestamp on discard of event")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2023-12-15 08:38:11 -05:00
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rv tracing/tools: Updates for 6.4 2023-04-28 16:11:26 -07:00
blktrace.c block: remove more NULL checks after bdev_get_queue() 2023-02-21 09:23:22 -07:00
bpf_trace.c bpf: Add __bpf_kfunc_{start,end}_defs macros 2023-11-01 22:33:53 -07:00
bpf_trace.h
error_report-traces.c
fgraph.c tracing: arm64: Avoid missing-prototype warnings 2023-07-12 12:06:04 -04:00
fprobe.c Probes updates for v6.7: 2023-11-01 16:15:42 -10:00
ftrace_internal.h tracing: arm64: Avoid missing-prototype warnings 2023-07-12 12:06:04 -04:00
ftrace.c ftrace: Use LIST_HEAD to initialize clear_hash 2023-09-01 21:18:38 -04:00
Kconfig Probes updates for v6.5: 2023-06-30 10:44:53 -07:00
kprobe_event_gen_test.c tracing: Fix wrong return in kprobe_event_gen_test.c 2023-03-19 12:20:48 -04:00
Makefile tracing/probes: Move finding func-proto API and getting func-param API to trace_btf 2023-08-23 09:39:45 +09:00
pid_list.c tracing: Cleanup double word in comment 2022-04-26 17:58:50 -04:00
pid_list.h
power-traces.c
preemptirq_delay_test.c
rethook.c kprobes: unused header files removed 2023-10-24 10:04:59 +09:00
ring_buffer_benchmark.c ring_buffer: Remove unused "event" parameter 2022-11-23 19:08:30 -05:00
ring_buffer.c ring-buffer: Remove useless update to write_stamp in rb_try_to_discard() 2023-12-15 08:38:11 -05:00
rpm-traces.c
synth_event_gen_test.c tracing: Always use canonical ftrace path 2023-02-18 14:34:09 -05:00
trace_benchmark.c tracing: Add numeric delta time to the trace event benchmark 2022-09-26 13:01:09 -04:00
trace_benchmark.h tracing: Add numeric delta time to the trace event benchmark 2022-09-26 13:01:09 -04:00
trace_boot.c tracing/boot: Test strscpy() against less than zero for error 2023-07-05 10:30:49 -04:00
trace_branch.c
trace_btf.c tracing/probes: Add a function to search a member of a struct/union 2023-08-23 09:40:16 +09:00
trace_btf.h tracing/probes: Add a function to search a member of a struct/union 2023-08-23 09:40:16 +09:00
trace_clock.c
trace_dynevent.c tracing: Free buffers when a used dynamic event is removed 2022-11-23 19:07:12 -05:00
trace_dynevent.h
trace_entries.h tracing: Add back FORTIFY_SOURCE logic to kernel_stack event structure 2023-07-30 18:11:44 -04:00
trace_eprobe.c tracing/eprobe: drop unneeded breaks 2023-10-10 01:03:48 +09:00
trace_event_perf.c tracing/perf: Use strndup_user instead of kzalloc/strncpy_from_user 2022-11-23 19:08:31 -05:00
trace_events_filter_test.h
trace_events_filter.c tracing: Have trace_event_file have ref counters 2023-11-01 23:44:44 -04:00
trace_events_hist.c tracing: Fix uaf issue when open the hist or hist_debug file 2023-12-13 23:29:59 -05:00
trace_events_inject.c tracing: Have event inject files inc the trace array ref count 2023-09-07 16:38:54 -04:00
trace_events_synth.c tracing: Have the user copy of synthetic event address use correct context 2023-11-01 23:46:05 -04:00
trace_events_trigger.c tracing: Fix kernel-doc warnings in trace_events_trigger.c 2023-07-28 19:59:03 -04:00
trace_events_user.c tracing/user_events: Allow events to persist for perfmon_capable users 2023-10-03 22:29:43 -04:00
trace_events.c tracing: Have trace_event_file have ref counters 2023-11-01 23:44:44 -04:00
trace_export.c tracing: Add back FORTIFY_SOURCE logic to kernel_stack event structure 2023-07-30 18:11:44 -04:00
trace_fprobe.c tracing: fprobe-event: Fix to check tracepoint event and return 2023-11-10 20:06:12 +09:00
trace_functions_graph.c function_graph: Support recording and printing the return value of function 2023-06-20 18:38:37 -04:00
trace_functions.c
trace_hwlat.c tracing: Remove extra space at the end of hwlat_detector/mode 2023-09-01 21:00:00 -04:00
trace_irqsoff.c tracing: Fix memleak due to race between current_tracer and trace 2023-08-17 13:49:37 -04:00
trace_kdb.c
trace_kprobe_selftest.c tracing: arm64: Avoid missing-prototype warnings 2023-07-12 12:06:04 -04:00
trace_kprobe_selftest.h
trace_kprobe.c tracing/kprobes: Fix the order of argument descriptions 2023-11-11 08:00:43 +09:00
trace_mmiotrace.c
trace_nop.c
trace_osnoise.c tracing/timerlat: Add user-space interface 2023-06-22 10:39:56 -04:00
trace_output.c tracing: Add size check when printing trace_marker output 2023-12-12 22:07:22 -05:00
trace_output.h tracing: Add "fields" option to show raw trace event fields 2023-03-29 06:52:08 -04:00
trace_preemptirq.c cpuidle: tracing, preempt: Squash _rcuidle tracing 2023-01-31 15:01:46 +01:00
trace_printk.c
trace_probe_kernel.h tracing/probes: Fix to record 0-length data_loc in fetch_store_string*() if fails 2023-07-14 17:04:58 +09:00
trace_probe_tmpl.h tracing/probes: Fix to record 0-length data_loc in fetch_store_string*() if fails 2023-07-14 17:04:58 +09:00
trace_probe.c tracing/probes: Add string type check with BTF 2023-08-23 09:41:13 +09:00
trace_probe.h tracing/kprobes: Return EADDRNOTAVAIL when func matches several symbols 2023-10-20 22:10:41 +09:00
trace_recursion_record.c tracing: Use trace_create_file() to simplify creation of tracefs entries 2022-05-26 21:12:52 -04:00
trace_sched_switch.c sched/tracing: Append prev_state to tp args instead 2022-05-12 00:37:11 +02:00
trace_sched_wakeup.c tracing: Fix memleak due to race between current_tracer and trace 2023-08-17 13:49:37 -04:00
trace_selftest_dynamic.c
trace_selftest.c tracing: Have function_graph selftest call cond_resched() 2023-05-28 21:15:46 -04:00
trace_seq.c tracing: Move readpos from seq_buf to trace_seq 2023-10-20 12:16:10 -04:00
trace_stack.c
trace_stat.c
trace_stat.h
trace_synth.h tracing: Allow synthetic events to pass around stacktraces 2023-01-25 10:31:24 -05:00
trace_syscalls.c bpf: Change syscall_nr type to int in struct syscall_tp_t 2023-10-13 12:39:36 -07:00
trace_uprobe.c Probes updates for v6.6: 2023-09-02 11:10:50 -07:00
trace.c tracing: Fix uaf issue when open the hist or hist_debug file 2023-12-13 23:29:59 -05:00
trace.h tracing: Fix uaf issue when open the hist or hist_debug file 2023-12-13 23:29:59 -05:00
tracing_map.c tracing: Remove unused variable 'dups' 2022-10-03 12:20:31 -04:00
tracing_map.h tracing: Remove unused extern declaration tracing_map_set_field_descr() 2023-07-23 11:08:14 -04:00