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Steven Rostedt (Google) 307f56f260 ring-buffer: Remove useless update to write_stamp in rb_try_to_discard()
[ Upstream commit 083e9f65bd ]

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>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2024-01-01 12:42:44 +00:00
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bpf bpf: Fix prog_array_map_poke_run map poke update 2024-01-01 12:42:23 +00:00
cgroup cgroup_freezer: cgroup_freezing: Check if not frozen 2023-12-13 18:45:22 +01:00
configs Kbuild updates for v6.6 2023-09-05 11:01:47 -07:00
debug kgdb: Flush console before entering kgdb on panic 2023-11-28 17:19:47 +00:00
dma swiotlb: fix out-of-bounds TLB allocations with CONFIG_SWIOTLB_DYNAMIC 2023-11-28 17:20:13 +00:00
entry entry: Remove empty addr_limit_user_check() 2023-08-23 10:32:39 +02:00
events perf: Fix perf_event_validate_size() lockdep splat 2023-12-20 17:02:01 +01:00
futex futex: Don't include process MM in futex key on no-MMU 2023-11-20 11:58:53 +01:00
gcov gcov: shut up missing prototype warnings for internal stubs 2023-08-18 10:18:58 -07:00
irq genirq/generic_chip: Make irq_remove_generic_chip() irqdomain aware 2023-11-28 17:19:59 +00:00
kcsan kcsan: Don't expect 64 bits atomic builtins from 32 bits architectures 2023-06-09 23:29:50 +10:00
livepatch livepatch: Fix missing newline character in klp_resolve_symbols() 2023-11-20 11:59:25 +01:00
locking lockdep: Fix block chain corruption 2023-12-03 07:33:06 +01:00
module module/decompress: use kvmalloc() consistently 2023-11-20 11:59:37 +01:00
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rcu rcu: kmemleak: Ignore kmemleak false positives when RCU-freeing objects 2023-11-28 17:20:02 +00:00
sched sched/fair: Fix the decision for load balance 2023-12-03 07:33:02 +01:00
time hrtimers: Push pending hrtimers away from outgoing CPU earlier 2023-12-13 18:44:56 +01:00
trace ring-buffer: Remove useless update to write_stamp in rb_try_to_discard() 2024-01-01 12:42:44 +00:00
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acct.c audit/stable-6.6 PR 20230829 2023-08-30 08:17:35 -07:00
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audit_fsnotify.c
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freezer.c
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groups.c
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iomem.c kernel/iomem.c: remove __weak ioremap_cache helper 2023-08-21 13:37:28 -07:00
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Kconfig.freezer
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kprobes.c kprobes: consistent rcu api usage for kretprobe holder 2023-12-13 18:45:31 +01:00
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nsproxy.c nsproxy: Convert nsproxy.count to refcount_t 2023-08-21 11:29:12 -07:00
padata.c crypto: pcrypt - Fix hungtask for PADATA_RESET 2023-11-28 17:19:42 +00:00
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range.c
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regset.c
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smpboot.h
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sysctl-test.c
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taskstats.c
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tsacct.c
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uid16.c
uid16.h
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up.c
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utsname.c
vhost_task.c vhost: Fix worker hangs due to missed wake up calls 2023-06-08 15:43:09 -04:00
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watchdog_buddy.c watchdog/hardlockup: move SMP barriers from common code to buddy code 2023-06-19 16:25:28 -07:00
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