A few more fixes for ftrace infrastructure.
I was cleaning out my INBOX and found two fixes from zhangwei from
a year ago that were lost in my mail. These fix an inconsistency between
trace_puts() and the way trace_printk() works. The reason this is
important to fix is because when trace_printk() doesn't have any
arguments, it turns into a trace_puts(). Not being able to enable a
stack trace against trace_printk() because it does not have any arguments
is quite confusing. Also, the fix is rather trivial and low risk.
While porting some changes to PowerPC I discovered that it still has
the function graph tracer filter bug that if you also enable stack tracing
the function graph tracer filter is ignored. I fixed that up.
Finally, Martin Lau, fixed a bug that would cause readers of the
ftrace ring buffer to block forever even though it was suppose to be
NONBLOCK.
ring-buffer: Fix polling on trace_pipe
ring_buffer_poll_wait() should always put the poll_table to its wait_queue
even there is immediate data available. Otherwise, the following epoll and
read sequence will eventually hang forever:
1. Put some data to make the trace_pipe ring_buffer read ready first
2. epoll_ctl(efd, EPOLL_CTL_ADD, trace_pipe_fd, ee)
3. epoll_wait()
4. read(trace_pipe_fd) till EAGAIN
5. Add some more data to the trace_pipe ring_buffer
6. epoll_wait() -> this epoll_wait() will block forever
~ During the epoll_ctl(efd, EPOLL_CTL_ADD,...) call in step 2,
ring_buffer_poll_wait() returns immediately without adding poll_table,
which has poll_table->_qproc pointing to ep_poll_callback(), to its
wait_queue.
~ During the epoll_wait() call in step 3 and step 6,
ring_buffer_poll_wait() cannot add ep_poll_callback() to its wait_queue
because the poll_table->_qproc is NULL and it is how epoll works.
~ When there is new data available in step 6, ring_buffer does not know
it has to call ep_poll_callback() because it is not in its wait queue.
Hence, block forever.
Other poll implementation seems to call poll_wait() unconditionally as the very
first thing to do. For example, tcp_poll() in tcp.c.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/p/20140610060637.GA14045@devbig242.prn2.facebook.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 2.6.27
Fixes: 2a2cc8f7c4d0 "ftrace: allow the event pipe to be polled"
Reviewed-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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