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<title>ring-buffer: Add set/clear_current_oom_origin() during allocations</title>
<updated>2018-04-06T12:56:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (VMware)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-04T15:29:57+00:00</published>
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As si_mem_available() can say there is enough memory even though the memory
available is not useable by the ring buffer, it is best to not kill innocent
applications because the ring buffer is taking up all the memory while it is
trying to allocate a great deal of memory.

If the allocator is user space (because kernel threads can also increase the
size of the kernel ring buffer on boot up), then after si_mem_available()
says there is enough memory, set the OOM killer to kill the current task if
an OOM triggers during the allocation.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180404062340.GD6312@dhcp22.suse.cz

Suggested-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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As si_mem_available() can say there is enough memory even though the memory
available is not useable by the ring buffer, it is best to not kill innocent
applications because the ring buffer is taking up all the memory while it is
trying to allocate a great deal of memory.

If the allocator is user space (because kernel threads can also increase the
size of the kernel ring buffer on boot up), then after si_mem_available()
says there is enough memory, set the OOM killer to kill the current task if
an OOM triggers during the allocation.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180404062340.GD6312@dhcp22.suse.cz

Suggested-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ring-buffer: Check if memory is available before allocation</title>
<updated>2018-04-06T12:56:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (VMware)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-02T14:33:56+00:00</published>
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The ring buffer is made up of a link list of pages. When making the ring
buffer bigger, it will allocate all the pages it needs before adding to the
ring buffer, and if it fails, it frees them and returns an error. This makes
increasing the ring buffer size an all or nothing action. When this was
first created, the pages were allocated with "NORETRY". This was to not
cause any Out-Of-Memory (OOM) actions from allocating the ring buffer. But
NORETRY was too strict, as the ring buffer would fail to expand even when
there's memory available, but was taken up in the page cache.

Commit 848618857d253 ("tracing/ring_buffer: Try harder to allocate") changed
the allocating from NORETRY to RETRY_MAYFAIL. The RETRY_MAYFAIL would
allocate from the page cache, but if there was no memory available, it would
simple fail the allocation and not trigger an OOM.

This worked fine, but had one problem. As the ring buffer would allocate one
page at a time, it could take up all memory in the system before it failed
to allocate and free that memory. If the allocation is happening and the
ring buffer allocates all memory and then tries to take more than available,
its allocation will not trigger an OOM, but if there's any allocation that
happens someplace else, that could trigger an OOM, even though once the ring
buffer's allocation fails, it would free up all the previous memory it tried
to allocate, and allow other memory allocations to succeed.

Commit d02bd27bd33dd ("mm/page_alloc.c: calculate 'available' memory in a
separate function") separated out si_mem_availble() as a separate function
that could be used to see how much memory is available in the system. Using
this function to make sure that the ring buffer could be allocated before it
tries to allocate pages we can avoid allocating all memory in the system and
making it vulnerable to OOMs if other allocations are taking place.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1522320104-6573-1-git-send-email-zhaoyang.huang@spreadtrum.com

CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Fixes: 848618857d253 ("tracing/ring_buffer: Try harder to allocate")
Requires: d02bd27bd33dd ("mm/page_alloc.c: calculate 'available' memory in a separate function")
Reported-by: Zhaoyang Huang &lt;huangzhaoyang@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Joel Fernandes &lt;joelaf@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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The ring buffer is made up of a link list of pages. When making the ring
buffer bigger, it will allocate all the pages it needs before adding to the
ring buffer, and if it fails, it frees them and returns an error. This makes
increasing the ring buffer size an all or nothing action. When this was
first created, the pages were allocated with "NORETRY". This was to not
cause any Out-Of-Memory (OOM) actions from allocating the ring buffer. But
NORETRY was too strict, as the ring buffer would fail to expand even when
there's memory available, but was taken up in the page cache.

Commit 848618857d253 ("tracing/ring_buffer: Try harder to allocate") changed
the allocating from NORETRY to RETRY_MAYFAIL. The RETRY_MAYFAIL would
allocate from the page cache, but if there was no memory available, it would
simple fail the allocation and not trigger an OOM.

This worked fine, but had one problem. As the ring buffer would allocate one
page at a time, it could take up all memory in the system before it failed
to allocate and free that memory. If the allocation is happening and the
ring buffer allocates all memory and then tries to take more than available,
its allocation will not trigger an OOM, but if there's any allocation that
happens someplace else, that could trigger an OOM, even though once the ring
buffer's allocation fails, it would free up all the previous memory it tried
to allocate, and allow other memory allocations to succeed.

Commit d02bd27bd33dd ("mm/page_alloc.c: calculate 'available' memory in a
separate function") separated out si_mem_availble() as a separate function
that could be used to see how much memory is available in the system. Using
this function to make sure that the ring buffer could be allocated before it
tries to allocate pages we can avoid allocating all memory in the system and
making it vulnerable to OOMs if other allocations are taking place.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1522320104-6573-1-git-send-email-zhaoyang.huang@spreadtrum.com

CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Fixes: 848618857d253 ("tracing/ring_buffer: Try harder to allocate")
Requires: d02bd27bd33dd ("mm/page_alloc.c: calculate 'available' memory in a separate function")
Reported-by: Zhaoyang Huang &lt;huangzhaoyang@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Joel Fernandes &lt;joelaf@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tracing: Mention trace_clock=global when warning about unstable clocks</title>
<updated>2018-04-06T12:56:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chris Wilson</name>
<email>chris@chris-wilson.co.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-30T15:01:32+00:00</published>
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Mention the alternative of adding trace_clock=global to the kernel
command line when we detect that we've used an unstable clock across a
suspend/resume cycle.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180330150132.16903-2-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk

Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson &lt;chris@chris-wilson.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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Mention the alternative of adding trace_clock=global to the kernel
command line when we detect that we've used an unstable clock across a
suspend/resume cycle.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180330150132.16903-2-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk

Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson &lt;chris@chris-wilson.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ring-buffer: Add nesting for adding events within events</title>
<updated>2018-03-10T21:06:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (VMware)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-07T22:26:32+00:00</published>
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The ring-buffer code has recusion protection in case tracing ends up tracing
itself, the ring-buffer will detect that it was called at the same context
(normal, softirq, interrupt or NMI), and not continue to record the event.

With the histogram synthetic events, they are called while tracing another
event at the same context. The recusion protection triggers because it
detects tracing at the same context and stops it.

Add ring_buffer_nest_start() and ring_buffer_nest_end() that will notify the
ring buffer that a trace is about to happen within another trace and that it
is intended, and not to trigger the recursion blocking.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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The ring-buffer code has recusion protection in case tracing ends up tracing
itself, the ring-buffer will detect that it was called at the same context
(normal, softirq, interrupt or NMI), and not continue to record the event.

With the histogram synthetic events, they are called while tracing another
event at the same context. The recusion protection triggers because it
detects tracing at the same context and stops it.

Add ring_buffer_nest_start() and ring_buffer_nest_end() that will notify the
ring buffer that a trace is about to happen within another trace and that it
is intended, and not to trigger the recursion blocking.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ring-buffer: Redefine the unimplemented RINGBUF_TYPE_TIME_STAMP</title>
<updated>2018-03-10T21:05:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tom Zanussi</name>
<email>tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-16T02:51:40+00:00</published>
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RINGBUF_TYPE_TIME_STAMP is defined but not used, and from what I can
gather was reserved for something like an absolute timestamp feature
for the ring buffer, if not a complete replacement of the current
time_delta scheme.

This code redefines RINGBUF_TYPE_TIME_STAMP to implement absolute time
stamps.  Another way to look at it is that it essentially forces
extended time_deltas for all events.

The motivation for doing this is to enable time_deltas that aren't
dependent on previous events in the ring buffer, making it feasible to
use the ring_buffer_event timetamps in a more random-access way, for
purposes other than serial event printing.

To set/reset this mode, use tracing_set_timestamp_abs() from the
previous interface patch.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/477b362dba1ce7fab9889a1a8e885a62c472f041.1516069914.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi &lt;tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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RINGBUF_TYPE_TIME_STAMP is defined but not used, and from what I can
gather was reserved for something like an absolute timestamp feature
for the ring buffer, if not a complete replacement of the current
time_delta scheme.

This code redefines RINGBUF_TYPE_TIME_STAMP to implement absolute time
stamps.  Another way to look at it is that it essentially forces
extended time_deltas for all events.

The motivation for doing this is to enable time_deltas that aren't
dependent on previous events in the ring buffer, making it feasible to
use the ring_buffer_event timetamps in a more random-access way, for
purposes other than serial event printing.

To set/reset this mode, use tracing_set_timestamp_abs() from the
previous interface patch.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/477b362dba1ce7fab9889a1a8e885a62c472f041.1516069914.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi &lt;tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ring-buffer: Add interface for setting absolute time stamps</title>
<updated>2018-03-10T21:05:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tom Zanussi</name>
<email>tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-16T02:51:39+00:00</published>
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Define a new function, tracing_set_time_stamp_abs(), which can be used
to enable or disable the use of absolute timestamps rather than time
deltas for a trace array.

Only the interface is added here; a subsequent patch will add the
underlying implementation.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ce96119de44c7fe0ee44786d15254e9b493040d3.1516069914.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi &lt;tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Baohong Liu &lt;baohong.liu@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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Define a new function, tracing_set_time_stamp_abs(), which can be used
to enable or disable the use of absolute timestamps rather than time
deltas for a trace array.

Only the interface is added here; a subsequent patch will add the
underlying implementation.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ce96119de44c7fe0ee44786d15254e9b493040d3.1516069914.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com

Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi &lt;tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Baohong Liu &lt;baohong.liu@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>vfs: do bulk POLL* -&gt; EPOLL* replacement</title>
<updated>2018-02-11T22:34:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-11T22:34:03+00:00</published>
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This is the mindless scripted replacement of kernel use of POLL*
variables as described by Al, done by this script:

    for V in IN OUT PRI ERR RDNORM RDBAND WRNORM WRBAND HUP RDHUP NVAL MSG; do
        L=`git grep -l -w POLL$V | grep -v '^t' | grep -v /um/ | grep -v '^sa' | grep -v '/poll.h$'|grep -v '^D'`
        for f in $L; do sed -i "-es/^\([^\"]*\)\(\&lt;POLL$V\&gt;\)/\\1E\\2/" $f; done
    done

with de-mangling cleanups yet to come.

NOTE! On almost all architectures, the EPOLL* constants have the same
values as the POLL* constants do.  But they keyword here is "almost".
For various bad reasons they aren't the same, and epoll() doesn't
actually work quite correctly in some cases due to this on Sparc et al.

The next patch from Al will sort out the final differences, and we
should be all done.

Scripted-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This is the mindless scripted replacement of kernel use of POLL*
variables as described by Al, done by this script:

    for V in IN OUT PRI ERR RDNORM RDBAND WRNORM WRBAND HUP RDHUP NVAL MSG; do
        L=`git grep -l -w POLL$V | grep -v '^t' | grep -v /um/ | grep -v '^sa' | grep -v '/poll.h$'|grep -v '^D'`
        for f in $L; do sed -i "-es/^\([^\"]*\)\(\&lt;POLL$V\&gt;\)/\\1E\\2/" $f; done
    done

with de-mangling cleanups yet to come.

NOTE! On almost all architectures, the EPOLL* constants have the same
values as the POLL* constants do.  But they keyword here is "almost".
For various bad reasons they aren't the same, and epoll() doesn't
actually work quite correctly in some cases due to this on Sparc et al.

The next patch from Al will sort out the final differences, and we
should be all done.

Scripted-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'misc.poll' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2018-01-31T01:58:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-31T01:58:07+00:00</published>
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Pull poll annotations from Al Viro:
 "This introduces a __bitwise type for POLL### bitmap, and propagates
  the annotations through the tree. Most of that stuff is as simple as
  'make -&gt;poll() instances return __poll_t and do the same to local
  variables used to hold the future return value'.

  Some of the obvious brainos found in process are fixed (e.g. POLLIN
  misspelled as POLL_IN). At that point the amount of sparse warnings is
  low and most of them are for genuine bugs - e.g. -&gt;poll() instance
  deciding to return -EINVAL instead of a bitmap. I hadn't touched those
  in this series - it's large enough as it is.

  Another problem it has caught was eventpoll() ABI mess; select.c and
  eventpoll.c assumed that corresponding POLL### and EPOLL### were
  equal. That's true for some, but not all of them - EPOLL### are
  arch-independent, but POLL### are not.

  The last commit in this series separates userland POLL### values from
  the (now arch-independent) kernel-side ones, converting between them
  in the few places where they are copied to/from userland. AFAICS, this
  is the least disruptive fix preserving poll(2) ABI and making epoll()
  work on all architectures.

  As it is, it's simply broken on sparc - try to give it EPOLLWRNORM and
  it will trigger only on what would've triggered EPOLLWRBAND on other
  architectures. EPOLLWRBAND and EPOLLRDHUP, OTOH, are never triggered
  at all on sparc. With this patch they should work consistently on all
  architectures"

* 'misc.poll' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (37 commits)
  make kernel-side POLL... arch-independent
  eventpoll: no need to mask the result of epi_item_poll() again
  eventpoll: constify struct epoll_event pointers
  debugging printk in sg_poll() uses %x to print POLL... bitmap
  annotate poll(2) guts
  9p: untangle -&gt;poll() mess
  -&gt;si_band gets POLL... bitmap stored into a user-visible long field
  ring_buffer_poll_wait() return value used as return value of -&gt;poll()
  the rest of drivers/*: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  media: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  fs: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  ipc, kernel, mm: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  net: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  apparmor: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  tomoyo: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  sound: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  acpi: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  crypto: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  block: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  x86: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  ...
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Pull poll annotations from Al Viro:
 "This introduces a __bitwise type for POLL### bitmap, and propagates
  the annotations through the tree. Most of that stuff is as simple as
  'make -&gt;poll() instances return __poll_t and do the same to local
  variables used to hold the future return value'.

  Some of the obvious brainos found in process are fixed (e.g. POLLIN
  misspelled as POLL_IN). At that point the amount of sparse warnings is
  low and most of them are for genuine bugs - e.g. -&gt;poll() instance
  deciding to return -EINVAL instead of a bitmap. I hadn't touched those
  in this series - it's large enough as it is.

  Another problem it has caught was eventpoll() ABI mess; select.c and
  eventpoll.c assumed that corresponding POLL### and EPOLL### were
  equal. That's true for some, but not all of them - EPOLL### are
  arch-independent, but POLL### are not.

  The last commit in this series separates userland POLL### values from
  the (now arch-independent) kernel-side ones, converting between them
  in the few places where they are copied to/from userland. AFAICS, this
  is the least disruptive fix preserving poll(2) ABI and making epoll()
  work on all architectures.

  As it is, it's simply broken on sparc - try to give it EPOLLWRNORM and
  it will trigger only on what would've triggered EPOLLWRBAND on other
  architectures. EPOLLWRBAND and EPOLLRDHUP, OTOH, are never triggered
  at all on sparc. With this patch they should work consistently on all
  architectures"

* 'misc.poll' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (37 commits)
  make kernel-side POLL... arch-independent
  eventpoll: no need to mask the result of epi_item_poll() again
  eventpoll: constify struct epoll_event pointers
  debugging printk in sg_poll() uses %x to print POLL... bitmap
  annotate poll(2) guts
  9p: untangle -&gt;poll() mess
  -&gt;si_band gets POLL... bitmap stored into a user-visible long field
  ring_buffer_poll_wait() return value used as return value of -&gt;poll()
  the rest of drivers/*: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  media: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  fs: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  ipc, kernel, mm: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  net: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  apparmor: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  tomoyo: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  sound: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  acpi: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  crypto: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  block: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  x86: annotate -&gt;poll() instances
  ...
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<title>ring-buffer: Fix duplicate results in mapping context to bits in recursive lock</title>
<updated>2018-01-18T20:45:48+00:00</updated>
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<name>Steven Rostedt (VMware)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
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<published>2018-01-18T20:42:09+00:00</published>
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In bringing back the context checks, the code checks first if its normal
(non-interrupt) context, and then for NMI then IRQ then softirq. The final
check is redundant. Since the if branch is only hit if the context is one of
NMI, IRQ, or SOFTIRQ, if it's not NMI or IRQ there's no reason to check if
it is SOFTIRQ. The current code returns the same result even if its not a
SOFTIRQ. Which is confusing.

  pc &amp; SOFTIRQ_OFFSET ? 2 : RB_CTX_SOFTIRQ

Is redundant as RB_CTX_SOFTIRQ *is* 2!

Fixes: a0e3a18f4baf ("ring-buffer: Bring back context level recursive checks")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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In bringing back the context checks, the code checks first if its normal
(non-interrupt) context, and then for NMI then IRQ then softirq. The final
check is redundant. Since the if branch is only hit if the context is one of
NMI, IRQ, or SOFTIRQ, if it's not NMI or IRQ there's no reason to check if
it is SOFTIRQ. The current code returns the same result even if its not a
SOFTIRQ. Which is confusing.

  pc &amp; SOFTIRQ_OFFSET ? 2 : RB_CTX_SOFTIRQ

Is redundant as RB_CTX_SOFTIRQ *is* 2!

Fixes: a0e3a18f4baf ("ring-buffer: Bring back context level recursive checks")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<title>ring-buffer: Bring back context level recursive checks</title>
<updated>2018-01-15T17:28:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (VMware)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-15T15:47:09+00:00</published>
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Commit 1a149d7d3f45 ("ring-buffer: Rewrite trace_recursive_(un)lock() to be
simpler") replaced the context level recursion checks with a simple counter.
This would prevent the ring buffer code from recursively calling itself more
than the max number of contexts that exist (Normal, softirq, irq, nmi). But
this change caused a lockup in a specific case, which was during suspend and
resume using a global clock. Adding a stack dump to see where this occurred,
the issue was in the trace global clock itself:

  trace_buffer_lock_reserve+0x1c/0x50
  __trace_graph_entry+0x2d/0x90
  trace_graph_entry+0xe8/0x200
  prepare_ftrace_return+0x69/0xc0
  ftrace_graph_caller+0x78/0xa8
  queued_spin_lock_slowpath+0x5/0x1d0
  trace_clock_global+0xb0/0xc0
  ring_buffer_lock_reserve+0xf9/0x390

The function graph tracer traced queued_spin_lock_slowpath that was called
by trace_clock_global. This pointed out that the trace_clock_global() is not
reentrant, as it takes a spin lock. It depended on the ring buffer recursive
lock from letting that happen.

By removing the context detection and adding just a max number of allowable
recursions, it allowed the trace_clock_global() to be entered again and try
to retake the spinlock it already held, causing a deadlock.

Fixes: 1a149d7d3f45 ("ring-buffer: Rewrite trace_recursive_(un)lock() to be simpler")
Reported-by: David Weinehall &lt;david.weinehall@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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Commit 1a149d7d3f45 ("ring-buffer: Rewrite trace_recursive_(un)lock() to be
simpler") replaced the context level recursion checks with a simple counter.
This would prevent the ring buffer code from recursively calling itself more
than the max number of contexts that exist (Normal, softirq, irq, nmi). But
this change caused a lockup in a specific case, which was during suspend and
resume using a global clock. Adding a stack dump to see where this occurred,
the issue was in the trace global clock itself:

  trace_buffer_lock_reserve+0x1c/0x50
  __trace_graph_entry+0x2d/0x90
  trace_graph_entry+0xe8/0x200
  prepare_ftrace_return+0x69/0xc0
  ftrace_graph_caller+0x78/0xa8
  queued_spin_lock_slowpath+0x5/0x1d0
  trace_clock_global+0xb0/0xc0
  ring_buffer_lock_reserve+0xf9/0x390

The function graph tracer traced queued_spin_lock_slowpath that was called
by trace_clock_global. This pointed out that the trace_clock_global() is not
reentrant, as it takes a spin lock. It depended on the ring buffer recursive
lock from letting that happen.

By removing the context detection and adding just a max number of allowable
recursions, it allowed the trace_clock_global() to be entered again and try
to retake the spinlock it already held, causing a deadlock.

Fixes: 1a149d7d3f45 ("ring-buffer: Rewrite trace_recursive_(un)lock() to be simpler")
Reported-by: David Weinehall &lt;david.weinehall@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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