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* [PATCH] ring-buffer: Fix ring_buffer_read_page() copying only one event per page
@ 2026-06-16 17:55 David Carlier
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From: David Carlier @ 2026-06-16 17:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: rostedt, mhiramat
  Cc: mathieu.desnoyers, linux-trace-kernel, linux-kernel,
	David Carlier

Commit 8928e4a3be34 ("ring-buffer: Show persistent buffer dropped events
in trace_pipe file") split the "commit" variable in
ring_buffer_read_page() into "commit" (raw) and "size" (masked page
size), but the inner copy loop's terminator was changed to compare rpos
against "event_size" instead of "size".

rpos is the cumulative read offset within the page; event_size is the
length of the single event just copied. The loop thus breaks after the
first event, so only one event is copied per call. This regresses the
per-event memcpy path (partial reads, the active commit page, and
mapped/remote buffers) used by splice/trace_pipe_raw and mmap consumers
into a one-event-at-a-time read.

Compare rpos against the page size as the original code did.

Fixes: 8928e4a3be34 ("ring-buffer: Show persistent buffer dropped events in trace_pipe file")
Signed-off-by: David Carlier <devnexen@gmail.com>
---
 kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
index 06fb365bb86e..06155ab3366f 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
@@ -7181,7 +7181,7 @@ int ring_buffer_read_page(struct trace_buffer *buffer,
 			rpos = reader->read;
 			pos += event_size;
 
-			if (rpos >= event_size)
+			if (rpos >= size)
 				break;
 
 			event = rb_reader_event(cpu_buffer);
-- 
2.53.0


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