[PATCH 3.10 44/46] tracing: Try again for saved cmdline if failed due to locking

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-04T22:23:14Z

From: "Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)" <rostedt@goodmis.org>

commit 379cfdac37923653c9d4242d10052378b7563005 upstream.

In order to prevent the saved cmdline cache from being filled when
tracing is not active, the comms are only recorded after a trace event
is recorded.

The problem is, a comm can fail to be recorded if the trace_cmdline_lock
is held. That lock is taken via a trylock to allow it to happen from
any context (including NMI). If the lock fails to be taken, the comm
is skipped. No big deal, as we will try again later.

But! Because of the code that was added to only record after an event,
we may not try again later as the recording is made as a oneshot per
event per CPU.

Only disable the recording of the comm if the comm is actually recorded.

Fixes: 7ffbd48d5cab "tracing: Cache comms only after an event occurred"
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
kernel/trace/trace.c | 13 +++++++------
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -1400,12 +1400,12 @@ static void tracing_stop_tr(struct trace

void trace_stop_cmdline_recording(void);

-static void trace_save_cmdline(struct task_struct *tsk)
+static int trace_save_cmdline(struct task_struct *tsk)
{
unsigned pid, idx;

if (!tsk->pid || unlikely(tsk->pid > PID_MAX_DEFAULT))
- return;
+ return 0;

/*
* It's not the end of the world if we don't get
@@ -1414,7 +1414,7 @@ static void trace_save_cmdline(struct ta
* so if we miss here, then better luck next time.
*/
if (!arch_spin_trylock(&trace_cmdline_lock))
- return;
+ return 0;

idx = map_pid_to_cmdline[tsk->pid];
if (idx == NO_CMDLINE_MAP) {
@@ -1439,6 +1439,8 @@ static void trace_save_cmdline(struct ta
memcpy(&saved_cmdlines[idx], tsk->comm, TASK_COMM_LEN);

arch_spin_unlock(&trace_cmdline_lock);
+
+ return 1;
}

void trace_find_cmdline(int pid, char comm[])
@@ -1480,9 +1482,8 @@ void tracing_record_cmdline(struct task_
if (!__this_cpu_read(trace_cmdline_save))
return;

- __this_cpu_write(trace_cmdline_save, false);
-
- trace_save_cmdline(tsk);
+ if (trace_save_cmdline(tsk))
+ __this_cpu_write(trace_cmdline_save, false);
}

void