From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 005C9C46460 for ; Sat, 11 Aug 2018 13:52:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97C45217AE for ; Sat, 11 Aug 2018 13:52:00 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org 97C45217AE Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=goodmis.org Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1728177AbeHKQ0O (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Aug 2018 12:26:14 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:39986 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1727485AbeHKQYa (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Aug 2018 12:24:30 -0400 Received: from gandalf.local.home (cpe-66-24-56-78.stny.res.rr.com [66.24.56.78]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1C14D21A31; Sat, 11 Aug 2018 13:50:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from rostedt by gandalf.local.home with local (Exim 4.91) (envelope-from ) id 1foUHW-00069H-22; Sat, 11 Aug 2018 09:50:14 -0400 Message-Id: <20180811135013.963224087@goodmis.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.65 Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2018 09:49:46 -0400 From: Steven Rostedt To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Ingo Molnar , Andrew Morton , stable@vger.kernel.org, Erica Bugden Subject: [for-next][PATCH 18/34] tracing: Do not call start/stop() functions when tracing_on does not change References: <20180811134928.034373761@goodmis.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" Currently, when one echo's in 1 into tracing_on, the current tracer's "start()" function is executed, even if tracing_on was already one. This can lead to strange side effects. One being that if the hwlat tracer is enabled, and someone does "echo 1 > tracing_on" into tracing_on, the hwlat tracer's start() function is called again which will recreate another kernel thread, and make it unable to remove the old one. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1533120354-22923-1-git-send-email-erica.bugden@linutronix.de Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 2df8f8a6a897e ("tracing: Fix regression with irqsoff tracer and tracing_on file") Reported-by: Erica Bugden Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) --- kernel/trace/trace.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c index 823687997b01..2378bb4f1442 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c @@ -7628,7 +7628,9 @@ rb_simple_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *ubuf, if (buffer) { mutex_lock(&trace_types_lock); - if (val) { + if (!!val == tracer_tracing_is_on(tr)) { + val = 0; /* do nothing */ + } else if (val) { tracer_tracing_on(tr); if (tr->current_trace->start) tr->current_trace->start(tr); -- 2.18.0