Patch "tracing: Fix hwlat kthread migration" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    tracing: Fix hwlat kthread migration

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     tracing-fix-hwlat-kthread-migration.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 79c6f448c8b79c321e4a1f31f98194e4f6b6cae7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2017 19:27:10 -0500
Subject: tracing: Fix hwlat kthread migration

From: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

commit 79c6f448c8b79c321e4a1f31f98194e4f6b6cae7 upstream.

The hwlat tracer creates a kernel thread at start of the tracer. It is
pinned to a single CPU and will move to the next CPU after each period of
running. If the user modifies the migration thread's affinity, it will not
change after that happens.

The original code created the thread at the first instance it was called,
but later was changed to destroy the thread after the tracer was finished,
and would not be created until the next instance of the tracer was
established. The code that initialized the affinity was only called on the
initial instantiation of the tracer. After that, it was not initialized, and
the previous affinity did not match the current newly created one, making
it appear that the user modified the thread's affinity when it did not, and
the thread failed to migrate again.

Fixes: 0330f7aa8ee6 ("tracing: Have hwlat trace migrate across tracing_cpumask CPUs")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 kernel/trace/trace_hwlat.c |    8 +++++---
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/trace/trace_hwlat.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_hwlat.c
@@ -266,7 +266,7 @@ out:
 static struct cpumask save_cpumask;
 static bool disable_migrate;
 
-static void move_to_next_cpu(void)
+static void move_to_next_cpu(bool initmask)
 {
 	static struct cpumask *current_mask;
 	int next_cpu;
@@ -275,7 +275,7 @@ static void move_to_next_cpu(void)
 		return;
 
 	/* Just pick the first CPU on first iteration */
-	if (!current_mask) {
+	if (initmask) {
 		current_mask = &save_cpumask;
 		get_online_cpus();
 		cpumask_and(current_mask, cpu_online_mask, tracing_buffer_mask);
@@ -330,10 +330,12 @@ static void move_to_next_cpu(void)
 static int kthread_fn(void *data)
 {
 	u64 interval;
+	bool initmask = true;
 
 	while (!kthread_should_stop()) {
 
-		move_to_next_cpu();
+		move_to_next_cpu(initmask);
+		initmask = false;
 
 		local_irq_disable();
 		get_sample();


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from rostedt@goodmis.org are

queue-4.9/tracing-fix-hwlat-kthread-migration.patch