[PATCH 3.2 080/185] powerpc/pseries: Duplicate dtl entries sometimes sent to userspace

Ben Hutchings
2013-12-29T02:08:43Z

From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>

commit 84b073868b9d9e754ae48b828337633d1b386482 upstream.

When reading from the dispatch trace log (dtl) userspace interface, I
sometimes see duplicate entries. One example:

# hexdump -C dtl.out

00000000 07 04 00 0c 00 00 48 44 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00000010 00 0c a0 b4 16 83 6d 68 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00000020 00 00 00 00 10 00 13 50 80 00 00 00 00 00 d0 32

00000030 07 04 00 0c 00 00 48 44 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00000040 00 0c a0 b4 16 83 6d 68 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00000050 00 00 00 00 10 00 13 50 80 00 00 00 00 00 d0 32

The problem is in scan_dispatch_log() where we call dtl_consumer()
but bail out before incrementing the index.

To fix this I moved dtl_consumer() after the timebase comparison.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
---
arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/time.c
@@ -235,8 +235,6 @@ static u64 scan_dispatch_log(u64 stop_tb
if (i == vpa->dtl_idx)
return 0;
while (i < vpa->dtl_idx) {
- if (dtl_consumer)
- dtl_consumer(dtl, i);
dtb = dtl->timebase;
tb_delta = dtl->enqueue_to_dispatch_time +
dtl->ready_to_enqueue_time;
@@ -249,6 +247,8 @@ static u64 scan_dispatch_log(u64 stop_tb
}
if (dtb > stop_tb)
break;
+ if (dtl_consumer)
+ dtl_consumer(dtl, i);
stolen += tb_delta;
++i;
++dtl;