When tracing is active while reading the trace file, if the iterator
reading the buffer detects that the writer has passed the iterator head,
it will reset and set a "missed events" flag. This flag is passed to the
output processing to show the user that events were missed:
CPU:4 [LOST EVENTS]
The problem is that the flag is reset after it is checked in
ring_buffer_iter_dropped(). But the "trace" file iterates over all the CPU
ring buffers and it will check if they are dropped when figuring out which
buffer to print next. This prematurely clears the missed_events flag if
the CPU buffer with the missed events is not the one that is printed next.
On the iteration where the CPU buffer with the missed events is printed,
the check if it had missed events would return false and the output does
not show that events were missed.
Do not reset the missed_events flag when checking if there were missed
events, but instead clear it when moving the iterator head to the next
event.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260520220801.4fd09d13@fedora
Fixes: c9b7a4a72f ("ring-buffer/tracing: Have iterator acknowledge dropped events")
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
As pointed out by Smatch, the ring-buffer descriptor array page_va is
counted by nr_page_va, but the accessor ring_buffer_desc_page() allows
access off by one.
Currently, this does not cause problems, as the page ID always comes
from a trusted source. Nonetheless, ensure robustness and fix the
accessor. While at it, make the page_id unsigned.
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260410124527.3563970-1-vdonnefort@google.com
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The header_page tracefs metadata currently reports overwrite as an
int field with size 1. That makes parsers warn about a type and
size mismatch even though the field is only used as a one-byte flag
within commit.
Keep the shared offset with commit as-is, but report overwrite as
char so the declared type matches the hardcoded size. The signedness
is already carried separately by the emitted signed field.
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260406165333.46052-1-create0818@163.com
Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216999
Signed-off-by: Cao Ruichuang <create0818@163.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
On CPU hotplug, if it is the first time a trace_buffer sees a CPU, a
ring_buffer_per_cpu will be allocated and its corresponding bit toggled
in the cpumask. Many readers check this cpumask to know if they can
safely read the ring_buffer_per_cpu but they are doing so without memory
ordering and may observe the cpumask bit set while having NULL buffer
pointer.
Enforce the memory read ordering by sending an IPI to all online CPUs.
The hotplug path is a slow-path anyway and it saves us from adding read
barriers in numerous call sites.
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260401053659.3458961-1-vdonnefort@google.com
Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com>
Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The testing for tracing was triggering a timestamp count issue that was
always off by one. This has been happening for some time but has never
been reported by anyone else. It was finally discovered to be an issue
with the "uptime" (jiffies) clock that happened to be traced and the
internal recursion caused the discrepancy. This would have been much
easier to solve if the clock function being used was displayed when the
error was detected.
Add the clock function to the error output.
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260323202212.479bb288@gandalf.local.home
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The commit f35dbac694 ("ring-buffer: Fix to update per-subbuf entries of
persistent ring buffer") was a fix and merged upstream. It is needed for
some other work in the ring buffer. The current branch has the remote
buffer code that is shared with the Arm64 subsystem and can't be rebased.
Merge in the upstream commit to allow continuing of the ring buffer work.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Hopefully, the remote will only swap pages on the kernel instruction (via
the swap_reader_page() callback). This means we know at what point the
ring-buffer geometry has changed. It is therefore possible to rearrange
the kernel view of that ring-buffer to allow non-consuming read.
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260309162516.2623589-5-vdonnefort@google.com
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add ring-buffer remotes to support entities outside of the kernel (such
as firmware or a hypervisor) that writes events into a ring-buffer using
the tracefs format
Require a description of the ring-buffer pages (struct
trace_buffer_desc) and callbacks (swap_reader_page and reset) to set up
the ring-buffer on the kernel side.
Expect the remote entity to maintain and update the meta-page.
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260309162516.2623589-4-vdonnefort@google.com
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using
git grep -l '\<k[vmz]*alloc_objs*(.*, GFP_KERNEL)' |
xargs sed -i 's/\(alloc_objs*(.*\), GFP_KERNEL)/\1)/'
to convert the new alloc_obj() users that had a simple GFP_KERNEL
argument to just drop that argument.
Note that due to the extreme simplicity of the scripting, any slightly
more complex cases spread over multiple lines would not be triggered:
they definitely exist, but this covers the vast bulk of the cases, and
the resulting diff is also then easier to check automatically.
For the same reason the 'flex' versions will be done as a separate
conversion.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to
avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and
instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union
object instances:
Single allocations: kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with: kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)
Array allocations: kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with: kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)
Flex array allocations: kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...)
are replaced with: kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)
(where TYPE may also be *VAR)
The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning
"TYPE *".
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Check the event length before adding it for accessing next index in
rb_read_data_buffer(). Since this function is used for validating
possibly broken ring buffers, the length of the event could be broken.
In that case, the new event (e + len) can point a wrong address.
To avoid invalid memory access at boot, check whether the length of
each event is in the possible range before using it.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Fixes: 5f3b6e839f ("ring-buffer: Validate boot range memory events")
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/177123421541.142205.9414352170164678966.stgit@devnote2
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Avoid running the wakeup irq_work on an isolated CPU. Since the wakeup can
run on any CPU, let's pick a housekeeping CPU to do the job.
This change reduces additional noise when tracing isolated CPUs. For
example, the following ipi_send_cpu stack trace was captured with
nohz_full=2 on the isolated CPU:
<idle>-0 [002] d.h4. 1255.379293: ipi_send_cpu: cpu=2 callsite=irq_work_queue+0x2d/0x50 callback=rb_wake_up_waiters+0x0/0x80
<idle>-0 [002] d.h4. 1255.379329: <stack trace>
=> trace_event_raw_event_ipi_send_cpu
=> __irq_work_queue_local
=> irq_work_queue
=> ring_buffer_unlock_commit
=> trace_buffer_unlock_commit_regs
=> trace_event_buffer_commit
=> trace_event_raw_event_x86_irq_vector
=> __sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt
=> sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt
=> asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt
=> pv_native_safe_halt
=> default_idle
=> default_idle_call
=> do_idle
=> cpu_startup_entry
=> start_secondary
=> common_startup_64
The IRQ work interrupt alone adds considerable noise, but the impact can
get even worse with PREEMPT_RT, because the IRQ work interrupt is then
handled by a separate kernel thread. This requires a task switch and makes
tracing useless for analyzing latency on an isolated CPU.
After applying the patch, the trace is similar, but ipi_send_cpu always
targets a non-isolated CPU.
Unfortunately, irq_work_queue_on() is not NMI-safe. When running in NMI
context, fall back to queuing the irq work on the local CPU.
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Clark Williams <clrkwllms@kernel.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260108132132.2473515-1-ptesarik@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
When user resize all trace ring buffer through file 'buffer_size_kb',
then in ring_buffer_resize(), kernel allocates buffer pages for each
cpu in a loop.
If the kernel preemption model is PREEMPT_NONE and there are many cpus
and there are many buffer pages to be freed, it may not give up cpu
for a long time and finally cause a softlockup.
To avoid it, call cond_resched() after each cpu buffer free as Commit
f6bd2c9248 ("ring-buffer: Avoid softlockup in ring_buffer_resize()")
does.
Detailed call trace as follow:
rcu: INFO: rcu_sched self-detected stall on CPU
rcu: 24-....: (14837 ticks this GP) idle=521c/1/0x4000000000000000 softirq=230597/230597 fqs=5329
rcu: (t=15004 jiffies g=26003221 q=211022 ncpus=96)
CPU: 24 UID: 0 PID: 11253 Comm: bash Kdump: loaded Tainted: G EL 6.18.2+ #278 NONE
pc : arch_local_irq_restore+0x8/0x20
arch_local_irq_restore+0x8/0x20 (P)
free_frozen_page_commit+0x28c/0x3b0
__free_frozen_pages+0x1c0/0x678
___free_pages+0xc0/0xe0
free_pages+0x3c/0x50
ring_buffer_resize.part.0+0x6a8/0x880
ring_buffer_resize+0x3c/0x58
__tracing_resize_ring_buffer.part.0+0x34/0xd8
tracing_resize_ring_buffer+0x8c/0xd0
tracing_entries_write+0x74/0xd8
vfs_write+0xcc/0x288
ksys_write+0x74/0x118
__arm64_sys_write+0x24/0x38
Cc: <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251228065008.2396573-1-mawupeng1@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Wupeng Ma <mawupeng1@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Pull trace ring-buffer cleanup from Steven Rostedt:
- Add helper functions for allocations
The allocation of the per CPU buffer descriptor, the buffer page
descriptors and the buffer page data itself can be pretty ugly.
Add some helper macros and a function to have the code that allocates
buffer pages and such look a little cleaner.
* tag 'trace-ringbuffer-v6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
ring-buffer: Add helper functions for allocations
The allocation of the per CPU buffer descriptor, the buffer page
descriptors and the buffer page data itself can be pretty ugly:
kzalloc_node(ALIGN(sizeof(struct buffer_page), cache_line_size()),
GFP_KERNEL, cpu_to_node(cpu));
And the data pages:
page = alloc_pages_node(cpu_to_node(cpu),
GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL | __GFP_COMP | __GFP_ZERO, order);
if (!page)
return NULL;
bpage->page = page_address(page);
rb_init_page(bpage->page);
Add helper functions to make the code easier to read.
This does make all allocations of the data page (bpage->page) allocated
with the __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL flag (and not just the bulk allocator). Which
is actually better, as allocating the data page for the ring buffer tracing
should try hard but not trigger the OOM killer.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wjMMSAaqTjBSfYenfuzE1bMjLj+2DLtLWJuGt07UGCH_Q@mail.gmail.com/
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251125121153.35c07461@gandalf.local.home
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
