linux-sg2042/kernel/trace
Martin Lau 97b8ee8453 ring-buffer: Fix polling on trace_pipe
ring_buffer_poll_wait() should always put the poll_table to its wait_queue
even there is immediate data available.  Otherwise, the following epoll and
read sequence will eventually hang forever:

1. Put some data to make the trace_pipe ring_buffer read ready first
2. epoll_ctl(efd, EPOLL_CTL_ADD, trace_pipe_fd, ee)
3. epoll_wait()
4. read(trace_pipe_fd) till EAGAIN
5. Add some more data to the trace_pipe ring_buffer
6. epoll_wait() -> this epoll_wait() will block forever

~ During the epoll_ctl(efd, EPOLL_CTL_ADD,...) call in step 2,
  ring_buffer_poll_wait() returns immediately without adding poll_table,
  which has poll_table->_qproc pointing to ep_poll_callback(), to its
  wait_queue.
~ During the epoll_wait() call in step 3 and step 6,
  ring_buffer_poll_wait() cannot add ep_poll_callback() to its wait_queue
  because the poll_table->_qproc is NULL and it is how epoll works.
~ When there is new data available in step 6, ring_buffer does not know
  it has to call ep_poll_callback() because it is not in its wait queue.
  Hence, block forever.

Other poll implementation seems to call poll_wait() unconditionally as the very
first thing to do.  For example, tcp_poll() in tcp.c.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/p/20140610060637.GA14045@devbig242.prn2.facebook.com

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 2.6.27
Fixes: 2a2cc8f7c4 "ftrace: allow the event pipe to be polled"
Reviewed-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2014-07-15 17:07:47 -04:00
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Kconfig tracing: Add tracepoint benchmark tracepoint 2014-05-29 22:49:54 -04:00
Makefile tracing: Add tracepoint benchmark tracepoint 2014-05-29 22:49:54 -04:00
blktrace.c Most of the changes were largely clean ups, and some documentation. 2014-04-03 10:26:31 -07:00
ftrace.c tracing: Fix graph tracer with stack tracer on other archs 2014-07-15 11:10:25 -04:00
power-traces.c PM / tracing: remove deprecated power trace API 2013-01-26 00:39:12 +01:00
ring_buffer.c ring-buffer: Fix polling on trace_pipe 2014-07-15 17:07:47 -04:00
ring_buffer_benchmark.c trace: Replace hardcoding of 19 with MAX_NICE 2014-02-27 12:41:03 +01:00
rpm-traces.c PM / Runtime: Introduce trace points for tracing rpm_* functions 2011-09-27 22:53:27 +02:00
trace.c tracing: Add TRACE_ITER_PRINTK flag check in __trace_puts/__trace_bputs 2014-07-15 11:58:40 -04:00
trace.h tracing: Fix check of ftrace_trace_arrays list_empty() check 2014-06-10 13:53:50 -04:00
trace_benchmark.c tracing: Only calculate stats of tracepoint benchmarks for 2^32 times 2014-06-06 00:41:38 -04:00
trace_benchmark.h tracing: Add tracepoint benchmark tracepoint 2014-05-29 22:49:54 -04:00
trace_branch.c tracing: Update event filters for multibuffer 2013-11-05 16:50:20 -05:00
trace_clock.c tracing: Add "uptime" trace clock that uses jiffies 2013-03-15 00:36:09 -04:00
trace_entries.h tracing: Add trace_puts() for even faster trace_printk() tracing 2013-03-15 00:35:55 -04:00
trace_event_perf.c kprobes, ftrace: Use NOKPROBE_SYMBOL macro in ftrace 2014-04-24 10:26:39 +02:00
trace_events.c tracing: instance_rmdir() leaks ftrace_event_file->filter 2014-07-14 14:41:13 -04:00
trace_events_filter.c tracing: Add and use generic set_trigger_filter() implementation 2013-12-21 22:02:17 -05:00
trace_events_filter_test.h tracing/filter: Add startup tests for events filter 2011-08-19 14:35:59 -04:00
trace_events_trigger.c tracing: Use rcu_dereference_sched() for trace event triggers 2014-05-02 23:12:42 -04:00
trace_export.c tracing: Fix anonymous unions in struct ftrace_event_call 2014-04-09 20:02:55 -04:00
trace_functions.c tracing: Remove mock up poll wait function 2014-04-30 08:40:05 -04:00
trace_functions_graph.c tracing: Add funcgraph_tail option to print function name after closing braces 2014-05-20 23:29:32 -04:00
trace_irqsoff.c tracing: Allow irq/preempt tracers to be used by instances 2014-04-21 13:59:29 -04:00
trace_kdb.c tracing: Consolidate max_tr into main trace_array structure 2013-03-15 00:35:40 -04:00
trace_kprobe.c Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2014-06-12 19:18:49 -07:00
trace_mmiotrace.c tracing: Update event filters for multibuffer 2013-11-05 16:50:20 -05:00
trace_nop.c tracing: Remove mock up poll wait function 2014-04-30 08:40:05 -04:00
trace_output.c tracing: Add __bitmask() macro to trace events to cpumasks and other bitmasks 2014-05-15 11:29:37 -04:00
trace_output.h tracing: Rename trace_event_mutex to trace_event_sem 2013-03-15 13:22:10 -04:00
trace_printk.c tracing: Add __tracepoint_string() to export string pointers 2013-07-26 13:39:44 -04:00
trace_probe.c kprobes, ftrace: Use NOKPROBE_SYMBOL macro in ftrace 2014-04-24 10:26:39 +02:00
trace_probe.h kprobes, ftrace: Use NOKPROBE_SYMBOL macro in ftrace 2014-04-24 10:26:39 +02:00
trace_sched_switch.c tracing: Update event filters for multibuffer 2013-11-05 16:50:20 -05:00
trace_sched_wakeup.c tracing: Remove mock up poll wait function 2014-04-30 08:40:05 -04:00
trace_selftest.c tracing: Add static to local functions 2014-04-21 14:00:46 -04:00
trace_selftest_dynamic.c ftrace: Add self-tests for multiple function trace users 2011-05-18 19:24:51 -04:00
trace_stack.c tracing: Print max callstack on stacktrace bug 2014-06-02 16:43:49 -04:00
trace_stat.c trace/trace_stat: use rbtree postorder iteration helper instead of opencoding 2013-11-05 16:01:47 -05:00
trace_stat.h tracing/stat: Add stat_release() callback 2009-07-10 12:14:05 +02:00
trace_syscalls.c tracing: Consolidate event trigger code 2014-01-09 21:20:07 -05:00
trace_uprobe.c tracing/uprobes: Fix the usage of uprobe_buffer_enable() in probe_event_enable() 2014-06-30 13:22:33 -04:00