Pull tracing fixes from Steven Rostedt:
- Fix error output of boot instance creation failure
Currently if a boot instance creation fails, instead of printing out
the name of the instance that failed, it prints "(null)". That is
because it prints "cur_str" that had already been processed by
strsep(). Print the saved name instead.
While at it, print the error code of the failure.
- Fix use-after-free for same named historgrams
Histograms can be named so that they can be used in multiple events.
But if the named histogram has a variable attached, the second event
that uses the named histogram which duplicates it and needs to free
the original after duplication leaves the old variable in place and
still visible. If another histogram uses than variable, it will use
the stale one which will try to reference the freed duplicate
histogram and crash the kernel.
Free the duplicate variables along with the duplicated histogram
data.
- Check return value of kthread_run() in event self test
The events self tests uses a kthread for testing but does not check
if it succeeded in creating a kthread. If the kthread creation were
to fail, the code will still try to call kthread_stop() on the error
returned.
- Fix race between reading trace_pipe and updating subbuffer size
If a user is reading the trace_pipe file at the same time they update
the ring buffer sub-buffer size, can cause the trace_pipe read to
read stale data. Add trace_access_lock() around updating the ring
buffer sub-buffer size.
- Fix eventfs_inode on failure path in creation of the events directory
In the creation of the "events" directory, if after allocating the
eventfs_inode a failure is detected, it calls cleanup_ei() which
calls free_ei(). The free_ei() will test if eventfs_inode being freed
has no children. It is a bug if it does. But on the failure case of
the creation of the "events" directory, the children lists have not
yet been initialized and the free will trigger a warning because
list_empty() on an uninitialized list returns false.
Move the initialization into init_ei() where it makes more sense and
makes sure that a created eventfs_inode has its lists initialized
upon creation.
- Check return value of kthread_run() in ftrace direct sample code
The sample code that shows how to use the ftrace direct calls does
not test the return of kthread_run() to see if it succeeds. Return a
failure if the kthread_run() doesn't succeed.
- Clear user events state on fork in case of alloc failure
On fork, the child gets a pointer to the parent's user events state.
It makes a copy of it then updates the child's pointer to it. But if
the allocation fails, the duplication function leaves the child with
a pointer to its parent's descriptor. When the child cleans up its
data, it will free the parent's descriptor while the parent is still
using it.
In the duplication function, set the child's user_event_mm to NULL
before testing if the allocation succeeded, and when it exits it will
not free the parent's descriptor.
- Fix retry exhaustion in simple ring buffer reader swap
simple_ring_buffer_swap_reader_page() starts with retry set to 8 and
post-decrements it only after a failed link replacement. On the final
attempt, a successful replacement leaves retry at zero, while a
failed replacement leaves it at -1.
But the check for success expects the retry value to be non-zero and
exits with an error on zero. This is the opposite result. Fix it.
- Fail nicely when the remote swap_reader_page() returns an error
Currently, if the swap_reader_page() of a remote buffer fails, it
triggers a WARN_ON_ONCE() and continues normally. Instead, have it
exit with an error and a pr_warn() print instead of a full WARNING.
* tag 'trace-v7.3-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
ring-buffer: Stop remote reader update when page swap fails
tracing: Fix retry exhaustion in simple ring buffer reader swap
tracing/user_events: Clear copied tracing state before fork duplication
samples/ftrace: Fix kthread_stop() on ERR_PTR in ftrace-direct-multi-modify
samples/ftrace: Fix kthread_stop() on ERR_PTR in ftrace-direct-modify
eventfs: Initialize ei->children and ei->list in init_ei()
tracing: Fix use-after-free in trace_pipe read on sub-buffer order change
tracing: Fix crash passing ERR_PTR to kthread_stop()
tracing: Fix use-after-free with same-name named triggers
tracing: Fix logged instance name on creation failure
The remote swap_reader_page callback can return -EBUSY when the writer
moves the head before the remote catches it, particularly during an event
storm on a small buffer. __rb_get_reader_page_from_remote() currently
warns about that failure but continues with the unchanged reader ID and
rearranges the local page list as though the swap succeeded.
Handle the callback failure as a recoverable error. Report it with
pr_warn_ratelimited() and return NULL. Callers already handle a NULL reader
page as a failed attempt. This avoids splicing the same page as both the
previous and new reader without flooding the log under contention.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 2e67fabd8b ("ring-buffer: Introduce ring-buffer remotes")
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260825-kernel-patch-1-v2-2-bb3461807a32@gmail.com
Assisted-by: LLM sparse
Signed-off-by: Ivan Immanuel Shaji <ivanimmanuel1234@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
- "mm: drop "sub" prefix from various places" (Dev Jain)
page->folio conversion and a naming cleanup
- "mm/kasan: remove redundant initialization for kasan_flag_write_only"
(Igor Putko)
KASAN cleanup work
- "mm/filemap: reduce unnecessary xarray lookups" (Chi Zhiling)
Small speedup in the pagecaache read code
- "mm/percpu: Fix possible NOFS/NOIO reclaim recursion" (Kaitao Cheng)
Improve the vmalloc code - mainly the avoidance of GFP_KERNEL
allocations when the caller asked for GFP_NOFS or GFP_NOIO
- "mm/kmemleak: avoid soft lockup when scanning task stacks" (Breno
Leitao)
Avoid a soft lockup watchdog trigger from the kmemleak scanning code
in extreme situations
- "mm/page_owner: misc cleanups" (Ye Liu)
Cleanups to the page_owner code. For some reason lots of people have
been working on the page_owner code this cycle.
- "mm: convert to walk_page_range_vma() to eliminate find_vma()"
(Kefeng Wang)
Simplify and accelerate the page walking library function
- "mm/migrate: preparatory cleanups for batch copy and offload"
(Shivank Garg)
Cleanups in the migration code
- "mm/page_owner: add per-fd filter infrastructure for print_mode and
NUMA filtering" (Zhen Ni)
Per-fd filtering to page_owner in order to reduce the sometimes vast
amount of output it can produce
- "mm: Refactor bootmem gigantic hugepage allocation" (Muchun Song)
Fixes and preparatory cleanups around bootmem HugeTLB handling,
sparse initialization ordering, and related vmemmap setup
- "mm/zsmalloc: reduce lock contention in zs_free()" (Wenchao Hao)
Reduce lock contention in zs_free(), which dominates the unmap path
under memory pressure on Android (LMK kills) and on x86 servers
running zswap-heavy workloads.
Up to 1.83x improvement in microbenchmarking.
- "move alloc_tag.c file under mm/" (Suren Baghdasaryan)
- "samples/damon: handle damon_{start,stop}() failures" (SJ Park)
Fix improper handling of damon_start(), damon_stop(), and
damon_call() failures across DAMON sample modules to prevent
potential memory leaks, operation disruptions and use-after-free
bugs
- "mm/damon/sysfs: kobject_del() directories that users can
create/remove" (SJ Park)
Fix delayed sysfs directory removal under DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE
causeing creation failures due to duplicate directory names by adding
missing kobject_del() calls before creating new directories
- "mm: cleanup clear_not_present_full_ptes()" (David Hildenbrand)
Clean up the core pte handling code
- "selftests/damon: misc fixes for test bugs" (Kunwu Chan)
Fix several bugs in the DAMON selftests
- "selftests/damon: fix memcg_path staging handling" (Cheng Nie)
Fix a bug in _damon_sysfs.py for damos_filter memcg_path setup, and
add a test case for it in sysfs.py.
- "selftests/damon: test kdamond refresh_ms" (Ruslan Valiyev)
Selftest coverage for DAMON's refresh_ms sysfs feature by updating
the test control module and verifying that scheme stats update
automatically without manual intervention
- "mm/damon: five misc fixups" (Akinobu Mita)
Miscellaneous DAMON fixups.
- "mm/damon/core: detect internal variation above max_nr_regions/2"
(Jiayuan Chen)
Fix DAMON's region splitting behavior when region counts exceed half
the maximum budget by dynamically scaling down the split fraction as
the limit approaches, preventing large regions from staying un-split,
and add corresponding KUnit test coverage
- "mm: preparatory patches for PMD level swap entries" (Usama Arif)
Refactor and clean up PMD softleaf helpers, call sites, and
architecture flags to lay the groundwork for a follow-up series that
introduces PMD page table swap entries
- "mm/damon: update, optimize, and clean up doc, tests, and code" (SJ
Park)
Update DAMON design and ABI documentation, expands unit and selftest
coverage, optimize damon_commit_target_regions(), and clean up
recently added sysfs interface code for better readability
- "mm/vmpressure: reduce CPU, memory and code overhead on cgroup v2"
(Usama Arif)
Optimize vmpressure() by skipping unnecessary work on cgroup v2 for
userspace event notifications and refactor v1-only eventfd handling
into mm/memcontrol-v1.c to reduce memory overhead and code complexity
- "selftests/mm: refactor pkey helpers and fix mmap error handling"
(Hongfu Li)
Refactor pkeys shared tracing and assertion helpers into a common
file, unify protection key selftests to use consistent diagnostic
logging and assertions, and enforce standardized MAP_FAILED return
checks for mmap() calls across the tests
- "mm/damon: optimize out nr_accesses_bp" (SJ Park)
Replace the error-prone, continuously updated nr_accesses_bp field in
damon_region with an on-demand moving sum function, reducing
structure memory overhead and avoiding state corruption bugs
- "Open HugeTLB allocation routine for more generic use" (Ackerley Tng)
Decouple HugeTLB folio allocation from VMA dependencies by
introducing hugetlb_alloc_folio(), enabling subsystems like
guest_memfd to allocate HugeTLB folios without standard VMA
reservations or pseudo-VMAs
- "mm/damon: provide pseudo moving sum probe_hits" (SJ Park)
Integrate DAMON's probe_hits attribute counter into the pseudo moving
sum infrastructure, enabling real-time, online monitoring without
waiting for full aggregation intervals
- "mm: Some cleanups for page allocator APIs" (Brendan Jackman)
Simplify and refactor the page allocator entry points and flags by
unifying allocation paths, adding internal alloc_flags arguments, and
eliminating redundant __ prefixed alloc_pages variants.
- "Fix incorrect access of hugetlb pte entries" (Dev Jain)
Enforce the consistent use of huge_ptep_get() instead of ptep_get()
for HugeTLB entries and fixes an unaligned address issue in arm64's
huge_ptep_get() implementation
- "mm/damon: validate all parameters in the core" (SJ Park)
Consolidate parameter validation into the DAMON core specifically
within damon_start() and damon_commit_ctx() to centralize error
checking, eliminate caller-side redundant checks and to improve
maintenance efficiency
- "tools/mm/page_owner_sort: fix filtering and cleanup issues" (Yichong
Chen)
Rename is_need() to filter_record() for clearer return semantics, fix
per-record allocation memory leaks and bound output copies in
search_pattern() to address an existing buffer issue
- "memcg: bail out reclaim when memcg is dying" (Jiayuan Chen)
Mitigate a system-wide stall which occurs when a cgroup is removed
while one of its memory control files is doing synchronous reclaim
- "mm/memory-failure: add panic option for unrecoverable pages" (Breno
Leitao)
Introduce an opt-in vm.panic_on_unrecoverable_memory_failure sysctl
that immediately panics the kernel on unrecoverable memory errors in
kernel-owned pages to preserve error context and prevent delayed,
silent data corruption
- "mm/damon: refactor damon_{start,stop,commit}() for simple error
handling" (SJ Park)
Refactor the DAMON core API functions to guarantee that all contexts
are fully stopped when damon_start(), damon_stop(), or damon_commit()
fail, eliminating the need for complex and error-prone caller-side
cleanup code
- "Keep tail page private zero at free and folio split" (Zi Yan)
Add checks to ensure tail_page->private is zero when freeing compound
or high-order pages and when promoting tail pages during large folio
splits. By validating these fields at free and split time, it allows
the removal of redundant private field clearing inside
prep_compound_tail()
- "mm: drop redundant lru_add_drain in anon folio reuse paths" (Barry
Song)
Eliminate redundant lru_add_drain() calls in
wp_can_reuse_anon_folio() and do_swap_page() to reduce LRU lock
contention and system overhead
By validating folio refcounts against the LRU cache before draining
and removing unnecessary drains in the swap path, it achieves up to a
30.5% reduction in drain calls during heavy swap workloads
- "mm: clean up folio LRU and swap declarations" (Jianyue Wu)
Reorganize folio LRU and swap code by relocating page-cluster state
to mm/swap_state.c, renaming mm/swap.c to mm/folio.c, and moving
MM-internal reclaim declarations into mm/internal.h.
- "userfaultfd: working set tracking for VM guest memory" (Kiryl
Shutsemau)
Add userfaultfd support for tracking the working set of VM guest
memory, so a VMM can identify hot pages and reclaim cold ones to
tiered or remote storage
- "mm: remove CONFIG_HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE (Part 2)" (David
Hildenbrand)
Remove the remaining pieces of CONFIG_HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE,
performing some smaller cleanups around freeing of reserved vmemmap
pages on the way.
- "mm/damon: update probe hits for runtime parameter commits" (SJ Park)
Ensure that DAMON's probe_hits attribute counter is properly updated
when monitoring intervals are changed at runtime, matching the
behavior of nr_accesses. To achieve this, it refactors and renames
existing helper functions for shared use, applies the updates to
probe_hits, and handles edge cases in damon_probe_hits_mvsum() to
maintain measurement accuracy.
- "KSM: performance optimizations for rmap_walk_ksm" (xu xin)
Resolve a severe KSM reverse-mapping performance bottleneck where
thousands of split VMAs sharing a single anon_vma cause extended lock
contention.
By adding an interval-filtering check during the rmap walk, it
reduces worst-case anon_vma lock hold times from over 500ms down to
under 2ms, preventing application freezes and latency spikes under
memory pressure.
- "mm: split a couple of headers from internal.h" (Mike Rapoport)
Split declarations related to mm_init, memblock, vmalloc and sparse
into new headers
- "KSM: use linear_page_index in collect_procs_ksm()" (xu xin)
Apply the interval tree optimization from rmap_walk_ksm() to
collect_procs_ksm() to avoid iterating over non-matching VMAs during
KSM memory error handling.
It hoists loop-invariant address initialization and restricts the
anon_vma_interval_tree_foreach walk to a targeted page offset range,
reducing redundant checks and improving lookup efficiency.
- "selftests/mm: avoid false failures in hugetlb and KSM tests" (Sayali
Patil)
Fix issues in the hugetlb and KSM MM selftest categories that can
report failures when the prerequisites for the tests are not
satisfied
- "mm/damon: introduce data attributes only monitoring" (SJ Park)
Introduce attribute-weighted region management in DAMON, allowing
users to prioritize specific data attributes (such as page sizes or
cgroups) over or instead of access monitoring.
By assigning weights to attribute probes, DAMON can completely
disable access tracking and adjust monitoring regions based on
weighted probe-hit counters to optimize monitoring quality for
attribute-focused workloads.
- "mm/hmm: Add mmap lock-drop support for userfaultfd-backed mappings"
(Stanislav Kinsburskii)
Extend hmm_range_fault() to support userfaultfd-backed regions by
allowing the mmap lock to be dropped during fault handling via a new
hmm_range_fault_locked() helper.
By accepting a locked pointer and signaling retry status when lock
release occurs, it enables page fault resolution in userfaultfd
regions while preserving backward compatibility for existing callers.
- "mm: make VMA page offset handling more consistent" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
Clean up and standardize how vma->vm_pgoff is accessed and
manipulated across file-backed and anonymous mappings in the kernel
It introduces dedicated helper functions such as vma_start_pgoff(),
vma_end_pgoff(), vma_set_pgoff() and linear_page_delta() while
renaming rmap interval tree helpers to better reflect their
functionality.
These changes establish a cleaner foundation for future work that
will unify virtual page offset indexing for all anonymous and CoW'd
folios.
- "mm: handle device-private PMDs in walk callbacks" (Usama Arif)
Address kernel panics and state corruption caused by MM walk
callbacks reaching non-present device-private PMD swap entries
created during HMM migrations
It ensures that functions which acquire pmd_trans_huge_lock()
properly recognize device-private PMDs instead of assuming a present
THP or a standard migration entry.
- "mm/rmap: Refactor try_to_unmap_one" (Dev Jain)
Refactor try_to_unmap_one by modularizing Hugetlb,
anonymous-lazyfree, and anonymous-swapbacked logic into dedicated
functions, laying the structural groundwork for batched anonymous
large folio unmapping.
- "Docs/ABI/damon: sysfs ABI document fixes and additions" (Song Hu)
Fix typos and fills in missing entries in the DAMON sysfs ABI
document
- "dax/kmem: atomic whole-device hotplug via sysfs" (Gregory Price)
Introduce an atomic sysfs state attribute and supporting DAX/MM
infrastructure to prevent userland races when offlining and removing
entire memory regions
By adding an unplugged state alongside standard online modes, it
enables whole-device atomic hotplug control while preserving backward
compatibility.
- "mm: convert more vm_flags_t users to vma_flags_t" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
Continue transitioning the kernel from the deprecated vm_flags_t type
to vma_flags_t across core memory management infrastructure.
It replaces legacy type usage in core functions such as do_mmap(),
unmapped area allocation, mm->def_vma_flags, and VMA operations like
mlock, mprotect, and mremap.
- "Two small patches to clean up mm/mm_slot.h" (xu xin)
Refactor mm_slot.h by introducing mm_slot_remove() to unify duplicate
slot deletion sequences in khugepaged and KSM. It also adds code
documentation explaining why mm_slot_lookup and mm_slot_insert must
remain as preprocessor macros rather than static inline functions.
- "mm/damon/core: hide core-private struct fields" (SJ Park)
Clean up DAMON core structures by consistently marking internal-only
fields with private: comment tags to prevent improper direct access
from outer layers.
It enforces encapsulation across core structures including
damon_region, damon_target, and damon_ctx and updates DAMON_SYSFS to
interact through approved access APIs instead of exposing raw struct
members.
- "mm/damon: unurgent fixes for infinite loop, NULL de-ref and races"
(SJ Park)
Address potential infinite loops, NULL dereferences, and race
conditions identified in DAMON
It fixes an infinite loop triggered by extreme user configurations, a
NULL pointer dereference within unit tests and minor monitoring
accuracy degradation caused by subtle runtime races.
- "mm/page_alloc: fixes for free_pages_nolock() on RT/UP" (Brendan
Jackman)
Fix an NMI safety flaw in __free_frozen_pages() where freeing pages
on non-SMP or PREEMPT_RT kernels can bypass can_spin_trylock() checks
via non-PCP or isolated migration paths.
It also resolves potential kernel crashes and privilege escalation
risks triggered when BPF tracing runs in NMI context alongside memory
hotplug or large allocation frees.
- "mm/page_alloc: couple of followups for recent cleanups" (Brendan
Jackman)
Clean up and update page allocator nomenclature, documentation, and
debug assertions.
It aligns internal FPI_ flags with the public "nolock" naming
convention, removes outdated internal implementation details from
high-level page allocator comments, and eliminates obsolete
VM_BUG_ON() assertions in allocation paths.
- "mm/mseal: further cleanups" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
Refactor and simplify the mseal implementation by clarifying API
boundaries and removing unnecessary code complexity.
It replaces generic do_mseal() usage outside the syscall with a
dedicated mseal_mmap_page_zero() helper for MMAP_PAGE_ZERO,
eliminates mm_struct parameters to enforce that sealing applies only
to current->mm, and streamlines overall logic and comments with no
functional changes intended.
- "mm/vmscan: fix swappiness=max and clean up per-node proactive
reclaim" (Ridong Chen)
Resolve reclaim behavior bugs and clean up function parameters across
memory reclaim paths
It fixes swappiness=max in both standard reclaim and MGLRU so
unswappable anonymous memory no longer falls back to evicting page
cache, ensures reclaim_store() returns accurate error codes instead
of collapsing all failures into -EAGAIN, and removes the obsolete
gfp_mask parameter from __node_reclaim().
- "mm: mincore: misc cleanups" (Kefeng Wang)
Clean up and simplifies the mincore code. Most importantly, it
removes the historical special behavior that always reports VM_PFNMAP
pages as non-resident.
- "mm/huge_memory: drop dead split helper variants" (Kiryl Shutsemau)
Two trivial cleanups in the folio split API
- "mm/damon: fix uninitialized DAMOS field and kunit exec expectation
bugs" (SJ Park)
Resolve minor operational and testing bugs in DAMON identified by
Sashiko. It initializes the damos->last_applied field to prevent
occasional efficiency degradation and fixes invalid memory accesses
in DAMON KUnit tests during test failure handling.
- "cleanup for stable_page_flags()" (Jinjiang Tu)
Clean up and refactor stable_page_flags() used by /proc/kpageflags
without altering functionality.
It uses BIT_ULL() to prevent shift-overflow warnings on 64-bit flag
bits, converts folio-specific flag checks to standard folio_test_*()
helpers, and removes redundant CONFIG_PAGE_IDLE_FLAG handling.
- "Batch unmap of uffd-wp file folios" (Dev Jain)
Extend batched folio unmapping support to file folios within
userfaultfd write-protect (uffd-wp) VMAs by adding batching
capabilities to pte_install_uffd_wp_if_needed().
This removes special-case restrictions on uffd-wp VMAs in
try_to_unmap_one(), significantly simplifying the function's control
flow and complexity.
- "mm/early_ioremap: clarify and clean up early_ioremap_reset()"
(Sang-Heon Jeon)
Clarify and clean up the architecture-specific usage of
__late_set_fixmap() and __late_clear_fixmap() after
early_ioremap_reset()
It adds explicit documentation regarding when early_ioremap_reset()
must be called and removes redundant macro definitions and reset
calls in the RISC-V and ARM64 architectures.
- "mm: fix reclaim storms in defrag_mode" (Johannes Weiner)
Address severe performance regressions, swap storms, and spurious
OOMs caused by vm.defrag_mode=1 under high memory pressure in Meta
production
It updates the page allocator slowpath so non-movable allocation
requests actively trigger direct reclaim and direct compaction at
pageblock_order scale, allowing them to claim whole pageblocks rather
than spinning unproductively.
- "zram: lockmap tweaks" (Sebastian Siewior)
Optimize and fix lockdep tracking for zram devices by consolidating
per-entry lockmaps and isolate lock classes across multiple instances
This reduces memory overhead by replacing per-entry lockdep_map
instances with a single map per struct zram, and assigns a dynamic
lock_class_key to each instance to prevent false deadlock reports
when different zram devices are backed by distinct filesystems.
* tag 'mm-stable-2026-08-18-18-39' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (501 commits)
selftests/mm: thuge-gen: fix test_shmget() for PAGE_SIZE check
selftests/mm: unpoison pages in memory-failure teardown
mm/shmem: downgrade final i_blocks check in shmem_evict_inode() to pr_warn()
mm/khugepaged: replace mutex_lock/mutex_unlock usage with guard macro
mm/zsmalloc: fix release order of locks in zs_page_migrate()
Documentation: zram: remove sections numbering
ksm: stop iterating VMAs when ksm_test_exit returns true
mm: fold userfaultfd_rwp() to false without CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_PTE_PROTNONE
mm/migrate: report RCU-tasks quiescent states in migrate_pages_batch()
zram: use a custom key for each zram object
zram: move lockmap to be per-zram instead per table
selftests/mm: fix gup_longterm EINVAL error message
mm: page_alloc: fix non-movable reclaim storm in defrag_mode
mm: page_alloc: move capture_control to the page allocator
mm: compaction: support non-movable compaction for pageblock requests
mm: page_alloc: __GFP_FS lockdep annotation for direct compaction
hugetlb: evaluate subpool free state while locked
mm/damon: remove trailing semicolons after function definitions
mm/damon/ops-common: prevent migration fallback to non-target nodes
mm/damon: update outdated comment about DAMOS filter handling
...
ring_buffer_per_cpu::mapped tracks if a ring-buffer is either mapped by
user-space or if it is a persistent buffer. We already have user_mapped
for the former and ring_meta for the latter. Get rid of mapped and
instead create rb_is_static(). A static ring-buffer cannot be resized,
swapped or have its pages extracted.
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260813131152.3589632-10-vdonnefort@google.com
Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The ring buffer order can be dynamically modified and temporarily
disables writing to do so. It is therefore safe to use the updated value
to calculate the maximum event size which can be written onto the ring
buffer.
However, notice it is hardly making any difference for trace_marker
because of the TRACE_MARKER_MAX_SIZE limit. For an 8KiB subbuf size,
trace_marker can take 4096 characters while it can 'only' take 4054
bytes for smaller subbufs.
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260813131152.3589632-8-vdonnefort@google.com
Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
ring_buffer_alloc_read_page() is racy with ring_buffer_subbuf_order_set,
it can allocate a reader page with an outdated order. This isn't a big
issue, the user can still re-allocate a new reader page and try again.
However, what is more problematic is if the value of subbuf_order
changes in the middle of ring_buffer_alloc_read_page(). In that case,
bpage->order might not match the actual allocated memory.
Use bpage->order for the allocation to prevent this race.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260813131152.3589632-6-vdonnefort@google.com
Fixes: bce761d757 ("ring-buffer: Read and write to ring buffers with custom sub buffer size")
Reported-by: Sashiko <sashiko-bot@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
trace_buffer subbuf_size is read lockless in ring_buffer_read_page() and
ring_buffer_read_start(), while it can simultaneously be resized with
ring_buffer_subbuf_order_set().
Instead of trace_buffer::subbuf_size, use bpage::order in
ring_buffer_read_start() and ring_buffer_read_page().
In ring_buffer_read_start(), even with resize_disabled, there is still a
possibility of a race with a buffer modification. Hold the trace_buffer
mutex to synchronise with any pending ring buffer order modification.
trace_buffer::subbuf_size is now actually useless, remove it. Also,
create accessors rb_subbuf_capacity() and rb_page_capacity() which
return the actual size available for storing events, while
rb_subbuf_size() returns the actual subbuf page-size.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260813131152.3589632-5-vdonnefort@google.com
Fixes: f9b94daa54 ("ring-buffer: Set new size of the ring buffer sub page")
Reported-by: Sashiko <sashiko-bot@kernel.org>
Closes: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260805153225.2096152-1-vdonnefort%40google.com # patch 1
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Discarding a cached reader page after a concurrent ring buffer resize
uses the new global subbuf_order for the free_pages() call. This
mismatched order may crashes the kernel or leaks memory because the cached
page was allocated under the old size.
Save the actual free_page order alongside the page address to ensure we
always refer to the correct value and do not rely on the potentially
stalled cpu_buffer->subbuf_order value. The simplest is to make
free_page a buffer_data_read_page which already covers exactly what we
need: a page address and a page order.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260813131152.3589632-4-vdonnefort@google.com
Fixes: 8e7b58c27b ("ring-buffer: Just update the subbuffers when changing their allocation order")
Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
When a function-like macro expands to an expression, that expression
doesn't need a semicolon after it. All uses have been verified to
have their own semicolons.
This was found using the following Coccinelle semantic patch:
@r@
identifier i : script:ocaml() { String.lowercase_ascii i = i };
expression e;
@@
*#define i(...) e;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260801191002.1383835-6-Julia.Lawall@inria.fr
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@inria.fr>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
In test_ringbuffer()'s out_free cleanup loop, the check
`!rb_threads[cpu]` only catches NULL entries and misses entries that
hold an ERR_PTR.
rb_threads[] is static, so unassigned slots are NULL. But when
kthread_run_on_cpu() fails for a cpu, it stores ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM) (or
-EINTR) in rb_threads[cpu] before the creation loop jumps to out_free.
That entry is non-NULL, so the old `!ptr` check does not break, and the
cleanup proceeds to call kthread_stop() on the ERR_PTR. kthread_stop()
then dereferences the bogus pointer, crashing the kernel during the
late_initcall self-test.
crash logs:
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 000000000000001c
Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP NOPTI
CPU: 1 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 7.2.0-rc6-dirty #7 PREEMPT(lazy)
RIP: 0010:kthread_stop+0x2e/0x220
RBX: fffffffffffffff4
CR2: 000000000000001c
Call Trace:
<TASK>
test_ringbuffer+0x1ec/0x650
do_one_initcall+0x6c/0x2c0
kernel_init_freeable+0x21d/0x420
kernel_init+0x15/0x1c0
ret_from_fork+0x21b/0x320
</TASK>
Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 64ed3a049e ("ring-buffer: make use of the helper function kthread_run_on_cpu()")
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260807154145.2846521-2-sh_def@163.com
Signed-off-by: Hui Su <sh_def@163.com>
Reviewed-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The ring_buffer_swap_cpu() function currently checks the per-CPU
committing counter to determine if a buffer is actively being written to
before performing the swap. However, there exists a race window where
this check can be bypassed:
ring_buffer_lock_reserve
cpu_buffer = buffer->buffers[cpu]; // cpu_buffer_a
rb_reserve_next_event
rb_start_commit // inc committing
if (unlikely(READ_ONCE(cpu_buffer->buffer) != buffer)) {...}
__rb_reserve_next
rb_move_tail
rb_end_commit(cpu_buffer); // dec committing => 0
/* interrupt hits here, successfully swaps! */
local_inc(&cpu_buffer->committing);
ring_buffer_unlock_commit
cpu_buffer = buffer->buffers[cpu]; // cpu_buffer_b
rb_commit
rb_end_commit
RB_WARN_ON(cpu_buffer, !local_read(&cpu_buffer->committing))
// triggers warning
The committing counter can temporarily drop to 0 during a single write
operation (within rb_move_tail), creating a window where swap can
succeed even though the write is still in progress. This leads to
inconsistent buffer state and triggers the RB_WARN_ON in rb_commit().
Replace the committing counter check with current_context checks, which
are set at the entry of ring_buffer_lock_reserve() and remain valid
throughout the entire write operation, providing a reliable indicator of
buffer busy state during swap.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 4239c38fe0 ("ring-buffer: Process commits whenever moving to a new page.")
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260803005640.2445666-2-wutengda@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Tengda Wu <wutengda@huaweicloud.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
In rb_allocate_cpu_buffer(), cpu_buffer->subbuf_ids is allocated using
kcalloc() when buffer->remote is non-NULL. If a subsequent page allocation
fails (e.g., ring_buffer_desc_page() returns NULL or rb_allocate_pages()
fails), execution jumps to fail_free_reader.
While __free(kfree) automatically frees the outer cpu_buffer structure
at scope exit, kfree(cpu_buffer) does not recursively free nested heap
pointers such as cpu_buffer->subbuf_ids, resulting in a memory leak.
Fix this by explicitly freeing cpu_buffer->subbuf_ids in the
fail_free_reader error unwinding path when cpu_buffer->remote is set.
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/178550740672.380917.6067449683620196150.stgit@devnote2
Fixes: 2e67fabd8b ("ring-buffer: Introduce ring-buffer remotes")
Assisted-by: Antigravity:gemini-3.6-flash
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Commit 8928e4a3be ("ring-buffer: Show persistent buffer dropped events
in trace_pipe file") split the "commit" variable in
ring_buffer_read_page() into "commit" (raw) and "size" (masked page
size), but the inner copy loop's terminator was changed to compare rpos
against "event_size" instead of "size".
rpos is the cumulative read offset within the page; event_size is the
length of the single event just copied. The loop thus breaks after the
first event, so only one event is copied per call. This regresses the
per-event memcpy path (partial reads, the active commit page, and
mapped/remote buffers) used by splice/trace_pipe_raw and mmap consumers
into a one-event-at-a-time read.
Compare rpos against the page size as the original code did.
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260616175538.111628-1-devnexen@gmail.com
Fixes: 8928e4a3be ("ring-buffer: Show persistent buffer dropped events in trace_pipe file")
Signed-off-by: David Carlier <devnexen@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
When RB_FORCE_8BYTE_ALIGNMENT is true, rb_calculate_event_length()
reserves the space of event->array[0] for placing the data length and
rb_update_event() stores the data length in event->array[0]
accordingly. As a result the whole event length will add extra 4 bytes
for sizeof(event.array[0]) unconditionally.
But ring_buffer_event_length() only subtracts the
sizeof(event->array[0]) for events larger than RB_MAX_SMALL_DATA +
sizeof(event->array[0]). As a result, small events on architectures
with RB_FORCE_8BYTE_ALIGNMENT=true report a data length that is 4
bytes larger than expected.
To fix it, add the RB_FORCE_8BYTE_ALIGNMENT as a condition to subtract
the size of that length field whenever RB_FORCE_8BYTE_ALIGNMENT is
true.
This issue is observed in a riscv64 kernel with
CONFIG_HAVE_64BIT_ALIGNED_ACCESS set to y, when we run ftrace selftest
trace_marker_raw.tc, we get the weird log: for cases where the id is
1..100, the number of data field is 8*N, but once id exceeds 100, the
number of data field becomes 8*N+4:
# 1 buf: 58 00 00 00 80 5e d1 63 (number of data field is 8*1)
...
# a buf: 58 ... (number of data field is 8*2)
...
# 64 buf: 58 ... (number of data field is 8*13)
# 65 buf: 58 ... (number of data field is 8*13+4)
After applying this change, the number of data field keeps being 8*N+4
consistently.
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260607072431.125633-2-hui.wang@canonical.com
Fixes: 2271048d1b ("ring-buffer: Do 8 byte alignment for 64 bit that can not handle 4 byte align")
Signed-off-by: Hui Wang <hui.wang@canonical.com>
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Pull ring-buffer updates from Steven Rostedt
- Do not invalidate entire buffer for invalid sub-buffers
For the persistent ring buffer, if one sub-buffer is found to be
invalid, it invalidates the entire per CPU ring buffer. This can lose
a lot of valuable data if there's some corruption with the writes to
the buffer not syncing properly on a hard crash. Instead, if a
sub-buffer is found to be invalid, simply zero it out and mark it for
"missed events".
When the persistent ring buffer is read and a sub-buffer that was
cleared due to being invalid on boot up is discovered, the output
will show "[LOST EVENTS]" to let the user know that events were
missing at that location. Displaying the events from valid buffers
can still be useful.
- Add a test to be able to test corrupted sub-buffers
If a persistent ring buffer is created as "ptraingtest" and the new
config that adds the test is enabled, when a panic happens, the
kernel will randomly corrupt one of the per CPU ring buffers. On boot
up, the sub-buffers with the corruption should be cleared and
flagged. When reading this buffer, the missed events should should
[LOST EVENTS].
- Add commit number in the sub-buffer meta debug info
The commit is used to know the content of a meta page. Add it to the
buffer_meta file that is shown for each per CPU buffer.
- Clean up the persistent ring buffer validation code
Add some helper functions and make variable names more consistent.
* tag 'trace-ring-buffer-v7.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
ring-buffer: Better comment the use of RB_MISSED_EVENTS
ring-buffer: Show persistent buffer dropped events in trace_pipe file
ring-buffer: Show persistent buffer dropped events in trace file
ring-buffer: Have dropped subbuffers be persistent across reboots
ring-buffer: Cleanup buffer_data_page related code
ring-buffer: Cleanup persistent ring buffer validation
ring-buffer: Show commit numbers in buffer_meta file
ring-buffer: Add persistent ring buffer invalid-page inject test
ring-buffer: Skip invalid sub-buffers when rewinding persistent ring buffer
ring-buffer: Skip invalid sub-buffers when validating persistent ring buffer
Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
"SMP load-balancing updates:
- A large series to introduce infrastructure for cache-aware load
balancing, with the goal of co-locating tasks that share data
within the same Last Level Cache (LLC) domain. By improving cache
locality, the scheduler can reduce cache bouncing and cache misses,
ultimately improving data access efficiency.
Implemented by Chen Yu and Tim Chen, based on early prototype work
by Peter Zijlstra, with fixes by Jianyong Wu, Peter Zijlstra and
Shrikanth Hegde.
- A series to simplify CONFIG_SCHED_SMT ifdef usage (Shrikanth Hegde)
Fair scheduler updates:
- A series to improve SD_ASYM_CPUCAPACITY scheduling by introducing
SMT awareness (Andrea Righi, K Prateek Nayak)
- A series to optimize cfs_rq and sched_entity allocation for better
data locality (Zecheng Li)
- A preparatory series to change fair/cgroup scheduling to a single
runqueue, without the final change (Peter Zijlstra)
- Auto-manage ext/fair dl_server bandwidth (Andrea Righi)
- Fix cpu_util runnable_avg arithmetic (Hongyan Xia)
- Optimize update_tg_load_avg()'s rate-limiting code (Rik van Riel)
- Allow account_cfs_rq_runtime() to throttle current hierarchy
(K Prateek Nayak)
- Update util_est after updating util_avg during dequeue, to fix the
util signal update logic, which reduces signal noise (Vincent
Guittot)
Scheduler topology updates:
- Allow multiple domains to claim sched_domain_shared (K Prateek
Nayak)
- Add parameter to split LLC (Peter Zijlstra)
Core scheduler updates:
- Use trace_call__<tp>() to save a static branch (Gabriele Monaco)
Scheduler statistics updates:
- Drop now-stale mul_u64_u64_div_u64() cputime over-approximation
guard (Nicolas Pitre)
Deadline scheduler updates:
- Reject debugfs dl_server writes for offline CPUs (Andrea Righi)
- Fix replenishment logic for non-deferred servers (Yuri Andriaccio)
RT scheduling updates:
- Turn RT_PUSH_IPI default off for non PREEMPT_RT (Steven Rostedt)
- Update default bandwidth for real-time tasks to 1.0 (Yuri
Andriaccio)
Proxy scheduling updates:
- A series to implement Optimized Donor Migration for Proxy Execution
(John Stultz, Peter Zijlstra)
- Various proxy scheduling cleanups and fixes (Peter Zijlstra,
K Prateek Nayak)
Misc fixes, improvements and cleanups by Aaron Lu, Andrea Righi,
Zenghui Yu, Chen Yu, Guanyou.Chen, John Stultz, Shrikanth Hegde,
Peter Zijlstra, Liang Luo and Yiyang Chen"
* tag 'sched-core-2026-06-14' of gitolite.kernel.org:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (91 commits)
sched/fair: Fix newidle vs core-sched
sched/deadline: Use task_on_rq_migrating() helper
sched/core: Combine separate 'else' and 'if' statements
sched/fair: Fix cpu_util runnable_avg arithmetic
sched/fair: Unify cfs_rq throttling via account_cfs_rq_runtime()
sched/fair: Move the throttled tasks to a local list in tg_unthrottle_up()
sched/fair: Call update_curr() before unthrottling the hierarchy
sched/fair: Use throttled_csd_list for local unthrottle
sched/fair: Convert cfs bandwidth throttling to use guards
sched/fair: Allocate cfs_tg_state with percpu allocator
sched/fair: Remove task_group->se pointer array
sched/fair: Co-locate cfs_rq and sched_entity in cfs_tg_state
sched: restore timer_slack_ns when resetting RT policy on fork
MAINTAINERS: Fix spelling mistake in Peter's name
sched: Simplify ttwu_runnable()
sched/proxy: Remove superfluous clear_task_blocked_in()
sched/proxy: Remove PROXY_WAKING
sched/proxy: Switch proxy to use p->is_blocked
sched/proxy: Only return migrate when needed
sched: Be more strict about p->is_blocked
...
If the persistent ring buffer is detected on boot up to have a corrupted
sub-buffer, that sub-buffer is cleared to zero and its commit value has
the RB_MISSED_EVENTS bit set. That bit is to allow the "trace",
"trace_pipe" and "trace_pipe_raw" files know that events were dropped by
outputting "[LOST EVENTS]".
Only in this case does that bit get set in the writeable portion of the
ring buffer. When events are dropped in the normal ring buffer, that
information is stored in the cpu_buffer descriptor and the
RB_MISSED_EVENTS is set in the buffer page at the time the page is
consumed. It is never set in the writeable portion of the buffer.
Add comments to describe this better as it can be confusing to know when
the RB_MISSED_EVENTS are set in the commit portion of the buffer page.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260529001500.14178455a046a5cbc6180861@kernel.org/
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260528223738.41276c0e@fedora
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
When the persistent ring buffer is validated on boot up, if a subbuffer is
deemed invalid, it resets the buffer and continues. Have the code preserve
the RB_MISSED_EVENTS flag in the commit portion of the subbuffer header
and pass that back so that the trace_pipe file can show the missed events
like the trace file does.
For example:
<...>-1242 [005] d.... 4429.120116: page_fault_user: address=0x7ffaebb6e728 ip=0x7ffaeb9d4960 error_code=0x7
<...>-1242 [005] ..... 4429.120124: mm_page_alloc: page=00000000055254f3 pfn=0x1373bd order=0 migratetype=1 gfp_flags=GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE|__GFP_COMP
<...>-1242 [005] d..2. 4429.120132: tlb_flush: pages:1 reason:local MM shootdown (3)
CPU:5 [LOST EVENTS]
<...>-1242 [005] d.... 4429.120661: page_fault_user: address=0x55ba7c2d0944 ip=0x55ba7c20cd02 error_code=0x7
<...>-1242 [005] ..... 4429.120669: mm_page_alloc: page=0000000005a02500 pfn=0x12b6e4 order=0 migratetype=1 gfp_flags=GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE|__GFP_COMP
<...>-1242 [005] d..2. 4429.120680: tlb_flush: pages:1 reason:local MM shootdown (3)
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260522171052.156419479@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
When the persistent ring buffer is validated on boot up, if a subbuffer is
deemed invalid, it resets the buffer and continues. Currently, these lost
events are not shown in the trace file output.
Have the trace iterator look for subbuffers that have the RB_MISSED_EVENTS
set and set the iter->missed_events flag when it is detected. This will
then have the trace file shows "LOST EVENTS" when it reads across a
subbuffer that was corrupted and invalidated.
For example:
<...>-1016 [005] ...1. 6230.660403: preempt_disable: caller=__mod_memcg_state+0x1c8/0x200 parent=__mod_memcg_state+0x1c8/0x200
CPU:5 [LOST EVENTS]
<...>-1016 [005] ..... 6230.660673: kmem_cache_alloc: call_site=__anon_vma_prepare+0x1ad/0x1e0 ptr=000000006e40294c name=anon_vma bytes_req=200 bytes_alloc=208 gfp_flags=GFP_KERNEL node=-1 accounted=true
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260522171052.006276604@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
When the persistent ring buffer detects a corrupted subbuffer, it will
zero its size and report dropped pages in the dmesg, then it continues
normally.
But if a reboot happens without clearing or restarting tracing on the
persistent ring buffer, the next boot will show no pages are dropped.
If the persistent ring buffer is still the same, then it should still
report dropped pages so the user knows that the buffer has missing events.
Add the RB_MISSED_EVENTS flag to the commit value of the subbuffer so that
the next boot will still show that pages were dropped.
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260522171051.860780286@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Code cleanup related to buffer_data_page for readability,
which includes:
- Introduce rb_data_page_commit() and rb_data_page_size()
- Use 'dpage' for buffer_data_page, instead of 'bpage' because
'bpage' is used for buffer_page.
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260522171051.722645963@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cleanup rb_meta_validate_events() function to make it easier to read.
This includes the following cleanups:
- Introduce rb_validatation_state to hold working variables in
validation.
- Move repleated validation state updates into rb_validate_buffer().
- Move reader_page injection code outside of rb_meta_validate_events().
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260522171051.577231395@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
In addition to the index number, show the commit numbers of
each data page in the per_cpu buffer_meta file.
This is useful for understanding the current status of the
persistent ring buffer. (Note that this file is shown
only for persistent ring buffer and its backup instance)
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260522171051.424411323@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add a self-corrupting test for the persistent ring buffer.
This will inject an erroneous value to some sub-buffer pages (where
the index is even or multiples of 5) in the persistent ring buffer
when the kernel panics, and checks whether the number of detected
invalid pages and the total entry_bytes are the same as the recorded
values after reboot.
This ensures that the kernel can correctly recover a partially
corrupted persistent ring buffer after a reboot or panic.
The test only runs on the persistent ring buffer whose name is
"ptracingtest". The user has to fill it with events before a
kernel panic.
To run the test, enable CONFIG_RING_BUFFER_PERSISTENT_INJECT
and add the following kernel cmdline:
reserve_mem=20M:2M:trace trace_instance=ptracingtest^traceoff@trace
panic=1
Run the following commands after the 1st boot:
cd /sys/kernel/tracing/instances/ptracingtest
echo 1 > tracing_on
echo 1 > events/enable
sleep 3
echo c > /proc/sysrq-trigger
After panic message, the kernel will reboot and run the verification
on the persistent ring buffer, e.g.
Ring buffer meta [2] invalid buffer page detected
Ring buffer meta [2] is from previous boot! (318 pages discarded)
Ring buffer testing [2] invalid pages: PASSED (318/318)
Ring buffer testing [2] entry_bytes: PASSED (1300476/1300476)
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260522171051.260140328@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Skip invalid sub-buffers when rewinding the persistent ring buffer
instead of stopping the rewinding the ring buffer. The skipped
buffers are cleared.
To ensure the rewinding stops at the unused page, this also clears
buffer_data_page::time_stamp when tracing resets the buffer. This
allows us to identify unused pages and empty pages.
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260522171051.091265852@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
[ SDR: Have reader_page still get evaluated if header_page fails ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Skip invalid sub-buffers when validating the persistent ring buffer
instead of discarding the entire ring buffer. Only skipped buffers
are invalidated (cleared).
If the cache data in memory fails to be synchronized during a reboot,
the persistent ring buffer may become partially corrupted, but other
sub-buffers may still contain readable event data. Only discard the
subbuffers that are found to be corrupted.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260520185018.051228084@kernel.org/
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260522171050.914418536@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
[SDR: Fixed max_loops in rb_iter_peek() as well ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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>
