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Commit 2d093282 authored by Zheng Yejian's avatar Zheng Yejian Committed by Steven Rostedt (Google)
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ring-buffer: Fix wrong stat of cpu_buffer->read

When pages are removed in rb_remove_pages(), 'cpu_buffer->read' is set
to 0 in order to make sure any read iterators reset themselves. However,
this will mess 'entries' stating, see following steps:

  # cd /sys/kernel/tracing/
  # 1. Enlarge ring buffer prepare for later reducing:
  # echo 20 > per_cpu/cpu0/buffer_size_kb
  # 2. Write a log into ring buffer of cpu0:
  # taskset -c 0 echo "hello1" > trace_marker
  # 3. Read the log:
  # cat per_cpu/cpu0/trace_pipe
       <...>-332     [000] .....    62.406844: tracing_mark_write: hello1
  # 4. Stop reading and see the stats, now 0 entries, and 1 event readed:
  # cat per_cpu/cpu0/stats
   entries: 0
   [...]
   read events: 1
  # 5. Reduce the ring buffer
  # echo 7 > per_cpu/cpu0/buffer_size_kb
  # 6. Now entries became unexpected 1 because actually no entries!!!
  # cat per_cpu/cpu0/stats
   entries: 1
   [...]
   read events: 0

To fix it, introduce 'page_removed' field to count total removed pages
since last reset, then use it to let read iterators reset themselves
instead of changing the 'read' pointer.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230724054040.3489499-1-zhengyejian1@huawei.com

Cc: <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: <vnagarnaik@google.com>
Fixes: 83f40318

 ("ring-buffer: Make removal of ring buffer pages atomic")
Signed-off-by: default avatarZheng Yejian <zhengyejian1@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
parent 4b8b3905
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