ring-buffer: Remove useless update to write_stamp in rb_try_to_discard()
When filtering is enabled, a temporary buffer is created to place the content of the trace event output so that the filter logic can decide from the trace event output if the trace event should be filtered out or not. If it is to be filtered out, the content in the temporary buffer is simply discarded, otherwise it is written into the trace buffer. But if an interrupt were to come in while a previous event was using that temporary buffer, the event written by the interrupt would actually go into the ring buffer itself to prevent corrupting the data on the temporary buffer. If the event is to be filtered out, the event in the ring buffer is discarded, or if it fails to discard because another event were to have already come in, it is turned into padding. The update to the write_stamp in the rb_try_to_discard() happens after a fix was made to force the next event after the discard to use an absolute timestamp by setting the before_stamp to zero so it does not match the write_stamp (which causes an event to use the absolute timestamp). But there's an effort in rb_try_to_discard() to put back the write_stamp to what it was before the event was added. But this is useless and wasteful because nothing is going to be using that write_stamp for calculations as it still will not match the before_stamp. Remove this useless update, and in doing so, we remove another cmpxchg64()! Also update the comments to reflect this change as well as remove some extra white space in another comment. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20231215081810.1f4f38fe@rorschach.local.home Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org> Cc: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com> Fixes: b2dd7975 ("ring-buffer: Force absolute timestamp on discard of event") Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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