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Commit 2a1195f0 authored by Daniel Bristot de Oliveira's avatar Daniel Bristot de Oliveira Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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tracing/timerlat: Always wakeup the timerlat thread

commit 632478a0 upstream.

While testing rtla timerlat auto analysis, I reach a condition where
the interface was not receiving tracing data. I was able to manually
reproduce the problem with these steps:

  # echo 0 > tracing_on                 # disable trace
  # echo 1 > osnoise/stop_tracing_us    # stop trace if timerlat irq > 1 us
  # echo timerlat > current_tracer      # enable timerlat tracer
  # sleep 1                             # wait... that is the time when rtla
                                        # apply configs like prio or cgroup
  # echo 1 > tracing_on                 # start tracing
  # cat trace
  # tracer: timerlat
  #
  #                                _-----=> irqs-off
  #                               / _----=> need-resched
  #                              | / _---=> hardirq/softirq
  #                              || / _--=> preempt-depth
  #                              ||| / _-=> migrate-disable
  #                              |||| /     delay
  #                              |||||            ACTIVATION
  #           TASK-PID      CPU# |||||   TIMESTAMP   ID            CONTEXT                 LATENCY
  #              | |         |   |||||      |         |                  |                       |
        NOTHING!

Then, trying to enable tracing again with echo 1 > tracing_on resulted
in no change: the trace was still not tracing.

This problem happens because the timerlat IRQ hits the stop tracing
condition while tracing is off, and do not wake up the timerlat thread,
so the timerlat threads are kept sleeping forever, resulting in no
trace, even after re-enabling the tracer.

Avoid this condition by always waking up the threads, even after stopping
tracing, allowing the tracer to return to its normal operating after
a new tracing on.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/1ed8f830638b20a39d535d27d908e319a9a3c4e2.1683822622.git.bristot@kernel.org



Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: a955d7ea ("trace: Add timerlat tracer")
Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 007c0422
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