ring-buffer: Fix wake ups when buffer_percent is set to 100
The tracefs file "buffer_percent" is to allow user space to set a water-mark on how much of the tracing ring buffer needs to be filled in order to wake up a blocked reader. 0 - is to wait until any data is in the buffer 1 - is to wait for 1% of the sub buffers to be filled 50 - would be half of the sub buffers are filled with data 100 - is not to wake the waiter until the ring buffer is completely full Unfortunately the test for being full was: dirty = ring_buffer_nr_dirty_pages(buffer, cpu); return (dirty * 100) > (full * nr_pages); Where "full" is the value for "buffer_percent". There is two issues with the above when full == 100. 1. dirty * 100 > 100 * nr_pages will never be true That is, the above is basically saying that if the user sets buffer_percent to 100, more pages need to be dirty than exist in the ring buffer! 2. The page that the writer is on is never considered dirty, as dirty pages are only those that are full. When the writer goes to a new sub-buffer, it clears the contents of that sub-buffer. That is, even if the check was ">=" it would still not be equal as the most pages that can be considered "dirty" is nr_pages - 1. To fix this, add one to dirty and use ">=" in the compare. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20231226125902.4a057f1d@gandalf.local.home Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org> Fixes: 03329f99 ("tracing: Add tracefs file buffer_percentage") Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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