tracing: Add support to detect and avoid duplicates
A duplicate in the tracing_map hash table is when 2 different entries have the same key and, as a result, the key_hash. This is possible due to a race condition in the algorithm. This race condition is inherent to the algorithm and not a bug. This was fine because, until now, we were only interested in the sum of all the values related to a particular key (the duplicates are dealt with in tracing_map_sort_entries()). But, with the inclusion of variables[1], we are interested in individual values. So, it will not be clear what value to choose when there are duplicates. So, the duplicates need to be removed. The duplicates can occur in the code in the following scenarios: - A thread is in the process of adding a new element. It has successfully executed cmpxchg() and inserted the key. But, it is still not done acquiring the trace_map_elt struct, populating it and storing the pointer to the struct in the value field of tracing_map hash table. If another thread comes in at this time and wants to add an element with the same key, it will not see the current element and add a new one. - There are multiple threads trying to execute cmpxchg at the same time, one of the threads will succeed and the others will fail. The ones which fail will go ahead increment 'idx' and add a new element there creating a duplicate. This patch detects and avoids the first condition by asking the thread which detects the duplicate to loop one more time. There is also a possibility of infinite loop if the thread which is trying to insert goes to sleep indefinitely and the one which is trying to insert a new element detects a duplicate. Which is why, the thread loops for map_size iterations before returning NULL. The second scenario is avoided by preventing the threads which failed cmpxchg() from incrementing idx. This way, they will loop around and check if the thread which succeeded in executing cmpxchg() had the same key. [1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1498510759.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e178e89ec399240331d383bd5913d649713110f4.1516069914.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by:Vedang Patel <vedang.patel@intel.com> Signed-off-by: