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Commit b2dd7975 authored by Steven Rostedt (Google)'s avatar Steven Rostedt (Google)
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ring-buffer: Force absolute timestamp on discard of event

There's a race where if an event is discarded from the ring buffer and an
interrupt were to happen at that time and insert an event, the time stamp
is still used from the discarded event as an offset. This can screw up the
timings.

If the event is going to be discarded, set the "before_stamp" to zero.
When a new event comes in, it compares the "before_stamp" with the
"write_stamp" and if they are not equal, it will insert an absolute
timestamp. This will prevent the timings from getting out of sync due to
the discarded event.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20231206100244.5130f9b3@gandalf.local.home



Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Fixes: 6f6be606 ("ring-buffer: Force before_stamp and write_stamp to be different on discard")
Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
parent c0591b1c
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