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| author | Zheng Yejian <zhengyejian1@huawei.com> | 2023-08-18 10:26:45 +0800 |
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| committer | Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> | 2023-08-21 11:17:14 -0400 |
| commit | c2489bb7e6be2e8cdced12c16c42fa128403ac03 (patch) | |
| tree | 0b890efd32cbc686f8c6f4c24d8bd81a81efd8e1 /kernel/trace/trace.h | |
| parent | eecb91b9f98d6427d4af5fdb8f108f52572a39e7 (diff) | |
tracing: Introduce pipe_cpumask to avoid race on trace_pipes
There is race issue when concurrently splice_read main trace_pipe and
per_cpu trace_pipes which will result in data read out being different
from what actually writen.
As suggested by Steven:
> I believe we should add a ref count to trace_pipe and the per_cpu
> trace_pipes, where if they are opened, nothing else can read it.
>
> Opening trace_pipe locks all per_cpu ref counts, if any of them are
> open, then the trace_pipe open will fail (and releases any ref counts
> it had taken).
>
> Opening a per_cpu trace_pipe will up the ref count for just that
> CPU buffer. This will allow multiple tasks to read different per_cpu
> trace_pipe files, but will prevent the main trace_pipe file from
> being opened.
But because we only need to know whether per_cpu trace_pipe is open or
not, using a cpumask instead of using ref count may be easier.
After this patch, users will find that:
- Main trace_pipe can be opened by only one user, and if it is
opened, all per_cpu trace_pipes cannot be opened;
- Per_cpu trace_pipes can be opened by multiple users, but each per_cpu
trace_pipe can only be opened by one user. And if one of them is
opened, main trace_pipe cannot be opened.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230818022645.1948314-1-zhengyejian1@huawei.com
Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Zheng Yejian <zhengyejian1@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/trace/trace.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/trace/trace.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.h b/kernel/trace/trace.h index 95956f75bea5..73eaec158473 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace.h +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.h @@ -377,6 +377,8 @@ struct trace_array { struct list_head events; struct trace_event_file *trace_marker_file; cpumask_var_t tracing_cpumask; /* only trace on set CPUs */ + /* one per_cpu trace_pipe can be opened by only one user */ + cpumask_var_t pipe_cpumask; int ref; int trace_ref; #ifdef CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER |