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Steven Rostedt (Google) 307f56f260 ring-buffer: Remove useless update to write_stamp in rb_try_to_discard() 
[ Upstream commit 083e9f65bd ]

When filtering is enabled, a temporary buffer is created to place the
content of the trace event output so that the filter logic can decide
from the trace event output if the trace event should be filtered out or
not. If it is to be filtered out, the content in the temporary buffer is
simply discarded, otherwise it is written into the trace buffer.

But if an interrupt were to come in while a previous event was using that
temporary buffer, the event written by the interrupt would actually go
into the ring buffer itself to prevent corrupting the data on the
temporary buffer. If the event is to be filtered out, the event in the
ring buffer is discarded, or if it fails to discard because another event
were to have already come in, it is turned into padding.

The update to the write_stamp in the rb_try_to_discard() happens after a
fix was made to force the next event after the discard to use an absolute
timestamp by setting the before_stamp to zero so it does not match the
write_stamp (which causes an event to use the absolute timestamp).

But there's an effort in rb_try_to_discard() to put back the write_stamp
to what it was before the event was added. But this is useless and
wasteful because nothing is going to be using that write_stamp for
calculations as it still will not match the before_stamp.

Remove this useless update, and in doing so, we remove another
cmpxchg64()!

Also update the comments to reflect this change as well as remove some
extra white space in another comment.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20231215081810.1f4f38fe@rorschach.local.home

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Cc: Vincent Donnefort   <vdonnefort@google.com>
Fixes: b2dd797543 ("ring-buffer: Force absolute timestamp on discard of event")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
History 2024-01-01 12:42:44 +00:00
arch ARM: dts: Fix occasional boot hang for am3 usb 2024-01-01 12:42:38 +00:00
block blk-cgroup: bypass blkcg_deactivate_policy after destroying 2023-12-20 17:01:55 +01:00
certs certs: Reference revocation list for all keyrings 2023-08-17 20:12:41 +00:00
crypto crypto: pcrypt - Fix hungtask for PADATA_RESET 2023-11-28 17:19:42 +00:00
Documentation dt-bindings: nvmem: mxs-ocotp: Document fsl,ocotp 2024-01-01 12:42:42 +00:00
drivers drm/i915/dmc: Don't enable any pipe DMC events 2024-01-01 12:42:43 +00:00
fs smb: client: fix OOB in smbCalcSize() 2024-01-01 12:42:43 +00:00
include 9p: prevent read overrun in protocol dump tracepoint 2024-01-01 12:42:43 +00:00
init proc: sysctl: prevent aliased sysctls from getting passed to init 2023-11-28 17:19:57 +00:00
io_uring io_uring/cmd: fix breakage in SOCKET_URING_OP_SIOC* implementation 2023-12-20 17:01:52 +01:00
ipc Add x86 shadow stack support 2023-08-31 12:20:12 -07:00
kernel ring-buffer: Remove useless update to write_stamp in rb_try_to_discard() 2024-01-01 12:42:44 +00:00
lib cred: get rid of CONFIG_DEBUG_CREDENTIALS 2023-12-20 17:01:51 +01:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add the copyleft-next-0.3.1 license 2022-11-08 15:44:01 +01:00
mm mm/damon/core: make damon_start() waits until kdamond_fn() starts 2024-01-01 12:42:23 +00:00
net net: avoid build bug in skb extension length calculation 2024-01-01 12:42:42 +00:00
rust rust: docs: fix logo replacement 2023-10-19 16:40:00 +02:00
samples samples/bpf: syscall_tp_user: Fix array out-of-bound access 2023-11-28 17:19:48 +00:00
scripts scripts/checkstack.pl: match all stack sizes for s390 2023-12-20 17:01:59 +01:00
security keys, dns: Allow key types (eg. DNS) to be reclaimed immediately on expiry 2024-01-01 12:42:33 +00:00
sound ASoC: tas2781: check the validity of prm_no/cfg_no 2024-01-01 12:42:40 +00:00
tools Revert "selftests: error out if kernel header files are not yet built" 2023-12-20 17:02:01 +01:00
usr initramfs: Encode dependency on KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP 2023-06-06 17:54:49 +09:00
virt ARM: 2023-09-07 13:52:20 -07:00
.clang-format iommu: Add for_each_group_device() 2023-05-23 08:15:51 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore get_maintainer: add Alan to .get_maintainer.ignore 2022-08-20 15:17:44 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore kbuild: rpm-pkg: rename binkernel.spec to kernel.spec 2023-07-25 00:59:33 +09:00
.mailmap 20 hotfixes. 12 are cc:stable and the remainder address post-6.5 issues 2023-10-24 09:52:16 -10:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS USB: Remove Wireless USB and UWB documentation 2023-08-09 14:17:32 +02:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS Char/Misc driver fixes for 6.6-final 2023-10-28 07:51:27 -10:00
Makefile Linux 6.6.8 2023-12-20 17:02:07 +01:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.