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| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/trace/trace.c | 36 |
1 files changed, 35 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c index a0a84ff46ecd..a0d66a056e59 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c @@ -2734,10 +2734,44 @@ trace_event_buffer_lock_reserve(struct trace_buffer **current_rb, if (!tr->no_filter_buffering_ref && (trace_file->flags & (EVENT_FILE_FL_SOFT_DISABLED | EVENT_FILE_FL_FILTERED)) && (entry = this_cpu_read(trace_buffered_event))) { - /* Try to use the per cpu buffer first */ + /* + * Filtering is on, so try to use the per cpu buffer first. + * This buffer will simulate a ring_buffer_event, + * where the type_len is zero and the array[0] will + * hold the full length. + * (see include/linux/ring-buffer.h for details on + * how the ring_buffer_event is structured). + * + * Using a temp buffer during filtering and copying it + * on a matched filter is quicker than writing directly + * into the ring buffer and then discarding it when + * it doesn't match. That is because the discard + * requires several atomic operations to get right. + * Copying on match and doing nothing on a failed match + * is still quicker than no copy on match, but having + * to discard out of the ring buffer on a failed match. + */ int max_len = PAGE_SIZE - struct_size(entry, array, 1); val = this_cpu_inc_return(trace_buffered_event_cnt); + + /* + * Preemption is disabled, but interrupts and NMIs + * can still come in now. If that happens after + * the above increment, then it will have to go + * back to the old method of allocating the event + * on the ring buffer, and if the filter fails, it + * will have to call ring_buffer_discard_commit() + * to remove it. + * + * Need to also check the unlikely case that the + * length is bigger than the temp buffer size. + * If that happens, then the reserve is pretty much + * guaranteed to fail, as the ring buffer currently + * only allows events less than a page. But that may + * change in the future, so let the ring buffer reserve + * handle the failure in that case. + */ if (val == 1 && likely(len <= max_len)) { trace_event_setup(entry, type, trace_ctx); entry->array[0] = len; |