tracing: Buffer the output of seq_file in case of filled buffer

If the seq_read fills the buffer it will call s_start again on the next
itertation with the same position. This causes a problem with the
function_graph tracer because it consumes the iteration in order to
determine leaf functions.

What happens is that the iterator stores the entry, and the function
graph plugin will look at the next entry. If that next entry is a return
of the same function and task, then the function is a leaf and the
function_graph plugin calls ring_buffer_read which moves the ring buffer
iterator forward (the trace iterator still points to the function start
entry).

The copying of the trace_seq to the seq_file buffer will fail if the
seq_file buffer is full. The seq_read will not show this entry.
The next read by userspace will cause seq_read to again call s_start
which will reuse the trace iterator entry (the function start entry).
But the function return entry was already consumed. The function graph
plugin will think that this entry is a nested function and not a leaf.

To solve this, the trace code now checks the return status of the
seq_printf (trace_print_seq). If the writing to the seq_file buffer
fails, we set a flag in the iterator (leftover) and we do not reset
the trace_seq buffer. On the next call to s_start, we check the leftover
flag, and if it is set, we just reuse the trace_seq buffer and do not
call into the plugin print functions.

Before this patch:

 2)               |      fput() {
 2)               |        __fput() {
 2)   0.550 us    |          inotify_inode_queue_event();
 2)               |          __fsnotify_parent() {
 2)   0.540 us    |          inotify_dentry_parent_queue_event();

After the patch:

 2)               |      fput() {
 2)               |        __fput() {
 2)   0.550 us    |          inotify_inode_queue_event();
 2)   0.548 us    |          __fsnotify_parent();
 2)   0.540 us    |          inotify_dentry_parent_queue_event();

[
  Updated the patch to fix a missing return 0 from the trace_print_seq()
  stub when CONFIG_TRACING is disabled.

  Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
]

Reported-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_output.c b/kernel/trace/trace_output.c
index b6c12c6..e5cf90f 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_output.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_output.c
@@ -23,13 +23,21 @@ static struct hlist_head event_hash[EVENT_HASHSIZE] __read_mostly;
 
 static int next_event_type = __TRACE_LAST_TYPE + 1;
 
-void trace_print_seq(struct seq_file *m, struct trace_seq *s)
+int trace_print_seq(struct seq_file *m, struct trace_seq *s)
 {
 	int len = s->len >= PAGE_SIZE ? PAGE_SIZE - 1 : s->len;
+	int ret;
+
+	ret = seq_write(m, s->buffer, len);
 
-	seq_write(m, s->buffer, len);
+	/*
+	 * Only reset this buffer if we successfully wrote to the
+	 * seq_file buffer.
+	 */
+	if (!ret)
+		trace_seq_init(s);
 
-	trace_seq_init(s);
+	return ret;
 }
 
 enum print_line_t trace_print_bprintk_msg_only(struct trace_iterator *iter)