@@ -623,8 +623,22 @@ int ring_buffer_poll_wait(struct ring_buffer *buffer, int cpu,
work = &cpu_buffer->irq_work;
}
- work->waiters_pending = true;
poll_wait(filp, &work->waiters, poll_table);
+ work->waiters_pending = true;
+ /*
+ * There's a tight race between setting the waiters_pending and
+ * checking if the ring buffer is empty. Once the waiters_pending bit
+ * is set, the next event will wake the task up, but we can get stuck
+ * if there's only a single event in.
+ *
+ * FIXME: Ideally, we need a memory barrier on the writer side as well,
+ * but adding a memory barrier to all events will cause too much of a
+ * performance hit in the fast path. We only need a memory barrier when
+ * the buffer goes from empty to having content. But as this race is
+ * extremely small, and it's not a problem if another event comes in, we
+ * will fix it later.
+ */
+ smp_mb();
if ((cpu == RING_BUFFER_ALL_CPUS && !ring_buffer_empty(buffer)) ||
(cpu != RING_BUFFER_ALL_CPUS && !ring_buffer_empty_cpu(buffer, cpu)))
This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled trace: Fix epoll hang when we race with new entries to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y.z extended stable tree which can be found at: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.13.y-queue This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11.8. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please reply to this email. For more information about the 3.13.y.z tree, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable Thanks. -Kamal ------ From 5b10d100e84e70226d888cb8acaaa066c5ca9b6e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com> Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 13:59:41 -0400 Subject: trace: Fix epoll hang when we race with new entries commit 4ce97dbf50245227add17c83d87dc838e7ca79d0 upstream. Epoll on trace_pipe can sometimes hang in a weird case. If the ring buffer is empty when we set waiters_pending but an event shows up exactly at that moment we can miss being woken up by the ring buffers irq work. Since ring_buffer_empty() is inherently racey we will sometimes think that the buffer is not empty. So we don't get woken up and we don't think there are any events even though there were some ready when we added the watch, which makes us hang. This patch fixes this by making sure that we are actually on the wait list before we set waiters_pending, and add a memory barrier to make sure ring_buffer_empty() is going to be correct. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/p/1408989581-23727-1-git-send-email-jbacik@fb.com Cc: Martin Lau <kafai@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com> --- kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 16 +++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) -- 1.9.1