Commit ff84c50c authored by Steven Rostedt (VMware)'s avatar Steven Rostedt (VMware)
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ring-buffer: Do not die if rb_iter_peek() fails more than thrice

As the iterator will be reading a live buffer, and if the event being read
is on a page that a writer crosses, it will fail and try again, the
condition in rb_iter_peek() that only allows a retry to happen three times
is no longer valid. Allow rb_iter_peek() to retry more than three times
without killing the ring buffer, but only if rb_iter_head_event() had failed
at least once.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200317213416.452888193@goodmis.org



Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
parent 785888c5
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@@ -4012,6 +4012,7 @@ rb_iter_peek(struct ring_buffer_iter *iter, u64 *ts)
	struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer;
	struct ring_buffer_event *event;
	int nr_loops = 0;
	bool failed = false;

	if (ts)
		*ts = 0;
@@ -4038,10 +4039,14 @@ rb_iter_peek(struct ring_buffer_iter *iter, u64 *ts)
	 * to a data event, we should never loop more than three times.
	 * Once for going to next page, once on time extend, and
	 * finally once to get the event.
	 * (We never hit the following condition more than thrice).
	 * We should never hit the following condition more than thrice,
	 * unless the buffer is very small, and there's a writer
	 * that is causing the reader to fail getting an event.
	 */
	if (RB_WARN_ON(cpu_buffer, ++nr_loops > 3))
	if (++nr_loops > 3) {
		RB_WARN_ON(cpu_buffer, !failed);
		return NULL;
	}

	if (rb_per_cpu_empty(cpu_buffer))
		return NULL;
@@ -4052,8 +4057,10 @@ rb_iter_peek(struct ring_buffer_iter *iter, u64 *ts)
	}

	event = rb_iter_head_event(iter);
	if (!event)
	if (!event) {
		failed = true;
		goto again;
	}

	switch (event->type_len) {
	case RINGBUF_TYPE_PADDING: