From: "Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)" <[email protected]>

When crossing over to a new page, commit the current work. This will allow
readers to get data with less latency, and also simplifies the work to get
timestamps working for interrupted events.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>
---
 kernel/module.c            | 18 ++++++++++++++++--
 kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c |  7 +++++++
 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
index 8f051a106676..c0ae7c18c2fa 100644
--- a/kernel/module.c
+++ b/kernel/module.c
@@ -284,11 +284,25 @@ static void module_assert_mutex(void)
 static void module_assert_mutex_or_preempt(void)
 {
 #ifdef CONFIG_LOCKDEP
+       static int once;
+
        if (unlikely(!debug_locks))
                return;
 
-       WARN_ON(!rcu_read_lock_sched_held() &&
-               !lockdep_is_held(&module_mutex));
+       /*
+        * Would be nice to use WARN_ON_ONCE(), but the warning
+        * that causes a stack trace may call __module_address()
+        * which may call here, and we trigger the warning again,
+        * before the WARN_ON_ONCE() updates its flag.
+        * To prevent the recursion, we need to open code the
+        * once logic.
+        */
+       if (!once &&
+           unlikely(!rcu_read_lock_sched_held() &&
+                    !lockdep_is_held(&module_mutex))) {
+               once++;
+               WARN_ON(1);
+       }
 #endif
 }
 
diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
index 631541a53baf..95181e36891a 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
@@ -2129,6 +2129,8 @@ rb_reset_tail(struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer,
        local_sub(length, &tail_page->write);
 }
 
+static inline void rb_end_commit(struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer);
+
 /*
  * This is the slow path, force gcc not to inline it.
  */
@@ -2220,6 +2222,11 @@ rb_move_tail(struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer,
 
        rb_reset_tail(cpu_buffer, tail, info);
 
+       /* Commit what we have for now. */
+       rb_end_commit(cpu_buffer);
+       /* rb_end_commit() decs committing */
+       local_inc(&cpu_buffer->committing);
+
        /* fail and let the caller try again */
        return ERR_PTR(-EAGAIN);
 
-- 
2.6.1


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