3.13.11.8 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Josef Bacik <[email protected]> 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/[email protected] Cc: Martin Lau <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <[email protected]> --- kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 16 +++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c index 572c8b8..a701f50 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c +++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c @@ -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))) -- 1.9.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
