From: "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" rostedt@goodmis.org
Currently the ring buffer makes events that happen in interrupts that preempt another event have a delta of zero. (Hopefully we can change this soon). But this is to deal with the races of updating a global counter with lockless and nesting functions updating deltas.
With the addition of absolute time stamps, the time extend didn't follow this rule. A time extend can happen if two events happen longer than 2^27 nanoseconds appart, as the delta time field in each event is only 27 bits. If that happens, then a time extend is injected with 2^59 bits of nanoseconds to use (18 years). But if the 2^27 nanoseconds happen between two events, and as it is writing the event, an interrupt triggers, it will see the 2^27 difference as well and inject a time extend of its own. But a recent change made the time extend logic not take into account the nesting, and this can cause two time extend deltas to happen moving the time stamp much further ahead than the current time. This gets all reset when the ring buffer moves to the next page, but that can cause time to appear to go backwards.
This was observed in a trace-cmd recording, and since the data is saved in a file, with trace-cmd report --debug, it was possible to see that this indeed did happen!
bash-52501 110d... 81778.908247: sched_switch: bash:52501 [120] S ==> swapper/110:0 [120] [12770284:0x2e8:64] <idle>-0 110d... 81778.908757: sched_switch: swapper/110:0 [120] R ==> bash:52501 [120] [509947:0x32c:64] TIME EXTEND: delta:306454770 length:0 bash-52501 110.... 81779.215212: sched_swap_numa: src_pid=52501 src_tgid=52388 src_ngid=52501 src_cpu=110 src_nid=2 dst_pid=52509 dst_tgid=52388 dst_ngid=52501 dst_cpu=49 dst_nid=1 [0:0x378:48] TIME EXTEND: delta:306458165 length:0 bash-52501 110dNh. 81779.521670: sched_wakeup: migration/110:565 [0] success=1 CPU:110 [0:0x3b4:40]
and at the next page, caused the time to go backwards:
bash-52504 110d... 81779.685411: sched_switch: bash:52504 [120] S ==> swapper/110:0 [120] [8347057:0xfb4:64] CPU:110 [SUBBUFFER START] [81779379165886:0x1320000] <idle>-0 110dN.. 81779.379166: sched_wakeup: bash:52504 [120] success=1 CPU:110 [0:0x10:40] <idle>-0 110d... 81779.379167: sched_switch: swapper/110:0 [120] R ==> bash:52504 [120] [1168:0x3c:64]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200622151815.345d1bf5@oasis.local.home
Cc: Ingo Molnar mingo@kernel.org Cc: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: Tom Zanussi zanussi@kernel.org Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: dc4e2801d400b ("ring-buffer: Redefine the unimplemented RINGBUF_TYPE_TIME_STAMP") Reported-by: Julia Lawall julia.lawall@inria.fr Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) rostedt@goodmis.org --- kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c index b8e1ca48be50..00867ff82412 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c +++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c @@ -2427,7 +2427,7 @@ rb_update_event(struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer, if (unlikely(info->add_timestamp)) { bool abs = ring_buffer_time_stamp_abs(cpu_buffer->buffer);
- event = rb_add_time_stamp(event, info->delta, abs); + event = rb_add_time_stamp(event, abs ? info->delta : delta, abs); length -= RB_LEN_TIME_EXTEND; delta = 0; }