[ Upstream commit 31b265b3baaf55f209229888b7ffea523ddab366 ]
As reported back in 2016-11 [1], the "ftdump" kdb command triggers a BUG for "sleeping function called from invalid context".
kdb's "ftdump" command wants to call ring_buffer_read_prepare() in atomic context. A very simple solution for this is to add allocation flags to ring_buffer_read_prepare() so kdb can call it without triggering the allocation error. This patch does that.
Note that in the original email thread about this, it was suggested that perhaps the solution for kdb was to either preallocate the buffer ahead of time or create our own iterator. I'm hoping that this alternative of adding allocation flags to ring_buffer_read_prepare() can be considered since it means I don't need to duplicate more of the core trace code into "trace_kdb.c" (for either creating my own iterator or re-preparing a ring allocator whose memory was already allocated).
NOTE: another option for kdb is to actually figure out how to make it reuse the existing ftrace_dump() function and totally eliminate the duplication. This sounds very appealing and actually works (the "sr z" command can be seen to properly dump the ftrace buffer). The downside here is that ftrace_dump() fully consumes the trace buffer. Unless that is changed I'd rather not use it because it means "ftdump | grep xyz" won't be very useful to search the ftrace buffer since it will throw away the whole trace on the first grep. A future patch to dump only the last few lines of the buffer will also be hard to implement.
[1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161117191605.GA21459@google.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190308193205.213659-1-dianders@chromium.org
Reported-by: Brian Norris briannorris@chromium.org Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson dianders@chromium.org Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) rostedt@goodmis.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- include/linux/ring_buffer.h | 2 +- kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 5 +++-- kernel/trace/trace.c | 6 ++++-- kernel/trace/trace_kdb.c | 6 ++++-- 4 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/ring_buffer.h b/include/linux/ring_buffer.h index 4daa5069cbdb..561f79803c13 100644 --- a/include/linux/ring_buffer.h +++ b/include/linux/ring_buffer.h @@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ ring_buffer_consume(struct ring_buffer *buffer, int cpu, u64 *ts, unsigned long *lost_events);
struct ring_buffer_iter * -ring_buffer_read_prepare(struct ring_buffer *buffer, int cpu); +ring_buffer_read_prepare(struct ring_buffer *buffer, int cpu, gfp_t flags); void ring_buffer_read_prepare_sync(void); void ring_buffer_read_start(struct ring_buffer_iter *iter); void ring_buffer_read_finish(struct ring_buffer_iter *iter); diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c index d2b609412c3a..173ff025ea75 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c +++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c @@ -4039,6 +4039,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ring_buffer_consume); * ring_buffer_read_prepare - Prepare for a non consuming read of the buffer * @buffer: The ring buffer to read from * @cpu: The cpu buffer to iterate over + * @flags: gfp flags to use for memory allocation * * This performs the initial preparations necessary to iterate * through the buffer. Memory is allocated, buffer recording @@ -4056,7 +4057,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ring_buffer_consume); * This overall must be paired with ring_buffer_read_finish. */ struct ring_buffer_iter * -ring_buffer_read_prepare(struct ring_buffer *buffer, int cpu) +ring_buffer_read_prepare(struct ring_buffer *buffer, int cpu, gfp_t flags) { struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer; struct ring_buffer_iter *iter; @@ -4064,7 +4065,7 @@ ring_buffer_read_prepare(struct ring_buffer *buffer, int cpu) if (!cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, buffer->cpumask)) return NULL;
- iter = kmalloc(sizeof(*iter), GFP_KERNEL); + iter = kmalloc(sizeof(*iter), flags); if (!iter) return NULL;
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c index 69af9a1b1031..934c1a1813dd 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c @@ -3047,7 +3047,8 @@ __tracing_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file, bool snapshot) if (iter->cpu_file == RING_BUFFER_ALL_CPUS) { for_each_tracing_cpu(cpu) { iter->buffer_iter[cpu] = - ring_buffer_read_prepare(iter->trace_buffer->buffer, cpu); + ring_buffer_read_prepare(iter->trace_buffer->buffer, + cpu, GFP_KERNEL); } ring_buffer_read_prepare_sync(); for_each_tracing_cpu(cpu) { @@ -3057,7 +3058,8 @@ __tracing_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file, bool snapshot) } else { cpu = iter->cpu_file; iter->buffer_iter[cpu] = - ring_buffer_read_prepare(iter->trace_buffer->buffer, cpu); + ring_buffer_read_prepare(iter->trace_buffer->buffer, + cpu, GFP_KERNEL); ring_buffer_read_prepare_sync(); ring_buffer_read_start(iter->buffer_iter[cpu]); tracing_iter_reset(iter, cpu); diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_kdb.c b/kernel/trace/trace_kdb.c index bd90e1b06088..ebbf28492573 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace_kdb.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_kdb.c @@ -46,14 +46,16 @@ static void ftrace_dump_buf(int skip_lines, long cpu_file) if (cpu_file == RING_BUFFER_ALL_CPUS) { for_each_tracing_cpu(cpu) { iter.buffer_iter[cpu] = - ring_buffer_read_prepare(iter.trace_buffer->buffer, cpu); + ring_buffer_read_prepare(iter.trace_buffer->buffer, + cpu, GFP_ATOMIC); ring_buffer_read_start(iter.buffer_iter[cpu]); tracing_iter_reset(&iter, cpu); } } else { iter.cpu_file = cpu_file; iter.buffer_iter[cpu_file] = - ring_buffer_read_prepare(iter.trace_buffer->buffer, cpu_file); + ring_buffer_read_prepare(iter.trace_buffer->buffer, + cpu_file, GFP_ATOMIC); ring_buffer_read_start(iter.buffer_iter[cpu_file]); tracing_iter_reset(&iter, cpu_file); }