The patch below does not apply to the 5.15-stable tree. If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to stable@vger.kernel.org.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-5.15.y git checkout FETCH_HEAD git cherry-pick -x 632478a05821bc1c9b55c3a1dd0fb1be7bfa1acc # <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.> git commit -s git send-email --to 'stable@vger.kernel.org' --in-reply-to '2023060753-buggy-thirty-f85b@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 5.15.y' HEAD^..

Possible dependencies:

632478a05821 ("tracing/timerlat: Always wakeup the timerlat thread") 9c556e5a4dd5 ("tracing/timerlat: Do not wakeup the thread if the trace stops at the IRQ") aa748949b4e6 ("tracing/timerlat: Notify IRQ new max latency only if stop tracing is set") dae181349f1e ("tracing/osnoise: Support a list of trace_array *tr") 15ca4bdb0327 ("tracing/osnoise: Split workload start from the tracer start")

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 632478a05821bc1c9b55c3a1dd0fb1be7bfa1acc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira bristot@kernel.org Date: Thu, 11 May 2023 18:32:01 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] tracing/timerlat: Always wakeup the timerlat thread

While testing rtla timerlat auto analysis, I reach a condition where the interface was not receiving tracing data. I was able to manually reproduce the problem with these steps:

# echo 0 > tracing_on # disable trace # echo 1 > osnoise/stop_tracing_us # stop trace if timerlat irq > 1 us # echo timerlat > current_tracer # enable timerlat tracer # sleep 1 # wait... that is the time when rtla # apply configs like prio or cgroup # echo 1 > tracing_on # start tracing # cat trace # tracer: timerlat # # _-----=> irqs-off # / _----=> need-resched # | / _---=> hardirq/softirq # || / _--=> preempt-depth # ||| / _-=> migrate-disable # |||| / delay # ||||| ACTIVATION # TASK-PID CPU# ||||| TIMESTAMP ID CONTEXT LATENCY # | | | ||||| | | | | NOTHING!

Then, trying to enable tracing again with echo 1 > tracing_on resulted in no change: the trace was still not tracing.

This problem happens because the timerlat IRQ hits the stop tracing condition while tracing is off, and do not wake up the timerlat thread, so the timerlat threads are kept sleeping forever, resulting in no trace, even after re-enabling the tracer.

Avoid this condition by always waking up the threads, even after stopping tracing, allowing the tracer to return to its normal operating after a new tracing on.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/1ed8f830638b20a39d535d27d908e319a...

Cc: Juri Lelli juri.lelli@redhat.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: a955d7eac177 ("trace: Add timerlat tracer") Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira bristot@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) rostedt@goodmis.org

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c b/kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c index efbbec2caff8..e97e3fa5cbed 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c @@ -1652,6 +1652,8 @@ static enum hrtimer_restart timerlat_irq(struct hrtimer *timer) osnoise_stop_tracing(); notify_new_max_latency(diff);

+ wake_up_process(tlat->kthread); + return HRTIMER_NORESTART; } }