From: "Steven Rostedt (Google)" rostedt@goodmis.org

The logic to know when the shortest waiters on the ring buffer should be woken up or not has uses a less than instead of a greater than compare, which causes the shortest_full to actually be the longest.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 2c2b0a78b3739 ("ring-buffer: Add percentage of ring buffer full to wake up reader") Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) 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 6b145d48dfd1..02db92c9eb1b 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c +++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c @@ -1011,7 +1011,7 @@ int ring_buffer_wait(struct trace_buffer *buffer, int cpu, int full) nr_pages = cpu_buffer->nr_pages; dirty = ring_buffer_nr_dirty_pages(buffer, cpu); if (!cpu_buffer->shortest_full || - cpu_buffer->shortest_full < full) + cpu_buffer->shortest_full > full) cpu_buffer->shortest_full = full; raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&cpu_buffer->reader_lock, flags); if (!pagebusy &&