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Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c index bb6922a931b1..d03f4f44a823 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c +++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c @@ -838,6 +838,7 @@ rb_set_commit_to_write(struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer) * back to us). This allows us to do a simple loop to * assign the commit to the tail. */ + again: while (cpu_buffer->commit_page != cpu_buffer->tail_page) { cpu_buffer->commit_page->page->commit = cpu_buffer->commit_page->write; @@ -853,6 +854,17 @@ rb_set_commit_to_write(struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer) cpu_buffer->commit_page->write; barrier(); } + + /* again, keep gcc from optimizing */ + barrier(); + + /* + * If an interrupt came in just after the first while loop + * and pushed the tail page forward, we will be left with + * a dangling commit that will never go forward. + */ + if (unlikely(cpu_buffer->commit_page != cpu_buffer->tail_page)) + goto again; } static void rb_reset_reader_page(struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer) |