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[6.0,161/862] tracing: Add ioctl() to force ring buffer waiters to wake up

Message ID 20221019083257.077986950@linuxfoundation.org
State New
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Commit Message

Greg KH Oct. 19, 2022, 8:24 a.m. UTC 
  From: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

commit 01b2a52171735c6eea80ee2f355f32bea6c41418 upstream.

If a process is waiting on the ring buffer for data, there currently isn't
a clean way to force it to wake up. Add an ioctl call that will force any
tasks that are waiting on the trace_pipe_raw file to wake up.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220929095029.117f913f@gandalf.local.home

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Fixes: e30f53aad2202 ("tracing: Do not busy wait in buffer splice")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 kernel/trace/trace.c |   22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+)
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--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -8353,12 +8353,34 @@  out:
 	return ret;
 }
 
+/* An ioctl call with cmd 0 to the ring buffer file will wake up all waiters */
+static long tracing_buffers_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
+{
+	struct ftrace_buffer_info *info = file->private_data;
+	struct trace_iterator *iter = &info->iter;
+
+	if (cmd)
+		return -ENOIOCTLCMD;
+
+	mutex_lock(&trace_types_lock);
+
+	iter->wait_index++;
+	/* Make sure the waiters see the new wait_index */
+	smp_wmb();
+
+	ring_buffer_wake_waiters(iter->array_buffer->buffer, iter->cpu_file);
+
+	mutex_unlock(&trace_types_lock);
+	return 0;
+}
+
 static const struct file_operations tracing_buffers_fops = {
 	.open		= tracing_buffers_open,
 	.read		= tracing_buffers_read,
 	.poll		= tracing_buffers_poll,
 	.release	= tracing_buffers_release,
 	.splice_read	= tracing_buffers_splice_read,
+	.unlocked_ioctl = tracing_buffers_ioctl,
 	.llseek		= no_llseek,
 };