ring-buffer: Fix full_waiters_pending in poll
If a reader of the ring buffer is doing a poll, and waiting for the ring buffer to hit a specific watermark, there could be a case where it gets into an infinite ping-pong loop. The poll code has: rbwork->full_waiters_pending = true; if (!cpu_buffer->shortest_full || cpu_buffer->shortest_full > full) cpu_buffer->shortest_full = full; The writer will see full_waiters_pending and check if the ring buffer is filled over the percentage of the shortest_full value. If it is, it calls an irq_work to wake up all the waiters. But the code could get into a circular loop: CPU 0 CPU 1 ----- ----- [ Poll ] [ shortest_full = 0 ] rbwork->full_waiters_pending = true; if (rbwork->full_waiters_pending && [ buffer percent ] > shortest_full) { rbwork->wakeup_full = true; [ queue_irqwork ] cpu_buffer->shortest_full = full; [ IRQ work ] if (rbwork->wakeup_full) { cpu_buffer->shortest_full = 0; wakeup poll waiters; [woken] if ([ buffer percent ] > full) break; rbwork->full_waiters_pending = true; if (rbwork->full_waiters_pending && [ buffer percent ] > shortest_full) { rbwork->wakeup_full = true; [ queue_irqwork ] cpu_buffer->shortest_full = full; [ IRQ work ] if (rbwork->wakeup_full) { cpu_buffer->shortest_full = 0; wakeup poll waiters; [woken] [ Wash, rinse, repeat! ] In the poll, the shortest_full needs to be set before the full_pending_waiters, as once that is set, the writer will compare the current shortest_full (which is incorrect) to decide to call the irq_work, which will reset the shortest_full (expecting the readers to update it). Also move the setting of full_waiters_pending after the check if the ring buffer has the required percentage filled. There's no reason to tell the writer to wake up waiters if there are no waiters. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240312131952.630922155@goodmis.org Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Fixes: 42fb0a1e ("tracing/ring-buffer: Have polling block on watermark") Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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