ring_buffer: tracing: Inherit the tracing setting to next ring buffer
commit 73c8d894 upstream. Maintain the tracing on/off setting of the ring_buffer when switching to the trace buffer snapshot. Taking a snapshot is done by swapping the backup ring buffer (max_tr_buffer). But since the tracing on/off setting is defined by the ring buffer, when swapping it, the tracing on/off setting can also be changed. This causes a strange result like below: /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # cat tracing_on 1 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # echo 0 > tracing_on /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # cat tracing_on 0 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # echo 1 > snapshot /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # cat tracing_on 1 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # echo 1 > snapshot /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # cat tracing_on 0 We don't touch tracing_on, but snapshot changes tracing_on setting each time. This is an anomaly, because user doesn't know that each "ring_buffer" stores its own tracing-enable state and the snapshot is done by swapping ring buffers. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/153149929558.11274.11730609978254724394.stgit@devbox Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com> Cc: Hiraku Toyooka <hiraku.toyooka@cybertrust.co.jp> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: debdd57f ("tracing: Make a snapshot feature available from userspace") Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> [ Updated commit log and comment in the code ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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