[PATCH] tracing: Fix issues recording task information

From: Joel Fernandes
Date: Wed Jul 05 2017 - 20:11:59 EST


Currently we stop recording task information if any of them error out or are
not being recorded. Further if switching to/from the idle thread, we bail out
early on. Fix these issues.

Cc: kernel-team@xxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Michael Sartain <mikesart@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Hi Steve,
This fix is based on ftrace/core branch at:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace.git
Could you pick it up for -rc cycle if it looks good to you? Thanks.

kernel/trace/trace.c | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index b66a1c8805f3..27b981a46389 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -1918,7 +1918,11 @@ static int trace_save_cmdline(struct task_struct *tsk)
{
unsigned pid, idx;

- if (!tsk->pid || unlikely(tsk->pid > PID_MAX_DEFAULT))
+ /* treat recording of idle task as a success */
+ if (!tsk->pid)
+ return 1;
+
+ if (unlikely(tsk->pid > PID_MAX_DEFAULT))
return 0;

/*
@@ -2004,7 +2008,11 @@ int trace_find_tgid(int pid)

static int trace_save_tgid(struct task_struct *tsk)
{
- if (unlikely(!tgid_map || !tsk->pid || tsk->pid > PID_MAX_DEFAULT))
+ /* treat recording of idle task as a success */
+ if (!tsk->pid)
+ return 1;
+
+ if (unlikely(!tgid_map || tsk->pid > PID_MAX_DEFAULT))
return 0;

tgid_map[tsk->pid] = tsk->tgid;
@@ -2031,11 +2039,14 @@ static bool tracing_record_taskinfo_skip(int flags)
*/
void tracing_record_taskinfo(struct task_struct *task, int flags)
{
+ bool done;
+
if (tracing_record_taskinfo_skip(flags))
return;
- if ((flags & TRACE_RECORD_CMDLINE) && !trace_save_cmdline(task))
- return;
- if ((flags & TRACE_RECORD_TGID) && !trace_save_tgid(task))
+
+ done = !(flags & TRACE_RECORD_CMDLINE) || trace_save_cmdline(task);
+ done &= !(flags & TRACE_RECORD_TGID) || trace_save_tgid(task);
+ if (!done)
return;

__this_cpu_write(trace_taskinfo_save, false);
@@ -2052,15 +2063,16 @@ void tracing_record_taskinfo(struct task_struct *task, int flags)
void tracing_record_taskinfo_sched_switch(struct task_struct *prev,
struct task_struct *next, int flags)
{
- if (tracing_record_taskinfo_skip(flags))
- return;
+ bool done;

- if ((flags & TRACE_RECORD_CMDLINE) &&
- (!trace_save_cmdline(prev) || !trace_save_cmdline(next)))
+ if (tracing_record_taskinfo_skip(flags))
return;

- if ((flags & TRACE_RECORD_TGID) &&
- (!trace_save_tgid(prev) || !trace_save_tgid(next)))
+ done = !(flags & TRACE_RECORD_CMDLINE) || trace_save_cmdline(prev);
+ done &= !(flags & TRACE_RECORD_CMDLINE) || trace_save_cmdline(next);
+ done &= !(flags & TRACE_RECORD_TGID) || trace_save_tgid(prev);
+ done &= !(flags & TRACE_RECORD_TGID) || trace_save_tgid(next);
+ if (!done)
return;

__this_cpu_write(trace_taskinfo_save, false);
--
2.13.2.725.g09c95d1e9-goog