ring_buffer: tracing: Inherit the tracing setting to next ring buffer

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: debdd57f5145 ("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>

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
index 6a46af21765c..0b0b688ea166 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
@@ -3227,6 +3227,22 @@ int ring_buffer_record_is_on(struct ring_buffer *buffer)
 }
 
 /**
+ * ring_buffer_record_is_set_on - return true if the ring buffer is set writable
+ * @buffer: The ring buffer to see if write is set enabled
+ *
+ * Returns true if the ring buffer is set writable by ring_buffer_record_on().
+ * Note that this does NOT mean it is in a writable state.
+ *
+ * It may return true when the ring buffer has been disabled by
+ * ring_buffer_record_disable(), as that is a temporary disabling of
+ * the ring buffer.
+ */
+int ring_buffer_record_is_set_on(struct ring_buffer *buffer)
+{
+	return !(atomic_read(&buffer->record_disabled) & RB_BUFFER_OFF);
+}
+
+/**
  * ring_buffer_record_disable_cpu - stop all writes into the cpu_buffer
  * @buffer: The ring buffer to stop writes to.
  * @cpu: The CPU buffer to stop