Re: [bug-report] rasdaemon doesnot report new records.

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On 30.01.23 10:34, Harshit Mogalapalli wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Since kernel 6.1-rc6 rasdaemon fails to update the summary of the records.
> 
> When we inject MCE errors, generally ras-mc-ctl --summary should be able
> to read new errors, but starting from 6.1-rc6 the summary(count on
> number of MCE records) doesnot udpate when we inject new mce errors.
> 
> This started happening after this commit
> 42fb0a1e84ff525ebe560e2baf9451ab69127e2b ("tracing/ring-buffer: Have
> polling block on watermark") -- Commit landed first in 6.1-rc6, 6.1-rc5
> kernel doesnot have this problem.
> 
> On reverting this commit, rasdaemon works good(i.e It is able to read
> the new mce records).
>
> This continues to happen on latest kernel(v6.2-rc6) as well.

Thanks for the report. To be sure the issue doesn't fall through the
cracks unnoticed, I'm adding it to regzbot, the Linux kernel regression
tracking bot:

#regzbot ^introduced 42fb0a1e84ff525
#regzbot title tracing/ring-buffer: rasdaemon does not report new records
#regzbot ignore-activity

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> In a Good case -- 6.2-rc6 + revert of 42fb0a1e84ff
> ("tracing/ring-buffer: Have polling block on watermark"), post poll read
> happens without being stuck.
> 
> openat(AT_FDCWD,
> "/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/instances/rasdaemon/per_cpu/cpu0/trace_pipe_raw", O_RDONLY) = 4
> openat(AT_FDCWD,
> "/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/instances/rasdaemon/per_cpu/cpu1/trace_pipe_raw", O_RDONLY) = 5
> openat(AT_FDCWD,
> "/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/instances/rasdaemon/per_cpu/cpu2/trace_pipe_raw", O_RDONLY) = 6
> openat(AT_FDCWD,
> "/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/instances/rasdaemon/per_cpu/cpu3/trace_pipe_raw", O_RDONLY) = 7
> [...]
> poll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN}, {fd=5, events=POLLIN}, {fd=6,
> events=POLLIN}, {fd=7, events=POLLIN}, {fd=8, events=POLLIN}], 5, -1) =
> 1 ([{fd=4, revents=POLLIN}])
> read(4,
> "\215~\0\0\0\0\0\0t\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\34\t\2\0\263\0\0\0#\0\0\0\n\1\0\t"...,
> 4096) = 4096
> newfstatat(AT_FDCWD, "/etc/localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644,
> st_size=114, ...}, 0) = 0
> write(2, "rasdaemon: ", 11rasdaemon: )             = 11
> write(2, "mce_record store: 0x56047b270008"..., 33mce_record store:
> 0x56047b270008
> ) = 33
> 
> 
> In a case where new records are not updated in summary: -- 6.2-rc6
> The reason why the database of records isn't populated, is simply
> because rasdaemon doesn't get notified anymore by the kernel:
> 
> openat(AT_FDCWD,
> "/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/instances/rasdaemon/per_cpu/cpu0/trace_pipe_raw", O_RDONLY) = 4
> openat(AT_FDCWD,
> "/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/instances/rasdaemon/per_cpu/cpu1/trace_pipe_raw", O_RDONLY) = 5
> openat(AT_FDCWD,
> "/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/instances/rasdaemon/per_cpu/cpu2/trace_pipe_raw", O_RDONLY) = 6
> openat(AT_FDCWD,
> "/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/instances/rasdaemon/per_cpu/cpu3/trace_pipe_raw", O_RDONLY) = 7
> [...]
> poll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN}, {fd=5, events=POLLIN}, {fd=6,
> events=POLLIN}, {fd=7, events=POLLIN}, {fd=8, events=POLLIN}], 5, -1
> 
> --- Stuck here even when we inject MCE-errors.
> 
> 
> Before the Commit 42fb0a1e84ff ("tracing/ring-buffer: Have polling block
> on watermark"), an error injection could wake the poll() call on the
> above special files, and I can confirm that the subsequent read() call
> did not hang. With the Commit 42fb0a1e84ff, an error injection doesn't
> wake the poll() call anymore.
> 
> We need to let rasdaemon (or any other trace consumer using the per_cpu
> files) retrieve the available information as soon as it is available.
> 
> Additional info:
> 1.
> https://github.com/mchehab/rasdaemon/blob/master/ras-events.c#:~:text=ready%20%3D%20poll(fds%2C%20(n_cpus%20%2B%201)%2C%20%2D1)%3B this is the code which is getting hit on rasdaemon side.
> 
> 2. Changing the buffer_percent to a lower value didnot change the
> behaviour.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Harshit
> 
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