From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-19.1 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIMWL_WL_HIGH, DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, INCLUDES_CR_TRAILER,INCLUDES_PATCH,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS, USER_AGENT_GIT autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39743C4743C for ; Mon, 21 Jun 2021 16:20:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 201F16128E for ; Mon, 21 Jun 2021 16:20:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S230520AbhFUQWf (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Jun 2021 12:22:35 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:41362 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S230061AbhFUQVY (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Jun 2021 12:21:24 -0400 Received: by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E973861289; Mon, 21 Jun 2021 16:19:06 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1624292347; bh=lrheUlzJotTyvZish14WHKD5NFC80vlbHHZImRKhRZY=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=HiAkGfDNpJ311+aPLbK+BLNPGfPnB2WnWbgVQxMSm3rVHSiJbEInH4UPq0nwX3OLi ZdB3CpVWxMU/PZfrGboCXbc9y+PN4YDfzf4X18f9vHZEKNwxQIYf2SAWYZvqgDH6oO IuQx0DjJ+j1REk2isW7Zios2HyrUBWuB/22+/fFs= From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" Subject: [PATCH 5.4 57/90] tracing: Do no increment trace_clock_global() by one Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2021 18:15:32 +0200 Message-Id: <20210621154906.083384664@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.32.0 In-Reply-To: <20210621154904.159672728@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20210621154904.159672728@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.66 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Steven Rostedt (VMware) commit 89529d8b8f8daf92d9979382b8d2eb39966846ea upstream. The trace_clock_global() tries to make sure the events between CPUs is somewhat in order. A global value is used and updated by the latest read of a clock. If one CPU is ahead by a little, and is read by another CPU, a lock is taken, and if the timestamp of the other CPU is behind, it will simply use the other CPUs timestamp. The lock is also only taken with a "trylock" due to tracing, and strange recursions can happen. The lock is not taken at all in NMI context. In the case where the lock is not able to be taken, the non synced timestamp is returned. But it will not be less than the saved global timestamp. The problem arises because when the time goes "backwards" the time returned is the saved timestamp plus 1. If the lock is not taken, and the plus one to the timestamp is returned, there's a small race that can cause the time to go backwards! CPU0 CPU1 ---- ---- trace_clock_global() { ts = clock() [ 1000 ] trylock(clock_lock) [ success ] global_ts = ts; [ 1000 ] trace_clock_global() { ts = clock() [ 999 ] if (ts < global_ts) ts = global_ts + 1 [ 1001 ] trylock(clock_lock) [ fail ] return ts [ 1001] } unlock(clock_lock); return ts; [ 1000 ] } trace_clock_global() { ts = clock() [ 1000 ] if (ts < global_ts) [ false 1000 == 1000 ] trylock(clock_lock) [ success ] global_ts = ts; [ 1000 ] unlock(clock_lock) return ts; [ 1000 ] } The above case shows to reads of trace_clock_global() on the same CPU, but the second read returns one less than the first read. That is, time when backwards, and this is not what is allowed by trace_clock_global(). This was triggered by heavy tracing and the ring buffer checker that tests for the clock going backwards: Ring buffer clock went backwards: 20613921464 -> 20613921463 ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 0 at kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:3412 check_buffer+0x1b9/0x1c0 Modules linked in: [..] [CPU: 2]TIME DOES NOT MATCH expected:20620711698 actual:20620711697 delta:6790234 before:20613921463 after:20613921463 [20613915818] PAGE TIME STAMP [20613915818] delta:0 [20613915819] delta:1 [20613916035] delta:216 [20613916465] delta:430 [20613916575] delta:110 [20613916749] delta:174 [20613917248] delta:499 [20613917333] delta:85 [20613917775] delta:442 [20613917921] delta:146 [20613918321] delta:400 [20613918568] delta:247 [20613918768] delta:200 [20613919306] delta:538 [20613919353] delta:47 [20613919980] delta:627 [20613920296] delta:316 [20613920571] delta:275 [20613920862] delta:291 [20613921152] delta:290 [20613921464] delta:312 [20613921464] delta:0 TIME EXTEND [20613921464] delta:0 This happened more than once, and always for an off by one result. It also started happening after commit aafe104aa9096 was added. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: aafe104aa9096 ("tracing: Restructure trace_clock_global() to never block") Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- kernel/trace/trace_clock.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/kernel/trace/trace_clock.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_clock.c @@ -115,9 +115,9 @@ u64 notrace trace_clock_global(void) prev_time = READ_ONCE(trace_clock_struct.prev_time); now = sched_clock_cpu(this_cpu); - /* Make sure that now is always greater than prev_time */ + /* Make sure that now is always greater than or equal to prev_time */ if ((s64)(now - prev_time) < 0) - now = prev_time + 1; + now = prev_time; /* * If in an NMI context then dont risk lockups and simply return @@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ u64 notrace trace_clock_global(void) /* Reread prev_time in case it was already updated */ prev_time = READ_ONCE(trace_clock_struct.prev_time); if ((s64)(now - prev_time) < 0) - now = prev_time + 1; + now = prev_time; trace_clock_struct.prev_time = now;