From: Robert Richter Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:19:18 +0000 (+0200) Subject: ring-buffer: Fix advance of reader in rb_buffer_peek() X-Git-Tag: v2.6.31-rc6~32^2~7 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=469535a598f28c13a2a42037e1b778f671af1d16;p=pandora-kernel.git ring-buffer: Fix advance of reader in rb_buffer_peek() When calling rb_buffer_peek() from ring_buffer_consume() and a padding event is returned, the function rb_advance_reader() is called twice. This may lead to missing samples or under high workloads to the warning below. This patch fixes this. If a padding event is returned by rb_buffer_peek() it will be consumed by the calling function now. Also, I simplified some code in ring_buffer_consume(). ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: at /dev/shm/.source/linux/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:2289 rb_advance_reader+0x2e/0xc5() Hardware name: Anaheim Modules linked in: Pid: 29, comm: events/2 Tainted: G W 2.6.31-rc3-oprofile-x86_64-standard-00059-g5050dc2 #1 Call Trace: [] ? rb_advance_reader+0x2e/0xc5 [] warn_slowpath_common+0x77/0x8f [] warn_slowpath_null+0xf/0x11 [] rb_advance_reader+0x2e/0xc5 [] ring_buffer_consume+0xa0/0xd2 [] op_cpu_buffer_read_entry+0x21/0x9e [] ? __find_get_block+0x4b/0x165 [] sync_buffer+0xa5/0x401 [] ? __find_get_block+0x4b/0x165 [] ? wq_sync_buffer+0x0/0x78 [] wq_sync_buffer+0x5b/0x78 [] worker_thread+0x113/0x1ac [] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x38 [] ? worker_thread+0x0/0x1ac [] kthread+0x88/0x92 [] child_rip+0xa/0x20 [] ? kthread+0x0/0x92 [] ? child_rip+0x0/0x20 ---[ end trace f561c0a58fcc89bd ]--- Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Signed-off-by: Robert Richter Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- Reading git-diff-tree failed