From 8520dedbbf7578a397ecdfcf6ab83f775f914cfe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Thompson Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2014 12:41:56 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] tracing: kdb: Fix kernel livelock with empty buffers Currently kdb's ftdump command will livelock by constantly printk'ing the empty string at KERN_EMERG level if it run when the ftrace system is not in use. This occurs because trace_empty() never returns false when the ring buffers are left at the start of a non-consuming read [launched by ring_buffer_read_start()]. This patch changes the loop exit condition to use the result of trace_find_next_entry_inc(). Effectively this switches the non-consuming kdb dumper to follow the approach of the non-consuming userspace interface [s_next()] rather than the consuming ftrace_dump(). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1415277716-19419-3-git-send-email-daniel.thompson@linaro.org Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: John Stultz Cc: Sumit Semwal Cc: Jason Wessel Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt --- Reading git-format-patch failed