tracing: Avoid soft lockup in trace_pipe

running following commands:

  # enable the binary option
  echo 1 > ./options/bin
  # disable context info option
  echo 0 > ./options/context-info
  # tracing only events
  echo 1 > ./events/enable
  cat trace_pipe

plus forcing system to generate many tracing events,
is causing lockup (in NON preemptive kernels) inside
tracing_read_pipe function.

The issue is also easily reproduced by running ltp stress test.
(ftrace_stress_test.sh)

The reasons are:
 - bin/hex/raw output functions for events are set to
   trace_nop_print function, which prints nothing and
   returns TRACE_TYPE_HANDLED value
 - LOST EVENT trace do not handle trace_seq overflow

These reasons force the while loop in tracing_read_pipe
function never to break.

The attached patch fixies handling of lost event trace, and
changes trace_nop_print to print minimal info, which is needed
for the correct tracing_read_pipe processing.

v2 changes:
 - omit the cond_resched changes by trace_nop_print changes
 - WARN changed to WARN_ONCE and added info to be able
   to find out the culprit

v3 changes:
 - make more accurate patch comment

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20110325110518.GC1922@jolsa.brq.redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index 9541c27c1cf2..5af42f478c06 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -2013,9 +2013,10 @@ enum print_line_t print_trace_line(struct trace_iterator *iter)
 {
 	enum print_line_t ret;
 
-	if (iter->lost_events)
-		trace_seq_printf(&iter->seq, "CPU:%d [LOST %lu EVENTS]\n",
-				 iter->cpu, iter->lost_events);
+	if (iter->lost_events &&
+	    !trace_seq_printf(&iter->seq, "CPU:%d [LOST %lu EVENTS]\n",
+				 iter->cpu, iter->lost_events))
+		return TRACE_TYPE_PARTIAL_LINE;
 
 	if (iter->trace && iter->trace->print_line) {
 		ret = iter->trace->print_line(iter);
@@ -3229,6 +3230,14 @@ waitagain:
 
 		if (iter->seq.len >= cnt)
 			break;
+
+		/*
+		 * Setting the full flag means we reached the trace_seq buffer
+		 * size and we should leave by partial output condition above.
+		 * One of the trace_seq_* functions is not used properly.
+		 */
+		WARN_ONCE(iter->seq.full, "full flag set for trace type %d",
+			  iter->ent->type);
 	}
 	trace_access_unlock(iter->cpu_file);
 	trace_event_read_unlock();