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Steven Rostedt (Google) e5d7c19165 tracing: Use .flush() call to wake up readers
The .release() function does not get called until all readers of a file
descriptor are finished.

If a thread is blocked on reading a file descriptor in ring_buffer_wait(),
and another thread closes the file descriptor, it will not wake up the
other thread as ring_buffer_wake_waiters() is called by .release(), and
that will not get called until the .read() is finished.

The issue originally showed up in trace-cmd, but the readers are actually
other processes with their own file descriptors. So calling close() would wake
up the other tasks because they are blocked on another descriptor then the
one that was closed(). But there's other wake ups that solve that issue.

When a thread is blocked on a read, it can still hang even when another
thread closed its descriptor.

This is what the .flush() callback is for. Have the .flush() wake up the
readers.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240308202432.107909457@goodmis.org

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linke li <lilinke99@qq.com>
Cc: Rabin Vincent <rabin@rab.in>
Fixes: f3ddb74ad0790 ("tracing: Wake up ring buffer waiters on closing of the file")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2024-03-10 12:27:47 -04:00
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