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FAILED: patch "[PATCH] ring-buffer: Fix bytes info in per_cpu buffer stats" failed to apply to 5.4-stable tree

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The patch below does not apply to the 5.4-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <[email protected]>.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-5.4.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x 45d99ea451d0c30bfd4864f0fe485d7dac014902
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<[email protected]>' --in-reply-to '2023100437-backyard-cartwheel-4b2f@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 5.4.y' HEAD^..

Possible dependencies:

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 45d99ea451d0c30bfd4864f0fe485d7dac014902 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Zheng Yejian <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2023 20:54:25 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] ring-buffer: Fix bytes info in per_cpu buffer stats

The 'bytes' info in file 'per_cpu/cpu<X>/stats' means the number of bytes in cpu buffer that have not been consumed. However, currently after consuming data by reading file 'trace_pipe', the 'bytes' info was not changed as expected.

  # cat per_cpu/cpu0/stats
  entries: 0
  overrun: 0
  commit overrun: 0
  bytes: 568             <--- 'bytes' is problematical !!!
  oldest event ts:  8651.371479
  now ts:  8653.912224
  dropped events: 0
  read events: 8

The root cause is incorrect stat on cpu_buffer->read_bytes. To fix it:
1. When stat 'read_bytes', account consumed event in rb_advance_reader();
2. When stat 'entries_bytes', exclude the discarded padding event which is smaller than minimum size because it is invisible to reader. Then use rb_page_commit() instead of BUF_PAGE_SIZE at where accounting for page-based read/remove/overrun.

Also correct the comments of ring_buffer_bytes_cpu() in this patch.

Link https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/[email protected] open here
Cc [email protected]
Fixes c64e148a3be3 ("trace: Add ring buffer stats to measure rate of events")
Signed-off-by Zheng Yejian <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by Steven Rostedt (Google) <[email protected]>
kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c +15 -13
index a1651edc48d5..28daf0ce95c5 100644
@@ -354,6 +354,11 @@ static void rb_init_page(struct buffer_data_page *bpage)
 	local_set(&bpage->commit, 0);
 }
 
+static __always_inline unsigned int rb_page_commit(struct buffer_page *bpage)
+{
+	return local_read(&bpage->page->commit);
+}
+
 static void free_buffer_page(struct buffer_page *bpage)
 {
 	free_page((unsigned long)bpage->page);

@@ -2003,7 +2008,7 @@ rb_remove_pages(struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer, unsigned long nr_pages)
 			 * Increment overrun to account for the lost events.
 			 */
 			local_add(page_entries, &cpu_buffer->overrun);
-			local_sub(BUF_PAGE_SIZE, &cpu_buffer->entries_bytes);
+			local_sub(rb_page_commit(to_remove_page), &cpu_buffer->entries_bytes);
 			local_inc(&cpu_buffer->pages_lost);
 		}
 

@@ -2367,11 +2372,6 @@ rb_reader_event(struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer)
 			       cpu_buffer->reader_page->read);
 }
 
-static __always_inline unsigned rb_page_commit(struct buffer_page *bpage)
-{
-	return local_read(&bpage->page->commit);
-}
-
 static struct ring_buffer_event *
 rb_iter_head_event(struct ring_buffer_iter *iter)
 {

@@ -2517,7 +2517,7 @@ rb_handle_head_page(struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer,
 		 * the counters.
 		 */
 		local_add(entries, &cpu_buffer->overrun);
-		local_sub(BUF_PAGE_SIZE, &cpu_buffer->entries_bytes);
+		local_sub(rb_page_commit(next_page), &cpu_buffer->entries_bytes);
 		local_inc(&cpu_buffer->pages_lost);
 
 		/*

@@ -2660,9 +2660,6 @@ rb_reset_tail(struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer,
 
 	event = __rb_page_index(tail_page, tail);
 
-	/* account for padding bytes */
-	local_add(BUF_PAGE_SIZE - tail, &cpu_buffer->entries_bytes);
-
 	/*
 	 * Save the original length to the meta data.
 	 * This will be used by the reader to add lost event

@@ -2676,7 +2673,8 @@ rb_reset_tail(struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer,
 	 * write counter enough to allow another writer to slip
 	 * in on this page.
 	 * We put in a discarded commit instead, to make sure
-	 * that this space is not used again.
+	 * that this space is not used again, and this space will
+	 * not be accounted into 'entries_bytes'.
 	 *
 	 * If we are less than the minimum size, we don't need to
 	 * worry about it.

@@ -2701,6 +2699,9 @@ rb_reset_tail(struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer,
 	/* time delta must be non zero */
 	event->time_delta = 1;
 
+	/* account for padding bytes */
+	local_add(BUF_PAGE_SIZE - tail, &cpu_buffer->entries_bytes);
+
 	/* Make sure the padding is visible before the tail_page->write update */
 	smp_wmb();
 

@@ -4215,7 +4216,7 @@ u64 ring_buffer_oldest_event_ts(struct trace_buffer *buffer, int cpu)
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ring_buffer_oldest_event_ts);
 
 /**
- * ring_buffer_bytes_cpu - get the number of bytes consumed in a cpu buffer
+ * ring_buffer_bytes_cpu - get the number of bytes unconsumed in a cpu buffer
  * @buffer: The ring buffer
  * @cpu: The per CPU buffer to read from.
  */

@@ -4723,6 +4724,7 @@ static void rb_advance_reader(struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer)
 
 	length = rb_event_length(event);
 	cpu_buffer->reader_page->read += length;
+	cpu_buffer->read_bytes += length;
 }
 
 static void rb_advance_iter(struct ring_buffer_iter *iter)

@@ -5816,7 +5818,7 @@ int ring_buffer_read_page(struct trace_buffer *buffer,
 	} else {
 		/* update the entry counter */
 		cpu_buffer->read += rb_page_entries(reader);
-		cpu_buffer->read_bytes += BUF_PAGE_SIZE;
+		cpu_buffer->read_bytes += rb_page_commit(reader);
 
 		/* swap the pages */
 		rb_init_page(bpage);