ring_buffer: tracing: Inherit the tracing setting to next ring buffer

Maintain the tracing on/off setting of the ring_buffer when switching
to the trace buffer snapshot.

Taking a snapshot is done by swapping the backup ring buffer
(max_tr_buffer). But since the tracing on/off setting is defined
by the ring buffer, when swapping it, the tracing on/off setting
can also be changed. This causes a strange result like below:

  /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # cat tracing_on
  1
  /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # echo 0 > tracing_on
  /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # cat tracing_on
  0
  /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # echo 1 > snapshot
  /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # cat tracing_on
  1
  /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # echo 1 > snapshot
  /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # cat tracing_on
  0

We don't touch tracing_on, but snapshot changes tracing_on
setting each time. This is an anomaly, because user doesn't know
that each "ring_buffer" stores its own tracing-enable state and
the snapshot is done by swapping ring buffers.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/153149929558.11274.11730609978254724394.stgit@devbox

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Hiraku Toyooka <hiraku.toyooka@cybertrust.co.jp>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: debdd57f5145 ("tracing: Make a snapshot feature available from userspace")
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
[ Updated commit log and comment in the code ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index 87cf25171fb8..823687997b01 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -1373,6 +1373,12 @@ update_max_tr(struct trace_array *tr, struct task_struct *tsk, int cpu)
 
         arch_spin_lock(&tr->max_lock);
 
+        /* Inherit the recordable setting from trace_buffer */
+        if (ring_buffer_record_is_set_on(tr->trace_buffer.buffer))
+                ring_buffer_record_on(tr->max_buffer.buffer);
+        else
+                ring_buffer_record_off(tr->max_buffer.buffer);
+
         swap(tr->trace_buffer.buffer, tr->max_buffer.buffer);
 
         __update_max_tr(tr, tsk, cpu);