[PATCH 2/2] tracing: Fix regression of trace_pipe

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Mon Jan 14 2013 - 22:27:23 EST


From: Liu Bo <bo.li.liu@xxxxxxxxxx>

Commit 0fb9656d "tracing: Make tracing_enabled be equal to tracing_on"
changes the behaviour of trace_pipe, ie. it makes trace_pipe return if
we've read something and tracing is enabled, and this means that we have
to 'cat trace_pipe' again and again while running tests.

IMO the right way is if tracing is enabled, we always block and wait for
ring buffer, or we may lose what we want since ring buffer's size is limited.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1358132051-5410-1-git-send-email-bo.li.liu@xxxxxxxxxx

Signed-off-by: Liu Bo <bo.li.liu@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/trace/trace.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index f3ec1cf..3c13e46 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -3454,7 +3454,7 @@ static int tracing_wait_pipe(struct file *filp)
return -EINTR;

/*
- * We block until we read something and tracing is enabled.
+ * We block until we read something and tracing is disabled.
* We still block if tracing is disabled, but we have never
* read anything. This allows a user to cat this file, and
* then enable tracing. But after we have read something,
@@ -3462,7 +3462,7 @@ static int tracing_wait_pipe(struct file *filp)
*
* iter->pos will be 0 if we haven't read anything.
*/
- if (tracing_is_enabled() && iter->pos)
+ if (!tracing_is_enabled() && iter->pos)
break;
}

--
1.7.10.4


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