Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 8 Dec 2020 15:00:07 -0500 | From | Steven Rostedt <> | Subject | Re: Potential Issue in Tracing Ring Buffer |
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On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 11:37:13 -0800 "J. Avila" <elavila@google.com> wrote:
> Hello Steven, > > Thank you once again for all of your support. We saw that you also recently > merged a change[1] which adds some validation for the timestamps in > ring_buffer.c. Would you have any recommendations on how to add a more > lightweight check for time going "backwards" in the timestamps? The idea > is that we could use this quick test to detect the problem, then run a build > with your config to dig deeper.
I'm looking at adding a user space kernel selftest to make sure the buffer never goes backwards[1] (note the code has changed since that posting). You can see the stand alone code here[2]. But requires downloading and installing libtraceevent[3] and libtracefs[4].
-- Steve
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201201160656.7cc6a5e8@gandalf.local.home [2] http://rostedt.org/code/test-ring-buffer/ [3] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/libs/libtrace/libtraceevent.git/ [4] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/libs/libtrace/libtracefs.git/
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