While debugging a latency with someone on IRC (mirage335) on #linux-rt (OFTC),
we discovered that the stacktrace output of the latency tracers
(preemptirqsoff) was empty.

This bug was caused by the creation of the dynamic length stack trace
again (like commit 12b5da3 "tracing: Fix ent_size in trace output" was).

This bug is caused by the latency tracers requiring the next event
to determine the time between the current event and the next. But by
grabbing the next event, the iter->ent_size is set to the next event
instead of the current one. As the stacktrace event is the last event,
this makes the ent_size zero and causes nothing to be printed for
the stack trace. The dynamic stacktrace uses the ent_size to determine
how much of the stack can be printed. The ent_size of zero means
no stack.

The simple fix is to save the iter->ent_size before finding the next event.

Note, mirage335 asked to remain anonymous from LKML and git, so I will
not add the Reported-by and Tested-by tags, even though he did report
the issue and tested the fix.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.1+
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

The change to make tracing_on affect only the ftrace ring buffer, caused
a bug where it wont affect any ring buffer. The problem was that the buffer
of the trace_array was passed to the write function and not the trace array
itself.

The trace_array can change the buffer when running a latency tracer. If this
happens, then the buffer being disabled may not be the buffer currently used
by ftrace. This will cause the tracing_on file to become useless.

The simple fix is to pass the trace_array to the write function instead of
the buffer. Then the actual buffer may be changed.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

Today's -next fails to link for me:

kernel/built-in.o:(.data+0x178e50): undefined reference to `perf_ftrace_event_register'

It looks like multiple fixes have been merged for the issue fixed by
commit fa73dc9 (tracing: Fix build breakage without CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS)
though I can't identify the other changes that have gone in at the
minute, it's possible that the changes which caused the breakage fixed
by the previous commit got dropped but the fix made it in.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1334307179-21255-1-git-send-email-broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com

Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

Merge batch of fixes from Andrew Morton:
 "The simple_open() cleanup was held back while I wanted for laggards to
  merge things.

  I still need to send a few checkpoint/restore patches.  I've been
  wobbly about merging them because I'm wobbly about the overall
  prospects for success of the project.  But after speaking with Pavel
  at the LSF conference, it sounds like they're further toward
  completion than I feared - apparently davem is at the "has stopped
  complaining" stage regarding the net changes.  So I need to go back
  and re-review those patchs and their (lengthy) discussion."

* emailed from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (16 patches)
  memcg swap: use mem_cgroup_uncharge_swap fix
  backlight: add driver for DA9052/53 PMIC v1
  C6X: use set_current_blocked() and block_sigmask()
  MAINTAINERS: add entry for sparse checker
  MAINTAINERS: fix REMOTEPROC F: typo
  alpha: use set_current_blocked() and block_sigmask()
  simple_open: automatically convert to simple_open()
  scripts/coccinelle/api/simple_open.cocci: semantic patch for simple_open()
  libfs: add simple_open()
  hugetlbfs: remove unregister_filesystem() when initializing module
  drivers/rtc/rtc-88pm860x.c: fix rtc irq enable callback
  fs/xattr.c:setxattr(): improve handling of allocation failures
  fs/xattr.c:listxattr(): fall back to vmalloc() if kmalloc() failed
  fs/xattr.c: suppress page allocation failure warnings from sys_listxattr()
  sysrq: use SEND_SIG_FORCED instead of force_sig()
  proc: fix mount -t proc -o AAA

Many users of debugfs copy the implementation of default_open() when
they want to support a custom read/write function op.  This leads to a
proliferation of the default_open() implementation across the entire
tree.

Now that the common implementation has been consolidated into libfs we
can replace all the users of this function with simple_open().

This replacement was done with the following semantic patch:

<smpl>
@ open @
identifier open_f != simple_open;
identifier i, f;
@@
-int open_f(struct inode *i, struct file *f)
-{
(
-if (i->i_private)
-f->private_data = i->i_private;
|
-f->private_data = i->i_private;
)
-return 0;
-}

@ has_open depends on open @
identifier fops;
identifier open.open_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
-.open = open_f,
+.open = simple_open,
...
};
</smpl>

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: checkpatch fixes]
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

When reading the trace file, the records of each of the per_cpu buffers
are examined to find the next event to print out. At the point of looking
at the event, the size of the event is recorded. But if the first event is
chosen, the other events in the other CPU buffers will reset the event size
that is stored in the iterator descriptor, causing the event size passed to
the output functions to be incorrect.

In most cases this is not a problem, but for the case of stack traces, it
is. With the change to the stack tracing to record a dynamic number of
back traces, the output depends on the size of the entry instead of the
fixed 8 back traces. When the entry size is not correct, the back traces
would not be fully printed.

Note, reading from the per-cpu trace files were not affected.

Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

Merge reason: we need to fix a non-trivial merge conflict.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

8 hex characters tell only half the tale for 64 bit CPUs,
so use the appropriate length.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1332411501-8059-2-git-send-email-wolfgang.mauerer@siemens.com

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Mauerer <wolfgang.mauerer@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

Pull vfs pile 1 from Al Viro:
 "This is _not_ all; in particular, Miklos' and Jan's stuff is not there
  yet."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (64 commits)
  ext4: initialization of ext4_li_mtx needs to be done earlier
  debugfs-related mode_t whack-a-mole
  hfsplus: add an ioctl to bless files
  hfsplus: change finder_info to u32
  hfsplus: initialise userflags
  qnx4: new helper - try_extent()
  qnx4: get rid of qnx4_bread/qnx4_getblk
  take removal of PF_FORKNOEXEC to flush_old_exec()
  trim includes in inode.c
  um: uml_dup_mmap() relies on ->mmap_sem being held, but activate_mm() doesn't hold it
  um: embed ->stub_pages[] into mmu_context
  gadgetfs: list_for_each_safe() misuse
  ocfs2: fix leaks on failure exits in module_init
  ecryptfs: make register_filesystem() the last potential failure exit
  ntfs: forgets to unregister sysctls on register_filesystem() failure
  logfs: missing cleanup on register_filesystem() failure
  jfs: mising cleanup on register_filesystem() failure
  make configfs_pin_fs() return root dentry on success
  configfs: configfs_create_dir() has parent dentry in dentry->d_parent
  configfs: sanitize configfs_create()
  ...