ring-buffer: Optimize rb_iter_head_event()

As it is fine to perform several "peeks" of event data in the ring buffer
via the iterator before moving it forward, do not re-read the event, just
return what was read before. Otherwise, it can cause inconsistent results,
especially when testing multiple CPU buffers to interleave them.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200317213416.592032170@goodmis.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
index 475338f..5979327 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
@@ -1929,6 +1929,9 @@ rb_iter_head_event(struct ring_buffer_iter *iter)
        unsigned long commit;
        unsigned length;
 
+       if (iter->head != iter->next_event)
+               return iter->event;
+
        /*
         * When the writer goes across pages, it issues a cmpxchg which
         * is a mb(), which will synchronize with the rmb here.