ring-buffer: Have ring_buffer_empty() not depend on tracing stopped
authorSteven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Tue, 17 Mar 2020 21:32:24 +0000 (17:32 -0400)
committerSteven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Thu, 19 Mar 2020 23:11:19 +0000 (19:11 -0400)
commitead6ecfddea54f4754c97f64ab7198cc1d8c0daa
tree88f04516691e53f3285d0ea7c76149c82b1ec9e2
parentff895103a84abc85a5f43ecabc7f67cf36e1348f
ring-buffer: Have ring_buffer_empty() not depend on tracing stopped

It was complained about that when the trace file is read, that the tracing
is disabled, as the iterator expects writing to the buffer it reads is not
updated. Several steps are needed to make the iterator handle a writer,
by testing if things have changed as it reads.

This step is to make ring_buffer_empty() expect the buffer to be changing.
Note if the current location of the iterator is overwritten, then it will
return false as new data is being added. Note, that this means that data
will be skipped.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200317213415.870741809@goodmis.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c