On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 11:31 AM Mathieu Desnoyers
<mathieu.desnoy...@efficios.com> wrote:
>
>
> ----- On May 19, 2022, at 11:02 AM, Bruce Ashfield via lttng-dev
> lttng-dev@lists.lttng.org wrote:
>
> > From: Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfi...@gmail.com>
> >
> > The commit [fix: sched/tracing: Don't re-read p->state when emitting
> > sched_switch event (v5.18)] was correct, but the kernel changed their
> > mind with the following commit:
> >
> > commit 9c2136be0878c88c53dea26943ce40bb03ad8d8d
> > Author: Delyan Kratunov <dely...@fb.com>
> > Date: Wed May 11 18:28:36 2022 +0000
> >
> > sched/tracing: Append prev_state to tp args instead
> >
> > Commit fa2c3254d7cf (sched/tracing: Don't re-read p->state when
> > emitting
> > sched_switch event, 2022-01-20) added a new prev_state argument to the
> > sched_switch tracepoint, before the prev task_struct pointer.
> >
> > This reordering of arguments broke BPF programs that use the raw
> > tracepoint (e.g. tp_btf programs). The type of the second argument has
> > changed and existing programs that assume a task_struct* argument
> > (e.g. for bpf_task_storage access) will now fail to verify.
> >
> > If we instead append the new argument to the end, all existing
> > programs
> > would continue to work and can conditionally extract the prev_state
> > argument on supported kernel versions.
> >
> > Fixes: fa2c3254d7cf (sched/tracing: Don't re-read p->state when
> > emitting
> > sched_switch event, 2022-01-20)
> > Signed-off-by: Delyan Kratunov <dely...@fb.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <pet...@infradead.org>
> > Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rost...@goodmis.org>
> > Link:
> >
> > https://lkml.kernel.org/r/c8a6930dfdd58a4a5755fc01732675472979732b.ca...@fb.com
> >
> > By reordering the parameters (again) we can get back up and building.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfi...@gmail.com>
> > ---
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > This is more than likely NOT a correct fix, but while working on the
> > yocto -dev reference kernel, I ran into this build failure against
> > 5.18-rc7.
> >
> > I didn't see any sign of another fix on the mailing list, so I wanted
> > to send this in case anyone else runs into the failure and to check
> > to see if there's a better fix in progress.
>
> Hi Bruce,
>
> Please see: https://review.lttng.org/c/lttng-modules/+/8045
>
> I was planning to merge it today, unless you have objections.
>
> I notice that in your own patch, you modify the arguments passed to
> __trace_sched_switch_state(), althrough I don't see them changing in
> the upstream kernel. Am I missing something ?
No objects here. That is obviously better than mine :) I swear I saw
the order of the arguments changing when I looked at the kernel, and
had a secondary compile error in those calls .. but I very easily could
have been mistaken.
Bruce
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mathieu
>
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Bruce
> >
> >
> > include/instrumentation/events/sched.h | 15 ++++++++-------
> > 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/include/instrumentation/events/sched.h
> > b/include/instrumentation/events/sched.h
> > index 339bec9..f9e9c38 100644
> > --- a/include/instrumentation/events/sched.h
> > +++ b/include/instrumentation/events/sched.h
> > @@ -23,8 +23,9 @@
> > #if (LTTNG_LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= LTTNG_KERNEL_VERSION(5,18,0))
> >
> > static inline long __trace_sched_switch_state(bool preempt,
> > - unsigned int prev_state,
> > - struct task_struct *p)
> > + struct task_struct *p,
> > + struct task_struct *n,
> > + unsigned int prev_state )
> > {
> > unsigned int state;
> >
> > @@ -356,20 +357,20 @@ LTTNG_TRACEPOINT_EVENT_INSTANCE(sched_wakeup_template,
> > sched_wakeup_new,
> > LTTNG_TRACEPOINT_EVENT(sched_switch,
> >
> > TP_PROTO(bool preempt,
> > - unsigned int prev_state,
> > struct task_struct *prev,
> > - struct task_struct *next),
> > + struct task_struct *next,
> > + unsigned int prev_state),
> >
> > - TP_ARGS(preempt, prev_state, prev, next),
> > + TP_ARGS(preempt, prev, next, prev_state),
> >
> > TP_FIELDS(
> > ctf_array_text(char, prev_comm, prev->comm, TASK_COMM_LEN)
> > ctf_integer(pid_t, prev_tid, prev->pid)
> > ctf_integer(int, prev_prio, prev->prio - MAX_RT_PRIO)
> > #ifdef CONFIG_LTTNG_EXPERIMENTAL_BITWISE_ENUM
> > - ctf_enum(task_state, long, prev_state,
> > __trace_sched_switch_state(preempt,
> > prev_state, prev))
> > + ctf_enum(task_state, long, prev_state,
> > __trace_sched_switch_state(preempt,
> > prev, next, prev_state))
> > #else
> > - ctf_integer(long, prev_state,
> > __trace_sched_switch_state(preempt, prev_state,
> > prev))
> > + ctf_integer(long, prev_state,
> > __trace_sched_switch_state(preempt, prev, next,
> > prev_state))
> > #endif
> > ctf_array_text(char, next_comm, next->comm, TASK_COMM_LEN)
> > ctf_integer(pid_t, next_tid, next->pid)
> > --
> > 2.19.1
> >
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> --
> Mathieu Desnoyers
> EfficiOS Inc.
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