On boot up, to save memory, ftrace allocates the minimum buffer
which is two pages. Ftrace also goes through a series of tests
(when configured) on boot up. These tests can fill up a page within
a single interrupt.
The ring buffer also has a WARN_ON when it detects that the buffer was
completely filled within a single commit (other commits are allowed to
be nested).
Combine the small buffer on start up, with the tests that can fill more
than a single page within an interrupt, this can trigger the WARN_ON.
This patch makes the WARN_ON only happen when the ring buffer consists
of more than two pages.
[ Impact: prevent false WARN_ON in ftrace startup tests ]
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
LKML-Reference: <
20090421094616.GA14561@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* about it.
*/
if (unlikely(next_page == commit_page)) {
- WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
+ /* This can easily happen on small ring buffers */
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(buffer->pages > 2);
goto out_reset;
}