Instead of using get_user_pages_fast() and kmap_atomic() when writing
to the trace_marker file, just allocate enough space on the ring buffer
directly, and write into it via copy_from_user().
Writing into the trace_marker file use to allocate a temporary buffer
to perform the copy_from_user(), as we didn't want to write into the
ring buffer if the copy failed. But as a trace_marker write is suppose
to be extremely fast, and allocating memory causes other tracepoints to
trigger, Peter Zijlstra suggested using get_user_pages_fast() and
kmap_atomic() to keep the user space pages in memory and reading it
directly. But Henrik Austad had issues with this because it required taking
the mm->mmap_sem and causing long delays with the write.
Instead, just allocate the space in the ring buffer and use
copy_from_user() directly. If it faults, return -EFAULT and write
"<faulted>" into the ring buffer.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161208124018.72dd0f86@gandalf.local.home
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Henrik Austad <henrik@austad.us>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Updates: d696b58ca2 "tracing: Do not allocate buffer for trace_marker"
Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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