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Steven Rostedt (VMware) 5b7be9c709 ring-buffer: Add test to validate the time stamp deltas
While debugging a situation where a delta for an event was calucalted wrong,
I realize there was nothing making sure that the delta of events are
correct. If a single event has an incorrect delta, then all events after it
will also have one. If the discrepency gets large enough, it could cause
the time stamps to go backwards when crossing sub buffers, that record a
full 64 bit time stamp, and the new deltas are added to that.

Add a way to validate the events at most events and when crossing a buffer
page. This will help make sure that the deltas are always correct. This test
will detect if they are ever corrupted.

The test adds a high overhead to the ring buffer recording, as it does the
audit for almost every event, and should only be used for testing the ring
buffer.

This will catch the bug that is fixed by commit 55ea4cf403 ("ring-buffer:
Update write stamp with the correct ts"), which is not applied when this
commit is applied.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2020-12-01 22:00:46 -05:00
arch livepatch: Use the default ftrace_ops instead of REGS when ARGS is available 2020-11-13 12:15:28 -05:00
block blk-mq: mark flush request as IDLE in flush_end_io() 2020-10-30 08:33:49 -06:00
certs .gitignore: add SPDX License Identifier 2020-03-25 11:50:48 +01:00
crypto drivers-5.10-2020-10-12 2020-10-13 13:04:41 -07:00
Documentation ftrace/documentation: Fix RST C code blocks 2020-11-18 11:45:23 -05:00
drivers Char/Misc fixes/removals for 5.10-rc2 2020-11-01 10:05:16 -08:00
fs ftrace: Have the callbacks receive a struct ftrace_regs instead of pt_regs 2020-11-13 12:14:55 -05:00
include livepatch: Use the default ftrace_ops instead of REGS when ARGS is available 2020-11-13 12:15:28 -05:00
init linux-kselftest-kunit-5.10-rc1 2020-10-18 14:45:59 -07:00
ipc ipc: adjust proc_ipc_sem_dointvec definition to match prototype 2020-09-05 12:14:29 -07:00
kernel ring-buffer: Add test to validate the time stamp deltas 2020-12-01 22:00:46 -05:00
lib Driver core / Documentation fixes for 5.10-rc2 2020-11-01 09:59:13 -08:00
LICENSES LICENSES/deprecated: add Zlib license text 2020-09-16 14:33:49 +02:00
mm mm/process_vm_access: Add missing #include <linux/compat.h> 2020-10-27 12:41:29 -07:00
net flexible-array member conversion patches for 5.10-rc2 2020-10-31 14:31:28 -07:00
samples misc: mic: remove the MIC drivers 2020-10-28 19:12:03 +01:00
scripts scripts: get_abi.pl: assume ReST format by default 2020-10-30 13:16:03 +01:00
security ima: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member 2020-10-29 17:22:59 -05:00
sound ARM: SoC platform updates 2020-10-24 10:33:08 -07:00
tools ARM: 2020-11-01 09:43:32 -08:00
usr Merge branch 'work.fdpic' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2020-08-07 13:29:39 -07:00
virt kvm: x86/mmu: Support dirty logging for the TDP MMU 2020-10-23 03:42:13 -04:00
.clang-format RDMA 5.10 pull request 2020-10-17 11:18:18 -07:00
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.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore .gitignore: docs: ignore sphinx_*/ directories 2020-09-10 10:44:31 -06:00
.mailmap MAINTAINERS: jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com -> jarkko@kernel.org 2020-10-16 11:11:19 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Move Sangbeom Kim to credits 2020-10-26 10:11:18 +01:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: assign ./fs/tracefs to TRACING 2020-11-10 20:43:53 -05:00
Makefile Linux 5.10-rc2 2020-11-01 14:43:51 -08:00
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Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
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In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.