[PATCH 1/2] ring-buffer: Replace rb_time_cmpxchg() with rb_time_cmp_and_update()

[Steven Rostedt]

From: "Steven Rostedt (Google)" <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>

There's only one place that performs a 64-bit cmpxchg for the timestamp
processing. The cmpxchg is only to set the write_stamp equal to the
before_stamp, and if it doesn't get set, then the next event will simply
be forced to add an absolute timestamp.

Given that 64-bit cmpxchg is expensive on 32-bit, and the current
workaround uses 3 consecutive 32-bit cmpxchg doesn't make it any faster.
It's best to just not do the cmpxchg as a simple compare works for the
accuracy of the timestamp. The only thing that will happen without the
cmpxchg is the prepended absolute timestamp on the next event which is not
that big of a deal as the path where this happens is seldom hit because it
requires an interrupt to happen between a few lines of code that also
writes an event into the same buffer.

With this change, the 32-bit rb_time_t workaround can be removed.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
index 1a26b3a1901f..c6842a4331a9 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
@@ -762,6 +762,15 @@ static bool rb_time_cmpxchg(rb_time_t *t, u64 expect, u64 set)
 }
 #endif
 
+/*
+ * Returns true if t == expect, and if possible will update with set,
+ * but t is not guaranteed to be updated even if this returns true
+ */
+static bool rb_time_cmp_and_update(rb_time_t *t, u64 expect, u64 set)
+{
+	return rb_time_cmpxchg(t, expect, set);
+}
+
 /*
  * Enable this to make sure that the event passed to
  * ring_buffer_event_time_stamp() is not committed and also
@@ -3622,9 +3631,17 @@ __rb_reserve_next(struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer,
 		barrier();
  /*E*/		if (write == (local_read(&tail_page->write) & RB_WRITE_MASK) &&
 		    info->after < ts &&
-		    rb_time_cmpxchg(&cpu_buffer->write_stamp,
-				    info->after, ts)) {
-			/* Nothing came after this event between C and E */
+		    rb_time_cmp_and_update(&cpu_buffer->write_stamp,
+					   info->after, ts)) {
+			/*
+			 * Nothing came after this event between C and E it is
+			 * safe to use info->after for the delta.
+			 * The above rb_time_cmp_and_update() may or may not
+			 * have updated the write_stamp. If it did not then
+			 * the next event will simply add an absolute timestamp
+			 * as the write_stamp will be different than the
+			 * before_stamp.
+			 */
 			info->delta = ts - info->after;
 		} else {
 			/*
-- 
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