The patch below does not apply to the 4.4-stable tree. If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to stable@vger.kernel.org.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 85550c83da421fb12dc1816c45012e1e638d2b38 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" rostedt@goodmis.org Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2021 13:47:25 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] tracing: Do not stop recording cmdlines when tracing is off

The saved_cmdlines is used to map pids to the task name, such that the output of the tracing does not just show pids, but also gives a human readable name for the task.

If the name is not mapped, the output looks like this:

<...>-1316 [005] ...2 132.044039: ...

Instead of this:

gnome-shell-1316 [005] ...2 132.044039: ...

The names are updated when tracing is running, but are skipped if tracing is stopped. Unfortunately, this stops the recording of the names if the top level tracer is stopped, and not if there's other tracers active.

The recording of a name only happens when a new event is written into a ring buffer, so there is no need to test if tracing is on or not. If tracing is off, then no event is written and no need to test if tracing is off or not.

Remove the check, as it hides the names of tasks for events in the instance buffers.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 7ffbd48d5cab2 ("tracing: Cache comms only after an event occurred") Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) rostedt@goodmis.org

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c index 9299057feb56..e220b37e29c6 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c @@ -2486,8 +2486,6 @@ static bool tracing_record_taskinfo_skip(int flags) { if (unlikely(!(flags & (TRACE_RECORD_CMDLINE | TRACE_RECORD_TGID)))) return true; - if (atomic_read(&trace_record_taskinfo_disabled) || !tracing_is_on()) - return true; if (!__this_cpu_read(trace_taskinfo_save)) return true; return false;