ring-buffer: reset timestamps when ring buffer is reset
authorSteven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Wed, 21 Jan 2009 23:45:57 +0000 (18:45 -0500)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Thu, 22 Jan 2009 09:27:54 +0000 (10:27 +0100)
Impact: fix bad times of recent resets

The ring buffer needs to reset its timestamps when reseting of the
buffer, otherwise the timestamps are stale and might be used to
calculate times in the buffer causing funny timestamps to appear.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c

index 890020e28a35903bb410bb1808d9ac651499017c..7839280ffcd8a68af18a8a9bbd0031875bbb0b04 100644 (file)
@@ -2166,6 +2166,9 @@ rb_reset_cpu(struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer)
 
        cpu_buffer->overrun = 0;
        cpu_buffer->entries = 0;
+
+       cpu_buffer->write_stamp = 0;
+       cpu_buffer->read_stamp = 0;
 }
 
 /**