The hwlat tracer creates a kernel thread at start of the tracer. It is
pinned to a single CPU and will move to the next CPU after each period of
running. If the user modifies the migration thread's affinity, it will not
change after that happens.

The original code created the thread at the first instance it was called,
but later was changed to destroy the thread after the tracer was finished,
and would not be created until the next instance of the tracer was
established. The code that initialized the affinity was only called on the
initial instantiation of the tracer. After that, it was not initialized, and
the previous affinity did not match the current newly created one, making
it appear that the user modified the thread's affinity when it did not, and
the thread failed to migrate again.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 0330f7aa8ee6 ("tracing: Have hwlat trace migrate across tracing_cpumask CPUs")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index 5970492..82745cd 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ Minor contributors (<= 30 commits, sorted alphabetically):
  * Teguh <info@egeektronic.com>
  * Tillmann Karras <tilkax@gmail.com>
  * Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <tobias.geerinckx.rice@gmail.com>
+ * Tommy Beadle <tbeadle@gmail.com>
  * Ulrich Weber <uweber@astaro.com>
  * wilson <wilson.wen.chn@gmail.com>