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-rw-r--r--kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c14
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
index 73f8873e2a72..a53f1bbc546b 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
@@ -1981,7 +1981,7 @@ rb_add_time_stamp(struct ring_buffer_event *event, u64 delta)
/**
* rb_update_event - update event type and data
- * @event: the even to update
+ * @event: the event to update
* @type: the type of event
* @length: the size of the event field in the ring buffer
*
@@ -3756,12 +3756,14 @@ rb_iter_peek(struct ring_buffer_iter *iter, u64 *ts)
return NULL;
/*
- * We repeat when a time extend is encountered.
- * Since the time extend is always attached to a data event,
- * we should never loop more than once.
- * (We never hit the following condition more than twice).
+ * We repeat when a time extend is encountered or we hit
+ * the end of the page. Since the time extend is always attached
+ * to a data event, we should never loop more than three times.
+ * Once for going to next page, once on time extend, and
+ * finally once to get the event.
+ * (We never hit the following condition more than thrice).
*/
- if (RB_WARN_ON(cpu_buffer, ++nr_loops > 2))
+ if (RB_WARN_ON(cpu_buffer, ++nr_loops > 3))
return NULL;
if (rb_per_cpu_empty(cpu_buffer))