Fix: kernel tracing: flush after stop

We should flush the last packet after stop, not before. Otherwise, we
may end up with events written immediately after the flush, which
defeats the purpose of flushing.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Jérémie Galarneau <jeremie.galarneau@efficios.com>

diff --git a/src/bin/lttng-sessiond/cmd.c b/src/bin/lttng-sessiond/cmd.c
index 21422a57deb7c674295f37545ccfba35d1ed2f64..cc26e6dae004baeab4177f3589a0e837e7deba34 100644 (file)
--- a/src/bin/lttng-sessiond/cmd.c
+++ b/src/bin/lttng-sessiond/cmd.c
@@ -2447,7 +2447,15 @@ int cmd_stop_trace(struct ltt_session *session)
        if (ksession && ksession->active) {
                DBG("Stop kernel tracing");
 
-               /* Flush metadata if exist */
+               ret = kernel_stop_session(ksession);
+               if (ret < 0) {
+                       ret = LTTNG_ERR_KERN_STOP_FAIL;
+                       goto error;
+               }
+
+               kernel_wait_quiescent(kernel_tracer_fd);
+
+               /* Flush metadata after stopping (if exists) */
                if (ksession->metadata_stream_fd >= 0) {
                        ret = kernel_metadata_flush_buffer(ksession->metadata_stream_fd);
                        if (ret < 0) {
@@ -2455,7 +2463,7 @@ int cmd_stop_trace(struct ltt_session *session)
                        }
                }
 
-               /* Flush all buffers before stopping */
+               /* Flush all buffers after stopping */
                cds_list_for_each_entry(kchan, &ksession->channel_list.head, list) {
                        ret = kernel_flush_buffer(kchan);
                        if (ret < 0) {
@@ -2463,14 +2471,6 @@ int cmd_stop_trace(struct ltt_session *session)
                        }
                }
 
-               ret = kernel_stop_session(ksession);
-               if (ret < 0) {
-                       ret = LTTNG_ERR_KERN_STOP_FAIL;
-                       goto error;
-               }
-
-               kernel_wait_quiescent(kernel_tracer_fd);
-
                ksession->active = 0;
        }