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 ff61166d735190754a6315130270b9428c42bf9d..5511575ec20630156c313084d1e923c42b4a0d74 100644 (file)
--- a/src/bin/lttng-sessiond/cmd.c
+++ b/src/bin/lttng-sessiond/cmd.c
@@ -2144,7 +2144,15 @@ 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) {
@@ -2152,7 +2160,7 @@ 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) {
@@ -2160,14 +2168,6 @@ 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;
        }